Degrees: PHD, 1992, Princeton Univ; MA, 1989, Princeton Univ; BS, 1987, Univ Calif San Diego

Bio:

Areas of Specialization:

Optical communication systems, fiber-optic multiple-access networks, multiple-rate, multimeida optical networks, ultrafast all-optical signal processing techniques, optical wireless, and wireless communication systems

Professional Activities:

Senior Member, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineer (IEEE) (Communications Society, Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS)) since 1997. Associate Editor, Optical Communications Area, IEEE Transactions on Communications, since July 2000.

Member, Technical Program Committee, Int'l Conf. on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS), Setubal, Portugal, August 7-10, 2006.

Member, Technical Program Committee, Int'l Conf. E-Bussiness and Telecommun. Networks (ICETE), Reading, UK, October 3-7, 2005.

Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Information Theory Conference (Infocom), Hong Kong, March 2004.

Invited Seminar, "Optical CDMA: Past, Present, and Future," IEEE LEOS-MTTS-APS Joint Chapter, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (March 2002)

Invited Seminar, "Preventing Four-Wave-Mixing Crosstalk in High-Capacity Long-Haul WDM Systems," School of Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (November 2000)

Reviewer, various IEEE journals and conferences.

Academic Interests:

Communication systems and networks, digital circuits and systems, VHDL and FPGA, ASIC and VLSI circuit design, optical communications

Courses Taught:

Logic Design and Digital Circuits (ENGG 32A)
Digital Circuits Laboratory (ENGG 32B)
Circuits and Device Laboratory (ENGG 34)
Numerical Methods (ENGG 101)
Engineering Electromagnetics (ENGG 104)
Principles of Communication Systems and Noise (ENGG 171)
Computer Aided Circuit Design (ENGG 172)
Signal and Spectrum Transmission (ENGG 177)
Communication Systems Laboratory (ENGG 178)
Electronics Laboratory (ENGG 192)

Most Recent Publications:

Technical Book:
Prime Codes with Applications to CDMA Optical and Wireless Networks (with G.-C. Yang), Artech House, Norwood, MA, January 2002.

Book Chapter:
"O-CDMA Codes" (with G.-C. Yang), Optical CDMA: Fundamentals and Applications, ed.: P.R. Prucnal, Taylor & Francis Books, U.S., New York, 2005.

Technical Digest Articles:
"Study and demonstration of 2n coding architecture for optical code-division multiple-access," (with G.-C. Yang and P.R. Prucnal), Recent Research Developments in Optical Engineering, Research Signpost, Vol. 3, 23-34, 2000.

"Code-division multiple-access in fiber-optic networks with two dimensional optical codes," (with G.-C. Yang), Recent Research Developments in Optical Engineering, Research Signpost, Vol. 2, 71-86, 1999.

Archive Journal Papers (Publications based on peer review):

over 45

Baby, V., Kwong, W.C., Yang, G.-C., Chang, C.-Y., and Prucnal, P.R. (2006) "Performance analysis of variable-weight, multilength optical codes for wavelength-time O-CDMA multimedia systems," IEEE Trans. Commun., accepted

Hsieh, C.-P., Chang, C.-Y., Yang, G.-C., and Kwong, W.C., (2006) "A bipolar-bipolar code for asynchronous wavelength-time optical CDMA," IEEE Trans. Commun., in press

Chang, C.-Y., Yang, G.-C., and Kwong, W.C., (2006) "Wavelength-time codes with maximum cross-correlation functions of two for multicode keying optical CDMA," J. Lightwave Technol., 24, No. 3, 1093-1100, March

Narimanov, E., Kwong, W.C., Yang, G.-C., and Prucnal, P.R. (2005) "Shifted carrier-hopping prime codes for multicode keying in wavelength-time O-CDMA," IEEE Trans. Commun., 53, No. 12, 2150-2156, December

Kwong, W.C., and Yang, G.-C., (2005) "Multiple-length extended carrier-hopping prime codes for optical CDMA systems supporting multirate, multimedia services," IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technol., 23, No. 11, 3652-3662, November

Kwong, W.C., Yang, G.-C., and Liu, Y.-C., (2005) "A new family of wavelength-time optical CDMA codes utilizing programmable arrayed waveguide gratings," IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., 23, No. 8, 1564-1571, August

Yang, G.-C., and Kwong, W.C., (2005) "Performance analysis of extended carrier-hopping prime codes for optical CDMA," IEEE Trans. Commun., 53, No. 5, 876-881, May

Glesk, I., Baby, V., Brès, C.-S., Kwong, W.C., Xu, L., and Prucnal, P.R., (2005) "A design of a frequency-hopping time-spreading incoherent optical CDMA system," Acta Physica Slovaca, 55, No. 2, 211-227, April

Baby, V., Glesk, I., Runser, R.J., Fischer, R., Huang, Y.-K., Brès, C.-S., Kwong, W.C., Curtis, T.H., and Prucnal, P.R., (2005) "Experimental demonstration and scalability analysis of a 4-node 102-Gchip/s fast frequency-hopping time-spreading CDMA network," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 17, No. 1, 253-255, January

Kwong, W.C., Yang, G.-C., and Chang, C.-Y., (2005) "Wavelength-hopping time-spreading optical CDMA with bipolar codes," IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technol., 23, No. 1, 260-267, January

Kwong, W.C., Yang, G.-C., Baby, V., Brès, C.-S., and Prucnal, P.R., (2005) "Multiple-wavelength optical orthogonal codes under prime-sequence permutations for optical CDMA," IEEE Trans. Commun., 53, No. 1, 117-123, January

Kwong, W.C., and Yang, G.-C., (2004) "Multiple-length, multiple-wavelength optical orthogonal codes for optical CDMA systems supporting multirate, multimedia services," Optical Commun. and Networking Series, IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., 22, No. 9, 1640-1647, November

Kwong, W.C., and Yang, G.-C., (2004) "Extended carrier-hopping prime codes for wavelength-time optical code-division multiple-access," IEEE Trans. Commun., 52, No. 7, 1084-1091, July

Yang, G.-C., and Kwong, W.C., (2004) "A new class of carrier-hopping codes for code-division multiple-access optical and wireless systems," IEEE Commun. Lett., 8, No. 1, 51-53, January

Kwong, W.C., and Yang, G.-C., (2002) "Design of multilength optical orthogonal codes for optical code-division multiple-access multimedia networks," IEEE Trans. Commun., 50, No. 8, 1258-1265, August

Zhang, J.-G., Sharma, A.B., and Kwong, W.C., (2002) "All-optical code-division-multiplexing technique supporting multirate data communications and local-area-network interconnections," OSA Applied Optics, 41, No. 5, 832-844, February

Kwong, W.C., and Yang, G.-C., (2001) "Double-weight signature pattern codes for multicore-fiber code-division multiple-access networks," IEEE Commun. Lett., 5, No. 5, 203-205, May

Conference Articles (Publications based on peer review):

over 50