My research interests lie in the area of wireless communications. Specifically, I am interested in new architectures and algorithms for high-performance and low-complexity transmitters and receivers, as well as mathematical modeling of the wireless communication channel.
Current Research Topics
My current research project is in the area of ultra wideband communication systems. This work constitutes part of the requirements for my graduate studies, and is supervised by Dr. Lutz Lampe and Dr. Robert Schober. Have a look at my publications and presentations pages for more information about our research in this area.
Previous Research Areas
Much of my work to date has been in the area of channel modeling, specifically in Markov modeling of non-Rayleigh fading channels. This area is fairly mature, but there are still some areas to be explored. I worked with Dr. Serguei Primak from May 2001 to August 2003.
From September 2002 to April 2003, I worked on my fourth-year thesis project. This project is entitled "A software-controlled fading channel simulator". It is a proof-of-concept hardware design for a fading channel simulator that could be used in lab testing or design of wireless mobile devices. My thesis has more detail.
From May 2002 to August 2002, I worked on two projects: the need to accurately reproduce the correlation function of the multipath fading channel, and the performance of TCP/IP over a wireless modem using adaptive modulation.
From May 2001 to March 2002 I studied the performance of TCP/IP over Bluetooth, as both a summer research job supported by an NSERC Undergraduate Student Resarch Award (link), and for a Computer Science 380y Junior thesis.. My talks page has the slides from my presentation. If you want to read my thesis, look at my publications page. This work was also published in the proceeedings of the Spring 2002 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in Birmingham, Alabama.