Zhifeng Tao obtained his B.S. from Xian Jiaotong University, P.R. China.  He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in E.E. from Polytechnic University at Brooklyn, NY.  He joined the Digital Communications and Networking Group of MERL in September 2006.  His present research interests include wireless networking, medium access control, quality of service, cooperative communications and analytical modeling.  He has published a dozen of papers and filed a handful of patents in these related areas. He has been an active participant in IEEE 802.11n and 802.11s standardization since 2004, and is currently involved in developing the IEEE 802.16j and 802.16m standard.
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Wang, T.; Tao, Z.; Molisch, A.F.; Orlik, P.V.; Zhang, J., "Adaptive Antenna Selection at Mobile Stations for SDMA i WiMAX Networks", International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: Connecting the World Wirelessly, ISBN: 978-1-60558-569-7, pp. 586-591, June 2009 (ACM Portal, TR2009-038)
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Chang, R.Y.; Tao, Z.; Zhang, J.; Kuo, J., "A Graph Approach to Dynamic Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) in Multi-Cell OFDMA Networks", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), WCS-29: OFDMA II, June 2009 (ICC 2009, TR2009-037)
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Korakis, T.; Tao, Z.; Singh, S.; Liu, P.; Panwar, S., "Implementation of a Cooperative MAC Protocol: Performance and Challenges in a Real Environment", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, DOI 10.1155/2009/598140, Vol. 2009, Article ID 598140, March 2009 (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, TR2009-039)
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Matsumoto, W.; Kuze, T.: Uchida, S.; Hideo, Y.; Orlik, P.V.; Molisach, A.F.; Tao, Z.; Zhang, J., "Enhanced HARQ Technique Using Self-Interference Cancellation Coding (SICC)", International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), ISBN: 978-1-4244-2201 2, pp. 650-654, August 2008 (IEEE Xplore, TR2008-097)
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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, TR2008-050)
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Tao, Z.; Li, A.; Zhang, J.; Kuze, T., "Performance Improvement for Multichannel HARQ Protocol in Next Generation WiMAX System", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 2009-2014, March 2008 (IEEE Explore, TR2008-053)
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Tao, Z.; Li, A.; Zhang, J.; Kuze, T., "MAC 25-4 - Performance Improvement for Multichannel HARQ Protocol in Next Generation WiMAX System", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), ISSN: 1525-3511, pp. 2009-2014, March 2008 (IEEE Explore, TR2008-053)
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Teo, K.H.; Tao, Z.; Zhang, J.; Li, Anfei, "Adaptive Frame Structure for Mobile Multihop Relay (MMR) Networks", International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS), ISBN: 978-1-4244-0983-9, pp. 1-5, December 2007 (IEEE Explore, TR2007-119)
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Tao, Z.; Li, A.; Teo, K.H.; Zhang, J., "Frame Structure Design for IEEE 802.16j Mobile Multihop Relay (MMR) Networks", IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), ISBN: 978-1-4244-1043-9, pp. 4301-4306, November 2007 (IEEE Explore, TR2007-120)
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Teo, K.H.; Tao, Z.; Zhang, J., "The Mobile Broadband WiMAX Standard", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 24, Issue 5, pp. 144-148, September 2007 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-096)
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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)
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Korakis, T.; Tao, Z.; Slutskiy, Y.; Panwar, S., "A Cooperative MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks", IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), pp. 532-536, March 2007 (IEEE Xplore, TR2007-017)
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Liu, P.; Tao, Z.; Narayanan, S.; Korakis, T.; Panwar, S.S., "CoopMAC: A cooperative MAC for Wireless LANs", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, ISSN: 0733-8716, Vol. 25, Issue 2, pp. 340-354, February 2007 (IEEE Xplore, TR2007-018)
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