Professor Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo

 

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

 

ADC Chair in Digital Technology

 

 

Recent publications (full publication list)

 

Selected journal papers (published or accepted)

 

· De Maio, A., De Nicola, S., Huang, Y., Luo, Z.-Q. and Zhang, S., ”Design of

Phase Codes for Radar Performance Optimization With a Similarity Constraint,"

Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

 

· Hayashi, S. and Luo, Z.-Q., “Spectrum Management for Interference-limited Mul-

tiuser Communication Systems," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, ac-

cepted.

 

· Srirangarajan, S., Tewfik, A. and Luo, Z.-Q., “Distributed Sensor Network Local-

ization Using SOCP Relaxation," Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions

on Wireless Communications, 2008.

 

· Nassab, V.M., Shahbazpanahi, S., Grami, A. and Luo, Z.-Q., “Distributed Beam-

forming for Relay Networks based on Second Order Statistics of the Channel State

Information," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 56, No 9, pp. 4306-4316,

September 2008.

 

· He, S., Luo, Z.-Q., Nie, J.W. and Zhang, S., “Semidefinite Relaxation Bounds

for Indefinite Homogeneous Quadratic Optimization," Accepted for publication in

SIAM Journal on Optimization, December 2007.

 

·  Luo, Z.-Q. and Zhang, S., “Dynamic Spectrum Management: Complexity and Du-

ality," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal

Processing and Networking for Dynamic Spectrum Access, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 57-73, February 2008.

 

· Singh, J., Luo, Z.-Q. and Sapatnekar, S., “A Geometric Programming-based Worst-

Case Gate Sizing Method Incorporating Spatial Correlation," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 295-308, February 2008.

 

· Matskani, E., Sidiropoulos, N.D., Luo, Z.-Q. and Tassiulas, L., “Convex Approxi-

mation Techniques for Joint Multiuser Downlink Beamforming and Admission Con-

trol," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication, Vol. 7, No. 7, pp. 2682-2693,

July, 2008.

 

· Xiao, J.-J. and Luo, Z.-Q., “Multiterminal Source-Channel Communication Over an

Orthogonal Multiple-Access Channel," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 53,

No. 9, pp. 3255-3264, September 2007.

 

· S.-J. Kim, Magnani, A., Mutapcic, A., Boyd, S.P., and Luo, Z.-Q., “Robust Beam-

forming via Worst-Case SINR Maximization," Accepted for publication in IEEE

Transactions on Signal Processing, May 2007.

 

Selected journal papers (submitted)

 

· Nekuii, M., Kisialiou, M., Davidson, T. N. and Luo, Z.-Q., “Efficient Soft Demodula-

tion of MIMO QPSK via Semidefinite Relaxation," Submitted to IEEE Transactions

on Signal Processing, April 2008.

 

· Kisialiou, M. and Luo, Z.-Q., “Reducing Power Consumption in a Sensor Network

by Information Feedback," Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,

December 2006.

 

· Kisialiou, M., Luo, X.-D., and Luo, Z.-Q., “Quasi-Maximum-Likelihood Detection

Based on Semidefinite Relaxation: Analysis and Implementation," Submitted to

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, December 2006; under revision.

 

· Luo, Z.-Q. and Zhang, S., “Duality Gap Estimation and Polynomial Time Approxi-

mation for Optimal Spectrum Management," Manuscript, Department of Electrical

and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2007; Submitted for publica-

tion; under revision.

 

· Luo, Z.-Q. and Zhang, S., “A Semidefinite Relaxation Scheme for Multivariate

Quartic Polynomial Optimization With Quadratic Constraints," Manuscript, De-

partment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2007;

Submitted to SIAM Journal on Optimization for publication.

 

· Gohary, R., Huang, Y., Luo, Z.-Q. and Pang, J.-S., “A Generalized Iterative Water-

filling Algorithm for Distributed Power Control in the Presence of a Jammer,"

Manuscript, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of

Minnesota, 2008; Submitted for publication.

 

· Kisialiou, M. and Luo, Z.-Q., “Probabilistic Analysis of Semidefinite Relaxation for

Binary Quadratic Minimization," Submitted to SIAM Journal on Optimization for

publication, 2008.

 

Selected conference papers

 

 

· Nekuii, M., Kisialiou, M., Davidson, T. N. and Luo, Z.-Q., “Efficient Soft Demodulation

of MIMO QPSK via Semidefinite Relaxation," Proceedings of 2007 IEEE International

Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp. 2665-2668, April 2008.

 

· Chang, T.-H., Luo, Z.-Q., Li D. and Chi, C.-Y., “A Convex Optimization Method for

Joint Mean and Variance Parameter Estimation of Large-margin CDHMM," Proceedings

of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pp.

4053-4056, April 2008.

 

· Srirangarajan, S., Tewfik, A.H. and Luo, Z.-Q., “Distributed Sensor Network Localization

with Inaccurate Anchor Positions and Noisy Distance Information," Proceedings of 2007

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 3, pp.

III-521--II-524, April 2007.

 

· Razavi, A. and Luo, Z.-Q., “Distributed Optimization in an Energy-Constrained Net-

work," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal

Processing, Vol. 3, pp. III-189-III-192, April 2007.

 

· Kisialiou, M. and Luo, Z.-Q., “Efficient Implementation of a Quasi-Maximum-Likelihood

Detector Based on Semi-Definite Relaxation," Proceedings of IEEE International Con-

ference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 4, pp. IV-1329-IV-1332, April

2007.

 

· Hayashi, S. and Luo, Z.-Q., “Dynamic Spectrum Management: When is FDMA Sum-

Rate Optimal?" Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and

Signal Processing, Vol. 3, pp. III-609-III-612, April 2007.