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Research advances in cognitive ultra wide band radio and their application to sensor networks

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The paper illustrates the novel concept of Cognitive UWB Radio, a wireless system based on UWB transmission able to self-adapt to the characteristics of the surrounding environment. First, salient features of UWB transmission are reviewed, and then, application of UWB characteristics to the problem of cognitive radio systems is discussed. Current ongoing studies and achieved results on a possible physical layer based on Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions and consistent with the Cognitive UWB Radio paradigm are presented and analyzed, and their application to the sensor network scenario is discussed.

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  1. DIT-University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, Trento, Italy

    Fabrizo Granelli & Stefano Maranò

  2. CREATE-NET, Via Solteri 38, 38100, Trento, Italy

    Honggang Zhang & Xiaofei Zhou

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Fabrizio Granelli was born in Genoa in 1972. He received the «Laurea» (M.Sc.) degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1997, with a thesis on video coding, awarded with the TELECOM Italy prize, and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications from the same university, in 2001. Since 2000 he is carrying on his teaching activity as Assistant Professor in Telecommunications at the Dept. of Information and Communication Technology—University of Trento (Italy). In August 2004, he was visiting professor at the State University of Campinas (Brasil). He is author or co-author of more than 40 papers published in international journals, books and conferences, and he is member of the Technical Committee of the International Conference on Communications (ICC2003, ICC2004 and ICC2005) and Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM2003 and GLOBECOM2004). Dr. Granelli is guest-editor of ACM Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications, special issue on “WLAN Optimization at the MAC and Network Levels” and Co-Chair of 10th IEEE Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD’04). Dr. Granelli is General Vice-Chair of the First International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON’05) and General Chair of the 11th IEEE Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD’06).

 His main research activities are in the field of networking and signal processing, with particular reference to network performance modeling, medium access control, wireless networks, next-generation IP, and video transmission over packet networks.

 He is Senior Member of IEEE.

Honggang Zhang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering, from Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), China, in 1989, and Lanzhou University of Technology, China, in 1992, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Kagoshima University, Japan, in 1999.

 From October 1999 to March 2002, he was with the Shin-Kawasaki Research Center, Telecommunications Advancement Organization (TAO) of Japan, as a TAO Research Fellow. From April 2002 to November 2002, he joined the TOYOTA IT Center, where he performed research and development on software-defined radio (SDR) with applications in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). From December 2002 to August 2004, he has been with the UWB Research Consortium, Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan, where his job responsibilities were focused on UWB wireless communications, IEEE 802.15.3a & 4a WPAN standardizations, Wireless 1394 and “1394-Over-UWB” home networks. He is the founding member of UWB Forum (www.uwbforum.org) and the principle contributor for proposing DS-UWB specifications in IEEE 802.15 WPAN standardization task group. Since September 2004, he has been appointed as the Wireless Group Coordinator at CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy. His current research interests include Ultra-Wideband (UWB) wireless communications, Cognitive Radio, wireless personal area networks (WPAN), and multimedia home networks.

Xiaofei Zhou received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Shangdong University, Jinan, China, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Technologies at the University of Trento, Trento, Italy. Since March 2004, he has been with the Wireless Group, CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy, as a Research Assistant. His main research interests include digital communications theory, Ultra-Wideband wireless communications, Cognitive Radio, and wireless personal area networks (WPAN).

Stefano Marano’ was born in Verona, Italy, in 1983. He received the B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2005. His thesis is focused on evaluating performance of PSWF-based pulses in Ultra Wideband environment. He is currently attending the M.Sc. course in Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Trento. His main interests are in the area of Ultra Wideband Communications.

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Granelli, F., Zhang, H., Zhou, X. et al. Research advances in cognitive ultra wide band radio and their application to sensor networks. Mobile Netw Appl 11, 487–499 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-006-7195-0

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