Publications

Distributed Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for Data-Driven Millimeter Wave Communications in UAV Networks
Qianqian Zhang, Aidin Ferdowsi, Walid Saad, Bennis Mehdi
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022 [PDF]

Millimeter Wave Communications with an Intelligent Reflector: Performance Optimization and Distributional Reinforcement Learning
Qianqian Zhang, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022 [PDF]

Predictive Deployment of UAV Base Stations in Wireless Networks: Machine Learning Meets Contract Theory
Qianqian Zhang, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis, Xing Lu, Merouane Debbah, Wangda Zuo
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2021 [PDF]

An Open Source Modeling Framework for Interdependent Energy-Transportation-Communication Infrastructure in Smart and Connected Communities
Xing Lu, Kathryn Hinkelman, Yangyang Fu, Jing Wang, Wangda Zuo, Qianqian Zhang, Walid Saad
IEEE Access, 2019 [PDF]

Reflections over the Sea: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Maritime Self-Powered Communications
Qianqian Zhang, Long Wang, Ben Wu, Jia Mi
IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2026 [PDF]

Privacy Preserving Semantic Communications Using Vision Language Models: A Segmentation and Generation Approach.
Haoran Chang, Mingzhe Chen, Huaxia Wang, Qianqian Zhang
IEEE Military Communication Conference, 2025 [PDF]

Joint Optimization of Model Splitting and Device Task Assignment for Private Multi-hop Split Learning.
Dongyu Wei, Qianqian Zhang, Yuchen Liu, Mingzhe Chen
IEEE 59th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 2025 [PDF]

Application-layer Characterization and Traffic Analysis for Encrypted QUIC Transport Protocol.
Qianqian Zhang, Chi-Jiun Su.
IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, 2023 [PDF]

Semi-Supervised Learning for Channel Charting-Aided IoT Localization in Millimeter Wave Networks
Qianqian Zhang, Walid Saad
IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2021 [PDF]

Distributed Generative Adversarial Networks for mmWave Channel Modeling in Wireless UAV Networks
Qianqian Zhang, Aidin Ferdowsi, Walid Saad
IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2021 [PDF]

Distributional Reinforcement Learning for mmWave Communications with Intelligent Reflectors on a UAV
Qianqian Zhang, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis
IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2020 [PDF]

Reflections in the Sky: Millimeter Wave Communication with UAV-Carried Intelligent Reflectors
Qianqian Zhang, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis
IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2019 [PDF]

Machine Learning for Predictive On-Demand Deployment of UAVs for Wireless Communications
Qianqian Zhang, Mohammad Mozaffari, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis, Merouane Debbah
IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2018 [PDF]

Network formation game for multi-hop wearable communications over millimeter wave frequencies
Qianqian Zhang, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis, Merouane Debbah
IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2017 [PDF]

Quantum game theory for beam alignment in millimeter wave device-to-device communications
Qianqian Zhang, Walid Saad, Mehdi Bennis, Merouane Debbah
IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2016 [PDF]

Application layer characterization of encrypted transport protocol
Qianqian Zhang, Chi-Jiun Su
US Patent 12,328,341, 2025 [PDF]

Application layer characterization of encrypted transport protocol
Qianqian Zhang, Chi-Jiun Su
US Patent App. 19/200,431, 2025 [PDF]