Yuquan Xiao

Yuquan Xiao

Wireless AI; Information Freshness

I received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Xidian University, China, in 2018 and 2021, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, in 2026. I am currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. I worked as a Software Engineer at Huawei Technologies Company, Ltd., China, from 2021 to 2022. In 2025, I was a Visiting Student with the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K. My research interests include low-latency communications, secure communications, and wireless AI.

I am always happy to exchange ideas and explore opportunities for academic collaboration. If you are interested, please feel free to reach out via email.

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Publications

  1. Age of Trust (AoT): A Continuous Verification Framework for Wireless Networks

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, W. Cheng, P. D. Diamantoulakis, and G. K. Karagiannidis

    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2026. [Paper]

  2. Queue-Aware Token Communications: Bridging AI Representation and Wireless Service

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, C. Zhang, W. Cheng, J. Wang, T. Chen, and J. Wang

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2610.16730, 2026. [Paper]

  3. Markov Chain-Based Joint Queue-and-Channel-Aware QoS Assurance for Emergency Networks

    X. He, Q. Du, Y. Xiao, and H. Song

    2026 20th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), pp. 1–6, 2026. [Paper]

  4. Age of Generative Information (AoGI): An Inference-Aware Metric for Freshness Evaluation in Real-Time Computer Vision

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, W. Cheng, G. K. Karagiannidis, A. Nallanathan, M. Guizani, and J. Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2026. [Paper]

  5. RF-Based Identification Framework against Unauthorized UAV Networking in Low-Altitude Economy

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, Z. Zhao, B. Li, X. Tang, S. Zhang, and H. Song

    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2026. [Paper]

  6. Age of Information under Source-Aware Truncated ARQ in Multi-Source Wireless Status Updating

    T. Zhang, A. Liu, Z. Chen, Z. Tian, J. Lee, Y. Xiao, and M. Motani

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.23237, 2026. [Paper]

  7. Redefining Information Freshness: AoGI for Generative AI in 6G Networks

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, W. Cheng, G. K. Karagiannidis, A. Nallanathan, and M. Guizani

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.04414, 2025. [Paper]

  8. PASS-Based Multi-User Communications: Capacity Characterization and Configuration Strategy

    Y. Xiao, X. Mu, Y. Liu, Q. Du, and A. Nallanathan

    IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2025. [Paper]

  9. RIS-Assisted Simultaneous Legitimate Monitoring and Jamming for Industrial Wireless Networks

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, L. Zhang, Y. Ren, X. Tang, M. Elkashlan, and Z. Han

    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2025. [Paper]

  10. Connection Enhancement for Meta-Computing in IIoT: A Credit-Aware Cooperative D2D Transmission Approach

    J. Wang, Y. Xiao, Q. Du, Y. Li, X. Zhu, L. Zhang, and S. Xiao

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 13817–13827, 2025. [Paper]

  11. Statistical Age of Information: A Risk-Aware Metric and Its Applications in Status Updates

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, and G. K. Karagiannidis

    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 2325–2340, 2024. [Paper]

  12. Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency UAV Communications in High-Mobility Environments

    Y. Xiao and Z. Zhao

    2024 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC), pp. 479–483, 2024. [Paper]

  13. Secure Status Updates for Internet of Drones: A Deep Q-Learning-Based Antenna Selection Approach

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, C. Lu, and Y. Wang

    2024 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC), pp. 461–466, 2024. [Paper]

  14. Secure Vehicular Communications with Varying QoS and Environments: A Unified Cross-Layer Policy-Adaptation Approach

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, Y. Zhang, and C. Lu

    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 13462–13471, 2023. [Paper]

  15. Statistical AoI Minimization: Sampling and Transmission Adaption to Wireless Fading Channels

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, and S. Zhang

    2023 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), pp. 787–792, 2023. [Paper]

  16. Secure Communication Guarantees for Diverse Extended-Reality Applications: A Unified Statistical Security Model

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, W. Cheng, and N. Lu

    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 1007–1021, 2023. [Paper]

  17. Principles of 6G Wireless Networks

    Q. Du, H. Song, X. Tang, Z. Zhao, C. Xu, Y. Xiao, and Z. Ma

    The Road towards 6G: Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications: A Comprehensive View of the Enabling Technologies, pp. 27–49, Springer, 2023. [Paper]

  18. Statistical Age-of-Information Optimization for Status Update over Multi-State Fading Channels

    Y. Xiao and Q. Du

    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 6018–6023, 2023. [Paper]

  19. Age-Aware Frame Length Optimization for Frame Slotted ALOHA toward Multichannel Random Access

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, and S. Zhang

    2023 International Conference on Future Communications and Networks (FCN), pp. 1–5, 2023. [Paper]

  20. Model-ML Integrated Intelligence in URLLC towards End-to-End Delay Fulfillment over Vehicular Networks

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, W. Cheng, G. K. Karagiannidis, and Z. Zhao

    IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 62–68, 2023. [Paper]

  21. Adaptive Sampling and Transmission for Minimizing Age of Information in Metaverse

    Y. Xiao, Q. Du, W. Cheng, and W. Zhang

    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 588–602, 2023. [Paper]

  22. Adaptive Finite Blocklength for Ultra-Low Latency in Wireless Communications

    W. Cheng, Y. Xiao, S. Zhang, and J. Wang

    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 4450–4463, 2021. [Paper]

  23. Statistical QoS Guarantees for Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio Networks

    Y. Xiao and W. Cheng

    Journal of Communications and Information Networks, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 100–110, 2020. [Paper]

  24. QoS Guarantee for Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio Networks

    Y. Xiao, W. Cheng, W. Zhang, and T. Sun

    2018 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), pp. 1–7, 2018. [Paper]