Michael Pursley
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
303 Engineering Innovation Bldg.
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634
Email: pursley@eng.clemson.edu
Phone: (864) 656-1528
Fax: (864) 656-7220

Professional preparation:
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1974, Electrical Engineering

M.S., Purdue University, 1968, Electrical Engineering

B.S. with highest distinction, Purdue University, 1967, Electrical Engineering

1992 ff. Holcombe Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University

1985 Visiting Professor, UCLA, and Visiting Faculty, California Institute of Technology

1980 - 1993 Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois

1980 - 1981 Associate, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois

1977 - 1980 Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois

1974 - 1977 Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois

• Acting Assistant Professor, Systems Science Department, UCLA

1968 - 1974 Staff Engineer, Hughes Aircraft Co., Los Angeles

Some Relevant Publications:
J. H. Gass, Jr., M. B. Pursley, H. B. Russell, and J. S. Wysocarski."An adaptive-transmission protocol for frequency-hop wireless communication networks," Wireless Networks , vol. 7, pp. 487-495, September 2001.

M. B. Pursley and C. S. Wilkins, "Adaptive transmission for direct-sequence spread-spectrum communications over multipath channels," International Journal of Wireless Information Networks , vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 69-77, April 2000.

M. B. Pursley and J. M. Shea, "Adaptive nonuniform phase-shift-key modulation for multimedia traffic in wireless networks," I EEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1394-1407, August 2000.

M. B. Pursley, H. B. Russell, and P. E. Staples "Routing for multimedia traffic in wireless frequency-hop communication networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 784-792, May 1999.

M. B. Pursley and H. B. Russell, "Network protocols for frequency-hop packet radios with decoder side information" IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , vol. 12, pp. 612-621, May 1994.

M. B. Pursley, Random Processes in Linear Systems , Prentice-Hall, 2002.

M. B. Pursley and C. S. Wilkins, "Adaptive-rate coding for frequency-hop communications over Rayleigh fading channels," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 1224-1232, July 1999.

M. B. Pursley, "The role of spread spectrum in packet radio networks," (Invited Paper), Proceedings of the IEEE , vol. 75, pp. 116-134, January 1987.

M. B. Pursley, "Frequency-hop transmission for satellite packet switching and terrestrial packet radio networks," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory , vol. IT-32, pp. 652-667, September 1986.

D. V. Sarwate and M. B. Pursley, "Crosscorrelation properties of pseudorandom and related sequences," (Invited Paper), Proceedings of the IEEE , vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 593-619, May 1980.

Synergistic Activites:
President, IEEE Information Theory Group, 1983

Member, Editorial Board, Proceedings of the IEEE , 1984 - 91

Senior Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , 1998 ff.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks , 1992 ff.

Guest Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , Special Issue on Ad Hoc Networks, August 1999

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