Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2003.

Thesis (MEng)--University of South Australia, 1998

Highly reliable and fast wireless communication services demand the communication channel capacity to be fully exploited. Vast amount of research effort have been expanded in the development of advance technologies, such as signal processing, channel coding, modulation/demodulation, diversity techniques, and so on. This thesis focuses on the development of space-time coded transmission schemes. In order to provide high diversity gain with minimum design complexity, we propose a closed-loop beamforming transmission technology combined with existing simple channel coding method. We show that this coded beamforming scheme can achieve full diversity as the space-time coding technique does for a multiple-antenna system, while significantly reducing the design complexity. It is normally impractical to install multiple antennas on a small wireless communication device. We therefore further our research to cooperative communication, in which single-antenna communicators share their antennas with partners in information relay, so that the benefit of multiple-antenna transmission can be achieved for the singleantenna users. We analyze the system performance for the typical decode-and-forward user cooperative system, formulate the code design criteria, and construct optimal codes. To simplify the system design, we introduce estimate-and-forward protocol with differential modulation scheme. In order to ensure the practicality of the system design, we introduce an equivalent link model to replace the source-relay-destination link, taking into account the imperfect detections at the relay. Finally we extend the analysis to a multiple-relay system using selective combiner at the destination.

Bibliography: leaves [205]-213 / viii, 214 leaves : ill ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, 1991

Thesis (MEng)--University of South Australia, 1998

Thesis (MEng)--University of South Australia, 1998

This thesis presents the findings from a study on the adoption of mobile phones across ASEAN countries.

This study is aimed at solving several important problems relating to power control in CDMA systems. Our focus is on the mobile to basestation (reverse) link. In this study, we propose a new SIR estimator for CDMA systems, using an auxiliary spreading sequence method. The proposed SIR estimator is employed at the basestation to estimate the SIR, which serves as a control parameter in the power control algorithm. The effects of system parameters (step size, power-update rate, feedback delay, SIR measurement error, and command error) on the bit error rate (BER) performance of power control are investigated. Feedback delay is found to be the most critical parameter that causes a serious problem in the loop. To solve this problem, we propose to use a channel prediction technique at the basestation. To further improve the performance of power control, we then propose to use a diversity reception technique using antenna arrays at the basestation. We show that this combination allows solving the problems linked to the use of power control in a real system affected by multiple access interference under fading conditions. / thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2003.

The ever increasing demand for wireless services using mobile cellular communication technology has lead to intensive efforts by researchers to determine the information theoretic limitations of these systems. Toward this end, numerous cellular models have been formulated and analyzed using information theoretic principles to succinctly identify the impact of system constraints and design parameters on performance. One such model that captures the essence of the uplink of a cellular channel is the Gaussian cellular multiple access channel (GCMAC), which is the focus of this dissertation. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2006

Thesis (M. Ed.(CIE))-University of Pretoria, [2007]. / Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.