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Doctoral Dissertation Announcement
Candidate: Yao Zhao
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Title: Communications and Positioning in Wireless Networks
Committee:
Dr. Liang Dong, Chair
Dr. Frank Severance
Dr. Bradley J. Bazuin
Dr. Wuwei Shen
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
A213 Parkview Campus
Abstract:
My doctoral research for the past three years is presented in this report. The research mainly focuses on the communications and positioning for wireless networks and is composed of three parts. Firstly, I explore a new Turbo frequency equalization technique for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications systems to improve the performance of wireless com-munications. In the second part of the research, I study the multiple antenna cooperative communications from the perspective of information theories. The third part is dedicated to extensive research on positioning technology for wireless networks using knowledge of the estimation theory in signal processing.