OFDM-Based Broadband Wireless Networks: Design and Optimization

About the Authors

Dr. Hui Liu is one of the premier authorities on broadband wireless technology, with a proven record of turning concepts into real systems. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle. As the director of Wireless Information Technology (WIT) Lab, he supervises a wide range of research from broadband wireless networks, to DSP and VLSI for communications, to multimedia signal processing. Previously Dr. Liu was the chief scientist at Cwill Telecommunications, Inc., and was one of the principal developers of the TD-SCDMA technologies. He founded Broadstorm Inc., in 2000, and was responsible for the overall architecture of the company's highly innovative OFDMA mobile broadband Internet solution.

As an author, Dr. Liu has 40 published journal articles, as well as the book Signal Processing Applications in CDMA Communications, published by Artech House Publishers in 2000. Dr. Liu is active in the IEEE Communications Society, including membership on several technical committees and serving as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is the general chairman for the 2005 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. He is a recipient of 1997 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and the 2000 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award. One of his patents, Smart Antenna TDD CDMA Wireless Communication Systems, won the China National Gold Medal Award. He also ...