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  <h2>Kaveh Pahlavan</h2>
  Professor of ECE and CS,<br/>
  Director of CWINS

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    <a href="mailto:kaveh@ece.wpi.edu">kaveh@ece.wpi.edu</a><br/>
    Atwater Kent, Room 308<br/>
    (508) 831-5634<br/>
    (508) 831-5491
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    Research &amp; Teaching Interests</h2>
  <p>Indoor  geolocation, WiFi localization, broadband and location aware wireless networks;  hybrid mobile data networks; multi-Robot localization, body area networking. </p>
  <h2>Related Information</h2>
  <ul type="disc">
    <li><a href="http://www.cwins.wpi.edu/">CWINS Laboratory</a> </li>
    <li><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaveh_Pahlavan" title="On Wikipedia">On Wikipedia</a> </li>
    <li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29043510908&v=info">CWINS on Facebook</a></li>
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  <h2>Educational Background</h2>
  <ul type="disc">
    <li>M.S., University of Teheran,       1975 </li>
    <li>Graduate Student, University of Oklahoma,       1975-1976 </li>
    <li>Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1979 </li>
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  <h2>Years of Service at WPI</h2>
  <ul type="disc">
    <li>Assistant Professor of EE, WPI, 1985-1987 </li>
    <li>Associate Professor of EE, WPI, 1987-1990 </li>
    <li>Professor of ECE, WPI, 1990-present </li>
    <li>Professor of CS, WPI, 1999-present </li>
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  <h2>Honors &amp; Awards</h2>
  <ul type="disc">
    <li>Selected as the first Weston Hadden Professor       of ECE, WPI, 1993-1996 </li>
    <li>Elected as a fellow of the IEEE for       contributions in wireless networks, 1996. </li>
    <li>Selected as a member of the Evolution of       Untethered Communications Committee, National Research Council, 1997. </li>
    <li>Elected as the first non-Finnish fellow of the       Nokia, 1999. </li>
    <li>Lead the American team to review the Finnish       Academy/TEKES sponsored ETX, TLX, INVITE and Telektronics national R&amp;D       programs, 2000. </li>
    <li>Awarded the first Fulbright-Nokia fellowship,       2000. </li>
    <li>Lead the US       review team for midterm evaluation of the TEKES sponsored NETS national;       R&amp;D program in Finland,       2003. </li>
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  <h2>Highlights of Professional  Experience &amp; Activities</h2>
  <ul type="disc">
    <li>Assistant Professor of       ECE, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1979-1983 </li>
    <li>Director of Advanced       Developments, INFINET, INC., Andover, MA, 1983-1985 </li>
    <li>Founder of the US <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Wireless_Information_Network_Studies" title="first academic research program in wireless LAN">first academic research       program in wireless LAN</a>, WPI, 1985. </li>
    <li>Co-founder and steering       committee member of the <a href="http://www.pimrc2008.org/">IEEE International Symposium on Portable, Indoor, and Mobile Radio       Communications</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIMRC" title="PIMRC">PIMRC</a>) 1989-present. </li>
    <li>Founder, Organizer, and       Program Chairman of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Workshops_on_Wireless_LAN" title="IEEE workshop on Wireless Local Area Networks">IEEE workshop on       Wireless Local Area Networks</a>, 1991 (Worcester,       MA), 1996 (Worcester,       MA) and 2001 (Newton, MA). </li>
    <li>Organizer and the       TPC-Chair of <a href="http://www.pimrc98.wpi.edu/g_greeti.html">the IEEE PIMRC, 1992 and 1998 (Boston,       MA)</a> </li>
    <li>Founder and       Editor-in-Chief of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Journal_of_Wireless_Information_Networks" title="International Journal of Wireless Information Networks">International Journal       of Wireless Information Networks</a>, 1994-present. </li>
    <li>Member of the advisory       board of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Wireless_Communications" title="IEEE Wireless Magazine">IEEE Wireless Magazine</a>, 1994-present. </li>
    <li>Founder of one of the       world's leading academic research programs in <a href="http://www.cwins.wpi.edu/Projects_Geolocation/Scripts/indoor_geolocation_v2.htm" title="indoor geolocation">indoor geolocation</a>, WPI, 1996 </li>
    <li>Visiting Professor as a       Fulbright-Nokia fellow, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oulu" title="University of Oulu, Finland">University of Oulu, Finland</a>, 2000 </li>
    <li>Visiting Professor of <a href="http://www.cwc.oulu.fi/home/" title="Telecommunication Lab and CWC">Telecommunication Lab and CWC</a>, University of Oulu,       Finland, 2001-present </li>
    <li>Co-chair, the       International Workshop on Utra Wideband Systems, Oulu, Finland,       June 2-5, 2003. </li>
    <li>On sabbatical leave, Olin College,       Needham, MA, Fall 2004 </li>
    <li>Co-chair, the <a href="http://www.cwc.oulu.fi/iwwan2004/iwwan.html" title="International Workshop on Wireless Adhoc Network (IWWAN)">International Workshop       on Wireless Adhoc Network (IWWAN)</a>, Oulu,        Finland,       June 1-3, 2004. </li>
    <li>General Chair, <a href="http://www.mass05.wpi.edu/" title="The Second International Conference on Mobile Adhoc Sensor Systems (MASS05)">The Second       International Conference on Mobile Adhoc Sensor Systems (MASS05)</a>, Washington, DC, Nov.       7-10, 2005. </li>
    <li>General Chair, <a href="http://www.cwins.wpi.edu/workshop08/index.html">Invitational Workshop on Opportunistic RF       Localization for Next Generation Wireless Devices</a>, Worcester, MA, June       16-17, 2008 and June 13-14, 2010. </li>
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  <h2>Highlights in Entrepreneurship</h2>
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    <li>Chief technical advisor of the WINDATA, Northborough, MA,       one of the pioneering WLAN companies of the world, 1988-1993.</li>
    <li>Chief technical advisor of the RoamAbout group       of the DEC which designed the first award winning PCMCIA WLAN,       1993-1996.</li>
    <li>Chief technical officer of the Intrak Wireless,       Woburn, MA, one of the pioneering indoor       geolocation companies using TOA technologies, 1998-2002.</li>
    <li><a href="http://skyhookwireless.com/whoweare/board.php">Chief technical advisor       of the Skyhook Wireless</a>, Boston,        MA, one of the pioneering       WiFi localization companies of the world, 2004- </li>
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  <h2>Corporate Consulting Experiences</h2>
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    <li>GTE Laboratories, Motorola/Codex, BBN, Mitre  Corp., and 3COM, in Massachusetts</li>
    <li>United Technology Research Center, Connecticut</li>
    <li>Honeywell Avionics Systems, Arizona</li>
    <li>Jet  Propulsion Laboratories, Savi Technologies, RadioLAN, California</li>
    <li>Nokia<strong> </strong>Mobile Phones, LK-Products, and Elektrobit, Finland </li>
    <li>NTT, Japan</li>
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  <h2>International Visibility</h2>
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    <li>Steering committee member and co-founder of the  IEEE PIMRC 1991 (London, UK), 1993 (Yokohama, Japan), 1994 (Hague,  Netherlands), 1995 (Toronto, Canada), 1996 (Taipei, Taiwan), 1997 (Helsinki, Finland), 1999 (Osaka,  Japan), 2001 (London, UK), 2002 (Lisbon,  Portugal), 2003 (Beijing, China), 2004  (Barcelona, Spain), 2005 (Berlin, Germany), 2006 (Helsinki, Finland), 2007  (Athens, Greece), 2008 (Cannes, France)</li>
    <li>Technical program committee member and co-founder  of the IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and  Applications (ISSTA), 1990 (UK),  1992 (Japan), 1994 (Finland),  1996 (Germany), 1998 (S. Africa), 2000 (US)</li>
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  <h2>Current courses</h2>
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    <li>EE 3308: Introduction to Wireless       Networks</li>
    <li>EE 506: Introduction to Local and       Wide Area Networks</li>
    <li>EE 538: Wireless Information       Networks</li>
    <li>EE539W: Wireless Access and       Localization</li>
    <li><a href="http://www.ece.wpi.edu/~kaveh/courses.html">Other Courses</a> </li>
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  <h2>Selected Publications<br />
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  <p>For over three decades of research, I have published a number of textbooks in wireless networks and contributed to numerous seminal visionary  and technical papers and patents. The central part of my research has been devoted to the analysis of the effects of transmission medium on the design of access and localization techniques. In my early carrier (before 1985) I worked on  channel modeling and performance evaluation of fixed wideband wireless data networks for communication over troposcatter, microwave line-of-sight and  voice-band data communication channels. In my mid-carrier (1985-2000), I worked on indoor radio propagation for  wireless LAN applications. Later on  (1996-2010) I have worked on radio propagation analysis for design of indoor geolocation systems for human and robots. Since 2009, I am involved in radio propagation analysis for body area networks (BAN) and localization of micro-robots inside the human body.</p>
  <p>Following selected publications provides an overview of my key books as well as visionary and technical papers in different stages of my career:</p>
  
  <h3>Major Textbooks:</h3>
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    <li>K.  Pahlavan and P. Krishnamurthy, Wireless Access and Localization, John Wiley and Sons, 2013 (under print).</li>
    <li>K.  Pahlavan and P. Krishnamurthy, <a href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470992891.html">Networking Fundamentals - Personal, Local and Wide Area Communications</a>, John Wiley and Sons, 2009.</li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan and Allen Levesque, <a href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471725420.html">Wireless Information Networks</a>, John Wiley and Sons, 2ed Ed. 2005.</li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan and P.  Krishnamurthy, <a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=559882">Principles of Wireless Networks</a> - A Unified Approach, Prentice  Hall, 2002.</li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan and Allen Levesque, Wireless Information Networks</a>, John Wiley and Sons, 1st Ed. 1995.</li>
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  <h3>Visionary Publications in BAN:</h3>
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    <li>K. Pahlavan, Y. Ye, U. Khan and R. Fu, "<a href="publications/docs/Tempere_final_modified7.pdf">RF Localization Inside Human Body - Enabling micro-robotic navigation for medical applications</a>", invited keynote Speech,  the proceeding of the IEEE ICL-GNSS, June 29-30, 2011, Tampere, Finland. </li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan, G. Bao, Y. Ye, S. Makarov, U. Khan, P. Swar, D. Cave, A. Karellas, P. Krishnamurthy, K. Sayrafian, "<a href="publications/docs/Published_Copy_Electronic_Version.pdf">RF Localization for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy</a>", invited paper, special issue on localization, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Springer, Vol 19, No 4, December 2012. </li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan, Y. Ye, R. Fu and U. Khan, "<a href="publications/docs/challenges in channel measurement.pdf">Challenges in Channel Measurement and Modeling for RF Localization Inside the Human Body</a>" invited paper, IGI special issue on ICL-GNSS, International Journal on Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems (IJERTCS), 3(3), 18-37, July-September, 2012.  </li>
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  <h3>Technical Publications in BAN:</h3>
  
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	<li>J. He, Y. Geng, Y. Wan, S. Li and K. Pahlavan,&ldquo;A Cyber Physical Testbed for Environment Virtualization of Wireless Access and Localization in Body Sensor Networks</a>&rdquo; <em>Special issue on Internet of Things: Architecture, Protocol and Services, IEEE Sensors Journal (accepted for publication)</em>.</li>
   	 <li>J. He, K. Pahlavan, S. Li and Q. Wang , "A Testbed for Evaluation of the Effects of Multipath on Performance of TOA-based Indoor Geolocation", IEEE Trans on Instrumentation and Measurements, (accepted for publication).</li>
	<li>Y. Ye, P. Swar and K. Pahlavan "<a href="publications/docs/Accuracy of RSS-Based RF Localization in Multi-capsule.pdf">Accuracy of RSS-Based RF Localization in Multi-Capsule Endoscopy</a>", invited paper, Wireless Health special issue, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Vol. 19, No 3,  Springer, August 2012.</li>
	<li>R. Fu, Y. Ye, N. Yang, K. Pahlavan, "<a href="publications/docs/ruijun's paper.pdf">Characteristic and Modeling of Human Body Motions for Body Area Network Applications</a>", invited paper, Wireless Health special issue, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, Springer  Vol 19, No 3,  August 2012.</li>
	<li>F. Askarzadeh, Y. Ye, U. Khan, F. Akgul, K. Pahlavan and S. Makarov, "Computational Methods for Localization in Close Proximity", chapter of  Position Location - Theory, Practice and Advances: A Handbook for Engineers and Academics, John Wiley and Sons, 2011.</li>
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  <h3>Visionary Publications in Indoor Geolocation:</h3>
  
  <ol>
    <li>K. Pahlavan, P. Krishnamurthy and J. Beneat, "<a href="publications/docs/Wideband Radio Propagation Modeling for Indoor Geolocation Applications.pdf">Wideband Radio Propagation Modeling for Indoor Geolocation Applications</a>", IEEE  Communications Magazine, April 1998.</li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan, X. Li, and J. Makela, "<a href="publications/docs/Indoor Geolocation in the Absence of Direct Path.pdf">Indoor Geolocation Science and Technology</a>", IEEE Comm Soc. Mag., Feb. 2002.</li>
    <li>K.  Pahlavan, F. Akgul, M. Heidari, A. Hatami, J. Elwell, and R. Tingley, "<a href="publications/docs/Indoor Geolocation in the Absence of Direct Path.pdf">Indoor Geolocation in the Absence of Direct Path</a>", Accepted for  publication in <em>IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine</em>, 2006.</li>
    <li>K.  Pahlavan, F. Akgul, Y. Ye, T. Morgan, F. A.-Shabdiz, M. Heidari, C. Steger, "<a href="publications/docs/Taking Positioning IndoorsWi-Fi Localization and GNS.pdf">Taking Positioning Indoors: Wi-Fi Localization and GNSS</a>", InsideGNSS, vol. 5, no. 3, May, 2010.</li>
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  <h3>Technical Papers in Indoor Geolocation:</h3>
  <ol>
    <li>X. Li and K. Pahlavan, "<a href="publications/docs/01259415.pdf">Super-resolution TOA estimation with diversity for indoor geolocation</a>", IEEE Trans on Wireless Comm. Dec. 2003.</li>
    <li>B. Alavi and K. Pahlavan, <a href="publications/docs/01613745.pdf">&quot;Modeling 
    of the TOA based Distance Measurement Error Using UWB Indoor Radio 
    Measurements</a>", IEEE Communications Letters, April 2006.</li>
    <li>A. Hatami, B. Alavi, K. Pahlavan, and M. Kanaan, "<a href="publications/docs/A Comparative Performance Evaluation of Indoor Geolocation Technologies.pdf">A Comparative Performance Evaluation of Indoor Geolocation Technologies</a>", invited paper, <em>Interdisciplinary Information Sciences</em>, Japan, Vol 12, No.2, 2006. </li>
    <li>N. Alsindi, K. Pahlavan, "<a href="publications/docs/A Comparative Performance Evaluation of Indoor Geolocation Technologies.pdf">Cooperative localization bounds  for indoor ultra wideband wireless sensor networks</a>", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing: special issue on Cooperative Localization in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, April, 2008.</li>
    <li>M. Heidari and K. Pahlavan, "<a href="publications/docs/Identification of the Absence of Direct Path Component in Indoor Localization System.pdf">Identification of the  Absence of Direct Path Component in Indoor Localization Systems</a>", IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, JULY 2009.</li>
    <li>Ferit Ozan Akgul, Kaveh Pahlavan, "<a href="publications/docs/A New Spatial Path Persistency Model for TOA-based Indoor Geolocation.pdf">A New Spatial Path Persistency Model  for TOA-based Indoor Geolocation</a>&quot;, <em>IEEE Communication Letters</em>, vol.13, no.4, March 2009.</li>
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  <h3>Historical Visionary Publications Related to WLAN:</h3>
  <ol>
    <li>K. Pahlavan, "Wireless Communication for Office Information Networks", IEEE Comm. Mag., June 1985. </li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan, "Wireless Intra-Office Networks", Invited paper, ACM Trans. On Office Inf. Sys., July 1988. </li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan and A. Levesque, "<a href="publications/docs/Wireless Data Communication.pdf">Wireless Data Communication</a>", Invited  Paper, IEEE Proceedings, Sep. 1994. </li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan, T. Probert, and M. Chase, "<a href="publications/docs/Trends in Local Wireless Networks.pdf">Trends in Local Wireless Networks</a>", invited paper, IEEE Comm. Soc.  Mag., March 1995.</li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan, A. Zahedi, and P. Krishnamurthy, "Wideband Local Access: WLAN and WATM", IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Series on Wireless ATM, November 1997 </li>
    <li>Pahlavan K., Krishnamurthy P., Hatami A.,Ylianttila M., Makela J., Pichna R. and Vallstrom J., <a href="publications/docs/Handoff in Hybrid Mobile Data Networks.pdf">Handoff in Hybrid Mobile Data Networks</a>. (invited paper) IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, vol. 7, no. 2, April 2000.</li>
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  <h3>Historical Technical Papers Related to WLAN:</h3>
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    <li>T. A. Sexton and K. Pahlavan, "<a href="publications/docs/Channel Modeling and Adaptive Equalization of Indoor Radio Channels.pdf">Channel Modeling and Adaptive Equalization of Indoor Radio Channels</a>", IEEE Jour. Of Sel. Areas in Comm. (JSAC), Jan. 1989.</li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan and M. Chase, "<a href="publications/docs/Spread Spectrum Multiple Access Performance of Orthogonal Codes for Indoor Radio Communications.pdf">Spread Spectrum Multiple Access Performance of Orthogonal Codes for Indoor Radio Communications</a>", IEEE Trans. on Comm., June 1990.</li>
    <li>R. Ganesh and K. Pahlavan, "Modeling of the Indoor Radio Channel", IEE Proceedings-I, June 1991</li>
    <li>S. J. Howard and K. Pahlavan, "Autoregressive  Modeling of Wideband Indoor Radio Propagation", IEEE Trans. On Comm., Sep.  1992. </li>
    <li>K. Zhang and K. Pahlavan, "<a href="publications/docs/Relation Between Transmission and Throughput of the Slotted ALOHA Local Packet Radio Networks.pdf">Relation Between Transmission and Throughput of the Slotted ALOHA Local Packet Radio Networks</a>, IEEE Trans. on Comm., March 1992. </li>
    <li>G. Yang and K. Pahlavan, "<a href="publications/docs/Sector Antenna and DFE Modems for High Speed Indoor Radio Communications.pdf">Sector Antenna and DFE Modems for High Speed Indoor Radio Communications</a>", IEEE Trans. on VT,  Nov. 1994.</li>
    <li>A Falsafi, K. Pahlavan, G. Yang, "<a href="publications/docs/Transmission Techniques for Wireless LANs.pdf">Transmission Techniques for Wireless LANs</a>", IEEE J. on Selected Areas in Communications, April 1996 </li>
    <li>R. Tingley and K. Pahlavan, "Measurement of the Time-Space Characteristics of Indoor Radio Channel", IEEE Trans on Instrumentation and Measurements, September 2000.</li>
    <li>A. Zahedi and K. Pahlavan, "Capacity of a Wireless LAN with Voice and Data Services", IEEE Trans. on Communications,  July 2000.</li>
    <li>M.H. Ali and K. Pahlavan, "<a href="publications/docs/A New Statistical Model for Site-specific Indoor Radio Propagation Prediction based on Geometric Optics and Geometric Probability.pdf">A New Statistical Model for Site-specific Indoor Radio Propagation Prediction based on Geometric Optics and Geometric Probability</a>", IEEE JSAC on Wireless Networks, Jan  2002.</li>
    <li>M. Ylianttila, J. Makela, and K. Pahlavan, "Analysis of Handoff in Location-Aware Vertical Multi-Access Networks", Invited Paper, Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks, Special Issue on Wireless IP Through Integration of Wireless LAN and Cellular Networks, Vol 47, 2005.</li>
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  <h3>Key Publications in Early Career Research</h3>
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    <li>P. A. Bello and K. Pahlavan, "Adaptive Equalization for Staggered QPSK and  QPR Over Frequency Selective Microwave LOS Channels", IEEE Trans. on  Communications, May 1984.</li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan, "Comparison Between the Performance of QPSK, SQPSK, QPR, and SQPR Systems Over Microwave LOS Channels", IEEE Trans. on Communications, March 1985.</li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan and J. L. Holsinger, "Voice-Band Data Communication, A Historical Review: 1919-1988", invited paper, IEEE Comm. Soc. Mag., Jan. 1988.</li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan and J. W. Matthews, "Channel Measurement Noise and the Performance of Adaptive Matched Filter Receivers over Fading Multipath Channels", IEEE Trans. on Comm., Nov. 1990.</li>
    <li>K. Pahlavan, "Nonlinear Quantization and Multi-Level/Phase Modulation and Coding", IEEE Trans. on Comm., July 1991.</li>
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