Prof. Michael Rice won the "Best Paper" award at the 2007 International Telemetering Conference held in October in Las Vegas, NV. The paper, "Differential Encoding Revealed: An Explanation of the Tier-1 Differential Encoding in IRIG 106," derives the differential encoding and decoding equations published in Appendix M of the IRIG 106 standard.

Xiaoyu Dang won first place in the graduate category of the student paper contest at the 2007 International Telemetering Conference held in October in Las Vegas, NV, for the paper "An Optimum Dtector for Space-Time Trellis coded Differential MSK." The paper describes the application of waveform orthogonalization in a multi-antenna system that both reduces the complexity of OQPSK (MSK is the example) and improves performance.

Tom Nelson won second place in the graduate category of the student paper contest at the 2006 International Telemetering Conference held in October in San Deigo, CA, for the paper "Reduced Complexity Trellis Detection of SOQPSK-TG." The paper describes a low-complexity technique for SOQPSK detection. The detector reduces the complexity of the maximum likelihood detector by a factor of 128 with a performance loss of only 0.2 dB.

Mason Wardle won second place in the graduate category of the student paper contest at the International Telemetering Conference held in October in Las Vegas, NV, for the paper "EFTS Receiver With Improved Performance." The paper describes a low-complexity technique for coherent detection of the modulation used in the Enhanced Flight Termination Systems.

Prof. Michael Rice and PhD students Tom Nelson and Erik Perrins won the "Best Paper" award at the 2005 International Telemetering Conference held in October in Las Vegas, NV. The paper, "Common Detectors for Tier 1 Modulations," describes methods for acheiving near optimal detector performance for the three modulations defined as interoperable waveforms in the ARTM Tier-1 standards in aeronautical telemetry. The novelty of the approach is that the demodulator does not have to "know" which waveform is used by the transmitter.

Dr. Jensen and Dr. Rice were awarded nearly $1 million in grant money to improve air-to-ground communications during Air Force flight tests. Also reported in BYU News and Deseret News. Photo courtesy of Air Combat Command.

Michael Jensen, Michael Rice, Tom Nelson, and Adam Anderson coauthored a paper which was presented October 20, 2004 at the International Telemetering Conference in San Diego, California. Their winning paper described the use of space-time coding to overcome self-interference created the use of dual transmit antennas in aeronautical telemetry.

Erik Perrins won first place in the graduate student category of the student paper contest at the International Telemetering Conference. His paper describes a modification to an existing standard in aeronautical telemetry that increases the detection efficiency. Dr. Michael Rice is Erik's advisor.