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Geoff Messier's Projects & Ideas

Publications

Data Science, Homelessness, Mental Health

The following list of publications includes links to preprint versions of each paper and the source code used to generate results. The source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3.

Note: Many of these papers will utilize sensitive datasets that are controlled using university ethics board approved security and privacy protocols. As a result, the datasets used by the posted source code are often not included. This means that you can inspect our code to gain insights into our methods but you will not be able to run it to reproduce results.

Journal Papers

  1. M. Taib and G. G. Messier, “Efficient Observation Time Window Segmentation for Administrative Data Machine Learning”, IEEE Access, vol. 11, p. 1-11, October, 2024. (DOI)
  2. R. Barry, J. Anderson, L. Tran, A. Bahji, G. Dimitropolous, S. M. Ghosh, J. Kirkham, G. Messier, S. Patten, K. Rittenbach, and D. Seitz,”The Prevalence of Addictions and Mental Health Problems among Individuals Experiencing Homelessness: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis”, JAMA Psychiatry, vol. 81, no. 7, p. 692-699, April, 2024. (DOI)
  3. G. G. Messier, “A Simpler Method for Understanding Emergency Shelter Access Patterns”, Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness, p. 1-7, December, 2023. (DOI), (source code)
  4. G. G. Messier, C. John and A. Malik, “Predicting Chronic Homelessness: The Importance of Comparing Algorithms using Client Histories”, Journal of Technology in Human Services, September, 2021, p. 1-12. (DOI) (arXiv preprint), (source code)
  5. G. G. Messier, L. Tutty and C. John, “The Best Thresholds for Rapid Identification of Episodic and Chronic Homeless Shelter Use”, International Journal on Homelessness, Vol. 2, No. 1, November, 2021, p. 1-11 (DOI), (arXiv preprint PDF), (source code)

Book Chapters

  1. G. G. Messier, “A Graph Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 on Emergency Housing Shelter Access Patterns” in Schiff, R., Wilkinson, A., Cullingham, S., & Buccieri, K. (Eds), “Pandemic Preparedness & Homelessness: International Lessons from COVID-19”, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness Press, p. 462-485, 2024. (arXiv preprint)

Conference Proceedings

  1. M. Taib, J. Wu, S. Drew, G. G. Messier, “Enhancing Equitable Access to AI in Housing and Homelessness System of Care through Federated Learning”, accepted to 2024 AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society, October, 2024.
  2. T. W. Masrani, H. Ai He, G. G. Messier, “The Human Behind the Data: Reflections from an Ongoing Co-Design and Deployment of a Data-Navigation Interface for Front-Line Emergency Housing Shelter Staff”, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April, 2023, pp. 1-7. (DOI)

Presentations

  1. G. G. Messier, “Spreadsheets vs. AI: When Good Enough is Good Enough”, CAEH National Conference on Ending Homelessness, October, 2024. (YouTube)
  2. N. Jackson and G. G. Messier, “Data Linkage and the Protective Nature of Youth Homelessness”, CAEH National Conference on Ending Homelessness, October, 2024.
  3. G. G. Messier, “Using AI to Improve Homelessness Services”, 2024 FEANTSA Forum (Invited Talk), June, 2024.(YouTube), (Conference Website)
  4. G. G. Messier, “How to Link Agency Client Records and Protect Privacy”, CAEH National Conference on Ending Homelessness, November, 2023. (YouTube), (Conference Website)
  5. O. A. Jakpa and G. G. Messier, “Early Identification of Youth at Risk of Long Term Emergency Homeless Shelter Use: An Evaluation of Interpretable Machine Learning Models”, 24th Annual Alberta Biomedical Engineering Conference, Oct. 2023.
  6. M. Taib and G. G. Messier, “Using Windowing As A Hyperparameter For Administrative Homelessness Data Classification”, 24th Annual Alberta Biomedical Engineering Conference, Oct. 2023.
  7. T. W. Masrani, G. G. Messier, and H. Ai He, “Data Visualization To Facilitate Compassionate Decision Making In Emergency Housing Shelters”, Canadian Communication Association Conference, Jun. 2023.
  8. G. G. Messier, “The High Bar for Interpretable Machine Learning in Housing, Homelessness and Health”, University of Calgary Transdisciplinary Data Science Research Day (Invited Talk), June, 2023. (YouTuble)
  9. T. W. Masrani, G. G. Messier, H. Ai He, “Data Visualization To Facilitate Compassionate Decision Making In Emergency Housing Shelters”, Canadian Communication Association Conference, June, 2023.
  10. G. G. Messier, “Visualizing Journeys Through the Housing and Homelessness System of Care”, Data that Makes a Difference, May, 2023. (YouTube)
  11. G. G. Messier, “Is Artifical Intelligence the Right Tool for Preventing Homelessness?”, CAEH National Conference on Ending Homelessness, October, 2022. (YouTube), (Conference Website)
  12. G. G. Messier, “User Experience (UX) Design of Data Tools for Shelter Staff”, CAEH National Conference on Ending Homelessness, October, 2021. (YouTube), (Conference Website)
  13. G. G. Messier, “Designing Data Tools for Emergency Shelter Staff”, Presentation to Data for Good Calgary Chapter, June, 2019. (Slides)

Communications & Data Networks

Journal Papers

  1. A. Sheldon, L. Belostotski, G. Messier and A. Madanayake, “Impact of Noise Bandwidth on Noise Figure,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 68, no. 7, pp. 2662-2664, 2019.
  2. M. Herrmann and G. G. Messier, “Cross-Layer Lifetime Optimization for Practical Industrial Wireless Networks: A Petroleum Refinery Case Study,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 3559–3566, 2018.
  3. K. Dorling, J. Heinrichs, G. G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “Vehicle Routing Problems for Drone Delivery,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 70–85, 2017.
  4. Indrakshi Dey, Geoffrey G Messier, and Sebastian Magierowski, “Average error rates and achievable capacity in large office indoor wireless environments,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 4955–4965, 2017.
  5. K. Dorling, J. Heinrichs, G. G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “Vehicle routing problems for drone delivery,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 70–85, Jan. 2017.
  6. Geoffrey G Messier, Michael W Wasson, and Michael J Herrmann, “Petroleum refinery mesh network propagation measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 5645–5648, 2017.
  7. M. Gaafar and G. G Messier, “Petroleum refinery multi-antenna propagation measurements,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 15, pp. 1365 – 1368, 2016.
  8. D. P. Smith, G. G. Messier, and M. W. Wasson, “Boreal forest low antenna height propagation measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 4004–4011, Sept. 2016.
  9. I. Dey, G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “On the capacity of joint fading and two-path shadowing channels,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 403–408, January 2016.
  10. K. Dorling, G. G. Messier, S. Valentin, and S. C. Magierowski, “Minimizing the net present cost of deploying and operating wireless sensor networks,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 511 – 525, Aug. 2015.
  11. H. Gomaa, G.G. Messier, and R. Davies, “Hierarchical cache performance analysis under TTL-based consistency,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 1190 – 1201, August 2015.
  12. M. W. Wasson, G. G. Messier, and D. P. Smith, “Dense urban channel measurements for utility pole fixed wireless links,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 63, no. 12, pp. 5791 – 5798, October 2015.
  13. S. Magierowski and G. G. Messier, “Internal readout system for molecular recorders,” IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 26–36, November 2015.
  14. K.M. Ali, G.G. Messier, and S.W. Lai, “DSL and PLC co-existence: An interference cancellation approach,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 62, no. 9, pp. 3336–3350, Sept 2014.
  15. I. Dey, G.G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “Joint fading and shadowing model for large office indoor WLAN environments,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 2209–2222, April 2014.
  16. I. Dey, G.G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “Fading statistics for the joint fading and two path shadowing channel,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 301–304, June 2014.
  17. H. Gomaa, G.G. Messier, C. Williamson, and R. Davies, “Estimating instantaneous cache hit ratio using Markov chain analysis,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 1472–1483, October 2013.
  18. H. Shah Mohammadian, G. G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “Nano-machine molecular communication over a moving propagation medium,” Nano Communication Networks, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 142–153, September 2013.
  19. S. Kabir, S. Magierowski, G.G. Messier, and Zhixing Zhao, “A direct 100 GHz parametric CMOS tripler,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 557–559, October 2013.
  20. S. W. Lai and G. G. Messier, “Using the wireless and PLC channels for diversity,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 3865–3875, December 2012.
  21. H. Shah Mohammadian, G. G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “Optimum receiver for molecule shift keying modulation in diffusion-based molecular communication channels,” Nano Communication Networks, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 183–195, September 2012.
  22. J. F. Bousquet, S. C. Magierowski, and G. G. Messier, “A 4-GHz active scatterer in 130-nm CMOS for phase sweep amplify-and-forward,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 529 – 540, March 2012.
  23. B. Maklad, C. Curtis, E. C. Fear, and G. G. Messier, “Neighborhood-based algorithm to facilitate the reduction of skin reflections in radar-based microwave imaging,” Progress In Electromagnetics Research Briefs, vol. 39, pp. 115–139, 2012.
  24. K. C. Goss, G. G. Messier, and M. E. Potter, “Data detection algorithms for multiplexed quantum dot encoding,” Optics Express, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 5762–5774, 2012.
  25. G. G. Messier, J. F. Bousquet, and S. Magierowski, “Cooperative opportunistic beamforming using an integrated relay node prototype,” Electronics Letters, vol. 47, no. 11, pp. 676–677, May 2011.
  26. G. G. Messier, “Opportunistic transmission using large scale channel effects,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 3110–3114, November 2010.
  27. J. F. Bousquet, G. G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “Antenna array designs for OFDM WLAN indoor transmission,” Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 779–790, 2009.
  28. J. F. Bousquet, S. C. Magierowski, and G. G. Messier, “An integrated active reflector for phase-sweep cooperative diversity,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 624–628, August 2009.
  29. G. G. Messier and J. A. Hartwell, “An empirical model for nonstationary Ricean fading,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 14–20, January 2009.
  30. G. G. Messier, J. A. Hartwell, and R. J. Davies, “A sensor network cross-layer power control algorithm that incorporates multiple-access interference,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Com- munications, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 2877–2883, August 2008.
  31. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymien ́, “A Gaussian symbol-level model for CDMA forward link intracell interference,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 3927–3931, November 2007.
  32. K. C. Goss, W. Zheng, G. G. Messier, and M. E. Potter, “Data detection for the P-SLAM optical data storage system,” Optics Communications, vol. 271, no. 1, pp. 30–39, March 2007.
  33. G. G. Messier and I. G. Finvers, “Traffic models for medical wireless sensor networks,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 13–15, January 2007.
  34. G. G. Messier and R. Nemish, “Sector transmit power pooling on real CDMA networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 1889–1896, November 2006.
  35. G. G. Messier, S. V. Hum, and M. Okoniewski, “Combining space-time coding and adaptive sectorization using reflectarrays,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 5, pp. 298–301, 2006.
  36. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymień, “Performance of turbo coding with improved interference estimation on the CDMA space time transmit diversity forward link,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 1074–1079, May 2006.
  37. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymień, “Improved channel decoding for the CDMA forward link chip-level LMMSE receiver,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 405–410, January 2006.
  38. G. G. Messier, A. Sutinjo, S. V. Hum, and M. Okoniewski, “A space time coding scheme utilizing phase shifting antennas at RF frequencies,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 4, pp. 369 – 372, 2005.
  39. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymień, “Improving channel decoder performance on the CDMA forward link,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 1064–1072, May 2005.

Patents

  1. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymien, “Channel code decoding for the CDMA forward link,” U. S. Patent Number: 6,996,385, Filed: September, 2002, Granted: February, 2006, 2006.
  2. G. G. Messier, M. Fattouche, and B. R. Petersen, “Cellular telephone location system,” U. S. Patent Number: 6,246,861, Filed: April 1998, Granted: June 2001, 2001.

Conference Papers

  1. R. Hossain, R. Mittmann, E. Ghafar-Zadeh, G. G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “GPU base calling for DNA strand sequencing,” in Proceedings of the IEEE 60th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2017), 2017, pp. 96–99.
  2. Indrakshi Dey, Geoffrey G Messier, and Sebastian Magierowski, “Adaptive modulation and coding for large open office indoor wireless environments,” in 2016 IEEE 84th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall). IEEE, 2016, pp. 1–5.
  3. I. Dey, G.G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “Pairwise error probability of turbo codes over joint fading and two-path shadowing channels,” in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec 2014, pp. 3995–4000.
  4. S.W. Lai, N. Shabehpour, G.G. Messier, and L. Lampe, “Performance of wireless/power line media diversity in the office environment,” in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec 2014, pp. 2972–2976.
  5. I. Dey, G.G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “The cumulative distribution function for the joint fading and two path shadowing channel: Expression and application,” in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 80th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), Sept 2014, pp. 1–5.
  6. I. Dey, G.G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “Performance analysis of bpsk over joint fading and two-path shadowing channels,” in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 80th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), Sept 2014, pp. 1–5.
  7. R. Hossain, S. Magierowski, and G.G. Messier, “GPU enhanced path finding for an unmanned aerial vehicle,” in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Parallel Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), May 2014, pp. 1285–1293.
  8. I. Dey, G.G. Messier, S. Magierowski, and Sheng Chen, “Semi-blind iterative joint channel estimation and K-best sphere decoding for MIMO,” in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM 2013), 2013, pp. 37–44.
  9. Kevin Dorling, Stefan Valentin, Geoffrey G. Messier, and Sebastian Magierowski, “Repair algorithms to increase the lifetime of fully connected wireless sensor networks,” in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013), 2013, pp. 1784–1789.
  10. Khaled M. Ali, Stephen W. Lai, and Geoffrey G. Messier, “An evaluation of frequency domain PLC interference cancellation for DSL systems,” in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013), 2013, pp. 4315–4320.
  11. Hoda ShahMohammadian, Geoffrey G. Messier, and Sebastian Magierowski, “Modelling the reception process in diffusion-based molecular communication channels,” in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC 2013), 2013, pp. 782–786.
  12. K. Dorling, G. G. Messier, S. Magierowski, and S. Valentin, “Improving aerially deployed sensor networks using cooperative communications,” in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012), Ottawa, Canada, June 2012, pp. 1–5.
  13. B. Maklad, C. Curtis, E. Fear, and G. Messier, “A skin response estimation and suppression technique for radar-based microwave breast imaging applications,” in Proceedings of the 2012 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), March 2012, pp. 1772 –1775.
  14. S. W. Lai and G. G. Messier, “Optimum and suboptimum combining of independent class-A noise channels,” in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2011), Houston, USA, December 2011, pp. 1–5.
  15. G. G. Messier, J. F. Bousquet, and S. Magierowski, “Improving the design of relay nodes for cooperative opportunistic beamforming,” in IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM ’11), Victoria, Canada, August 2011, pp. 203–207.y
  16. I. Dey, R. Nagraj, G. G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “Performance analysis of relay-assisted mobile-to-mobile communication in double or cascaded Rayleigh fading,” in IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM ’11), Victoria, Canada, August 2011, pp. 631–636.
  17. K. C. Goss, G. G. Messier, and M. E. Potter, “Data capacity analysis of spectrally encoded quantum dots,” in Proceedings of the 2011 ICO International Conference on Information Photonics (IP 2011), Ottawa, Canada, May 2011, pp. 1–2.
  18. H. Gomaa, G. G. Messier, R. Davies, and C. Williamson, “Peer-assisted caching for scalable media streaming in wireless backhaul networks,” in 2010 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), Miami, FL, December 2010, pp. 1–5.
  19. E. Reentov, G. G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “Evaluating wireless network effects for SLAM robot map making,” in 2010 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), Miami, FL, December 2010, pp. 1–5.
  20. Stephen Lai, G. G. Messier, H. Zareipour, and C. Wai, “Wireless network performance for residen- tial demand-side participation,” in Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart-Grid Technologies Europe, Gothenberg, Sweden, October 2010, p. 1.
  21. V. C. W. Yeung, G. G. Messier, and R. Nemish, “A combined technical and economic comparison of indoor and outdoor 4G OFDMA infrastructure,” in Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2010-Fall), Ottawa, ON, September 2010, vol. 1, pp. 1–5.
  22. A. Arafa and G.G. Messier, “A gaussian model for dead-reckoning mobile sensor position error,” in 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2010-Fall), Sept 2010, pp. 1–5.
  23. K. C. Goss, M. E. Potter, and G. G. Messier, “Signal-to-noise ratio performance for detection systems of quantum dot multiplexed optical encoding,” in Proceedings of the 2010 SPIE Photonics North Conference, Niagra, ON, June 2010, pp. 1–5.
  24. J. F. Bousquet, S. Magierowski, G. G. Messier, and Z. Zhao, “A 0.13-um CMOS wireless reflector for phase sweep cooperative diversity,” in Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC 2010), Anaheim, CA, May 2010, pp. 501–504.
  25. J. F. Bousquet, S. Magierowski, G. G. Messier, and Z. Zhao, “Implementation of an all-analog active reflector,” in Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Calgary, AB, May 2010, pp. 1–4.
  26. S. W. Lai and G. G. Messier, “The wireless/power-line diversity channel,” in Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010), Capetown, South Africa, May 2010, pp. 1–5.
  27. H. Gomaa, G. G. Messier, R. Davies, and C. Williamson, “Media caching support for mobile transit clients,” in IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WIMOB 2009), Marrakech, Morocco, October 2009, pp. 79–84.
  28. C. M. Wong, R. Klukas, and G. G. Messier, “Using WLAN infrastructure for angle-of-arrival indoor user location,” in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC 2008-Fall), Calgary, Canada, September 2008, pp. 1–5.
  29. V. C. W. Yeung, G. G. Messier, and H. Lai, “Evaluating indoor versus outdoor infrastructure for the delivery of broadband MIMO-OFDM service,” in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC 2008-Fall), Calgary, Canada, September 2008, pp. 1–5.
  30. G. G. Messier, S. Magierowski, and J. F. Bousquet, “Cooperative phase sweep amplify-and-forward transmission,” in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC 2008-Fall), Calgary, Canada, September 2008, pp. 1–4.
  31. G. G. Messier and J. A. Hartwell, “A stochastic model for non-stationary outdoor K-factor variation,” in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE 68th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC 2008-Fall), Calgary, Canada, September 2008, pp. 1 – 5.
  32. C. M. Wong, G. G. Messier, and R. Klukas, “Evaluating measurement-based AOA indoor location using WLAN infrastructure,” in Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation Global Navigation Satellite System Conference (ION GNSS 2007), Fort Worth, USA, September 2007, pp. 1139–1145.
  33. J. A. Hartwell, G. G. Messier, and R. J. Davies, “Optimizing physical layer energy consumption for wireless sensor networks,” in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE 65th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC 2007-Spring), Dublin, Ireland, April 2007, pp. 76–79.
  34. J. F. Bousquet, G. G. Messier, and S. Magierowski, “IEEE 802.11b SDMA performance in realistic environments,” in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE 65th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC 2007-Spring), Dublin, Ireland, April 2007, pp. 539–543.
  35. K. C. Goss, M. E. Potter, and G. G. Messier, “Modeling and detection algorithms of the P-SLAM optical data storage system,” in Proceedings of the 2006 12th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation, Miami, U. S. A, May 2006, pp. 449 – 449.
  36. G. G. Messier, S. V. Hum, and M. Okoniewski, “Combining space time block coding and adaptive sectorization using an electronically tunable reflectarray,” in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE 62nd Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC 2005-Fall), Dallas, U. S. A., September 2005, vol. 1, pp. 364 – 366.
  37. G. G. Messier and R. Nemish, “Evaluating sector power pooling with real CDMA network data,” in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE 62nd Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC 2005-Fall), Dallas, U. S. A., September 2005, vol. 3, pp. 1529 – 1533.
  38. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymień, “A new MAP channel decoder trellis path metric for a CDMA mobile subject to channel estimation errors,” in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004), Paris, France, June 2004, vol. 5, pp. 2879–2883.
  39. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymień, “Estimation of in-cell and out-of-cell interference levels for improved CDMA forward link error correction,” in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2003), Anchorage, U.S.A., May 2003, vol. 1, pp. 368–372.
  40. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymień, “A coloured Gaussian model for CDMA forward link in-cell interference,” in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE 57th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC 2003-Spring), Jeju, Korea, April 2003, vol. 3, pp. 2052–2056.
  41. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymień, “Novel channel decoding for CDMA mobiles with linear MMSE receivers,” in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Wireless Communica- tions (Wireless 2003), Calgary, Canada, July 2003, vol. 2, pp. 417–441.
  42. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymień, “Improving convolutional code performance on the CDMA forward link,” in Proceedings of the 12th Virginia Tech/MPRG Symposium on Wireless Personal Communications, Blacksburg, U.S.A, June 2002, vol. 1, pp. 163–167.
  43. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymień, “Improving convolutional code and turbo code performance on the CDMA forward link,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA 2002), Prague, The Czech Republic, September 2002, vol. 1, pp. 29–33.
  44. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymień, “Improved forward link error correction for CDMA systems with space time transmit diversity,” in Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2002), Taipei, Taiwan, November 2002, vol. 1, pp. 992–996.
  45. G. G. Messier, J. S. Nielsen, and W. A. Krzymien ́, “CDMA forward link performance evaluation using propagation measurements,” in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2001), Helsinki, Finland, June 2001, vol. 10, pp. 2995–2999.
  46. G. G. Messier and W. A. Krzymień, “An indoor IS-2000 transmit diversity evaluation using propagation measurements,” in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE 53rd Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC 2001-Spring), Rhodes, Greece, May 2001, vol. 1, pp. 423–427.
  47. G. G. Messier and N. C. Beaulieu, “Processing Rayleigh transmit diversity propagation measurements to reflect arbitrary antenna separation,” in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Wireless Communications (Wireless 2000), Calgary, Canada, July 2000, vol. 1, pp. 156–163.
  48. G. G. Messier and J. S. Nielsen, “An analysis of TOA-based location for IS-95 mobiles,” in Proceed- ings of the 2000 IEEE 50th Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 1999-Fall), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 1999, vol. 2, pp. 1067–1071.
  49. G. G. Messier and J. S. Nielsen, “An analysis of CDMA signal processing for TOA detection,” in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wireless Communications (Wireless 1999), Calgary, Canada, July 1999, vol. 1, pp. 230–235.
  50. G. G. Messier, M. Fattouche, and B. R. Petersen, “Locating an IS-95 mobile using its signal,” in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Wireless Communications (Wireless 1998), Calgary, Canada, July 1998, vol. 2, pp. 562–574.