ECE Graduate Seminar
<p> </p> <p> You are cordially invited to the following seminar:</p> <p> </p> <p> Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering</p> <p> Old Dominion University</p> <p> GRADUATE SEMINAR</p> <p> </p> <p> Space-Time Coding in Aeronautical Telemetry</p> <p> </p> <p> by</p> <p> Dr. Michael Rice</p> <p> Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering</p> <p> Brigham Young University</p> <p> Friday, December 6, 2013</p> <p> 3:00 p.m. KH 224</p> <p> Host: Dr. Dimitrie Popescu</p> <p> </p> <p> In air-to-ground radio links, transmission can sometimes be blocked when the aircraft maneuvers place the fuselage between the airborne transmit antenna and the ground-based receive antenna. This problem is usually overcome by using two transmit antennas on the aircraft (say, on the top and bottom). But this creates a new problem: when the same signal is transmitted from both antennas, the communications link suffers from self-interference caused by destructive interference between the two copies of the transmitted radio signal. This talk describes a solution to this problem based an Alamouti space-time block code to overcome the problem. The organization of the talk is as follows: the basic principles of the space-time block code are presented, experimental hardware realizations of the transmitter and receiver are described, and the results of flight tests at Edwards AFB, California are summarized.</p> <p> </p> <p> Bio:</p> <p> Michael Rice received his PhD from Georgia Tech in 1991. Dr. Rice was with Digital Transmission Systems, Inc. in Atlanta and joined the faculty at Brigham Young University in 1991 where he is currently the Jim Abrams Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Professor Rice was a NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during 1994 and 1995 where he worked on land mobile satellite systems. During the 1999-2000 academic year, Professor Rice was a visiting scholar at the Communication Systems and Signal Processing Institute at San Diego State University.</p> <p> </p> <p> He was the chair of the Communication Theory Technical Committee in the IEEE Communications Society from 2009 -- 2010. He is currently serving and as Technical Editor for Command, Control and Communication Systems for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. In addition, he is an associate member of the Range Commanders Council, and is the chair of the Signal Processing and Communications Society Chapter in the Utah Section of IEEE.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Posted By: Linda Marshall
Date: Mon Dec 02 11:24:41 EST 2013