ITR Masters and Ph.D. Theses

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Welcome to ITR's Masters and Ph.D. Theses home page. Here you will find gzipped postscript files of the theses of staff and students at the Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia, The Levels.

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List of Theses

1. Les P. Sabel, "A maximum likelihood approach to symbol timing recovery in digital communications," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Oct. 1993. lps.ps.gz (984,237 bytes)

2. Honghui Qi, "Packet reservation multiple access protocol for cellular systems," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Aug. 1994. hq.ps.gz (537,253 bytes)

3. John A. Asenstorfer, "Source-channel coding for CELP speech coders," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of Adelaide, Sep. 1994. jaa.ps.gz (1,124,935 bytes)

4. Lei Wei, "Single-user and multi-user modulation and detection methods for mobile communications," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Dec. 1994. lw.ps.gz (877,934 bytes)

5. Philip E. McIllree, "Channel capacity calculations for M-ary N-dimensional signal sets," M.Eng. Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Feb. 1995. pem.ps.gz (314,464 bytes)

6. John Tsimbinos, "Identification and compensation of nonlinear distortion," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Feb. 1995. jt.ps.gz (2,093,975 bytes)

7. Jeffrey J. Wojtiuk, "Analysis of frequency conversion for M-QAM and M-PSK modems," M.Eng. Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Feb. 1995. jjw.ps.gz (841,112 bytes)

8. Derek P. Rogers, "Non-binary spread-spectrum multiple-access communications," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of Adelaide, Mar. 1995. dpr.ps.gz (620,191 bytes)

9. Andrew N. McLean, "An investigation into DSP techniques for mobile satellite terminals," M.Eng. Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Dec. 1995. anm.ps.gz (1,577,742 bytes)

10. S. Adrian Barbulescu, "Iterative decoding of turbo codes and other concatenated codes," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Feb. 1996. sab.ps.gz (567,105 bytes)

11. Weimin Zhang, "Finite state systems in mobile communications," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Feb. 1996. wz.ps.gz (919,613 bytes)

12. Anupam Garg, "Object extraction from infrared images," M.Eng. Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Apr. 1996. ag.ps.gz (600,276 bytes)

13. Paul D. Alexander, "Coded multiuser CDMA," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, May 1996. pda.ps.gz (293,768 bytes)

14. Alex J. Grant, "Multiple user information theory and coding," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, May 1996. ajg.ps.gz (296,597 bytes)

15. Gerald Bolding, "High speed digital modems: Aspects of filtering and synchronisation," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Aug. 1996. gb.ps.gz (1,796,108 bytes)

16. Daniel Floreani, "The interconnection of tactical packet radio networks and BISDN," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Aug. 1996. df.ps.gz (603,072 bytes)

17. Paul Koufalas, "State variable approach to carrier phase recovery and fine automatic gain control on flat fading channels," M.Eng. Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Aug. 1996. pk.ps.gz (1,117,199 bytes)

18. David Reader, "Blind maximum likelihood sequence detection over fast fading communications channels," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Aug. 1996. dr.ps.gz (1,952,693 bytes)

19. Raminder S. Sahota, "Feasibility of a narrow band DS-CDMA overlay on a TDMA system," M.Eng. Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Sep. 1996. rss.ps.gz (1,639,157 bytes)

20. Peter J. Shoubridge, "Adaptive strategies for routing in dynamic networks," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Dec. 1996. pjs.ps.gz (612,867 bytes)

21. Sylvie Perreau, "Application des methodes de maximum de vraisemblance a l'egalisation autodidacte," Ph.D. Dissertation, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris, Jan. 1997. sp.ps.gz (4,145,681 bytes)

22. Don E. Gossink, "Rapid robust acquisition for burst-mode spread spectrum," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, June 1997. deg.zip (1,165,155 bytes)

23. David G. Rowe, "Techniques for harmonic sinusoidal coding," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, July 1997. dgr.pdf (829,456 bytes)

24. Michael Clarke, "Implementing matrix algorithms on matrix coprocessors," M.Sc. Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Dec. 1997. mc.ps.gz (252,303 bytes)

25. Richard J. Martin, "Irregularly sampled signals: Theories and techniques for analysis," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. College London, Jan. 1998. rjm.ps.gz (429,744 bytes)

26. Martin C. Gill, "Coded-waveform design for high speed data transfer over high frequency radio channels," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Feb. 1998. mcg.pdf (1,692,418 bytes)

27. Tat T. Nguyen, "New medium access control scheme for mobile broadband networks," Masters Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Feb. 1998. ttn.ps.gz (652,459 bytes)

28. Mohammad S. Akhter, "Signal processing for MC-CDMA," M.Eng. Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Mar. 1998. msa.ps.gz (288,767 bytes)

29. Andrew A. Tokmakoff, "Modelling, analysis and prototyping of the ODP trader using coloured Petri nets and Java," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Mar. 1998. aat.pdf (1,353,099 bytes)

30. Nam V. Tran, "Performance and distance spectrum calculation of TCM over ISI channels," M.Eng. Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Mar. 1998. nvt.ps.gz (357,016 bytes)

31. Chris W. Janczura, "Modelling and analysis of railway network control logic using coloured Petri nets," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Aug. 1998. cwj.ps.gz (582,711 bytes)

32. Mashury, "Feasibility of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing for mobile communications in microcells," M.Eng. Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Sep. 1998. m.ps.gz (1,558,373 bytes)

33. Jeffrey R. McCarthy, "Spread spectrum communications over nonlinear satellite channels," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Feb. 1999. jrm.ps.gz (3,255,981 bytes)

34. Paul K. Gray, "Serially concatenated trellis coded modulation," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Mar. 1999. pkg.ps.gz (387,990 bytes)

35. Wade N. Farrell, "Robust speech coding," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, July 1999. wnf.ps.gz (1,164,443 bytes)

36. Vincent G. Rose, "Decision feedback equalisation with feedback error detection," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Sep. 1999. vgr.ps.gz (1,232,804 bytes)

37. Mark C. Reed, "Iterative receiver techniques for coded multiple access communication systems," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Oct. 1999. mcr.ps.gz (574,541 bytes)

38. Herman Y. Kanalebe, "Capacity analysis of base station diversity," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Oct. 1999. hyk.pdf (707,928 bytes)

39. Jeffrey J. Wojtiuk, "Randomised sampling for radio design," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Mar. 2000. jjw2.ps.gz (526,413 bytes)

40. Graham L. Goodman, "A comparison of informative and discriminative estimation of parameters for classifier training," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Nov. 2000. glg.ps.gz (1,787,123 bytes)

41. Gareth J. Parker, "Frequency domain restoration of communication signals," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Mar. 2001. gjp.ps.gz (2,086,597 bytes)

42. Anthony S. Ween, "Enhanced services for defence terrestrial-satellite personal communications," M.Eng. Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Mar. 2001. asw.ps.gz (6,131,794 bytes)

43. Brendan P. Beahan, "Frequency estimation of partitioned reference symbol sequences," Masters Thesis, Uni. of South Australia, Apr. 2001. bpb.ps.gz (192,682 bytes)

44. Steven D. Gordon, "Verification of the WAP transaction layer using coloured Petri nets," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Nov. 2001. sdg.ps.gz (684,040 bytes)

45. Aruna U. Jayasuriya, "Improved handover performance through mobility predictions," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Mar. 2002. auj.ps.gz (4,620,586 bytes)

46. Mohammad J. Rezaeian, "The information capacity of multiuser channels," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, May 2002. mjr.ps.gz (302,356 bytes)

47. Feng Rice, "Bounds and algorithms for carrier frequency and phase estimation," Uni. of South Australia, May 2002. fr.ps.gz (1,473,648 bytes)

48. Paul F. Petit, "Turbo-equalization for QAM constellations," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Aug. 2002. pfp.ps.gz (664,520 bytes)

49. Monica Navarro Rodero, "Receive and transmit strategies for multiple antenna systems," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Oct. 2002. mnr.ps.gz (465,194 bytes)

50. Mark S. C. Ho, "Serial and parallel concatenated turbo codes," Ph.D. Dissertation, Uni. of South Australia, Nov. 2002. msch.ps.gz (421,487 bytes)