EE4004 Telecommunications (http://www.ucc.ie/modules/descriptions/page018.html#EE4004)
EE4016 Transmission Lines (http://www.ucc.ie/modules/descriptions/page018.html#EE4016)
EE6105 Wireless Communications (http://www.ucc.ie/modules/descriptions/page018.html#EE6105)
Biography
Having received the Gold Medal for academic excellence in the B.E. examinations of 1989, Colin graduated with an M.Eng.Sc. (in the area of modelling of microwave transformers) in 1991. Having worked in various engineering research and teaching roles, in July of 1997, he was appointed as a College Lecturer in Digital Communications in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UCC, a post he holds to date. Colin received his Ph.D. (in the area of wavelet packet modulation analysis) in December of 2006. Current research interests encompass signal processing for cooperative and non-cooperative cognitive radios, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) weak signal acquisition and tracking for location service applications, bit error rate estimation techniques and wavelet packet modulation.
Research Interests
Digital Communications (coding/modulation/detection)Research Grants
| Project | Funding Body | Start Date | End Date | Award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRCSET PG Optimised Spectrum Sensing/Orthogonal.... Student Brendan Lawton | Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) | 01-OCT-08 | 30-SEP-12 | €72,009.00 | |
| IRCSET "Hybrid Weak signal Galileo/GPS Location Acquisition Algorithm" | Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) | 01-OCT-06 | 30-SEP-09 | €72,009.00 | |
| IRCSET "Hybrid weak signal Galileo/GPS Location Tracking" | Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) | 01-OCT-06 | 30-SEP-09 | €72,009.00 | |
| [IRCSET RS/2002/95] {Murphy Dr. C} N | Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) | 01-OCT-03 | 31-MAR-07 | €71,009.00 | |
| EI 'All or Nothing Transforms as a Differential Power Analysis Countermeasure' | Enterprise Irl | 01-MAY-08 | 30-APR-09 | €82,869.00 | |
| FPGA-Optimised "All-or-Nothing" Transforms | Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) | 01-OCT-04 | 31-MAR-08 | €75,962.00 | |
| IRCSET PG Student Donagh Horgan - Optimised Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radios | Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology (IRCSET) | 31-DEC-08 | 30-DEC-12 | €72,009.00 | |
| [E.I. IP/2001/007] {Murphy Dr. C.} V | Enterprise Irl | 01-OCT-01 | 21-DEC-05 | €65,614.00 |
Publications
Book Chapters
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (1999) | 'FPGA Design Trade-Offs for Solving the Key Equation in Reed-Solomon Decoding' Popovici E., Fitzpatrick P., Murphy C. C.; (1999) 'FPGA Design Trade-Offs for Solving the Key Equation in Reed-Solomon Decoding' In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1673. [Details] | |
| (1994) | 'Selecting a Workflow Vendor [B592]' Murphy, C.C.; (1994) 'Selecting a Workflow Vendor [B592]' In: Business Process Re-Engineering Report 1994. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2014) | 'All-or-Nothing Transforms as a countermeasure to differential side-channel analysis' McEvoy, RP,Tunstall, M,Whelan, C,Murphy, CC,Marnane, WP (2014) 'All-or-Nothing Transforms as a countermeasure to differential side-channel analysis'. International Journal of Information Security, 13 (3):291-304 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2013) | 'Fast and Accurate Approximations for the Analysis of Energy Detection in Nakagami-m Channels' Horgan, D.; Murphy C. C. (2013) 'Fast and Accurate Approximations for the Analysis of Energy Detection in Nakagami-m Channels'. IEEE Communications Letters, 17 (1):83-86 [DOI] [CORA Link] [Details] | |
| (2013) | 'On the Convergence of the Chi Square and Noncentral Chi Square Distributions to the Normal Distribution' Horgan, D.; Murphy C. C. (2013) 'On the Convergence of the Chi Square and Noncentral Chi Square Distributions to the Normal Distribution'. IEEE Communications Letters, 17 (12):2233-2236 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2012) | 'An SNR Dependent Model for the CDMA FLL' Curran, J.T., G. Lachapelle and C.C. Murphy (2012) 'An SNR Dependent Model for the CDMA FLL'. IEEE Transactions On Signal Processing, 60 (3):1522-1527 [Details] | |
| (2012) | 'Constrained Optimization of Coincidence Detector Parameters for GPS Acquisition' O'Mahony, N,Murphy, CC (2012) 'Constrained Optimization of Coincidence Detector Parameters for GPS Acquisition'. IEEE Transactions On Communications, 60 :176-188 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2012) | 'Improving the Design of Frequency Lock Loops for GNSS Receivers' Curran, JT,Lachapelle, G,Murphy, CC (2012) 'Improving the Design of Frequency Lock Loops for GNSS Receivers'. Ieee Transactions On Aerospace And Electronic Systems, 48 :850-868 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2012) | 'Digital GNSS PLL Design Conditioned on Thermal and Oscillator Phase Noise (vol 48, pg 180, 2012)' Curran, JT,Lachapelle, G,Murphy, CC (2012) 'Digital GNSS PLL Design Conditioned on Thermal and Oscillator Phase Noise (vol 48, pg 180, 2012)'. Ieee Transactions On Aerospace And Electronic Systems, 48 (1):180-196 [Details] | |
| (2012) | 'A Gram-Charlier Series Method for Calculating General Signal Constellation Error Probabilities' Murphy, DD,Murphy, CC (2012) 'A Gram-Charlier Series Method for Calculating General Signal Constellation Error Probabilities'. IEEE Transactions On Communications, 60 :300-305 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2011) | 'A dual-threshold up-down counter for GPS acquisition' O'Mahony, N,Murphy, CC,Lachapelle, G; (2011) 'A dual-threshold up-down counter for GPS acquisition'. Signal Processing, 91 :1093-1102 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2010) | 'Reducing Front-End Bandwidth May Improve Digital GNSS Receiver Performance' Curran, JT; Borio, D; Lachapelle, G; Murphy, CC; (2010) 'Reducing Front-End Bandwidth May Improve Digital GNSS Receiver Performance'. IEEE Transactions On Signal Processing, 58 :2399-2404 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'A Simplified Expression For The Probability of Error For Binary Multichannel Communications' O'Driscoll, C, Murphy, CC; (2009) 'A Simplified Expression For The Probability of Error For Binary Multichannel Communications'. IEEE Transactions On Communications, 57 (1):32-35 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'Isolated WDDL: A Hiding Countermeasure for Differential Power Analysis on FPGAs' McEvoy R.P., Tunstall M., Murphy C.C., Marnane W.P., (2009) 'Isolated WDDL: A Hiding Countermeasure for Differential Power Analysis on FPGAs'. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, 2 (1) [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2007) | 'A Reconfigurable Processor for the Cryptographic Pairing in Characteristic 3' R. Ronan, C. Murphy, T. Kerins, C. O hEigeartaigh, P. Barreto; (2007) 'A Reconfigurable Processor for the Cryptographic Pairing in Characteristic 3'. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology, :11-16 [Details] | |
| (2007) | 'A Flexible Processor for the Characteristic 3 Pairing' R. Ronan, C. Murphy, T. Kerins, C. O hEigeartaigh, P. Barreto; (2007) 'A Flexible Processor for the Characteristic 3 Pairing'. International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture, 1 (2):79-88 [Details] | |
| (2007) | 'Hardware Architectures for the Tate Pairing over GF(2m)' M. Keller, Robert Ronan, W.P. Marnane and Colin Murphy; (2007) 'Hardware Architectures for the Tate Pairing over GF(2m)'. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 33 (5-6):392-406 [Details] | |
| (2007) | 'Hardware Acceleration of the Tate Pairing on a Genus 2 Hyperelliptic Curve' Robert Ronan, Colm o hEigeartaigh, Colin Murphy, Michael Scott and Tim Kerins; (2007) 'Hardware Acceleration of the Tate Pairing on a Genus 2 Hyperelliptic Curve'. Journal of Systems Architecture, 53 (2-3):85-98 [Details] | |
| (2007) | 'Correlation Power Analysis of Large Word Sizes' 1. Neil Hanley, Robert McEvoy, Michael Tunstall, Claire Whelan, Colin Murphy and William P. Marnane; (2007) 'Correlation Power Analysis of Large Word Sizes'. Proc. Irish Signals & Systems Conference, :145-150 [Details] | |
| (2007) | 'Differential Power Analysis of HMAC based on SHA-2 on an FPGA, and Countermeasures' Robert P. McEvoy, Michael Tunstall, Colin C. Murphy, and William P. Marnane; (2007) 'Differential Power Analysis of HMAC based on SHA-2 on an FPGA, and Countermeasures'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4867 :317-332 [Details] | |
| (2007) | 'Constraint Based Design of Two-Channel Paraunitary Filter Banks of A Given Length Over Gf(2(R))' Lucey, CM, Murphy, CC; (2007) 'Constraint Based Design of Two-Channel Paraunitary Filter Banks of A Given Length Over Gf(2(R))'. IEEE Transactions On Signal Processing, 55 (5):1940-1944 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2007) | 'Hardware Architectures for the Tate Pairing over GF(2^m)' Keller M., Ronan R., Marnane W.P., Murphy, C.C. (2007) 'Hardware Architectures for the Tate Pairing over GF(2^m)'. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 33 (5-6):392-406 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2006) | 'Efficient All-or-Nothing Encryption Using CTR Mode' Robert McEvoy and Colin Murphy; (2006) 'Efficient All-or-Nothing Encryption Using CTR Mode'. Proceedings of SECRYPT, :237-245 [Details] | |
| (2006) | 'Optimisation of the SHA-2 Family of Hash Functions on FPGAs' Robert McEvoy, Francis Crowe, Colin Murphy and William Marnane; (2006) 'Optimisation of the SHA-2 Family of Hash Functions on FPGAs'. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on Emerging VLSI Technologies and Architectures, :317-322 [Details] | |
| (2006) | 'An Embedded Processor for a Pairing-Based Cryptosystem' Robert Ronan, Colm o hEigeartaigh, Colin Murphy, Michael Scott, Tim Kerins and W.P. Marnane; (2006) 'An Embedded Processor for a Pairing-Based Cryptosystem'. Information Technology: New Generations, Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society, :192-197 [Details] | |
| (2006) | 'FPGA Acceleration of the Tate Pairing in Characteristic 2' Robert Ronan, Colm o hEigeartaigh, Colin Murphy, Michael Scott and Tim Kerins, ; (2006) 'FPGA Acceleration of the Tate Pairing in Characteristic 2'. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on Emerging VLSI Technologies and Architectures, :213-220 [Details] | |
| (2006) | 'Fortuna: Cryptographically Secure Pseudo-Random Number Generation in Software and Hardware' Robert McEvoy, James Curran, Paul Cotter and Colin Murphy; (2006) 'Fortuna: Cryptographically Secure Pseudo-Random Number Generation in Software and Hardware'. Proceedings of the IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference, :457-462 [Details] | |
| (2006) | 'A simplified expression for the probability of error for binary multichannel communications' C. O¿Driscoll and C. C. Murphy; (2006) 'A simplified expression for the probability of error for binary multichannel communications'. IEEE Transactions on Communications, [Details] | |
| (2006) | 'A GF(24m) Inverter and its Application in a Tate Pairing Processor' M. Keller, Robert Ronan, W.P. Marnane and Colin Murphy; (2006) 'A GF(24m) Inverter and its Application in a Tate Pairing Processor'. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FGPAs, :158-169 [Details] | |
| (2005) | 'On the Structure of 2-Channel Paraunitary Finite Field Multirate Filter Banks' Catriona Lucey and Colin Murphy; (2005) 'On the Structure of 2-Channel Paraunitary Finite Field Multirate Filter Banks'. Proceedings of ECCTD, :357-360 [Details] | |
| (2005) | 'A Dedicated Processor for the Eta Pairing' Robert Ronan, Colm O hEigeartaigh, Colin Murphy, Michael Scott and Tim Kerins, ; (2005) 'A Dedicated Processor for the Eta Pairing'. Ecrypt International Workshop On Pairings In Cryptography, [Details] | |
| (2005) | 'BER Estimation for Wavelet Packet Modulation Schemes and Optimal Basis Selection' D. D. Murphy and C. C. Murphy; (2005) 'BER Estimation for Wavelet Packet Modulation Schemes and Optimal Basis Selection'. Proceedings of IEE Irish Signals and Systems Conference, :168-173 [Details] | |
| (2005) | 'Performance Analysis of an FFT based Fast Acquisition GPS Receiver' Cillian O¿Driscoll, Colin C. Murphy; (2005) 'Performance Analysis of an FFT based Fast Acquisition GPS Receiver'. Proceedings of Institute of Navigation National Technical Meeting, :1014-1025 [Details] | |
| (2004) | 'Generalising Wavelet Error Correction Coding via Polyphase Constraints' Catriona Lucey and Colin Murphy; (2004) 'Generalising Wavelet Error Correction Coding via Polyphase Constraints'. WSEAS Trans. on Systems, 3 (10):3004-3009 [Details] | |
| (2002) | 'The Rijndael Key Schedule: Some Algebraically Motivated Architectural Simplifications' Cillian O¿Driscoll, Colin C. Murphy; (2002) 'The Rijndael Key Schedule: Some Algebraically Motivated Architectural Simplifications'. Proceedings of Irish Signals and Systems Conference, :. 283-287 [Details] | |
| (1999) | 'FPGA Design Trade-Offs for Solving the Key Equation in Reed-Solomon Decoding' E. M. Popovici, P. Fitzpatrick, C. C. Murphy; (1999) 'FPGA Design Trade-Offs for Solving the Key Equation in Reed-Solomon Decoding'. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1673, :353-358 [Details] | |
| (1997) | 'Reed-Solomon Decoders for the Read-Write Channel' E. Popovichi, P. Fitzpatrick, C.C. Murphy; (1997) 'Reed-Solomon Decoders for the Read-Write Channel'. IEE Systems on a Chip Colloquium, :9/1-9/5 [Details] | |
| (1995) | 'On the Design of a Parallel VLSI Discrete Wavelet Transform Processor' C. C. Murphy, W.P. Marnane, P.J. Murphy; (1995) 'On the Design of a Parallel VLSI Discrete Wavelet Transform Processor'. Proceedings Irish DSP and Control Colloquium, :143-150 [Details] | |
| (1993) | 'SOLUTION OF LINEAR-SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS IN THE PRESENCE OF 2 TRANSIENT HARDWARE FAULTS' FITZPATRICK, P,MURPHY, CC (1993) 'SOLUTION OF LINEAR-SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS IN THE PRESENCE OF 2 TRANSIENT HARDWARE FAULTS'. Iee Proceedings-E Computers And Digital Techniques, 140 :247-254 [Details] | |
| (1993) | 'Solution of Linear Systems of Equations in the Presence of Two Transient Hardware Faults [B5325]' Fitzpatrick, P.; Murphy, C. C.; (1993) 'Solution of Linear Systems of Equations in the Presence of Two Transient Hardware Faults [B5325]'. IEE Proceedings. E, Computers and Digital Techniques, 140 :247-257 [Details] | |
| (1992) | 'Fault Tolerant Matrix Triangularisation and Solution of Linear Systems of Equations' C.C. Murphy, P. Fitzpatrick; (1992) 'Fault Tolerant Matrix Triangularisation and Solution of Linear Systems of Equations'. Proc. Application Specific Array Processors, :469-480 [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2011) | 4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management (CogART) Horgan, D.; Murphy, C. C. (2011) Performance limits of cooperative energy detection in fading environments . In: Simone Frattasi; Nicola Marchetti eds. 4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management (CogART) Barcelona, Spain, , 26-OCT-11 - 29-OCT-11 , pp.1-5 [DOI] [CORA Link] [Details] | |
| (2011) | CogART '11 (4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management) Lawton, B., Murphy, C.C., (2011) Minimizing the coarse-fine spectrum sensing time of cognitive radios with ideal secondary detectors subject to noise uncertainty: an analytical approach CogART '11 (4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management) , pp.1-5 [Details] | |
| (2011) | 4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management (CogART) Horgan, D.; Murphy, C. C. (2011) Implementation issues for optimized hard decision energy detector-based cooperative spectrum sensing . In: Simone Frattasi; Nicola Marchetti eds. 4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management (CogART) Barcelona, Spain, , 26-OCT-11 - 29-OCT-11 , pp.1-5 [DOI] [CORA Link] [Details] | |
| (2010) | 4th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) B. Lawton, C. C. Murphy (2010) Coarse-fine spectrum sensing for Cognitive Radio for minimum sensing time 4th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) Gold Coast, Australia, , pp.1-7 [Details] | |
| (2010) | Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) Horgan, D.; Murphy, C. C (2010) Voting rule optimisation for double threshold energy detector-based cognitive radio networks Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, , 13-DEC-10 - 15-DEC-10 , pp.1-8 [DOI] [CORA Link] [Details] | |
| (2006) | IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on Emerging VLSI Technologies and Architectures (IVLSI) McEvoy R.P.; Crowe F. M.; Murphy C. C.; Marnane W. P.; (2006) Optimisation of the SHA-2 Family of Hash Functions on FPGAs . In: Becker J.; Herkersdorf A.; Mukherjee A.; Smailagic A eds. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on Emerging VLSI Technologies and Architectures (IVLSI) Karlsruhe, Germany, , 02-MAR-06 - 03-MAR-06 , pp.317-322 [Details] | |
| (2002) | Irish Signals and Systems O'Driscoll C., Murphy C.C.; (2002) The Rijndael Key Schedule: Some Algebraically Motivated Architectural Simplifications . In: * eds. Irish Signals and Systems University College Cork, , 25-JUN-02 - 26-JUN-02 , pp.283-287 [Details] | |
| (1999) | IEE System on a chip Colloquium Popovici,E.M. Fitzpatrick, P. Murphy, C.C.; (1999) Reed-Solomon decoders for the read-write channel . In: * eds. IEE System on a chip Colloquium UCD, Dublin, , 30-DEC-99 - 30-DEC-99 , pp.9/1-9/5 [Details] | |
| (1999) | Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, 9th International Workshop Popovici E., Fitzpatrick P., Murphy C. C.; (1999) FPGA Design Trade-Offs for Solving the Key Equation in Reed-Solomon Decoding . In: * eds. Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, 9th International Workshop Glasgow, Scotland, , 30-AUG-99 - 01-SEP-99 , pp.353-358 [Details] | |
| (1996) | Irish DSP and Control Conference, Trinity College, Dublin (June) Murphy, C. C.; Marnane, W. P.; Murphy, P. J.; (1996) Decoding of Two Superimposed Data Carrying Time-Scale Multiplexed Wavelet Families [B641] . In: * eds. Irish DSP and Control Conference, Trinity College, Dublin (June) Dublin, , 01-JUN-96 - 01-JUN-96 , pp.11-18 [Details] | |
| (1995) | Irish DSP and Control Colloquium, Queen's University Belfast (June) Murphy, C. C.; Marnane, W. P.; Murphy, P. J.; (1995) On the Design of a Parallel VLSI Discrete Wavelet Transform Processor [B590] . In: * eds. Irish DSP and Control Colloquium, Queen's University Belfast (June) Belfast, , 01-JUN-95 - 01-JUN-95 , pp.143-150 [Details] | |
| (1992) | Application Specific Array Processors Fitzpatrick P., Murphy C. C.; (1992) Fault Tolerant Matrix Triangularisation and Solution of Linear Systems of Equations . In: * eds. Application Specific Array Processors Berkeley, California, USA, , 04-AUG-92 - 07-AUG-92 , pp.469-480 [Details] |
Electronic Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2011) | Simplifying the Performance Analysis of the SPRT for GPS Acquisition. O’Mahony, N., G. Lachapelle and C. Murphy, (2011) Simplifying the Performance Analysis of the SPRT for GPS Acquisition. Electronic Journals [DOI] [Details] |
Other
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2008) | Efficient All-Or-Nothing Encryption Using Ctr Mode. McEvoy, RP, Murphy, CC; (2008) Efficient All-Or-Nothing Encryption Using Ctr Mode. Other [Details] | |
| (2007) | A Reconfigurable Processor For The Cryptographic N(T) Pairing In Characteristic. Ronan, R, Heigeartaigh, CO, Murphy, C, Kerins, T, Barretto, PSLM; (2007) A Reconfigurable Processor For The Cryptographic N(T) Pairing In Characteristic. Other [Details] | |
| (2006) | Fpga Acceleration of The Tate Pairing In Characteristic 2. Ronan, R, Heigeartaigh, CO, Murphy, C, Scott, M, Kerins, T; (2006) Fpga Acceleration of The Tate Pairing In Characteristic 2. Other [Details] | |
| (2006) | Efficient All-Or-Nothing Encryption Using Ctr Mode. McEvoy, RR, Murphy, CC; (2006) Efficient All-Or-Nothing Encryption Using Ctr Mode. Other [Details] | |
| (2006) | An Embedded Processor For A Pairing-Based Cryptosystem. Ronan, R, O Heigeartaigh, C, Murphy, C, Scott, M, Kerins, T, Marnane, WP; (2006) An Embedded Processor For A Pairing-Based Cryptosystem. Other [Details] | |
| (2006) | A Gf(2(4m)) Inverter and Its Application In A Reconfigurable Tate Pairing Processor. Keller, M, Ronan, R, Marnane, W, Murphy, C; (2006) A Gf(2(4m)) Inverter and Its Application In A Reconfigurable Tate Pairing Processor. Other [Details] | |
| (2006) | Optimisation of The Sha-2 Family of Hash Functions On Fpgas. McEvoy, RP, Crowe, FM, Murphy, CC, Marnane, WP; (2006) Optimisation of The Sha-2 Family of Hash Functions On Fpgas. Other [Details] | |
| (2005) | On The Structure of 2-Channel Paraunitary Finite Field Multirate Filter Banks. Lucey, CM, Murphy, CC; (2005) On The Structure of 2-Channel Paraunitary Finite Field Multirate Filter Banks. Other [Details] |
Professional Activities
Honours and Awards
| Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | CEIA Gold Medal | ||
| 2011 | CogART 2011 Best Paper | CogART Conference |
Patents
| Patent Number | Title | Inventor | Granted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patent application in process relates to the Proof of Concept grant mentioned above. This application commenced in May 2008 and relates to countermeas | 01-MAY-08 |
Committees
| Committee | Function | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff-Student Committee | Ordinary member | 2013 / 2016 | |
| School of Engineering Outreach Committee | Chairing Outreach Committee and its activities | 2013 / 2016 |
Employment
| Employer | Position | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| University College Cork | Lecturer | 01-OCT-97 / | |
| University College Cork | Research Engineer | 01-JAN-95 / 01-JAN-97 | |
| University College Cork | Lecturer | 01-JAN-93 / 01-JAN-95 | |
| Executive Systems Research Centre | Project Manager | 01-AUG-92 / 31-DEC-93 |
Education
| Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | University College Cork | BE | Electrical | |
| 1991 | University College Cork | Masters of Engineering Science | Science | |
| 2006 | University College Cork | Ph.D. | Ph.D |
Outreach Activities
| Description | |
|---|---|
Chair of the School's Outreach Committee. The committee runs several events annually as part of UCC's Outreach Programme. In addition, the committee coordinates visits to schools, and the generation/distribution of related information sheets, to promote engineering studies in UCC. I have also coordinated the Annual Electrical Engineering Quiz for several years and have acted as the Quiz Master for same. |
Teaching Activities
Teaching Interests
EE2007 Electronic Circuits (http://www.ucc.ie/modules/descriptions/page018.html#EE2007)EE4004 Telecommunications (http://www.ucc.ie/modules/descriptions/page018.html#EE4004)
EE4016 Transmission Lines (http://www.ucc.ie/modules/descriptions/page018.html#EE4016)
EE6105 Wireless Communications (http://www.ucc.ie/modules/descriptions/page018.html#EE6105)
Recent Postgraduates
| Graduation Year | Student Name | Institution | Degree Type | Thesis Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Niamh M. O'Mahony | NUI (UCC) | PHD | Variable dwell time verification strategies for CDMA acquisition with applications to GPS signals | |
| 2014 | Donagh Horgan | NUI (UCC) | PHD | Analysing energy detector diversity receivers for spectrum sensing : An approximation based approach | |
| 2007 | Cillian O'Driscoll | NUI (UCC) | PHD | Performance analysis of the parallel acquisition of weak GPS signals | |
| 2007 | Catriona M. Lucey | NUI (UCC) | PHD | FIR paraunitary multirate filter banks over GF(2^r) and their factorisations | |
| 2011 | James T. Curran | NUI (UCC) | PHD | Weak signal digital GNSS tracking algorithms | |
| 2014 | Brendan Lawton | NUI (UCC) | PHD | An investigation on the use of SNR distributions for the optimisation of coarse-fine spectrum sensing for cognitive radio | |
| 2008 | Robert P. McEvoy | NUI (UCC) | PHD | Side-Channel attacks on FPGAs and related countermeasures |
Modules Taught
| Term (ID)) | Title | Link | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Wireless Communications | EE6105 | Wireless Communications | |
| 2015 | Electronic Circuits | EE2007 | Electronic Circuits | |
| 2015 | Telecommunications | EE4004 | Telecommunications |
Research Information
External Collaborators
| Name | Organisation/ Institution | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professor Gerard Lachapelle | Position Location and Navigation Group, Calgary | CANADA |
Contact details
- Colin Murphy
Lecturer - cmurphy@rennes.ucc.ie
- Electrical & Electronic Engineering
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland - +353-21-490-3000
- +353 21 490 2196
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