Dr Gerhard Bauch Dr. Gerhard Bauch received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from Munich University of Technology (TUM) in 1995 and 2001, respectively, and the Diplom-Volkswirt degree from FernUniversitaet Hagen in 2001. In 1996, he was with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. From 1996-2001 he was member of scientific staff at Munich University of Technology (TUM). In 1998 and 1999 he was visiting researcher at AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA. In 2002 he joined DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany, where he has been managing the Advanced Radio Transmission Group. In 2007 he was additionally appointed Research Fellow of DoCoMo Euro-Labs. From 2003-2008 he was an adjunct professor at Munich University of Technology. In 2007 he was a visiting professor teaching courses at the University of Udine in Italy and at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt in Austria. Since February 2009 he has been a full professor at the Universität der Bundeswehr Munich. He received a couple of best paper awards, the Texas Instruments Award of TUM 2001, the award of the German Information Technology Society (ITG in VDE) 2002 (ITG Foerderpreis) and the literature award of the German Information Technology Society (ITG in VDE) 2007 (ITG-Preis). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the German Information Technology Society (ITG in VDE (Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies)) where he serves as a member of the committee "Information and System Theory." Dr. Bauch has been member in the technical program committee and organizing committee of several conferences. He had served as vice chair of the working group 4 "New Air Interfaces, Relay Based Systems and Smart Antennas" of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). He has (co-)authored a textbook on "Contemporary Communications Systems" as well as more than 100 scientific papers in major journals and international conferences
Dr Guido Dietl Dr. Guido Dietl received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degree (both summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from Munich University of Technology (TUM), Munich, Germany, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He has been with the TUM from 2001 to 2006 where he was working as a Research Engineer on reduced-rank signal processing in Krylov subspaces and on its application to wireless multiuser communications. In Winter 2000/2001 and Summer 2004, he was a Guest Researcher at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. In Fall 2005, he visited the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, ACT, Australia. He joined DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH (DoCoMo Euro-Labs), Munich, Germany, in 2006, where he is currently Manager of the Advanced Radio Transmission Team. Dr. Dietl received the VDE Award for his diploma thesis in 2001, the Kurt Fischer Award of TUM for his doctoral thesis in 2007 and the award of the German Information Technology Society (ITG in VDE) 2007 (ITG Foerderpreis). He is member of the IEEE since 2001 and member of the VDE (Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies) since 2007. He has authored a monograph on "Linear Estimation and Detection in Krylov Subspaces" which has been published by Springer in 2007 and written more than 40 scientific papers in books, journals, and conferences. His main research interests are numerical linear algebra, reduced-rank signal processing, iterative (Turbo) detection, and transmit signal processing in multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems
Prof Falko Dressler Falko Dressler is an assistant professor coordinating the Autonomic Networking Group at the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Erlangen. He teaches on self-organizing sensor and actor networks, network security, and communication systems. Dr. Dressler received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree from the Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Erlangen in 1998 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Dressler is an editor for Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks and ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET). He served as guest editor of special issues on self-organization, autonomic networking, and bio-inspired computing and communication for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, and Springer Transactions on Computational Systems Biology (TCSB). Dr. Dressler was general chair of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS 2007). Dr. Dressler published two books including Self-Organization in Sensor and Actor Networks, published by Wiley in 2007. Dr. Dressler is Senior Member of the IEEE as well as of the ACM. His research activities are focused on (but not limited to) Autonomic Networking addressing issues in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Vehicular Communication, Self-Organization, Bio-inspired Mechanisms, and Adaptive Network Monitoring and Security Techniques
K Farkas Károly Farkas received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2007 from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science in 1998 from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Hungary. Currently he is working as an associate professor at University of West Hungary, Sopron, and at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary. His research interests cover the field of communication networks, especially autonomic, self-organized and wireless mobile ad hoc networks. His core research area deals with service provisioning in mobile ad hoc networks. He has published more than 50 scientific papers in different journals, conferences and workshops and he has given a plenty of regular and invited talks. In the years past, he supervised a number of student theses, participated in several research projects, coordinated the preparation of an EU IST research project proposal and acted as program committee member, reviewer and organizer of numerous scientific conferences. He is a member of IEEE and fellow of the European Multimedia Academy.
G. B. Giannakis G. B. GIANNAKIS (Fellow'97) received his Diploma in Electrical Engr. from the Ntl. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece, 1981. From 1982 to 1986 he was with the Univ. of Southern California (USC), where he received his MSc. in Electrical Engineering, 1983, MSc. in Mathematics, 1986, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engr., 1986. Since 1999 he has been a professor with the Univ. of Minnesota, where he now holds an ADC Chair in Wireless Telecommunications in the ECE Department, and serves as director of the Digital Technology Centre. His general interests span the areas of communications, networking and statistical signal processing - subjects on which he has published more than 275 journal papers, 475 conference papers, two edited books and two research monographs. Current research focuses on compressive sensing, cognitive radios, network coding, cross-layer designs, mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor and social networks. He is the (co-) recipient of seven paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing (SP) and Communications Societies including the G. Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. He also received Technical Achievement Awards from the SP Society (2000), from EURASIP (2005), a Young Faculty Teaching Award, and the G. W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research from the University of Minnesota. He is a Fellow of EURASIP, has served the IEEE in a number of posts, and also as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE-SP Society.
Martin Haenggi Martin Haenggi is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He received the Dipl. Ing. (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) in 1995 and 1999, respectively. After a postdoctoral year at the Electronics Research Laboratory at the University of California in Berkeley, he joined the faculty of the electrical engineering department at the University of Notre Dame in January 2001. In 2007-08, he spent a year at the University of California at San Diego on a sabbatical leave. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM and served on the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks from 2005-2008, currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks and as the Lead Guest Editor for an issue of the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications on Stochastic Geometry and Random Graphs for Wireless Networks. He was a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2005-06 and the General Co-Chair of the Fifth Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks (SpaSWiN'09). He has given more than 30 invited talks and published more than 40 papers on the topic of this tutorial, including a research monograph on ``Interference in Large Wireless Networks" in the Foundations and Trends in Networking Series (NOW Publishers), which forms the basis for part of the tutorial. He received the 2010 Best Tutorial Paper award by the IEEE Communications Society for the paper "Stochastic Geometry and Random Graphs for the Analysis and Design of Wireless Networks", published in the September 2009 issue of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
Zhu Han Zhu Han received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2000 to 2002, he was an R&D Engineer of JDSU, Germantown, Maryland. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Associate at the University of Maryland. From 2006 to 2008, he was an assistant professor in Boise State University, Idaho. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Houston, Texas. In June-August 2006, he was a visiting scholar in Princeton University. In May-August 2007, he was a visiting professor in Stanford University. In May-August 2008, he was a visiting professor in University of Oslo, Norway and Supelec, Paris, France. In July 2009, he was a visiting professor in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champion. His research interests include wireless resource allocation and management, wireless communications and networking, game theory, wireless multimedia, and security. Dr. Han was the MAC Symposium vice chair of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2008. Dr. Han was the Guest Editor for Special Issue on Fairness of Radio Resource Management Techniques in Wireless Networks, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, and Special Issue on Game Theory, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. Dr. Han is the coauthor for the papers that won the best paper awards in IEEE International Conference on Communications 2009 and 7th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt09)
Ahmadreza Hedayat Ahmadreza Hedayat received B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from University of Tehran, Iran and his Ph.D. in the filed of wireless communications from University of Texas at Dallas. He was with Navini Networks, Richardson, TX working on a CDMA-based proprietary broadband wireless technology and subsequently on WiMax technology to design and develop base stations and modems. He is now with Cisco systems broadband wireless business unit, working on 4G base stations and networks. Dr. Hedayat has published over 25 IEEE journal articles and conference papers, and holds over 30 granted and filed U.S. patents. His interests are in the general area of wireless communications including multiple-antenna techniques, cognitive radio, channel coding schemes, signal processing and detection theory.
Ekram Hossain Ekram Hossain (http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~ekram/) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Manitoba, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Victoria, Canada, in 2000. He was a University of Victoria Fellow. Dr. Hossain's current research interests include analysis, design, and optimization of wireless communication networks and cognitive radio systems. The research monograph "Dynamic Spectrum Access and management in Cognitive Radio Networks" (Cambridge University Press, 2009) that he authored with D. Niyato and Z. Han and the book "Cognitive Wireless Communication Networks" (Springer, 2007) that he edited with V. K. Bhargava are two of his important contributions in the area of cognitive radio networks. Currently he serves as an Area Editor for "Resource Management and Multiple Access" for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Dr. Hossain in a Senior Member of IEEE and a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Manitoba, Canada.
Prof Andrzej JajszczykAndrzej Jajszczyk is a Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. He received M.S., Ph.D., and Dr Hab. degrees from Poznan University of Technology in 1974, 1979 and 1986, respectively. He spent a year at the University of Adelaide in Australia and two years at Queen¿s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada as a visiting scientist. He is the author or co-author of seven books and more than 260 papers, as well as 19 patents in the areas of telecommunications switching, high-speed networking, and network management. His current research interests focus on control plane architectures for transport networks, quality of service and network reliability. He has been a consultant to industry, telecommunications operators, and government agencies in Poland, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, and the USA. He was the founding editor of the IEEE Global Communications Newsletter, editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, and editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications Magazine. He serves on editorial boards of various reputed journals, including Annales des Télécommunications, China Communications, and Journal of Security and Telecommunications. In 2004 - 2005 he was Director of Magazines of IEEE Communications Society, and in 2006 - 2007 he was Director of the Europe, Africa, and Middle East Region in the same Society. In 2008 ¿ 2009 he was Vice-President of ComSoc. He has been involved in organization of numerous technical and scientific conferences. He was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer. He is a member of the Association of Polish Electrical Engineers and a Fellow of IEEE Dr Prof. K.P. Subbalakshmi  Prof. K.P. Subbalakshmi (Suba) is a Senior Member of IEEE and an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Her research areas are cognitive radio network security, wireless security, and Internet forensics. She is one of the first researchers to have identified security vulnerabilities in dynamic spectrum access networks. Her research is funded by U.S. National Science Foundation, several U.S. Department of Defense agencies and the U.S. National Institute of Justice. She serves as the Chair of the Security Special Interest Group in the Multimedia Technical Committee, IEEE COMSOC. She was a tutorial speaker on Cognitive Radio Network Security at the IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, 2009. She is a co-guest editor of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Dynamic Spectrum Access for Wireless Networking. She was the Co-Chair of the Symposium on Selected Areas of Communications, IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2009. She was an invited panelist in IEEE ICC 2008, for the panel on: Cognitive Radio Wireless Networking: An Emerging Frontier, where she presented the research challenges in cognitive radio security. A paper on cognitive radio networks that she co-authored was awarded the IEEE CCNC 2006, Best Student Paper Award. She has authored several book chapters and papers in the area of cognitive radio networks and security. Further details can be found at http://personal.stevens.edu/~ksubbala
C Szaba Csaba A. Szab received his Ph.D. degree from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and a Doctor of Technical Sciences title from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is Professor at the Dept. of Telecommunications of BME. He has been also with Create-Net, an international research center, based in Trento, Italy, as a Senior Advisor since 2004. His 30+ years of experience in academia, R&D and telecommunication business includes metropolitan area networks, integrated services wireless networks, video conferencing and media streaming, broadband optical and wireless networks, community network technologies and applications. Dr. Szabó has been a member of editorial boards of several journals including Computer Networks, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the "Infocommunications Journal". He has been General Chair and Steering committee chair of several international conferences, including Multimedia Services Access Networks (MSAN), the 1st Int'l IEEE/Create-Net Workshop on Telemedicine over Broadband (BroadMed), and the series of IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures (Tridentcom). Dr. Szabó is a co-editor and co-author of a recent Wiley book titled "Broadband Services: Business Models and Technologies for Community Networks". He is a Senior Member of IEEE. Professor Szabo lead or participated in several wireless and digital communities projects in Europe, has published a number of papers and studies in this field, and was invited to give tutorials on the subject at international conferences during the last three years.
Z Tian Z. TIAN (SM'06) received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1994, the M. S. and Ph.D. degrees from George Mason University, USA, in 1998 and 2000. Since August 2000, she has been with the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan Technological University, where she is currently an Associate Professor. Her research focuses on signal processing for wireless communications, particularly on ultra-wideband systems, cognitive radio networks, and distributed sensor processing and networking. Dr. Tian has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. She is the recipient of a US NSF CAREER award in 2003.
Ivan VukovicIvan Vukovic is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at the Wireless Broadband Access Systems and Technology group of Motorola. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) with a PhD degree from the Electrical, Computer and System Engineering (ECSE) Department in 1994. Ivan has 15+ years experience in the area of Wireless Data and Cellular Systems design and performance analysis. He has worked on many cellular standards including CDMA2000 1X, UMTS, 1xEV-DO and WiMAX. He has also worked on several WLAN standards most importantly IEEE 802.11 and ETSI HiperLan. More recently he has represented Motorola and made contributions to the Working Group 2 (RAN2) of the 3GPP LTE standard. He has over 20 journal and peer-reviewed conference papers. He holds 9 US patents. In addition to being involved in 3GPP LTE standard activities his focus is on algorithm design and performance analysis of LTE systems. His research area of interest includes MAC protocols, wireless scheduler and QoS algorithms design, and end-to-end performance analysis |
