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Dr. Thushara Abhayapala

Position: Fellow Phone: 58683     (6125   8683) Email: Thushara.Abhayapala@anu.edu.au Address: Department of Information Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Building 115,   RSISE Building, The Australian National University, ACT 0200 Australia. Location Room R20, Level 2, Mining Industry House, 216. Northbourne Ave, Braddon ACT 2612, Australia.

For futher information visit http://web.rsise.anu.edu.au/~thush/

Research Interest

• Signal Processing aspects of Telecommunication Systems,
• Equalization,
• Space time signal processing for wireless communication systems: spatio-temporal channel modelling, MIMO capacity analysis, space time receiver design
• Digital Television Receivers,
• Array Signal Processing
• Broadband Beamforming and Acoustic Signal Processing.

Selected Publications

T. S. Pollock, T. D. Abhayapala and R. A. Kennedy,
" Introducing space into MIMO capacity calculations " ,
Journal on Telecommunications Systems , vol. 24, nos. 2-4, pp. 415-436, October-December 2003.
[Abstract] [PDF Version] [BibTeX citation]

J. Zhang, R. A. Kennedy and T. D. Abhayapala,
" Conditions and Performance of Ideal RAKE Reception for Ultra-Wideband Signals in Lognormal Fading Channels " ,
International Journal of Wireless Information Networks , vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 193-200, October 2003.
[Abstract] [PDF Version] [BibTeX citation]

D. B. Smith and T. D. Abhayapala,
" A Generalised Space-Time Model for Rayleigh fading channels with a non-isotropic scatterer distribution " ,
IEE Electronics Letters , vol. 39, no. 21, pp. 1541-1543, Oct. 2003.
[Abstract] [PDF Preprint] [BibTeX citation]

R. A. Kennedy and T. D. Abhayapala,
" Spatial Concentration of Wave-Fields: Towards Spatial Information Content in Arbitrary Multipath Scattering " ,
Proc. 4th Australian Communications Theory Workshop, AusCTW'2003 , pp. 38-45, Melbourne, Australia, February 2003.
[Abstract] [PDF Version] [BibTeX citation]

J. Zhang, R. A. Kennedy and T. D. Abhayapala,
" New results on the Capacity of M-ary PPM Ultra- WideBand Systems " ,
Proc. Int. Conf. Commun., ICC'03 , vol. 3, pp. 2867-2871, May 2003.
[Abstract] [PDF Version] [BibTeX citation]

T. S. Pollock, T. D. Abhayapala and R. A. Kennedy,
" Antenna Saturation Effects on Dense Array MIMO Capacity " ,
Proc. Int. Conf. Commun., ICC'03 , vol. 3, pp. 2301-2305, May 2003.
[Abstract] [PDF Version] [BibTeX citation]

Many of the papers listed above have been published in IEEE or other journals or conference proceedings.