Alan Smith

Sergey V. Zhidkov

R&D Director

Personal Profile

Currently, I'm an R&D Director at Cifrasoft Ltd., working on audio watermarking, audio/video classification, and wireless communication applications.

Publications

  • S. V. Zhidkov and Rui Dinis, “Belief Propagation Receivers for Near-Optimal Detection of Nonlinearly Distorted OFDM Signals,” 2019 IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Spring), 2019 preprint

  • S. V. Zhidkov, "Statistical Characterization and Modeling of Noise Effects in Near-Ultrasound Aerial Acoustic Communications," The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144(4):2605-2612, October 2018 download

  • S. Zhidkov, A. Sychev, A. Zhidkov, A. Petrov, "On Smartphone Power Consumption in Acoustic Environment Monitoring Applications," Appl. Syst. Innov. 2018, 1, 8. download

  • S. V. Zhidkov, "Orthogonal transform multiplexing with memoryless nonlinearity: a possible alternative to traditional coded-modulation schemes,“ in Proc. 9th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems (ICUMT-2017), Munich, Germany, November, 2017, arXiv:1703.03141 [cs.IT]

  • S. V. Zhidkov, "Detection of nonlinearly distorted OFDM signals via generalized approximate message passing," in Proc. 12th International Forum on Strategic Technology (IFOST-2017), Ulsan, South Korea, 2017, arXiv:1703.01562 [cs.IT]

  • S. V. Zhidkov, "Joint Channel Estimation and Nonlinear Distortion Compensation in OFDM Receivers," submitted for possible publication, 2016, arXiv:1612.09222 [cs.IT], presentation, source code

  • G. Liu, S. V. Zhidkov, H. Li, L. Zeng, Z. Wang, "Low-Complexity Iterative Equalization for Symbol-Reconstruction-Based OFDM Receivers Over Doubly Selective Channels", IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting, Vol. 58, Issue 3, 2012, pp. 390-400, IEEExplore

  • D. H. Kang, S. Zhidkov, H.J. Choi, “A practical noise mitigation scheme for DVB-T/H system using delay spread estimation,” IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics, Vol. 56, No.1, Feb. 2010, pp. 9-17, IEEExplore

  • D. H. Kang, S. V. Zhidkov, H.J. Choi, "An adaptive detection and suppression of co-channel interference in DVB-T/H system," IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 56, No. 3, June 2010, pp. 1320 - 1327, IEEExplore

  • G. Liu, S. V. Zhidkov, “A Composite PN-Correlation Based Synchronizer for TDS-OFDM Receiver,” IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Vol. 56, No. 1, Mar. 2010, pp. 77-85, IEEExplore

  • S. V. Zhidkov, "Analysis and comparison of several simple impulsive noise mitigation schemes for OFDM receivers," IEEE Trans. Communications, Vol. 56, No. 1, Jan. 2008, pp. 5-9, pdf

  • S. V. Zhidkov, “Performance analysis and optimization of OFDM receiver with blanking nonlinearity in impulsive noise environment,” IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, Vol. 55, No. 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 234-242, pdf

  • S. V. Zhidkov, "Detection of clipped code-division multiplexed signals," Electronics Letters, Vol. 41, No. 25, Dec. 2005, pp. 1383-1384, pdf

  • S. V. Zhidkov, “Performance analysis of multicarrier systems in the presence of smooth nonlinearity,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, No. 2, Dec. 2004, pp. 335-343, download

  • S. V. Zhidkov, "Impulsive noise suppression in OFDM-based communication systems," IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics, Vol. 49, No.4, pp. 944-948, Nov. 2003, pdf

Patents

Skills

  • Matlab/Octave
  • C/C++
  • Python

Education

Stanford University (2007)

Graduate Certificate

Management Science and Engineering

Izhevsk State Technical University (2001)

Kandidat Nauk (Ph.D. Tech.)

Computational and Mathematical Engineering

Izhevsk State Technical University (1997)

Dipl.-Eng.

Radio Engineering