Professors

Ferran Casadevall

UPC-TSC

Campus Nord

C/Jordi Girona, 1-3

08034 Barcelona, Spain

Office: D4-108

Phone: 93 401 65 24

Email: ferranc@tsc.upc.edu

Fernando J. Casadevall received the Engineer of Telecommunication and Dr Engineering degrees from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, in 1977 and 1983 respectively. He is currently Full Professor in the Signal Theory and Communications Department. After graduation he was concerned with equalisation techniques for digital fibre optic systems. He has also been working in the field of digital communications with particular emphasis on digital radio and its performance under multipath propagation conditions. In the last ten years, he has mainly been concerned with the performance analysis and development of digital mobile radio systems. In particular his research interest include cellular and personal communication system, multipath transceiver design (including Software Radio techniques), Mobility and Radio Resources Management, End to end QoS issues.

During the last ten years he participated in more than twenty research-projects founded by both public and private organisations. In particular, he participated in the research project CODIT and ATDMA in RACEII program and RAINBOW in ACTS program. In the context of the 5th European Framework Program he participated in the IST projects WINEGLAS, CAUTION++ and ARROWS, being the project Manager of the last one. Dr. Casadevall is currently the Project Manager of the STREP-IST project EVEREST and he is also participating in the Network of Excellence NEWCOM. He has published around one hundred of technical papers in both International Conferences and Magazines. From October 1992 to January 1996 was the responsible for the Information Technology Area in the National Agency for Evaluation and Forecasting (Spanish Nation Research Council).

 

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Journals

M. Lopez Benitez, F. Casadevall , Signal Uncertainty in Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio , IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS , Apr-2013 , Vol: 61 , Nº: 4 , pp: 1231 - 1241 , ISSN: 0090-6778/13

M. López-Benítez, F. Casadevall , Improved energy detection spectrum sensing for cognitive radio , IET Communications (The IET), Special Issue on Cognitive Communications , May-2012 , Vol: 6 , Nº: 8 , pp: 785 - 796 , ISSN: 1751-8628

T. Abrao, I. Suzuki, B. A. Angelico, F. Ciriaco, P. E. Jeszensky, F. Casadevall , Reduced cluster search ML decoding for QO-STBC M-QAM MIMO systems , International Journal of Satellite Communications Policy and Management , Nov-2011 , Vol: 1 , Nº: 1 , pp: 15 - 30 , ISSN: 1742-7568

E.Bezerra, F.Casadevall , Control of the Trade-Off between Resource Efficiency and User Fairness in Wireless Networks Using Utility-Based Adaptive Resource Allocation , IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE , Sep-2011 , Vol: 49 , Nº: 9 , pp: 90 - 98 , ISSN: 0163-6804/11

M. López Benítez, F. Casadevall , Empirical Time-Dimension Model of Spectrum Use based on Discrete-Time Markov Chain with Deterministic and Stochastic Duty Cycle Models , IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY , Jul-2011 , Vol: 60 , Nº: 6 , pp: 2519 - 2533 , ISSN: 0018-9545

M. López-Benítez, F. Casadevall , Versatile, accurate and analytically tractable approximation for the Gaussian Q-function , IEEE Transactions on Communications (IEEE Communications Society) , Apr-2011 , Vol: 59 , Nº: 4 , pp: 917 - 922 , ISSN: 0090-6778

J. Pérez-Romero, D. Noguet, M. López-Benítez, F. Casadevall , Towards a more efficient spectrum usage: Spectrum sensing and cognitive radio techniques , Radio Science Bulletin (URSI) , Mar-2011 , Nº: 336 , pp: 59 - 74

M. López-Benítez, F. Casadevall , Methodological aspects of spectrum occupancy evaluation in the context of cognitive radio , European Transactions on Telecommunications , Special Issue on European Wireless Conference 2009 , Wiley InterScience , Sep-2010 , pp: 1 - 15 , DOI: 10.1002/ett

M. Mueck, A. Piipponen, G. Dimitrakopoulos,K. Tsagkaris,F. Casadevall,P. Demestichas, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, G. Baldini, S. Filin,H. Harada, M. Debbah, T. Haustein,J. Gebert, B. Deschamps, P. Bender, M. Street, K. Kall , ETSI Reconfigurable Radio Systems – Status and Future Directions on Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio Standards , IEEE Communications Magazine , Jul-2010 , pp: 78 - 86 , ISSN: 0163-6804/10

T. Abrão , L. D. de Oliveira , F. Ciriaco, B. A. Angélico, P. E. Jeszensky , F.Casadevall Palacio , S/MIMO MC-CDMA Heuristic Multiuser Detectors Based on Single-Objective Optimization , Wireless Personal Communications , Springer Netherlands , Jun-2010 , Vol: 53 , Nº: 4 , pp: 529 - 553 , ISBN: 0929-6212 (Print) 1572-834X (Online) , DOI: 10.1007/s11277-009-9701-