Professional Interests
I am currently looking for a position in academia or industry. My resume is available here and will be updated from time to time.
See below for a list of my publications. Currently I am mostly interested in the study of cooperation and cognition in wireless networks both from an information theorectical viewpoint as well as coding theory and signal processing perspective. This includes such aspects as capacity analysis, distributed source/channel coding, network coding and bi-directional coded cooperation. I am also interested in channels with timing errors such as seen in magnetic recording channels. I have also recently been interested in the study of feedback in detection theory.
I have done some previous research on the application of
turbo codes to data compression at McGill university (Master's thesis).
I have also done some collaborative work on joint source-channel
coding with turbo codes with G.-C. Zhu and F. Alajaji at Queen's University.
For my undergraduate honour's thesis, I designed an integrated circuit (the front end of an optical receiver) in 0.25 um CMOS.
How to contact me
My email is: mitran[AT]seas[DOT]harvard[DOT]edu.
Office mailing address: 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138
Publications
Journal Papers
[PDF] H. Ochiai, P. Mitran, V. Tarokh, "Variable Rate Two Phase Collaborative Communication Protocols for Wireless Networks," In IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 52, No. 9, pp. 4299-4313, Sept. 2006.
[PDF] N. Devroye, P. Mitran, O.-S. Shin, H. Ochiai, V. Tarokh, "Cooperation and Cognition in Wireless Networks", In SK Telecom Review, special issue on 4G Spectrum and System Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 990-1005, Dec. 2006. (Invited Paper)
[PDF] N. Devroye, P. Mitran, V. Tarokh, "Limits on Communications in a Cognitive Radio Channel," in IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 44 - 49, June 2006. (Invited Paper)
[PDF] N. Dervoye, P. Mitran and V. Tarokh, "Achievable Rates in Cognitive Radio Channels," in IEEE Transactions Information Theory, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 1813 - 1827, May 2006.
[PDF] P. Mitran, N. Dervoye and V. Tarokh, "On Compound Channels with Side-Information at the Transmitter," IEEE Transactions Information Theory, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 1745 - 1755, April 2006.
[PDF] P. Mitran, A. Kavcic "Error Exponents for Finite-Hypothesis Channel Identification," IEEE Transactions Information Theory. Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 245 - 255, Jan. 2006.
[PDF] H. Ochiai, P. Mitran, H. V. Poor, V. Tarokh, "Collaborative Beamforming for Distributed Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 53, no. 11, pp. 4110-4124, Nov. 2005.
[PDF] P. Mitran, H. Ochiai, V. Tarokh "Space-Time Diversity Enhancements Using Collaborative Communications," IEEE Transactions Information Theory, Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 2041-2057, June 2005.
[PDF] G.-C. Zhu, F. Alajaji, J. Bajcsy and P. Mitran, "Transmission of Non-Uniform Memoryless Sources via Non-Systematic Turbo Codes," IEEE Trans. Commun. Vol 52, No. 8, pp. 1344-1354, Aug. 2004.
Submitted Journal Papers
[PDF] S. J. Kim, P. Mitran and V. Tarokh, "Performance Bounds for Bi-Directional Coded Cooperation Protocols," Submitted to IEEE Transactions Information Theory, Feb. 2007,
[PDF] D. Bai, P. Mitran, S. S. Ghassemzadeh, R. R. Miller, and V. Tarokh, "Rate of Channel Hardening of Antenna Selection Diversity Schemes and Its Implication on Scheduling," Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Feb. 2007.
[PDF] P. A. Parker, P. Mitran, D. W. Bliss, and V. Tarokh, "On Bounds and Algorithms for Frequency Synchronization for Collaborative Communication Systems," Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, April 2007.
Book Chapters
Oh-Soon Shin, N. Devroye, P. Mitran, H. Ochiai, S. S. Ghassemzadeh, H. T. Kung, V. Tarokh, "Cooperation, Competition and Cognition in Wireless Networks," in Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications, Edited by F. H. P. Fitzek and M. Katz, Springer, ISBN 1-4020-4710-X
Conference Papers
[PDF] S.J. Kim, P. Mitran, and V. Tarokh, "Performance Bounds for Bi-Directional Coded Cooperation Protocols," to appear in IEEE SAHNS Conference, July 2007.
[PDF] P. Parker, D. Bliss, P. Mitran and V. Tarokh, "Adaptive Frequency Synchronization for Collaborative Communication Systems," to appear in IEEE SANHS Conference, July 2007.
[PDF] N. Devroye, P. Mitran, and V. Tarokh, "Cognitive Decomposition of Wireless Networks," to appear in Proc. of 1st International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM'06), Greece, June 2006. (Invited Paper)
[PDF] W. Zeng, P. Mitran, A. Kavcic, "On the Information Stability of Channels with Timing Errors," to appear in IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, Seattle, WA, July 2006.
[PDF] N. Devroye, P. Mitran, and V. Tarokh, "Cognitice Multiple Access Networks," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, Adelaide, Australia, Sept 2005.
[PDF] N. Devroye, P. Mitran, and V. Tarokh, "Achievable Rates in Cognitive Radio Channels," in Proc. CISS 2005. [Note: the cd-rom proceedings link to another paper. This is the correct paper.]
[PDF] H. Ochiai, P. Mitran, H. V. Poor, V. Tarokh, "On the effects of phase estimation errors on collaborative beamforming in wireless ad hoc networks," in Proc. ICASSP 2005.
[PDF] P. Mitran, H. Ochiai, V. Tarokh, "Collaborative Diversity Enhancements for Wireless Communications," in Proc. ICC 2005.
[PDF] H. Ochiai, P. Mitran, H. V. Poor, V. Tarokh,"Collaborative Beamforming in Ad Hoc Networks," In proc. IEEE Inform. Theory Workshop, San Antonio, TX, Oct. 2004.
[PDF] P. Mitran, A. Kavcic "On Optimal Markov Policies for Identifying Markov Channels," in Proc. ISITA 2004.
[PDF] H. Ochiai, P. Mitran, V. Tarokh "Design and Analysis of Collaborative Diversity Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. VTC Fall 2004.
[PDF] P. Mitran, A. Kavcic "The Error Exponent for Finite-Hypothesis Channel Identification," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, Chicago, IL, June 2004.
[PDF] P. Mitran, H. Ochiai, V. Tarokh "Capacity Enhancements Using Space-Time Collaborative Communications," in Proc. 22nd Biennial Symp. on Commun., Kingston, Ontario, June 2004.
[PDF] P. Mitran, J. Bajcsy "Coding for the Wyner-Ziv Problem with Turbo-like codes," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2002, p. 91.
[PDF] P. Mitran and J. Bajcsy, "Near Shannon limit coding for the Slepian-Wolf problem," in Proc. 21st Biennial Symp. on Commun., Kingtson, Ontario, June 2002, pp. 95-99.
[PDF] G.-C. Zhu, F. Alajaji, J. Bajcsy, P. Mitran "Transmission of non-uniform memoryless sources over wireless fading channels via non-systematic turbo codes," in Proc. IASTED WOC 2002, Banff, Canada.
[PDF] G.-C. Zhu, F. Alajaji, J. Bajcsy, P. Mitran "Non-systematic turbo codes for non-uniform I.I.D sources over AWGN channels," in Proc. CISS 2002, Princeton, NJ.
[PDF] P. Mitran, F. Beaudoin, M. N. El-Gamal, "A 2.5-Gbit/s CMOS optical receiver frontend," in Proc. ISCAS 2002, Pheonix, AZ, May 2002.
[PDF] P. Mitran, J. Bajcsy, "Turbo source coding: A noise-robust approach to data compression," in Proc. IEEE Data Compr. Conf., Snowbird, UT, Apr. 2002, p. 465.
[PDF] P. Mitran and J. Bajcsy "Design of fractional rate FSM encoders using Latin squares," in IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory - Recent Results Session, Washington, DC, July 2001.
[PDF] J. Bajcsy and P. Mitran "On Shannon source coding using parallel concatenated codes," in IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory - Recent Results Session, Washington, DC, July 2001.
[PDF] J. Bajcsy and P. Mitran "Coding for the Slepian-Wolf problem with turbo codes," in Proc of IEEE.Global Telecommun. Conf., San Antonio, TX. Nov. 2001, pp. 1400-1404.