General

Yanyan Shen,  Ph.d supervisor 

Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology 

Email: yy.shen@siat.a.ccn



Research Areas

Intelligent wireless communications, UAV communciations, Mobile edge computing, Integration of communications, sensing and computing

Experience

   
Work Experience
2016-12~now, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor
2015-01~2016-11, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assistant Professor
2013-11~2014-11, Inha University, Postdoctoral Research Fellow


Publications

   
Papers

  1. Xuhui Zhang, Huijun Xing, Yanyan Shen*, Jie Xu, and Shuguang Cui, Age of Information Minimization in UAV-Enabled IoT Networks via Federated Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,  24(9): 7923-7939, 2025

  2. Xuhui Zhang, Wenchao Liu, Jinke Ren, Huijun Xing, Gui Gui, Yanyan Shen, and Shuguang Cui, Latency Minimization for UAV-Enabled Federated Learning: Trajectory Design and Resource Allocation, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 12(14): 27097-271122025.

  3. Chunjie Wang, Xuhui Zhang, Huijun Xing, Liang Xue, Shuqiang Wang, Yanyan Shen*, Bo Yang, Xinping Guan, Joint Association, Beamforming, and Resource Allocation for Multi-IRS Enabled MU-MISO Systems With RSMA, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 24(3): 1602 - 1620, 2025.

  4. Yinyu Wu, Xuhui Zhang, Jinke Ren, Huijun Xing, Yanyan Shen*, and Shuguang Cui, Latency-Aware Resource Allocation for Mobile Edge Generation and Computing via Deep Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Networking Letters, 6(4): 237 - 241, 2024

  5. Wenchao Liu, Xuhui Zhang, Huijun Xing, Jinke Ren, Yanyan Shen*, Shuguang Cui, UAV-Enabled Wireless Networks with Movable-Antenna Array: Flexible Beamforming and Trajectory Design, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 14(3):  566 - 570, 2025.

  6. Wenchao Liu, Hao Wang, Xuhui Zhang, Huijun Xing, Jinke Ren, Yanyan Shen*, and  Shuguang Cui, Joint Trajectory Design and Resource Allocation in UAV-Enabled Heterogeneous MEC Systems, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 11(19): 30817-30832, 2024.

  7. Yanyan Shen, Chunjie Wang, Weilin Zang, Liang Xue, Bo Yang, Xinping Guan, Outage Constrained Max-Min Secrecy Rate Optimization for IRS-Aided SWIPT Systems With Artificial Noise, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 11(6)：9814-9828, 2024

  8. Zhixin Liu, Junxiao Qi, Yanyan Shen*, Kai Ma, Xinping Guan, Maximizing Energy Efficiency in UAV-Assisted NOMA-MEC Networks, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 10(24): 22208 - 22222,2023

  9. Liang Xue, Xuan Gong, Yanyan Shen*, Balaji Panchal, Chun-Jie Wang, Yan-Long Wang, Resource Configuration for Throughput Maximization in UAV-WPCN with Intelligent Reflecting Surface, IEEE Access, 11: 36713-36726, 2023.

  10. Yanyan Shen, Weiran Luo, Shuqiang Wang, Xiaoxia Huang, Average AoI Minimization in the Finite Blocklength Regime for UAV-enabled IoT Backscatter Communication Systems, Ad Hoc Networks, 145: 103164, 2023.

  11. Zhixin Liu, Meihua Zhou, Yanyan Shen, Yazhou Yuan, Kit Yan Chan, Yi Yang, Robust Energy Efficient Maximization in Wireless Powered CRNs Based on Power Splitting, Computer Networks, vol. 195, pp. 1-9, 2021.

  12. Weiran Luo, Yanyan Shen, Bo Yang, Shuqiang Wang, and Xinping Guan, Joint 3D trajectory and resource optimization in multi-UAV enabled IoT networks with wireless power transfer, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 7833-7848, 2021.

  13. Yanyan Shen, Xiaoxia Huang, Bo Yang, and Shuqiang Wang, Low complexity resource allocation algorithms for chunk based OFDMA multi-user networks with max-min fairness, Computer Communications, vol. 163, pp. 51-64, 2020.

  14. Zhixin Liu, Meihua Zhou, Yanyan Shen, Kit Yan Chan, Xinping Guan, Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in Wireless Powered CCRNs with Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer, Computer Communications, vol. 153, pp. 159-168, 2020.

  15. Liang Xue, Ying Liu, Yanyan Shen*, Xiaoxia Huang, and Kyung Sup Kwak, Resource configuration for minimizing source energy consumption in multi-carrier networks with energy harvesting relay and data-rate guarantee, Computer Communications, vol. 148, pp. 121-133, 2020. 

  16. Yanyan Shen, Bo Yang, Shuqiang Wang, Shimin Gong, Liang Xue, and Xinping Guan, Sum rate maximization for multi-carrier SWIPT relay system with non-ideal power amplifier and circuit power consumption, IEEE Access, vol.7, no. 1, pp. 89805-89820, 2019.

  17. Bo Yang, Yanyan Shen, Qiaoni Han, Cailian Chen, Xinping Guan, and Weidong Zhang, Energy-efficient resource allocation for time-varying OFDMA relay systems with hybrid energy suppliers,  IEEE Systems Journal, vol.12, no.1, pp. 702-713, 2018

  18. Yanyan Shen, Xiaoxia Huang, Kyung Sup Kwak, Bo Yang, and Shuqiang Wang, Subcarrier pairing based resource optimization for OFDMA wireless powered relay transmissions with time switching scheme, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 65, no.5, pp.1130-1145, 2017.

  19. Yanyan Shen, Gang Feng, Bo Yang, and Xinping Guan, Fair resource allocation and admission control in wireless multi-user amplify-and-forward relay networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 1383-1397, 2012. 

  20. Yanyan Shen and Kyung Sup Kwak, Robust power control for cognitive radio networks with proportional rate fairness, Information and Communications Technology Express, vol. 1 , no. 1 , pp. 22-25, 2015.

  21. Yanyan Shen, Gang Feng, Bo Yang, and Xinping Guan, Resource allocation with proportional rate fairness in OFDMA relay networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 269-283, 2014. 


Conferences

  1. Y. Wang, Z. Wu, J. Chen, C. Wang, X. Zhang, and Y. Shen, QoS-Aware Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Control with Movable Antenna, IEEE 24th International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT),  October 16-18, 2025, Shenyang, China, pp.1-6.

  2. Y. Wu, X. Zhang, H. Xing, W. Zang, S. Wang, and Y. Shen, Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Mobile Edge Computing with Rate-Splitting Multiple Access, in proc. IEEE Vehicle Technique Conference Spring (VTC-Spring), 2024, June 24-27, Singapore, pp. 1-6.

  3. Z. Kuang, W. Liu, C. Wang, Z. Jin, J. Ren, X. Zhang, Y. Shen*, Movable-Antenna Array Empowered ISAC Systems for Low-Altitude Economy, IEEE/CIC ICCC 2024 Workshop, August 7-9, 2024, Hangzhou, China, pp. 1-6. 

  4. T. Zhang, Y. Wu, W. Liu, C. Wang, Z. Jin, X. Zhang and Y. Shen, Utility-Efficient Edge-Cloud Collaborative Space-Air-Ground Integrated Internet of Things, IEEE 24th International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT),  October 18-20, 2024, Chengdu, China, pp.1-6.

  5. Y. Chen, W. Liu, C. Wang, Y. Wu,, X. Zhang, and Y. Shen*, Latency Minimization for Multi-AAV-Enabled ISCC System with Movable Antenna, IEEE 24th International Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT),  October 16-18, 2025, Shenyang, China, pp.1-6.

  6. W. Liu, Z. Jin, X. Zhang, W. Zang, S. Wang, and Y. Shen*, AoI-Aware for UAV-Enabled Marine MEC Networks with Integrated Sensing, Computation, and Communication, 2023 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC Workshops), Aug. 10-12, Aug. Dalian, China, 2023, pp. 1-6.

  7. W. Liu, J. Wang, H. Xing, Z. Jin, X. Zhang, and Y. Shen*, Blockchain-Empowered Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks for Remote Internet of Things, 2023 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Aug. 10-12, Dalian, China, 2023, pp. 1-6.

  8. X. Zhang，W. Liu，H. Xing，Z. Jin, W. Zang，S. Wang，L. Xue，Y. Shen*, Learning to Hybrid Offload in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Mobile Edge Computing for IoT Networks, The 13th IEEE International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems, 2023, July. 12-14

  9. X. Zhang, H. Xing, W. Zang, Z. Jin, Y. Shen, Cybertwin-Driven Multi-Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces aided Vehicular Edge Computing Leveraged by Deep Reinforcement Learning, in proc. IEEE Vehicle Technique Conference Fall (VTC Fall)-workshop, London, England/Beijing, China, Sep.26-29, 2022.

  10.  H. Wang, Y. Shen, S. Wu, and S. Wang, Resource Allocation and Trajectory Optimization for UAV assisted Mobile Edge Computing Systems with Energy Harvesting, in proc. 2021 NCAA, July 2-5, 2021, Guangzhou, China, pp. 1-15.  

  11. X. Zhang, Y. Shen, B. Yang, W. Zang, and S. Wang, DRL based Data Offloading for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Mobile Edge Computing, in proc. IEEE WCNC, Mar. 29- Apr. 1, 2021, Nanjing, China, pp. 1-6.  

  12. W. Luo and Y. Shen, Secure energy efficiency in SWIPT multicarrier relay transmission with direct links,  IEEE ICCC, Dec. 6-9, 2019, Chengdu, China, pp. 1-7.

  13. Y. Shen, X. Huang, B. Yang, S. Gong, and S. Wang, “ Fair resource allocation algorithm for chunk based OFDMA multi-user networks”, in proc.  IEEE VTC Fall 2017, Toronto, Canada, Sep. 2017, pp. 1-5.

  14.  S. Gong, Y. Shen, X. Huang, X. Wu, and M.-C. So, “Robust relay beamforming in device-to-device networks with energy harvesting constraints”, in proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2016, Washington, DC USA, Dec. 2016, pp. 1-6.

  15. Y. Shen, X. Huang, B. Yang, and S. Wang, “Alternate convex search method for resource allocation in OFDMA AF relay networks with energy harvesting”, in proc. ICCC 2015, Shenzhen, China, Nov. 2015, pp. 1-6.

  16. Y. Shen, K. Kwak, B. Yang, X. Huang, S. Wang, X. Guan, and R. Rao, “Resource allocation for OFDMA relay networks with wireless information and power transfer”, in proc. GLOBECOM 2015, San Diego, CA, USA, Dec. 2015, pp. 1-6.

  17. S. Wang, Y. Shen, J. Hu, Z. Xuan, and Z. Lu, “Hadoop-based analysis for large-scale click-through patterns in 4G network”, in proc. IEEE WASA 2015, Qufu, China, Aug. 2015, pp. 829-835.

  18. Y. Shen, K. Kwak, and S. Wang, “Resource allocation based on subcarrier grouping in OFDMA cognitive radio networks”, in proc. ISCIT 2014, Incheon, Korea, Oct. 2014, pp.1-5.

  19. Y. Shen, G. Feng, B. Yang, and X. Guan, “Fair resource allocation with subchannel pairing for OFDMA relay networks”, in proc. ICIE 2012, Singapore, Singapore, Jun. 2012, pp. 104-109.

  20. Y. Shen, G. Feng, B. Yang, and X. Guan, “Distributed fair resource allocation in wireless multi-user multi-relay networks with heterogeneous rate constraints”, in proc. IEEE ISCIT 2011, Hangzhou, China, Oct. 2011, pp.333-338.

  21. B. Yang, Y. Shen, and X. Guan, “Energy-aware opportunistic channel access with decentralized channel state information”, in proc. IEEE CDC-ECC 2011, Florida, USA, Dec. 2011, pp. 3104-3109.  

  22. B. Yang, Y. Shen, M. Jahansson, and X. Guan, “Threshold-based multichannel access with energy constraints”, in proc. IEEE ICC 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, May. 2010, pp.1-5.

  23. B. Yang, Y. Shen, G. Feng, and X. Guan, “ Fair resource allocation using bargaining over OFDMA relay networks”, in proc. IEEE CDC-CCC 2009, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2009, pp. 585-590.