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  •  NEWS    MERL organizes Workshop on Advanced Digital Transmitters at 2017 International Microwave Symposium
    Date: June 5, 2017
    Where: Honolulu, HI
    MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
    Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Signal Processing
    Brief
    • MERL researcher Dr. Rui Ma, is organizing a Workshop in collaboration with Dr. SungWon Chung of the University of Southern California (USC) on advanced digital transmitters. This workshop overviews recent advances in digital-intensive wireless transmitter R&D for both base-stations and mobile devices. The focus will be on the digital signal processing techniques and related digital-intensive transmitter circuits and architectures for advanced modulation, linearization, spur cancellation, high efficiency encoding, and parallel processing. This workshop takes place on Monday, June 5th 2017 at International Microwave Week, in Honolulu, HI. In total, 8 technical presentations from world leading research groups will be given.

      Dr. Ma will present a talk titled, "Advanced Power Encoding and Non-Contiguous Multi-Band Digital Transmitter Architectures".
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  •  NEWS    MERL researchers will present 5 papers at ICC2017 wireless communications conference
    Date: May 21, 2017 - May 25, 2017
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
    MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Philip V. Orlik; Pu (Perry) Wang; Ye Wang
    Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
    Brief
    • Five papers from the Wireless Comms team will be presented at ICC2017 to be held in Paris from 21-25 May 2017. The papers relate to channel estimation and adaptive transmission for mmWave, noncoherent MIMO, error correction coding, and video transmission.
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  •  NEWS    MERL researchers present 12 papers at ICASSP 2016
    Date: March 20, 2016 - March 25, 2016
    Where: Shanghai, China
    MERL Contacts: Petros T. Boufounos; Chiori Hori; Jonathan Le Roux; Dehong Liu; Hassan Mansour; Philip V. Orlik; Anthony Vetro
    Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Digital Video, Speech & Audio, Communications, Signal Processing
    Brief
    • MERL researchers have presented 12 papers at the recent IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which was held in Shanghai, China from March 20-25, 2016. ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing, with more than 1200 papers presented and over 2000 participants.
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  •  NEWS    MERL contributes to Mitsubishi Electric's Indoor Positioning System
    Date: March 1, 2016
    Where: Tokyo, Japan
    MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
    Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
    Brief
    • MERL EC researchers assisted in the development of an indoor positioning system with WiFi and acoustic based ranging technologies. Please see the link below for the full Mitsubishi Electric press release.
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  •  NEWS    ICC 2013: 3 publications by Chunjie Duan, Philip V. Orlik, Kyeong Jin Kim and others
    Date: June 9, 2013
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
    MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
    Brief
    • The papers "Cognitive Multihop Networks in Spectrum Sharing Environment with Multiple Licensed Users" by Kim, K.J., Duong, T.Q., Tsiftsis, T.A. and Bao, V.N.Q., "Opportunistic Relaying for Cognitive Network with Multiple Primary Users over Nakagami-m Fading" by Duong, T.Q., Kim, K.J., Zepernick, H-J and Tellambura, C. and "On Probabilistic Data Association for Achieving Near-Exponential Diversity over Fading Channels" by Yellepeddi, A., Kim, K.J., Duan, C. and Orlik, P. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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  •  NEWS    WCNC 2013: publication by Philip V. Orlik, Kieran J. Parsons, Jianlin Guo and others
    Date: April 7, 2013
    Where: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jianlin Guo; Kieran Parsons
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Load Balanced Routing for Low Power and Lossy Networks" by Liu, X., Guo, J., Bhatti, G., Orlik, P. and Parsons, K. was presented at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).
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  •  NEWS    MILCOM 2012: publication by Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Philip V. Orlik and others
    Date: October 29, 2012
    Where: IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Robust Receiver Algorithms to Mitigate Partial-Band and Partial-Time Interference in LDPC-coded OFDM Systems" by Li, L., Annavajjala, R., Koike-Akino, T. and Orlik, P. was presented at the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM).
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  •  NEWS    VTC 2012: publication by Philip V. Orlik and others
    Date: September 3, 2012
    Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
    MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Location Based Data Delivery Schedulers for Vehicle Telematics Applications" by Xu, K., Orlik, P., Nagai, Y. and Saito, M. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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  •  NEWS    SENSORCOMM 2012: publication by Philip V. Orlik, Jinyun Zhang, Jianlin Guo and others
    Date: August 19, 2012
    Where: International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jianlin Guo
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Loop-Free Routing in Low-Power and Lossy Networks" by Guo, J., Han, C., Orlik, P., Zhang, J. and Ishibashi, K. was presented at the International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM).
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  •  NEWS    ISIT 2012: 2 publications by Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Philip V. Orlik and others
    Date: July 1, 2012
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
    Brief
    • The papers "Rateless Feedback Codes" by Sorensen, J.H., Koike-Akino, T. and Orlik, P. and "Ripple Design of LT Codes for AWGN Channel" by Sorensen, J.H., Koike-Akino, T., Orlik, P., Ostergaard, J. and Popovski, P. were presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
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  •  NEWS    ICC 2012: publication by Philip V. Orlik and others
    Date: June 10, 2012
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
    MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
    Research Area: Signal Processing
    Brief
    • The paper "Non-coherent ToA Estimation for UWB Multipath Channels using Max-eigenvalue Detection" by Shi, W., Annavajjala, R., Orlik, P.V., Molisch, A.F., Ochiari, M. and Taira, A. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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  •  NEWS    VTC 2012: publication by Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Philip V. Orlik and others
    Date: May 6, 2012
    Where: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Improved and Opportunistic Interference Alignment Schemes for Multi-Cell Interference Channels" by Gou, T., Koike-Akino, T. and Orlik, P. was presented at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC).
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  •  NEWS    BMSB 2011: publication by Philip V. Orlik, Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: June 8, 2011
    Where: IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB)
    MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The paper "Resource Block Embedding: Towards High Throughput Broadband Multimedia Wireless Networks" by Annavajjala, R., Orlik, P.V. and Zhang, J. was presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB).
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  •  NEWS    ICC 2011: 5 publications by Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Philip V. Orlik, Jinyun Zhang and Toshiaki Koike
    Date: June 5, 2011
    Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
    Brief
    • The papers "Reduced-Rate OFDM Transmission with Statistics-based ICI Mitigation" by Ma, J., Orlik, P., Zhang, J. and Li, G.Y., "Super-Resolution Blind Channel Modeling" by Pun, M.-O., Molisch, A.F., Orlik, P. and Okazaki, A., "Network-Coded Interference Alignment in K-Pair Bidirectional Relaying Channels" by Koike-Akino, T., Pun, M.-O. and Orlik, P., "Non-Coherent Grassmann TCM Design for Physical-Layer Network Coding in Bidirectional MIMO Relaying Systems" by Koike-Akino, T. and Orlik, P. and "Order-Extended Sparse RLS Algorithm for Doubly-Selective MIMO Channel Estimation" by Koike-Akino, T., Molisch, A.F., Annavajjala, R., Orlik, P. and Pun, M.-O. were presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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  •  TALK    Resource Block Embedding: Towards High Throughput Broadband Multimedia Wireless Networks
    Date & Time: Thursday, June 2, 2011; 12:00 PM
    Speaker: Ramesh Annavajjala, MERL
    MERL Host: Philip V. Orlik
    Abstract
    • For orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) based wireless systems, a resource block (RB) in a two-dimensional time-frequency plane is defined as a data block spanned by a number of consecutive OFDM symbols over a number of consecutive subcarriers. Traditionally, RBs contain modulation symbols for data transmission and pilot symbols for channel estimation.

      In this talk, I present a novel approach to RB designs for OFDM systems with multiple antennas at the transmitter and the receiver (i.e., MIMO-OFDM). The proposed approach, termed resource block embedding, does not require explicit pilot symbols to estimate the channel at the receiver, and hence reduces the channel estimation overhead significantly. I describe, in detail, the encoding and decoding algorithms for our proposed embedded resource blocks (ERB) for single-user single-antenna transmission, two transmitter antenna Alamouti code, four transmitter antenna stacked Alamouti code, and multi-stream spatial multiplexing. I also outline construction of ERBs for multi-user MIMO systems.

      This is a joint work with Phil Orlik and Jin Zhang.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications: publication by Philip V. Orlik, Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: April 21, 2011
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
    MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Pilot Matrix Design for Estimating Cascaded Channels in Two-Hop MIMO Amplify-and-Forward Relay Systems" by Ma, J., Orlik, P., Zhang, J. and Li, G.Y. was published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Communications: publication by Chunjie Duan, Philip V. Orlik, Toshiaki Koike and others
    Date: March 17, 2011
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Communications
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Capacity, MSE and Secrecy Analysis of Linear Block Precoding for Distributed Antenna Systems in Multi-User Frequency-Selective Fading Channels" by Koike-Akino, T., Molisch, A.F., Duan, C., Tao, Z. and Orlik, P. was published in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
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  •  NEWS    ITA 2011: 2 publications by Philip V. Orlik, Shantanu D. Rane and others
    Date: February 6, 2011
    Where: IEEE Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA)
    MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
    Brief
    • The papers "An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Revocability and Reusability in Secure Biometrics" by Wang, Y., Rane, S., Draper, S.C. and Ishwar, P. and "Achieving Near-Exponential Diversity on Uncoded Low-Dimensional MIMO, Multi-User and Multi-Carrier Systems without Transmitter CSI" by Annavajjala, R. and Orlik, P.V. were presented at the IEEE Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA).
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  •  NEWS    GLOBECOM 2010: 3 publications by Philip V. Orlik, Zafer Sahinoglu, Toshiaki Koike, Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: December 6, 2010
    Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
    Brief
    • The papers "Multi-hop Localization Using Mobility (MLM) in Mixed LOS/NLOS Environments" by Takenaka, T., Sahinoglu, Z., Bhatti, G.M., Zhang, J., Mineno, H. and Mizuno, T., "Two-Step Low-Complexity Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP)" by Pun, M.-O., Sahinoglu, Z., Shah, S., Hara, Y. and Wang, P. and "High-Order Super-Block GLRT for Non-Coherent Grassmann Codes in MIMO-OFDM Systems" by Koike-Akino, T. and Orlik, P. were presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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  •  NEWS    ITS 2010: 4 publications by Philip V. Orlik, Jinyun Zhang and Jianlin Guo
    Date: October 25, 2010
    Where: World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Jianlin Guo
    Brief
    • The papers "Location Aware Fast Handover Between WiMax and WiFi Networks" by Guo, J., Tsuboi, T. and Zhang, J., "Effect of Transmission Parameters on Efficiency and Reliability of V2V Networks" by Yim, R., Ye, F., Roy, S. and Orlik, P., "Safety Message Transmission in Vehicular Communication Networks" by Guo, J. and Zhang, J. and "Digital Lane Marking for Geo-Information Dissemination" by Yim, R., Saito, M. and Zhang, J. were presented at the World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS).
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  •  NEWS    IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting: publication by Chunjie Duan, Philip V. Orlik, Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: June 15, 2010
    Where: IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
    MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "A Synchronization Design for UWB-Based Wireless Multimedia Systems" by Ye, Z., Duan, C., Orlik, P.V., Zhang, J. and Abouzeid, A.A. was published in IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.
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  •  NEWS    Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: publication by Philip V. Orlik, Jinyun Zhang and others
    Date: January 15, 2010
    Where: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
    MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
    Research Area: Communications
    Brief
    • The article "Adaptive Antenna Selection at Mobile Stations for SDMA in WiMAX Networks" by Wang, T., Tao, Z., Molisch, A.F., Orlik, P.V. and Zhang, J. was published in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.
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  •  NEWS    GLOBECOM 2009: 7 publications by Philip V. Orlik, Koon Hoo Teo, Toshiaki Koike and Jinyun Zhang
    Date: November 30, 2009
    Where: IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
    Brief
    • The papers "Relay Selection and Data Transmission Throughput Tradeoff in Cooperative Systems" by Shah, V., Mehta, N.B. and Yim, M.H.R., "Medium Access Control Signaling for Reliable Spectrum Agile Radios" by Azarnasab, E., Chen, R.-R., Teo, K.H., Tao, Z. and Farhang-Boroujeny, B., "Unified Analysis of Linear Block Precoding for Distributed Antenna Systems" by Koike-Akino, T., Molisch, A.F., Tao, Z., Orlik, P.V. and Kuze, T., "Multi-user Cooperative Communications with Relay-Coding for Uplink IMT-Advanced 4G Systems" by Cao, L., Zhang, J. and Kanno, N., "Error Control Strategies for WiMAX Multi-Hop Relay Networks" by Fu, W., Tao, Z., Zhang, J. and Agrawal, D.P., "Opportunistic Cell Edge Selection in Multi-Cell OFDMA Networks" by Au-Yeung, C.K., Maaref, A. and Zhang, J. and "A New Coupling Channel Estimator for Cross-Talk Cancellation at Wireless Relay Stations" by Ma, J., Li, G.Y., Zhang, J., Kuze, T. and Iura, H. were presented at the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
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  •  NEWS    ACSSC 2009: 3 publications by Philip V. Orlik, Jinyun Zhang and Petros T. Boufounos
    Date: November 1, 2009
    Where: Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC)
    MERL Contacts: Philip V. Orlik; Petros T. Boufounos
    Brief
    • The papers "Parametric Compression of Rank-1 Analog Feedback in MIMO-OFDM" by Porat, R. and Orlik, P.V., "Codebook-based Quantized MIMO Feedback for Closed-loop Transmit Precoding" by Pun, M.-O., Porat, R., Orlik, P.V., Zhang, J. and Kuze, T. and "Greedy Sparse Signal Reconstruction from Sign Measurements" by Boufounos, P.T. were presented at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ACSSC).
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  •  AWARD    GLOBECOM 2009 Best Paper Award
    Date: November 1, 2009
    Awarded to: Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Andreas Molisch, Zhifeng Tao, Philip Orlik and Toshiyuki Kuze
    Awarded for: "Unified Analysis of Linear Block Precoding for Distributed Antenna Systems"
    Awarded by: Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
    MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Philip V. Orlik
    Research Area: Communications
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