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Patrick Mitran
Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada
 
Email: pmitran[AT]ecemail[DOT]uwaterloo[DOT]ca
 Ph: +1-519-888 4567 Ext. 37475
Fax: 1-519-746 3077

(Last updated 17 Nov, 2009)

Short Bio

I am a currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. I obtained the B.Eng and M.Eng in Electrical Engineering from McGill University as well as S.M. and PhD in Engineering Science from Harvard University.

My interests are generally in communications, information theory and signal processing. Currently I am mostly interested in the study of cooperation and cognition in wireless networks both from an information theoretical viewpoint as well as coding theory and signal processing perspectives. This includes such aspects as capacity analysis, distributed source/channel coding, network coding and bi-directional coded cooperation. I have also been interested in channels with timing errors, distributed source coding and the study of feedback in detection theory.

Prospective Students

If you have a mathematical inclination and are interested in joining my group, please first take a look at my papers to see if you are interested in this type of research. If so, then please send me an email with your CV attached. Unfortunately, I cannot respond to all email.  Kindly note that it is not necessary to have your own funding (e.g., government scholarship), but I am then required to fund you, which limits the number of students I can take.

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List of Publications

Journal Papers
  1. P. Mitran, “The Asymptotic Uniformity of the Output of Convolutional Codes Under Markov Inputs,” to appear in IEEE Communications Letters, Dec 2009.
  2. P. Mitran, “Interference Reduction in Cognitive Networks via Scheduling,” in IEEE Transactions Wireless Communications, pp. 3430 -- 3434, Aug. 2009.
  3. D. Bai, P. Mitran, S. S. Ghassemzadeh, R. R. Miller, and V. Tarokh, “Rate of Channel Hardening of Antenna Selection Diversity Schemes and Its Implication on Scheduling,” in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 55, no. 10, pp. 4353 -- 4365, Oct. 2009.
  4.  S. J. Kim, P. Mitran and V. Tarokh, “Performance Bounds for Bi-Directional Coded Cooperation Protocols,” IEEE Transactions Information Theory, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 5235 - 5241, Nov. 2008.
  5. P. A. Parker, P. Mitran, D. W. Bliss, and V. Tarokh, “On Bounds and Algorithms for Frequency Synchronization for Collaborative Communication Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 3742 – 3752, Aug. 2008.
  6. N. Devroye, P. Mitran and V. Tarokh, “Limits on Communications in a Cognitive Radio Channel,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 44 – 49, June 2006.  (Invited Paper)
  7. N. Devroye, P. Mitran, O.-S. Shin, H. Ochiai, V. Tarokh, “Cooperation and Cognition in Wireless Networks”, SK Telecom Review, special issue on 4G Spectrum and System Engineering, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 990-1005, Dec. 2006. (Invited Paper)
  8. N. Devroye, P. Mitran and V. Tarokh, “Achievable Rates in Cognitive Radio Channels,” in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 1813-1827, May 2006.
  9. P. Mitran, N. Devroye and V. Tarokh, “On Compound Channels with Side-Information at the Transmitter” in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 1745-1755, April 2006.
  10. P. Mitran, A. Kavcic, “Error Exponents for Finite-Hypothesis Channel Identification,” in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 245 – 255, Jan. 2006.
  11. H. Ochiai, P. Mitran, V. Tarokh, “Variable Rate Two Phase Collaborative Communication Protocols for Wireless Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 52, no. 9, pp. 4299 – 4313, Sept. 2006.
  12. H. Ochiai, P. Mitran, H. V. Poor, V. Tarokh, “Collaborative Beamforming for Distributed Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 4110- 4124, Nov. 2005.
  13. P. Mitran, H. Ochiai, V. Tarokh “Space-Time Diversity Enhancements Using Collaborative Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 2041- 2057, June 2005.
  14. G.-C. Zhu, F. Alajaji, J. Bajcsy, P. Mitran “Transmission of Non-Uniform Memoryless Sources via Non-Systematic Turbo Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Communications. vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1344 - 1354, Aug. 2004.
Submitted Journal Papers
  1. P. Mitran, L. Le, C. Rosenberg, “Queue-Aware Resource Allocation for Downlink OFDMA Cognitive Radio Networks,” submitted to IEEE Transactions Wireless Communications, June 2009.
  2. S. J. Kim, N. Devroye, P. Mitran and V. Tarokh, "Achievable Rate Regions for Bi-Directional Relaying," submitted to IEEE Transactions Information Theory, May 2009.
  3. P. Mitran, “DMT bounds for Static Bi-Directional Cooperation Protocols,” submitted to IEEE Transactions Information Theory, Nov. 2008.
Book Chapters
  1. Hideki Ochiai, Patrick Mitran, H. Vincent Poor, Vahid Tarokh, “Random Array Theory and Collaborative Beamforming” in Handbook on Advancements in Smart Antenna Technologies for Wireless Networks. IDEA Group Inc. Publishers, 2008. pp. 94 – 106, ISBN: 978-1-599-04988-5
  2. N. Devroye, P. Mitran, M.Sharif, S. Ghassemzadeh, and V. Tarokh, "Information Theoretic Analysis of Cognitive Radio Systems," in Cognitive Wireless Communications, Edited by V. Bhargava and E. Hossain, Springer-Verlag, 2008. pp. 45 – 78, ISBN: 978-0-387-68830-5
  3. Oh-Soon Shin, N. Devroye, P. Mitran, H. Ochiai, S. S. Ghassemzadeh, H. T. Kung, V. Tarokh, “Cooperation, Competition and Cognition in Wireless Networks,” in Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications, Edited by F. H. P. Fitzek and M. Katz, Springer, 2006. pp. 69 – 100, ISBN: 978-1-4020-4710-7
Conference Papers
  1. N. Jamal, H. Ebrahimzadeh Saffar, P. Mitran “Throughput Enhancements in Point-to-Multipoint Cognitive Systems,” to appear in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seoul, Korea, July 2009.
  2. L. Le, P. Mitran, C. Rosenberg, A. Girard, “Queue-Aware Subchannel and Power Allocation for Downlink OFDM-Based Cognitive Radio Networks,” in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Budapest, Hungary, April 2009.
  3. P. Mitran, “The Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff for Independent Parallel MIMO Channels,” in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, Canada, July 2008, pp. 2366 – 2370.
  4. L. Le, P. Mitran, C. Rosenberg, A. Girard, “Resource Allocation for Downlink Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks,” in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference – Fall, Calgary, Alberta, Sept. 2008.
  5. P. Mitran, “Interference Scaling Laws in Cognitive Networks,” in Proc. Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Ontario, June 2008, pp. 282 – 285.
  6. S. J. Kim, N. Devroye, P. Mitran and V. Tarokh, “Comparison of Bi-Directional Relaying Protocols,” in Proc. IEEE Sarnoff Symposium,  Princeton, NJ. April 2008.
  7. P. Parker, P. Mitran, D. Bliss, V. Tarokh, “Training Sequence Design for Wireless Cognitive Communication Systems in Frequency-Selective Fading,” in Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Asilomar, CA, 2007.
  8. S.J. Kim, P. Mitran, C. John, R. Ghanadan, V. Tarokh, “Coded Bidirectional Relaying in Combat Scenarios,” in Proc. IEEE Military Communications Conference, Orland, FL, Oct. 2007.
  9. D. Bai, P. Mitran, S. Ghassemzadeh, R. Miller, V. Tarokh, “Channel Hardening and the Scheduling Gain of Antenna Selection Diversity Schemes,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Nice, France, July 2007, pp. 1066 – 1070.
  10. S.J. Kim, P. Mitran, and V. Tarokh, “Performance Bounds for Bi-Directional Coded Cooperation Protocols,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, July 2007.
  11. P. Parker, D. Bliss, P. Mitran and V. Tarokh, “Adaptive Frequency Synchronization for Collaborative Communication Systems,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, July 2007.
  12. N. Devroye, P. Mitran, and V. Tarokh, “Cognitive Decomposition of Wireless Networks” in Proc. International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, Greece, June 2006. (Invited Paper)
  13. W. Zeng, P. Mitran, A. Kavcic, “On the Information Stability of Channels with Timing Errors,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, WA, July 2006, pp. 1885 – 1889.
  14. N. Devroye, P. Mitran, and V. Tarokh, “Cognitive Multiple Access Networks,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, Australia, Sept. 2005, pp. 57 – 61.
  15. N. Devroye, P. Mitran, and V. Tarokh, “Achievable Rates in Cognitive Radio Channels,” in Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 2005. 
  16. H. Ochiai, P. Mitran, H. V. Poor, V. Tarokh, “On the effects of phase estimation errors on collaborative beamforming in wireless ad hoc networks,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA., March  2005, pp. iii/657 – iii/660.
  17. P. Mitran, H. Ochiai, V. Tarokh, “Collaborative Diversity Enhancements for Wireless Communications,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications, Seoul, Korea, May 2005, pp. 396-401.
  18. H. Ochiai, P. Mitran, H. V. Poor, V. Tarokh, “Collaborative Beamforming in Ad Hoc Networks,” In Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop, San Antonio, TX, Oct. 2004, pp. 396 – 401. (Invited Paper)
  19. P. Mitran, A. Kavcic “On Optimal Markov Policies for Identifying Markov Channels,” in Proc. International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications, Parma, Italy, Oct. 2004, pp.  407 – 412.
  20. H. Ochiai, P. Mitran, V. Tarokh, “Design and Analysis of Collaborative Diversity Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference - Fall, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 2004, pp. 4645 – 4649.
  21. P. Mitran, A. Kavcic “The Error Exponent for Finite-Hypothesis Channel Identification,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Chicago, IL, June 2004, p. 217.
  22. P. Mitran, H. Ochiai, V. Tarokh “Capacity Enhancements Using Space-Time Collaborative Communications,” in Proc. Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Ontario, June 2004. pp. 6 – 8.
  23. P. Mitran, J. Bajcsy, “Coding for the Wyner-Ziv Problem with Turbo-like Codes,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2002, p. 91.
  24. P. Mitran and J. Bajcsy, “Near Shannon Limit Coding for the Slepian-Wolf problem,” in Proc. Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Ontario, June 2002, pp. 95 – 99.
  25. P. Mitran, F. Beaudoin, M. N. El-Gamal, “A 2.5-Gbit/s CMOS optical receiver frontend,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Pheonix, AZ, May 2002, pp. V.441 – V.445
  26. G.-C. Zhu, F. Alajaji, J. Bajcsy, P. Mitran “Transmission of non-uniform memoryless sources over wireless fading channels via non-systematic turbo codes,” in Proc. International Association of Science and Technology for Development - Wireless and Optical Conference (IASTED-WOC), Banff, Canada, June 2002.
  27. G.-C. Zhu, F. Alajaji, J. Bajcsy, P. Mitran “Non-systematic turbo codes for non-uniform I.I.D. sources over AWGN channels,” in Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS '02), Princeton, NJ., March  2002.
  28. P. Mitran, J. Bajcsy, “Turbo source coding: A noise-robust approach to data compression,” in Proc. IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC '02), Snowbird, UT, April 2002, p. 465. 
  29. J. Bajcsy and P. Mitran “Coding for the Slepian-Wolf problem with turbo codes,” in Proc. IEEE. Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom '01), San Antonio, TX. Nov. 2001, pp. 1400-1404.

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