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.

IEEE Admission & Advancement Committee Panel Member for senior member applications, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2008

U.S. DARPA Research Project Co-PI: (with Princeton University, Kambrook Associates, and Telcordia Technologies), approx $3.5M, 12/1/2002-12/31/2007

Tutorials Speaker: IEEE TENCON, Singapore, Nov. 23, 2009; IEEE 14th OECC, Hong Kong, China, Jul. 13, 2009; IEEE Sarnoff Symp., Princeton, NJ, Apr. 30, 2008

Invited Seminars Speaker: Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, Jul. 17, 2009; National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, Sep. 20, 2006 (funded by Taiwan National Science Council); National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, Sep. 19, 2006 (funded by Taiwan National Science Council); IEEE LEOS-MTTS-APS Joint Chapter, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (March 2002); School of Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (November 2000)

International Conferences Technical Program Committee Member: IADIS Multi Conf. Computer Science and Information Systems--Wireless Applications and Computing (WAC), Freiburg, Germany, July 2010; Int’l Conf. Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS), Milan, Italy, July 2009; WAC, Algarve, Portugal, June 2009; Int’l Symp. Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA), Bologna, Italy, August 2008; WINSYS, Porto, Portugal, July 2008; WAC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2008; WINSYS, Barcelona, Spain, July 2007; WAC, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2007; WINSYS, Setubal, Portugal, August 2006; Int’l Conf. E-Bussiness and Telecommun. Networks (ICETE), Reading, UK, October 2005; IEEE Information Theory Conference (Infocom), Hong Kong, March 2004. 

Archive Journals Reviewer, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Trans. on Communications, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE Trans. on Selected Areas on Communications 

Outstanding Young Engineer Award, IEEE Long Island Section, 1998

Academic Interests:

Communication systems and networks, digital circuits and systems, optical communications

Courses Taught:

Logic Design and Digital Circuits (ENGG 32A)
Digital Circuits Laboratory (ENGG 32B)
Circuits and Device Laboratory (ENGG 34)
Microprocessors (ENGG 36)
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)
Advanced Electronics Laboratory (ENGG 195)

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, 2006.

Technical Digest Articles:

"Study and demonstration of 2^n 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 60

Lin, Y.-C., Yang, G.-C., Chang, C.-Y., and Kwong, W.C., (2011) “Construction of optimal 2D optical codes with (n,w,2,2) optical orthogonal codes,” IEEE Trans. Commun., 59, No. 1, 194-200, January

Wu, S.-M., Yang, G.-C., Chang, C.-Y., and Kwong, W.C., (2011) “A two-level FH-CDMA scheme for wireless communication systems under fading channels,” IEEE Trans. Commun., 59, No. 1, 38-44, January

Sun, C.-C., Yang, G.-C., Chang, C.-Y., and Kwong, W.C., (2010) “Extended multilevel prime codes for optical CDMA,” IEEE Trans. Commun., 58, 1344-1350, May

Hsieh, C.-H., Yang, G.-C., Chang, C.-Y., and Kwong, W.C., (2009) “Multilevel prime codes for optical CDMA systems,” IEEE/OSA J. Opt. Commun. & Networking, vol. 1, 600-607, December

Chen, H.-W., Yang, G.-C., Chang, C.-Y., Lin, T.-C., and Kwong, W.C., (2009) “Spectral efficiency study of two multirate schemes for optical CDMA with/without  symbol synchronization,” IEEE/OSA J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 27, 2771-2778, July

Hsu, C.-C., Yang, G.-C., and Kwong, W.C., (2008) “Hard-limiting performance analysis of 2-D optical codes under the chip-asynchronous assumption,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 56, 762-768, May

Baby, V., Kwong, W.C., Yang, G.-C., Chang, C.-Y., and Prucnal, P.R., (2007) “Performance analysis of variable-weight, multilength optical codes for wavelength-time O-CDMA multimedia systems,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 55, 1325-1333, July

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. Lightw. 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. Lightw. 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 70