Dr Simon Armour

Summary

His research interests cover a variety of wireless communications techniques. Having originally specialised in Physical Layer work and OFDM in particular, he has in recent years expanded his interest to cover more MAC and RRM aspects of wireless and has embraced a cross layer approach to wireless system design. This has been applied in recent years to specific standards such as 802.11 (WiFi), 802.16 (WiMax) and LTE (B3G cellular) as well are core theoretical work.

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Biography

Dr Armour has been an academic at Bristol since 2001 and has held the post of Senior Lecturer since 2007. He obtained his BEng degree from the University of Bath in 1996 and his PhD from the University of Bristol in 2001.

He has lead collaborative projects with a number of industrial partners, including Toshiba and Kyocera and now leads Bristol’s involvement in the MVCE’s Green Radio project. MVCE is a collaborative organisation formed of a large number of global industrial partners sponsoring research work across a consortium of leading UK Universities.

He currently supervises 12 PhD students and 2 Postdoctoral Research Assistants.

Simon has published approximately 100 papers in international journals and conferences and has filed 11 patents. The majority of the latter are now owned by industry including one, for which he was a lead inventor, assigned to an industrial partner for a substantial, confidential, sum.

Keywords

• Advanced wireless communications
• Multi-carrier modulation techniques
• Channel Estimation and Synchronisation
• Adaptive equalization
• MIMO
• UWB
• LDPC codes
• Cognitive Radio
• Power Efficient Communications

Memberships

Organisations

Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Other sites

• Eeng

Research Groups

• Communication Systems and Networks
• Communication Systems and Networks - Core

CDTs

• Centre for Doctoral Training in Communications - Core

Links

• Communication Systems & Networks research group
• Centre for Communications Research (CCR)
• EPSRC CDT in Communications
• Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Recent publications

• Patcharamaneepakorn, P, Doufexi, A & Armour, SMD 2013, ‘Equivalent Expressions and Performance Analysis of SLNR Precoding Schemes: A Generalisation to Multi-antenna Receivers’. IEEE Communications Letters.
• Patcharamaneepakorn, P, Doufexi, A & Armour, SMD 2013, ‘Weighted Sum Capacity Maximization Using a Modified Leakage-Based Transmit Filter Design’. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol 62., pp. 1177-1188
• Patcharamaneepakorn, P, Armour, S & Doufexi, A 2012, ‘On the Equivalence Between SLNR and MMSE Precoding Schemes with Single-Antenna Receivers’. IEEE Communications Letters, vol 16., pp. 1034-1037
• Patcharamaneepakorn, P, Doufexi, A & Armour, S 2012, ‘Reduced complexity joint user and receive antenna selection algorithms for SLNR-based precoding in MU-MIMO systems’. in: IEEE VTC 2012 Spring, Yokohama, Japan. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Bocus, M, Coon, J, Canagarajah, C, Armour, S, Doufexi, A & McGeehan, J 2012, ‘Per-subcarrier antenna selection for H.264 MGS/CGS video transmission over cognitive radio networks’. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol 61 (3)., pp. 1060 - 1073
• Thampi, AK, Kaleshi, D, Randall, P, Featherstone, W & Armour, SMD 2012, ‘A sparse sampling algorithm for self-optimisation of coverage in LTE networks’. in: International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems., pp. 909-913
• Berraki, D, Nix, A & Armour, S 2012, ‘Dual carrier modulation analysis for IEEE 802.11ad’. in: First International Workshop on Smart Wireless Communications (Swicom 2012), Manchester., pp. 1 - 2
• Bocus, M, Coon, J, Canagarajah, C, McGeehan, J, Armour, S & Doufexi, A 2011, ‘Resource allocation for OFDMA-based cognitive radio networks with application to H.264 scalable video transmission’. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol 2011 (2011), article ID 245673., pp. 1 - 10
• Bocus, M, Coon, J, Canagarajah, C, McGeehan, J, Doufexi, A & Armour, S 2011, ‘Per-subcarrier antenna selection for OFDMA-based cognitive radio systems’. in: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2011. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 1 - 5
• Nicolaou, M, Doufexi, A, Armour, S & Sun, Y 2011, ‘A multiuser, multicarrier link adaptation atrategy for fading channels with PER constraints’. in: IEEE 73rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2011. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 1 - 5

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Courses

Dr Armour currently teaches 2 courses: