Last Updated: 27 June 2008
Brian Banister 
Graduated and currently employed at Qualcomm Incorporated.
E-mail: banister@qualcomm.com
Brian Banister's Resume (circa 2002)
Research Interests 
- Adaptive signal and antenna array processing algorithms and performance
- CDMA capacity and performance
- Dynamic channel and parameter estimation applied to wireless communications
Education
- BSc. Electrical Engineering, UCSD, 1993
- MSc. Electrical Engineering, UCSD, 1999
- PhD. Electrical Engineering, UCSD, 2002
- Communication Theory and Signal Processing
- Dissertation: Feedback Assisted Multi-Antenna Transmission Weight Adaptation for Wireless Communications
Publications
| [J55] | B. C. Banister and J. R. Zeidler, ``Feedback Assisted
Stochastic Gradient Adaptation of Multi-Antenna Transmission,''
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. , vol. 4, no. 3,
pp. 1121-1135, May 2005. [ .pdf ] |
| [J50] | B. C. Banister and J. R. Zeidler, ``A Simple Gradient
Sign Algorithm for Transmit Antenna Weight Adaptation with
Feedback,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
vol. 51, pp. 1156-1171, May 2003. [ .pdf ] |
| [J49] | B. C. Banister and J. R. Zeidler, ``Feedback Assisted
Transmission Subspace Tracking for MIMO Systems,'' IEEE Journal
on Selected Areas of Communication, Special Issue on MIMO
Systems, vol. 21, pp. 452-463, Apr. 2003. [ .pdf ] |
| [J44] | B. C. Banister and J. R. Zeidler, ``Tracking
Performance of the RLS Algorithm Applied to an Antenna Array in a
Realistic Fading Environment,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, vol. 50, pp. 1037-1050, May 2002. [ .pdf ] |
| [C100] | B. C. Banister and J. R. Zeidler, ``Implementation of
Transmit Antenna Weight Adaptation through Stochastic Gradient
Feedback,'' in Conference Record of the 35th Asilomar Conference
on Circuits, Systems and Computers, (Pacific Grove, CA),
pp. 1517-1525, Nov. 2001. Invited Paper. [ .pdf ] |
| [C099] | B. C. Banister and J. R. Zeidler, ``Transmission
Subspace Tracking for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Communications
Systems,'' in Proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM Conference,
vol. 1, (San Antonio, TX), pp. 161-166, Nov. 2001. [ .pdf ] |
| [C093] | B. C. Banister and J. R. Zeidler, ``Tracking
Performance of a Stochastic Gradient Algorithm for Transmit Antenna
Weight Adaptation with Feedback,'' in Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing, vol. 5, (Salt Lake City , UT),
pp. 2965-2968, May 2001. [ .pdf ] |
| [C092] | B. C. Banister and J. R. Zeidler, ``A Stochastic
Gradient Algorithm for Transmit Antenna Weight Adaptation with
Feedback,'' in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Signal Processing
Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless
Communications, (Taiwan), pp. 314-317, Mar. 2001. [ .pdf ] |
Work Experience
- Qualcomm Incorporated, QCT, April 2002 - Present: Principal Systems Engineer, designing, verifying and field testing algorithms and modems for cdma2000, Ev-DO, UMTS/HSPA and "4G" OFDM technologies. Leading technology development teams for CDMA interference cancellation techniques and 4G modem implementations.
- LSI Logic Corporation, Wireless Division, June 1996 - April 2002: Staff Systems Engineer, designing algorithms for single chip cellular DS-CDMA baseband solutions. Work on modem performance, searching, acquisition, ASIC partitioning and modem design, L1 software design. Theoretic research and standardization work on multiple transmit antenna algorithms for CDMA.
- Sciteq Electronics, 1993-1996: Design Engineer, designing high performance frequency synthesizers for radar and instrumentation. Work on RF circuits, PLL's, DSP algorithms for frequency synthesis, test software design.
