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Farshid Rafiee Rad


Alumnus of the
Communications and Data Storage Lab
  • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2005
    Thesis : Low Complexity Turbo Equaliztion with Application to High Density Magnetic Recording

Publications:

  • J. Moon and F. Rafiee Rad, "Turbo Equalization via Constrained-Delay APP Estimation with Decision Feedback," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 53, no. 12, Dec. 2005, pp.2102-2113. PDF File (501k)
     
  • F. Rafiee Rad and J. Moon, "Area-Efficient Architectures for Turbo Equalization of Magnetic Recording Channels ", submitted to the IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I. PDF File (292k)

  • F. Rafiee Rad and J. Moon, "Turbo Equalization Utilizing Soft Decision Feedback", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 41, no. 10, Oct. 2005, pp.2998-3000. PDF File (144k)
     
  • F. Rafiee Rad and J. Moon, "Low Complexity Turbo Equalization for High Density Magnetic Recording," in Proc. ICC 2005, vol. 1, May 2005, pp.688-692. PDF File (151k)
     
  • F. Rafiee Rad, "A Reconfigurable m x n LLR Formatter Used in Multi-Rate Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Decoder," Pending US Patent, 2008.
     
  • K. Gunnam and F. Rafiee Rad, "Low-Latency Programmable Encoder with Outer Systematic Code and Low-Density Parity Check Code," Pending US Patent, 2007.
     
  • F. Rafiee Rad and B. J. Brickner, "Rescaling state metrics of a decoder by resetting the most significant bit," US Patent 20030053568, 2006.
     
  • Y. Kim, F. Rafiee Rad, B. Brickner and J. Moon, "Joint Equalization, Soft-Demapping and Phase Error Estimation Correction in Wireless System with Receive Diversity," US Patent 7173990, 2006.
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    Older Publications:

  • H. Soltanian-Zadeh, F. Rafiee Rad and S. Pourabdollah, "Comparison of multiwavelet, wavelet, Haralick, and shape features for microcalcification classification in mammograms", Pattern recognition 37:1010, pp.1973-1986, Elsevier Science, 2004. PDF File (257k)
  • H. Soltanian-Zadeh, S. Pourabdollah and F. Rafiee Rad, "Shape-based and texture-based feature extraction for classification of microcalcifications in mammograms", Proc. SPIE, vol. 4322, pp.301-310, Medical Imaging 2001.
  • F. Rafiee Rad, H. Soltanian-Zadeh, M. Rahmati, and S. Pourabdollah, "Microcalcification classification in mammograms using multiwavelet features", Proc. SPIE 3813, pp.832-841, 1999.

    Last modified Mar. 2008
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