Research Interests and Expertise
Research Projects
- High-dimensional wireless communications (e.g. millimeter wave communications, massive MIMO, visible light/optical wireless communications)
- Next-generation wireless networks (e.g. multi-hop cellular networks, IoT, ad hoc netwoks, self-organizing networks, heterogeneous networks, and software-define networks)
- Holistic interference management (interference alignment, MIMO precoding, MIMO detection, CoMP, coordinated beamforming)
- Convex optimization and its applications (e.g. radio resource management for green communications, wireless localization, MIMO beamforming, and MIMO detection)
- Cooperative communications (e.g. base station cooperation, user cooperation, relay-aided cooperation)
- Iterative signal processing
- Wireless video/VR/AR for 5G and beyond
- HIgh mobility wireless communications
- Network AI
Research Projects
- 2018.07 - 2018.10 Huawei: Low-latency Scalable-Video Based Wireless Video Systems (with university partner, Project Manager)
- 2018.03 - 2018.10 Huawei: OMAF Based Wireless VR System Design (with university partner, Project Manager)
- 2017.11 - 2018.10 Huawei: Joint Source-and-Channel Codec for Wireless Cloud VR Systems (Project Manager)
- 2017.06 - 2018.10 Huawei: Cross-layer Optimization for Wireless Video Surveillance Systems (Project Manager)
- 2017.01 - 2018.10 Huawei: Precoding and CSI feedback Optimization for Sub-3GHz FDD 5G Systems (with university partner, Project Manager)
- 2016.12 - 2018.10 Huawei: Machine Learning Based Codebook Optimization for FDD MIMO Systems (with university partner, Project Manager)
- 2016.11 - 2017.05 Huawei: Polestar 3.0 5G Prototype Project: Spectral Efficiency Enhancement for FDD 5G systems Operating on Sub-6GHz (Project Manager)
- 2014.04 - 2017.10 EPSRC: Highly-parallel algorithms and architectures for high-throughput wireless receivers, Grant No. EP/L010550/1 (Major researcher; Funded value £480,200)
- 2013.03 - 2018.02 EU FP7: ERC Advanced Grant: From Radio-Frequency to Giga-Bit Optical- and Quantum-Wireless, Grant No. FP7-IDEAS-ERC 321097 (Major researcher; Funded value €2,470,416)
- 2013.01 - 2016.12 NSFC: Interference Management Techniques for MIMO Multi-Way Relay Systems, Grant No. 61271188 (Major researcher; Funded value ¥850,000)
- 2012.01 - 2014.12 EPSRC: India-UK Advanced Technology Centre (IU-ATC: Phase II) of Excellence in Next Generation Networks, Systems and Services, Grant No. EP/J016640/1 (Major researcher; Funded value £243,825)
- 2011.12 - 2015.02 EU FP7: CONCERTO Project -- Content and cOntext aware delivery for iNteraCtive multimEdia healthcaRe applicaTiOns (Major researcher; Funded value €6,038,083)
- 2010.01 - 2012.12 NSFC: Intelligent Detection and Combining Techniques in MIMO Systems, Grant No. 60972075 (Major researcher; Funded value ¥300,000)
- 2009.08 - 2012.07 EPSRC: UK-China Science Bridges: R&D on (B)4G Wireless Mobile Communications (UC4G), Grant No. EP/G042713/1 (Major researcher; Funded value £907,554)
- 2009.07 - 2012.03 EPSRC: India-UK Advanced Technology Centre (IU-ATC: Phase I) of Excellence in Next Generation Networks, Systems and Services, Grant No. EP/G05178X/1 (Major researcher; Funded value £251,529)
- 2008.03 - 2011.02 EU FP7: ICT-OPTIMIX Project -- Optimisation of Multimedia over Wireless IP Links via X-Layer Design, Grant No. INFSO-ICT-214625 (Major researcher; Funded value €5,679,231)
- 2008.01 - 2010.12 Ministry of Education Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China: Joint Estimation of Channel. Timing and Synchronization in Impulse Radio UWB Systems, Grant No. 20070013018 (Major researcher; Funded value ¥60,000)
- 2008.01 - 2009.12 Potevio Information Technology Co., Ltd.: Key Technologies of IMT-Advanced (Major researcher; Funded value ¥450,000)
- 2006.09 - 2009.08 Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.: Key Technologies of Beyond-3G TDD-Based Mobile Communication Systems (Major researcher; Funded value ¥680,000)
- 2006.01 - 2008.12 NSFC: Timing and Synchronization Techniques in UWB Wireless Communication Systems, Grant No. 60572118 (Major researcher; Funded value ¥220,000)