Published Papers and Articles

1.  Lamar West, "Thermal Characteristics of Modern Feed-Forward CATV Amplifiers," pp. 97-101, 1985  Proceedings from the Technical Sessions, 39th Annual Convention and Exposition of the National Cable Television Association

 

2.  Lamar West, "Standard Methods for Calculation of Carrier to Noise Ratios in Modern CATV Equipment," pp. 102-109, 1985  Proceedings from the Technical Sessions, 39th Annual Convention and Exposition of the National Cable Television Association

 

3.  Lamar West, "Cable Television Opportunities in the Lodging Industry with Impulse Pay-Per-View Technology," pp. 126-133, 1986  Proceedings from the Technical Sessions, 40th Annual Convention and Exposition of the National Cable Television Association

 

4.  A. Cook, J. Farmer, L. West, "A New Option In Subscriber Control," pp 217-225, 1987  Proceedings from the Technical Sessions, 41st Annual Convention and Exposition of the National Cable Television Association

Note: This paper was reprinted as the cover feature article in the June, 1987 issue of CED (Communication, Engineering and Design) Magazine.

 

5.  J. Farmer and L. West, "CATV Hardware Trends", IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. CE-33, No. 3, August 1987

 

6.  L. West et al, "Off Premises Technology Comparisons", pp 39-46, 1989  Proceedings from the Technical Sessions, 43st Annual Convention and Exposition of the National Cable Television Association

 

7.  L. West, "A New Technique for Measuring Broadband Distortion in Systems with Mixed Analog and Digital Video", pp 273-279, 1992  Proceedings from the Technical Sessions, 46st Annual Convention and Exposition of the National Cable Television Association

Note: This paper was reprinted as a section in Digital Video, Concepts and Applications Across Industries, pp 399-405, edited by Ted Rzeszewski, 1995, IEEE Press

 

8.  L. West, "On Determining the Optimum Modulation Index for Reverse Path Lasers in Hybrid Fiber/Coax Networks," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol 8, No. 11, pp. 1555-1557, November 1996

Note: This paper was reprinted in the March 1997 issue of CED (Communication, Engineering and Design) Magazine

 

9.  L. West, "Noise Spectra, Non-linear Responses and Signal-to-noise Ratio,"  Reverse Path, an Executive Forum, Presented by Scientific-Atlanta, Inc, December 3rd, 1996

 

10.  L. West, "Composite Power and its Effect on Reverse Path laser Clipping," pp 295-300, 1987  Proceedings from the 1997 Conference on Emerging Technologies, Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers, January 8-10, 1997

Note: This paper was reprinted in the April 1997 issue of  CT (Communications Technology) Magazine

 

11.  L. West, "An Improved Method for Predicting the Effect of QAM on AM VSB Carriers in Broadband SCM Networks," pp. 89-94, Proceedings of the 1997 Western Multiconference, Conference on Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation, January 12-15, 1997

 

12.  L. West, "Laser Loading Theory,"  An HFC Reverse Path Symposium, Presented by Scientific-Atlanta, Inc, Spring 1997

 

13.  L. West, "An HFC Reverse Path System Design Approach," An HFC Reverse Path Symposium, Presented by Scientific-Atlanta, Inc, Spring 1997

 

14.  L. West, "Analysis of Reverse Path Laser Loading in HFC Networks," Proceedings of the joint SCTE and IEEE Communications Society conference on High Integrity Hybrid Fiber-Coax Networks, Phoenix Arizona, September 7-9, 1997

 

15.  West, et. al., "Advent of HFC Networks Spells Death to XMOD," pp. 25-28, CED (Communication, Engineering and Design) Magazine, September, 1998

 

16.  West, Lamar, "The Effect of Preamplifier Compression on Measured Noise Power Ratios," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol 12, No. 7 pp. 924-926, July, 2000

 

17.  West, Lamar, "The effect of Companding on Baseband Digital Reverse," Scientific-Atlanta White Paper, 2001

 

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