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H Yang

H Yang

Research Scientist

Murray Hill, NJ, USA

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Biography

HONG YANG received the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. He worked in academia and for a start-up network technology company before joining Lucent Technologies and Alcatel-Lucent, where he was with the Wireless Design Center, the Systems Engineering Department, and the Bell Labs Research. He is currently a Research Scientist with the Mathematics of Networks and Communications Research Department, Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, where he conducts research in communications networks. He has co-authored many research papers in wireless communications, applied mathematics, control theory, and financial economics. He co-invented many U.S. and international patents. He co-authored the book Fundamentals of Massive MIMO (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Education

Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Selected Articles and Publications
  • “Cell-Free Massive MIMO with low-complexity hybrid beamforming”, Proc. IEEE ICC, 2022.

  • “Energy efficient Massive MIMO in massive Industrial Internet of Things networks”, IEEE Internet Things J.

  • “Deep learning based power control for Cell-Free Massive MIMO with MRT”, Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, December 2021.

  • “A scalable and energy-efficient IoT system supported by Cell-Free Massive MIMO”, IEEE Internet Things J., Vol. 8, No. 19, pages 14705 – 14718, October 2021.

  • “Cell-Free Massive MIMO is LoS”, Proc. 93rd IEEE  32nd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), September 2021.

  • “Can Massive MIMO support URLLC?”, Proc. 93rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, May 2021.

  • “Pilot length and channel estimation for Massive MIMO IoT systems”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., Vol. 69, No. 12, pages 15532 – 15544, December 2020

  • “Optimally supporting IoT with Cell-Free Massive MIMO”, Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, December 2020.

  • “Prospective Multiple Antenna Technologies for Beyond 5G”, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., Vol. 38, No. 8, pages 1637 – 1660, August 2020.

  • “Massive MIMO with massive connectivity for Industrial Internet of Things”, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., Vol. 67, No. 6, pages 5187 – 5196, June 2020.

  • “How to associate users with access points in a small cell network?”, Proc. 91st IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, May 2020.

  • “Internet of Things based on Cell-Free Massive MIMO”, Proc. 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 2019.

  • “Can Massive MIMO support uplink intensive applications?”, Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, April 2019.

  • “Multi-cell Massive MIMO in LoS”, Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, December 2018.

  • “Antenna count for Massive MIMO: 1.9 GHz versus 60 GHz”, IEEE Commun. Mag., Vol. 56, No. 9, pages 132 – 137, September 2018.“User scheduling in Massive MIMO”, Proc. 19th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Commun., June 2018.

  • “Energy efficiency of Massive MIMO: cell-free vs. cellular”, Proc. 87th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, June 2018.

  • “Massive MIMO for industrial internet of things in cyber-physical systems”, IEEE Trans. Ind. Informat., 14(6):2641 - 2652, June 2018.

  • “Max-min SINR dependence on channel correlation in line-of-sight Massive MIMO”, Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, Dec. 2017.

  • “Massive MIMO with max-min power control in line-of-sight propagation environment”, IEEE Trans. Commun., 65(11):4685 - 4693, Nov. 2017.

  • “Precoding and power optimization in cell-free Massive MIMO systems”, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., 16(7):4445 - 4459, July 2017.

  • “Massive MIMO in line-of-sight propagation”, Proc. 85th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, June 2017.

  • “Cell-free Massive MIMO versus small cells”, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., 16(3):1834 -1850, Mar. 2017.

  • “A mathematical model of demand-supply dynamics with collectability and saturation factors”, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 27, No. 1, Jan. 2017

  • “Heterogeneous Massive MIMO with small cells”, Proc. 83rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, May 2016.

  • “Energy-efficient resource allocation for Massive MIMO amplify-and-forward relay systems”, IEEE Access, Vol. 4, pp. 2771 - 2787, June 2016.

  • “Cell-free Massive MIMO systems”, Proc. 49th IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Conputers, Nov. 2015.

  • “Cell-free Massive MIMO: uniformly great service for everyone”, Proc. 16th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Commun., June 2015.

  • “On existence of power controls for massive MIMO”, Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June 2015.

  • “Performance of pilot reuse in multi-cell massive MIMO”, Proc. 3rd IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking, May 2015.

  • “Energy efficient design of massive MIMO: How many antennas?”, Proc. 81st IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, May 2015.

  • “Quantized beamforming in massive MIMO”, Proc. 49th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Mar. 2015.

  • “On the arrow of time”, Discrete and continuous dynamical systems, Series S, Volume 7, Number 6, Dec. 2014

  • “A macro cellular wireless network with uniformly high user throughputs”, Proc. 80th Vehicular Technology Conference, Sept. 2014.

  • “Total energy efficiency of cellular large scale antenna system multiple access mobile networks”, Proc. IEEE Online Conference on Green Commun., Oct. 2013.

  • “Capacity performance of multicell large scale antenna systems”, Proc. 51st Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Oct. 2013.

  • “Multicast Performance of Large-Scale Antenna Systems”, Proc. 14th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Commun., June 2013.

  • “Performance of conjugate and zeroforcing beamforming in Large-Scale Antenna Systems”, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 31(2):172-179, 2013.

  • “Differential fade margin and handoff gain of wireless cellular networks”, Bell Labs Technical Journal General Paper Issue, June 2012.

  • “Simple formulas for area coverage probability of cellular wireless networks”, Proc. 75th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, May 2012.

  • “Cost effective improvement of EV-DO user experience through contention-based carrier addition”, Bell Labs Technical Journal General Paper Issue, June 2011.

Patents
  • “Methods and apparatuses for configuring number of antennas for massive MIMO communication”.

  • “Pilots assignment in cell-free massive MIMO wireless systesms ”.

  • “Non-cooperative power control for large-scale antenna systems ”.

  • “Large-scale antenna system as rural household broadband service backhauls”.

  • “Multiplcast methods for large-scale antenna systems”.

  • “Dual –tier wireless communication system”

  • “LSLASH-NET: Large-Scale Antenna System Heterogeneous Network”

  • “Method of improving transmission gain at a network element having a plurality of antennas”

  • “Method for estimating the downlink capacity in a spread spectrum wireless communications system”

  • “Method for locating a mobile unit”

Books
  • Co-author, Fundamentals of Massive MIMO, Cambridge University Press, Dec. 2016

  • Contributor, Handbook of CDMA System Design, Engineering, and Optimization, (Edited by K. I. Kim), Prentice Hall, 2000

Awards & Recognition
  • 2016 Edison Silver Award in “Collective Disruption”
  • 2013 IEEE Online Greencom Best Paper Award
  • 2010 Alcatel-Lucent Sprint Customer Team Award
  • 2008 Membership of Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy
  • 2000 Lucent Technologies Wireless Business Group Silver Award
  • 1999 Lucent Technologies Wireless Business Group Shining Star Award
  • 1998 Lucent Technologies Wireless Business Group Shining Star Award

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