Laurence B. Milstein


Office: 4805 Engineering Building Unit 1

Mailing Address:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0407
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407

Email: milstein@ece.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-3096
Fax: (858) 534-2486

Ph.D. Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1968

Communication Theory, Spread-Spectrum Systems, and Wireless Communications
From 1968-1974, Professor Laurence B. Milstein was employed by the Space and Communications Group of Hughes Aircraft Company, and from 1974-1976, he was a member of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY. Since 1976, he has been with the ECE department, UC San Diego where he is a Professor and former Department Chairman working in the area of digital communication theory with special emphasis on spread-spectrum communication systems. He has also been a consultant to both government and industry in radar and communications.


Honors and Distinctions
  • Member of Board of Governors, IEEE Communications Society, 1983, 1985-1987, 1993-1995
  • Fellow, IEEE
  • Member of Board of Governors, IEEE Information Theory Society, 1989-1991, 1992-1994
  • Vice President for Technical Affairs, IEEE Communications Society, 1990-91

    Selected Publications

    T. Eng and L. B. Milstein, "Capacities of Hybrid FDMA/CDMA Systems in Multipath Fading," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, June 1994.

    B.R. Vojcic, R. L. Pickholtz, and L. B. Milstein, "Performance of DS-CDMA with Imperfect Power Control Operating Over a Low Earth Orbiting Satellite Link," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, pp. 560-567, May 1994.

    B.R. Vojcic, L. B. Milstein, and R. L. Pickholtz, "Total Capacity in a Shared CDMA LEOS Environment," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, pp.232-244,Feb.1995

    Last Updated: 5/3/97