Thushara Abhayapala

Thushara D. Abhayapala is currently the Leader of the Wireless Signal Processing (WSP) Program at National ICT Australia (NICTA). He is also an Associate Professor at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. He received the B.E. (with honors) degree in interdisciplinary systems engineering in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications engineering in 1999 from ANU. From 1995 to 1997, he worked as a Research Engineer at the Arthur C. Clarke Centre for Modern Technologies, Sri Lanka. Since December 1999, he has been a faculty member at the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, ANU. His research interests are in the areas of space-time signal processing for wireless communication systems, spatiotemporal channel modeling, MIMO capacity analysis, UWB systems, array signal processing, and acoustic signal processing. He has supervised 17 research students and coauthored approximately 100 peer-reviewed papers. Professor Abhayapala is currently an Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

Biography Updated on 7 February 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Gaussian inputs: performance limits over non-coherent SISO and MIMO channels
    European Transactions on Telecommunications, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 235–244, 2007
  2. Spatial precoder design for space–time coded MIMO systems: based on fixed parameters of MIMO channels
    Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 777–799, 2007
  3. IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 610–612, 2007
  4. Intrinsic Limits of Dimensionality and Richness in Random Multipath Fields
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 2542–2556, 2007
  5. Space-Time Channel Modeling for Wireless Communications
    EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2007, Article ID 24595, 2 pages, 2007
  6. Generalized Broadband Beamforming Using a Modal Subspace Decomposition
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 68291, 9 pages, 2007
  7. Maximal ratio combining performance analysis in practical Rayleigh fading channels
    IEE Proceedings - Communications, vol. 153, no. 5, p. 755, 2006
  8. Capacity of non-coherent Rayleigh fading MIMO channels
    IEE Proceedings - Communications, vol. 153, no. 6, p. 976, 2006
  9. Theory and design of sound field reproduction in reverberant rooms
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 117, no. 4, p. 2100, 2005
  10. Cramér-Rao Lower Bounds for the Synchronization of UWB Signals
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2005, no. 3, pp. 426–438, 2005
  11. Using Dasymetric Mapping for Spatially Aggregated Crime Data
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 243–262, 2004
  12. Telecommunication Systems, vol. 24, no. 2/4, pp. 415–436, 2003
  13. Conditions and Performance of Ideal RAKE Reception for Ultra-Wideband Signals in Lognormal Fading Channels
    International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 193–200, 2003
  14. Generalised space-time model for Rayleigh fading channels with non-isotropic scatterer distribution
    Electronics Letters, vol. 39, no. 21, p. 1541, 2003
  15. Spatial correlation for general distributions of scatterers
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 305–308, 2002
  16. Reproduction of a plane-wave sound field using an array of loudspeakers
    IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 697–707, 2001
  17. Nearfield broadband array design using a radially invariant modal expansion
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 107, no. 1, p. 392, 2000
  18. Noise modeling for nearfield array optimization
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 210–212, 1999
  19. Nearfield beamforming using radial reciprocity
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 33–40, 1999
  20. Spatial aliasing for near-field sensor arrays
    Electronics Letters, vol. 35, no. 10, p. 764, 1999
  21. Broadband nearfield beamforming using a radial beampattern transformation
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 2147–2156, 1998