Jinyun Zhang
MERL Research / Technical StaffGroup Manager, Digital Communications
Ph.D., University of Ottawa, 1991
Phone: (617) 621 7595
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Jinyun received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa in the area of digital signal processing, where she was also a Visiting Scholar and worked on digital image processing. Prior to this she was a teacher/lecturer at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Jinyun worked for Nortel Networks for the past ten years where she held engineering and most recently management positions in the areas of VLSI design, Advanced Wireless Technology Development, Wireless Networks and Optical Networks. She has a broad technical background, specializing in system design, DSP algorithms, and real-time embedded S/W for wireless communications and DWDM optical networks. Jinyun joined the MERL in 2001.
Recent Projects:
Adaptive Frame Structure for Broadband Mobile Multihop Wireless SystemAdaptive Modulation and Coding for IEEE802.11n
Antenna Selection for Broadband Mobile Communications
Base Station Cooperation
Cognitive Radio with Space-Time-Frequency Spectrum Sensing
Cooperative Communication Using Fountain Codes
Development of Location Centric Networks
Low Power MBOFDM-UWB Transceiver Design
Progressive Accumulative Routing
Spectral Efficiency Analysis with Channel-aware Schedulers
Ultra Reliable Wireless
ZigBee Middleware Development
Recent Publications:
Nie, C.; Tao, Z.; Mehta, N.B.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J.; Kuze, T.; Panwar, S., "Antenna Selection for Next Generation IEEE 802.16 Mobile Stations", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), ISBN: 978-1-4244-2075-9, pp. 3457-3462, May 2008 (IEEE Explore)Ozdemir, O.; Sahinoglu, Z.; Zhang, J., "Narrowband Interference Resilient Receiver Design for Unknown UWB Signal Detection", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), ISBN: 978-1-4244-2075-9, pp. 785-789, May 2008 (IEEE Explore, TR2008-022)
Yim, R.; Mehta, N.B.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J., "MAC 24-1 Efficient Multiple Access using Received Signal Strength and Local Channel Information", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), ISSN: 1525-3511, pp. 1962-1967, March 2008 (IEEE Explore)
Zhang, H.; Mehta, N.B.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J.; Dai, H., "Asynchronous Interference Mitigation in Cooperative Base Station Systems", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, ISSN: 1536-1276, Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 155-165, January 2008 (IEEE Xplore)
Mehta, N.B.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J.; Bala, E., "Antenna Selection Training in MIMO-OFDM/OFDMA Cellular Systems", IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adapative Processing (CAMPSAP), ISBN: 978-1-4244-1713-1, pp. 113-116, December 2007 (IEEE Explore)
Molisch, A.F.; Mehta, N.B.; Yedidia, J.S.; Zhang, J., "Performance of Fountain Codes in Collaborative Relay Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, ISSN: 1536-1276, Vol. 6, Issue 11, pp. 4108-4119, November 2007 (IEEE Explore, TR2007-082)
Zhao, S.; Orlik, P.; Molisch, A.F.; Liu, H.; Zhang, J., "Hybrid Ultrawideband modulations Compatible for Both Coherent and Transmit-Reference Receivers", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, ISSN: 1536-1276, Vol. 6; Issue 7, pp. 2551-2559, July 2007 (IEEE Explore)
Mehta, N.B.; Wu, J.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J., "Approximating a Sum of Random Variables with a Lognormal", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, ISSN: 1536-1276, Vol. 6, Issue 7, pp. 2690-2699, July 2007 (IEEE Explore, TR2007-067)
Wu, J.; Mehta, N.B.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J., "Spectral Efficiency of Channel-Aware Schedulers in Non-identical Composite Links with Interference", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2007 (ICC 2007, TR2007-029)
Zhang, H.; Mehta, N.B.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J.; Dai, H., "On the Fundamentally Asynchronous Nature of Interference in Cooperative Base Station Systems", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2007 (ICC 2007, TR2007-030)
Li, Y.; Mehta, N.B.; Molisch, A.F., Zhang, J., "Optimal Signaling and Selection Verification for Single Transmit-Antenna Selection", IEEE Transactions on Communications, ISSN 0090-8778, Vol. 55, Issue 4, pp. 778-789, April 2007 (IEEE Xplore, TR2007-021)
Tao, Z.; Teo, K.H.; Zhang, J., "Aggregation and Concatenation in IEEE 802.16j Mobile Multihop Relay (MMR) Networks", IEEE Mobile WiMAX Symposium, pp. 85-90, March 2007 (IEEE Xplore, TR2007-019)
Du, J.; Li, Y.; Gu, D.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J., "Statistical Rate Allocation for Layered Space - Time Structure", IEEE Transactions on Communications, ISSN: 0090-6778, Vol. 55, Issue 3, pp. 489-496, March 2007 (IEEE Xplore, TR2007-050)
Sudarshan, P.; Mehta, N.B.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J., "Channel Statistics-Based RF Pre-Processing with Antenna Selection", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, ISSN: 1536-1276, Vol. 5, Issue 12, pp. 3501-3511, December 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-101)
Zhang, H.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J., "Applying Antenna Selection in WLANs for Achieving Broadband Multimedia Communications", IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, ISSN: 0018-9316, Vol. 52, Issue 4, pp. 475-482, December 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-113)
Madan, R.; Mehta, N.B.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J., "Energy-Efficient Cooperative Relaying over Fading Channels with Simple Relay Selection", IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), November 2006 (IEEE Globecom 2006, TR2006-075)
Molisch, A.F.; Mehta, N.B.; Yedidia, J.S.; Zhang, J., "WLC41-6: Cooperative Relay Networks Using Fountain Codes", IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1-6, November 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-092)
Yim, R.; Mehta, N.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J., "Progressive Accumulative Routing in Wireless Networks", IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), November 2006 (GLOBECOM 2006, TR2006-091)
Ding, G.; Sahinoglu, Z.; Orlik, P.; Zhang, J.; Bhargava, B., "Tree-Based Data Broadcast in IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Networks", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ISSN: 1536-1233, Vol. 5, Issue 11, pp. 1561-1574, November 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-089)
Molisch, A.F.; Mehta, N.B.; Zhang, H.; Almers, P.; Zhang, J., "Implementation Aspects of Antenna Selection for MIMO Systems", International Conference Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom), pp. 1-7, October 2006
Molisch, A.F.; Orlik, P.; Sahinoglu, Z.; Zhang, J., "UWB-based Sensor Networks and the IEEE 802.15.4a Standard", International Conference Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom), pp. 1-6, October 2006
Li, Y.G.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J., "Practical Approaches to Channel Estimation and Interference Suppression for OFDM-based UWB Communications", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, ISSN: 1536-1276, Vol. 5, Issue 9, pp. 2317-2320, September 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2004-095)
Mehta, N.B.; Molisch, A.F.; Wu, J.; Zhang, J., "Approximating the Sum of Correlated Lognormal or Lognormal-Rice Random Variables", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), ISSN: 8164-9547, Vol. 4, pp. 1605-1610, June 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-010)
Yu, J.; Yao, Y-D.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhang, J., "Performance Evaluation of CDMA Reverse Links with Imperfect Beamforming in a Multicell Environment using a Simplified Beamforming Model", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, ISSN 0018-9545, Vol. 55, Issue 3, pp. 1019-1031, May 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-126)
Zhang, H.; Molisch, A.F., Gu, D.; Wang, D.; Zhang, J., "Antenna Selection in High-Throughput Wireless LAN", IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (ISBMSB), April 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-057)
Tao, Z.; Panwa, S.; Gu, D.; Zhang, J., "Performance Analysis and a Proposed Improvement for the IEEE 802.15.4 Contention Access Period", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2006 (WCNC 2006, TR2006-056)
Zhang, J.; Fossorier, M.; Gu, D.; Zhang, J., "Two-Dimensional Correction for Min-Sum Decoding of Irregular LDPC Codes", IEEE Communication Letters, ISSN: 1089-7798, Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp. 180-182, March 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-055)
Guo, J.; Zhang, J.; Chen, W., "A Dynamic QoS Algorithm for Wireless AV Home Networks", International Conference Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT), Vol. 3, pp. 1526-1531, February 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-140)
Duan, C.; Pekhteryev, C.; Fang, J.; Nakache, Y.; Zhang, J.; Tajima, K.; Nishioka, Y.; Hirai, H., "Transmitting Multiple HD Video Streams over UWB Links", IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Vol. 2, pp. 691-695, January 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-008)
Zhang, J.; Fossorier, M.; Gu, D.; Zhang, J., "Improved Min-Sum Decoding of LDPC Codes Using 2-Dimensional Normalization", IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Vol. 3, pp. 1187-1192, November 2005 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-158)
Wu, J.; Mehta, N.B.; Zhang, J., "Flexible Lognormal Sum Approximation Method", IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Vol. 6, pp.3413-3417, November 2005 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-099)
Wu, J.; Mehta, N.B.; Zhang, J., "Spectral Efficiency Analysis of Cellular Systems with Channel-Aware Schedulers", IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Vol. 3, pp. 1383-1387, November 2005 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-104)
Ding, G.; Sahinoglu, Z.; Orlik, P.; Zhang, J.; Bhargava, B., "Reliable Broadcasting in ZigBee Networks", IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), pp. 510-520, September 2005 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-029)
Fang, Y.; Gu, D.; McDonald, A.B.; Zhang, J., "A Two-Level Carrier Sensing Mechanism for Overlapping BSS Problem in WLAN", IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), pp. 1-6, September 2005 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-156)
Wu, J.; Horng, H.; Zhang, J.; Xiao, C.; Oliver, J.C., "Combining Orthogonal Space Time Block Codes with Adaptive Sub-group Antenna Encoding", International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, ISSN: 1068-9605, Vol. 12, Number 3, pp. 179-186, July 2005 (Springer Netherlands, TR2006-013)
Recent Technical Reports: | |
| On the Fundamentally Asynchronous Nature of Interference in Cooperative Base Station Systems | |
| Spectral Efficiency of Channel-Aware Schedulers in Non-Identical Composite Links with Interference | |
| The Mobile Broadband WiMAX Standard | |
| Optimal Signaling for Single Transmit Antenna Selection with Erroneous Feedback | |
| Practical Approaches to Channel Estimation and Interference Suppression for OFDM-Based UWB Communications | |
| On the Performance Enhancement of Wireless LAN - A Multi-polling Mechanism with Hidden Terminal Solution | |
| Reverse-Link Capacity of Power-Controlled CDMA Systems With Beamforming | |
