John Nielsen's Publications

since January 2003, updated March 2009

Patents [-top-]

  1. G.Lachapelle, J. Nielsen, S. Shanmugam, R.Watson, "Differential signal processing schemes for enhanced GPS acquisition", recently filed with UTI ref.256.21
  2. J. Nielsen, "UWB Receiver Architecture Based on Single Bit Detection Processing," US Provisional Patent Filing 60/453947, filed March 13, 2003
  3. Xin Jin, J. Nielsen, "System and method of controlling transmit power for mobile wireless devices with multi-mode operation of antenna", European Patent Office, 03022865.4, December 1, 2003
  4. J. Nielsen, L. Strawczynski, "Mobile radiotelephone determination using time of arrival of GPS and pilot signals," US patent 6249253, June 19, 2001
  5. J. Nielsen, X. Jin and R. Fu, "Method and apparatus for frequency tracking in a space time transmission diversity mobile receiver," filed March 6, 2002 with US patent office
  6. J. Nielsen, "Feedback compensation detector for a direct conversion transmitter," filed 15 May 2002 with US patent office
  7. J. Nielsen and R. Kerslake, "Oscillator stability monitoring and compensation system," US Patent 6,194,970, Feb.27, 2001
  8. J. Nielsen, D. Tholl, T.Page, "Method and apparatus for providing adaptive pre-distortion in power amplifier and base stations utilizing same," US Patent 6,118,335, Sept.12, 2000
  9. J. Nielsen, N. McGowan, X. Jin, H.Yang, J. Stanier, "Method and apparatus for regulation of the effective noise figure in a CDMA receiver", US Patents US5267262 US5559790 US5675581 US5729571 US5781542 US5870425
  10. R. Thomas and J. Nielsen, "Clock Recovery Circuit", US Patent 5,671,259, Sept.1997

Journal Publications [-top-]

  1. A. Broumandan, J. Nielsen, G. Lahapelle, "Signal Detection Performance in Rayleigh Multipath Fading Environments with a Moving Antenna," submitted IET Signal Processing, Feb. 2009.
  2. J. Nielsen, S. Shanmugam, M. Mahfuz , G. Lachapelle, "Enhanced Detection of Weak GNSS Signals Using Spatial Combining," NAVIGATION, The institute of Navigation, in press.
  3. S. Shanmugam, C. Mongredien, J. Nielsen, G. Lachapelle, "Design of Short Synchronization Codes for Use in Future GNSS Systems," International Journal of Navigation and Observation, special issue on "Future GNSS Signals", March 2008.
  4. S. Khalesehosseini, J. Nielsen, "CRLB for DA and NDA synchronization of UWB signals with clock offset," IET Transactions on Communication, in press.
  5. J. Nielsen, "Robust implementation of UWB receiver based on adaptive notch filter," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless communications.
  6. J. Nielsen, "UWB Impulse radio receiver based on single bit quantization," Springer 2006 Wireless Personal Communications, vol.43, pp.369-388.
  7. J. Nielsen, "Optimal sampling and processing of an impulse radio signal subjected to narrow band interference," Wireless Personal Communications, Kluwer, Jan 2006, vol. 36, pp.79-93.
  8. J. Nielsen, R. Pasand, "Ultra Wideband Rake Receiver based on single bit processing," Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering," vol. 31. no.1, Winter 2006, pp.41-48.
  9. J. Nielsen, R. Pasand, "Narrowand interference mitigation in an ultrawideband receiver," in-press, IEE Proceedings of Communications.
  10. R. Pasand, S. Khalesehosseini, J. Nielsen, A. Sesay, "Exact evaluation of M-ary TH-PPM UWB systems on AWGN channels for indoor multiuser communications," IEE Proceedings on Communications, vol. 153, no. 1, Feb. 2006, pp. 83-92.
  11. J. Nielsen and S. Zwierzchowski, "Power Spectral Density of an UWB Signal With Discrete Pulse Positions," Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 28, July/October 2003.

Conference Publications [-top-]

  1. Ali Broumandan, John Nielsen, Gérard Lachapelle , "Signal Detection Performance in correlated Rayleigh Fading with a Moving Antenna," ANTEM IEEE conference, Banff Feb.2009
  2. Ali Broumandan, John Nielsen, Gérard Lachapelle,"Practical Results of High Resolution AOA Estimation by the Synthetic Array," IEEE VTC fall 08, Calgary, Alberta, Sept 2008, paper 61749
  3. Ali Broumandan, John Nielsen, Gérard Lachapelle, "TOA Estimation Enhancement based on Blind Calibration of Synthetic Arrays," IEEE VTC fall 08, Calgary, Alberta, Sept 2008, paper 60077
  4. Saika Sharmeen, John Nielsen, Michel Fattouche,"Motion Detection of a Real Beacon using Estimator Correlator," IEEE VTC fall 08, Calgary, Alberta, Sept 2008, paper 50202
  5. Ali Broumandan, Tao Lin, John Nielsen, Gérard Lachapelle," Practical Results of Hybrid AOA/TDOA Geo-location Estimation in CDMA Wireless Networks ," IEEE VTC fall 08, Calgary, Alberta, Sept 2008, paper 65232
  6. Saeed Khalesehosseini, John Nielsen " Low Complexity Acquisition of UWB Telemetry Data Packets with Clock Offset," IEEE VTC fall 08, Calgary, Alberta, Sept 2008, paper 52053
  7. Broumandan, A., T. Lin, A.R.A. Moghaddam, D. Lu, J. Nielsen and G. Lachapelle, "Direction of Arrival Estimation of GNSS Signals Based on Synthetic Antenna Array. Proceedings of ION GNSS07 (Forth Worth, 25-28 Sep. 2008, Session C2)
  8. Moghaddam, A.R.A., A. Broumandan, G. Lachapelle and J. Nielsen ,"Enhanced Cellular Network Positioning Using Space-Time Diversity," Proceedings of ION GNSS07 (Forth Worth, 25-28 Sep 2007, Session B4), The Institute of Navigation
  9. J. Nielsen, S. Khalesehosseini, "Degradation of UWB data packet detectability with finite clock uncertainty range," 10th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory CWIT 2007, pp.49-52, Edmonton, Canada, June1-3, 2007
  10. S. Khalesehosseini, J. Nielsen, , "Detection bound of an UWB data packet in the presence of clock offset," 10th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory CWIT 2007, pp.45-48, Edmonton, Canada, June1-3, 2007
  11. S. Khalesehosseini, J. Nielsen, "Generalized CRLB for DA and NDA synchronization of UWB signals with clock offset," IEEE ICC 2007, pp.4305-410, Glasgow, Scotland, June 24-28, 2007
  12. Shanmugam, S.K., Nielsen, J. and Lachapelle, G. "Enhanced Differential Detection Scheme for Weak GPS Signal Acquisition." ION Proceedings of GNSS07 (Forth Worth, 25-28 Sept. 2007 Session C1)
  13. Broumandan, T. Lin, A. Moghaddam, D.Lu, J. Nielsen, G. Laphapelle, "Detection of Arrival Estimation of GNSS signals based on synthetic antenna array," Proceedings of GNSS07, Sept. 2007, The Institude of Navigation, Fort Worth, TX
  14. K Townsend, J. Haslett, J. Nielsen, "A CMOS Integrated Power Detector for UWB",IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 27-30 May 2007 ISCAS2007, pp.3039-42.
  15. J. Nielsen, E. Fear, "Breast tumor detection processing and performance based on TLM analysis", Accepted for presentation, IEEE FACE conference, June 2006, Victoria, Canada, Paper 111
  16. K. Townsent, L.Belostotski, J. Haslett, J. Nielsen, "Ultra-Wideband front end with tunable notch filter", IEEE, NEWCAS 06 June 2006, pp.177-180
  17. J. Shaskin, R. Pasand, J. Nielsen, " An UWB sensor network using simplex motes for hospitals," accepted for presentation at the World Wireless Congress, San Francisco, May 23-25 2006, paper 108
  18. Enteshari, A., Pasand, R. and Nielsen, J., "A novel technique for fast clock phase and frequency offset simulation in digital communication systems", Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ottawa, Canada, June 2006, 2460-2463
  19. Nielsen, J., Pasand, R. and Sethi, S., "Channel estimation using Kalman filter for UWB communication systems", Military Communications Conference, MILCOM 2006, Washington, DC, October 2006, pp.1-6
  20. Abedi, O. and Nielsen, J., "UWB Data rate and Channel Capacity in Modulation Schemes", Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ottawa, Canada, May 2006, pp.1809-1816
  21. Shanmugam, K.S., R. Watson, J. Nielsen, G. Lachapelle "Differential signal processing schemes for enhance GPS acquisition," Proceedings of GNSS 2005, session C1, Long Beach CA Sept. 13-16 2005
  22. R. Pasand, S. Khalesehosseini, J. Nielsen, "Optimal processing of an impulse radio signal subjected to narrow band interference," IEEE VTC conference, VTC2005, 30May-1June 2005, Stockholm Sweden
  23. R. Pasand, J. Nielsen, "UWB receiver based on a filter bank architecture for suppression of narrow band interference," 13th Iranian conference on electrical Engineering, May 10-12, 2005, 13th ICEE2005, Vol. 2,Zanjan University, Zanjan, Iran
  24. S. Khalesehosseini, R. Pasand, J. Nielsen, "60-Channel dual tone multi-frequency signaling receiver based on Goertzel algorithm on single 100 MIPS TM320C54 DSP platform," IEEE CCECE 2005, May 1-4 2005, Saskatoon, Canada pp.238-241
  25. R. Pasand, S. Khalesehosseini, J. Nielsen, "Performance analysis of synchronous M-ary time-hopping PPM UWB multiple -access communication systems," IEEE CCECE 2005, May 1-4 2005, Saskatoon, Canada pp.1181-1185
  26. H. Agus, R. Davies, J. Nielsen, "Temporal and Spatial Correlation Analysis for Indoor UWB Channel," Proceedings of Wireless 2004 Calgary, July 2005
  27. S. Khalesehosseini, J. Nielsen, R. Pasand ,"A Reduced-Complexity Acquisition of an UWB Impulse Radio Receiver with a Clock Frequency Offset"," Proceedings of Wireless 2005, Calgary, Canada
  28. S. Shanmugam , A. Lopez, D. Lu, N. Luo, J. Nielsen, G. Lachapelle, R. Klukas, A. Taylor "Wireless Location in IS-95 CDMA Cellular Radio Systems," Proceedings of Wireless 2005, Calgary, Canada
  29. B. Han, J. Nielsen, X. Gao, X. You, "Optimal Allotment of Tones for OFDM Systems," Proceedings of Wireless 2005, Calgary, Canada
  30. D. Li, J. Nielsen, G. Lachapelle, "Phase Coherency of CDMA Caller Location Processing Based on TCXO Frequency Reference with Intermittent GPS Correction," Proceedings of Wireless 2005, Calgary, Canada
  31. O. Abedi, J. Nielsen, "UWB Channel Models Applied to Ideal Rake Receiver Filter Bank," Proceedings of Wireless 2005, Calgary, Canada
  32. S. Sethi, R. Pasand, R. Klukas, S. Khalesehosseini, J. Nielsen, "Channel Estimation for UWB Communication Systems," Proceedings of Wireless 2005, Calgary, Canada
  33. J. Shaskin, J. Nielsen, R. Davies, "A Step Recovery Diode Based Impulse Radio Transmitter for Low Data-rate Applications," Proceedings of Wireless 2005, Calgary, Canada
  34. R. Pasand, S. Khalesehosseini, J. Nielsen, "The Capacity of asynchronous M-ary time hopping PPM UWB multiple access communication systems," Proceedings of Wireless 2004 Calgary, July 2004
  35. H. Agus, S. Sethi, R. Pasand, J. Nielsen, "Analysis and simulation of UWB PPM system with single bit rake receiver in multipath fading environment," Proceedings of Wireless 2004 Calgary, July 2004
  36. R. Pasand, J. Nielsen, A,Sesay, "Capacity of PPM UWB architecture based on single bit detection processing," 5th World Wireless Congress 2004 Proceedings, San Francisco May 2004
  37. R. Pasand, J. Nielsen, A. Sesay, "Capacity of structured UWB architecture based on single bit detection processing," Proceedings of Wireless 2004, Calgary July 2004
  38. J. Nielsen, R. Pasand, "UWB receiver architecture for narrowband interference cancellation," Proceedings of Wireless 2004, Calgary, July 2004
  39. R. Pasand, J. Nielsen, A. Sesay, "UWB receiver based on filter bank architecture for suppression of narrowband interference noise," Proceedings of IEEE MILICOM, Monterey, November 2004
  40. S. Khalesehosseini, R. Pasand, J. Nielsen, "60-Channel Dual Tone Multi-frequency signaling receiver based on Goertzel algorithm on Single 100 MIPS TMS320C54 DSP Platform," IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering May 2005
  41. O. Abedi, J. Nielsen, "UWB Data Rate and maximum transmit distances in different modulation schemes," 10th International OFDM workshop 2005, August 2005, Hamburg, Germany
  42. J. Nielsen, "UWB Receiver Architecture Based on Single Bit Detection Processing," 15th International Wireless Conference, Calgary Alberta July 7-9, 2003, pp518-532.