Instructor:
Mark Reed, The Australian National University, Australia

Abstract:
The turbo coding/decoding algorithm has made a huge impact on the performance of modern modem designs, ranging from deep space communications to 3G mobile communications. Likewise turbo receiver design based on the "Turbo Principle" is revolutionizing the way we design and develop modems for high capacity systems. Turbo receivers allow the minimization of interference, thereby allowing higher capacity systems which are more cost effective for both user and provider. This tutorial covers algorithms that utilize the so-called "Turbo Principle". This course provides a detailed study of digital signal processing concepts applied to communication systems.
Specifically, it studies the baseband signal processing technique for iterative receiver design, in the context of the turbo principle, better known as turbo receivers. Topics covered include detection criteria, decoding methods, transmitter configurations, wireless channel modelling, receiver design and analysis techniques. By attending this course the participant will attain a fundamental understanding of how to design and analyse efficient receivers, how to use the turbo principle to mitigate interference and what the key design steps are. There will be practical system examples to reinforce the underlying principle and the application of this technique. By gaining an insight into these methods the participant will be able to apply the technique to a multitude of new real-world problems and system configurations, including systems that use antenna arrays, direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS/CDMA), continuous phase modulation (CPM), intersymbol interference (ISI) channels and much more.

Instructor Bios:
Mark Reed received his B. Eng. (with honours), from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne in 1991. He then worked in industry for five years designing digital hardware, real-time software, and modems for the public switched telephone network. In 1998 he completed his Ph.D. at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, titled "Iterative Receiver Techniques for Coded Multiple Access Communication Systems". From 1998 to 2003 he was a Researcher in the research unit of Ascom AG, Switzerland, where he was involved in the research and development communication systems. He was part of a team that designed and developed a software radio Satellite-UMTS Modem European Space Agency. He also completed further work on multiuser detectors as technical lead in the highly successful European Commission project (IST-1999-10741), titled ASILUM (www.nari.ee.ethz.ch/_asilum) which investigated and validated advanced processing schemes for link improvement in UMTS. Since April 2003 Dr Reed is employed as a Senior Researcher National ICT Australia (www.nicta.com.au,http://axiom.anu.edu.au/_mreed/), Australian National University (www.anu.edu.au), Canberra, Australia, where involved in research, education, commercialisation, and linkages in the wireless signal processing program. He has over 30 international journal and conference papers and has been listed as inventor on four patent applications.