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Iain B. Collings

Iain B. Collings

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
50
Citations
8674
World Ranking
2839
National Ranking
89

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to multiple user and multiple antenna wireless communication systems

Overview

Iain B. Collings is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia. Their primary research spans multiple areas within engineering and computer science, with a focus on wireless communications and related technologies.

The scientist's work contributes to several main fields of study:

  • Engineering
  • Computer Science

Within these fields, their research is concentrated in the following subfields:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Media Technology
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Main topics of their scientific contributions include:

  • Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling
  • UAV Applications and Optimization
  • Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
  • Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
  • Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
  • RFID technology advancements

The scientist has published extensively in several frequent venues, including:

  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Iain B. Collings include:

  • Optimal Transmit Power and Flying Location for UAV Covert Wireless Communications, 2021, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Robust Adaptive Beam Tracking for Mobile Millimetre Wave Communications, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Millimeter-Wave Beam Search With Iterative Deactivation and Beam Shifting, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • Energy Efficient Hybrid Beamforming for Multi-User Millimeter Wave Communication With Low-Resolution A/D at Transceivers, 2020, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Compressive Sensing-Based Beam Alignment Schemes for Time-Varying Millimeter-Wave Channels, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Stephen V. Hanly
  • Hazer İnaltekin
  • Swaroop Gopalam
  • Philip Whiting
  • Chunshan Liu

Iain B. Collings was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2015 for contributions to multiple user and multiple antenna wireless communication systems.

Best Publications

  • Transmit Antenna Selection for Security Enhancement in MIMO Wiretap Channels

    Nan Yang;P. L. Yeoh;M. Elkashlan;R. Schober

  • Performance Analysis of MIMO-MRC in Double-Correlated Rayleigh Environments

    M.R. McKay;A.J. Grant;I.B. Collings

  • General capacity bounds for spatially correlated Rician MIMO channels

    M.R. McKay;I.B. Collings

  • Physical Layer Security of TAS/MRC With Antenna Correlation

    Nan Yang;H. A. Suraweera;I. B. Collings;Chau Yuen

  • Adaptive MIMO Transmission for Exploiting the Capacity of Spatially Correlated Channels

    A. Forenza;M.R. McKay;M.R. McKay;A. Pandharipande;R.W. Heath

  • Error probability and SINR analysis of optimum combining in rician fading

    M. Mckay;A. Zanella;I. Collings;M. Chiani

  • Secrecy Sum-Rates for Multi-User MIMO Regularized Channel Inversion Precoding

    G. Geraci;M. Egan;Jinhong Yuan;A. Razi

  • Physical Layer Security in Downlink Multi-Antenna Cellular Networks

    Giovanni Geraci;Harpreet S. Dhillon;Jeffrey G. Andrews;Jinhong Yuan

  • MIMO multichannel beamforming: SER and outage using new eigenvalue distributions of complex noncentral Wishart matrices

    Shi Jin;M.R. McKay;Xiqi Gao;I.B. Collings

  • Adaptive MIMO transmission techniques for broadband wireless communication systems [Topics in Wireless Communications]

    Chan-Byoung Chae;Antonio Forenza;Robert W Heath;Matthew McKay

  • Achievable Sum Rate of MIMO MMSE Receivers: A General Analytic Framework

    M.R. McKay;I.B. Collings;A.M. Tulino

  • Secrecy Rates in Broadcast Channels with Confidential Messages and External Eavesdroppers

    Giovanni Geraci;Sarabjot Singh;Jeffrey G. Andrews;Jinhong Yuan

  • Capacity and performance of MIMO-BICM with zero-forcing receivers

    M.R. McKay;I.B. Collings

  • Joint MAP equalization and channel estimation for frequency-selective and frequency-flat fast-fading channels

    L.M. Davis;I.B. Collings;P. Hoeher

  • VANET Modeling and Clustering Design Under Practical Traffic, Channel and Mobility Conditions

    Huixian Wang;Ren Ping Liu;Wei Ni;Wei Chen

  • Transmitter Noise Effect on the Performance of a MIMO-OFDM Hardware Implementation Achieving Improved Coverage

    H. Suzuki;Thi Van Anh Tran;I.B. Collings;G. Daniels

  • Millimeter Wave Beam Alignment: Large Deviations Analysis and Design Insights

    Chunshan Liu;Min Li;Stephen V. Hanly;Iain B. Collings

  • Optimal Transmit Power and Flying Location for UAV Covert Wireless Communications

    Shihao Yan;Stephen V. Hanly;Iain B. Collings

  • A New Queueing Model for QoS Analysis of IEEE 802.11 DCF with Finite Buffer and Load

    Ren Ping Liu;G J Sutton;I B Collings

  • Open-Loop Spatial Multiplexing and Diversity Communications in Ad Hoc Networks

    R H Y Louie;M R McKay;I B Collings

  • Performance of vector perturbation multiuser MIMO systems with limited feedback

    D.J. Ryan;I.B. Collings;I.V.L. Clarkson;R.W. Heath

  • Secrecy Rates in the Broadcast Channel with Confidential Messages and External Eavesdroppers

    Giovanni Geraci;Sarabjot Singh;Jeffrey G. Andrews;Jinhong Yuan

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew R. McKay
Matthew R. McKay Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Wei Ni
Wei Ni Edith Cowan University
Maged Elkashlan
Maged Elkashlan Queen Mary University of London
Phee Lep Yeoh
Phee Lep Yeoh University of Sydney
Stephen V. Hanly
Stephen V. Hanly Macquarie University
Ren Ping Liu
Ren Ping Liu University of Technology Sydney
Jinhong Yuan
Jinhong Yuan University of New South Wales
Michael L. Honig
Michael L. Honig Northwestern University
Jamie Evans
Jamie Evans University of Melbourne
Giovanni Geraci
Giovanni Geraci Pompeu Fabra University

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