- A326, 22 Portland Square, Drake Circus
- +44 1752 586205
- M.Ambroze@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Dr Adrian Ambroze
Associate Professor of Digital Communications Engineering
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Role
MEng/BEng/BSc/MSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering Programme Manager
MSc Admission Tutor
Admissions/Recruitment Tutor with ESEO Angers at Undergraduate and MSc level
Module leader for ELEC140, ELEC142, ELEC238, ELEC239, ELEC518 and participate in the delivery of the ELEC143 Immersive Module.
PhD projects: I currently supervise 7 students (of which 3 as DoS) and I have 16 completions (of which 5 as DoS). Whilst most projects are in communications and source coding (including steganography and watermarking), I also have projects in big data, improved location algorithms, power electronics, security applications (wiretap channels, RFID), education and CAD simulation for engineering applications.
PhD Examiner Experience: Internal examiner for 6 PhD students, External examiner for 1 PhD student.
Qualifications
PhD in Digital Communications, University of Plymouth (2000)
BEng Telecommunications Engineering (First Class Hons), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (1996)
Professional membership
MIEEE (Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Enginners)
Roles on external bodies
Reviewer for:
Electronics Letters
EPSRC
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
IET Proceedings Vision and Image Processing
IET Proceedings Communications.
Teaching interests
I teach digital electronics and embedded programming, telecommunications systems principles, coding and information theory to undergraduate and MSc students,
ELEC518: Digital And Wireless Communications (S1, EEE programme, MSc) *
ELEC238/239: Communication Systems (S1, EEE Stage 2) *
ELEC140/142: Digital Electronics (S2, EEE/Robotics Stage 1) *
ELEC143: EEE/Robotics Immersive Module (S1, EEE/Robotics Stage 1)
* Module Leader
Research interests
Source and Channel Coding, Coding with Side Information, Information and Coding Theory. I am especially intrigued by the rate loss in some cases of side information (e.g. binary symmetric) and not others (e.g. Gaussian), the links with correlation and random variable dependence and the central role of Gaussian distributions.
Lossless Data Compression, correlated source coding (Slepian-Wolf and Wiener-Ziv practical code design).
Signal Processing (particularly for communications, image and video processing, more currently medical image processing for early detection of tumours).
Satellite and wireless communications as applications of signal processing, coding and modulation design.
Communications channels, practical code design and theoretical limits. Design of capacity approaching codes for channel and source coding, with or without side information.
The link between iterative decoding of communications codes and neural networks (belief propagation).
Last (but not least) I enjoy writing complex communications algorithm simulations in C++, including fast searching for good permutations, the wonders of tree search, finding minimum distances and identifying trapping sets in iterative decoding, visualising extrinsic information exchanges, providing a practical check for my ever expanding interest in mathematics, probability distributions and information theory. For all that and more, I found C++ a powerful and intriguing tool.
Grants & contracts
CI: EU Marie Curie Grant, AiPBAND - An Integrated Platform for Developing Brain Cancer Diagnostic Techniques (Euro 3.7 Million).
PI: KTP Bombardier Transportation, Coded Track Circuit (£93K) (REF2014 case study, judged 80% World Leading).
PI: UoPE TRL Project, Digital Video Compression with Low Latency (£56K)
Research groups
- Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research (CSCAN)
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2017
'Optimizing the Decoding Complexity of PEG-Based Methods with an Improved Hybrid Iterative/Gaussian Elimination Decoding Algorithm'
Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal
2,
(3)
578-586
, DOI
2017
'New effective power terms and right-angled triangle (RAT) power theory'
International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
88,
133-140
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Signals of opportunity geolocation methods for urban and indoor environments'
Annals of Telecommunications
72,
(3-4)
145-155
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Using the Structure of Subfields in the Construction of Goppa Codes and Extended Goppa Codes'
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
61,
(6)
3214-3224
, DOI
2015
'Multi-user indoor ultra-wideband wireless communication using polyphase spreading sequences'
IET COMMUNICATIONS
9,
(5)
585-595
, DOI
2014
'On the Minimum/Stopping Distance of Array Low-Density Parity-Check Codes'
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
n/a,
n/a-n/a
, DOI
2014
'Best binary equivocation code construction for syndrome coding'
IET Communications
8,
(10)
1696-1704
, DOI
2014
'Performance of BCH codes with (1 + x) s error detection'
Electronics Letters
50,
(1)
32-34
, DOI
2012
'An Efficient Algorithm to Find All Small-Size Stopping Sets of Low-Density Parity-Check Matrices'
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY
58,
(1)
164-171
, DOI
2012
'An Efficient Algorithm to Find All Small-Size Stopping Sets of Low-Density Parity-Check Matrices (vol 55, pg 4167, 2009)'
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY
58,
(1)
164-171
, DOI
2012
'Addendum to “An Efficient Algorithm to Find All Small-Size Stopping Sets of Low-Density Parity-Check Matrices”'
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
58,
(1)
164-171
, DOI
2009
'Coding for Shared Satellite Channel Communications'
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
57,
(8)
2330-2338
, DOI
2009
'Coding for Shared Satellite Channel Communications'
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
57,
(8)
2330-2338
, DOI
2009
'Biorthogonal matrix dirty paper coding for information hiding in still images'
Journal of Digital Information Management
7,
(2)
96-105
2009
'Coding for shared satellite channel communications'
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
57,
2330-2338-2330-2338
, DOI
2007
'Analysis of the distribution of the number of erasures correctable by a binary linear code and the link to low-weight codewords'
Communications, IET
1,
539-548-539-548
, DOI
2007
'Extending the Dorsch decoder towards achieving maximum-likelihood decoding for linear codes'
Communications, IET
1,
479-488-479-488
, DOI
2007
'Novel Soft-Feedback Equalization Method for Multilevel Magnetic Recording'
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
43,
2280-2282-2280-2282
, DOI
2006
'Idempotents, Mattson-Solomon polynomials and binary LDPC codes'
Communications, IEE Proceedings-
153,
256-262-256-262
, DOI
2006
'New linear codes derived from binary cyclic codes of length 151'
Communications, IEE Proceedings-
153,
581-585-581-585
2005
'Cyclotomic idempotent-based binary cyclic codes'
Electronics Letters
41,
341-343-341-343
, DOI
2003
'Dependence of dfree in MPCCC systems'
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
51,
318-325-318-325
, DOI
2003
'DWT-based high-capacity blind video watermarking, invariant to geometrical attacks'
Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Proceedings -
150,
51-58-51-58
, DOI
2002
'Search for good b/(b + 1) high rate recursive systematic convolutional component codes'
Electronics Letters
38,
1691-1693-1691-1693
, DOI
2001
'Turbo code protection of video watermark channel'
Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Proceedings -
148,
54-58-54-58
, DOI
2000
'Practical aspects of iterative decoding'
Communications, IEE Proceedings-
147,
69-74-69-74
, DOI
1998
'Iterative MAP decoding for serial concatenated convolutional codes'
Communications, IEE Proceedings-
145,
53-59-53-59
, DOI
Conference Papers
2019
'An Effencient Improvement of RFID Authentication Protocol Using Hash Function ZKP'
2019 2nd Scientific Conference of Computer Sciences (SCCS)
27/03/2019
28/03/2019
IEEE
, DOI
2017
'Decoding complexity analyses of PEG-based methods with the improved hybrid iterative/Gaussian elimination decoding algorithm'
2017 International Conference on Electrical and Computing Technologies and Applications (ICECTA)
21/11/2017
23/11/2017
IEEE
, DOI
2017
'Design of binary LDPC codes for Slepian-Wolf coding of correlated information sources'
2017 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP)
14/11/2017
16/11/2017
IEEE
, DOI
2017
'2D BCJR along track and across tracks detection for shingled magnetic recording media'
2017 40th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)
05/07/2017
07/07/2017
IEEE
, DOI
2017
'A 256 bit implementation of ECC-RFID based system using Shamir secret sharing scheme and Keccak hash function'
2017 Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN)
04/07/2017
07/07/2017
IEEE
, DOI
2017
'A novel topology for single phase active PFC circuit'
2017 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2017 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe)
06/06/2017
09/06/2017
IEEE
, DOI
2017
'Multi-track 2D joint signal detection and decoding for TDMR system using single parity-check coding'
2017 IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)
30/04/2017
03/05/2017
IEEE
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Bit precision and Cyclic prefix effect on OFDM Power Consumption Estimation'
the 5th International Conference
20/02/2017
22/02/2017
ACM Press
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Utilization of harmonics current in single phase system'
16/10/2016
19/10/2015
IEEE
443-447
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'An efficient algorithm for determining the girth and ACE distributions in LDPC code Tanner graphs'
2016 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS)
19/12/2016
21/12/2016
IEEE
, DOI
2016
'Extended grouping of RFID tags based on progressive edge-growth methods'
2016 5th International Conference on Electronic Devices, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA)
06/12/2016
08/12/2016
IEEE
, DOI
2016
'Feeding loads via harmonics utilization in AC circuit systems'
2016 International Conference for Students on Applied Engineering (ICSAE)
20/10/2016
21/10/2016
IEEE
, DOI
2016
'Lowering the error floor of short-to-medium length LDPC codes using optimal low-correlated-edge density (OED) PEG Tanner graphs'
2016 24th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM)
22/09/2016
24/09/2016
IEEE
, DOI
2016
'Improved minimum weight, girth, and ACE distributions in ensembles of short block length irregular LDPC codes constructed using PEG and cyclic PEG (CPEG) algorithms'
2016 9th International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing (ISTC)
05/09/2016
09/09/2016
IEEE
, DOI
2016
'A Quorum RFID System Using Threshold Cryptosystem'
2016 IEEE 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud)
22/08/2016
24/08/2016
IEEE
, DOI
2016
'A Quorum System for Distributing RFID Tags'
2016 Intl IEEE Conferences on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Cloud and Big Data Computing, Internet of People, and Smart World Congress (UIC/ATC/ScalCom/CBDCom/IoP/SmartWorld)
18/07/2016
21/07/2016
IEEE
, DOI
2016
'An Optimum Harmonic Control of induction heating power supply system using multilevel neutral point clamped inverter'
2016 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, Asia-Pacific (ITEC Asia-Pacific)
01/06/2016
04/06/2016
IEEE
, DOI
2016
'A review on power consumption reduction techniques on OFDM'
3-8
2016
'Lowering the error floor of short-to-medium length LDPC codes using optimal low-correlated-edge density (OED) PEG Tanner graphs'
IEEE
1-5
Publisher Site
2015
'A new power theory (right-angled triangle theory)'
2015 IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion (CENCON)
19/10/2015
20/10/2015
IEEE
, DOI
2015
'The benefit of harmonics current using a new topology of hybrid active power filter'
2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG)
11/05/2015
13/05/2015
IEEE
, DOI
2014
'Taking advantage of the harmonics at the load side using passive filters'
2014 2nd International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI)
15/11/2014
17/11/2014
IEEE
, DOI
2014
'An upper bound on the minimum distance of array low-density parity-check codes'
2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
29/06/2014
04/07/2014
IEEE
, DOI
2014
'A novel hybrid votage-current fed induction heating power supply system using multilevel neutral point clamped inverter'
2014 IEEE International Energy Conference (ENERGYCON)
13/05/2014
16/05/2014
IEEE
, DOI
2014
'Achieving improved network subscriber geo-location'
107-116
2010
'Extended optimum decoding for LDPC codes based on exhaustive tree search algorithm'
208-212
, DOI
2010
'Decoding low-density parity-check codes with error-floor free over the AWGN channel'
192-196-192-196
, DOI
2010
'Path loss measurements and comparisons of 433 MHz, 869 MHz and 1249 MHz within multi-floored buildings'
2008
'Comparison of decoding turbo Gallager codes in hybrid decoding arrangements with different iterative decoders over the erasure channel'
253-257-253-257
, DOI
2008
'On the Weight Distribution of the Extended Quadratic Residue Code of Prime 137'
1-6-1-6
2007
'Analysis of the Distribution of the Number of Correctable Erasures for Turbo Codes with DRP Interleavers'
214-217-214-217
, DOI
2007
'Biorthogonal matrix dirty paper coding for information hiding in still images'
454-459-454-459
, DOI
2006
'Advances in Iterative Decoding and Maximum Likelihood Decoding for the Packet Network with Comparisons to Fountain Codes over the Erasure Channel'
1-5-1-5
2006
'Coding for shared satellite channel communications'
550-+
2006
'Comparison of Concatenated Reed-Solomon Coding with Hard-decision to Soft-decision LDPC Coding for the Rayleigh Fading Channel'
135-139-135-139
, DOI
2006
'Comparisons of orthogonalisation and writing on dirty paper schemes for high capacity watermarking'
2006
'GF(21<sup>m</sup>) low-density parity-check codes derived from cyclotomic cosets'
2006
'NIS07-6: Comparisons of Orthogonalisation and Writing-On-Dirty-Paper Schemes for High Capacity Watermarking'
1-5-1-5
, DOI
2006
'On the Efficient Codewords Counting Algorithm and the Weight Distributions of the Binary Quadratic Double-Circulant Codes'
42-46-42-46
, DOI
2006
'Some results on the weight distributions of the binary double-circulant codes based on primes'
2006 10Th Ieee Singapore International Conference on Communication Systems, Vols 1 and 2
343-347
2006
'Some Results on the Weight Distributions of the Binary Double-Circulant Codes Based on Primes'
1-5-1-5
, DOI
2005
'Improved Iterative Decoding for Perpendicular Magnetic Recording'
Ambleside
2005
'A finite-field transform domain construction of binary low-density parity-check codes'
Proceedings of the Ieee Itsoc Information Theory Workshop 2005 on Coding and Complexity
77-81
2005
'A finite-field transform domain construction of binary low-density parity-check codes'
5 pp.--5 pp.-
, DOI
2005
'An Efficient Solution to Packet Loss : Erasure Correcting Codes'
2005
'Improved Decoding of Low-density Parity-check Codes by Reduction of Pseudocodewords'
2005
'Near Maximum-Likelihood Performance of some New Cyclic Codes Constructed in the Finite-Field Transform Domain'
2004
'Approaching the ML performance with iterative decoding'
2004 International Zurich Seminar on Communications: Access-Transmission-Networking, Proceedings
220-223
2004
'Enhancement of turbo codes using cyclic redundancy check with interleaver optimisation'
508--508-
, DOI
2003
'Limits of error correction coding in video watermarking'
594-603
2003
'Magnitude modulation for small satellite Earth terminals using QPSK and OQPSK'
2099-2103 vol.3-2099-2103 vol.3
, DOI
2002
'On CPM System Design and Simulation'
55-60
2002
'Adding robustness to geometrical attacks to a wavelet based, blind video watermarking system'
557-560 vol.1-557-560 vol.1
, DOI
2002
'Combating geometrical attacks in a DWT based blind video watermarking system'
263-266-263-266
, DOI
2002
'Power and bandwidth efficient modulation and coding for small satellite communication terminals'
2943-2946 vol.5-2943-2946 vol.5
, DOI
Patents
2009
Error Correction System using the Discrete Fourier Transform.
US 12/057,781
2009
Error correction system using concatenated codes.
2008
Password Correction and Confidential Information Access System.
GB2446420
2008
Concatenated Coding System.
GB2445005
2007
Impression of Information on Noise or an Independent Signal.
GB2427800
2004
A system for the correction of missing or deleted symbols.