Larry Milstein

Ph.D. Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1968

Communication Theory, Spread-Spectrum Systems, and Wireless Communications

From 1968-1974, Professor Laurence B. Milstein was employed by the Space and Communications Group of Hughes Aircraft Company, and from 1974-1976, he was a member of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY. Since 1976, he has been with the ECE department, UC San Diego where he is a Professor and former Department Chairman working in the area of digital communication theory with special emphasis on spread-spectrum communication systems. He has also been a consultant to both government and industry in radar and communications.

Honors and Distinctions

• IEEE Conference on Ultrawideband Communications Student Paper Award (for a paper authored or co-authored by a student).
• IEEE MILCOM F. W. Ellersick Prize Paper Award, 2002.
• IEEE Communications Society Edwin Armstrong Achievement Award, 2000
• IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000.
• ECE Graduate Teaching Award, 1999.
• UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 1999.
• IEEE MILCOM Long Term Technical Achievement Award, 1998.
• Outstanding Teacher Award in ECE, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1999-00, 2000-2001 (NEW), 2001-2002
• Member of Board of Governors, IEEE Communications Society, 1983, 1985-1987, 1993-1995
• Member of Board of Governors, IEEE Information Theory Society, 1989-1991, 1992-1994
• Vice President for Technical Affairs, IEEE Communications Society, 1990-91

Selected Publications

Chockalingam, A., W. Xu, M. Zorzi, and L. B. Milstein, "Throughput-delay analysis of a multichannel wireless access protocol," IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Tech., vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 661-671, March 2000.

Quirk, K., L. B. Milstein, and J. R. Zeidler, "A performance bound for the LMS estimator," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 1150-1158, May 2000.

Foerster, J. R. and L. B. Milstein, "Coding for a coherent DS-CDMA system employing an MMSE receiver in a Rayleigh fading channel," IEEE Trans. on Comm., vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 1012-1021, June 2000.

Rowitch, D. N. and L. B. Milstein, "On the performance of hybrid FEC/ARQ systems using rate compatible punctured turbo (RCPT) codes," IEEE Trans. on Comm., vol. 48, no. 6, pp. 948-959, June 2000.

Guo, N. and L. B. Milstein, "Uplink performance evaluation of multicode DS/CDMA systems in the presence of nonlinear distortions," IEEE J. on Selected Areas in Comm., Special Issue on Wideband CDMA, vol. 18, pp. 1418-1428, Aug. 2000.

Kong, N. and L. B. Milstein, "SNR of generalized diversity selection combining with nonidentical Rayleigh fading statistics," IEEE Trans. on Comm., pp. 1266-2171, Aug. 2000.

Milstein, L. B., "Wideband code division multiple access," IEEE J. Selected Areas in Comm., vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1344-1354, Aug. 2000.

Fang, L. and L. B. Milstein, "Successive interference cancellation in multicarrier DS CDMA," IEEE Trans. on Comm., vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 1530-1540, Sept. 2000.

Miller, S. L., M. L. Honig, and L. B. Milstein, "Performance analysis of MMSE receivers for DS-CDMA in frequency-selective fading channels," IEEE Trans. on Comm., vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 1919-1929, Nov. 2000.

Foerster, J. R. and L. B. Milstein, "Coded modulation for a coherent DS-CDMA system employing an MMSE receiver in a fading channel," IEEE Trans. on Comm., vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 1909-1918, Nov. 2000.

Quirk, K. and L. B. Milstein, "The effect of low SNR in phase estimation in wideband CDMA," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 107-120, January 2001.

Xu, W. and L. B. Milstein, "On the use of interference suppression to reduce intermodulation distortion in mulitcarrier CDMA systems," IEEE Trans. on Comm., vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 130-141, January 2001.

Honig, M.L., S.L. Miller, M.J. Shensa and L.B. Milstein, "Performance of adaptive linear interference suppression in the presence of dynamic fading ," IEEE Trans. on Comm., vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 635-645, April 2001.

Hou, J., Siegel, P. H. and L. B. Milstein, "Performance analysis and code optimization of low density parity-check codes on Rayleigh fading channels," IEEE J. on Selected Areas in Comm., vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 924-934, May 2001.  

Tang, K., P. H. Siegel and L. B. Milstein, "A comparison of long versus short spreading sequences in coded asynchronous DS-CDMA systems," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 1614-1624, Aug. 2001.

Tang, K., Milstein, L. B. and P. H. Siegel, "Combined MMSE interference suppression and turbo coding for a coherent DS-CDMA system," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , vol.19, (no.9), pp.1793-803, Sept. 2001.

Kim, Y. H., L. B. Milstein and I. Song, "Performance of a turbo coded multicarrier DS/CDMA system with nonuniform repetition coding," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 19, no.9, pp. 1764-1774, Sept. 2001.

Xu, W. and L. B. Milstein, "On the performance of multicarrier RAKE systems," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 49, no.10, pp. 1812-23, Oct. 2001.

Ziemer, R. E and L. B. Milstein, "Comments on carrier tracking in RAKE reception of wide-band DSSS in Ricean fading," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 49, no. 10, pp. 1822-1823, Oct. 2001.

Shamain, P. K. and L. B. Milstein, "Acquisition of direct sequence spread spectrum signals with correlated fading," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 2406-2419, Dec. 2001.

Fang, L. and L. B. Milstein, "Performance of successive interference cancellation in convolutionally coded multicarrier DS/CDNA systems," IEEE Trans. on Comm., vol. 49, no. 12, pp. 2062-2067, Dec. 2001.

Quirk, K. and L. B. Milstein, "The effects of phase estimation errors on RAKE receiver performance," IEEE Transactions on Info. Theory, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 669-682, March 2002.

Zhao, Q., P. Cosman and L. B. Milstein, "Tradeoffs of source coding, channel coding and spreading in frequency selective Rayleigh fading channels," Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, vol. 30, pp. 7-20, July 2002.

Singh, R. and L. B. Milstein, "Adaptive interference suppression for DS-CDMA," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 1902-1905, December 2002.

Kim, K.S., D.M. Marom, L.B. Milstein and Y. Fainman, "Hybrid pulse modulation/ultrashort light pulse code division multiple access systems - Part I: Fundamental analysis," IEEE Trans. on Comm., vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 2018-2031, December 2002.

Ramesh, A., A. Chockalingam and L.B. Milstein, "SNR estimation in Nakagami-m fading with diversity combining and its application to turbo decoding," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 50, pp. 1719-1724, Nov. 2002.

Ramesh, A., A. Chockalingam and L. B. Milstein, "Performance analysis of TCM with generalized selection combining on Rayleigh fading channels," IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 7, no.7, pp. 296-298, July 2003.

Tang, K., Milstein, L. B. and P. H. Siegel, "MLSE receiver for direct sequence spread spectrum systems on a multipath fading channel," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 1173-1184, July 2003.  

Kim, K.S., D.M. Marom, L.B. Milstein and Y. Fainman, "Hybrid Pulse Modulation/Ultrashort Light Pulse Code Division Multiple Access Systems - Part II: Time-Space Processor and Modified Schemes," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 1135-1148, July 2003.

Hou, J., P. H. Siegel, L. B. Milstein and H. D. Pfister, "Capacity approaching bandwidth efficient coded modulation schemes based on low density parity check codes," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 2141-2155, September 2003.

Singh, R. and L. B. Milstein, "Time-varying DS-CDMA interference suppression," Electronics Letters, vol. 39, no. 18, pp. 1352-1353, Sept. 2003.

Kim, C.-S., D.-J. Oh and L. B. Milstein, "Statistical modeling of W-CDMA signals for use over frequency-selective multipath channels" IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 28-30, Jan. 2004.

Annavajjala, R., A. Chockalingam and L. B. Milstein, "Further results on selection combining of binary NCFSK signals on Rayleigh fading channels," IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 939-952, June 2004.

Annavajjala, R. and L. B. Milstein, "Performance analysis of linear diversity combining schemes on Rayleigh fading channels with binary signaling and Gaussian weighting errors," accepted in IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications, June 2004.

Annavajjala, R., A. Chockalingam and L. B. Milstein, "Performance analysis of coded communication systems on Nakagami fading channels with selection combining diversity," accepted in December 2003 to appear in IEEE Trans. on Communications, 7 pgs., July 2004.

Chong, L. L. and L. B. Milstein, "The effects of channel estimation errors on a space-time spreading CDMA system with dual transmit and dual receive diversity," accepted in March 2004 to appear in IEEE Transactions on Communications, July 2004.