Philip Orlik

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Principal Technical Staff
Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook, 1999

Phone: (617) 621 7570
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Philip Orlik received the B.E. degree in 1994 and the M.S. degree in 1997 both from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1999 he earned his Ph. D. in electrical engineering also from SUNY Stony Brook. He joined MERL in August 2000, and is currently a member of technical staff. His research interests include wireless and optical communications, networking, queuing theory, and analytical modeling.

Recent Projects:

Development of Location Centric Networks

Recent Publications:

Ye, Z.; Duan, C.; Orlik, P.; Zhang, J., "A Low-Complexity Synchronization Design for MB-OFDM Ultra-Wideband Systems", IEEE International Conference on Communicaitons (ICC), ISBN: 978-1-4244-2075-9, pp. 3807-3813, May 2008 (IEEE Xplore, TR2008-032)

Liu, H.; Molisch, A.F.; Zhao, S.; Goeckel, D.; Orlik, P., "Hybrid Coherent and Frequency-Shifted-Reference Ultrawideband Radio", IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), ISBN: 978-1-4244-1043-9, pp. 4106-4111, November 2007 (IEEE Explore)

Duan, C.; Orlik, P.; Sahinoglu, Z.; Molisch, A.F., "A Non-Coherent 802.15.4a UWB Impulse Radio", IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), ISBN: 978-1-4244-0521-3, pp. 146-151, September 2007 (IEEE Xplore, TR2007-070)

Zhao, S.; Orlik, P.; Molisch, A.F.; Liu, H.; Zhang, J., "Hybrid Ultrawideband modulations Compatible for Both Coherent and Transmit-Reference Receivers", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, ISSN: 1536-1276, Vol. 6; Issue 7, pp. 2551-2559, July 2007 (IEEE Explore)

Ding, G.; Sahinoglu, Z.; Orlik, P.; Zhang, J.; Bhargava, B., "Tree-Based Data Broadcast in IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Networks", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ISSN: 1536-1233, Vol. 5, Issue 11, pp. 1561-1574, November 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-089)

Molisch, A.F.; Orlik, P.; Sahinoglu, Z.; Zhang, J., "UWB-based Sensor Networks and the IEEE 802.15.4a Standard", International Conference Communications and Networking in China (ChinaCom), pp. 1-6, October 2006

Sahinoglu, Z.; Guvenc, I.; Orlik, P.; Molisch, A.F., "Interference Suppression in Non-coherent Time-hopping IR-UWB Ranging", IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), pp. 507-511, September 2006 (IEEE Xplore)

Guvenc, I.; Sahinoglu, Z.; Orlik, P., "TOA Estimation for IR-UWB Transceiver Types: AWGN Channel Analysis", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2006 (ICC 2006, TR2006-023)

Orlik, P.; Zhao, S.; Molisch, A.F., "A Hybrid UWB Modulation Design Compatible for Both Coherent and Transmit-Reference Receivers", IEEE International Conference on Communications, ISSN: 8164-9547, Vol. 10, pp. 4741-4745, June 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-087)

Guvenc, I.; Sahinoglu, Z.; Orlik, P.V., "TOA Estimation for IR-UWB Systems with Different Transceiver Types", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, ISSN: 0018-9480, Vol. 54, Issue 4, Part 2, pp. 1876-1886, June 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-023)

Guvenc, I.; Sahinoglu, Z.; Molisch, A.F.; Orlik, P., "Non-coherent TOA Estimation in IR-UWB Systems with Different Signal Waveforms", IEEE International Conference on Broadband Networks, pp. 245-251, October 2005 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-132)

Ding, G.; Sahinoglu, Z.; Orlik, P.; Zhang, J.; Bhargava, B., "Reliable Broadcasting in ZigBee Networks", IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), pp. 510-520, September 2005 (IEEE Xplore, TR2005-029)

Recent Technical Reports:

TR2006-120 Interference Suppression in Non-coherent Time-Hopping IR-UWB Ranging
TR2006-047 TOA Estimation for IR-UWB Systems with Different Transceiver Types