Research Funding and Contracts
1. |
“Interference-Aware Coordination for Next-Generation Wireless Networks,” (RGC CERG HKUST 610311) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $1,292,370 Granted for 2011-13. | |
2. |
“Opportunistic Spectrum Utilization in Cognitive Radio: Towards the Communication Utopia” (Qatar Foundation Grant, NPRP 09-126-2-054) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $1,428,016 Granted for 2011-13 | |
3. |
"Transforming the fabric of communications," (UGC Area of Excellence Proposal) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager/Director) with 24 PI/Co-PI from HKUST, City University of Hong Kong, | |
| and Chinese University of Hong Kong. | ||
| Funding: | $70,050,000 Requested for 2010-2017 | |
4. |
"Single carrier frequency division multiple access for broadband uplink communications," (RGC CERG HKUST 610408) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $289,966 Granted for 2009-2010 | |
5. |
"Optimized limited feedback for wireless transceivers: A new paradigm for ubiquitous wireless broadband access," (RPC07/08.EG16) | |
| Investigator: | Matthew McKay (Project Manager) and K. B. Letaief | |
| Funding: | $400,000 Granted for 2008-2010 | |
6. |
"Traffic scheduling and rate adaptation for IEEE 802.11n MIMO wireless networks," (RGC CERG HKUST 610307) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) and M. Hamdi | |
| Funding: | $369,600 Granted for 2008-2009 | |
| "Making Hong Kong a high-technology leader in wireless communications product innovations and services through world-class | ||
7. |
fundamental and applied research,," (AOE-MG/E-09/06) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $2,500,000 Granted for 2007-2011 | |
8. |
"Cooperation and cross-layer design in cognitive radio systems," (NSFC/RGC Grant N_HKUST622/06) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $500,500 Granted for 2007-2010 | |
9. |
"Cognitive communications for next generation wireless systems," (RPC06/07.EG08) | |
| Investigator: | Vince K. Lau (Project Manager), K. B. Letaief, and B. Bensaoui | |
| Funding: | $550,000 Granted for 2007-2008 | |
10. |
"Cooperative diversity for ad-hoc wireless networks," (RGC CERG HKUST 610406) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $960,048 Granted for 2007-2009 | |
11. |
"System Design for next generation WiMAX 802.16m Systems," (Industrial Contract with Huawei) | |
| Investigator: | Vince K. Lau (Project Manager), K. B. Letaief, and other faculty | |
| Funding: | $1,200,000 Granted for 2007-2008 | |
12. |
"Wireless IC system design center," (NRC06/07.EG02) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $8,876,000 Granted for 2006-2009 | |
| "Joint MAC-PHY layer design for opportunistic scheduling and efficient resource utilization in multi-carrier wireless systems," | ||
13. |
(RGC CERG) | |
| Investigator: | Angela Yingjun Zhang (Project Manager/PI) and K. B. Letaief (PI) | |
| Funding: | $976,608 Granted for 2006-2009 | |
14. |
"Design and Performance Analysis of 802.22 Systems," (Industrial Contract with HuaWei) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) and other faculty | |
| Funding: | $1,000,000 Granted for 2006-2007 | |
15. |
"Optimal OFDM/MIMO communications with N-bit partial CSI feedback for single user and multi-user systems," (RGC CERG) | |
| Investigator: | Vince Lau (Project Manager/PI) and K. B. Letaief (PI) | |
| Funding: | $359,224 Granted for 2006-2008 | |
16. |
"Capacity enhancement technologies for the XG wireless networks," (DAG05/06.EG28) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $70,125 Granted for 2005-2006 | |
17. |
"Frequency domain equalization for single-carrier broadband wireless communications," (RGC CERGHKUST 610205) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $359,224 Granted for 2005-2006 | |
18. |
"Compact Antennas," ASTRI (ASTRI-KBL 003.05/06) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager), Roger Cheng, Vince Lau, and Ross Murch | |
| Funding: | $1,500,000 Granted for 2005-2006 | |
19. |
"Reconfigurable OFDM," ASTRI (ASTRI-KBL 001.05/06) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager), C. Y. Tsui, Roger Cheng, Vince Lau, and Wai Ho Mow | |
| Funding: | $800,000 Granted for 2005-2006 | |
20. |
"Practical MIMO," ASTRI (ASTRI-KBL 002.05/06) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager), Roger Cheng, Vince Lau, and Ross Murch | |
| Funding: | $700,000 Granted for 2005-2006 | |
21. |
"Integrated layer adaptation and design for wideband OFDM packet networks with QoS provisioning," RGC (CERG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) and M. Hamdi | |
| Funding: | $974,719 Granted for 2004-2006 | |
22. |
"Design and Performance Analysis of B3G systems Radio Interface," (Industrial Contract with ZTE) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) and other faculty | |
| Funding: | $821,100 Granted for 2004-2005 | |
23. |
"Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communications for Multimedia Applications," Emerging High Impact Area Grant, HKUST | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Co-Investigator) and other faculty | |
| Funding: | $1,000,000 Granted for 2004-2005 | |
24. |
"Multiple-access Design and Performance for Ultra-wideband Wireless Communications," RGC (CERG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $377,149 Granted for 2003-2005 | |
25. |
"Impulse radio for wireless systems," RGC (DAG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $64,300 Granted for 2003-2004 | |
26. |
"Multiuser Resource Allocation for Broadband Multicarrier Wireless Networks," RGC (CERG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $817,404 Granted for 2002-2005 | |
27. |
"Capacity Enhancement and Interference Cancellation in MIMO-OFDM Systems," Industrial Contractwith ETRI, Korea | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $273,000 Granted for 2002-2003 | |
28. |
"Space-time Coding for Wireless Communications," RGC (CERG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $815,569 Granted for 2001-2004 | |
29. |
"Wireless Communications," High Impact Area Grant, HKUST | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) and other faculty | |
| Funding: | $800,000 Granted for 2001-2002 | |
30. |
"Designing Compact Integrated Antennas for Wireless Communications," RGC (CERG) | |
| Investigator: | R. D. Murch (PM) and K. B. Letaief | |
| Funding: | $467,817 Granted for 2000-2002 | |
31. |
"Adaptive transmit antennas for wireless communications systems," RGC (DAG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $40,000 Granted for 1999-2000 | |
32. |
"Space-Time Modems For CDMA Wireless Personal Communications," RGC (CERG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager), R. S. Cheng, and R. D. Murch | |
| Funding: | $405,000 Granted for 1999-2001 | |
33. |
"Performance Characterization and Analysis of ATM Networks, RGC (CERG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager), M. Hamdi, and X. Cao | |
| Funding: | $435,600 Granted for 1997-1999 | |
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"Wireless Multimedia Communications," Hong Kong Telecom Institute of Information technology | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager), R. S. Cheng, R. Murch, O. Au, M. Liou, C. Y. Tsui, J. Lau, C. Ling, | |
| and M. Hamdi | ||
| Funding: | $6,709,000 Granted for 1997-2000 | |
35. |
"Wireless channel access in multimedia personal communication systems," RGC (DAG) | |
| Investigator: | M. Hamdi (PM) and K. B. Letaief | |
| Funding: | $100,000 Granted for 1997-1998 | |
36. |
"CDMA Test Bed," Motorola Ltd. | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief, R. S. Cheng (PM), R. D. Murch, C. C. Ling, and C. Y. Tsui | |
| Funding: | $1,441,000 Granted for 1996-1997 | |
37. |
"Wireless Information Technology Cooperative Research Center," RGC (CRC) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief, R. S. Cheng, K. F. Cheung, T-M. Ko, C. C. Ling, R. D. Murch (PM), and C. Y. Tsui | |
| Funding: | $30,000 Granted for 1996-1997 | |
38. |
"Multicode modulation for high-rate wireless personal communications," RGC (DAG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $3,600,000 Granted for 1997-1999 | |
39. |
"High-speed transmission for wireless communications networks," RGC (CERG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $362,600 Granted for 1996-1998 | |
40. |
"Performance Evaluation of CDMA Communications Over Optical Fiber LANS," RGC (CERG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $331,000 Granted for 1995-1997 | |
41. |
"Inverse Problems in Coupled Surface and Subsurface Transport Processes," RIG | |
| Investigator: | M. Guidaoui (PM), K. B. Letaief, M. J. Davidson, P. Sherestha, and C. H. S. Tong | |
| Funding: | $880,500 Granted for 1995-1996 | |
42. |
"Wideband Wireless Personal Communications," HK Telecom Institute of Information technology | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager), J. C-I Chuang, R. Murch, C. Ling, and T-M. Ko | |
| Funding: | $2,838,000 Granted for 1995-97 | |
43. |
"Analysis and design of cellular CDMA mobile communications networks," RGC (CERG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $303,000 Granted for 1994/96 | |
44. |
"Analysis of multiple-access techniques in optical fiber networks," RGC (DAG) | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief (Project Manager) | |
| Funding: | $50,000 Granted for 1993/94 | |
45. |
"Research Travel Grant," UPGC | |
| Beneficiary: | K. B. Letaief | |
| Funding: | $8,178 (September 1995) | |
46. |
"Research Travel Grant," UPGC | |
| Beneficiary: | K. B. Letaief | |
| Funding: | $9,186 (June 1995) | |
47. |
"Research Travel Grant," UPGC | |
| Beneficiary: | K. B. Letaief | |
| Funding: | $7,588 (November 1994) | |
48. |
"Research Travel Grant," UPGC | |
| Beneficiary: | K. B. Letaief | |
| Funding: | $4,634 (October 1994) | |
49. |
"Efficient importance sampling simulation of coded communications systems," SIG | |
| Beneficiary: | K. B. Letaief | |
| Funding: | AUD$18,000 Granted February 1991 | |
50. |
"Performance analysis of coded communications systems with applications to sequential decoding and trellis code modulation," | |
| Australian Research Council | ||
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief | |
| Funding: | AUD$25,000 Granted for 1993-1994 | |
51. |
"Performance analysis of CDMA techniques in optical fibre networks," Australian Research Council | |
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief | |
| Funding: | AUD$15,000 Granted for 1992-1993 | |
52. |
"Performance analysis of error control schemes and code division multiple access for mobile communications systems," | |
| Australian Telecommunications & Electronics Research Board | ||
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief | |
| Funding: | AUD$5,000 Granted for 1991-1992 | |
53. |
"Analysis of spread spectrum multiple-access methods for digital lightwave systems," Australian Telecommunications & | |
| Electronics Research Board | ||
| Investigator: | K. B. Letaief | |
| Funding: | AUD$4,000 Granted for 19921-1993 | |