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Some papers are now (gradually) being made available online as PDF documents for direct download as well.
Meanwhile, here is a link to a [ZIP archive] with many of our papers on Turbo Coding.

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I will be happy to send you a copy of papers via e-mail or  regular mail:

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Papers in Journals:

·Wireless Personal Communications, Special issue on Multi-carrier Transmission, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 2/1995. `A Concept of Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting'. Authors: K. Fazel, S. Kaiser, P. Robertson and M.J. Ruf.

·European Transactions on Telecommunications, Vol. 8, 1997. `Optimal and Sub-Optimal Maximum A Posteriori Algorithms Suitable for Turbo Decoding'. Authors: P. Robertson, P. Hoeher and E. Villebrun.

·SMPTE Journal,  November 1997, Vol. 106, Number 11,  `A Prototype VLSI Solution for Digital Terrestrial Receivers Conforming to the DVB-T Standard'. Authors: M. Balanza, N. Chauve, P. Combelles, P. Deltoso, D. Hepper, C. Hernandez, D. Le Goff, G. Masera, F. Nicolas, P. Robertson and F. Scalise.

·IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Telecommunications (JSAC), Vol. 16, Number 2, February 1998, `Bandwidth Efficient Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation Using Punctured Component Codes'. Authors: P. Robertson and T. Wörz.

·EURASIP Special Issue: Mobile Image/Video Communications Journal, May 1998, `Concept of a Wireless Indoor Video Communications System'. Authors: K. Fazel, P.  Robertson, O. Klank and F. Valselow.

·IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, November 1998, Vol. 33, Number 11, pp 1781-1792, `0.5 umCMOS Circuits for Demodulation and Decoding of an OFDM Based Digital TV Signal Conforming to the DVB-T Standard'. Authors: C. Del Toso, P. Combelles, J. Galbrun, L. Lauer,  P. Penard, P. Robertson, F. Scalise, P. Senn and L. Soyer.

·IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 47, No. 11, Nov. 1999, pp. 1646-1654, `Soft-Decision and Erasure Decoding in Fast Frequency-Hopping Systems with Convolutional, Turbo, and Reed-Solomon Codes'. Authors: U.-C- Fiebig and P. Robertson.

·European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT), vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 585-592, Nov./Dec.  2000. `Analysis of Doppler spread perturbations in OFDM(A) systems'. Authors: P. Robertson and S. Kaiser.

·International Journal of Satellite Communications Vol.18 Nr. 4 & 5 July - October 2000.  `Realisation of an end-to-end software simulator for navigation Systems'. Authors: Johann Furthner,Evelyn Engler,Alexander Steingaß,  Michael Angermann, Jörg Hahn, Achim Hornbostel, Rainer Krämer, Hans Peter Müller, Toralf Noak, Patrick Robertson, Stefan Schlüter and Jesus Selva.

· NTZ (Nachrichtentechnische Zeitschrift), 55, 4, (2002), S. 24-26, 'Ortsbezogene mobile Dienste über heterogene Netze,
Teil 1. ', Authors: Angermann, M., Kammann, J., Kühndel, F., Robertson, P., Strang, T., et al.

· NTZ (Nachrichtentechnische Zeitschrift), 55, 5, (2002), S. 32-35, 'Ortsbezogene mobile Dienste über heterogene Netze, Teil 2'.  Authors: Angermann, M., Kammann, J., Kühndel, F., Robertson, P., Strang, T., et al.

· European Transactions on Telecommunications, 2007, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, DOI: 10.1002/ett.1200, 'The soft-output principle - reminiscences and new developments.   Authors: Hoeher, Peter; Robertson, Patrick; Offer, Elke; Woerz, Thomas

· Proceedings of the IEEE, 2007, 95 (6), pp. 1178 - 1200, DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2007.895195, 'Turbo Decoding, Detection and its Wireless Applications..  Authors: Hanzo, Lajos; Woodard, Jason; Robertson, Patrick

· International Journal of Navigation and Observation, Special Issue on Future GNSS Signals, 2008, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, ISSN 1687-5990, DOI: 10.1155/IJNO, 'Bayesian Time Delay Estimation of GNSS Signals in Dynamic Multipath Environments.  Authors: Lentmaier, Michael; Krach, Bernhard; Robertson, Patrick

Some papers are now (gradually) being made available online as PDF documents for direct download as well.
Meanwhile, here is a link to a [ZIP archive] with many of our papers on Turbo Coding

PhD Thesis and book sections:

Papers in Conference Proceedings:

·IEEE Internat. Conference on Communications (ICC `92), Chicago, June 1992. `Maximum Likelihood frame synchronization for the flat fading channel'. Author: P. Robertson.

·IEEE GLOBECOM'92, Orlando, December 1992. `A generalized frame synchronizer'. Author: P. Robertson.

·Second International Winter Meeting on Coding and Information Theory, Essen, Germany, December 1993. `Understanding Turbo Codes - are they Capable of near Shannon Limit Error Correction?'. Author: P. Robertson.

·IEEE GLOBECOM, Houston, December 1993. `Improving Frame Synchronization When Using Convolutional Codes'. Author: P. Robertson.

·IEEE Internat. Conf. on Communications (ICC `94), New Orleans, May 1994. `Optimum Frame Synchronization of Preamble-less Packets Surrounded by Noise with Coherent and Differentially Coherent Demodulation'. Author: P. Robertson.

·IEEE Internat. Conf. on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC `94), San Diego, September 1994. `Improving Decoder and Code Structure of Parallel Concatenated Recursive Systematic (Turbo) Codes'. Author: P. Robertson.

·International Workshop on HDTV, Torino, Italy, October 1994. `A Concept of a Reconfigurable Digital-TV/HDTV Transmission Scheme with Flexible Channel Coding & Modulation for Terrestrial Broadcasting'. Authors: K. Fazel, S. Kaiser, P. Robertson and M. Ruf.

·ITG Conference: Codierung für Quelle, Kanal and Übertragung, Munich, Germany, October 1994. `Iterative (``Turbo'') Decoding of Systematic Convolutional Codes with the MAP and SOVA Algorithms'. Authors: J. Hagenauer, P. Robertson and L. Papke.

·IEEE GLOBECOM'94, San Francisco, December 1994. `Illuminating the Structure of Code and Decoder of Parallel Concatenated Recursive Systematic (Turbo) Codes'. Author: P. Robertson.

·IEEE Internat. Conf. on Communications (ICC `95), Seattle, June 1995. `Analysis of the Effects of Phase-Noise in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) Systems', Authors: P. Robertson and S. Kaiser.

·IEEE Internat. Conf. on Communications (ICC `95), Seattle, June 1995. `A Comparison of Optimal and Sub-Optimal MAP Decoding Algorithms Operating in the Log Domain', Authors: P. Robertson, E. Villebrun and P. Hoeher.

·Kleinheubacher Tagung, Kleinheubach, Germany, October 1995. `A Novel Coded Modulation Scheme Employing Turbo Codes', Authors: P. Robertson and T. Wörz.

·IEEE Internat. Conference on Synchronization, Essen, Germany, December 1995. `Frame Synchronization for Packet Communications'. Author: P. Robertson.

·IEEE Internat. Conference on Communications (ICC `96), Dallas, June 1996. `Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation', Authors: P. Robertson and T. Wörz.

·IEEE Internat. Conference on Communications (ICC `96), Dallas, June 1996. `Soft Decision Decoding in Fast Frequency Hopping Systems', Authors: U.-C. Fiebig and P. Robertson.

·IEEE Internat. Conf. on Communications (ICC `96), Dallas, June 1996. `Improved Decoding with the SOVA in a Parallel Concatenated (Turbo-code) Scheme', Authors: L. Papke and P. Robertson.

·Internat. Conference on Telecommunications (ICT `96), Istanbul, Turkey, April 1996. `OFDM a Key Component for Terrestrial TV Broadcasting and Cellular Mobile Radio', Authors: K. Fazel, S. Kaiser and P. Robertson.

·Internat. Workshop on HDTV, Los Angeles, October 1996. `A Prototype VLSI Solution for Digital Terrestrial Receivers Conforming to the DVB-T Standard', Authors: M. Balanza, N. Chauve, P. Combelles, P. Deltoso, D. Hepper, C. Hernandez, D. Le Goff, G. Masera, F. Nicolas, P. Robertson and F. Scalise.

·IEEE Internat. Conference on Communications (ICC `97), Montreal, Canada, June 1997,  `Extensions of Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation to High Bandwidth Efficiencies', Authors: P. Robertson and T. Wörz.

·IEEE ICASSP `97, Munich, Germany, April 1997, `Two Dimensional Pilot-Symbol-Aided Channel Estimation by Wiener Filtering', Authors: P. Hoeher, S. Kaiser and P. Robertson.

·Internat. Workshop on Multi-Carrier Spread-Sprectrum, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, April 1997. `Pilot-Symbol-Aided Channel Estimation in Time and Frequency', Authors: P. Hoeher, S. Kaiser and P. Robertson.

·Internat. Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics, Brest, France, September 1997. `An Overview of Bandwidth Efficient Turbo Coding Schemes', Author: P. Robertson.

·   CTMC at IEEE GLOBECOM'97, Phoenix, November 1997, `Close-to-Optimal One-Shot Frequency Synchronization for OFDM using Pilot Carriers', Author: P. Robertson.

·CTMC at IEEE GLOBECOM'97, Phoenix, November 1997, `Close-to-Optimal One-Shot Frequency Synchronization for OFDM using Pilot Carriers', Authors: P. Hoeher, S. Kaiser and P. Robertson.

·European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Systems and Technology, ECMAST'98, May 1998, Berlin, Germany, `On the Performance of the DVB-T System in Mobile Environments', Authors: R. Burow, K. Fazel, P. Hoeher, H Kussmann, P. Progrzeba, P Robertson, M Ruf.

·Fernseh- und Kinotechnische Gesellschaft, FKTG'98 , Berlin, Germany, April 1998, Berlin, `Wireless Multimedia Systems for Home Applications -a System Proposal', Authors: O. Klank, P. Robertson, H.-P. Huth, K. Fazel, W. Bauerschmidt.

·European Conference on Multimedia Applications, Systems and Technology, ECMAST'98, May 1998, Berlin, Germany, `A System Design for a Wireless Home Multi-Media LAN', Authors: P. Robertson, H.-P. Huth, K. Fazel, O. Klank, W. Bauerschmidt.

·IEEE Internat. Conference on Communications (ICC `98) , Atlanta, June 1998, `A Receiver Architecture Conforming to the OFDM Based Digital Video Broadcasting Standard for Terrestrial Transmission', Authors: M. Balanza, N. Chauve, P. Combelles, P.  Robertson, P. Deltoso, F. Scalise, D. Hepper, D. Le Goff, G. Masera, F. Nicolas.

·CTMC at IEEE GLOBECOM'98, November 1998, Sydney, Australia, `On the Performance of the DVB-T System in Mobile Environments', Authors: R. Burow, K. Fazel, P. Hoeher, H Kussmann, P. Progrzeba, P Robertson, M Ruf.

·IEEE Global Telecommun. Conf. (GLOBECOM'99), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, pp. 701-706, Dec. 1999.  ``Analysis of the loss of orthogonality through Doppler spread in OFDM systems''. Authors: P. Robertson and S. Kaiser.

·IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'99-Fall), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 329-333, Sept. 1999. ``The effects of Doppler spreads in OFDM(A) mobile radio systems''.  Authors: P. Robertson and S. Kaiser.

·Internat. Workshop on Multi-Carrier Spread-Sprectrum, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, September 1999, published by Kluwer, pp. 279-286. `Doppler spread Analysis and Simulation for Multi-Carrier Mobile Radio and Broadcast Systems''.  Authors: P. Robertson and S. Kaiser.

·GNSS `99, Genova, October 1999. `Integration of Navigation and Communication Services for Personal Travel Assistance Using a JINI and JAVA Based Architecture'. Authors: Alexander Steingaß, Michael Angermann, Patrick Robertson.

·GNSS `99, Genova, October 1999  `Modular Software Simulation for an End-To-End  Navigation System'. Authors: A. Steingaß, M. Angermann, P. Robertson, J. Selva, J. Furthner, J. Hahn, A. Hornbostel, R. Kraemer, H.P. Mueller, E. Engler, T. Noack, S. Schlueter.

·FachCongress Satellitenkommunikation-Globale Netze-Neue Services der ExpoNet `99 Düsseldorf, October 1999, `Das `Heywow' Konzept zur persönlichen Reisebegleitung'. Authors: Michael Angermann, Patrick Robertson, Alexander Steingaß.

·Mobile Multimedia Conference, Berlin, Nov.  2000. `Visionary Design of Location Dependent Applications in Vehicles'. Authors: P. Krummenacher and P. Robertson.

·Symposium on Applications and the Internet Workshops, San Diego, USA, pp. 177-182,  January 2001. `Towards Unconstrained Mobility'. Authors: M. Angermann, U.-C. Fiebig, P. Robertson.

·LOCELLUS 2001, Feb.2001, International Symposium on Location Based Services for Cellular Users, Munich, February 2001. `Software Representation for Heterogeneous Location Data Sources Within A Probabilistic Framework'. Authors: Michael Angermann, Jens Kammann, Patrick Robertson, Alexander Steingass, Thomas Strang.

·Pervasive Computing 2001, Gaithersburg, Maryland, May 2001. `Heywow - Enjoyable  Mobile Commerce', Authors: M. Angermann, J. Kammann, f. Kuehndel, P. Roberston, A. Steingass, T. Strang.

·IBC'2001, Amsterdam, September 2001. `The Multimedia Car Platform', Authors: P. Christ, P. Krummenacher, P. Robertson, E. Stare.

· Workshop on Multiradio Multimedia Communications, Berlin, November 2001 (MMC 2001),: 'Security Aspects of the Multimedia Car Platform.',  Authors: Berlin, Dorsch, Th., Robertson, P., Sakarelis, I., Strang, T., Schiek, U.

· Networlds VDE-Kongress 2002, Dresden, October 2002:'The Heywow System for Location Based Services: Combining
Navigation,  Distributed Services and Intelligent Mobile Devices.'
Authors: Angermann, M. , Kammann, J., Kühndel, F., Robertson,
P., Strang, T., et al.

· EURESCOM Summit 2002, Heidelberg/ Germany, October 2002, VDE-Conference Department, Proceedings of EURESCOM Summit 2002, 'Contract Based Late Security Binding.', Authors: Sakarelis, I., Strang, T., Dorsch, T., Robertson, P.

· International Symposium on Indoor Localisation and Position Finding - InLoc 2002, Bonn, July 2002, German Institut of Navigation e.V. (DGON), 'Implementation of Soft Location on mobile devices', Authors: Wendlandt, K., Ouhmich, A., Angermann, M., Robertson, P.

·  IADIS Int. conf. WWW / Internet 2004, October 2004, 'Developing pervasive applications for future telecommunication networks ',  Authors: H. Williams, A. Cawsey; B. Farshchian, J. Zoric; L. Mehrmann; P. Robertson; C. Hauser

·  Wendlandt, Kai; Robertson, Patrick; Angermann, Michael; Strang, Thomas; Kammann, Jens; Wasel, Christian; Dorsch, Thaddäus (2004): Experiences from Ramping Up an Environment for Mobile Information Access. In: University of Strathclyde [Hrsg.]: Proceedings Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access Workshop (MUIA),MobileHCI04, Glasgow, Scotland, 2004-09-13 - 2004-09-16

·  Clarke, J.; Butler, S.; Hauser, C.; Neubauer, M.; Robertson, P.; Orazem, I.; Jerman Blazic, A.; Williams, H.; Yang, Y. (2005): Security and Privacy in a Pervasive World.
 In: Proceedings Eurescom 2005,Eurescom Summit, Heidelberg, Germany, 27 – 29 April 2005

·  Angermann, Michael; Robertson, Patrick; Strang, Thomas (2005): Issues and Requirements for Bayesian Approaches in Context Aware Systems.
LoCA 2005: Int. workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness, LoCA 2005,Wessling Deutschland, 2005-05-12

·  Strimpakou, Maria; Roussaki, Ioanna; Anagnostou, Miltos; Pils, Carsten; Angermann, Michael; Robertson, Patrick (2005): Context Modelling and Management in Ambient-aware Pervasive Environments.
LoCA 2005: Int. workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness, LoCA 2005, Wessling, Deutschland, 2005-05-12

·  Wendlandt, Kai; Robertson, Patrick; Berbig, Marcus (2005): Indoor Localization with Probability Density Functionsd based on Bluetooth.
In: VDE / ITG;RWTH Aachen; IEEE [Hrsg.]: Proceedings of Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications,
VDE Verlag, PIMRC 2005, Berlin, Germany, 2005-09-11 - 2005-09-14, ISBN 3-8007-2909-1

·  Röckl, Matthias; Frank, Korbinian; Robertson, Patrick; Strang, Thomas (2006): Enhancing Driver Assistance Systems by Cooperative Situation Awareness.
In: DGON; [Hrsg.]: Proceedings. DGON-Symposium: System Verkehr - Steuern, Regeln, Entwickeln,,
VDE Verlag, Göttingen, Germany., 2006-11-29 - 2006-11-30, ,

· Michael Angermann, Patrick Robertson, Thomas Kemptner, and Mohammed Khider
A High Precision Reference Data Set for Pedestrian Navigation using Foot-Mounted Inertial Sensors [PDF]
International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) 2010, 15-17 September 2010, Zürich, Switzerland

· Röckl, Matthias and Frank, Korbinian and Robertson, Patrick and Strang, Thomas
Improved Information Processing for Cooperative Vehicle Safety Applications [PDF]
In: Proceedings, pages 204-213. Informationssysteme für mobile Anwendungen (IMA 2006), 2006-10-25 - 2006-10-26, Wolfsburg, Germany. ISBN 978-3-937655-08-6.

· Angermann, Michael and McBurney, Sarah and Kuhmuench, Christoph and Mahon, Fiona and Mitic, Jelena and Robertson, Patrick and Whitmore, John
Integrating and Demonstrating Pervasiveness in a Scenario-driven Approach [DOC]
In: Information and Communications Technologies and the Knowledge Economy,IOS Press. eChallenges 2006, 2006-10-27, Barcelona, Spain. ISSN 1574-1230

· Wendlandt, Kai and Khider, Mohammed and Angermann, Michael and Robertson, Patrick
Continuous location and direction estimation with multiple sensors using particle filtering [PDF]
In: Proceedings of the International Conference in Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems.IEEE MFI 2006, 2006-09-04 - 2006-09-06, Heidelberg, Germany. ISBN 1-4244-0567-X.

· Williams, Howard and Taylor, Nick and Roussaki, Ioanna and Robertson, Patrick and Farshchian, Babak and Doolin, Kevin
Developing a Pervasive System for a Mobile Environment [PDF]
In: Information and Communications Technologies and the Knowledge Economy,IOS Press. eChallenges 2006, 2006-10-27, Barcelona, Spain. ISSN 1574-1230



· Michael Angermann, Patrick Robertson, Thomas Kemptner, and Mohammed Khider
A High Precision Reference Data Set for Pedestrian Navigation using Foot-Mounted Inertial Sensors [PDF]
International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) 2010, 15-17 September 2010, Zürich, Switzerland

Short Selection of Tutorials / Invited Papers (not available electronically):

·Midwinter Seminar on Turbocodes, Den Haag, The Netherlands, January 1996, `Interleaver Design for Turbo Codes' and `Bandwidth Efficient Modulation using Turbo Codes'. Authors: J. Hagenauer, P. Robertson and C. Berrou.

·GLOBECOM'96, London, November 1996, `Iterative ("Turbo") Decoding', Authors: J. Hagenauer and P. Robertson.

· Midwinter Meeting on Turbo codes, December 1996, KPN Research, Leidschendam, Holland, ‘A Tutorial on Turbo Codes’. J. Hagenauer, C. Berrou, P. Robertson.

·ICC'99, Vancouver, June 1999, June 1999, invited presentation, `Turbo Codes for High Bandwidth and High Power Efficiency: Techniques, Applications, and Challenges',  Author: P. Robertson.

· Symposium on the Occasion of the 60th Birthday of Prof. Joachim Hagenauer, Munich, October 2001: `The Soft-In/Out Principle Explained with the "Weather Problem"'

·  JCCC 2005, 14th Joint Conference on Communications and Coding (JCCC), March 2005, Seefeld, Austria, “Tutorial on Bayesian Estimation”.

Some papers are now (gradually) being made available online as PDF documents for direct download as well.
Meanwhile, here is a link to a [ZIP archive] with many of our papers on Turbo Coding

 

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