Mr Junkai Zhang

Postgraduate

Research Institute: 

  • Imaging, Data and Communications

Research Theme: 

  • Communications
Mr Junkai Zhang

Biography: 

Mr Junkai Zhang is currently a PhD student supervised by Prof John Thompson at the School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, UK. He received his Master's degree at The University of Edinburgh, UK, in Signal Processing and Commnunications with Distinction, in 2019 (Thesis: Fast Kernel Methods in Machine Learning). In 2018, he received his Bachelor's degree at Shenyang Ligong University, China, in Communication Engineering (Thesis: Speech Signal Filtering based on MATLAB).

Academic Qualifications: 

  • PhD in Engineering (Wireless Communications), The University of Edinburgh, UK. Supervised by Prof John Thompson, 2019- to date.
  • MSc in Signal Processing and Communications, with Distinction, The University of Edinburgh, UK. Supervised by Prof Michael E Davies, 2018-2019.
  • BEng in Communication Engineering, Shenyang Ligong University, China. Supervised by Prof Lizhong Zhu, 2014-2018.

Teaching: 

  • Advanced Wireless Communications (Tutor) (2019-2020)
  • Array Processing and MIMO System (Tutor) (2019-2020)
  • Digital Signal Processing Laboratory (Demonstrator) (2020-2021)

Research Interests: 

My research interest is based on mmWave IAB Full Duplex which is also my PhD project. The project aims at designing a New Radio (NR) integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network that is capable of simultaneously wirelessly backhaul the access traffic and wirelessly providing access to UEs utilizing the same time and frequency resources, thus scaling the spectrum efficiency with the number of IAB/user nodes.

Specialities: 

Recent Publications:

  • J. Zhang, N. Garg, M. Holm, and T. Ratnarajah, “Design of Full-Duplex Millimeter-Wave Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks”, IEEE Wireless Commun. Mag., vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 60-67, Feb. 2021.  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9363025

  • J. Zhang, N. Garg, M. Holm, and T. Ratnarajah, “Nyström Method-Based Hybrid Precoding for mmWave Full-Duplex Integrated Access and Backhaul Systems”, in Proc. IEEE WCNC, Nanjing, China, Mar. 2021. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9417423

  • J. Zhang, H. Luo, N. Garg, M. Holm, and T. Ratnarajah, “Design and Analysis of mmWave Full-Duplex Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks”, in Proc. IEEE ICC, Montreal, Canada, June 2021. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9500615

  • N. Garg, J. Zhang, and T. Ratnarajah, “Rate-Energy Balanced Precoding Design for SWIPT Based Two-Way Relay Systems”, IEEE J. Sel. Topics Signal Process., vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1228-1241, Aug. 2021. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9447191

  • J. Zhang, N. Garg, and T. Ratnarajah, “Design of In-Band-Full-Duplex IAB Networks for Integrated Sensing and Communications”, in Proc. IEEE ICC, Seoul, South Korea, May 2022. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9838869

  • J. Zhang, H. Luo, N. Garg, A. Bishnu, M. Holm, and T. Ratnarajah, “Design and Analysis of Wideband In-Band-Full-Duplex FR2-IAB Networks”, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 4183-4196, June 2022. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9618860

  • J. Zhang, N. Garg, and T. Ratnarajah, “In-Band-Full-Duplex Integrated Sensing and Communications for IAB Networks”, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 12782-12796, Dec. 2022. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9847100