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Ligong Wang,
ETIS, UMR 8051,
6, avenue du Ponceau,
F-95000, Cergy-Pontoise,
France
Tel: (+33) 1 30 73 62 96

ligong.wang@ensea.fr


Journal Papers
[20] Samet Gelincik, Michèle Wigger, and Ligong Wang, “Benefits of Local Cooperation in Sectorized Cellular Networks Under a Complexity Constraint,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 3897–3910, Jun. 2021. [ pdf ]
[19] Ligong Wang, “Covert Communication Over the Poisson Channel,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 23–31, Mar. 2021. [ pdf ]
[18] Longguang Li, Stefan M. Moser, Ligong Wang, and Michèle Wigger, “On the Capacity of MIMO Optical Wireless Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 5660–5682, Sept. 2020. [ pdf ]
[17] Ligong Wang, “Asymptotic Capacity Results on the Discrete-Time Poisson Channel and the Noiseless Binary Channel with Detector Dead Time,” Entropy, vol. 22, no. 8, 846, Aug. 2020. [ pdf ]
[16] Ligong Wang, “On Gaussian Covert Communication in Continuous Time,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2019:283, Dec. 2019. [ pdf ]
[15] Ligong Wang, “The Poisson Channel with Varying Dark Current Known to the Transmitter,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 4966–4978, Aug. 2019. [ pdf ]
[14] Sadaf Salehkalaibar, Michèle Wigger, and Ligong Wang, “Hypothesis Testing Over the Two-Hop Relay Network,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 7, pp. 4411–4433, Jul. 2019. [ pdf ]
[13] Stefan M. Moser, Ligong Wang, and Michèle Wigger, “Capacity Results on Multiple-Input Single-Output Wireless Optical Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 64, no. 11, pp. 6954–6966, Nov. 2018. [ pdf ]
[12] Si-Hyeon Lee, Ligong Wang, Ashish Khisti, and Gregory W. Wornell, “Covert Communication with Channel-State Information at the Transmitter,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 2310–2319, Sept. 2018. [ pdf ]
[11] Ligong Wang, Gregory W. Wornell, and Lizhong Zheng, “Fundamental Limits of Communication with Low Probability of Detection,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 3493–3503, Jun. 2016. [ pdf ]
[10] Amos Lapidoth, Andreas Malär, and Ligong Wang, “Covering Point Patterns,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 61, no. 9, pp. 4521–4533, Sept. 2015.[ pdf ]
[9] Tian Zhong, Hongchao Zhou, Robert D. Horansky, Catherine Lee, Varun B. Verma, Adriana E. Lita, Alessandro Restelli, Joshua C. Bienfang, Richard P. Mirin, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw, Zheshen Zhang, Ligong Wang, Dirk Englund, Gregory W. Wornell, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, and Franco N. C. Wong, “Photon-efficient quantum key distribution using time-energy entanglement with high-dimensional encoding,” New Journal of Physics, vol. 17, 022002, Feb. 2015.
[8] Catherine Lee, Zheshen Zhang, Gregory R. Steinbrecher, Hongchao Zhou, Jacob Mower, Tian Zhong, Ligong Wang, Xiaolong Hu, Robert D. Horansky, Varun B. Verma, Adriana E. Lita, Richard P. Mirin, Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw, Sae Woo Nam, Gregory W. Wornell, Franco N. C. Wong, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, and Dirk Englund, “Entanglement-based quantum communication secured by nonlocal dispersion cancellation,” Physical Review A, vol. 90, 062331, Dec. 2014.
[7] Yuval Kochman, Ligong Wang and Gregory W. Wornell, “Toward Photon-Efficient Key Distribution over Optical Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 60, no. 8, pp. 4958–4972, Aug. 2014.[ pdf ]
[6] Ligong Wang and Gregory W. Wornell, “A Refined Analysis of the Poisson Channel in the High-Photon-Efficiency Regime,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 4299– 4311, Jul. 2014.[ pdf ]
[5] Nivedita Chandrasekaran, Jeffrey H. Shapiro and Ligong Wang, “Photon Information Efficient Communication Through Atmospheric Turbulence - Part II: Bounds on Ergodic Classical and Private Capacities,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1088–1097, Mar. 2014.[ pdf ]
[4] Amos Lapidoth and Ligong Wang, “The State-Dependent Semideterministic Broadcast Channel,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 2242–2251, Apr. 2013.[ pdf ]
[3] Ligong Wang and Renato Renner, “One-Shot Classical-Quantum Capacity and Hypothesis Testing,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 108, 200501, May 2012.[ pdf ]
[2] Amos Lapidoth, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Vinod Venkatesan and Ligong Wang, “The Discrete-Time Poisson Channel at Low Input Powers,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 3260–3272, Jun. 2011.[ pdf ]
[1] Vignesh Sethuraman, Ligong Wang, Bruce Hajek and Amos Lapidoth, “Low SNR Capacity of Noncoherent Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 1555–1574, Apr. 2009.[ pdf ]

Conference Proceedings
[32] Hangmei Rao and Ligong Wang, “An Extensible Covert Communication Scheme Over the AWGN Channel With Feedback,” 2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Mumbai, India, 1–9 Nov. 2022. [ pdf ]
[31] Shuai Ma, Stefan M. Moser, Ligong Wang, and Michèle Wigger, “Signaling for MISO Channels Under First- and Second-Moment Constraints,” 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Espoo, Finland, 26 Jun.–1 Jul. 2022. [ pdf ]
[30] Yuval Kochman and Ligong Wang, “On the Communication Exponent of Distributed Testing for Gaussian Correlations,” 2020 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Riva del Garda, Italy, 11–15 Apr. 2021. [ pdf ]
[29] Ligong Wang and Gregory W. Wornell, “Communication Subject to State Obfuscation,” 2020 International Zurich Seminar on Information and Communication, Zurich, Switzerland, 26–28 Feb. 2020. [ pdf ]
[28] Longguang Li, Stefan M. Moser, Ligong Wang, and Michèle Wigger “On the Capacity of Block Fading Optical Wireless Channels,” 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 9–13 Dec. 2019. [ pdf ]
[27] David Kibloff, Samir M. Perlaza, and Ligong Wang, “Embedding Covert Information on a Given Broadcast Code,” 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Paris, France, 7–12 Jul. 2019. [ pdf ]
[26] Longguang Li, Stefan M. Moser, Ligong Wang, and Michèle Wigger, “On the Capacity of MIMO Optical Wireless Channels,” 2018 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Guangzhou, China, 25–29 Nov. 2018. [ pdf ]
[25] Samet Gelincik, Michèle Wigger, and Ligong Wang, “DoF in Sectored Cellular Systems with BS Cooperation Under a Complexity Constraint,” 15th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 28–31 Aug. 2018. [ pdf ]
[24] Ligong Wang, “On Covert Communication Over Infinite-Bandwidth Gaussian Channels,” 19th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Kalamata, Greece, 25–28 Jun. 2018 (invited paper). [ pdf ]
[23] Ligong Wang, “The Continuous-Time Poisson Channel Has Infinite Covert Communication Capacity,” 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Vail, CO, USA, 17–22 Jun. 2018. [ pdf ]
[22] Keerthi S. K. Arumugam, Matthieu R. Bloch, and Ligong Wang, “Covert Communication over a Physically Degraded Relay Channel with Non-Colluding Wardens,” 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Vail, CO, USA, 17–22 Jun. 2018. [ pdf ]
[21] Longguang Li, Stefan M. Moser, Ligong Wang, and Michèle Wigger, “The MISO Free-Space Optical Channel at Low and Moderate SNR,” 52th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, USA, 21–23 Mar. 2018 (invited paper). [ pdf ]
[20] Stefan M. Moser, Ligong Wang, and Michèle Wigger, “Asymptotic High-SNR Capacity of MISO Optical Intensity Channels,” 2017 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 6–10 Nov. 2017. [ pdf ]
[19] Sadaf Salehkalaibar, Michèle Wigger, and Ligong Wang, “Hypothesis Testing over Cascade Channels,” 2017 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 6–10 Nov. 2017. [ pdf ]
[18] Ligong Wang, “A Strong Data Processing Inequality for Thinning Poisson Processes and Some Applications,” 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Aachen, Germany, 25–30 Jun. 2017. [ pdf ]
[17] Si-Hyeon Lee, Ligong Wang, Ashish Khisti, and Gregory W. Wornell, “Covert Communication with Noncausal Channel-State Information at the Transmitter,” 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Aachen, Germany, 25–30 Jun. 2017. [ pdf ]
[16] Stefan M. Moser, Michail Mylonakis, Ligong Wang, and Michèle Wigger, “Asymptotic Capacity Results for MIMO Wireless Optical Communication,” 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Aachen, Germany, 25–30 Jun. 2017. [ pdf ]
[15] Ligong Wang, “Optimal Throughput for Covert Communication Over a Classical-Quantum Channel,” 2016 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 11–14 Sept. 2016. [ pdf ]
Erratum: The published ITW paper contains a mistake in the main theorem. The above-linked version is correct, and is also available at  arXiv:1603.05823
[14] Ligong Wang, “On the Continuous-Time Poisson Channel with Varying Dark Current Known to the Transmitter,” 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Barcelona, Spain, 10–15 Jul. 2016. [ pdf ]
Erratum: The outlined proof for Proposition 3 is incorrect; whether Proposition 3 itself is correct or not is unknown. A correct theorem and its proof are given in Journal Paper [15] above.
[13] Ligong Wang, Gregory W. Wornell, and Lizhong Zheng, “Limits of Low-Probability-of-Detection Communication over a Discrete Memoryless Channel,” 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Hong Kong, 14–19 Jun. 2015. [ pdf ]
[12] Ligong Wang and Gregory W. Wornell, “The Impact of Dark Current on the Wideband Poisson Channel,” 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, HI, USA, 29 Jun.–4 Jul. 2014. [ pdf ]
[11] Hongchao Zhou, Ligong Wang and Gregory W. Wornell, “Layered Schemes for Large-Alphabet Secret Key Distribution,” 2013 Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego, CA, USA, 10–15 Feb. 2013 (invited paper). [ pdf ]
[10] Arya Mazumdar and Ligong Wang, “Covering Arbitrary Point Patterns,” 50th Annual Allerton Conference, Allerton House, IL, USA, 1–5 Oct. 2012. [ pdf ]
[9] Ligong Wang and Gregory W. Wornell, “A Refined Analysis of the Poisson Channel in the High-Photon-Efficiency Regime,” 2012 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, 3–7 Sept. 2012. [ pdf ]
[8] Nivedita Chandrasekaran, Jeffrey H. Shapiro and Ligong Wang, “Photon Information Efficient Communication through Atmospheric Turbulence,” SPIE Optics + Photonics 2012, San Diego, CA, USA, 12–16 Aug. 2012. [ pdf ]
[7] Amos Lapidoth and Ligong Wang, “The State-Dependent Semideterministic Broadcast Channel,” 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1–6 Jul. 2012. [ pdf ]
[6] Amos Lapidoth, Andreas Malär and Ligong Wang, “Covering Point Patterns,” 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 31 Jul.–5 Aug. 2011. [ pdf ]
[5] Shahab Asoodeh, Amos Lapidoth and Ligong Wang, “It Takes Half the Energy of a Photon to Send One Bit Reliably on the Poisson Channel with Feedback,” Sixth Joint Workshop on Coding and Communications, Relais San Maurizio, Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy, 17–19 Oct. 2010 (invited paper). [ pdf ]
[4] Shraga I. Bross, Amos Lapidoth, and Ligong Wang, “The Poisson Channel with Side Information,” 47th Annual Allerton Conference, Allerton House, IL, USA, 30 Sept.–2 Oct. 2009. [ pdf ]
[3] Ligong Wang, Roger Colbeck, and Renato Renner, “Simple Channel Coding Bounds,” 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seoul, Korea, 28 Jun.–3 Jul. 2009. [ pdf ]
[2] Amos Lapidoth, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Vinod Venkatesan, and Ligong Wang, “The Poisson Channel at Low Input Powers,” 25th Convention of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, Eilat, Israel, 3–5 Dec. 2008. [ pdf ]
[1] Vignesh Sethuraman, Ligong Wang, Bruce Hajek, and Amos Lapidoth, “Low SNR Capacity of Fading Channels - MIMO and Delay Spread,” 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Nice, France, 24–29 Jun. 2007. [ pdf ]