- Date: October 1, 2014
Where: Intellectual Property Exchange InternationaI (IPXI)
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - Intellectual Property Exchange International, Inc. (IPXI), the world's first financial exchange for licensing and trading intellectual property (IP) rights, today announced a multi-party offering for standard essential patents (SEPs) involving the world's most widely adopted standard protocol for wireless technology. The offering of Unit License Right™ (ULR™) contracts is based on patent rights from eight organizations—including MERL and other leading consumer electronics and telecommunications companies, universities and research laboratories—whose rights are considered essential to the IEEE 802.11n standard for higher throughput in wireless local area network (WLAN) communications.
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- Date: June 10, 2014
Where: European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)
MERL Contacts: Kieran Parsons; Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Signal Processing
Brief - Four papers from the Optical Communications team have been accepted for publication and presentation at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) to be held in Cannes, France in September 2014. The papers relate to high-dimensional modulation, signal processing and coding for coherent optical links.
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- Date: June 6, 2014
Where: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC)
MERL Contact: Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - Toshiaki Koike-Akino has accepted the invitation to give a talk on coded modulation formats with optimized constellations in Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC 2015).
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- Date: February 15, 2014
Where: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC)
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - David S. Millar has been elected to the 2015 OFC Technical Committee for Digital electronic subsystems and transceivers.
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- Date: July 21, 2013
Where: IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting
Research Areas: Electric Systems, Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Fast Frequency and Phase Estimation in Three Phase Power Systems" by Chen, Z., Sahinoglu, Z. and Li, H. was presented at the IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting.
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- Date: June 30, 2013
Where: OptoElectronics and Communications Conference and International Conference on Photonics in Switching (OECC/PS)
MERL Contact: Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "A Study on the Effectiveness of Turbo Equalization with FEC for Nonlinearity Compensatin in Coherent WDM Transmissions" by Fujimori, T., Koike-Akino, T., Sugihara, T., Kubo, K., Koguchi, K., Mizuochi, T., Ohshima, C., Nakashima, H. and Hoshida, T. was presented at the OptoElectronics and Communications Conference and International Conference on Photonics in Switching (OECC/PS).
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- Date: March 17, 2013
Where: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC)
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "A Baud-Rate Sampled Coherent Transceiver with Digital Pulse Shaping and Interpolation" by Millar, D., Lavery, D., Maher, R., Thomsen, B.C., Bayvel, P. and Savory, S.J. was presented at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC).
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- Date: March 1, 2013
Where: IEICE Technical Committee Conference (OCS/OFT/OPE)
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons
Research Area: Electronic and Photonic Devices
Brief - The paper "An MMI-based Polarization Splitter using Patterned Metal and Angled Joint" by Kojima, K., Nishikawa, S., Yagyu, E., Yuan, W., Wang, B., Koike-Akino, T. and Parsons, K. was presented at the IEICE Technical Committee Conference (OCS/OFT/OPE).
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- Date: November 15, 2012
Where: IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The article "Joint Voltage and Phase Unbalance Detector for Three Phase Power Systems" by Sun, M., Demirtas, S. and Sahinoglu, Z. was published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
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- Date: September 16, 2012
Where: European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons
Research Area: Electronic and Photonic Devices
Brief - The paper "An MMI-based Polarization Splitter Using Patterned Metal and Tilted Joint" by Yuan, W., Kojima, K., Wang, B., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Nishikawa, S. and Yagyu, E. was presented at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC).
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- Date: June 27, 2012
Where: Optics Express
MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The article "High-order Statistical Equalizer for Nonlinearity Compensation in Dispersion-managed Coherent Optical Communications" by Koike-Akino, T., Duan, C., Parsons, K., Kojima, K., Yoshida, T., Sugihara, T. and Mizuochi, T. was published in Optics Express.
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- Date: June 10, 2012
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contact: Philip V. Orlik
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Non-coherent ToA Estimation for UWB Multipath Channels using Max-eigenvalue Detection" by Shi, W., Annavajjala, R., Orlik, P.V., Molisch, A.F., Ochiari, M. and Taira, A. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
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- Date: April 23, 2012
Where: Optics Express
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; Kieran Parsons
Research Area: Electronic and Photonic Devices
Brief - The article "Mode-evolution-based Polarization Rotator-splitter Design via Simple Fabrication Process" by Yuan, W., Kojima, K., Wang, B., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Nishikawa, S. and Yagyu, E. was published in Optics Express.
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- Date: March 8, 2012
Where: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The article "Persymmetric Parametric Adaptive Matched Filter for Multichannel Adaptive Signal Detection" by Wang, P., Sahinoglu, Z., Pun, M.-O. and Li, H. was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
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- Date: January 26, 2012
Where: IEICE Optical Communication Systems (OCS)
MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Fractionally-Spaced Equalizer Based on High-Order Statistics in Nonlinear Fiber Optics" by Koike-Akino, T., Duan, C., Parsons, K., Kojima, K., Yoshida, T., Sugihara, T. and Mizuochi, T. was presented at IEICE Optical Communication Systems (OCS).
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- Date: June 23, 2011
Where: Applied Physics Letters
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; Jinyun Zhang; William S. Yerazunis
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The article "Experiments on Wireless Power Transfer with Metamaterials" by Wang, B., Teo, K.H., Nichino, T., Yerazunis, W., Barnwell, J. and Zhang, J. was published in Applied Physics Letters.
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- Date: May 23, 2011
Where: IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon)
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Low Complexity STAP via Subspace Tracking in Compound-Gaussian Environment" by Wang, P., Pun, M.O. and Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon).
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- Date: April 11, 2011
Where: European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; William S. Yerazunis
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Wireless Power Transfer with Metamaterials" by Wang, B., Teo, K.H., Nishino, T., Yerazunis, W., Barnwell, J. and Zhang, J. was presented at the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP).
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- Date: February 10, 2011
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The article "Improving Range Accuracy of IEEE.802.15.4a Radios in the Presence of Clock Frequency Offsets" by Sahinoglu, Z. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: January 17, 2011
Where: IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT)
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Extended Kalman Filter Based Grid Synchronization in the Presence of Voltage Unbalance for Smart Grid" by Sun, M. and Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT).
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- Date: December 3, 2010
Where: IEEE Communications Letters
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The article "The Gamma Variate with Random Shape Parameter and Some Applications" by Maaref, A. and Annavajjala, R. was published in IEEE Communications Letters.
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- Date: November 11, 2010
Where: IEEE Transactions on Communications
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The article "On a Ratio of Functions of Exponential Random Variables and Some Applications" by Annavajjala, R., Chockalingam, A. and Mohammed, S.K. was published in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
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- Date: May 23, 2010
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)
Research Area: Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "A Change-Point Detection Approach to Power Quality Monitoring in Smart Grids" by He, X., Pun, M.-O., Kuo, C.-C. J. and Zhao, Y. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC).
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- Date: December 1, 2008
Where: EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The article "Two-Step Time of Arrival Estimation for Pulse-Based Ultra-Wideband Systems" by Gezici, S., Sahinoglu, Z., Molisch, A.F., Kobayashi, H. and Poor, H.V. was published in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.
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- Date: September 10, 2008
Where: IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB)
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - The paper "Ultra-wideband Range Estimation: Theoretical Limits and Practical Algorithms" by Guvenc, I., Gezici, S. and Sahinoglu, Z. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB).
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