Giovanni Vannucci


Publications

"Optimum Photon Detection with a Simple Counting Processor," with M. C. Teich and P. R. Prucnal, Opt. Lett. 1, pp. 208-210 (1977).
"Effects of Rate Variations on the Counting Statistics of Dead-Time-Modified Poisson Processes," with M. C. Teich, Opt. Commun. 25, pp. 267-272 (1978).
"Observation of Dead-Time-Modified Photocounting Distributions for Modulated Laser Radiation," with M. C. Teich, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 68, pp. 1338-1342 (1978).
"Equivalence of Threshold Detection With and Without Dead Time," with M. C. Teich, Appl. Opt. 18, pp. 3886-3887 (1979).
"Computer Simulation of Superposed Coherent and Chaotic Radiation," with M. C. Teich, Appl. Opt. 19, pp. 548-553 (1980).
"Dead-Time-Modified Photocount Mean and Variance for Chaotic Radiation," with M. C. Teich, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 71, No. 2, February 1981.
"Multiplication Noise in the Human Visual System at Threshold: 1. The Role of Non-Poisson Quantum Fluctuations," with M. C. Teich, P. R. Prucnal, M. E. Breton and W. J. McGill, Biol. Cybern. 44, pp. 157-165 (1982).
"Multiplication Noise in the Human Visual System at Threshold: 1. Quantum Fluctuations and Minimum Detectable Energy," with M. C. Teich, P. R. Prucnal, M. E. Breton and W. J. McGill, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 72, No. 4, April 1982.
"A Tuned Fresnel Lens," Appl. Opt. 25, No. 16, pp. 2831-2834 (1986).
"Crosstalk Penalty in a Two-Channel ASK Heterodyne Detection System with Non-Negligible Laser Linewidth," with Y. K. Park, S. W. Granlund, C. Y. Kuo, M. Dixon, T. W. Cline, R. W. Smith and N. K. Dutta, Electron. Lett. 23, No. 24, pp. 1291-1293 (19 Nov. 1987).
"Using Spread Spectrum in a High-Capacity Fiber-Optic Local Network," with G. J. Foschini, J. of Lightwave Tech. LT-6, No. 3, March 1988.
"Noncoherent Detection of Coherent Lightwave Signals Corrupted by Phase Noise," with G. J. Foschini and L. J. Greenstein, IEEE Trans. Comm. COM-36, No. 3, March 1988.
Also reprinted in Coherent Lightwave Communications, P. S. Henry and S. D. Personick, eds., IEEE Press, New York (1990) pp. 330-338.
"Characterizing Filtered Light Waves Corrupted by Phase Noise," with G. J. Foschini, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, IT-34, No. 6, November 1988.
"Combining Frequency-Division and Code-Division Multiplexing in a High-Capacity Optical Network," IEEE Network magazine, vol. 23, no. 2, March 1989 (invited paper).
"Optical Power Requirements for Detecting OOK and FSK Signals Corrupted by Phase Noise," with L. J. Greenstein and G. J. Foschini, IEEE Trans. Comm., COM-37, No. 4, April 1989.
"Experimental Spreading and Despreading of the Optical Spectrum," with S. Yang, IEEE Trans. Comm. COM-37, No. 7, July 1989.
"Envelope Statistics for Filtered Optical Signals Corrupted by Phase Noise," with L. J. Greenstein and G. J. Foschini, IEEE Trans. Comm., COM-37, No. 12, December 1989.
"The Minimum Distance For Digital Magnetic Recording Partial Responses," with G. J. Foschini, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory IT-37, No. 3, May 1991.
"Microcells in Personal Communications Systems," with L. J. Greenstein, N. Amitay, T.-S. Chu, L. J. Cimini, G. J. Foschini, M. J. Gans, C.-L. I, A. J. Rustako, Jr., and R. A. Valenzuela, IEEE Commun. Mag., December 1992.
"Wireless Enhanced 9-1-1 Service-Making It a Reality," with M. J. Meyer, T. Jacobson, M. E. Palamara, M. Gross and R. E. Richton, Bell Labs Tech Journal, Autumn 1996.
"Practical Motion Capture in Everyday Surroundings," with D. Vlasic, R. Adelsberger, J. Barnwell, M. Gross, W. Matusik and J. Popovic, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2007.
"A Software-Defined Radio System for Backscatter Sensor Networks," with A. Bletsas and D. Leigh, IEEE Trans. Wireless Comm., Vol. 7, No. 6, June 2008.

Conference Talks and Papers

"Quantum Requirements at the Absolute Threshold with Non-Poisson Visual Stimuli," with L. Matin, M. C. Teich, M. E. Breton, P. R. Prucnal and W. J. McGill, Assoc. Res. Vis. Ophthal. (ARVO) Abstr. 1, pp. 132-133, (1978).
"Dead-Time-Modified Photon Statistics and Their Relationship to the Optical Power Spectrum," with M. C. Teich, Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, San Francisco, California (Nov. 1978).
"Non-Poisson Nature of the Effective Noise in the Visual System Near Threshold," with M. C. Teich, P. R. Prucnal, M. E. Breton, and W. J. McGill, Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, San Francisco, California (Nov. 1978).
"Role of Quantum Fluctuations and the Neyman Type-A Distribution in Human Vision," with M. C. Teich, P. R. Prucnal, M. E. Breton and W. J. McGill, Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, Rochester, New York (Oct. 1979).
"Burst Modem Synchronization at low CNR Levels," with A. S. Acampora, L. J. Greenstein, and Y. S. Yeh, National Telecommunication Conference (NTC) Houston, Texas (Dec. 1980).
"A Digital Carrier Regenerator Applicable to TDMA Satellite Systems," International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Rome, Italy (May 1982).
"An Experimental Scanning Spot Beam Satellite System Implementing 600 Mbit/s TDMA," with A. J. Rustako, Jr. and C. B. Woodworth, Sixth International Conference on Digital Satellite Communications, Phoenix, Arizona (Sept. 1983).
"Optical Backup for Terrestrial Microwave Links," International Tirrenia Workshop on Digital Communications, Tirrenia (Pisa), Italy (1985).
"Local Network with a Throughput of More Than 100 Gbit/s," with G. J. Foschini, Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), Reno, Nevada (Jan. 1987).
"Characterizing Filtered Light Waves Corrupted by Phase noise," with G. J. Foschini, Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (March 1988).
"The Effect of Phase Noise on the Coherent Detection of Optical On-Off Keying," with L. J. Greenstein and G. J. Foschini, International Conference on Communications (ICC), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (June 1988).
"Combining Frequency-Division and Code-Division Multiplexing in a High-Capacity Optical Network," 1989 IEEE Comm. Theory Workshop, Hawk's Cay, Florida (April 1989).
"The Detection and Analysis of Coherent Lightwave Signals Corrupted by Laser Phase Noise," with L. J. Greenstein and G. J. Foschini, 1989 Tirrenia International Workshop on Digital Communications, Tirrenia (Pisa), Italy (September 1989).
"A Coherent Phase-Diversity Optical Receiver with Double Frequency Conversion," 1989 Tirrenia International Workshop on Digital Communications, Tirrenia (Pisa), Italy (September 1989).
"Detection of Coherent Lightwave Signals Impaired by Phase Noise," with G. J. Foschini and L. J. Greenstein, Photonic Communications and Networking Symposium, Ottawa, Canada (September 1989).
"Envelope Statistics for Filtered Optical Signals Corrupted by Phase Noise," with L. J. Greenstein and G. J. Foschini, 1989 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom '89), Dallas, Texas (November 1989).
"Measurement Results on Indoor Radio Frequency Re-use at 900 MHz and 18 GHz" with R. S. Roman, PIMRC '92 Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts (October '92).
"A low-cost two-way radio transceiver" with J. G. Evans, R. A. Shober, S .A. Wilkus and G. A. Wright, 1998 URSI International Symposium on Signals, Systems, and Electronics, Pisa, Italy (September '98).
"Sequential Bezout Equalizer for MIMO Systems" with S. Y. Kung, Xinying Zhang and Jinyun Zhang, World Wireless Congress, San Francisco, CA (May '02).
"Capacity enhancement for HSDPA in W-CDMA System" with J. H. Horng and J. Zhang, Vehicular Technology Conference, Vancouver, BC (Sep '02).
"Can you do 110 Mbit-s at 10 m?" Ultra-Wideband Technology Workshop at USC - Invited Paper, Los Angeles, CA (October '02).
"Wide-area Long-Range Unidirectional Sensor (WALRUS) Network," with D. Leigh and J. Katz, IEEE International Conf. on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems, Washington, DC (November '05).
"Practical Motion Capture in Everyday Surroundings," with D. Vlasic, R. Adelsberger, J. Barnwell, M. Gross, W. Matusik and J. Popovi?, SIGGRAPH '07, San Diego, CA (August '07).
"Implementing Backscatter Radio for Wireless Sensor Networks," with A. Bletsas and D. Leigh, PIMRC 2007, Athens, Greece (September '07).