Monday August 27, 2007

Lecturer: Prof. Giovanni E. Corazza

DEIS/ARCES – University of Bologna, Italy
e-mail: gecorazza@deis.unibo.it

Title: State-of-the-art and new trends in the physical layer of digital satellite communications

Abstract: The full-day lecture will be devoted to a review of the main principles that form the basis for the design and analysis of digital satellite communication links, as well as to their application to state-of-the-art and future air interfaces. We will touch upon information, detection, and estimation theories, to establish the cornerstones for physical layer design. Then we will go into details for broadband DVB-S2, mobile broadcasting DVB-SH, and long-term 4G satellite air interfaces.

1. Introduction to digital communications

2. Advanced coding and modulation schemes

3. Synchronization and parameter estimation in digital receivers

4. The DVB-S2 air interface

5. The DVB-SH air interface

6. 4G air interfaces

7. Test

Lecturer’s Short Bio

Giovanni Corazza was born in Trieste (Italy) in 1964. He received the Dr. Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronic Engineering in 1988 from the University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy), and a Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Roma, Italy). He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science, and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Bologna. He is responsible for the area of Wireless Communications inside the Advanced Research Centre for Electronic Systems (ARCES) of the University of Bologna. In the years 2000-2003, he held the Chair for Telecommunications inside the Faculty of Engineering. He is the Chairman of the Integral Satcom Initiative (ISI) and of the Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems Task Force (ASMS TF), European fora on satellite communications with more than 140 industrial partners, under the auspices of the European Commission and of the European Space Agency.
Prof. Corazza has research interests in the areas of communication and information theory, wireless communications systems (including cellular, satellite, and fixed systems), spread-spectrum techniques with emphasis on CDMA, synchronization and parameter estimation, MAC layer protocols, multicast protocols. He is author or co-author of more than 150 papers published in International Journals and Conference Proceedings. Since 1997, he joined the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Communications as Associate Editor for Spread Spectrum. He received the Marconi International Fellowship Young Scientist Award in 1995. He was co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Fifth International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques & Applications, ISSSTAl’98, Sept. 2-4, 1998, (Sun City, South Africa), and of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications 2001, ICT2001, 4-7 June 2001, (Bucharest, Romania). He was co-recipient of the 2002 IEEE VTS Best System Paper Award for the paper entitled "Wide-Band CDMA for the UMTS/IMT-2000 Satellite Component", published on IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies in March 2002. He holds a patent on "Closed Loop Resource Allocation", devoted to resource management for high data rate wireless networks. He chaired sessions and was member of the Technical Committee of several conferences, Chairman of the ASMS2004 and of the ASMS2006 Conferences and of the upcoming IEEE ISSSTA 2008 Conference.