Publications

PATENTS

M.R. Soleymani, "Apparatus and method for demultiplexing a frequency division multiplexed input signal and polyphase digital filter network therefor," (U.S. patent #6,493,358, 2002/12/10).

M.R. Soleymani and Y.R. Shayan, "A Half-band Filter for a Cellular Group Demultiplexer," (Canadian patent, #2,122,652, 2001/02/20).

M.R. Soleymani and Y.R. Shayan, "A Half-band Filter for a Cellular Group Demultiplexer," (U.S. patent #5,587,939, 1996/12/24).

BOOK

[1] M.R. Soleymani, Y. Gao and U. Vilaipornsawai, Turbo Coding for Satellite and Wireless Communications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, MA, USA, 2002.

BOOK CHAPTERS

[2] P. Tooher and M. R. Soleymani, "Wireless Collaboration: Maximizing Diversity Through Relaying," in Fourth-Generation Wireless Networks: Applications and Innovations, S. Adibi, A. Mobasher and M. Tofighbakhsh, Eds., IGI Global Publishers, 2010.

[3] C.R. Nassar and M.R. Soleymani, "A Novel Receiver Structure for MPSK in the Presence of Rapidly Changing Phase," Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1996.

[4] M.R. Soleymani and A.K. Khandani, ``Vector Trellis Quantization for Noisy Channels,'' in Advances in Speech Coding, B.S. Atal, V.Cuperman and A. Gersho, Eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.

[5] M.R. Soleymani and S.D. Morgera, ``A Structural Look at Pattern Recognition from Point of View of Rate-Distortion Theory,'' in Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, E.S. Gelsema and L.N. Kanal, Eds., Elsevier Science Publishers, 1988.

TECHNICAL JOURNAL PAPERS

[6] Mohammad Jabbari Hagh and M.R. Soleymani, "Application of Raptor Coding with Power Adaptation to DVB Multiple Access Channels," Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.

[7] F. Shayegh and M.R. Soleymani, "Collaborative algebraic decoding of interleaved Reed–Solomon codes," European Transactions on Telecommunications, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Volume 23, Issue 3, pages 203–216, April 2012.

[8] F. Shayegh and M.R. Soleymani, "Efficient Iterative Techniques for Soft Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes," IEEE Trans. on Communications, Vol. 59, Iss. 2, pp. 428-436, Feb. 2011.

[9] F. Shayegh and M.R. Soleymani, "Efficient Soft Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes based on Sphere Decoding," IET Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp. 141-153, Jan. 2011.

[10] P. Sadeghi and M.R. Soleymani, "An Autonomous Power Control for Achieving the Maximum Uniform SIR in Wireless Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 166-168, Feb. 2010.

[11] P. Tooher and M.R. Soleymani, "Analysis and Code Design of Variable Time-Fraction Collaborative Communication," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vo. 9, No. 1, pp. 208-217, Jan. 2010.

[12] Z. Motamedi and M.R. Soleymani, "Asymptotic spectral efficiency of MIMO Ad-hoc Networks," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 462-466, Jan. 2010.

[13] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, "Optimal Rate Allocation in Successively Structured Gaussian CEO Problem," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 627-632, Feb. 2009.

[14] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, "Successively Structured Gaussian Two-Terminal Source Coding,” Springer Wireless Personal Communications journal, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 485-510, March 2009.

[15] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, "On the Optimal Power-Distortion Tradeoff in Asymmetric Gaussian Sensor Network," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 1612-1617, June 2009.

[16] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, "Joint Optimization of Power Scheduling and Rate-Distortion Performance in One-helper Problem,” Wiley Transactions on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol. 9, No. 10, pp. 1369-1378, Dec. 2008.

[17] Jianmin Gong, M.R. Soleymani and J.F. Hayes, "A Rigorous Proof of MIMO Channel Capacity’s Increase with Antenna Number," Wireless Personal Communications: Volume 49, Issue 1, 2009, Page 81-86.

[18] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, "Distortion Sum-Rate Performance of Successive Coding Strategy for in Quadratic Gaussian CEO Problem," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 4361-4365, December 2007.

[19] Bo Rong, Tao Jiang, Xiangming Li and M.R. Soleymani, "Combined LDPC Codes over GF(q) and q-ary Modulation for Bandwidth Efficient Transmission," IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Volume 54, Issue 1, pp. 78-84, March 2008.

[20] Jianmin Gong, J.F. Hayes and M.R. Soleymani, "The Effect of Antenna Physics on Fading Correlation and the Capacity of Multi-element Antenna Systems," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 1591-1599, July 2007.

[21] J. Haghighat, W. Hamouda and M. R. Soleymani, " Lossless Source Coding Using Nested Error Correcting Codes ", IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 2583-2592, June 2007.

[22] C.B. Kawwas and M.R. Soleymani, "FPD: A Novel Scheme to Enhance RPR Performance in Service Provider Networks," IEEE Communication Letter, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 4-6, January 2007.

[23] X. Li, H. Chen, Y. Qian, B. Rong and M.R. Soleymani, "Welch Bound Analysis on Generic Code Division Multiple Access Codes with Interference Free Windows," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 1603-1607, April 2009.

[24] M. Torabi, S. Aissa and M.R. Soleymani, "On the BER Performance of Space-Frequency Block Coded OFDM Systems in Fading MIMO Channels," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 1366-1373, April 2007.

[25] J. Haghighat, W. Hamouda and M. R. Soleymani, "Design of Lossless Turbo Source Encoders", IEEE signal processing letters, Vol. 13, No. 8, pp. 453-456, August 2006.

[26] J. Haghighat, M.R. Soleymani and W. Hamouda, "Code Detection in Turbo Source Coding," IEEE Communications Letter, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 225-227, April 2006.

[27] Nong Le, M.R. Soleymani and Y.R. Shayan,"Distance-Based Decoding Of Block Turbo Codes," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 9, No. 10, pp. 1006-1008, Oct. 2005.

[28] Afshin Haghighat and M.R. Soleymani, "A MUSIC-Based Algorithm for Blind User Identification in Multiuser DS-CDMA," EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, pp. 649-657, April 2005.

[29] M.Ghotbi and M.R. Soleymani, "Multiuse Detection of DS-CDMA Signals Using Parallel Interference Cancellation in Satellite Communications," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol. 22, pp. 584-593, April 2004.

[30] U. Vilaipornsawai and M.R. Soleymani, "A Novel Turbo Coding Scheme for Satellite ATM Using Reed-Muller Codes," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 767-773, May 2003.

[31] Z. Song, S. Tatu, M.R. Soleymani, K. Wu and R.G. Bosisio, "Initial Coding Results with a Millimeter-Wave Six-Port QPSK Receiver," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 465-467, March 2003.

[32] M. Khataie, and M.R. Soleymani, "Indexing of the Output Points of LBVQ used for Image Transform Coding," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 827-833, May 2000.

[33] C.R. Nassar and M.R. Soleymani, "Application of Quantization Theory to Data Detection in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 804-808, June 1999.

[34] C.R. Nassar, and M.R. Soleymani, "Data Detection of MPSK in the Presence of Rapidly Changing Carrier Phase," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 484-490, August 1996.

[35] C.R. Nassar, and M.R. Soleymani, "Data Detection of MPSK in the Presence of Unknown Carrier Phase," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 31, pp. 945-947, June 1995.

[36] M.R. Soleymani, ``A New Tandem Source-Channel Trellis Coding Scheme,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing., Vol. 2, No. 1, Jan. 1994.

[37] C.R. Nassar and M.R. Soleymani, ``Codebook Design for Trellis Quantization using Simulated Annealing,'' IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 400-404, Oct. 1993.

[38] M.R. Soleymani and L. Kang, ``TCM Schemes with Partially Overlapped Signal Constellations,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, March 1993.

[39] M.R. Soleymani and C.R. Nassar, ``Trellis Quantization with MAP Detection for Noisy Channels,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 40, No. 10, pp. 1562-1565, Oct. 1992.

[40] M.R. Soleymani and H. Girard, `` The Effect of the Frequency Offset on the Probability of Miss in a Packet Modem Using CFAR Detection Method,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 40, No. 7, pp. 1205-1211, July 1992.

[41] M.R. Soleymani and S.D. Morgera, ``A Fast MMSE Algorithm for Vector Quantization,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-37, No. 6, pp. 656-659, June 1989.

[42] M.R. Soleymani and S.D. Morgera, ``An Efficient Nearest Neighbor Search Method,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-35, No. 6, pp. 677-679, June 1987.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

[43] Farnaz Shayegh and M.R. Soleymani, "Capacity-Interference Investigation in Cognitive Radio Networks with Beacon," 35th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, New Jersey, May 21-22, 2012.

[44] Farnaz Shayegh and M.R. Soleymani, "Capacity versus Interference in OFDM-based Cognitive Radio Systems with Beacon," 26th Queen's Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC-2012), Kingston, Canada, May 27-29, 2012.

[45] Ding Wang and M.R. Soleymani, "Cooperative Communication System with Systematic Raptor Codes," 2012 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2012, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 29 to May 2, 2012.

[46] Mohammad Jabbari Hagh and M.R. Soleymani,"Power Adaptation for DVB Multiple Access Channel with Raptor Code," 2011 Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM'11, Houston, TX, December 5-9, 2011.

[47] Mohammad Jabbari Hagh and M.R. Soleymani,"Raptor Coding for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Channels," 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC2011, Kyoto, Japan, June 5-9, 2011.

[48] Mohammad Jabbari Hagh and M.R. Soleymani, "Novel Techniques in Cooperative Wireless Networks using Network Coding," 2011 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2011, Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 8-11, 2011.

[49] Farnaz Shayegh and M.R. Soleymani, "Rateless Codes for Cognitive Radio in a Virtual Unlicensed Spectrum," 34th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, New Jersey, May 3-4, 2011.

[50] Farnaz Shayegh and M.R. Soleymani, "Multivariate Interpolation Decoding of Heterogeneous Interleaved Reed-Solomon Codes," The 2011 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT 2011) , Kelowna, British Columbia, May 18-20, 2011.

[51] Y. Gao and M.R. Soleymani,"Rate-distortion Function for Gauss-Markov Source with side information at the decoder," 25th Queen's Biennial Symposium on Communications, QBSC 2010, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, May 12 - 14, 2010.

[52] Farnaz Shayegh and M.R. Soleymani,"New Transmission-Decoding Schemes based on Reed-Solomon Codes," 25th Queen's Biennial Symposium on Communications, QBSC 2010, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, May 12 - 14, 2010.

[53] P. Tooher and M.R. Soleymani,"Power Allocation for Wireless Communications Using Variable Time-Fraction Collaboration," 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC2009, Dresden, Germany, June 14-18, 2009.

[54] Farnaz Shayegh and M.R. Soleymani,"A Low Complexity Iterative Technique for Soft Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes," 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC2009, Dresden, Germany, June 14-18, 2009.

[55] P. Tooher and M.R. Soleymani, "Performance of Variable Time-Fraction Collaborative Communication," 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2008), Cannes, France, September 15-18, 2008.

[56] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, "Joint Power-Distortion Optimization in a One-helper Problem," 2008 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference,VTC2008, Calgary, Canada, 21-24 September 2008.

[57] F. Shayegh and M.R. Soleymani, "Soft Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes using Sphere Decoding," 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC2008, Beijing, China, May 19-23, 2008.

[58] F. Shayegh and M.R. Soleymani, "Low Complexity Implementations of Sphere Decoding for MIMO Detection," 2008 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2008, Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 4-7, 2008.

[59] Z. Motamedi and M.R. Soleymani, "On the Achievable Throughput of Ad-hoc Networks with MIMO Rician channels," 2008 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2008, Niagra Fall, Ontario, Canada, May 4-7, 2008.

[60] Z. Motamedi and M.R. Soleymani, "For Better or Worse: The Impact of Shadow Fading on the Capacity of Large MIMO Networks," 2007 Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM'07, Washington, DC, USA, Nov. 26-30, 2007.

[61] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, " Sending Correlated Gaussian Sources over a Gaussian MAC: To Code, or not to Code," 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC2007, Glasgow, Scotland, June 24-28, 2007.

[62] Z. Motamedi and M.R. Soleymani, " On the Effect of CCI on the Average Degrees of Freedom in MIMO Fading Ad-Hoc Networks," 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC2007, Glasgow, Scotland, June 24-28, 2007.

[63] P. Tooher, H. Khoshnevis and M.R. Soleymani, " Design of Collaborative Codes Achieving Space-Time Diversity," 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC2007, Glasgow, Scotland, June 24-28, 2007.

[64] M. Ghotbi, R. Sayyahi and M.R. Soleymani, " A Simple Multistage Multiuser Receiver for UMTS-CDMA Systems," 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC2007, Glasgow, Scotland, June 24-28, 2007.

[65] Liu Feng and M.R. Soleymani, " Chase Based Multiuser Detection for MIMO-CDMA Systems," 2007 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 22-26, 2007.

[66] Liu Feng and M.R. Soleymani, "A Chase Based Multistage Parallel Interference Cancellation Scheme for Asynchronous Fading Channels," 2007 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 22-26, 2007.

[67] Binbin Jia and M.R. Soleymani, " Virtual Space-time Coding in Cooperative Communication and Downlink Receiver Hardware Implementation," 2007 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 22-26, 2007.

[68] A. Heshmati and M.R. Soleymani, "An Energy-Efficient Cooperative Algorithm for Data Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks," 2007 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 22-26, 2007.

[69] Z. Motamedi and M.R. Soleymani,"On the Optimality of Beamforming in MIMO Fading Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2006.

[59] P. Sadeghi and M.R. Soleymani,"A Novel Admission Control for Asynchronous Active Link Protected Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2006.

[70] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani,"Successively Structured Gaussian CEO Problem," IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2006.

[71] Liu Feng and M.R. Soleymani, "Multistage Parallel Interference Cancellation Based on Chase Algorithm," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WICOM2006, Wuhan, China, Sept. 22-24, 2006.

[72] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, "Successive Coding Strategy in the m-helper Problem," IEEE 2006 International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT-2006, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 9-14, 2006.

[73] J. Haghighat, W. Hamouda and M.R. Soleymani, "Lossless Source Coding using Tree Structured Random Binning," IEEE 2006 International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT-2006, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 9-14, 2006.

[74] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, "Cooperative Source Coding for the Two-terminal Gaussian CEO Problem," 2006 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference,VTC2006, Montreal, Canada, 25-28 September 2006.

[75] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, "Source-Channel Communication in One-helper Problem," 2006 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2006, Montreal, Canada, 25-28 September 2006.

[76] P. Sadeghi and M.R. Soleymani,"Asynchronous Power Control with Active Link Protection Algorithms for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," 2006 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2006, Montreal, Canada, 25-28 September 2006.

[77] J. Haghighat, W. Hamouda and M.R. Soleymani, "Random Binning and Turbo Source Coding for Lossless Compression of Memoryless Sources," 2006 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2006, Montreal, Canada, 25-28 September 2006.

[78] M. Khalwati and M. R. Soleymani, "An Efficient Channel Estimation Scheme for OFDM Systems in a Time Varying Environment", 2006 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2006, Montreal, Canada, 25-28 September 2006.

[79] P.Sadeghi and M.R. Soleymani,"Snapshot Capacity of Multi Hop Ad Hoc Networks," 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC2006, Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-15, 2006 .

[80] M. Torabi, S. Aissa and M.R. Soleymani, "MIMO-OFDM Systems with Imperfec Channel Information: Capacity, Outage and BER Performance," 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC2006, Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-15 2006 .

[81] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, "Power-Distortion Performance of Successive Coding Strategy in Gaussian CEO Problem," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, May 14-19, 2006.

[82] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, "Side Information Aware Coding Strategy in the Quadratic Gaussian CEO Problem," IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC 2006), SnowBird, Utah, USA, March 28-30, 2006.

[83] Charlie B. Kawwas and M.R. Soleymani, "Performance Enhancements & Analysis in Next Generation Resilient Packet Ring Networks," 2006 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2006, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 7-10, 2006.

[84] J. Gong, M.R. Soleymani and J.F. Hayes, "Effect of Antenna Pattern on the Capacity of the MIMO System in A Micro-Cell Environment," 2006 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2006, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 7-10, 2006.

[85] M. Khalwati and M. R. Soleymani, "Enhanced Uplink Frequency Synchronization Algorithm for OFDMA Systems in a Multi-path Fading Environment", 2006 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2006, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 7-10, 2006.

[86] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani, "Performance of the Successive Coding Strategy in the CEO Problem," IEEE GLOBECOM 2005, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 28 - Dec. 2, 2005.

[87] J. Haghighat, M.R. Soleymani and W. Hamouda, "Detection of Code Index in Turbo Source Coding," IEEE GLOBECOM 2005, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 28 - Dec. 2, 2005.

[88] H. Behroozi and M.R. Soleymani'"Distortion Sum-Rate Performance of Successive Coding Strategy in Gaussian Wireless Sensor Networks," 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems, Washington, DC, Nov. 7-10, 2005.

[89] J. Haghighat, M.R. Soleymani and W. Hamouda, "Design of Short Block Length Lossless Turbo Source Encoders," IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2005-Fall, Dallas, TX, Sept. 25-28, 2005.

[90] S.A. Gorji Zadeh and M.R. Soleymani, "An Adaptive M-Algorithm Convolutional Decoder," IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2005-Fall, Dallas, TX, Sept. 25-28, 2005.

[91] M. Torabi, M.R. Soleymani and Sonia Aissa, "On the Performance of MIMO-OFDM Systems with Imperfect Channel Information," IEEE WirelessComm 2005, Maui, Hawaii, USA, June 13-16, 2005.

[92] J. Gong, J.F. Hayes and M.R. Soleymani, "The effect of antenna physics on fading correlation and the capacity of multielement antenna systems," 2005 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2005, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada, Canada, May 1-4, 2005.

[93] M.Ghotbi and M.R. Soleymani, "MMSE-Based Adaptive Multiuser Detection of DS-CDMA Signals," 2005 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2005, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada, Canada, May 1-4, 2005.

[94] S.A. Gorji Zadeh and M.R. Soleymani, "Ancestor Based Survivor Decision in M-Algorithm Convolutional Decoder," 2005 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2005, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada, May 1-4, 2005.

[95] S.A. Gorji Zadeh and M.R. Soleymani, "An Iterative M-Algorithm Convolutional Decoding Algorithm," 2005 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2005, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada, Canada, May 1-4, 2005.

[96] M. Ghotbi and M.R. Soleymani, "Large-System Analysis of Multistage PPIC Receivers," 2005 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Montréal, Québec, June 5-8, 2005.

[97] P. Sadeghi and M.R. Soleymani, "Capacity of Single Hop Ad Hoc Networks," 2005 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Montréal, Québec, June 5-8, 2005.

[98] Le Nong, M.R. Soleymani and Y.R. Shayan, "A Low-Complexity Distance-Based Algorithm for Block Turbo Codes," 2005 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory Montréal, Québec, June 5-8, 2005.

[99] M. Ghotbi and M.R. Soleymani, "Performance of Parallel Interference Cancellation in Large CDMA over a Fading Channel," IEEE Globecom 2004, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004.

[100] Xianming Li and M.R. Soleymani, "A Proof of the Hadamard Transform Decoding Of the Belief Propagation Algorithm for LDPC Codes over GF(q)," IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2004-Fall, Los Angeles, CA, Sept.26-29, 2004.

[101] Neda Ehtiati, M.R. Soleymani and H.R. Sadjadipour, "Joint InterleaverDesign for Multiple Turbo Codes," IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2004-Fall, Los Angeles, CA, Sept.26-29, 2004.

[102] M. Ghotbi and M.R. Soleymani, "Computing Partial Cancellation Factors for PPIC Receiver in Large CDMA over a Fading Channel," IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2004-Fall, Los Angeles, CA, Sept.26-29, 2004.

[103] A. Haghighat and M.R. Soleymani, "Joint Detection of Timing and Identity of Users in a Chip-Synchronous Multiuser CDMA System," IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2004-Fall, Los Angeles, CA, Sept.26-29, 2004.

[104] M. Torabi and M.R. Soleymani, "Antenna Selection for Turbo Coded MIMO-OFDM Systems," 22nd. Bienial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Ontario, May 31-June 3, 2004.

[105] M. Ghotbi and M.R. Soleymani, "The Impact of Fading on the Performance of Large CDMA with Parallel Interference Cancellation," 22nd. Bienial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Ontario, May 31-June 3, 2004.

[106] S. Esfandiari and M.R. Soleymani, "A Reduced Complexity Decoding of Block Turbo Codes Using Trellis Pruning," 22nd. Bienial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Ontario, May 31-June 3, 2004.

[107] M.Ghotbi and M.R. Soleymani, "A Simple Method for Computing Partial Cancellation Factors in CDMA Using PPIC Receiver," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2004, Montreal, Canada, May 17-21, 2004.

[108] M.Ghotbi and M.R. Soleymani, "Performance of an Asynchronous CDMA System with Parallel Interference Cancellation," IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2004-Spring, Milan, Italy, May 17-19, 2004.

[109] A. Haghighat and M.R. Soleymani,"A Blind MUSIC-based algorithm for User Identification and Power Estimation in Multiuser DS-CDMA," IEEE 2003 Global Communications Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 1-5, 2003

[110] A. Haghighat and M.R. Soleymani, "Blind Spreading Sequence Discovery for DS-CDMA Signal Interception", Military Communications Conference 2003, MILCOM 2003, Boston, MA, USA, October 13-16, 2003.

[111] A. Haghighat and M.R. Soleymani, "A MUSIC-based algorithm for Spreading Sequence Discovery in Multiuser DS-CDMA", IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-Fall 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA October 6-9, 2003.

[112] N.Ehtiati, A. Ghrayeb and M.R. Soleymani, "Improved Interleaver Design for Turbo Coded Intersymbol Interference Channels", IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC-Fall 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA October 6-9, 2003.

[113] Qing Zhang , M. R. Soleymani, and A. Benyamin-Seeyar, "A New Decoding Algorithm for Turbo Codes in Precoding Systems Over ISI Channels," Symposium on Turbo Codes, Brest, France, Sept. 1-5, 2003.

[114] M. Torabi and M.R. Soleymani, "Adaptive OFDM with Space-time Coding and Antenna Selection for Broadband Wireless Communications," IEEE 2003 International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT-2003, Yokohama, Japan, June 29-July 4, 2003.

[115] P. Sadeghi and M.R. Soleymani, "Parallel Implementation of Turo-Decoders for Satellite and Wireless Communication Systems," IEEE International Communications Conference, ICC2003, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 11-15, 2003.

[116] Xiangming Li, M.R. Soleymani, J.Lodge and P.S. Guinand, "Good LDPC Codes over GF(q) for Bandwidth Efficient Transmission", IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Signal Process Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2003, Rome, Italy, June 15-18, 2003.

[117] M. Torabi and M.R. Soleymani, "Adaptive Antenna Selection for MIMO-OFDM Systems over Frequency Selective Fading Channels," 2003 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, CWIT-2003, Waterloo, Ontrio, Canada, May 16-21, 2003.

[118] Xiangming Li, M.R. Soleymani and Yingzi Gao, "Upper Bounds on the Access Code Efficiency for CDMA Using Signals with an Interference Free Window," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2003-Spring, Jeju, Korea, April 21-24, 2003.

[119] M. Torabi and M.R. Soleymani, "Variable Rate OFDM Systems with Selective Antenna Diversity and Adaptive Modulation," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2003-Spring, Jeju, Korea, April 21-24, 2003.

[120] M. Torabi and M.R. Soleymani, "Adaptive Bit Allocation for Space-Time Block Coded OFDM Systems," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2003, Hong Kong, April 6-10, 2003.

[121] M. Torabi and M.R. Soleymani, "Adaptive Modulation for OFDM Systems Using Space-Frequency Block Codes," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 16-20, 2003.

[122] A. Haghighat and M.R. Soleymani, "A Subspace Scheme for Blind User Identification in Multiuser DS-CDMA," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC2003, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 16-20, 2003.

[123] Le Feng and M.R. Soleymani, "A sub-optimal receiving scheme for SCCC with coded MSK over ISI channels,"2003 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2003, Montreal, Canada, May 4-7, 2003.

[124] J. Gong, J.F. Hayes and M.R. Soleymani, "Comparison of Capacities of the Transmit Antenna Diversity with the Receive Antenna Diversity in the MIMO Scheme,"2003 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2003, Montreal, Canada, May 4-7, 2003.

[125] Y. Gao and M.R. Soleymani, "Bandwidth-efficient Transmission Using Non-binary CRSC Turbo Codes," 2003 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2003, Montreal, Canada, May 4-7, 2003.

[126] Y. Du and M.R. Soleymani, "VLSI Implementation of DVB/RCS Turbo Code," 2003 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2003, Montreal, Canada, May 4-7, 2003.

[127] B. Yin and M.R. Soleymani, "Design and Implementation of Three-dimensional Block Turbo Codes," 2003 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2003, Montreal, Canada, May 4-7, 2003.

[128] Z. Song, S. Tatu, M.R. Soleymani, K. Wu and R.G. Bosisio, "RF Coding Application in MMIC Six Port Receiver," 2003 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2003, Montreal, Canada, May 4-7, 2003.

[129] A. Haghighat and M.R. Soleymani, "A Blind User Identification for Multiuser DS-CDMA Based on Subspace Search," 2003 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2003, Montreal, Canada, May 4-7, 2003.

[130] P. Sadeghi and M.R. Soleymani, "Multi-Channel Processing of DVB/RCS Turbo Codes," 2003 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2003, Montreal, Canada, May 4-7, 2003.

[131] M. Torabi and M.R. Soleymani, "A New Space-Frequency-Time Block Coded OFDM Scheme for Broadband Wireless Communications," 2003 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2003, Montreal, Canada, May 4-7, 2003.

[132] M. Torabi and M.R. Soleymani, "Performance Evaluation of Coded OFDM with Orthogonal Transmit Diversity over Frequency Selective Fading Channels," 2003 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2003, Montreal, Canada, May 4-7, 2003.

[133] N. Ehtiati, M.R. Soleymani and H.R. Sadjadipour, "Interleaver Design for Multiple Turbo Codes," 2003 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE2003, Montreal, Canada, May 4-7, 2003.

[134] M.Ghotbi and M.R. Soleymani, "Partial Parallel Interference Cancellation of DS-CDMA Satellite Signals with Amplitude and Phase Estimation," IEEE Globecom 2002 Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 17-21, 2002.

[135] Y. Gao and M.R. Soleymani, "Triple-bianry Circular Recursive Systematic Convolutional Turbo Codes," IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, WPMC2002, Honolulu, Hawai, Oct. 27-30, 2002.

[136] M. Torabi and M.R. Soleymani, "Space-Time-Frequency COFDM with Power Allocation for Broadband Wireless Communications," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2002-Fall, Vancouver, BC, Sept. 24-28, 2002.

[137] M.Ghotbi and M.R. Soleymani, "Multistage Parallel Interference Cancellation with Power and Phase Estimation," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2002-Fall, Vancouver, BC, Sept. 24-28, 2002.

[138] Y. Gao and M.R. Soleymani, "Bandwidth-Efficient Triple-Binary Turbo Codes for Satellite Communication," IEEE International Symposium on Advances in Wireless Communications, ISWC02, Victoria, BC, September 23-24, 2002.

[139] Y. Du, Y. Gao and M.R. Soleymani, "Implementation of DVB/RCS Turbo Codes," International Conference on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, ANTEM 2002, July 31st - August 2nd, Canadain Space Agency, St. Hubert, Quebec.

[140] Y. Gao and M.R. Soleymani, "Spectrally Efficient Non-binary Turbo Codes: Beyond DVB/RCS Standard," International Conference on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, ANTEM 2002, July 31st - August 2nd, Canadain Space Agency, St. Hubert, Quebec.

[141] P. Sadeghi and M.R. Soleymani, "A Parallel Processing Scheme for High-Speed Implementation of Turbo Codes," International Conference on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, ANTEM 2002, July 31st - August 2nd, Canadain Space Agency, St. Hubert, Quebec.

[142] L. Qing and M.R. Soleymani, "FPGA Implementation of RM-BTC Codec Using Log-MAP Algorithms," International Conference on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, ANTEM 2002, July 31st - August 2nd, Canadain Space Agency, St. Hubert, Quebec.

[143] B. Yin and M.R. Soleymani, "Design and Implementation of Three-Dimensional Block Turbo Codes," International Conference on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, ANTEM 2002, July 31st - August 2nd, Canadain Space Agency, St. Hubert, Quebec.

[144] L. Feng and M.R. Soleymani, "Serially Concatenated Systems Using MSK Modulation," International Conference on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, ANTEM 2002, July 31st - August 2nd, Canadain Space Agency, St. Hubert, Quebec.

[145] F. Labeau and M.R. Soleymani, "Complexity Evaluation of SOVA Based Algorithms for Decoding of Block Codes on Sectionalized Trellis," International Conference on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics, ANTEM 2002, July 31st - August 2nd, Canadain Space Agency, St. Hubert, Quebec.

[146] Usa Vilaipornsawai and M.R. Soleymani, "Trellis-based Iterative Decoding of Block Codes for Satellite ATM," IEEE Intl. Communications Conf., ICC2002, New York, April 28 - May 2, 2002.

[147] Yingzi Gao and M.R. Soleymani, "A Novel Band-width Efficient Turbo Coding Scheme for Satellite Communications," 21st. Bienial Symposium on Communications, June 2-5, 2002, Kingston, Ontario.

[148] M. Torabi and M.R. Soleymani, "Turbo Coded OFDM for Wireless Local Area Networks," Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 12-15, 2002, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

[149] Jing Lei Liu and M. R. Soleymani, "A Simple and Efficient Timing and Frequency Synchronization Technique for OFDM Systems," 21st. Bienial Symposium on Communications, June 2-5, 2002, Kingston, Ontario.

[150] M. Torabi and M.R. Soleymani, "Space-Time Block Coded OFDM with Turbo Codes for High Data Rate Wireless Communication Networks," 21st. Bienial Symposium on Communications, June 2-5, 2002, Kingston, Ontario.

[151] M. Torabi and M.R. Soleymani, "Turbo COFDM with Orthogonal Transmit Diversity for Broadband Wireless Communications," Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 12-15, 2002, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

[152] A. Haghighat and M.R. Soleymani, "A Simple Approach for Evaluation of Probability of Error for a Multi-stage Parallel Interference Canceler CDMA Detector," Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 12-15, 2002, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

[153] Afshin Haghighat and M.R. Soleymani, "An Improved Correlator-Based Multiuser Receiver," IEEE MILCOM'2001, McLean, VA, Oct. 28-31, 2001.

[154] Hamid Mehrvar and M.R. Soleymani, "Packet Loss Prediction Using a Universal Indicator of Traffic," IEEE International Communications Conference, ICC2001,Helsinki, Finland, June 11-14, 2001.

[155] U. Vilaipornsawai and M.R. Soleymani, "Turbo Codes for Wireless and Satellite Communications, " IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, ITC2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2-4, 2001.

[156] M. Khataie, M.R. Soleymani and M.O. Ahmad, "Use of Gaussian Codebook for Residual Vector Quamtization of Images," 2000 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-2000, Vancouver, BC, Sept. 10-13, 2000.

[157] V. Glavac and M.R. Soleymani, "An Extended Inversion-less Massey-Berlekamp Algorithm," 2000 Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, SCI2000, Orlando, Florida, July 23-26, 2000.

[158] C.R. Nassar and M.R. Soleymani, "Data Detection in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters Using Quantization Theory," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT98, MA, USA, August 16-21, 1998.

[159] C.B. Kawwas and M.R. Soleymani, "Estimating the Cell Loss Probability in an ATM Multiplexer with Heterogeneous Traffic," CCBR 98, June 21-24, 1998, Ottawa.

[160] M.R. Soleymani, and P. Takats, "Acquisition and Tracking Algorithms for a Symbol Synchronous Satellite Based LAN Interconnection Network," COST226 Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, May 8-12, 1995.

[161] C.R. Nassar, and M.R. Soleymani, "The General Unknown Parameter Receiver," 1995 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Montreal, Quebec, Sept. 5-8, 1995.

[162] M. Khatei and M.R. Soleymani, "Indexing the Output Points in a Lattice Based Vector Quantizer," 1995 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Montreal, Quebec, Sept. 5-8, 1995.

[163] C.R. Nassar, and M.R. Soleymani, "Data Detection of MPSK in the Presence of Random Carrier Phase," 1995 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Lac Delage, Quebec, May 28-31, 1995.

[164] C.R. Nassar, and M.R. Soleymani, "Data Detection of Coded PSK in the Presence of Unknown Carrier Phase," 1995 IEEE Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT '95, Whistler, B.C., Sept. 17-22, 1995.

[165] C.R. Nassar and M.R. Soleymani, ''Optimal Data Detection of MPSK in the Presence of Unknown Carrier Phase at Low Complexity,'' Thirty-second Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Sept. 28-30, 1994.

[166] M.E. Petsalis, M.R. Soleymani and M.N.S. Swamy, " The Effects of Errors, Error Detection and error recovery in images compressed by the JPEG still image compression standard algorithm," 1994 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Halifax, Sept. 25-28, 1994.

[167] C.R. Nassar and M.R. Soleymani, "Joint Sequence Detection and Carrier Phase Estimation using the EM Algorithm," 1994 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Halifax, Sept. 25-28, 1994.

[168] M. Khatei and M.R. Soleymani, "A Two Stage Residual Lattice Based Vector Quantizer," 1994 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Halifax, Sept. 25-28, 1994.

[169] M.R. Soleymani and L. Kang, ``Trellis Coding with Partially Overlapped Signal Sets,'' Proc. 1991 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'91, pp. 1075- 1079, Denver, CO, June 23-26, 1991.

[170] C.R. Nassar and M.R. Soleymani, ``Globally Optimal Trellis Quantizers,'' Proc. 1991 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP'91, pp. 41-44, Toronto, May 14-17, 1991.

[171] M.R. Soleymani, S.D. Morgera and R. Quesnel, ``Image Coding for Noisy Channels,'' Proc. 1991 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing,ICASSP'91, pp. 2785-2788, Toronto, May 14-17, 1991.

[172] M.R. Soleymani, ``A New Tandem Source-Channel Coding Scheme,'' Proc. 1990 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM'90, pp. 2019-2023, San Diego, CA, Dec. 2-5, 1990.

[173] S.D. Morgera, M.R. Soleymani and Y. Normandin, ``Combined Source-Channel Coding,'' Proc. 1989 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP'89, pp. 176-179, Glasgow, Scotland, May 23-26, 1989.

[174] M.R. Soleymani and S.D. Morgera, ``A Fast Encoding Algorithm for Vector Quantization,'' Abstracts of 1988 IEEE International Conference on Information Theory, ISIT'88, pp. 223-224, Kobe, Japan, June 1988.

[175] S.D. Morgera and M.R. Soleymani, ``A Rate-Distortion Theoretic Approach toPattern Recognition,'' Third SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Madison, WI, May 1988.

[176] M.R. Soleymani and S.D. Morgera, ``A High Speed Search Algorithm for Vector Quantization,'' Proc. 1988 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP'88, pp. 45.6.1-45.6.3, Dallas, Texas, April 1988.

[177] M.R. Soleymani and S.D. Morgera, ``An Efficient Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithm,'' Abstracts of 1986 IEEE International Conference on Information Theory, ISIT'86, pp. 130, Ann Arbor, MI, Oct. 1986.

[178] M.R. Soleymani and S.D. Morgera, ``On Multiple Codebook Vector Quantization,'' Proc. IEEE COMPINT'85, pp. 207-211, Montreal, Canada, Sept. 1985.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

[179] M.R. Soleymani and R. Davis, "Synchronization Algorithms for MF-TDMA Testbed," Spar Aerospace Ltd., Report # RML-009-96-061, August 1996.

[180] M.R. Soleymani, R. Davis and P. Muraglia, "Hardware Implementation of MF-TDMA Testbed," Spar Aerospace Ltd., Report # RML-009-96-062, March 1996.

[181] M.R. Soleymani ``On-board Optical Processing and Switching,'' Spar Aerospace Ltd., Report # RML-009-95-082, Sept. 1995.

[182] M.R. Soleymani, Y.R. Shayan ``A New Cellular Architecture for Group Demultiplexer Design,'' Internal Report, Spar Aerospace Ltd., August 1992.

[183] M.R. Soleymani and J. McCluskey ``1991 R&D Technical Report: On-Board Baseband Processing,'' Spar Aerospace Ltd., Report # RML-009-91-191, January 1992.

[184] M.R. Soleymani, J. McCluskey and R. Landry ``1991 R&D Technical Report: Applications of GaAs in High Speed Digital Systems,'' Spar Aerospace Ltd., Report # RML-009-91-194, Dec. 1991.

[185] M.R. Soleymani, J. McCluskey and M. Keelty, ``1990 Final Report on On-Board Baseband Processing,'' Spar Aerospace Ltd., Report # RML-009-91-008, January 1991.

[186] M.R. Soleymani and H. Girard, ``Report on Preamble Selection and Detection for a Low Rate TDMA Modem,'' Spar Aerospace Ltd., Report # COM-100-87-02, June 1987.

[187] S.D. Morgera, M.R. Soleymani, K. Younes and B. Daneshrad, ``Analysis and Design of Circuit Switching Networks,'' Prepared under contract with Bell Canada, Ottawa, McGill Internal Report # 241-33, Feb. 1, 1988.