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Recent Publications

 Whitehead J B and Takawira F
(2003) Performance analysis of MMSE ST MUD of DS-CDMA with a correlated vector channel model SAIEE Transactions, Vol. 94, pp. 9 – 14. [Journal article]

Akol R N and Takawira F
(2003) Performance comparison of multi-dimensional trellis coded modulation and convolutionally coded MC-DS-CDME in a Rayleigh fading channel  SAIEE Transactions, Vol. 94, pp. 23 28. [Journal article]

Ngatched T M N and Takawira F
(2003) Improved, generalised low-density parity-check codes using irregular graphs  SAIEE Transactions, Vol. 94, pp. 43 - 49. [Journal article]

 Bejide E O and Takawira F.
(2003) An Iterative Multiuser Detector for DS-CDMA, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 6 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

Abdul Gaffar, M Y, Broadhurst A D and Takawira F.
(2003) A Comparison of Parametric Subspace Delay Estimation Algorithms for DS/CDMA Systems, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 6 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Whitehead J and Takawira F
(2003) Convergence Analysis of the LCCMA in an Asychronous DS-CDMA System, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 6 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Ramlakhan N B and Takawira F. 
(2003) Outage Analysis of a downlink Load-Based Admission Policy for Multiservice Cellular Networks, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 6 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Walingo T and Takawira F. 
(2003) Delay Based Call Admission Control for Next Generation Wireless Cellular Networks, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 4  pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Byers G J and Takawira F. 
(2003) Analytical Results for the Capacity of Spatially Correlated MIMO Channels, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 6 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Ngatched T M N and Takawira F. 
(2003) Error-Correcting Codes Based on Irregular Graphs, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 6 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Abdul Gaffar M Y, Xu H and Takawira F. 
(2003) Improved Performance of the MMSE Linear Equalizer in Turbo Equalization by the use of Extrinsic Feedback Information, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 6 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Akol R N and Takawira F. 
(2003) A Comparative Study of Space-Time-Frequency Coded Systems for Broadband Channels, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 5 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Zibani I and Dawoud D S. 
(2003)  Self  Reconfiguring Programmer for an FPGA-Based Software Radio, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 6 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Mahlaba S B and Takawira F. 
(2003) A MAC Protocol for Wireless IP Networks, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 6 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Mtika S and Takawira F. 
(2003) Route Optimization for Minimizing Inter-Switch Handoff Dropped Calls in Wireless ATM Networks, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 6 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Ojong G E and Takawira F. 
(2003) Rainbow Services: A New Architecture for QoS Provisioning in the Future Internet, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 4 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Scriba S M and Takawira F. 
(2003) Statistical Fairness Bounds of Two CDMA-based Wireless Packet Schedulers, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 7 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Brijmohan Y and Mneney S H. 
(2003) Benchmark for Modern Wavelet Based Still Image Compression, SATNAC 2003 [Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference] 5 pages CD-ROM. [Conference Proceedings]

 Dawoud D S and Phakathi S E
(2003)  Time-Interleaved Filter Bank A/D Converters, MICSA 2003 [The Military Information and Communication Symposium of South Africa] 8 pages on CD-ROM [Conference Proceedings]

 Dawoud D S and Zibani I
(2003) Application of Object Orientated Analysis/Design to Software Radio MICSA 2003 [The Military Information and Communication Symposium of South Africa] 8 pages on CD-ROM [Conference Proceedings]

 Dawoud D S
(2003) Design of a Secure Download System for Software Defined Radio MICSA 2003 [The Military Information and Communication Symposium of South Africa] 8 pages on CD-ROM [Conference Proceedings]

Judge G and Takawira F.
(2002) A simple hidden Markov model for a CDMA channel with correlated Rayleigh fading The Transactions of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers 93 No 1: 17-26. [Journal article]

Nageshar N, Sewsunker R and Mneney S H.
(2002) Economics Involved in Providing Universal Telecommunications Access for the SADC Region In: SATNAC 2002 [Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference], pp. 293-298, Drakensberg, South Africa. [Conference proceedings]

Kilenga A I and Mneney S H.
(2002) Performance Evaluation of Wireless CDMA Network in a Multirate Traffic Environment In: SATNAC 2002 [Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference], pp. 109-114, Drakensberg, South Africa. [Conference presentation]

Liu Y-S and Takawira F.
(2002) Approximate Analysis of Multiple Token Based MAC Networks with QoS Guarantee In: SATNAC 2002 [Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference], pp. 269-273, Drakensberg, South Africa. [Conference proceedings]

Gugrajah Y and Takawira F.
(2002) Blocking Probability Evaluation in Multihop CDMA Networks In: SATNAC 2002 [Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference], pp. 145-149, Drakensberg, South Africa. [Conference proceedings]

Walingo T and Takawira F.
(2002) Adaptive Admission Control for Next Generation Networks In: SATNAC 2002 [Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference], pp. 139-143, Drakensberg, South Africa. [Conference proceedings]

Ramlakhan N B and Takawira F.
(2002) Prioritised Call Admission Control for 3rd Generation Cellular Networks In: SATNAC 2002 [Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference], pp. 133-138, Drakensberg, South Africa. [Conference proceedings]

Abdul Gaffar M Y, Broadhurst A D and Takawira F.
(2002) Performance Analysis of a Subspace-Based Channel Estimation Algorithm for CDMA Systems In: SATNAC 2002 [Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference], pp. 121-126, Drakensberg, South Africa. [Conference proceedings]

Whitehead J and Takawira F.
(2002) Blind MUD of DS-CDMA using the Linearly Constrained Constant Modulus Algorithm In: SATNAC 2002 [Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference], pp. 115-118, Drakensberg, South Africa. [Conference proceedings]

Byers G L and Takawira F.
(2002) On the Capacity of Spatially and Temporally Correlated MIMO Channels In: SATNAC 2002 [Southern African Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference], pp. 103-107, Drakensberg, South Africa. [Conference proceedings]

Ngatched, T. M. N. and F. Takawira. 2001. Simple Stopping Criterion for Turbo Decoding. Electronics Letters, 37(22): 1350-1351.

Pillay-Narrainen, R. and F. Takawira. 2001. A Distributed Call Admission Control Protocol for DS-CDMA Cellular Networks.  The Transactions of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers, 92(1): 27-41.

Pillay Narrainen, R. and F. Takawira. 2001. Performance Analysis of Soft Handoff in CDMA Cellular Networks.  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 50(6): 1507-1517.

Rajaratnam, M. and F. Takawira. 2001. Hand-Off Traffic Characterisation in Cellular Networks Under Non-Classical Arrivals and Service Time Distributions. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 50(4): 954 - 970.

Akol, R. N. and F. Takawira. 2001. Effect of Channel Correlation in Coded MC-CDMA. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings. Wild Coast Sun, pp154 - 158, CD only.

Beijde, E. O. and F. Takawira. 2001. Error probabilities of parallel interference cancellers for CDMA in Nakagami multipath fading channel with an imperfect channel estimation. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings. Wild Coast Sun, pp147 - 151, CD only.

Byers, G. and F. Takawira. 2001. Analysis of space-time trellis codes on block and rapid Rayleigh fading channels. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings. Wild Coast Sun, pp256 - 261, CD only.

Gugrajah, Y. and F. Takawira. 2001. Performance of wireless Ad-Hoc network routing protocols using Load and Capacity Meters. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings. Wild Coast Sun, pp243 - 248, CD only.

Korah, S. and S. McDonald. 2001. Operational overview of a DSP / FPGA based software radio. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings, Wild Coast Sun, pp297-302, CD only.

Korah, S. and S. McDonald. 2001. Towards the implementation of a WCDMA AAA receiver on an FPGA software radio platform. In Proceedings of  VTC 2001, Rhodes, Greece, CD only.

Liu. Y. S. and F. Takawira. 2001. Token based medium access control in wireless networks. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings, Wild Coast Sun, pp250-254, CD only.

 Majoor, R. and F. Takawira. 2001. Deterministic delay guarantees for a wireless CDMA MAC protocol. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings, Wild Coast Sun, pp710-716, CD only.

Ngatched, T. and F. Takawira. 2001. Comparison of stopping criteria for turbo decoding. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings. Wild Coast Sun, pp278-282, CD only.

Pate, N. R. and F. Takawira. 2001. Power Control in Ad-Hoc Networks. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings, Wild Coast Sun, pp210-215, CD only.

Rajaratnam, M. and F. Takawira. 2001. A single cell model for the performance analysis of the radio layer in GSM Phase 2+ (GPRS) networks under voice and data traffic. In Proceedings of PIMRC 2001. San Diego, California, USA, ppC118-C123.

Scriba, S. M. and F. Takawira. 2001. Scheduling in Wireless Networks. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings, Wild Coast Sun, pp 203 - 208, CD only.

Walingo, T. and F. Takawira. 2001.  Performance comparison of snoop and ECN protocols. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings, Wild Coast Sun, pp263-268, CD only.

Wang, Q. S. and F. Takawira. 2001. Quantization effects in adaptive LMS-MMSE multi-user detector. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings, Wild Coast Sun, pp198-201, CD only.

 Whitehead, J. and F. Takawira. 2001. Subspace techniques for multiuser detection for MC-DS-CDMA in a frequency selective fading channel. In SATNAC 2001 Proceedings, Wild Coast Sun, pp164-169, CD only.

Rajaratnam, M. and Takawira, F, "Nonclassical traffic modelling and performance analysis of cellular mobile networks with and without channel reservation", IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, vol. 49, pp. 817-834, May 2000.

Judge, G. and Takawira, F, "Spread-spectrum CDMA packet radio MAC protocol using channel overload detection and blocking," Wireless Networks. (to appear December 2000).

Pillay-Narrainen, R. and Takawira, F, "Performance analysis of soft handoff in CDMA cellular networks", IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology (accepted for publication).

Rajaratnam, M and Takawira, F., "Hand-off traffic characterisation in cellular networks under non-classical arrivals and service time distributions," IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology (accepted for publication).

Xu, H. Kwak, K.S. and Takawira, F, "Performance of turbo-coded DS/SFH CDMA with partial band interference and Rayleigh fading", Trans. IEICE (accepted for publication).

Rajaratnam, M and Takawira, F, "Hand-off traffic characterisation in cellular networks under non-classical arrivals and gamma service time distributions", IEEE PIMRC'2000, London, England, September 2000, pp345-352.

Xu, H. and Takawira, F., "Performance of Turbo-coded DS/SFH CDMA with partial-band interference and Rayleigh fading," IEEE ISSSTA 2000, New Jersey, USA, September 2000, pp695-699.

Pillay-Narrainen, R. and Takawira, F., "A traffic model for CDMA cellular systems with soft capacity taken into account" IEEE ISSSTA 2000, New Jersey, USA, September 2000, pp221-225.

Rajaratnam, M. and Takawira, F.,  "Asymptotic approximation for hand-off traffic characterisation in cellular networks under non-classical arrival and service time distributions", Lillehammer, Norway, March 2000, pp95-106.

Majoor, R. and Takawira, F., "MAC layer analysis of a WATM/CDMA protocol," IEEE Globecom 2000, San Francisco, USA, Nov 2000. 

Rajaratnam, M and Takawira, F, "Performance analysis of highway cellular networks using generalised arrival and generalised service time distributions", ITC '99, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 

Judge, G and Takawira, F, "Performance analysis of a novel channel load sensing protocol for CDMA packet radio networks supporting voice and data traffic integration", IEEE PIMRC'99, Osaka, Japan, September 1999, pp 1294-1299. 

Rajaratnam, M and Takawira, F, "Hand-off traffic characterisation in cellular networks under Engset new call arrivals and generalised service times", IEEE WCNC '99, New Orleans, USA, Sept. 1999, pp 423 - 427. 

Pillay Narrainen, R and Takawira, F, "A queuing model for CDMA cellular networks using soft capacity", 1999 IEEE AFRICON, Cape Town, South Africa, September 1999, pp 147-152. 

Mpako, V M W and Takawira, F, "Capture and imperfect power control in Spread-ALOHA systems with lognormal shadowing", 1999 IEEE AFRICON, Cape Town, South Africa, September 1999, pp 245-256. 

Rajaratnam, M and Takawira, F, "Two moment analysis of channel reservation in cellular networks", 1999 IEEE AFRICON, Cape Town, South Africa, September, pp 257-268. 

Worley, B and Takawira, F, "Power reduction and threshold adjustment for soft handoff in CDMA cellular systems", 1999 IEEE AFRICON, Cape Town, South Africa, September 1999, pp 263-268. 

Majoor, R and Takawira, F, "Markov analysis of a joint WATM/CDMA MAC protocol", 1999 IEEE AFRICON, Cape Town, South Africa, September 1999, pp 269-274. 

Xu H and Takawira, F, "Turbo coded/Diversity combining scheme for hybrid DS/SFH CDMA systems", 1999 IEEE AFRICON, Cape Town, South Africa, September 1999, pp 75-80. 

Worley, B and Takawira, F, "Power reduction and threshold adjustment for soft handoff in CDMA cellular systems", 1999 AFRICON, Cape Town, South Africa, September 1999, pp 263-268. 

 

 

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