PENG KewuAssociate Research Professor , Ph.D

  • Email : pengkewu@tsinghua.edu.cn
  • Phone : 13683193557
  • Address : FIT Building 1-410, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Education Background

Jan.2000 - May.2003 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A., May.2003 Supervisor: John Kieffer (Professor, IEEE Fellow), Thesis: Embedded Image Transmission over Block Fading Channels

Sep.1993 - Jul.1996  M.E. in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Jul. 1996, Supervisor: Shi Qin (Professor), Thesis: Research and Development of Direct Frequency Synthesizer

Sep.1989 - Jul.1993  B.E. in Electronic Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China,  Jul. 1993


Work Experience

Aug.2019 - Present, National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Associate Professor

Jan.2005 - Jul.2019,  Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University, Research Staff, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor

Aug.1996 - Aug.1999, Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Instructor and Lecturer


Academic Affiliations

Senior Member, IEEE (Since Feb 2014)


Research Areas

(1)Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting

(2)Broadband Mobile Communications

(3)Information Theory, Modulation and Coding, Non-Orthogonal Multiplexing/Multiple-Access


Research Overview

Wavelet Pixel Classification and Sorting (PCAS) for Embedded Image Compression;

Gray-APSK for Gaussian-like Constellation Mapping;

Row-Splitting-and-Combining for Multi-Rate QC-LDPC Construction;

Three Dimensional Grid based Progressive Edge Growth and Lifting (3D-G-PEGL) for conventional and Spatially-Coupled QC-LDPC construction;

Bit Division Multiplexing (BDM) for Non-Orthogonal Multiplexing over Degraded Broadcast Channel;

Resource-Pattern-Aided Bit-Interleaved Coded Multiple Access (BICMA) for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access over Multiple Access Channel


Awards and Honors

(1) First Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (2016)


Academic Achievements

[1] Zhitong He; Kewu Peng; Jian Song; Rate-Compatible Length-Scalable Quasi-Cyclic Spatially-Coupled LDPC Codes; IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting; Year: 2025 | Volume: 71, Issue: 1

[2] Zhitong He; Kewu Peng; Chao Zhang; Jian Song; Low-Rate LDPC Code Design for DTMB-A; IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting; Year: 2024 | Volume: 70, Issue: 2

[3] Xia An; Chao Zhang; Kewu Peng; Zhitong He; Jian Song; Adaptive Quantized and NormalizedMSA Based on Modified MET-DE and Its Application for 5G-NR LDPC Codes, IEEE Access, 2023, 11(11):101123-101133

[4] Shunlei Zhang; Kewu Peng; Jian Song; Performance Analysis and Power Allocation for Spatial Modulation-Aided MIMO-LDM With Finite Alphabet Inputs; IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting; Year: 2023 | Volume: 69, Issue: 1

[5] Zhitong He; Kewu Peng; Jian Song; Multi-Layer Progressive Tree-Structured Edge GrowthAlgorithm for Nested Lifting Design of 5G-NR-Like LDPC Codes, IEEE Communications Letters, 2022,26(12): 2836-2840

[6] Zhitong He; Kewu Peng; Jian Song; Yushu Zhang ; Sliding Window Decoding for QC-SC-LDPCCodes Under the Constraint of Implementation Complexity, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2022,2022(06): 305-316

[7] Fengshuang Li; Chao Zhang; Kewu Peng; Aleksei E. Krylov; Aleksandr A. Katyushnyj; Andrey V. Rashich; Dmitry A. Tkachenko; Sergey B. Makarov; Jian Song; Review on 5G NR LDPC Code: Recommendations for DTTB System; IEEE Access; Year: 2021 | Volume: 9

[8] Zhang, Yushu; Peng, Kewu; Song, Jian; Wu, Yiyan; Quasi-Cyclic Spatially Coupled LDPC Code for Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2020, 66(1): 187-194

[9] Yushu Zhang; Kewu Peng; Zhangmei Chen; Jian Song; Construction of Rate-Compatible Raptor-Like Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Code With Edge Classification for IDMA Based Random Access; IEEE Access; Year: 2019 | Volume: 7 | Journal Article

[10] Chen, Shuang; Peng, Kewu; Song, Jian; Zhang, Yushu; Performance Analysis of PracticalQC-LDPC Codes: From DVB-S2 to ATSC 3.0, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2019, 65(1): 172-178

[11] Jian Song; Chao Zhang; Kewu Peng; Jintao Wang; Changyong Pan; Fang Yang; Jun Wang; Hui Yang; Yonglin Xue; Yu Zhang; Zhixing Yang; Key Technologies and Measurements for DTMB-A System; IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting; Year: 2019 | Volume: 65, Issue: 1

[12] Performance Analysis and Code Optimization of IDMA with 5G New Radio LDPC Code, IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, Vol 22, No 8, pp 1552-1555, AUG 2018 Zhang, Yushu; Peng, Kewu; Wang, Xianbin; Song, Jian;

[13] Progressive Matrix Growth Algorithm for Constructing Rate-Compatible Length-Scalable Raptor-Like Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BROADCASTING, Vol 64, No 4, pp 816-829, DEC 2018; Zhang, Yushu; Peng, Kewu; Chen, Zhangmei; Song, Jian;

[14] Cheng, Tao; Peng, Kewu; Yang, Fang; Song, Jian; Yang, Zhixing; A Near-Capacity MIMO Coded Modulation Scheme for Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting; IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting; 2015; 61(3): 367-375.

[15] Tao Cheng, Kewu Peng, Zaishuang Liu, and Zhixing Yang, Efficient Receiver Architecture for LDPC Coded BICM-ID System, IEEE Tran. Comm. Letter, 2015, vol. 19 ,no.7, pp.1089-1092, July 2015.

[16] Jin, Huangping; Peng, Kewu; Song, Jian; A spectrum efficient multi-user transmission scheme for 5G systems with low complexity; IEEE Communications Letters; 2015; 19(4): 613-616.

[17] Song, Jian; Jin, Huangping; Peng, Kewu; Approaching Capacity Region for Two-User GBC With Bit-Division Multiplexing; IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; 2015; 64(7): 3311-3316.

[18] Huang, Jiachen; Peng, Kewu; Pan, Changyong; Yang, Fang; Jin, Huangping; Scalable video broadcasting using bit division multiplexing; IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting; 2014; 60(4): 701-706.

[19] Jin, Huangping; Peng, Kewu; Song, Jian; Backward compatible multi-service transmission over the DTMB system; IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting; 2014; 60(3): 499-510.

[20] Jin, Huangping; Peng, Kewu; Song, Jian; Bit division multiplexing for broadcasting; IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting; 2013; 59(3): 539-547.

[21] Cheng, Tao; Peng, Kewu; Song, Jian; Yan, Keqian; EXIT-aided bit mapping design for LDPC coded modulation with APSK constellations; IEEE Communications Letters; 2012; 16(6): 777-780.

[22] Keqian Yan, Tao Cheng, Fang Yang, Kewu Peng, and Jian Song; Improved design of bit mapping based on EXIT-chart analysis for DVB-T2 system. Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on 57, no. 4 (2011): 1579-1585.

[23] Liu, Zaishuang; Xie, Qiuliang; Peng, Kewu; Yang, Zhixing; APSK Constellation with Gray Mapping; IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS; 2011; 15(12): 1271-1273.

[24] Liu, Zaishuang; Peng, Kewu; Cheng, Tao; Wang, Zhaocheng; Irregular mapping and its application in bit-interleaved LDPC coded modulation with iterative demapping and decoding; IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting; 2011; 57(3): 707-712.

[25] Xie, Qiuliang; Song, Jian; Peng, Kewu; Yang, Fang; Wang, Zhaocheng; Coded Modulation with Signal Space Diversity; IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; 2011; 10(2): 660-669.

[26] Zhixing Yang; Qiuliang Xie; Kewu Peng; Jian Song; Labeling Optimization for BICM-ID Systems; IEEE Communications Letters; Year: 2010 | Volume: 14, Issue: 11

[27] Qiuliang Xie; Kewu Peng; Jun Wang; Jian Song; Jintao Wang; Zhixing Yang; Low Complexity Soft Decoder for Nordstrom-Robinson Code With Application to the Chinese DTTB Standard; IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting; Year: 2009 | Volume: 55, Issue: 3

[28] Nan Jiang; Kewu Peng; Jian Song; Chanyong Pan; Zhixing Yang; High-Throughput QC-LDPC Decoders; IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting; Year: 2009 | Volume: 55, Issue: 2

[29] Shigang Tang; Kewu Peng; Ke Gong; Jian Song; Changyong Pan; Zhixing Yang; Robust Frame Synchronization for Chinese DTTB System; IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting; Year: 2008 | Volume: 54, Issue: 1

[30] Kewu Peng; J.C. Kieffer; Embedded image compression based on wavelet pixel classification and sorting; IEEE Transactions on Image Processing; Year: 2004 | Volume: 13, Issue: 8