Publications

Note: ‘*’ marks co-primary authors.

• Enhancing mmWave Radar Sensing Using a Phased-MIMO Architecture
  Kai Zheng, Wuqiong Zhao, Timothy Woodford, Renjie Zhao, Xinyu Zhang, and Yingbo Hua
  22nd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2024
  (43 out of 263 submissions, acceptance ratio: 16.3%)

• Enabling OFDMA in Wi-Fi Backscatter
  Fengyuan Zhu, Renjie Zhao, Bingbing Wang, Xinbing Wang, Xinping Guan, Chenghu Zhou, and Xiaohua Tian
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2023
  [ Paper Link ]

• SlimWiFi: Ultra-Low-Power IoT Radio Architecture Enabled by Asymmetric Communication
  Renjie Zhao, Kejia Wang, Kai Zheng, Xinyu Zhang, and Leung Vincent 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2023 (46 out of 288 submissions, acceptance ratio: 16.0%)
  [ Full Paper: PDF ] [ Slides and video: NSDI’23 ]

• RF-Chord: Towards Deployable RFID Localization System for Logistic Networks
  Bo Liang, Purui Wang, Renjie Zhao, Pengyu Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Hongqiang Harry Liu and Chenren Xu
  20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2023
  (50 out of 272 submissions, acceptance ratio: 18.4%)
  [ Full Paper: PDF ] [ Slides and video: NSDI’23 ]

• M-CUBE: A Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Software Radio (Invited, Highlighted) Renjie Zhao, Timothy Woodford, Teng Wei, Kun Qian and Xinyu Zhang
  GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2021, pp 30-33
  [ Full Paper: PDF ]

• NFC+: Breaking NFC Networking Limits through Resonance Engineering
  Renjie Zhao*, Purui Wang*, Yunfei Ma, Pengyu Zhang, Hongqiang Harry Liu, Xianshang Lin, Xinyu Zhang, Chenren Xu and Ming Zhang
  Annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication (SIGCOMM), 2020
  (54 out of 250 submissions, acceptance ratio: 22%)
  [ Full Paper: PDF ] [ Slides: PPTX ] [ Video: Link ]

• M-Cube: A Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Software Radio (Best Paper Award, 2/384) Renjie Zhao, Timothy Woodford, Teng Wei, Kun Qian and Xinyu Zhang
  ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2020
  (62 out of 384 submissions, acceptance ratio: 16%)
  [ Full Paper: PDF ] [ Slides: PPTX ] [ Video: Link ]

• OFDMA-Enabled Wi-Fi Backscatter
  Renjie Zhao, Fengyuan Zhu, Siyuan Peng, Yuda Feng, Xiaohua Tian, Hui Yu and Xinbing Wang
  ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2019
  (55 out of 290 submissions, acceptance ratio: 19%)
  [ Full Paper: PDF ] [ Slides: PPTX ] [ Video: Link ]