UC Spark

Associate Professor Philippa Anne Martin

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Fields of Research

  • Digital communications
  • Communication theory
  • Coding theory
  • Decoding algorithm design
  • Signal processing
  • Cognitive radio
  • Relays and cooperative communication
  • Space-time coding

Researcher Summary

Research interest include:
-Digital Communications Systems
-Coded Modulation
-Error Correction Coding and decoding
-Reduced complexity decoding algorithms
-Combined equalization and decoding
-Iterative Processing Techniques
-Space time coding and receiver design
-Cooperative and distributed communications
-Cognitive radio

Subject Area: Disciplines

Research Groups

Affiliations

  • IEEE (Professional Organisation): Senior Member (SMIEEE)

Publications


  • Hanafi, E., Martin, P.A., Smith, P.J. and Coulson, A.J. (2013) Extension of Quickest Spectrum Sensing to Multiple Antennas and Rayleigh Channels. IEEE Communication Letters 17(4): 625-628. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2013.021913.122441. (Journal Article)
  • Firag, A., Smith, P.J., Papathanassiou, A., Shafi, M., Basnayaka, D. and Martin, P. (2012) A Comparison of Linear Transceiver Techniques in Multiuser MIMO Broadcast Systems. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW), 30 Jan-2 Feb 2012. In Proceedings: 31-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AusCTW.2012.6164902. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Lin, R., Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2012) Approximate Gaussian Density Evolution Based Analysis of Distributed and Adaptive Turbo Codes. IEEE Transactions on Communications 60(8): 2156-2166. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2012.061212.110453. (Journal Article)
  • Basnayaka, D., Smith, P.J. and Martin, P.A. (2012) Ergodic sum capacity of macrodiversity MIMO systems in flat Rayleigh fading. Cambridge, MA, USA: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 1-6 Jul 2012. In Information Theory Proceedings: 2171-2175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2012.6283836. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Basnayaka, D., Smith, P.J. and Martin, P.A. (2012) Exact dual-user macrodiversity performance with linear receivers in flat Rayleigh fading. Ottawa, Canada: IEEE International Conference on Communications, 10-15 Jun 2012. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Martin, P.A., Smith, P.J. and Murch, R. (2012) Improving Space-Time Code Performance in Slow Fading Channels using Reconfigurable Antennas. IEEE Communication Letters 16(4): 494-497. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2012.021612.112402. (Journal Article)
  • Tasneem, K.T., Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2012) Iterative soft detection of cochannel signals using ant colony optimization. Sydney, Australia: 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 12), 9-12 Sep 2012. 1617-1621. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2012.6362606. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Rauf, Z., Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2012) Multiuser detection of overloaded systems employing HARQ. Singapore: IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS), 21-23 Nov 2012. 300-304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCS.2012.6406158. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Basnayaka, D., Smith, P. and Martin, P. (2012) Performance analysis of dual-user macrodiversity MIMO systems with linear receivers in flat Rayleigh fading. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 11(11): 4391-4404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2012.101112.112110. (Journal Article)
  • Basnayaka, D.A., Smith, P.J. and Martin, P.A. (2012) Symbol error rate performance for macrodiversity maximal ratio combining in flat Rayleigh fading. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW), 30 Jan-2 Feb 2012. In Proceedings: 25-30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AusCTW.2012.6164901. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Basnayaka, D.A., Smith, P.J. and Martin, P.A. (2012) The effect of macrodiversity on the performance of MLD in flat Rayleigh/ Rician Fading. IEEE Communications Letters 16(11): 1764-1767. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2012.092812.121327. (Journal Article)
  • Tomlinson, M., Ambroze, M. A., Martin, P. and Taylor, D. (2011) Broadband Wireless Communication System. Patent No. GB2476930, United Kingdom. (Intellectual Property)
  • Krause, M., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2011) List-Based Group-Wise Symbol Detection for Multiple Signal Communications. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 10(5): 1636-1644. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2011.041211.101164. (Journal Article)
  • Hanif, M.F., Smith, P.J., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2011) MIMO Cognitive Radios with Antenna Selection. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 10(11): 3688-3699. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2011.092011.101095. (Journal Article)
  • Krause, M., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2011) Preprocessing for Iterative ML-Detection in Frequency-Selective MIMO Channels. Houston, TX, USA: Global Telecommunications Conference, 5-9 Dec 2011. In Proceedings of GLOBECOM 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6133780. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Kongara, G., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2011) Space-Frequency Decision Feedback Equalizer. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 60(4): 1626-1639. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2011.2131159. (Journal Article)
  • Lin, R., Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2010) Cooperative Signaling with Soft Information Combining. Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering 2010: 530190. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/530190. (Journal Article)
  • Zhou, L., Martin, P.A., Taylor, D.P. and Horn, C. (2010) MLSE Diversity Receiver for Partial Response CPM. Singapore: International Conference on Communication Systems, 17-19 Nov 2010. 5pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCS.2010.5686678. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Lin, R., Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2010) Two-user Cooperative Transmission Using Superposition Modulation and Soft Information Combining. Ottawa, Canada: IEEE Vehicular Technology, Fall 2010, 6-9 Sep 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VETECF.2010.5594263. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Krause, M., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2009) An Iterative List-Based Multiuser Detector for Overloaded Receivers in a Rayleigh Fading Channel. Dresden, Germany: IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC) 2009, 14-18 Jun 2009. WCS-P5-3.1-WCS-P5-3.5. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Martin, P.A., Ambroze, M.A., Taylor, D.P. and Tomlinson, M. (2009) Coding for Shared Satellite Channel Communications. IEEE Transactions on Communications 57(8): 2330-2338. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2009.08.070390. (Journal Article)
  • Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2009) Comments Regarding "On the Performance/Complexity Tradeoff in Block Turbo Decoder Design". IEEE Transactions on Communications 57(9): 2517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2009.09.040192. (Journal Article)
  • Krause, M., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2008) A Unified Approach to List-based Multiuser Detection in Overloaded Receivers. EUJournal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2008: Article ID 817272. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/817272. (Journal Article)
  • Shiao, F-S., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2008) Combined Channel Estimation and Turbo Equalization on Wireless Channels. Calgary, Canada: IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference 2008 (VTX 2008-Fall), 21-24 Sep 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VETECF.2008.179. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Maw, R.L., Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2008) Cooperative Relaying with CPFSK and Distributed Space-Time Trellis Codes. IEEE Communications Letters 12(5): 356-358. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2008.080163. (Journal Article)
  • Lin, R. and Martin, P.A. (2008) Hybrid ARQ for Non-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes. Auckland, New Zealand: 2008 International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA2008), 7-10 Dec 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISITA.2008.4895637. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Pau, N.S.J., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2008) Robust High Throughput Space Time Block Codes Using Parallel Interference Cancellation. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 7(5): 1603-1613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2008.060335.. (Journal Article)
  • Kongara, G., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2008) Space-Frequency Equalization for Broadband Single Carrier MIMO Systems. Calgary, Canada: IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference, 21-24 Sep 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VETECF.2008.185. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Isaka, M., Martin, P.A. and Fossorier M.P.C. (2007) Design of High-Rate Serially Concatenated Codes with Low Error Floor. IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences E90-A(9): 1754-1762. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.9.1754. (Journal Article)
  • Krause, M., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2007) List Detection for Overloaded Receivers with a Linear Array. Orlando, FL, USA: IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2007), 29-31 Oct 2007. In MILCOM 2007 Proceedings 7pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2007.4455042. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Krause, M., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2007) On List Detection for Overloaded Receivers. Athens, Greece: 2007 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio (PIMRC 2007), 3-7 Sep 2007. In The 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'07) 5pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394605. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Martin, P.A., Taylor, D.P., Ambroze, M.A. and Tomlinson, M. (2006) Coding for Shared Satellite Channel Communications. Singapore: 10th IEEE Singapore International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS 2006), 30 Oct-1 Nov 2006. In Proceedings 2006 IEEE Singapore International Conference on Communication Systems 1-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCS.2006.301473. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Rankin, D.M., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2006) Improved Information Outage Rate in Certain MIMO Systems. IEEE Signal Processing Letters 13(7): 393-396. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LSP.2006.871863. (Journal Article)
  • Martin, P.A., Rankin, D.M. and Taylor, D.P. (2006) Multi-Dimensional Space-Time Multilevel Codes. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 5(11): 3287-3295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2006.05045. (Journal Article)
  • Pau, N.S.J., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2006) Rate 2 Quasi-Orthogonal Space Time Block Codes using Parallel Interference Cancellation. Melbourne, Australia: 2006 63rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 7-10 May 2006. In 2006 IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference 5 2324-2328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VETECS.2006.1683272. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Martin, P., Isaka, M. and Fossorier, M. (2006) Serial Concatenation of Linear Block Codes and A Rate-1 Convolutional Code. Munich, Germany: 4th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Related Topics in connection with the 6th International ITG-Conference on Source and Channel Coding, 3-7 April 2006. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Baghaie Abchuyeh, M., McLoughlin, I., Martin, P.A., Mehrotra, K. and Taylor, D.P. (2006) Transmit Antenna Selection for UHF MIMO Linking. Melbourne, Australia: 2006 63rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 7-10 May 2006. In 2006 IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference 6 2640-2644. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VETECS.2006.1683346. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Martin, P.A., Rankin, D.M. and Taylor, D.P. (2005) Space-Time Multilevel Codes. Stockholm, Sweden: IEEE 61st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) - Spring, 30 May-1 Jun 2005. 2 1201-1205. http://www.vtc2005spring.org/. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2004) High-throughput error correcting space-time block codes. Chicago, USA: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2004), 27 Jun-2 Jul 2004. 127. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2004) High-throughput error correcting space-time block codes. IEEE Communications Letters 8(7): 458-460. (Journal Article)
  • Martin, P.A., Valembois, A., Fossorier, M.P.C. and Taylor, D.P. (2004) On soft-input soft-output decoding using "box and match" techniques. IEEE Transactions on Communications 52(12): 2033-2037. (Journal Article)
  • Martin, P.A., Taylor, D.P. and Fossorier, M.P.C. (2004) Soft-input soft-output list-based decoding algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Communications 52(2): 252-262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2003.822726. (Journal Article)
  • Tee, J.S.K., Taylor, D.P. and Martin, P.A. (2003) Multiple serial and parallel concatenated single parity-check codes. IEEE Transactions on Communications 51(10): 1666-1675. (Journal Article)
  • Martin, P.A., Valembois, A., Fossorier, M.P.C. and Taylor, D.P. (2003) Reduced complexity soft-input soft-output "box and match" decoding. Yokohama, Japan: ISIT 2003, 29 Jun-4 Jul 2003. 202. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2002) Distance based adaptive scaling in suboptimal iterative decoding. IEEE Transactions on Communications 50(6): 869-871. (Journal Article)
  • Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2002) On combined equalization and decoding. New York City, NY, USA: 2002 International Conference on Communications (ICC), 28 Apr-2 May 2002. 3 1929 -1933. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Martin, P.A., Taylor, D.P. and Fossorier, M.P.C. (2002) Soft-input soft-output list-based decoding algorithm. Lausanne, Switzerland: International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 30 Jun-5 Jul 2002. 339. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2002.1023611. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Martin, P.A. (2001) Adaptive iterative decoding: block turbo codes and multilevel codes. PhD, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. (Thesis - Doctor of Philosophy)
  • Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2001) On multilevel codes and iterative multistage decoding. IEEE Transactions on Communications 49(11): 1916-1925. (Journal Article)
  • Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2000) On adaptive reduced-complexity iterative decoding. San Francisco, CA, USA: Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 27 Nov-1 Dec 2000. 2 772 -776. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Martin, P.A. and Taylor, D.P. (2000) On Iterative Multistage Decoding. Brest, France: 2nd International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics, 4-7 Sep 2000. 407-410. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)