Selected Publications:

Mark R. Bell and Robert A. Grubbs, “JEM Modeling and Measurement for Radar Target Identification,”IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems; vol. 29, no. 1, January 1993, pp. 73–87.

Mark R. Bell, “Information Theory and Radar Waveform Design, ”IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 39, no. 5, September 1993, pp. 1578–1597.

Mark R. Bell, “On the Commutativity of Discrete Memoryless Channels in Cascade,” Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 330, no. 6, November 1993, pp. 1101–1111.

Jihad S. Daba and Mark R. Bell, “Optimal Object Discrimination and Orientation Determination in Speckled Images,” Optical Engineering; vol. 33, no. 4, April 1994, pp. 1287–1302.

Aaron B. Kiely, John T. Coffey and Mark R. Bell, “Optimal Information Bit Decoding of Linear Block Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory; vol. 41, no. 1, January 1995, pp. 130–140.

Jihad S. Daba and Mark R. Bell, “Statistics of the Scattering Cross-Section of a Small Number of Random Scatterers,” IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation; vol. 43, no. 8, August 1995, pp. 773–783.

Robert M. Cramblitt and Mark R. Bell, “Surface Characterization Using Frequency Diverse Measurements and Regularity Models,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 44, no. 3, March 1996, pp. 599–610,.

Mark R. Bell, “Contiguous Pulse Binary Integration Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems; vol. 32, no. 3, July 1996, pp. 923–933.

Jiann-Ching Guey and Mark R. Bell, “Diversity Waveform Sets for Delay-Doppler Imaging,’’ IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 44, no. 4, July 1998, pp. 1504–1522.

Robert M. Cramblitt and Mark R. Bell, “Marked Regularity Models,” IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferromagnetics, and Frequency Control; vol. 46, no. 1, January 1999, pp. 24–34.

Jiann-Ching Guey, Michael P. Fitz, Mark R. Bell and W.-Y. Kuo, “Signal Design for Transmitter Diversity Wireless Communication Systems Over Rayleigh Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 47, no. 4, April 1999, pp. 527–537.

Shu-Ming Tseng and Mark R. Bell, “Asynchronous Multicarrier DS CDMA Using Mutually Orthogonal Complementary Sets of Sequences,”IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 48, no. 1, January 2000, pp. 53–59.

Mark R. Bell and Shu-Ming Tseng, “Capacity of the low-photon-rate direct-detection optical pulse-position modulation channel in the presence of noise photons,” Applied Optics: Information Processing, special issue on Information Theory and Optoelectronics, vol. 39, no.11, April 2000, pp. 1776–1782. (pdf file)

Mark R. Bell and Stephane Monrocq,”Diversity Waveform Signal Processing for Delay-Doppler Measurement and Imaging,” (invited journal paper), Digital Signal Processing (special issue on defense applications), vol. 12, no. 2/3. April/July 2002, pp. 329–346.

Paul. D. Walker and M. R. Bell, "Synthetic Aperture Imaging through Non-planar Boundaries with Ultrawideband Ground Penetrating Radar: Theory and Experiments, " IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 40, no. 10, October 2002. pp. 2213–2223.

Jihad S. Daba and Mark R. Bell, “SAR Surface Reflectivity Estimation Using a Marked Point Process Speckle Model,” Optical Engineering, vol. 42, no. 1, January 2003, pp. 211–227.

Shu-Ming Tseng, Yibin Zheng and Mark R. Bell, “An Optical Error Control Code with Spectrum Domain Decoding,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, no. 5, May 2003, pp.795–799.

Dong Sik Kim and Mark R. Bell, “Upper Bounds on Empirically Optimal Vector Quantizers,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 49, no. 4, April 2003, pp. 1037–1046.

Chieh-Fu Chang and Mark R. Bell, “Frequency-coded Waveforms for Enhanced Delay-Doppler Resolution,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 49, no. 11, November 2003, pp. 2960–2971.

Chieh-Fu Chang and Mark R. Bell, “Image Residue Approach to Masked Target Detection and Estimation,”IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 8, part 2, August 2005, pp. 2975–2983.

Chieh-Fu Chang and Mark R. Bell, “Frequency Division Multiplexing Technique for Composite Ambiguity Function Approximation,”(invited journal paper) Digital Signal Processing, vol. 16, no.5, September 2006, pp. 488–497.

Animesh Khemka, Charles A. Bouman and Mark R. Bell, “Inverse Problems in Atmospheric Dispersion with Randomly Scattered Sensors,” Digital Signal Processing, vol.16, no. 5, September 2006, pp .638–651.

Shu-Ming Tseng and Mark R. Bell, “Joint Synchronization and Decoding for Photon-limited Optical Channels: Code Design and Complexity Reduction, ”IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 55, no. 7, July 2007, pp. 1318–1324.

Santosh Nagaraj and Mark R. Bell, “Concatenated Trellis Coded Modulation for Quasi-Static Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 9, Sept. 2007, pp. 3220–3228.

Srinivas Vanjari. James V. Krogmeier and Mark R. Bell, “Transmission of Information from Large Sensor Networks Using SAR and Modulated Harmonic Reradiation,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 43, no. 4, October 2007, pp.1426–1440.

Jay S. Daba and Mark R. Bell, “Segmentation of Speckled Images Using a Likelihood Random Field Model,”Optical Engineering, vol. 47, no. 1, Jan. 2008, pp. 017005-1— 017005-20.

Santosh Nagaraj and Mark R. Bell, “Coding techniques for link adaptation in multicarrier systems,” IET Communications, vol. 2, no. 7, July 2008, pp. 895–902.

Santosh Nagaraj and Mark R. Bell, “Trellis Coded modulation based distributed channel coding,” IET Communications, vol. 3, no. 7, July 2009, pp. 1077–1080.

Shahzada B. Rasool and Mark R. Bell, “Biologically Inspired Processing of Radar Waveforms for Enhanced Delay-Doppler Resolution,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 6, June 2011, pp. 2698–2709.

Phillip Top, Mark R. Bell, Edward C. Coyle and Oleg Wasynczuk, "Observing the Power Grid: Working Toward a More Intelligent, Efficient, and Reliable Smart Grid with Increasing User Visibility," Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE , vol. 29, no. 5, Sept. 2012, pp.24–32.

Jeong Hun Kim and Mark R. Bell, “Computationally-Efficient CFAR for Piecewise-Homogeneous Environments Using Goodness-of-Fit Tests” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 39, no. 3, July 2013, pp. 1519–1535.

Santosh. V. Nagaraj and Mark R. Bell, “Multiscale unit-memory convolutional codes,” IET Communications, vol 7, no. 11, July 2013, pp. 1043–1050.

Uttam Majumder, Mark R. Bell and Muralidhar Rangaswmay, “Design and Analysis of Radar Waveforms Achieving Transmit and Receive Orthogonality,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 52, no. 3, July 2016, pp. 1056–1066.

Salman Bashir and Mark R. Bell, “Optical Beam Position Estimation in Free- Space Optical Communication, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 52, no. 6, December 2016, pp. 2896–2905.

Salman Bashir and Mark R. Bell, “Optical Beam Position Tracking in Free-Space Optical Communication Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 54, no. 2, pp.520–536, Feb. 2018.

David Zilz and Mark R. Bell, “Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Interference and its Effects on Radar Detection,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 54, no.2, pp. 890–911, Feb. 2018.

David P. Zilz and Mark R. Bell, “Optimal Linear Detection of Signals in Cyclostationary, Linearly-Modulated, Digital-Communications Interference,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (Special Issue on Coexistence of Radar and Wireless Communication Systems), vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 1123–1145, June 2019.

Salman Bashir and Mark R. Bell, “The Impact of Optical Beam Position Estimation on the Probability of Error in Free-Space Optical Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 55, no. 3, pp.1319– 1333, June 2019.

Wei-Kang Hsu, Jaiming Xu, Xiaojun Lin and Mark R. Bell, “Integrated Online Learning and Adaptive Control in Queueing Systems with Uncertain Payoffs,” Operations Research; vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 1166-1181, February 2022. (published online March 9, 2021)

Arthur Terlep, Mark R. Bell, Thomas Talavage and Douglas Smith, “Euclidean Distance Approximations from Replacement Product Graphs,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Nov. 7, 2021; published online on IEEE Xplore on Nov. 22, 2021.