Wireless Ultra-Wide-Band (UWB) Communications: Technology, Regulation, Standardization, and Application Areas

Friedbert Berens， Peter Jung

14:00-17:00     September 20, 2010

• Tutorial Abstract:
  
  UWB potentially fertilizes an enormous economic development, combining innovative radio technology with advanced methods such as cognitive radio (CR), location and tracking (LT) and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna concepts, also, introducing advanced applications. In this tutorial, recent UWB advances are illustrated, setting out from the EUWB project (www.euwb.eu) and the results from the WALTER project (www.walter-uwb.eu) . Besides CR and detect and avoid (DAA) schemes, cooperative relay networking, combining MIMO with network coding, and LT schemes are considered. Furthermore, IEEE 802.15.4a low data rate (LDR) and ECMA-368/369 high data rate (HDR) platforms are illustrated. Finally, application environments are discussed and regulation and standardization are highlighted.
  
  
• Tutorial Outline:
  1. The EUWB Project (www.euwb.eu)
     • Brief overview
     • Project outline
     • Important results
  2. The WALTER project (www.walter-uwbeu)
     • Brief overview
     • Project outline
     • Important results
  3. LDR and HDR Technology:
     • IEEE 802.15.4a
     • ECMA 369/369
     • Implementation concepts
     • Combining LDR and HDR
  4. Cognitive Radio and Cooperative Networking:
     • Cognitive radio and detect and avoid
     • Cooperation techniques
     • MIMO network coding
  5. Location and Tracking:
     • PHY and MAC layer solutions for LDR
     • Application layer concepts for HDR
     • Prototype implementations developed in PULSERS II and EUWB
  6. Open UWB Technology Platforms
     • EUWB solutions (LDR platform, HDR platform)
     • Commercial solutions
  7. Application Environments
     • Heterogeneous networks
     • Public transport
     • Automotive environment
     • Home environment
  8. Standardization and Regulation
     
     
• Speaker’s tutorial experience in international conferences:
  
  Both speakers have been active university teachers for more than sixteen years. They have been active in giving tutorials for e.g. ETSI (ISPRA UWB Workshop, WALTER UWB Workshop, both in 2009), and at ICT Mobile Summit 2008, at ISSSTA 2008, ICUWB 2008 and ICUWB 2009.
  

• Speaker’s Name :
  • Dr. Friedbert Berens
    • Position/Affiliation: Owner and Managing Director
    • Address: FBConsulting S.à r.l.
      21, Route de Luxembourg; L-6633 Wasserbillig; Luxembourg
    • Phone: +49 160 9797 1846 Fax: +49 6501 9223029
    • Email: fbconsulting@me.com
    • IEEE Membership/Grade: Senior Member
      
      
  • Prof. Dr. Peter Jung
    • Position/Affiliation:
      Full Professor and Director,
      Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationstechnik
    • Address:
      Universität Duisburg-Essen
      Lehrstuhl für Kommunikationstechnik
      Bldg. BB, Rm BB 611, Oststrasse 99, D-47047 Duisburg, Germany
    • Phone:+49 203 379 2590 Fax: +49 203 379 3904
    • Email: Peter.Jung@Kommunikationstechnik.org
    • IEEE Membership/Grade: Senior Member
      
      
• Speaker’s Biography
  
  
  • Dr. Friedbert BERENS received his diploma in 1992 from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. From 1992 to 1999 he was member of the scientific staff of the Centre for Microelectronics at the University of Kaiserslautern During this time he worked in the area of object oriented data base systems for electronics circuit design and the design of communication circuits for the use in satellite systems. In 1996 he joined the University of Kaiserslautern ACTS-FRAMES (AC090) project team. During 1996 to 1999 he prepared a Ph.D. thesis in the field of multicarrier CDMA mobile radio systems (Title: “A generalised view on multicarrier CDMA mobile radio systems with joint detection” in German) deploying joint detection algorithms. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1999. In 1999 he joint STMicroelectronics, Geneva Application Lab. Here he worked on the development of advanced algorithms for the use in UTRA-FDD and TDD systems. Since 2004 he was involved in the ST internal UWB development. As a Senior Principal Engineer – Wireless Systems – in the Computer System Division of ST, he was responsible for the regulation, standardisation and the future evolution of UWB systems. As part of his work he was participating actively in the PULSERS II project on UWB, where he was leading the ST contributions. In 2008, he left ST to found his own company, FBConsulting S.à r.l. Dr. Berens is the author or co-author of 25 patents in the field of wireless communications and has published more than 35 technical papers.
• Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Peter JUNG received the diploma (M.Sc. equiv.) in physics from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1990, and the Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.EE equiv.) and Dr.-Ing. habil. (D.Sc.EE equiv.), both in electrical engineering with focus on microelectronics and communications technology, from University of Kaiserslautern in 1993 and 1996, respectively. In 1996, he became private educator (equiv. to reader) at University of Kaiserslautern and in 1998 also at Technical University of Dresden, Germany. From 1995 until February 1998 he has been involved in the ACTS Project FRAMES (AC090) as the project team manager at the University of Kaiserslautern, also representing the University of Kaiserslautern in the FRAMES Project Co-ordination Committee. In the scope of the ACTS project FRAMES he was involved in the development of joint detection algorithms and the definition of the TD-CDMA based mode of the FRAMES air interface proposal and the Core Task Demonstrator where he was the editor of a most important deliverable on the demonstrator concept. He left the University of Kaiserslautern in March 1998 and from March 1998 till May 2000 he was with Siemens AG, Bereich Halbleiter, now Infineon Technologies, as Director of Cellular Innovation and later Senior Director of Concept Engineering Wireless Baseband. In June 2000, he became Chaired Professor for Communication Technologies (KommunikationsTechnik) at the Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg. In 1995, he was co-recipient of the best paper award at the ITG-Fachtagung Mobile Kommunikation, Ulm, Germany, and in 1997, he was co-recipient of the Johann-Philipp-Reis-Award for his work on multicarrier CDMA mobile radio systems. Professor Jung served as chairman of the Fakultätentag für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (FTEI) e.V., and member of the board of VDE/VDI-GMM. He was member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and has been member of the editorial board of Springer Journal of Wireless Personal Communications.