Analysis Tools for Space Time Codes and Some New Space Time Code Architectures

Dr. Alan Gatherer
DSP R&D Center
Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX

Friday, November 17th, 3:00 PM, ENS 302

Abstract

In this talk we present a new analysis tool for space time code design and show how it provides intuition about desirable characteristics for a good space time code. We then present some variations on known space time codes that use this intuition to improve performance.

Biography

Alan Gatherer received his BEng degree in Electronic and Microprocessor Engineering from Strathclyde University (Scotland) in 1988. He then moved to Stanford University and obtained MS and PhD degrees, both in Electrical Engineering in 1989 and 1993. He joined Texas Instruments in 1993. Since 1993, Dr. Gatherer has worked on digital communications research and development in the areas of digital subscriber line, cable modem and wireless. Presently he is a distinguished member of technical staff and manager of the wireless communications group within corporate research at Texas Instruments. He is involved in the development of WCDMA technology for 3rd Generation cellular telephony and the development of technology for Bluetooth and related Personal Area Networking devices. He holds seven patents in the area of digital communications.

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