Research

Digital and wireless communications; information theory and coding; theory and implementation of iterative coding schemes; joint source-channel coding; space-time coding and processing; analog decoding; multimedia transmission over Internet and wireless links; cooperative coding and communication; distributed source/channel coding, compressive sensing.

Application

Digital and wireless communications; communication theory; signal processing.

Activities

• Director of Broadband Communications and Wireless Systems (BCWS) Centre
• Editor of IEEE – Transactions on Communication
  

Journal Articles

H. Saeedi and A. H. Banihashemi, “Deterministic Design of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Binary Erasure Channels,” accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Comm., March 2009.

J. Qiu and A. H. Banihashemi, “Policy Allocation for Transmission of Embedded Bit Streams over Noisy Channels with Feedback,” accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Comm., Feb. 2009.

N. Mobini, A. H. Banihashemi and S. Hemati, “A Differential Binary Message-Passing LDPC Decoder,” accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Comm., Jan. 2009.

H. Xiao and A. H. Banihashemi, “Comments on Successive Relaxation for Decoding of LDPC Codes,” accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Comm., Jan. 2009.

H. Xiao and A. H. Banihashemi, “Error Rate Estimation of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes on Binary Symmetric Channels Using Cycle Enumeration,” to appear in IEEE Trans. Comm., June 2009.

H. Saeedi and A. H. Banihashemi, “Design of Irregular LDPC Codes for BIAWGN Channels with SNR Mismatch,” IEEE Trans. Comm., vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 6 – 11, Jan. 2009.

R. Kalbasi, D. Falconer, A. H. Banihashemi and R. Dinis, “A comparison of frequency domain block MIMO transmission systems,” IEEE Trans. Vehicular Tech., vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 165 – 175, Jan. 2009.

A. H. Banihashemi and A. Hatam, “A Distortion Optimal Rate Allocation Algorithm for Transmission of Embedded Bitstreams over Noisy Channels,” IEEE Trans. Comm., vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 1581 – 1584, Oct. 2008.

H. Xiao and A. H. Banihashemi, “Estimation of bit and frame error rates of finite-length low-density parity-check codes on binary symmetric channels,” IEEE Trans. Comm., vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 2234 – 2239, Dec. 2007.

S. Hemati and A. H. Banihashemi, “Convergence speed and throughput of analog decoders,” IEEE Trans. Comm., vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 833 – 836, May 2007.

P. Zarrinkhat and A. H. Banihashemi, “Hybrid Hard-Decision Iterative Decoding of Irregular Low-Density Parity-Check Codes,” IEEE Trans. Comm., vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 292 – 302, Feb. 2007.

H. Saeedi and A. H. Banihashemi, “Performance of Belief Propagation for Decoding LDPC codes in the Presence of Channel Estimation Error,” IEEE Trans. Comm., vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 83 – 89, Jan. 2007.

X. Pan, A. H. Banihashemi and A. Cuhadar, “Progressive Transmission of Images over Fading Channels Using Rate-Compatible LDPC Codes,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 3627 – 3635, Dec. 2006.

H. Saeedi and A. H. Banihashemi, “A Note on “Signal-to-Noise Ratio Mismatch for Low-Density Parity-Check Coded Magnetic Recording Channels” by W. Tan and J. R. Cruz,” IEEE Trans. Magnetics, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 3765 – 3766, Nov. 2006.

S. Hemati, A. H. Banihashemi and C. Plett, “A 0.18-mum CMOS Analog Min-Sum Iterative Decoder for a (32,8) Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) Code,” IEEE Journal of Solid-States Circuits, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 2531 – 2540, Nov. 2006.

M. R. Sadeghi, A. H. Banihashemi and D. Panario, “Low Density Parity Check Lattices: Construction and Performance Analysis,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 4481 – 4495, Oct. 2006.

M. H. Radfar, A. H. Banihashemi, R. M. Dansereau, and A. Sayadiyan, “Nonlinear minimum mean square error estimator for mixture-maximisation approximation,” Electronic Letters, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 75-76, June 2006.

R. Kalbasi, D. Falconer and A. H. Banihashemi, “Optimum space-time processors are bandlimited,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1936 – 1941, May 2006.

X. Pan, A. Cuhadar and A. H. Banihashemi, “Joint Source/Channel Coding with JPEG2000 and Rate-Compatible Low-Density Parity-Check (RC-LDPC) Codes,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 1160 – 1164, March 2006.

R. Maddock and A. H. Banihashemi, “Reliability-Based Coded Modulation with Low-Density Parity-Check Codes,” IEEE Trans. Comm., vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 403 – 406, March 2006.

X. Pan, A. H. Banihashemi and A. Cuhadar, “A Fast Trellis-Based Rate-Allocation Algorithm for Robust Transmission of Progressively Coded Images over Noisy Channels,” IEEE Trans. Comm., vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 1 – 6, Jan. 2006.

S. Hemati and A. H. Banihashemi, “Dynamics and Performance Analysis of Analog Iterative Decoding for Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) Codes,” IEEE Trans. Comm., vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 61 – 70, Jan. 2006.