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Curriculum Vitae of Prof. F.C.M. Lau (1 Dec 2020)

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Name: Francis Chung Ming LAU 劉重明

Current Post: Professor, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Research Interests: Chaos-based digital communications, channel coding, wireless communications, cooperative communications, wireless sensor networks, IoT

Personal website: http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~encmlau/ Summary of Qualifications and Achievements

Academic qualifications: • B.Eng. (First Class Honours) degree (1989) and PhD degree (1993) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, King’s College London, University of London, UK

Professional qualifications:

• Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2021

• Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) since 2013

• Chartered Electrical Engineer since 1999 Academic experience: • Professor since 2010

• Associate Professor: 2002-2010 • Assistant Professor: 1995-2002 • Lecturer: 1993-94 • Joined the Department of Electronic and Information

Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 9/1993 and has been a professor since 7/2010

Publications: • 320+ refereed papers • Three research monographs • Four book chapters

Patents: • Five US patents granted and one US patent filed • Four Chinese patents granted

Awards: • One Natural Science Award from the Guangdong Provincial Government, China [Guangdong has a GDP of US$1.5 trillion (as of 2019) and a population of 113 million (as of 2018)]

• One FPGA design competition award • Eight best/outstanding conference paper awards • One technology transfer award • Two young scientist awards from International Union of

Radio Science Research/consultancy projects:

• Three high-level consultancy projects for the government and major organizations with a total value of $2M

• Four contract research projects with Huawei Technologies Ltd. with a total value over $5.3M

• Led or participated in over 50 research/consultancy projects as PI/Co-PI/Co-I with a total value over $34M


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Postgraduate dissertations • Supervise over 40 postgraduate dissertations Journal editorships: • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

Part I (2006-2007) • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

Part II (2004-2005, 2016-2019) • Associate Editor, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine

(2012-2015) • Guest Editor, IEEE Access, Special Section: Advances in

Channel Coding for 5G and Beyond (2018) • Associate Editor, IEICE Transactions (Special Section on

Recent Progress in Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications 2011)

• Associate Editor, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B (2004-2007)

• Guest Associate Editor, International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos (since 2010)

• Associate Editor, Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, IEICE (since 2018)

• Co-guest Editor, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (2004-2005)

Conference Chairmanships:

• General co-chair, International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing, 2018.

• Publicity chair, International Workshop on Complex Networks Systems and Networks, 2017.

• Technical Program Co-chair, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, 2015.

• Track Co-chair, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2010 .

• Track Co-chair, International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems, 2007.

• Vice-Chair, Asia-Pacific Mobile Communications Symposium, 1998.

Invited presentations • Keynote/tutorial/invited speakers of international/regional conferences/workshops/forums and universities

Advisor/referee to government bodies/industry

• Proposal reviewer for National Natural Science Foundation of China (2019-now)

• Admission Panel Member of Incu-Tech Programme, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (2010-2015, 2019-now)

• Reviewer of applicants in Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, UGC, Hong Kong (2018)

• Member of the Radio Spectrum Advisory Committee, Office of the Telecommunications Authority, Hong Kong SAR (2008-2012)

• Proposal reviewer for Vietnam National Foundation for


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Science and Technology Development (2012-now)


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List of Research Projects

1. Modelling, Analysis and Prediction of COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Application to Public Healthcare Resource Planning, One-off Collaborative Research Fund Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) and Novel Infectious Disease (NID), Co-PI, proposal submitted.

2. Research on reliable channel coding and detection technologies for next-generation flash-memory systems, Guangdong province international technological collaboration, Co-PI, proposal submitted.

3. Design of joint source-channel codes based on a single protograph, RGC General Research Fund, 2022-2024, PI, proposal submitted.

4. Research on spatially-coupled code-based bit-interleaved coded modulation systems under iterative detection, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1/2021-12/2024, Co-PI.

5. Data visualization and modelling, Centre for Advances in Reliability and Safety, ITC InnoHK project, 2020-2025, Project Leader.

6. Data Storage and Retrieval using Peptides and Tandem Mass Spectrometry Sequencing, Research Impact Fund, 2020-2025, Co-PI.

7. Forward-error-correction Codes for Next Generation Optical Networks, Huawei Technologies Ltd., 10/2019 to 04/2021, PI.

8. In-depth investigation of joint source-channel codes based on protographs, RGC General Research Fund, 01/2019 to 12/2021, PI.

9. Non-Orthogonal Data Exchange in Vehicular Networks, RGC General Research Fund, 01/2019 to 12/2021, Co-PI.

10. Croucher Foundation Sponsorship of Conferences, Croucher Foundation, 5/2018 to 4/2019, PI.

11. The 10th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing, PROCORE-France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme, 3/2018 to 2/2019, PI.

12. Designing Channel Codes for Organic Data Storage Systems, Internal research grant, 12/2017 to 12/2019, PI.

13. Design and Analysis of Non-binary Protograph Codes for Nakagami Fading Channels, Hong Kong Scholars Program, The Society of Hong Kong Scholars, 3/2017 to 3/2019, PI.

14. Forward-error-correction Codes with Very Low Code Rates, Huawei Technologies Ltd., 11/2016 to 04/2019, PI.

15. Study of Subjective and Objective Video Quality Assessment and its Development, Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT) Limited, 6/2016 to 11/2017, Co-I.

16. Deep Learning for Emotion Recognition of Pets, Innovation and Technology Fund - University-Industry Collaboration Programme - Teaching Company Scheme, 1/2016 to 1/2019, Co-I.

17. Methods for Practical Design for Trust of Behavioral Intellectual Property, Internal research grant, 1/2016 to 1/2017, PI.

18. Theoretical analysis and decoder design of a novel class of quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check block codes with extremely low error floor, RGC General Research Fund, 07/2015 to 12/2018, PI.


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19. Research on cooperative relay selection and information theory in discrete channel with memory, PolyU Matching Grant for China Projects, 12/2014 to 12/2017, PI.

20. Exploiting the Potentials of Full-Duplex Technology in OFDMA and MIMO Cellular Systems, Internal research grant, 10/2014 to 10/2016, PI.

21. Algorithms for High-speed Microwave Communications, Huawei Technologies Ltd., 1/2014 to 12/2016, PI.

22. Research on cooperative relay selection and information theory in discrete channel with memory, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 1/2014 to 12/2017, PI.

23. Potentials of Protograph-based LDPC Code in Channel-Coded Physical-layer Network Coding, Internal research grant, 10/2013 to 09/2015, PI.

24. Design and Implementation of Forward Error Correction System (in FPGA) for Optical Communication, Internal research grant, 3/2013 to 11/2014, Co-I.

25. Investigation of Generalized Low-density Parity-check Decoder with Low Complexity, Internal research grant, 7/2012 to 7/2014, PI.

26. Designing practical joint network-channel codes for cooperative communication networks with multiple relays, RGC General Research Fund, 1/2012 to 6/2015, PI.

27. Construct High-Rate QC-LDPC Codes with Large-Girth, Internal research grant, 3/2011 to 11/2012, PI.

28. Algorithms for High-speed Optical Communications, Huawei Technologies Ltd., 7/2010 to 6/2011, PI.

29. Design and Evaluation of Short-length Irregular Low-density-parity-check (LDPC) Codes with Extremely Low Error Floor, RGC General Research Fund, 10/2009 to 09/2012, PI.

30. Bio-inspired Scale-free Low-density-parity-check (SF-LDPC) Codes, Internal research grant, 9/2008 to 11/2010, PI.

31. Investigation of Channel Codes with Low Error Floor, Internal research grant, 5/2008 to 4/2010, PI.

32. Investigation into Novel Algorithm for Ad Hoc Network Based Positioning, Internal research grant, 9/2007 to 5/2010, Co-PI.

33. Scale-free Telephone Traffic Verification, Internal research grant, 6/2007 to 6/2009, Co-PI.

34. Investigation into Seamless Indoor and Outdoor Positioning Based on UWB-GNSS Integration, RGC General Research Fund, 1/2007 to 6/2009, Co-I.

35. Study of Turbo Product Codes, Internal research grant, 3/2006 to 8/2008, PI. 36. Modelling Traffic Characteristics of Communication Networks from a Complex

Network Perspective, Internal research grant, 6/2005 to 5/2007, Co-I. 37. Study of Bifurcation Phenomenon in Iterative Decoding Systems, Internal research

grant, 2/2005 to 6/2007, PI. 38. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos in the Human Cardiovascular System, RGC General

Research Fund, 12/2004 to 1/2007, Co-I. 39. Application of Chaos Technology to Telecommunications: Prospects, Challenges, and

Fundamental Limitations, Internal research grant (Postdoctoral Fellowships Scheme), 3/2004 to 5/2006, Co-I.

40. Bifurcation Analysis with Applications to Power Electronics Systems, RGC General Research Fund, 10/2003 to 9/2006, Co-I.


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41. When Conventional Communication Systems Meet Chaos: Interference, Co-existence and Performance, Internal research grant (Young Professorship Scheme), 9/2003 to 8/2005, Co-I.

42. Study of multiple access chaotic-sequence spread-spectrum communication systems employing multi-user detectors, Internal research grant, 9/2003 to 8/2005, PI.

43. A System for Infection Control using RFID , Internal research grant, 7/2003 to 12/2005, Co-I.

44. Investigation of Chaos-Based Communications, RGC General Research Fund, 10/2002 to 12/2004, Co-I.

45. Study of chaos-based communications in a mixed environment, Internal research grant (RGC Direct Allocation), 2/2002 to 10/2004, PI.

46. Analytical performance evaluation of chaos-based digital communications systems, RGC General Research Fund, 10/2001 to 11/2003, PI.

47. Investigation of Non-coherent Chaos-Based Communications, Internal research grant, 9/2001 to 4/2003, Co-I.

48. Development of techniques for evaluating the performance of chaos-based digital communications systems, Internal research grant, 6/2001 to 7/2003, PI.

49. Investigation of chaos-based digital communications under different channel conditions, Internal research grant, 9/2000 to 8/2003, PI.

50. Performance evaluation of decorrelating detectors, Internal research grant, 6/2000 to 1/2001, PI.

51. Investigation of wideband carriers in communication systems, Internal research grant, 05/2000 to 12/2000, PI.

52. Intelligent closed-loop power Control in DS-CDMA mobile communications system, Internal research grant, 03/2000 to 12/2000, PI.

53. Neural network assisted channel assignment and handoff algorithm in a time division multiple access macrocell/microcell mobile system, Internal research grant, 1/1999 to 5/2000, PI.

54. Maximum-to-minimum transmitted power ratio reduction using slow adaptive modulation scheme in DS-CDMA mobile cellular systems, Internal research grant, 5/1998 to 8/1999, PI.

55. Performance analysis of CDMA digital cellular mobile communication systems, UK/HK Joint Research Scheme, 3/1997 to 8/1998, PI.

56. Capacity analysis of a CDMA mobile communication system with non-uniform distribution of users, Internal research grant, 12/1996 to 6/1998, PI.

57. Power control in mobile communication systems, Internal research grant, 10/1996 to 9/1997, PI.

58. High speed data communication, Internal research grant, 9/1994 to 3/1996, PI.


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List of Prizes and Awards

Name of award Awarded by Subject/area Year

Fellowship IEEE for contributions to analysis of chaotic communications systems and low-density parity-check code design

2021

Natural Science Award (Second Class) Guangdong Province Science and Technology Award 2019 < 2019年度广东省自然科学奖

二等獎>

Guangdong Provincial Government (广东省人民政府)

[Guangdong has a GDP of US$1.5 trillion (as of 2019) and a population of 113 million (as of 2018)]

For research in “Modulation theory and application of novel protograph-based channel codes”

2019

Third Place in FPGA Trax Design Competition

International Conference on Field Programmable Technology

FPGA 2015

Outstanding Paper Award

International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology

ICT 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018

Best Paper Award International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications

Coding 2011, 2015, 2017

Technology Transfer Award

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Technology Transfer Activities

2011

Best Paper Award International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems

Sensor Networks

2008

Merit Award (Individual), Faculty Award

Faculty of Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Research and Scholarly Activities

2007

Young Scientist Award International Union of Radio Science

Signals and Systems

1996 and 1995


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Supervision of Postgraduate Students

1. In-depth investigation of joint source-channel codes based on protographs, PhD Dissertation, to be submitted in Aug. 2022.

2. Non-orthogonal multiple access communication systems, PhD Dissertation, to be submitted in Aug. 2021.

3. Protograph-based low-density parity-check Hadamard codes, PhD Dissertation, to be submitted in Aug. 2021.

4. Error Correction Codes for Channels with Insertion, Deletion and Substitution Errors, PhD Dissertation, submitted.

5. Digital design and optimization of ultimate-Shannon-limit-approaching channel codes, PhD Dissertation, submitted.

6. On the Robustness of Behavioural Circuit Design: From Fault-Tolerance to Hardware Security, PhD Dissertation, submitted.

7. Non-orthogonal V2X Communications (as co-supervisor), PhD Dissertation, 2020. 8. Design and Optimization of Behavioral Dataflows, PhD Dissertation, 2019. 9. Semi-Flocking Control for Mobile Sensor Networks, PhD Dissertation, 2019. 10. On Abstraction Methodologies for RTL-based VLSI Designs to Maximize High-level

Synthesis Design Space Exploration and Applications, PhD Dissertation, 2018. 11. Design For Trust in Behavioral VLSI Design, PhD Dissertation, 2018. 12. Resource Allocation and Performance Optimization in Full-Duplex MIMO/OFDMA

Systems, PhD Dissertation, 2016. 13. Relaying Methods for Cooperative Communication Networks, PhD Dissertation,

2010. 14. On the Coexistence of Ultra Wideband Systems with Selected Wireless Systems,

EngD Dissertation, 2010. 15. Study of Short-Length Low-Density-Parity-Check Codes, PhD Dissertation, 2009. 16. System Design for Wireless Sensor Networks (as co-supervisor), PhD Dissertation,

2009. 17. Study of multiple-input-multiple-output systems over fading channels, PhD

Dissertation, 2007. 18. Study of chaos-based communication systems in a multiple access environment, PhD

Dissertation, 2003. 19. Investigation of Low-Density-Parity-Check Codes and Decoders, MPhil Dissertation,

2018. 20. The Modeling and Optimization of 802.11p VANETs Unicast Performance (as co-

supervisor), MPhil Dissertation, 2017. 21. Efficient C-based SoC Architectures and Design Methodologies (as co-supervisor),

MPhil Dissertation, 2016. 22. Study of Doubly-generalized LDPC Codes, MPhil Dissertation, 2014. 23. Implementation of Decoders for LDPC Block Codes and LDPC Convolutional Codes

Based on the Parallel Architecture of the GPUs, MPhil Dissertation, 2012. 24. Decoding of LDPC Convolutional Codes, MSc Dissertation, 2011. 25. LDPC Code Design for Cooperative Communications, MSc Dissertation, 2011. 26. Construction of QC-LDPC Codes with Large Girth, MSc Dissertation, 2011.


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27. On the Analysis of Q-ary Low-density Parity-check Codes Decoder, MPhil Dissertation, 2010.

28. Innovative techniques for the testing of multimode mobiles, EngD Dissertation, 2005. 29. Enhancements in chaos-based digital communication systems, MPhil Dissertation,

2003. 30. Study of chaos-based digital communications, MPhil Dissertation, 2001. 31. Performance of coded OFDM-CDMA system in Rayleigh fading channel with

AWGN, MSc Dissertation, 2000. 32. Traffic regulating algorithms in a dualband cellular mobile system, MSc Dissertation,

2000. 33. Study of radio resources allocation for GPRS, MSc Dissertation, 2000. 34. Indoor design template for antenna planning in indoor application, MSc Dissertation,

2000. 35. Application of dynamic channel allocation strategies to GSM hierarchical cellular

network, MSc Dissertation, 1999. 36. A novel algorithm for unnecessary handover prevention, MSc Dissertation, 1999. 37. Effects of power control and its imperfections in CDMA cellular mobile systems,

MPhil Dissertation, 1998. 38. Network simulation for a railway control data network using COMNET III, MSc

Dissertation, 1998. 39. Prediction method for the indoor radio propagation, MSc Dissertation, 1998. 40. Performance comparison between GSM and PCN system design in underground

subway, MSc Dissertation, 1998. 41. Asynchronous transfer mode over satellite, MSc Dissertation, 1997. 42. Developments in mobile satellite communications systems, MSc Dissertation, 1997. 43. Asynchronous transfer mode on wireless communication, MSc Dissertation, 1997. 44. Advanced handover mechanisms and their applications in DCS1800 micro-cellular

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Invited Presentations (since 2007)

1. “Organic Data Storage Systems” Webinar, Northeastern University, China, 11/2020. 2. “Error Correction Codes: From Digital Communications to Peptide-Based Data

Storage” Webinar series on Complex Systems, Networks, Control and Applications, Hong Kong, 10/2020.

3. “Analysis and Design of Error Correction Codes Approaching the Ultimate Shannon Limit” at Network World organized by Huawei Technologies Ltd, Chengdu, China, 10/2019.

4. “Error Correction Codes Approaching the Ultimate Shannon Limit” at Northeastern University, China, 10/2019.

5. Keynote speaker, “Design and Implementation of Error Correction Codes Approaching the Ultimate Shannon Limit,” 2019 Chinese conference on chaos-based encrypted communications <2019年中国密码学会混沌保密通信学术会议>, Nanjing, 10/2019.

6. “Inventions and Innovations,” Guangdong University of Technology, 07/2019. 7. Keynote speaker, “Protograph low-density parity-check codes: Design and

application,” The International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications, Vietnam, 10/2017.

8. “A new type of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code --- cyclically-coupled quasi-cyclic LDPC code” at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, 03/2016.

9. “A new type of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code --- cyclically-coupled quasi-cyclic LDPC code” at Beijing Jiaotong University, China, 03/2016.

10. “A novel type of low-density parity-check (LDPC) code --- cyclically-coupled quasi-cyclic LDPC code” at Shenzhen, China, 01/2016.

11. “Polar codes” at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, 11/2015. 12. “Low-density-parity-check codes and polar codes --- codes that approach and

achieve the Shannon capacity” at University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 07/2015.

13. “Challenges of designing LDPC Codes” at Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, 07/2015.

14. “Designing low-density parity-check codes with extremely low error floor” at University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 05/2015.

15. “Designing LDPC Decoders with High Throughput and Excellent Error Performance” at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China, 04/2015.

16. “Polar codes: principles and challenges” at Guangdong University Technology, Guangzhou, China, 04/2015.

17. “Designing LDPC Decoders with High Throughput and Excellent Error Performance” at Southwest University, Chongqing, China, 04/2015.

18. “Polar codes” at Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, 01/2015. 19. “Polar codes” at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications,

Chongqing, China, 01/2015. 20. “Research challenges of LDPC Codes” at Hefei University of Technology, Hefei,

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21. “Designing LDPC Decoders with High Throughput and Excellent Error Performance” at Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 11/2014.

22. “Recent developments and challenges of error-correction codes” at Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, 11/2014.

23. “Designing LDPC Decoders with High Throughput and Excellent Error Performance” at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, 11/2014.

24. “Basic concepts and challenges of LDPC Codes” at Central South University, Changsa, China, 10/2014.

25. “Brief Review of LDPC Codes” at Northeastern University, China, 09/2014. 26. Plenary talk “Chaotic Communications: The Past, The Present and The Future” at

International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications, 10/2012. 27. “Some Recent developments of channel coding” at Beijing Jiaotong University,

China, 11/2011. 28. “How to Run Your LDPC Decoders Faster?” at Xiamen University, China, 05/2011. 29. Tutorial speaker of “UWB radio: From an Idea to Implementation” at 2010 IEEE

International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, Nanjing, China, 9/2010. 30. “Rate-Compatible LDPC Codes” at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China,

04/2010. 31. “LDPC Codes” at Northeastern University, China, 04/2010. 32. “Challenges in LDPC Code Design” at Guilin University of Electronic Technology,

China, 04/2010. 33. “Recent developments and challenges of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes” at

Beijing Jiaotong University, China, 03/2010. 34. Invited speaker, “Constrained Scale-Free LDPC Codes” at International Workshop

on Nonlinear Theoretic Approach to Ambient Network, Sapporo, Japan, 10/2009. 35. “A Class of Structured LDPC codes with Low Encoding Complexity” at Huawei

Technologies Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China, 10/2009. 36. “Constructing LDPC Codes with Extremely Low Error Floor” at Xiamen University,

China, 06/2009. 37. “Chaos Communications: Basic Principles and Applications” at Northeastern

University, China, 07/2008. 38. “Constructing Good LDPC Codes Based on Complex Networks” at Dalian Maritime

University, China, 07/2008. 39. Invited speaker, “Constructing Error-Correction Codes from Scale-Free Networks” at

International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks, Guilin, 07/2007.


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Major Research Contributions in Chaos-Based Communications

and Channel Coding

Chaos-based Communications:

Wrote a monograph entitled “Chaos-Based Digital Communication Systems: Operation, Analysis and Evaluation” which becomes the de facto textbook and key reference of all researchers and engineers working on chaotic communication systems; widely cited (over 640 times according to Google Scholar, details of publication citations can be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CWCmk2oAAAAJ&hl=en) Wrote a survey paper on chaotic communication systems (IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2016) Proposed a generalized noncoherent chaos-based communication system (IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, 2006) Proposed a precise method of evaluating multiple access chaotic communication system performance (IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, 2004) Evaluated performance of chaotic communication systems over multipath environments (IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, 2004) Proposed a discrete-time analytical technique to evaluate the error performance of multiple access chaotic communication systems (IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems 2001; IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, 2002) Proposed noncoherent chaos-based communication systems (IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2004; IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, 2005) Invited to be a Guest Editor of the Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing special issue on “Applications of Chaos in Communications” Invited to give a plenary talk on “Chaotic Communications: The Past, The Present and The Future” at International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications 2012; other keynote speakers included Prof. Suzanne Lesecq, Prof. Yasutaka Ogawa (FIEEE), and Prof. Raymond Yeung (FIEEE).

Channel Coding: Wrote a magazine article on root-protograph LDPC codes (IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine 2019) which has been selected as the ESI highly cited paper in Sept 2020, by the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Database. Proposed rate-compatible root-protograph LDPC codes (IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, 2016; Wrote a survey paper on protograph-based low-density parity-check code (IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2015) Derive theories and construct protograph-based low-density parity-check codes (IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology 2016; IEEE Signal Processing Letter 2013; IEEE Trans. on


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Communications 2012) Investigated the error-floor issue of low-density parity-check codes and provided innovative code design solutions (IEEE Trans. Comm. 2010) Designed extremely high throughput low-density parity-check decoders with error floors lower than 1e-15 (IEEE Trans. CAS-I 2013, 2016) Proposed very efficient methods of simulating low-density parity-check block codes and convolutional codes using general-purpose graphics processing units (IEEE Trans. PADS 2014) Invented efficient and effective encoders and decoders for low-density parity-check codes (U.S. patent no. 8,196,012 B2, US patent no. 8,671,323 B2) Proposed very efficient mechanisms for evaluating the error performance of low-density parity-check codes (IEEE ICC 2009) Received one Natural Science Award from the Guangdong Provincial Government, China; one FPGA design competition award; and eight best/outstanding conference paper awards


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Academic Management

University Level

1. 2017-now, Academic Appeals Committee Member 2. 2017-now, Senate Member

3. 2017-2018, Equipment and General Purchases Tender Committee Member 4. 2011-2014, Campus Development and Space Allocation Committee Member

5. 2010-2012, Grievance and Appeal Committee Member Faculty Level

6. 2005-now, Member of Faculty Research Committee 7. 2017-now, Member of Faculty Staffing Committee 8. 2016-now, Chairman of the Postgraduate Scheme in Engineering

9. 2002-2016, Coordinator of the Postgraduate Scheme in Engineering 10. 2010-2014, Member of Board of School of Hotel and Tourism Management

Departmental Level 11. 2005-7/2020, Associate Head of Department

12. 2005-2020, Chairman of Departmental Research Committee 13. 2013-2019, Chairman, Departmental Health, Safety and Environment Committee

14. 2005-now, Departmental Representative on Advisory Committee 15. 2019-now, Leader of Future Wireless Networks and IoT Focusing Area

16. 2008-2015 and 2018-now, Member of Departmental Staffing Committee 17. 2001-2004 and 2020-now, Member of Departmental Research Committee

18. 2004-2007, Program Leader, BSc in Internet and Multimedia Technologies 19. 2005-2020, Member of Departmental Management Committee

20. 2005-2020, Member of MSc/PgD Award Committee 21. 2005-2018, Member of Departmental Publicity Committee

22. 2004-2014, Member of Quality Assurance Sub-Committee 23. 2004-2006, Graduate Admission Coordinator

24. 2004-2006, Member of Task Force on Programme Structure Review 25. 2002-2005, Leader of Communication Engineering Section

26. 2002-2003, Member of Departmental Executive Committee 27. 2002-2004 and 2005-2014, Member of Departmental Learning and Teaching

Committee 28. 2002-2004, Member of Graduate Admission Committee

29. 2001-2003, Staff-in-charge, Communication Research Laboratory 30. 2000-2003, Editor of Departmental Prospectus

31. 1998-2002, Executive Editor, Departmental Newsletter 32. 1997-2002, Member of Degree Program Working Team


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33. 1997, Member of Preparation Committee on validation of the BSc in Information Technology programme

34. 1996-2002, Member of Final-year Degree Project Management Team 35. 1995-2002, Program Coordinator of BSc in Information Technology programme

36. 1995-2001, Staff-in-charge, Media and Networking Laboratory 37. 1995-1997, Library Liaison Officer

38. 1995-1999, Project coordinator of BSc in Information Technology programme 39. 1994-1995, Member of Interview Panel, BSc in Information Technology programme


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Subjects Taught and Student Feedback Scores

Year Subject Score* (out of 5) 2019 Methodology for Engineering and Scientific

Research (for research students) 4.5 in 2019

2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2011

Channel Coding (MSc level) 4.7 in 2019 4.7 in 2017 4.6 in 2015 4.5 in 2013 3.9 in 2011

2018, 2016, 2012, 2010, 2007, 2006, 2003, 2000, 1998

Satellite Communications - Technology and Applications (MSc level)

3.9 in 2018 4.7 in 2016 4.6 in 2012 3.8 in 2010 4.5 in 2007 3.7 in 2006 4.04 in 2003 3.86 in 2000 3.74 in 1998

2008, 2006, 2005

CDMA Spread Spectrum Communications and Its Applications (MSc level)

4.20 in 2008 4.40 in 2006 3.80 in 2005

2002, 2001, 1999

Spread Spectrum Communications and Its Applications (MSc level)

3.70 in 2002 3.69 in 2001 3.92 in 1999

2014, 2013

Signals and Systems (UG level) 4.1 in 2014 4.0 in 2013

2005 (2H), 2005 (1H), 2004

Mobile Communications (UG level) 3.8 for evening class in 2005 (2H) 3.6 for daytime class in 2005 (2H) 3.30 in 2005 (1H) 3.70 in 2004

2016 Research Methodology (UG level) 3.2 in 2016 2004, 2003, 2002 2000, 1999

Digital Transmission and Switching Systems (UG level)

3.80 in 2004 3.50 in 2003 2.98 in 2002 3.45 in 2000 3.18 in 1999

1999 Communication Fundamentals (UG level) 3.23 in 1999 2003, 2002

Data Communications (Sub-degree UG level)

3.53 in 2003 3.42 in 2002

1993-1998 Communications Principles (UG level) NA 1993-1998 Communications Engineering (UG level) NA 1993-1995 Induction Course on Communications (UG

level) NA

*Average score about staff member (minimum of 1 point to a maximum of 5 points)


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Short Courses Organized and Taught for the Local Professionals

1. Executive Workshop organized for engineers of Communications Branch, Hong Kong Police, 4/2006.

2. Specialized Workshop on Radio Technologies organized for Technical Staff of Communications Branch, Hong Kong Police, 2/2006.

3. Executive Workshop on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) & HDTV, UWB & OFDM organized for engineers of Communications Branch, Hong Kong Police, 3/2005.

4. General Workshop on TETRA Release 2, 3G mobile standards & 4G mobile technology, PABX system, IP-VPN, Metro Ethernet WAN & Virtual LAN Digital Subscriber Loop, Wireless LAN organized for engineers/technicians of Communications Branch, Hong Kong Police, 3/2005.

5. Specialized Workshop on TETRA, Push-to-talk in GSM, and Ultra-wideband organized for engineers/technicians of Communications Branch, Hong Kong Police, 12/2004.

6. Introduction to TETRA and Digital Wireless Testing /Measurement, Satellite Communication Systems and Global Positioning System organized for professional and technical staff of the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, Hong Kong SAR Government, 3/2003 and 5/2003.

7. Authentication and Encryption in TETRA and Digital Wireless Testing organized for engineers/technicians of Communications Branch, Hong Kong Police, 3/2002.

8. Automatic Vehicle Location organized for engineers/technicians of Communications Branch, Hong Kong Police, 4/2001.

9. Digital Wireless Testing organized for engineers/technicians of Communications Branch, Hong Kong Police, 3/2001.

10. Wireless Personal Communications organized for local mobile communication engineers/researchers, 10/2000.

11. Digital Trunk Mobile Radio organized for engineers/technicians of Communications Branch, Hong Kong Police, 5/1998.

Consultancy Projects

1. Penetration Test of Wireless Services for Pilot Multi-functional Smart Lampposts Scheme of the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, HKSAR, 6/2019 to 8/2019.

2. Evaluation of Connectivity and Data Security of Different Telecommunication Technologies for a Public Lighting Remote Control and Monitoring System, Highways Dept., HKSAR, 7/2018 to 1/2020.

3. Professional Services for Trackwork Timing System/Solution, Hong Kong Jockey Club, 5/2017 to 8/2018.

4. Consultancy Study on Electro-magnetic Field Strength on Human Being due to 11kV Transformer at the New School Building, HKCLC Education Institute Co. Ltd., 1/2006 to 8/2006.

5. Conducting a field test for investigating the EMC conditions of a work site, Able Engineering, 7/2003 to 8/2003.

6. Radiation Measurement of Base Station Antennas for Mobile Communications, Ocean Park Corporation, 4/2003 to 5/2003.


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Publication List Patents 1. Chung Ming Lau and C.K. Tse, Methods and Systems for Transceiving Chaotic

Signals, US patent no. 7,593,531 B2, Granted 2009, U.S.A. 2. C.K. Tse and Chung Ming Lau, Methods and Systems for Transmitting Digital

Messages, US patent no. 7,711,116 B2, Granted 2010, U.S.A. (Patent acquired by VC)

3. Chung Ming Lau, W.M. Tam and C.K. Tse, Method and system for encoding and decoding low-density-parity-check (LDPC) codes, U.S. patent no. 8,196,012 B2, Granted 2012, U.S.A.

4. C.W. Sham, X. Chen, Chung Ming Lau, Y. Zhao, and W.M. Tam, High-throughput decoder architecture for low-density parity-check convolutional codes, US patent no. 8,671,323 B2, Granted 2014, U.S.A.

5. C.W. Sham, J. Fan, W.M. Tam, Q. Lu, and Chung Ming Lau, Decoder architecture for cyclically-coupled quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check codes, U.S. patent no. 9,825,650 B2, Granted 2017, U.S.A.

6. Zhongping Yao, Cheuk Chi Albert Ng, Chung Ming Lau, and Wai Man Tam, Data storage using peptides, U.S. patent application no. 16/224,957 (Dec. 2018); PCT Application No. PCT/CN2018/119349.

7. 谭伟文、刘重明、谢智刚，《对数据进行编码和解码的方法和系统》，中国发明专利，授权公告号：CN102035556B，授权公告号日：2013年 9月 25日。

8. 岑超荣、陈旭、谭伟文、赵越、刘重明、喻凡，《译码装置》，中国发明专利申请，授权公告号：CN102696176B，授权公告号日：2014 年 7 月 16 日。PCT 国际申请号 PCT/CN2011/077678 。 Chaorong Cen, Xu Chen, Weiwen Tan, Yue Zhao, Chongming Liu and F. Yu, Decoding Device, International Application No.: PCT/CN2011/077678.

9. 呂青、范剑峰、岑超荣、谭伟文、刘重明，《一种 CC-QC-LDPC 码的构建方法及译码装置》，中国发明专利申请，授权公告号：CN105680877B，授权公告日：2019年 6月 28日。

10. 金丽丽、刘重明，《极化码的编译码方法及其装置》，中国发明专利申请，授权公告号：CN108292967B，授权公告日：2020 年 7月 7 日。PCT 国际申请号International Application Number PCT/CN2015/091202。

Monographs 1. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, Digital Communications with Chaos: Multiple Access Techniques and Performance Evaluation, Oxford, Great Britain: Elsevier, 238 pages, 2007. (ISBN 978 0080 451510 or 0080 451519)

2. 谭伟文、刘重明、谢智刚，《数字混沌通信：多址方式及性能评估》，北京

科学出版社，2007。(ISBN 978 703 0190307)

3. F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, Chaos-Based Digital Communication Systems: Operation, Analysis and Evaluation, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2003. (ISBN 3-540-00602-8)


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Book Chapter 1. C.T. Cheng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “A Network Structure for Delay-Aware

Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Building Sensor Networks: From Design to Applications, edited by Ioanis Nikolaidis and Krzysztof Iniewski, CRC Press, 2013.

2. C.T. Cheng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Network Structure for Delay-Aware Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Embedded and Networking Systems: Design, Software, and Implementation, edited by Gul N. Khan and Krzysztof Iniewski, CRC Press, 2013.

3. Geza Kolumban, Tamas Krebesz, Chi Kong Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Basics of Communications Using Chaos,” Chaotic Signals in Digital Communications, Edited by Marcio Eisencraft, Romis Attux and Ricardo Suyama, CRC Press, 2013.

4. F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Chaos-Based Modulation and Demodulation Techniques,” Chaos Applications in Telecommunications, Edited by Peter Stavroulakis, Boca Raton, USA: CRC Press, Oct. 2005.

Technical Reports 1. F.C.M. Lau, Test Report of UWB trail - Permit No. T00189, Office of the

Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, June 2007.

2. S.M. Wong, F.C.M. Lau and Esmond C.M. Mok, Evaluation Report on Interference Impacts of Ultra Wideband Device on Satellite Receiving Station, Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, June 2009.

Journal papers 1. Xiangming Cai, Weikai Xu, F.C.M. Lau, Lin Wang, “Joint Carrier-Code Index

Modulation Aided M-ary Differential Chaos Shift Keying System,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, to appear.

2. Q. Chen, F.C.M. Lau, H. Wu, C. Chen, “Analysis and Improvement of Error-Floor Performance for JSCC Scheme Based on Double Protograph LDPC,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, to appear.

3. T. Xue and F.C.M. Lau, “Construction of GC-balanced DNA with Deletion/Insertion/Mutation Error Correction for DNA Storage System,” IEEE Access, to appear.

4. Sheng Jiang, P.W. Zhang, F.C.M. Lau, and Chiu-W. Sham “An Ultimate-Shannon-Limit-Approaching Gbps Throughput Encoder/Decoder System,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 67, Issue 10, pp. 2169-2173, Oct. 2020. DOI 10.1109/TCSII.2019.2960613.

5. Shuangnan Liu, F.C.M. Lau, and Benjamin Carrion Schafer, “Predictive Compositional Method to Design and Re-optimize Complex Behavioral Dataflows,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 2615-2627, Oct. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2020.2966447.

6. S. Jiang, F.C.M. Lau, and C.-W. Sham, “Hardware Design of Concatenated Zigzag Hadamard Encoder/Decoder System with High Throughput,” IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 165298 - 165306, Sept. 2020.

7. Wanmai Yuan, Nuwan Ganganath, Chi-Tsun Cheng, Guo Qing, F.C.M. Lau, and Yanjie Zhao, “Path-Planning-Enabled Semi-Flocking Control for Multi-target Monitoring in Mobile Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial


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Informatics, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 4778-4787, Dec. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TII.2019.2959330.

8. Zhaojie Yang, Yi Fang, Guohua Zhang, F.C.M. Lau, Shahid Mumtaz, and Daniel B. da Costa, “Analysis and Optimization of Tail-Biting Spatially Coupled Protograph LDPC Codes for BICM-ID Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, October 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2019.2949600

9. Yi Fang, Guohua Zhang, Guofa Cai, F.C.M. Lau, Pingping Chen, and Guojun Han, “Root-Protograph-based BICM-ID: A Reliable and Efficient Transmission Solution for Block-Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 5921-5939, September 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2019.2923778.

10. Zhiping Xu, Lin Wang, Shaohua Hong, F.C.M. Lau, and Chiu-Wing Sham, “Joint Shuffled Scheduling Decoding Algorithm for DP-LDPC Codes-Based JSCC Systems,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, August 2019. DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2019.2937766

11. Cheng Wang, Jun Li, Lingjun Kong, Feng Shu, and F.C.M. Lau, “Adaptive 2D Scheduling based Nonbinary Majority-logic Decoding for NAND Flash Memory,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, August 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2019.2935031

12. Jing Bai, Yongchao Wang, and F.C.M. Lau, “Minimum-Polytope-Based Linear Programming Decoder for LDPC Codes via ADMM Approach,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1032-1035, August 2019. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/LWC.2019.2904565

13. Xinyu Wang, Min Jia, Qing Guo, Ivan Wang-Hei Ho, and F.C.M. Lau, “Full-Duplex Relaying Cognitive Radio Network With Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access,” IEEE Systems Journal, July 2019. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2019.2927509.

14. Min Jia, Xinyu Wang, Qing Guo, Ivan Wang-Hei Ho, Xuemai Gu and F.C.M. Lau, “Performance Analysis of Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Based on Spectrum Sensing,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, pp. 6855-6866, July 2019.

15. Wanmai Yuan, Nuwan Ganganath, C.T. Cheng, Qing Guo, and F.C.M. Lau, “Temnothorax Albipennis Migration Inspired Semi-Flocking Control for Mobile Sensor Networks,” Chaos, Vol. 29, 063113 (2019), Published Online: 20 June 2019. doi: 10.1063/1.5093073 (Selected as featured article)

16. Yi Fang, Pingping Chen, Guofa Cai, F.C.M. Lau, Soung Chang Liew, and Guojun Han, “Outage-Limit-Approaching Channel Coding for Future Wireless Communications: Root-Protograph Low-Density Parity-Check,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, April 2019. DOI: 10.1109/MVT.2019.2903343. (selected as the ESI highly cited paper in Sept 2020, by the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Database)

17. Xinyu Wang, Min Jia, Ivan Wang-Hei Ho, Qing Guo, and F.C.M. Lau, “Exploiting Full-Duplex Two-Way Relay Cooperative Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, pp. 2716-2729, April 2019.

18. Wanmai Yuan, Nuwan Ganganath, C.T. Cheng, Shahrokh Valaee, Qing Guo, and F.C.M. Lau, “Energy-Efficient Semi-Flocking Control of Mobile Sensor Networks on Rough Terrains,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 66, pp. 622-626, April 2019.

19. Kang Wei, Jun Li, Lingjun Kong, Feng Shu, and F.C.M. Lau, “Page-Based Dynamic Partitioning Scheduling for LDPC Decoding in MLC NAND Flash Memory,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, February 2019. DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2019.2897223


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20. Bingrui Wang, Pingping Chen, Yi Fang, and F.C.M. Lau, “The Design of Vertical RS-CRC and LDPC Code for Ship-based Satellite Communications On-the-move,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 44977-44986, Jan. 2019.

21. Wanmai Yuan, Nuwan Ganganath, C.T. Cheng, Qing Guo, and F.C.M. Lau, “Semi-Flocking-Controlled Mobile Sensor Networks for Dynamic Area Coverage and Multiple Target Tracking,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 18, pp. 8883-8892, Nov. 2018.

22. Yuli Zhao, Yin Zhang, F.C.M. Lau, Hai Yu, Zhiliang Zhu, “An Improved Online Fountain Code,” IET Communications, Volume 12, Issue 18, pp. 2297 – 2304, November 2018.

23. Tianbo Xue and F.C.M. Lau, “Generalized Systematic Comma-Free Code,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 56800-56814, Oct. 2018.

24. Li Guo, Zhiliang Zhu, F.C.M. Lau, Yuli Zhao, and Hai Yu, “SSCSMA-based Random Relay Selection Scheme for Large-Scale Relay Networks,” Computer Communications, vol. 127, pp. 13-19, September 2018.

25. Chen Chen, Lin Wang, and F.C.M. Lau, “Joint Optimization of Protograph LDPC Code Pair for Joint Source and Channel Coding,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 3255-3267, Aug. 2018.

26. Sheng Jiang, Fanlu Mo, F.C.M. Lau, and Chiu-W. Sham “Tree-Permutation-Matrix Based LDPC Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 1019-1023, Aug. 2018.

27. Zhaojie Yang, Yi Fang, Guojun Han, Guofa Cai and F.C.M. Lau, “Design and Analysis of Punctured Terminated Spatially Coupled Protograph LDPC Codes with Small Coupling Lengths,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 36723-36731, July 2018.

28. Weikai Xu, Yunsheng Tan, F.C.M. Lau, and Geza Kolumban, “Design and Optimization of Differential Chaos Shift Keying Scheme with Code Index Modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 66, Issue 5, pp. 1970-1980, May 2018.

29. Yi Fang, Guojun Han, Guofa Cai, F.C.M. Lau, Pingping Chen, and Yong Liang Guan, “Design Guidelines of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Magnetic Recording Systems,” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 1574-1606, Second Quarter 2018.

30. Sheng Jiang and F.C.M. Lau, “An Approach to Evaluating the Number of Closed Paths in an All-One Base Matrix,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 22332-22340, Mar. 2018.

31. X. Wu, H. Dong, C.K. Tse, I.W.H. Ho and F.C.M. Lau, “Analysis of metro network performance from a complex network perspective,” Physica A, vol. 492, pp. 553-563, Feb. 2018.

32. Tamas Istvan Krebesz, G. Kolumban, C.K. Tse, F.C.M. Lau, and Hairong Dong, “Use of UWB Impulse Radio Technology in In-Car Communications: Power Limits and Optimization,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 7, pp. 6037-6049, July 2017.

33. Yunxiang Jiang, F.C.M. Lau, Ivan W. H. Ho, H. Chen and Y. Huang, “Max-Min Weighted Downlink SINR with Uplink SINR Constraints for Full-Duplex MIMO Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 3277-3292, June 2017.

34. Ling Fu Xie, Ivan Wang-Hei Ho, Soung Chang Liew, Lu Lu, and F.C.M. Lau, “The Feasibility of Mobile Physical-Layer Network Coding with BPSK Modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 3976-3990, May 2017.

35. Yunxiang Jiang, He (Henry) Chen, F.C.M. Lau, Peng Wang, and Yonghui Li, “Full-Duplex OFDMA Multi-user Cellular Systems: Resource allocation and User


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Pairing,” Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Vol. 28, Issue 4, Art. No. e3005, DOI: 10.1002/ett.3005, April 2017.

36. Yunxiang Jiang, F.C.M. Lau, Hongbin Chen, and Feng Zhao, “Energy efficiency optimisation in full-duplex relay systems,” Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Vol. 28, Issue 1, Art. No. e2926, DOI: 10.1002/ett.2926, January 2017.

37. Guofa Cai, Yi Fang, Guojun Han, F.C.M. Lau, and Lin Wang, “A Square-Constellation-Based M-ary DCSK Communication System,” IEEE Access, vol. 4, pp. 6295-6303, Sept. 2016.

38. Yi Fang, Guojun Han, Pingping Chen, F.C.M. Lau, Guanrong Chen, and Lin Wang, “A Survey on DCSK-based Communication Systems and Their Application to UWB Scenarios,” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1804-1837, Third Quarter, 2016.

39. Yunxiang Jiang, F.C.M. Lau, Ivan W. H. Ho, and Yi Gong, “Resource Allocation for Multi-User OFDMA Hybrid Full/Half-Duplex Relaying Systems With Direct Links,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 6101-6118, Aug. 2016.

40. Yi Fang, Guojun Han, Yong Liang Guan, Guoan Bi, F.C.M. Lau and Lingjun Kong, “Finite-length Extrinsic Information Transfer Analysis and Design of Protograph low-density parity-check Codes for Ultra-High-Density Magnetic Recording Channels,” IET Communications, Volume 10, Issue 11, pp. 1303 – 1311, July 2016.

41. Tingting Huang, Lin Wang, Weikai Xu, and F.C.M. Lau, “Multilevel Code-Shifted Differential-Chaos-Shift-Keying System,” IET Communications, Volume 10, Issue 10, pp. 1189–1195, July 2016.

42. D.W. Yue and F.C.M. Lau and Qian Wang, “Log-Average-SNR Ratio and Cooperative Spectrum Sensing,” Journal of Communications and Networks, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 311-319, June 2016.

43. Yi Fang, Yong Liang Guan, Guoan Bi, Lin Wang, and F.C.M. Lau, “Rate-Compatible Root-Protograph LDPC Codes for Quasi-Static Fading Relay Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 2741-2747, April 2016.

44. Kehao Wang, F.C.M. Lau, Lin Chen and Robert Schober, “Pricing Mobile Data Offloading: A Distributed Market Framework,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 913-927, Feb. 2016.

45. Yunxiang Jiang, F.C.M. Lau, Shiyuan Wang, and C.K. Tse, “Parameter Identification of Chaotic Systems by A Novel Dual Particle Swarm Optimization,” International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1650024 (16 pages), Feb. 2016.

46. Q. Lu, J. Fan, C.W. Sham, W.M. Tam, and F.C.M. Lau, “A 3.0 Gb/s Throughput Hardware-Efficient Decoder for Cyclically-Coupled QC-LDPC Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 134-145, Jan. 2016.

47. Yi Fang, Guoan Bi, Yong Liang Guan, and F.C.M. Lau, “A Survey on Protograph LDPC Codes and Their Applications,” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 1989-2016, Fourthquarter 2015. doi: 10.1109/COMST.2015.2436705.

48. D.W. Yue and F.C.M. Lau, “Average Transmit Power Gain of MIMO Fading Channels Over SISO AWGN Channels,” Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 84, Issue 1, pp. 719–28, September 2015.

49. Y. Zhao, F.C.M. Lau, Z. Zhu and W. Zhang, “Generation of Luby Transform Codes with Low Redundancy,” Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 25, no. 5, 1550072 (8 pages), 2015.


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50. J. Wu, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Concept of Node Usage Probability from Complex Networks and Its Applications to Communication Network Design,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 1195-1204, April 2015.

51. Yunxiang Jiang, F.C.M. Lau, Zeeshan Sattar, Ivan W. H. Ho, and Qing F. Zhou, “Paired-Relay Selection Schemes for Two-way Relaying with Network Coding,” IET Communications, vol. 9, issue 6, pp. 888-896, 2015.

52. J. Wu, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Optimizing Performance of Communication Networks: An Application of Network Science,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 95-99, January 2015.

53. Lingjun Kong, Yunxiang Jiang, Guojun Han, F.C.M. Lau, Yong Liang Guan, “Improved Min-Sum Decoding for Two-dimensional Inter-Symbol-Interference Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 50, No. 11, pp. November 2014, Article#: 3101304.

54. D.W. Yue, F.C.M. Lau and Q. Wang, “On the Diversity Order of a General Cooperative Relaying Communication System,” Wireless Personal Communications, Volume 77, Issue 1, pp. 605-631, July 2014.

55. Y. Zhao and F.C.M. Lau, “Implementation of Decoders for LDPC Block Codes and LDPC Convolutional Codes Based on GPUs,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 663-672, 2014.

56. J. Wu, C.K. Tse, F.C.M. Lau and I.W.H. Ho, “Analysis of Communication Network Performance From a Complex Network Perspective,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 3303-3316, 2013.

57. Qing F. Zhou, Q.T. Zhang and F.C.M. Lau, “Diophantine Approach to Blind Interference Alignment of Homogeneous K-user 2x1 MISO Broadcast Channels,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Virtual MIMO, vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 2141-2153, 2013.

58. Chong Fu, Wei-hong Meng, Yong-feng Zhan, Zhi-liang Zhu, F.C.M. Lau, Chi K. Tse, Hong-feng Ma, “An efficient and secure medical image protection scheme based on chaotic maps,” Computers in Biology and Medicine, Volume 43, Issue 8, pp. 1000-1010, 2013.

59. Kehao Wang, Quan Liu and F.C.M. Lau, “Multi-channel Opportunistic Access by Overhearing Primary ARQ Messages,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 62, no. 7, pp. 3486-3492, 2013.

60. C.W. Sham, X. Chen, F.C.M. Lau, Y. Zhao, and W.M. Tam, “A 2.0 Gb/s Throughput Decoder for QC-LDPC Convolutional Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 1857-1869, 2013.

61. Pingping Chen, Lin Wang and F.C.M. Lau, “One Analog STBC-DCSK Transmission Scheme Not Requiring Channel State Information,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 1027-1037, April 2013.

62. S.Y. Fan, T.L. Wong, F.C.M. Lau and Y. He, “A Fast LDPC-Code Simulator Based on Compressed Parity-Check Matrices,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Volume 13, Issue 7, pages 663–670, May 2013.

63. Q. Wang, D.W. Yue and F.C.M. Lau, “Outage Performance and Cooperative Diversity under Amplify and Forward Relaying in Cognitive Radio Networks,” Wireless Personal Communications, Volume 69, Issue 2, pp. 891-914, March 2013.

64. Pingping Chen, Yi Fang, Lin Wang and F.C.M. Lau, “Decoding Generalized Joint Channel Coding and Physical Network Coding in the LLR Domain,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 121-124, February 2013.

65. Yi Fang, Pingping Chen, Lin Wang and F.C.M. Lau, “Design of Protograph LDPC Codes for Partial Response Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 2809-2819, 2012.


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66. Yi Fang, Pingping Chen, Lin Wang, F.C.M. Lau and Kai-Kit Wong, “Performance Analysis of Protograph-based LDPC Codes with Spatial Diversity,” IET Communications, vol. 6, issue 17, pp. 2941-2948, 2012.

67. Q. Wang, D.W. Yue and F.C.M. Lau, “Performance of Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Over Fading Channels With Low Signal-to-noise Ratio,” IET Communications, vol. 6, issue 13, pp. 1988-1999, 2012.

68. G. Kolumban, Tamas Istvan Krebesz, and F.C.M. Lau, “Theory and Application of Software Defined Electronics: Design Concepts for the Next Generation of Telecommunications and Measurement Systems,” IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 8-34, 2012.

69. Y. Zhao, F.C.M. Lau, Z. Zhu and H. Yu, “Scale-free Luby Transform Codes,” Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1250094 (11 pages), April 2012.

70. Q. Wang, D.W. Yue and F.C.M. Lau, “Optimisation of Throughput in Cognitive Radio Networks: An Analysis at the Data Link Layer,” IET Communications, vol. 6, issue 1, pp. 1–12, 2012.

71. E. Mok, F.C.M. Lau, L. Xia, G. Retscher and H. Tian, “Influential factors for decimetre level positioning using ultra wide band technology,” Survey Review, Vol. 44, No. 324, pp. 37-44, Jan. 2012.

72. Y. Zhao, X. Chen, C.-W. Sham, W. M. Tam, and F.C.M. Lau, “Efficient Decoding of QC-LDPC Codes Using GPUs,” in Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Y. Xiang, A. Cuzzocrea, M. Hobbs, and W. Zhou, Eds. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2011, vol. 7016, pp. 294–305. (also appeared in Proceedings, 11th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, Oct. 2011, Melbourne, Australia)

73. Y. Ren, F.C.M. Lau, C.K. Tse and H. Dong, “Impact of Topology on the Maximum Multicast Throughput in Communication Networks with Network Coding," Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 2741-2748, Nov. 2011.

74. X. Chen and F.C.M. Lau, “Constructing High-Rate QC-LDPC Codes with Large-Girth Based on Shortened Array Codes,” REV Journal on Elect. and Commun., vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 137-144, 2011. (Invited Article)

75. F.C.M. Lau, W.M. Tam and C.K. Tse, “Increasing the Local Girth of Irregular LDPC Codes Based on Degree-spectrum Analysis,” IET Communications, vol. 5, issue 11, pp. 1506–1511, 2011.

76. X. Chen and F.C.M. Lau, “Optimization of LDPC Codes with Deterministic UEP Properties,” IET Communications, vol. 5, issue 11, pp. 1560–1565, 2011.

77. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Performance Evaluation of Irregular LDPC Codes at High SNR,” IET Communications, vol. 5, issue 11, pp. 1587–1596, 2011.

78. X. Chen, Qing F. Zhou, Ting-wai Siu and F.C.M. Lau, “Asymptotic Analysis of Opportunistic Relaying Based on the Max-Generalized-Mean Selection Criterion,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1050-1057, April 2011.

79. C.T. Cheng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “A Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Social Insect Colonies,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 711-721, March 2011. (IEEE Sensors Journal “25 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in Dec. 2011 and also for 6 out of 12 months in 2012”)

80. C.T. Cheng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “A Delay-Aware Data Collection Network Structure for Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 699-710, March 2011. (IEEE Sensors Journal “25 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in Dec. 2011; for 10 out of 12 months in 2012; in July to December 2013, in January to March, and July to December 2014; in January to March, May, July, August 2015”)


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81. Qing F. Zhou, Yonghui Li, F.C.M. Lau and Branka Vucetic, “Decode-and-forward Two-way Relaying with Network Coding and Opportunistic Relay Selection,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 3070-3076, November 2010.

82. C.T. Cheng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “An Energy-Aware Scheduling Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 59, no. 7, pp. 3427-3444, Sept. 2010.

83. F.C.M. Lau and Chi K. Tse, “Application of Complex Networks in Coding,” IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine: Special Issue on Complex Networks Applications in Circuits and Systems, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 38-47, 2010.

84. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau and Chi K. Tse, “Constructing Short-Length Irregular LDPC Codes with Low Error Floor,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 2823-2834, October 2010.

85. Chi K. Tse, Jing Liu and F.C.M. Lau, “A network perspective of the stock market,” Journal of Empirical Finance, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 659-667, September 2010.

86. Xu Chen, Ting-wai Siu, Qing F. Zhou and F.C.M. Lau, “High-SNR Analysis of Opportunistic Relaying Based on the Maximum Harmonic Mean Selection Criterion,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 719-722, August 2010.

87. Qing F. Zhou and F.C.M. Lau, “Performance Bounds of Opportunistic Cooperative Communications with CSI-assisted Amplify-and-Forward Relaying and MRC Reception,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 2159-2165, June 2010.

88. X.H. Shen and F.C.M. Lau, “Q-ary LDPC Decoder with Euclidean-distance-based Sorting Criterion,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 444-446, May 2010.

89. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “A Class of QC-LDPC Codes with Low Encoding Complexity and Good Error Performance,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 169-171, Feb. 2010.

90. F. Xu, F.C.M. Lau and D.W. Yue, “Diversity Order for Amplify-and-Forward Dual-Hop Systems with Fixed-Gain Relay under Nakagami Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 92-98, Jan. 2010.

91. F. Xu, F.C.M. Lau, D.W. Yue and S.F Hau, “Error Rate and Diversity Order of Multinode Cooperative Communications in Nakagami Fading Channels,” IET Communications, vol. 3, issue 12, pp. 1843–1850, Dec. 2009.

92. F. Xu, Qing F. Zhou, F.C.M. Lau, D.W. Yue and S.F Hau, “Performance Analysis of Serial Cooperative Communications with Decode-and-Forward Relaying and Blind-EGC Reception under Nakagami Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 5455–5460, Nov. 2009.

93. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau, Chi K. Tse, Yejun He and S.F Hau, “Application of Complex-Network Theories to the Design of Short-length LDPC Codes,” IET Communications, vol. 3, issue 10, pp. 1569–1577, Oct. 2009.

94. Qing F. Zhou, F.C.M. Lau and S.F. Hau, “Asymptotic Analysis of Opportunistic Relaying Protocols,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 3915–3920, Aug. 2009.

95. C.T. Cheng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, "A Scheduling Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Social Insect Colonies," IET Communications, volume 3, issue 5, pp. 714-722, May 2009.

96. F. Xu, F.C.M. Lau, Q.F. Zhou and D.W. Yue, “Outage Performance of Cooperative Communication Systems Using Opportunistic Relaying and


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Selection Combining Receivers,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 113-116, February 2009.

97. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Complex-Network Modeling of a Call Network,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 416-429, February 2009.

98. Qing F. Zhou and F.C.M. Lau, “Two Incremental Relaying Protocols for Cooperative Networks,” IET Communications, volume 2, issue 10, pp. 1272-1278, November 2008.

99. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Study on mobile communications with a complex underlying user network,” Advances in Mechanics, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 815-826, November 2008.

100. Qing F. Zhou and F.C.M. Lau, “Analytical Performance of M-ary Time-Hopping Orthogonal PPM UWB Systems under Multiple Access Interference,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 1780-1784, November 2008.

101. C.T. Cheng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, "A Tree-based Data Collecting Network Structure for Wireless Sensor Networks," Journal of Electronic Science and Technology of China, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 274-278, September 2008. (Invited Paper)

102. Y. He, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Study of Bifurcation Behavior of Two-Dimensional Turbo Product Code Decoders,” Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 36, Issue 2, Pages 500-511, April 2008.

103. F. Xu, D.W. Yue, F.C.M. Lau and Q.F. Zhou, “Closed-form Expressions for Symbol Error Probability of Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes over Rician-Nakagami Channels,” IET Communications, Volume 1, Issue 4, August 2007, pp. 655-661.

104. F. Xu, F.C.M. Lau and D.W. Yue, “Cross-Layer Design Scheme For Multihop Communications,” IET Electronics Letters, Volume 43, Issue 14, 5 July 2007.

105. R. Xu and F.C.M. Lau, “A Novel Approach to Analyzing V-BLAST MIMO Systems with Two Transmit Antennas,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 1591-1595, May 2007.

106. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau, Chi K. Tse and S.C. Wong, “Study of Bifurcation Behavior of LDPC Decoders", International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 3435-3449, Nov. 2006.

107. Wai M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau, Y. Xia, Chi K. Tse and Xiuming Shan, “Effect of Clustering in a Complex User Network on the Telephone Traffic”, Physica A: Statistical and Theoretical Physics, Volume 371, Issue 2, pp. 745-753, November 2006.

108. Y. Xia, Chi K. Tse, and F.C.M. Lau, Wai M. Tam and Xiuming Shan, “Telephone Traffic Analysis Based on Scale-Free User Network and Scale-Free Load Distribution”, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B: Applications & Algorithms, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 345-352, 2006.

109. Y. Xia, Chi K. Tse, Wai M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and Michael Small, “Analysis of Telephone Network Traffic Based on a Complex User Network”, Physica A: Statistical and Theoretical Physics, Volume 368, Issue 2, pp. 583-594, August 2006.

110. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Generalized correlation-delay-shift-keying scheme for noncoherent chaos-based communication systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 712-721, Mar. 2006.

111. R. Xu and F.C.M. Lau, “Performance analysis for MIMO systems using zero forcing detector over fading channels,” IEE Proceedings-Communications, Vol. 153, Issue 1, pp.74-80, February 2006.

112. Y. Xia, C.K. Tse, F.C.M. Lau and G. Kolumban, “Performance of frequency-modulated differential-chaos-shift-keying communication system over multipath


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fading channels with delay spread,” International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 4027-4033, Dec. 2005.

113. F.C.M. Lau and G. Kolumbán, “Performance limit of chaotic digital waveform communication systems: approach of maximizing a posteriori probability,” Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 639–655, October 2005.

114. G. Kolumbán, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Generalization of waveform communications: the Fourier analyzer approach,” Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 451-474, October 2005.

115. Y. Xia, C.K. Tse, W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and M. Small, “Scale-free user-network approach to telephone network traffic analysis,” Physical Review E, Vol. 72, 026116, August 2005.

116. Y. Xia, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Performance of differential chaos-shift-keying digital communication systems over a multipath fading channel with delay spread,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 680-684, Dec. 2004.

117. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Adaptive approach for detection in chaos-based digital communication systems with transmitted-reference,” Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B: Applications & Algorithms, Watam Press, Canada, vol. 11a, pp. 9-18, Dec. 2004.

118. M. Small, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Chaos communication using chaos,” Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B: Applications & Algorithms, Watam Press, Canada, vol. 11a, pp. 104-111, Dec. 2004.

119. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Performance analysis of multiple access chaotic-sequence spread-spectrum communication systems using parallel interference cancellation receivers,” International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 3633-3646, Oct. 2004.

120. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau, C.K. Tse and A. J. Lawrance, “Exact analytical bit-error-rates for multiple access chaos-based communication systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 473-481, 2004.

121. M.H.F. Leung and F.C.M. Lau, “Alternative protocol for measuring multiple power level of GSM/GPRS mobiles,” IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 40, no. 18, pp. 1128-1129, 2004.

122. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “A multiple access scheme for chaos-based digital communication systems utilizing transmitted reference,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 1868-1878, 2004.

123. M.H.F. Leung and F.C.M. Lau, “Protocol for measuring the performance of the demodulator in a WCDMA user equipment,” IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 40, no. 16, pp. 1005-1006, 2004.

124. F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Performance of chaos-based digital communication systems in the presence of a pulsed-noise jammer,” Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 169-194, 2004.

125. C.K. Fung and F.C.M. Lau, “Design Template and Measurements for Antenna Planning in an Indoor Radio Environment at 1800 MHz,” International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 105-113, April 2004.

126. J. Feng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Reconstruction of chaotic signals with application to channel equalization in chaos-based communication systems,” International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol. 17, Issue 3, pp. 217-232, April 2004.

127. F.C.M. Lau, C.K. Tse, M. Ye and S.F. Hau, “Co-existence of chaos-based and conventional communication systems of equal bit rate,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp.391-408, Feb. 2004.


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128. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “An approach to calculating the bit error rates of multiple access chaotic-sequence spread-spectrum communication systems employing multi-user detectors,” International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 183-206, Jan. 2004.

129. K.Y. Cheong, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Permutation-based M-ary chaotic-sequence spread-spectrum communication systems,” Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 567-577, 2003.

130. F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Performance of chaos-based communication systems under the influence of co-existing conventional spread-spectrum systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 50, No. 11, pp.1475-1481, Nov. 2003.

131. J. Feng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “A neural-network-based channel equalization strategy for chaos-based communication systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 50, No. 7, July 2003, pp.954-957.

132. F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “On optimal detection of noncoherent chaos-shift-keying signals in a noisy environment,” International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp.1587-1597, June 2003.

133. F.C.M. Lau, K.Y. Cheong and C.K. Tse, “Permutation-based DCSK and multiple access DCSK systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 50, No.6, pp.733-742, June 2003.

134. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Analysis of bit error rates for multiple access CSK and DCSK communication systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 50, No.5, pp.702-707, May 2003.

135. F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Approximate-optimal detection for chaos communication systems,” International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp.1329-1335, May 2003.

136. C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “A return-map regression approach for noncoherent detection in chaotic digital communications,” International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 685-690, Mar. 2003.

137. C.K. Tse, F.C.M. Lau, K.Y. Cheong and S.F. Hau, “A return-map based approach for noncoherent detection in chaotic digital communications,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 49, No.10, pp. 1495-1499, Oct. 2002.

138. F.C.M. Lau, M. Ye, C.K. Tse and S.F. Hau, “Anti-jamming performance of chaotic digital communication systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 49, No.10, pp. 1486-1494, Oct. 2002.

139. J. Feng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Channel equalization for chaotic communication systems,” IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol. E85-A, no. 9, pp. 2015-2024, September 2002.

140. F.C.M. Lau and W.M. Tam, “Achievable-SIR-based predictive closed-loop power control in a CDMA mobile system,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 720-728, July 2002.

141. F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Optimum correlator-type receiver design for CSK communication systems,” International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 1029-1038, May 2002.

142. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau, C.K. Tse and M.M. Yip, “An approach to calculating the bit error probability of a coherent chaos-shift-keying digital communication system under a noisy multi-user environment,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 49, No.2, pp. 210-223, February 2002.

143. F.C.M. Lau, M.M. Yip, C.K. Tse and S.F. Hau, “A multiple access technique for differential chaos shift keying,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 49, No.1, pp. 96-104, January 2002.


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144. F.C.M. Lau and W.M. Tam, “Novel SIR-estimation-based power control in a CDMA mobile radio system under multipath environment,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp.314-320, January 2001.

145. F.C.M. Lau and W.M. Tam, “Predictive closed-loop power control in CDMA mobile systems,” IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 52-54, January 2001.

146. W.M. Tam and F.C.M. Lau, “Power control mixing C/I balancing and constant-received signal strength in a CDMA mobile communications system,” IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 35, No. 19, pp. 1609-1611, September 1999.

147. F.C.M. Lau and J. Chan, “Analysis and simulation of buffered B-networks,” Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, Vol. 9, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 199-221, 1999.

148. W.M. Tam and F.C.M. Lau, “Analysis of power control and its imperfections in CDMA cellular systems,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 1706-1717, September 1999.

149. F.C.M. Lau and W.M. Tam, “Intelligent closed-loop power algorithm in a CDMA mobile radio system,” IEE Electronics Letters, Vol.35, No.10, pp.785-786, May 1999.

150. F.C.M. Lau and W.C. Poon, “Throughput Analysis of B-networks,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 47, No.4, pp. 482-485, Apr. 1998.

151. F.C.M. Lau, “Comments on ’Overview of Cellular CDMA’,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 47, No.1, pp.369-371, Feb. 1998.

152. F.C.M. Lau, “Waveform relaxation analysis of lossy coupled transmission line sets in cascade,” IEE Proceedings-Circuits, Devices and Systems, Vol.142, No.6, pp.373-378, Dec. 1995.

153. F.C.M. Lau and E.M. Deeley, “Improvements in the waveform relaxation method applied to transmission lines,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 43, pp. 1201-1203, May 1995.

154. F.C.M. Lau and E.M. Deeley, “Transient analysis of lossy coupled transmission lines in a lossy medium using the waveform relaxation method,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 43, pp. 692-697, Mar. 1995.

155. F.C.M. Lau and E.M. Deeley, “Waveform relaxation analysis of cascaded transmission lines,” International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 76, pp. 483-495, Mar. 1994.

Conference papers

1. P.W. Zhang, F.C.M. Lau, and C.W. Sham “Protograph-based LDPC-Hadamard Codes,” Proceedings, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’20), May 2020, Seoul, South Korea. (Virtual Conference)

2. Tianbo Xue and F.C.M. Lau, “Concatenated Synchronization Error Correcting Code with Designed Markers,” IEEE 5th International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC), Dec. 2019, Chengdu, China.

3. Tianbo Xue and F.C.M. Lau, “Codebook Design Optimization for Sparsified Distribution Converter in Davey-Mackay Watermark Codes over Channels with Synchronization Errors,” The 25th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), Nov. 2019, Hochiminh City, Vietnam.

4. Shuangnan Liu, Benjamin Carrion Schafer, and Francis CM Lau, “Accelerating FPGA Prototyping through Predictive Model-Based HLS Design Space Exploration,” 56th Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC '19), June 2019, Las Vegas, USA. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3316781.3317754


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5. Wanmai Yuan, Nuwan Ganganath, Chi-Tsun Cheng, Shahrokh Valaee, Guo Qing, F.C.M. Lau, and Herbert H.C. Iu, “Semi-Flocking Control for Tracking Multi-Target with Different Priorities in Mobile Sensor Networks,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’2019), May 2019, Sapporo, Japan.

6. S. Jiang, P.W. Zhang, F.C.M. Lau, C.-W. Sham and Kechao Huang, “A Turbo-Hadamard Encoder/Decoder System with Hundreds of Mbps Throughput,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing (ISTC), December 2018, Hong Kong.

7. C.Y. Lo, F.C.M. Lau, and C.W. Sham, “Fixed-Point Implementation of Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification,” Proceedings, International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC 2018), October 2018, Hochiminh City, Vietnam.

8. Shuangnan Liu, Benjamin Carrion Schafer, and F.C.M. Lau “Investigation and Optimization of Pin Multiplexing in High-Level Synthesis,” GLSVLSI, May 2018, Chicago, USA.

9. Wanmai Yuan, Nuwan Ganganath, Chi-Tsun Cheng, (Guo Qing) and F.C.M. Lau, “Path Planning for Semi-Flocking-Controlled Mobile Sensor Networks on Mobility Maps,” International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’2018), Art. No. 8351449, May 2018, Florence, Italy.

10. Sheng Jiang and F.C.M. Lau, “An Approach to Evaluating the Number of Potential Cycles in an All-one Base Matrix,” Proceedings, International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT 2018), Feb. 2018, Elysian Gangchon, Korea. (Received Outstanding Paper Award)

11. Tianbo Xue and F.C.M. Lau, “A Generalized Systematic Comma-Free Code”, The 23th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), December 2017, Perth, Australia.

12. Pengwei Zhang, F.C.M. Lau and C.W. Sham, “Design of a High-Throughput Low-Latency Extended Golay Decoders”, The 23th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), December 2017, Perth, Australia.

13. Sheng Jiang, F.C.M. Lau, W.M. Tam and C.W. Sham, “Design and Error Performance of Punctured Hadamard Codes”, The 23th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), December 2017, Perth, Australia.

14. F.C.M. Lau and W.M. Tam, “Reducing the Bit-Mapping Search Space of a Bit-Interleaved Polar-Coded Modulation System,” Proceedings, 2017 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC 2017), October 2017, Quynhon, Vietnam. (Received Best Paper Award)

15. Wanmai Yuan, Nuwan Ganganath, C.T. Cheng, Qing Guo and F.C.M. Lau, “A Consistent Heuristic for Efficient Path Planning on Mobility Maps,” Proceedings, IEEE Workshop on Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications, June 2017, Macau, China.

16. F.C.M. Lau, Fanlu Mo, Wai M. Tam and Chiu-Wing Sham, “Random-Permutation-Matrix-Based Cyclically-Coupled LDPC Codes,” Proceedings, International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT 2017), Feb. 2017, Pyeongchang, Korea. (Received Outstanding Paper Award)

17. Ting-wai Siu, Chiu-Wing Sham and F.C.M. Lau, “Operating Frequency Improvement on FPGA Implementation of a Pipeline Large-FFT Processor,” Proceedings, International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT 2017), Feb. 2017, Pyeongchang, Korea.

18. F.C.M. Lau, F. Mo, Q. Lu, W.M. Tam, and C.W. Sham, “Novel Types of Cyclically-Coupled Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Block Codes,” Proceedings, 2015 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC 2016), October 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam.


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19. Xingtang Wu, Chi K. Tse, Hairong Dong, Ivan W. H. Ho and F.C.M. Lau, “A Network Analysis of World’s Metro Systems,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Applications (NOLTA’2016), November 2016, Yugawara, Japan.

20. Yuli Zhao, F.C.M. Lau, Zhiliang Zhu and Hai Yu, “Robust Scale-free Luby Transform Code and Its Performance,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Applications (NOLTA’2016), November 2016, Yugawara, Japan.

21. Q. Lu, C.W. Sham and F.C.M. Lau, “On Using the Cyclically-Coupled QC-LDPC Codes in Future SSDs”, Proceedings of IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, October 2016, Jeju Island, Korea.

22. Q. Lu, C.W. Sham, and F.C.M. Lau, “Rapid Prototyping of Multi-Mode QC-LDPC Decoder for 802.11n/ac Standard,” The 21st Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference - University Design Contest (ASP-DAC UDC 2016), January 2016, Macau, China.

23. Q. Lu, Bruce C.W. Sham, and F.C.M. Lau, “An Architecture-Algorithm Co-Design of Artificial Intelligence for Trax Player,” International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp. 268-271, December 2015, Queenstown, New Zealand. (3rd place in the Design Competition)

24. Q. Lu, Z. Shen, C.W. Sham, and F.C.M. Lau, “A Parallel-Routing Network for Reliability Inferences of Single-Parity-Check Decoder,” Proceedings, 2015 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC 2015), October 2015, Hochiminh City, Vietnam. (Received Best Paper Award)

25. Ling Fu Xie, Ivan Wang-Hei Ho, Soung Chang Liew, Lu Lu, and F.C.M. Lau, “Mitigating Doppler Effects on Physical-layer Network Coding in VANET,” IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2015), August 2015, Hong Kong, China.

26. Kehao Wang, F.C.M. Lau, Lin Chen and Robert Schober, “A Distributed Market Framework for Mobile Data Offloading,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2015, London, UK, pp. 4666-4671.

27. L.F. Xie, Ivan W.H. Ho, S. Zhang, F.C.M. Lau and P.H.J. Chong, “Toward Software-Defined Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (SDVN),” 14th ITS Asia Pacific Forum, April 2015, Nanjing, China.

28. Q. Lu, J. Fan, C.W. Sham and F.C.M. Lau, “A High Throughput Gaussian Noise Generator,” Proceedings of IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, pp. 117-120, November 2014, Ishigaki, Japan.

29. Y. He, G. Sun, J. Yang and F.C.M. Lau, “D-GLDPC Codes with 3-D Single Parity-Check Product Codes as Super Check Nodes,” Proceedings, International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, pp. 1-6, Oct. 2014, Hefei, China.

30. Y. Zhao, F.C.M. Lau, Z. Zhu, Hai Yu and W. Zhang, “Generation of Luby Transform Codes with Low Redundancy,” Proceedings, International Workshop on Chaos-Fractals Theory and Applications (IWCFTA 2014), pp. 11-12, October 2014, Qingdao, China.

31. J. Wu, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Optimizing Performance of Communication Networks: An Application of Network Science,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Applications (NOLTA’2014), pp. 264–7, September 2014, Luzern, Switzerland.

32. Jiajing Wu, Chi K. Tse, F.C.M. Lau, “Effective Routing Algorithms Based on Node Usage Probability from a Complex Network Perspective,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'14), June 2014, Melbourne, Australia.


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33. Zeeshan Sattar, Yunxiang Jiang and F.C.M. Lau, “Relay Cooperation Schemes for the Multiple Access Relay Channel: Compute-and-Forward and Successive Interference Cancellation,” Proceedings, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’14), April 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1093-1098.

34. Yue Min, F.C.M. Lau and Chi K. Tse, “Exact Split Information Function for SPC,” Proceedings, The 16th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT 2014), Feb. 2014, Pyeongchang, Korea, pp. 1208-1212.

35. Yue Min, F.C.M. Lau and Chi K. Tse, “A Class of Doubly-Generalized LDPC Codes,” Proceedings, 2013 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC 2013), October 2013, Hochiminh City, Vietnam, pp. 280-284.

36. T. Krebesz, G. Kolumban, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Turn your baseband Matlab simulator into a fully functional, 2.4-GHz, operating FM-DCSK transceiver using SDE platform,” Proceedings, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD 2013), Sept. 2013, Dresden, Germany.

37. T. Krebesz, G. Kolumban, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Application of universal software defined PXI platform for the performance evaluation of FM-DCSK communications system,” Proceedings, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD 2013), Sept. 2013, Dresden, Germany.

38. T. Krebesz, G. Kolumban, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “From simulations to field tests: PXI-based software defined wireless platform for performance evaluation of FM-DCSK,” Proceedings, IEEE 56th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2013), August 2013, Columbus, USA.

39. J. Wu, C.K. Tse, F.C.M. Lau and I.W.H. Ho, "An Adaptive Routing Algorithm for Load Balancing in Communication Networks," Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'13), Paper ID 2513, Beijing, China, May 2013.

40. Yunxiang Jiang, F.C.M. Lau, Zeeshan Sattar, and Qing F. Zhou, “Selection of Spatially-distributed Relays for Two-way Relaying with Network Coding,” Proceedings, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’13), April 2013, Shanghai, China, pp. 2966-2970.

41. Xuhua Shen and F.C.M. Lau, “Q-ary LDPC Decoders with Reduced Complexity,” Proceedings, The 15th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT 2013), Jan. 2013, Pyeongchang, Korea. (Received Outstanding Paper Award)

42. Xu Chen, Ting-wai Siu, Qing F. Zhou and Francis C. M. Lau, “A Class of Selection Criteria Achieving Full Diversity in Amplify-and-Forward Opportunistic Relaying,” Proceedings, The 15th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT 2013), Jan. 2013, Pyeongchang, Korea. (Received Outstanding Paper Award)

43. C.W. Sham, X. Chen, F.C.M. Lau, Y. Zhao, and W.M. Tam, “A Layered QC-LDPC Decoder Architecture for High Speed Communication System,” Proceedings, 2012 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (2012 APCCAS), Dec. 2012, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

44. T. Krebesz, G. Kolumban, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Implementation of FM-DCSK Modulation Scheme on USRP Platform Based on Complex Envelope,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA’2012), Oct. 2012, Majorca, Spain, pp. 797-800.

45. G. Kolumban, T. Krebesz, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Performance Comparison of UWB Chirp IR TR and UWB FM-DCSK TR Systems Implemented with Autocorrelation Receiver,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA’2012), Oct. 2012, Majorca, Spain, pp. 793-796.


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46. Y. Sun, Y. Zhao, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Analysis of the Topological Characteristics of a Protein-Protein Interaction Network,” Proceedings, International Workshop on Chaos-Fractals Theory and Applications (IWCFTA’2012), pp. 127–30, October 2012, Dalian, China.

47. J. Wu, C.K. Tse, F.C.M. Lau and I.W.H. Ho, “Concept of Node Usage Probability for Analysis and Design of Communication Networks,” Proceedings, International Workshop on Chaos-Fractals Theory and Applications (IWCFTA 2012), October 2012, Dalian, China.

48. Yue Min, Francis C.M. Lau and Chi K. Tse, “Generalized LDPC Code With Single-Parity-Check Product Constraints At Super Check Nodes,” Proceedings, 7th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing (ISTC), August 2012, Gothenburg, Sweden, pp. 165-169.

49. Chi H. Chan and Francis C.M. Lau, “Parallel Decoding of LDPC Convolutional Codes Using OpenMP and GPU,” Proceedings, 17th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, July 2012, Cappadocia, Turkey.

50. Francis C.M. Lau and W.M. Tam, “A Fast Searching Method for the Construction of QC-LDPC Codes with Large Girth,” Proceedings, 17th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, July 2012, Cappadocia, Turkey.

51. Jiajing Wu, Chi K. Tse, Francis C.M. Lau and Ivan W.H. Ho, “Complex Network Approach to Communication Network Performance Analysis,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'12), May 2012, Seoul, Korea.

52. Yongxiang Xia, Chi K. Tse and Francis C.M. Lau, “Effect of Assortativity on Traffic Performance in Scale-free Networks,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'12), May 2012, Seoul, Korea.

53. T. Krebesz, G. Kolumban, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Improving the coverage of ultra wideband impulse radio by pulse compression,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'12), May 2012, Seoul, Korea.

54. Chi H. Chan and Francis C.M. Lau, “Simulation of LDPC Convolutional Decoders with CPU and GPU,” Proceedings, The International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Communications and Networks, April 2012, Three Gorges, China, pp. 2854-2857.

55. F.C.M. Lau and L. Shi, “Programming Graphics Processing Units for the Decoding of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes,” Proceedings, The 14th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT 2012), Feb. 2012, Pyeongchang, Korea. (Received Outstanding Paper Award)

56. Francis C.M. Lau, Chi K. Tse and Zhiliang Zhu, “Future Design of Channel Codes: A Complex Network Perspective,” Proceedings, The Fourth International Workshop on Chaos-Fractal Theories and Applications (IWCFTA 2011), Oct. 2011, Hangzhou, China.

57. Yue Zhao, Xu Chen, Chiu Wing Sham, Wai M. Tam and Francis C.M. Lau, “Efficient Decoding of QC-LDPC Codes Using GPUs,” Proceedings, 11th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2011), Oct. 2011, Melbourne, Australia (also appeared in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011, Volume 7016/2011, pp. 294-305, Springer-Verlag).

58. Zhiliang Zhu, Yuli Zhao, Francis C.M. Lau and Hai Yu, “Scale-free LT Code and Its Application on BEC Channels,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA’2011), September 2011, Kobe, Japan.

59. Xu Chen and F.C.M. Lau, “Construction of High-Rate QC-LDPC Codes,” Proceedings, 2011 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for


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Communications (ATC 2011), August 2011, Da Nang City, Vietnam. (Received the Best Paper Award)

60. S.F. Yau, T.L. Wong and F.C.M. Lau, “Extremely Fast Simulator for Decoding LDPC Codes,” Proceedings, The 13th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT 2011), Feb. 2011, Pyeongchang, Korea.

61. Yuli Zhao, Zhiliang Zhu, Francis C.M. Lau and Hai Yu, “Scale-free LT Code and Its Application on BEC Channels,” Proceedings, 6th Chinese Conference on Complex Networks, October 2010, Suzhou, China.

62. Dian-Wu Yue, Qian Wang and Francis C.M. Lau, “Spectrum Sensing Gain Analysis in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks,” Proceedings, 6th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM2010), September 2010, Chengu, China.

63. Weikai Xu, Lin Wang and Francis C.M. Lau, “Multiple-Stream Code-Multiplexed Transmitted-Reference Ultra-Wideband Systems,” Proceedings, 6th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM2010), September 2010, Chengu, China.

64. Yi Fang, Jianwen Zhang, Lin Wang and Francis C.M. Lau, “BP-Maxwell Decoding Algorithm for LDPC Codes over AWGN Channels,” Proceedings, 6th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM2010), September 2010, Chengdu, China.

65. T. Krebesz, G. Kolumban, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “FCC-Compliant Operation of Low-Rate UWB Impulse Radio Applying Multiple Pulses Per Bit,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA’2010), September 2010, Krakow, Poland.

66. G. Kolumban, T. Krebesz, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Radio Coverage Extension of the FCC-Compliant Low-Rate UWB Networking Devices,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA’2010), September 2010, Krakow, Poland.

67. D. Y. Hu, M. Z. Wang, F.C.M. Lau and Q.C. Peng, “On the Design of Low Complexity Decoding (LCD) Network Codes,” Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Information Security (WCNIS2010), June 2010, Beijing, China.

68. G. Kolumban, T. Krebesz and F.C.M. Lau, “Feasibility of UWB Radio: Impulse Radio Versus Chaos-Based Approach,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'10), May 2010, Paris, France.

69. G. Kolumban, T. Krebesz, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Derivation of Circuit Specification for the UWB Impulse Radio Transceivers,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'10), May 2010, Paris, France.

70. T. Krebesz, G. Kolumban, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Performance Improvement of Autocorrelation Detector Used in UWB Impulse Radio,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'10), May 2010, Paris, France.

71. T. Krebesz, G. Kolumban, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Gated Threshold Compensated Noncoherent PPM Receiver for UWB Impulse Radio,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'10), May 2010, Paris, France.

72. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Constructing high-rate scale-free LDPC codes,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'10), May 2010, Paris, France.

73. Abraham O. Fapojuwo, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks under Varying Sensor Node Traffic,” Proceedings,


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IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’10), April 2010, Sydney, Australia.

74. S.M. Wong, F.C.M. Lau and Esmond C.M. Mok, “Interference Impacts of Ultra Wideband Device on Satellite Receiving Station,” Proceedings, The 12th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT 2010), Feb 2010, Pyeongchang, Korea.

75. T. Krebesz, G. Kolumban, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Performance Improvement of UWB Autocorrelation Receivers by Minimizing the Energy Capture Time,” Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, December 2009, Hammamet, Tunisia.

76. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Differentiating Trapping Sets with the Same Label [w;u],” Proceedings, International Conferences on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS2009), Dec. 2009, Macau.

77. D. Y. Hu, M. Z. Wang, F.C.M. Lau and Q.C. Peng, “Network Coding for Resilient Peer-to-Peer Networks,” Proceedings, International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN2009), October 2009, Washington D.C., USA.

78. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Constrained Scale-Free LDPC Codes,” Proceedings, International Workshop on Nonlinear Theoretic Approach to Ambient Network, October 2009, Sapporo, Japan, pp. 35-36. (Invited talk)

79. Y. He, T. Jiang and F.C.M. Lau, “Simulation and implementation of a single-polarization smart antenna for TD-SCDMA system,” Proceedings, Global Mobile Congress (GMC2009), October 2009, Shanghai, China.

80. Y. He, X. Hou, J. Huang and F.C.M. Lau, “Simulation and Implementation of Dual-Polarization TD-SCDMA Smart Antennas,” Proceedings, Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC2009), October 2009, Shanghai, China.

81. D. Y. Hu, M. Z. Wang, F.C.M. Lau and Q.C. Peng, “A Precoding Scheme with Generation Crossing for Network Coding,” Proceedings, Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC2009), October 2009, Shanghai, China.

82. G. Kolumban, T. Krebesz, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Improving the Noise Performance of Energy Detector Based UWB Systems by Optimizing the Receiver Parameters,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, September 2009, Incheon, Korea.

83. Xuhua Shen and F.C.M. Lau, “Accelerated Q-ary Low-Density Parity-Check Codes Decoding with Message Selection,” Proceedings, 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM2009), September 2009, Beijing, China.

84. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau, C.K. Tse, Yejun He and M.Z. Wang, “Evaluation of the Extremely Low Block Error Rate of Irregular LDPC Codes,” Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009), June 2009, Dresden, Germany.

85. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Modeling Telephone Call Networks with Group Structure from a Complex Network Perspective,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'09), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009.

86. C.K. Tse, J. Liu, F.C.M. Lau and K. He, “Observing Stock Market Fluctuation in Networks of Stocks,” Proceedings, International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (COMPLEX’2009), February 2009, Shanghai, China.

87. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Traffic Analysis of a Mobile Cellular System Based on a Scale-Free User Network and a Power-Law-Distributed Mobility Model,” Proceedings, IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, Nov.-Dec. 2008, Macao, China, pp. 1120-1123.


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88. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau, C.K. Tse and Y. He, “Construction of Short-Length LDPC Codes with Low Error Floor,” Proceedings, IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, Nov.-Dec. 2008, Macao, China, pp. 1818-1821.

89. C.K. Tse, J. Liu, F.C.M. Lau and K. He, “Correlation-Based Complex Networks of Stock Market and Their Applications in Predicting Market Fluctuation,” Proceedings, The Fourth Chinese Conference on Complex Networks, October 2008, Beijing, China.

90. G. Kolumban, T. Krebesz, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “A Mathematical Approach to Derive Optimum Detector Configurations for UWB Radio Applications,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA’2008), September 2008, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 716-719.

91. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Construction of Scale-Free Networks with Adjustable Clustering,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA’2008), September 2008, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 257-260.

92. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Short-length LDPC Codes with Power-law Distributed Variable-node Degrees,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA’2008), September 2008, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 168-171.

93. C.K. Tse, J. Liu and F.C.M. Lau, “Winner-Take-All Correlation-Based Complex Networks for Modeling Stock Market and Degree-Based Indexes,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA’2008), September 2008, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 245-248.

94. C.T. Cheng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, "An Efficient Data Collecting Network Structure in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings, International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems, (ICCCAS2008), May 2008, Xiamen, China, pp. 497-500. (Received Best Paper Award)

95. C.T. Cheng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, "A Bio-Inspired Scheduling Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings, Vehicular Technology Conference, (VTC2008-Spring), May 2008, pp. 223-226, Singapore.

96. S.M. Wong and F.C.M. Lau, “Impacts of UWB Interference on Selected Radio Systems Used by the Government”, Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Circuits & Systems for Communications, Shanghai, China, May 2008.

97. S.M. Wong and F.C.M. Lau, “Passband simulation of interference impacts in the presence of ultra wideband and narrowband systems”, Proceedings, The 10th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT 2008), Pyeongchang, Korea, Feb. 2008, pp. 569-574.

98. Esmond Mok, Tian Hui, F.C.M. Lau and Linyuan Xia, “Positioning Performance of Ultra-wide Band and ZigBee Technologies,” Proceedings, International Global Navigation Satellite Systems Symposium, December 2007, Sydney, Australia.

99. Qing F. Zhou and F.C.M. Lau, “Novel Incremental Relaying Protocols for Cooperative Networks,” Proceedings, 14th China Symposium on Information Theory 2007 (CSIT’2007), December 2007, Guangzhou, China, pp. 257-260.

100. C.T. Cheng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “A Bio-Inspired Algorithm for Performance Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA’2007), September 2007, Vancouver, Canada.

101. F.C.M. Lau, W.M. Tam and C.K. Tse, “Application of Complex Network Theory to the Construction of Telephone Call Network,” Proceedings, Fourth Asia-Pacific Workshop on Chaos Control and Synchronization, Harbin, China, August 2007, p. 50.

102. F.C.M. Lau, X. Zheng, C.K. Tse and S.C. Wong, “Constructing Error-Correction Codes from Scale-Free Networks,” Proceedings, International Workshop on


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Complex Systems and Networks 2007 (IWCSN’2007), July 2007, Guilin, China. (Invited paper)

103. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Error Performance of Short-Block-Length LDPC Code Built on Scale-Free Networks,” Proceedings, The Third Shanghai International Symposium on Nonlinear Sciences and Applications, Shanghai, China, June 2007, pp. 55-57.

104. C.T. Cheng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “A Clustering Algorithm for Sensor Networks Based on Bee Colony Structure,” Proceedings, The Third Shanghai International Symposium on Nonlinear Sciences and Applications, Shanghai, China, June 2007, pp. 47-49.

105. C.T. Cheng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, "A Bio-Inspired Clustering Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings, 20th Symposium on Circuits and Systems (CSCAS’2007), June 2007, Guangzhou, China.

106. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Modeling the Telephone Call Network,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'07), New Orleans, USA, May 2007, pp. 453-456.

107. Qing F. Zhou and F.C.M. Lau, “Analytical Performance of M-ary TH-PPM UWB Systems with Multiple Users,” Proceedings, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’07), Hong Kong, March 2007.

108. Y. Xia, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Packet Traffic Analysis in a Complex Network with Multiple Power-Law Properties,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA'06), Bologna, Italy, September 2006, pp. 551-554.

109. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau and Chi K. Tse, “Study of LDPC Codes Built on Scale-Free Networks,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA'06), Bologna, Italy, September 2006, pp. 563-566.

110. Y. Xia, C.K. Tse, F.C.M. Lau, W.M. Tam, Xiuming Shan, “Traffic Congestion Analysis in Complex Networks,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'06), Kos, Greece, May 2006, pp. 2625-2628.

111. X. Zheng, F.C.M. Lau, C.K. Tse and S.C. Wong, “Techniques for Improving Block Error Rate of LDPC Decoders,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'06), Kos, Greece, May 2006, pp. 2261-2264.

112. S.M. Wong, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Propagation Characteristics of UWB Radio in a High-Rise Apartment,” Proceedings, International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT’06), Kangwon, Korea, February 2006.

113. F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Research on Ultra-Wideband Communication Systems: Challenges and Prospects,” Proceedings, Conference on UWB Wireless Communications Technology, Nanjing, China, November 2005, pp. 358-362.

114. S.M. Wong F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Ultra-Wideband Channel Characterization,” Proceedings, Conference on UWB Wireless Communications Technology, Nanjing, China, November 2005, pp. 210-215.

115. Y. Xia, C.K. Tse, F.C.M. Lau, W.M. Tam and M. Small, “Telephone traffic analysis based on a scale-free user network,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA'05), Bruges, Belgium, October 2005, pp. 110-113.

116. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau, Y. Xia, C.K. Tse and M. Small, “Traffic Analysis of a Mobile Communication System Based on a Scale-Free User Network,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA'05), Bruges, Belgium, October 2005, pp. 130-133.


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117. Xia Zheng, F.C.M. Lau, Chi K. Tse and S.C. Wong, “Study of Nonlinear Dynamics of LDPC Decoders,” Proceedings, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD ‘2005), Cork, Ireland, August 2005, paper 207.

118. M.H.F. Leung and F.C.M. Lau, “Testing System for Measuring and Calibrating the Transmission Power of EDGE Mobiles,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'05), Kobe, Japan, May 2005, pp. 4493-4496.

119. R. Xu and F.C.M. Lau, “Performance Analysis For MIMO Systems Using Zero Forcing Detector Over Rice Fading Channel,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'05), Kobe, Japan, May 2005, pp. 4955-4958.

120. R. Xu and F.C.M. Lau, “Degradation on the Performance of MIMO System Under a Correlated Sub-Channels Condition,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'05), Kobe, Japan, May 2005, pp. 4967-4970.

121. R. Xu and F.C.M. Lau, “Analytical Approach of V-BLAST Performance with Two Transmit Antennas,” Proceedings, IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference, New Orleans, USA, Mar. 2005.

122. Y. Xia, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, "Analysis of Performance of Noncoherent DCSK Communication Systems Over a Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channel with Delay Spread," Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA'2004), Fukuoka, Japan, Nov.-Dec. 2004, pp. 681-684.

123. Y. Xia, C.K. Tse, F.C.M. Lau and G. Kolumban, "Performance of FM-DCSK Communication System Over a Multipath Fading Channel with Delay Spread," Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications (NOLTA'2004), Fukuoka, Japan, November-December 2004, pp. 685-688.

124. M.H.F. Leung and F.C.M. Lau, “Testing Equipment Implementation for Evaluating WCDMA UE-to-UE Real-time Video Transmission,” Proceedings, The 9th CDMA International Conference (CIC2004), Seoul, Korea, Oct. 2004.

125. M.H.F. Leung and F.C.M. Lau, “A Comprehensive Tester For WCDMA User Equipment,” Proceedings, The 9th CDMA International Conference (CIC2004), Seoul, Korea, Oct. 2004.

126. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Multiple access scheme for noncoherent chaos-based communication systems,” Proceedings, Third Asia-Pacific Workshop on Chaos Control and Synchronization, Melbourne, Australia, July 2004, p. 14.

127. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “An improved multiple access scheme for chaos-based digital communications using adaptive receivers,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'04), Vancouver, Canada, May 2004, pp. 605-608.

128. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, "Generalized correlation-delay-shift-keying scheme for noncoherent chaos-based communication systems," Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'04), Vancouver, Canada, May 2004, pp. 601-604.

129. G. Kolumban, G. Kis, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, "Optimum noncoherent FM-DCSK detector: Application of chaotic GML decision rule," Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'04), Vancouver, Canada, May 2004, pp. 597-600.

130. Y. Xia, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Some benchmark multipath performance data of coherent chaos-shift-keying digital communication systems,” Proceedings, International Workshop on Nonlinear Circuits and Signal Processing (NCSP’2004), March 2004, Waikiki, Hawaii, pp. 261-264.


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131. M.H.F. Leung and F.C.M. Lau, “A new technique for testing GPRS mobiles,” Proceedings, The 6th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, (ICACT'04), Pyeongchang, Korea, Feb. 2004.

132. M.H.F. Leung and F.C.M. Lau, “An inter-band handover technique for testing tri-band GSM mobiles efficiently,” Proceedings, The 6th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, (ICACT'04), Pyeongchang, Korea, Feb. 2004.

133. F.C.M. Lau, W.M. Tam and C.K. Tse, “Adaptive approach for detection in chaos-based digital communication systems with transmitted-reference,” Proceedings, Second Asia-Pacific Workshop in Chaos Control and Synchronization, Nov. 2003, Shanghai, China, pp. 24-25.

134. M. Small, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Chaos communication using chaos,” Proceedings, Second Asia-Pacific Workshop in Chaos Control and Synchronization, Nov. 2003, Shanghai, China, pp. 47-48.

135. G. Kolumban, F.C.M. Lau and M. Small, " A New Description of Chaotic Waveform Communications: The Fourier Analyzer Approach", Proceedings, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD ‘2003), September 2003, Kraków, Poland, Vol. III, pp. 241-244.

136. K.Y. Cheong, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “An M-ary spread-spectrum communication system based on permutated chaotic sequences”, Proceedings, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD ‘2003), September 2003, Kraków, Poland, Vol. III, pp. 237-240.

137. K.Y. Cheong, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “An M-ary transmission scheme for chaotic communications,” Proceedings, Regional Inter-University Postgraduate Electrical and Electronic Engineering Conference (RIUPEEEC ‘2003), August 2003, Hong Kong, China, pp. 149-150.

138. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “A multiple access scheme for chaos-based digital communication systems utilizing transmitted reference and adaptive detection,” Proceedings, Regional Inter-University Postgraduate Electrical and Electronic Engineering Conference (RIUPEEEC ‘2003), August 2003, Hong Kong, China, pp. 151-152.

139. F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Co-existence of chaos-based and conventional digital communication systems,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '2003), May 2003, Bangkok, Thailand, Vol. III, pp. 204-207.

140. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Performance analysis of multiple access chaotic-sequence spread-spectrum communication systems employing parallel interference cancellation detectors,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '2003), May 2003, Bangkok, Thailand, Vol. III, pp. 208-211.

141. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Performance analysis for multiple access CSK and DCSK communication systems,” Proceedings, The 4th ACM Postgraduate Research Day 2003, Hong Kong, January 2003, pp. 115-124.

142. F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, “Overview of chaos-based digital communication systems,” Proceedings, China Symposium on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems, Shenzhen, China, November 2002, pp. 2-17. (Invited Paper)

143. F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, "Study of anti-jamming capabilities of chaotic digital communication systems," Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, (NOLTA'02), Xian, China, October 2002, pp. 65-68.

144. F.C.M. Lau, K.Y. Cheong and C.K. Tse, "A permutation-based multiple access DCSK system", Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, (NOLTA'02), Xian, China, October 2002, pp. 511-514.

145. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, "Multi-user detection techniques for multiple access chaos-based digital communication systems," Proceedings,


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International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, (NOLTA'02), Xian, China, October 2002, pp. 503-506.

146. F.C.M. Lau and C.K. Tse, "Co-existence of chaos-based communication systems and conventional spread-spectrum communication systems," Proceedings, International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, (NOLTA'02), Xian, China, October 2002, pp. 107-110.

147. F.C.M. Lau, C.K. Tse, W.M. Tam and S.F. Hau, “Optimum design for correlator-type receivers in chaos-based digital communication systems,” Proceedings, 2001 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, Oct. 2001, Miyagi, Japan, pp.565-568.

148. W.M. Tam, F.C.M. Lau, C.K. Tse and S.F. Hau, “Analytical BERs of coherent CSK and noncoherent DCSK systems with multiple users,” Proceedings, 2001 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, Oct. 2001, Miyagi, Japan, pp.553-556.

149. C.K. Tse, K.Y. Cheong, F.C.M. Lau and S.F. Hau, “An approach for CSK detection based on return maps,” Proceedings, 2001 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, Oct. 2001, Miyagi, Japan, pp.637-640.

150. J. Feng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “Channel equalization for chaos-based communication systems,” Proceedings, 2001 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, Oct. 2001, Miyagi, Japan, pp.641-644.

151. S.S. Hui and F.C.M. Lau, “Traffic regulating algorithms in a dualband mobile cellular system,” Proceedings, 2001 International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics, July 2001, Tokyo, Japan, pp.408-411.

152. R.H.M. Yuen and F.C.M. Lau, “DD-DFE receiver in CDMA systems over frequency selective fading channels,” Proceedings, 2001 International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics, July 2001, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 343-346.

153. F.C.M. Lau, C.K. Tse and W.M. Tam, “Optimum design for correlator-type receivers in chaos-based digital communication systems,” Proceedings, First Asia-Pacific Workshop in Chaos Control and Synchronization, June 2001, Shanghai, China. (invited paper)

154. F.C.M. Lau, M.M. Yip, C.K. Tse and S.F. Hau, “A multiple access technique for differential chaos shift keying,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '2001), 6-9 May 2001, Sydney, Australia, Vol. III, pp. 317-320.

155. J. Feng, C.K. Tse and F.C.M. Lau, “A chaos tracker applied to non-coherent detection in chaos-based digital communication systems,” Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '2001), 6-9 May 2001, Sydney, Australia, Vol. III, pp. 795-798.

156. V.Y.K. Lee and F.C.M. Lau, “A novel algorithm to prevent unnecessary handovers at street intersections in a microcellular system,” Proceedings, International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT2001), 8-10 February 2001, Muju, Korea, pp. 195-200.

157. F.C.M. Lau and C.H. Lee, “Sensitivity of performance of SARP and HARP to traffic loading variations in a hierarchical cellular system under non-uniform traffic distribution,” Proceedings, IEEE VTC 2000 Fall, 24-28 September 2000, Boston, USA.

158. F.C.M. Lau and W.M. Tam, “Novel predictive power control in a CDMA mobile radio system,” Proceedings, IEEE VTC 2000 Spring, 15-18 May 2000, Japan, pp. 1950-1954.

159. M.M. Yip and F.C.M. Lau, “Performance of TETRA under quasi-synchronous transmission over Rayleigh fading channels with equalization,” Proceedings, 4th IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications, 17-19 November 1999, pp. 300-303.


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160. F.C.M. Lau and K.N. Chan, “Comparison of handoff performance between GSM900 and GSM1800 mobile cellular system designs under an underground subway environment,” Proceedings, XXVI General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, Toronto, Canada, 13-21 August 1999, p. 693.

161. F.C.M. Lau and W.M. Tam, “Effect of power control feedback decision threshold on the outage probability of a wideband CDMA mobile communication system under a multipath channel environment,” Proceedings, XXVI General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, Toronto, Canada, 13-21 August 1999, p. 690.

162. F.C.M. Lau and J. Wong, “Overview of professional mobile radio,” Proceedings, HKIE ITD Professional Mobile Radio Forum 1998, pp. 34-41, September 1998, Hong Kong.

163. W. M. Tam and F.C.M. Lau, “Forward link power control function for CDMA cellular systems,” Proceedings, IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC’97), 11-13 November, 1997, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. S7.1.1-S7.1.4.

164. F.C.M. Lau and S. Yau, “Channel assignment strategies in a hot-spot cell,” Proceedings, GLOBECOM’ 97, 3-8 November, 1997, Phoenix, AZ USA, pp. 1640-1644.

165. W. M. Tam and F.C.M. Lau, “Capacity analysis of a CDMA cellular system with power control schemes,” Proceedings, 1997 IEEE 6th International Conference on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC’97), 12-16 October, 1997, San Diego, CA USA, pp. 608-612.

166. W. M. Tam and F.C.M. Lau, “Analysis of imperfect power control in CDMA cellular systems,” Proceedings, The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’97), September 1-4, 1997, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 892-897.

167. W. M. Tam, and F.C.M. Lau, “Capacity analysis and simulations of a CDMA cellular system with power control,” Proceedings, 2nd International Conference on Personal, Mobile and Spread Spectrum Communications, 3-5 December 1996, Hong Kong, pp. 244-247.

168. W. M. Tam, and F.C.M. Lau, “Effect of power control on the forward link capacity of a CDMA mobile cellular system,” Proceedings, IEEE Singapore International Conference on Communication Systems, 25-29 November 1996, Singapore, pp. 1235-1238.

169. F.C.M. Lau and M. Yip, “Speed improvement in the transient analysis of transmission lines,” Proceedings, IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems’96, 18-21 November 1996, Seoul, Korea, pp. 85-88.

170. F.C.M. Lau and W.C. Poon, “Performance analysis of B-networks with buffers,” Proceedings, 1996 International Symposium on New Transmission & Switching Technologies(ISTST’96), 12-14 September 1996, Kuming, China, pp. 347-351.

171. F.C.M. Lau, W.M. Tam, “Effects of increased capacity in CDMA cellular system,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics, San Francisco, Oct. 25-27, 1995, pp. 579-582.

172. F.C.M. Lau, “Improvements in the waveform relaxation method applied to transmission lines with nonlinear terminations,” Proceedings, 1995 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 24-27, 1995, Vol. 1, pp. 225-229.

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