The advances in broadband Internet access and scalable video technologies have made it
possible for Internet Protocol television (IPTV) to become the next killer application for …

One promise of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) is to considerably increase road safety
and travel comfort by enabling inter-vehicle communications. Among a vast array of potential …

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) based technologies are considered as an integral part
of the upcoming 5G communications to fulfil the ever-increasing demands of wireless …

This application claims priority from US Provisional Patent Application No. 60/958,622 filed
Jul. 6, 2007, and entitled “Superposition Coding for Wireless Mesh Net works, which is …

A new scheme called 'Collaborative Spreading'is proposed for the downlink of CDMA to
allow the sharing of the same spreading sequence by more than one user. In particular, it …

The use of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications is growing dramatically, particularly for BitTorrent
system. In order to gain insights into BitTorrent systems and the network traffic load they …

Recent work has examined techniques to estimate the “best” modulation rate for data
networks such as 802.11 a/g. While accurate rate estimation yields better rate-selection …

Joint source and channel coding (JSCC) has been widely reported for its superb capability
in mitigating the legacy channel/user diversity problem in the wireless multicast/broadcast …

The demand for real-time video services coupled with the need for increased spectral
efficiencies has brought a lot of attention to video multicasting in next generation OFDMA …

This thesis documents the design of logical superposition coded (SPC) modulation for
implementation in wireless video multicast systems, to tackle the issues caused by multi …