Masoud Ardakani's Publications

updated June 2009

Book Chapters [-top-]

  • M. Ardakani, "Coding for Power Line Communications" in Power Line Communications, Hendrik Ferreira, Lutz Lampe, and John Newbury. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., to be published in 2009.
  • F. R. Kschischang, M. Ardakani, "Designing Patterns for Easy Distinguishability," in New Directions in Statistical Signal Processing: From Systems to Brain, Simon Haykin, Jose Principle, Terry Sejnowski, John McWhirter, MIT Press, August 2006.

Journal Publications [-top-]

  1. M. Noori and M. Ardakani, "Lifetime Analysis of Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Mobile Comput., June 2009.
  2. Y. Ko, S. Vorobyov, and M. Ardakani "How much multiuser diversity is required in multiuser systems?," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Wireless Commun., Revised on Apr. 2009.
  3. Y. Ko, M. Ardakani, and S. A. Vorobyov, "Network outage capacity and its maximization for multiuser MIMO with antenna selection," submitted to IEEE Commun. Lett., Apr. 2009.
  4. M. Ramezani, M. Hajiaghayi, C. Tellambura, and M. Ardakani, "Receive Antenna Selection for Unitary Space-Time Modulation over Correlated Ricean Channels," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Commun., under second round of review, Dec. 2008.
  5. M. Noori and M. Ardakani, "Design of Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks With Coverage Considerations," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Wireless Commun., Dec. 2008.
  6. A. Sanaei and M. Ardakani, "LDPC Code Design for Non-Uniform Power-Line Channels," accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Commun., June 2009.
  7. B. Smith, M. Ardakani, W. Yu, and F. R. Kschischang, "Design of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes with Optimized Complexity-Rate Tradeoff," accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Commun., June 2009.
  8. A. Sanaei, M. Ramezani, and M. Ardakani, "Identical-Capacity Channel Decomposition for Design of Universal LDPC Codes," IEEE Trans. on Commun., Jul. 2009.
  9. R. Yazdani and M. Ardakani, "Linear LLR Approximation for Iterative Decoding on Wireless Channels," accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Commun., Dec. 2008.
  10. R. Yazdani and M. Ardakani, "Robust LDPC Decoding Using Irregular Decoders," IEEE Commun. Lett., pp. 888-890, Vol.12, No. 12, Dec 2008.
  11. R. Yazdani and M. Ardakani, "Waterfall Performance Analysis of Finite-Length LDPC Codes on Symmetric Channels," accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Commun., Sep. 2008.
  12. M. Ramezani, R. Yazdani, and M. Ardakani, "Stability analysis of an improved min-sum decoder," IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 581-583, Aug. 2008.
  13. M. Noori and M. Ardakani, "Characterizing the traffic distribution in linear wireless sensor networks," IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 554-556, Aug. 2008.
  14. A. Sanaei and M. Ardakani, "LDPC Code Design for Non-Uniform Power-Line Channels," EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Computational Intelligence Techniques for Power Line Communications., vol. 2007, May 2007.
  15. M. Ardakani and F. R. Kschischang, "Gear-Shift Decoding," IEEE Trans. on Commun., vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1235-1242, Jul. 2006.
  16. M. Ardakani, F. R. Kschischang, and W. Yu, "Near-Capacity Coding for Discrete Multi-Tone Systems with Impulse Noise," EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for DSL, Article ID 98738, pp. 1-10, vol. 2006.
  17. M. Shamsi, M. Ardakani, and I. F. Blake, "Mixed-Q linear space-time codes," IEEE Trans. on Commun., vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 841-848, June 2005.
  18. M. Ardakani, F. R. Kschischang, "Properties of Optimum Binary Message-Passing Decoders," IEEE Trans. on Inform. Theory, vol. 51, no. 10, pp. 3658-3665, Oct. 2005.
  19. M. Ardakani, T. H. Chan, and F. R. Kschischang "EXIT Chart Properties of the Highest-Rate LDPC Code with Desired Convergence Behavior," IEEE Commun. Letters, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 52-54, Jan. 2005.
  20. M. Ardakani and F. R. Kschischang, "A More Accurate One-Dimensional Analysis and Design of LDPC Codes," IEEE Trans. on Commun., vol. 52, no. 12, pp. 2106-2114, Dec. 2004.
  21. M. Ardakani, T. Esmailian, and F. R. Kschischang, "Near-Capacity Coding in Multi-Carrier Modulation Systems," IEEE Trans. on Commun., vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 1880-1889, Nov. 2004.

Conference Publications [-top-]

  1. Y. Ko, S. Vorobyov, and M. Ardakani, "Spectrum Efficient Cooperative Relaying based on Outage-Multiplexing Tradeoff Analysis," submitted to the 43rd Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, May 2009.
  2. M. Ramezani and M. Ardakani, "Disjoint LDPC Coding for Gaussian Broadcast Channels," accepted in IEEE Intl. Symp. on Inform. Theory, Seoul, Korea, June-Jul. 2009.
  3. M. Noori, S. Movaghati, and M. Ardakani, "Characterizing the Path Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks," to be presented in IEEE SECON, June 2009.
  4. Y. Ko, S. A. Vorobyov, and M. Ardakani, "How Much Multiuser Diversity Gain is Required over Large-Scale Fading?," to be presented in IEEE Int. Conf. on Commun. (ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany, June 2009.
  5. A. Sanaei, M. Ramezani, and M. Ardakani, "On the Design of Universal LDPC Codes," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Inform. Theory, Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2008.
  6. M. Noori and M. Ardakani, "A Probability Model for Lifetime of Event-Driven Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. of the 5th annual IEEE Commun. Soc. Conf. on Sensor, Mesh and Ad hoc Commun. and Networks (SECON), San Francisco , USA, June 2008.
  7. M. Noori and M. Ardakani, "Optimal Node Distribution for Achieving a Desired Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. of the 24th Biennial Symp. on Commun., Kingston, Canada, June 2008.
  8. M. Noori and M. Ardakani, "A Probabilistic Lifetime Analysis for Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks," to appear in Proc. IEEE Wireless Commun. and Networking Conf. (WCNC), Las Vegas, USA, Mar. 2008.
  9. R. Yazdani and M. Ardakani, "Optimum Linear LLR Calculation for Iterative Decoding on Fading Channels," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Inform. Theory, Nice, France, June 2007.
  10. R. Yazdani and M. Ardakani, "An Efficient Analysis of Finite-Length LDPC Codes," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Commun., Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007.
  11. P. Zarrinkhat, M. Ardkani, and R. Yazdani, "Channel Estimation Considerations for Iterative Decoding in Wireless Communications," Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Commun., Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007.
  12. R. Nikjah, N. C. Beaulieu, and M. Ardakani, "On Relaying in Cooperative Static Channels," in Proc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf., San Francisco, CA, USA, 2006.
  13. M. Ardakani, P. Zarrinkhat, and R. Yazdani, "Complexity-Optimized Irregular Decoders," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Inform. Theory, Seattle, Washington, USA, pp. 2393-2397, Jul. 2006.
  14. M. Ardakani and A. Sanaei, "Low-Density Parity-Check Coding for Non-Uniform Power-Line Channels," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Power Line Commun., Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 343-348, Mar. 2006.
  15. P. Zarrinkhat and M. Ardakani, "On the Robustness of Message-Passing Decoders," in Proc. the 23rd Biennial Symp. on Commun., Kingston, Canada, pp. 240-243, June 2006.
  16. M. Ardakani, "A Linear-Programming Approach to the Design of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Non-Uniform Channels," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Commun., Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
  17. M. Ardakani, W. Yu, B. Smith, and F. R. Kschischang, "Complexity-Optimized Low-Density Parity-Check Codes," in Proc. of the 43rd Annual Allerton Conf. on Commun., Control and Computing, Sep. 2005.
  18. W. Yu, M. Ardakani, B. Smith, and F. R. Kschischang, "Complexity-Optimized Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Gallager Decoding Algorithm B," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Inform. Theory, Adelaide, AustrA.a, Sep. 2005.
  19. M. Ardakani and F. R. Kschischang, "Gear-shift Decoding for Algorithms with Varying Complexity," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Commun., Seoul, South Korea, pp. 500-504, May 2005.
  20. M. Shamsi, M. Ardakani, and I. F. Blake, "A New Modulation Scheme for Space-Time Codes," in Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Commun., Seoul, South Korea, pp. 553-557, May 2005.
  21. M. Ardakani, F. R. Kschischang, and W. Yu, "Low-Density Parity-Check Coding for Impulse Noise Correction on Power-Line Channels," in Proc. IEEE 9th Intl. Symp. on Power-Line Commun. and Its Applications, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 90-94, Apr. 2005.
  22. M. Ardakani and F. R. Kschischang, "On the OptimA.ty of Gallager's Algorithm B," in Proc. of the 3rd Intl. Symp. on Turbo Codes and Related Topics, Brest, France, pp. 165-168, Sep. 2003.
  23. M. Ardakani and F. R. Kschischang, "Gear-Shift Decoding for Irregular LDPC Codes," in Proc. Intl. Symp. on Commun., Isfahan, Iran, pp. 114-117, Aug. 2003.
  24. M. Ardakani, Terence H. Chan, and F. R. Kschischang, "Properties of EXIT Charts for One-Dimensional LDPC Decoding Schemes," in Proc. of the 8th Canadian Workshop on Inform. Theory, Waterloo, Canada, pp. 143-146, May 2003.
  25. M. Ardakani and F. R. Kschischang, "Designing Irregular LDPC Codes Using EXIT Charts Based on Message Error Rate," in Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Symp. on Inform. Theory, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2002.
  26. M. Ardakani and F. R. Kschischang, "Gear-Shift Decoding," in Proc. of the 21st Biennial Symp. on Communications, Kingston, Canada, pp. 86-91, June 2002.