A. Brinton Cooper III

Publications

Book Sections

"Communications and Information Theory," CRC Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, 1998.

"Soft Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes," Chapter 6 of Reed-Solomon Codes and their Applications, V.J. Barghava and S.B. Wicker, eds, IEEE Press, New York, 1994.

"Direct Solution of BCH Syndrome Equations," in Communications, Control, and Signal Processing, E. Arkian, ed, Elsevier, New York, 1990.

"Algebraic Codes Constructed from other Algebraic Codes: A Short Survey and Some Recent Results,"in Communication Systems and Random Process Theory, Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1976, The Netherlands.

Journal Papers

A.B. Cooper III, J.B. Khurgin, S. Xu, and J.U. Kang, "Minimizing Multiple Access Interference in OCDMA with Phase and Polarization Diversity," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, special issue on "Code in Optical Communications and Networks," v. 13, no. 5, Sep/Oct 2007, pp 1386-1395,

B.L. Hughes and A.B. Cooper III, "Nearly Optimal Multiuser Codes for the Binary Adder Channel,"IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, March, 1996, pp 387-398.

D. Kazakos and A.B. Cooper III, "Exponential error bounds for coding through noisy channels with inaccurately known statistics and for generalized decision rules," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol 41, pp 1329-1334, October 1993.

A.B. Cooper III, "Finding BCH error locator polynomials in one step," Electronics Letters, V27, n22, 24 October 1991.

W. E. Burr, A. C. Parker, D. R. Allison, A.B. Cooper III, and C. B. Silio Jr, "A Bus System for the Military Computer Family," IEEE COMPUTER, April 1979.

A.B. Cooper III and Willis C. Gore, "Iterated codes with improved performance," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May 1978.

A.B. Cooper III and Willis C. Gore, "A recent result concerning the dual of polynomial codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol IT-16, September 1970.

Willis C. Gore and A.B. Cooper III, "Comments on polynomial codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol IT-16, September 1970.

R Adams Cowley, MD, A.B. Cooper III, David E. Towson, and Leonard Scherlis, MD, "A Statewide communication system to support a regional program for emergency health care in Maryland," Maryland State Medical Journal, Baltimore, January 1973.

Invited Talks

"Fast Frequency Hopping for Multiuser Communications," presented to the Washington, DC, Chapter, IEEE Communications Society, George Washington University, March 15, 2001.

"Fast Frequency Hopping with MFSK for Wireless Networks," presented to the Electrical Engineering Graduate Seminar, University of Maryland Baltimore County, March 9, 2001.

Expert Speaker, Panel Session on "Military and Commercial Communications Systems; Similarities and

Differences," International Symposium on Computers and Communications, Athens, Greece, June 30, - July 2, 1998.

"Sequence Demodulation in Impulsive Noise," International Conference on Telecommunications, Chalkidiki, Greece, June 22-25, 1998.

"Mixed Rate Multiuser Codes for the T-user Binary Adder Channel," Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Delaware, November 20, 1995.

"Toward a New Method of Decoding Algebraic Codes using Gr�obner Bases," Proceedings, Tenth Army Mathematics Conference, Mathematics Department, US Military Academy, West Point, June 16, 1992.

"Decoding using Groebner Bases," Mathematical Sciences Institute, Symbolic Computing Seminar, Cornell University, December 11, 1991.

"New Techniques for Decoding BCH Codes," Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, March 1, 1991.

"Direct Solutions of BCH Syndrome Equations," Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, October 3, 1990.

"An Application of Groebner Bases in Algebraic Error Control Decoding," Graduate Communications Seminar, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, April 2, 1990.

"An Application of Groebner Bases in Algebraic Error Control Coding," Computer Algebra Seminar, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, March 12, 1990.

"Topics in Robust Networking," Center for Intelligent Control Systems (MIT, Harvard, Brown), Cambridge, MA, September 25, 1989.

"Groebner Bases and Algebraic Coding," School of Electronic Engineering Science, University College of North Wales, Bangor, July 4, 1989.

"Groebner Bases and Algebraic Coding," Electrical Engineering Department, Manchester University, Manchester, UK, July 6, 1989.

Conference Papers

N. Rivera, R. Mountain, L. Assumpcao, A.A. Williams, A.B. Cooper, D.L. Lewis, R. C. Benson�, J. A. Miragliotta, M. R. Marohn, and R.H. Taylor, �ASSIST: Automated System for Surgical Instrument
and Sponge Tracking,� Proc. 2008 IEEE International Conference on RFID,� Las Vegas, April 16-17, 2008

A.B. Cooper III, J.B. Khurgin, S. Xu, J.U. Kang, "High Spectral Effciency Phase Diversity Coherent Optical CDMA with low MAI," poster paper, 2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO '07), Optical Society of America, Baltimore, May 6-11, 2007.

A.B. Cooper III, J.B. Khurgin, S. Xu, J.U. Kang, "Coherent Optical CDMA with low MAI," Proc. 41-st Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March, 2007.

J. B. Khurgin, A.B. Cooper, P.S. Cho, I. Shpantzer, "Painless Fully Orthogonal Coherent OCDM," Coherent Optical Technologies and Applications, Optical Society of America, June 25-30, 2006, Westin Whistler Resort & Spa, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

A.B. Cooper III, J.B. Khurgin, J.U. Kang, "Phase and Polarization Diversity for OCDMA," 2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO '06). Optical Society of America, Long Beach, CA USA, May 21-26, 2006

H. Tayong, A. Cole-Rhodes, A.B. Cooper III, "Evaluating the performance of reduced fuzzy rank order detector (R-FROD) in an alpha stable environment," Proceedings, 39-th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March, 2005.

H. Tayong, A. Cole-Rhodes, A.B. Cooper III, "Assessing the Performance of Fast Frequency-Hopping Diversity Combiners for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Proceedings, 37-th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March, 2003.

H. Tayong, A. Beasley, A. Cole-Rhodes, A.B. Cooper III, "Adaptive Optimization of a Parametric Receiver for Fast Frequency Hopping, Proceedings, 36-th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, March 21, 2002.

D.D. Mills, A.B. Cooper III, C. Retter, "Correlation and linear span properties of nonlinear binary sequences generated by elements of large orders," Proceedings, 8th Annual ARL/US Military Academy Technical Symposium, (non-refereed).

H. Tayong, A. Beasley, A. Cole-Rhodes, A.B. Cooper III, G.R. Arce, "Bandwidth Efficiency in Fast Frequency Hopping Multiple Access," Proceedings, 35-th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 23 March 2001.

H. Tayong, A. Beasley, A. Cole-Rhodes, A.B. Cooper III, G.R. Arce, "Parametric Diversity Combining in Fast Frequency Hopping," Proceedings, ARL Federated Laboratory 2001 Capstone Symposium, College Park, March 22, 2001

D.D. Mills, A.B. Cooper III, C. Retter, "Correlation Properties of Sequences Generated by Polynomial Compositions," Proceedings, 8th Annual ARL/US Military Academy Technical Symposium, Aberdeen Proving Ground, November 2000 (non-refereed).

H. Tayong, A. Cole-Rhodes, A.B. Cooper III, A. Flaig, G.R. Arce, "Exploiting the Energy Distribution in Non-Coherent Frequency Hopping Diversity Combining," Proceedings, 34-th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, March, 2000.

H. Tayong, A. Cole-Rhodes, A.B. Cooper III, A. Flaig, G.R. Arce, "A Reduced Complexity Detector for Fast Frequency Hopping," Proceedings, 2000 ARL Federated Laboratory Symposium, College Park, March 2000.

Sudhakar Kalluri, Gonzalo Arce, A.B. Cooper III, "Optimal Sequence Estimation for Non-Gaussian Channels with Intersymbol Interference," invited talk in session on Non-Gaussian Processes in Communications, Proceedings, 33-rd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March 1999 (presented by Kalluri).

A. Flaig, G.R. Arce, A.B. Cooper III, "Rank-Order Diversity Detectors for Wireless Communications in Hostile Environments," Proceedings, 1999 ARL Federated Laboratory Symposium, College Park, February 1999.

A. Flaig, G.R. Arce, A.B. Cooper III, H. Tayong, and A. Cole-Rhodes, "Fuzzy Rank-Order Detectors for Frequency-Hopping Networks," Proceedings, 1999 ARL Federated Laboratory Symposium, College Park, MD, February 1999.

M. Henry, C. B. Silio, and A.B. Cooper III, "Concurrent Communication in Ring Networks," Proceedings, 32-nd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, March 1998.

A.B. Cooper III, "Sequence Demodulation in Impulsive Noise," Conference to Honor Prof. P. G. Farrell, Lancaster, UK, January 13, 1998.

J. G. Gonzalez, D. W. Griffith, A.B. Cooper III, and G. R. Arce, "Adaptive Reception in Impulsive Noise," Proceedings, 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Ulm, Germany, July 1, 1997.

C. B. Silio, M. Henry, and A.B. Cooper III, "Packet Departure Rates in Ring Networks, Proceedings, 31-st Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March 1997.

J.G. Gonzalez, D.W. Griffith, A.B. Cooper III, G.R. Arce, "Robust Adaptive Receivers for Channels with Uncertain Impulsiveness," Proceedings, 1997 ARL Telecommunications Federated Laboratory Symposium, January 21-22, 1997.

A.B. Cooper III and B.L. Hughes, "Mixed-Rate Multiuser Codes for the T-user Binary Adder Channel," Proceedings, 1995 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Whistler, B.C., September 17-22, 1995.

A.B. Cooper III and B.L. Hughes, "A Class of Nearly Optimal Multiuser Codes: Construction, Performance, and Application," Proceedings, Annual 29-th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, 22 March 1995.

A.B. Cooper III and B.L. Hughes, "Coding for Improved Tactical Channel Sharing," Nineteenth Army Science Conference, Orlando, June 22, 1994. (Judged Best in Session in the Signal and Image Processing Session.)

C. B. Silio and A.B. Cooper III, "Markov Chain Analysis of MARILAN," Proceedings, 27-th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March 25, 1993.

A.B. Cooper III and B.L. Hughes, "Optimal Multiuser Codes for the Real Adder Channel," Proceedings, 1993 International Symposium on Information Theory, San Antonio, January 17-22, 1993.

A.B. Cooper III, "Toward a New Method of Decoding Algebraic Codes using Gr�obner Bases," Proceedings, Tenth Army Conference on Mathematics and Computing, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, June 16, 1992.

A.B. Cooper III, "One Step Algorithm for Finding BCH Error Locator Polynomials," Proceedings, 1991 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Budapest, June 23-28, 1991.

D. Kazakos and A.B. Cooper III, "Exponential Error Bounds for Coding through Noisy Channels with Inaccurately Known Statistics and for Generalized Decision Rules," Proceedings, 25-th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 20 March 1991.

A.B. Cooper III, "Direct Solution of BCH Syndrome Equations," 1990 Bilkent Conference on New Trends in Communications, Control, and Signal Processing, Bilkent University, Ankara, July 1990.

A.B. Cooper III, "New Techniques for Decoding BCH Codes," Proceedings, 24-th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, March 22, 1990.

A.B. Cooper III, "Toward the Direct Solution of BCH Decoding Equations," 1990 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (Session on "Recent Results"), San Diego, January 16, 1990.

A.B. Cooper III, "Protection of Multiuser Systems--An Open Question," Discussion Panel on Reliability as a Performance Limit, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Performance Limits in Communications, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy, August, 1986.

A.B. Cooper III, "Further Improvements to Iterated Codes," Abstracts of Papers of the 1985 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Brighton, UK, June 25, 1985.

A.B. Cooper III, "TACFIRE Communications," Fall Technical Conference, US Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, October 17, 1984.

A.B. Cooper III, "Code Iteration for Noisy Channels," Transactions of the Second Army Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computing, Troy, 22 May 1984.

A.B. Cooper III and P. J. Randall, "Software Evaluation Using a Case Study," Proceedings, DARCOM Tactical Computer Software Conference, Ft. Monmouth, November 1978.

A.B. Cooper III, "Algebraic Codes Constructed from Other Algebraic Codes: A Short Survey and some Recent Results," NATO Advanced Study Institute on Communications Systems and Random Process Theory, Darlington, UK, July 1977.

A.B. Cooper III, "Improved Iterative Codes," Proceedings, 1976 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, March, 1976.

A.B. Cooper III, "Comments on `Coding for Duplex Channels,' by Prof J P M Schalkwijk", New Directions in Signal Processing and Control, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Darlington, UK, August, 1974.