Invited Conference Papers

  • Wicker, S. B., “Markov Chains, Error Control, and the Advent of Turbo Coding,” IMA Workshop on Codes, Systems and Graphical Models, Minneapolis, MN, August 2-13, 1999.
  • Buckley, M. E. and Wicker, S. B., ” Optimization, Neural Networks, and Turbo Decoding,” Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Communication Theory and Applications, Ambleside, U. K., July 12 – 16, 1999.
  • Kim, S. and Wicker, S. B., “A Connection Between the Baum-Welch Algorithm and Turbo Decoding,” Proceedings of the Information Theory Workshop, Killarney, Ireland, June 22-26, 1998.
  • Wicker, S. B., “Error Control in Space Applications,” 1995 Central Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Chicago, Illinois, March 24 – 25, 1995.
  • Wicker, S. B., “Error Control Techniques for Voice and Data Communications over Cellular Mobile Channels,” Proceedings of the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, pp. 444 – 453, September 28 – 30, 1994.
  • Wicker, S. B. and Alabbadi, M., “Susceptibility of Digital Signature Schemes Based on Error-Correcting Codes to Universal Forgery,” Workshop on Information Protection, Moscow, Russia, December 6 – 9, 1993.
  • Wicker, S. B., “Reed-Solomon Error Control Systems for Bidirectional Fading Channels”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Selected Topics in Wireless Communication, pp. 76 – 79, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 25 – 26, 1992.
  • Wicker, S. B., “Type-II Hybrid-ARQ Protocols Using Punctured Reed-Solomon Codes,” Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE Military Communications Conference, McLean, Virginia, pp. 52.2.1 – 52.2.6, November 4 – 6, 1991.
  • Wicker, S. B., “An Adaptive Rate Coding System Based on the Use of Majority-Logic Decoding in a Hybrid-ARQ Protocol,” Proceedings of the 1989 IEEE Military Communications Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 29.6.1 – 29.6.6, October 15, 1989.