Michael Samuel

Ph.D. candidate

UnWiReD Lab (link)

Electrical Engineering Department (link)

University of California Los Angeles (link)

 

53-112 Engineering IV Building
420 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
Tel: (310) 206-6718
Email: mrsamuel (add “@ucla.edu”)

 

M.Sc. in Communications Technology at Universität Ulm:

·       The Abteilung Informationstechnik (Institute of Information Technology) at Ulm University.

·       The Communications Technology international Masters program at Ulm University.

·       M.Sc. thesis title: “Investigation of Space-Time Coding and Space-Time Spreading Techniques for MIMO Systems”.

thesis (.pdf)                presentation (.pdf)

 

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UCLA:

·       Slides of the final defense.

 

Research Interests:

·       Design of low complexity space-time codes.

·       Low complexity detectors for iterative space-time bit-interleaved coded modulation.

·       Iterative decoding of space-time bit-interleaved coded modulation with transmitter channel state information.

 

Conference Papers:

·       Michael Samuel, Maged Barsoum and Michael Fitz “On The Suitability Of Bit Mappings To Outer Channel Codes In Iteratively-Decoded BICM”, the ASILOMAR Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 2009.

·       Michael Samuel, and Michael Fitz, “Sphere Detectors For Robust Iterative Detection and Decoding Under Channel Estimation Errors”, IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Taormina, Italy, October 2009

·       Michael Samuel, and Michael Fitz, “Efficient Iterative Sphere Detectors Based On the Schnorr-Euchner Enumeration”, IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Volos, Greece, June 2009. (presentation)

·       Michael Samuel, and Michael Fitz, “Geometric Decoding Of PAM and QAM Lattices”, Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Washington DC, November 2007. (presentation)

·       Michael Samuel, and Michael Fitz, “Reducing The Detection Complexity By Using 2 X 2 Multi-Strata Space-Time Codes”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Nice, June 2007.

·       Michael Samuel, Christian Pietsch and Jürgen Lindner, “Linear Spreading Space-Time Block Codes: System Model and Optimization Criterion”, Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Berlin, September 2005.

 

Journal Papers:

·       Michael Samuel and Michael Fitz  “Robust Sphere Detectors For Iterative Detection and Decoding Under Channel Estimation Errors”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications, August 2009.

·       Michael Samuel and Michael Fitz “Iterative Sphere Detectors Based On the Schnorr-Euchner Enumeration”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, November 2008.

·       Michael Samuel and Michael Fitz “Multi-Strata Codes: Space-Time Block Codes With Low Detection Complexity”, accepted at IEEE Transactions on Communications, August 2008.

 

Book Chapters:

·       Michael Fitz, Cong Shen, and Michael Samuel, "Physical Layer Wireless Communications," Chapter 2 in Wireless Networks: From the Physical Layer to Communication, Computing, Sensing and Control, edited by Giorgio Franceschetti and Sabatino Stornelli,  Elsevier Publisher, 2006.

 

Talks:

·       A 2X2 multi-strata space-time block code, Annual Research Review of the Electrical Engineering Dept., UCLA, 2007.

·       Efficient sphere detectors for iterative decoding of MIMO-BICM based on the Schnorr-Euchner enumeration, Annual Research Review of the Electrical Engineering Dept., UCLA, 2009.