Publication List for W. G. (Bill)   COWLEY

Chapters in Books:

Cowley, W.G., "Digital Modem Design", Chapter 5 of "Satellite Communications : Mobile and Fixed Services", (Eds).M.J. Miller, B. Vucetic and L. Berry, Kluwer Academic Press, 1993, pp. 189 - 232

Refereed Journal Articles:

Davis, B.R. & Cowley W.G., "Bias and Variance of Spectral Estimates from an All-pole Digital Filter", IEEE Trans. on ASSP. Vol. ASSP-30, No. 2, April, 1982, pp. 322-329

Sabel L.P. and Cowley W.G., "Performance Analysis of Decision-Directed Symbol Timing Estimators with Decision Errors", Elect. Letters, Vol. 30, No. 10, May 12^th, 1994, pp. 754-756

Sabel L.P., and Cowley W.G., "Block Feedforward Symbol Timing Estimator for Digital Modems", Elect. Letters, Vol. 30, No. 16, Aug 4^th, 1994, pp. 1273-1275

Cowley W.G. & Sabel L.P., "Performance of Two Symbol Timing Recovery Algorithms for PSK Demodulators", IEEE Trans. Commun., Vol. 42, No. 6, June 1994, pp. 2345-2355

Bolding G. and Cowley W.G., "A Computationally Efficient Method of Timing and Phase Estimation in TDMA Systems Using a Preamble Sequence", Int. J. of Sat. Comms., Vol. 13, No. 6, Nov, 1995, pp. 441-452

Cowley W.G., "Phase and Frequency Estimation for PSK Packets: Bounds and Algorithms", IEEE Trans. Commun., Vol. 44, No. 1, Jan. 1996, pp. 26-28

Reader D.J. and Cowley W.G, "Method for preventing delay ambiguity", Elect. Letters, Vol. 33, No. 4, (Feb 13^th, 1997), pp. 263-265

Cowley W.G. " Reference symbols can improve performance over differential coding in ML and near-ML detectors", SIGNAL PROCESSING 71, Fast Communication, '98, pp. 95-99

Rice F., Cowley B., Moran Bill and Rice M., "Cramer-Rao Lower Bounds for QAM Phase and Frequency Estimation", IEEE Trans. Commun. Vol. 49, No. 9, Sept 2001, pp. 1582-1591

W.G. Cowley, M. Tykesson, C. Earl, V. Kotchetygov, and R. Macri, “ERSDEM-2: A High Speed Demodulator for Earth-Resource Satellites”, J.E.E.E. (Aust), Special Issue on Sat Comms, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 141-144, 2000

Rice F., Rice M. and Cowley B., "A New Algorithm for 16QAM Carrier Phase Estimation Using QPSK Partitioning", Dig. Sig. Proc.  Vol.12,  No.1, pp. 77-86, Jan, 2002

Rice F, Rice M and Cowley B., “A New Bound and Algorithm for Star 16-QAM carrier Phase Estimation”, IEEE Trans. Commun, Vol. 51, N0. 2, Feb. 2003, pp. 161-165.

W. G. Cowley, “Performance comparisons for adaptive LEO satellite links,” Int. J. of Satellite Communications and Networking, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 229–239, 2006

Green, H.E. and Cowley, W.G. 2007, “Antenna refurbishment for use in a low-earth-orbit satellite earth station”, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 177-188.

Karuppasami S. and Cowley, W.G., "Construction and Iterative Decoding of LDPC Codes Over Rings for Phase-Noisy Channels,  EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, March, 2008

Letzepis N, Holland, I.D. And Cowley W.G. “The Gaussian Free Space Optical MIMO Channel with Q-ary Pulse Position Modulation”, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., Vol. 7, No. 5, May 2008

I. D. Holland and L. T. Hall and W. G. Cowley, “Practical Multiple-Antenna Solutions for Enhancing Adaptive OFDM Performance in mm-Wave WPANs”, Int. Journal of Communication Systems.  Vol. 23,  Issue 2, Pages 151 - 166, Sept 2009

A. Pollok, W. G. Cowley and N. Letzepis, “Symbol-wise beamforming for MIMO-OFDM transceivers in the presence of co-channel interference and spatial correlation ”, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 8,  no. 12, pp. 5755-5760, Dec. 2009.

N. Letzepis, K. D. Nguyen, A. Guill´en i F`abregas and W. G. Cowley, “Hyrbid free-space optical and radio-frequency wireless communication,” IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun. Vol. 27, No. 9, Dec. 2009. 

A.T.M. Anishur Rahman and W.G. Cowley, “1.672 Giga Bits/s FPGA-based Viterbi Decoder for 4D 8PSK TCM”, Proc. Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 20, Issue 1, Jan. 2010,  Pages 263-268

B. Beahan, W. Cowley, “Improving frequency estimation performance for burst transmissions by optimising reference symbol distribution”, Signal Process. (2010), doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2010.05.003

Refereed Conference Papers:

Cowley, W.G. & Miller, M.J., "Simulation and the Design of a Satellite Terminal Modem/Codec Unit", ATERB Workshop on Stochastic Modelling for Digital Communication Systems, Melbourne, August 1986.

Miller, M.J., Cowley, W.G. & Ungerboeck, G., "An Approach to Maximum Likelihood QPSK Modem Design", Int. Symp. on Inform. Theory, Ann Arbor, October 1986.

Cowley, W.G. & Morrison, I.S., "Modular System Architectural Approach to Modem/Codec Design for a Satellite Earth Station", Third National Space Eng. Symp., Canberra, July 1987, pp. 116-119

Cowley, W.G., Morrison, I.S. & Lynes, D.C., "Digital Signal Processing Algorithms for a Phase Shift Keyed Modem", ISSPA-87, August 1987, Brisbane, pp. 836-841

Lynes, D.C. & Cowley, W.G., "The Implementation of a QPSK Modem for the INTELSAT Business Service", IREECON, Sydney, September 1987.

Vyden B., Cowley W.G. and Morrison I.S., "A Digital Modem for Satellite Communications", Electronics-88, Adelaide, Oct. ’88, 12 pages

Cowley, W.G., "Synchronisation Algorithms for Digital Modems", ASSPA-89, Adelaide, April 1989, pp. 201-205

Bolding, G., Asenstorfer, P.M. & Cowley, W.G., "A Time Division Multiple Access Modem for use in M-SAT Network", IREECON, Melbourne, September 1989, 4 pages

Gray, P.K., Morrison, I.S. & Cowley, W.G., "The Development of a 45 M bit/s Modem/Codec", IREECON, Melbourne, September 1989, 5 pages

Rice, M., Miller, M.J., Cowley, W.G. & Rowe, D., "Modem Design for a Mobilesat Terminal", IMSC-90, Ottawa, June 1990, 5 pages

Rice, M. & Cowley, W.G., "Signal Processing for a Mobile Satellite Modem", ISSPA-90, Gold Coast, August 1990, 3 pages

Sabel L.P. and Cowley W.G., "A Comparison of Symbol Timing Recovery Algorithms for High Speed Demodulators", ISSPA-90, Gold Coast, Aug. 1990, 4 pages

Rowe D., Perkis A., Cowley W.G. and Asenstorfer J.A., "Error Masking in a Real-Time Voice Coder for Mobile Satellite Communications", Proc SST-90, Melb, Nov. 1990, pp. 498-503

Cowley, W.G. & Bullen, E., "Error Correction Techniques for CELP Speech Coders", IREECON, September 1991, 4 pages

Bolding, G., Cowley, W.G. & Morrison, I.S., "A Flexible 85MSym/s Demodulator for Earth Resources Satellite Applications", IREECON, September 1991, 4 pages

Kostogiannis, J., Rowe, D., Perkis, A. & Cowley, W.G., "A Robust Dual Bit Rate Voice Codec", IREECON, September 1991, 4 pages

Sabel, L.P., & Cowley, W.G, "A New Symbol Timing Recovery Algorithm Employing Recursive Estimation for Burst Modem Applications", ISSPA-92, Gold Coast, Australia, August 1992, pp. 105-108

Sabel, L.P. & Cowley, W.G., "A Recursive Algorithm for the Estimation of Symbol Timing in PSK Burst Modems", GLOBECOM '92, Florida, December 1992, 5 pages

Cowley, W.G., Rice, M., & McLean A.N., "Estimation of Frequency Offset in Mobile Satellite Modems", IMSC-93, Pasadena, June 1993, pp. 417-422

Farrell W.N. and Cowley W.G., "A Comparative Study of Modulation Schemes for the Transmission of CELP Parameters", DSP for Comms, Adel., April 1994, 11 pages

Cowley W.G. and Crozier S.N., "Comparisons Between Differential Detection Methods and Pseudo-coherent Techniques", DSP for Comms, Adel., April 1994, 9 pages

Rowe D. and Cowley W.G., "A Mixed Excitation Harmonic Coder", DSP for Comms, Adel., April 1994, 15 pages

Bolding G. and Cowley W.G., "The Performance of a Computationally Efficient Method of Timing Estimation in TDMA Systems using a Known Preamble Sequence", DSP for Comms, Adel., April 1994, 17 pages

Sabel L.P. and Cowley W.G., "A New Feedforward Block Processing Symbol Timing Estimator for Digital Demodulators", DSP for Comms, Adel., April 1994, 13 pages

Farrell W.N. and Cowley W.G., "A Rate ¾ TCM Decoder for Line Spectral Pairs Using MAP Information", SST-94, Perth, Dec. ’94, 6 pages

Reader D. J. and Cowley W.G., "Blind Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation", ICASSP-96, Atlanta, May 1996, 4 pages

Guidi A.M., Bolding G. and Cowley W.G., "Development and Implementation of Robust and Spectrally-Efficient Medium Data Rate Modems, Part 1: Architectures", Proc. DSP for Commun. Systems, Perth, Sept. 1996, 8 pages

Cowley W.G., Guidi A.M. and Bolding G., "Development and Implementation of Robust and Spectrally-Efficient Medium Data Rate Modems, Part 2: Synchronisation Algorithms", Proc. DSP for Commun. Systems, Perth, Sept. 1996, 8 pages

Reader D.J. and Cowley W.G., "Blind Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation over Fast Fading Channels", Proc. EUSIPCO-96, Trieste, 4 pages

Farrell W.N. and Cowley W.G., "Maximum A Posteriori Decoding of Speech Information", Proc. SST-96, Adel., Dec. 1996, pp. 645-650

Reader D.J. and Cowley W.G., "Fractionally-Spaced Blind Maximum Likelihood Sequence Detection over Fast Fading Fractionally-Spaced Channels", Proc. IEEE DSP Workshop, Norway, 1996, 4 pages

Lavenant M.P., Cowley W.G., McCarthy J., Burnet C., Morris S., and Cook S., "Digital Communications for the Satellite to Helicopter Channel", Proc. IAC-97, Sydney, Feb, 1997, 5 pages

Cowley W.G., Lavenant M.P. and Zhang W., "A Mobile Satellite Modem for Helicopter Applications", Proc. IMSC-97, Pasadena, June, 1997, pp. 479-484.

G. Bolding and Cowley W.G., " Digital Phase Locked Loops for Satellite Communications", Proc. ICICS-97, Singapore, Sept 1997, pp. 422-426.

Cowley, Bill, Bill Moran and Murk Bottema, "Analysis if Phase Locked Loops with Large Delay", Proc. EMAC '98, Adelaide

Rice F, Cowley B, Rice M, and Moran B, "Spectrum Analysis Using a Trellis Algorithm", Proc. ICSP '98, Oct. 1998, Beijing, China, pp. 1636-1639

W.G. Cowley, W.N. Farrell and D.A. Powell, “ Baseband Processor for FedSat”, Proc. IMSC’99, Ottawa, June ’99, pp. 106-110

W.G. Cowley, M. Tykesson, C. Earl, V. Kotchetygov, and R. Macri, “ERSDEM-2: A High Speed Satellite for Earth-Resource Satellites”, (inc. NSES’99), Adelaide, Sept ’99

B.B. Hale, W.G. Cowley and W.N. Farrell, “FedSat ARQ Protocols for LEO Remote Data Collection”, Proc IAC’99 (inc. NSES’99), Adelaide, Sept ’99

E.S. Seumahu, T.S. Bird, W. G. Cowley, A.J. Parfitt, S. Reisenfeld; “The FedSat Communications Systems”,  Proc ICICS’99, Singapore

E.S. Seumahu, W. G. Cowley,  S. Reisenfeld “The FedSat Earth Segment”, Proc ICICS’99, Singapore

E.S. Seumahu, T.S. Bird, W. G. Cowley, A.J. Parfitt,  “The Fedsat Communications Payload”, Proc ICICS’99, Singapore

J. Buetefuer and Cowley W.G., "Frequency Offset Insensitive Multiple Sysmbol Detection of MPSK", Proc. ICASSP June 2000, Vol V pp. 2669-2672, Istanbul

Burnet C.E. and Cowley W.G., "Performance of 16QAM Transmission for Nonlinear Satellite Channels", Proc ESA 7th Workshop on DSP, October 2001

Buetefuer J.L., and Cowley W.G., "A Frequency Insensitive Demodulator for Double Differential PSK", Proc. Defence Applications of Signal Processing, Barossa Valley, South Australia, pp. 210-214, 23-28 June, 2002

Burnet C.E. and Cowley W.G., "Intersymbol interference cancellation for 16QAM transmission through nonlinear channels", Proc IEEE 10th Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Pine Mountain, Georgia, paper 9.4, 13-16^th October 2002

Burnet C.E, Barbulescu S.A. and Cowley W.G., “Turbo Equalisation of a Nonlinear Satellite Channel”, Proc. Int. Symp. on Turbo Codes, Brest, Sept 2003

Burnet C.E. and Cowley W.G., "Performance Analysis of Turbo Equalisation for Nonlinear Satellite Channels", Proc IEEE ISIT, Paper 16.3.3, Adelaide, Australia, Sept 2005

W. G. Cowley and M. Ho, “Transmission design for doppler-varying channels,” in Proc. 7th Aust. Communications Theory Workshop,  Perth,  pp. 108–111, Feb 2006.

I. D. Holland,W. G. Cowley, and C. Burnet, “On the Design of Gigabit IndoorWireless LANs at 60 GHz”, in Proc. Australian Conf. on Wireless Broadband and Ultra Wideband Commun., Mar. 2006, Sydney, Australia.

Craig E. Burnet, Nghia H. Ngo, Steven S. Pietrobon and William G. Cowley, "Combined Data Predistortion and Nonuniform Distribution for 16QAM over the Nonlinear Satellite Channel",  Proc. of 4th Int. Symp on Turbo Codes,  Paper 124, Munich, April, 2006

I. D. Holland I.D., Pollok A., and Cowley W.G. “Design and Simulation of NLOS High Rate mm-Wave WLANs”, Proc. NEWCOM-ACoRN Workshop, Sept 2006, Vienna, Austria

Ramamurthy, B and Cowley W.G., “On the Design and Implementation of Adaptive Equalizer in Parallel Streams” Proc. 5th Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing, WITSP'06, Dec. 2006, Hobart, Australia

Karuppasami, S and Cowley, W.G., “Low Density Parity Check(LDPC) Code-Aided Phase-Ambiguity Resolution”, Proc. Information, Decision and Control, 2007. IDC '07 Adelaide Feb, 2007

S. Karuppasami and W. Cowley, “LDPC code-aided phase-ambiguity resolution for QPSK signals affected by a frequency offset”, Proc. Australian Commun Theory Workshop, AusCTW, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 47-50, Feb. 2007

A. Pollok, W. G. Cowley and I. D. Holland, “Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Options for 60 GHz Line-of-Sight Channels”, Proc AusCTW08, Christchurch, Jan 2008,

I. D. Holland and W. G. Cowley,  “Physical Layer Design for mm-Wave WPANs using Adaptive Coded OFDM”,  Proc AusCTW08, Christchurch, Jan 2008,

S. Karuppasami, W. Cowley and S. S. Pietrobon, “LDPC Code Construction and Iterative Receiver Techniques for Channels with Phase Noise”, Proc. VTC2008, Singapore, May 2008

P. van Duijn, J. Schoenmaker, B. Ramamurthy, B. Cowley, R. Luppino, and M. Mirza, "ERSDEM-3: A Gigabit and Multi-Channel Modem for Earth Observation", Proc. SpaceOps 2008, paper AIAA 2008-3532,  Heidelberg, May 2008

N. Letzepis, A. Pollok and W. G. Cowley, “Mutual information distribution of spatially correlated MIMO-OFDM systems in the low signal-to-noise ratio regime,” in Proc. Aust. Commun. Workshop, (Sydney, Australia), Feb, 2009.

W. G. Cowley, A. Pollok and N. Letzepis, “Filter optimisation and timing drift in high-rate OFDM systems,” in Proc. Aust. Commun. Theory Workshop, (Sydney, Australia), Feb, 2009.

W. G. Cowley and M. P. Lavenant, “Analysis of Uncoordinated ISL Networks”, Proc. Globecom 2009, Hawaii, Dec, 2009

A. Pollok, N. Letzepis and W. G. Cowley, “Symbol–Wise Beamforming for Co–Channel Interference Reduction in MIMO–OFDM Systems”, Proc. Globecom 2009, Hawaii, Dec, 2009

W. G. Cowley and H. E. Green,  "Phased-Array Antennas for Inter-Satellite Links", Proc. Aust. Commun. Theory Workshop, (Canberra), Feb, 2010

N. Letzepis, K.D. Nguyen, A. Guillén i Fàbregas and W.G. Cowley, Hybrid Free-Space Optical and Radio-Frequency Communications: Outage Analysis, ISIT   Austin, USA, June, 2010,

 Last Updated 2010. Note that some publications are listed under Cowley, B.