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Publications

Mr. Roney has received multiple patents including:

  • Method for eliminating acoustic echo in a communication device, 5,222,251 (issued June 22, 1993).
  • Speech decoding in a zero BER environment, 5,402,447 (issued March 28, 1995).
  • Bit error rate estimation, 5,406,562 (issued April 11, 1995).
  • Automatic gain control of transponded supervisory audio tone, 5,410,741 (issued April 25, 1995).
  • Decoder selection, 5,453,997 (issued September 26, 1995).


In addition, he has appeared on various telecommunications industry panels including:

  • EDGE Deployment Panel sponsored by AT&T Wireless
  • UMTS Feasibility Panel sponsored by Vodafone
  • UMTS Interoperability Testing Panel sponsored by Nortel


Finally, he is a contributing author to various telecommunications industry technical standards including:

  • EIA TIA/IS-95-A Mobile Station-Base Station Compatibility Standard for Dual-Mode WidebandSpread Spectrum Cellular System
  • EIA TIA/IS-96-B Speech Service Option Standard for Wideband Spread Spectrum Systems
  • EIA TIA/IS-127 Enhanced Variable Rate Codec, Speech Service Option 3 for Wideband Spread Spectrum Digital Systems
  • EIA TIA/IS-136.1 TDMA Cellular/PCS - Radio Interface - Mobile Station - Base Station Compatibility Digital Control Channel Addendum No. 1
  • EIA TIA/IS-136.2 TDMA Cellular/PCS - Radio Interface - Mobile Station - Base Station Compatibility -Traffic Channels and FSK Control Channel
  • EIA TIA/IS-137 TDMA Cellular/PCS - Radio Interface - Minimum Performance Standard for Mobile Stations
  • EIA TIA/IS-641 TDMA Cellular/PCS - Radio Interface - Enhanced Full-Rate Speech Codec