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  • SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS
    Danfeng Yan, Guang Zhou, Xuan Zhao, Yuan Tian, Fangchun Yang
    China Communications. 2016, 13(8): 244-257.
    Some research work has showed that public mood and stock market price have some relations in some degree. Although it is difficult to clear the relation, the research about the relation between stock market price and public mood is interested by some scientists. This paper tries to find the relationship between Chinese stock market and Chinese local Microblog. First, C-POMS (Chinese Profile of Mood States) was proposed to analyze sentiment of Microblog feeds. Then Granger causality test confirmed the relation between C-POMS analysis and price series. SVM and Probabilistic Neural Network were used to make prediction, and experiments show that SVM is better to predict stock market movements than Probabilistic Neural Network. Experiments also indicate that adding certain dimension of C-POMS as the input data will improve the prediction accuracy to 66.667%. Two dimensions to input data leads to the highest accuracy of 71.429%, which is about 20% higher than using only history stock data as the input data. This paper also compared the proposed method with the ROSTEA scores, and concluded that only the proposed method brings more accurate predicts.
  • STRATEGIES AND SCHEMES
    WANG Yajun, LIAO Tongqing, WANG Chuanan
    China Communications. 2016, 13(1): 176-184.
    In this paper, we consider a wireless ad hoc network consisting of multiple source nodes transmitting to their respective destinations, where an eavesdropper attempts to intercept their transmissions. We propose an optimal transmission scheduling scheme to defend against the eavesdropper, where a source node having the highest secrecy rate is scheduled to access the wireless medium for transmitting to its destination in an opportunistic manner. To be specific, the secrecy rate between a pair of the source and destination in the presence of an eavesdropper varies temporally due to the wireless fading effect. The proposed optimal transmission scheduling scheme opportunistically selects a source node with the highest secrecy rate to transmit its data for the sake of maximizing the security of the ad hoc network against eavesdropping attacks. For comparison purposes, we also consider the conventional round-robin scheduling as a benchmark, where multiple source nodes take turns in accessing their shared wireless medium for transmitting to their respective destinations. We derive closed-form secrecy outage probability expressions of both the round-robin scheduling and the proposed optimal scheduling schemes over Rayleigh fading environments. Numerical results show that the proposed transmission scheduling scheme outperforms the conventional round-robin method in terms of its secrecy outage probability. Additionally, upon increasing the number of source-destination pairs, the secrecy outage probability of the round-robin scheme keeps unchanged, whereas the secrecy outage performance of the proposed transmission scheduling significantly improves, showing the security benefits of exploiting transmission scheduling for protecting wireless ad hoc networks against eavesdropping.
  • BRAIN-COMPUTER-INTERFACE INSPIRED COMMUNICATIONS
    Lu Jiang, Weihua Pei, Yijun Wang
    China Communications. 2022, 19(2): 1-14.
    A brain-computer interface (BCI) system based on steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) was developed by four-class phase-coded stimuli. SSVEPs elicited by flickers at 60Hz, which is higher than the critical fusion frequency (CFF), were compared with those at 15Hz and 30Hz. SSVEP components in electroencephalogram (EEG) were detected using task related component analysis (TRCA) method. Offline analysis with 17 subjects indicated that the highest information transfer rate (ITR) was 29.80±4.65bpm with 0.5s data length for 60Hz and the classification accuracy was 70.07±4.15%. The online BCI system reached an averaged classification accuracy of 87.75±3.50% at 60Hz with 4s, resulting in an ITR of 16.73±1.63bpm. In particular, the maximum ITR for a subject was 80bpm with 0.5s at 60Hz. Although the BCI performance of 60Hz was lower than that of 15Hz and 30Hz, the results of the behavioral test indicated that, with no perception of flicker, the BCI system with 60Hz was more comfortable to use than 15Hz and 30Hz. Correlation analysis revealed that SSVEP with higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) corresponded to better classification performance and the improvement in comfortableness was accompanied by a decrease in performance. This study demonstrates the feasibility and potential of a user-friendly SSVEP-based BCI using imperceptible flickers.
  • SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS
    Xiaolin Gui, Jun Liu, Mucong Chi, Chenyu Li, Zhenming Lei
    China Communications. 2016, 13(8): 209-221.
    Security and privacy issues are magnified by velocity, volume, and variety of big data. User’s privacy is an even more sensitive topic attracting most people’s attention. While XcodeGhost, a malware of iOS emerging in late 2015, leads to the privacy-leakage of a large number of users, only a few studies have examined XcodeGhost based on its source code. In this paper we describe observations by monitoring the network activities for more than 2.59 million iPhone users in a provincial area across 232 days. Our analysis reveals a number of interesting points. For example, we propose a decay model for the prevalence rate of XcodeGhost and we find that the ratio of the infected devices is more than 60%; that a lot of popular applications, such as Wechat, railway 12306, didi taxi, Youku video are also infected; and that the duration as well as the traffic volume of most XcodeGhost-related HTTP-requests is similar with usual HTTP-request which makes it difficult to be found. Besides, we propose a heuristic model based on fingerprint and its web-knowledge to identify the infected applications. The identifying result shows the efficiency of this model.
  • Guest Editorial
    Dacheng Zhou, Hongchang Chen, Guozhen Cheng, Weizhen He, Lingshu Li
    China Communications. 2021, 18(8): 17-34.
    Based on the diversified technology and the cross-validation mechanism, the N-variant system provides a secure service architecture for cloud providers to protect the cloud applications from attacks by executing multiple variants of a single software in parallel and then checking their behaviors' consistency. However, it is complex to upgrade current Software as a Service (SaaS) applications to adapt N-variant system architecture. Challenges arise from the inability of tenants to adjust the application architecture in the cloud environment, and the difficulty for cloud service providers to implement N-variant systems using existing API gateways. This paper proposes SecIngress, an API gateway framework, to overcome the challenge that it is hard in the cloud environment to upgrade the applications based on N-variants system. We design a two-stage timeout processing method to lessen the service latency and an Analytic Hierarchy Process Voting under the Metadata mechanism (AHPVM) to enhance voting accuracy. We implement a prototype in a testbed environment and analyze the security and performance metrics before and after deploying the prototype to show the effectiveness of SecIngress. The results reveal that SecIngress enhances the reliability of cloud applications with acceptable performance degradation.
  • Fundamental Limits and Emerging Technologies in Communication
    Yang Xu, Zhuang Ling, Xing Hongyan, Su Xin
    China Communications. 2026, 23(4): 164-176. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/JCC.fa.2025-0304.202604
    The security of maritime communication for transmitting sea clutter signals is of critical importance from both information-theoretic and electromagnetic signal processing perspectives. Existing prediction models face significant challenges in accurately capturing the non-stationary and chaotic characteristics of sea clutter, a typical electromagnetic scattering signal influenced by complex maritime environments. To address this, we propose a novel maritime covert communication scheme based on information-theoretic secrecy metrics, leveraging communication relay unmanned aerial vehicles to minimize the monitor's detection probability. A hybrid neural network model is developed for sea clutter prediction by integrating convolutional neural networks (CNN), bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM), and an attention mechanism. Initially, phase space reconstruction is applied to sea clutter signals measured by IPIX radar, exploiting their spatiotemporal correlation—a key property in electromagnetic signal analysis. The CNN extracts spatial features from the reconstructed signals, while the BiLSTM models temporal dependencies, effectively mitigating overfitting in long-sequence prediction. The attention mechanism further enhances performance by dynamically weighting salient features. Experimental results demonstrate superior prediction accuracy and robust target detection capability based on prediction errors. This work bridges deep learning-based electromagnetic signal processing and covert communication design, providing insights for the design of secure maritime information systems.
  • SECURITY SCHEMES AND SOLUTIONS
    ZHAO Bo, XIANG Shuang, AN Yang, TAO Wei
    China Communications. 2016, 13(1): 161-175.
    This paper analyzes the threat of TCG Software Stack (TSS)/TCM Service Module (TSM) deadlock in multi-user environment such as cloud and discusses its causes and mechanism. In addition, this paper puts forward a dynamic priority task scheduling strategy based on value evaluation to handle this threat. The strategy is based on the implementation features of trusted hardware and establishes a multi-level ready queue. In this strategy, an algorithm for real-time value computing is also designed, and it can adjust the production curves of the real time value by setting parameters in different environment, thus enhancing its adaptability, which is followed by scheduling and algorithm description. This paper also implements the algorithm and carries out its performance optimization. Due to the experiment result from Intel NUC, it is shown that TSS based on advanced DPTSV is able to solve the problem of deadlock with no negative influence on performance and security in multi-user environment.
  • SECURITY SCHEMES AND SOLUTIONS
    LI Wei, ZENG Xiaoyang, NAN Longmei, CHEN Tao, DAI Zibin
    China Communications. 2016, 13(1): 91-99.
    An Efficient and flexible implementation of block ciphers is critical to achieve information security processing. Existing implementation methods such as GPP, FPGA and cryptographic application-specific ASIC provide the broad range of support. However, these methods could not achieve a good tradeoff between high-speed processing and flexibility. In this paper, we present a reconfigurable VLIW processor architecture targeted at block cipher processing, analyze basic operations and storage characteristics, and propose the multi-cluster register-file structure for block ciphers. As for the same operation element of block ciphers, we adopt reconfigurable technology for multiple cryptographic processing units and interconnection scheme. The proposed processor not only flexibly accomplishes the combination of multiple basic cryptographic operations, but also realizes dynamic configuration for cryptographic processing units. It has been implemented with 0.18µmCMOS technology, the test results show that the frequency can reach 350MHz, and power consumption is 420mw. Ten kinds of block and hash ciphers were realized in the processor. The encryption throughput of AES, DES, IDEA, and SHA-1 algorithm is 1554Mbps, 448Mbps, 785Mbps, and 424Mbps respectively, the test result shows that our processor’s encryption performance is significantly higher than other designs.
  • REVIEW PAPER
    Renzhi Yuan, Jianshe Ma
    China Communications. 2016, 13(6): 63-75.
    With rapid advances of solar blind ultraviolet LED and ultraviolet detecting technology in recent years, ultraviolet communication gradually becomes a research hotspot due to its inherent advantages: low solar background noise, non-line-of-sight(NLOS) and good secrecy. The strong scattering characteristics in atmospheric render ultraviolet waveband the ideal choice for achieving NLOS optical communication. This paper reviews the research history and status of ultraviolet communication both in China and abroad, and especially introduces three main issues of ultraviolet communication: channel model, system analysis and design, light sources and detectors. For each aspect, current open issues and prospective research directions are analyzed.
  • SECURITY SCHEMES AND SOLUTIONS
    LIU Lizhao, LIU Jian, DAI Yaomei, XU Huarong, YIN Huayi, ZHU Shunzhi
    China Communications. 2016, 13(1): 100-112.
    Many websites use verification codes to prevent users from using the machine automatically to register, login, malicious vote or irrigate but it brought great burden to the enterprises involved in internet marketing as entering the verification code manually. Improving the verification code security system needs the identification method as the corresponding testing system. We propose an anisotropic heat kernel equation group which can generate a heat source scale space during the kernel evolution based on infinite heat source axiom, design a multi-step anisotropic verification code identification algorithm which includes core procedure ofbuilding anisotropic heat kernel, settingwave energy information parameters, combing outverification codecharacters and corresponding peripheral procedure of gray scaling, binarizing, denoising, normalizing, segmenting and identifying, give out the detail criterion and parameter set. Actual test show the anisotropic heat kernel identification algorithm can be used on many kinds of verification code including text characters, mathematical, chinese, voice, 3D, programming, video, advertising, it has a higher rate of 25% and 50% than neural network and context matching algorithm separately for Yahoo site, 49% and 60% for Captcha site, 20% and 52% for Baidu site, 60% and 65% for 3DTakers site, 40% and 51% for MDP site.
  • Fundamental Limits and Emerging Technologies in Communication
    Zhao Zhipeng, Yu Xin, Guo Lei, Wu Bin, Hou Weigang, Wu Tingwei, Song Song
    China Communications. 2026, 23(4): 136-152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/JCC.fa.2025-0281.202604
    Conventional path protection algorithms in all-optical data center networks (DCNs) need a relatively long calculation time but with low efficiency. In this article, we propose a preset path recovery algorithm by combining machine learning and priority execution method. The former is to predict areas of frequent optical path failures in data centers, and the latter is to ensure accurate protection in those areas while reducing computation time and improving performance. Firstly, we construct a dataset using rules composed of topological edge relationships, failure time, failure frequency, packet loss rate, latency and service type. Then, based on the above dataset, SVM (support vector machine) algorithm is used to predict frequent failure areas. Finally, based on different prediction frequencies, priority construction is carried out to cluster the entire topology, and p-cycle (preconfigured protection cycle) is applied to each topology. Experiments show that the combination of SVM prediction and classification protection can significantly reduce the protection range of potential failure areas to reduce computation time while ensuring high accuracy, as compared with traditional optical path protection algorithms.
  • Satellite Internet
    Jiang Jiayi, Deng Xiaofei, Wang Denghao, Zhang Xiaoning
    China Communications. 2026, 23(4): 196-213. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/JCC.fa.2025-0242.202604
    The satellite-ground integrated Networks (SGIN) emerge as a promising paradigm to extend the coverage and resilience of terrestrial networks. However, the high mobility and intermittent connectivity of satellites lead to inevitable ground-satellite handovers. Existing handover algorithms often overlook the inherent interdependence between ground-satellite handover and inter-satellite routing, resulting in suboptimal performance and degraded quality of service (QoS). To address these issues, we propose a heterogeneous graph neural networks-enhanced deep reinforcement learning (HGRL) algorithm for joint handover and routing optimization. First, we propose the semantic-based heterogeneous graph neural networks (SHGNN) to model SGIN as a heterogeneous graph, capturing the intricate relationships between handover and routing through diverse representations of nodes and edges. Then, we embed the SHGNN into a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework, enabling QoS-aware decisions for both ground-satellite handover and inter-satellite routing. Additionally, a non-dominated crowding sorting (NCS) mechanism is proposed to prune alternative paths while balancing multiple QoS objectives. Finally, extensive simulations in NS3 show that HGRL outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms, reducing the handover times and average delay by 63.63% and 36.85%, and improving the average throughput by 26.53%.
  • Native Intelligence of Mobile Communications
    Liao Kaiji, Zhang Junsheng, Zhang Jiefu, Cai Junyi
    China Communications. 2026, 23(4): 330-337. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/JCC.fa.2025-0450.202604
    In recent years, with the advancement of computational hardware performance, machine learning algorithms have achieved significant development and widespread application across various fields, and have become deeply embedded in smart grids and communication systems. However, it is important to note that despite the widespread deployment of smart meters in the power system, the lack of reliable intelligent diagnostic, a large number of such electricity meters experiencing communication failures caused by internal topological defects every year. To address this issue, we propose a machine learning-based monitoring and early warning model using multidimensional feature fusion. By integrating more than twenty key features in four categories, including attribute features, operational load features, communication behavior features, and derived combined features—an XGBoost classification algorithm framework is constructed to implement risk early warning for electricity meter communication faults. Validated with data from millions of users, the proposed model achieves an accuracy of approximately 90%, the annual average reduction in power outages caused by communication faults is more than 10,000 hours, and significantly enhances the grid’s safety and operational stability.
  • Fundamental Limits and Emerging Technologies in Communication
    Wu Tingwei, Jia Zhaolong, Zhu Xiaowen, Song Song, Zhao Lun, Guo Lei
    China Communications. 2026, 23(4): 153-163. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/JCC.fa.2025-0310.202604
    In this paper, we propose a Transformer-OP co-optimized routing framework for UAV optical communication networks to address routing challenges. The framework features an encoder that employs multi-head attention mechanisms to extract spatiotemporal correlation features among nodes. The de-coder incorporates triple dynamic masking for path generation while dynamically evaluating link quality using Gamma-Gamma turbulence modeling. The REINFORCE reinforcement learning algorithm is applied to optimize reward functions, achieving an optimal trade-off between mission performance and turbulence-induced losses. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly improves routing stability in dynamic turbulence environments, enables millisecond-level routing decisions, and enhances overall system efficiency by more than 30%, providing valuable theoretical foundations and technical solutions for space-air-ground integrated communications.
  • Satellite Internet
    Yan Heyun, Zhang Ying, Kuai Xiaoyan, Zhu Lidong
    China Communications. 2026, 23(4): 177-195. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/JCC.fa.2025-0355.202604
    In extremely high-mobility scenarios, the severe wideband Doppler effect significantly deteriorates the performance of traditional acquisition methods and increases computational complexity. Using the generalized wideband ambiguity function (GWAF), this paper derives the analytical and approximate closed-form expressions of the GWAF for the linear frequency modulated (LFM) signal and further clarifies the mechanism of correlation acquisition performance degradation for LFM signals under extremely high-mobility conditions. To overcome the limitation of performance degradation, an optimization method for the superposed LFM signal, based on its GWAF, using an alternating iterative genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed to improve the time-domain correlation performance of the superposed LFM signal, satisfying the requirements for time-domain correlation acquisition in low SNR and extreme high mobility scenarios. Based on the optimized signal, a low-complexity iterative superposition matched filtering (ISMF) acquisition method is designed for extremely high-mobility signals. Simulation results demonstrate the validity of the theoretical expressions of the GWAF and the proposed ISMF acquisition method based on optimized waveforms, achieving performance comparable to traditional methods while significantly reducing computational complexity.
  • SECURITY SCHEMES AND SOLUTIONS
    Yongquan Yan, Ping Guo
    China Communications. 2016, 13(6): 225-235.
    In the past two decades, software aging has been studied by both academic and industry communities. Many scholars focused on analytical methods or time series to model software aging process. While machine learning has been shown as a very promising technique in application to forecast software state: normal or aging. In this paper, we proposed a method which can give practice guide to forecast software aging using machine learning algorithm. Firstly, we collected data from a running commercial web server and preprocessed these data. Secondly, feature selection algorithm was applied to find a subset of model parameters set. Thirdly, time series model was used to predict values of selected parameters in advance. Fourthly, some machine learning algorithms were used to model software aging process and to predict software aging. Fifthly, we used sensitivity analysis to analyze how heavily outcomes changed following input variables change. In the last, we applied our method to an IIS web server. Through analysis of the experiment results, we find that our proposed method can predict software aging in the early stage of system development life cycle.
  • FEATURE TOPIC: CLOUD MOBILE MEDIA
    Liwei Mu, Chulong Liang, Zhiyong Liu, Daru Pan
    China Communications. 2016, 13(8): 97-102.
    In this paper, we propose a new method to derive a family of regular rate-compatible low-density parity-check (RC-LDPC) convolutional codes from RC-LDPC block codes. In the RC-LDPC convolutional family, each extended sub-matrix of each extended code is obtained by choosing specified elements from two fixed matrices HE1k and HE2k, which are derived by modifying the extended matrices HE1 and HE2 of a systematic RC-LDPC block code. The proposed method which is based on graph extension simplifies the design, and prevent the defects caused by the puncturing method. It can be used to generate both regular and irregular RC-LDPC convolutional codes. All resulted codes in the family are systematic which simplify the encoder structure and have maximum encoding memories which ensure the property. Simulation results show the family collectively offer a steady improvement in performance with code compatibility over binary-input additive white Gaussian noise channel (BI-AWGNC).
  • FEATURE TOPIC:COLLABORATIVE INTELLIGENCE FOR VEHICULAR INTERNET OF THINGS
    Xuting Duan, Hang Jiang, Daxin Tian, Tianyuan Zou, Jianshan Zhou, Yue Cao
    China Communications. 2021, 18(7): 1-12.
    In recent years, autonomous driving technology has made good progress, but the non-cooperative intelligence of vehicle for autonomous driving still has many technical bottlenecks when facing urban road autonomous driving challenges. V2I (Vehicle-to-Infrastructure) communication is a potential solution to enable cooperative intelligence of vehicles and roads. In this paper, the RGB-PVRCNN, an environment perception framework, is proposed to improve the environmental awareness of autonomous vehicles at intersections by leveraging V2I communication technology. This framework integrates vision feature based on PVRCNN. The normal distributions transform(NDT) point cloud registration algorithm is deployed both on onboard and roadside to obtain the position of the autonomous vehicles and to build the local map objects detected by roadside multi-sensor system are sent back to autonomous vehicles to enhance the perception ability of autonomous vehicles for benefiting path planning and traffic efficiency at the intersection. The field-testing results show that our method can effectively extend the environmental perception ability and range of autonomous vehicles at the intersection and outperform the PointPillar algorithm and the VoxelRCNN algorithm in detection accuracy.
  • SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS
    Fengye Hu, Lu Wang, Shanshan Wang, Xiaolan Liu, Gengxin He
    China Communications. 2016, 13(8): 198-208.
    Human body posture recognition has attracted considerable attention in recent years in wireless body area networks (WBAN). In order to precisely recognize human body posture, many recognition algorithms have been proposed. However, the recognition rate is relatively low. In this paper, we apply back propagation (BP) neural network as a classifier to recognizing human body posture, where signals are collected from VG350 acceleration sensor and a posture signal collection system based on WBAN is designed. Human body signal vector magnitude (SVM) and tri-axial acceleration sensor data are used to describe the human body postures. We are able to recognize 4 postures: Walk, Run, Squat and Sit. Our posture recognition rate is up to 91.67%. Furthermore, we find an implied relationship between hidden layer neurons and the posture recognition rate. The proposed human body posture recognition algorithm lays the foundation for the subsequent applications.
  • FEATURE TOPIC: INTEGRATED TERRESTRIALSATELLITE NETWORKS
    Xiangming Meng, Sheng Wu, Michael Riis Andersen, Jiang Zhu, Zuyao Ni
    China Communications. 2018, 15(6): 1-17.
    Due to limited volume, weight and power consumption, micro-satellite has to reduce data transmission and storage capacity by image compression when performs earth observation missions. However, the quality of images may be unsatisfied. This paper considers the problem of recovering sparse signals by exploiting their unknown sparsity pattern. To model structured sparsity, the prior correlation of the support is encoded by imposing a transformed Gaussian process on the spike and slab probabilities. Then, an efficient approximate message-passing algorithm with structured spike and slab prior is derived for posterior inference, which, combined with a fast direct method, reduces the computational complexity significantly. Further, a unified scheme is developed to learn the hyperparameters using expectation maximization (EM) and Bethe free energy optimization. Simulation results on both synthetic and real data demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm.
  • Guest Editorial
    Ximu Zhang, Min Jia, Xuemai Gu, Qing Guo
    China Communications. 2021, 18(12): 108-118.
    Cloud-based satellite and terrestrial spectrum shared networks (CB-STSSN) combines the triple advantages of efficient and flexible network management of heterogeneous cloud access (H-CRAN), vast coverage of satellite networks, and good communication quality of terrestrial networks. Thanks to the complementary coverage characteristics, anytime and anywhere high-speed communications can be achieved to meet the various needs of users. The scarcity of spectrum resources is a common problem in both satellite and terrestrial networks. In order to improve resource utilization, the spectrum is shared not only within each component but also between satellite beams and terrestrial cells, which introduces inter-component interferences. To this end, this paper first proposes an analytical framework which considers the inter-component interferences induced by spectrum sharing (SS). An intelligent SS scheme based on radio map (RM) consisting of LSTM-based beam prediction (BP), transfer learning-based spectrum prediction (SP) and joint non-preemptive priority and preemptive priority (J-NPAP)-based proportional fair spectrum allocation is than proposed. The simulation result shows that the spectrum utilization rate of CB-STSSN is improved and user blocking rate and waiting probability are decreased by the proposed scheme.
  • 6G TOWARDS 2030: FROM KEY TECHNOLOGY TO NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
    Yanfei Dong, Jincheng Dai, Kai Niu, Sen Wang, Yifei Yuan
    China Communications. 2022, 19(3): 101-115.
    In order to provide ultra low-latency and high energy-efficient communication for intelligences, the sixth generation (6G) wireless communication networks need to break out of the dilemma of the depleting gain of the separated optimization paradigm. In this context, this paper provides a comprehensive tutorial that overview how joint source-channel coding (JSCC) can be employed for improving overall system performance. For the purpose, we first introduce the communication requirements and performance metrics for 6G. Then, we provide an overview of the source-channel separation theorem and why it may not hold in practical applications. In addition, we focus on two new JSCC schemes called the double low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and the double polar codes, respectively, giving their detailed coding and decoding processes and corresponding performance simulations. In a nutshell, this paper constitutes a tutorial on the JSCC scheme tailored to the needs of future 6G communications.
  • Guest Editorial
    Xiaoyun Wang, Tao Sun, Xiaodong Duan, Dan Wang, Yongjing Li, Ming Zhao, Zhigang Tian
    China Communications. 2022, 19(1): 14-28.
    The Service-based Architecture (SBA) is one of the key innovations of 5G architecture that leverage modularized, self-contained and independent services to provide flexible and cloud-native 5G network. In this paper, SBA for Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) is investigated to enable the 5G integration deployment. This paper proposes a novel Holistic Service-based Architecture (H-SBA) for SAGIN of 5G-Advanced and beyond, i.e., 6G. The H-SBA introduces the concept of end-to-end service-based architecture design. The “Network Function Service”, introduced in 5G SBA, is extended from Control Plane to User Plane, from core network to access network. Based on H-SBA, the new generation of protocol design is proposed, which proposes to use IETF QUIC and SRv6 to substitute 5G HTTP/2.0 and GTP-U. Testing results show that new protocols can achieve low latency and high throughput, making them promising candidate for H-SBA.
  • COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM DESIGN
    YU Shuangming, FENG Peng, WU Nanjian
    China Communications. 2016, 13(1): 33-46.
    The paper proposes a low power non-volatile baseband processor with wake-up identification (WUI) receiver for LR-WPAN transceiver. It consists of WUI receiver, main receiver, transmitter, non-volatile memory (NVM) and power management module. The main receiver adopts a unified simplified synchronization method and channel codec with proactive Reed-Solomon Bypass technique, which increases the robustness and energy efficiency of receiver. The WUI receiver specifies the communication node and wakes up the transceiver to reduce average power consumption of the transceiver. The embedded NVM can backup/restore the states information of processor that avoids the loss of the state information caused by power failure and reduces the unnecessary power of repetitive computation when the processor is waked up from power down mode. The baseband processor is designed and verified on a FPGA board. The simulated power consumption of processor is 5.1μW for transmitting and 28.2μW for receiving. The WUI receiver technique reduces the average power consumption of transceiver remarkably. If the transceiver operates 30 seconds in every 15 minutes, the average power consumption of the transceiver can be reduced by two orders of magnitude. The NVM avoids the loss of the state information caused by power failure and energy waste caused by repetitive computation.
  • NETWORKS & SECURITY
    Mengke Yang, Movahedipour Mahmood, Xiaoguang Zhou, Salam Shafaq, Latif Zahid
    China Communications. 2017, 14(10): 180-191.
    Intellectualization has become a new trend for telecom industry, driven by intelligent technology including cloud computing, big data, and Internet of things. In order to satisfy the service demand of intelligent logistics, this paper designed an intelligent logistics platform containing the main applications such as e-commerce, self-service transceiver, big data analysis, path location and distribution optimization. The intelligent logistics service platform has been built based on cloud computing to collect, store and handling multi-source heterogeneous mass data from sensors, RFID electronic tag, vehicle terminals and APP, so that the open-access cloud services including distribution, positioning, navigation, scheduling and other data services can be provided for the logistics distribution applications. And then the architecture of intelligent logistics cloud platform containing software layer (SaaS), platform layer (PaaS) and infrastructure (IaaS) has been constructed accordance with the core technology relative high concurrent processing technique, heterogeneous terminal data access, encapsulation and data mining. Therefore, intelligent logistics cloud platform can be carried out by the service mode for implementation to accelerate the construction of the symbiotic win-win logistics ecological system and the benign development of the ICT industry in the trend of intellectualization in China.
  • Guest Editorial
    Qihui Wu, Min Zhang, Chao Dong, Yong Feng, Yanli Yuan, Simeng Feng, Tony Q. S. Quek
    China Communications. 2022, 19(1): 186-201.
    In recent years, with the growth in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), UAV-based systems have become popular in both military and civil applications.In these scenarios, the lack of reliable communication infrastructure has motivated UAVs to establish a network as flying nodes, also known as Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs).However, in FANETs, the high mobility degree of flying and terrestrial users may be responsible for constant changes in the network topology, making end-to-end connections in FANETs challenging.Mobility estimation and prediction of UAVs can address the challenge mentioned above since it can provide better routing planning and improve overall FANET performance in terms of continuous service availability.We thus develop a Software Defined Network (SDN)-based heterogeneous architecture for reliable communication in FANETs.In this architecture, we apply an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for accurate mobility estimation and prediction of UAVs.In particular, we formulate the routing problem in SDN-based Heterogeneous FANETs as a graph decision problem.As the problem is NP-hard, we further propose a Directional Particle Swarming Optimization (DPSO) approach to solve it.The extensive simulation results demonstrate that the proposed DPSO routing can exhibit superior performance in improving the goodput, packet delivery ratio, and delay.
  • COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    Ningzhe Xing, Siya Xu, Sidong Zhang, Shaoyong Guo
    China Communications. 2016, 13(8): 169-176.
    In power communication networks, it is a challenge to decrease the risk of different services efficiently to improve operation reliability. One of the important factor in reflecting communication risk is service route distribution. However, existing routing algorithms do not take into account the degree of importance of services, thereby leading to load unbalancing and increasing the risks of services and networks. A routing optimization mechanism based on load balancing for power communication networks is proposed to address the abovementioned problems. First, the mechanism constructs an evaluation model to evaluate the service and network risk degree using combination of devices, service load, and service characteristics. Second, service weights are determined with modified relative entropy TOPSIS method, and a balanced service routing determination algorithm is proposed. Results of simulations on practical network topology show that the mechanism can optimize the network risk degree and load balancing degree efficiently.
  • COVER PAPER
    Huanxi Cui, Jun Zhang, Yuhui Geng, Zhenyu Xiao, Tao Sun, Ning Zhang, Jiajia Liu, Qihui Wu, Xianbin Cao
    China Communications. 2022, 19(2): 90-108.
    As the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication network may not meet the requirements of emerging technologies and applications, including ubiquitous coverage, industrial internet of things (IIoT), ubiquitous artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins (DT), etc., this paper aims to explore a novel space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) architecture to support these new requirements for the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication network in a flexible, low-latency and efficient manner. Specifically, we first review the evolution of the mobile communication network, followed by the application and technology requirements of 6G. Then the current 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) architecture in supporting the new requirements is deeply analyzed. After that, we proposes a new flexible, low-latency and flat SAGIN architecture, and presents corresponding use cases. Finally, the future research directions are discussed.
  • 6G TOWARDS 2030: FROM KEY TECHNOLOGY TO NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
    Xiaofeng Zhong, Chenchen Fan, Shidong Zhou
    China Communications. 2022, 19(3): 145-157.
    Compared with wired communication, the wireless communication link is more vulnerable to be attacked or eavesdropped because of its broadcast nature. To prevent eavesdropping, many researches on transmission techniques or cryptographic methods are carried out. This paper proposes a new index parameter named as eavesdropping area, to evaluate the anti-eavesdropping performance of wireless system. Given the locations of legitimate transmitter and receiver, eavesdropping area index describes the total area of eavesdropping regions where messages can be wiretapped in the whole evaluating region. This paper gives detailed explanations about its concept and deduces mathematical formulas about performance curves based on region classification. Corresponding key system parameters are analyzed, including the characteristics of eavesdropping region, transmitted beam pattern, beam direction, receiver sensitivity, eavesdropping sensitivity, path loss exponent and so on. The proposed index can give an insight on the confirmation of high-risk eavesdropping region and formulating optimal transmitting scheme for the confidential communications to decrease the eavesdropping probability.
  • Guest Editorial
    Min Sheng, Di Zhou, Weigang Bai, Junyu Liu, Jiandong Li
    China Communications. 2022, 19(1): 64-76.
    The rapid development and continuous updating of the mega satellite constellation (MSC) have brought new visions for the future 6G coverage extension, where the global seamless signal coverage can realize ubiquitous services for user terminals. However, global traffic demands present non-uniform characteristics. Therefore, how to ensure the on-demand service coverage for the specific traffic demand, i.e., the ratio of traffic density to service requirement per unit area, is the core issue of 6G wireless coverage extension exploiting the MSC. To this regard, this paper first discusses the open challenges to reveal the future direction of 6G wireless coverage extension from the perspective of key factors affecting service coverage performance, i.e., the network access capacity, space segment capacity and their matching-relationship. Furthermore, we elaborate on the key factors affecting effective matchings of the aforementioned aspects, thereby improving service coverage capability.
  • SECURITY SCHEMES AND SOLUTIONS
    ZHAO Guosheng, WANG Jian
    China Communications. 2016, 13(1): 150-160.
    There are a lot of security issues in block cipher algorithm. Security analysis and enhanced design of a dynamic block cipher was proposed. Firstly, the safety of ciphertext was enhanced based on confusion substitution of S-box, thus disordering the internal structure of data blocks by four steps of matrix transformation. Then, the diffusivity of ciphertext was obtained by cyclic displacement of bytes using column ambiguity function. The dynamic key was finally generated by using LFSR, which improved the stochastic characters of secret key in each of round of iteration. The safety performance of proposed algorithm was analyzed by simulation test. The results showed the proposed algorithm has a little effect on the speed of encryption and decryption while enhancing the security. Meanwhile, the proposed algorithm has highly scalability, the dimension of S-box and the number of register can be dynamically extended according to the security requirement.
  • REVIEW PAPER
    Haotong Cao, Longxiang Yang, Zeyuan Liu, Mengting Wu
    China Communications. 2016, 13(6): 48-62.
    Network virtualization is an enabling technology of running multiple virtual networks on a shared substrate network. It aims to deal with the ossification of current network architecture. As a crucial component of network virtualization, virtual network embedding (VNE) can efficiently and effectively allocates the substrate resource to proposed virtual network requests. According to the optimization strategy, VNE approaches can be classified into three categories: exact, heuristic and meta-heuristic solution. The VNE exact solution is the foundation of its corresponding heuristic and meta-heuristic solutions. This paper presents a survey of existing typical VNE exact solutions, and open problems for the future research of VNE exact solutions are proposed.
  • OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS
    Hang Zhou, Bo Liu, Fu Wang, Dandan Song, Li Li, Xiangjun Xin, Qinghua Tian, Qi Zhang, Feng Tian
    China Communications. 2016, 13(8): 184-191.
    In this paper, the influencing factors that affect few-mode and multi core optical fiber channel are analyzed in a comprehensive way. The theoretical modeling and computer simulation of the information channel are carried out and then the modeling scheme of few-mode multi-core optical fiber channel based on non-uniform mode field distribution is put forward. The proposed modeling scheme can not only exponentially increases the system capacity through few-mode multi-core optical fiber channel, but has better transmission performance compared to the channel of the same type to the uniform channel revealing from the simulation results.
  • FEATURE TOPIC: INTEGRATED TERRESTRIALSATELLITE NETWORKS
    Zengyin Yang, Hewu Li, Qian Wu, Jianping Wu
    China Communications. 2018, 15(6): 42-57.
    With the booming development of terrestrial network, scaling terrestrial network over satellite network to build Integrated Terrestrial-Satellite Network (ITSN) and meanwhile to provide the global Internet access, has become ever more attractive. Naturally, the widely and successfully used terrestrial routing protocols are the promising protocols to integrate the terrestrial and satellite networks. However, the terrestrial routing protocols, which rely on propagating routing messages to discover New Network Topology (NNT) in the terrestrial network with rare topology changes, will suffer from overly numerous routing messages in satellite network whose topology frequently changes as satellites move. In this paper, a Topology Discovery Sub-layer for ITSN Routing Schemes (TDS-IRS) is firstly proposed to avoid the propagation of numerous routing messages by taking advantage of the movement predictability of satellite and the requirements of routing schemes to discover NNT in advance of topology change. Secondly, a Weighted Perfect Matching based Topology Discovery (WPM-TD) model is designed to conduct the NNT discovery on the ground. Thirdly, this paper builds a testbed with real network devices and meanwhile interconnect that testbed with real Internet, to validate that RS-TDS can discover NNT immediately with the less on-board overhead compared with optimized routing schemes. Finally, different network scenarios are applied to validate the WPM-TD, i.e., the core module of TDS-IRS. Extensive experiments show WPM-TD can work efficiently, avoiding the invalid NNT discovery and decreasing 20% ~ 57% of potential topology changes, which can also improve up to 47% ~ 105% of network throughput.
  • COVER PAPER
    Wu Jun, Yang Yaoqi, Yuan Weijie, Liu Wenchao, Wang Jiacheng, Mao Tianqi, Zhou Lin, Cui Yuanhao, Liu Fan, Sun Geng, Ma Yiyan, Wu Nan, Zheng Dezhi, Xu Jindan, Ma Nan, Feng Zhiyong, Xu Wei, Niyato Dusit, Yuen Chau, Jing Xiaojun, Shi Zhiguo, Ai Bo, Jin Shi, In Kim Dong, Wang Jiangzhou, Zhang Ping, Yin Hao, Zhang Jun
    China Communications. 2026, 23(3): 99-141. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/JCC.fa.2025-0429.202603

    The rapid development of the low-altitude economy has imposed unprecedented demands on wireless infrastructure to accommodate large-scale drone deployments and facilitate intelligent services in dynamic airspace environments. However, unlocking its full potential in practical applications presents significant challenges. Traditional aerial systems predominantly focus on air-ground communication services, often neglecting the integration of sensing, computation, control, and energy-delivering functions, which hinders the ability to meet diverse mission-critical demands. Besides, the absence of systematic low-altitude airspace planning and management exacerbates issues regarding dynamic interference in three-dimensional space, coverage instability, and scalability. To overcome these challenges, a comprehensive framework, termed low-altitude wireless network (LAWN), has emerged to seamlessly integrate communication, sensing, computation, control, and air traffic management into a unified design. This article provides a comprehensive overview of LAWN systems, introducing LAWN system fundamentals and performance evaluation metrics. Subsequently, we delve into the evolution of functional designs and review critical concerns surrounding privacy and security in the open-air network environment. We survey advanced artificial intelligence techniques that enhance LAWN functionality and enable increasingly autonomous operations. Finally, we present the cutting-edge developments in airspace structuring, air traffic management, and path planning, providing insights to facilitate the practical deployment of LAWNs.

  • WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
    Jiao Xiaopeng, Mu Jianjun
    China Communications. 2016, 13(8): 127-135.
    Decoding by alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a promising linear programming decoder for low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. In this paper, we propose a two-step scheme to lower the error floor of LDPC codes with ADMM penalized decoder. For the undetected errors that cannot be avoided at the decoder side, we modify the code structure slightly to eliminate low-weight code words. For the detected errors induced by small error-prone structures, we propose a post-processing method for the ADMM penalized decoder. Simulation results show that the error floor can be reduced significantly over three illustrated LDPC codes by the proposed two-step scheme.
  • COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    Zeheng Yang, Yongan Guo
    China Communications. 2016, 13(8): 177-183.
    Network virtualization is known as a promising technology to tackle the ossification of current Internet and will play an important role in the future network area. Virtual network embedding(VNE) is a key issue in network virtualization. VNE is NP-hard and former VNE algorithms are mostly heuristic in the literature. VNE exact algorithms have been developed in recent years. However, the constraints of exact VNE are only node capacity and link bandwidth. Based on these, this paper presents an exact VNE algorithm, ILP-LC, which is based on Integer Linear Programming(ILP), for embedding virtual network request with location constraints. This novel algorithm is aiming at mapping virtual network request(VNR) successfully as many as possible and consuming less substrate resources. The topology of each VNR is randomly generated by Waxman model. Simulation results show that the proposed ILP-LC algorithm outperforms the typical heuristic algorithms in terms of the VNR acceptance ratio, at least 15%.
  • Guest Editorial
    Yuanzhi He, Biao Sheng, Hao Yin, Di Yan, Yingchao Zhang
    China Communications. 2022, 19(1): 77-91.
    Resource allocation is an important problem influencing the service quality of multi-beam satellite communications. In multi-beam satellite communications, the available frequency bandwidth is limited, users requirements vary rapidly, high service quality and joint allocation of multi-dimensional resources such as time and frequency are required. It is a difficult problem needs to be researched urgently for multi-beam satellite communications, how to obtain a higher comprehensive utilization rate of multi-dimensional resources, maximize the number of users and system throughput, and meet the demand of rapid allocation adapting dynamic changed the number of users under the condition of limited resources, with using an efficient and fast resource allocation algorithm. In order to solve the multi-dimensional resource allocation problem of multi-beam satellite communications, this paper establishes a multi-objective optimization model based on the maximum the number of users and system throughput joint optimization goal, and proposes a multi-objective deep reinforcement learning based time-frequency two-dimensional resource allocation (MODRL-TF) algorithm to adapt dynamic changed the number of users and the timeliness requirements. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm could provide higher comprehensive utilization rate of multi-dimensional resources, and could achieve multi-objective joint optimization, and could obtain better timeliness than traditional heuristic algorithms, such as genetic algorithm (GA) and ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO).
  • SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS
    Meng Zhao, Huaxiang Zhang, Lili Meng
    China Communications. 2016, 13(8): 222-230.
    This paper presents an efficient image feature representation method, namely angle structure descriptor (ASD), which is built based on the angle structures of images. According to the diversity in directions, angle structures are defined in local blocks. Combining color information in HSV color space, we use angle structures to detect images. The internal correlations between neighboring pixels in angle structures are explored to form a feature vector. With angle structures as bridges, ASD extracts image features by integrating multiple information as a whole, such as color, texture, shape and spatial layout information. In addition, the proposed algorithm is efficient for image retrieval without any clustering implementation or model training. Experimental results demonstrate that ASD outperforms the other related algorithms.
  • COMMUNICATIONS THEORIES & SYSTEMS
    Jingxuan Huang, Zesong Fei, Tianxiong Wang, Xinyi Wang, Fan Liu, Haijun Zhou, J. Andrew Zhang, Guohua Wei
    China Communications. 2019, 16(10): 100-111.
    With the development of automated driving vehicles, more and more vehicles will be fitted with more than one automotive radars, and the radar mutual interference will become very significant. Vehicle to everything (V2X) communication is a potential way for coordinating automotive radars and reduce the mutual interference. In this paper, we analyze the positional relation of the two radars that interfere with each other, and evaluate the mutual interference for different types of automotive radars based on Poisson point process (PPP). We also propose a centralized framework and the corresponding algorithm, which relies on V2X communication systems to allocate the spectrum resources for automotive radars to minimize the interference. The minimum spectrum resources required for zero-interference are analyzed for different cases. Simulation results validate the analysis and show that the proposed framework can achieve near-zero-interference with the minimum spectrum resources.