Steven Silvio Pietrobon

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NAME:

Steven Silvio PIETROBON

POSITION:

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Telecommunications Research
University of South Australia, The Levels SA 5095.

DATE OF BIRTH:

5 October 1963

NATIONALITY:

Australian

AREAS OF WORK EXPERIENCE:

Digital Transmission, Satellite Communications, Viterbi Decoder Design, Trellis Coding, Error Control Coding, Turbo Codes

EDUCATION:

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering - 19 May 1991

International Space University, Toronto, Canada.

• Summer Session - 31 August 1990.

South Australian Institute of Technology (now University of South Australia), The Levels, South Australia.

• M.Eng. in Electronic Engineering - 16 May 1989.
• B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering - 1 May 1986.

AWARDS:

• Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (1993-1996).
• NASA Research Assistantship (1988-1990).
• Commonwealth Scholarship (1986-1987).
• South Australian Institute of Technology Medal for outstanding academic achievement (1986).
• National Semiconductor Prize for best first year Electronic Engineering student at SAIT (1982).

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Member, Australian Space Research Institute
Member, British Interplanetary Society

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Coding Theory and Techniques Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications, (July 1996-)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Mar. 1997 to present: Small World Communications
6 First Avenue, Payneham South SA 5070.
Proprietor. Design of error control decoders for programmable gate arrays.

Jan. 1990 to Feb. 1997: Satellite Communications Research Centre
University of South Australia, The Levels SA 5095.

• Research Fellow, "Low rate convolutional codes for space and mobile radio communications," - Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Australian Research Council.
  - Search for best low rate convolutional codes and construction of a turbo/MAP decoder.

• Project engineer, "Development of a 155 Mbit/s FEC codec," - project for INTELSAT (Washington DC, USA)
  - development of a novel FEC codec for satellite transmission of 155 Mbit/s Broadband ISDN. The design was based on a concatenation of a multi-dimensional trellis code and a Reed-Solomon block code.

• Project engineer, "Remote Area Satellite Service," - project for South Australian Department of Industry, Trade, and Technology.
  - study of the communications systems for the space and ground segments of a Remote Area Satellite Service (RASS) using small low Earth orbiting satellites and existing geosynchronous satellites.

• Project engineer, "Rate 5/6 8PSK codec," - project for University of South Australia and University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame IN, USA).
  - development of a prototype 2 Mbit/s rate 5/6 8PSK codec (using a multi-D trellis code) for possible use on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Dec. 1985 to Feb. 1986: Digital Communications Group
South Australian Institute of Technology, The Levels SA 5095.
Work experience in error control codec design and manufacture.

Dec. 1984 to Feb. 1985: Thorn EMI Electronics
Defence Science Technology Organisation, Salisbury SA 5108.
Work experience in testing electronic boxes for F/A-18.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

1. S. S. Pietrobon, R. H. Deng, A. Lafanechhre, G. Ungerboeck, and D. J. Costello, Jr., "Trellis-coded multidimensional phase modulation," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 36, pp. 63-89, Jan. 1990.

2. S. S. Pietrobon and D. J. Costello, Jr., "Trellis coding with multidimensional QAM signal sets," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 39, pp. 325-336, Mar. 1993.

3. S. S. Pietrobon and D. J. Costello, Jr., "A bandwidth efficient coding scheme for the Hubble space telescope," NASA Space Commun. Technol. Conf., Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., pp. 75-81, Ohio, Nov. 1991, National Space Eng. Symp. pp. 231-235, Canberra, ACT, Sep. 1992., and J. Electrical and Electron. Eng., Australia, vol. 13, pp. 275-282, Dec. 1993.

4. P. K. Gray and S. S. Pietrobon, "An Australian low Earth orbiting mobile satellite system," National Space Eng. Symp., pp. 13-18, Canberra, ACT, Sep. 1992 and J. Electrical and Electron. Eng., Australia, vol. 13, pp. 283-291, Dec. 1993.

5. I. S. Morrison, S. S. Pietrobon, P. K. Gray, and J. J. Kasparian, "A 155 Mbit/s FEC codec for B-ISDN over a 72 MHz satellite transponder," National Space Eng. Symp., pp. 9-12, Canberra, ACT, Sep. 1992 and J. Electrical and Electron. Eng., Australia, vol. 13, pp. 263-270, Dec. 1993.

6. S. S. Pietrobon, G. Ungerboeck, L. C. Perez, and D. J. Costello, Jr., "Rotationally invariant nonlinear trellis codes for two-dimensional modulation," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 40, pp. 1773-1791, Nov. 1994.

7. S. S. Pietrobon, J. J. Kasparian, and P. K. Gray, "A multi-D trellis decoder for a 155 Mbit/s concatenated codec," Int. J. of Satellite Commun., vol. 12, pp. 539-553, Nov.-Dec. 1994.

8. S. S. Pietrobon, "On the probability of error of convolutional codes," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 42, pp. 1562-1568, Sep. 1996. IT96.ps.gz (96,536 bytes)

9. S. S. Pietrobon, "Implementation and performance of a turbo/MAP decoder," Int. J. of Satellite Commun., vol. 16, pp. 23-46, Jan.-Feb. 1998. turboMAP.ps.gz (1,151,742 bytes)

10. W. Xiang and S. S. Pietrobon, "On the capacity and normalisation of ISI channels," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 49, pp. 2263-2268, Sep. 2003. IT03.ps.gz (135,595 bytes)

OTHER LINKS:

ITR's Turbo Coding Home Page
ITR's Masters and Ph.D. Theses
Australian Communications Research Network
International Page on Error Control Coding
Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive