Lei ZHOU

 

M.A.Sc Candidate

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

University of Toronto

 

Office: Bahen Centre, Room 4000
Email: zhoulei @ comm.utoronto.ca
Phone:  1-416-978-4829

 

I am currently an M.A.Sc student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, with Prof. Wei Yu as my supervisor.

 

I received my B.E. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2003 and M.A.Sc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Toronto in 2008.

 

RESEARCH INTEREST

 

Ø        Capacity of interference channels.

Ø        Wideband fading channels.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Journal Publications

Ø          Lei Zhou and Wei Yu, “Gaussian Z-Interference Channel with a Relay Link: Achievability Region and Asymptotic Sum Capacity”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, September 2008.

Ø          Lei Zhou “Non-Coherent Mutual Information of the Multipath Ricean Fading Channel in the Low SNR Regime, IEEE Communication Letter, vol. 12, no. 1, January 2008.

 

 

Conference Publications

Ø          Lei Zhou and Wei Yu, “On the Symmetric Capacity of the k-user Symmetric Cyclic Gaussian Interference Channel”, to appear at 44th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS).

Ø          Wei Yu and Lei Zhou, “Gaussian Z-Interference Channel with a Relay Link: Type II Channel and Sum Capacity Bound”, Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop, February 2009.

Ø          Lei Zhou and Wei Yu, “Gaussian Z-Interference Channel with a Relay Link: Achievable Rate Region and Asymptotic Sum Capacity”, International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA 2008), December 2008. (Also present at the poster session of International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2008), July, 2008. slides)

Ø          Lei Zhou, Shidong Zhou and Yan Yao, "A Novel Prior Knowledge Based ML Channel Estimator for Coherent IR-UWB Systems", IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2006), November 2006.

Ø          Lei Zhou, Shidong Zhou and Yan Yao, "Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channels in the Low SNR Regime", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), June 2006.

Ø          Lei Zhou, Shidong Zhou and Yan Yao, "Non-coherent Mutual Information of Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channels in the Low SNR Regime", IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2006), March 2006.

Ø          Lei Zhou, Shidong Zhou and Yan Yao, "Weighted rake receiver for UWB communications with channel estimation errors", IEEE International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS 2005), May 2005.

 

Thesis

Master thesis:

Lei Zhou, "Gaussian Z-Interference Channel with a Relay Link: Achievability Region and Asymptotic Sum Capacity". Supervised by Prof. Wei Yu.

 

Last Modified 2009-4-2