Former Staff

• Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) in Signal Processing and Wireless Communications
• Joint Discrete and Continuous Resources Scheduling in Communication Networks
• Robust Transmit/Receive Beamforming in Conventional and Cooperative Wireless Systems
• Admission Control, Rate adaption, and Coodinated Multi-Point(CoMP) Processing in 4G Cellular Networks

Yong Cheng's Google Website

https://sites.google.com/site/yongchenghomepage/

Master's and Bachelor's Thesis Topics for interested students

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Teaching

Tutorial Session, Information Theory II, Summer Semester 2012.

Curriculum Vitae

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Publications

Journal Papers

• Yong Cheng, and Marius Pesavento, “Joint Rate Adaptation and Downlink Beamforming Using Mixed Integer Conic Programming”, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Jun. 2013.
• Yong Cheng, and Marius Pesavento, “An Optimal Iterative Algorithm for Codebook-Based Downlink Beamforming,” accepted for publication in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, April 2013.
• Yong Cheng, Marius Pesavento, and Anne Philipp, "Joint Network Optimization and Downlink Beamforming for CoMP Transmissions using Mixed Integer Conic Programming", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
• Yong Cheng, and Marius Pesavento, "Joint Optimization of Source Power Allocation and Distributed Relay Beamforming in Multiuser Peer-to-Peer Relay Networks," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 2395-2404, June 2012.
• Junting Chen, Vincent Lau, and Yong Cheng, "Distributive Network Utility Maximization (NUM) over Time-Varying Fading Channels," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 2395-2404, May, 2011.
• Yong Cheng, and Vincent Lau, "A Scalable Limited Feedback Design for Network MIMO using Product Codebook," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 9, No. 10, pp. 3093-3099, Oct., 2010.
• Yong Cheng, and Vincent Lau, "Distributive power control algorithm for multicarrier interference network over time-varying fading channels - tracking performance analysis and optimization," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 9, pp. 4750-4760, Sept., 2010.

Conference Papers

• Y. Cheng, and M. Pesavento, “Predistortion and Precoding Vector Assignment in Codebook-based Downlink Beamforming,” submitted to the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'13), Darmstadt, Germany, June 2013.
• Y. Cheng, and M. Pesavento, "Robust Codebook-Based Downlink Beamforming Using Mixed Integer Conic Programming," accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'13), Vancouver, Canada, May 2013.
• Y. Cheng, A. Philipp, and M. Pesavento, “Dynamic Rate Adaptation and Multiuser Downlink Beamforming Using Mixed Integer Conic Programming,” Proceedings of the 2012 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2012), Bucharest, Romania, August 2012.
• Y. Cheng, S. Drewes, A. Philipp, and M. Pesavento, "Joint Network Optimization and Beamforming for Coordinated Multi-point Transmission using Mixed Integer Programming," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'12), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
• Y. Cheng, S. Drewes, A. Philipp, and M. Pesavento, "Joint Network Topology Optimization and Multicell Beamforming using Mixed Integer Programming," Proceedings of International ITG Workshop on Smart Angennas (WSA'12), Dresden, Germany, March 2012.
• Yong Cheng, and Vincent Lau, "A Scalable Limited Feedback Design for Network MIMO using Per-Cell Codebook," Proceedings of IEEE WCNC'2010, April 18-21, 2010, pp. 2036-2042, Sydney, Australia.
• Yong Cheng, and Vincent Lau, "Iterative Primal-Dual Scaled Gradient Algorithm with Dynamic Scaliing Matrices for Solving Distributive NUM over Time-Varying Fading Channels," Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM'2010, pp. 3047-3052, Miami, USA, December, 2010.