Doctor Ranjith Liyanapathirana

Doctor Ranjith Liyanapathirana

Senior Lecturer,
Engineering

Biography

Ranjith Liyanapathirana received his BScEng(Hons) degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and MEng & PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada. His current areas of research interest include wireless communication and sensor networks, biomedical engineering and structural health monitoring. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (FIEAust), a Senior Member of IEEE (USA) and a Senior Member of ACS. He is the WSU IEEE Student Branch Consellor. He has a hobby interest in amateur radio (VK6BHV). 

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Qualifications

  • PhD Memorial University of Newfoundland St.John's
  • MEng Memorial University of Newfoundland St.John's
  • BSc(Eng) University of Moratuwa

Professional Memberships

  • Senior Member, IEEE (1989 - 2021)
  • Senior Member ACS (2002 - 2021)
  • Member, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (2015 - 2021)
  • Vice Chair, IEEE Sensors Council (NSW) (2021 - 2022)
  • Member, IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society (2021 - 2026)
  • Fellow, Institution of Engineers Australia (2021 - 2022)

Awards

  • Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies, Memorial University 1995-09-01

Interests

  • Amateur Radio VK6BHV

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Engineering

Committees

  • Academic Senate
  • School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment Workplan Committee

Contact

Email: R.Liyanapathirana@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone:
Mobile:
Location: XB.2.41
Penrith (Kingswood)

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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

  • 300173 Advanced Data Networks, 2020
  • 300196 Personal Communication Systems, 2021
  • 300481 Engineering Electromagnetics, 2019
  • 300489 Radio and Satellite Communication, 2021
  • 300997 Data Communications, 2020

Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Liyanapathirana, R., Fang, G. and Leo, C. (2019), 'Evolution of Master of Engineering coursework degrees at Western Sydney University : past, present and future ', Blended Learning in Engineering Education: Recent Developments in Curriculum, Assessment and Practice, CRC Press 9781138056220.
  • Uy, B., Zhu, X., Xiang, Y., Zou, J., Liyanapathirana, R., Gunawardana, U., Pap, L. and Perera, H. (2011), 'Civionics--An emerging interdisciplinary research area in Australia', Structural Health Monitoring in Australia, Nova Science Publishers 9781617288609.
  • Cheng, Q., Liyanapathirana, R. and Darjazini, H. (2007), 'Incremental Learning Algorithm for Speech Recognition', Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Springer 978140206267.
  • Jibrail, W. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2003), 'Packet acquisition evaluation of slotted spread aloha data networks', Mobile and wireless communications, Klewer Academic Publishers 1402072503.

Journal Articles

  • Noori Hoshyar, A., Samali, B., Liyanapathirana, R. and Taghavipour, S. (2020), 'Analysis of failure in concrete and reinforced-concrete beams for the smart aggregate-based monitoring system', Structural Health Monitoring, vol 19, no 2 , pp 463 - 480.
  • Noori Hoshyar, A., Samali, B., Liyanapathirana, R., Houshyar, A. and Yu, Y. (2020), 'Structural damage detection and localization using a hybrid method and artificial intelligence techniques', Structural Health Monitoring, vol 19, no 5 , pp 1507 - 1523.
  • Noori Hoshyar, A., Rashidi, M., Liyanapathirana, R. and Samali, B. (2019), 'Algorithm development for the non-destructive testing of structural damage', Applied Sciences, vol 9, no 14 .
  • Jayawardana, D., Liyanapathirana, R. and Zhu, X. (2019), 'RFID-based wireless multi-sensory system for simultaneous dynamic acceleration and strain measurements of civil infrastructure', IEEE Sensors Journal, vol 19, no 24 , pp 12389 - 12397.
  • Jayawardhana, M., Zhu, X., Liyanapathirana, R. and Gunawardana, U. (2017), 'Compressive sensing for efficient health monitoring and effective damage detection of structures', Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, vol 84, no Part A , pp 414 - 430.
  • Rosales, M. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2017), 'Data driven innovations in structural health monitoring', Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol 842, no 1 .
  • Abeysing Jayawardana Yapa, D., Kharkovsky, S., Liyanapathirana, R. and Zhu, X. (2016), 'Measurement system with accelerometer integrated RFID tag for infrastructure health monitoring', IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol 65, no 5 , pp 1163 - 1171.
  • Salama, R., Kharkovsky, S., Liyanapathirana, R. and Gunawardana, U. (2016), 'Wireless power transmission in human tissue for nerve stimulation', IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, vol 10, no 6 , pp 670 - 675.
  • Abeysing Jayawardana Yapa, D., Kharkovsky, S. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2016), 'Construction material mountable UHF RFID tag antenna', Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol 58, no 9 , pp 2231 - 2237.
  • Biyanwilage, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2015), 'Power allocation in OFDM cognitive radio relay networks with outdated channel state information', International Journal of Communication Systems, vol 28, no 10 , pp 1640 - 1656.
  • Naiwala Pathirannehelage, M., Zhu, X., Liyanapathirana, R. and Gunawardana, U. (2015), 'Statistical damage sensitive feature for structural damage detection using AR model coefficients', Advances in Structural Engineering, vol 18, no 10 , pp 1551 - 1562.
  • Naiwala Pathirannehelage, M., Zhu, X., Liyanapathirana, R. and Gunawardana, U. (2015), 'An experimental study for decentralized damage detection of beam structures using wireless sensor networks', Structural Monitoring and Maintenance, vol 2, no 3 , pp 237 - 252.
  • Wijetunge, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2014), 'Throughput analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 beacon-enabled MAC protocol in the presence of hidden nodes', Wireless Networks, vol 20, no 7 , pp 1889 - 1908.
  • Wijetunge, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2013), 'Performance analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol with ACK frame transmission', Wireless Personal Communications, vol April , pp 1 - 26.
  • Naiwala Pathirannehelage, M., Zhu, X. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2013), 'An experimental study on damage detection of concrete structures using decentralized algorithms', Advances in Structural Engineering, vol 16, no 1 , pp 33 - 50.
  • Naiwala Pathirannehelage, M., Zhu, X. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2013), 'Damage detection of reinforced concrete structures based on the Wiener filter', Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, vol 14, no 1 , pp 57 - 69.
  • Herath, P., Gunawardana, U., Liyanapathirana, R. and Rajatheva, N. (2013), 'Outage probability analysis of multiple antenna dual-hop networks with interference-limited relay', IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol E96-B, no 2 , pp 577 - 584.
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2012), 'Combined flat histogram Monte Carlo method for efficient simulation of communication systems', IEEE Communications Letters, vol 16, no 1 , pp 80 - 82.
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2011), 'Efficient simulation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems using importance sampling', IET Communications, vol 5, no 3 , pp 274 - 283.
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2011), 'An efficient algorithm for capacity and outage probability estimation in MIMO channels', IEEE Communications Letters, vol 15, no 6 , pp 644 - 646.
  • Naiwala Pathirannehelage, M., Zhu, X. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2011), 'An experimental study on distributed damage detection algorithms for structural health monitoring', Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol 305, no 1 .
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2010), 'Improved performance upper bounds for terminated convolutional codes in Rayleigh fading channels', ECTI Transactions on Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communications, vol 8, no 1 , pp 99 - 105.
  • Nguyen, K., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2008), 'Fast simulation of space-time block codes concatenated with convolutional codes over quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels', Electronics Letters, vol 44, no 3 , pp 219 - 220.
  • Jibrail, W., Van Der Meer, A. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2003), 'Performance evaluaton of serial-search strategies for the acquisition of DS/CDMA signals', International Journal of Communication Systems, vol 16, no 10 , pp 865 - 875.

Conference Papers

  • Jacob, R., Abbas, S., Salama, R. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2022), 'Feed analysis of a proximity coupled microstrip patch antenna', International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting, Denver, Colo..
  • Jacob, R., Salama, R., Abbas, S. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2021), 'Review of antenna technologies and designs for various wearable and integrated applications', International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability, online.
  • Kurian, B. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2020), 'Machine learning techniques for structural health monitoring', International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures, Porto, Portugal.
  • Liyanapathirana, R. and Gunawardana, U. (2019), 'An investigation into project based learning (PBL) in telecommunications', International Conference on Engineering Research and Practice, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Ghinangju, B., Liyanapathirana, R. and Salama, R. (2019), 'Microwave material characterization of geopolymer concrete', International Conference on Electrical Engineering Research and Practice, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Missalot, S., Salama, R. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2019), 'Dual-band RFID antenna design for infrastructure health monitoring', International Conference on Electrical Engineering Research and Practice, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Missalot, S., Salama, R. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2019), 'Dual-band RFID antenna design for infrastructure health monitoring', International Conference on Electrical Engineering Research and Practice, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Soni, S., Jain, M., Rawal, D., Sharma, N. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2019), 'Performance analysis of DF cooperative-NOMA system with QPSK-BPSK scheme in the presence of SIC errors', International Conference on Electrical Engineering Research and Practice, Sydney, Australia.
  • Abeysing Jayawardana Yapa, D. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2018), 'RFID-based passive wireless displacement measurement of metal structures in infrastructure health monitoring', IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Houston, Tex..
  • Jacob, R. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2018), 'Technical feasibility in reaching renewable energy targets : case study on Australia', International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems, Chennai, India.
  • Kurian, B. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2018), 'Renewable energy resources development in the EU zone', International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems, Chennai, India.
  • Salama, R. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2018), 'Design of a multi-zone dielectric Fresnel lens for microwave wireless power transfer in concrete structures', International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  • Jayawardana, D. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2018), 'UHF RFID-based low-power wireless sensor development for infrastructure health monitoring : issues in metallic environments', International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  • Sabrin, S., Salama, R. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2018), 'Wireless power transmission in concrete using cylindrical dielectric resonator antennas', International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  • Painter, D. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2018), 'Project-based learning in engineering : study of renewable energy targets', International Conference on Advancements in Engineering Education , Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Noori Hoshyar, A., Samali, B., Kharkovsky, S., Liyanapathirana, R. and Taghavipour, S. (2017), 'Structural damage detection of a concrete based on the autoregressive all-pole model parameters and artificial intelligence techniques', International Conference on Signal Processing Systems, Auckland, N.Z..
  • Abeysing Jayawardana Yapa, D., Kharkovsky, S. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2016), 'Investigation of UHF power flow in the vicinity of a steel I-beam for optimization of its health monitoring using wireless sensor integrated RFID tag antenna system', IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, Cairns, Qld..
  • Fang, G., Liyanapathirana, R. and Leo, C. (2016), 'Evolution of Master of Engineering coursework degrees at Western Sydney University : past, present and future', International Conference on Engineering Education and Research, Parramatta, N.S.W..
  • Abeysing Jayawardana Yapa, D., Kharkovsky, S. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2015), 'Measurement system with a RFID tag antenna mounted on structural members for infrastructure health monitoring', IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Pisa, Italy.
  • Abeysing Jayawardana Yapa, D., Kharkovsky, S. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2015), 'Wireless system with a RFID tag antenna for infrastructure health monitoring', Conference on Smart Monitoring, Assessment and Rehabilitation of Civil Structures, Antalya, Turkey.
  • Sam, S., Biyanwilage, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2014), 'RF interference to DVB-T reception from multiple LTE devices in adjacent bands', IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Biyanwilage, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2014), 'Interference minimization based power allocation for cognitive radio networks operating in TV white spaces', International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Gold Coast, Qld..
  • Biyanwilage, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2014), 'Resource allocation in OFDM-based cognitive radio networks with multiple AF relays', International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Gold Coast, Qld..
  • Basnet, S., Gunawardana, U., Biyanwilage, S. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2014), 'Interference analysis in digital TV reception with LTE systems in adjacent bands in Australian context', Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference , Melbourne, Vic..
  • Salama, R., Kharkovsky, S., Liyanapathirana, R. and Gunawardana, U. (2013), 'An implantable encased microstrip ring rectenna for wireless biomedical applications', IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Minneapolis, Minn..
  • Biyanwilage, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2013), 'Resource allocation in multiple DF relay assisted OFDM cognitive radio relay networks with the knowledge of fading statistics', IEEE Tencon Spring, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Biyanwilage, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2013), 'Power allocation in OFDM cognitive radio relay networks with average interference constraints', Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Adelaide, Australia.
  • Wijetunge, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2013), 'IEEE 802.15.4 based hybrid MAC protocol for hybrid monitoring WSNs', Conference on Local Computer Networks, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Naiwala Pathirannehelage, M., Zhu, X., Liyanapathirana, R. and Gunawardana, U. (2013), 'Compressive sensing for structural damage detection of reinforced concrete structures', 10th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures, DAMAS 2013, Dublin; Ireland.
  • Liyanapathirana, R., Gunawardana, U., Wijesinghe, P. and Biyanwilage, S. (2013), 'RF interference to DVB-T reception from UMTS/LTE systems in adjacent bands', TENCON, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Salama, R., Liyanapathirana, R., Gunawardana, U. and Kharkovsky, S. (2012), 'An implantable miniature microstrip disk antenna', International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Chicago, Ill..
  • Naiwala Pathirannehelage, M., Zhu, X. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2012), 'Structural damage detection using the Wiener filter', Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Herath, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2012), 'Distributed switch-and-examine combining with threshold-based relaying', Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW), Wellington, New Zealand.
  • Biyanwilage, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2012), 'New power allocation methods for AF relay assisted OFDM cognitive radio networks with outdated CSI', International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, Gold Coast, Qld..
  • Salama, R., Kharkovsky, S., Liyanapathirana, R. and Gunawardana, U. (2012), 'An implantable encased microstrip ring disk antenna', International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, Gold Coast, Qld..
  • Wijetunge, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2012), 'Data transmission reliability of IEEE 802.15.4 based wireless sensor networks with synchronised periodic data', International Conference on Computer and Information Science, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Wijetunge, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2012), 'Throughput analysis of non-beacon enabled IEEE 802.15.4 networks with unsaturated traffic', 2012 International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), Gold Coast, Qld..
  • Biyanwilage, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2012), 'Power allocation in DF relay assisted OFDM cognitive radio networks with outdated CSI', International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, Gold Coast, Qld..
  • Biyanwilage, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2012), 'Power allocation for outage rate maximization in OFDM relay links', IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, Sydney, N.S.W..
  • Liyanapathirana, R. (2012), 'An investigation into problem-based learning in teaching telecommunications', Australasian Association for Engineering Education. Conference, Melbourne, Vic..
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2011), 'Efficient simulation of OFDM and OSTBC-OFDM systems over multipath Rayleigh fading channels.', Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Herath, P., Gunawardana, U., Liyanapathirana, R. and Rajatheva, N. (2011), 'Outage probability analysis of two-hop MIMO relay networks with interference at the relay', Australian Communications Theory Workshop 2011 (AusCTW), Melbourne, Australia.
  • Biyanwilage, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2011), 'Selective sub-carrier relaying and power allocation for multi-relay-assisted cooperative OFDM systems', Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW), Melbourne, Australia.
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2011), 'Transition Matrix Monte Carlo Techniques for Outage Probability Estimation in MIMO Channels', 2011 Australin Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW), Melbourne, Australia.
  • Biyanwilage, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2011), 'Power allocation for nonregenerative OFDM relay links with outdated channel knowledge', 11th IEEE International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, Hangzhou, China.
  • Wijetunge, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2011), 'Throughput analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol in the presence of hidden nodes', 11th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2011), Hangzhou, China.
  • Wijetunge, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2011), 'Performance analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol for WSNs in burst error channels', 11th International Symposium on Communications and Technologies (ISCIT 2011), Hangzhou, China.
  • Wijetunge, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2011), 'Impact of MAC Parameters on the Performance of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol with ACK Frame Transmission', Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 2011), Melbourne, Australia.
  • Naiwala Pathirannehelage, M., Zhu, X. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2011), 'Structural damage detection of RC structures using AR model coefficients', The 14th Asia-Pacific Vibration Conference, Hong Kong.
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2011), 'Fast simulation of error control coded systems using flat histogram Monte Carlo methods', IEEE Global Communications Conference, Houston, Texas.
  • Wijetunge, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2010), 'Performance analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Protocol for WSNs with ACK frame transmission under unsaturated traffic conditions', Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), Brisbane, Australia.
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2010), 'Multicanonical Estimation of Outage Probabilities in MIMO Channels', IEEE GLOBECOM, Miami, FL, USA.
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2010), 'Improved Multicanonical Algorithm for Outage Probability Estimation in MIMO Channels', 16th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, Auckland,New Zealand.
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2010), 'Improved error-bounds for rate-1/2, terminated convolutional codes with QPSK in Nakagami-m fading channels', SPCOM 2010, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, Bangalore, India.
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2010), 'Fast simulation of OFDM systems over frequency selective fading channels', SPCOM 2010, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, Bangalore, India.
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2010), 'Low-complexity MAP decoding of tailbiting convolutional codes', International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, Bangalore, India.
  • Salama, R. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2010), 'Analyzing the effect of metamaterials on a cylindrical-rectangular microstrip patch antenna using the electric surface current method', 2010 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications SPCOM 2010, Bangalore, India.
  • Herath, P., Gunawardana, U., Liyanapathirana, R. and Rajatheva, N. (2010), 'Mixed Rayleigh and Rician fading with partial relay selection', ICSPCS 2010, 4th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Ssyems, Gold Coast, QLD, Au.
  • Wijetunge, S., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2010), 'Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring: Considerations for communication protocol design', IEEE 17th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Doha,Qatar.
  • Naiwala Pathirannehelage, M., Zhu, X. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2010), 'Distributed damage detection algorithms for structural health monitoring', Civionics Research Centre Inaugural Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia.
  • Nguyen, K., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2009), 'Fast simulation of turbo codes over Rayleigh fading channels', 6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2009. ECTI-CON 2009, Pattaya, Thailand.
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2009), 'Tighter performance upper bounds for terminated convolutional codes in Rayleigh fading channels', 6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2009. ECTI-CON 2009, Pattaya, Thailand.
  • Wijesinghe, P., Gunawardana, U. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2009), 'Efficient simulation of terminated convolutional codes', TENCON 2009 - 2009 IEEE Region 10 Conference, Singapore.
  • Gunawardana, U., Nguyen, K. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2007), 'Fast Simulation of Turbo Codes over AWGN Channels', The 7th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2007), Sydney, Australia.
  • Gunawardana, U., Nguyen, K. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2007), 'Optimization of Sliding Window Algorithm for Space-Time Turbo Trellis Codes', The 7th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2007), Sydney, Australia.
  • Gunawardana, U., Nguyen, K. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2007), 'Fixed-Point Performance of Space-Time Turbo Trellis Codes on Fast Fading Channels', The 7th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2007), Sydney, Australia.
  • Gunawardana, U., Liyanapathirana, R. and Conti, P. (2006), 'Loosely Synchronised Spreading Codes in Full-Time Early-Late Tracking Loops', 2006 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, San Diego, USA.
  • Gunawardana, U., Nguyen, K. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2006), 'Efficient Simulation of Space-Time Block Coded Systems', 5th Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing, Hobart, Australia.
  • Liyanapathirana, R., Tortal, E., Gunawardana, U., Ilic, V. and Xiang, Y. (2006), 'Isotherm Distribution using Finite Element Model for Cryosurgical Optimisation', The XVth International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, ICMMB 2006, Furama Riverfront Hotel, Singapore.
  • Gunawardana, U., Nguyen, K., Liyanapathirana, R. and Philipsz, R. (2006), 'Importance Sampling Simulation of Orthogonal Space-Time Block Coded Systems', IEEE Region 10 Conference (IEEE TenCon 2006), Hong Kong, China.
  • Gunawardana, U., Nguyen, K. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2006), 'Fixed-Point Performance of Space-Time Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation', IEEE Region 10 Conference (IEEE TenCon 2006), Hong Kong, China.
  • Gunawardana, U., Nguyen, K. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2006), 'Sliding Window Algorithm for Space-Time Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation', IEEE Region 10 Conference (IEEE TenCon 2006), Hong Kong, China.
  • Guo, H., Cheng, Q. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2005), 'Performance Comparison of Blind Symbol TimingEstimation in Cyclic Prefixed OFDM Systems', 2005 IEEE Region 10 Conference, Melbourne.
  • Liyanapathirana, R., Cheng, Q. and Guo, H. (2005), 'Blind Symbol Synchronization in Cyclic Prefixed OFDM System', 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, Perth, Australia.
  • Tortal, E., Liyanapathirana, R., Ilic, V. and Gunawardana, U. (2005), 'Monitoring of the Coalesced Ice Ball in Cryosurgery', TENCON 2005, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Achi, H., Hellany, A. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2005), 'IMPROVED SPREAD ALOHA SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION', ICCCP'05 International Conferemce on Communication, Computer and Power, Muscat, Oman.
  • Gunawardana, U., Liyanapathirana, R. and Conti, P. (2005), 'On the Performance of Walsh-LS Codes in CDMA Systems', IEEE TenCon 2005, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Conti, P., Gunawardana, U., Liyanapathirana, R. and Cheng, Q. (2005), 'Walsh-LS CDMA Systems', College of Science, Technology and Environment Innovation Conference 2005, Werrington South, NSW, Australia.
  • Guo, H., Cheng, Q. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2005), 'Timing Synchronization of OFDM systems', College of Science, Technology and Environment Innovation Conference 2005, Werrington South, NSW, Australia.
  • Nguyen, K., Gunawardana, U., Liyanapathirana, R. and Cheng, Q. (2005), 'Application of Importance Sampling for Simulation of Orthogonal Space-Time Block Coded Systems', College of Science, Technology and Environment Innovation Conference 2005, Werrington South, NSW, Australia.
  • Tortal, E., Liyanapathirana, R., Ilic, V. and Gunawardana, U. (2005), 'Thermal Modelling in a Multi-Probe Cryosurgical Procedure', College of Science, Technology and Environment Innovation Conference 2005, Werrington South, NSW, Australia.
  • Gunawardana, U., Liyanapathirana, R. and Nguyen, K. (2005), 'Application of Importance Sampling for Simulation of Orthogonal Space-Time Block Coded Systems', 2005 Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, Perth, Australia.
  • Allan, J. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2004), 'Acquisition performance of multiple user Spread ALOHA system employing a Dynamic Digital Matched Filter', IEEE Region Ten Conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
  • Liyanapathirana, R. and Van Der Meer, A. (2004), 'A general equation for mean acquisition time for DS spread spectrum search strategies', Australian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia.
  • Le, L., Liyanapathirana, R. and Mastorakis, N. (2004), 'Multilevel UEP codes for wavelet images in W-CDMA systems and fading channels', Sixth WSEAS International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering, Athens, Greece.
  • Le, M. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2003), 'Unequal Error protection Codes for wavelet Image Transmission over W-CDMA, AWGN and rayleigh Fading Channels', 2003 International Conference on Telecommnications, Papeete, Tahiti, french Polynesia.
  • Le, M. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2003), 'Unequal error protection codes for wavelet video transmisson over W-CDMA, AWGN and Rayleigh fading channels', Visual Communications and Image Processing 2003, Lugano, Switzerland.
  • Liyanapathirana, R., Kalaspurkar, R. and Grasso, D. (2003), 'Performance Evaluation of a recurring state dynamic digital matched filter for DS-CDMA', IEEE TENCON 2003, Bangalore, India.
  • Liyanapathirana, R. and Van Der Meer, A. (2003), 'Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Acquisition System for DS Spread Spectrum', IEEE TENCON 2003, Bangalore, India.
  • Achi, H., Jibrail, W. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2003), 'Performance analysis for spread ALOHA wireless systems', 2003 International Conference on Communication Technology, ICCT, Beijing, China.
  • Achi, H., Liyanapathirana, R. and Hellany, A. (2003), 'Performance Comparision of Spread Aloha and CDMA Wireless Systems', 17 th Intenational Conference on Applied electromagnetics and Communications, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
  • Liyanapathirana, R., Kalaspurkar, R. and Grasso, D. (2003), 'A Recurring State Dynamic Digital Matched Filter for DS-CDMA', Australian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 2003, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Le, M. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2003), 'Wideband MC-CDMA and Rake Receivers for UEP with Wavelet Video Transmission over AWGN and Rayleigh Fading Channels', Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications DICTA2003, Sydney, Australia.
  • Le, M. and Liyanapathirana, R. (2003), 'Wavelet Video with Unequal Error Protection Codes for Wideband Multicareer CDMA over Fading Channels', Third WSEAS International Conference on Signal, Speech and Image Processing (ICOSSIP 2003), Crete, Greece.

Other Publications

  • 2021, 'Helmet-Integrated RFID Antenna Design for Tactical Communication Applications', Report
  • 2013, 'An Apparatus and Method for Facilitating Treatment of Tissue', Patent

Ranjith's areas of research expertise are coding and information theory, mobile radio communication, biomedical engineering and structural health monitoring. He has primarily contributed to coding and information theory in communication engineering by developing novel algorithms, modulation techniques, and performance evaluation via computer simulation. In the recent past, he has contributed to the development of efficient simulation techniques for trellis modulation codes. In the area of mobile radio communication, Ranjith has expertise in video transmission through error-prone mobile channels, in particular, investigating unequal error protection codes for mobile video transmission. In biomedical engineering, his expertise is in wireless power transmission to embedded sensors and Ambient Assisted Living technologies. Ranjith has contributed to research training by graduating more than 15 MEng/PhD students and numerous Honours students. He has published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed international conferences and IEEE/IET Journals.

This information has been contributed by Doctor Liyanapathirana.

Previous Projects

Title: Energy Smart Lighting App
Funder:
  • Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (non ACRG)
  • Demand Manager Pty Ltd
Western Researchers: Upul Gunawardana and Ranjith Liyanapathirana
Years: 2014-08-10 - 2015-07-31
ID: P00022343
Title: Embedded Error Control Coding for Mobile Videophone Systems
Funder:
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: Ranjith Liyanapathirana
Years: 1999-01-01 - 2000-06-30
ID: P0011144
Title: Development of a Cryogenic Process Control System
Funder:
  • University of Western Sydney
Western Researchers: Ranjith Liyanapathirana
Years: 2000-05-01 - 2001-04-30
ID: P0012938
Title: Study on Radio Frequency interference
Funder:
  • Free TV Australia
Western Researchers: Ranjith Liyanapathirana and Upul Gunawardana
Years: 2011-06-23 - 2012-06-19
ID: P00024501

Supervision

Doctor Liyanapathirana is available to be a principal supervisor for doctoral projects

Current Supervision

Thesis Title: Analysis and Design of Microstrip Antennas
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: Assisted Daily Living in Smart Homes
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: Wireless Powering of Sensors Embedded in Civil Structure using Embeddable Dielectric Resonator Antenna
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: Structural Health Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks
Field of Research:
Thesis Title: Smart Home System for Aged Care
Field of Research:

Previous Supervision

Thesis Title: Spoken Word Recognition Using Incremental Learning Based Neural Networks
Field of Research: Computer Science
Thesis Title: Design and Analysis of Cryogenic Process Control System
Field of Research: Information Technology
Thesis Title: Efficient Simulation of Space-Time Coded and Turbo Coded Systems
Field of Research: Aerospace Engineering And Technology
Thesis Title: CDMA Systems Using Zero Correlation Zone Codes
Field of Research: Computer Engineering
Thesis Title: Performance Analysis of Single Code Spread ALOHA Systems
Field of Research: Networks And Communications
Thesis Title: Biased Monte Carlo Methods for Efficient Simulation of Communication Systems
Field of Research: Communications Technologies
Thesis Title: Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 Based Wireless Sensor Networks
Field of Research: Networks And Communications
Thesis Title: A Real-Time Implementation of the Primary Auditory Neuron Activities
Field of Research: Engineering And Related Technologies
Thesis Title: Relay and Antenna Selection for Cooperative Communication
Field of Research: Electrical And Electronic Engineering And Technology, N.e.c.
Thesis Title: Resource Allocation in OFDM Based Relay and Cognitive Radio Networks
Field of Research: Communications Technologies
Thesis Title: Wireless Sensor System for Infrastructure Health Monitoring
Field of Research: Electronic Engineering; Programming; Engineering And Related Technologies; Communications Technologies
Thesis Title: Microwave Wireless Power Transmission Techniques with Microstrip Antennas in Human Tissue for Biomedical Applications
Field of Research: Electronic Engineering; Biomedical Engineering
Thesis Title: Decentralised Structural Health Monitoring Using Sensor Networks
Field of Research: Structural Engineering; Algorithms; Communications Technologies
Thesis Title: Advanced Microwave Embedded Sensors for Infrastructure Health Monitoring
Field of Research: Engineering And Related Technologies
Thesis Title: Computational Intelligence for Structural Health Monitoring
Field of Research: Other Engineering And Related Technologies
Thesis Title: Acceptance of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Technologies Among Older Australians: A Review of Barriers in User Experience
Field of Research: Information Technology
Thesis Title: Dielectric Resonator Antennas for Wireless Powering of Sensors Embedded in Civil Structures
Field of Research: Other Engineering And Related Technologies; Electrical And Electronic Engineering And Technology; Civil Engineering

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