Xingqi Wu
Resource orchestration for 5G O-RAN networks
Anticipated graduation: Expected 2028
LinkedIn ↗ Google Scholar ↗Xingqi Wu is a Ph.D. researcher developing multi-agent reinforcement learning and large language model methods for resource orchestration, admission control, and resilience in 5G and 6G open radio access networks (O-RAN). His work spans network slicing, microservice provisioning across edge-cloud systems, and LLM-empowered xApps for adaptive radio resource management.
In the news
Our paper "Delay-Aware Reinforcement Learning for O-RAN Control under Stochastic Reward Feedback" was accepted in IEEE Networking Letters. Congratulations Xingqi!
Yuhui Wang and Xingqi Wu received pins at the CECS Doctoral Pinning and Recognition Ceremony, celebrating their advancement to candidacy.
Lab members presented their research posters at the CECS Research Poster Competition.
Paper accepted in IEEE Networking Letters. Congratulations to Xingqi and Yuhui!
Poster accepted at ACM MobiHoc 2025. Congratulations Xingqi!
Presented two papers from the group at IEEE ICC 2025 in Montreal, on URLLC admission control in O-RAN and UAV-assisted LEO satellite edge computing, with Xingqi Wu and Yuhui Wang.
Paper accepted in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. Congratulations Xingqi!
Presented LLM-xApp, a large language model framework for adaptive radio resource management in O-RAN, at the NDSS 2025 FutureG Workshop in San Diego, with Xingqi Wu and Yuhui Wang.
Journal articles
- 2026 Delay-Aware Reinforcement Learning for O-RAN Control under Stochastic Reward FeedbackX. Wu, J. Farooq, T. Li, J. Chen, and Ying Wangin IEEE Networking Letters
@article{wu2026delayaware, author = {X. Wu and J. Farooq and T. Li and J. Chen and Ying Wang}, title = {Delay-Aware Reinforcement Learning for O-RAN Control under Stochastic Reward Feedback}, journal = {IEEE Networking Letters}, year = {2026}, } - 2026 Multi-agent Resource Orchestration Based on D3QN for Network Slicing in 5G Edge-Cloud NetworksX. Wu, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 23, pp. 1766-1781
@article{wu2026multiagent, author = {X. Wu and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {Multi-agent Resource Orchestration Based on D3QN for Network Slicing in 5G Edge-Cloud Networks}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 23, pp. 1766-1781}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11297800}, } - 2026 Process-Informed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Joint Radio-Compute Orchestration in Industrial O-RANX. Wu, Y. Wang, J. Farooq, M. M. Butt, H. Ghazzai, and G. Settiin IEEE Networking Letters
@article{wu2026processinformed, author = {X. Wu and Y. Wang and J. Farooq and M. M. Butt and H. Ghazzai and G. Setti}, title = {Process-Informed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Joint Radio-Compute Orchestration in Industrial O-RAN}, journal = {IEEE Networking Letters}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11494807}, } - 2025 ORCA: Offloading and Resource Coordination via Multi-agent Learning in Dynamic Cloud-Edge SystemsY. Wang, X. Wu, J. Farooq, T. Li, and J. Chensubmitted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
@article{wang2025orca, author = {Y. Wang and X. Wu and J. Farooq and T. Li and J. Chen}, title = {ORCA: Offloading and Resource Coordination via Multi-agent Learning in Dynamic Cloud-Edge Systems}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.176315222.25704753}, } - 2025 Reliable and Resilient Connectivity and Coverage under Localized Backhauling in UAV-IoT NetworksX. Wu and J. Farooqin IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 6, pp. 5795-5809
@article{wu2025reliable, author = {X. Wu and J. Farooq}, title = {Reliable and Resilient Connectivity and Coverage under Localized Backhauling in UAV-IoT Networks}, journal = {IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 6, pp. 5795-5809}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11062492}, } - 2025 SliceWise: Traffic-Aware Multi-Agent RL with Temporal Encoding for Joint Slice Admission and Resource Orchestration in O-RANX. Wu, Y. Wang, J. Farooq, H. Ghazzai, and G. Settiin IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 323-327
@article{wu2025slicewise, author = {X. Wu and Y. Wang and J. Farooq and H. Ghazzai and G. Setti}, title = {SliceWise: Traffic-Aware Multi-Agent RL with Temporal Encoding for Joint Slice Admission and Resource Orchestration in O-RAN}, journal = {IEEE Networking Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 323-327}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11251017}, }
Conference papers
- 2026 Dependency-Aware Task Offloading via Quantum Graph Attention Network-based Deep Reinforcement Learning in Collaborative Edge-Cloud SystemsYing Wang, X. Wu, J. Farooq, S. Y. Chen, and J. Chenin International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2026)
@inproceedings{wang2026dependencyaware, author = {Ying Wang and X. Wu and J. Farooq and S. Y. Chen and J. Chen}, title = {Dependency-Aware Task Offloading via Quantum Graph Attention Network-based Deep Reinforcement Learning in Collaborative Edge-Cloud Systems}, booktitle = {International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2026)}, year = {2026}, } - 2026 PROMPTGUARD: Zero Trust Prompting for Securing LLM-Driven O-RAN ControlY. Wang, X. Wu, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin Proc. NDSS 2026 Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG), San Diego CA
@inproceedings{wang2026promptguard, author = {Y. Wang and X. Wu and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {PROMPTGUARD: Zero Trust Prompting for Securing LLM-Driven O-RAN Control}, booktitle = {Proc. NDSS 2026 Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG), San Diego CA}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/futureg26-22.pdf}, } - 2026 Temporally Encoded Double DQN for Proactive PRB Allocation in O-RAN Enabled Industrial NetworksE. Delavari, X. Wu, and J. Farooqin IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2026 Workshop on Resilience in Next Generation Network Management (NGResNet), Rome, Italy
@inproceedings{delavari2026temporally, author = {E. Delavari and X. Wu and J. Farooq}, title = {Temporally Encoded Double DQN for Proactive PRB Allocation in O-RAN Enabled Industrial Networks}, booktitle = {IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2026 Workshop on Resilience in Next Generation Network Management (NGResNet), Rome, Italy}, year = {2026}, } - 2025 Coordinated UAV Deployment and Task Offloading in UAV-Assisted LEO Satellite Edge Computing Systems via Proximal Policy OptimizationY. Wang, X. Wu, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Aerial and Space Networks, Montreal, Canada
@inproceedings{wang2025coordinated, author = {Y. Wang and X. Wu and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {Coordinated UAV Deployment and Task Offloading in UAV-Assisted LEO Satellite Edge Computing Systems via Proximal Policy Optimization}, booktitle = {IEEE ICC 2025 Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Aerial and Space Networks, Montreal, Canada}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/users/793184/articles/1277869}, } - 2025 Joint Admission Control and Resource Provisioning for URLLC Traffic in O-RAN: A Constrained Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning ApproachX. Wu, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada
@inproceedings{wu2025joint, author = {X. Wu and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {Joint Admission Control and Resource Provisioning for URLLC Traffic in O-RAN: A Constrained Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach}, booktitle = {IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.174284729.99809422/v1}, } - 2025 LLM-Driven Agentic AI Approach to Enhanced O-RAN Resilience in Next-Generation NetworksX. Wu, Y. Wang, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin IEEE INFOCOM 2025 Workshop on Resilience in Next-Generation Networks (NGResNet), London, UK
@inproceedings{wu2025llmdriven, author = {X. Wu and Y. Wang and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {LLM-Driven Agentic AI Approach to Enhanced O-RAN Resilience in Next-Generation Networks}, booktitle = {IEEE INFOCOM 2025 Workshop on Resilience in Next-Generation Networks (NGResNet), London, UK}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/users/793184/articles/1277868}, } - 2025 LLM-xApp: A Large Language Model Empowered Radio Resource Management xApp for 5G O-RANX. Wu, J. Farooq, Y. Wang, and J. Chenin Proc. NDSS 2025 Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG), San Diego CA
@inproceedings{wu2025llmxapp, author = {X. Wu and J. Farooq and Y. Wang and J. Chen}, title = {LLM-xApp: A Large Language Model Empowered Radio Resource Management xApp for 5G O-RAN}, booktitle = {Proc. NDSS 2025 Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG), San Diego CA}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/auto-draft-567/}, } - 2025 Poster: Triage Slicing: Online Detection and Containment of Disruptive UEs in O-RAN SlicesX. Wu, R. Honnalli, and J. Farooqin 26th ACM MobiHoc 2025, Houston, TX, USA
@inproceedings{wu2025poster, author = {X. Wu and R. Honnalli and J. Farooq}, title = {Poster: Triage Slicing: Online Detection and Containment of Disruptive UEs in O-RAN Slices}, booktitle = {26th ACM MobiHoc 2025, Houston, TX, USA}, year = {2025}, url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3704413.3765320}, } - 2025 Resilient PRB Allocation for High Mobility UEs in 5G O-RAN via LSTM-Enhanced MPCY. Gao, X. Wu, and J. Farooqin IEEE Globecom Workshop on Resilience in Next-Generation Wireless Communication Networks (GC Wkshps 2025), Taiwan
@inproceedings{gao2025resilient, author = {Y. Gao and X. Wu and J. Farooq}, title = {Resilient PRB Allocation for High Mobility UEs in 5G O-RAN via LSTM-Enhanced MPC}, booktitle = {IEEE Globecom Workshop on Resilience in Next-Generation Wireless Communication Networks (GC Wkshps 2025), Taiwan}, year = {2025}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/users/793184/articles/1341419}, } - 2024 Adaptive Risk-Aware Resource Orchestration for 5G Microservices over Multi-Tier Edge-Cloud SystemsX. Wu, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin IEEE ICC 2024 Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Continuum for B5G Services, Boulder, CO
@inproceedings{wu2024adaptive, author = {X. Wu and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {Adaptive Risk-Aware Resource Orchestration for 5G Microservices over Multi-Tier Edge-Cloud Systems}, booktitle = {IEEE ICC 2024 Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Continuum for B5G Services, Boulder, CO}, year = {2024}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/users/793184/articles/1091386}, } - 2024 Multi-agent Distributed Decentralized Dynamic Resource Orchestration in 5G Edge-Cloud NetworksX. Wu, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin IEEE CloudNet 2024, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
@inproceedings{wu2024multiagent, author = {X. Wu and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {Multi-agent Distributed Decentralized Dynamic Resource Orchestration in 5G Edge-Cloud Networks}, booktitle = {IEEE CloudNet 2024, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil}, year = {2024}, url = {https://www.techrxiv.org/users/793184/articles/1235407}, } - 2023 Attack Resilient Wireless Backhaul Connectivity With Optimized Fronthaul Coverage in UAV NetworksX. Wu and J. Farooqin IEEE CNS Cyber Resilience Workshop (CNS-CRW 2023), Orlando, FL
@inproceedings{wu2023attack, author = {X. Wu and J. Farooq}, title = {Attack Resilient Wireless Backhaul Connectivity With Optimized Fronthaul Coverage in UAV Networks}, booktitle = {IEEE CNS Cyber Resilience Workshop (CNS-CRW 2023), Orlando, FL}, year = {2023}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10288893}, }
Other
- 2026 Risk-Aware Resource Orchestration in Multi-Tier 5G Edge-Cloud NetworksX. Wu, J. Farooq, and J. Chenin Intent-Driven Network: Techniques and Applications, Springer Wireless Network Series
@incollection{wu2026riskaware, author = {X. Wu and J. Farooq and J. Chen}, title = {Risk-Aware Resource Orchestration in Multi-Tier 5G Edge-Cloud Networks}, publisher = {Intent-Driven Network: Techniques and Applications, Springer Wireless Network Series}, year = {2026}, }