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In This Issue
February 2005
Vol. 3, Issue 1

WNCG Has Strong Presence at 2004 IEEE Globecom Conference

SBC Labs and WNCG Advance IEEE 802.16

Nortel Networks Donates Optical Network to WNCG

Austin to Have Big Showing at CTIA New Orleans March 14-16, 2005

WNCG Professors Brian L. Evans and Scott Nettles Promoted

Professor Sriram Vishwanath Receives NSF CAREER Award

Professor Bill Bard Receives Outstanding Faculty Award for UT's Executive Software Engineering Program

Rappaport Honored by Purdue University

Recent WNCG Publications

 

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Journal Papers
  1. Arunabha Gosh, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Runhua Chen, and David R. Wolter, "Broadband Wireless Access with WiMax/802.16: Current Performance Benchmarks and Future Potential", IEEE Communications Magazine, Feb. 2005.
  2. T.J. Lee and G. de Veciana, "An Asynchronous and Distributed Rate Control Mechanism for Elastic Services with Session Priorities", IEICE Trans. Communications, Vol. E87-B, No. 12, pp. 3611-3620, December 2004.
  3. J. Stine and G. de Veciana, "A Paradigm for Quality of Service in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using Synchronous Signaling and Node States", IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Quality of Service Delivery in Variable Topology Networks, Vol. 22, No. 7, pp. 1301-1321, September 2004.

 

Conference Papers
  1. H. Wang and T. S. Rappaport, "The Impact of Diffracted Field on Indoor Wideband Propagation Modeling", 2005 URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, Jan 5-8, 2005.
  2. Z. Shen, R. W. Heath, Jr., J. G. Andrews, and B. L. Evans, "Comparison of Space-Time Water-filling and Spatial Water-filling for MIMO Fading Channels", Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf., Dallas, TX, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004.
  3. R. Chen, J. G. Andrews, and R. W. Heath, Jr., "Transmit Selection Diversity for Multiuser Spatial Multiplexing Wireless Systems", Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf., Dallas, TX, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004.
  4. J. Choi and R. W. Heath, Jr., "Interpolation Based Unitary Precoding for Spatial Multiplexing MIMO-OFDM with Limited Feedback", in the Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. , Dallas, TX, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004.
  5. D. J. Love and R. W. Heath, Jr., "Limited Feedback Precoding for Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes", in the Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. , Dallas, TX, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004.
  6. D. J. Love and R. W. Heath, Jr., "Grassmannian Beamforming on Correlated MIMO Channels", in the Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. , Dallas, TX, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004.
  7. M. Park, S. Nettles and R. W. Heath, Jr., "Improving Throughput and Fairness for MIMO Ad Hoc Networks Using Antenna Selection Diversity", in the Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. , Dallas, TX, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004.
  8. S. Weber, J. G. Andrews, G. de Veciana, and X. Yang, "Transmission capacity of CDMA ad hoc networks employing successive interference cancellation", IEEE Globecom, Dallas, TX, Dec. 2004.
  9. W. Choi and J. G. Andrews, "Improved Bit Error Probability Analysis for Maximal Ratio Combining in Asynchronous CDMA Channels", IEEE Globecom, Dallas, TX, Dec. 2004.
  10. W. Choi and J. G. Andrews, "Performance of the Delay Diversity Receiver in Asynchronous CDMA Channels", IEEE Globecom, Dallas, TX, Dec. 2004.
  11. A. Hasan and J. G. Andrews, "The Critical Radius in CDMA Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE Globecom, Dallas, TX, Dec. 2004.
  12. C. Na, J. K. Chen, T. S. Rappaport, "Hotspot Traffic Statistics and Throughput Models for Several Applications", Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom) 2004, Dallas, TX, Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2004.
  13. A. Mahimkar, T. S. Rappaport, "SecureDAV: A Secure Data Aggregation and Verification Protocol for Sensor Networks", Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom) 2004, Dallas, TX, Nov 29 - Dec 3, 2004.
  14. M. Ding, Z. Shen, and B. L. Evans, "An Achievable Performance Upper Bound for Discrete Multitone Equalization", Proc. IEEE Int. Global Communications Conf., Dallas, TX , Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2004.
  15. M. Airy, A. Forenza, R. W. Heath, Jr., and S. Shakkottai, "Practical Costa Precoding for the Multiple Antenna Broadcast Channel", in the Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM Conference 2004, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004.
  16. C. Shin, Powers, E.J., "Blind Channel Estimation for MIMO-OFDM Systems Using Virtual Carriers", Proceedings for IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom), 2004, Dallas, TX, Volume: 4, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004, pp. 2465 - 2469.
  17. S. Choi, Young-Chai Ko, Powers, E.J., "Performance Analysis and Optimization of Switched Transmit Diversity in MIMO Systems", Proceedings for IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom), 2004, Dallas, TX, Volume: 6, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004, pp. 3705 - 3710.
  18. I. C. Wong, A. Forenza, R. W. Heath, Jr., and B. L. Evans, "Long Range Channel Prediction for Adaptive OFDM Systems", Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, Nov. 7-10, 2004.
  19. M. Ding, B. L. Evans, and I. C. Wong, "Effect of Channel Estimation Error on Bit Rate Performance of Time Domain Equalizers", Proc. IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, invited paper, Pacific Grove, California, Nov. 7-10, 2004.
  20. B. Mondal and R. W. Heath, Jr., "A Lower Bound on Outage Probability of Limited Feedback MIMO beamforming Systems", Proc. of IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 7-10, 2004.
  21. M. Airy, R. W. Heath, Jr., and S. Shakkottai, "Scheduling for the MIMO Broadcast Channel: Delay-Capacity Tradeoff with Practical Receivers", (invited) Proc. of IEEE Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 7-10, 2004.
  22. A. Forenza, A. Pandharipande, H. Kim, and R. W. Heath, Jr., "Adaptive Transmission Scheme Selection for MIMO Systems", on Proc. of Wireless World Research Forum, 12th Meeting, Toronto, Canada, Nov. 4-5, 2004.
  23. B. Mondal and R. W. Heath, Jr., "An Upper Bound on SNR for Limited Feedback MIMO Beamforming Systems" in the Proc. of IEEE Information Theory Workshop, San Antonio, Texas, October 24-29, 2004.
  24. V. Monga and B. L. Evans, "Robust Perceptual Image Hashing Using Feature Points", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 677-680, Singapore, Oct. 24-27, 2004.
  25. K. Han, B. L. Evans, and E. E. Swartzlander, "Data Wordlength Reduction for Low-Power Signal Processing Software", Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, pp. 343-348, Austin, TX, Oct. 13-15, 2004.
  26. I. C. Wong, Z. Shen, J. G. Andrews, and B. L. Evans, "A Low Complexity Algorithm for Proportional Resource Allocation in OFDMA Systems", Proc. IEEE Int. Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, pp. 1-6, Austin, TX, Oct. 13-15, 2004.
  27. A. Gupta, A. Forenza, and R. W. Heath, Jr., "Rapid MIMO-OFDM Software Defined Radio System Prototyping", Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, Austin, Texas, USA, Oct. 13-15, 2004.
  28. B. Mondal and R. W. Heath, Jr., "Performance Bounds for Limited Feedback MIMO Beamforming Systems", in the Proc. of Allerton Conf. on Comm. Control and Comp., Monticello, IL, Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2004.
  29. D. J. Love, S. Hosur, A. Batra, and R. W. Heath, Jr., ``Chase Decoding for Space-Time Codes,'' (invited) to appear in the Proc. of IEEE Vehicular Tech. Conf., Los Angeles, CA, September 26-29, 2004.
  30. T. Tang and R. W. Heath, Jr., "Joint Frequency Offset Estimation and Interference Cancellation for MIMO-OFDM Systems", in the Proc. of IEEE Vehicular Tech. Conf., Los Angeles, CA, September 26-29, 2004.