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Joint OptiMO/M2M Project Meeting

Mobility is our way to success.

Organization of UiAOrganization of our FacultyThe Mobile Communications Group

• Staff• Research Areas• Teaching• Cooperations• Projects• Activities and Outputs

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Organization of UiA

University of Agder (UiA)

Faculty of Health and Sport

Faculty of Humanities and

Education

Faculty of Fine Arts

Faculty of Engineering and

Science

Faculty of Economics andSocial Science

UiA was established on September 1, 2007.

In 2007: 8000 students, 900 employees, 800 MNOK budget.

The new campus will be completed in 2010.

New Campus

Campus Grimstad

Organization of the Faculty

Faculty of Engineering and Science

Department of Engineering(Grimstad)

Department of ICT (Grimstad)

Department of Mathematical Science

(Kristiansand)

Department of Natural Science (Kristiansand)

Research Groups

Aerospace Civil Engineering Renewable

energy, electrical

power and

electronics Industrial

economy and

management Mechatronics

Research Groups

Multimedia Mobile

Communications Information

Systems Systems and

Security

Research Groups

Mathematic Didactics

Mathematics Teacher

Education

Research Group

Functional Ecology

Staff

Matthias Pätzold (Professor, Head)

Katharina Pätzold (Project Secretary)

Ragnar Johnsen (Assistant Professor)

Dmitry Umansky (PhD Student)

Batool Talha (PhD Student)

Yuanyuan Ma (PhD Student)

Gulzaib Rafiq (PhD Student)

Adrian Gutierrez (PhD Student)

Ali Chelli (PhD Student)

Akmal Fayziyev (PhD Student)

N.N. (Open PhD position)

Zhou Wei (Guest researcher, start Sept. 2009)

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Research Areas

MIMO Channel Modelling and Performance Analysis of MIMO-OFDM Systems (Y. Ma)

MIMO Street Models for M2M Fading Channels (A. Chelli, A. Fayziyev)

Development of MIMO Channel Simulators Based on Measurement Data (D. Umansky)

Capacity Analysis of Mobile Communication Systems with Multiple Antennas (G. Rafiq)

Channel Models for M2M Communication Systems in Cooperative Networks (B. Talha)

Channel Simulation Models for Mobile Broadband Communication Systems (C. A. Gutierrez)

Signal Constellation Design for Cooperative Networks (Y. Wu)

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Teaching

Master of Science (2-years)Random Variables and

Stochastic Processes (IKT401) (Spring, Semester 8)• Lecture: 2 h/w (Matthias Pätzold)• Exercise: 1 h/w (PhD student)• Laboratory ex.: 2 h/w (PhD student)

Mobile Radio Communications (IKT500) (Autumn, Semester 9)• Lecture: 3 h/w (Matthias Pätzold)• Exercise: 2 h/w (PhD student)• Laboratory ex.: 2 h/w (PhD student)

PhD Courses Mobile Fading Channels (IKT 703) (Spring)

• Lecture: 5 credits (Matthias Pätzold)

Introduction to Mobile Fading Channels (IKT622) (Autumn)• Lecture: 5 credits (Matthias Pätzold)

TutorialsSelected Topics in Mobile Fading Channel Modelling

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Teaching

Electrical Engineering (3-years)

Advanced Digital Circuits (Spring, Semester 4)• Lecture: 2 h/w (Ragnar Johnsen)• Exercise: 2 h/w (Ragnar Johnsen)• Project work: 3h/w (Ragnar Johnsen)

Digital Signal Processing (Autumn, Semester 5)• Lecture: 2 h/w (Ragnar Johnsen)• Exercise: 2 h/w (Ragnar Johnsen)• Laboratory ex.: 3 h/14 days (Ragnar Johnsen)

Mobile Communications (Spring, Semester 6)• Lecture: 5 h/w (Ragnar Johnsen)• Exercise: 2 h/w (Ragnar Johnsen)

Telecommunication (Autumn, Semester 5)• Lecture: 3 h/w (Ragnar Johnsen)• Exercise: 2 h/w (Ragnar Johnsen)

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Industry University of Agder Universities

Mobile Communications

Group

Cooperations

Ericsson, Grimstad

Telenor, Oslo

HFR Inc., Korea

Maritime Communications

Partner AS, Grimstad

Nera, Oslo

SUP‘COM, Tunisia

Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania

Shandong University, China

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Poznan University of Technology, Polen

Hanyang University, Korea

CINVESTAV, Mexico

University of Navarra, Spain

Wuhan Technical University, China

Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam

Mobile Communications Group

Mobile to Mobile Communication Systems (M2M)• Project director: Matthias Pätzold and Are Hørungnes• Budget: 10.930.000 NOK (1.179.994 €)• Period: 09/2007 – 08/2011

Optimized Heterogeneous Multiuser MIMO Networks (OptiMO) • Project director: Are Hørungnes and Matthias Pätzold• Budget: 11.980.000 NOK (1.322.017 €)• Period: 09/2006 – 08/2011

Mobile Communication Systems and Services• Project director: Matthias Pätzold• Budget: 4.680.000 NOK (601.565 €)• Period: 01/2003 – 12/2006

Mobile Student Project• Project director: Vladimir Oleshchuk• Budget: 6.369.000 NOK (818.668,00 €)• Period: 06/2001 – 12/2004

Projects

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TPC Activities (only 2009): VTC’09-Spring, VTC’09-Fall, VTC’10-Spring, Globecom’09, China Com’09, ATC’09, ICVEC’09, SENES’09, WPMC’09

Editorial Activities (only 2009): • Editor of the Special Issue on „Wireless Future“, Wireless Personal

Communications, 2009

• Associate Editor of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (starting Sept. 2009)

Publications (only 2009): 1 book, 1 book chapter, 9 journal papers, 21 conference papers

Reviewer of Project Proposals

Awarded Papers: 8 best paper awards.

Activities and Outputs

Mobile Communications Group