Researcher

Dr Smith is a researcher within the Embedded Systems theme at the Canberra Research Laboratory 

Location: 7 London Circuit, Canberra, ACT 2601

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

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

Ph:+61 2 6267 6254 

Dr Smith is currently working on the Human Performance Improvement (HPI) Project

Previously Dr Smith was working on the Fundamental Limits of Wireless (FLoW) Project

He is also an adjunct research fellow with the Australian National University (ANU) 

Research Interests: 

Dr Smith's research interests are in the area of wireless communications including: MIMO systems; coherent and non-coherent space-time coding; technology and systems for body-area communications; radio propagation and electromagnetic modelling; co-operative communications; and antenna design, including the design of smart antennas.

(He also has industry experience in the design and development of a novel 3G base station antenna; as well as a variety of industry experience in telecommunications planning; radio frequency, optoelectronic and electronic communications design and integration) 

Qualifications: 

Dr Smith 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:

Dr Smith received a CO-OP scholarship from UNSW for undergraduate studies (joint UNSW/industrial program) , the award for the best student paper/presentation at the Australian Workshop on Applications of Radio Science 2002 (WARS'02)  and a best paper award (on which first author) at the First International Symposium on Applied Sciences on Biomedical and Communications Technologies, 2008 (ISABEL'08).

Selected Publications:

Smith, D.B., “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.

Smith, D.B., “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.

Smith, D.B. and Aubrey, T.A., “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.

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

Smith, D.B. and Aubrey, T.A., “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

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

 Smith, D.B. and Abhayapala, T. D, “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. B.,  Abhayapala, T. D.and Aubrey, T.D. , “A Generalised (M, N_R) MIMO Rayleigh Channel Model for Non-Isotropic Scatterer Distributions”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Applications of Radio Science WARS’04, 2004,  Hobart, Australia, http://www.ips.gov.au/IPSHosted/NCRS/wars/wars2004/proceedings/final/c/smith_f.pdf.

Smith, D. B. and Abhayapala, T.D., “Generalised Space-Time Modelling of Rayleigh MIMO Channels”, in Proc. Australian Communications Theory Workshop, 2005, AusCTW'05, Brisbane, Australia, pp.135-140, Feb. 2005.

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

Smith, D. B, “Improved Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes with Hexagonal Lattice Modulation,”  IEEE Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications Conference, SPAWC’07, Helsinki, Finland, June 2007

Zhang, M., Jayalath, A.D.S., Abhayapala, T.D., Smith, D., Athaudage, C., "Compensation Decoding of Space Time Frequency Block Codes," IEEE Communications Letters, vol.11, no.7, pp.610-612, July 2007.

Smith, D. B., "High-rate orthogonal space-time block code for four transmit antennas," Electronics Letters , vol.43, no.17, pp.937-938, Aug. 2007

Smith, D. B., “Super-orthogonal co-ordinate interleaved orthogonal designs”, IEEE International Conference on Communications 2008, ICC 2008,  Beijing, China, May 2008.

Zhang, M., Jayalath, A.D.S., Abhayapala, T.D., Smith, D., Athaudage, C., "Multirate Space-Time-Frequency Linear Block Coding," IEEE International Conference on Communications 2008, ICC 2008,  Beijing, China, May 2008.

Smith, D.B.; Hanlen, L.W., "New group product differential unitary space-time codes with simplified design and detection," Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on , vol.7, no.12, pp.4825-4830, December 2008

Smith, D.; Hanlen, L.; Miniutti, D.; Jian Zhang; Rodda, D.; Gilbert, B., "Statistical characterization of the dynamic narrowband body area channel," Applied Sciences on Biomedical and Communication Technologies, 2008. ISABEL '08. First International Symposium on , vol., no., pp.1-5, 25-28 Oct. 2008

Smith, D. B and Hanlen, L. W., “Differential Unitary Space-Time Signal Designs with Improved Performance using Parametric Equivalence,” Accepted for publication in European Transactions on Telecommunications, Feb 2009

J. Zhang, D. Smith, L. Hanlen, D. Miniutti, D. Rodda, and B. Gilbert, “Stability of narrowband dynamic body area channel,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, April 2009.