Xiaodai Dong
Professor
Canada Research Chair, Tier II (2005-2015)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Room 439, EOW
Telephone: 250-721-6029
Fax: 250-721-6052
Email: xdong AT ece DOT uvic DOT ca
Biography
Xiaodai Dong received her B.Sc. degree from the Department of Information
and Control Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University
(China) in 1992, her M.Sc. degree from the Department of Electrical
Engineering, National University of Singapore in 1995 and her Ph.D. degree from
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University,
Kingston, in 2000. She was with Nortel
Networks,
Current Research
General research interests lie in the development of theory and applications that are essential to enabling high capacity, energy efficient wireless communications systems. Specific interests include 5G, mmWave communications, radio propagation, Internet of things, machine learning, deep learning, localization, wireless security, ehealth, smart grid and nano-communications.
Google
Scholar Profile: Xiaodai
Dong
Selected Publications
5G Massive MIMO and mmWave
• Y. Huo, X. Dong and W. Xu, "5G Cellular User Equipment: From Theory to Practical Hardware Design," IEEE Access, July 2017. (Among Most Popular Articles of IEEE Xplore in 2017-2018)
• Y. Huo, X. Dong, W. Xu and M. Yuen, "Enabling Multi-Functional 5G and Beyond User Equipment: A Survey and Tutorial," IEEE Access, July 2019.
• L. Liang, W. Xu and X. Dong, "Low-complexity hybrid precoding in massive multiuser MIMO systems," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, pp. 653-656, Dec. 2014. (Please cite the paper and Matlab code here.)
• W. Ni and X. Dong, "Hybrid Block Diagonalization for Massive Multiuser MIMO Systems," IEEE Trans. Communications, pp. 201-211, Jan. 2016. (Please cite the paper and Matlab code here.)
• W. Ni, X. Dong and W.S. Lu, "Near-Optimal Hybrid Processing for Massive MIMO Systems via Matrix Decomposition", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, pp. 3922-3933, Apr. 2017.
• Y. Huo, X. Dong, T. Lu, W. Xu and M. Yuen, "Distributed and Multilayer UAV Networks for Next-Generation Wireless Communication and Power Transfer: A Feasibility Study," accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
• Y. Huo, X. Dong, W. Xu and
M. Yuen, "Cellular and WiFi Co-design for 5G User
Equipment," IEEE 5G World Forum, July
2018.
• Y. Huo, X. Dong, L. Li, M. Xie and W. Xu, "26/40 GHz CMOS VCOs Design of Radio
Front-end for 5G Mobile Devices," IEEE
International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB 2016),
Oct. 2016. (Best Student Paper Award)
Machine Learning for Communications
• Y. Zhu, X. Dong and T. Lu, "An Adaptive and Parameter-Free Recurrent Neural Structure for Wireless Channel Prediction," IEEE Trans. Communications, Nov. 2019. (Please cite the paper and Matlab code here.)
OFDM
X. Dong, W.S. Lu, and A. Soong, "Linear
interpolation in pilot assisted channel estimation for OFDM", IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.,
pp.
1910-1920, May 2007.
Localization and SLAM
•
M.T. Hoang, Y. Zhu, B.
Yuen, T. Reese, X. Dong, T. Lu, R. Westendorp and M. Xie, "Soft Range Limited K-Nearest Neighbours Algorithm for
Indoor Localization Enhancement," IEEE
Sensor Journal, pp. 10208-10216, Dec. 2018.
•
M.T. Hoang, B. Yuen,
X. Dong, T. Lu, R. Westendorp and K. Reddy, "Recurrent Neural Networks for Accurate RSSI Indoor Localization,"
accepted by IEEE Internet of Things
Journal.
•
S. He and X.
Dong, "High Accuracy Localization Platform Using Asynchronous Time Difference
of Arrival Technology," IEEE Trans.
Instrumentation and Measurement, pp. 1728-1742, Mar. 2017.
THz-Communications
•
Z. Xu, X. Dong and J. Bornemann, "Design of a Reconfigurable MIMO System for THz
Communications Based on Graphene Antennas," IEEE
Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, pp. 609-617, Sept. 2014.
•
Z. Xu, X. Dong and J. Bornemann, "A statistical model for the MIMO channel with rough reflection
surfaces in the THz band," Nano
Communication Networks, pp. 25-34, Aug. 2016.
•
Z. Xu, X. Dong
and J. Bornemann, "Spectral efficiency of carbon
nanotube antenna based MIMO systems in the Terahertz band," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters,
pp. 631-634, Dec. 2013.
Cooperative Communications
• C. Wang, T.C.K. Liu and X. Dong, "Impact of Channel Estimation Error on the Performance of AF Two-Way Relaying," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, pp. 1197-1207, March 2012.
• W. Xu, X. Dong and W.-S. Lu, "Joint precoding optimization for multiuser multi-antenna relaying downlinks using quadratic programming", IEEE Trans. Communications, pp. 1228-1235, May 2011.
• W. Xu, X. Dong and W.-S. Lu, "MIMO relaying broadcast channels with linear precoding and quantized channel state information feedback", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, pp. 5233-5245, Oct. 2010.
• Y. Dai and X. Dong, "Power Allocation for Multi-Pair Massive MIMO Two-Way AF Relaying with Linear Processing," IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, pp. 5932-5946, Sept. 2016.
Smart Grid
•
B. Zhao, Y. Shi, X. Dong, W.
Luan and J. Bornemann, "Short-Term Operation
Scheduling in Renewable-Powered Microgrids: A
Duality-Based Approach," IEEE
Transactions on Sustainable Energy, pp. 209-217, Jan. 2014.
•
B. Zhao, X. Dong and J. Bornemann, "Service restoration for a renewable-powered microgrid in unscheduled island mode," IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, pp. 1128-1136, May 2015.
E-Health Data Analytics
•
P. Cheng and X.
Dong, "Life-Threatening Ventricular Arrhythmia Detection with Personalized
Features," IEEE Access, pp.
14195-14203, July 2017.
•
B. Yuen, X.
Dong and T. Lu, "Inter-Patient CNN-LSTM ECG QRS Complex Detection," accepted by IEEE
Access.
• A. Verma and X. Dong,
"Detection of Ventricular Fibrillation using Random Forest Classifier," Journal of Biomedical Science and
Engineering (JBiSE), pp. 259-268, Apr. 2016.
HeartCarer:
A mobile ECG Heart Monitor
Security
•
G. Zeng, X.
Dong and J. Bornemann, "Reconfigurable Feedback Shift
Register Based Stream Cipher for Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters,
pp. 559-562, Nov. 2013.
• M. Ghoreishi, S. He, M.
McGuire, S. Neville and X. Dong, "Secret Key Verification and Generation in UWB
Channels Based on Real Data Measurements," IEEE
ICC, pp. 1-5, June 2009.
Energy Harvesting
•
W. Ni and X.
Dong, "Energy Harvesting Wireless Communications with Energy Cooperation
between Transmitter and Receiver," IEEE
Trans. Communications, pp. 1457-1469, Apr. 2015.
UWB
• X.
Dong, J. Li and P. Orlik, "A new transmitted
reference pulse cluster system for UWB
communications", IEEE Trans. Vehicular
Technology, pp. 3217-3224, Sept. 2008.
•
Y. Wang, X. Dong, P.H. Wittke
and S. Mo, "Cyclic prefixed single carrier transmission in ultra-wideband
communications", IEEE Trans.
Wireless Communications, pp. 2017-2021, Aug. 2006.
•
Y.
Huo, X. Dong and P. Lu, "A TRPC-UWB transmitter
front-end based on wideband IQ modulator in 0.13-um CMOS," IEEE ICSICT, Oct. 2014. (Excellent Student Paper Award)
WiMedia UWB
product testing report (here)
Performance Analysis
•
L. Xiao and X. Dong, "Unified analysis of
generalized selection combining with normalized threshold test per
branch", IEEE Trans. Wireless
Communications, pp. 2153-2163, Aug. 2006.
•
L. Xiao and X. Dong, "The exact transition
probability and bit error probability of two-dimensional signaling",
IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications,
pp. 2600-2609, Sep. 2005.
•
X. Dong and L. Xiao, "Symbol error probability
of two-dimensional signaling in Rician
fading with imperfect channel estimation", IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, pp. 538-549, Mar. 2005.
Courses Offered
ECE 450/512 Communications Theory and Systems: II
ECE 496A/519B MIMO and UWB
ELEC310 Digital Signal Processing
ELEC456 Mobile Communications
ELEC405 Error Control Coding and Sequences
ELEC619A Ultra-wideband Communications
Professional Activities
• Senior Member of IEEE
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
• Editor for Journal of Communications and Networks (completed)
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (completed)
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications (completed)