Publications

Books 
 
[1]   Tolga M. Duman and Ali Ghrayeb, Coding for MIMO Communication Systems, Wiley & Sons, October 2007.

Patents
 
[1]   William E. Ryan and Ali Ghrayeb, RAM-Search Processor for Intersymbol Interference Cancellation, US Patent No. 6,532,272, issued March 2003.


Journal Articles (accepted or appeared)   

[37]    Taher Abualrub, Ali Ghrayeb, Nuh Aydin and Irfan Siap, "On the construction of skew quasi-cyclic codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (accepted, December 2009)

 

[36]    Keyvan Zarifi, Ali Ghrayeb and Sofiene Affes, "Collaborative beamforming for wireless sensor networks with improved graph connectivity and energy efficiency," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing  (accepted, October 2009)

 

[35]    Keyvan Zarifi, Sofiene Affes and Ali Ghrayeb, "Coollaborative null-steering beamforming for uniformly distributed wireless sensor networks," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (accepted, October 2009)

 

[34]    Irfan Siap, Taher Abualrub and Ali Ghrayeb, "Cyclic DNA codes over the ring F2(u)/(u2-1) based on the deletion distance," The Journal of the Franklin Institute (accepted July 2009)

 

[33]    Jeyadeepan Jeganathan, Ali Ghrayeb and Leszek Szczecinski, "Space shift keying modulation for MIMO channels ," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 3692-3703, July 2009. download pdf file

 

[32]    Mohamed Elfituri, Ali Ghrayeb and Walaa Hamouda, "Antenna/relay selection for coded cooperative wireless networks," IEEE Transactions on Communications , vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 2580-2584, Sept. 2009.

 

[31]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "Joint CFO and channel estimation for uplink OFDM systems: An application the variable projection method," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 2306-2311, May 2009.

 

[30]    Keyvan Zarifi, Sofiene Affes and Ali Ghrayeb, "Large system-based performance analysis and design of multiuser cooperative networks ," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 1511-1525, April 2009.

 

[29]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "CFO estimation for differential OFDM systems," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications , vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 124-129, January 2009.

[28]    Pooyan Haghighat and Ali Ghrayeb, "Trickle-based interference cancellation schemes for CDMA systems," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 13-17, January 2009.

[27]    Jeyadeepan Jeganathan, Ali Ghrayeb and Leszek Szczecinski, "Spatial modulation: Optimal detection and performance analysis," IEEE Communications Letters. vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 545-547, August 2008.

[26]    Mohamed Elfituri, Walaa Hamouda and Ali Ghrayeb, "A convolutional-based distributed coded cooperation scheme for relay channels," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. (accepted for publication, May 2008)

[25]    Mohamed Ghazal, Aishy Amer and Ali Ghrayeb, "Structure-oriented multi-directional Weiner filter for denoising of image and video signals," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. (accepted for publication, February 2008)

[24]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "A blind carrier frequency offeset estimation scheme for OFDM systems with constant modulus signaling," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 1032-1037, July 2008.

[23]    Mohamed Abou-Khousa, Ali Ghrayeb, and Mohamed El-Tarhuni, "A multipath detection scheme for CDMA systems with space-time spreading," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 146-156, January 2008.

[22]   Mohamed Ghazal, Aishy Amer and Ali Ghrayeb, "A real-time technique for spatio-temporal video noise estimation," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 1690-1899, December 2007. 

[21]    Mohamed Ghazal, Aishy Amer and Ali Ghrayeb , "A fast directional sigma filter for noise reduction in digital TV signals,"  IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 1500-1507, November 2007.

[20]    Mohamed Abou-Khousa, Ali Ghrayeb, and Mohamed El-Tarhuni, "An efficient multipath detection scheme for CDMA systems," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 2776-2781, August 2007.

[19]    Hao Shen and Ali Ghrayeb, "Analysis of the outage probability for MIMO systems with receive antenna selection," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 1435-1441, July 2006 

[18]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "Performance bounds for combined channel coding and space-time block coding with receive antenna selection," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 1441-1446, July 2006.

[17]    Abdollah Sanei, Ali Ghrayeb, Yousof Shayan, and Tolga M. Duman, "On the diversity order of space-time trellis codes with antenna selection in fast fading," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 1579-1585, July 2006 

[16]    Ali Ghrayeb and Mohamed El-Tarhuni, "On the performance of turbo equalization for precoded ISI channels," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal (WCMC), vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 431-438, June 2006 

[15]    Chuan Xiu Huang and Ali Ghrayeb, "A simple remedy for the exaggerated extrinsic information produced by the SOVA algorithm," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 996-1002, May 2006

[14]    Ali Ghrayeb and Chuan Xiu Huang, "Improvements in SOVA-based decoding for turbo-coded storage channels," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 4435-4442, December 2005. 

[13]   Taher Abualrub, Ali Ghrayeb, and Xiang Nian Zeng, " Construction of cyclic codes over GF(4) for DNA computing," The Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 343, no. 4-5, pp. 448-457, July/August 2006. 

[12]    Walaa Hamouda and Ali Ghrayeb, "Performance of convolutionally-coded MIMO systems with antenna selection," Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 307-312, September 2005. 

[11]    Taher Aboualrub, Ali Ghrayeb, and Robert H. Oehmke, "A mass formula and rank of Z4 cyclic codes of length 2e," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 3306-3312, December 2004.  

[10]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "Antenna selection for space-time block codes over correlated Rayleigh fading channels," IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CJECE), vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 219-226, October 2004. 

[9]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "Performance bounds for space-time block codes with receive antenna selection," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 50, no. 9, pp. 2130-2137, September 2004. 

[8]    Mohamed El-Tarhuni and Ali Ghrayeb, "A robust PN code tracking algorithm for frequency selective Rayleigh fading channels," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1018-1023, July 2004.

[7]    Ali Ghrayeb and Taher Abualrub, "Asymptotic performance comparison of concatenated (turbo) codes over GF(4)," International Journal of Communication Systems. vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 479-490, June 2004.  

[6]    Ali Ghrayeb, Abdollah Sanei, and Yousef Shayan, "Space-time trellis codes with antenna selection in fast fading," IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 613-614, May 2004.

[5]    Ali Ghrayeb and Tolga M. Duman, "Performance analysis of MIMO systems with antenna selection over quasi-static fading channels," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 281-288, March 2003.

[4]    Ali Ghrayeb, "On the SOVA for extremely high code rates for partial response channels," Journal of Communications and Networks, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-6, March 2003. 

[3]    Ali Ghrayeb, "Combined concatenated coding and nonlinear equalization for magnetic recording channels," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 2298-2300, September 2002. 

[2]    Ali Ghrayeb and William E. Ryan, "Concatenated code system design for storage channels," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 709-718, April 2001. 

[1]    Ali Ghrayeb, William E. Ryan, and Nan H. Yeh, "Performance of random-access-memory-based equalizers in magnetic recording," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics , vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 4028-4035, November 2000.


Refereed Conference Papers (accepted or appeared)

[64]    Keyvan Zarifi, Sofiene Affes and Ali Ghrayeb, "Distributed null-steering beamforming for wireless sensor networks ," Proc., IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2009), Honolulu, Hawaii, November/December 2009.

 

[63]    Ghaleb Al-Habian, Ali Ghrayeb and Mazen Hasna, "Controlling error propagation in network-coded cooperative wireless networks ," Proc., IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany, June 2009.

 

[62]     Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "CFO estimation schemes for differential OFDM systems ," Proc ., IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany, June 2009.

 

[61]    Keyvan Zarifi, Sofiene Affes and Ali Ghrayeb, "Asymptotic analysis and design of multiuser cooperative DS-CDMA systems ," Proc. , IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany, June 2009.

 

[60]    Keyvan Zarifi, Ali Ghrayeb and Sofiene Affes, "Distributed beamforming for wireless sensor networks with random node location ," Proc. , IEEE International Conference on Speech, Acoustics, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.

 

[59]    Keyvan Zarifi, Mohamed Abuthinien, Ali Ghrayeb and Sofiene Affes, "Relay selection schemes for uniformly distributed wireless sensor networks ," Proc. , IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2009), Budapest, Hungary April 2009.

 

[58]   Ghaleb Al-Habian, Ali Ghrayeb, Mazen Hasna and Adnan Abu-Dayya, "Distributed turbo coding using log-likelihood thresholding for cooperative communications ," Proc., the 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers , Pacific Grove, California, October 2008.   

[57]    Xiangnian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "CFO estimation for uplink OFDM systems: An application of the variable projection method ," Proc., IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2008 ), Cannes, France, September 2008.

[56]    Jeyadeepan Jeganathan, Ali Ghrayeb and Leszek Szczecinski, "Generalized space shift keying modulation for MIMO systems ," accepted, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2008), Cannes, France, September 2008.

[55]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "A carrier frequency offset estimation scheme based on a scalar extended Kalman filter for uplink OFDM systems", Proc ., IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May 2008.

[54]    Mohamed Elfituri, Walaa Hamouda and Ali Ghrayeb, "Distributed coded cooperation for relay channels operating in the decode-and-forward mode", Proc. , IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May 2008.

1.       [53]    Mohamed Elfituri, Ali Ghrayeb and Walaa Hamouda, "Antenna/relay selection for coded wireless cooperative networks", accepted, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May 2008.

[52]    Pooyan Haghighat and Ali Ghrayeb, "An improved trickle-based interference cancellation scheme for CDMA systems," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Signals Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2007), Cairo, Egypt, December 2007

[51]    Mohamed Elfituri, Walaa Hamouda and Ali Ghrayeb, "Analysis of a distributed coded cooperation scheme for multi-relay channels," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Signals Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2007), Cairo, Egypt, December 2007.

[50]    May Gomaa and Ali Ghrayeb, "A new transceiver architecture for multilayered space-time coded MIMO systems," accepted, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2007),  Washington, D.C., USA, November 2007.

[49]    Mohamed Elfituri, Walaa Hamouda and Ali Ghrayeb, "Outage probability analysis of distributed coded cooperation for relay channels operating in the DF mode," accepted, IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC2007), Athens, Greece, September 2007. 

[48]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "A blind carrier frequency offset estimation scheme for OFDM systems with constant modulus signaling,"  Proc. IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2007), Helsinki, Finland, June 2007.

[47]    Pooyan Haghighat and Ali Ghrayeb, "An adaptive hybrid serial-parallel interference cancellation scheme for WCDMA systems," Proc. IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2007), Vancouver, Canada, April 2007.

[46]    May Gomaa and Ali Ghrayeb, "A low-complexity MMSE detector for multi-user layered space-time coded MIMO systems," Proc. IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2007), Vancouver, Canada, April 2007.

[45]    Mohamed Elfituri, Walaa Hamouda and Ali Ghrayeb, "Performance analysis of a new transmission scheme for multi-relay channels," Proc . IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS 2006), Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 2006.

[44]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "Maximum likelihood carrier frequency offset estimation in correlated MIMO-OFDM systems,"  Proc . IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS 2006), Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 2006.

[43]    Gaurav Mandhare and Ali Ghrayeb, "A distributed BER-based power control algorithm for WCDMA systems," Proc.  IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2006), San Francisco, California, USA December 2006.

[42]    Gaurav Mandhare and Ali Ghrayeb, "A distributed SIR-based power control algorithm for WCDMA systems," Proc . IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall 2006), Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2006.

[41]    Abdollah Sanei, Ali Ghrayeb and Yousef Shayan, "Antenna selection for space-time trellis codes over block Rayleigh fading channels," Proc . IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall 2006), Montreal, Canada, Sept. 2006.

[40]    Mohamed Ghazal, Aishy Amer and Ali Ghrayeb, "Homogeneity-based directional Weiner filtering of video noise," Proc.  IEEE International Conference of Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), Toulouse, France, May 2006.

[39]    Mohamed Ghazal, Aishy Amer and Ali Ghrayeb, "Structure-oriented spatio-temporal video noise estimation," Proc.  IEEE International Conference of Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006), Toulouse, France, May 2006.

[38]    Hao Shen and Ali Ghrayeb, "Explicit bounds for the outage probability for multiple antenna systems in the presence of spatial correlation," Proc.,  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.

[37]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "Performance bounds for combined channel coding and space-time block coding with receiove antenna selection ,"Proc., IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.

[36]    Hao Shen and Ali Ghrayeb, "Analysis of the outage probability for spatially correlated MIMO channels with receive antenna selection ," Proc., IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2005), St. Louis, Missouri, Nov./Dec. 2005.

[35]    Mohamed Ghazal, Aishy Amer and Ali Ghrayeb, "Homogeneity-based directional signal filtering of video noise ," Proc., IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Genoa, Italy Sept. 2005

[34]    Mohamed Abou-Khousa, Ali Ghrayeb, and Mohamed El-Tarhuni, "On multipath detection in CDMA systems," Proc., IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2005), Seoul, Korea, May 2005.

[33]    Mohamed Abou-Khousa, Ali Ghrayeb and Mohamed El-Tarhuni, "On the impact of imperfect multipath detection on the performance of CDMA systems with space-time spreading,"  Proc., IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Stockholm, Sweden, May/June 2005.

[32]    Hao Shen and Ali Ghrayeb, "On the asymptotic behavior of the outage probability for MIMO systems ," Proc., IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), New Orleans, LA, March 2005.

[31]    Taher Abualrub, Ali Ghrayeb and Xiang Nian Zeng, "A special class of additive cyclic codes for DNA computing ," Proc., The 7th International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA), Coimbra, Potugal, March 2005.

[30]    Chuan Xiu Huang and Ali Ghrayeb, "Improved SOVA and APP decoding algorithms for serial concatenated codes," Proc., IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2004), Dallas, Texas, Nov. 2004.

[29]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "Performance analysis of combined convolutional coding and space-time block coding with antenna selection," Proc., IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2004), Dallas, Texas, Nov. 2004.

[28]    Chuan Xiu Huang and Ali Ghrayeb, "An improved SOVA algorithm for turbo codes over AWGN and fading channels," Proc., IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) , Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2004.

[27]    Abdollah Sanei, Ali Ghrayeb, Yousef Shayan, and Tolga M. Duman, "Antenna selection for space-time trellis codes in fast fading," Proc., IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2004.

[26]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "Performance bounds for space-time block codes with antenna selection," Proc., IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Chicago, USA, July 2004. 

[25]    Taher Aboualrub, Ali Ghrayeb, and Robert Oehmke, "A mass formula for Z4 cyclic codes of length 2e," Proc., IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Chicago, USA, July 2004. 

[24]    Mohamed Abou-Khousa, Mohamed El-Tarhuni, and Ali Ghrayeb, "A novel finger assignment algorithm for RAKE receivers in CDMA systems," Proc., IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France June 2004. 

[23]    Xiang Nian Zeng and Ali Ghrayeb, "Receive antenna selection for space-time block codes," Proc., IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 2004. (Best paper award winner) 

[22]    Mohamed Abou-Khousa, Ali Ghrayeb, and Mohamed El-Tarhuni, "Signal-to-interference ratio estimation in CDMA systems," Proc., IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering,  Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 2004. 

[21]    Tansal Gucluoglu, Tolga M. Duman, and Ali Ghrayeb, "Antenna selection for space-time coding over frequency-selective fading channels," Proc.,   IEEE International Conference of Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Montreal, Canada, May 2004. 

[20]    Taher Abualrub, Ali Ghrayeb, and Robert H. Oehmke, "The rank of Z4 cyclic codes of length 2e," Proc., The International Symposium on Control, Communications and Signal Processing, Hammamet, Tunisia, March 2004. 

[19]    Walaa Hamouda and Ali Ghrayeb, "Performance of combined channel coding and space-time block coding with antenna selection," Proc., IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Milan, Italy May 2004.

[18]    Neda Ehtiati, Ali Ghrayeb , and M. Reza Soleymani, "Improved interleaver design for turbo coded intersymbol interference channels," Proc., IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Orlando, FL, October 2003. 

[17]    Ali Ghrayeb and Mohamed El-Tarhuni, "Performance analysis of high rate linear codes over precoded ISI channels," Proc.,IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Beijing, China, Sept. 2003. 

[16]    Ali Ghrayeb and Mohamed El-Tarhuni, "Combined concatenated coding and precoding for wireless communication channels," Proc., International Symposium on Wireless Systems and Networks, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia, March 2003.

[15]    Ali Ghrayeb and Taher Abualrub, "On parallel and serial concatenated convolutional codes over GF(4)," Proc., IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems, Singapore, November 2002.

[14]    Mohamed El-Tarhuni and Ali Ghrayeb, "MMSE PN code tracking in frequency selective fading channels," Proc., IASTED International Conference in Communications Systems and Networks, Spain, September 2002.

[13]    Mohamed El-Tarhuni and Ali Ghrayeb, "A mutlipath resistant PN code tracking algorithm," Proc ., IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2002.

[12]    Ali Ghrayeb and Tolga M. Duman, " Performance analysis of MIMO systems with antenna selection over quasi-static fading channels," Proc., IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Switzerland, June 2002.

[11]    Ali Ghrayeb, "Combined concatenated coding and nonlinear equalization for magnetic recording channels," Proc ., IEEE International Conference on Magnetics , Amsterdam, Netherlands, April/May 2002.

[10]    Ali Ghrayeb and Tolga M. Duman, "Coding for MIMO systems with antenna selection," Proc., The National Radio Science Meeting (URSI), Boulder, Colorado, January 2002. (Invited)

[9]    Ali Ghrayeb and Mohamed El-Tarhuni, "Effect of precoding on the error rate floor of turbo-coded frequency selective channels," Proc., The 13th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Calgary, Canada, July 2001.

[8]    Ambrin Khan, Shaima Amiri, and Ali Ghrayeb , "Pre- and post-cursor intersymbol interference cancellation in nonlinear satellite channels," Proc ., IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Atlantic City, New Jersey, October 2001.

[7]    Ali Ghrayeb , Taher Abualrub, and Husein Abdulhamid, "Construction of good turbo codes over GF(q)," presented at the Sixth International Conference on Finite Fields and Applications, Oaxaco, Mexico, May 2001.

[6]    Ali Ghrayeb and William E. Ryan, ''Precoder design for concatenating convolutional codes with generalized partial response channels,'' Proc., IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference , San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2000.

[5]    William E. Ryan and Ali Ghrayeb , ''Precoder design for concatenating convolutional codes with intersymbol interference channels," Proc., IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Chicago, IL, Sept. 2000. (Invited)

[4]    Ali Ghrayeb and William E. Ryan, "Concatenated coding and iterative SOVA decoding with PR4 signaling," Proc., IEEE International Conference on Communications, New Orleans, LA, June 2000.

[3]    Ali Ghrayeb and William E. Ryan, "Performance of high rate turbo codes employing soft-output Viterbi algorithm (SOVA)," Proc., the 33rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers , Pacific Grove, CA, October 1999.

[2]    Ali Ghrayeb and William E. Ryan, "RAM-search algorithms for nonlinear ISI cancellation in magnetic recording," Proc., IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Sydney, Australia, Nov. 1998.

[1]    Ali Ghrayeb, "On symbol timing recovery in all-digital receivers," Proc., the 1997 International Telemetering Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Nov. 1997.