Dissertation:
B. Li, “Multi-Carrier Modulation for Underwater Acoustic Communications, ” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, May 2009 (pdf).
M.S., Communication and Information Systems, July 2004 Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Advisor: Ricai Tian
Inter-carrier Interference reduction for acoustic OFDM, MIMO-OFDM
Space-time coding for acoustic communications
Software radio implementation of an in-air testbed for acoustic low-complexity OFDM modulations
MIMO-OFDM signal design and demodulation for underwater acoustic communications
Performance enhancement for the multicarrier modulation
Designs and implementation of the OFDM acoustic modem and networking
OFDM demodulation and signal processing for underwater acoustic communications
Feedback reduction for the adaptive MIMO-OFDM system with rate-limited feedback
Codebook construction for precoded spatial multiplexing with finite-rate feedback
PUBLICATIONS
B. Li, J. Huang, S. Zhou, K. Ball, M. Stojanovic, L. Freitag, and P. Willett, “MIMO-OFDM for High Rate Underwater Acoustic Communications,” IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 634-644, Oct. 2009 (pdf).
B. Li, S. Zhou, M. Stojanovic, L. Freitag, and P. Willett, “Multicarrier Communication over Underwater Acoustic Channels with Nonuniform Doppler Shifts,” IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 33, no. 2, April 2008 (pdf).
S. Zhou, B. Li, and P. Willett, “Recursive and trellis-based feedback reduction for MIMO-OFDM with rate-limited feedback,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, no. 12, December 2006 (pdf).
S. Zhou, and B. Li, “BER criterion and codebook construction for finite-rate precoded spatial multiplexing with linear receivers,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1653-1665, May 2006 (pdf).
B. Li, J. Huang, S. Zhou, K. Ball, M. Stojanovic, L. Freitag, and P. Willett, “Further results on high-rate MIMO-OFDM underwater acoustic communications,” Proc. of MTS/IEEE OCEANS conference, Quebec City, Canada, Sept. 15-18, 2008 (pdf).
B. Li, S. Zhou, J. Huang, and P. Willett, “Scalable OFDM design for underwater acoustic communications,” Proc. of IEEE ICASSP, Las Vegas, NV, Mar. 30 - April 4, 2008 (invited) (pdf).
B. Li, S. Zhou, M. Stojanovic, L. Freitag, J. Huang, and P. Willett, “MIMO-OFDM over an underwater acoustic channel,” Proc. of MTS/IEEE OCEANS conference, Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 30 - Oct.4, 2007 (pdf).
H. Yan, S. Zhou, Z. Shi, and B. Li, “A DSP implementation of OFDM acoustic modem,” The ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet), Montreal, Canada, Sept. 14, 2007 (pdf).
B. Li, S. Zhou, M. Stojanovic, L. Freitag, and P. Willett, “Non-uniform Doppler compensation for zero-padded OFDM over fast-varying underwater acoustic channels,” Proc. of MTS/IEEE OCEANS conference, Aberdeen, Scotland, June 18-21, 2007 (pdf).
B. Li, S. Zhou, M. Stojanovic, and L.Freitag, “Pilot-tone based ZP-OFDM demodulation for an underwater acoustic channel,” Proc. of MTS/IEEE OCEANS conference, Boston, MA, Sept. 18-21, 2006 (pdf).
S. Zhou, B. Li, and P. Willett, “Recursive and trellis-based feedback reduction for MIMO-OFDM with transmit beamforming,” Proc. of GLOBECOM, St. Louis, MO, USA, Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2005 (pdf).
S. Zhou, and B. Li, “BER criterion and codebook construction for finite-rate precoded spatial multiplexing,” Proc. of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), pp. 66-70, New York City, NY, USA, June 6-9, 2005 (pdf).
T. Bu, B. Li, and R. Tian, “A measure criterion of ISI robustness for shaping filter,” 2004 China-Japan Joint Meeting on Microwave (CJMW2004), Harbin, China, August 2004.
R. Tian, and B. Li, “Analysis on ability of resisting multipath interference in DSSS communication systems,” Mobile Communications (in Chinese), pp. 152-155, March 2004.
X. Zhao, and B. Li, and R. Tian, “A method to find balanced Gold sequences,” Communications Management and Technology (in Chinese), No. 2, 2004.
PATENTS
S. Zhou, B. Li, and P. Willett, “Trellis-based channel-state feedback for multi-antenna orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) digital communications”, filed in University of Connecticut, 2005.
S. Zhou, B. Li, M. Stojanovic, L.Freitag, and P. Willett, “Stable wideband OFDM receiver for underwater acoustic communications”, filed in University of Connecticut, 2007.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Session Chair in MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2008, Quebec, Canada, September 2008
Invited Paper for Proc. of IEEE ICASSP, Las Vegas, NV, Mar. 30 - April 4, 2008
Dissertation Extraordinary Expense Award, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2009
Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2008
Summer Fellowship, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2008
Summa Cum Laude, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, 2004
Outstanding Graduate, Heilongjiang Province, National Science and Technology Committee, China, respectively, 2004
Special Prize Scholarship, from Huawei Technologies, ZTE Corporation, Harbin Institute of Technology, 1998-2002, 2003-2004
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
IEEE Student Member
Technical reviewer for journals:
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP)
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication (J-SAC)
IEEE Transactions on Communications
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking