Dr Siu Wai Ho

Grant-Funded Senior Research Fellow

School of Mathematical Sciences

College of Science


My current research interests include visible light communications, indoor positioning, information theory, information-theoretic security, and biometric security systems.

Date Position Institution name
2018 - ongoing Senior Research Fellow University of Adelaide

Date Institution name Country Title
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong PhD

Year Citation
2024 Ho, S. -W., Mitchell, L., & Wang, V. (2024). Modelling Channel Attenuation in Hybrid Optical/E-band System. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 23(1`2), 18440-18455.
DOI Scopus2
2024 Ho, S. -W., & Bolding, G. (2024). On the Statistical Property of Hybrid E-Band/Free Space Optical Systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 23(9), 11109-11121.
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2024 Song, C., Ho, S. -W., Huang, W., & Tansu, N. (2024). Camera-based Positioning System for Battery-less Retroreflective Tags. IEEE Sensors Journal, 24(14), 22867-22876.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2024 Wang, R., Niu, G., Cao, Q., Chen, C. S., & Ho, S. W. (2024). A Survey of Visible-Light-Communication-Based Indoor Positioning Systems. Sensors, 24(16), 26 pages.
DOI Scopus23 WoS17 Europe PMC1
2023 Ho, S. -W., Saed, A. A., Gorce, J. -M., & Chen, C. S. (2023). Sinusoidal-Based Multiple Access Scheme for Visible Light Decentralized Asynchronous Systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72(2), 2175-2188.
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2023 Wong, M. -F., Guo, S., Hang, C. -N., Ho, S. -W., & Tan, C. -W. (2023). Natural Language Generation and Understanding of Big Code for AI-Assisted Programming: A Review. Entropy, 25(6), 888.
DOI Scopus93 WoS60 Europe PMC10
2020 Ho, S. -W., Ling, L., Tan, C. W., & Yeung, R. W. (2020). Proving and Disproving Information Inequalities: Theory and Scalable Algorithms. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY, 66(9), 5522-5536.
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2020 Ho, S. W. (2020). The Interplay between Block Design Theory and Channel Estimation in Visible Light System. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 67(2), 991-1007.
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2018 Zhou, Y., Chan, T. H., Ho, S. W., Ye, G., & Wu, D. (2018). Replicating coded content in crowdsourcing-based CDN systems. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 28(12), 3492-3503.
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2018 Ho, S. W., Saed, A. A., Lai, L., & Sung, C. W. (2018). Coding and bounds for channel estimation in visible light communications and positioning. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 36(1), 34-44.
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2018 Zhou, Y., Gu, X., Wu, D., Chen, M., Chan, T. H., & Ho, S. W. (2018). Statistical study of view preferences for online videos with cross-platform information. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 20(6), 1512-1524.
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2018 Zhou, Y., Wu, J., Chan, T. H., Ho, S. W., Chiu, D. M., & Wu, D. (2018). Interpreting video recommendation mechanisms by mining view count traces. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 20(8), 2153-2165.
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2017 Ho, S. W., Duan, J., & Chen, C. S. (2017). Location-based information transmission systems using visible light communications. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 28(1), e2922-1-e2922-14.
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2017 Chen, Y., Sung, C. W., Ho, S. W., & Wong, W. S. (2017). BER analysis and power control for interfering visible light communication systems. Optik, 151, 98-109.
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2016 Parra, J. R., Chan, T. H., & Ho, S. W. (2016). Updatable encryption in distributed storage systems using key-homomorphic pseudorandom functions. International Journal of Information and Coding Theory, 3(4), 365.
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2016 Hu, P., Wan Sung, C., Ho, S. W., & Chan, T. H. (2016). Optimal coding and allocation for perfect secrecy in multiple clouds. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 11(2), 388-399.
DOI Scopus11 WoS8
2016 Yasir, M., Ho, S. W., & Vellambi, B. N. (2016). Indoor position tracking using multiple optical receivers. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 34(4), 1166-1176.
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2015 Nuwanpriya, A., Ho, S. W., & Chen, C. S. (2015). Indoor MIMO visible light communications: novel angle diversity receivers for mobile users. IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications, 33(9), 1780-1792.
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2015 Lai, L., & Ho, S. W. (2015). Key generation algorithms for pairwise independent networks based on graphical models. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 61(9), 4828-4837.
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2015 Nuwanpriya, A., Ho, S. W., Zhang, J. A., Grant, A. J., & Luo, L. (2015). PAM-SCFDE for optical wireless communications. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 33(14), 2938-2949.
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2014 Yasir, M., Ho, S. W., & Vellambi, B. N. (2014). Indoor positioning system using visible light and accelerometer. Journal of lightwave technology, 32(19), 3306-3316.
DOI Scopus237 WoS211
2014 Yang, S., Ho, S. W., Meng, J., & Yang, E. H. (2014). Capacity analysis of linear operator channels over finite fields. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 60(8), 4880-4901.
DOI Scopus18 WoS16
2013 Zhang, J. A., Collings, I. B., Chen, C. S., Roullet, L., Luo, L., Ho, S. W., & Yuan, J. (2013). Evolving small-cell communications towards mobile-over-FTTx networks. IEEE Communications magazine, 51(12), 92-101.
DOI Scopus14 WoS11
2011 Lai, L., Ho, S. W., & Poor, H. (2011). Privacy security trade-offs in biometric security systems part II: multiple use case. IEEE transactions on information forensics and security, 6(1), 140-151.
DOI Scopus38 WoS28
2011 Lai, L., Ho, S. W., & Poor, H. (2011). Privacy security trade-offs in biometric security systems part I: single use case. IEEE transactions on information forensics and security, 6(1), 122-139.
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2010 Ho, S. W., & Yeung, R. W. (2010). The interplay between entropy and variational distance. IEEE transactions on information theory, 56(12, article no. 5625634), 5906-5929.
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2010 Ho, S. W., & Yeung, R. (2010). On information divergence measures and a unified typicality. IEEE transactions on information theory, 56(12), 5893-5905.
DOI Scopus21 WoS17
2010 Ho, S. W., & Verdu, S. (2010). On the interplay between conditional entropy and error probability. IEEE transactions on information theory, 56(12), 5930-5942.
DOI Scopus69 WoS65
2009 Yeung, R., Cai, N., Ho, S. W., & Wagner, A. B. (2009). Reliable communication in the absence of a common clock. IEEE transactions on information theory, 55(2), 700-712.
DOI Scopus14 WoS10
2009 Ho, S. W., & Yeung, R. (2009). On the discontinuity of the Shannon information measures. IEEE transactions on information theory, 55(12), 5362-5374.
DOI Scopus30 WoS30

Year Citation
2023 Ho, S. W., & Chen, C. S. (2023). Visible Light Communication Based Positioning Using Color Sensor. In OGC 2023 - 8th Optoelectronics Global Conference (pp. 20-24). Online: IEEE.
DOI Scopus2
2019 Ling, L., Tan, C. W., Ho, S. W., & Yeung, R. W. (2019). Scalable Automated Proving of Information Theoretic Inequalities with Proximal Algorithms. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings Vol. 2019-July (pp. 1382-1386). online: IEEE.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2019 Ho, S. W. (2019). The Interplay Between Block Design and Channel Estimation in VLC Systems. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings Vol. 2019-July (pp. 146-150). online: IEEE.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2019 Mulinde, R., Kaushik, M., Dissanayake, D. W., Attygalle, M., Chan, T., Ho, S. W., & Aziz, S. M. (2019). DOA estimation of wideband LFM RADAR signals. In 2019 International Radar Conference, RADAR 2019 (pp. 1-6). online: IEEE.
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2018 Saed, A. A., Ho, S. W., Lai, L., & Sung, C. W. (2018). Combinational Code for Channel Estimation in Visible Light Communications and Positioning. In IEEE International Conference on Communications Vol. 2018-May (pp. 1-6). online: IEEE.
DOI Scopus3 WoS1
2017 Saed, A. A., Ho, S. W., Gorce, J. M., & Chen, C. S. (2017). Minimal Noise Variance Decoder for Uncoordinated Multiple Access in VLC. In IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Vol. 2017-June (pp. 1-5). online: IEEE.
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2016 Chen, Y., Sung, C. W., Ho, S. W., & Wong, W. S. (2016). BER analysis for interfering visible light communication systems. In 2016 10th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2016 (pp. 1-6). online: IEEE.
DOI Scopus22
2016 Parra, J. R., Chan, T., & Ho, S. W. (2016). A noiseless key-homomorphic PRF: Application on distributed storage systems. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 9723 (pp. 505-513). Switzerland: Springer.
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2016 Saed, A. A., Yasir, M., Ho, S. W., & Sung, C. W. (2016). Coding for uncoordinated multiple access in visible light positioning systems. In 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ICSPCS 2016 - Proceedings (pp. 1-7). online: IEEE.
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2016 Saed, A. A., Ho, S. W., & Sung, C. W. (2016). Adaptive modulation for two users in VLC. In 2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2015 - Proceedings (pp. 1-6). online: IEEE.
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2016 Yasir, M., Saed, A. A., & Ho, S. W. (2016). Uncoordinated multiple access scheme for VLC systems with positioning capability. In 2016 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, AusCTW 2016 (pp. 118-123). online: IEEE.
DOI Scopus6 WoS3
2016 Yasir, M., Ho, S., & Vellambi, B. (2016). Indoor position tracking using visible light. In 2015 IEEE 82nd Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC Fall 2015 - Proceedings (pp. 1-5). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus2
2016 Ho, S. W., & Sung, C. W. (2016). Uncoordinated multiple access schemes for visible light communications and positioning. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings Vol. 2016-August (pp. 350-354). Online: IEEE.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2015 Chan, T., Ho, S. W., & Yamamoto, H. (2015). Private information retrieval for coded storage. In IEEE International symposium on information theory (ISIT) Vol. 2015-June (pp. 2842-2846). US: IEEE.
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2015 Huynh, T. D., Chen, C. S., & Ho, S. W. (2015). Localization method for device-to-device through user movement. In Proceedings of the International conference on communications conference (pp. 821-826). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2015 Parra, J. R., Chan, T., Land, I. R., & Ho, S. W. (2015). Authentication for two-way relay channel with Physical-Layer Network coding. In ITW2015 : 2015 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (pp. 49-53). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus1
2015 Huynh, T. D., Chen, C. S., & Ho, S. W. (2015). Exploiting user movement for position detection. In 12th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2015 (pp. 513-518). US: IEEE.
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2015 Ho, S. W., & Verdú, S. (2015). Convexity/concavity of renyi entropy and α-mutual information. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Vol. 2015-June (pp. 745-749). US: IEEE.
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2014 Nuwanpriya, A., Ho, S. W., & Chen, C. S. (2014). Angle diversity receiver for indoor MIMO visible light communications. In IEEE Globecom Workshops (Optical Wireless Communications) (pp. 444-449). US: IEEE Press.
DOI Scopus33 WoS18
2014 Hu, P., Sung, C., Ho, S. W., & Chan, T. H. L. (2014). Three-level storage and nested MDS codes for perfect secrecy in multiple clouds. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2014 (pp. 1356-1360). US: IEEE Press.
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2014 Ho, S. W., Tan, W. C., & Yeung, R. W. (2014). Proving and disproving information inequalities. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (pp. 2814-2818). US: IEEE Press.
DOI Scopus10 WoS8
2014 Tan, C., Ho, S. W., Lin, S., & Yeung, R. (2014). Finding the capacity of next-generation networks by linear programming. In IEEE International conference on communication systems, IEEE ICCS 2014 (pp. 192-196). US: IEEE Press.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2013 Yasir, M., Ho, S. W., & Vellambi, R. B. N. (2013). Indoor Localization Using Visible Light and Accelerometer. In Globecom 2013 - Signal Processing for Communications Symposium (pp. 3363-3368). US: IEEE Press.
DOI Scopus30 WoS25
2013 Ho, S. W., Cowley, W. G., Nguyen, K., & Duan, J. (2013). An integrated wireless system using visible light. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) (pp. 61-67). US: IEEE.
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2013 Uduwerelle, C., Chan, T., & Ho, S. W. (2013). The Kraft inequality for EPS systems. In 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2013) (pp. 1546-1550). US: IEEE.
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2013 Ho, S. W., Lai, L., & Grant, A. (2013). Source coding with side information for error free perfect secrecy systems. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory: Proceedings (pp. 2214-2218). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus1
2013 Chan, T. H., & Ho, S. W. (2013). Robust multiple description coding - joint coding for source and storage. In 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2013) (pp. 1809-1813). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2013 Nuwanpriya, A., Zhang, J. A., Grant, A., Ho, S. W., & Luo, L. (2013). Single carrier frequency domain equalization based on on-off-keying for optical wireless communications. In 2013 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) (pp. 4272-4277). US: IEEE.
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2013 Ho, S. -W., Cowley, W. G., Khoa, N., & Duan, J. (2013). An Integrated Wireless System Using Visible Light (<i>Invited Paper</i>). In 2013 IEEE/CIC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS IN CHINA (ICCC) (pp. 61-67). PEOPLES R CHINA, Xian: IEEE.
2012 Ho, S. W., Chan, T., & Grant, A. (2012). Non-entropic inequalities from information constraints. In 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory proceedings (pp. 1256-1260). US: IEEE.
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2012 Uduwerelle, C., Ho, S. W., & Chan, T. (2012). Design of error-free perfect secrecy system by prefix codes and partition codes. In 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT) (pp. 1593-1597). US: IEEE.
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2012 Uduwerelle, C., Ho, S. W., & Chan, T. (2012). Design of an error-free perfect secrecy system for unknown inputs. In 2012 Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW) (pp. 102-107). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus1
2012 Luo, L., Chen, C. S., & Ho, S. W. (2012). On the peak-to-average power ratio of pre-equalized base-field Hartley OFDM. In 2012 IEEE Globecom Workshops (pp. 631-636). United States: IEEE.
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2012 Nuwanpriya, A., Grant, A., Ho, S. W., & Luo, L. (2012). Position modulating OFDM for optical wireless communications. In 2012 IEEE Globecom Workshops (pp. 1219-1223). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus28 WoS19
2012 Ho, S. W. (2012). Some optimization problems in error free perfect secrecy systems. In 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS) (pp. 215-219). US: IEEE.
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2012 Lai, L., & Ho, S. W. (2012). Simultaneously generating multiple keys and multi-commodity flow in networks. In 2012 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2012) (pp. 627-631). US: IEEE.
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2011 Huang, W. C., Ho, S. W., & Chan, T. H. (2011). Finite session codes in asynchronous channel. In B. Krongold, & Y. Hong (Eds.), AusCTW2011: Communications Theory Workshop (pp. 77-82). US: IEEE.
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2011 Chan, T. H., & Ho, S. W. (2011). 2-dimensional interval algorithm. In 2011 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) proceedings (pp. 633-637). US: IEEE.
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2011 Ho, S. W., Chan, T., & Uduwerelle, C. (2011). Error-free perfect-secrecy systems. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) proceedings (pp. 1579-1583). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus13 WoS10
2011 Ho, S. W., Lai, L., & Grant, A. (2011). On the separation of encryption and compression in secure distributed source coding. In IEEE ITW 2011: Information Theory Workshop proceedings (pp. 653-657). New York, US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus3
2010 Lai, L., Ho, S. W., & Poor, H. (2010). Privacy-security tradeoffs in reusable biometric security systems. In Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2010 IEEE International Conference on (pp. 1722-1725). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus7 WoS2
2010 Ho, S. W., Chan, T. H. L., & Grant, A. (2010). The confidence interval of entropy estimation through a noisy channel. In M. Greferath, & J. Rosenthal (Eds.), 2010 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2010) (pp. 1-7). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus3 WoS1
2010 Yang, S., Ho, S. W., Meng, J., & Yang, E. H. (2010). Optimality of subspace coding for linear operator channels over finite fields. In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Information Theory Workshop on Information Theory (ITW 2010) (pp. 400-404). US: IEEE.
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2010 Ho, S. W. (2010). Markov Lemma for Countable Alphabets. In B. Aazhang, & C. Georghiades (Eds.), Information Theory Proceedings (ISIT), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on (pp. 1448-1452). US: IEEE.
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2009 Ho, S. W. (2009). Bounds on the rates of joint source-channel codes for general sources and channels. In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE information theory workshop (pp. 328-332). US: IEEE.
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2009 Ho, S. W. (2009). On the interplay between Shannon's information measures and reliability criteria. In J. S. No, & H. V. Poor (Eds.), IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings (pp. 154-158). US: IEEE.
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2009 Lai, L., Ho, S. W., & Poor, H. (2009). An Information Theoretic Framework for Biometric Security Systems. In M. Tistarelli, & M. Nixon (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science- Advances in Biometrics Vol. 5558 LNCS (pp. 879-888). Berlin: Springer.
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2008 Ho, S. W., & Verdu, S. (2008). Conditional entropy and error porbability. In Proceedings : 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (pp. 1622-1626). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus4 WoS2
2008 Lai, L., Ho, S. W., & Poor, H. V. (2008). Privacy-security tradeoffs in biometric security systems. In 2008 46th annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing : Monticello, IL, USA, 23-26 September 2008 (pp. 268-273). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus39 WoS15
2007 Cai, N., Ho, S. W., & Yeung, R. (2007). Probabilistic Capacity and Optimal Coding for Asynchronous Channel. In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Information theory workshop (ITW 2007) (pp. 54-59). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus12 WoS8
2007 Ho, S. W., & Yeung, R. W. (2007). The interplay between entropy and variational distance. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (pp. 491-495). Nice, FRANCE: IEEE.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2006 Ho, S. W., & Yeung, R. W. (2006). On information divergence measures and a unified typicality. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (pp. 113-117). Seattle, WA: IEEE.
DOI Scopus5 WoS2
2005 Ho, S. W., & Yeung, R. (2005). On the discontinuity of the shannon information measures. In A. Grant, & A. Kennedy (Eds.), Proceedings International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2005) Vol. 2005 (pp. 159-163). Adelaide, South Australia: IEEE Xplore.
DOI Scopus7 WoS3
2004 Ho, S. W., & Yeung, R. (2004). On the relation between the shannon entropy and the von neumann entropy. In D. Costello, & J. Hajek (Eds.), Proceedings 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2004 (pp. 42). Chicago, USA: IEEE Xplore.

Year Citation
2024 Ho, S. W., Mitchell, L., & Wang, V. (2024). Modelling Channel Attenuation in Hybrid Optical/E-band System.
DOI
2024 Wang, R., Niu, G., Cao, Q., Chen, C. S. C., & Ho, S. -W. (2024). A Survey of Visible Light Communication Based Indoor Positioning Systems.
DOI
2023 Ho, S. W., & Bolding, G. (2023). On the Statistical Property of Hybrid E-Band/Free Space  Optical Systems.
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2023 Ho, S. W., & Bolding, G. (2023). On the Statistical Property of Hybrid Optical/E-Band Systems.
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Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 Co-Supervisor Ultra Low Energy Devices for Indoor Positioning with Data Transmission Capability Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Congyu Song
2023 Co-Supervisor Ultra Low Energy Devices for Indoor Positioning with Data Transmission Capability Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Congyu Song

Date Role Membership Country
2003 - ongoing Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers United States

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