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Backscatter, MIMO, Ultra-Wideband: Three Independent Worlds?

Speaker: Daniel Arnitz, Duke University

Talk Title: Backscatter, MIMO, Ultra-Wideband: Three Independent Worlds?

Abstract: Three systems have independently revolutionized the physical layer of wireless communications in the past decade: backscatter communications, multi-input-multi-output systems, and ultra-wideband signaling. Yet, are these concepts as independent and incompatible as they initially appear, or can these fields learn from each other? The talk will span topics from backscatter tag localization (i.e. secondary radar), ultra-wideband backscatter propagation channels, and MIMO wireless power transfer, to a potential new application of these technologies: real-time ultra-wideband channel modeling.



Biography: Daniel Arnitz is a PostDoc at Duke University (NC, USA), working on backscatter channel modeling and prediction, MIMO wireless power transfer, and RFID localization. He received his Master degree Dipl.-Ing.(FH) in electrical engineering from the University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum Kapfenberg, Austria, in 2005, and a Ph.D. (Dr. techn.) degree from Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 2011 (both degrees with honors). His Ph.D. thesis covers the field of tag localization in passive UHF RFID and his diploma thesis focused on a feasibility study of (burst) error correcting codes for long-range RFID systems. Daniel is TPC Chair of IEEE RFID 2012 and 2013 and maintainer of the PARIS simulation framework, an open-source simulation engine intended for researching (ultra-)wideband backscatter systems.



Host: Andreas Molisch, x04670, molisch@usc.edu

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos