Zhejiang University

Dr. Honggang Zhang is a Full Professor at the Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, China.

Dr. Honggang Zhang received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Kagoshima University, Japan, in 1999.   From October 1999 to March 2002, he was with the Shin-Kawasaki Research Center, Telecommunications Advancement Organization (TAO) of Japan, as a TAO Research Fellow.   From April 2002 to November 2002, he joined the TOYOTA IT Center, where he performed research and development on software-defined radio (SDR) with applications to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).   From December 2002 to August 2004, he has been with the UWB (Ultra-Wideband) Research Consortium, Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan, where his R&D responsibilities were focused on UWB wireless communications, IEEE 802.15 WPAN standardizations, Wireless 1394 and “1394-over-UWB” smart home networks.   He was the founding member of global UWB Forum and the principle author and contributor for proposing DS-UWB in the IEEE 802.15 WPAN standardization task group, for which he initiated the “Soft-Spectrum Adaptation (SSA)” technique and contributed to its worldwide developments.   From September 2004 to February 2008, he has been with CREATE-NET (http://www.create-net.org/), where leaded its wireless teams in exploring Cognitive Radio (CR) and its integration with Ultra-Wideband technologies for Green-Spectrum evolution in wireless communications and networks while participated a number of European FP6 & FP7 projects (EUWB, PULSERS 2).

Dr. Honggang Zhang is taking a leading role in the Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) as Vice-Chair.   He is the Co-Chair of IEEE Globecom 2008 Symposium on the Selected Areas in Communications (SAC).   He is the founding Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chairs of CrownCom 2006 (International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications 2006) as well as the Steering Committee Member of CrownCom 2006-2008.

Research Statement

In general, the research vision is stated as following:

To develop innovative signal processing technologies aiming at providing ubiquitous broadband access to various mobile users, offering them seamless communication connectivity, while roaming across heterogeneous networks, in a multimedia-rich mode.

Accordingly, the scope of the research can be summarized as:

• Advanced signal processing for next-generation multimedia-rich wireless communications and networking
• Opportunistic communications, cognitive radio and cognitive networks
• Heterogeneous networks
• Interoperability and re-configurability
• Dynamic spectrum access
• Multimedia mobile computing and mobile Internet
• Higher order statistical techniques.

In particular, the Cognitive Radio (CR) concept enabled by advanced signal processing and intelligence promises to contribute achieving the vision of broadband multimedia mobile telecommunications anywhere, anytime and with any device.   A Cognitive Radio may be defined as an adaptive, multi-dimensionally aware, autonomous radio system with efficient and intelligent signal processing functionality, which learns from its experiences to reason, plan, and decide future actions to meet user needs.   This approach in the near-term can lead to a significant increase in radio resource (spectrum) efficiency as well as radio resource (spectrum) availability to support emerging multimedia mobile communications opportunities.   The longer-term goal is cognitive networking capabilities, enhanced through advanced signal processing technology and intelligence, not only for spectrum efficiency and dynamic spectrum management purposes but also for adaptively anticipating and accommodating the ever-growing needs of various mobile users.

Contact

Dr. Honggang Zhang, Professor
Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering
College of Information Science & Engineering
Zhejiang University
Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, China

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