Publications & Presentations

The following is a bibliography of my books, journal publications, and conference presentations. These works are based on many years of research into communication technology specifications, standards, and vendor products, together with extensive consulting experience in telecommunications, including network planning and optimization for mobile communication networks and the design and performance evaluation of high-speed packet switching networks

• “From LTE to LTE-Advanced Pro and 5G”, with Marcin Dryjanski, Artechouse/USA, published September 2017


• “UMTS Network Planning, Optimization, and Inter-operation with GSM”, John Wiley & Sons, coming out late December 2007


• “Optimum soft Decision decoding with channel state information in the presence of fading”, IEEE Communication Magazine, Vol. 35, No.7, pp 110-111, July 1997 (with Antia,Y.)
• "Mitigating interference between carriers”, Wireless Asia, December 2005
• "Overview of GSM Systems and Protocol Architecture", IEEE Communication Magazine, April 1993 (later became a Quarterly Reprint of IEEE publications on GSM)/
• “The Smart way of Planning UMTS in GSM Networks”, Land Mobile Magazine, March 2006
• "Channel equalization for the GSM system", "International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, vol. 3,No. 3, 1996.
• “UMTS Antenna Integration with existing GSM sites”, T-Mobile, internal document, Oct 2005
• “Smart proposed System design and KPI Documentation”, Prepared as Internal document for Telcel/ Ericsson/Mexico, March 25/2008 Provides the specifications for an internal UMTS network performance analysis and optimization tool
• “Interference and Coverage-Capacity Interactions in UMTS and the Implications on Network Planning”, submitted to IEEE Wireless Comm Magazine for Pub, Oct, 2005 Oct, 2005
• “Preparatory Steps for UMTS overlay in GSM networks”, T-Mobile, internal document, August, 2005
• “UMTS RF/radio planning guidelines”, T-Mobile, internal document, Nov 2005
• “multi-operator interference management”, submitted for pub, Land Mobile, Oct 2005
• “Design Considerations for Core Networks in GPRS and UMTS”, 3GIS Annual conference, Athen/Greece, July 2-3/2001.
• “The Challenges of implementing and operating GPRS through the existing GSM network infrastructures”, presented at the IIR Telecoms & Technology Conference, London, Sept 2001
• "A vision for Optical Core Networks in Future 3G Systems”, IP_Core Network Analyst, Oct 2001
• “3G---Via Optical Core Networking”, Electronics World, January 2002
• "Smart Trunk Scheduling Strategies for Future Integrated packet Switched Networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol 26., issue 2, Feb 1988"
• "Frame Relaying and the Fast Packet Switching Concepts and Issues", IEEE Network Magazine, July 1991
• "The Fast Packet Ring Switch: A High Performance Efficient Architecture with Multi-cast Capability", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol 38, No 4, April 1990