Zhifeng (Jeffrey) Tao

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Member Technical Staff
Ph.D., Polytechnic University, 2006

Phone: 617 621 7557
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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.

Recent Projects:

Aggregation in IEEE 802.16j Network
Hybrid ARQ for future WiMAX system

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)