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Shuang Tian (Ph.D)

 Email: shuang.tian@unsw.edu.au, tim2605@gmail.com

Employment:

  • 2014.3 – Present, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wireless Communications Laboratory, University of New South Wales, Australia

  • 2013.3 – 2014.3, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications, The University of Sydney, Australia

  • 2008.6 – 2009.7, System and Standard Engineer, Beijing Research Centre, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China

Education:

  • 2009.7 – 2013.3, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia.

          Thesis: “Advanced rateless coding and relaying techniques in wireless communications”

Supervisors: A/Prof. Yonghui Li and Prof. Branka Vucetic

  • 2006.2 – 2007.12, Master of Engineering Science, Monash University, Australia

Thesis: “Timing synchronization in radio frequency and optical wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems”

Supervisor: Prof. Jean Armstrong

  • 2001.9 – 2005.7, Bachelor of Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Senior year project: “Miniature design of the Archimedean spiral antenna”

Supervisor: Prof. Zhaohui Song

Research Interests:

  • Baseband Signal Processing,

  • Error Control Coding (e.g. LDPC, LT, Rateless),

  • MIMO-OFDM,

  • Digital Signal Processing (DSP),

  • Timing Synchronization,

  • RF/Antenna Techniques,

  • Interference and Resources (e.g. power and spectrum) Management Design in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks,

  • LTE/LTE-A, WiFi and WiMAX Network Architecture and Protocols.

 

Selected Awards and Scholarships:

  • University of Sydney Postgraduate Awards, The University of Sydney (2009 - 2013)

  • Outstanding New Employee Award, Huawei Technologies (for the year of 2008)

  • Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarships, Monash University (2006 - 2007)

  • Outstanding Graduate Award, Harbin Institute of Technology (for the year of 2005)

Other Activities:

  • Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, U.S.A.)

  • Member of ACoRN (Australian-research-council Communications Research Network)

  • Visiting research staff at Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, U.K.

  • Volunteer technical paper reviewer for various IEEE journals and conferences

  • Teaching assistant and tutor for various undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Monash University and The University of Sydney

 

Publications:

Journal papers:

  • S. Tian, Y. Li, M. Shirvanimoghaddam and B. Vucetic, “A physical-layer rateless code for wireless channels”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 61, No. 6, June 2013

  • M. Shirvanimoghaddam, Y. Li, S. Tian and B. Vucetic, “Distributed Raptor coding for erasure channels: partially and fully coded cooperation”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 61, No. 9, September 2013

  • S. Tian, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, “Piecewise-and-forward relaying in wireless relay networks”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 18, No. 5, May 2011

  • S. Tian, K. Panta, H. A. Suraweera, B. J. C. Schmidt, S. McLaughlin and J. Armstrong, “A novel timing synchronization method for ACO-OFDM-based optical wireless communications”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, No. 12, December 2008

Conference papers:

  • S. Tian, W. Hardjawana and B. Vucetic, “Sharpe ratio for user association design in downlink heterogeneous cellular networks”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 5G Technologies Workshop, Sydney, Australia, June 2014

  • S. Tian, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, “A rateless code for dynamic decode-and-forward relaying in wireless relay networks”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Shanghai, China, April 2013

  • S. Tian, Y. Li and B. Vucetic, “A near optimal amplify and forward relaying in two-way relay networks”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kyoto, Japan, June 2011

  • S. Tian, K. Panta, B. J. C. Schmidt and J. Armstrong, “Effect of the cyclic prefix on the timing synchronization method in ACO-OFDM systems”, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), Gold Coast, Australia, December 2007

  • S. Tian and J. Armstrong, “On timing synchronization approaches for OFDM systems with receive antenna diversity”, Joint NEWCOM-ACoRN Workshop, Vienna, Austria, September 2006

  • Z. Song, S. Tian and J. Qiu, “The simulation and design of a meander Archimedean spiral antenna”, IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Albuquerque, U.S.A., July 2006

Patent: (Filed by Huawei Technologies, lodged at the Intellectual Property Office of China)

  • S. Tian, H. Ni, S. Tan and Y. Li, “Business priority updating indicating method, business priority updating method and device thereof” (Granted in March 2012, Application No.: 200910082564)