Profile
Dr Liqiang Zhao, PhD Fellowship
Dr Liqiang Zhao obtained his BEng in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China in 1992, his MEng in Communications and Information Systems and PhD in Information and Communications Engineering from Xidian University, China in 2000 and 2003, respectively.
From July 1992 to March 2005, Dr Zhao was a Senior Research Engineer with the 20th Research Institute, Chinese Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), China.
His research focused on mobile communication Systems and spread spectrum communications. From March 2005 to July 2007, Dr Zhao was an Associate Professor with State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks (ISN), Xidian University, China.
His research focused on WMAN/WiMAX, WLAN/WiFi, wireless ad hoc network and wireless sensor network.
Dr Zhao was appointed as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Wireless Network Design (CWiND), University of Bedfordshire in June 2007 to conduct research in the GAWIND project funded under EU FP6 HRM programme.
His current activities focus on the area of automatic wireless broadband access network planning and optimization.
He has more than 30 publications in the field of wireless communications.
Research
Research Interests
- Broadband Wireless Access (BWA)
- Wireless MAN/WiMAX
- Wireless LAN/WiFi
- Wireless Mesh Network (WMN)
- Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
Research Projects
- GAWIND: Application of High Performance Computing (HPC) in automatic wireless broadband access network planning and optimization, PhD Fellowship.
- Research on Game-theoretic MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks, funded under National Natural Science Foundation, Principal Investigator.
- Research on Key Technologies of Broadband Wireless Integrated Access, funded under the 11th 5-year Plan of China, Principal Investigator.
- Research on Key Technologies of MIMO-OFDMA in WiMAX, funded under Natural Science Research Plan in Shannxi Province of China, Principal Investigator.
Publications
Selected Journal Papers
- Liqiang Zhao, Huawei Zhang, Jie Zhang, and Hailin Zhang, Selfish Traffic with Rational Nodes in WLANs, to appear in IEEE Communications Letters.
- Liqiang Zhao, Joyce Y. Wu, Hailin Zhang, and Jie Zhang, Integrated QoS Differentiation over IEEE 802.11 WLANs, to appear in IET Communications.
- Liqiang Zhao, Jie Zhang, and Hailin Zhang, Using Incompletely Cooperative Game Theory in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE Network, January/February 2008, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 39-44.
- Liqiang Zhao, Jie Zhang, and Hailin Zhang, Directional DCF - A MAC Protocol to Simultaneously Support Both Omni-directional and Smart Antennas in a Same WLAN Cell, IET Communications, August 2007, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 765-771.
- Liqiang Zhao, Jie Zhang, and Hailin Zhang, GDCF: A Game-theoretic Distributed Coordination Function in WLANs, Electronics Letters, April 26 2007, Vol. 43, No. 9, pp. 510-511.
- Liqiang Zhao, Changxin Fan, Enhancement of QoS Differentiation over IEEE 802.11 WLAN, IEEE Communications Letters, August 2004, Vol. 8, Issue 8, pp. 494-496.
- Liqiang Zhao, Changxin Fan, M-PCF: modified IEEE 802.11 PCF protocol implementing QoS, IEE Electronics Letters, November 2002, Vol. 38, No. 24, pp. 1611-1613.
- Liqiang Zhao, Hailin Zhang, and Yi Liu, MAC protocol to support hybrid antennas in wireless LAN, Journal of Electronics (China), May 2007, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 309-315.
- Liqiang Zhao, Hailin Zhang, TCP Performance Analysis and Enhancement of IEEE 802.11 WLAN, Chinese Journal of Computers, November 2005, Vol. 28, No. 11, pp. 1934-1938.
- Liqiang Zhao, Changxin Fan, MAC Protocol of WLAN based on Access Control Mechanism, Chinese Journal of Circuit and Systems, Feb. 2005, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 103-106.
- Liqiang Zhao, Jing Li, Xiaodong Zhao, and Zhonghao Zhang, Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 Enhanced Distributed Coordination Function, Chinese Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, December 2004, Vol. 26, No. 12, pp. 1879-1882.
- Liqiang Zhao, Changxin Fan, MAC protocol of WLAN using smart adaptive array antennas, Chinese Journal of Xidian University, August 2004, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 602-607.
- Liqiang Zhao, Jun Yang, Changxin Fan, and Jiandong Li, Location management in public WLAN, Chinese Journal of Computers, Feb. 2004, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 270-274.
- Liqiang Zhao, Changxin Fan, ADCF: A Simple Algorithm of Adaptive IEEE 802.11 DCF, Chinese Journal of Circuits and Systems, August 2003, Vol. 8, No. 4.
Selected Conference Papers
- Liqiang Zhao, Jie Zhang, and Hailin Zhang, “Using Incompletely Cooperative Game Theory in Wireless Sensor Networks,” to appear in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2008.
- Liqiang Zhao, Jie Zhang, Kun Yang, and Hailin Zhang, Using Incompletely Cooperative Game Theory in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Proceeding of IEEE ICC07 (International Conference on Communications), Glasgow, UK, 24-27 June 2007.
- Liqiang Zhao, Jing Li, Zhonghao Zhang, and Xiaodong Zhao, OCSMA/CA: a MAC Protocol to Support OFDMA in Wireless LAN, Proceeding of IET International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks – 2006 (ICWMMN 2006), November 2006, Hangzhou, China.
- Liqiang Zhao, Jing Li, Zhonghao Zhang, and Xiaodong Zhao, Packet-based Service Differentiation in WLANs, Proceeding of First International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom 2006), October 25-27 2006, Beijing, China.
- Liqiang Zhao, Jing Li, Zhonghao Zhang, and Xiaodong Zhao, Hybrid DCF Supporting Hybrid Antennas in a WLAN, Proceeding of IMACS Multiconference on Computational Engineering in Systems Applications (CESA2006), October 2006, Beijing, China, pp. 1580-1587.
- Liqiang Zhao, Hybrid DCF Supporting Smart Antennas in WLANs, Proceeding of the 6th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST2006), June, 2006, Chengdu, China, pp. 617-620.
- Liqiang Zhao, Changxin Fan, A Multi-cell Dynamic Reservation Protocol for Multimedia over IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Wireless LAN, International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, March 2003, Xi'an, China.
- Liqiang Zhao, Changxin Fan, A Multi-service Dynamic Reservation Scheme for Multimedia over IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Wireless LANs, International Conference on Telecommunications, June 2002, Beijing, China.
Membership
- Reviewer of Electronics Letters, IET Journal of Communications, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, etc.
Contact details
Dr Liqiang Zhao
T: +44 (0)1582 743521
F: +44 (0)1582 489212
E: liqiang.zhao@beds.ac.uk
