Thanks for checking out my homepage! Here are some of my publications. You can also find a brief biography if you click on the  Biography link on the left. If you want to contact me, please email me through "yairlinn [at] gmail [dot] com" (sorry, I had to write it this way in order to thwart spammers). Oh, and please don't use snail mail, my addresses tend to change rather too rapidly.

Publications

Ph.D. Thesis

Linn, Y., "Synchronization, Phase Detection, Lock Detection, and SNR Estimation in Coherent M-PSK Receivers", University of British Columbia, Canada, July 2007.

Book

   1. Linn, Y., "Synchronization in Coherent M-PSK Receivers: Carrier Synchronization, Phase Detection, Lock Detection, and SNR Estimation ", 292 pages, VDM Verlag, Saarbruecken, Germany, 2008. ISBN: 978-3639081442, available at amazon.com and many other distributors.

Book Chapters

     2. Linn, Y., "Efficient Structures for PLL Loop Filter Design in FPGAs in High-Datarate Wireless Receivers – Theory and Case Study ", in the book Wireless Technology: Applications, Management, and Security, S. Powell and J. P. Shim (Editors): Springer, 2009, ISBN: 978-0387717869, available at amazon.com and many other distributors.

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3.  Linn, Y., "An Ultra Low Cost Wireless Communications Laboratory for Education and Research", IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 169-179, May 2012.

4.  Linn, Y., "A Carrier-Independent Non-Data-Aided Real-Time SNR Estimator for M-PSK and D-MPSK Suitable for FPGAs and ASICs", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 1525-1538, Jul. 2009.

5.  Linn, Y., "Robust M-PSK Phase Detectors for Carrier Synchronization PLLs in Coherent Receivers: Theory and Simulations", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 1794-1805, Jun. 2009.

6.  Linn, Y., "A Self-Normalizing Symbol Synchronization Lock Detector for QPSK and BPSK", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 347-353, Feb. 2006.

7.  Linn, Y.,"Quantitative Analysis of a New Method for Real-Time Generation of SNR Estimates for Digital Phase Modulation Signals", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 1984-1988, Nov. 2004.

8. Linn, Y. and Peleg, N., "A Family of Self-Normalizing Carrier Lock Detectors and E_S/N₀ Estimators for M-PSK and Other Phase Modulation Schemes", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 1659-1668, Sept. 2004.

Conference Papers

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9. Linn, Y., "Efficient M-PSK Lock Detectors and SNR Estimators", in Proc. 27th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2014), Toronto, Canada, May 4-7, 2014. 

10. Linn, Y., "New Structures for Modulation Classification and SNR Estimation with Applications to Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio", in Proc. 27th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2014), Toronto, Canada, May 4-7, 2014. 

11. Linn, Y., "Efficient Phase Detectors for M-PSK", in Proc. 2013 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM'13), Victoria, BC, Canada, Aug. 27-28, 2013, pp.26-31. 

12. Linn, Y., "Teaching Digital Communications in a Developing Country using a Low Cost Software Defined Radio Laboratory", Proc. Intl. Conf. Software Defined Radio 2010 (SDR'10), Washington DC, Nov. 29 - Dec. 2, 2010. 

13. Linn, Y., "An Ultra Low Cost Software Defined Radio Laboratory for Education and Research", Proc. Intl. Conf. Software Defined Radio 2009 (SDR'09), Washington DC, Dec. 1-4, 2009. 

14. Linn, Y., "A New Architecture for Coherent M-PSK Receivers", Proc. IEEE 2009 Intl. Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronic Systems (IEEE COMCAS 2009), Tel-Aviv, Israel, Nov. 9-11, 2009.

15.  Linn, Y., "Generation of Bandpass Gaussian Noise with Applications to Complete Built In Self Test in Wireless Communications Receivers", Proc. IEEE LatinCom 2009, Medellín, Colombia, Sept. 10-11, 2009.

16. Linn, Y., "Bridging the Wireless Communications Education Digital Divide: a Low-Cost Laboratory for Wireless Communications Teaching and Research", Proc. 2009 Latin America Workshop on Communications, Medellín, Colombia, Sep. 8-11, 2009.

17. Linn, Y., "Simple and Exact Closed-Form Expressions for the Expectation of the Linn-Peleg M-PSK Lock Detector", in Proc. 2007 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM'07), Victoria, BC, Canada, Aug. 22-24, 2007, pp. 102-104.

18. Linn, Y, "Efficient Loop Filter Design in FPGAs for Phase Lock Loops in High-Datarate Wireless Receivers – Theory and Case Study", in Proc. 6th Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS 2007), Pomona, CA, Apr. 26-28, 2007. (Receiver of Best Paper Award)

19.  Yedlin, M. J., and Linn, Y.,"Application of Spread-Spectrum and Frequency Hopping Techniques to Geophysical Inversion Problems", Proc. 20^th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE’07), Apr. 22-26, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp. 1050-1053.

20. Linn, Y., "A Methodical Approach to Hybrid PLL Design for High-Speed Wireless Communications", in Proc. 8^th IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conf. (WAMICON 2006), Clearwater, FL, USA, Dec. 4-5, 2006.

21. Linn, Y., "An Optimal Adaptive M-PSK Carrier Phase Detector Suitable for Fixed-Point Hardware Implementation within FPGAs and ASICs", in Proc. IEEE 2006 Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS'06), Banff, AB, Canada, Oct. 2-4, 2006, pp. 238-243.

22. Yedlin, M. J., and Linn, Y.,"A Novel Method for Travel-Time Measurement for Geophysical Inversion Problems", in Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2006 (IGARSS’06), Denver, CO, USA, Jul. 31-Aug. 4, 2006.

23. Linn. Y, "A Real-Time SNR Estimator for D-MPSK over Frequency-Flat Slow Fading AWGN Channels", in Proc. 2006 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 27-28, 2006.

24. Linn, Y. and Yedlin, M. J.,  "A Simulator for Differential MSK Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Systems Operating in a Multipath AWGN Environment, with Applications to Acoustic Travel-Time Measurement", in Proc. 8th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM 2005), Montréal, Québec, Canada, Oct. 10-13, 2005, pp. 47-58 (in Poster Paper Proceedings).

25. Linn, Y., "A Hardware Method for Real-Time SNR Estimation for M-PSK using a Symbol Synchronization Lock Metric", in Proc. 9^th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory(CWIT 2005), Jun. 5-8, 2005, Montréal, Canada, pp. 247-251.

26. Linn, Y.,"A Robust Phase Detection Structure for M-PSK: Theoretical Derivations, Simulation Results, and System Identification Analysis", in Proc. 18^th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE’05), May 1-4, 2005, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, pp. 869-883.

27. Linn, Y.,"Two New Decision Directed M-PSK Timing Error Detectors", in Proc. 18^th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE’05), May 1-4, 2005, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, pp. 1759-1766.

28. Linn, Y., "A New NDA Timing Error Detector for BPSK and QPSK with an Efficient Hardware Implementation for ASIC-Based and FPGA-Based Wireless Receivers", in Proc. 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’04), May 23-26, 2004, Vancouver, Canada, vol. 4, pp. 465-468.

29. Linn, Y., "A Symbol Synchronization Lock Detector and SNR Estimator for QPSK, with Application to BPSK", in Proc. 3^rd IASTED International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC 2003), Jul. 14-16, 2003, Banff, Alberta, Canada, pp. 506-514.

Seminar Papers (Invited)

30. Linn, Y., "Synchronization and SNR Estimation in M-PSK Wireless Receivers", in Proc. International Seminar: 15 Years of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Bucaramanga, Colombia, Aug. 15-19, 2006.

31. Linn, Y., "A Tutorial on Hybrid PLL Design for Synchronization in Wireless Receivers", in Proc. International Seminar: 15 Years of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Bucaramanga, Colombia, Aug. 15-19, 2006.