Wireless Communication Technologies Group Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Home WCTG Home Projects People	Len Miller's Page Two LMiller (at) nist.gov This page has a fuller listing of Len's publications.
	PATENTS L. E. Miller and J. S. Lee, "Method for calculating the PN generator mask to obtain a desired shift of the PN code," US Patent 6,556,555, 29 April 2003. J. S. Lee and L. E. Miller, "Method for determining forward link channel powers for a CDMA cellular or PCS system," US Patent 6,377,555, 23 April 2002.

"CDMA/IS95", chapter in Encyclopedia of Telecommunications, John G. Proakis, ed. New York: Wiley, December 2002 (with J. S. Lee).  

CDMA Systems Engineering Handbook, Boston: Artech House, 1998 (1228 pp.) (with J. S. Lee) 

Selected Journal Publications

• Guest editorial, special topic in IEEE Communications Magazine on Public Safety Communications, January 2006 (with Z. J. Haas). online
• "Performance of Exponential Backoff," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networks, vol. 13, pp. 343-355 (April 2005) (co-author with B. J. Kwak and N. O. Song).
• "On the scalability of ad hoc networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 8, pp. 503-505 (August 2004)(co-author with B. J. Kwak and N. O. Song).
• "A Standard Measure of Mobility for Evaluating Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Performance," IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol. E86-B, pp. 3236-3243 (November 2003) (co-author with B. J. Kwak and N. O. Song).
• "On the Stability of Exponential Backoff," J. Research of NIST, vol. 108, no. 4 (July-August 2003) (co-author with N. O. Song and B. J. Kwak).
• "A Mobility Measure for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 7, pp. 379-381 (August 2003) (co-author with B. J. Kwak and N. O. Song).
• "Autocorrelation functions for Hermite-polynomial ultra-wideband pulses," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 39, No. 11, pp. 870-871 (29 May 2003).
• "Analysis of Peak-to-Average Power Ratio for IS-95 and Third Generation CDMA Forward Link Waveforms," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, July 2001 (with J. S. Lee).
• "Distribution of Link Distances in a Mobile Network," Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, March-April, 2001. Online at http://www.nist.gov/jres
• "Solutions for Minimum Required Forward Link Channel Powers in CDMA Cellular and PCS Systems," Journal of Communications and Networks, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 42-51, March 1999 (with J. S. Lee). 
• "BER Expressions for Differentially Detected pi/4 DQPSK Modulation," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 46, pp. 71–81, Jan. 1998 (with J. S. Lee). 
• "Frequency-Hopping Signal Detection Using Partial Band Coverage," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 29, pp. 540–553, Apr. 1993 (with D. J. Torrieri and J. S. Lee). 
• "Error-correcting Codes and Nonlinear Diversity Combining Against Worst-Case Partial-Band Jamming of Frequency-Hopping MFSK Systems," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-36, pp. 471–478, Apr. 1988 (with J. S. Lee and R. H. French). 
• "Probability of Error Analyses of a BFSK Frequency Hopping System With Diversity Under Partial-Band Jamming Interference, Part III - Performance of a Square-Law Self-Normalizing Soft Decision Receiver," IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-34, pp. 669–675, July 1986 (with J. S. Lee and A. P. Kadrichu). 
• "The Analysis of Uncoded Performances for Certain ECCM Receiver Design Strategies for Multi-hops FH/MFSK Waveform," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. SAC-3, pp. 611–621, Sept. 1985 (with J. S. Lee and R. H. French). 
• "Bandpass Correlator Analysis for General Input Assumptions," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-28, No. 6, pp. 973–977, Nov. 1982 (with J. S. Lee). 
• "Error Analysis of Time Delay Estimation Using a Finite Integration Time Correlator," IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. ASSP-29, pp. 490–496, June 1981 (with J. S. Lee). 
• "Probability Density Function for the Output of an Analog Cross-Correlator with Correlated Bandpass Inputs," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-20, pp. 433–440, July 1974 (with J. S. Lee). 

• "Link Assessment in an Indoor 802.11 Network," Proc. WCNC 2006. (co-author with M. R. Souryal, L. Klein-Berndt, N. Moayeri)
• "Analysis of EIED backoff algorithm for the IEEE 802.11 DCF," Proc. IEEE VTC-Fall 2005, pp. 2182-2186 (with N. O. Song and B. J. Kwak).
• "On the Scalability of Ad Hoc Networks: a traffic analysis at the center of a network," Proc. IEEE WCNC 2004, Atlanta, 21-25 March 2004 (co-author with B. J. Kwak and N. O. Song).
• "Models for UWB Pulses and Their Effects on Narrowband Direct Conversion Receivers," Proc. IEEE UWBST 2003, Reston, VA, 16-19 Nov. 2003.
• "A Canonical Measure of Mobility for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," Proc. IEEE MILCOM 2003, Boston, 13-16 October 2003 (co-author with B. J. Kwak and N. O. Song).
• "Enhancement of IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function with Exponential Increase Exponential Decrease Backoff Algorithm," Proc. VTC Spring 2003 (co-author with N. O. Song, B. J. Kwak, and J. Song).
• "Analysis of the Stability and Performance of Exponential Backoff," Proc. WCNC 2003 (co-author with B. J. Kwak and N. O. Song).
• "Joint Distribution of Link Distances,'' Proc. 37th Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2003), Baltimore, March 12-14, 2003.
• "OPNET Ad Hoc Network Modeling at NIST/WCTG'' presented at OPNETWORK, Washington, August 26-30, 2002.
• "Empirical Analysis of the Mobility Factor for the Random Waypoint Model," presented at OPNETWORK, Washington, August 26-30, 2002 (with J. Song).
• "Distributional Properties of Inhibited Random Positions of Mobile Radio Terminals," Proc. 36th Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2002), Princeton, March 20-22, 2002.
• "Cumulative Acknowledgement Multicast Repetition Policy for Wireless LANs or Ad Hoc Network Clusters," Proc. IEEE 2002 Internat'l Conf. on Comm. (ICC 2002), New York, April 29-May 1, 2002 (with B. J. Kwak).
• "Implementing Message Priority Policies over an 802.11 Based Mobile Ad Hoc Network," Proc. MILCOM 2001 (with X. Pallot). 
• "Distributed Sensor Processing over an Ad Hoc Wireless Network: Simulation Framework and Performance Criteria," Proc. MILCOM 2001 (with R. VanDyck). 
• "Probability of a Two-Hop Connection in a Random Mobile Network," Proc. 35th Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2001), Baltimore, March 2001.   PDF files: paper, presentation 
• "Analysis of Peak-to-Average Power Ratio for IS-95 CDMA Waveforms," Proc. 4th CDMA Internatl. Conf., 8–11 Sept. 1999, Seoul, Korea (with J. S. Lee). 
• "Dynamic Allocation of CDMA Forward Link Power for PCS and Cellular Systems," Proc. 2nd CDMA Internatl. Conf., 21–24 Oct. 1997, Seoul, Korea (with J. S. Lee). 
• "Assessment of CDMA Cellular System Capacity in the Military Environment," Proc. MILCOM '97, October 1997, Monterey, CA (with S. Tabrizi and J. S. Lee). 
• "The Effect of Path Diversity (Rake) on Link Reliability in CDMA Cellular Systems: A Realistic Assessment of System Capacity," Proc. 7th Internatl. Symp. on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Commun. (PIMRC '96), pp. 1130–1134, 15–18 Oct. 1996, Taipei, Taiwan (with J. S. Lee). 
• "On the Erlang Capacity of CDMA Cellular Systems," Proc. IEEE 1995 Global Telecomm. Conf., 13–17 Nov. 1995, Singapore (with J. S. Lee). 
• "New Closed-Form Expressions for Differentially Detected pi/4 DQPSK System Performance in AWGN and Rayleigh Fading," Proc. 1994 Internatl. Symp. on Info. Theory p. 89, Trondheim, Norway (with J. S. Lee). 
• "An Adaptive Algorithm for Computing Network S-T Reliability with Node Failures," Proc. MILCOM '93, Oct. 11–14, 1993, Boston, pp. 912–916 (with L. Wong and J. S. Lee). 
• "Analytical Techniques for Assessing the Control Net Connectivity of Centralized Multihop Radio Systems," Proc. MILCOM '92, Oct. 12–15, 1992, San Diego, pp. 0241–0246 (with J. J. Kelleher). 
• "Efficient Computation of Network Performance Measures for the Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE) Network," Proc. MILCOM '90, Monterey, CA, pp. 24.5.1–24.5.5 (with J. S. Lee, R. H. French, and D. J. Torrieri). 
• "MSE Routing Algorithm Comparison," Proc. MILCOM '89, Oct. 15–18, 1989, Boston, pp. 2.2.1–2.2.5 (with R. H. French, J. S. Lee, and D. J. Torrieri). 
• "Comparison of Parametric and Nonparametric Nonlinear Diversity Combining Schemes for Frequency-Hopping FSK Systems in Partial-Band Jamming," Proc. MILCOM '87, 19–22 Oct. 1987, Washington (with J. S. Lee). 
• "Performance of Frequency-Hopped Random MFSK in Partial-Band Noise Jamming," Proc. GLOBECOM '86, 1–4 Dec. 1986, Houston (with J. S. Lee). 

• "Indoor Navigation for First Responders: A Feasibility Study," February 2006. online (5.7 MB pdf)
• "Wireless Technologies and the SAFECOM SOR for Public Safety Communications," 2005. pdf file
• "FY 2005 Interim Project Report: RFID-Assisted Localization and Communication for First Responders," October 2005. (with N. P. Bryner, P. F. Wilson, M. H. Francis, J. R. Guerrieri, D. W. Stroup, and L. Klein-Berndt. pdf file
• "Effects of Pulsed Interference," technical contribution to IEEE 802.15.3a Task Group for alternate high-rate PHY for WPANs, 13 November 2003.   pdf file
• "Validation of 802.11a/UWB Coexistence Simulation," WCTG white paper, October 2003. PDF file.
• "Models of UWB Pulses," WCTG white paper, May 2003. PDF file.
• "Why UWB? A Review of Ultrawideband Technology," WCTG report for DARPA, April 2003. PDF file.
• "Implementation of Priority Schemes in MANETs Over the 802.11 MAC Layer," March 8, 2001 (with X. Pallot). 
• "Assessment of the Effect of Node Failures on a Tactical Communication System Utilizing an Area Coverage Network," JSLAI Report JC-6001-WS-F (139 pages) under contract DAAB10-93-C-0023 (Army Research Laboratory), Mar. 1994. 
• "Assessing New Spread Spectrum Waveform Techniques for Military Applications," JSLAI Report JC-9015-RL-F-1 (596 pages) under contract F30602-94-C-0235 (Rome Laboratory), Aug. 1996 (with J. S. Lee and W. A. Jesser) (Rome Laboratory Technical Report RL-TR-96-221, Feb. 1997. 
• "Assessment of Network Reliability Calculation Methods," JSLAI report JC-2097-FF (226 pages) under contract DAAL02-92-C-0045 (Army Survivability Enhancement Office), Jan. 1993 (with L. Wong) (AD-B170336). 
• "Propagation Model Sensitivity Study," JSLAI Report JC-2092-1-FF (126 pages) under contract DAAL02-89-C-0040 (Army Survivability Management Office), July 1992. (AD-B166479) 
• "Models for MSE Traffic and Blocking Under Stress," JSLAI Report JC-2092-2-FF (91 pages) under contract DAAL02-89-C-0040 (Army Survivability Management Office), July 1992. (AD-B166477) 
• "Army JTIDS Communications Survivability Analyses: System Modeling and Jammed Connectivity Assessment," JSLAI Report JC-2075-J-FF (113 pages) under contract DAAL02-89-C-0040 (Army Survivability Management Office), July 1990. 
• "EPLRS (Enhanced Position Location Reporting System) Communications Network Management Performance Study," JSLAI Report JC-2061-FF (131 pages) under contract DAAL02-88-D-0013 (Army Survivability Management Office), Dec. 1989. 
• "A Study of Localization of Meteor Burst Communications Signals," JSLAI Report (225 pages) under contract N68786-84-C-1462 (Naval Electronics System Command), Sept. 1984 (with R.H. French). 
• "Signal Design and Detection Strategies for LPI Communications in Electronic Warfare Environments," JSLAI Report JTR-83-01 (414 pages) under contract N00014-81-C-0534 (Office of Naval Research), May 1983 (with J. S. Lee, R. H. French and Y. K. Kim). (AD-B073026L).