Researcher

David is a researcher with the Wireless Signal Processing (WSP) program in Canberra.

Location:  Level 2, Nouvelle House, 216 Northbourne Ave, Braddon, ACT 2612

Postal Address: Locked Bag 8001, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.

E-mail: David.Smith@nicta.com.au

David is working on the Fundamental Limits of Wireless (FLoW) project.

Research Interests: 

David's research interests include the design and analysis of systems that use multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radio channels, such as space-time coding, investigation of receiver diversity systems and wireless communication theory. David also has experience and interest in antenna design, including the design of smart antennas.

Qualifications: 

David received the Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Electrical Engineering, and a Masters by Research (graduating 2001) and Ph.D. (graduating 2005) from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in Telecommunications Engineering.

Awards:

David received a CO-OP scholarship from UNSW for undergraduate studies (joint UNSW/industrial program) and the award for the best student paper/presentation at the Australian Workshop on Applications of Radio Science 2002 (WARS'02) 

Selected Publications:

D. B. Smith, “Multiple branch switched antenna diversity in Rayleigh and Rician fading channels”, Proc.  IEEE VTS 54th Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall,  Atlantic City, USA, Oct. 2001, pp. 1799-1803.

D. B. Smith, “An Application of a Generalised Jakes Model for MIMO Channels”, Proc. WARS’02, http://www.ips.gov.au/IPSHosted/NCRS/wars2002/proceedings/comm-c, NSW, Australia, Feb. 2002, pp. 1-6.

D. B. Smith and T. A. Aubrey, “Generalized space-time modelling of the MIMO channel applied to analysing and optimising transmit antenna configurations,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2003,  ICC'03. Alaska, May 2003, pp.  1978- 1982.

D. B. Smith, “Fast Differential Unitary Space-Time Modulation Decoding for a MIMO Radio Channel,” Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 343-349, July 2003

D. B. Smith and T. A. Aubrey, “Performance Degradation of Differential Space-Time Modulation in Fast Frequency Flat Fading Rayleigh MIMO channels,” Electronics Letters, vol. 39, no. 17, pp. 1278-1280, Aug. 2003

 D. B. Smith and  T. A. Aubrey , “Differential Unitary Space-Time Superset Modulation,” European Transactions on Telecommunications, Wiley, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 303-307, July-Aug. 2005,

 D. B. Smith and T. D. Abhayapala, “A Generalised Space-Time Model for Rayleigh Fading Channels with a Non-Isotropic Scatterer Distribution”, Electronics Letters, vol. 39, no. 21, pp. 1541-1543, Oct. 2003

Smith, D and Abhayapala, T. D, ``Maximal Ratio Combining Performance Analysis in Rayleigh Fading Channels'', in IEE Proc. Communications, Oct 2006, Vol. 153, Issue 5, pp. 755-761.

Smith, D.B.; Hanlen, L.W., "Novel Unitary Space-Time Signal Design," Information Theory Workshop, 2006 IEEE , Punta del Este, Uruguay, pp. 327- 331, March 2006

Smith, D.B., "Improved Differential Unitary Space-Time Signal Design for Two to Six Transmit Antennas," Communications, 2006. ICC '06. IEEE International Conference on , Istanbul, Turkey, vol.3, no.pp.1271-1276, June 2006