Yu Quan

Yu Quan, born in September 1965 in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, chief engineer of a research institute of the General Staff, graduated from the Department of Information Physics of Nanjing University in 1986. In September, 1992, after obtaining his doctoral degree from University of Limoges, France, he joined the army, and thereafter worked as an engineer, senior engineer, researcher and then chief engineer in a military research institute. In 2009, he was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
As a discipline leader in Chinese military tactical communications, he has long been devoting himself to the overall development of military communications and information systems, and has made great achievements in various areas such as development strategy, system demonstration, equipment development, simulation and integration, key technologies, and so on.
1. The successful demonstration and development of the firstgeneration triservice common tactical communications network As the chief designer, Yu has proposed a kind of network architecture with our own unique military characteristics, created an integrated network covering land, air and space, and contributed to the successful leap of our military tactical communications from the traditional pointpoint mode to a netcentric one. In the field of tactical radio networking, the technological breakthroughs that he has made in QoS routing, efficient group broadcasting, crosslayer design and hybrid wire/wireless networking, etc. have facilitated the seamless integration of various networks and systems, significantly improved the reconfiguration and ad hoc access of tactical communications network, and led to a new integrated and networked support mode in tactical communications.
2.The trailblazing introduction of software radio technology into the successful production of our first military multiband, multimode, programmable software radioAs the trailblazer in bringing software radio technology into our tactical radios, Yu has established open common hardware architecture and componentbased software system standards. In 1998, he successfully brought out our first military multiband, multimode, programmable software radio. Compared with traditional radios, softwarebased radios can offer the benefits of hardware modularity and softwareupgradability, and operators are allowed to choose appropriate waveforms based on various mission requirements, thus greatly enhancing the compatibility and scalability of tactical radios.
3.The successful development and application of Signalinglevel Simulation System for Field Communications NetworksYu has also led the development of Signalinglevel Simulation System for Field Communications Networks, which has pioneered in transitioning the system demonstration of military communications networks from a qualitative description to a quantitative analysis, and has been effectively applied to system demonstration, optimal design, equipment development and performance evaluation of a new generation of military communications networks.
Due to his outstanding work and great contributions, Yu has been successively awarded a First Prize and a Second Prize in National Science and Technology Advancement Award, as well as First Prize in Military Science and Technology Advancement Award four times and Second Prize twice.
In these years, Yu has been granted 14 patents and 1 software copyright. By 2010, he has supervised more than 32 students for a doctor’s degree and 24 students for a master’s degree.