Professor Xiaoli Chu

PhD, BEng

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Professor in Wireless Communications

Communications Research Group

Xiaoli Chu
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x.chu@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5903

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Professor Xiaoli Chu
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Profile

I received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Xi’an Jiao Tong University in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2005.

From September 2005 to April 2012, I was with the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King’s College London.

I am interested in the modelling, analysis and algorithm design for improving the performance and efficiency of wireless communication systems.

My current research focuses on heterogeneous and small cell networks, wireless communications in unlicensed spectrum, and cloud/mobile-edge/fog/device-to-device assisted radio access networks.

These are all key enabling technologies for 5G and future mobile communications. I am the lead editor/author of the book “Heterogeneous Cellular Networks – Theory, Simulation and Deployment” published by Cambridge University Press (May 2013) and the book “4G Femtocells: Resource Allocation and Interference Management” published by Springer US (November 2013).

I am co-recipient of the IEEE Communications Society 2017 Young Author Best Paper Award.

I am Editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and the IEEE Communications Letters, and was Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and the ACM/Springer Journal of Mobile Networks & Applications.

I was Co-Chair of Wireless Communications Symposium for the IEEE International Conference on Communications 2015 (ICC’15), Workshop Co-Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications 2013 (GreenCom’13), and have organised a number of workshops on heterogeneous and small cell networks and ultra-dense networks for IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM, WCNC, and PIMRC.

Qualifications
  • PhD (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 2005
  • BEng (Electronic and Information Engineering), Xi'an Jiao Tong University 2001
Research interests

My research interests fall into the broad area of Wireless Communications, with a current focus on the following topics

  •     5G/6G enabling technologies: air interface and transmission technologies, network architecture, and resource allocation
  •     Integration and coordination of communication, computing, sensing, control and localization
  •     Wireless networked control of mobile robotic objects, e.g., autonomous driving, IoT industry automation
  •     Cloud/edge/fog/device-computing assisted radio access networks
  •     Energy efficiency and sustainability in wireless communications, including wireless energy transfer and harvesting
  •     Dynamic and intelligent spectrum sharing and accessing
  •     Space-air-ground-sea integrated networks

Research projects

Publications

Books

  • Yang Y, Luo X, Chu X & Zhou M-T (2020) Fog-Enabled Intelligent IoT Systems. Springer International Publishing. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Duong TQ, Chu X & Suraweera HA (2019) Ultra-dense Networks for 5G and Beyond. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang H, Chu X & Wen X (2013) 4G Femtocells: Resource Allocation and Interference Management. New York: Springer. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang H, Chu X & Wen X (2013) Preface. RIS download Bibtex download

Edited books

Journal articles

Chapters

Conference proceedings papers

Preprints

  • Zhang Y, Khosravirad SR, Chu X & Uusitalo MA (2023) On the IRS Deployment in Smart Factories Considering Blockage Effects: Collocated or Distributed?, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wang H, Li H, Ye Q, Lu P, Yang Y, Chong PHJ, Chu X, Lv Q & Smahi A (2023) A Physical Topology for Optimizing Partition Tolerance in Consortium Blockchains to Reach CAP Guarantee Bound, Authorea, Inc.. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Yang S, Zhang Z, Zhang J, Chu X & Zhang J (2022) Adaptive Modulation for Wobbling UAV Air-to-Ground Links in Millimeter-wave Bands. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wang H, Li H, Wang Z, Han B, Zhang M, Chong PHJ, Chu X, Liu Y, Liew S-Y & Wuttisittikulkij L (2021) A P2P Network Topology for Optimizing Partition Tolerance to Reach the CAP Guarantee Bound in Consortium Blockchains, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ye Y, Shi L, Chu X & Lu G (2020) On the Outage Performance of Ambient Backscatter Communications, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ye Y, Shi L, Chu X, Zhang H & Lu G (2018) On the Outage Performance of SWIPT Based Three-step Two-way DF Relay Networks, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Shi L, Ye Y, Chu X, Zhang Y & Zhang H (2018) Optimal Combining and Performance Analysis for Two-Way EH Relay Systems with TDBC Protocol, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gao Y, Hu H, Wu Y, Chu X & Zhang J (2018) Energy Efficient and Fair Resource Allocation for LTE-Unlicensed Uplink Networks: A Two-sided Matching Approach with Partial Information, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang H, Qiu Y, Chu X, Long K & Leung VCM (2017) Fog Radio Access Networks: Mobility Management, Interference Mitigation and Resource Optimization, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang H, Liu N, Chu X, Long K, Aghvami A & Leung VCM (2017) Network Slicing Based 5G and Future Mobile Networks: Mobility, Resource Management, and Challenges, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Guo W, Zhou S, Chen Y, Wang S, Chu X & Niu Z (2016) Simultaneous Information and Energy Flow for IoT Relay Systems with Crowd Harvesting, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhang H, Chu X, Guo W & Wang S (2015) Coexistence of Wi-Fi and Heterogeneous Small Cell Networks Sharing Unlicensed Spectrum, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Guo W, Wang S & Chu X (2013) Towards a Better Understanding of Multi-User Cooperation: A Tradeoff between Transmission Reliability and Rate, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Guo W, Wang S, Chu X, Chen J, Song H & Zhang J (2013) Automated Small-Cell Deployment for Heterogeneous Cellular Networks, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bharucha Z, Calvanese E, Chen J, Chu X, Feki A, De Domenico A, Galindo-Serrano A, Guo W, Kwan R, Liu J , López-Pérez D et al (2012) Small Cell Deployments: Recent Advances and Research Challenges, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chu X, Wu Y, López-Pérez D & Tao X (2012) On Providing Downlink Services in Collocated Spectrum-Sharing Macro and Femto Networks, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Liu Y, Wan Q & Chu X (2010) A Robust Beamformer Based on Weighted Sparse Constraint, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Liu Y, Wan Q & Chu X (2010) Power-Efficient Ultra-Wideband Waveform Design Considering Radio Channel Effects, arXiv. RIS download Bibtex download
Teaching activities
  • EEE6224
Professional activities and memberships
  • Professor
  • Departmental Director of Admissions
Research students
Student Degree Status Primary/Secondary
E N PhD Graduated Primary
Klaiqi B PhD Graduated Primary
Li L PhD Graduated Primary
Wu Y PhD Graduated Primary