Last Updated: 19 Aug 2004
Brian Banister
E-mail: banister@ece.ucsd.edu
Office: ICAS Center, 4th Floor, EBU1
Mailing Address:
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0407
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407
Graduate Advisor:
Prof. James Zeidler, Tel: (858) 534-5369
Email: zeidler@ece.ucsd.edu
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
- Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Comm Theory and Signal Processing
- Oral Preliminary Exam, March 1999
- Ph.D. Candidate Qualifying Exam, October 2000
- Ph.D. dissertation defense, expected Winter 2002
Publications
| [J55] |
B. C. Banister and J. R. Zeidler, ``Feedback Assisted Stochastic Gradient
Adaptation of Multi-Antenna Transmission,'' IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications.
In Press. |
| [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
- LSI Logic Corporation, Wireless Division, June 1996 - Present: 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.
