Dr. Kai Yang 

 

Member of Technical Staff
 Network Performance, Planning and Economic (NPPE) Analysis Center

Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

 Email:          kyee at ee.columbia.edu

 

 

 

News  

-    My paper on resource allocation of uplink OFDMA system (WIMAX) has been accepted for publication at IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing

-    I graduated and started working at Bell Labs at Murray Hill, NJ this April

-    Ranked No. 3 NEC Labs America Ping Pong Tournament

-    My paper on pseudo-distance analysis of concatenated code has been submitted to IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control

-    Two papers on distributed robust optimization have been submitted to IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control

           

 

 

Education

-         Ph.D                 :  Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

-         M.S.                 :  C.E. (optimization & Simulation), S'pore-MIT Alliance, Nat. U. of S'pore  &  MIT                 

-         B.E.                  :  Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University  

 

 

 

Research Interest

  

-         Wireless Communication, Signal processing, and Networking

-         Optimization Methods, message-passing algorithms and Applications

-         Coding Theory and Applications

 

Teaching

ELEN E3701 Introduction to Communication System

Preprints of Journals

 

  1. Kai Yang, Jianwei Huang, Yihong Wu, Xiaodong Wang, and Mung Chiang, 'Distributed robust optimization part I: Framework and example', Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, December 2008. 

  2. Yihong Wu, Kai Yang, Jiangwei Huang, Xiaodong Wang, and Mung Chiang, 'Distributed robust optimization part II: Wireless power control', Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, December 2008. 

  3. Kai Yang and Xiaodong Wang, “Finite-length analysis of the message-passing decoder of concatenated code,” IEEE Transactions on information theory (submitted)

  4. Kai Yang, Prasad Narayan, and Xiaodong Wang, “An auction approach to resource allocation for multi-cell uplink OFDMA systems,” IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, (accepted)

  5. Kai Yang, Prasad Narayan, and Xiaodong Wang, “A message-passing approach to resource allocation for uplink SC-FDMA systems,” submitted.

 

Publications: (Journal)

 

  1. Kai Yang and Xiaodong Wang, “Batter-aware adaptive modulation with QoS constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 54(10), pp.1797-1805, October 2006.
  1. Kai Yang, Jon Feldman, and Xiaodong Wang, “Non-linear programming approaches to decoding low-density parity-check code,” IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Nonlinear Optimization of Communication Systems, 24(8), pp. 1603-1613, August 2006.
  1. Kai Yang and Xiaodong Wang, “A multicarrier interleaver-division UWB System,” IEEE Trans. on wireless communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 5(7), pp. 1827-1837, July 2006.
  1. Kai Yang and Madhukumar A.S., “A two-dimensional multipath channel estimator for CDMA systems with timing-offset errors,” IEEE Communications letter, Vol.8, pp.333-335, June 2004.
  1. A S Madhukumar, Francois Chin, Ying-Chang Liang, and Kai Yang. “Single-carrier cyclic prefix-assisted CDMA system with frequency domain equalization for high data rate transmission”, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol.1 pp.149-160, Jan. 2005.
  1. Kai Yang, Madhukumar A.S. and F. Chin. “Novel two-dimensional multistage interference cancellation scheme for uplink transmission of single carrier cyclic prefix-assisted CDMA system,” IEE Proceedings - Communications, Vol. 150, No. 4, pp. 287-292, Aug. 2003.
  1. Kai Yang, Vladimir Stankovic, Zixiang Xiong, and Xiaodong Wang, “Multiuser resource allocation for video transmission over a chip-interleaved multicarrier system,” Journal of wireless communications and mobile computing, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 143 - 158, Jan. 2007.
  1. Kai Yang and Xiaodong Wang, “Cross-layer network planning for multi-radio multi-channel wireless networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 56(10), pp.1705-1714, October 2008.
  1. Kai Yang and Xiaodong Wang, “Battery-aware adaptive modulation based on large-scale MDP,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 7(1), pp.72-77, January 2008.
  1. Kai Yang, Xiaodong Wang, and Jon Feldman, “A new linear programming approach to decoding linear block codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 54(3), pp.1061-1072, March 2008.