Rodney Kendall

Radio Modem Engineer

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Science Area

  • Communications and Signal Processing

Biography

2000 Joined CSIRO where I participated in various projects like the ATCRC scanner and MIMO testbed design. Chairman's medal for the Gigabit wireless modem design which culminated in the successful demonstration of multiple parallel TV broadcast over the channel.
Currently involved with the Ngara project.

1995-2000 worked with ADI Ltd. on both analogue (AMPS) and digital communication (APCO) systems.

1993-1995 worked in Singapore, UK and Netherlands on analogue mobile telephone design


Academic Qualifications

2000 Master of Engineering University of Technology, Sydney
1976 Bachelor of Science University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Recent Professional Experience

2007- Adaptive wireless design (MIMO)
2005-2006 CSIRO Marsfield, Gigabit Wireless (RX, TX modem, Video packets over modem demonstration)
2003-2004 CSIRO Marsfield, MIMO testbed (HW platform, SDRAM controller)
2001-2002 CSIRO Marsfield, ATCRC scanner
2000-2001 CSIRO Marsfield, Universal modem design
1997-2000 ADI Ltd. N. Ryde, APCO basestation design
1995-1996 ADI Ltd. N. Ryde, AMPS terminal design

Achievements & Awards

2007 CSIRO Chairman's Medal, Gigabit Wireless
2007 CSIRO Look-Out!!! Award, Adaptive Wireless
2006 CSIRO Look-Out!!! Award for the successful development of the world's first multi-gigabit communications technology.

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
Rod Kendall, Robin Braun, Digital Communication Filter Design by Stochastic Optimization, Wars 2002
David Abbott, John Bunton, Val Dyadyuk, Rodney Kendall, Channel Multiplexing in the Gigabit Modem, ICTCC 2005
1) Sevimli O., Dyadyuk V., Abbott D., Bunton J., Kendall R., Stokes L., Shen M., Smith S. “Multi-Gigabit Wireless Link Development”. 1st International Conference on Wireless Broadband and Ultra Broadband Communications (AusWireless'06), Mar. 13-16 2006,
2) Sevimli, O.; Dyadyuk, V.; Abbott, D.; Stokes, L.; Smith, S. L; Archer, J. W.; Shen, M.; Kendall, R., and Tello, J. “Multi-gigabit wireless test bed at millimetre waves”. IEEE/ACES International Conference on Wireless Communications and Applied Computat