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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
36
Citations
4521
World Ranking
5406
National Ranking
1862

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Computer network
  • Telecommunications
  • Electrical engineering

His primary areas of study are Base station, Electronic engineering, Real-time computing, Computer network and Mobile radio. His Base station study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Interference, Radio system, Telecommunications network and Communications system. His Communications system research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Handover, Transmission and Communication channel, Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing.

His Electronic engineering research includes themes of Preamble and Frequency offset. His research is interdisciplinary, bridging the disciplines of Wireless network and Computer network. His research integrates issues of Mobile station, Power control and Mobile communication network in his study of Mobile radio.

His most cited work include:

  • Combining GPS with TOA/TDOA of cellular signals to locate terminal (326 citations)
  • Gps and cellular system interworking (136 citations)
  • Self-selection of radio frequency channels to reduce co-channel and adjacent channel interference in a wireless distributed network (134 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary scientific interests are in Computer network, Base station, Wireless, Electronic engineering and Communication channel. His Computer network research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Wireless network, Terminal and Distributed computing. His Base station study incorporates themes from Interference, Code division multiple access, Wireless communication systems and Mobile radio.

His study looks at the relationship between Wireless and topics such as Hop, which overlap with Quality of service. His Electronic engineering research integrates issues from Transmission, Electrical engineering, Radio frequency, Modulation and Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing. His biological study deals with issues like Real-time computing, which deal with fields such as Assisted GPS.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Computer network (52.81%)
  • Base station (26.97%)
  • Wireless (25.84%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2008-2015)?

  • Computer network (52.81%)
  • Wireless (25.84%)
  • Distributed computing (12.36%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

David Steer mainly investigates Computer network, Wireless, Distributed computing, Terminal and Wireless network. His study connects Network Access Device and Computer network. His Wireless research incorporates elements of Relay, Signal, Computer graphics and Hop.

His Signal study also includes

  • Antenna that intertwine with fields like Transmission,
  • Radiation pattern that intertwine with fields like Electronic engineering. David Steer has researched Wireless network in several fields, including Fingerprint and Node. In his study, Low overhead, Communication channel and Node is strongly linked to Real-time computing, which falls under the umbrella field of Mobile station.

Between 2008 and 2015, his most popular works were:

  • Method and apparatus for estimating location of a wireless station using multi-beam transmission (58 citations)
  • Determining device in-range proximity (56 citations)
  • Methods and apparatus to provide network capabilities for connecting to an access network (55 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Computer network
  • Telecommunications
  • Wireless

His main research concerns Computer network, Wireless, Terminal, Access network and Distributed computing. His work is dedicated to discovering how Computer network, Wireless network are connected with Fingerprint and Node and other disciplines. His work carried out in the field of Wireless brings together such families of science as Transmission and Electronic engineering.

His Terminal research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Frame, Network Admission Control, Authentication protocol, Authentication and Network access point. His studies in Access network integrate themes in fields like Routing, Network connection and Listing. His study in Distributed computing is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Network management station and Network Access Device.

Best Publications

  • Combining GPS with TOA/TDOA of cellular signals to locate terminal

    J. Michael Watters;Leo Strawczynski;David G. Steer

  • Gps and cellular system interworking

    J. Michael Watters;Leo Strawczynski;David G. Steer

  • Self-selection of radio frequency channels to reduce co-channel and adjacent channel interference in a wireless distributed network

    David Steer;Koon Hoo Teo;Adrian Smith

  • Devices and processing in a mobile radio communication network having calibration terminals

    J. Michael Watters;Leo Strawczynski;David Steer

  • Cellular terminal location using GPS signals in the cellular band

    J. Watters;Leo Strawezynski;David Steer

  • Dynamic sub-carrier assignment in OFDM systems

    Bassam M. Hashem;David G. Steer;Shalini S. Periyalwar

  • Receiver based adaptive modulation scheme

    Bassam M. Hashem;Shalini S. Periyalwar;David G. Steer

  • Apparatus and method for OFDM data communications

    Koon Hoo Teo;David G. Steer;Chris Ward

  • Minimization of radio resource usage in multi-hop networks with multiple routings

    David Steer;Koon Hoo Teo;Adrian Smith

  • Intra-cell call hand-over in radio communication systems with dynamic channel allocation

    Leo Strawczynski;Howard Martin Sandler;Gregory Loren Plett;David Gwyn Steer

  • Preamble based selection diversity in a time division multiple access radio system using digital demodulation

    Bradley John Morris;David Gwyn Steer

  • Location based power control for mobile communications systems

    David G. Steer

  • Mobile communication device and communication network for providing location services

    J. Michael Watters;Leo Strawczynski;David Steer

  • METHOD TO PROTECT AGAINST INTERFERENCE FROM MOBILEMETHOD TO PROTECT AGAINST INTERFERENCE FROM MOBILE RADIOS RADIOS

    Steer David;Teo Koon Hoo

  • Method and apparatus for estimating location of a wireless station using multi-beam transmission

    David Steer;Scott Widdowson

  • Method of using location information for interference protection

    David G. Steer

  • Method and apparatus for inserting packets into a data stream

    David G. Steer;Paul M. Row

  • Determining device in-range proximity

    David Gwyn Steer;Dongsheng Yu;Robert Novak

  • Using a network frequency reference to augment timing synchronization in a wireless base station

    Charles Nicholls;David Steer;Bradley John Morris

  • Call set-up in a radio communication system with dynamic channel allocation

    Leo Strawczynski;Howard M. Sandler;Gregory L. Plett;David G. Steer

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory L. Plett
Gregory L. Plett University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Koon Hoo Teo
Koon Hoo Teo Mitsubishi Electric (United States)
Peiying Zhu
Peiying Zhu Huawei Technologies (China)
Hang Zhang
Hang Zhang Huawei Technologies (China)
Shalini Periyalwar
Shalini Periyalwar Carleton University
Mo-Han Fong
Mo-Han Fong Intel (United States)
Chandra Sekhar Bontu
Chandra Sekhar Bontu Ericsson (Sweden)

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