Dr Fang Fang

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(email at fang.fang@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Dr. Fang Fang received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, in 2017. From 2018 to 2020, she was a Research Associate with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, UK. Since August 2020, she has been with the Department of Engineering at Durham University, Durham (UK) as an Assistant Professor in Communications Engineering. Her current research interests include beyond 5G/6G wireless communications, machine learning, Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and multi-access edge computing (MEC), etc.

Dr. Fang is currently a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She has been serving as a technical program committee (TPC) Member for IEEE flagship conferences, e.g., IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC and IEEE VTC. She received the Exemplary Reviewer Certificate of the IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2017. Currently, she is an Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

Prospective Students

I’m always looking for self-motivated students who want to pursue a Ph.D. degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering. If you have a solid background in wireless communications and a strong grounding in mathematical skills, please drop me an email with your CV. More information on funding opportunities is available here:

• Durham Doctoral Studentships 
• Scholarship Opportunities for International Students

Research Groups

Department of Engineering

• Next Generation Materials and Microsystems

Research Interests

• Deep Reinforcement Learning and Federated Learning in Wireless Communications
• Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)
• Internet of Things/Everything (IoT/IoE)
• Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) aided Wireless Communications
• Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) Networks
• Resource Allocation in Beyond 5G and 6G Wireless Networks

Indicators of Esteem

• 2020: :
  1. Invited researcher to give a presentation at Chongqing University on Zoom (11/2020).
  2. Invited academic consultant at Jinan University in China (From 2020).

Selected Publications

Conference Paper

• Li, Haodong & Fang, Fang (2020), Joint Resource Allocation for NOMA-Assisted MEC Networks, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops). 1.
• Wen, Yujie, Zhou, Xiaotian, Fang, Fang, Zhang, Haixia & Yuan, Dongfeng (2020), Nash Bargaining Based Power Allocation and Relay Selection for Cooperative NOMA Aided Spectrum Sharing Systems, 2020 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC). 2325-2626.
• Wang, Kaidi, Fang, Fang & Ding, Zhiguo (2019), Joint Optimization of Task Assignment and Power Allocation for NOMA-Aided MEC Systems, 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 1.
• Fang, Fang, Wang, Kaidi & Ding, Zhiguo (2019), Optimal Task Assignment and Power Allocation for Downlink NOMA MEC Networks, 2019 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps). 1.
• Fang, Fang, Xu, Yanqing, Ding, Zhiguo, Shen, Chao, Peng, Mugen & Karagiannidis, George K. (2019), Optimal Task Partition and Power Allocation for Mobile Edge Computing with NOMA, 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 1.
• Zhu, Jianyue, Wang, Jiaheng, Huang, Yongming, Fang, Fang, Navaie, Keivan & Ding, Zhiguo (2019), Resource Allocation for NOMA MEC Offloading, 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 1.
• Ren, Jie, Wang, Zulin, Xu, Mai, Fang, Fang & Ding, Zhiguo (2019), Unsupervised User Clustering in Non-orthogonal Multiple Access, ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 3332.
• Liang, Wei, Li, LiXin, Shi, Jia, Fang, Fang & Ding, Zhiguo (2018), Cooperative Game Aided Spectrum Sharing in Underlay Cognitive Radio Networks Employing NOMA Schemes, 2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps). 1.
• Fang, Fang, Cheng, Julian, Ding, Zhiguo & Poor, H. Vincent (2018), Energy Efficient Resource Optimization for a Downlink NOMA Heterogeneous Small-Cell Network, 2018 IEEE 10th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM). 51.
• Xu, Yanqing, Cai, Donghong, Fang, Fang, Ding, Zhiguo, Shen, Chao & Zhu, Gang (2018), Outage Analysis and Power Allocation for HARQ-CC Enabled NOMA Downlink Transmission, 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). 1.
• Cai, Donghong, Xu, Yanqing, Fang, Fang, Yan, Shi & Fan, Pingzhi (2018), Outage Probability of NOMA with Partial HARQ Over Time-Correlated Fading Channels, 2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps). 1-6.
• Fang, Fang, Zhang, Haijun, Cheng, Julian & Leung, Victor C.M. (2017), Energy-efficient resource scheduling for NOMA systems with imperfect channel state information, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 1.
• Fang, Fang, Zhang, Haijun, Cheng, Julian & Leung, Victor C.M. (2016), Energy efficiency of resource scheduling for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) wireless network, 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 1-5.

Journal Article

• Pham, Quoc-Viet, Fang, Fang, Ha, Vu Nguyen, Piran, Md. Jalil, Le, Mai, Le, Long Bao, Hwang, Won-Joo & Ding, Zhiguo (2020). A Survey of Multi-Access Edge Computing in 5G and Beyond: Fundamentals, Technology Integration, and State-of-the-Art. IEEE Access 8: 116974-117017.
• Fang, Fang, Xu, Yanqing, Pham, Quoc-Viet & Ding, Zhiguo (2020). Energy-Efficient Design of IRS-NOMA Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 69(11): 14088-14092.
• Fang, Fang, Ye, Guanshan, Zhang, Haijun, Cheng, Julian & Leung, Victor C.M. (2020). Energy-Efficient Joint User Association and Power Allocation in a Heterogeneous Network. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 1.
• Jiao, Shiyu, Fang, Fang, Zhou, Xiaotian & Zhang, Haixia (2020). Joint Beamforming and Phase Shift Design in Downlink UAV Networks with IRS-Assisted NOMA. Journal of Communications and Information Networks (JCIN) 138-149.
• Li, Haodong, Fang, Fang & Ding, Zhiguo (2020). Joint Resource Allocation for Hybrid NOMA Assisted MEC in 6G Networks. Digital Communications and Networks 6(3): 241-252.
• Yang, Long, Jiang, Hai, Ye, Qiang, Ding, Zhiguo, Fang, Fang, Shi, Jia, Chen, Jian & Xue, Xuan (2020). Opportunistic Adaptive Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in Multiuser Wireless Systems: Probabilistic User Scheduling and Performance Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 19(9): 6065-6082.
• Fang, Fang, Xu, Yanqing, Ding, Zhiguo, Shen, Chao, Peng, Mugen & Karagiannidis, George K. (2020). Optimal Resource Allocation for Delay Minimization in NOMA-MEC Networks. IEEE Transactions on Communications 1.
• Xu, Yanqing, Cai, Donghong, Fang, Fang, Ding, Zhiguo, Shen, Chao & Zhu, Gang (2020). Outage Constrained Power Efficient Design for Downlink NOMA Systems With Partial HARQ. IEEE Transactions on Communications 68(8): 5188-5201.
• Zhu, Jianyue, Wang, Jiaheng, Huang, Yongming, Fang, Fang, Navaie, Keivan & Ding, Zhiguo (2020). Resource Allocation for Hybrid NOMA MEC Offloading. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 19(7): 4964-4977.
• Sena, Arthur S. de, Carrillo, Dick, Fang, Fang, Nardelli, Pedro H. J., Costa, Daniel B. da, Dias, Ugo S., Ding, Zhiguo, Papadias, Constantinos B. & Saad, Walid (2020). What Role Do Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Play in Multi-Antenna Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access?. IEEE Wireless Communications 27(5): 24-31.
• Ren, Jie, Wang, Zulin, Xu, Mai, Fang, Fang & Ding, Zhiguo (2019). An EM-Based User Clustering Method in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access. IEEE Transactions on Communications 67(12): 8422-8434.
• Wen, Xiangming, Zhang, Huiwen, Zhang, Haijun & Fang, Fang (2019). Interference Pricing Resource Allocation and User-Subchannel Matching for NOMA Hierarchy Fog Networks. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 13(3): 467-479.
• Vaezi, Mojtaba, Aruma Baduge, Gayan Amarasuriya, Liu, Yuanwei, Arafa, Ahmed, Fang, Fang & Ding, Zhiguo (2019). Interplay Between NOMA and Other Emerging Technologies: A Survey. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking 5(4): 900-919.
• Fang, Fang, Cheng, Julian & Ding, Zhiguo (2019). Joint Energy Efficient Subchannel and Power Optimization for a Downlink NOMA Heterogeneous Network. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 68(2): 1351-1364.
• Fu, Shu, Fang, Fang, Zhao, Lian, Ding, Zhiguo & Jian, Xin (2019). Joint Transmission Scheduling and Power Allocation in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access. IEEE Transactions on Communications 67(11): 8137-8150.
• Cai, Donghong, Xu, Yanqing, Fang, Fang, Ding, Zhiguo & Fan, Pingzhi (2019). On the Impact of Time-Correlated Fading for Downlink NOMA. IEEE Transactions on Communications 67(6): 4491-4504.
• Fang, Fang, Ding, Zhiguo, Liang, Wei & Zhang, Haijun (2019). Optimal Energy Efficient Power Allocation With User Fairness for Uplink MC-NOMA Systems. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 8(4): 1133-1136.
• Zhang, Haijun, Fang, Fang, Cheng, Julian, Long, Keping, Wang, Wei & Leung, Victor C. M. (2018). Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in NOMA Heterogeneous Networks. IEEE Wireless Communications 25(2): 48-53.
• Fang, Fang, Zhang, Haijun, Cheng, Julian, Roy, Sebastien & Leung, Victor C. M. (2017). Joint User Scheduling and Power Allocation Optimization for Energy-Efficient NOMA Systems With Imperfect CSI. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 35(12): 2874-2885.
• Fang, Fang, Zhang, Haijun, Cheng, Julian & Leung, Victor C. M. (2016). Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation for Downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Network. IEEE Transactions on Communications 64(9): 3722-3732.

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