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5G on the way

5G has been a rather hot research topic for a while and this trend stays unchanged or even gains more momentum in Globecom 2015 in San Diego. Indeed, there were 4 tutorials dedicated to 5G and a couple more related … Continue reading

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D2D communications: an effective means for beyond frequency reuse >>1

Device-to-Device (D2D) communications has been gaining more popularity among researchers in both academia and industry. It has the potential to offload traffic from cellular networks, improve energy efficiency, and extend coverage, etc. D2D enables mobile devices in proximity to establish local links for data communications. D2D enables novel wireless … Continue reading

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Global Communications and Signal Processing 2014

IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) is a recently launched flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. GlobalSIP 2014 focus broadly on signal and information processing with an emphasis on up-and-coming signal processing themes. It was … Continue reading

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INFOCOM 2014

I recently attended INFOCOM 2014 in Toronto between April 27th – May 2nd, 2014. INFOCOM is more related to the networking society. Compared to Globecom/ICC, Infocom has only three hundred papers presented and has about ten sessions in each half day. In each … Continue reading

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5G at the horizon?

After intensive discussions in the past one to two years, the vision about the potential 5G and its enabling technologies seem clearer, based on observations in Johannesberg Summit. Seems most of the technologies are well known. The question is how … Continue reading

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Globecom 2013

Globecom 2013 took place in Atlanta, GA between Dec 9 and 13 2013. As the biggest conference in wireless communications, many experts from both industry and academia attended the conference. Several highlights in the conference are: Industry forums were very informative and … Continue reading

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About WCNC 2013 in Shanghai

WCNC 2013 took place in Shanghai this year. There’s a huge interest about energy-efficient networking in the conference and three out of five keynotes are about it. Besides, there’re also two tutorials about it. Besides traditional wireless technologies like radio … Continue reading

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Innovation never stops…

Attending Johannesberg Summit 2013 has been such a great experience. Here’re some interesting observations. What is 5G? When is 5G? Most speakers have talked about their views about 5G and it looks almost sure that 5G will be something exciting … Continue reading

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Some Observations in Globecom 2012

I also attended Globecom this year in Anaheim, CA, on Thu and Fri and mainly focused on following the recent advances in energy-efficient network designs. On Thur morning, I presented a research paper about Energy-Efficient MU-MIMO in the “Energy Efficiency … Continue reading

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Attended PIMRC 2012 in Syd to give a half-day tutorial

I attended PIMRC 2012 in Sydney in the week of Sep 9th. The trip was very successfully. The main purpose again was to give a half-day tutorial about “Joint PHY-MAC Design for Spectral- and Energy-Efficient Wireless Networks”. There were in … Continue reading

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