Andrew J. Viterbi

Research.com Recognitions

• 2017 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
• 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)
• 2010 - IEEE Medal of Honor For seminal contributions to communications technology and theory.”
• 2007 - IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Medal "For fundamental contributions, innovation, and leadership that enabled the growth of wireless telecommunications."
• 2007 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his development of the maximum-likelihood algorithm for convolutional coding, known as the Viterbi algorithm, and for his contributions to Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) wireless technology that transformed the theory and practice of digital communications.", Presented by President George W. Bush in the East Room of the White House on September 29, 2008.
• 2005 - Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute
• 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1996 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1991 - IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award
• 1984 - IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal "For fundamental contributions to telecommunication theory and practice and for leadership in teaching."
• 1978 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering Contributions to communication and coding.

Overview

Best Publications

• Error bounds for convolutional codes and an asymptotically optimum decoding algorithm

  A. Viterbi

  10572
  Citations

• Cdma: Principles of Spread Spectrum Communication

  Andrew J. Viterbi

  4545
  Citations

• On the capacity of a cellular CDMA system

  K.S. Gilhousen;I.M. Jacobs;R. Padovani;A.J. Viterbi

  4383
  Citations

• Principles of digital communication and coding

  Andrew J. Viterbi;James K. Omura

  2469
  Citations

• System and method for generating signal waveforms in a CDMA cellular telephone system

  Klein S. Gilhousen;Irwin M. Jacobs;Roberto Padovani;Lindsay A. Weaver

  2067
  Citations

• CDMA/HDR: a bandwidth efficient high speed wireless data service for nomadic users

  P. Bender;P. Black;M. Grob;R. Padovani

  1795
  Citations

• Convolutional Codes and Their Performance in Communication Systems

  A. Viterbi

  1615
  Citations

• Nonlinear estimation of PSK-modulated carrier phase with application to burst digital transmission

  A. Viterbi

  1536
  Citations

• Erlang capacity of a power controlled CDMA system

  A.M. Viterbi;A.J. Viterbi

  1207
  Citations

• Very low rate convolution codes for maximum theoretical performance of spread-spectrum multiple-access channels

  A.J. Viterbi

  1141
  Citations

• An intuitive justification and a simplified implementation of the MAP decoder for convolutional codes

  A.J. Viterbi

  995
  Citations

• Soft Handoff Extends CDMA Cell Coverage and Increase Reverse Link Capacity

  Andrew J. Viterbi;Audrey M. Viterbi;Klein S. Gilhousen;Ephraim Zehavi

  867
  Citations

• Soft handoff extends CDMA cell coverage and increases reverse link capacity

  A.J. Viterbi;A.M. Viterbi;K.S. Gilhousen;E. Zehavi

  809
  Citations

• Other-cell interference in cellular power-controlled CDMA

  A.J. Viterbi;A.M. Viterbi;E. Zehavi

  509
  Citations

• A pragmatic approach to trellis-coded modulation

  A.J. Viterbi;J.K. Wolf;E. Zehavi;R. Padovani

  401
  Citations

• Performance of power-controlled wideband terrestrial digital communication

  A.J. Viterbi;A.M. Viterbi;E. Zehavi

  360
  Citations

• Phase-locked loop dynamics in the presence of noise by Fokker-Planck techniques

  A.J. Viterbi

  347
  Citations

• Spread spectrum communications: myths and realities

  A.J. Viterbi

  341
  Citations

• A Robust Ratio-Threshold Technique to Mitigate Tone and Partial Band Jamming in Coded MFSK Systems

  A. J. Viterbi

  276
  Citations

• When not to spread spectrum - A sequel

  A. Viterbi

  197
  Citations

• A personal history of the Viterbi algorithm

  A.J. Viterbi

  197
  Citations

• Wireless digital communication: a view based on three lessons learned

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  189
  Citations