Today, Thursday 19th September, you are welcome to attend the IEEE Technical Seminar by Prof. Giulio Colavolpe from the University of Parma, Italy.The seminar is organized by the Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology.
The lectures will be held on:
Thursday 19th of September in Göteborg, at 15.30 hosted by Chalmers,
Location: EDIT-rummet 3364, floor 3, Hörsalsvägen 11, Campus Johanneberg
Title: Spectrally Efficient Systems based on Time-Frequency Packing and Advanced Processing
Abstract:
Shannon theory says that orthogonal signaling with Gaussian inputs achieves capacity on the bandlimited AWGN channel. Hence, for many years, communication systems for quasi-static channels have been designed based on orthogonal signaling. However, when low-order constellations are used, performance can be considerably improved by giving up the orthogonality, thus accepting interference. Faster-than-Nyquist signaling is an example of this paradigm. We describe a new information-theoretic approach to the more general technique of time-frequency packing and we show how it translates into practical design rules. The applications to nonlinear satellite channels and long-haul optical transmissions will be discussed.
Biography:
Giulio Colavolpe was born in Cosenza, Italy, in 1969. He received the Dr. Ing. degree in Telecommunications Engineering (cum laude) from the University of Pisa, in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in Information Technologies from the University of Parma, Italy, in 1998. Since 1997, he has been at the University of Parma, Italy, where he is now an Associate Professor of Telecommunications at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione (DII) where he coordinates the activities of the SPADiCLab. In 2000, he was Visiting Scientist at the Institut Eurécom, Valbonne, France.
His research interests include the design of digital communication systems, adaptive signal processing (with particular emphasis on iterative detection techniques for channels with memory), channel coding and information theory. In particular, he is the principal investigator of several research projects funded by the European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC), by Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR), and by several international telecommunications companies.
He is currently serving as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and as an Executive Editor for Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (formerly European Transactions on Telecommunications). He served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
He received the best paper award at the 13th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM’05), Split, Croatia, September 2005, the best paper award for Optical Networks and Systems at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May 2008, and the best paper award at the 5th Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems Conference and 11th International Workshop on Signal Processing for Space Communications (ASMS&SPSC 2010).
