Research Interest
The current focus areas of my research activities include:
- Wireless communications;
- Deep reinforcement learning;
- Advanced Internet of Things;
- Space-air-ground networks;
- Free-space optical transmissions.
Research Team
- Shuang Li, Ph.D. student
- Hyemin Yu, Ph.D. student
- Haofang Yu, Visiting Ph.D. student
- Abrar Ahmad, M.A.Sc. student
- Abida Sultana, M.A.Sc. student
- Heba Beg, M.Eng. student
- Divyesh Patel, M.Eng. student
- Prateek Verma, M.Eng. student
Additional information about my research group can be found at YANG’s Wireless + AI Lab (YWAILab).
Selected Publications
- S. Li, H.-C. Yang, F. Xu, H. Hu, and F. Hu, “Energy-efficient relay transmission for WBAN: Energy consumption minimizing design with hybrid supervised/reinforcement learning”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 17770-17779, May 2024.
- R. Samy, H.-C. Yang, T. Rakia and M. -S. Alouini, “Parallel FSO-RF transmissions for high-throughput remote access with satellite communications,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 9417 – 9426, December 2023.
- F. Xu, H.-C. Yang, and M.-S. Alouini, “Energy consumption minimization for data collection from wirelessly-powered IoT sensors: session-specific optimal design with DRL”, IEEE Sensors Journals, 22, no. 20, pp. 19886-19896, September 2022.
- M. C. Ilter, R. Wichman, J. Hamalainen, H. Yanikomeroglu, and H.-C. Yang, “Data-oriented view for convolutional coding with adaptive irregular constellations”, IEEE Communication letters, Vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1771 – 1775, February 2021.
- Ju, M. and H.-C. Yang, “Outage of multiple access channels with application to performance analysis of massive MTC transmissions”, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 985-989, July 2020.