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Weidong Xiang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Phone (313) 593-5525
Email 126 Engineering Laboratory Building (ELB)
University of Michigan - Dearborn
Dearborn, Michigan 48128
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Education
  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. July 1999
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. July 1996
Areas of Research Interests
  • Wireless Communications Technologies: ultra wideband (UWB) radio, cognitive radio/software radio, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO);
  • Communications Systems and Networks: inter-vehicle and intra-vehicle wireless communications networks; wireless local area networks (WLAN); wireless metropolitan area networks (wireless MAN), wireless sensor networks, and the third/fourth generation cellular mobile communications systems (3/4G);
  • Wireless networked control systems (Wireless NCS): wireless controller areas networks (wireless CAN);
Selected Publications
  1. T. Luo, T. Jiang, W. Xiang, and H. Cheng, “A study on multicarrier modulation scheme for cognitive radio systems," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., 2008.
  2. T. Jiang, W. Xiang, H. Chen, and Q. Ni, “Multicast broadcasting services support in OFDMA-based wimax systems," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 45, pp. 78{86, Aug. 2007.
  3. W. Xiang, P. Richardson, and C. Zhao, “Automobile brake-by-wire control system design and analysis," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 57, Jan. 2008.
  4. T. Jiang and W. Xiang, “On nonlinear companding transformation for PAPR in OFDM systems," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Commun., vol. 6, Jun. 2007.
  5. ______, “PAPR reduction of ofdm signals using partial transmit sequences with low computational complexity," IEEE Trans. on Broadcast., vol. 53, pp.719-724, Sept. 2007.
  6. ______, “Derivation of papr distribution for ofdm wireless systems based on extreme value theory," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 7, pp. 1298-1305, Apr. 2007.
  7. P. Richardson, W. Xiang, and W. Stark, “Modeling of ultra wide band channels within vehicles," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 24, pp906-912, Apr. 2006.
  8. W. Xiang, D. Waters, T. Pratt, and B. Walkenhorst, “Implementation and experimental results of a three-transmitter three-receiver ofdm/blast testbed," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 42, pp.88-95, Dec. 2004.
  9. W. Xiang, P. Pratt, and X. Wang, “A software radio testbed for two-transmitter two-receiver space-time coding OFDM wireless LAN," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 42, pp.54-62, Jun. 2004.
  10. W. Xiang, P. Richardson, B. Walkenhorst, X. Wang, and T. Pratt, \A high-speed four-transmitter four-receiver mimo ofdm testbed: Experiment results and analyses," EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing (JASP) special issue on MIMO testbed, pp.1-10, 2006
  11. X. Xiang and W. Xiang, \An ofdm-tdma/sa mac protocol for broadband wireless LANs with QoS constraints," (Springer) Wireless Networks, vol.12, pp.159-170, 2006
  12. P. Richardson and W. Xiang, \Performance analysis of a real-time control network testbed in a linux based system with sporadic message arrivals," IEEE Trans. Ind. Informat., vol. 2, pp.231-241, Nov. 2006.