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<P><A HREF="http://www.ece.drexel.edu/ECE/fac_staff_pages/bystrom_page.html">Dr.
Maja Bystrom</A></P>

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<P><A HREF="http://www.pages.drexel.edu/grad/ak32">Arkady
Kopansky</A></P>

<P>Zhihua He</P>

<P>Long Xiao</P>

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<P>Yong Zhang (M.S. 2000)</P>

<P><A HREF="http://www.pages.drexel.edu/grad/ia22/">Ivan
Andjelkovic</A> (M.S. 1999)</P>



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<P>Oliver Grimm (6/98-12/98)</P>
<P>Thomas Effern (7/99-12/99)</P>

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<P> M. Bystrom and R.A. Coury, ``Rate Allocation for Serial Concatenated Block Codes''
, under review <I> IEEE Transactions on Communications.</I></P>



<P>M. Bystrom and Thomas Stockhammer, ``<A HREF="dependent2.ps.Z"> Dependent Source and Channel Rate Allocation for
 Video Transmission </A>'', Under Review  <I>IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications </I></P>

<P>A. Kopanksy and M. Bystrom, "Detection of Aperiodically Embedded Synchronization Patterns", Under Review <I>IEEE Trans. Communications.</I></P>

<P>M. Bystrom, S. Kaiser, and A. Kopansky, ``<A HREF="soft_dec.ps.Z">Soft Source Decoding with Applications </A>'', <I>Letters IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems Video Tech.</I> vol. 11, No. 10, pp. 1108-1120, Oct. 2001.</P>

<P>M. Bystrom and J. W. Modestino, ``<A HREF="SP.ps.Z"> A General Scheme for Spectral Efficiency Evaluation of Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum Systems </A>'', <I> Communications Letters </I> vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 1142 - 1144, July 2001.</P>

<P>M. Bystrom and J. W. Modestino, ``<A HREF="AWGN.ps.gz">Combined 
Source-Channel Coding Schemes for Video Transmission over an Additive 
White Gaussian Noise Channel</A>'', <I>IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications </I>
, vol. 18, no. 6, June 2000.</P>

<P>M. Bystrom, V. Parthasarathy, and J. W. Modestino ``<A HREF="hybrid.ps.gz">
Hybrid Error Concealment Schemes for Broadcast Video Transmission over 
ATM Networks</A>'',  <I>IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology</I>, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 868-881, Sept. 1999 </P>





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<H3><LEFT>Partial List of  Conference Papers</LEFT></H3>

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<P>Y. Li, S.M. Goldwasser, M. Bystrom, and P. Herczfeld, ``Generation of MSK Modulated Millimeter Wave Subcarrier for Radio Over Fiber Applications'', <I> Microwave Photonics (MWP)</I>, (Long Beach, California), January 2002. </P>

<P>W. D. Jemison,  E. Funk,  M. Bystrom, P. Herczfeld,  I. Fridyes,  and T. Berceli, ``Fiber Radio:  From Links to Networks'',  <I> Microwave Photonics (MWP)</I>, (Long Beach, California), January 2002.</P>

<P>E. E. Funk, P.R. Herczfeld, W.D. Jemison, and M. Bystrom, 
``Performance Limits of a Hybrid Fiber/Millimeter-Wave Wireless System'', 
  <I> Proceedings of the International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference</I>, 
(Belem, Brazil), August 2001. </P>

<P>A. Kopansky and M. Bystrom, ``Detection of Aperiodically Embedded 
Synchronization Patterns'', <I>  Proceedings of the  International Symposium on 
Information Theory</I>, (Washington, DC), June 2001.</P>

<P>M. Bystrom, E. E. Funk, and W.D. Jemison, ``Multiple-Access 
Design Issues for a Hybrid Fiber/Millimeter-Wave Wireless System'', 
 <I> Microwave-Optical Interfaces Workshop</I>, 
(Budapest, Hungary), March 2001.</P> 




<P>Susanna Kaiser and Maja Bystrom ``<A HREF="591.pdf.gz">Soft Decoding of
Variable-Length Codes,</A>'' <I>Proc. International
Conference on Communications</I>, June 2000</P>

<P>Arkady Kopansky and Maja Bystrom ``Frame
Synchronization for Noncoherent Demodulation on Flat Fading
Channels,'' <I>Proc. International Conference on
Communications</I>, June 2000 <A HREF="icc00.ps.gz">PS</A> |
<A HREF="MNC04.1.pdf.gz"> PDF</A></P>

<P>Yong Zhang and Maja Bystrom ``<A HREF="ciss00y.ps.gz">Inner Code Rate Selection for a Concatenated Coding System on a Binary Symmetric Channel,</A>'' in <I>Proc. of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems</I>, 2000</P>

<P>A. Kopansky and M. Bystrom ``<A HREF="ciss00.ps.gz">Detection of a
Known Number of Aperiodically Embedded Synchronization Patterns,</A>'' in
<I>Proc. of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems</I>, 2000</P>

<P>A. Kopansky and M. Bystrom ``<A HREF="CISS99.ps.gz">Sequential Decoding 
of MPEG-4 Coded Bitstreams for Error Resilience,</A>'' in
<I>Proc. of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems</I>, 1999</P>

<P>A. Kopansky and M. Bystrom ``<A HREF="CISS98.ps.gz">Reconstruction of 
Block Errors In MPEG-4 Coded Video,</A>'' in
<I>Proc. of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems</I>, 1998</P>

<P>R.A. Coury, M. Bystrom, M.D. Collins, W.L. Siegmann,``Three-dimensional Effects on Acoustic Propagation in Waveguides of Variable Thickness'', Presented 
at the Fourth International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, May 1999</P>

<P>M. Bystrom and J.W. Modestino, ``Combined Source-Channel Coding for 
Transmission of Video over a Slow-Fading Rician Channel'' 1998 Proceedings  International Conference on Image Processing, September, 1998</P>

<P>M. Bystrom and  J.W. Modestino, ``Combined Source-Channel Coding for Transmission of H.263 Coded Video with Trellis-Coded Modulation over a Slow-Fading Rician Channel, Proceedings 1998 IEEE International Symposium on 
Information Theory  August, 1998</P>

<P>M. Bystrom and J.W. Modestino, ``<A HREF="ISSSE98.ps.Z">Recent Advances in Joint Source-Channel 
Coding of Video</A>'', Proceedings of 
the 1998 URSI International Symposium on Signals, Systems, and 
Electronics, September 1998.</P>

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