LATEST DEVELOMENTS
The errata list of textbook "Wireless Communications " has been updated in the "TEACHING" section.
Conferment of 2011 IEEE ComSoc RCC Outstanding Service Award: WiDeS professor Andy Molisch received the outstanding service award from the IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee (RCC). The award was bestowed during the RCC meeting at the "Globecom" conference in Houston, TX, on Dec. 8th, 2011.
WiDeS member wins best student-paper award at ICUWB: Junyang Shen, Ph.D. student in the WiDeS group, received a Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on UltraWideband 2011. The annual conference, the premier forum for all things UWB, took place in Bologna, Italy, from Sept. 14 to Sept. 16. Junyang received the award (together with advisor Andy Molisch) for his paper "Passive Localization Estimation using TOA Measurements", in which he explored a new method for position estimation from (error-prone) range measurements.
ICUWB 2011 TPC Chair Andrea Conti and Junyang Shen
WiDeS student presents paper at PIMRC: Joon Kim, a WiDeS PhD student working on 60 GHz video transmission, presented a paper on outdoor relay selection for video streaming at the IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Conference in Toronto, Canada. The annual symposium has become a major event for the wireless communications community, with more than 477 papers presented overall.
Austrian and Australian researchers visiting WiDeS From Austria to Australia: The distance in kilometers is much larger than in the Hamming distance of the country names. On August 17th, Prof. Christoph Mecklenbrauker of the Technical University in Vienna, Austria, will visit WiDeS. Prof. Mecklenbrauker is a frequent collaboration partner of WiDeS, in particular in the area of car-to-car communications. During his current visit, he will give a talk on "Power Efficiency of Partial Frequency Reuse for Cellular Networks".About two weeks later, Dr. Lin Luo from the University of South Australia will visit WiDeS. As part of this visit, he will give a talk on "Finite-field multi-carrier modulation". More detailed information about both these talks can be found on the "
Seminars" page.
Upcoming conferences: Research results of WiDeS will be presented by our PhD students at three upcoming conferences. Junyang Shen will travel to the IEEE International Conference on Ultrawideband (ICUWB) in Bologna, Italy, where he will present an algorithm for high-precision localization. Joon Kim will describe work on video transmission over 60 GHz links at the IEEE PIMRC in Ottawa, Canada. In December, Junyang Shen will present an algorithm for distinguishing between single- and multiple-reflections at IEEE ComSoc's flagship conference, GlobeCOM11 in Houston, TX.
Norwegian guest researcher at WiDeS: Kun Yang, PhD student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim has joined WiDeS for the summer. He will be working on wireless channel models for ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communications.
New students joining WiDeS: In March, Joongheon Kim, a PhD student at the computer science department, has joined WiDeS to work on various aspects of video transmission over 60 GHz links. Before joining USC, Joon was working on related topics at LG electronics, has joined in March. In June, two MS students, Rui Wang and Zheda Li, have joined WiDeS to work on peer-to-peer communications systems.
Three major awards for WiDeS: the past months have brought an extraordinary amount of recognition to WiDeS, with WiDeS founder and head, Andy Molisch being elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences, receiving the Donald Fink Award of the IEEE, and the James Evans Avant-garde award of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. More details on each of those awards can be found below.
Andy Molisch Receives the James Evans Avant Garde Award of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
Andy Molisch received the James Evans Avant Garde Award of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. This award recognizes leadership and continuing contributions in promoting new technology in the field of Vehicular Communications and Electronics. It was presented on May 18, 2011 at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, in Budapest, Hungary. He was honored for "pioneering contributions to ultrawideband and multi-antenna propagation channels and wireless systems."
VTC Chair Lajos Hanzo presenting the award to Andy Molisch
Andy Molisch Elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Andy Molisch has been elected to the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1847, the Academy is a learned society (modeled on the Royal Society in England and Academie Francaise in France) and also Austria's leading non-university institution for basic research. The learned society consists of two sections, the Section for Mathematics and the Natural Sciences and the Section for the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Membership is limited to about 600, and includes scholars from Austria and abroad. Past members include such luminaries as Christian Doppler, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Erwin Schroedinger. Molisch was elected to the Section for Mathematics and Natural Sciences as a Corresponding Member, Abroad.
Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer addresses the Academy
Andy Molisch receives the document of his election
Major IEEE Best-Paper Award for WiDeS:
A WiDeS author is recipient for IEEE's prize for the best tutorial/survey paper, across all the societies and publications of this largest engineering society in the world. The Donald G. Fink prize was established in 1979, and is given annually "for the most outstanding survey, review, or tutorial paper published in the IEEE Transactions, Journals, Magazines, or in the Proceedings of the IEEE" and is based on the recommendation of the Prize Papers/Scholarship Awards Committee and the Awards Board. This year, a collaboration between WiDeS head Andy Molisch, New Zealand Telecom's Mansoor Shafi, and Larry Greenstein from Rutgers University received this prize: " A. F. Molisch, M. Shafi, and L. J. Greenstein, “
Propagation Issues for Cognitive Radio”, Proceedings of the IEEE, special issue on cognitive radio, 97, 787-804 (2009), received the nod from the selection committee. The award was bestowed in a ceremony in Kyoto, Japan, in June.
IEEE President-Elect Gordon Day presents the award to Andy Molisch
UWB expert joins WiDeS as PostDoctoral Researcher: Dr. Somasundaram Niranjayan, an expert in ultrawideband communications, is joining WiDeS as PostDoctoral researcher in February. Dr. Niranjayan, who last year received his PhD from the University of Alberta, Canada, had worked in Prof. Beaulieu's lab on low-complexity UWB transceivers; he had published several papers in IEEE journals during that time. At WiDeS, he will be concentrating on high-accuracy network synchronization and distributed positioning algorithms. Welcome to the group!
Upcoming panel on wireless health: The proliferation of mobile phones creates new opportunities to exploit wireless technology for prevention and treatment efforts of health conditions. In this panel, we will explore the potential impact of new wireless technology on treatment and on health-related research, in general. Challenges and potential new research directions for a variety of health domains will be discussed in a panel convened by Prof. Urbashi Mitra from the Communications Sciences Institute. Members of the panel include Professors from the USC Departments of EE (including WiDeS professor Molisch), Biomedical Engineering, and OPTT-RERC. The panel takes place on March 10th from 12h00-14h00, at ACB 238 on the USC University Park Campus.
New edition of textbook published: the second edition of the popular textbook "Wireless Communications" by Andy Molisch just appeared. It contains more than 150 pages of new material covering the most significant recent developments: cognitive radio, cooperative communications, LTE, WiMax, video coding, and multi-user MIMO. More details can be found
here.
WiDeS at Radio and Wireless Week 2011: In Phoenix, AZ, USA, is one of the largest events in wireless research, spanning the range from semiconductor devices to system design. Andy Molisch had been invited to present recent measurement results on car-to-car propagation channels in a workshop on vehicular communications.
Spring semester 2011 started: WiDeS welcomes back all researchers, visitors, and students for the fall semester. A lot of interesting activities are planned, so please stay tuned....
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