Measurement and characterization of satellite-to-indoor radio wave propagation channel (original) (raw)

2005, Proc. of European …

BIOGRAPHY Abdelmonaem Lakhzouri was born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1975, He received his Engineering Diploma in signal processing from the Ecole Suprieure des Communications de Tunis, Tunisia in 1999. Since then he has been a researcher in the Institute of Communications, Tampere University of Technology, where he get the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications in June 2005. He has been involved in different research projects in the area of mobile positioning in cellular and satellite-based systems. Elena Simona Lohan received the M.Sc. degree in 1997 from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, in Electrical Engineering, the D.E.A. degree in Econometrics, at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, in 2003. She is currently a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology. Her research interests include mobile phone positioning techniques, CDMA signal processing, and wireless channel modelling and estimation. Ilkka Saastamoinen received his M.Sc. degree in information technology from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, in 1998. He worked over 7 years in Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Digital and Computer Systems. Since 2003 he has been in u-Nav Microelectronics, where he is working as Senior R&D Engineer. His work includes development of algorithms, architectures and hardware for satellite-based positioning systems. His research interests include low-power and low-cost design methodologies and techniques, satellitebased navigation and HDL based design.