Erik Perrins

	esp@eecs.ku.edu http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~esp/ 785.864.7370 2044 Eaton Hall 1520 West 15th Street Lawrence KS 66045-7621

Education:

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering/Communication Theory, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 2005
M.S., Electrical Engineering/Communication Theory, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 1998
B.S., Electrical Engineering/Signals and Systems, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 1997, Magna Cum Laude

Teaching:

Error Control Coding

Digital Communications

Probability and Statistics

Signals and Systems

Service:

Research:

Digital communication theory, advanced modulation techniques, channel coding, synchronization, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), wireless communications. Also, practical research problems in communications, including complexity reduction in receivers, effective implementation architectures for communication systems, the intersection of wireless communications and digital hardware design.

Affiliations:

Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2007-Present.
Co-Chair (one of six equal co-chairs), Wireless Communications Symposium, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'09).
Technical Program Committee, Wireless Communications Symposium, 2008 IEEE Globecom (Globecom'08).
Technical Program Committee, Communication Theory Symposium, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'08).
Technical Program Committee, Transmission Technology Track, Fall 2008 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall'08).
Technical Program Committee, Transmission Technology Track, Fall 2007 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall'07).
Technical Program Committee, Communication Theory Symposium, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'06).

Memberships:

Senior Member of IEEE
IEEE Communications Society
IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
American Society of Engineering Education

Honors:

Co-author (with first author P. Chandran), 2nd Place Graduate Student Paper Award, 2007 International Telemetering Conference
Best Paper Award (with T. Nelson and M. Rice), International Telemetering Conference, 2005.
Best Graduate Student Paper Award, International Telemetering Conference, 2004, 2003.
BYU Electrical Engineering Department Research Fellowship, 1997-1998.

Selected Publications:

P. Chandran and E. Perrins, "Symbol Timing Recovery for CPM with Correlated Data Symbols," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Communications (accepted May 2008).
E. Perrins and M. Rice, "PAM Representation of Ternary CPM," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Communications (accepted October 2007).
T. Nelson, E. Perrins, and M. Rice, "Near Optimal Common Detection Techniques for Shaped Offset QPSK and Feher's QPSK," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 724--735, May 2008.
E. Perrins, R. Schober, M. Rice, and M. K. Simon, "Multiple-Bit Differential Detection of Shaped-Offset QPSK," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 2328-2340, December 2007.
E. Perrins and M. Rice, "Reduced-Complexity Approach to Iterative Detection of SOQPSK," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 1354-1362, July 2007.
E. Perrins and M. Rice, "Reduced Complexity Detectors for Multi-h CPM in Aeronautical Telemetry," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 286-300, January 2007.
E. Perrins and M. Rice, "PAM Decomposition of M-ary Multi-h CPM," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 2065-2075, December 2005.
E. Perrins and M. Rice, "A New Performance Bound for PAM-based CPM Detectors," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 53, no. 10, pp 1688-1696, October 2005.
M. Rice and E. Perrins, "A Simple Figure of Merit for Evaluating Interleaver Depth for the Land-Mobile Satellite Channel," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 49, no. 8, pp 1343-1353, August 2001.
M. P. Wylie-Green and E. Perrins, "Reduced Complexity Sequence Detection of Continuous Phase Modulation Represented as the Linear Superposition of Amplitude Modulated Pulses," in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM’07), Washington, D.C., November 2007.
E. Perrins, R. Schober, M. Rice, and M. K. Simon, "Shaped-Offset QPSK with Multiple-Bit Differential Detection," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'06), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
E. Perrins and M. Rice, "A Reduced-Complexity Approach to Iterative Detection of Coded MIL-STD SOQPSK," in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM’05), St. Louis, MO, November/December 2005.
E. Perrins and M. Rice, "Simple Detectors for Shaped-Offset QPSK Using the PAM Decomposition," in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM’05), St. Louis, MO, November/December 2005.