Centre for Wireless Communications

Prof. Nandana Rajatheva

Visiting Professor, Ph.D.

Degree/Status

Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1995

M.Sc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada, 1991

B.Sc (Hons). in Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka 1987

Research Interests

Performance analysis and resource allocation for relay, cognitive radio, hierarchical cellular systems-OFDMA,Signal processing for MIMO,Coding techniques-iterative decoding,Smartgrid communications.

Awards and Honours

Nokia Foundation Grant-visiting Professor, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, August 2010, Finland.

Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship 1989 – 1994.

Ceylon Electricity Board Award for the Best Electronics & Telecomm. Eng. Graduate 1987, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Other Activities

Associate Dean- Undergraduate Program, School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, since December 2009.

Associate Professor: since 2004, Telecommunications Program, School of Engineering & Technology (SET), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand

Program Coordinator: Telecom & ICT, SET, Asian Institute of Technology 2005-2010.

Professor: From June 2003 to November 2005, Dept. of Electronic & Telecomm. Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (on leave from December 2004)

Visiting Professor: February 2001-July 2001, Communications Lab., Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland.

Editor, International Journal of Vehicular Technology, Hindawi

Selected publications

N. S. Ferdinand and N. Rajatheva, (2011), Unified Performance Analysis of Two-Hop Amplify-and-Forward Relay Systems with Beamforming, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, published in IEEE early access

S. Herath, N. Rajatheva and C.Tellambura, (2011), Energy Detection of Unknown Signals in Fading and Diversity Reception, IEEE Transactions on Communications, published in IEEE early access.

N. S. Ferdinand, N. Rajatheva, M. Latva-aho, (2011), Effects of Antenna Correlation in MIMO Two Hop AF Relay Network over Rayleigh-Rician Channels, IEEE Communication Letters, published in IEEE early access

N. S. Ferdinand and N. Rajatheva, (2011), Performance Analysis of Imperfect Channel Estimation in MIMO Two Hop Fixed Gain Relay Network with Beamforming, IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 15, pp. 1089-7798, February 2011

S. Atapattu, N. Rajatheva and C. Tellambura, (2010), Performance analysis of TDMA relay protocols over Nakagami-m fading, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 59 (1), art. no. 5204231, pp. 93-104.

S. A. K. Tanoli, I. Khan and N. Rajatheva, (2010), Cooperative Network in wireless communications: bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding. Vol 5, No 7 (2010), 562-570, Jul 2010, Journal of Communications.

P. Dharmawansa, N. Rajatheva and C. Tellambura (2009), New Series Representation for the Trivariate Non-Central Chi-Squared Distribution, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 665 – 675.

P. Dharmawansa, N. Rajatheva and H. Minn (2009), An Exact Error Probability Analysis of OFDM Systems with Frequency Offset, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 26 – 31. January 2009.

P. Dharmawansa, N. Rajatheva and C. Tellambura, (2009), Envelope and Phase Distribution of Two Correlated Gaussian Variables, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 4, pp.915 – 921.

P. Weeraddana, N. Rajatheva and H. Minn, (2009), Probability of Error Analysis OFDM systems with random residual frequency offset, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 106-116.

Y. Li, H. Minn and R. M. A. P. Rajatheva, (2008), Synchronization, channel estimation and equalization in MB-OFDM systems, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 4341-4352.

I. Shahid and N. Rajatheva , (2008), Asymptotic ber bounds for iteratively decoded bit-interleaved space-time coded modulation under correlated Rayleigh and Rician fading channels. IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 770-772.

Full list of publications

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