Associate Professor Linda Davis

I am a professional engineer, research leader and technical project manager, with a mix of industry and academic experience in hi-tech telecommunications, electronics and defence. I am an Associate Professor in wireless communications technologies at the Institute for Telecommunications Research at the University of South Australia.

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WOB: Member, Women on Boards

IEEE : Senior Member, Inst. Electrical & Electronic Engineers

APESMA: Member, Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia

AAEE: Member, Australasian Association for Engineering Education

Ph.D., Electrical & Electronic Engineering
University of Melbourne, Australia, 1999
Equalization & Estimation of Frequency-Selective Fast-Fading Channels

Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic) with First Class Honours
University of Adelaide, Australia, 1994

Postgraduate Certificate of Management
Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), 2005

• My research interests include:
  • wireless mobile communications
  • broadband communication systems
  • receiver design and implementation
  • communications theory and signal processing
  • mapping algorithms to architectures
  • low-power, reduced-complexity signal processing
• Broadband to the bush: polarization as a new resource in wireless cross-layer design
  ARC Discovery Grant, $451k, 2007-10,
  

  This project targets technology for delivering wireless access to broadband in the bush, and connects fundamental mathematics and physics to engineering challenges in integrated circuit design. Our aim is to fully utilise the degrees of freedom offered by the electromagnetic field equations and polarimetric antennas, through innovations in signal processing. Importantly, we will measure the value of these innovations in terms of user experience and power efficiency. The outcomes will include receiver designs that are power efficient, robust under mobility, and with processing complexity comparable to single-antenna systems.

• SANLab: the South Australian Networking Laboratory
  

  SANLab, the South Australian Networking Laboratory, is a partnership between the Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR) at the University of South Australia, the Centre for Defence Communications and Information Networking (CDCIN) at the University of Adelaide, BAE Systems, Cisco and ASC. SANLab is a $2m project over three years, generously supported by the Government of South Australia through the Premier’s Science and Research Fund.

  SANLab’s aim is to assist the defence community in developing innovative and leading-edge solutions and capability in Mobile Ad Hoc Networking (MANET) technologies.

• Quantization in digital communication and passive bistatic radar systems
  

  Australia has embraced the digital revolution with ever-increasing demand for all-digital processing in our mobile and fixed broadband wireless, digital TV broadcasting, satellite communication, remote sensing and radar systems. Our research revisits traditional analog-to-digital system design assumptions for digital wireless communication and passive radar systems to greatly reduce cost and improve performance. Our aims are to establish a new foundation theory for digital information from analog signals and to create power-efficient signalling and receiver technologies for state-of-the-art systems, together with new applications in remote and covert sensing.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Telecommunications

• mobile and fixed wireless communications technology