RF, Analog, and Digital Laboratory for Advanced Signal Processing Circuits at Florida International University
The paper titled “Efficient and Self-Recursive Delay Vandermonde Algorithm for Multi-Beam Antenna Arrays” is accepted for publication at IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing. Congratulations to co-authors Dr. Shirani Perera (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) and Dr. Renato Cintra (UFPE, Brazil).
Congratulations to John Vorhies on defending his MS thesis at the University of Akron, titled “Low-Complexity Algorithms for Light-Field Image Processing”. Slides. The committee consisted of Dr. Arjuna Madanayake (FIU, original adviser at University of Akron), Dr. Kye-Shin Lee (Adviser), Dr. Alexander Hoover, and Dr. Nghi Tran.
The paper titled “A Low-SWaP 16-Beam 2.4 GHz Digital Phased Array Receiver using DFT Approximation” has been accepted at IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES). Authors are Vitor Coutinho, Sravan Pulipati, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Diego Coelho, Fabio Bayer, Vassil Dimitrov, Renato Cintra and Arjuna Madanayake.
The following two papers have been accepted at IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS).
S. Pulipati, V. Ariyarathna, M. Khan, S. Bhardwaj, and A. Madanayake, “Aperture-Array & Lens+FPA Multi-Beam Digital Receivers at 28 GHz on Xilinx ZCU 1275 RF SoC”, IEEE IMS 2020, to appear.
S. Pulipati, V. Ariyarathna, C. Edussooriya, A. Jayaweera, C. Wijenayake, L. Belostotski, A. Madanayake, “FPGA-Based 2-D FIR Frost Beamformers with Digital Mutual Coupling Compensation”, IEEE IMS 2020, to appear.
Congratulations to all authors.
Arjuna Madanayake attended the PI meeting for the NSF SpecEES Program in Newport Beach, CA. A 2-minute lightning talk and a poster was published.
New paper accepted at IEEE ACCESS titled "Radix-2 Self-Recursive Sparse Factorizations of Delay Vandermonde Matrices for Wideband Multi-Beam Antenna Arrays", co-authored by Sirani Perera (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Arjuna Madanayake (FIU) and Renato Cintra (UFPE, Brazil) has been accepted for publication. This work is partially supported by an NSF ECCS Award.
The following papers have been accepted for future publication at IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2020 to be held in Seville, Spain, in May 2020.
"Low-Complexity Real-Time Light Field Compression Using 4-D Approximate DCT", Chamira Edussooriya, Arjuna Madanayake, Namalka Liyanage, Renato Cintra, Eliathamby Ambikairaja, and Chamith Wijenayake.
"Spatio-Temporal Delta-Sigma N^2-Port ADC Noise Shaping for N-by-N Antenna Arrays", Hasantha Malavipathirana, Arjuna Madanayake, Chamira Edussooriya, Leonid Belostotski, Jifu Liang, Nilan Udayanga, and Soumyajit Mandal.
“Continuous-Time Algorithms for Solving Maxwell’s Equations Using Analog Circuits” as a TCAS-I special session paper, Nilan Udayanga, Jifu Liang, SI Hariharan, Leo Belostotski, Len Bruton, Soumyajit Mandal, and Arjuna Madanayake.
“Minimax Design of 2-D Complex-Coefficient FIR Filters with Low Group Delay Using Semidefinite Programming”, Ashira Jayaweera, Chamith Wijenayake, Chamira Edussooriya, Sakila Jayaweera, and Arjuna Madanayake.
“An RF-Rate Hybrid CNN Based on a Row-Parallel 45nm Analog-CMOS Inference Accelerator and Xilinx RFSoC”, Udara De Silva, Arjuna Madanayake, Soumyajit Mandal, Leonid Belostotski, and Jin Wei-Kocsis.
“A Switched-Capacitor-Based Analog Computer for Solving the 1-D Wave Equation”, Jifu Liang, Nilan Udayanga, Arjuna Madanayake, S.I. Hariharan, Soumyajit Mandal
The paper titled “Design of a 28 GHz 64-QAM Digital Receiver” has been published at IEEE iWAT. The authors are Sravan Pulipati, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Udara De Silva, Najath Akram, Elias Alwan, and Arjuna Madanayake.
The following paper has been published in IEEE ACCESS.
Power-efficient ELF Wireless Communications using Electro-Mechanical Transmitters. The authors are Jarred Glickstein, Jifu Liang, Seungdeog Choi, Arjuna Madanayake and Soumyajit Mandal.
The following papers have been published at 2019 IEEE Cognitive Communications for Aerospace Applications Workshop (CCAAW).
AI-Driven Self-Optimizing Receivers for Cognitive Radio Networks, Yingying Wang, Xinyao Tang, Gihan J. Mendis, Jin Wei-Kocsis, Arjuna Madanayake and Soumyajit Mandal.
Spectral Attention-Driven Intelligent Target Signal Identification on a Wideband Spectrum, Gihan J. Mendis, Jin Wei Kocsis, Arjuna Madanayake and Soumyajit Mandal.
The paper tiled “FPGA-based FDTD Accelerators for 2DEG Plasma-Wave Device Modeling at THz” has been published at International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium (ACES). The authors are Hasantha Malavipathirana, Arjuna Madanayake, John L. Volakis, Shubhendu Bhardwaj, and Fernando L. Teixeira.
The workshop paper titled “Software-dened Radios to Accelerate mmWave Wireless Innovation” is accepted at IEEE 2019 DySPAN to be held in New Jersey. The authors are Kai Zheng (NYU, Pi Radio), Aditya Dhananjay (Pi Radio), Marco Mezzavilla (Pi Radio), Arjuna Madanayake (FIU), Shubhendu Bharadwaj (FIU), Viduneth Ariyarathna (FIU), Abhimanyu Gosain (Northeastern), Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern), Michele Polese (Northeastern), Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern), Josep Jornet, (Northeastern) Jim Buckwalter (UCSB), Mark Rodwell (UCSB), Soumyajit Mandal (CWRU), Xin Wang (Stony Brook), Jaakko Haarla (Aalto University) and Vasilii Semkin (VTT Research Center).
The paper titled “Multi-Depth Filtering and Occlusion Suppression in 4-D Light Fields: Algorithms and Architectures” is accepted in Elsevier Signal Processing. The authors are Namalka Liyanage, Chamith Wijenayake, Chamira Edussooriya, Arjuna Madanayake, Pan Agathoklis, Len T. Bruton, and Eliathamby Ambikairajah.
The paper titled “Compressed Beam Alignment with Out-of-Band Assistance in Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks“ has been accepted for publication at IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing. The authors are Jie Zhao, Xin Wang, Harish Viswanathan and Arjuna Madanayake.
Dr. Arjuna Madanayake (FIU) and Dr. Chamira Edussooriya (University of Moratuwa) co-organized the first signal processing and circuits workshop “Reach for Tomorrow” at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, this summer. The flyer is available here.
The paper titled “A Direct-Conversion Digital Beamforming Array Receiver with 800 MHz Bandwidth/Channel at 28 GHz using Xilinx RF SoC” has been accepted at IEEE COMCAS’2019. The authors are Najath Akram, Sravan Pulipati, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Udara De Silva, Elias Alwan, Arjuna Madanayake, Soumyajit Mandal and Ted Rappaport.
The paper titled “Towards a Low-SWaP 1024-Beam Digital Array: A 32-Beam Sub-System at 5.8 GHz” has been accepted at IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation (TAP). Authors are Viduneth Ariyarathna, Sravan Pulipati, Suresh Madhishetty, Diego Coelho, Fabio Bayer, Renato Cintra, Soumyajit Mandal, Leonid Belostotski, Ted Rappaport and Arjuna Madanayake.
The NSF project titled "Collaborative Research: Distributed Electro-Mechanical Transmitters for Adaptive and Power-Efficient Wireless Communications in RF-Denied Environments," in collaboration with Mississippi State University and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) has been funded. The project is led by Dr. Arjuna Madanayake, at FIU. The lead PI is Dr. Soumyajit Mandal at CWRU. Dr. Seok Choi is the PI at Mississippi State University.
Two abstracts have been accepted for lecture presentation at the 2019 CASPER Workshop to be held at the Harvard Center for Astronomy (CFA). The titles are
“Multibeam Digital Beamforming on 4-Element Array at 28 GHz using Xilinx RFSoC ZCU1275”. Authors: Arjuna Madanayake, Ted Rappaport, Elias Alwan, Soumyajit Mandal, Sravan Pulipati, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Udara De Silva, and Najath Akram.
“An Analog-digital Hybrid Wave Equation Solver using a 180 nm Analog CMOS Chip and ROACH-2 Digital FPGA”. Authors: Nilan Udayanga, Arjuna Madanayake, S.I. Hariharan, Soumyajit Mandal, Jifu Liang, and Leonid Belostotski.
These are non-archival presentations.
The invited paper titled “Wireless Communications and Applications Above 100 GHz: Opportunities and Challenges for 6G and Beyond” has been accepted at IEEE Access. Congratulations to authors Ted S. Rappaport, Yunchou Xing, Ojas Kanhere, Shihao Ju, Arjuna Madanayake, Soumyajit Mandal, Ahmed Alkhateeb, and Georgios C. Trichopoulos!