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Dr. Jean Armstrong


Introduction/Contact Details

About Dr. Armstrong

Teaching and Supervision

Research Overview

Postgraduate Opportunities

Publications

Book Chapters

Journal Publications

Conference Papers

Patents

Other Publications

 

Book Chapters

  1. J. Armstrong, J. Shentu and C. Tellambura, “Frequency domain equalization for OFDM Systems with mapping of data onto subcarrier pairs and overlapping symbol periods,” Coding, Communications and Broadcasting, pp. 217-228. edited by P.G. Farrell, Mike Darnell and Bahram Honary, March 2000, Research Studies Press.[download]

 Journal Publications

  1. H. A. Surwareera and J. Armstrong, "Performance of OFDM-Based Dual-Hop Amplify-and-Forward Relaying," to appear in IEEE Comm. Letters.

  2. H. A. Suraweera and J. Armstrong, “A simple and accurate approximation to the SEP of Rectangular QAM in arbitrary Nakagami-m fading channels,” IEEE Communication Letters, pp. 426-428, May 2007.[download]

  3. A. J. Lowery, L. B. Du and J. Armstrong, “Performance of Optical OFDM in Ultralong-Haul WDM Lightwave Systems,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol 25, no. 1, pp. 131-138, January 2007.[download] 

  4. H. A. Suraweera, P. J. Smith and J. Armstrong, “Outage Probability of cooperative relay networks in Nakagami-m fading channels,” IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 10, Issue 12, pp. 834-836, December 2006.[download]

  5. A. J. Lowery and J. Armstrong, “Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing for dispersion compensation of long-haul optical systems,” Optics Express, vol. 14, issue 6, pp. 2079-2084, 2006.[download]

  6. J. Armstrong and A. J. Lowery, “Power efficient optical OFDM”, IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 42, issue 6, pp. 370-371, 16 March 2006.[download]

  7. A. J. Lowery and J. Armstrong, “10 Gbit/s multimode fiber link using power efficient orthogonal frequency division multiplexing,” Optics Express, vol. 13, 1003-1009, 2005.[download]

  8. J. Armstrong, H. A. Suraweera, C. Chai and M. Feramez, “Decision directed impulse noise mitigation for OFDM in AWGN channels,” The Mediterranean Journal of Electronics and Communications, pp. 1-10, October 2005.[download]

  9. H. A. Suraweera and J. Armstrong, “Noise bucket effect of impulse noise in OFDM,” IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 40, issue 18, pp. 1156-1157, September 2004.[download]

  10. K. Panta and J. Armstrong, “Effects of clipping on the error performance of OFDM in frequency selective channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications¸ vol. 3, issue 2, pp. 668-671, March 2004.[download]

  11. J. Shentu and J. Armstrong, “Blind frequency offset estimation for PCC-OFDM systems,” IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol. E87-B, pp. 29-35, January 2004.[download]

  12. K. Panta and J. Armstrong, “Spectral analysis of OFDM signals and its improvement in PCC-OFDM,” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 49 pp. 939-943, November 2003.[download]

  13. J. Shentu and J. Armstrong, “Blind frequency offset estimation for overlap PCC-OFDM systems in presence of phase noise,” Journal Telecommunications and Information Technology, pp. 17-27, 2003.[download]

  14. J. Shentu, K. Panta and J. Armstrong, “Effects of phase noise on the performance of OFDM systems using an ICI cancellation scheme,” IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 4, pp. 221-224, June 2004.[download]

  15. J. Armstrong, “Peak-to-average power reduction for OFDM by repeated clipping and frequency domain filtering,” IEE Electronics Letters,  vol. 38, pp. 246-247, February 2002.[download]

  16. K. A. Seaton and J. Armstrong, “Polynomial cancellation coding and finite differences,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 46, issue 1, pp. 311-313, January 2000.[download]

  17. J. Armstrong, “Analysis of new and existing methods of reducing intercarrier interference due to carrier frequency offset in OFDM,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 47, issue 3, pp. 365-369, March 1999.[download]

  18. C. Bellis and J. Armstrong, “The relative position of men and women engineering academics in Australia ,” Australian Journal of Engineering Education, 1998.

  19. J. Armstrong and D. Strickland, “Symbol Synchronization using signal samples and interpolation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, pp 318-321 Feb. 1993.

  20. J. Armstrong, “Symbol synchronization using baud-rate sampling and data-sequence dependent signal processing,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. COM-39, pp. 127-132.

 Conference Papers (Fully Refereed)

  1. X. Li, R. Mardling and J. Armstrong, "Channel Capacity of IM/DD Optical Communication System and of ACO-OFDM," to appear in Proc. of ICC 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, 2007.[download]

  2. H. A. Suraweera and J. Armstrong, “Error probability of OFDM with carrier frequency offset in AWGN and fading channels,” Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2006), San Francisco , United States of America , Nov. 2006.[download]

  3. J. Armstrong, B. Schmidt, D. Kalra, H. A. Suraweera and A. J. Lowery, “Performance of asymmetrically clipped optical OFDM in AWGN for an intensity modulated direct detection system,” Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2006), San Francisco, USA, Nov. 2006.[download]

  4. S. Tuan and J. Armstrong, “On timing synchronization approaches for OFDM systems with receive antenna diversity,” Proc. NEWCOM-ACORN Joint Workshop, Vienna , September 2006.[download]

  5. A. J. Lowery and J. Armstrong, “Comparison of power-efficient optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing transmission methods”, ACOFT/AOS Proceedings, Melbourne , Australia , 10-13 July 2006.[download]

  6. Liang Du, A.J. Lowery and J. Armstrong, “WDM channel spacing in ultra long haul optical OFDM systems”, ACOFT/AOS Proceedings, Melbourne, Australia, 10-13 July 2006.[download]

  7. B. Schmidt, Chi Ng, P. Yien, C. Harris, U. Saripalle, A. Price, S. Brewer, G. Scelsi, R. Slaviero and J. Armstrong, “Efficient Algorithms for PAPR Reduction in OFDM Transmitters Implemented using Fixed-Point DSPs,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring 2006), Melbourne, Australia, May 2006.[download]

  8. X. Zhou, H. A. Suraweera and J. Armstrong, “Performance analysis for a two-ring distributed MIMO-OFDM system,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring 2006), Melbourne , Australia , May 2006.[download]

  9. H. A. Suraweera, X. Zhou and J. Armstrong, “On the calculation of OFDM error performance with phase noise in AWGN and fading channels,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2006 Spring), Melbourne , Australia , May 2006.[download]

  10. A. J. Lowery, L. Du, and J. Armstrong, “Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing for Adaptive Dispersion Compensation in Long Haul WDM Systems,” Technical Digest of Optical Fibre Communication (OFC/NFOEC 2006), 5-10 March 2006, Anaheim, USA. [download]

  11. H. A. Suraweera and J. Armstrong, “Alamouti coded OFDM in Rayleigh fast fading channels - Receiver performance analysis,” in Proc. IEEE Region 10 International Conference (TENCON 2005), Melbourne , Australia , Nov. 2005.[download]

  12. H. A. Suraweera and J. Armstrong, “Error Performance Analysis of clipped Alamouti space-time coded OFDM systems,” in Proc. IEEE Region 10 International Conference (TENCON 2005), Melbourne , Australia , Nov. 2005.[download]

  13. H. A. Suraweera and J. Armstrong, “Analysis of carrier frequency offset in Alamouti space-time-frequency coded OFDM systems,” in Proc. IEEE PIMRC 2005, Vol 2, pp. 1170-1174, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2005.[download]

  14. H. A. Suraweera, J. T. Y. Ho, T. Sivahumaran and J. Armstrong, “An approximated Gaussian Analysis and results on the capacity distribution for MIMO-OFDM,” in Proc. IEEE PIMRC 2005, vol. 1, pp. 211-215, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2005.[download]

  15. H. A. Suraweera and J. Armstrong, “Performance of V-BLAST MIMO-OFDM systems with carrier frequency offset,” in Proc. 6th Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW 2005), Brisbane, Australia, Feb. 2005, pp. 68-72.[download]

  16. H. A. Suraweera, J. T. Y. Ho and J. Armstrong, “Linear symbol precoding for low complexity V-BLAST OFDM systems,” in Proc. 6th Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW 2005), Brisbane, Australia, Feb. 2005, pp. 63-67.[download]

  17. J. Armstrong and H. A. Suraweera, “Decision directed impulse noise mitigation for OFDM in frequency selective fading channels,” in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2004, Dallas, USA, Nov./Dec. 2004, pp. 3536-3540.[download]

  18. J. Armstrong and H. A. Suraweera, “Impulse noise mitigation for OFDM using decision directed noise estimation,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA 2004), Aug./Sept. 2004, Sydney, Australia, pp 174-178.[download]

  19. J. Armstrong, M. Feramez and H. A. Suraweera, “Optimum noise thresholds in decision directed impulse noise mitigation for OFDM,” in Proc. International Symposium on Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing  (CSNDSP 2004), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 2004, pp. 168-171.[download]

  20. H. A. Suraweera, K. Panta, M. Feramez and J. Armstrong, “OFDM peak-to-average power reduction scheme with spectral masking,” in Proc. International Symposium on Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing  (CSNDSP 2004), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 2004, pp. 160-163. [download]

  21. C. Chai and J. Armstrong, “Simulation study of WFQ packet scheduling mechanism for different coding schemes in GPRS network”, in Proc. International Symposium on Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing  (CSNDSP 2004), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 2004, pp. 217-220.[download]

  22. H. A. Suraweera and J. Armstrong, “M-QAM OFDM and PCC-OFDM performance in the presence of phase noise,” in Proc. 5th Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW 2004), Newcastle, Australia, Feb. 2004, pp. 98-103.[download]

  23. K. R. Panta, H. A. Suraweera and J. Armstrong, “Performance of PCC-OFDM in multipath fading channels,” in Proc. 5th Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW 2004), Newcastle, Australia, Feb. 2004, pp. 118-121.[download]

  24. J. Armstrong, “Equalizer for PCC-OFDM with overlapping symbol periods,” in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2002, Taipei , Taiwan , December 2002, pp. 574-578.[download]

  25. J. Shentu and J. Armstrong, “Frequency offset estimation for PCC-OFDM with symbols overlapped in the time domain,” in Proc. WITSP 2002, Wollongong , Australia , December 2002, pp.72-79.[download]

  26. J. Shentu and J. Armstrong, “Effects of phase noise on the performance of PCC-OFDM”, in Proc. WITSP'2002, Wollongong , Australia , December 2002, pp. 50-54.[download]

  27. K. Panta and J. Armstrong, “Spectral analysis of OFDM signals and its improvement by polynomial cancellation coding,” in Proc. WITSP'2002, Wollongong, Australia,  December 2002, pp. 67-71.[download]

  28. J. Armstrong, “Commercialising engineering research in Australia,” in Proc. 13th Annual Conference of the Australia Association for Engineering Education, Canberra, Australia, 2002, pp. 27-32.[download]

  29. J. Armstrong, L. Wilkins and P. Watson, “Job seeking skills for engineers: the use of role play in a learning exercise”, 13th Annual Conference of the Australia Association for Engineering Education, 2002, pp21-26.  [download]

  30. J. Armstrong and M. Feramez, “Computationally efficient implementation of OFDM peak-to-average power reduction technique,” in Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Communications Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2002), Stafford , UK, July 2002, pp. 236- 239.[download]

  31. J. Armstrong, “Peak-to-average power reduction in digital television transmitters”, in Proc. Digital Image Computing-Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2002), Melbourne, Australia, January 2002, pp. 19-24.[download]

  32. K. Panta and J. Armstrong, “The performance of overlap PCC-OFDM with error-correcting codes,” in Proc. 6th International Symposium on DSP for Communication Systems, Sydney, January 2002, pp.118-122. [download]

  33. K. Panta and J. Armstrong, “Use of peak-to-average power reduction technique in HIPERLAN2 and its performance in fading channel,” in Proc. 6th International Symposium on DSP for Communication Systems, Sydney, January 2002, pp. 113-117.

  34. J. Shentu, J. Armstrong and G. Tobin, “MMSE frequency offset estimator for PCC-OFDM,” in Proc. 5th IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications, Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , October 2001, pp. 304-309.[download]

  35. J. Shentu and J. Armstrong, “Blind frequency offset estimation for PCC-OFDM with symbols overlapped in the time domain,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2002), Sydney , May 2001, pp. 570-573.[download]

  36. J. Shentu and J. Armstrong, “A New Frequency Offset Estimator for OFDM”,  Second International Symposium on Communications Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing,   Bournemouth , July 2000, pp. 13-16.[download]

  37. J. Armstrong T. Gill and C. Tellambura, “Performance of PCC-OFDM with overlapping symbol periods in a multipath channel”, IEEE Globecom, November 2000, pp. 87-91.[download]

  38. J. Stewart and J. Armstrong, “Lifelong Learning for Engineers and Engineering Academics,” Proceedings of the Pacific Region Conference on Electrical Engineering Education, pp. 84-89, July 1999.

  39. J. Armstrong, P.M. Grant, G. Povey, “Polynomial cancellation coding of OFDM to reduce Intercarrier interference due to Doppler spread”, IEEE Globecom 1998, vol. 5, pp 2771-2776, 1998.[download]

  40. J. Armstrong, T. S. Gill, J. Shentu, “Amplitude Statistics for Polynomial Cancellation Coded OFDM signals’, IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, vol 1, pp43-47, 1998.[download]

  41. J. Royston and J. Armstrong, “Using OFDM for channel estimation,” Proceedings of the third Asia Pacific Conference on Communications, pp.1438-1442, Sydney, December 1997.

  42. J. Armstrong, “Workload in engineering courses and how to reduce it”, Proceedings of the 8th Annual Convention and Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Sydney , December 1996, pp. 186-189.[download]

  43. J. Royston and J. Armstrong, “What is an engineer?  Looking to the past to inform the future,” Proceedings of the 8th Annual Convention and Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Sydney , December 1996, pp. 329-331.[download]

  44. J. Armstrong and J. F. Royston, “Integrating Communication Skills in a Telecommunications Engineering Course”, Proceedings of the 1996 Australian Communication Conference, Melbourne , September 1996, pp. 205-215.

  45. J. Armstrong and C. Bellis, “Women Engineering Academics in Australia : Trends in Employment,” Proceedings of the 7th Annual Convention and Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Melbourne , December 1995, pp. 231-235.[download]

  46. J. Armstrong and J. Royston, “A telecommunications course to develop lifelong learning skills,” Proceedings of the 7th Annual Convention and Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Melbourne, December 1995, pp 476-479.[download]

  47. J. Armstrong, C. Bellis and L. Taylor, “The Hidden Rules: Women Academics in a Male Culture,” Proceedings of the Second Australasian Women in Engineering Forum, Melbourne , December 1995, p. 32.

  48. J. Armstrong, A. Dickinson, and F. Dube, “Don’t ask me about my thesis!  Women in Postgraduate Studies,” Proceedings of the Second Australasian Women in Engineering Forum, Melbourne , December 1995, p. 69.

  49. J. Armstrong and G. Leder, “Engineering education:  how to design a gender-inclusive curriculum,” Proceedings of the International Congress of Engineering Deans and Industry Leaders, Melbourne , July 1995, pp. 292-297.[download]

  50. J. Armstrong, “Women Engineers in Tertiary Education in Australia : The structural and cultural barriers they face,” Proceedings of Second National Conference on Equity and Access in Higher Education, Melbourne , July 1995.[download]

  51. J. Armstrong and E. Godfrey, “Engineering Education and Professional Practice: Gender Inclusive Models, An International Perspective," Conf. Rec. 1994, 6th Annual Convention Australasian Association for Engineering Education, pp. 59-64.

  52. N. Maniatis, J.C. Devlin, C. Dick, G. Deng, J. Armstrong, “A Digital Phase Shift Single-Sideband Receiver,”  Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on DSP for Communications,  Adelaide, April 1994.

  53. J. Armstrong, M Boman and S. Lewis “Position paper on women engineers in Australia ," presented at Engineering Education and Professional Practice: Developing Gender Inclusive Models,” an international conference held in Leeds, England , February 1994.

  54. J. Armstrong and C.Bellis, “Women Engineering Academics in Australia ," Conf. Rec. 1993, 5th Annual Convention Australasian Association for Engineering Education, pp. 104-109.

  55. F. J. W. Symons and J. Armstrong, "Experience with a new telecommunications stream and a novel approach to a systems level foundation course in telecommunication networks," Conf. Rec. 1993, 5th Annual Convention Australasian Association for Engineering Education, pp. 198-203.

  56. J. Armstrong, “Symbol synchronization using signal samples,” Proc. IREECON 1991, pp. 626-629.

  57. J. Armstrong, “Women postgraduates in engineering in Australia ,” Conf. Rec. 6th International Gender and Science and Technology, Melbourne 1991, pp. 527 -535.

  58. J. Armstrong, “Pathways for women postgraduates in engineering,” Conf. Rec. 1990, 2nd Annual Convention Australasian Association for Engineering Education, pp. 301-306.

  59. P. M. Grant, J. Brown and J. H. Collins, “Large time bandwidth product programmable SAW PSK MF module,” IEEE 1974 Ultrasonics Symposium.

 

Conference Papers - (Full papers based on Refereed Abstract)

  1. J. Armstrong, H. A Suraweera, S. Brewer and R. Slaviero, “Effect of rounding and saturation in fixed-point DSP implementation of IFFT and FFT for OFDM applications,” in Proc. Embedded Signal Processing Conference (GSPx 2004) Santa Clara, CA, USA, Sept. 2004.

  2. H. A. Suraweera, C. Chai, J. Shentu and J. Armstrong, “Analysis of impulse noise mitigation techniques for digital television systems”, in Proc. 8th International OFDM Workshop, Hamburg, September 2003, pp. 172- 176.[download]

  3. J. Armstrong, “PCC-OFDM with reduced peak-to-average power ratio,” in Proc. IEEE 3Gwireless '2001, San Francisco , USA , May/June 2001, pp. 386-391. [download]

  4. J. Armstrong, “New OFDM peak-to-average power reduction scheme,” in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC '2001 Spring), Rhodes , Greece , May 2001, pp. 756-760.[download]

  5. J. Shentu and J. Armstrong, “Blind estimation of time and frequency offset for PCC-OFDM,” in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC '2001 Spring), Rhodes , Greece , May 2001, pp. 702-706.[download]

  6. J. Armstrong and C. Tellambura, “Multicarrier CDMA systems using PCC-OFDM”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, May 2000.[download]

  7. J. Armstrong, J. Shentu and C. Tellambura, “Frequency domain equalization for OFDM systems with mapping of data onto subcarrier pairs and overlapping symbol periods”  Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Communication Theory and Applications,  Ambleside, England, July 1999.[download]

  8. J. Armstrong, N. Maniatis, J.C. Devlin and J. F. Royston, "Performance Analysis of HF Digital Receiver Structures using Down-Conversion to a Low Frequency First IF",  Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Communication Theory and Applications,  Ambleside, UK, July 1995.

  9. N. Maniatis, J. C. Devlin and J. Armstrong, "A High Performance HF Band Digital Receiver", Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Communication Theory and Applications, Ambleside , UK , July 1995.

Patents

   Granted

J. Armstrong, "Data transmission and reception in multicarrier modulation systems”.  (Australian patent granted 2003, currently under examination in US)

   Granted/Under examination (Licensed to Analog Devices)

J. Armstrong and S. W. Brewer, “Multicarrier modulation systems,” vol. 951319. US: Analog Devices, B.V., 2005. (currently under examination in US and PCT versions)

   PCT Applications Applications

J. Armstrong and A. J. Lowery, "Methods and apparatus for optical transmission of digital signals." PCT, 2007, pp. 1-45 (published 19th April 2007, international application October 2006)

A. J. Lowery and J. Armstrong, "Methods and apparatus for optical transmissions of digital signals." PCT, 2007, pp.1-41 (published 8th March 2007, international application September 2006)

Other Publications

  1. J. Armstrong, “Review of ‘The New Engineer’ by Sharon Beder”, Metascience, Volume 7, Number 3, pp 435-437, November 1998.

  2. J. Armstrong, “Interpolation for symbol synchronization,” Monash University Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Technical report, MECSE 93-1, January 1993.

  3. J. Armstrong, “Interpolation methods for symbol synchronization,” 24th General Assembly of URSI, Kyoto Japan , August 1993. (invited paper)

  4. J. Armstrong, “Symbol synchronization using signal samples,” PhD Thesis, Monash University . August 1992.

  5. J. Armstrong, “Timing recovery using baud-rate sampling,” Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Melbourne Research Report no. 3, 1990.

  6. Jean Silver, “Use of a microcomputer and database software for the administration associated with the first year engineering course at the University of Melbourne,” Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Melbourne Research Report no.3, 1984.

  7. Jean Silver, “Database management software and a microcomputer - How to streamline course administration,” The Secondary Administrator, 1985.

  8. Jean Silver, “Review of the First Year Engineering Course and Suggested Future Alternatives,” The University of Melbourne , Faculty of Engineering, Internal Report, 1984.

  9. Jean Silver, “Learning Skills Course 1983, First year Engineering, Surveying, Applied Science Electronics,” The University of Melbourne , Faculty of Engineering, Internal Report, 1983.

  10. Jean Brown, “Application of microprocessors to the decoding of convolutional error-correcting codes,” MSc. Thesis, Heriot-Watt University , 1980.

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