Introduction
The A&MSP Department focuses on Spatial Interference Management in Licensed Shared Access (LSA): Short Range Communications and Satellite communications. LSA is considered to be a key enabler for an efficient use of the available spectrum in 5G and beyond networks, which will become absolutely compulsory in order to cope with the unprecedented wireless traffic growth that has been predicted for the 2014-2020 period. The field of application includes space communications, future cellular networks, and wireless sensor/actuators networks.
Activities are centered in four main research lines:
- New paradigms for hybrid satellite-terrestrial communications.
- Advanced multi-antenna processing techniques and optimization strategies for interference limited networks: PHY-MAC Cross-layer design for Resource Management.
- New waveform generation for terrestrial-satellite: multi-carrier filterbank and development of a Software platform.
- Cross-design of antennas and signal processing techniques for emerging multi-antenna technologies such as spatial-modulation (SM) or large-scale multiple antenna systems (LSMAs or Massive MIMO). Distributed MIMO systems.
Books & Chapters
D. Christopoulos, S. Chatzinotas, G. Taricco, M. Á. Vázquez, A. I. Pérez-Neira, P. Arapoglou, A. Ginesi, Multibeam joint precoding: Frame-based design, Chapter in Cooperative and Cognitive Satellite Systems”, edited by Symeon Chatzinotas, Bjorn Ottersten, Riccardo De Gaudenzi, published by Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-799948-7
Journals
M. El-Absi, M. Shaat, F. Bader, T. Kaiser, Interference Alignment with Frequency-Clustering for Efficient Resource Allocation in Cognitive Radio Networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 7070-7082, December 2015.
G. Cocco, M. Angelone, A. I. Pérez-Neira, Co-Channel Interference Cancellation at the User Terminal in the BGAN Satellite System, International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking , December 2015.
P. Henarejos, A. I. Pérez-Neira, Dual Polarized Modulation and Reception for Next Generation Satellite Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 63, No. 10, pp. 3803-3812, October 2015.
S. H. Yeung, T. K. Sarkar, M. Salazar-Palma, M. Á. Lagunas, A. I. Pérez-Neira, Broadband Matching in Simultaneous Information and Power Transfer , IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 192 – 203, March 2015.
Conferences
I. Llamas-Garro, J. Bas, J. M. Fabrega, M. Svaluto Moreolo, B. Carrion Schafer, R. Torres-Torres, M. R. T. de Oliveira, M. T. de Melo, J. Kim, D. Vukobratovic, Recent Trends and Considerations for High Speed Data in Chips and System Interconnects, in Proceedings of SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 3-6 November 2015, Porto de Galinhas (Brazil).
R. Muñoz, R. Vilalta, C. Verikoukis, J. Mangues, J. Alonso-Zarate, A. Georgiadis, M. Payaro, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, J. Serra, D. Pubill, J. Núñez, J. Baranda, F. Vázquez-Gallego, A. I. Pérez-Neira, The CTTC 5G end-to-end experimental platform integrating IoT, SDN, and distributed cloud, in Proceedings of Wireless World Research Forum Meeting 35 (WWRF), 14-16 October 2015, Copenhagen (Denmark).
M. Á. Vázquez, A. I. Pérez-Neira, M. Á. Lagunas, Robust Multibeam Satellite Systems For Underlay Licensed Shared Access, Robust Multibeam Satellite Systems For Underlay Licensed Shared Access, August 2012, in Proceedings of the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2015), 31-4 August 2012, Nice (France).
M. Á. Vázquez, A. I. Pérez-Neira, C. Mosquera, B. Shankar Mysore R, A. D. Panagopoulos, P. Henarejos, G. Giambene, V. A. Siris, G. C. Polyzos, N. Alagha, Pushing for higher rates and efficiency in Satcom: the different perspectives within SatNExIV, in Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2015), 25-28 August 2015, Brussels (Belgium).
M. Caus, A. I. Pérez-Neira, M. Angelone, A. Ginesi, An innovative interference mitigation approach for high throughput satellite systems, in Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 28- July 2015, Stockholm (Sweden).
R. Muñoz, J. Mangues, N. Bartzoudis, R. Vilalta, R. Martínez, R. Casellas, N. Baldo, J. Núñez, M. Requena, O. Font-Bach, M. Miozzo, P. Henarejos, A. I. Pérez-Neira, M. Payaro, End-to-end 5G services via an SDN/NFV-based multi-tenant network and cloud testbed, in Proceedings of European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC 2015) , 29-2 July 2015, Paris (France).
X. Artiga, Full-Dimension MIMO arrays with large spacings between elements, in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 19-24 July 2015, Vancouver (Canada).
M. Á. Lagunas, A. I. Pérez-Neira, X. Artiga, Array factor directivity for interference scenario, in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers (CSCC), 19-20 July 2015, Zakynthos, Ionion (Greece).
M. Caus, A. I. Pérez-Neira, Y. Cheng, M. Haardt, Towards a non-error floor multi-stream beamforming design for FBMC/OQAM, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 8-12 June 2015, London (UK).
P. Henarejos, A. I. Pérez-Neira, Dual Polarized Modulation and Receivers for Mobile Communications in Urban Areas, in Proceedings of IEEE 16th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 28-1 July 2015, Stockholm.
X. Artiga, A. I. Pérez-Neira, Shared Access Terrestrial-Satellite Backhaul Network enabled by Smart Antennas: SANSA , in Proceedings of the 2015 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 29-2 July 2015, Paris (France).
F. Schaich, B. Sayrac, M. Schubert, H. Lin, K. Pedersen, M. Shaat, G. Wunder, A. Georgakopoulos, FANTASTIC-5G: 5G-PPP Project on 5G Air Interface Below 6 GHz, in Proceedings of European Conference on Networks and Communications EUCNC, 29-2 July 2015, Paris (France).
R. Muñoz, J. Mangues, N. Bartzoudis, R. Vilalta, R. Martínez, R. Casellas, N. Baldo, J. Núñez, M. Requena, O. Font-Bach, M. Payaro, P. Henarejos, A. I. Pérez-Neira, Towards an SDN/NFV-based multi-tenant network and cloud testbed for end-to-end 5G services, In Proceedings of 34th Wireless World Research Forum Meeting, 21-23 April 2015, Santa Clara, California (USA).
A. I. Pérez-Neira, M. Caus, Dimensionality constraints imposed by highly frequency selective channels on MIMO-FBMC/OQAM systems, in Proceedings of International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2015), 3-5 March 2015, Ilmenau (Germany).
S. Pfletschinger, D. Wübben, D. Gregoratti, Multi-Carrier Two-Way Relaying with Non-Binary Coding, in Proceedings of the 10th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC2015), February 2-5 2015 , Hamburg (Germany).
Patents
N. Zorba, C. Verikoukis, A. I. Pérez-Neira, Method of Efficent Channel Allocation in Wireless Systems , Granted patent: USA 8.441.932, EP2272297, ES2336748.
N. Zorba, M. Realp, A. I. Pérez-Neira, Beamforming Technique for Broadband Satellite Communications , Granted patent: USA 8.310.980, EP2203988, ES2332077.
N. Zorba, A. I. Pérez-Neira, Power allocation method in multiantenna systems under partial channel knowledge , Granted patent: USA 8.208.952, EP 2160849, ES2325713.
M. Payaro, A. Pascual-Iserte, M. Á. Lagunas, Method and System for Robustly Transmitting the Minimum Power in Multi-user and Multi-antenna Communications Systems with Imperfect Channel Knowledge , Granted patent: EP2039019.
I. Pérez-Neira, P. Henarejos, Method and System for providing diversity in polarization of antennas , International Application Nº: PCT/EP2014/051801.