Please see selected publications below for Communications and Sensor Technology Research. Further publications are available through the Sussex Research Online database (see link below).
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2013
Publications for 2013 awaiting peer review.
2012
“Position and movement sensing at metre standoff distances using ambient electric field” H. Prance, P. Watson, R. J. Prance and S. T. Beardsmore-Rust in Meas. Sci. Technol. 23 115101, doi:10.1088/0957-0233/23/11/115101 (2012)
M. Zheng and F.H. Ali, "Exploration and Exploitation of Reference Frames in Distributed Video Coding", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol 19, Issue 7, pp411-414, July 2012.
Ali, Falah H and Al-Hussaibi, Walid A, "Fast receive antenna selection for spatial multiplexing MIMO over correlated Rayleigh fading channels.", Wireless Personal Communications, pp.1-17, 2012.
Al-Hussaibi, Walid A and Ali, Falah H,"Generation of correlated Rayleigh fading channels for accurate simulationof promising wireless communication systems." Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 25. pp. 56-72, 2012.
2011
“Microscopic resolution broadband dielectric spectroscopy” S. Mukherjee, P. Watson, R. J. Prance in Dielectrics 2011, Canterbury, UK, Journal of Physics Conference Series 310 (2011) 012003, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/310/1/012003 (2011)
“Imaging electrostatic fingerprints with implications for a forensic timeline” P. Watson, R. J. Prance, S. T. Beardsmore-Rust, H Prance in Forensic Sci. Int. 209 e41–e45, doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.02.024 (2011)
“Non-contact measurement of local conductivity variations in carbon fibre based composite materials” S. Mukherjee, P. Watson, R. J. Prance in Sensors and their Applications XVI, 12-14 Sept., Cork, Ireland (2011)
“Human Computer Interface based on Eye Movement (EOG) Signals” N Steinhausen, H Prance and R Prance in AAATE 2011, 31 Aug.- 2 Sept., Maastricht, the Netherlands (2011)
B. Khan, F.H. Ali, “Collision Free Mobility Adaptive (CFMA) MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks “ To be published in Springer, 2011.
B. Khan, F.H. Ali, “Mobility Adaptive CSMA/CA MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks” to be published in Springer Lecture Notes and International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, 2011.
I. Shakya, F.H. Ali, E. Stipidis, “High Capacity Collaborative CDMA”, IET Communications, Vol 5, Issue 3, pp307-319, Feb 2011.
2010
“Passive tracking of targets using electric field sensors” ST Beardsmore-Rust, PB Stiffell, H Prance, RJ Prance, P Watson in Proceedings of SPIE ‘Defence, Security and Sensing, Orlando USA’ 7666-76 (2010)
“A high sensitivity calibrated electric field meter based on the electric potential sensor” A.Aydin, R.J.Prance, P.B.Stiffell, P.Watson in Meas. Sci. Technol.21 125901, doi:10.1088/0957-0233/21/12/125901 (2010)
“Sisyphus effects in a microwave excited flux qubit-resonator system” J.C. Skinner, H. Prance, P.B. Stiffell, R.J. Prance in Phys. Rev. Lett.105 257002 (2010)
"Imaging the time sequence of latent electrostatic fingerprints" P Watson, RJ Prance, H Prance, ST Beardsmore-Rust in Proc. SPIE 'Optics and photonics for counterterrorism and crime fighting VI, Toulouse, 7838, 783803-1-6, ISBN 9780819483560 (2010)
“Imaging the microscopic properties of dielectrics via potential and charge” P. Watson, R. J. Prance, S. T. Beardsmore-Rust, A. Aydin, H. Prance in Joint ESA Conference, Charlotte, NC, June 22-24 (2010)
S. Gheitanchi, F.H. Ali, E. Stipidis, Particle Swarm Optimization for Adaptive Resource Allocation in Communication Networks", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol 2010, Article ID 465632, 13 pages, 2010.
X. Cai, F.H. Ali, E. Stipidis, “Object-based Video Coding with Dynamic Quality Control”, Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier Journal, Vol 28, Issue 3, March 2010, pp285-297.
B. Khan, F.H. Ali, E. Stipidis, “Improved Backoff Algorithm for IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks”, IFIP Wireless Days International Conference, 5 pages, Venice Oct 2010.
M. Zheng, F.H. Ali” DSP Implementation of On-Board Distributed Video Coding”, 4th European DSP Education and Research Conference, EDERC2010, 5 pages, France, December 2010.
2009
"High spatial resolution, dry-electrode surface EMG acquisition system" H Prance, P Watson, RJ Prance, CJ Harland, ST Beardsmore-Rust, A Aydin in Assistive technology from adapted equipment to inclusive environments - Proceedings of AAATE 2009, eds PL Emiliani et al, IOS Press, ISBN 978-1-60750-042-1, pp 109-113 (2009)
"Observation of pressure stimulated voltages in rock using an electric potential sensor" A Aydin, RJ Prance, H Prance, CJ Harland Appl. Phys. Lett. 95 124102 (2009). DOI: 10.1063/1.3236774 © Copyright (2009) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters 95 (2009) and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?APL/95/124102 APPLAB9512124102 [PDF 211KB]
"Imaging of charge spatial density on insulating materials" ST Beardsmore-Rust, P Watson, RJ Prance, CJ Harland, H Prance Measurement Science and Technology 20, 095711 (2009) DOI:10.1088/0957-0233/20/9/095711
"Detecting electric field disturbances for passive through-wall movement and proximity sensing" S Beardsmore-Rust, P Watson, PB Stiffell, RJ Prance, CJ Harland, H Prance in Proceedings of SPIE 'Smart biomedical and physiological sensor technology VI, 16-17 April 2009, Orlando USA' 7313, 7313OP ISBN 9780819475794 (2009)
"Development of electric field NMR signal acquisition system" RJ Prance, A Aydin, CJ Harland, H Prance in 'Explosives Detection using Magnetic and Nuclear Resonance Techniques' eds J Frissard and O Lapina, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics, Springer Netherlands, pp 245-252, ISBN 978-90-481-3061-0, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3062-7_15 (2009)
R.T. Goonewardene, F.H. Ali, E. Stipidis, “Robust Mobility Adaptive Clustering (RMAC) Protocol with Support for Geographic Routing in Ad Hoc Vehicular Networks”, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, Vol 3, Issue 2, , pp148-158, June 2009.
M.R. Fowler, E. Stipidis, F.H. Ali, ”A network-Centric Approach to Space_restricted Distributed Processing” Elsevier Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol 33, issues 5-6, August 2009, pp356-364.
Summers D, Melentis J, Charchalakis P, Stipidis E., Ali F.H, “Through life capability vetronics systems integration testbed”, Codex unclassified Journal of the Ministry of Defence, Issue 3, pp. 68-79, Spring 2009.
I. Shakya, F.H. Ali,, “Collaborative Spreading for the Downlink of overloaded CDMA”, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, pp1-11, March 2009.
I. Shakya, F.H. Ali, E. Stipidis, “Robust Blind PIC with Adaptive Despreader and Improved Interference Estimator” International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol 22, Issue 1, pp1-23, Jan 2009.
I. Shakya, F.H. Ali, E. Stipidis, “Collaborative Space-Time Spreading for Higher than Unity Rate CDMA downlink, IET Electronics Letters, Vol 45, Issue 22, pp1129-1130, 22 October 2009.
X. Cai, F.H. Ali, and E. Stipidis, “A Robust Dual-Model Matching and Update Algorithm for Tracking with Camera in Motion” Third International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP-09), pp1-5, Kingston University, London, December 2009.
W. Al-Hussaibi, F.H. Ali, E. Stipidis, “A Simple 2-user Multiple Access Technique Using Fading Signatures and Space Diversity”, The 5th Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference (LAPC), Loughborough University, UK, November 2009, pp433-436.
Indu Shakya, F.H. Ali, “Higher Than Unity Rate Downlink CDMA Using Collaborative Spreading” The 10th International Symposium on Communication Theory and Applications (ISCTA), Ambleside, UK, pp 248-253, 13-17 July 2009.
X. Cai, F.H. Ali, and E. Stipidis, “Background Modelling for Detecting Move-Then-Stop Arbitrary Long Time Video Objects”, 10th Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), pp197-200, London, UK, May 2009.
2008
"Remote detection of human electrophysiological signals using electric potential sensors" RJ Prance, ST Beardsmore-Rust, P Watson, CJ Harland, H Prance, Appl. Phys. Lett. 93 033906 (2008). © Copyright (2008) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters 93 (2008) and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?apl/93/033906 [PDF 185KB]
"Security applications of a remote electric-field sensor technology" RJ Prance, CJ Harland, H Prance in Proceedings of SPIE 'Unmanned and Unattended Sensors and Sensor Networks V, 16-18 Sept 2008, Cardiff UK' 7112, 7112OI ISBN 9780819473448 (2008)
"Defect detection using a non-contact electric potential drop method for multilayer carbon composite materials" P Stiffell, RJ Prance, W Gebrial, CJ Harland, H Prance in Emerging Technologies in NDT eds G Busse et al, Taylor and Francis, London, pp 251-255 (2008)
"Depth profiling of defects in stainless steel using electric potential sensors and a non-contact AC potential drop method" RJ Prance, W Gebrial, C Antrobus Insight 50(2) 95-97 (2008)
I. Shakya, F.H. Ali, E. Stipidis, “Improved Cooperative CDMA Using Blind Adaptive Interference Cancellation”, 5th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (BROADNETS), 2nd International Workshop on Cooperative Communications and Networking (CONET 2008), London, UK, September 2008, pp1-6.
X. Cai, F.H. Ali, and E. Stipidis, “Robust Online Video Background Reconstruction Using Optical Flow and Pixel Intensity Distribution”, IEEE International Conference on Communications-Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, ICC 2008, Beijing, China, May 2008, pp1-5.
S. Gheitanchi, F.H. Ali, E. Stipidis, “Trained Particle Swarm Optimisation for Ad Hoc Collaborative Computing Networks” AISB 2008, Symposium on Swarm Intelligence Algorithms and Applications, Volume 11, University of Aberdeen, UK, April 2008, pp7-11.
S. Gheitanchi, F.H. Ali, E. Stipidis, “Adaptive Multi-Carrier Cooperative Communication Technique”, The 5th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (BROADNETS), London, UK, September 2008, pp1-6.
J. Melentis, E.Stipdis, P. Charchalaksi, F.H. Ali, “Towards a Unified X-by-Wire Solution with HUMS, HM & TTP: Lessons Learned in Implemeenting it to a Drive-by-Wire Vehicle”, 16th International Confernce on Real-Time and Network Systems (RTNS 2008), Nov 2008, pp51-57.
Fowler M., Stipidis E., Ali F.H., “Practical Verification of an Embedded Beowulf Architecture using Standard cluster Benchmarks”, 3rd International Conference on Software Engineering Advances proceedings IARIA/IEEE CS and IEEE Explore, October 2008, Malta.
Melentis I., Ibarra I., Stipidis E., Charchalakis P., Ali F.H., “How can Active HUMS safeguard towards the increasing complexity of Avionics”, 3rd IET International Conference on Systems Safety, October 2008, UK.
Ibarra I., Melentis I., Summers D., Stipidis E., Charchalakis P., Ali F.H., “Through Life Capability Risk Management for Evolutionary Complex Military Vetronics”, 3rd IET International Conference on Systems Safety, October 2008, UK.
I. Shakya, F.H. Ali, E. Stipidis, “Performance of Cooperative CDMA with Successive Interference Cancellation”, The 5th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (BROADNETS), London, UK, September 2008, pp1-6.
Oikonomidis P.I., Stipidis E., Charchalakis P, Ali F.H, and Connor B., “MilCAN Fault Tolerance Layer”, 12th International CAN Conference, pp 05/1-05/7, Barcelona, March 2008, Spain.
2002
"Electric potential probes - new directions in the remote sensing of the human body" CJ Harland, TD Clark, R Prance Meas. Sci. Tech. 13 163-169 (2002)
2000
"An ultra-low-noise electric-potential probe for human-body scanning" RJ Prance, A Debray, TD Clark, H Prance, M Nock, CJ Harland, AJ Clippingdale Meas. Sci. Tech. 11 1-7 (2000)