Koon Hoo Teo

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Team Leader, Broadband Mobile Systems
Ph.D., University of Alberta, 1990

Phone: 617-621-7527
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Koon Hoo Teo received his M.Sc and Ph.D. from University of Alberta in 1985 and 1990, respectively.  He was with Nortel for about 15 years where he has worked in wireless system research and product development. For the last five years, he worked as a Radio Architect and a System Engineering Manager where he was actively involved in the research and implementation issues of a number of 3G and 4G wireless systems and how to translate initial research concept into highly competitive products. The wireless systems he worked in include Wireless Mesh Networks and WiMAX systems.  He left Nortel and joined Merl in 2006.  His current research interests include Cognitive Radio, location tracking using Ultra Wideband technology, and Wireless Mesh and Multi-Hop Systems.  He is a holder of 3 patents and 15 pending, and authors and co-author of about 20 journal and conference papers.

Recent Projects:

Adaptive Frame Structure for Broadband Mobile Multihop Wireless System
Cognitive Radio with Space-Time-Frequency Spectrum Sensing

Recent Publications:

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)