Overview
Dr. Ling's research covers communications, coding and information theory, and signal processing. Particular interests are
- Wireless communications and networks
- Compressed sensing and distributed signal processing
- Network information theory and coding (including multi-terminal, cooperative communication)
- Lattice methods for coding and security/cryptography (including codes and algorithms)
- MIMO and MIMO-OFDM communication
- Coding (turbo, LDPC and polar codes) and decoding algorithms
- Noncoherent and differential communication
- Spread spectrum, CDMA and multi-user communication
Past and current research projects (either as PI or CI)
- IAWICOM (Interference Aligned Wireless Communications), European Commission FP7, 2013-2015
- CSFDA (Compressive Sensing Frequency Diverse Array), European Commission FP7, 2012-2014
- PHYLAWS (Physical Layer Wireless Security), European Commission FP7, 2012-2015
- Bayesian compressed sensing, UK MoD UDRC, 2012-2013
- Adaptive compressed sensing for wideband dynamic signals, UK MoD UDRC, 2011-2013
- LACONIC: Lattice Coding for Multiuser Wireless Communications, European Commission FP7, 2011-2013
- Lattice reduction for distributed multi-input multi-output communications, Royal Society of UK, 2011-2013
- Enabling Flexible Networks: Network Coding, Mobile VCE and EPSR of UK, 2008-2010
- Space-time communication over multiuser fading channels, Singapore Millennium Foundation, 2002-2004.
- Differential space-time communications over mobile fading channels, Jiangsu Province Science Foundation, China, 2001-2003
- Iterative (Turbo) Receiver Structures for the Future Generation Mobile Communications, National Science Foundation of China, 2000-2003
- Turbo reception at low SNR, National high-technology development (863) program, China, 2001-2003.
- FPGA implementation of Turbo codec, Eastcom, China, 2000-2001
- DSP implementation of chaotic secure communication, Private funder, China, 2000
- Chaos-based frequency-hopping and direct-sequence spread-spectrum communication, National Laboratory of Communications Antijamming, Chengdu, China, 1999-2001
- Key technologies for information security and protection, National Science Foundation of China, 2000-2003
Patents
- Timing, Range and Location Determining Method and Apparatus, UK patent filed 2013.
News
- Imperial College is recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research.
- The Communications and Signal Processing Group hosts the University Defence Research Centre (UDRC) in Signal Processing, sponsored by the UK MoD.
- Imperial College is a member of the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE).
Collaborators
Matthieu Bloch, Georgia Institute of Technology, Physical layer security, 2012 - 2013
Shuiyin Liu, Monash University, lattice decoding, 2012 - 2013
Laura Luzzi, ENSEA, information theoretic security, 2012 - 2013
Jean-Claude Belfiore, Telecom ParisTech, lattice coding, 2008 - 2013
Nick Howgrave-Graham, NTRU, USA, lattice algorithms and cryptography, 2007 - 2013
Damien Stehle, Guillaume Hanrot, ENS Lyon, lattice coding, 2007 - 2013
Wai Ho Mow, Hong Kong University of Sciences and Technology, lattice algorithms, 2005 - 2013
Xiaofu Wu, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, communications, 1998 - 2013
Guest Lectures
The flatness factor in lattice network coding: Design criterion and decoding algorithm, International Zurich Seminar on Communications, Zurich, Switzerland, 2012
Lattice coding for communications and security: Two sides of one coin, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany, 2012
Bounded-distance lattice decoding and proximity factors, International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography, Qingdao, China, 2011
Lattices in communication, CIRM, Marseille, France, 2010
Gallager bounds for single and multi-antenna codes in fading channels, Hong Kong Universityof Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 2009
Research Staff
Ahmad,B
Filos,J
Luzzi,L