Information and communication technology (ICT) has been an essential part of modern society. However, the current communication systems are not sufficient to meet the demands of emerging applications. Intellicise (intelligent and concise) wireless networks, with their inherent characteristics of intelligence-endogenous and primitive-concise, have been proposed as a promising research direction. In this paper, we focus on intellicise wireless networks from semantic communication (SemCom). We present a comprehensive framework of intellicise wireless networks, including components such as brain for intellicise wireless networks (BIWN), intellicise signal processing, intellicise information transmission, intellicise network organization, and intellicise service bearing. We also investigate the enabling technologies and driving factors of intellicise wireless networks. Subsequently, we introduce the applications of intellicise wireless networks and envision new services. Finally, we outline the challenges of implementing intellicise wireless networks from a broad perspective and discuss possible solutions.

Smart city (SC) technologies can provide appropriate services according to citizens’ demands. One of the key enablers in a SC is the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which enables a massive number of devices to connect with each other. However, these devices usually come from different manufacturers with different product standards, which confront interactive control problems. Moreover, these devices will produce large amounts of data, and efficiently analyzing these data for intelligent services. In this paper, we propose a novel artificial intelligence-based semantic IoT (AI-SIoT) hybrid service architecture to integrate heterogeneous IoT devices to support intelligent services. In particular, the proposed architecture is empowered by semantic and AI technologies, which enable flexible connections among heterogeneous devices. The AI technology can support very implement efficient data analysis and make accurate decisions on service provisions in various kinds. Furthermore, we also present several practical use cases of the proposed AI-SIoT architecture and the opportunities and challenges to implement the proposed AI-SIoT for future SCs are also discussed.

In this letter, we study the robust beamforming design for the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication systems from a multi-antenna access point (AP) to a single-antenna user under imperfect channel state information (CSI), where the RIS has only a finite number of phase shifts at each element. In particular, considering the cascaded AP-RIS-user channel estimation error, we aim to jointly optimize the transmit beamforming at the AP and discrete phase shifts of RIS to minimize the transmission power of AP, subject to a signal-to-noise ratio constraint at the user. To tackle the non-convex optimization problem, we decouple it into two subproblems and propose a novel alternative optimization framework. More specifically, the robust beamforming of AP is first obtained through S-Procedure and semidefinite relaxation. Then we recast the discrete phase shift constraint at RIS into an equivalent convex one, and propose an efficient algorithm to obtain a near optimal solution. Finally, the two subproblems are iteratively optimized to obtain joint robust beamforming. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can approach the performance of the perfect CSI counterpart and substantially outperform traditional non-robust methods.

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications can potentially meet the high data-rate requirements of unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) networks. However, as the prerequisite of mmWave communications, the narrow directional beam tracking is very challenging because of the 3-D mobility and attitude variation of UAVs. Aiming to address the beam tracking difficulties, we propose to integrate the conformal array (CA) with the surface of each UAV, which enables the full spatial coverage and the agile beam tracking in highly dynamic UAV mmWave networks. More specifically, the key contributions of our work are threefold: 1) a new mmWave beam tracking framework is established for the CA-enabled UAV mmWave network; 2) a specialized hierarchical codebook is constructed to drive the directional radiating element (DRE)-covered cylindrical CA, which contains both the angular beam pattern and the subarray pattern to fully utilize the potential of the CA; and 3) a codebook-based multiuser beam tracking scheme is proposed, where the Gaussian process machine learning-enabled UAV position/attitude prediction is developed to improve the beam tracking efficiency in conjunction with the tracking-error aware adaptive beamwidth control. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed codebook-based beam tracking scheme in the CA-enabled UAV mmWave network, and demonstrate the advantages of CA over the conventional planner array in terms of spectrum efficiency and outage probability in the highly dynamic scenarios.

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) is a promising technology for high-mobility wireless communications. However, the equalization realization in practical OTFS systems is a great challenge. In this paper, we first investigate the structure of the delay-Doppler domain effective channel matrix for more practical full-cyclic-prefix OTFS systems, and then reveal the block-circulant property and quasi-banded sparse structure of equalization matrices for the two typical linear equalization methods, i.e., zero-forcing and minimum mean square error. Then, two low-complexity linear equalizers are proposed, where Fast Fourier Transform and lower-upper (LU) factorization are efficiently leveraged to reduce the complexity. Compared with the existing low-complexity linear equalizers, the proposed equalizers improve the performance without additional complexity.

We investigate the tradeoff between energy efficiency (EE) and spectrum efficiency (SE) in the heterogeneous network composed of a macro base station (BS), several pico BSs, and device-to-device (D2D) communication pairs during the uplink transmission. A utility function of the tradeoff between EE and SE is defined first. Then, we formulate the tradeoff utility maximization problem as a joint channel allocation and power control problem for cellular and D2D users. The original problem is transformed into a more tractable subtractive form, and we further decompose the problem into several subproblems that can be solved separately. Numerical results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed scheme and offer valuable insights. Compared with EE, SE is much less sensitive to the variation of the tradeoff factor, which indicates that our proposed scheme can achieve high EE while guaranteeing a fairly large value of SE with a properly chosen EE–SE tradeoff factor.