Publications

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Preprint / Under Review

S. Tang, Y. Jia, Z. Yang, Q. Yang, R. Zhang, J. Du, J. Park, Z. Shi, and J. Chen, “Rethinking Secure Semantic Communications in the Age of Generative and Agentic AI: Threats and Opportunities,” arXiv preprint, arXiv:2601.01791, 2026.

Y. Wu, L. Ma, R. Zhang, Y. Liu, D. Niyato, S. Tang, Z. Xiong, Z. Han, and Z. Yang, “Towards Edge General Intelligence: Knowledge Distillation for Mobile Agentic AI,” arXiv preprint, arXiv:2511.19947, 2025.

Y. Wei, S. Tang, L. Zhao and Q. Yang, “DiffusionX: Efficient Edge-Cloud Collaborative Image Generation with Multi-Round Prompt Evolution,” arXiv preprint, arXiv:2510.16326, 2025.

W. Chen, Q. Yang, S. Shao, S. Tang, Z. Shi and S. Yu, “Privacy-Preserving Semantic Communication over Wiretap Channels with Learnable Differential Privacy,” arXiv preprint, arXiv:2510.23274, 2025.

S. Tang, Y. Chen, Q. Yang, R. Zhang, Z. Shi and D. Niyato, “Towards Secure Semantic Communications in the Presence of Intelligent Eavesdroppers,” arXiv preprint, arXiv:2503.23103, 2025.

Journal

R. Zhang, Y. Liu, S. Tang, J. Wang, D. Niyato, G. Sun, Y. Li and S. Sun, “Covert Prompt Transmission for Secure Large Language Model Services,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., Early Access, 2025.

R. Zhang, S. Tang*, Y. Liu*, D. Niyato, Z. Xiong, S. Sun, S. Mao and Z. Han, “Toward Agentic AI: Generative Information Retrieval Inspired Intelligent Communications and Networking,” IEEE Commun. Magazine, Early Access, 2025.

S. Tang, R. Zhang, Y. Yan, Q. Yang, D. Niyato, X. Wang and S. Mao, “Retrieval-augmented Generation for GenAI-enabled Semantic Communications,” IEEE Wireless Commun., 2025.

C. Liu, Z. Shi, S. He, S. Tang and Q. Yang, “A Decoder-Free Reconstruction Method for Semi-Supervised Rail Surface Defect Detection,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Cyber-Phys. Syst., vol. 3, pp. 285-295, 2025.

S. Tang, Q. Yang, L. Fan, X. Lei, A. Nallanathan and G. K. Karagiannidis, “Contrastive Learning Based Semantic Communications,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 72, no. 10, pp. 6328-6343, 2024.

Y. Wu, S. Tang, L. Zhang, L. Fan, X. Lei and X. Chen, “Resilient Machine Learning-based Semantic-aware MEC Networks for Sustainable Next-G Consumer Electronics,” IEEE Trans. Consum. Electron., vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 2188-2199, 2024.

S. Tang, K. He, L. Chen, L. Fan, X. Lei and R. Q. Hu, “Collaborative Cache-aided Relaying Networks: Performance Evaluation and System Optimization,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 706-719, 2023.

L. Chen, S. Tang, V. Balasubramanian, J. Xia, F. Zhou, and L. Fan, “Physical-layer Security based Mobile Edge Xomputing for emerging cyber physical systems,” Comput. Commun., vol. 194, pp. 180-188, 2023.

S. Tang, L. Chen, K. He, J. Xia, L. Fan and A. Nallanathan, “Computational Intelligence and Deep Learning for Edge-Enabled Industrial IoT,” IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng., vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 2881-2893 2023. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

W. Zhou, L. Chen, S. Tang, L. Lai, J. Xia, F. Zhou and L. Fan, “Offloading strategy with PSO for Mobile Edge Computing based on Cache Mechanism,” Cluster Comput., vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 2389–2401, 2022.

S. Tang, J. Xia, L. Fan, X. Lei, W. Xu and A. Nallanathan, “Dilated Convolution Based CSI Feedback Compression for Massive MIMO Systems,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 11216–11221, 2022.

S. Tang, W. Zhou, L. Chen, L. Lai, J. Xia, and L. Fan, “Battery-Constrained Federated Edge Learning in UAV-enabled IoT for B5G/6G Networks,” Phys. Commun., vol. 47, 10381, 2021.

S. Lai, R. Zhao, S. Tang, J Xia, F. Zhou and L. Fan, “Intelligent Secure Mobile Edge Computing for beyond 5G Wireless Network,” Phys. Commun., vol. 45, 101283, 2021.

Conference

Y. Yan, Q. Yang, S. Tang, Y. Shu, Z. Shi, and Q Yang “FeDeRA:Efficient Fine-tuning of Language Models in Federated Learning Leveraging Weight Decomposition,” AAAI Workshop, Singapore, 2026.

S. Tang, Y. Jia, Q. Yang, R. Zhang, J. Park, and D. Niyato, “Enabling Training-Free Semantic Communication Systems with Generative Diffusion Models,” IEEE GLOBECOM, Taipei, China, 2025.

S. Tang, C. Liu, Q. Yang, S. He, and D. Niyato, “Secure Semantic Communication for Image Transmission in the Presence of Eavesdroppers,” IEEE GLOBECOM, Cape Town, South Africa, 2024.

W. Chen, S. Tang and Q. Yang, “Enhancing Image Privacy in Semantic Communication over Wiretap Channels leveraging Differential Privacy,” IEEE MLSP, London, UK, 2024.

S. Tang, Q. Yang, D. Gündüz, and Z. Zhang, “Evolving Semantic Communication with Generative Modelling,” IEEE PIMRC, Valencia, Spain, 2024.

S. Tang, Q. Yang, L. Fan, X. Lei, Y. Deng, and A. Nallanathan, “Contrastive Learning based Semantic Communication for Wireless Image Transmission,” IEEE VTC-Fall, Hong Kong, China, 2023.