Tong-Xing Zheng

Associate Professor, PhD, PhD Supervisor

Affiliation:

• Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU)
• Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering
• School of Information and Communications Engineering
• MOE Key Lab for Intelligent Networks and Network Security
• Key Lab for Cyber-Physical Systems 

Address:

• Room 132, Key Lab for Cyber-Physical Systems, Pengkang Building at Xingqing Campus
• Room 4-7077,  Hongli Building at Campus of Science and Technology Innovation Harbour in Western China

Email:

• zhengtx@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

Education Backgrounds

• Sep. 2010-Sep. 2016    Ph.D. (Master & Ph.D.), Information and Communications Engineering, XJTU
• Sep. 2006-Jul. 2010      B.E. (Bacelor & Master), Information Engineering, XJTU

Work Experience

• May 2019-Now              Associate Professor, XJTU
• Oct. 2016-Now              Postdoctor, XJTU (Supervisor: Academician GUAN Xiaohong)
• Dec. 2017-Dec. 2018     Visiting Scholar, UNSW, Australia (Supervisor: Prof. YUAN Jinhong)
• Oct. 2016-Apr. 2019      Lecturer, XJTU

Current Research Interests

• 5G/6G wireless networks and key techniques
• Physical-layer security of wireless communications
• Wireless covert communications
• Edge Caching and Computing
• Stochastic geometry theory and its applications

Research Grants

• Principal Investigator for 8 granted research projects, RMB 1 Millions in total 

Publications

• 1 Research Mongraph: Physical Layer Security in Random Cellular Networks (Springer, 2016)
• 1 Book Chapter: Physical Layer Security in Cache-Enabled Heterogeneous Cellular Networks (Physical Layer Security-Theory and Practice, Springer 2020)
• 2 Editorial Journal: Physical Layer Security for Internet of Things (Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing in 2018), Covert Communications for Next-Generation Wireless Networks (Frontiers in Communications and Networks in 2021)
• over 60 IEEE journal and conference papers, with 27 SCI (24 Most Influential Academic Journals)
• 2 ESI Highly Cited papers and 1 ESI Hot Paper
• over 1600 citation on Google Scholar with h-index 19
• 8 Chinese Patents (4 Granted)

Awards

• Supervisor Award for Excellent Master Thesis of Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2021
• Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Shaanxi Province, 2019
• Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2019
• First Prize of Science and Technology Award in Higher Institution of Shaanxi Province, 2019
• Exemplary Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2017-2018
•  “Xin Yuan Tong” Award Fund for Excellent Graduates of XJTU, 2017
• Excellent Graduate Cadres of XJTU, 2016
• Doctoral National Scholarship, 2015

Membership

• IEEE Member, 2016-now
• Senior Member of China Institute of Communications）2020-Now
• Member of Chinese Institute of Electronics, 2018-Now
• Associate Editor for IET Electronic Letters (for Wireless Communications) 2021-Now
• Review Editor for Wireless Communications (Specialty section of Frontiers in Communications and Networks), 2019-Now ​​​​​​​
• Guest Editor for Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Special Issue on Physical Layer Security for Internet of Things), 2018
• TPC Members of Various IEEE Conferences, including IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, WNCN, and PIMRC

• Books and Chapters

1. Hui-Ming Wang and Tong-Xing Zheng. Physical Layer Security in Random Cellular Networks. Singapore: Springer, Oct. 2016.
2. Tong-Xing Zheng and Jinhong Yuan, Physical Layer Security in Cache-Enabled Heterogeneous Cellular Networks, in Physical Layer Security, Springer, Feb. 2021. 
    

• Journal Papers (most influential academic journals)

1. Tong-Xing Zheng, Hui-Ming Wang, Feng Liu, and Moon Ho Lee, “Outage constrained secrecy throughput maximization for DF relay networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 1741-1755, May 2015. 
2. Tong-Xing Zheng, Hui-Ming Wang, Jinhong Yuan, Don Towsley, and Moon Ho Lee, “Multi-antenna transmission with artificial noise against randomly distributed eavesdroppers,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 63, no. 11, pp. 4347-4362, Nov. 2015.
3. Tong-Xing Zheng and Hui-Ming Wang, “Optimal power allocation for artificial noise under imperfect CSI against spatially random eavesdroppers,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 8812-8817, Oct. 2016.
4. Tong-Xing Zheng, Hui-Ming Wang, Qian Yang, and Moon Ho Lee, “Safeguarding decentralized wireless networks using full-duplex jamming receivers,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 278-292, Jan. 2017. ​​​​​​​
5. Tong-Xing Zheng, Hui-Ming Wang, and Moon Ho Lee, “Multi-antenna transmission in downlink heterogeneous cellular networks under a threshold-based mobile association policy,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 244-256, Jan. 2017. 
6. Tong-Xing Zheng, Hui-Ming Wang, Jinhong Yuan, Zhu Han, and Moon Ho Lee, “Physical layer security in wireless ad hoc networks under a hybrid full-/half-duplex receiver deployment strategy,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 3827-3839, Jun. 2017.
7. Tong-Xing Zheng, Hui-Ming Wang, and Jinhong Yuan, “Physical-layer security in cache-enabled cooperative small cell networks against randomly distributed eavesdroppers,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 5945-5958, Sep. 2018.
8. Tong-Xing Zheng, Hui-Ming Wang, and Jinhong Yuan, “Secure and energy-efficient transmissions in cache-enabled heterogeneous cellular networks: Performance analysis and optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 5554-5567, Nov. 2018. 
9. Tong-Xing Zheng, Hui-Ming Wang, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, and Jinhong Yuan, “Multi-antenna covert communications in random wireless networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1974-1987, Mar. 2019.
10. Tong-Xing Zheng, Hui-Ming Wang, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, and Jinhong Yuan, “Physical-layer security in the finite blocklength regime over fading channels,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.19, no. 5, pp. 3405-3420, May 2020. 
11. Tong-Xing Zheng*, Hao-Wen Liu, Ning Zhang, Zhiguo Ding, and Victor C.M. Leung, "Secure Content Delivery in Two-Tier Cache-Enabled mmWave Heterogeneous Networks," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, vol. 16, pp. 1640-1654, 2021.
12. Tong-Xing Zheng*, Ziteng Yang, Chao Wang*, Zan Li, Jinhong Yuan, and Xiaohong Guan, “Wireless covert communications aided by distributed cooperative jamming over slow fading channels,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 7026-7039, Nov. 2021. 

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