JOHN M. SHEA
Associate Professor

 

Education:

PhD, EE, Clemson University, 1998
MS, EE, Clemson University, 1995
BSEE, CprE, Clemson University, 1993

Contact Information:

Email: jshea@ece.ufl.edu
Phone: 352-846-3042
Office: 439 New Engineering Building
Homepage: www.wireless.ece.ufl.edu/~jshea

Program Affiliation:

Area:  Signals & Systems
Lab:   Wireless Information Networking Group

Fields of Interest:

• Wireless communications
• Adaptive modulation and coding
• Multicast signaling
• Multimedia transmission over wireless channels
• Channel-quality estimation
• Spread-spectrum communications.

Employment:

2005 - Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida
1999 - Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida

Refereed Journals in the Last 3 Years:

2008
X. Li, T. F. Wong, and J. M. Shea, “Performance analysis for collaborative decoding with least-reliable-bit exchange on AWGN channels,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 58–69, Jan. 2008.

2007
W.-H.Wong, J. M. Shea, and T. F.Wong, “Cooperative diversity slotted ALOHA,” Wireless Networks, vol. 13, pp. 361–369, June 2007.

A. ’Nayagam, J. M. Shea, and T. F. Wong, “Collaborative decoding in bandwidth-constrained environments,” IEEE J. Select Areas Commun., vol. 25, pp. 434–446, Feb. 2007.

2006
J. Wang, H. Zhai, Y. Fang, and J. M. Shea, “OMAR: Utilizing diversity in wireless ad hoc networks,” IEEE Trans. Computing, vol. 5, pp. 1764–1779, Dec. 2006.

J.-W. Moon, T. F. Wong, and J. M. Shea, “Pilot-assisted and blind joint data detection and channel estimation in partial-time jamming,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 54, pp. 2092–2102, Nov. 2006.

J.-W. Moon, J. M. Shea, and T. F. Wong, “Collaborative mitigation of partial-time jamming on nonfading channels,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 6, pp. 1371–1381, Jun. 2006.

Contracts and Grants:

• National Science Foundation, “NeTS-NBD: Simulcast EnhancedWireless Networks,”

Honors and Awards:

2004 - Finalists for Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer
1996 - Fred W. Ellersick Award for Best Paper, IEEE Military Communications Conference

Patents

• US Patent #7,093,179 - “Method and coding means for error-correction utilizing concatenated parity and turbo codes,” August 15, 2006.