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Journal Papers
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L. Sardellitti, G. Takahara and F. Alajaji,
Optimal Binary Signaling for a Two Sensor Gaussian MAC Network,
IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear.
- A. Gronowski, W. Paul, F. Alajaji, B. Gharesifard and P. Burlina,
Classification Utility, Fairness, and Compactness via Tunable Information Bottleneck and Rényi Measures,
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 19, pp. 1630-1645, 2024.
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J.-J. Weng, F. Alajaji and T. Linder,
Two-Way Source-Channel Coding,
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
Vol. 67, No. 10, pp. 6507-6524, October 2021.
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H. Bhatia, W. Paul, F. Alajaji, B. Gharesifard and P. Burlina,
Least kth-Order and Rényi Generative Adversarial Networks,
Neural Computation, MIT Press, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 2473-2510, September 2021.
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J. Yang, F. Alajaji and G. Takahara,
On Bounding the Union Probability Using Partial Weighted Information,
Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 116, pp. 38-44,
doi:10.1016/j.spl.2016.04.017, September 2016.
arXiv:1506.08331
Conference Papers
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F. C. Thierrin, F. Alajaji and T. Linder,
On the Rényi Cross-Entropy,
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Canadian Workshop on Information Theory,
Ottawa, June 2022.
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S. Asoodeh, M. Diaz, F. Alajaji and T. Linder,
Privacy- Aware Guessing Efficiency,
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory,
Aachen, Germany, June 2017.
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S. Asoodeh, F. Alajaji and T. Linder,
Privacy-Aware MMSE Estimation,
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory,
Barcelona, July 2016.
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S. Asoodeh, F. Alajaji and T. Linder,
Notes on Information-Theoretic Privacy,
Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Annual Allerton Conference
Communication, Control and Computing,
Monticello, IL, September-October 2014.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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D. Nagy and T. Linder,
Higher Order Markov Modeling of Block-Markov Sources,
22nd Biennial Symposium on Communications,
Queen's University, Kingston, June 2004.
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D. Rolls,
Improved Fast Approximate Synthesis of Fractional Gaussian Noise,
International Conference on Statistics and Related Fields,
Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2002.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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N. C. Beaulieu, Y. Huang and L. L. Campbell,
Bias of Symbol Timing Estimators,
The 19th Biennial Symposium on Communications,
Kingston, Ontario, June 1998.
Technical Reports
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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.
Theses
Doctoral Dissertations
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Somya Singh,
Reinforcement and Preferential Attachment Models via Polya Urnsa.
Ph.D. Dissertation, August 2023.
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Jian-Jia Weng,
Information Transmission Over Two-Way Networks.
Ph.D. Dissertation, December 2020.
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Shahab Asoodeh,
Information and Estimation Theoretic Approaches to Data Privacy.
Ph.D. Dissertation, May 2017.
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Ahmad Abou Saleh,
Source-Channel Coding Techniques in the Presence of Interference and Noise.
Ph.D. Dissertation, September 2015.
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Youness Aliyari Ghassabeh,
On the Convergence and Applications of Mean Shift Type Algorithms.
Ph.D. Dissertation, September 2013.
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Nevroz Sen,
Channel Capacity in the Presence of Feedback and Side Information.
Ph.D. Dissertation, July 2013.
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Saeed Akhavan Astaneh,
Management and Sensing of Spectrum in Cognitive Radio.
Ph.D. Dissertation, June 2013.
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Yangfan Zhong,
Joint Source-Channel Coding Reliability Function
for Single and Multi-Terminal Communication Systems.
Ph.D. Dissertation, May 2008.
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Yadong Wang,
Hybrid Digital-Analog Source-Channel Coding and Information
Hiding: Information-Theoretic Perspectives.
Ph.D. Dissertation, September 2007.
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Daniel Nagy,
Lossless Compression and Alphabet Size.
Ph.D. Dissertation, January 2006.
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Chris Leith,
Ant Algorithms and Generalized Finite Urns.
Ph.D. Dissertation, June 2005.
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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.
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Firouz Behnamfar,
Single and Multiple Antenna Communication Systems:
Performance Analysis and Joint Source-Channel
Coding.
Ph.D. Dissertation, September 2004.
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Guang-Chong Zhu,
Joint Source-Channel Coding via Turbo Codes.
Ph.D. Dissertation, January 2003.
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David Rolls,
Limit Theorems and Estimation for Structural and Aggregate
Teletraffic Models.
Ph.D. Dissertation, January 2003.
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Ziad Rached,
Information Measures for Sources with Memory and their
Application to Hypothesis Testing and Source Coding.
Ph.D. Dissertation, August 2002.
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Timothy Ramsey,
A Bivariate Finite Element Smoothing Spline Applied
to Image Registration.
Ph.D. Dissertation, January 2000. Abstract,
gzip'ed PostScript.
Master Theses
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Luca Sardellitti,
Optimized Binary Constellation Design for Distributed Detection over Gaussian MAC Sensor Networks.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, September 2024.
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Liam Cregg,
Optimal Zero-Delay Transmission of Markov Sources: Reinforcement Learning and Approximations.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, July 2024.
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Justin Veiner,
Generative Adversarial Networks Based on a General Parameterized Family of Generator Loss Functions.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, September 2023.
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Cole Thierrin,
Rényi Cross-Entropy: Properties and Closed-Form Expressions for Sources with and without Memory.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, January 2023.
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Adam Gronowski,
Information Bottleneck Methods for Fairness and Privacy in Machine Learning.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, September 2022.
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Himesh Bhatia,
Generalzied Loss Functions for Generative Adversarial Networks.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, October 2020.
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Al Mahdi Moufid,
On Optimal Codes for Additive Noise Channels.
M.Sc. Thesis, September 2020.
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Gregory Harrington,
Optimization Policies for Polya Contagion Networks.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, June 2020.
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Sayed Saeed Rezazadeh,
Scalar Quantization Algorithms for the Robust Transmission of Correlated Sources
Over One- and Two-Way Channels.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, October 2019.
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Kiraseya Preusser,
Channel Optimized Scalar Quantization over Orthogonal Multiple Access Channels with Memory.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, September 2017.
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Mikhail Hayhoe,
A Polya Urn Stochastic Model for the Analysis and Control of Epidemics on Networks.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, August 2017.
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Seyed Parsa Beheshti,
MAP Decoding of Correlated Sources over Soft-Decision
Orthogonal Multiple-Access Fading Channels with Memory.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, September 2014.
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Steven Wu,
Lossless Coding of Markov Random Fields with Complex Cliques.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, August 2013.
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Ghady Azar,
On the Optimality of the Hamming Metric for Decoding Block Codes
over Binary Additive Noise Channels.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, July 2013.
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Shan Lu,
Measuring Dependence via Mutual Information.
M.Sc. Thesis, September 2011.
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Shervin Shahidi,
Robust Lossy Source Coding for Correlated Fading Channels.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, September 2011.
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Manuel Gil,
Rényi's Divergence Measures for Continuous Alphabet Sources.
M.Sc. Thesis, August 2011.
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Ahmad Abou Saleh,
Source-Channel Mappings with Applications
to Compressed Sensing.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, July 2011.
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Brendan Moore,
Pairwise Optimization of Modulation Constellations
for Non-Uniform Sources.
M.A.Sc. Thesis, September 2009.
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Adam Cohen,
Linear Programming Decoding for Non-Uniform Sources
and for Binary Channels with Memory.
M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, December 2008.
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Hamidreza Ebrahimzadeh Saffar,
Channel Optimized Vector Quantization:
Iterative Design Algorithms.
M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, August 2008.
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Haider Al-Lawati,
Performance Analysis of Linear Block Codes Over
the Queue-Based Channel.
M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, August 2007.
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Saeed Moradi,
Multiple Description Coding: Proposed Methods
and Video Application.
M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, August 2007.
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Shant Sethian,
On the Construction of Non-Orthogonal Linear
Space-Time Block Codes.
M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, October 2005.
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Cynthia Thomas,
Soft-Decision COVQ for M-ary PAM Modulated AWGN
and Rayleigh Fading Channels.
M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, September 2005.
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Christopher Nicola,
Decoding of LDPC Codes Over Channels with
Binary Additive Markov Noise.
M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, September 2005.
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Zahir Raza,
Sample Adaptive Product Quantization for Memoryless
Noisy Channels.
M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, November 2002.
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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.
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Hongyan Kuai,
Tight Bounds on the Probability of a Union with
Applications to Non-Uniform Signaling
over AWGN Channels.
M.Sc. Thesis, July 1999.
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Joanna Meadows,
New Results on Incorporating Retrials into Large Loss Networks
Operating under Heavy Traffic.
M.Sc. Thesis, August 1998.
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Nicholas Whalen,
The Capacity-Cost Function of Channels with Additive Markov Noise.
M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, June 1998.
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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.
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Julian Cheng,
Channel Optimized Quantization of Images over
Binary Channels with Memory.
M.Sc. (Eng) Thesis, September 1997.
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Richard A. Lodge,
A Multi-Priority Hybrid Protocol for Satellite
Switching Networks,. M.Sc. Thesis, August 1996.
Master Projects
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Mohammad Yaali Jahromi,
An Information Theoretic Approach to the Information Bottleneck Problem.
M.Sc. Project, June 2020.
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Jiayu Lin,
On the Dirichlet Distribution.
M.Sc. Project, September 2016.
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Tyson Mitchell,
Optimal Binary Signaling for Correlated Sources over the Orthogonal
Gaussian Multiple-Access Channel.
M.Sc. Project, November 2014.
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Jun Yang,
On Bounding the Probability of a Finite Union of Events
Using Partial Information.
M.Sc. Project, September 2014.
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Ramiro Zurkowski,
Lyapunov Analysis for Rates of Convergence in Markov Chains and Random-Time
State-Dependent Drift.
M.Sc. Project, October 2013.
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Benjamin Wallace,
On the Critical Points of Gaussian Mixtures.
M.Sc. Project, July 2013.
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Shahab Asoodeh,
Feed-Forward Rate Distortion Function and Markov Sources,.
M.Sc. Project, December 2012.
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Razan Al-Nakhli,
On Upper Bounding Discrete Entropy
.
M.Sc. Project, December 2011.
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Nevroz Sen,
Feedback Capacity for a Discrete Non-Binary
Noise Channel with Memory.
M.Eng. Project, May 2009.
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Xiaoyan Wu,
Syndrome Source Coding for Lossless Data Compression
Based on Linear Block Codes.
M.Sc. Project, September 2008.
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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.
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Scott Amiss,
Estimation of Long Range Dependence and the Nile River
.
M.Sc. (Eng) Project, May 2004.
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Jay Shah,
Empirical Study of the Connection Between Quantizer Distortion
and Training Set Size.
M.Sc. (Eng) Project, January 2004.
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Ka Sin Tong,
Turbo Codes for Asymmetric Binary Channels.
M.Sc. (Eng) Project, December 2003.
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Yangfan Zhong,
On the Joint Source-Channel Reliability Function for
Memoryless Communication Systems.
M.Sc. (Eng) Project, November 2003.
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Aaron So,
Wavelength Converter Placement in Survivable All-Optical
Networks.
M.Sc. (Eng) Project, September 2003.
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Andrew Gibson,
The H.264 Video Encoding Standard.
M.Sc. (Eng) Project, August 2002.
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Hanmei Zhu,
Quantitative Analyses of Differentiated Services for the Internet.
M.Sc. Project, August 2002.
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Jing Gai,
A Computational Study of the Bivariate Normal Probability
Function. M.Sc. (Eng) Project, January 2002.
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Clifford Lui,
A Study of the JPEG-2000 Image Compression Standard.
M.Sc. (Eng) Project, May 2001.
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Libo Zhong,
A Binary Channel with Additive Bursty Noise Based
on a Finite Queue.
M.Sc. Project, November 2000.
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Guang-Chong Zhu,
Performance Evaluation of Turbo Codes.
M.Sc. Project, September 1998.
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Ziad Rached,
Rényi's Entropy for Discrete Markov Sources.
M.Sc. Project, September 1998.
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David Rolls,
An Investigation of Static and Dynamic Call Admission Control Methods By
Simulation. M.Sc. Project, September 1997.
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Marcus Cleary,
Maximizing Profit in a Retrial Network
.
M.Sc. Project, March, 1997.
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