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Biography Dr. Ling is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on
Communications and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He has also
served on the program committees of several international conferences
including IEEE Information Theory Workshop (2006, 2009), Globecom, and ICC. He is a member of IEEE. |
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Research ·
Network
information theory and coding (including multi-terminal, cooperative communication) ·
Lattice
methods for coding and security/cryptography (including codes and
algorithms) ·
Distributed
signal processing, compressive sensing and random matrix theory ·
MIMO
and MIMO-OFDM communication ·
Coding
(turbo, LDPC and polar codes), iterative decoding ·
Noncoherent
and differential communication ·
Spread
spectrum, CDMA and multi-user
communication Past
and current research projects include (either as PI or CI) ·
Adaptive
compressed sensing for wideband dynamic signals, UK MoD UDRC, 2011-2013 ·
LACONIC: Lattice Coding for Multiuser Wireless
Communications, European Commission FP7, 2011-2013 ·
Lattice reduction for distributed multi-input
multi-output communications, Royal Society of UK, 2011-2013 ·
Enabling
Flexible Networks: Network Coding, Mobile VCE and EPSR of UK, 2008-2010 ·
Space-time
communication over multiuser fading channels, Singapore Millennium
Foundation, 2002-2004. ·
Differential
space-time communications over mobile fading channels, Jiangsu Province
Science Foundation, China, 2001-2003 ·
Iterative (Turbo) Receiver Structures for the Future
Generation Mobile Communications, National Science Foundation of China,
2000-2003 ·
Turbo reception at low SNR, National high-technology
development (863) program, China, 2001-2003. ·
FPGA
implementation of Turbo codec, Eastcom, China, 2000-2001 ·
DSP
implementation of chaotic secure communication, Private funder, China, 2000 ·
Chaos-based
frequency-hopping and direct-sequence spread-spectrum communication, National
Laboratory of Communications Antijamming, Chengdu, China, 1999-2001 ·
Key technologies for information security and
protection, National Science Foundation of China, 2000-2003 News ·
Imperial
College is recognised as an Academic
Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research. ·
The
Communications and Signal Processing Group hosts the University Defence
Research Centre (UDRC) in Signal
Processing, sponsored by the UK MoD. ·
Imperial
College is a member of the Mobile Virtual
Centre of Excellence (VCE). |
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IEEE Copyright notice: (C) 20XX IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. New 1. Kezhi Li, Lu Gan,
and Cong Ling, “Semi-universal convolutional compressed sensing using
(nearly) perfect sequences,” submitted. 2.
C. Ling, L. Luzzi, and J.-C. Belfiore, “Lattice codes achieving strong secrecy
over the mod-L
Gaussian channel,” submitted to ISIT 2012. 3.
J.-C. Belfiore and C. Ling, “The flatness factor in lattice network coding: Design
criterion and decoding algorithm,” International Zurich Seminar on
Communications 2012, invited paper. 4.
Cong Ling, Wai Ho Mow, and Nick Howgrave-Graham,
“Reduced and fixed-complexity
variants of the LLL algorithm for communications,” submitted. 5.
Cong Ling, Su
Gao, and Jean-Claude Belfiore, Wyner-Ziv
coding based on multi-dimensional nested lattices, IEEE Trans. Commun., to appear. Journal Papers 1. Shuiyin Liu, Cong
Ling, and Damien Stehle, “Decoding
by sampling: A randomized lattice algorithm for bounded-distance decoding,”
IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 57, pp. 5933-5945, Sept. 2011. 2. Cong Ling, “On the proximity factors of lattice reduction-aided
decoding,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 59, pp. 2795-2808, June 2011. 3.
Haishi Ning, Cong Ling, and Kin.
K. Leung, “Feasibility condition for interference alignment with
diversity,” IEEE Trans. Inform.
Theory, vol. 57, pp. 2902-2912, May 2011.. 4.
Haishi Ning, Cong Ling, and
Kin. K. Leung, “Generalized sequential slotted amplify and forward
strategy in cooperative communications,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 57, pp. 1968-1974, Apr. 2011. 5. L. Bai, C. Chen, J. Choi, and C. Ling, “Greedy user selection
using a lattice reduction updating method for multiuser MIMO systems,” IEEE Trans. Vehicular Tech., vol. 60,
pp. 136-147, Jan. 2011. 6. Yifan Chen and Cong Ling, “Effect of correlated Nakagami-m
fading on the e-outage channel capacity of the decentralized two-relay network”
IEEE Trans. Wireless. Commun., vol.
9, pp. 3607-3612, Dec. 2010. 7. Daniel Valderas,
Cong Ling, and Pedro Crespo, “UWB portable printed monopole array
design for MIMO communications,” Microwave and Optical Technology
Letters, vol. 52, pp. 889-895, Apr. 2010. 8.
Cong Ling, Wai Ho Mow, and Lu Gan, “Dual-lattice algorithm and partial lattice
reduction for SIC-based MIMO detection,” IEEE J. Sel. Topics on
Signal Processing, vol. 3, pp. 975-985, Dec. 2009. 9.
Xiaofu Wu, Cong Ling, Ming Jiang, Enyang Xu, Chunming
Zhao, and Xiaohu You, “New insights into weighted bit-flipping decoding
Communications,” IEEE Trans. Commun.,
vol. 57, pp. 2177 – 2180, Aug. 2009. 10. Ying Hung Gan, Cong
Ling, and Wai Ho Mow, “Complex lattice reduction
algorithm for low-complexity full-diversity MIMO detection,” IEEE Trans.
Signal Processing, vol. 57, pp.
2701-2710, July 2009. MATLAB
code for CLLL. 11. Lu Gan and Cong
Ling, “Computation of the
Para-Pseudo Inverse for Oversampled Filter Banks: Forward and Backward Greville
Formulas,”
IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 56, pp. 5851 – 5860, Dec. 2008. 12. Cong Ling and
Xiaofu Wu, “A back-iteration method for reconstructing chaotic
sequences in finite-precision machines,” Circuits, Syst., Signal
Processing, vol. 27, pp. 883 – 891, Oct. 2008. 13. Cong Ling, K. H. Li
and A. C. Kot, “Performance of space-time codes:
Gallager bounds and weight enumeration,” IEEE Trans. Inform.
Theory, vol. 54, pp. 3592-3610, Aug. 2008. 14. Cong Ling, Xiaofu
Wu, K. H. Li, and A. C. Kot, “Gallager bounds for noncoherent decoders
in fading channels,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 53, pp.
4605-4614, Dec. 2007. 15. Cong Ling, “Generalized
union bound for space-time codes,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 55,
pp. 90-99, Jan. 2007. 16. Xiaofu Wu, Haige
Xiang and Cong Ling, “New
Gallager bounds in block fading channels,” IEEE Trans. Inform.
Theory, vol. 53, pp. 684-694, Feb. 2007. 17. Xiaofu Wu, Haige
Xiang, Cong Ling, Xiaohu You, and Shaoqian Li, “Bounds
on the decoding error probability of binary block codes over noncoherent
block AWGN and fading channels,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol.
5, pp. 3193-3203, Nov. 2006. 18. Cong Ling, W. H.
Mow, K. H. Li and A. C. Kot, “Multiple-Antenna
differential lattice decoding,” IEEE J-SAC, vol. 23, pp.1821-1829,
Sept. 2005. 19. Cong Ling, K. H. Li
and A. C. Kot, "On decision-feedback detection of differential
space-time modulation in continuous fading," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol.
52, pp. 1613-1617, Oct. 2004. 20. Cong Ling, K. H. Li
and A. C. Kot, "Noncoherent sequence detection of differential
space-time modulation," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol.49, pp.
2727-2734, Oct. 2003. 21. Cong Ling, K. H.
Li, A. C. Kot, and Q. T. Zhang, "Multisampling decision-feedback linear
prediction receivers for differential space-time modulation over Rayleigh
fast fading channels," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 51, pp. 1214-1223, July
2003. 22. Guozhen Zang and
Cong Ling, "Performance evaluation for bandlimited DS-CDMA systems based
on simplified improved Gaussian approximation," IEEE Trans. Commun.,
vol. 51, pp. 1204-1213, July 2003. 23. Guozhen Zang and
Cong Ling, "Family size of orthogonal Oppermann sequences,"
Electron. Lett., vol. 37, pp. 631-632, May 2001. 24. Ling Cong and Wu
Xiaofu, "Design and implementation of an FPGA-based generator for
chaotic frequency hopping sequences," IEEE Trans. CAS-I, vol. 48, pp.
521-532, May 2001. 25. Ling Cong and Li
Shaoqian, "Chaotic spreading sequences with multiple access performance
better than random sequences," IEEE Trans. CAS-I, vol. 47, pp. 394-397,
Mar. 2000. 26. Ling Cong, Wu
Xiaofu and Yi Xiaoxin, "On SOVA for nonbinary codes," IEEE Commun.
Lett., vol. 3, pp. 335-337, Dec. 1999. 27. Xiaofu Wu, Cong
Ling and Songgeng Sun, "Data-aided phase tracking detection of
frequency-shifted DPSK signals with baseband frequency-drift
compensation," Electron. Lett., vol.35, no.15, pp. 1222-1223, July 1999. 28. Ling Cong, Wu
Xiaofu and Sun Songgeng, "A general efficient method for chaotic signal estimation,"
IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 47, pp. 1424-1427, May 1999. 29. Ling Cong and Sun
Songgeng, "Chaotic frequency hopping sequences," IEEE Trans.
Commun., vol. 46, pp. 1433-1437, Nov. 1998. Conference
Papers 1. Yanfei Yan, Cong Ling and Jean-Claude
Belfiore, “Secrecy gain of trellis codes: The other side of the union
bound,” ITW 2011, Paraty, Brasil, Oct. 2011. 2. Cong Ling, Shuiyin Liu, Laura Luzzi
and Damien Stehle, “Decoding by embedding: Correct decoding
radius and DMT optimality,”
ISIT 2011. 3.
Li-Chia Choo, Cong Ling, and Kat-kit Wong, “Achievable rates for lattice coding over the
Gaussian wiretap channel,” ICC 2011 Physical Layer Security
Workshop. 4. Kezhi Li, Cong Ling
and Lu Gan, “Deterministic compressed-sensing matrices: Where Toeplitz
meets Golay,” IEEE ICASSP 2011, Prague, Czech. 5. Hashi Ning, Cong Ling, and Kin K.
Leung, “Relay-aided interference alignment: Feasibility conditions and
algorithm,” IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory’10, Austin, US, June
2010. 6. Shuiyin Liu, Cong Ling, and Damien
Stehle, “Randomized lattice decoding: Bridging the gap between lattice
reduction and sphere decoding,” IEEE Int. Symp. Inform.
Theory’10, Austin, US, June 2010. 7. Cong Ling and Wai Ho Mow, “A
unified view of sorting in lattice reduction: From V-BLAST to LLL and
beyond,” IEEE Inform. Theory Workshop 2009, Taormina, Italy. 8. Kezhi Li, Cong Ling and Lu Gan,
“Statistical restricted isometry property of orthogonal symmetric
Toeplitz matrices,” IEEE Inform. Theory Workshop 2009, Taormina, Italy. 9. Haishi Ning, Cong Ling and Kin Leung,
“Active physical-layer network coding for cooperative two-way relay
channels,” Second IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Network
Coding, Rome, Italy, 2009. 10. Su Gao and Cong
Ling, “Multi-dimensional nested lattice quantization for Wyner-Ziv
coding,” ICC’09, 11. Haishi Ning, Cong
Ling and Kin Leung, “Near-optimal relaying strategy for cooperative
broadcast channel,” ICC’09, 12. Cong Ling and Wai
Ho Mow, “On complex LLL algorithm for digital communications,”
LLL+25 Conference, 13. Xiaofu Wu, Cong
Ling et al., “Towards understanding weighted
bit-flipping decoding,” IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory’07,
Nice, 14.
Cong
Ling and Nick Howgrave-Graham, “Effective LLL
reduction for lattice decoding,” IEEE Int. Symp. Inform.
Theory’07, Nice, 15.
Lu
Gan and Cong Ling, “Computation of the dual
frame: Forward and backward Greville formulas,” IEEE ICASSP 2007. 16.
Cong
Ling, 17.
Cong
Ling, “Gallager bounds for space-time codes in quasi-static fading
channels,” IEEE Inform. Theory Workshop, Oct. 2006. 18.
19.
Cong
Ling, “Towards characterizing the
performance of approximate lattice decoding in MIMO communications,”
Int. Symp. Turbo Codes / Int. ITG Conf. Source Channel Coding’06, 20.
Cong
Ling, W. H. Mow, K. H. Li and A. C. Kot, “Differential lattice decoding
in noncoherent MIMO communication,” ICC’05, Seoul, Korea, May
2005. 21.
Cong
Ling, K. H. Li and A. C. Kot, "Gallager bounds for space-time
codes," IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2004, Capri, Italy, May 2004. 22.
Cong
Ling, K. H. Li and A. C. Kot, "On Decision-Feedback Detection of
Nondiagonal Differential Space-Time Modulation in Temporally Correlated
Fading Channels," in Proc. ICC’03, 23.
Cong
Ling, K. H. Li and A. C. Kot, "Decision-feedback multiple symbol
differential detection of differential space-time modulation in continuously
fading channels," in Proc. ICASSP’03, 24. Cong Ling and Xiaofu
Wu, "Linear prediction receiver for differential space-time modulation
over time-correlated Rayleigh fading channels," in Proc. ICC'2002, 25.
Book/Book
Chapter 1.
Daniel Valderas, Juan Ignaco Sancho, David Puente, Cong
Ling, and Xiaodong Chen, Ultrawideband
Antennas: Design and Applications, Imperial College Press, 2010. 2.
Haishi Ning and Cong Ling, “Network coding in
heterogeneous wireless networks,” in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks, eds Xiaoli Chu and David Lopez
Perez, Cambridge University Press, to be published in 2012. Talks 1.
Bounded-distance lattice decoding and proximity
factors, International Workshop on Coding and Cryptology, Qingdao, China,
2011. 2.
Lattices in communications, Lattice Algorithmics
Workshop, CIRM, Marseille, France, 2010. 3.
Gallager bounds for single
and multi-antenna codes in fading channels, Hong Kong University of
Science and 4.
Lattice decoding for
digital communications: Where Minkowski meets Shannon, ENS Lyon, France, 2007;
Cambrdige University, UK, 2008. |
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Research Group Postdocs ·
Dr. Laura Luzzi (Marie Curie Fellow, lattice coding) ·
Dr. Bashar Ahmad (Compressed sensing,
jointly with Dr. Wei Dai) Postdoctoral fellowships In
addition to occasional funding from myself, there are opportunities of
postdoctoral research fellowships: ·
EU Marie
Curie Fellowship (offering attractive salary for 2 years) ·
Junior Research
Fellowship from Imperial College (3 years) ·
Newton International Fellowship ·
Royal Academy of
Engineering Research Fellowship ·
EPSRC
Postdoctoral Fellowship PhD
students with excellent publication records are strongly encouraged to apply. ·
Kezhi
Li (Topic: compressed sensing) ·
M. Constanza Estela Z.
(Topic: interference management) ·
Yanfei Yan (Topic:
physical layer security) ·
Zheng Wang (Topic:
lattice algorithms) Past PhD Students ·
Shuiyin Liu (Topic: lattice
technique for MIMO/broadcast) ·
Haishi
Ning (Topic: cooperative networks, jointly with Prof. K. Leung) ·
Su Gao (Topic: distributed source coding) ·
Khalid Nur (Topic: localization, jointly with Prof. W.
Ochieng) Information for prospective students If you
want to apply for admission, you are advised to apply through the PhD
Admission of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. If you are interested
in my research areas, please suggest Dr.
Cong Ling as your future supervisor in the application form. You
are recommended to pursue the MSc degree first (although this is not
mandatory) if you have a Bachelor degree only. Feel free to contact me should
you have any queries. I apologize that I am unable to reply to everyone due
to the large number of emails. I will contact you if further information is
needed. Departmental
funding is available to support PhD students. The College also runs a
number of scholarships
for PhD students. In particular, excellent applicants who are nationals
of China are advised to apply for the CSC-Imperial
Scholarship. Academic Visitors ·
Daniel Valderas,
Assistant Professor, CEIT, ·
Xiaomei Fu, Associate
Professor, |
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