Hao Cheng received his M.S. degree from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, and his Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from Southeast University, China. Since 2022, he has been a faculty member at the School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. His current research interests include air interface waveform design, non-orthogonal multiple access, and machine learning.

Min Zhang received his Ph.D degree in Signal and Information Processing from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2022. He was a visiting Ph.D student from 2021 to 2022, in the Dept. of Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. He is currently with the School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include UAV swarm networking, airborne communications, and network intelligence.

Ruoyu Su received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Memorial University, St. John's, NF, Canada, in 2015. He completed his postdoctoral work in 2016 in electrical and computer engineering at Memorial University. He is currently a faculty member with Nanjing University of Post and Telecomm. His research interests include energy-efficient design for underwater acoustic sensor networks, cross-layer design for wireless sensor networks, and 5G network slicing.