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`Dr. Dariush Divsalar
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`Jet Propulsion Laboratory
`California Institute of Technology
`M/S 238-420
`4800 Oak Grove Drive
`Pasadena, CA 91109
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`Phone: (818) 393-5138
`Fax: 818-354-6825
`e-mail: Dariush.Divsalar@jpl.nasa.gov
`U.S. Citizen
`Fellow of Jet Propulsion Laboratory
`A JPL Fellow is one who has made extraordinary technical and institutional contributions
`to JPL over an extended period of time. Fellows are sought out for advice on strategic
`technical decisions and for establishing the course for JPL’s future.
`NASA/JPL Senior Research Scientists, website:
`http://scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov/people/d_divsalar/
` Google scholar citations:
`http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CCJSZ5sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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`University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Ph. D.
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`Major: Communication Systems, Department of
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`Electrical Engineering.
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`Minor: Computer System Modeling and Analysis,
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`Department of Computer Science.
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`Minor: Applied Mathematics, Department of
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`University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
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`Engineer Degree, June 1977.
`University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) M.S. in
`Electrical Engineering, March 1975.
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`1978-present. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
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`Pasadena, CA.
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`2015 Fellow
`2000 Principal Scientist
`1999 Senior Research Scientist
`1997 Principal of Engineering Staff.
` 1989 Senior Member of Technical Staff.
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` 1982 Member of Technical Staff.
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` 1978 Senior Engineer.
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`Involved in research, development, study and analysis of various
`aspects of coding, modulations, communication theory and applications
`for Deep Space Communication System Techniques for Future Space
`Exploration Missions, Satellite Communications, Mobile Satellite
`Experiment.
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`Has made contributions to many research and advanced projects
`including: VOIR, Venus Balloon, Antenna Arraying, LMSS,
`MSAT-X, TDA Advanced Systems RTOP's concerning optical
`communication, coding and modulation techniques.
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`Has led the Modulation and Coding Research Work unit for
`NASA's MSAT-X Project.
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`Made contributions in finding K=15, r=1/4 convolutional code for
`the Galileo project.
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`Was Active in NASA RIMTECH program. Was a consultant for
`Paradyne through technology transfer in the Civil Programs Office
`at JPL. Designed a trellis code that was implemented for production.
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`Was Active in NASA SBIR program. Was technical monitor for
`Phase I and II SBIR Proposals.
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`Was in the tiger team for ICE project and made contributions to the
`analysis of radio loss for ICE.
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`Made contributions to JPL-FAA Helicopter Project.
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`Made contributions to NASA ACTS Mobile Terminal (AMT)
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`Made some contributions to S-band Galileo Mission.
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`Made several contributions to Military projects on coding and modulation.
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`Made contributions to the autonomous software-defined radio receivers for
`Deep Space communications.
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`to channel coding for deep space
`Made significant contribution
`communications.
`Proposed new turbo codes and protograph-based LDPC codes to be used in
`future NASA missions. The proposed codes became CCSDS standard for
`space applications.
`These codes are being used in many NASA missions.
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`Made contributions since 2007 to Coding, Modulation, and Link Protocol
`Study for future NASA missions
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`2012-present UCLA EE Dept. Adjunct Professor. Research collaboration,
`weekly research group meetings, joint NSF proposals.
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`1986-1996 Lecturer at UCLA, Electrical Engineering Department,
`teaching graduate courses in Information Theory, Digital
`Communications, Coding (TCM, and turbo codes), and
`Spread Spectrum Communications.
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`1997-2001 Lecturer at Caltech, Electrical Engineering Department,
`teaching graduate courses in Random Signals and Communications theory
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`Teaching accomplishments at Caltech: Taught graduate courses EE162,
`EE163a, EE163b at Caltech since January 1997. Participated in Ph.D.
`Qualifying Exams, Ph.D. Candidacy Exams, and Ph.D. defense committees
`for many graduate students at Caltech. Helped students in their research,
`gave new ideas for research.
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`1984-1991 Adjunct Professor at Northrop University, teaching courses
`in analog and digital communication systems, information theory and error
`control coding, statistical communication theory, digital communications,
`probability, stochastic processes, feedback control systems, spread
`spectrum communications, linear networks, computer networks, digital
`signal processing.
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`1982-1996 Distinguished Lecturer at West Coast University, teaching
`courses in Detection of Signals in Noise, Digital Communication Systems,
`Coding, Probability, Stochastic Processes, Logic Network Design, Digital
`Signal Processing, Spread Spectrum.
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`Current Interests:
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`Research in digital communication systems, wireless communication
`systems, bandwidth efficient combined coding modulation techniques,
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`communications, mobile
`communications. Channel coding for deep space communications.
`Spread Spectrum Systems, CDMA, Fast Frequency Hopping, Time
`Hopping for commercial multiple access systems, Acquisition and
`tracking
`for spread spectrum communications, Mutual User
`Interference Cancellation for CDMA, Turbo codes, LDPC codes and
`Iterative Decoding for power- and Bandwidth- limited Channels.
`Professional Societies: Fellow of IEEE, Journal Referee for IEEE societies
`of Communication
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`Information Theory. Member of
`IEEE
`communication
`theory and data communication
`systems
`technical
`committees. Technical program representative to International Conference on
`Communications 1987 and Global Telecommunications Conference, 1989.
`Technical Program Chairman of Communication Theory Mini-Conference
`Globecom 93. Organizer and chairman for 16 IEEE conference sessions in
`the past ten years. Technical Program Chairman of IEEE Communication
`Theory workshop, Santa Cruz, April 1995.
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`Editor for Coding Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on
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`Communications June 1989-June 1991.
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`Area Editor for Coding Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions
`on Communications July 1991-1996.
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`Guest Editor:
`JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS
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`Senior Technical Consultant IEEE Transactions on Communications
`1996-2003
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`Guest Editor:
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`COMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 19, NO. 9, SEPTEMBER 2001
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`IEEE Paper Award
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`Best paper of the year award for "The Performance of Trellis Coded
`Multilevel DPSK in a Fading Mobile Satellite Channel" published in IEEE
`Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 37, No. 2, May 1988. Award was
`given out in 1990.
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`Joint paper award of the IEEE Information Theory and IEEE
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`Communication Theory societies for ``Accumulate Repeat Accumulate
`Codes” published in April 2007. Award was given in 2008.
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`Best poster paper award IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW)
`2015.
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`IEEE Transaction on Communications Best Papers over 50 years
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`D. Divsalar and M. K. Simon, "Multiple Symbol Differential Detection of
`MPSK," IEEE Transactions on Communications March 1990.
`This paper has been selected as one of the best 56 key research papers in
`communications and networking over the past fifty years. It was published in
`a book entitled “The Best of the Best, Fifty Years of Communications and
`Networking Research,” by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
`(IEEE) Press and Wiley-Interscience, 2007.
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`Highly Cited Publishing Researcher
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`D. Divsalar was recognized as highly cited researcher for the period 1981-
`1999. Highly cited comprise less than one-half of one percent of all publishing
`researchers worldwide with truly extraordinary accomplishment s in category
`of Computer Science.
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`JPL Publications Best Paper Award
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`1998 Hugh Fosque best paper for ``Code Performance as a function of
`block size.”
` 2000 best paper for ``A simple tight bound on error probability of
`block codes with application to turbo codes,” The results also published in the
`book Performance analysis of linear codes under ML decoding: A tutorial by
`Igal Sason and Shlomo Shamai, NOW Publishers, Delft, the Netherlands,
`2006.
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`Group Achievement Award
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`Advanced Communication Technology Satellite Mobile Terminal
`Development Team, 1994.
`Project Galileo Team, 1996.
`Galileo Orbital Operation Recovery Team, 1997.
`Turbo Code Development Team, 1998.
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`Uplink Coding Team, 2008.
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`Coding, Modulation, and Link Protocol Study Team, 2009.
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`NASA Award
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`NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal, April 9, 1996.
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`IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
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`Recipient of IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 2014.
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`Jet Propulsion Laboratory Fellow
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`For pioneering work in the field of telecommunications and signal processing through
`the development of elegant, simplistic solutions in coding and modulation that have
`increased data return from spacecraft and advanced 3G/4G cellular standards for
`terrestrial communications.
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`New Technology, NASA Tech Brief awards:
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Convolutionally Coded Unbalanced
`QPSK Systems," February 22, 1983. (with J. Yuen)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Improved Convolutionally Coded
`Unbalanced QPSK Systems," February 28, 1984. (with J. Yuen)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Trellis-Coded Modulation for 4800-
`9600 bps Transmission Over a Fading Mobile Satellite Channel," May 1987.
`(with M. Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Multiple Trellis Coded Modulation
`(MTCM)," August 1987. (with M. Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Generalized Multiple Trellis Coded
`Modulation (MTCM), October 1988. (with M. Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Doppler Corrected Differential
`Detection," November 1988. (with M. Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Trellis-Coded MDPSK System with
`Doppler Correction," March 1989. (with M. Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Design of Trellis Codes for Fading
`Channels," April 1989. (with M. Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Double Differential Encoding and
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`Detection in MPSK," March 1989. (with M. Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Fast Correction for Doppler in MDPSK
`Signals," May 1989. (with M. Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "The Use of Interleaving for Reducing
`Radio Loss in Trellis Coded Modulation Systems," June 1990. (with M.
`Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Multiple Symbol Differential Detection
`of MPSK," June 1990. (with M. Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Trellis Coded MDPSK with Multiple
`Symbol," June 1991. (with M. Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Maximum-Likelihood Sequence
`Detection of Non-coherent Continuous Phase Modulation," 1993. (with M.
`Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Multiple Symbol Partially Coherent
`Detection of MPSK," 1993. (with M. Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for " Pseudo-Coherent Demodulation for
`Mobile Satellite Systems," 1995. (with M. Simon)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Trellis Coding of Two Consecutive Full
`Response 4-CPFSK with Modulation Index 1/4," 1995. (with C. Weber and H.
`Lee)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for " A New Interference Cancellation
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`Scheme with Parallel Processing for Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
`Applications," 1997. (with M. Simon and D. Raphaeli)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for "Multiple Turbo Codes for Deep-Space
`Communications," 1997. (with F. Pollara)
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`NASA Tech Brief award for " Turbo Coding and Decoding for
`Personal Communications," 1997. (with F. Pollara)
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`NASA Tech Brief award: Serial Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation with
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`Rate-1 Inner Code, February 2000. (with S. Dolinar, and F. Pollara)
`NASA
`tech brief award: “A Reduced Complexity Highly
`Power/Bandwidth Efficient Coded FQPSK System with Iterative
`Decoding,” (with M. Simon), November 12, 2003.
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`NASA tech brief award: “Iterative Demodulation and Decoding of
`Coded Non-Square QAM,” (with L. Li, and S. Dolinar), June 9, 2004.
`NASA tech brief award: “Coupled Receiver-decoders for Low Rate
`Turbo Codes,” (with J. Hamkins), June 9, 2004.
`NASA
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`“Accumulate-Repeat-Accumulate-
`Accumulate Codes,” (with S. Dolinar, J. Thorpe) 2005.
`NASA Tech Brief award: Protograph Based LDPC Constructed from
`Simple Loop Free Encoding Modules, (with S. Dolinar, J. Thorpe, C.
`Jones) 2005
`NASA tech brief award: “Protograph Based LDPC Codes with
`Minimum Distance Linearly Growing with Block Size,” (with C.
`Jones, S. Dolinar, J. Thorpe ) 2006.
`NASA tech brief award: “ARA Type Proptograph Codes,” (with A.
`Abbasfar, C. Jones, S. Dolinar, J. Thorpe, K. Andrews, K. Yao)
`November 2005.
`NASA tech brief award: “ARA Type Proptograph Codes,” (with A.
`Abbasfar, C. Jones, S. Dolinar, J. Thorpe, K. Andrews, K. Yao) April
`2006.
`NASA tech brief award: “ARA Type Proptograph Codes,” (with A.
`Abbasfar, C. Jones, S. Dolinar, J. Thorpe, K. Andrews, K. Yao) May
`2006.
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`NASA tech brief award: “Architecture of an Autonomous Radio,”
`(with J. Hamkins, M. Simon, S. Dolinar, and H. Shirani-Mehr) 2006.
`NASA tech brief award: Rate Compatible Protograph LDPC Code
`Family with Linear Minimum Distance, (with S. Dolinar, and C.
`Jones) 2007.
`NASA tech brief award: A high speed concatenated Hamming and
`accumulator coded modulation scheme (with S. Dolinar) 2007.
`NASA
`tech brief award: An LDPC-based code
`for optical
`communications, (with M. Barsoum, B. Moision, J. Hamkins) 2007.
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`NASA tech brief award: Combined GMSK Communications and PN
`Ranging, R. Orr, D. Divsalar Oct. 2008.
`NASA tech brief award: Short-Block Protograph-Based LDPC Codes,
`(with S. Dolinar, and C. Jones), 2010.
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`NASA tech brief award: Bounded Angle Iterative Decoding of LDPC
`Codes (with S. Dolinar, K. Andrews, F. Pollara) April , 2009.
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`NASA tech brief award: Rate-Compatible LDPC Codes With Linear Minimum
`Distance, September (S. Dolinar, C. Jones) 2009.
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`NASA tech brief award: LDPC-PPM Coding Scheme for Optical Communication,
` September (with M. Barsoum, M. Fitz, B. Moision, J. Hamkins) 2009.
`NASA tech brief : Encoders and Decoders for the AR4JA family of LDPC codes,
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`NASA tech brief : Bilayer Protograph Codes for Half-Duplex Relay Channels,
` (with Thuy Nguyen, Aria Nosratinia), Aug. 2013
`NASA tech brief : Design and Construction of Protograph-Based LDPC Codes,
` (with Thuy Nguyen, Aria Nosratinia), Oct. 2014
`NASA tech brief : A Free Space Optical Receiver for Data detection and Radio Science
`Measurements, (with B. Moision, S. Dolinar) June 2015
`NASA tech brief : Photon Blasting, (with B. Moision, B. Erkmen, S. Dolinar) (pending)
`NASA tech brief : Performance and Complexity Estimates for Coded Two-
`Dimensional Modulations (with S. Dolinar), (to be awarded)
`NASA tech brief : Non-Binary Protograph-Based LDPC Codes with Near-
`Capacity Thresholds, (with B-Y. Chang, and Lara Dolecek), Feb. 2015
`NASA tech brief : Protograph-Based Raptor-Like Codes, (with T-Y. Chen, J. Wang, and R. D.
`Wesel), Jan 1, 2014
`NASA tech brief : Non-Binary Protograph-Based LDPC Codes for Short Block
`Lengths, (with B-Y. Chang, and Lara Dolecek), Sept. 2014
`NASA tech brief : Design of Rate-Compatible Protograph LDPC
`Codes, (with T. Nguyen, A. Nosratinia), Oct. 2014
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`Patents
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`Trellis-Coded Modulation for Transmission-Over Fading Mobile-
`Satellite Channel," U.S. Patent No. 4,945,549, July 31, 1990. (with M.
`Simon)
`Multiple Trellis Coded Modulation, U.S. Patent No. 4,922,507, May 1,
`1990. (with M. Simon)
`Trellis Coded Multi-level DPSK System with Doppler Correction for
`Mobile Satellite Channels, U.S. Patent No. 5,023,889, June 11, 1991.
`(with M. Simon)
`Doppler-Corrected Differential Detection System, U.S. Patent No.
`5,007,068, April 9, 1991. (with M. Simon)
`Multiple Symbol Differential Detection, U.S. Patent No. 5,017,883,
`May 21, 1991. (with M. Simon)
`Improved Parallel Interference Cancellation for CDMA Applications,
`U.S. Patent No. 5,644,592, July1, 1997. (with M. Simon and D.
`Raphaeli)
`Hybrid Concatenated codes and Iterative decoding, A Patent filed May
`15, 1996. U.S. Patent No. 6,023,783 February 8, 2000. (with F.
`Pollara)
`Interleaved Serial Concatenation of Simple Component Codes and
`Associated Low-Complexity
`Iterative Decoding, U.S. Patent
`7,089,477, August, 2006.
` (with H. Jin, R. J. McEliece)
`Serial Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation Using a Serially Concatenated
`Coder, U.S. Patent 7,243,294 B1, July 10, 2007 (with F. Pollara, S. J.
`Dolinar)
`ARA type protograph codes, D. Divsalar, A. Abbasfar, C. Jones, S.
`Dolinar, J. Thorpe, K. Andrews, K. Yao. US Patent 7343539 , March
`11, 2008
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`Encoders for Block-Circulant LDPC codes, D. Divsalar, A. Abbasfar,
`C. Jones, S. Dolinar, J. Thorpe, K. Andrews, K. Yao, US Patent
`7499490, March 3, 2009.
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`Reduced Complexity Coding System Using Iterative Decoding, US
`Patent 7292654 , November 6, 2007 (with Simon).
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`J. Hamkins, M. Simon, D. Divsalar, S. Dolinar, A. Tkacenko,” Self-
`configurable radio receiver system and method for use with signals
`without prior knowledge of signal defining characteristics,” US patent
`8358723, issued January 22, 2013.
` Reduced Complexity Coding System Using Iterative Decoding, US
`Patent 7333571, February 19, 2008 (with Simon).
`Interleaved Serial Concatenation Forming Turbo-like Codes, US
`Patent 7716552, May 11, 2010 (with McEliece, Jin, Pollara).
`Reduced Complexity Coding System using Iterative Decoding, US
`patent 7693235, April 6, 2010 (with Simon).
`Serial Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation using a serially concatenated
`coder, US patent 7770093, August 3, 2010 (with Dolinar and Pollara)
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`Serial Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation Using a Serially Concatenated
`Coder, Dariush Divsalar, Samuel J. Dolinar, and Fabrizio Pollara, US
`Patent Number: 8,086,943, issued December 27, 2011
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`Rate Compatible Protograph LDPC Code Family with Linear
`Minimum Distance,” US patent 8117523, issued February 14, 2012
`(with S. Dolinar, and C. Jones).
`Rate Compatible Protograph LDPC Code Family with Linear
`Minimum Distance,” US patent 8239746, issued August 7, 2012
`(with S. Dolinar, and C. Jones).
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`Rate-Compatible Protograph LDPC codes, US patent 8689083, issued
`April 1, 2014 (with Thuy Van Nguyen, and Aria Nosratinia)
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`High Order Modulation Protograph Codes, US patent 8832520 issued
`September 9, 2014 (with Thuy Van Nguyen, and Aria Nosratinia)
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`Introduction to Trellis Coded Modulation with
`Applications, co-authored with E. Biglieri, P.
`McLane, M. K. Simon, MacMillan, 1991.
`Space
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`"Telemetry
`System,"
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`Telecommunications systems Engineering," co-authored with
`J.H. Yuen, P.W. Kinman and M.K. Simon, edited by J. H.
`Yuen, Plenum Press, 1983.
`"Autonomous Software-Defined Radio Receivers for Deep
`Space Applications," contributed to two chapters, editors J.
`Hamkins, M. K. Simon, New Jersey, John Wiley and Sons,
`2006.
`“Channel Coding: Theory, Algorithms, and
`Applications,” contributed to Chapter 2. Edited by David
`Declercq, Marc Fossorier and Ezio Biglieri, Academic Press
`Library in Mobile and Wireless Communications
`(Elsevier). Waltham, MA, USA: Jul. 2014.
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`Refereed Journal Papers
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`1.
`D. Divsalar and M. K. Simon, "Spectral Characteristics of
`Convolutionally Coded Digital Signals," IEEE Trans. on Communications,
`February 1980.
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`D. Divsalar and M. K. Simon, "The Power Spectral Density of Digital
`Modulations Transmitted Over Nonlinear Channels," IEEE Trans. on
`Communications, Vol. COM-30, January 1982.
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`D. Divsalar and J. H. Yuen, "Carrier Arraying with Coupled Phase-
`Locked Loops for Tracking Improvement," IEEE Trans. on Communications,
`Special Issue on Phase- Locked Loops, October 1982.
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`D. Divsalar, R. M. Gagliardi and J. H. Yuen, "PPM Performance for
`Reed- Solomon Decoding Over an Optical-RF Relay Link," IEEE
`Transactions on Communications, March 1984.
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`D. Divsalar, M. K. Simon and J. H. Yuen, "Trellis Coding with
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`COM-35, No. 2, February 1987.
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`D. Divsalar and M. K. Simon, "Trellis Coded Modulation for 4800-
`9600 bps Transmission Over a Fading Mobile Satellite Channel," Special
`Issue on Fading Channels of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
`Communications, Vol. SAC-5, No. 2, February 1987, pp. 162-175.
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`D. Divsalar and M. K. Simon, "Multiple Trellis Coded Modulation
`(MTCM)," IEEE Transactions on Communications, April 1988.
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`8.
`M. K. Simon and D. Divsalar, "The Performance of Trellis Coded
`Multilevel DPSK on a Fading Mobile Satellite Channel," IEEE Trans. on
`Vehicular. Tech., May 1988.
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`9.
`M. K. Simon and D. Divsalar, "Doppler Corrected Differential
`Detection of MDPSK," IEEE Trans. on Comm., February 1988.
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`10.
`D. Divsalar and M. K. Simon, "The Design of Trellis Codes for Fading
`Channels: Performance Criteria," IEEE Transactions on Communications,
`Vol. COM-36, No. 9, September 1988.
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`D. Divsalar and M. K. Simon, "The Design of Trellis Codes for Fading
`11.
`Channels: Set Partitioning for Optimum Code Design for MPSK Signals,"
`IEEE Transactions on
`Communications, Vol. COM-36, No. 9, September, 1988.
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`12.
`D. Divsalar and M. K. Simon, "The Use of Interleaving for Reducing
`Radio Loss in Trellis Coded Modulation Systems," IEEE Transactions on
`Communications, Vol. 38, No. 3, August 1990.
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`13.
`D. Divsalar and M. K. Simon, "Multiple Symbol Differential
`Detection of MPSK," IEEE Transactions on Communications March 1990.
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`14.
`D. Divsalar, M. K. Simon and M. Shahshahani, "The Performance of
`Trellis Coded MDPSK with Multiple Detection," IEEE Transactions on
`Communications, September 1990.
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`15.
`J. H. Yuen, M. K. Simon, W. Miller, F. Pollara, C. R. Ryan, D.
`Divsalar and J. Marakis, "Modulation and Coding for Satellite and Space
`Communications," proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 78, No. 7, July 1990.
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`16. M. K. Simon and D. Divsalar, "On the Implementation and
`Performance of Single and Double Differential Detection Schemes," IEEE
`Transactions on Communications,
`February 1992.
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`17. M. K. Simon and D. Divsalar, "Maximum-Likelihood Sequence
`Detection of Non coherent Continuous Phase Modulation," IEEE Transactions
`on Communications, January
`1993.
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`18. M. K. Simon and D. Divsalar, "Multiple Symbol Partially Coherent
`Detection of MPSK," IEEE Transactions on Communications, February 1994.
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`19.
`D. Divsalar and M. K. Simon, "Maximum-Likelihood Differential
`Detection of Uncoded and Trellis Coded Amplitude-Phase Modulation Over
`AWGN and Fading Channels, Metrics and Performance," IEEE Transactions
`on Communications , January 1994.
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`H. Lee, D. Divsalar and C. Weber, "Multiple Symbol Trellis Coding
`for Full Response CPFSK" IEEE Transactions on Communications, May
`1996.
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`S. Benedetto, D. Divsalar, G. Montorsi and F. Pollara, " Bandwidth
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`Efficient Parallel Concatenated Coding Schemes," IEE Electronics Letters,
`November 1995, Vol. 31, No. 24.
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`S.Benedetto, D. Divsalar, G. Montorsi and F. Pollara, "A new
`algorithm for continuous decoding of turbo codes," IEE Electronics Letters,
`Feb. 1996.
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`D. Divsalar, and R. J. McEliece, " The Effective Free Distance of
`Turbo Codes," IEE Electronics Letters, February 96.
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`S. Benedetto, D. Divsalar, G. Montorsi, and F. Pollara, "Serial
`Concatenation of Interleaved Codes: Performance Analysis, Design, and
`Iterative Decoding," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory , May 1998
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`S. Benedetto, D. Divsalar, G. Montorsi, and F. Pollara, "Soft Input
`Soft Output APP Module for Iterative Decoding of Concatenated Codes,"
`IEEE Communications Letters January 1997.
`26 M.K. Simon, and D. Divsalar, "On the Optimality of Classical
`Coherent Receivers of Differentially Encoded M-PSK,” IEEE
`Communications Letters, May 1997.
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`S. Benedetto, D. Divsalar, G. Montorsi, F. Pollara, “ Analysis, Design,
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`and Iterative Decoding of Double Serially Concatenated Codes with
`Interleavers". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special
`Issue on Concatenated Coding Techniques and Iterative Decoding: Sailing
`Toward Channel Capacity, February 98.
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`S. Benedetto, D. Divsalar, G. Montorsi, F. Pollara, "Soft-Input Soft-
`Output Modules for the Construction and Distributed Iterative Decoding of
`Code Networks," European Transactions on Telecommunications, March-
`April 98 (invited paper).
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`29 M.K. Simon, D. Divsalar, "Some New Twists to Problems Involving
`the Gaussian Probability Integral,” IEEE Transaction on Communications,
`February 1998.
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`D. Divsalar, M.K. Simon, and D. Raphaeli, "Improved Parallel
`Interference Cancellation for CDMA,” IEEE Transaction on Communications,
`February 1998.
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`D. Raphaeli, and D. Divsalar, " Multiple-Symbol Noncoherent
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`Decoding of Uncoded and Convolutionally Coded Continuous Phase
`Modulation,” Journal of Communications and Networks, December 1999.
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`D. Divsalar, S. Dolinar, and F. Pollara,“Iterative Turbo Decoder
`Analysis Based on Density Evolution,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
`Communications, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp 891-907, May 2001.
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`R. Garello, G. Montorsi, S. Benedetto, D. Divsalar, F. Pollara,
`"Labelings and Encoders with the Uniform Bit Error Property with
`Applications to Serially Concatenated Trellis Codes," IEEE Transaction on
`Information Theory, Jan. 2002.
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`33 Sason, I.; Shamai, S.; Divsalar, D., “Tight exponential upper bounds on the
`ML decoding error probability of block codes over fully interleaved fading
`channels ,’’ IEEE Transactions on Communications , Volume: 51 , Issue: 8
`, Aug. 2003, Pages:1296 - 1305.
`34 Benedetto, S.; Montorsi, G.; Divsalar, D. “Concatenated convolutional
`codes with interleavers,” IEEE Communications Magazine,Volume: 41 , Issue:
`8 , Aug. 2003
`Pages:102 - 109
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`D. Divsalar, E. Biglieri, " Upper bounds to error probabilities of coded
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`systems beyond the cutoff rate,” IEEE Transaction on Communications,
`December 2003.
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`L. Li, D. Divsalar, S. Dolinar, "Iterative Demodulation, Demapping,
`and Decoding of Coded Non-Square QAM,", IEEE Communications
`Letters, January 2005.
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`A. Abbasfar, D. Divsalar, K. Yao, “ Accumulate-Repeat-Accumulate
`Codes,’’ IEEE Transaction on Communications, April 2007.
`Simon, M.; Divsalar, D.; ``Some Interesting Observations for Certain
`Line Codes With Application to RFID,’’ IEEE Transactions on
`Communications, Volume 54, Issue 4, April 2006.
`K. Andrews, D. Divsalar, S. Dolinar, J. Hamkins, C. Jones, and F. Pollara,”The
`Development of Turbo and LDPC Codes for Deep Space Applications,” IEEE
`proceedings Vol. 95, No. 11, November 2007.
`A. Abbasfar, D, Divsalar, K. Yao, “Reflections on ARA codes,” IEEE Information Theory
`Newsletter, December 2008.
`D. Divsalar, S. Dolinar, C. Jones, and K. Andrews,`` Capacity Approaching
`Protograph Codes,” IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Febraury
`2009.
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`42 M. Barsoum, B. Moision, M. Fitz, D. Divsalar, J. Hamkins, “Iterative Coded Pulse-
`Position-Modulation for Deep-Space Optical Communications, “ IEEE Transactions on
`Communications, December 2010.
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`Shadi Abu-Surra, Dariush Divsalar, and William Ryan, “Enumerators for Protograph-
`Based Ensembles of LDPC and Generalized LDPC Codes,” IEEE Transactions on
`Information Theory, February 2011.
`O. Y. Bursalioglu, G. Caire, and D. Divsalar, “A Robust Deep Space Image
`Transmission Scheme based on Rateless Codes,” IEEE Trans. on Communications,
`Vol. 61, No. 8, August 2013.
`T. V. Nguyen, A. Nosratinia, D. Divsalar, “The Design of Rate-Compatible Protograph
`LDPC codes,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 60 , No 10, October, 2012.
`T. V. Nguyen, A. Nosratinia, D. Divsalar, “Bilayer Protograph Codes for Half-Duplex
`Relay,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Vol. 12, No. 5, May 2013.
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`T. V. Nguyen, A. Nosratinia, D. Divsalar, “Rate-Compatible Protograph-based
`LDPC Codes for Inter-Symbol Interference Channels,” IEEE Communications Letters
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`L. Dolecek, D. Divsalar, Y. Sun, and B. Amiri “Non-Binary Protograph-Based LDPC Codes:
`Enumerators, Analysis, and Designs,” IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, June 2014.
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`T-Y. Chen, K. Vakilinia, D. Divsalar, and R. D. Wesel, “Protograph-Based Raptor-Like
`LDPC Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, May 2015.
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`K. Vakilinia, S. V. S. Ranganathan, D. Divsalar ; R. D. Wesel, "Optimizing Transmission
`Lengths for Limited Feedback With Nonbinary LDPC Examples,” IEEE
`TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 64, NO. 6, JUNE 2016.
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`F. Sala, C. Schoeny, S. Kabir, D. Divsalar, and L. Dolecek, “On Nonuniform
`Noisy Decoding for LDPC Codes with Application to Radiation-Induced
`Errors,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 65 (4), pp. 1438-1450,
`April 2017.
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`Refereed Conference Papers
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`1.
`D. Divsalar and J. K. Omura, "Computational Cut-off Rate for Band
`limited Linear and Nonlinear Channels Under Mismatch Conditions,"
`Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns
`Hopkins University, March 1978.
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`2.
`D. Divsalar and J. K. Omura, "Performance of Intersymbol
`Interference Channels Under Mismatch Conditions," Proceedings of the IEEE
`International Conference on Communications, Toronto, Canada, June 1978.
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`3.
`D. Divsalar and J. K. Omura, "Performance of Mismatched Viterbi
`Receiver on Satellite Channels," Proceedings of the IEEE International
`Conference on
`Communications, Boston, Mass. 1979.
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`4.
`D. Divsalar and J. K. Omura, "A Computational Algorithm for
`Determining Convolutional Code Distances," Proceedings of the 1979
`International Symposium on Information Theory, Italy, June 1979.
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`5.
`D. Divsalar and J. H. Yuen, "Performance of Unbalanced QPSK in the
`Presence of Noisy Reference and Crosstalk," Proceedings of the IEEE
`National Telecommunication Conference, Washington, D.C., November 1979.
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`D. Divsalar and J. H. Yuen, "Performance of Convolutionally Coded
`6.
`Unbalanced QPSK Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE National
`Telecommunications Conference, Houston, Texas, November 1980.
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`7.
`D. Divsalar and J. K. Omura, "Effects of ISI on Viterbi Decoding,"
`Proceedings of the IEEE 1981 International Symposium on Information
`Theory, Santa Monica, CA, February 12-19, 1981.
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`8.
`D. Divsalar and M. K. Simon, "Performance of Quadrature
`Overlapped Raised Cosine Modulation Over Nonlinear Satellite Channels,"
`Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications,
`Denver, Colorado, June 1981.
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`9.
`D. Divsalar and J. H. Yuen, "A Coupled Phase-Locked Loops System
`for Carrier Tracking Improvement," Proceedings of the IEEE International
`Conference on Communications (ICC), June 13-17, 1982.
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`10. M. K. Simon, J. K. Omura and D. Divsalar, "Performance of
`Staggered Quadrature Modulations Over Nonlinear Satellite Channels with
`Uplink Noise and Intersymbol Interference," Proceedings of the IEEE
`GLOBECOM '82, Miami, Florida, November 1982.
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`11.
`D. Divsalar, R. M. Gagliardi and J. H. Yuen, "Demodulation of Pulse
`Position Modulation for Reed-Solomon Coded Optical Space Channel,"
`Proceedings of t