Monday 4 July, 2005, 9:00 - 13:30
Title: Ultra Wide Band Radio in
Distributed Wireless Networks
Instructor: Guerino Giancola, University of Rome La
Sapienza, Italy
The main goal of this tutorial is the
analysis and discussion of the potentials of Ultra Wide Band
(UWB) radio in the design of distributed wireless networks.
Fundamental issues related to UWB systems are investigated in
order to highlight the potentials of a technology which appears
as one of the favorite candidates in the definition of standards
for new generation wireless networks.
In particular, attention will focus on the capability provided
by UWB to acquire accurate information about node positions in
the network, which leads to the definition of flexible and power
efficient procedures for both resource management and routing.
At the end of the tutorial, attendants will have acquired the
basics of UWB radio, including topics such as synchronization,
ranging and positioning, and medium access, and will have gained
insight into UWB network design.
Guerino Giancola received the “Laurea” degree
(magna cum laude) in Telecommunications Engineering, and the
Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from
University of Rome La Sapienza, in 2001 and 2005, respectively.
He is currently a research affiliate at the INFOCOM Department
at University of Rome La Sapienza, where is actually holding the
course of "Electrical Communications" for the degree on
Electronic Engineering. His research interests include the
analysis and modeling of Multi User Interference (MUI) in
Impulse Radio Ultra Wide Band systems, multi-carrier
transmission techniques, and Medium Access Control (MAC)
protocols for wireless networks. Guerino Giancola recently
co-authored with Prof. Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto a book on
Ultra Wide Band from radio to the network, titled "Understanding
Ultra Wide Band Radio Fundamentals" and published by Prentice
Hall in June 2004. He is now involved in the European projects
“UCAN – Ultra wideband Concepts for Ad-hoc Networks”, and
“PULSERS – Pervasive Ultra wideband Low Spectral Energy Radio
Systems”. Guerino Giancola is a member of the IEEE Communication
Society. Actually, he is Co-Chair for the "Second International
Workshop Networking with UWB - Ultra Wide Band for Sensor
Networks" (Rome, 4-6 July, 2005), and participates in the
Technical Program Committee of the "International Workshop on
UWB for Wireless Internet - UWB4WI" (Budapest, 10-14 July,
2005).
