News
May 2021
Lots of new members joining in 2020/2021. Welcome to All.
New projects on Rate-Splitting, Integrated Sensing and Communications and Wireless Power Transfer.
We chair the new Special Interest Group of the IEEE Communications Society on Rate Splitting Multiple Access
Janvier 2020
Lots of new members joining. Welcome to All.
October 2019
We organize the IEEE ICC
2020 Workshop on Rate-Splitting and Robust Interference Management for
Beyond 5G. Please consider submitting a paper.
October 2018
New projects starting soon on Wireless Power Transfer and Rate-Splitting, all funded by industry.
Many new publications on
treating
interference as noise, rate-splitting, wireless power transfer,
wireless information and power transfer, backscatter
communications, machine learning. See publications.
Giving tutorials at EUCAP 2018, IEEE ISWCS 2018, IEEE PIMRC 2018, IEEE Globecom 2018 on Wireless Power Transfer and Rate-Splitting.
Giving several keynote
talks in various conferences and workshops at APCC 2017, IEEE PIMRC
2018, EuMW 2018, IEEE Globecom 2018 on Wireless Power Transfer and
Rate-Splitting.
Our prototype for radiative
wireless power transfer architecture is progressing. New project just
kicked off.
Welcome to newcomers: Dr Shanpu Shen as post-doc, Longfei Yin as PhD student, Jian Zhang and Gui Zhou as visiting Phd students.
Recent PhD graduates: Dr.
Yang Huang (now Professor with NUAA, China), Dr. Zati Bayani (back to
Malaysia), Dr. Ekaterina Bayguzina (now with Ofcom, London), Dr.
Mudasar Bacha (now with University of Surrey as post-doc)
April 2017
Giving a number of
tutorials at IEEE VTC Fall 2016, IEEE ISWCS 2016 and IEEE ICC 2017 on "Rate Splitting for MIMO Wireless Networks: A Promising
PHY-Layer Strategy for 5G"
Giving tutorials at EUSIPCO 2017 and IEEE Globecom 2017 on "Emerging Topics in 5G Networks: Simultaneous Wireless Information and Energy Transfer".
Dr. Mahmoud Ouda joining
the group as Post-Doc.
Jan 2017
Giving an invited talk at the Spanish Workshop on Signal Processing, Information Theory and Communications, Barcelona on "Rate Splitting: An Idea Whose Time Has Come".
Dr. Morteza Varasteh
joining the group as Post-Doc.
Visiting students Alexey
Buzuverov and Yijie Mao joining the group for several months.
Nov 2016
Congrats to Mingbo Dai for passing his PhD viva!
Invited Paper on "Communications and Signals Design for Wireless Power Transmission" to appear in IEEE Trans. on Communications.
August 2016
Newly accepted paper Waveform Design for Wireless Power Transfer in IEEE Trans. on Sig Proc.
Newly accepted paper User-Centric Interference Nulling in Downlink Multi-Antenna Heterogeneous Networks in IEEE Trans. on Wireless Comm.
July 2016
Newly accepted paper An upper
Bound for the Capacity of Amplitude-Constrained Scalar AWGN Channel
in IEEE Comm. Letters.
Newly accepted paper Relaying Strategies for Wireless-Powered MIMO Relay Networks in IEEE Trans. on Wireless Comm.
Newly accepted paper Achievable Degrees-of-Freedom of the K-User MIMO Interference Channel with Delayed CSIT in IEEE Trans. on Comm.
Newly accepted paper Robust Transmission in Downlink Multiuser MISO Systems: A Rate-Splitting Approach in IEEE Trans. on Sig. Proc.
Congrats to Hamdi Joudeh
for passing his PhD viva!
April 2016
Two new papers accepted
at IEEE SPAWC 2016 on "A Rate-Splitting Strategy for Max-Min Fair
Multigroup Multicasting" and "Waveform Optimization for Large-Scale
Multi-Antenna Multi-Sine Wireless Power Transfer"
Congrats to Borzoo
Rassouli for passing his PhD viva!
Visiting Prof. Kaibin
Huang's group at HKU
Giving a keynote speech
on “Waveform Design for
WPT and SWIPT” at the IEEE WCNC'2016 Workshop
on Wireless Powered Communication Networks: From Theory to Industrial
Challenges (WPCNets'2016), Doha, Qatar.
New paper submission on Waveform
Design for Wireless Power Transfer
Paper Resource Allocation Techniques for Wireless Powered
Communication Networks with Energy Storage Constraint published in
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol.15 No.4,
pp.2619-2628, April 2016
March 2016
Paper DoF Analysis
of the MIMO Broadcast Channel with Alternating/Hybrid CSIT
published in IEEE
Trans. on Info Theory, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 1312-1325, March 2016.
Paper at ITG WSA 2016 on Waveform
Optimization for SWIPT with Nonlinear Energy Harvester Modeling
Paper at ICASSP 2016 on A
Rate-Splitting Approach To Robust Multiuser MISO Transmission
Congrats to Chenxi Hao
for passing his PhD viva!
Co-I of a new EPSRC grant
on “Training & Skills Hub in Quantum Systems Engineering: Imperial
Centre for Quantum Engineering & Science”, 5-year project to
start in April 2016. More info here for
interested students.
New paper submission on Achievable DoF Regions of MIMO Networks with Imperfect CSIT
New paper on Rate Splitting for MIMO Wireless Networks: A Promising PHY-Layer Strategy for LTE Evolution accepted to IEEE Comm. Mag.
Prof. Dominique Schreurs giving a talk on Smart homes to enable medical diagnosis
February 2016
New paper submission on
Sum-Rate
Maximization for Linearly Precoded Downlink Multiuser MISO
Systems with Partial CSIT: A Rate-Splitting Approach
New paper submission on Robust Transmission in Downlink Multiuser MISO Systems: A Rate-Splitting Approach
New paper submission on
MISO Networks
with Imperfect CSIT: A Topological Rate-Splitting Approach
Paper Hybrid Precoding for Physical Layer Multicasting published in IEEE Comm Letters.,vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 228-231, Feb 2016.
Prof. David Gesbert giving a talk on transmitter coordination using a decentralized approach
New paper A Rate Splitting Strategy for Massive MIMO with Imperfect CSIT accepted to IEEE TWC
January 2016
Welcome to the new PhD student Mr Junghoon Kim
New paper submission on User-Centric
Interference Nulling in Downlink Multi-Antenna
Heterogeneous Networks
December 2015
Organizing a workshop at Imperial on Wireless Information and Power Transfer
Paper Analysis and Optimization of Inter-tier Interference Coordination in Downlink Multi-Antenna HetNets with Offloading published in IEEE Trans. on Wireless Comm., vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 6550-6564, December 2015.
November 2015
October 2015
Welcome to the new PhD students Mr Enrico Piovano and Mr Fawwaz Al-Subaie
September 2015
One invited paper at CAMAD 2015 on rate-splitting for Massive MIMO
Prof.
Slim Alouini giving a talk on optical wireless communications
PI of a new EPSRC grant awarded on "MIMO Wireless Networks: A Promising Rate Splitting Transceiver Architecture". 3-year project to start April 2016. Job opening soon for post-doc.
Dr. Clerckx promoted to Senior Lecturer
C. Hao, Y. Wu and B. Clerckx, “Rate Analysis of Two-Receiver MISO Broadcast Channel with Finite Rate Feedback: A Rate-Splitting Approach,” IEEE Trans. on Comm., vol. 63, no. 9, pp. 3232-3246, September 2015.
August 2015
At Korea University (Seoul, Korea) for 1 month for a graduate course on Advanced Wireless Communications
Member of the review panel "NT-14: Signals and Systems" at the Swedish Research Council
TPC Chair of IEEE ISWCS 2015
Two papers at IEEE ISWCS 2015
Chenxi Hao moved to Samsung Electronics, Beijing, China
J. Park and B. Clerckx, “Joint wireless information and energy transfer with reduced feedback in MIMO interference channels,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication (special issue), vol. 33, no. 8, pp. 1563-1577, Aug 2015.
July 2015
In Singapore, visiting Prof. Rui Zhang at NUS
Y. Huang and B. Clerckx, “Joint Wireless Information and Power Transfer for an Autonomous Multiple-Antenna Relay System” IEEE Comm. Letters, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 1113-1116, July 2015.
June 2015
Seven papers at IEEE ICC 2015