Students

Current Graduate Students

Farah Arabian (MS)
Topic: Multipath mitigation in 5G networks

Chad Josephson (MS)
Topic: Coded 16-APSK for aeronautical telemetry

Former PhD Students

Christopher Shaw (2014)
Dissertation: Data-Aided Synchronization for Aeronautical Telemetry

Xiaoyu Dang (2009)
Dissertation: Offset QPSK in SISO and MIMO Environments.

Joseph Palmer (co-advised with Prof. Brent Nelson - 2009)
Dissertation: Real-Time Carrier Frequency Estimation Using Disjoint Pilot Symbol Blocks

Tom Nelson (2007)
Dissertation: Space-Time Coding With Offset Modulations

Zhihong Ding (2006)
Dissertation: ARQ Techniques for MIMO Communications

Erik Perrins (2005)
Dissertation: Reduced Complexity Detection Methods for Continuous Phase Modulation

Former MS Students

Edem Gagakuma (2017)
Thesis: Multipath Channel Considerations in Aeronautical Telemetry

Chris Hogstrom (2017)
Thesis: A Survey of Sparse Channel Esetimation in Aeronautical Telemetry

Jeff Ravert (2017)
Thesis: GPU Implementation of Data-Aided Equalizers

Andrew McMurdie (2015)
Thesis: Frame Synchronization Techniques for iNET-Formatted SOQPSK-TG Communications

Jacob Frogget (2013)
Thesis: Automatic modulation recognition for aeronautical telemetry

Darren Kartchner (2013)
Thesis: The impact of spinning missiles on autotracking algorithms

Grant Wagner (2013)
Thesis: Poloarization diversity in the presence of multipath propagation

Oluwasegun Tinbui (2010)
Thesis: Wireless Sensor Network Approach to Aeronautical Telemetry

Mason Wardle (2005)
Thesis: A PAM Decomposition of Weak CPM

Vladimir Paje (2005)
Thesis: Equalization Techniques for Multipath Mitigation in Aeronautical Telemetry

Kejing Liu (2004)
Thesis: Architectures for Symbol Timing Synchronization in MIMO Communications

David Degaston (2001)
Thesis: An FPGA-Based Simulation Platform form Aeronautical Telemetry

Adam Davis (2001)
Thesis: A Wideband Channel Model for Aeronautical Telemetry

Kenneth Welling (1999)
Thesis:Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing on the Aeronautical Telemetry Channel

David Landon (1999)
Thesis: Channel Dynamics of ARTM Channel Sounding Data: A Model of a Low-Altitude, Wideband, Air-to-Ground Telemetry Channel

Lyman Horne (1999)
Thesis: Simulated Diversity Performance of PCM/FM in the Presence of Multipath Fading

Erik Perrins (1998)
Thesis: Interleaver Design for the Land Mobile Satellite Channel

Daniel Friend (1996)
Thesis: Reed-Solomon Codes as a Multipath Fading Countermeasure for PCM/FM Aeronautical Telemetry

Ricky Dye (1996)
Thesis: Signal Strength Analysis of Angle Modulated Data in the Presence of Mulitpath Fading

Jeff Slack (1996)
Thesis: Finite State Markov Models for Error Bursts on the Land Mobile Satellite Channel

Brian Humpherys (1996)
Thesis: Statistical Models for the ACTS K-Band Land Mobile Satellite Channel

Michael Josie (1995)
Thesis: Soft-Decision Decoding Based on Successive Encoding

Tom Nelson (1995)
Thesis: Performance of PCM/FM in the Presence of Mulitpath Fading

David Moore (1994)
Thesis: Adaptive Rate Error Control for a Wireless ATM Network

Rory Fisher (1994)
Thesis: Adaptive MPSK Modulation for Slowly Varying Channels

Kevin Rhodes (1994)
Thesis: Analysis of Modified Generalized Minimum Distance Decoding on Flat Fading Channels with Applications