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Jack Wolf

Jack Wolf

CMRR Endowed Chair Professor,

Department of ECE



Phone: 858-534-6218
Fax: 858-534-2720
Email: jwolf@ucsd.edu
Website:

Office:CMRR Room 305

University of California, San Diego

Center for Magnetic Recording Research

9500 Gilman Drive, 0401

La Jolla, CA 92093-0401

Research Interests

Research focuses on signal processing and coding for digital data storage.

Biography

Jack Keil Wolf was born in Newark, New Jersey before almost anyone reading this page existed. His strange middle name was his mother's family name. After surviving high school in Newark (an experience which put him in good staid for later life) he did his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania and received his graduate degrees from Princeton University. His first full time job was as a Lieutenant in the US Air Force where he learned how to read (and write) proposals. His entree into university teaching was as a part time Instructor at Syracuse University which offered graduate courses at the air base where he was stationed.

Jack has held full time faculty positions since leaving the Air Force, first at NYU, then at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, then at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and finally at UCSD. At UCSD he holds a chair named for Stephen O. Rice who after his retirement from Bell Laboratories came to UCSD and continued to do research almost until his death. Jack was the first faculty to be hired in the Center for Magnetic Recording Research. Jack is also a part time employee of Qualcomm, Inc, a San Diego company that specializes in wireless communications.

At one point of his life Jack attempted to masquerade as a university administrator (as Chair of the ECE department at UMASS) but was soon discovered and unmasked.

Jack's research interests are in Information Theory, Coding Theory, Data Communications and Signal Processing for Recording. He enjoys playing tennis, swimming, and beating up on his graduate students.

Formal Biography

(S'54-M'60-F'73-LF'97) received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, in 1956, and the M.S.E., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1957, 1958, and 1960, respectively. He is the Stephen O. Rice Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California-San Diego, La Jolla. He was a member of the Electrical Engineering Department at New York University from 1963 to 1965, and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1965 to 1973. He was Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, from 1973 to 1975, and he was Professor there from 1973 to 1984. Since 1984, he has been a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California-San Diego. He also holds a part-time appointment at Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego. From 1971 to 1972, he was an NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, and from 1979 to 1980, he held a Guggenheim Fellowship. His current interest is in signal processing for storage systems.

Dr. Wolf was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993. He was the recipient of the 1990 E. H. Armstrong Achievement Award of the IEEE Communications Society and was co recipient of the 1975 IEEE Information Theory Group Paper Award for the paper "Noiseless coding for correlated information sources" (co-authored with D. Slepian). He served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Group from 1970 to 1976 and from 1980 to 1986. Dr. Wolf was President of the IEEE Information Theory Group in 1974. He was International Chairman of Committee C of URSI from 1980 to 1983. He was the recipient of the 1998 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, "for fundamental contributions to multi-user communications and applications of coding theory to magnetic data storage devices." In May 2000, he received a UCSD Distinghished Teaching Award.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles:

1962-1970

1971-1980

1981-1990

1991-2000

2001-2004

2005-

Books and Book Chapters

Conference Proceedings

Abstracts of Non-Referred Conference Proceedings

Patents (inventor or co-inventor)

 

1962-1970                                                Back to Top                                    

1. J.B. Thomas and J. K. Wolf. “On the statistical detection problem for multiple signals,” IRE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 8, No. 4, (1962), pp. 274-280.
2. J. K. Wolf. “On comparing N-ary systems,” IRE Transactions on the Professional Group on Communications Systems, Vol. 10, No. 2, (1962), 216-217.
3. J. K. Wolf and B. Elspas. “Error-locating codes - a new concept in error control,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 9, No. 2, (1963), pp. 54-57.
4. J. K. Wolf. “On the application of some digital sequences to communication,” IEEE Transactions on Communication Systems, Vol. 11, No. 4, (1963), pp. 422-427.
5. J. K. Wolf. “Cumulative codes as variable redundancy codes,” 1964 IEEE International Convention Record, Part 5, (1964), pp. 66-72.
6. J. K. Wolf. “On an extended class of error-location codes,” Information and Control, Vol. 8, (1965), pp. 163-169.
7. J. K. Wolf. “On codes derivable from the tensor product of check matrices,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 11, No. 2, (1965), pp. 281-284.
8. J. K. Wolf. “Effects of channel errors on delta modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications Technology, Vol. 14, No. 1, (1966), pp. 2-7.
9. A. Liff and J. K. Wolf. “On the optimum sampling rate for discrete-time modeling of continuous-time systems,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 11, No. 21, (1966), pp. 288-290.
10. J. K. Wolf. “Signal design for multiple carriers,” 1966 IEEE International Communication Conference, Philadelphia, PA (1966), p. 178.
11. R. McLaughlin and J. K. Wolf. “Modeling of delta modulation with FSK over a Tropo path,” Proceedings of the National Electronics Conference, Vol. 22, (1966), pp. 513-517.
12. K. Levitt and J. K. Wolf. “A class of nonlinear error correcting codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 13, No. 2, (1967), pp. 335-336.
13. D. Calabro and J. K. Wolf. “On the synthesis of two-dimensional arrays with desirable correlation properties,” Information and Control, Vol. 11, (1968), pp. 537-560.
14. J. K. Wolf. “Decoding of Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenhem codes and Prony’s method of curve fitting,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 13, No. 4, (1967), pp. 608.
15. B. Masnick and J. K. Wolf. “On linear unequal error protection codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 13, No. 4, (1967), pp. 600-607.
16. M. Muntner and J. K. Wolf. “Predicted performance of error-control techniques over real channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 14, No. 5, (1968), pp. 640-650.
17. L. Milstein, D. L. Schilling and J. K. Wolf. “Robust detection using extreme-value theory,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 15, No. 3, (1969), pp. 370-375.
18. L. Schiff and J. K. Wolf. “High speed binary data transmission over the additive band-limited, Gaussian channel,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 15, No. 2, (1969), pp. 287-295.
19. L. A. Shepp, J. K. Wolf, A. D. Wyner and J. Ziv. “Binary communications over the Gaussian channel using feedback with peak energy constraint,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 15, No. 4, (1969), pp. 476-478.
20. J. K. Wolf. “Adding two information symbols to certain nonbinary BCH codes and some applications,” Bell System Technology Journal, Vol. 48, No. 7, (1969), pp. 2405-2424.
21. J. K. Wolf, M. Shooman and R. Boorstyn. “Algebraic coding and digital redundancy,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. R-18, No. 3, (1969), pp. 91-107.
22. J. K. Wolf. “Nonbinary random error-correcting codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 16, No. 2, (1970), pp. 236-237.
23. J. K. Wolf and J. Ziv. “Transmission of noisy information to a noisy receiver with minimum distortion,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 16, No. 4, (1970), pp. 406-411.
24. J. K. Wolf, A. Wyner and J. Ziv. “The channel capacity of the postal channel,” Information and Control, Vol. 16, No. 5, (1970), pp. 167-172.
25. S. Wainberg and J. K. Wolf. “Subsequences of pseudo random sequences,” IEEE Transactions on Communications Technology, Vol. 18, No. 5, (1970), pp. 606-612.
26. J. Bridwell and J. K. Wolf. “Burst distance and multiple burst correction,” Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 49, No. 5, (1970), pp. 889-909.

1971-1980                                                       Back to Top

27. B. Bunin and J. K. Wolf. “Convergence to the rate distortion function for Gaussian sources,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 17, No. 1, (1971), pp. 65-70.
28. J. C. Chiang and J. K. Wolf. “On channels and codes for the Lee metric,” Information and Control, Vol. 19 (1971), pp. 159-173.
29. T. J. Klein and J. K. Wolf. “On the use of channel introduced redundancy for error correction,” IEEE Transactions on Communications Technology, Vol. 19, No. 4 (1971), pp. 396-402.
30. T. Berger, F. Jelinek and J. K. Wolf. “Permutation codes for sources,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 18, No. 1, (1972), pp. 160-169.
31. A. Kerdock and J. K. Wolf. “On the minimum distortion of block codes for a binary symmetric source,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 18, No. 3, (1972), pp. 433-435.
32. S. Wainberg and J. K. Wolf. “Burst decoding of binary block codes on Q-ary output channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 18, No. 5, (1972), pp. 694-696.
33. S. Wainberg and J. K. Wolf. “Algebraic decoding of block codes over a Q-ary input, Q-ary output channel, Q>q’,” Information and Control, Vol. 22, No. 3, (1973), pp. 232-247.
34. D. Slepian and J. K. Wolf. “Noiseless coding of correlated information sources,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 19, No. 4, (1973), pp. 471-480.
35. J. K. Wolf. “A survey of coding theory: 1967-1972,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 19, No. 4, (1973), pp. 381-389. Invited
36. D. Slepian and J. K. Wolf. “A coding theorem for multiple access channels with correlated sources,” Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 52, No. 7, (1973), pp. 1037-1076.
37. N. T. Gaarder and J. K. Wolf. “The capacity region of a multiple-access discrete memoryless channel can increase with feedback,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 21, No. 1, (1975), pp. 100-102.
38. J. K. Wolf. “Efficient maximum likelihood decoding of linear block codes using a trellis,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 24, No. 1, (1978), pp. 76-80.
39. J. F. Pieper, J. G. Proakis, R. R. Reed and J. K. Wolf. “Design of efficient coding and modulation for a Rayleigh fading channel,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 24, No. 4, (1978), pp. 457-468.
40. J. K. Wolf. Book review of “Computer-Communication Network Design and Analysis” by Mischa Schwartz. Prentice-Hall Publishers, 1977, 372 pp. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 24, No. 4, (1978), pp. 521-522.
41. M. A. Deaett and J. K. Wolf. “Some very simple codes for the non-synchronized two-user multiple-access adder channel with binary inputs,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 24, No. 5, (1978), pp. 635-636.
42. C. Heegard, H. E. dePedro amd J. K. Wolf. “Permutation codes for the Gaussian broadcast channel with two receivers,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 24, No. 5, (1978), pp. 569-578.
43. V. Gupta and J. K. Wolf. “A shortened Viterbi decoding algorithm for terminated rate-1/N convolutional codes with hard decisions,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 25, No. 2, (1979), pp. 243-246.
44. D. Towsley and J. K. Wolf. “On the statistical analysis of queue lengths and waiting times for statistical multiplexers with ARQ retransmission schemes,” IEEE Transactions on Communication Theory, Vol. 27, No. 4, (1979), pp. 693-702.
45. S-C. Chang and J. K. Wolf. “A simple derivation of the MacWilliams’ identity for linear codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 26, No. 4, (1980), pp. 476-477.
46. J. K. Wolf, A. D. Wyner and J. Ziv. “Source coding for multiple descriptions,” Bell Systems Technical Journal, Vol. 59, No. 8, (1980), pp. 1417-1426.

1981-1990                                                 Back to Top

47. S-C. Chang and J. K. Wolf. “On the T-user M-frequency noiseless multiple-access channel with and without intensity information,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 27, No. 1, (1981), pp. 41-48.
48. J. K. Wolf, A. M. Michelson and A. H. Levesque. “On the probability of undetected error for linear block codes,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 30, No. 2, (1982), pp. 317-324.
49. J. K. Wolf. “Redundancy, the discrete Fourier transform and impulse noise cancellation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 31, No. 3, (1983), pp. 458-461.
50. R. Padovani and J. K. Wolf. ”Poor error correction codes are poor error detection codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 30, No. 1, (1984), pp. 110-111.
51. J. K. Wolf. “Statistical communications theory -- A worker’s view,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on 100 Years of Communication Progress, Vol. 22, (1984), pp. 121-122. Invited
52. T. Berger, N. Mehravari, D. Towsley, and J. K. Wolf. “Random multiple-access communications and group testing,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 32, No. 7, (1984), pp. 769-778.
53. J. K. Wolf, A. D. Wyner, J. Ziv and J. Korner. “Coding for a write-once memory,” AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, Vol. 63, No. 6, Part 2, (1984), pp. 1089-1112.
54. D. Towsley and J. K. Wolf. “On adaptive tree poling algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 32, No. 12, (1984), pp. 1294-1298.
55. J. K. Wolf. “Born again group testing: multi-access communications,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Special Issue on Random-Access Communications, Vol. 31, No. 2, (1985), pp. 185-191. Invited
56. S. Panwar, D. Towsley and J. K. Wolf, “On the throughput of degenerate intersection and first-come first-served collision resolution algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 31, No. 2, (1985), pp. 274-279.
57. H. H. Ma and J. K. Wolf. “On tail biting convolutional codes,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 34, No. 2, (1986), pp. 104-111.
58. R. Padovani and J. K. Wolf. “Coded phase/frequency modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 34, No. 5, (1986), pp. 446-453.
59. C. A. French and J. K. Wolf. “Application of the Viterbi algorithm to the detection of compact spectrum,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 22, No. 5, (1986), pp. 1200-1202.

60. H. H. Ma and J. K. Wolf. “Binary unequal error-protection block codes formed from convolutional codes by generalized tail biting,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 32, No. 6, (1986), pp. 776-786.

61. J. K. Wolf and G. Ungerboeck. “Trellis coding for partial response channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 34, No. 8, (1986), pp. 765-773.

62. W. L. Zhang and J. K. Wolf. “Rate 1/2 and 2/3 majority logic decodable binary burst error-correcting codes,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 36, No. 2 (1987), pp. 250-252.

63. C. French, G. S. Dixon and J. K. Wolf. “Results involving (d,k) constrained M-ary codes,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 23, No. 5, (1987), pp. 3678-3680.

64. P. Lee and J. K. Wolf. “Combined error correction/modulation codes,” INTERMAG, April 1987. Also, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 23, No. 5, (1987), pp. 3681-3683.

65. E. Zehavi and J. K. Wolf. “On the performance evaluation of trellis codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 33, No. 2, (1987), pp. 196-202.

66. E. Zehavi and J. K. Wolf. “On saving decoder states for some trellis codes and partial response channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 36, No. 2, (1988), pp. 222-224. [PDF  ucsd only]

67. E. Zehavi and J. K. Wolf. “On runlength codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 34, No. 1, (1988), pp. 45-54. [PDF  ucsd only]

68. W. L. Zhang and J. K. Wolf. “A class of binary burst error-correcting quasi-cyclic codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 34, No. 3, (1988), pp. 463-479. [PDF  ucsd only]

69. C. A. French, J. K. Wolf and G. S. Dixon. “Signaling with special run-length constraints for a digital recording channel,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 24, No. 3, (1988), pp. 2092-2097. [PDF  ucsd only]

70. C. A. French and J. K. Wolf. “Bounds on the capacity of a peak power constrained Gaussian channel,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 24, No. 5, (1988), pp. 2247-2262. [PDF  ucsd only]

71. S. Panwar, D. Towsley and J. K. Wolf. “Optimal scheduling policies for a class of queues with customer deadlines to the beginning of service,” Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, Vol. 35, No. 4, (1988), pp. 832-844.

72. Y. Lin and J. K. Wolf. “Combined ECC/RLL codes,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 24, No. 6, (1988), pp. 2527-2529. [PDF  ucsd only]

73. C. A. French, A. D. Weathers and J. K. Wolf. “A generalized scheme for generating and detecting recording channel output waveforms with controlled pulse polarity,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 24, No. 6, (1988), pp. 2530-2532. [PDF  ucsd only]

74. A. D. Weathers, C. A. French and J. K. Wolf. “Results on ‘controlled polarity’ modulation and coding,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 25, No. 5, (1989), pp. 4090-4092. [PDF  ucsd only]

75. L. Fredrickson and J. K. Wolf. “Error detecting multiple block (d,k) codes,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 25, No. 5, (1989), pp. 4096-4098.

76. J. K. Wolf, A. Viterbi and G. Dixon. “Finding the best set of K paths through a trellis with application to multi-target tracking,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 25, No. 2, (1989), pp. 287-295.

77. A. Viterbi, J. K. Wolf, E. Zehavi and R. Padovani. “A pragmatic approach to trellis-coded modulation,” IEEE Communications Magazine, (July 1989), pp. 11-19.

78. J. Schwartz and J. K. Wolf. “A systematic (12,8) code for correcting single errors and detecting adjacent errors,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 39, No. 11, (1990), pp. 1403-1404.

79. T. K. Philips, D. Towsley and J. K. Wolf. “On the diameter of a class of random graphs,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 36, No. 2, (1990), pp. 285-288.

80. J. K. Wolf and J. W. Schwartz. “Comparison of estimators for frequency offset,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 38, No. 1, (1990), pp. 124-127.

1991-2000                                                    Back to Top

81. S. Raghavan, J. K. Wolf and L. B. Milstein. “On the cutoff rate of a discrete memoryless channel with (d,k)-constrained input sequences,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 10, No. 1, (January 1992), pp. 233-241. [PDF  ucsd only]

82. K. K. Y. Ho, R. R. Rao and J. K. Wolf. “Random-access systems with a time-varying channel,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 38, No. 9, (1990), pp. 1293-1297. [PDF  ucsd only]

83. P. Bender and J. K. Wolf. “New asymptotic bounds and improvements on the Lempel-Ziv data compression algorithm,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Special Issue on Coding for Storage Devices, Vol. 37, No. 3, (May 1991), pp. 721-729. [PDF  ucsd only]

84. A. D. Weathers and J. K. Wolf. “A new rate 2/3 sliding block code for the (1,7) runlength constraint with the minimal number of encoder states,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Special Issue on Coding for Storage Devices, Vol. 37, No. 3, (May 1991), pp. 908-913. [PDF  ucsd only]

85. J. Fitzpatrick and J. K. Wolf. “A maximum likelihood detector for nonlinear magnetic recording,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 27, No. 6, (November 1991), pp. 4816-4818. [PDF  ucsd only]

86. A. Armstrong and J. K. Wolf. “Performance evaluation of a new coding scheme for the peak detecting magnetic recording channel,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 27, No. 6, (November 1991), pp. 4804-4806. [PDF  ucsd only]

87. R. Brandt, A. J. Armstrong, H. N. Bertram and J. K. Wolf. “A simple statistical model of partial erasure in thin film disk magnetic recording systems,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 27, No. 6, (1991), pp. 4978-4980. [PDF  ucsd only]

88. A. Armstrong, H. N. Bertram, R. Barndt and J. K. Wolf. “Nonlinear effects in high-density tape recording,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 27, No. 5, (September 1991), pp. 4366-4376. [PDF  ucsd only]

89. P. Siegel and J. K. Wolf, “Modulation and coding for information storage,” IEEE Commun. Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 12 (1991), pp. 68-86. Invited [PDF  ucsd only]

90. B. H. Marcus, P. H. Siegel and J. K. Wolf. “Finite-state modulation codes for data storage,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 10, No. 1, (January 1992), pp. 5-37. [PDF  ucsd only]

91. A. D. Weathers and J. K. Wolf. “Biased run-length limited modulation,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 27, No. 6. (November  1991), pp. 4807-4809.[PDF  ucsd only]

92. J. K. Wolf. “A survey of codes for partial response channels,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 27, No. 6, (November 1991), pp. 4585-4589. [PDF  ucsd only]

93. R. D. Barndt, A. J. Armstrong and J. K. Wolf. “Media selection for high density recording channels,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 29, No. 1, (January 1993), pp. 183-188. [PDF  ucsd only]

94. H. G. Lin, R. Barndt, H. N. Bertram and J. K. Wolf. “Experimental studies of nonlinearities in high density disk recording,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 28, No. 5, (September 1992), pp. 3279-3281. [PDF  ucsd only]

95. H. N. Bertram, A. Armstrong, J. K. Wolf and I. Beardsley. “Theory of nonlinearities and pulse asymmetry in high density tape recording,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 28, No. 5, (September 1992), pp. 2701-2706. [PDF  ucsd only]

96. R. Barndt and J. K. Wolf. “Modeling and signal processing for the nonlinear thin film recording channel,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 28, No. 5, (September 1992), pp. 2710-2712. [PDF  ucsd only]

97. L. C. Barbosa, C. E. MacDonald and J. K. Wolf. “Array heads for estimating track misregistration,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 29, No. 6, (November 1993), pp. 4033-4035. [PDF  ucsd only]

98. S. A. Raghavan, J. K. Wolf. and L. B. Milstein. “On the performance evaluation of ISI channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 39, No. 3, (May 1993), pp. 957-965. [PDF  ucsd only]

99. R. E. Swanson and J. K. Wolf. “A new class of two-dimensional RLL recording codes,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 28, No. 6, (November 1992), pp. 3407-3416. [PDF  ucsd only]

100. S. A. Raghavan, J. K. Wolf, L. B. Milstein and L. C. Barbosa. “Nonuniformly spaced tapped-delay-line equalizers,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 41, No. 9, (September 1993), pp. 290-295. [PDF  ucsd only]

101. J. K. Wolf and E. Zehavi. “P2 codes: pragmatic trellis codes utilizing punctured convolutional codes,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 2 (February 1995), pp. 94-99. [PDF  ucsd only]

102. J. K. Wolf and D. Chun. “The single burst error detection performance of binary cyclic codes,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 42, No. 1, (January 1994), pp. 11-13. [PDF  ucsd only]

103. D. Chun and J. K. Wolf. “Special hardware for computing the probability of undetected error for certain binary CRR codes and test results,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 42, No. 10, (October 1994), pp. 2769-2772. [PDF  ucsd only]

104. T. Mittelholzer, P. McEwen, S. Altekar and J. K. Wolf. “Finite truncation depth trellis codes for the dicode channel,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 31, No. 6, (1995), pp. 3027-3029. [PDF  ucsd only]

105. A. Friedmann, D. Wei, H. N. Bertram, R. Swanson, F. Jeffers and J. K. Wolf. “Experimental analysis of the effects of tape thickness on magnetic recording,” J. Appl. Phys. Vol. 79, No. 8. (1996), pp. 5658-5660. [PDF  ucsd only]

106. A. Friedmann and J. K. Wolf. “A sliding threshold detector for the ternary 1-D channel,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 35, No. 5, (September 1996), pp. 3959-3961. [PDF  ucsd only]

107. P. A. McEwen and J. K. Wolf. “Trellis codes for (1,k) E2PR4 ML with squared distance 18,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 32, No. 5, (September 1996), pp. 3995-3997. [PDF  ucsd only]

108. J. Caroselli and J. K. Wolf. “Applications of a new simulation model for media noise limited magnetic recording channels,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 32, No. 5, (September 1996), pp. 3917-3919. [PDF  ucsd only]

109. J. K. Wolf and A. J. Viterbi. “On the weight distribution of linear block codes formed from convolutional codes,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, (Transactions Letters), Vol. 44, No. 9, (September 1996), pp. 1049-1051. [PDF  ucsd only]

110. S. Altekar, M. Berggren, B. E. Moision, P. H. Siegel and J. K. Wolf. “Error-event characterization on partial-response channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 45, No. 1, (1999), pp. 241-247. [PDF  ucsd only]

111. A. D. Weathers, S. A. Altekar and J. K. Wolf. “Distance spectra for PRML channels,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 33, No. 5, (September 1997), pp. 2809-2811. [PDF  ucsd only]

112. J. Caroselli, S. Altekar, P.McEwen and J. K. Wolf. “Improved detection for magnetic recording systems with media noise,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 33, No. 5, (September 1997), pp. 2779-2781. [PDF  ucsd only]

113. J. K. Wolf. “ECC performance of interleaved RS codes with burst errors,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 34, No. 1, (1998), pp. 75-79. [PDF  ucsd only]

114. S. A. Altekar and J. K. Wolf. “Improvements in detectors based upon colored noise,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 34, No. 1, (January 1998), pp. 94-97. [PDF  ucsd only]

115. A. Friedmann and J. K. Wolf. “Simplified EPR4 detection,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 34, No. 1 (January 1998), pp. 129-134. [PDF  ucsd only]

116. K. A. S. Immink, P. H. Siegel, and J. K. Wolf, “Codes for digital recorders,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1948-1998 Special Commemorative Issue, Vol. 44, No. 6 (October 1998), pp. 2260-2299. Invited [PDF  ucsd only]

117. T. Souvignier, A. Dati and J. K. Wolf. “Turbo decoding for partial response channels with colored noise,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 35, No. 5, (1999), pp. 2322-2324. [PDF  ucsd only]

118. J. Goldberg and J. K. Wolf. “Implementation and analysis of nonlinear effects in the microtrack model,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 35, No. 5 (1999), pp. 2256-2258. [PDF  ucsd only]

119. V. Dorfman and J. K. Wolf. “Offset invariance in maximum likelihood decoding for a class of partial response channels,” IEEE Communications Letters Vol. 4, No. 7, (2000), pp. 229-230. [PDF  ucsd only]

120. T. V. Souvignier, M. Oberg, P. H. Siegel, R. E. Swanson and J. K. Wolf. “Turbo decoding for partial response channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 48, No. 8, (2000), pp. 1297-1308. [PDF  ucsd only]

121. H. Sawaguchi and H. K. Wolf. “Turbo decoding for high-rate concatenated parity-check codes on PRML channels,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 36, No. 5, (2000), pp. 2173-2175. [PDF  ucsd only]

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122. J. Miller and J. K. Wolf. “High code rate error correction code design for partial response systems,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 36, No. 2, (2001), pp. 704-707. [PDF  ucsd only]

123. R. M. Roth, P H. Siegel an J. K. Wolf. “Efficient coding schemes for the hard-square model,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 47, No. 3, (2001), pp. 1166-1176. [PDF  ucsd only]

124. S. A. Altekar, A. E. Vityaev and J. K. Wolf. “Decision-feedback equalization via separating hyperplanes,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 49, No. 3, (2001), pp. 480-486.) [PDF  ucsd only]

125. H. Sawaguhi, S. Mita and J. K. Wolf. “A concatenated coding technique for partial response channels,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 37, No. 2, (2001), pp. 695-703. [PDF  ucsd only]

126. V. Dorfman and J. K. Wolf. “A method for reducing the effects of thermal asperities,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 19, No. 4, (2001), pp. 662-667. [PDF  ucsd only]

127. J. K. Wolf. “Constrained sequences, crossword puzzles and Shannon,” IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter, Vol. 51, No. 3, (2001), pp. 4-7. Invited [PDF  ucsd only]

128. B. M. Kurkoski, P. H. Siegel and Jack K. Wolf. “Joint message-passing decoding of LDPC codes and partial-response channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 48, No, 3 (2002), pp. 1410-1422. Invited [PDF  ucsd only]

129. V. Dorfman and J. K. Wolf. “Viterbi detection for partial response channels with colored noise,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 38, No. 5, (2002), pp. 2316-2318. [PDF  ucsd only]

130. J. S. Goldberg and J. K. Wolf. “Timing recovery for magnetic recording using cross-correlation,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 38, No. 5 (2002), pp. 2289-2291. [PDF  ucsd only]

131. A. Wyner, J. K. Wolf and F. M. M. Willems. “Communicating via a processing broadcast satellite,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 48, No. 3, (2002), pp. 1243-1249. Invited [PDF  ucsd only]

132. R. M. Roth, P. H. Siegel and J. K. Wolf. “Efficient coding for a two-dimensional runlength-limited constraint,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 47, No. 3, (2001), pp. 1166-1175. [PDF  ucsd only]

133. B. M. Kurkoski, P. H. Siegel, and J. K. Wolf, “Joint message-passing decoding of LDPC codes and partial-response channels,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 48, No. 6 (June 2002), pp. 1410-1422. (see “Correction,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 49, No. 8 (August 2003), pp. 2076-2076. Invited [PDF  ucsd only]

134. V. Dorfman and J. K. Wolf, “Postprocessing using a single-parity interleaved block code for a Viterbi detector,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 40, No. 4, ( July 2004), pp. 3090-3092. [PDF  ucsd only]

135. S. Halevy, C. Jiangxin, R. M. Roth, P. H. Siegel and J. K. Wolf, “Improved bit-stuffing bounds on two-dimensional constraints,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 50, No. 5 (May 2004), pp. 824-838. [PDF  ucsd only]

136. M. N. Marrow, M. K. Cheng, P. H. Siegel, and J. K. Wolf, “A fast microtrack simulator for high-density perpendicular recording,” IEEE Trans. Magn., Vol. 40, No. 4, Part 2 (July 2004), pp. 3117-3119.
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137. S. Aviran, P. H. Siegel, and J. K. Wolf, “An improvement to the bit stuffing algorithm,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 51, No. 8 (August 2005), pp. 2885-2891. [PDF  ucsd only]

138. B. Kurkoski, P. H. Siegel, and J. K. Wolf, “Soft-output detector for partial-response channels using vector quantization,” IEEE Trans. Magn., Vol. 41, No. 10 (October 2005), pp. 2989-2991. [PDF  ucsd only]

139. S. Aviran, P. H. Siegel, and J. K. Wolf, “Noise-predictive turbo equalization for partial-response channels,” IEEE Trans. Magn., Vol. 41, No. 10 (October 2005), pp. 2959-2961. [PDF  ucsd only]

140. I. Demirkan and J. K. Wolf, “Block codes for the hard-square model,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 51, No. 8, (August 2005), pp. 2836-2848.[PDF  ucsd only]

141. Z. Wu, P. H. Siegel, H. N. Bertram and J. K. Wolf, “Design curves and information-theoretic limits for perpendicular recording systems,” IEEE Trans. Magn., Vol. 43, No. 2, (February 2007), pp. 721-726. [PDF  ucsd only]

142. S. Aviran, P. H. Siegel and J. K. Wolf, “Optimal parsing trees for run-length coding of biased data,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 2, (February 2008), pp. 841-849. [PDF  ucsd only]

143. S. Karakulak, P. H. Siegel, J. K. Wolf, and H. N. Bertram,“A new read channel model for patterned media storage,” IEEE Trans. Magn., Vol. 44, No. 1, (January 2008), pp. 193-197. [PDF  ucsd only]

Books and Book Chapters                                           Back to Top


1. J. K. Wolf. “The AEP property of random sequences and applications to information theory: Part I - Basic Principles, Part II - Single-User Communications, Part III - Multi-User Communication Channels,” Four chapters in Information Theory, New Trends and Open Problems. G. Longo, Ed. Wein: Springer-Verlag publishers, 1975.

2. J. K. Wolf. “Multi-user communications networks,” in Communication Systems and Random Process Theory. J. K. Skwirzynski, Ed. The Netherlands: Sijthoff and Noordhoff Publishers, 1978, pp. 37-53.

3. J. K. Wolf. “Coding techniques for multiple access communication channels,” in New Concepts of Multi-User Communication, J. K. Skwirzynski, Ed. The Netherlands: Sythoff and Noordhoff Publishers, 1981, pp. 83-103.

4. J. K. Wolf. “Principles of group testing and an application of the design and analysis of multi-access protocols,” in The Impact of Processing Techniques on Communications. J. K. Skwirzynski, Ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1985.

5. J. K. Wolf, “The Chinese remainder theorem and applications,” in Communications and Networks. Blake and Poor, Eds. Springer Verlag Publishers, 1986, pp. 390-405.

6. J. K. Wolf. “Modulation and coding for the magnetic recording channel,” in Performance Limits in Communications Theory and Practice. J. K. Skwirzynski, Ed. Kluwer Academic Press, 1988, pp. 353-367.

7. J. K. Wolf. “Efficient circuits for multiplying in GF(2m) for certain values of m,” discrete nathematics, in A Collection of Contributions in Honour of Jack van Lint. P. J. Cameron and H. C. A. van Tilborg, Eds. New York: Elsevier Science Publishing Co. 1992, Vol. 106/107, pp. 497-502.

8. J. K. Wolf. “Modulation and coding for digital magnetic recording systems,” in Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute “Magnetic Storage Systems Beyond 2000”. G. C. Hadjipanayis, Ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Vol. 41, pp. 505-517.

9. K. A. Schouhamer Immink, P. H. Siegel, and J. K. Wolf, “Codes for digital recorders,” reproduced in Information Theory: 50 Years of Discovery, S. W. McLaughlin and S. Verdu, Eds. IEEE Press, 1999. Invited

10. J. K. Wolf, “An Information-Theoretic Approach to Bit-Stuffing for Network Protocols,” in DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 66, 2004, pp. 335-339.

11. J. K. Wolf, “Source Coding for a Noiseless Broadcast Channel,” in Multiple Access Channels – Theory and Practice, Vol. 10 NATO Security through Science Series: Information and Communication Security. E. Biglieri and I. Gyorfi, Eds., IOS Press, April 2007, pp. 97-114.

Conference Proceedings                                             Back to Top


1. J.B. Thomas, T.R. Williams, J. K. Wolf and E. Wong. “The Demodulation of AM Signals in Noise,” Proceedings of 1959 Convention on Military Electronics, pp. 138-141, 1959.
2. J. K. Wolf, T. R. Williams and J.B. Thomas. “The Synthesis of Optimum Systems from Non-Ideal Components,” AIEE Applications and Industry, pp. 149-152, 1961.
3. J. K. Wolf and J.B. Thomas. “On the Recognition of Signal Patterns in Noise,” 1961 IRE Convention Record, Part 4, pp. 154-161, 1961.
4. T. W. Eddy and J. K. Wolf. “Capacity of an Additive Gaussian Colored Noise Channel with Noiseless Feedback,” in Proceedings of Sixth Allerton Conference on Circuit and System Theory, IEEE, pp. 189-197, October 1968.
5. J. K. Wolf. “Multiple-User Communications,” 1973 National Telecommunications Conference Record, II, 28E/1-1, 1973.
6. J. K. Wolf. “Data Reduction for Multiple Correlated Sources,” Proceedings of the Fifth Colloquium on Microwave Communications (Budapest), I, ST-24/287-295, 1974.
7. J. Pieper, R. Reed, J. Proakis, and J. K. Wolf. “The Use of Constant Weight Block Codes for the Underwater Channel,” EASCON, Arlington, VA, September 1977.
8. J. F. Pieper, J. G. Proakis, R. R. Reed, and J. K. Wolf. “Concatenated Codes for Improved Performance with Applications to the Rayleigh Fading Channel,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Ithaca, NY, October 1977.
9. W. Stieritz and J. K. Wolf. “Improvements in Two Soft Decision Maximum Likelihood Decoding Algorithms for Linear Block Codes,” In NTC 1977 Conference Record. p. 26:7/1-6. December 1977.
10. J. K. Wolf. “State of the Art of Error Control Techniques,” AGARD Conference Proceedings, No. 239, Munich, Germany, June 1978.
11. D. Towsley and J. K. Wolf. “The Waiting Time Distribution for Statistical Multiplexers with ARQ Retransmission Schemes,” 1978 International Conference on Communications, Toronto, Canada, June 1978.
12. R. G. Kim, D. F. Towsley and J. K. Wolf. “On Discrete-Time Queuing Systems,” 1979 International Conference on Communications, Part III, Boston, MA, June 1979.
13. E. P. Gudjohnsen, D. Towsley amd J. K. Wolf. “On Adaptive Polling Techniques for Computer Communication Networks,” 1980 International Conference on Communications Record, Part I, pp. 13.3.1-13.2.5, Seattle, WA, June 1980.
14. H. E. dePedro and J. K. Wolf. “On the Design of Spread Spectrum Communication Networks,” 1980 International Conference on Communications Record, Part I, pp. 15.1.1-15.1.3, Seattle, WA, June 1980.
15. J. K. Wolf. “Generalized Polling Algorithms for Distributed Systems,” AGARD Conference Proceedings, no. 303, Roros, Norway, June 1981.
16. J. K. Wolf, A. M. Michelson and A. H. Levesque. “The Determination of the Probability of Undetected Error for Linear Binary Block Codes,” 1981 International Conference on Communications Record, vol. 3, pp. 65.1.1-65.1.5, Denver, CO. June 1981.
17. D. Towsley and J. K. Wolf.”An Application of Group Testing to the Design of Multi-User Protocols,” Proceedings of the 19th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp. 397-403, Allerton, IL, September 1981.
18. J. K. Wolf. “Redundancy and Discrete Fourier Transform,” Proceedings of 1982 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 156-158, Princeton, NJ, March 1982.
19. R. Padovani and J. K. Wolf. “Data Transmission Using Error Detection Codes,” Conference Record, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2, 626-631, 1982.
20. J. K. Wolf. “Analog Codes,” International Conference on Communications, Conference Record, I, pp. 310-312, Boston, MA, June 1983.
21. J. K. Wolf and T. K. Philips. “The Detection and Estimation of a Single Impulse Using the Discrete Fourier Transformer,” Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Signal Processing, Nice, France, May 1983.
22. M. Ritz, E. A. Geraniotis, and J. K. Wolf. “A Multi-Access Protocol for Public Address Networks with Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum Signaling,” in Proceedings of 1985 Conference on Information and Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 1985.
23. D. Chase, P. Muellers, and J. K. Wolf. “Application of Code Combining to a Selective Repeat ARQ Link,” 1985 IEEE Military Communications Conference, pp. 11.6.1-11.6.6, October 20-23, 1985.
24. J. K. Wolf, P. Lee and E. Zehavi. “On (d,k) Modulation Codes,” Proceedings of 1986 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, March 1986.
25. S. S. Panwar, D. Towsley and J. K. Wolf. “On Optical Scheduling Policies for Queues with Customer Deadlines,” Proceedings of the ORSA/TIMS Conference on Queuing Networks, January 1987.
26. K. Ho, R. Rao and J. K. Wolf. “A Robust Collision Resolution Algorithm for the Random Access System with a Noisy Channel,” Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM ‘87, April 1987.
27. S. Panwar, D. Towsley, J. K. Wolf and Y. Armoni. “Collision Resolution Algorithms for a Time-Constrained Multi-Access Channel,” Proceedings of the 25th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Sept./Oct. 1987.
28. J. K. Wolf, A. M. Viterbi and G. S. Dixon. “Trellis Decoding and Applications to Multi-Target Tracking,” Proceedings of the SPIE’s O-E/LASE ‘88 International Society of Optical Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, January 1988.
29. C. French and J. K. Wolf. “Discrete Memoryless Channels with Run-Length Constrained Inputs,” Proceedings of 1988 Biejing International Workshop on Information Theory, pp. DII-4.1-4.4, July 1988.
30. J. K. Wolf and R. Blakeney. “An Exact Evaluation of the Probability of Undetected Error for Certain Shortened Binary CRC Codes,” 1988 IEEE Military Communications Conference, San Diego, CA, October 1988.
31. A. Viterbi, J. K. Wolf and E. Zehavi. “Trellis-Codes MPSK Modulation for Highly Efficient Military Satellite Applications,” 1988 IEEE Military Communications Conference, San Diego, CA, October 1988.
32. J. K. Wolf. “Digital Magnetic Recording Systems,” Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, pp. 210-213, Cambridge, MA, Sept. 1990.
33. J. K. Wolf. “Permutation Codes (d,k) Codes and Magnetic Recording,” Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE Colloquium in South America, pp. 59-61, September 1990; and in Communication, Control and Signal Processing, edited by E. Ankan. Elsevier Science Publishers, Vol. 1, pp. 301-311, 1990.
34. P. E. Bender and J. K. Wolf. “An Improved Sliding Window Data Compression Algorithm Based on the Lempel-Ziv
Data Compression Algorithm,” IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference Record, pp. 1771-1777, 1990.
35. A. Armstrong and J. K. Wolf. “Coded Partial Response Signaling with Peak Detection,” IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference Record, pp. 1782-1786, December 1990.
36. S. Raghavan, J. K. Wolf and L. Milstein. “On the Power of Non-Uniformly Spaced Equalizers,” Proceedings of 24th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, November 1990.
37. P. Bender and J. K. Wolf. “An Improvement to the Lempel-Ziv Data Compression Algorithm,” Proceedings of 1991 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 106, June 1991.
38. C.P.J.M. Batten and J. K.Wolf. “On Timing Jitter and Channel Capacity of Hard-Limiting Channels,” Proceedings of 1991 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 308, June 1991.
39. K. Knudson, J. K. Wolf and L. Milstein. “Producing Soft-Decision Information at the Output of a Class IV Partial Response Viterbi Detector,” Proceedings of ICC ‘91, pp. 26.5.1-26.5.5, June 1991.
40. J. K. Wolf. “Coding for Partial Response Channels,” Digest of the Magnetic Recording Conference, pp. F-1, June 1991.
41. C.P.M.J. Baggen and J. K. Wolf. “Timing Jitter: Coding Theorems and Spectral” in Proceedings of the Twelfth Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, F.M.J. Willems and Tj.J. Tjalkens, eds., The Netherlands, pp. 1-8, May 1991.
42. J. Fitzpatrick, J. K. Wolf, and L. Barbosa. “New Equalizer Targets for Sampled Magnetic Recording Systems,” Proceedings of the 25th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, IEEE Comm. Society, pp. 30-34, November 1991.
43. K. J. Knudson, J. K. Wolf and L. Milstein. “Dynamic Threshold Implementation of the Maximum-Likelihood Detector for the EPR4 Channel,” Proceedings of GLOBECOM ‘91, pp. 60B.1.1-60B.1.5.
44. R. D. Barndt and J. K. Wolf. “Nonlinear Intersymbol Destruction versus Linear Intersymbol Interference on High Density Disk Drives,” Proceedings of GLOBECOM ‘92, IEEE Communications Society “IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference”, pp. 1072-1075, December, 1992.
45. J. Fitzpatrick and J. K. Wolf. “Construction of High Rate Codes from an Infinite Memory Constraint Graph,” Proceedings of ICC ‘92, pp. 1355-1360, June 1992.
46. J. K. Wolf. “Models for Digital Magnetic Recording Systems and Their Implications to Signal Detection,” Proceeding of ISSSE’92, pp. 789-794, September 1992, Paris, France.
47. C.P.M.J. Baggen and J. K. Wolf. “On the Influence of Timing Jitter on the Capacity of Hard-Limiting Channels,” Proceeding of ISSSE’92, pp. 799-802, September 1992, Paris, France.
48. L. C. Barbosa, C. E. MacDonald and J. K. Wolf. “Estimation of Tracking Errors Using Array Heads,” in Conferenc Record of the 26th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, IEEE Communications Society, p. 950-955, Vol. 2, October 1992.
49. P. A. Ziperovich and J. K. Wolf. “CMOS Implementation of a Viterbi Detector for Hard Disk Drives,” In 1993 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference Proceedings. IEEE, p.10.3.1-10.3.4.
50. K. Knudson, J. K. Wolf and L. B. Milstein. “A Concatenated Decoding Scheme for (1-D) Partial Response with Matched Spectral-Null Coding,” IEEE Communications Society; Proceedings of GLOBECOM’93, pp. 1960-1964, 1993.
51. J. Fitzpatrick and J. K. Wolf. “Partial Response Class I Signaling Applied to High Density Magnetic Recording,” IEEE Communications Society; Proceedings of GLOBECOM’93, pp. 1950-1954, 1993.
52. C.P.M.J. Baggen and J. K. Wolf. “On Band-Limited Additive Gaussian Noise Channels in the Presence of Sampling Jitter,” Proceedings of the Fourteenth Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, pp. 54-61, May 17-18, 1993, Veldhoven, The Netherlands.
53. J. K. Wolf, “Magnetic Recording as a Communications Channel,” in Proceedings 1994 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 5, 1993.
54. K. Knudson, L. B. Milstein and J. K. Wolf. “A Difference Metric Implementation for Maximum-Likelihood Sequence Estimation of Binary Input Intersymbol Interference Channels,” IEEE Communications Society, Proceedings of GLOBECOM’95.
55. J. Caroselli and J. K. Wolf. “A New Model for Media Noise in Thin Film Magnetic Recording Media,” SPIE, vol. 2605, pp. 29-39, 1995.
56. C.P.M.J. Baggen and J. K. Wolf. “On Band-Limited Additive Gaussian Noise Channels in the Presence of Sampling Jitter,” Proceedings of 1996 Information Theory Workshop, Israel, June 1996.
57. J. K. Wolf. “On the Performance of Random Error Correcting Block Codes over a Burst Noise Channel,” Proceedings IEEE ROC&C’96 International Telecommunications Symposium, Acapulco, Mexico, October 1996.
58. D. Stranton and J. K. Wolf. “High Rate Punctured Trellis Codes,” in Proceedings Sixth Annual Wireless Symposium, Santa Clara, CA, pp. 87-94, 1998.
59. P. Siegel and J. K. Wolf. “Bit Stuffing Bounds on the Capacity of 2-Dimensional Constrained Arrays,” Proceedings 1998 International Symposium on Information Theory, MIT, p. 323, (1998.)
60. T. Souvignier, J. K. Wolf and. P. McEwen. “Convolutional Coding for Parallel Decision Feedback Equalization,” IEEE Communications Society, GLOBECOM’98 Conference Record, p. 2712, (1998).
61. J. Caroselli and J. K. Wolf. “Error Event Characterization in Partial Response Systems in Magnetic Recording Systems with Medium Noise,” IEEE Communications Society, GLOBECOM ‘98 Conference Record, p. 2724, (1998).
62. J. Wolf and P. Siegel. “On Two-Dimensional Arrays and Crossword Puzzles,” Proceedings 36th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, p. 366-371, September 1999.
63. T. Souvignier, A. Friedmann, M. Öberg, P. H. Siegel, R. E. Swanson, and J. K. Wolf. “Turbo Decoding for PR4: Parallel versus Serial Concatenation” Proceedings, International Conference on Communications (Vancouver, Canada, June 1999), pp. 1638-1642.
64. T. Souvignier, J. Caroselli, A. Dati and J. K. Wolf. “Turbo Decoding for Partial Response Channels with Media Noise,” GLOBECOM Proceedings. December 1999.
65. R. M. Roth, P. H. Siegel and J. K. Wolf. “Efficient coding for a two-dimensional runlength-limited constraint,” GLOBECOM Proceedings, July 1999.
66. H. Sawaguchi, S. Mita and J. K. Wolf. “Iterative Decoding for Concatenated Error Correction Coding in PRML Channels,” GLOBECOM Proceedings. December 1999. (
67. R. Akella and J. K. Wolf. “On the Parallel MAP Algorithm,” Poster presented at Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, October 3-5, 2001, Cannes, France.
68. S. Halevy, J. Cheng, R. M. Roth, P. H. Siegel and J. K. Wolf. “Improved Bit-Stuffing Bounds on Two-Dimensional Constraints,” Proceedings, ISIT 2002, Switzerland, p. 385, July 2002.
69. J. K. Wolf. “An Information Theoretic Approach to Bit Stuffing for Network Protocols,” Proceedings, Third Asian-European Workshop on Information Theory, Kahogawa, Japan, June 25-28, 2003, pp. 18-21.
70. B. M. Kurkoski, P. H. Siegel, and J. K. Wolf, “Precoders for message-passing detection of partial-response channels,” Proc. 2003 IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, Yokohama, Japan, June 29-July 4, 2003, pp. 46-46.
71. B. M. Kurkoski, P. H. Siegel, and J. K. Wolf, “Exact probability of erasure and a decoding algorithm for some convolutional codes on the binary erasure channel,” Proc. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, (Vol. 3), San Francisco, CA, December 1-5, 2003, pp. 1741-1745.
72. B. M. Kurkoski, P. H. Siegel, and J. K. Wolf, “Message-passing decoders and their application to storage systems,” Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Cairns, Australia, September 2001, pp. 12-13. Invited
73. L. Fredrickson and J. K. Wolf. “Coding Using Multiple Block (d,k) Codes,” International Conference on Communications, Boston, MA, Vol. 3, pp. 53.4.1-53.4.5, June 11-14, 1989.
74. J. K. Wolf, “An information theoretic approach to bit stuffing for network protocols,” Proc. 3rd Asian-European Workshop on Information Theory, Kamogawa, Japan , June 25-28, 2003, pp. 18-20.
75. J. K. Wolf, “Data compression and the world wide web,” 5th Annual Conference on World Wide Web Applications, Durban, South Africa, September 10-12, 2003, published in the electronic proceedings, 14 pages.
76. J. K. Wolf, “Source Coding for a noiseless broadcast channel,” Proc. 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 19, 2004, pp. 1414-1418.
77. I. Demirkan and J. K. Wolf, “Block codes for the hard-square model,” Proceedings 2004 Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, June 2004, pp. 160-160.
78. S. Aviran, P. H. Siegel and J. K. Wolf, “An improvement to the bit stuffing algorithm,” Proc. 2004 IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, Chicago, IL, June 27-July 2, 2004, pp. 191-191.
79. B. M. Kurkoski, P. H. Siegel, and J. K. Wolf, “Analysis of convolutional codes on the erasure channel,” Proc. 2004 IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, Chicago, IL, June 27-July 2, 2004, pp. 458-458.
80. M. Marrow and J. K. Wolf, “Detection of 2-dimensional signals in the presence of ISI and noise,” Proceedings, International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications, Parma, Italy, October 10-13, 2004, pp. 891-894.
81. B. M. Kurkoski, P. Siegel and J. Wolf; “Vector quantization of the BCJR algorithm's state metrics for partial response channels,” Proc. 4th Asia-Europe Workshop on Information Theory Concepts, Viareggio, Italy, October 2004, pp. 27-30.
82. S. Aviran, P. H. Siegel, and J. K. Wolf, “Two-dimensional bit-stuffing schemes with multiple transformers,” Proc. 2005 IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 4-9, 2005, pp. 1478-1482.
83. J. B. Soriaga, P. H. Siegel, M. N. Marrow and J. K. Wolf, “On achievable rates of multistage decoding on two-dimensional ISI channels,” Proc. 2005 IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 4-9, 2005, pp. 1348–1352.
84. J. K. Wolf, “On coding for 2-D storage systems,” Proceedings, 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Punta del Este, Uruguay, March 13-17, 2006, pp. 146-149.
85. I. Demirkan and J. K. Wolf, “The depth-first algorithm for designing 2-D single-state block codes,” Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’06), June 2006, pp. CT0605.
86. I. Demirkan, P. H. Siegel and J. K. Wolf, “Error event characterization of 2-D ISI channels,” Proceedings 2006 IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theory, July 2006, pp. 1095-1099.
87. S. Aviran, P. H. Siegel and J. K. Wolf, “Optimal parsing trees for run-length coding of biased data,” Proceedings 2006 IEEE Int. Symp. Inform. Theor, July 2006, pp. 1495-1499.
88. J. K. Wolf, “An introduction to tensor product codes and applications to digital storage systems,” Proceedings 2006 Information Theory Workshop, Chengdu, China (October 2006), pp. 6-10.

Abstracts of Non-Referred Conference Proceedings   Back to Top


1. S. A. Raghavan, J. K. Wolf and L. B. Milstein. “Upper Bounding the Performance of ISI Channels,” (Abstract Only). Presented at IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, January 1993.

Patents (inventor or co-inventor)              Back to Top

1. Method and Apparatus for Resolving Phase Ambiguities in Trellis Coded Modulated Data. United States Patent No. 5,233,630, J. K. Wolf, April 3, 1993

2. Method and Apparatus for Encoding/Decoding QAM Trellis Coded Data. United States Patent No. 5,848,102, J. K. Wolf, E. Zehavi, December 8, 1998

3. Adaptive Sectorization in a Spread Spectrum Communication System. United States Patent No. 5,621,752, F. Antonio, K. Gilhousen, J. K. Wolf, E. Zehavi, April 15, 1997

4. Trellis Encoded and Decoder Based Upon rate 1/2 Punctured Convolutional Codes. United States Patent No. 5,633,881, J. K. Wolf, E. Zehavi, May 27, 1997

5. Multirate Serial Viterbi Decoder for Code Division Multiple Access System Applications. United States Patent No. 5,710,784, B. Butler, D. Kindred, J. K. Wolf, E. Zehavi, January 20, 1998

6. High Rate Trellis Coding and Decoding Methods and Apparatus. United States Patent No. 5,844,922, J. K. Wolf, E. Zehavi, December 1, 1998

7. Method and Apparatus for Transmitting and Receiving Concatenated Code Data. United States Patent No. 5,983,383, J. K. Wolf, November 9, 1999

8. Method and Apparatus for Providing Variable Rate Data In A Communications System Using Statistical Multiplexing. United States Patent No. 6,005,855, J. K. Wolf, December 21, 1999

9. High Rate Trellis Coding and Decoding Methods and Apparatus. United States Patent No. 6,0160,568, J. K. Wolf, E. Zehavi, January 18, 2000

10. Method and Apparatus for Encoding/Decoding QAM Trellis Coded Data. United States Patent No. 6,118,826, J. K. Wolf, E. Zehavi, September 12, 2000

11. Bit Interleaving for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing in the Transmission of Digital Signals. United States Patent No. 6,151,296, C. U. Lee, J. P. Odenwalder, J. Vijayan, J. K. Wolf, E. Zehavi, November 21, 2000

12. Bit Interleaving for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing in the Transmission of Digital Signals. United States Patent No. 6,282,168, C. U. Lee, J. P. Odenwalder, J. Vijayan, J. K. Wolf, E. Zehavi, August 28, 2001

13. Decoding Methods and Apparatus. United States Patent No. 6,542,559, J. K. Wolf, April 1, 2003

14. Bit Interleaving for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing in the Transmission of Digital Signals. United States Patent No. 6,717,908, J. P. Odenwalder, J. Vijayan, J. K. Wolf, E. Zehavi, April 2004

15. Decoding Method and Apparatus. United States Patent No. 6,836,516, J. K. Wolf, December 28, 2004

16. Erasure-and Single-Error Correction Decoder for Linear Block Codes. United States Patent No. 6,986,092, B. Butler, R. Milne, J. K. Wolf, January 20, 2006

 

 

Research Group

Postdoctoral Researchers

Graduate Students

Alumni

 

Postdoctoral Researchers:

Student Name: Ori Shental

Interests:

email:oshental@ucsd.edu

Phone:(858) 534-6542

Fax:(858) 534-2720

Office: CMRR Room 204

Past Postdoctoral Researchers:

Zsigmond Nagy - March 2008


Graduate Students:

Student Name: Seyhan Karakulak, Ph.D. Student
Interests: Algebraic coding techniques
email: skarakul@ucsd.edu

Phone: (858) 534-6216

Fax:(858) 534-2720
Office: CMRR, Room 203

Student Name: Hao Wang, Ph.D. Student

Interests:

email:wanghao@ucsd.edu

Phone:(858) 534-3906

Fax:(858) 534-2720

Office: CMRR Room 205


Student Name: Zheng Wu

Interests:

email: z2wu@ucsd.edu

Phone: (858)-534-3559

Fax:(858) 534-2720

Office: CMRR Room 206

Student Name: Eitan Yaakobi, Ph.D. Student

Interests:

email:eyaakobi@ucsd.edu

Phone:(858) 534-6216

Fax:(858) 534-2720

Office: CMRR Room 203

 

Alumni:

Student Name: Shirish A. Altekar

Dissertation: Detection and Coding Techniques for Magnetic Recording Channels [Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1997

Student Name: Alan J. Armstrong

Dissertation: Magnetic Recording: Coding and Characterization
[Abstract only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1992

Student Name: Sharon Aviran

Dissertation: Constrained Coding and Signal Processing for Data Storage Systems [Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 2006

Student Name: Constant Baggen

Dissertation: An Information Theoretic Approach to Timing Jitter [Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1993

Student Name: Richard Barndt

Dissertation: Signal Processing and Channel Modeling for Magnetic Recording [Abstract only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1992

Student Name: Paul Bender

Dissertation: Redundancy Re-Organization for the Magnetic Channel [Abstract only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1992

Student Name: Joseph Caroselli

Dissertation: Modeling, Analysis, and Mitigation of Medium Noise in Thin Film Magnetic Recording Channels [Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1998

Student Name: Ismail Demirkan

Dissertation: Coding and Detection for 2-Dimensional Channels
[Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 2006

Student Name: Glenn S. Dixon

Dissertation: Experimental Studies in Linearity and Write Equalization for Digital Magnetic Recording

Degree: M.S.

Year: 1987

Student Name: Vladimir Dorfman

Dissertation: Detection and Coding Techniques for Partial Response Channels [Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 2003

Student Name: James Fitzpatrick

Dissertation: Analysis of and Coding for Partial Response Magnetic Recording Systems [Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1993

Student Name: Lyle Fredrickson

Dissertation: Coding for Magnetic Channels [Abstract only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1989

Student Name: Catherine Ann French

Dissertation: Signal Processing for Digital Magnetic Recording Channels [Abstract only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1987

Student Name: Arnon A. Friedmann

Dissertation: Measurements, Characterization, and System Design for Digital Storage [Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1997

Student Name: Jason S. Goldberg

Dissertation: Medium Noise Modeling, Spinstand Measurements, and Timing Recovery for Magnetic Recording [Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 2002

Student Name: Kelly Knudson

Dissertation: Detection and Error-Correction for Partial Response Channels [Abstract only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1994

Student Name: Brian Kurkoski

Dissertation: Algorithms and Schedules for Turbo Equalization 
[Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 2004

Student Name: Patrick Lee

Dissertation: Combined Error-Correcting/Modulation Recording Codes [Abstract only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1988

Student Name: Yinyi Lin

Dissertation: Coding and Characterization for Digital Recording [Abstract only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1989

Student Name: Eric Macdonald

Dissertation: High Bit Rate Signal Processing Techniques and Characterization for Digital Storage Systems [Abstract only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1995

Student Name: Marcus Marrow

Dissertation: Detection and Modeling of Two-Dimensional Signals  [Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 2004

Student Name: Peter McEwen

Dissertation: Trellis Coding for Partial Response Channels [Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1999

Student Name: John Miller

Dissertation: High Code Rate, Low-Density Parity-Check Codes with Guaranteed Minimum Distance and Stopping Weight [Abstract
[PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 2003

Student Name: Sreenivasa Raghavan

Dissertation: Modulation and Detection for Digital Magnetic Recording [Abstract only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1991

Student Name: Thomas Victor Souvignier

Dissertation: Turbo Decoding for Partial Response Channels
[Abstract]  [PDF  ucsd only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1999

Student Name: Joan Tang Waltman

Dissertation: Experimental for the Development of Sliding Block Encoders for Modulation Codes

Degree: M.S.

Year: 1987

Student Name: David E-Min Wang

Dissertation: A Digital Adaptive Filter for Class IV Partial Response

Degree: M.S.

Year: 1990

Student Name: Anthony Weathers

Dissertation: Modulation Techniques for Digital Magnetic Recording [Abstract only]

Degree: Ph.D.

Year: 1990

Student Name: Pablo Ziperovich

Dissertation: VLSI Implementation of a Viterbi Detector for Hard Disk Drives

Degree: M.S.

Year: 1992

Student Name:

Dissertation:

Degree:

Year:

 



Courses

Fall Quarter: ECE 155A - Digital Recording Systems

                    ECE 259AN - Algebraic Coding

Winter Quarter 2008: ECE155B Digital Recording Projects

Spring Quarter 2008: ECE 154C  Communications Systems III

                                 ECE 155B   Digital Recording Projects