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`ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
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`OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AND STUDENT AFFAIRS
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`HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
`UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
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`Room 6426 Boelter Hall • Box 951594 • Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
`Phone (310) 267-2150 • Cell (310) 922-7831 • Email: wesel@ucla.edu
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`EDUCATION
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`1991 – 1996, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
`Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
`Trellis Code Design for Correlated Fading and Achievable Rates for Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding.
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`1984 – 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
`S. M. and S. B. in Electrical Engineering
`Thesis: Adaptive Equalization for Modem Constellation Identification.
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`EMPLOYMENT
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`1996 – present, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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`• Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs for the Henry Samueli School of
`Engineering and Applied Science since July 2007
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`• Acting Director HSSEAS MS Online Program, July 2007 – July 2008 (inaugural year
`of operation admitting students and offering classes)
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`• Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering since July 2006
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`• Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering 2002-2006
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`• Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering 1996-2001
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`1991 – 1996, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant.
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`1986 – 1994, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
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`• Member of Technical Staff summer 1994
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`• Member of Technical Staff 1989-1991
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`Intern 1986-1989, two summer internships and a culminating 6-month internship.
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`AWARDS
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`• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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`• Qualcomm Faculty Award
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`• Selected for the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Program
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`• TRW Excellence in Teaching Award (UCLA School of Engineering)
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`• Okawa Foundation Award for Excellence in Telecommunications Research
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`• National Science Foundation CAREER Award
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`• AT&T Foundation Ph.D. Fellow.
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`• Tau Beta Pi MIT chapter president 1987-1988, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, National
`Merit Scholar.
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`ACADEMIC SERVICE
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`• Associate Dean, Leading Office of Academic and Student Affairs, including
`admissions and counseling for all engineering majors, July 2007 to present
`• Chair, Samueli COVID-19 Task Force 2020-2021
`• Member, UCLA COVID-19 Academic Continuity Task Force 2020-2021
`• Member, HSSEAS SEASnet review committee, November 2018 to 2020
`• Chair, Summer Sessions Faculty Advisory Committee, Sept. 2018 to present.
`• Member, Advisory Committee on Immigration Policy, 2017 to 2021
`• HSSEAS Strategic Planning Committee for Education, Jan. 2017-June 2018
`• Member, Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning
`at UCLA, Steering Committee, January 2017-present
`• Member, Classroom Advisory Committee, November 2016 to present
`• Chair, UCLA Special Programs Task Force, Feb. 2013- Sept. 2014
`• Member, UCLA Enrollment Planning Committee October 2011-present
`• Member, UCLA Undergraduate Non-Resident Implementation Task
`Force August 2010 – July 2011
`• Member of UCLA Undergraduate Council July 2006- July 2008.
`• Member of the Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Relations
`with Schools July 2006- July 2008
`• Electrical Engineering Department Vice Chair for Undergraduate Affairs
`July 2005 – July 2007. Successfully managed the 2006 ABET Accreditation visit
`for EE.
`• Member of the School of Engineering Faculty Executive Committee 2003-
`2006.
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`• Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department Courses and Curriculum
`Committee 2003-2005.
`• Chair of the Communications Major Field in the Electrical Engineering
`Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1999-2004.
`• Chair of the Cubicle Allocation Committee for the Electrical Engineering
`Department at UCLA, managing the allocation of 150 student cubicles among
`approximately 20 professors who share this space, 1998-2005.
`• Chair of 2002 Annual Research Review (annual departmental research
`symposium). Also Vice Chair of 2001 Annual Research Review.
`• Member of 2001 UCLA EE Annual Report Committee.
`• Elected Member of the Legislative Assembly of the UCLA Academic Senate,
`1997-2001.
`• Chair for quarterly Seminar Series in Signals and Systems. Established this
`seminar series in spring 1997. Recruit a professor each quarter to organize
`speakers for the series. Personally organized speakers for four of these quarters.
`• Local Exhibits Chair, 1997 UCLA EE Research Symposium
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`GRADUATED PH.D. STUDENTS
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`1. Christina Fragouli, Ph.D. Sept. 2000, Dissertation: Turbo Code Design for High Spectral
`Efficiency, 2000-2001 UCLA EE Dept. Best Ph.D. Student 2001. Professor at UCLA.
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`2. Christos Komninakis, Ph.D. Dec. 2000, Dissertation: Joint Channel Estimation and Decoding
`for Wireless Channels, Senior Director of Technology, Qualcomm.
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`3. Xueting Liu, Ph.D. Dec. 2000, Dissertation: Trellis Code Design for Periodic Erasures and
`Adaptive Coded, Modulation Schemes for Time-Varying Channels, Apple Inc., CA
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`4. Wei Shi, Ph.D. Dec. 2000, Dissertation: New Results in Wireless Communications, Qualcomm
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`5. Tom Sun, Ph.D. Dec. 2002, Dissertation: Error Protection Techniques for Source and Channel
`Coding, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA
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`6. Chris Jones, Ph.D. Dec. 2003, Dissertation: Constructions, applications, and implementations of
`low-density parity-check codes, Co-founder Chilicon Power, Los Angeles, CA
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`7. Adina Matache, Ph. D. June 2004, Dissertation: Coding Techniques for High Data Rates in
`Wireless Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Communications, Aerospace Corp.
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`8. Cenk Kose,Ph.D. Dec. 2004, Dissertation: Universal trellis codes and concatenated trellis-coded
`modulations for the compound linear vector Gaussian channel
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`9. Aditya Ramamoorthy, June 2005, Generalized ACE Codes and Theoretic Results in Network
`Coding, Associate Professor at Iowa State University
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`10. Jun Shi, Ph.D. Sept. 2005, Dissertation: Universal Channel Codes and Trellis State-Diagram
`Reduction, Senior Principle Scientist at the Broadcom Corporation
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`11. Wen-Yen Weng, Ph.D. March 2007, Dissertation: Universal Serially Concatenated Trellis
`Coded Modulations and Rate-Compatible High-Rate LDPC Codes
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`12. Esteban Valles (Primary Advisor John Villasenor), Ph.D. March 2007, Dissertation:
`Timing Recovery Using Soft Information Feedback and Efficiency of Array Codes, Aerospace
`Corporation.
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`13. Andres Vila Casado, Ph.D. December 2007, Dissertation: Improving LDPC Decoders:
`Informed Dynamic Message-Passing Scheduling and Multiple-Rate Code Design
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`14. Herwin Chan (Primary Advisor Ingrid Verbauwhede), Ph.D. December 2007,
`Dissertation: Accelerating Applications Through Cross-Layer Co-Design
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`15. Miguel Griot, Ph.D. Sept. 2008, Dissertation: Nonlinear Codes for Multiple Access to Binary
`Channels and Higher-Order Modulations over the AWGN Channel, Qualcomm Corporation.
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`16. Bike Xie, Ph.D. June 2010, Dissertation: Encoding for Degraded Broadcast Channels and
`Resource Allocation for content Distribution in Peer-To-Peer Networks, Senior Staff Engineer-
`Manager at Marvell Corp
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`17. Thomas Courtade, Ph.D. June 2012, Dissertation: Two Problems in Multiterminal Information
`Theory, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley.
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`18. Jiadong Wang, Ph.D. June 2012, Dissertation: Absorbing Set Analysis of LDPC Codes and
`Read-Channel Quantization in Flash Memory, Senior Engineer at Qualcomm.
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`19. Tsung-Yi Chen, Ph. D. September 2013, Dissertation: Achieving Low-Latency Communication
`with Feedback: from Information Theory to Practical System Design, SpiderCloud Wireless.
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`20. Adam Williamson, Ph. D June 2014, Dissertation: Reliability-output Decoding and Low-latency
`Variable-Length Coding Schemes for Communication with Feedback, Northrop Grumman Corp.
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`21. Kasra Vakilinia, Ph. D June 2014, Dissertation: Coding Schemes to Approach Capacity in Short
`Blocklength with Feedback and LDPC Coding for Flash Memory, Huawei Technologies.
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`22. Haobo Wang, Ph. D Decembner, 2018, Dissertation: Optimizing Flash-Based Storage Systems,
`SK Hynix.
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`23. Sudarsan V.S. Ranganathan, Ph. D December, 2018, Dissertation:, Advances in
`Protograph-Based LDPC Codes and a Rate Allocation Problem, Post Doctoral Scholar
`and Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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`RESEARCH FUNDING SOURCES 1996 - PRESENT
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`• Mercury Systems
`• Qualcomm
`• Zeta Corporation
`• Physical Optics Corporation
`• SA Photonics
`• Micron Semiconductor
`• National Science Foundation
`• Western Digital Corporation
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`INPHI Corporation
`• Rockwell Collins
`• The Broadcom Foundation
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`• Boeing
`• Texas Instruments
`• Conexant
`• ST Microelectronics
`• Northrop Grumman
`• Skyworks
`• Xetron Corporation
`• Pacific Bell
`• Honeywell
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`COURSES TAUGHT 1996 - PRESENT
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`• EE131A Probability
`• EE132A Communications Systems
`• EE231A Information Theory
`• EE231E Channel Coding
`• EE232A Stochastic Processes
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`PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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`• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, March 2020-present
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`• Presenter of half-day tutorial on Incremental Redundancy at Globecom 2019,
`December 2019.
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`• Panel member for National Science Foundation Proposal Review Panels.
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`• Invited Speaker half-day tutorial on Incremental Redundancy at the 2018 European
`School of Information Theory, Bertinoro, Italy, May 2018
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`• Invited Speaker at IEEE UCSD ITA Workshop, annually 2006-present
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`• Reviewer for various IEEE conferences and journals. Regularly reviewing
`submissions to Trans. on Information Theory, Trans. on Communications, Journal on
`Selected Areas of Communications, Communications Letters, Globecom, and
`International Conference on Communications, 1994-present.
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`• Technical Program Committee Member, numerous times for Globecom, ICC, and
`ISIT.
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`• Organizer and lecturer for UCLA Extension course on Error Control Coding (2000-
`2006). Received an award for being among the top 10% of UCLA extension lecturers.
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`• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications 1999-2005.
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`• Technical Program Chair, Communication Theory Symposium at Globecom 2002.
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`• Organizer and Session Chair for Special Session on Concatenated codes and
`iterative decoding at the 2001 Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
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`• Session Organizer and Chair for Communication Theory Symposium at the 2001
`International Conference on Communications.
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`• Organizer and Session Chair for Special Session on Communication over Time
`Varying Channels at the 1999 Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
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`• Invited speaker 1998 and 2000 IEEE Communication Theory Workshops.
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`• Invited speaker Office of Naval Research, Naval Research Labs 1998 Turbo Codes
`Workshop.
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`• Invited speaker 1998 DARPA GloMo workshop on emerging technologies for hand-
`held wireless devices in military communication.
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`• Instructor for 1997 UCLA Extension course on wireless multimedia communications.
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`• Invited speaker at various universities and companies including Stanford, UC-
`Berkeley, UC-San Diego, Ohio State University, University of Arizona, Johns Hopkins
`University, Cornell, Telia Research, Lulea, Sweden, Lucent, Boeing, Xetron, Texas
`Instruments, Conexant, and Microsoft Research.
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`JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (see all publications at http://www.seas.ucla.edu/csl)
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`1. H. Yang, E. Liang, M. Pan and R. D. Wesel, "CRC-Aided List Decoding of Convolutional Codes
`in the Short Blocklength Regime," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, DOI:
`10.1109/TIT.2022.3150717.
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`2. L. Wang, C. Terrill, M. Stark, Z. Li, S. Chen, C. Hulse, C. Kuo, R. Wesel, G. Bauch, R.
`Pitchumani, “Reconstruction-Computation-Quantization (RCQ): A Paradigm for Low Bit Width
`LDPC Decoding,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2022 Early Access Article, DOI:
`10.1109/TCOMM.2022.3149913.
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`3. N. Farsad, W. Chuang, A. Goldsmith, C. Komninakis, M. Médard, C. Rose, L. Vandenberghe, E.
`E. Wesel, R. D. Wesel, “Capacities and Optimal Input Distributions for Particle-Intensity
`Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications.
`December 2020, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 220-232, DOI: 10.1109/TMBMC.2020.3035371.
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`4. T. Wiegart, F. D. Ros, M. P. Yankov, F. R. Steiner, S. Gaiarin, R. D. Wesel, “Probabilistically
`Shaped 4-PAM for Short-Reach IM/DD Links with a Peak Power Constraint”, Journal of Lightwave
`Technology, October 2020 (Early Access) . DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2020.3029371.
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`5. M. Stark, L. Wang, G. Bauch, R. D. Wesel, "Decoding Rate-Compatible 5G-LDPC Codes with
`Coarse Quantization Using the Information Bottleneck Method", IEEE Open Journal of the
`Communications Society, May 2020, vol. 1, pp. 646-660, DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2020.2994048.
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`6. H. Wang, S. V. S. Ranganathan, R. D. Wesel, “Variable-Length Coding with Shared Incremental
`Redundancy: Design Methods and Examples,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, June 2019,
`vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 5981-5995. DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2019.2919626.
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`7. S. V. S. Ranganathan, D. Divsalar, R. D. Wesel, "Quasi-Cyclic Protograph-Based Raptor-Like
`LDPC Codes for Short Block-Lengths", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, June 2019, vol.
`65, no. 6, pp. 3758-3777, DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2019.2895322.
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`8. A. Heidarzadeh, J. Chamberland, R. D. Wesel, and P Parag, "A Systematic Approach to
`Incremental Redundancy with Application to Erasure Channels", IEEE Transactions on
`Communications, April 2019, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 2620-2631, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2018.2889254.
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`9. S. V. S. Ranganathan, “Allocating Redundancy Between Erasure Coding and Channel Coding
`when Fading Channel Diversity Grows with Codeword Length,” IEEE Transactions on
`Communications, May 2017, vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 3226 - 3237. DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2017.2706728.
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`10. H. Wang, N. Wong, T.-Y. Chen, R. D. Wesel, “Using Dynamic Allocation of Write Voltage to
`Extend Flash Memory Lifetime”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, November 2016, vol. 64,
`no. 11, pp. 4474-4486, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2607707.
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`11. K. Vakilinia, S. V. S. Ranganathan, D. Divsalar, and R. D. Wesel, "Optimizing Transmission
`Lengths for Limited Feedback with Non-Binary LDPC Examples” IEEE Transactions on
`Communications, June 2016, vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 2245-2257, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2538770.
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`12. C.-Y. Lou, B. Daneshrad, and R. D. Wesel, "Convolutional-Code-Specific CRC Code Design",
`IEEE Transactions on Communications, October 2015, vol. 63, no. 10, pp. 3459 – 3469,
`DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2459058.
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`13. A. R. Williamson, T.-Y. Chen and R. D. Wesel, "Variable-length Convolutional Coding for Short
`Blocklengths with Decision Feedback", IEEE Transactions on Communications, July 2015, vol. 63,
`no. 7, pp. 2389 – 2403, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2429583.
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`14. T.-Y. Chen, K. Vakilinia, D. Divsalar, and R. D. Wesel, "Protograph-Based Raptor-Like LDPC
`Codes", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 63, No. 5, pp 1522-1530, May 2015,
`DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2015.2404842.
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`15. A. R. Williamson, M. Marshall, and R. D. Wesel, “Reliability-output Decoding of Tail-biting
`Convolutional Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 62, No. 6, pp 1768-1778, June
`2014, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.2319264.
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`16. J. Wang, K. Vakilinia, T.-Y. Chen, T. Courtade, G. Dong, T. Zhang, H. Shankar, and R. D. Wesel,
`“Enhanced Precision Through Multiple Reads for LDPC Decoding in Flash Memories” IEEE
`Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp 880-891, May 2014,
`DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2014.140508.
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`17. T.A. Courtade and R. D. Wesel, “Coded Cooperative Data Exchange in Multihop Networks,”
`IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 1136-1158, February 2014,
`DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2013.2290993.
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`18. J. Wang, L. Dolecek and R. Wesel, "The Cycle Consistency Matrix Approach to LDPC Absorbing
`Sets in Separable Circulant-Based Codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, No. 4,
`pp 2293 - 2314, April 2013, DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2012.2235122.
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`19. B. Xie, T. A. Courtade, and R. D. Wesel, "Optimal Encoding Schemes for Several Classes of
`Discrete Degraded Broadcast Channels," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, No. 3,
`pp. 1360-1378, March 2013, DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2012.2237095.
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`20. M. Griot, A. I. Vila Casado, W.-Y. Weng, H. Chan and R. D. Wesel," Nonlinear Trellis Codes for
`Binary-Input Binary-Output Multiple Access Channels With Single-User Decoding," IEEE
`Transactions on Communications, Vol. 60, No. 2, Feb. 2012,
`DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2012.010512.070116.
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`21. T. A. Courtade and R. D. Wesel," Optimal Allocation of Redundancy Between Packet-Level
`Erasure Coding and Physical-Layer Channel Coding in Fading Channels," IEEE Transactions on
`Communications, Vol. 59, No. 8, pp. 2101-2109, August 2011,
`DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2011.062311.090277.
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`22. A. I. Vila Casado, M. Griot, and R. D. Wesel, "LDPC Decoders with Informed Dynamic
`Scheduling ," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 58, No. 12, pp 3470-3479, December
`2010, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2010.101910.070303.
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`23. A. I. Vila Casado, W.-Y. Weng, S. Valle, and R. D. Wesel, " Multiple-Rate Low-Density Parity-
`Check Codes with Constant Blocklength ," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp
`75-83, January 2009, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.0901.060256.
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`24. H. Chan, A. I. Vila Casado, J. Basak, M. Griot, W.-Y. Weng, R. D. Wesel, B. Jalali, E.
`Yablonovitch, I. Verbauwhede, " Demonstration of Uncoordinated Multiple Access in Optical
`Communications ," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, Vol. 55, No. 10, pp
`3259-3269, November 2008, DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.925365.
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`25. W.-Y. Weng, C. Kose, B. Xie and R. D. Wesel, " Universal Serially Concatenated Trellis Coded
`Modulation for Space-Time Channels ," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 56, No. 10, pp
`1636-1646, October 2008, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2008.060530.
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`26. B. Xie, M. Griot, A. I. Vila Casado, and R. D. Wesel, " Optimal Transmission Strategy and
`Explicit Capacity Region for Broadcast Z Channels ," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol.
`53, No. 9, pp 4296-4304, September 2008, DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2008.928298.
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`27. J. Shi and R. D. Wesel, " A Study on Universal Codes with Finite Block Lengths," IEEE
`Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 54, No. 9, pp 3066-3074, September 2007,
`DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2007.903156.
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`28. M. Griot, W.-Y. Weng and R. D. Wesel, " A Tighter Bhattacharyya Bound for Decoding Error
`Probability," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol.11, No. 4, pp 346-347, April 2007,
`DOI: 10.1109/LCOM.2007.348296.
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`29. C. R. Jones, T. Tian, J. Villasenor and R. D. Wesel, " The Universal Operation of LDPC Codes
`Over Scalar Fading Channels," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 55, no. 1, pp 122-132,
`Jan. 2007, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2006.885081.
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`30. Kose C. and Wesel R. D., " Universal Space-Time Codes from Demultiplexed Trellis Codes," IEEE
`Trans. on Communications. Vol.54. No 7. July 2006, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2006.877967.
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`31. F. Peng, W. Ryan. and R. D. Wesel," Surrogate-Channel Design of Universal LDPC Codes," IEEE
`Comm. Letters, Jun. 2006, vol. 10, no. 6, pp 480-482, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2006.1638622
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`32. A. Ramamoorthy, J. Shi and R. D. Wesel, " On the Capacity of Network Coding for Random
`Networks," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Aug. 2005, Vol. 51, no. 8, pp 2878-2885,
`DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2005.851725.
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`33. Wesel R. D., "Reduced-State Representations for Trellis Codes Using Constellation Symmetry,"
`IEEE Transactions
`on Communications, Aug. 2004, vol. 52, no. 8 pp 1302-1310,
`DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2004.833023.
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`34. Tian T., Jones C., Villasenor J. D. and Wesel R. D., "Selective Avoidance of Cycles in Irregular
`LDPC Code Construction," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Aug. 2004, vol. 52(8), pp 1242-
`1247, DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2004.833048.
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`35. Sun T. W., Wesel R. D., Shane M. R. and Jarett K., "Superposition Turbo-TCM for Multi-Rate
`Broadcast," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Mar. 2004, vol. 52( 3), pp 368-371,
`DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2004.823646.
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`36. Shi J. and Wesel R. D., "Efficient Computation of Trellis Code Generating Functions," IEEE
`Transactions
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`DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.822702.
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`37. Matache A. and Wesel R. D., "Universal Trellis Codes for Diagonally Layered Space-Time Systems,"
`IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Nov. 2003, vol. 51(11) pp 2773-2783, Special Issue on "MIMO
`Wireless", DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2003.818159.
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`38. Kose C. and Wesel R. D., "Universal Space-Time Trellis Codes," IEEE Trans. on Info. Theory, Oct.
`2003, vol. 40(10) pp 2717-2727 Special Issue on "Space-Time Transmission, Reception, Coding and
`Signal Design,” DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2003.817459.
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`39. Q. Zhang, P. K. Varshney, and R. D. Wesel, “Optimal Bi-level quantization of I.I.D Sensor
`Observations for Binary Hypothesis Testing,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July 2002,
`48(7) pp. 2105-2110, DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2002.1013153.
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`40. C. Komninakis, C. Fragouli, A. H. Sayed, and R. D. Wesel, “Multi-Input, Multi-output Fading
`Channel Tracking and Equalization Using Kalman Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Signal
`Processing, May 2002, vol. 50(5), pp. 1065-1076, DOI: 10.1109/78.995063.
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`41. A. Bernard, X. Liu, R. D. Wesel, and A. Alwan, "Multi-rate Transmission of Speech Using Rate-
`Compatible Trellis Codes and Embedded Source Codes," IEEE Transactions on Communications,
`February 2002, vol. 50(2) pp. 309-320, DOI: 10.1109/26.983326.
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`42. P. Ormeci, D. L. Goeckel, X. Liu, and R. D. Wesel, “Adaptive Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation
`for Time-Varying Channels Using Outdated Fading Estimates” IEEE Transactions on Communications,
`Sept. 2001, 49(9), pp. 1572-1581, DOI: 10.1109/26.950344.
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`43. R. D. Wesel, X. Liu, J. M. Cioffi, and C. Komninakis, “Constellation Labeling for Linear Encoders,”
`IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Sept. 2001, 47(6), pp. 2417-2431, DOI: 10.1109/18.945255.
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`44. C. Komninakis and R..D. Wesel, “Joint Iterative Channel Estimation and Decoding in Flat
`Correlated Rayleigh Fading,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Sept. 2001, 19(9), pp.
`1706-17, DOI: 10.1109/49.947035.
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`45. C. Fragouli and R. D. Wesel, “Turbo encoder design for symbol interleaved parallel concatenated
`trellis coded modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 49(3), Mar. 2001, pp. 425-435,
`DOI: 10.1109/26.911450.
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`46. W. Shi, T. W. Sun, and R. D. Wesel, “Quasi-convexity and Optimal Binary Fusion for Distributed
`Detection with Identical Sensors in Generalized Gaussian Noise,” IEEE Transactions on Information
`Theory, Jan. 2001, 47(1), pp. 446-450, DOI: 10.1109/18.904560.
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`47. R. D. Wesel, X. Liu, and W. Shi, “Trellis Codes for Periodic Erasures,” IEEE Transactions on
`Communications, June 2000, 48(6), pp. 938-947, DOI: 10.1109/26.848553.
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`48. R. D. Wesel and J. M. Cioffi, “Trellis Codes for Periodic Interleavers,” IEEE Communications Letters,
`April 1999, 3(4), pp. 103-105, DOI: 10.1109/4234.757202.
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`49. R. D. Wesel, and J. Cioffi, “Achievable Rates for Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding,” IEEE
`Transactions on Information Theory, Mar. 1998, 44(2), pp. 824-831, DOI: 10.1109/18.661530.
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`J. Nguyen, L. Wang, C. Hulse, S. Dani, A. Antonini, T. Chauvin, D. Dariush, R. Wesel, “Neural
`Normalized Min-Sum Message-Passing vs. Viterbi Decoding for the CCSDS Line Product Code”,
`ICC 2022, Seoul, South Korea, May 16–20, 2022.
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`2. L. Wang, D. Song, F. Areces, and R. D. Wesel. “Achieving Short-Blocklength RCU bound via
`CRC List Decoding of TCM with Probabilistic Shaping”, ICC 2022, Seoul, South Korea, May 16–
`20, 2022.
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`3. W. Sui, H. Yang, B. Towell, A. Asmani, R. Wesel, “High-Rate Convolutional Codes with CRC-
`Aided List Decoding for Short Blocklengths”, ICC 2022, Seoul, South Korea, May 16–20, 2022.
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`4.
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`J. King, A. Kwon, H. Yang, W. Ryan, R. Wesel, "CRC-Aided List Decoding of Convolutional and
`Polar Codes for Short Messages in 5G", ICC 2022, Seoul, South Korea, May 16-20, 2022.
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`5. C. Terrill, L. Wang, S. Chen, C. Hulse, C. Kuo, R. Wesel, D. Divsalar, "FPGA Implementations
`of Layered MinSum LDPC Decoders Using RCQ Message Passing", 2021 IEEE Global
`Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Madrid, Spain, Dec. 7-11, 2021.
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`6. L. Wang, S. Chen, J. Nguyen, D. Dariush, R. Wesel, "Neural-Network-Optimized Degree-Specific
`Weights for LDPC MinSum Decoding", 2021 International Symposium on Topics in Coding
`(ISTC), Montréal, Canada, Aug. 30-Sept. 3, 2021.
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`7. A. Antonini, R. Gimelshein, R. D. Wesel, "Causal (Progressive) Encoding over Binary Symmetric
`Channels with Noiseless Feedback", 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information
`Theory (ISIT), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, July 12-20, 2021.
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`8. D. Xiao, L. Wang, D. Song, R. D. Wesel, "Finite-Support Capacity-Approaching Distributions for
`AWGN Channels," 2020 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Online, April 11-15 2021.
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`9. A. Arafa, R. D. Wesel, "Timely Transmission Using Optimized Variable Length Coding," 2021
`IEEE INFOCOM Age of Information Workshop, Online, May 10, 2021.
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`10. L. Wang, M. Stark, R. D. Wesel, G. Bauch, "A Reconstruction-Computation-Quantization (RCQ)
`Approach to Node Operations in LDPC Decoding," 2020 IEEE Global Communications
`Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 7-11, 2020.
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`11. J. Nguyen, E. Liang, L. Wang, T. Drullinger, T. Chauvin, R. D. Wesel, "Comparison of Integrated
`and Independent RF/FSOTransceivers on a Fading Optical Channel," 2020 Asilomar Conference
`on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 1-5, 2020.
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`12. Hengjie Yang, Linfang Wang, Vincent Lau, Richard D. Wesel, “An Efficient Algorithm for
`Designing Optimal CRCs for Tail-Biting Convolutional Codes”, 2020 IEEE International
`Symposium on Information Theory, June 21-26, 2020, Los Angeles, CA.
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`13. Amaael Antonini, Hengjie Yang, Richard D. Wesel, “Low Complexity Algorithms for
`Transmission of Short Blocks over the BSC with Full Feedback,” 2020 IEEE International
`Symposium on Information Theory, June 21-26, 2020, Los Angeles, CA.
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`14. Hengjie Yang, Richard D. Wesel, “Finite-Blocklength Performance of Sequential Transmission
`over BSC with Noiseless Feedback”, 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information
`Theory, June 21-26, 2020, Los Angeles, CA.
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`15. Maximilian Stark, Gerhard Bauch, Linfang Wang, Richard D. Wesel, “Information Bottleneck
`Decoding of Rate-Compatible 5G-LDPC Codes”, 2020 IEEE Int. Conf. Commun., Virtual
`Conference, June 7-11, 2020.
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`16. H. Yang, E. Liang, H. Yao, A. Vardy, D. Divsalar, and R. D. Wesel, “A List-Decoding Approach
`to Low-Complexity Soft Maximum-Likelihood Decoding of Cyclic Codes,” 2019 IEEE Global
`Communications Conference, Dec. 9-13, 2019, Waikoloa, HI, USA.
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`17. E. Liang, H. Yang, H. Yao, D. Divsalar, and R. D. Wesel, “List-Decoded Tail-Biting
`Convolutional Codes with Distance-Spectrum Optimal CRCs for 5G,” 2019 IEEE Global
`Communications Conference, Dec. 9-13, 2019, Waikoloa, HI, USA.
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`18. N. Wong, H. Wang, E. Liang, S. V. S. Ranganathan, and R. D. Wesel, “Decoding Flash Memory
`with Progressive Reads and Independent vs. Joint Encoding of Bits in a Cell,” 2019 IEEE Global
`Communications Conference, Dec. 9-13, 2019, Waikoloa, HI, USA.
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`19. H. Yang and R. D. Wesel, “On the Most Informative Boolean Functions of the Very Noisy
`Channel,” 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, July 7-12, 2019, Paris,
`France.
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`20. H. Yang and R. D. Wesel, "Serial List Viterbi Decoding with CRC: Managing Errors, Erasures,
`and Complexity," 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Dec. 9-13, 2018, Abu Dhabi,
`UAE.
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`21. H. Wang and R. D. Wesel, "Channel Code Analysis and Design using Multiple Variable-Length
`Codes in Parallel without Feedback," 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Dec. 9-13,
`2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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`22. R. D. Wesel, N. Wong, A. Baldauf, A. Belhouchat, A. Heidarzadeh, and J.-F. Chamberland,
`"Transmission Lengths that Maximize Throughput of Variable-Length Coding & ACK/NACK
`Feedback," 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Dec. 9-13, 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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`23. A. Baldauf, A. Belhouchat, N. Wong, R. D.Wesel, “Efficient Computation of Convolutional
`Decoder Reliability Without a CRC,” Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers,
`Pacific Grove, CA, October 28-31, 2018.
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`24. S. V. S. Ranganathan, R. D. Wesel and D. Divsalar, "Linear Rate-Compatible Codes with Degree-
`1 Extending Variable Nodes Under Iterative Decoding," 2018 IEEE International Symposium on
`Information Theory (ISIT), Vail, CO, USA, 2018, pp. 1166-1170.
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`25. A. Heidarzadeh, J. Chamberland, P. Parag and R. D. Wesel, "A Systematic Approach to
`Incremental Redundancy over Erasure Channels," 2018 IEEE International Symposium on
`Information Theory (ISIT), Vail, CO, USA, 2018, pp. 1176-1180.
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`26. R. D. Wesel, E. E. Wesel, L. Vandenberghe, C. Komninakis, and M. Medard, "Efficient Binomial
`Channel Capacity Computation with an Application to Molecular Communication," IEEE 2018
`Inf. Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop. La Jolla, CA. February 11 - February 16, 2018.
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`27. S. V. S. Ranganathan, D. Divsalar, and R. D. Wesel, "Design of Improved Quasi-Cyclic
`Protograph-Based Raptor-Like LDPC Codes for Short Block-Lengths," IEEE Int. Symp. Inf.
`Theory (ISIT). June 2017.
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`28. H. Wang, S. V. S. Ranganathan, and R. D. Wesel, "Approaching Capacity Using Incremental
`Redundancy without Feedback," IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT). ). June 2017.
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`29. H. Wang, N. Wong, A. M. Baldauf, C. K. Bachelor, S. V. S. Ranganathan, D. Divsalar, and R. D.
`Wesel, "An Information Density Approach to Analyzing and Optimizing Incremental
`Redundancy with Feedback," IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT). ). June 2017.
`30. N. Wong, K. Vakilinia, H. Wang, S. V. S. Ranganathan, and R. D. Wesel, "Sequential Differential
`Optimization of Incremental Redundancy Transmission Lengths: An Example with Tail-Biting
`Convolutional Codes," IEEE 2016 Inf. Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop. La Jolla, CA.
`February 12 - February 17, 2017.
`31. S. V. S. Ranganathan, K. Vakilinia, D. Divsalar, and R. D. Wesel, "Universal Rate-Compatible
`LDPC Code Families for Any Increment Ordering". 9th Int. Symp. Turbo Codes & Iterative
`Information Processing (ISTC), Brest, France, September 5 - September 9, 2016.
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`32. R. D. Wesel, K. Vakilinia, S. V. S. Ranganathan, T. Mu, and D. Divsalar, “Resource-Aware
`Incremental Redundancy in Feedback and Broadcast,” In Proceedings of the 2016 International
`Zurich Seminar on Communications, March 2-4, 2016, pp 63-67.
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`33. S. V. S. Ranganathan, K. Vakilinia, L. Dolecek, D. Divsalar, and R. D. Wesel, "Some Results on
`Spatially Coupled Protograph LDPC Codes". IEEE 2016 Inf. Theory and Applications (ITA)
`Workshop. La Jolla, CA. February 12 - 17, 2016.
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`34. H. Wang, N. Wong, and R. D. Wesel, “Dynamic Voltage Allocation with Quantized Voltage
`Levels and Simplified Channel Modeling,” 49th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and
`Computers, Pacific Grove, CA November 8-11, 2015.
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`35. S. V. S. Ranganathan, D. Divsalar, and R. D. Wesel, "On the Girth of (3,L) Quasi-Cyclic LDPC
`Codes Based on Complete Photographs". IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT). Wanchai, Hong
`Kong. June 14 - 19, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/ISIT.2015.7282491
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`36. K. Vakilinia, D. Divsalar, and R. D. Wesel, "RCA Analysis of the Polar Codes and the use of
`Feedback to aid Polarization at Short Blocklengths", IEEE Int Symp. INf. Theory (ISIT),
`Wanchai, Hong Kong, June 14-19, 2015.
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`37. H. Wang, T.-Y. Chen, and R. D. Wesel, "Histogram-Based Flash Channel