Generative learning (GL) has emerged as an essential tool for data processing and network optimization in the broad area of next-generation communication systems. Generative Learning for Wireless Communications: Fundamentals and Applications provides a comprehensive and systematic tutorial for applying generative learning models to wireless communications. It explains the core concepts of state-of-the-art generative learning models, including generative adversarial nets, variational autoencoder, and other advanced models, such as transformers and diffusion models, and then shows their application to specific areas in wireless communications. Areas include physical networking, data transmission, edge computation, distributed learning, semantic communications, and other emerging fields in the next-generation wireless communications. To provide guidance on how to use GL techniques, each chapter includes a case study and an algorithm design for a realistic application. The book concludes with a discussion of the critical challenges of today and promising future directions of GL in wireless communications.
Part I - Introduction
1. Wireless Communications in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
2. Overview of Generative AI models and Potentials in Wireless
Communications
Part II Foundations of Generative Learning Models
3. Fundamentals of Generative Adversarial Nets
4. Fundamentals of Variational Auto Encoder
5. Introduction of Advanced Generative AI Models: Diffusion and Transformers
Part III Generative AI for Physical Networking and Communication Theory
6. Generative AI for Channel Modeling and Estimation
7. Generative AI for Integrated Sensing and Communications
8. Generative AI for Spectrum Sensing and Coverage Estimation
Part IV Generative AI for Data Transmission and Communication Architecture
9. Generative AI for Joint Source and Channel Coding
10. Generative AI for Data-Oriented Communications
11. Generative AI for Semantic and Task-Oriented Communications
Part V Generative AI for Distributed Networking and Edge Computing
12. Generative AI Empowered Federated Learning
113. Generative AI for Mobile Edge Computing
Part VI Generative AI for Emerging Technologies and Applications
14. Generative AI and Digital Twin
15. AI-Generated Content Service
16. Trustworthy Generative AI for Wireless Communications
17. Data Management for Generative AI in Wireless Communications
Part VII Conclusion
18. Summary, Insights and Future Directions
Dr. Songyang Zhang received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis, CA, USA. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA.
Dr. Shuai Zhang received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2021. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Ying Wu College of Computing at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), NJ, USA.
Prof. Chuan Huang received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2012. He is currently a Professor in Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China.
