Publication Archive

Publication Archive

Journal Papers

A. Abou Saleh, W.-Y. Chan and F. Alajaji, Compressed Sensing with Nonlinear Analog Mapping in a Noisy Environment, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 39-42, January 2012.

H. Behroozi, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, On the Performance of Hybrid Digital-Analog Coding for Broadcasting Correlated Gaussian Sources, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 59, No. 12, pp. 3335-3342, December 2011.

N. Sen, F. Alajaji and S. Yüksel, Feedback Capacity of a Class of Symmetric Finite-State Markov Channels, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 7, pp. 4110-4122, July 2011.

B. Moore, G. Takahara and F. Alajaji, Pairwise Optimization of Modulation Constellations for Non-Uniform Sources, IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 167-177, October 2010.

H. Al-Lawati, F. Alajaji and C. Pimentel, On Symbol versus Bit Interleaving for Block Coded Binary Markov Channels, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 59, No. 5, pp. 2582-2588, June 2010.

H. Behroozi, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, On the Optimal Performance in Asymmetric Gaussian Wireless Sensor Networks with Fading, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 2436-2441, April 2010.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Random-Coding Lower Bounds for the Error Exponent of Joint Quantization and Watermarking Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 7, pp. 3264-3283, July 2009.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, Error Exponents for Asymmetric Two-User Discrete Memoryless Source-Channel Coding Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 1497-1518, April 2009.

Y. Wang, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Hybrid Digital-Analog Coding with Bandwidth Compression for Gaussian Source-Channel Pairs, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 997-1012, April 2009.

H. Al-Lawati and F. Alajaji, On Decoding Binary Perfect and Quasi-Perfect Codes Over Markov Noise Channels, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 873-878, April 2009.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, Joint Source-Channel Coding Excess Distortion Exponent for Some Memoryless Continuous-Alphabet Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 1296-1319, March 2009.

H. Ebrahimzadeh Saffar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, COVQ for MAP Hard-Decision Demodulated Channels, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 28-30, January 2009.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, MAP Decoding for Multi-Antenna Systems with Non-Uniform Sources: Exact Pairwise Error Probability and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 242-254, January 2009.

A. Cohen, F. Alajaji, N. Kashyap and G. Takahara, LP Decoding for Joint Source-Channel Codes and for the Non-Ergodic Polya Channel, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 12, No. 9, pp. 678-680, September 2008.

L. L. Campbell, Series Expansion for Functions Bandlimited to a Ball, Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 55-63, January 2008.

L. Zhong, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, A Model for Correlated Rician Fading Channels Based on a Finite Queue, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 79-89, January 2008.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, Joint Source-Channel Coding Error Exponent for Discrete Communication Systems with Markovian Memory, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 12, pp. 4457-4472, December 2007.

L. Zhong, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, A Binary Communication Channel with Memory Based on a Finite Queue, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp. 2815-2840, August 2007.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, An Efficient Algorithmic Lower Bound for the Error Rate of Linear Block Codes, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 1093-1098, June 2007.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Channel-Optimized Quantization with Soft-Decision Demodulation for Space-Time Orthogonal Block-Coded Channels, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 54, No. 10, pp. 3935-3946, October 2006.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, On the Joint Source-Channel Coding Error Exponent for Discrete Memoryless Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 1450-1468, April 2006.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Tight Error Bounds for Space-Time Orthogonal Block Codes Under Slow Rayleigh Flat Fading, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 952-956, June 2005.

Z. Raza, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Design of Sample Adaptive Product Quantizers for Noisy Channels, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 576-580, April 2005.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Image Transmission over the Polya Channel via Channel-Optimized Quantization, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 728-733, February 2005.

L. Zhong, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, Error Analysis for Nonuniform Signaling over Rayleigh Fading Channels, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 39-43, January 2005.

G.-C. Zhu, F. Alajaji, J. Bajcsy and P. Mitran, Transmission of Non-Uniform Memoryless Sources via Non-Systematic Turbo Codes, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 52, No. 8, pp. 1344-1354, August 2004.

Z. Rached, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, The Kullback-Leibler Divergence Rate Between Markov Sources, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp. 917-921, May 2004.

F. Alajaji, P.-N. Chen and Z. Rached, Csiszár's Cutoff Rates for the General Hypothesis Testing Problem, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 663-678, April 2004.

A. Nazer and F. Alajaji, Unequal Error Protection and Source-Channel Decoding of CELP Speech, IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 38, No. 7, pp. 347-349, 28th March 2002.

G.-C. Zhu and F. Alajaji, Turbo Codes for Non-Uniform Memoryless Sources over Noisy Channels, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 64-66, February 2002.

A. György and T. Linder, On the Structure of Optimal Entropy-Constrained Scalar Quantizers, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 416-427, February 2002.

F. Alajaji, P.-N. Chen and Z. Rached, A Note on the Poor-Verdú Upper Bound for the Channel Reliability Function, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 309-313, January 2002.

L. L. Campbell, Fourier and Hankel Bandlimited Functions, Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 25-32, 2002.

G.-C. Zhu and F. Alajaji, Soft-Decision COVQ for Turbo-Coded AWGN and Rayleigh Fading Channels, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 257-259, June 2001.

Z. Rached, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, Rényi's Divergence and Entropy Rates for Finite Alphabet Markov Sources, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 1553-1561, May 2001.

A. György and T. Linder, Optimal Entropy-Constrained Scalar Quantization of a Uniform Source, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 46, No. 7, pp. 2704-2711, November 2000.

H. Kuai, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, Tight Error Bounds for Non-Uniform Signaling over AWGN Channels, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 46, No. 7, pp. 2712-2718, November 2000.

F. Alajaji and N. Whalen, The Capacity-Cost Function of Discrete Additive Noise Channels with and without Feedback, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 1131-1140, May 2000.

T. J. Willink, P. H. Wittke and L. L. Campbell, Evaluation of the Effects of Intersymbol Interference in Decision Feedback Equalizers, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 629-636, April 2000.

H. Kuai, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, A Lower Bound on the Probability of a Finite Union of Events, Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 215, pp. 147-158, March 2000.

L. L. Campbell, Minimum Cross-Entropy Estimation with Inaccurate Side Information, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 45, pp. 2650-2652, November 1999.

A. György, T. Linder, and K. Zeger, On the Rate-Distortion Function of Random Vectors and Stationary Sources with Mixed Distributions, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 2110-2115, September 1999.

L. L. Campbell and P. H. Wittke, Mathematical Problems in Error Calculations for Interference, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 45, pp. 1527-1528, December 1997.

L. L. Campbell, A Block Coding Theorem and Renyi's Entropy, Intern. J. Math. Stat. Sci., vol. 6, pp. 41-47, 1997.

Conference Papers

N. Sen, G. Como, S. Yüksel and F. Alajaji, On the Capacity of Memoryless Finite-State Multiple Access Channels with Asymmetric Noisy State Information at the Encoders, Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2011.

A. Abou Saleh, W.-Y. Chan and F. Alajaji, Compressed Sensing with Shannon-Kotel'nikov Mapping in the Presence of Noise, Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Signal Processing Conference, Barcelona, Spain, August-September 2011.

A. Abou Saleh, F. Alajaji and W.-Y. Chan, Hybrid Digital-Analog Source-Channel Coding with One-to-Three Bandwidth Expansion, Proceedings of the Twelfth Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Kelowna, BC, May 2011.

S. Shahidi, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Exploiting Memory and Soft-Decision Information in Channel Optimized Quantization for Correlated Fading Channels, Proceedings of the Twelfth Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Kelowna, BC, May 2011.

N. Sen, F. Alajaji and S. Yüksel, When Does Feedback Not Increase Capacity for Channels with Memory ? Proceedings of the IEEE 18th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Diyarbakir, Turkey, April 2010.

H. Behroozi, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Broadcasting Correlated Gaussian Sources with Bandwidth Expansion, Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Taormina, Sicily, Italy, October 2009.

N. Sen, F. Alajaji and S. Yüksel, Feedback Capacity of a Class of Symmetric Finite-State Markov Channels, Proceedings of the Forty-Seventh Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, September-October 2009.

B. Moore, G. Takahara and F. Alajaji, Pairwise Optimization of Modulation Constellations, Proceedings of the IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, August 2009.

H. Behroozi, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Hybrid Digital-Analog Joint-Source Channel Coding for Broadcasting Correlated Gaussian Sources, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seoul, Korea, June-July 2009.

N. Sen, F. Alajaji and S. Yüksel, On the Feedback Capacity of a Discrete Non-Binary Noise Channel with Memory, Proceedings of the Eleventh Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Ottawa, May 2009.

H. Behroozi, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Does Analog Transmission Achieve OPTA in an Asymmetric Gaussian Sensor Network ? Proceedings of the Eleventh Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Ottawa, May 2009.

A. Cohen, F. Alajaji, N. Kashyap and G. Takahara, LP Decoding for Joint Source-Channel Codes and for the Non-Ergodic Polya Channel, Recent Results Poster Session, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, July 2008.

H. Behroozi, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, On the Optimal Power-Distortion Region for Asymmetric Gaussian Sensor Networks with Fading, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, July 2008.

Y. Zhong, Y. Wang, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, On the Public Information Embedding Capacity Region Under Multiple Access Attacks, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, July 2008.

H. Ebrahimzadeh Saffar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Channel Optimized Vector Quantization Based on Maximum a Posteriori Hard Decision Demodulation, Proceedings of the 24th Biennial Symposium on Communications, Queen's University, Kingston, June 2008.

H. Behroozi, J. Haghighat, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, On the Transmission of a Memoryless Gaussian Source Over a Memoryless Fading Channel, Proceedings of the 24th Biennial Symposium on Communications, Queen's University, Kingston, June 2008.

H. Al-Lawati, F. Alajaji and C. Pimentel, When Can Interleaving Be Avoided for Reed-Solomon Coded Binary Markov Channels ? IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, August 2007.

Y. Wang, Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, A Sufficient Condition for Private Information Hiding of Two Correlated Sources Under Multiple Access Attacks, 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Nice, France, June 2007.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, Error Exponents for Asymmetric Two-User Discrete Memoryless Source-Channel Systems, 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Nice, France, June 2007.

H. Al-Lawati and F. Alajaji, On Decoding Binary Quasi-Perfect Codes Over Markov Noise Channels, Tenth Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Edmonton, June 2007.

Y. Wang, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, A Random Coding Error Exponent for Joint Quantization and Watermarking of Gaussian Sources Under Memoryless Gaussian Attacks, Tenth Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Edmonton, June 2007.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, Source Side Information Can Increase the Joint Source-Channel Coding Error Exponent, Tenth Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Edmonton, June 2007.

A. Manada and N. Kashyap, On the Shannon Covers of Certain Irreducible Constrained Systems of Finite Type, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, July 2006.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, On the Excess Distortion Exponent for Memoryless Gaussian Source-Channel Pairs, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, July 2006.

Y. Wang, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Hybrid Digital-Analog Coding of Memoryless Gaussian Sources over AWGN Channels with Bandwidth Compression, 23rd Biennial Symposium on Communications, Queen's University, Kingston, May-June 2006.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, A Type Covering Lemma and the Excess Distortion Exponent for Coding Memoryless Laplacian Sources, 23rd Biennial Symposium on Communications, Queen's University, Kingston, May-June 2006.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Improved Lower Bounds for the Error Rate of Linear Block Codes, Fourty-Third Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2005.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Exact Pairwise Error Probability of Space-Time Codes under MAP Decoding with Applications, Fourty-Third Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2005.

L. Zhong, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, A Queue-Based Model for Wireless Rayleigh Fading Channels with Memory, IEEE 62nd Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, Fall 2005, Dallas, Texas, September 2005.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, On the Joint Source-Channel Coding Error Exponent for Systems with Memory, 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005.

D. Nagy, A. György, and T. Linder, Convergence Rates in Higher Order Markov Modeling of Block-Markov Sources, Ninth Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Montreal, June 2005.

C. Nicola, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Decoding LDPC Codes Over Binary Channels with Additive Markov Noise, Ninth Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Montreal, June 2005.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, When Does Joint Source-Channel Coding Outperform Tandem Coding for Systems with Markovian Memory ? Ninth Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Montreal, June 2005.

Y. Wang, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Design of VQ-Based Hybrid Digital-Analog Joint Source-Channel Codes for Image Communication, 2005 Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 2005.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Tight Bounds on the SER and BER of Space-Time Orthogonal Block Coded Channels Under MAP Decoding, 2004 International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications, Parma, Italy, October 2004.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Transmission of Continuous-Alphabet Sources Over MIMO Channels,, 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications, Parma, Italy, October 2004.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, On the Computation of the Joint Source-Channel Error Exponent for Memoryless Systems, 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Chicago, June-July 2004.

L. Zhong, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, An Approximation of the Gilbert-Elliott Channel via a Queue-Based Channel Model, 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Chicago, June-July 2004.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, When Is Joint Source-Channel Coding Worthwhile: An Information Theoretic Perspective, 22nd Biennial Symposium on Communications, Queen's University, Kingston, June 2004.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Bonferroni-Type Bounds on the Frame and Bit Error Rates of Coded AWGN and Block Rayleigh Fading Channels, 22nd Biennial Symposium on Communications, Queen's University, Kingston, June 2004.

D. Nagy and T. Linder, Higher Order Markov Modeling of Block-Markov Sources, 22nd Biennial Symposium on Communications, Queen's University, Kingston, June 2004.

L. Zhong, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, A Queue-Based Model for Binary Communication Channels, The Forty-First Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, October 2003.

F. Alajaji, P.-N. Chen and Z. Rached, Csiszár's Hypothesis Testing Reverse Cutoff Rate for General Sources with Memory, The 2003 International Symposium on Information Theory, Yokohama, Japan, June-July 2003.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Error Analysis of Space-Time Codes for Slow Rayleigh Fading Channels, The 2003 International Symposium on Information Theory, Yokohama, Japan, June-July 2003.

G.-C. Zhu and F. Alajaji, Turbo Codes for Binary Markov Sources, 2003 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Waterloo, Ontario, May 2003.

L. Zhong, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, Performance Analysis for Nonuniform Signaling over Flat Rayleigh Channels, 2003 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Waterloo, Ontario, May 2003.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Soft-Decision COVQ Design for Space-Time Orthogonal Block Coded Channels, 2003 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Waterloo, Ontario, May 2003.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Performance Analysis of MAP Decoded Space-Time Orthogonal Block Codes for Non-Uniform Sources, 2003 Information Theory Workshop, Paris, France, March-April, 2003.

D. Nagy and T. Linder, Experimental study of a binary block sorting compression scheme, Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 2003.

G.-C. Zhu, F. Alajaji, J. Bajcsy and P. Mitran, Transmission of Non-Uniform Memoryless Sources over Wireless Fading Channels via Non-Systematic Turbo Codes, The Second IASTED International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications, Banff, Alberta, July 2002.

F. Alajaji, P.-N. Chen and Z. Rached, Csiszár's Forward Cutoff Rate for Testing Between Two Arbitrary Sources, The 2002 International Symposium on Information Theory, Lausanne, Switzerland, June-July 2002.

L. Zhong, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, A Comparative Study of Burst-Noise Communication Channel Models, 21st Biennial Symposium on Communications, Queen's University, Kingston, June 2002.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Image Coding for Binary Bursty Noise Channels, 21st Biennial Symposium on Communications, Queen's University, Kingston, June 2002.

D. Rolls, Improved Fast Approximate Synthesis of Fractional Gaussian Noise, International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2002.

D. Rolls and G. Takahara, Random Superposition of On-Off Processes with Heavy-Tailed Inter-Renewal Times, International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2002.

F. Behnamfar, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Progressive Image Communication over Binary Channels with Additive Bursty Noise, Data Compressions Conference, Snowbird, Utah, April 2002.

Z. Rached, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, A Formula for the Divergence Rate Between Discrete Markov Sources, The Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 2002.

G.-C. Zhu, F. Alajaji, J. Bajcsy and P. Mitran, Non-Systematic Turbo Codes for Non-Uniform I.I.D. Sources over AWGN Channels, The Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 2002.

Z. Raza, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Channel Optimized Sample Adaptive Product Quantization, The Thirty-Ninth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, October 2001.

G.-C. Zhu and F. Alajaji, Design of Turbo Codes for Non-Equiprobable Memoryless Sources, The Thirty-Ninth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, October 2001.

D. Rolls and G. Takahara, Random Aggregate of On-Off Processes with Heavy-Tailed Inter-Renewal Times, 11th INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, New York, July 2001.

F. Alajaji, P.-N. Chen and Z. Rached, On the Poor-Verdú Conjecture for the Reliability Function of Channels with Memory, The 2001 International Symposium on Information Theory, Washigton DC, June 2001.

A. György and T. Linder, On the Structure of Optimal Entropy-Constrained Scalar Quantizers, The 2001 International Symposium on Information Theory, Washigton DC, June 2001.

L. Zhong, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, A Model for a Binary Burst-Noise Channel Based on a Finite Queue, The 2001 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Vancouver, June 2001.

L. L. Campbell, Sampling-Type Theorems in More than One Dimension, Sampling Theory and Applications Conference, Orlando, FL, May 2001.

A. György and T. Linder, Optimal Entropy-Constrained Scalar Quantization of a Uniform Source, International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2000.

Z. Rached, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, On the Rényi Divergence Rate for Finite Alphabet Markov Sources, International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2000.

G.-C. Zhu and F. Alajaji, Soft-Decision COVQ Based on Turbo Codes, The Second International Symposium on Turbo Codes, Brest, France, September 2000.

G. Takahara, F. Alajaji, H. Kuai and N. C. Beaulieu, Constellation Mappings for Two-Dimensional Non-Uniform Signaling, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Sorrento, Italy, June 2000.

G. Takahara, C. Leith and Z. Mansourati, Exact, Approximate, and Recursive Blocking in All-Optical Networks, Global Telecommunications Conference - GLOBECOM'99, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 1999.

H. Kuai, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, Performance Bounds of Non-Uniform Signaling over AWGN Channels, CTMC'99, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Vancouver, June 1999.

G. Takahara and J. S. Meadows, A Heavy Traffic Fluid Limit for Large Capacity Retrial Networks, The 1999 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Kingston, Ontario, June 1999.

A. György, T. Linder and K. Zeger, On the Rate-Distortion Function of Random Vectors and Stationary Sources with Mixed Distributions, The 1999 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Kingston, Ontario, June 1999.

A. György, T. Linder and K. Zeger, Lossy Coding of Sources with Mixed Distribution, The Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 1999.

Z. Rached, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, Rényi's Entropy Rate for Discrete Markov Sources, The Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 1999.

C. Leith, G. Takahara and Z. Mansourati, Recursive Blocking for All-Optical Networks Based on Near Exact Blocking in a 3-Hop Path, The Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 1999.

N. C. Beaulieu, Y. Huang and L. L. Campbell, Bias of Symbol Timing Estimators, The 19th Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Ontario, June 1998.

A. Nazer and F. Alajaji, Source Optimized Channel Decoding and Unequal Error Protection of CELP Encoded Speech, The 19th Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Ontario, June 1998.

H. Kuai, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara, A Lower Bound on the Probability of a Finite Union of Events with Applications, The 19th Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Ontario, June 1998.

J. Cheng and F. Alajaji, Channel Optimized Quantization of Images over Bursty Channels, The 1997 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Toronto, June 1997.

Technical Reports

Y. Zhong, Y. Wang, F. Alajaji and T. Linder, Inner and Outer Bounds for the Public Information Embedding Capacity Region Under Multiple Access Attacks, Mathematics and Engineering Technical Report, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, March 2010.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, On the Joint Source-Channel Coding Excess Distortion Exponent for Memoryless Continuous-Alphabet Systems, Mathematics and Engineering Technical Report, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, July 2008.

H. Al-Lawati, F. Alajaji and C. Pimentel, Performance of Interleaved Non-Binary Block Codes Over Binary Channels with Memory, Mathematics and Engineering Technical Report, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, September 2007.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, Coding Error Exponents for Asymmetric Two-User Discrete Memoryless Source-Channel Systems, Mathematics and Engineering Technical Report, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, March 2007.

Y. Zhong, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, On the Joint Source-Channel Coding Error Exponent for Discrete Memoryless Systems: Computation and Comparison with Separate Coding, Mathematics and Engineering Technical Report, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, December 2005.

Z. Rached, F. Alajaji and L. L. Campbell, A Formula for the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Rate Between Discrete Markov Sources, Mathematics and Engineering Technical Report, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, November 2003.

F. Alajaji, P.-N. Chen and Z. Rached, Csiszár's Hypothesis Testing Cutoff Rates for Arbitrary Sources with Memory, Mathematics and Engineering Technical Report, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, December 2002.

G. Takahara, F. Alajaji, N. C. Beaulieu and H. Kuai, Mappings for Signaling of Non-Uniform Sources in Two-Dimensional Fixed Constellations, Mathematics and Engineering Technical Report, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, February 2001.

J. Cheng and F. Alajaji, Channel Optimized Quantization of Images over Binary Channels with Memory, Mathematics and Engineering Technical Report, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, April 1999.

A. Nazer and F. Alajaji, Unequal Error Protection and Source-Channel Decoding of CELP Speech over Very Noisy Channels, Mathematics and Engineering Technical Report, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, March 1999.

Theses

Doctoral Dissertations

Yangfan Zhong, Joint Source-Channel Coding Reliability Function for Single and Multi-Terminal Communication Systems. Ph.D. Dissertation, May 2008.
Yadong Wang, Hybrid Digital-Analog Source-Channel Coding and Information Hiding: Information-Theoretic Perspectives. Ph.D. Dissertation, September 2007.
Daniel Nagy, Lossless Compression and Alphabet Size. Ph.D. Dissertation, January 2006.
Chris Leith, Ant Algorithms and Generalized Finite Urns. Ph.D. Dissertation, June 2005.
Libo Zhong, A Binary Burst-Noise Communication Channel Modeled by a Finite Queue: Information Theoretic Properties and Applications to Wireless Communications. Ph.D. Dissertation, June 2005.
Firouz Behnamfar, Single and Multiple Antenna Communication Systems: Performance Analysis and Joint Source-Channel Coding. Ph.D. Dissertation, September 2004.
Guang-Chong Zhu, Joint Source-Channel Coding via Turbo Codes. Ph.D. Dissertation, January 2003.
David Rolls, Limit Theorems and Estimation for Structural and Aggregate Teletraffic Models. Ph.D. Dissertation, January 2003.
Ziad Rached, Information Measures for Sources with Memory and their Application to Hypothesis Testing and Source Coding. Ph.D. Dissertation, August 2002.
Timothy Ramsey, A Bivariate Finite Element Smoothing Spline Applied to Image Registration. Ph.D. Dissertation, January 2000. Abstract, gzip'ed PostScript.

Master Theses

Shan Lu, Measuring Dependence via Mutual Information. M.Sc. Thesis, September 2011.
Shervin Shahidi, Robust Lossy Source Coding for Correlated Fading Channels. M.A.Sc. Thesis, September 2011.
Manuel Gil, Rényi's Divergence Measures for Continuous Alphabet Sources. M.Sc. Thesis, August 2011.
Ahmad Abou Saleh, Source-Channel Mappings with Applications to Compressed Sensing. M.A.Sc. Thesis, July 2011.
Brendan Moore, Pairwise Optimization of Modulation Constellations for Non-Uniform Sources. M.A.Sc. Thesis, September 2009.
Adam Cohen, Linear Programming Decoding for Non-Uniform Sources and for Binary Channels with Memory. M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, December 2008.
Hamidreza Ebrahimzadeh Saffar, Channel Optimized Vector Quantization: Iterative Design Algorithms. M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, August 2008.
Haider Al-Lawati, Performance Analysis of Linear Block Codes Over the Queue-Based Channel. M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, August 2007.
Saeed Moradi, Multiple Description Coding: Proposed Methods and Video Application. M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, August 2007.
Shant Sethian, On the Construction of Non-Orthogonal Linear Space-Time Block Codes. M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, October 2005.
Cynthia Thomas, Soft-Decision COVQ for M-ary PAM Modulated AWGN and Rayleigh Fading Channels. M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, September 2005.
Christopher Nicola, Decoding of LDPC Codes Over Channels with Binary Additive Markov Noise. M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, September 2005.
Zahir Raza, Sample Adaptive Product Quantization for Memoryless Noisy Channels. M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, November 2002.
András György, On Optimal Entropy-Constrained Scalar Quantization. M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, December 2000.
Christopher Leith, Analytical Models For All-Optical Networks Employing Wavelength Multiplexing and Wavelength Conversion. M.Sc. Thesis, September 1999.
Hongyan Kuai, Tight Bounds on the Probability of a Union with Applications to Non-Uniform Signaling over AWGN Channels. M.Sc. Thesis, July 1999.
Joanna Meadows, New Results on Incorporating Retrials into Large Loss Networks Operating under Heavy Traffic. M.Sc. Thesis, August 1998.
Nicholas Whalen, The Capacity-Cost Function of Channels with Additive Markov Noise. M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, June 1998.
Ali Nazer, Joint Source-Channel Coding and Unequal Error Protection of CELP 1016 Encoded Speech Over Very Noisy Channels. M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, December 1997.
Julian Cheng, Channel Optimized Quantization of Images over Binary Channels with Memory. M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, September 1997.
Richard A. Lodge, A Multi-Priority Hybrid Protocol for Satellite Switching Networks,. M.Sc. Thesis, August 1996.

Master Projects

Razan Al-Nakhli, On Upper Bounding Discrete Entropy. M.Sc. Project, December 2011.
Nevroz Sen, Feedback Capacity for a Discrete Non-Binary Noise Channel with Memory. M.Eng. Project, May 2009.
Xiaoyan Wu, Syndrome Source Coding for Lossless Data Compression Based on Linear Block Codes. M.Sc. Project, September 2008.
Eric Hart, Proving the Normality of the Distribution of Coverage in a Grid Network when Nodes are Placed with Bounded Error. M.Sc. Project, September 2008.
Scott Amiss, Estimation of Long Range Dependence and the Nile River. M.Sc. (Eng) Project, May 2004.
Jay Shah, Empirical Study of the Connection Between Quantizer Distortion and Training Set Size. M.Sc. (Eng) Project, January 2004.
Ka Sin Tong, Turbo Codes for Asymmetric Binary Channels. M.Sc. (Eng) Project, December 2003.
Yangfan Zhong, On the Joint Source-Channel Reliability Function for Memoryless Communication Systems. M.Sc. (Eng) Project, November 2003.
Aaron So, Wavelength Converter Placement in Survivable All-Optical Networks. M.Sc. (Eng) Project, September 2003.
Andrew Gibson, The H.264 Video Encoding Standard. M.Sc. (Eng) Project, August 2002.
Hanmei Zhu, Quantitative Analyses of Differentiated Services for the Internet. M.Sc. Project, August 2002.
Jing Gai, A Computational Study of the Bivariate Normal Probability Function. M.Sc. (Eng) Project, January 2002.
Clifford Lui, A Study of the JPEG-2000 Image Compression Standard. M.Sc. (Eng) Project, May 2001.
Libo Zhong, A Binary Channel with Additive Bursty Noise Based on a Finite Queue. M.Sc. Project, November 2000.
Guang-Chong Zhu, Performance Evaluation of Turbo Codes. M.Sc. Project, September 1998.
Ziad Rached, Rényi's Entropy for Discrete Markov Sources. M.Sc. Project, September 1998.
David Rolls, An Investigation of Static and Dynamic Call Admission Control Methods By Simulation. M.Sc. Project, September 1997.
Marcus Cleary, Maximizing Profit in a Retrial Network. M.Sc. Project, March, 1997.

Additional Publications