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Steve Hranilovic

Steve Hranilovic

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
39
Citations
7736
World Ranking
4622
National Ranking
212

Overview

Steve Hranilovic is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a primary focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research portfolio encompasses a diverse range of topics concentrated on optical and wireless communication technologies.

Hranilovic's recent publications cover topics related to underwater and indoor optical wireless communication. Notable papers include:

  • Outage probability analysis of a vertical underwater wireless optical link subject to oceanic turbulence and pointing errors (2022), Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • Impact of angular pointing error on BER performance of underwater optical wireless links (2020), Optics Express
  • Passive Indoor Visible Light Positioning System Using Deep Learning (2021), IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • Parameter Optimization for an Underwater Optical Wireless Vertical Link Subject to Link Misalignments (2021), IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
  • Absolute Value Layered ACO-OFDM for Intensity-Modulated Optical Wireless Channels (2020), IEEE Transactions on Communications

Their frequent coauthors include Mohammad-Ali Khalighi, Ruowen Bai, Ikenna Chinazaekpere Ijeh, Khaqan Majeed, and Abdallah S. Ghazy. Collaborative work with these peers has contributed across multiple publications in prominent journals and conferences.

Hranilovic frequently publishes in specialized venues relevant to optical and communications engineering, such as:

  • Optics Express
  • IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications

The scientist's main research fields rest within engineering, predominantly electrical and electronic engineering. Subfields include ocean engineering, aerospace engineering, biomedical engineering, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Key topics investigated by Hranilovic are:

  • Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
  • Satellite Communication Systems
  • Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices

Best Publications

  • Outage Capacity Optimization for Free-Space Optical Links With Pointing Errors

    A.A. Farid;S. Hranilovic

  • Wireless Optical Communication Systems

    Steve Hranilovic

  • A review of communication-oriented optical wireless systems

    Deva K Borah;Anthony C Boucouvalas;Christopher C Davis;Steve Hranilovic

  • Design and Implementation of Color-Shift Keying for Visible Light Communications

    Eric Monteiro;Steve Hranilovic

  • Capacity-achieving probability measure for conditionally Gaussian channels with bounded inputs

    T.H. Chan;S. Hranilovic;F.R. Kschischang

  • Soft-switching hybrid FSO/RF links using short-length raptor codes: design and implementation

    Wenzhe Zhang;S. Hranilovic;Ce Shi

  • Performance of PPM on terrestrial FSO links with turbulence and pointing errors

    Wilfried Gappmair;Steve Hranilovic;Erich Leitgeb

  • A pixelated MIMO wireless optical communication system

    S. Hranilovic;F.R. Kschischang

  • Coordinated Broadcasting for Multiuser Indoor Visible Light Communication Systems

    Hao Ma;Lutz Lampe;Steve Hranilovic

  • Visible Light Communications Using OFDM and Multiple LEDs

    Mohammed S. A. Mossaad;Steve Hranilovic;Lutz Lampe

  • All-Optical Multihop Free-Space Optical Communication Systems

    S. Kazemlou;S. Hranilovic;S. Kumar

  • OOK Performance for Terrestrial FSO Links in Turbulent Atmosphere with Pointing Errors Modeled by Hoyt Distributions

    W. Gappmair;S. Hranilovic;E. Leitgeb

  • Optical intensity-modulated direct detection channels: signal space and lattice codes

    S. Hranilovic;F.R. Kschischang

  • Capacity Bounds for Wireless Optical Intensity Channels With Gaussian Noise

    A A Farid;S Hranilovic

  • Capacity bounds for power- and band-limited optical intensity channels corrupted by Gaussian noise

    S. Hranilovic;F.R. Kschischang

  • Diversity Gain and Outage Probability for MIMO Free-Space Optical Links with Misalignment

    A. A. Farid;S. Hranilovic

  • Integration of indoor visible light and power line communication systems

    Hao Ma;L. Lampe;S. Hranilovic

  • Constellation design for color-shift keying using interior point methods

    Eric Monteiro;Steve Hranilovic

  • Non-line-of-sight single-scatter propagation model for noncoplanar geometries.

    Mohamed A Elshimy;Steve Hranilovic

  • Channel capacity and non-uniform signalling for free-space optical intensity channels

    A. Farid;S. Hranilovic

  • IDyLL: indoor localization using inertial and light sensors on smartphones

    Qiang Xu;Rong Zheng;Steve Hranilovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Lutz Lampe
Lutz Lampe University of British Columbia
Frank R. Kschischang
Frank R. Kschischang University of Toronto
Majid Safari
Majid Safari University of Edinburgh
Mohammad-Ali Khalighi
Mohammad-Ali Khalighi Institut Fresnel
Natalia K. Nikolova
Natalia K. Nikolova McMaster University
Mehdi Narimani
Mehdi Narimani McMaster University
Jean Armstrong
Jean Armstrong Monash University
David A. Johns
David A. Johns University of Toronto

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