Selected Publications (since 2005)
Journal Publications
C. Cao, I.J. Fair, "Mitigation of inter-cell interference in flash memory with capacity-approaching variable-length constrained sequence codes," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, accepted for publication.
A. Steadman, I.J. Fair, "Simplified Search and Construction of Capacity-Approaching Variable-Length Constrained Sequence Codes," IET Communications, vol. 10, no. 14, pp. 1697 - 1704, October 2016.
X. Tu, I.J. Fair, "Variable-length balanced codes for quadrature phase shift keyed systems," IET Journal of Engineering, October 2015, online doi: 10.1049/joe.2015.0150.
I.J. Fair, E.R. Carle, "Simple evaluation of squared weight," IET Journal of Engineering, July 2015, online doi: 10.1049/joe2015.0109.
I.J. Fair, D.L. Martin, "Generation of balanced QPSK sequences through guided scrambling," IET Communications, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 1404 - 1411, July 2015.
S.W. Phillips, I.J. Fair, "Selective phase masking to reduce material saturation in holographic storage," Optical Review, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 585 - 590, September 2014.
C. Jamieson, I.J. Fair, "Evaluation of the capacity of constrained codes with multiple constrained signalling dimensions," IET Communications, vol. 8, no. 13, pp. 2238 - 2245, September 2014.
S.W. Phillips, I.J. Fair, "Sparse binary-to-ternary encoding for holographic storage," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol. E97-A, no. 6, pp. 1231 - 1239, June 2014.
I.J. Fair, C. Jamieson, "Tabular construction of balanced codes," IET Electronics Letters, vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 997 - 999, August 1, 2013.
E. Frontana, I.J. Fair, "DC-free LDPC convolutional codes," IEICE Communications Express, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 135 - 140, April 2013.
A. Steadman, I.J. Fair, "Variable-length constrained sequence codes," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 139 - 142, January 2013.
C. Jamieson, I.J. Fair, "DC-free codes with complex-valued signalling constellations," IET Communications, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 91 - 97, January 2013.
V. Pechenkin, I.J. Fair, "On four-wave mixing suppression in
dispersion-managed fiber-optic OFDM systems with an optical
phase conjugation module," IEEE
Journal on Lightwave Technology, vol. 29, no. 11, pp.
1678 - 1691, June 2011.
C. Jamieson, I. Nikolaidis, I.J. Fair, "Improved
algorithm for constructing constrained codes with
state-independent cecoding," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 15, no. 3,
pp. 272 - 274, March 2011.
Y. Zhu, I.J. Fair, "Multimode two-dimensional
balanced conservative codes for holographic storage," IET Communications, vol.
4, no. 15, pp. 1809 - 1816, October 2010.
V. Pechenkin, I.J. Fair, "Analysis of four-wave
mixing suppression in fiber-optic OFDM transmission systems
with an optical phase conjugation module," IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical
Communications and Networking, vol. 2, no. 9, pp. 701
- 710, September 2010.
C. Bai, W.A. Krzymien, I.J. Fair, "Hybrid-ARQ for
layered space time MIMO systems with channel state information
only at the receiver," IET
Communications, vol. 4, no. 14, pp. 1765 - 1773,
September 2010.
C. Jamieson, I.J. Fair, "Construction of constrained codes for state-independent decoding," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 193 - 199, February 2010.
G. Li, I.J. Fair, W.A. Krzymien, "Analysis, design, and application of nonbinary low-density parity-check codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 997 - 1015, March 2009.
Y. Zhu, I.J. Fair, "Embedded method for indexing the control arrays in multimode conservative codes," IET Electronics Letters, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 114 - 115, January 15, 2009.
I.J. Fair, "Construction and characteristics of codewords and pulse shapes that satisfy spectral constraints," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 1585 - 1590, October 2008.
C. Bai, B. Mielczarek, I.J. Fair, W.A. Krzymien, "Sub-block recovery scheme for iterative decoding of turbo codes," IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol. E91-B, no. 5, pp. 1375 - 1386, May 2008.
Y. Xin, I.J. Fair, "Polynomials for generation of periodic quotient relationship patterns in guided scrambling," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 1363 - 1367, March 2008.
F. Zhai, Y. Xin, I.J. Fair, "DC-free trellis based error-control codes," IET Communications, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 1170 - 1178, December 2007.
Y. Zhu, I.J. Fair, "Construction of FSSM modeled encoders to meet specific spectral constraints," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol. E90-A, no. 9, pp. 1772 - 1779, September 2007.
Y. Wang, X. Dong, I.J. Fair, "Spectrum shaping and NBI suppression in UWB communications," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 1944 - 1952, May 2007.
C. Bai, B. Mielczarek, W.A. Krzymien, I.J. Fair, "Improved analysis of list decoding and its application to convolutional codes and turbo codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 615 - 627, February 2007.
Y.Xin, I.J. Fair, "Multiple L-shift complementary sequences," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol E89-A, no. 10, pp. 2640 - 2648, October 2006.
I.J. Fair, Y. Zhu, A.P. Hughes, "Spectra of multimode coded signals," IEE Proceedings – Communications, vol. 153, no. 3, pp. 383 - 391, June 2006.
G. Li, I.J. Fair, W.A. Krzymien "Low-density parity-check codes for space-time wireless transmission," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 312 - 322, February 2006.
A. Alavi, C. Tellambura, I.J. Fair, "PAPR reduction of OFDM signals using partial transmit sequence: an optimal approach using sphere decoding," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 982 – 984, November 2005.
F. Zhai, Y. Xin, I. J. Fair, "DC-free error-control block codes," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 1639 - 1647, October 2005.
A.P. Hughes, I.J. Fair, "An integrated error control and DC-free code based on multimode coding," IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 893 - 899, August 2005.
Y. Zhu, I.J. Fair, "Modified minimum squared weight selection criterion for DC-free multimode codes," IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 41, no. 17, pp. 973 - 975, August 18, 2005.
Y. Xin, I.J. Fair, "Low-frequency performance of guided scrambling DC-free codes," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 537 - 539, June 2005.
Conference Publications
C. Cao, I.J. Fair, "Construction of Minimal Sets for Capacity-Approaching Variable-Length Constrained Sequence Codes," accepted for presentation at Asilomar 2016.
C. Cao, I.J. Fair, "Variable-length Constrained Sequence Codes for Mitigating Inter-cell Interference in All-bit-line Flash Memory with Multi-page Programming," Proceedings of the 2016 28th Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kelowna British Columbia, June 5 - 8, 2016.
S.W. Phillips, I.J. Fair, "Binary-to-ternary sparsity encoding for holographic data storage," Proceedings of the 2013 International Photonics Conference, Bellevue Washington USA, September 8 - 12, 2013.
S.W. Phillips, I.J. Fair, "Selective phase masking for ternary-modulated holographic storage," Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Optical Memory, pp. 36 - 37, Incheon, Korea, August 18 – 22, 2013.
C. Jamieson, I.J. Fair, "Capacity of constrained sequence codes modelled by two-dimensional finite state machines with nearest-neighbour connections," Proceedings of the 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, pp. 87 - 90, Ottawa, Canada, May 13 - 15, 2009.
Y. Zhu, I.J. Fair, "Error correcting coded indices for multimode
balanced conservative codes for holographic storage," Proceedings of the 2008 Joint
International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data
Storage, pp. 141 - 143, Waikoloa, Hawaii,
E. Frontana, C. Jamieson, I.J. Fair, "Improved spectral performance of Knuth codes," Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 1562 - 1566, Toronto, Ontario, June 6 - 11, 2008.
E. Frontana, I.J. Fair, "Avoiding PAPR degradation in convolutional coded OFDM signals," Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, pp. 312 - 315, Victoria, BC, August 22 - 24, 2007.
Y. Zhu, I.J. Fair, "Multimode coding for generating conservative arrays for holographic storage," Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 1181 - 1185, Nice, France, June 24 - 29, 2007.
Y. Zhu, I.J. Fair, "A New Approach for Constructing FSSM Modeled Encoders to Satisfy Spectral Constraints," Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 514 - 519, Hong Kong, March 11 - 15, 2007.
C. Bai, W.A. Krzymien, I.J. Fair, "Hybrid-ARQ for layered space time MIMO systems with channel state information only at the receiver," Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 547 - 552, Hong Kong, March 11 - 15, 2007.
C. Bai, I.J. Fair, "ARQ for MIMO OFDM systems with non-linear preprocessing," Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Global Communications Conference, San Francisco, USA, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2006.
C. Bai, B. Mielczarek, I.J. Fair, W.A. Krzymien, "Turbo coded type-II hybrid ARQ scheme with incremental redundancy using sub-block recovery," Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Global Communications Conference, San Francisco, USA, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2006.
C. Bai, I.J. Fair, W.A. Krzymien, "SR-ARQ for MIMO OFDM Systems with Channel State Information Only at the Receiver," Proceedings of the Fall 2006 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Montreal, Quebec, September 25 - 28, 2006.
Y. Wang, X. Dong, I.J. Fair, "A method for spectrum shaping and NBI suppression in UWB communications," Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Communications, pp. 1476 - 1481, Istanbul, Turkey, June 11 - 15, 2006.
I.J. Fair, "Construction of codewords and pulse shapes to meet spectral requirements," Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Communications, pp. 1243 - 1248, Istanbul, Turkey, June 11 - 15, 2006.
C. Bai, B. Mielczarek, I.J. Fair, W.A. Krzymien, "Improved analysis of list decoding and its application to convolutional codes," Proceedings of Globecom 2005, pp. 369 - 373, St. Louis MO, November 28 - December 2, 2005.
C. Bai, B. Mielczarek, W.A. Krzymien, I.J. Fair, "Sub-block recovery scheme for iterative turbo decoding," Proceedings of the Fall 2005 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, pp. 1970 - 1974, Dallas TX, September 25 - 28, 2005.
F. Zhai, Y. Xin, I. J. Fair, "Spectral performance of integrated DC-free error-control codes," Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, pp. 205 - 208, Victoria, BC, August 24 - 26, 2005.
Y. Xin, I. J. Fair, "Selection in multimode coding for multiple constraints," Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, pp. 201 - 204, Victoria, BC, August 24 - 26, 2005.
Y. Xin, I. J. Fair, "Scrambling polynomials for generating periodic quotient relationship patters in guided scrambling codes," Proceedings of the 2005 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, pp. 323 - 326, Montreal, Quebec, June 5 - 8, 2005.
Y. Xin, I. J. Fair, "Low complexity PTS approaches for PAPR reduction of OFDM signals," Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Communications, pp. 1991 - 1995, Seoul, Korea, May 16 - 20, 2005.
F. Zhai, Y. Xin, I. J. Fair, "DC-free convolutional codes and DC-free turbo codes," Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Communications, pp. 632 - 636, Seoul, Korea, May 16 - 20, 2005.
A.P. Hughes, I.J. Fair, "An integrated error control and constrained sequence code based on multimode coding," Proceeding of the 2005 Communication Networks and Services Research Conference, pp. 203 - 208, Halifax NS, May 16 - 18, 2005.
M.A. Castellon, I.J. Fair, D.G. Elliott, "Fixed-point turbo decoding implementation suitable for embedded applications," Proceedings of the 2005 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 1065 - 1068, Saskatoon SK, May 1 - 4, 2005.
C. Bai, W.A. Krzymien, I.J. Fair, B. Mielczarek, "Analysis of a sub-block recovery scheme for decoding a concatenated error control code," Proceedings of the Spring 2005 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Stockholm Sweden, May 30 - June 1, 2005.