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University of Technology, Austria, in 2009,
room, with a system that also serves as a
Creating the proposed
standard-compliant access point for 5G
infrastructure, developing and his Dipl.-Ing. degree (with distinction)
in electrical engineering from Graz
communications.
the appropriate distributed University of Technology, Austria, in 2012.
Note that, vice versa, the environment
processing algorithms,
He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at
model can be exploited by the communicaand validating the
the Signal Processing and Speech
tions system. "Location awareness" is created by providing a site-specific propagation
applications in challenging Communication Laboratory of Graz
University of Technology. His research
model that can be used to improve the robustAL environments will
interests are in ultrawideband wireless comness of the radio air-interface. For example,
require significant
munication, indoor positioning, estimation
the arrival and departure angles of the most
multidisciplinary work
theory, Bayesian inference, and statistical
significant radio paths are encoded in the
over the coming years.
signal processing. He is a Student Member
environment model, which will be useful for
of the IEEE.
efficient beamsteering algorithms for comYuan Shen (shenyuan_ee@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn) received
munications in highly dynamic environments, extending the
his B.E. degree (with highest honors) in electrical engineering
scope of the proposed concepts well beyond AL scenarios.
from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2005, and his
S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computAcknowledgments
er science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
The work of K. Witrisal, P. Meissner, and E. Leitinger was partly
2008 and 2014, respectively. He is currently an associate prosupported by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
fessor with the Electrical Engineering Department at Tsinghua
within the project REFlex (project number 845630) and within
University. His research focuses on network localization and
the Austrian COMET Competence Center FTW. The work of D.
navigation, inference techniques, resource allocation, and
Dardari and A. Conti was supported in part by the Italian MIUR
intrinsic wireless secrecy. He is the elected secretary
project GRETA under grant 2010WHY5PR. The work of Y.
(2015-2017) for the IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications
Shen and M.Z. Win was supported in part by the Office of Naval
Committee. He is an editor of IEEE Communications Letters
Research under grant N00014-11-1-0397. The work of A.F.
and a guest editor of International Journal of Distributed
Molisch was supported by ONR, NSF, and KACST.
Sensor Networks (2015).
Carl Gustafson (carl.gustafson@eit.lth.se) received the
Authors
Ph.D.
degree in radio systems and M.Sc. degree in electrical
Klaus Witrisal (witrisal@tugraz.at) received his Dipl.-Ing.
engineering from the Department of Electrical and
degree from Graz University of Technology, Austria, in 1997, his
Information Technology, Lund University, Sweden, where he
Ph.D. degree from Delft University of Technology, The
currently works as a postdoctoral researcher. His main
Netherlands, in 2002; and the Habilitation from Graz University
research interests include channel measurements and modeof Technology, Austria, in 2009, where he is currently an assoling for mm-wave wireless systems, cellular systems operating
ciate professor. He was an associate editor of IEEE
above 6 GHz, and vehicular wireless communication systems.
Communications Letters, a cochair of the TWG "Indoor" of
Other research interests include massive multiple-input, multithe COST Action IC1004, a leading chair of the IEEE
ple-output, antenna array processing, statistical estimation,
Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and
and electromagnetic wave propagation.
Navigation, and TPC cochair of the Workshop on Positioning,
Fredrik Tufvesson (fredrik.tufvesson@eit.lth.se) received
Navigation, and Communicatio. His research interests are in
his Ph.D. degree in 2000 from Lund University, Sweden. After
signal processing for wireless communications, propagation
two years at a start-up company, he joined the Department of
channel modeling, and positioning. He is a Member of the IEEE.
Electrical and Information Technology at Lund University,
Paul Meissner (paul.meissner@ieee.org) received the
where he is now professor of radio systems and heads the
B.Sc. degree and Dipl.-Ing. degree (with distinction) in
department's Wireless Propagation group. His main research
infor mation and computer engineer ing from Graz
interests are channel modeling, measurements and characterizaUniversity of Technology, Austria, in 2006 and 2009,
tion for wireless communication, with applications in various
respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engiareas such as massive multiple-input, multiple-output, ultrawideneering (with distinction) from the same university in 2014.
band, mm-wave communication, distributed antenna systems,
In 2015, he received the award of the Association of
vehicular communication systems, and radio-based positioning.
German Engineers for his Ph.D. thesis. He is currently a
He has authored/coauthored approximately 50 journal papers
postdoctoral researcher at the Signal Processing and Speech
and 120 conference papers. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Com munication Laborator y of Graz University of
Katsuyuki Haneda (katsuyuki.haneda@aalto.fi) received the
Technology. His research topics include statistical signal
Doctor of Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology,
processing, localization, estimation theory, and channel
Japan, in 2007. He is currently an assistant professor in the Aalto
modeling. He is a Member of the IEEE.
University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland. He was the
Erik Leitinger (erik.leitinger@tugraz.at) received his B.Sc.
recipient of the best paper awards in VTC2013-Spring and
degree (with distinction) in electrical engineering from Graz
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