Course Description

Vehicular Communication Networks: from theory to implementation

This two-day course provides an introduction to peer-to-peer networks, from channel modeling to the PHY and MAC layers, with a focus on vehicle-to-vehicle networks.  The course will therefore alternate theoretical topics (T) in propagation, signal processing, information theory and MAC design, with concepts for implementation (I) of vehicular networks and standardization.  We intend to highlight which theoretical results are actually implemented in a system and relevant for its performance.

Content :

1. Introduction to wireless propagation (T)

2. Vehicular applications and standards (I)

3. Wireless channel sounding (T)

4. Vehicular channel sounding results (I)

5. Models for mobile-to-infrastructure and mobile-to-mobile channels (T, I)

6. Information Theory : Multi-user communications and rate-reliability trade-off (T)

7. Physical layer design : OFDM and Forward Error Correction (T, I)

8. Multiple access - CSMA/CA and STDMA (T)

9. MAC layer design (T, I)

10. IEEE 802. 11p performance simulation (I)

11.  IEEE 802. 11p performance measurements (I)

12. Intelligent Transportation System : architecture aspects (T, I)

Speakers

Dr. Nicolai Czink received his Dipl-Ing. (M.S.) degree in 2004 and Dr.techn. (Ph.D.) degree in 2007, both from Vienna University of Technology, Austria, with distinction.  His Ph.D. thesis received an award from the Austrian Electrotechnical Association (OVE).  After his Ph.D. he joined Stanford University as Postdoctoral Researcher on an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship of the FWF Austrian Science Fund.  He is currently Senior Researcher at the FTW Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria, working on channel modeling, cooperative communications, and intelligent transportation systems.  Nicolai Czink is the author of more than 50 research papers and communications in international journals and conferences.  He is associate editor of the EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking and the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

Prof. Christoph Mecklenbräuker (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) received the Dipl-Ing. degree from Vienna University of Technology in 1992 and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Ruhr-University of Bochum in 1998, respectively.  His doctoral thesis was awarded with the Gert Massenberg Prize.  From 1997-2000, he worked for the Mobile Networks Radio department of Siemens AG Austria where he participated in the European  framework of ACTS 900 FRAMES.  He was a delegate to the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and engaged in the standardization of the radio access network for UMTS.  From June 2000, he was a senior researcher at the Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW) in the field of mobile communications, key researcher since November 2002, and proxy since July 2003.  In 2006, he joined the Institute of Communications and Radio Frequency Engineering at Vienna University of Technology as a full professor.  Since July 2009, he leads the newly founded Christian Doppler Laboratory for Wireless Technologies for Sustainable Mobility.  His current research interests include radio interfaces for future peer-to-peer networks (car-to-car communications, personal area networks, and wireless sensor networks), ultra-wideband radio (UWB) and MIMO-OFDM  based  transceivers (UMTS long term evolution, WiMax, and 4G).  He also leads the Special Interest Group on mobile-to-mobile communications within COST Action 2100 Pervasive Mobile and Ambient  Wireless Communications.  Christoph Mecklenbräuker is a member of the IEEE, the Antennas and Propagation  society, the Vehicular Technology society, and EURASIP.  He is the councilor of the IEEE Student Branch Wien.  He is associate editor of the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing.

Prof. Claude Oestges received the Electrical Engineering degree and the PhD degree in Applied Science from the Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), in 1996 and 2000, respectively. From January to December 2001, he joined, as a post-doctoral scholar, the Smart Antennas Research Group (Information Systems Laboratory) of Stanford University (California , USA). Since October 2005, Claude Oestges is Associate Professor at UCL and FRS-FNRS Research Associate. His research interests cover wireless and satellite communications, with a focus on the propagation channel and its impact on system performance. His present activity concerns multi-dimensional channel modeling for wireless communications, including MIMO and cooperative networks, UWB systems and satellite systems. He is chairing the Working Group on "Reference channel modeling" in COST 2100 "Pervasive Mobile & Ambient Wireless Communications" and is active in NEWCOM++ Network of Excellence. He is the author or co-author of one book, and more than 120 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He was the recipient of the IET Marconi Premium Award in 2001 and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Neal Shepherd Award in 2004. 

Venue

Course starts on Nov 18 at 9 am and ends on Nov 19 no later than 5 pm

Audit. Euler 002, Av. Lemaître 4, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (building 3a, square D9) on this map

Registration

Until November 15th on this site.

Free of charge for university members, 150 € for non-university members to be paid on the following bank account, mentionning "for ICTM1861 + name of the participant"

091-0015728-43 (Dexia)
IBAN : BE66.0910.0157.2843
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