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Ackermann ER, De Villiers JP & Cilliers  PJ, “Nonlinear dynamic systems modeling using Gaussian processes: Predicting ionospheric total electron content over South Africa”, Journal of Geophysics on Engineering, Vol. 116, pp. 1-13.

Badenhorst W, Zhang J & Xia X, “Optimal hoist scheduling of a deep level mine twin rock winder system for demand side management”, Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 81, pp. 1088-1095.

Bozanic M & Sinha S, “Switch-Mode Power Amplifier Design Method”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 53, No. 12, Dec 2011, pp. 2724-2728.

Chinnappen-Rimer S & Hancke GP (dr), “Actor coordination using info-gap decision theory in wireless sensor and actor networks”, International Journal of Sensor Networks, Vol. 10, No 4, pp. 177-191.

De Villiers JP, Godsill SJ, Singh SS, “Particle Predictive Control”, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol. 141, No. 5, pp. 1753-1763.

Du Plessis M, Schoeman J, Maclean W & Schutte C, “The Electro-Thermal properties of integrated circuit microbolometers”, South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SA Research Journal), Vol. 102, No. 2, June 201, pp. 40-48.

Du Plessis WP, Odendaal JW & Joubert J, “Experimental Simulation of Retrodirective Cross-Eye Jamming”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 47, No. 1, Jan. 2011, pp. 734-739.

Du Plessis WP, Odendaal JW & Joubert J, “Tolerance Analysis of Cross-Eye Jamming Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 47, No. 1, Jan. 2011, pp. 740-745.

Goosen M & Sinha S, “Reducing data dependent jitter utilising adaptive FIR pre-emphais in 0.18um CMOS”, Microelectronics Journal, Vol. 42, No. 11, Nov. 2011, pp. 1216-1224.

Goosen M, Sinha S &  Müller A, “A Low Switching Time BiCMOS CML Transmitter for High Speed Adaptive Pre-Emphasis Serial Links”, Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology (ROMJIST), Vol. 14, No. 2,  pp. 101-111.

Gungor VC, Sahin D, Kocak T, Ergut S, Bucella C, Cecati C & Hancke GP, “Smart Grid Technologies, Communication Technologies and Standards”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 529-539, Nov. 2011.

Heyns T, Godsill SJ, De Villiers JP, Heyns PS, “Statistical gear health analysis which is robust to fluctuating loads and operating speeds”, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 27, Febr 2011, pp. 651–666.

Jacobs OB, Odendaal JW & Joubert J, “Analysis and design of a wide band omnidirectional antenna”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 1352-1356, June 2011.

Jacobs OB, Odendaal JW and Joubert J, “Elliptically Shaped Quad-Ridge Horn Antennas as Feed for a Reflector”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 10, pp. 756 -759.

Kleynhans W, Olivier JC, Wessels KJ, Salmon BP, Van den Bergh F Steenkamp KC, “Detecting Land Cover Change Using an Extended Kalman Filter on MODIS NDVI Time Series Data”,  IEEE ransactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 8, No. 3, May 2011, pp. 507-511.

Luus FPS & Maharaj BTJ, “Transmission Scheduling for Wireless Mesch Networks with Temporal Re-use”, Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol. 84, Sept. 2011, pp. 1-16.

Malherbe JAG, “Hybrid Superelliptic Horn”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol.53, No. 11, Nov. 2011, pp 2713-2716.

Malherbe JAG, “Pseudo-elliptic bandpass filter with subharmonic stubs”, Electronics Letters, Vol. 47, No. 3, Febr 2011, pp. 196-198.

Malherbe JAG, “Wideband Bandstop filter with Sub-Harmonic Stubs”, Electronics Letters, Vol. 47, No. 10, May 2011, pp. 604-605.

Miao H, Xia X, Perelson AS & Wu H, “On Identifiability of Nonlinear ODE Models and Applications in Viral Dynamics”, SIAM REVIEW, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 3-39, 2011.

Muller CJ, Craig IK & Ricker NL, “Modelling, Validation, and Control of an Industrial Fuel Gas Blending System”, Journal of Process Control, Vol. 21, pp. 852-860.

Olivier, K, Du Plessis M & Cilliers JE, “Design and performance of wideband DRFM for radar test and evaluation”, Electronics Letters, Vol 47, No 14, July 2011, pp. 824-825.

Salmon BP, Olivier JC, Wessels KJ, Van den Bergh F, Kleynhans W & Steenkamp KC, “The use of a Multilayer Perceptron for detecting new human settlements from a time series of MODIS images”, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Vol. 13, No. 2, Dec. 2011, pp 873-883.

Strydom T & Hanekom JJ, “An analysis of the effects of electrical field interaction with an acoustic model of cochlear implants”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 129, No. 4, pp. 2213-2226, 2011.

Strydom T & Hanekom JJ, “The performance of different synthesis signals inacoustic models of cochlear implants”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 129, No. 2, Febr. 2011, pp. 920-933.

Van der Linde E & Hancke GP, “An investigation of Bluetooth mergence with Ultra Wideband”, Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 9, No. 5, July 2011, pp. 852-863.

Van Staden AJ, Zhang J & Xia X, “A model predictive control strategy for load shifting in a water pumping scheme with maximum demand charges”, Applied Energy, Vol. 88. pp. 4785-4794.

Weststrate M & Sinha S, “Wideband Low-Noise Amplifier Design Using the LC-Ladder and Capacitive Shunt-Shunt Feedback Topology”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 53, No. 12, Dec. 2011, pp. 2922-2931.

Xia X & Zhang S,  “Modelling and Control of Heavy-Haul Trains”, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Aug. 2011, pp. 18-31.

Xia X, Zhang J & Elaiw A, “An application of model predictive control to the dynamic economic dispatch of power generation”, Control Engineering Practice, Vol 19, pp. 638 -648. 

Zhang J & Xia X, “A model predictive control approach to the periodic implementation of the solutions of the optimal dynamic resource allocation problem”, Automatica, Vol. 47, pp. 358-362.

Zhang J & Xia X, “Modelling and energy efficiency optimization of belt conveyors”, Applied Energy, Vol. 88, pp. 3061-3071.

Zhi S,  Akyildiz IF & Hancke GP, “Dynamic Connectivity in Wireless Underground Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 12,  December 2011, pp. 4334 – 4344.

Zhi S, Akyildiz IF & Hancke GP, “Capacity and Outage Analysis of MIMO and Cooperative Communication Systems in Underground Tunnels”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 10, Issue 11,  November 2011, pp. 3793 – 3803.

Conferences

Abu-Mahfouz AMI, Hancke GP: 2011. ns-2 Extension to Simulate Localization Systems in Wireless Sensor Networks. In IEEE Africon 2011, (n), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Ackermann ER, Grobler TL, van Zyl AJ, Steenkamp KC, Olivier JC: 2011. Minimum error land cover separability analysis and classification of MODIS time series data. In 2011 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, (6), IEEE, pp 2999-3002.

Ackermann ER, Grobler TL, van Zyl AJ, Olivier JC: 2011. Belief Propagation for Nonlinear Block Codes. In IEEE Africon 2011, (h), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Laurent E, Olivier LE, Craig IK, Chen YQ: 2011. Fractional Order Disturbance Observer for a Run-of-Mine Ore Milling Circuit. In IEEE Africon 2011, (k), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Bhana VB, Lambrechts JW, Sinha S: 2011. The Design of a 5 GHz VCO with Phase Noise Performance Analysis using MOSFET-Based Current Sources. In CAS 2011 Proceedings: Inernational Semiconductor Conference, (1), IEEE, pp 335-338.

Barnes SD, Maharaj BTJ: 2011. Performance of a Hidden Markov Channel Occupancy Model for Cognitive Radio. In IEEE Africon 2011, (p), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Beyers HQ, Olivier MS, Hancke GP: 2011. Assembling Metadata for Database Forensics. In Advances in Digital Forensics VII, (1), Springer, pp 89-99.

Bogalecki AW, du Plessis M, Venter PJ, Janse van Rensburg C: 2011. Spectral Measurement and Analysis of Silicon CMOS Light Sources. In SMEOS 2011: Sensors, MEMS and Electro-optic Systems, (1), IEEE, pp 31-36.

Botha PR, Maharaj BTJ: 2011. Turbo STFC decoding with the Zero Forcing Decoder. In IEEE Africon 2011, (r), IEEE, pp 1-5 CD.

Botha MI, Grobler H: 2011. A Simulation Framework for Evaluating the Behaviour of a Modular Automated Main Distribution Frame using OMNET++. In Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2011, (b), Telkom, pp 1-6 CD.

Botha PR, Maharaj BTJ: 2011. Log domain Turbo STFC decoding with Zero Forcing and MMSE Decoders. In Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2011, (e), Telkom, pp 1-5 CD.

Chiwewe TM, Hancke GP: 2011. SBYaoGG: Distributed Energy Efficient Topology Control with Low Interference. In Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2011, (g), Telkom, pp 1-4 CD

Dandekar K, Sinha S, Ampofo-Anti N-A: 2011. IEEE-Based Implementation of Engineering Projects in Community Service. In IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), (2), IEEE Computer Society - CPS, pp 481-486.

Dhuness K, Maharaj BTJ: 2011. A cognitive radio application of OM-OFDM for implementation in DVB-T2. In IEEE Africon 2011, (a), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Dlamini V, Naidoo RM, Manyage M: 2011. A Non-Intrusive Compensated Slip Method for Motor Efficiency Estimation using Vibration Signature Analysis. In IEEE Africon 2011, (c), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Ekpenyong UE, Zhang J, Xia X: 2011. A Model Predictive Control Approach to Generator Maintenance Scheduling. In ICAE 2011 International Conference on Applied Energy, (1) / 16-18 May, ICAE, pp 2437-2448

Focke RW, Wabeke LO, de Villiers JP, Inggs MR: 2011. Implementing Interval Algebra to Schedule Mechanically Scanned Multistatic Radars. In 14th International Conference on Information Fusion, (1), IEEE, pp 1-7.

Foty D, Smith B, Sinha S, Schroter M: 2011. The Wireless Bandwidth Crisis and the Need for Power-Efficient Bandwith. In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits, and Systems (ISSCS), (1), IEEE, pp 275-279.

Goosen M, Venter PJ, du Plessis M, Nell IJ, Bogalecki AW, Rademeyer P: 2011. High Speed CMOS Optical Communication Using Silicon Light Emitters. In Proceedings of SPIE: Optoelectronic Interconnects and Component Integration X1, (1), SPIE, pp 1-8

Goosen M, du Plessis M, Venter PJ, Bogalecki AW, Alberts AC, Rademeyer P: 2011. CMOS Avalanche Electroluminescene Applications – Microdisplay and High Speed Data Communication. In SMEOS 2011: Sensors, MEMS and Electro-optic Systems, (3), IEEE, pp 63-67.

Gitau MN: 2011. High Efficiency Multilevel Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters for interfacing DC-Buses with Separate Ground. InIECON - ICELIE 2011 37th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, (1), IEEE, pp 4268-4273.

Grobler TL, Ackermann ER, Olivier JC, van Zyl AJ: 2011. Systematic Luby Transform Codes as Incremental Redundancy Scheme. InIEEE Africon 2011, (q), IEEE, pp 1-5 CD.

Isaac SJ, Hancke GP, Madhoo H, Khatri A: 2011. A Survey of Wireless Sensor Network Applications From a Power Utility's Distribution Perspective. In IEEE Africon 2011, (e), IEEE, pp 1-5 CD.

Kleynhans W, Salmon BP, Olivier JC, Wessels KJ, Van den Bergh F: 2011. A Comparison of Feature Extraction Methods Within a Spatio-Temporal Land Cover Change Detection Framework. In 2011 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, (2), IEEE, pp 688-691.

Kleynhans W, Salmon BP, Olivier JC, Wessels KJ, Van den Bergh F: 2011. An Autocorrelation Analysis Approach to Detecting Land Cover Change Using Hyper-Temporal Time-Series Data. In 2011 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, (1), IEEE, pp 94-97.

Le Roux JD, Craig IK: 2011. Identifiability of run-of-mine ore grinding mill circuit parameters. In IEEE Africon 2011, (l), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Luus FPS, Maharaj BTJ: 2011. Joint Source Channel Network Coding for Bidrectional Wireless Relays. In IEEE ICASSP International Conference on Acoustics, Speechs and Signal Processing, (1), IEEE, pp CD3156-3159.

Maclean W, du Plessis M, Schoeman J: 2011. Optimisation of CMOS Compatible Microbolometer Device Performance. In SMEOS 2011: Sensors, MEMS and Electro-optic Systems, (4), IEEE, pp 68-71.

Merensky AM, Van Wyk JH, Linde LP: 2011. A Multi-levelled OFDM-CDMA Modem Using Complete Complementary Codes. In Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2011, (a), Telkom, pp 1-5 CD.

Myburgh HC, Olivier JC, Mathieu R, Wessels K, Leblon B, Asner G, Buckley J: 2011. SAR-To-LIDAR Mapping for Tree Volume Prediction in the Kruger National Park. In 2011 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, (4), IEEE, pp 1934-1937.

Oppermann CA, Hancke GP: 2011. Using NFC-enabled Phones for Remote Data Acquisition and Digital Control. In IEEE Africon 2011, (s), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Xia X, Zhang J: 2011. Mathematical description of the performance measurement and verification. In IEEE Africon 2011, (m), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Oppermann CA, Hancke GP: 2011. A Generic NFC-enabled Measurement System for Remote Monitoring and Control of Client-side Equipment. In Third International Workshop on Near Field Communication NFC 2011, (1), IEEE, pp 44-49.

Oyedokun D, Ampofo-Anti N-A, Sinha S: 2011. Hybrid Renewable Energy Used to Power Computer Laboratory: A Project by University of Cape Town IEEE Student Branch. In IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), (1), IEEE Computer Society - CPS, pp 131-136.

Salmon BP, Kleynhans W, Van den Bergh F, Olivier JC, Marais WJ, Wessels KJ: 2011. Meta-Optimization of the Extended Kalman Filter's Parameters for Improved Feature Extraction on Hyper-Temporal Images. In 2011 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, (5), IEEE, pp 2543-2546.

Schoeman J, du Plessis M: 2011. Characterisation of the Electrical Response of a Novel Dual Element Thermistor for Low Frequency Applications. In SMEOS 2011: Sensors, MEMS and Electro-optic Systems, (2), IEEE, pp 58-62.

Steyn LP, Hancke GP: 2011. A Survey of Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds. In IEEE Africon 2011, (f), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Thomas R & Maharaj BT, “Multiband Time-of-Arrival positioning technique for Cognitive radio systems”, IEEE PIMRC Conference, 11-13 September 2011, Canada.

Venter CJ, Grobler H, AlMalki KA: 2011. Implementation of the CA-CFAR Algorithm for Pulsed-Doppler Radar on a GPU Architecture. In2011 IEEE Jordan Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Computing Technologies (AEECT), (1), IEEE, pp 1-6

Venter J, Sinha S: 2011. Pixel Circuit Optimization for Imaging Applications Using Integrated Circuit Technologies. In The International IEEE Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronic Systems (COMCAS) 2011, (1), IEEE, pp 1-5.

Venter PJ, Bogalecki AW, du Plessis M, Goosen M, Nell IJ, Rademeyer P: 2011. CMOS dot matrix microdisplay. In Proceedings of SPIE: Advances in Display Technologies, and E-papers and Flexible Displays, (1), SPIE, pp 7956B-33.

Wang N, Zhang J, Xia X: 2011. Energy Consumption of Air Conditioners at Different Temperature Set Points. In IEEE Africon 2011, (j), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Yu H, Xia X, Zhang T: 2011. A less conservative method for average consensus with multiple time-varying delays. In IEEE Africon 2011, (b), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Ye X, Xia X, Zhang J, Chen YQ: 2011. Characterising Long Memories in Electric Water Heater Power Consumption Time Series. In IEEE Africon 2011, (i), IEEE, pp 1-6 CD.

Zhang S, Yang F, Maharaj BTJ: 2011. On Joint Iterative Decoding for LDPC-Coded Relay Cooperative System. In IEEE Africon 2011, (o), IEEE, pp 1-5 CD.