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ThunderKAT is the image-plane transients programme for MeerKAT. The goal as outlined in 2010, and still today, is to find, identify and understand high-energy astrophysical processes via their radio emission (often in concert with…
MIMO systems in the lower part of the millimeter-wave spectrum band (i.e., below 28 GHz) do not exhibit enough directivity and selectively, as their counterparts in higher bands of the spectrum (i.e., above 60 GHz), and thus still suffer…
We present the first widefield extragalactic continuum catalogue with the MeerKAT S-band (2.5 GHz), of the radio-selected DEEP2 field. The combined image over the S1 (1.96 - 2.84 GHz) and S4 (2.62 - 3.50 GHz) sub-bands has an angular…
Whenever multibeam satellite systems target very aggressive frequency reuse in their coverage area, inter-beam interference becomes the major obstacle for increasing the overall system throughput. As a matter of fact, users located at the…
Radio interferometers composed of a large array of small antennas posses large fields of view, coupled with high sensitivities. For example, the Karoo Array Telescope (MeerKAT), achieves a gain of up to 2.8 K/Jy across its…
The free-space optical (FSO) communication links with orbital angular momentum (OAM) multiplexing have been demonstrated that they can largely enhance the systems' capacity without a corresponding increase in spectral bandwidth, but the…
Millimeter wave (mmWave) technologies have the potential to achieve very high data rates, but suffer from intermittent connectivity. In this paper, we provision an architecture to integrate sub-6 GHz and mmWave technologies, where we…
Aiming at maximizing the achievable sum-rate of wideband multiuser mmWave massive MIMO systems, the hybrid precoding is studied. Since each computation of the achievable sum-rate can be performed only after the analog precoder and digital…
Multiband sensing is a promising technology that utilizes multiple non-contiguous frequency bands to achieve high-resolution target sensing. In this paper, we investigate the fundamental limits and optimization of multiband sensing,…
Because of the denser active use of the spectrum, and because of radio telescopes higher sensitivity, radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation has become a sensitive topic for current and future radio telescope designs. Even if quite…
The MeerKAT Large Area Synoptic Survey (MeerKLASS) collaboration has acquired multiple passes of L-band (856-1712 MHz) scanning observations over a 268 deg$^2$ sky region. This scanning enables efficient, large-area sky surveys by…
Recently, a parallel decoding algorithm of $G_N$-coset codes was proposed.The algorithm exploits two equivalent decoding graphs.For each graph, the inner code part, which consists of independent component codes, is decoded in parallel. The…
In this paper, an efficient fragile blind quad watermarking scheme for image tamper detection and recovery based on lifting wavelet transform and genetic algorithm is proposed. TRLG generates four compact digests with super quality based on…
In this paper, efficient turbo packet combining for single carrier (SC) broadband multiple-input--multiple-output (MIMO) hybrid--automatic repeat request (ARQ) transmission with unknown co-channel interference (CCI) is studied. We propose a…
Current optical coherent transponders technology is driving data rates towards 1 Tb/s/{\lambda}and beyond. This trend requires both high-performance coded modulation schemes and efficient implementation of the forward-error-correction (FEC)…
A symbol-based multi-layer iterative successive interference cancellation (MLISIC) algorithm is proposed to eliminate the inter-symbol interference (ISI) for faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling. The computational complexity of the proposed…
Practical large-scale quantum computation requires both efficient error correction and robust implementation of logical operations. Three-dimensional (3D) color codes are a promising candidate for fault-tolerant quantum computation due to…
A family of low-complexity detection schemes based on channel matrix puncturing targeted for large multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is proposed. It is well-known that the computational cost of MIMO detection based on QR…
Radio holographic measurements using the MeerKAT telescope are presented for each of its supported observing bands, namely UHF (544--1087 MHz), L (856--1711 MHz) and S (1750--3499 MHz). Because the UHF-band receiver design is a scaled…