Prof. Alister Burr
 

Prof. Alister Burr BSc (Soton), PhD (Bristol), MIET, MIEEE, CEng

Professor of Communications, Chair of Research Committee

Email: agb1@ohm.york.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1904 43 2352
Fax: +44 (0)1904 43 2335
Research Area: Communications Group > Coding Lab

Current research

Turbo-codes and iterative techniques

  • Iterative detection of bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM);
  • Iterative joint MIMO channel estimation and decoding;
  • Iterative decoding of space-frequency block coding in OFDM;
  • Iterative joint multi-user detection or interference cancellation and decoding for CDMA and TDMA systems.

MIMO wireless communications

  • MIMO channel modelling for wideband and time-variant channels;
  • Antenna design and modelling for MIMO;
  • Turbo-coded spatial multiplexing for high capacity and high diversity;
  • Differential MIMO;
  • MIMO precoding for 3GPP LTE and WiMAX;
  • Spatio-temporal precoding for multi-user MIMO-OFDMA using tensor notation

Distributed and virtual MIMO

  • Cooperative diversity and distributed space time block codes;
  • Distributed spatial multiplexing;
  • Distributed beamforming;
  • Body Area Networks.

 

Latest 25 Publications

  • Lingyang Song, Rodrigo C de Lamare, and Alister G. Burr, Approximate ML Decision-Feedback Block Equalizer for Doubly Selective Fading Channels, IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, 58(5):2314-2321, June, 2009
  • Zheng, F.-C, Burr, A.G. and Olafsson, S., Signal Detection for Distributed Space-Time Block Coding: 4 Relay Nodes under Quasi-Synchronisation, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 57(5):1250-1255, May, 2009
  • Lei Ye and Alister Burr, Separate Turbo Code and Single Turbo Code Adaptive OFDM Transmissions, Article ID 609386,doi:10.1155/2009/609386, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 20092009
  • F.-C. Zheng, A.G. Burr and S. Olafsson, Near-Optimum Detection for Distributed Space-Time Block Coding under Imperfect Synchronisation, IEEE Trans. Commun, 56(11):1795-1799, 0090-6778, November, 2008
  • Yu Deng, Alister G. Burr, Dave Pearce and David Grace, Distributed Beamforming for Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE Workshop on Cognitive Networks and Communications (COGCOM2008), Hangzhou, China, Aug., 2008
  • Y. Deng, A. G. Burr and L.-Y. Song, Differential Spatial Multiplexing from Orthogonal Designs, The 9th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC2008), Recife, Brazil, July, 2008
  • Hui Xiao and Alister G. Burr, Reduced complexity cluster modelling for time-variant wideband MIMO channels, European Wireless, Prague, June, 2008
  • D. Grace, P. D. Mitchell, T. Clarke, A. G. Burr, D. A. J. Pearce, Cognitive routing for tactical ad hoc communications, Karlsruhe Workshop on Software Radios (WSR), Karlsruhe, Germany, March, 2008
  • Lingyang Song, Rodrigo C de Lamare, and Alister G. Burr, Successive Interference Cancellation Schemes for Time-Reversal Space-Time Block Codes, IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, 57(1):642-648, Jan, 2008
  • A. G. Burr, Y. Deng, MIMO for High Speed Backhaul from HAPs, Second Workshop of COST297 ‘HAPCOS’, Wroclaw, Poland, Oct., 2007
  • Y. Deng, A. G. Burr and G. White, Performance of 4-D Trellis-Coded Polarization Multiplexing in High-Altitude Platform Communications, Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Conference (WPMC’05), Aalborg, Denmark, Sep., 2007
  • F.-C. Zheng, A.G. Burr, and S. Olafsson, A PIC Detector for Distributed Space-Time Block Coding under Imperfect Synchronisation, Electronics Letters, 43(10):580-582, May, 2007
  • L-Y Song and A. G. Burr , , Vol.1, no.2, pp. , April 2007, “A General Differential Modulation Scheme for Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes with Partial or Full Transmit Diversity”, IET Communications, 1(2):256-266, April, 2007
  • H. Mai, Y. Zakharov, and A. Burr, Iterative Channel Estimation Based on B-splines for Fast Flat Fading Channels, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 6(4):1224-1229, April, 2007
  • Z. Wu and A. G. Burr, Power control for spatial multiplexing with MMSE receiver, Electronic Letters, 43(9):537-538, April 26th, 2007
  • M. Fitch and Y. Deng, Trellis-Coded Multi-Level Gaussian MSK, IEEE Semi-Annual Vehicular Technology Conference, Dublin, Ireland, Apr., 2007
  • L-Y. Song and A. G. Burr, Differential Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes, IEEE Trans Wireless Commun, 6(1):64-68, Jan, 2007
  • L. Song, R. C. de Lamare and A. G. Burr, Successive Interference Cancellation Schemes for Time-Reversal Space-Time Block Codes, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, :8 pages, 2007
  • P. Almers, E. Bonek, A. Burr, N. Czink, M. Debbah, V. Degli-Esposti, H. Hofstetter, P. Kyösti, D. Laurenson, G. Matz, A. F. Molisch, C. Oestges, and H. Özcelik, Survey of Channel and Radio Propagation Models for Wireless MIMO Systems, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2007:ID 19070, 2007
  • Lingyang Song and Alister G. Burr, A Simple Differential Modulation Scheme for Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes with Partial Transmit Diversity, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2007:ID 97475, 2007
  • L-Y Song and A. G. Burr, Successive Interference Cancelation for Space-Time Block Codes Over Time-Selective Channels, IEEE Communications Letters, 10(12):837 – 839, Dec, 2006
  • H. Xiao, A. G. Burr and L. Song, A time-variant wideband spatial channel model based on the 3GPP model, VTC-Fall 2006, Montreal, September, 2006
  • H. Xiao and A. G. Burr, An extended correlation matrix distance metric used to evaluate the short-term time variation of wideband channels predicted by different MIMO channel models, Vienna, September, 2006
  • Lingyang Song, Alister Burr, Keith Roberts, Achieving Spatial Diversity via Per Antenna Rate Control for Future Wireless Communication Systems, VTC-Fall 2006, Montreal, September, 2006
  • H. Xiao and A. G. Burr, Full correlation matrix of a time-variant wideband spatial channel model, PIMRC 2006, Helsinki, September, 2006

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