Tutorials

Jérôme Härri, Marco Fiore, "Vehicular Networking: History, State of the Art and Interdisciplinary Aspects"

25 August, 15:00 - 18:00, Room 5

Jérôme Härri is an Assistant Professor at the Mobile Communication Group at EURECOM, France, and conducting research in wireless vehicular networks. He received a M.Sc. degree and a Dr. ès sc. degree in telecommunication from the Swiss Institute Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, he led a Traffic Telematics Junior Research Group at the Institute of Telematics of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. His research interests are related to the characterization of the mutual relationship between vehicular mobility and inter-vehicular communication or ITS applications.
Jérôme has been Co-Chair of the special session on traffic telematics at IEEE PIMRC’09 and has served as Demo Chair and TPC Co-chair of the IEEE Conference on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC) 2008 and 2010 respectively. He was also involved in the EU FP7 project iTETRIS with aspects related to mobility and connectivity-based ITS infrastructure deployment. He is now involved in the French FOT project SCOREF and the smart grid project VELCRI with aspects related to the identification and management of vehicular mobility contexts. He is actively participating to standardization activities of the ETSI TC ITS in a specialist task force on ITS multi-channel operations, and of the CAR 2 CAR Communication Consortium.
Jérôme is the author of the chapter on “Vehicular Mobility Modeling for VANET” in the book “VANET: Vehicular Applications and Inter-Networking Technologies”, (Eds. H. Hartenstein and K. Laberteaux) published by Wiley in 2010.

Marco Fiore is an Assistant Professor at INSA Lyon, conducting his research activities within the INRIA SWING team. He received M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Chicago, US, and from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a PhD in Telecommunication from the latter institution. He has been a visiting researcher at Rice University, US, and at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain. His research interests include the characterization of user mobility in urban environments, the management of data in vehicular environments, the evaluation of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to- infrastructure communication. Dr. Fiore has published papers on vehicular networking at top-tier conferences, such as Infocom, MobiHoc and MobiSys, and in major journals, such as Trans. on Mobile Computing. He is steadily serving as a technical program committee member for conferences and workshops on vehicular networking, and he is the author of the chapter on “Vehicular Mobility Models” in the book “Vehicular Networks from Theory to Practice”, published by Chapman & Hall in 2009.

Axel Sikora "Synchronization Techniques for Wired and Wireless Networks"

24 August, 13:30 - 14:45, Room 4

Insructor

Axel Sikora is a Professor of University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, Germany (since September 2011). He holds a diploma of Electrical Engineering and a diploma of Business Administration, both from Aachen Technical University. He has done a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronics Circuits and Systems, Duisburg, with a thesis on SOI-technologies. After various positions in the telecommunications and semiconductor industry, he became a professor at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach, where he is head of the IT department and runs a B.Eng. program and a joint Master-Online program with Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg. In 2002, he founded the Steinbeis-Transfer Centre for Embedded Design and Networking (stzedn), which is active as a design center, offering training, consulting, project and product implementations, as well as standard communication protocol suites, including the generic and extremely flexible emBetter TCP/IP-protocol stack. Its major activities are in the field of wireless and wired connectivity of embedded systems. Scientific research and development projects are processed in the Steinbeis Innovation Centre Embedded Design and Networking (sizedn), where algorithms and protocols for efficient, energy-aware, autonomous, and value-added networks are developed, simulated and implemented. Dr. Sikora is author, co-author, editor and co-editor of several textbooks and numerous papers in the field of embedded design and wireless and wired networking. He has held a tutorial on network synchronization already at Wireless Congress 2008 in Munich.

Michele Fiorini, Flavio Testi "The maritime navigation from the Titanic to nowadays e-Navigation"

25 August, 9:30 - 10:15, Room A+B+C

Instructors

Michele Fiorini (PhD, CEng, MIET, SMIEEE) is principal engineer at SELEX - Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica company, in Rome, Italy. His working interests are mainly concerned with command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR), homeland protection and vessel traffic services (VTS). His current work is technical head for the “Zautomatyzowanego Systemu Radarowego Nadzoru (ZSRN) polskich obszarów morskich / Automatic National System of Radar Control (ZSRN) for Maritime Areas of Poland”. Work which has taken him often to Gdańsk, Poland, in the past few months. Educated at PhD level, he is a UK chartered engineer (CEng) and member of the architecture technical working group (WG5) e-Navigation committee at the International Association of marine aids to navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA), Paris. He served in London on different committees and boards of the IEE and IET from 2003 to 2009 including Council and Qualification Board where he was the first non-UK member elected ever. He author and co-author of about 70 papers and project documents and served in the technical committee of many international conference on communications, surveillance and transport systems. He has been session chairman at the IEEE RadarCon2008 and is the chairman of the IET Italy Network.

Flavio Testi is Electrical Engineer with a Industrial Management specialization. He followed many technical, management and marketing courses at Polytechnic and SDA Bocconi University - Milan, ISTUD - Novara, Stratex – Montreaux (CH). His experience started with Factory Automation applications, Computer Numerical Controls for machine tools, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Robotics. He reached managing positions in international companies: Elsag Elettronica San Giorgio, Digital Equipment, Atlas Kopco, Baan Company, Siemens Nixdorf, Bull HN Information System, Marconi Communications. Actually, he is partner of Alfaproject.net for high level consultancy on company processes, value chain and RfiD applications. Author or co-author of 4 technical books and 150 published articles on magazines in Italy, Germany, England, Poland, Russia. IET Member (MIET).

The speakers have held a lecture on e-Navigation in the maritime domain for the 2010 IET Italy Chairman Address at the Museo della Tecnica Elettrica of the University of Pavia, Italy.