MIMO Communications Testbed
Project Team
People involved in the MIMO Communications Testbed project.
Academic Staff
Prof. Brett Ninness
My research interests are in the areas of noise corrupted systems as they occur in control, signal processing and telecommunications applications, with particular interests in system identification and wireless communications.email:
A/Prof. Steve Weller
Research interests include low-density parity-check codes, iterative decoding algorithms, space-time coded communications, OFDM, and combinatorics.email:
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Geoff Knagge
Geoff's research primarily focuses on the development and optimisation of algorithms for implementation in VLSI devices, including ASICs and FPGAs. His current work is with the Model-Predictive Control project, and extending his postgraduate work that dealt with combinatorial optimisation in VLSI, with application to the wireless communications topics of multiuser detection and MIMO. Part of this has involved the development of the c4Hardware and c4HDL projects to assist in the modelling of hardware designs.email:
Postgraduate Students
Dale Bates
Research interests are OFDM synchronisation techniques and carrier frequency offset estimation methods for 3GPP LTE systems.email:
Ian Griffiths
I completed my undergradute studies in Computer Engineering in 2005. For my honours project I worked on implementing a 2x2 MIMO system using the Alamouti code on the first version of the testbed. I am currently investigating applications of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms to MIMO communications systems as part of my postgraduate studies.email:
Soren Henriksen
Working with Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo analysis for multi-user detection and applications to system identification. My work with SPM also includes hardware design and embedded software development related to the MIMO wireless testbed. I have experience in the implementation and refinement of computational algorithms and have completed a masters degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle with a project implementing predictive current control for induction machines on an FPGA.
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Alan Murray
Alan was awarded BEng (Comp) (Hons 1) and BCompSc Degrees as well as a GCertIC from the University of Newcastle in 2005 and 2007 respectively.
Previous to this, he completed an internship in the summer of 2003/2004 with the University of Newcastle working on a wireless communications testbed. In 2004 he was awarded the Agere Systems Australia and Australian Microelectronics Network's Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Microelectronics Design and Telecommunications Engineering which saw him complete a summer internship in 2004/2005 with the Agere Systems Sydney Design Office.
In 2005, Alan completed his honours project in conjunction with Agere Systems Australia. He has since been working on his PhD Thesis work on Microelectronics for Wireless Communications as part of the University of Newcastle Signal Processing Microelectronics group.
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