Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering

Graduate Exam Abstract

Shijian Gao
Ph.D. Preliminary
Aug 11, 2020, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Online
mmWave Massive MIMO(M-mMIMO): How to Harness More with Less?
Abstract: The increasingly congested spectrum in the current cellular band, along with the explosive growth of bandwidth hungry applications, is driving us towards the vast mmWave spectrum ranging from 30 to 300 GHz. The physically abundant frequency resources, accompanied by the intrinsic compatibility with massive MIMO (mMIMO), have rendered mmWave a promising technology for the upcoming 5G era. As a key physical layer solution, mmWave mMIMO has therefore been gaining remarkable attention from both the industry and academia.

The topic of this preliminary presentation will focus on the design and optimization of mmWave mMIMO transceivers with a hybrid structure. Under the guidance of harnessing more with less in mmWave mMIMO, this work will entail an innovative DSDS channel estimator for doubly-selective channels and a novel generalized beamspace modulation (GBM) for multiplexing-gain restricted system. The major contributions can be summarized as follows:
• The 1st mmWave mMIMO channel estimator that is capable of estimating wideband frequency-selective and time-varying mmWave mMIMO channels with orders of magnitude accuracy improvement but much lowered complexity;
• The 1st mmWave mMIMO generalized beamspace modulation in which the multiplexing gain is no longer limited by the number of transmitter RF chains.

The research outcomes to be presented will significantly advance the state-of-the-art and improve the readiness of hybrid mmWave mMIMO deployment.
Adviser: Liuqing Yang
Co-Adviser: N/A
Non-ECE Member: Haonan Wang, Statistics
Member 3: J. Rockey Luo, ECE
Addional Members: Edwin K P Chong, ECE
Publications:
[J1] S. Gao, X. Cheng and L. Yang, “Model Enhanced Learning based Detectors (Me-LeaD) for Wideband Multi-user 1-bit mmWave Communications,” (Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, under review)

[J2] S. Gao, X. Cheng and L. Yang, “Mutual Information Maximizing Wideband Multi-User (wMU) mmWave Massive MIMO,” (Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications, under review)

[J3] Y. Fan, S. Gao, X. Cheng and L. Yang, “Pre-compensation assisted Generalized Beam Index Modulation (PC-GBIM) for mmWave Massive MIMO over Doubly-Selective Channels,” (Submitted to IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, major Revision)

[J4] S. Gao, X. Cheng and L. Yang, “Estimating Doubly-Selective Channels for Hybrid mmWave Massive MIMO Systems: A Doubly-Sparse Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, (Early access), Jun, 2020.

[J5] J. Li, S. Gao, X. Cheng and L. Yang, “Hybrid Precoded Spatial Modulation (hPSM) for mmWave Massive MIMO Systems Frequency-Selective Channels,” IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 839-842, Jun. 2020.

[J6] S. Gao, X. Cheng, and L. Yang, “Spatial Multiplexing with Limited RF Chains: Generalized Beamspace Modulation (GBM) for mmWave Massive MIMO,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 37, no. 9, pp. 2029-2039, Sep. 2019.

[J7] Y. Li, R. Zhang, J. Zhang, S. Gao and L. Yang, “Cooperative Jamming for Secure UAV Communications With Partial Eavesdropper Information,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 94593-94603, Jul. 2019.

[J8] S. Gao, X. Cheng, and L. Yang, “Digital Filter and Forward Full Duplex (FF-FD) Relay: Exploiting the Loop Back Signal,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 5552-5563, Aug. 2018.

[C1] S. Gao, X. Cheng and L. Yang, “Hybrid Multi-User Precoding for mmWave Massive MIMO in Frequency-Selective Channels”, in Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Online, May 25-28, 2020.

[C2] S. Gao, X. Cheng, L. Yang and R. Zhang, “Zero-Forcing Based Limited Feedback Hybrid Precoding in mmWave Communications”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Changchun, China, Aug 11-13, 2019.

[C3] S. Gao, X. Cheng and L. Yang, “Making Wideband Channel Estimation Feasible for mmWave Massive MIMO: A Doubly Sparse Approach”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, May 20-24, 2019.

[C4] S. Gao, X. Cheng and L. Yang, “Generalized Beamspace Modulation for mmWave MIMO”, in Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec 9-13, 2018.
Program of Study:
ECE520
ECE651
ECE656
MATH532
MATH510
MATH560
GRAD550
ECE799