Stefano Savazzi
Ph.D.
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (DEI)
Politecnico di Milano
P.zza L. da Vinci 32
I-20133 Milano, Italy
Ph: +39 02 2399 3462
Fax: +39 02 2399 3413
E-mail: savazziATelet.polimi.it
BIOGRAPHY
· Dec. 2004, M.Sc. degree (with honors) in
Telecommunication Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
· March-Sept 2005, visiting researcher at Signals
and Systems ,
· July-Sept 2007, visiting researcher at Electrical and Computer Engineering,
· March 2008, PhD degree (with honors) in Electronic and Communication Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.
· April 2008, PostDoc researcher at Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano.
AWARDS
· May 2008, Dimitris N. Chorafas
Foundation Award. for best PhD. dissertation
· June 2008, StartCup Milano Lombardia, 3rd Prize (article from “Il Sole 24 Ore” pdf)
RESEARCH
INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
Signal processing aspects
of wireless communications systems, antenna array processing, channel
estimation and tracking, MIMO-OFDM systems, cooperative
communication, relay channels, ad-hoc networking and wireless sensor networks.
PhD. Thesis: S. Savazzi,
“Analysis and Design of
Cooperative Networks in fading channels” PhD.
Thesis, Dipartimento di Elettronica e
Informazione, Politecnico di Milano,
Wireless Geophysics: (see the new website Wireless Geophone Networks), a new paradigm for seismic exploration, see also ref. [A5].
TUTORING/CO-TUTORING OF THESIS
D. Marzatico, “Wireless Sensors
Networks” B.Sc. Thesis, 2007
P. Bestagini, “Adattamento della potenza in trasmissione per sistemi wireless a basso consumo” B.Sc. Thesis, 2008
C. Galli, “Ottimizzazione energetica e trasmissione cooperativa per reti ad-hoc” M.Sc. Thesis, 2006
P. Castiglione, “Coded cooperation over
time-variant channels” M.Sc. Thesis, 2008
COURSES
Elaborazione Statistica dei
Segnali (prof U. Spagnolini)
2006/07
Fondamenti di Segnali e
Trasmissione (prof. M. Nicoli) 2006/07
Telecomunicazioni (prof. M.
Nicoli) 2008/09 (Dispense e Materiale didattico)
Sistemi
di Comunicazione (Temi d’esame, Appunti),
INVITED TALKS
S. Savazzi, “Cooperative
fading regions in ad hoc wireless networks” @ Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien, (ftw), Vienna
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Monographs – Books
S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini,
“Cooperative Networks in
Fading Channels. A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis and Design” VDM Verlag Dr. Müller (February 17, 2010), ISBN: 978-3-639-23396-4, 200 pages (purchase
from amazon.com).
Book Chapters
M.Nicoli, S.Savazzi, O.Simeone, R.Bosisio, G.Primolevo, C.Santacesaria, “Deployment and design of multi-antenna WiMax systems in non-stationary interference,” Book Chapter of Current
Technology Developments of WiMax Systems (Chapter 1) edited
by Dr. Maode Ma, Springer 2009, ISBN: 978-1-4020-9299-2.
A. Journals
[A.1] S. Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “Energy Aware Power Allocation
Strategies for Multihop-Cooperative Transmission
Schemes,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Cooperative
Communication and Networking, vol. 25, no 2, February 2007.
[A.2] S.Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Distributed Orthogonal Space-Time
Coding: design and outage analysis for randomized cooperation,” IEEE Trans. On Wireless
Communications, vol. 6, no. 12, December 2007.
[A.3] S.Savazzi, O. Simeone and U. Spagnolini, “Optimal design of non-uniform linear arrays in
cellular systems by out-of-cell interference minimization” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communication and
Networking, vol. 2007, Article ID 93421, 9 pages, 2007, doi:10.1155/2007/93421.
[A.4] O. Simeone, I. Stanojev,
[A.5] S.Savazzi and U.Spagnolini, “Wireless Geophone Networks for high density land
acquisitions: technologies and future potential,” The Leading Edge, Special
Section: Seismic Acquisition, pp. 259-262, July 2008.
[A.6] S. Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “Cooperative fading regions for decode
and forward relaying,” IEEE
Trans. On Information Theory, vol. 54, no.11, November 2008.
[A.7]
[A.8] S.Savazzi, V.Rampa and U.Spagnolini,
“High-Density Wireless Geophone Networks for Oil and Gas Monitoring and
Exploration,” European Research
Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Number 76, pp. 43-45, January
2009. Available at www.ercim.org [ ]
[A.9] S. Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “Design criteria of two-hop based
wireless networks with non-regenerative relays in arbitrary fading channels,”
IEEE Trans. On Communications , pp. 1463-1473, vol. 57, no. 5, May 2009.
[A.10] S. Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “Optimizing training lengths and
training intervals in continuous time-varying fading channels,” IEEE Trans. On Signal
Processing, pp. 1098-1113, vol. 57, no. 3 March 2009.
[A.11] S. Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “On the pilot spacing constraints for continuous time-varying fading
channels,” (pdf) IEEE Trans.
on Communications, vol. 57, no. 11, November 2009.
S.Savazzi, U. Spagnolini,
L. Goratti, D. Molteni, M. Latva-aho, M. Nicoli,
“Ultra-Wide Band sensor networks in oil and gas explorations,”
submitted IEEE Communications Magazine
B. Conference Proceedings
[B.1] S.Savazzi, O.Simeone and U. Spagnolini, “Optimal design of linear arrays in a TDMA cellular system with Gaussian
interference” Proc. IEEE SPAWC, June 2005.
[B.2] S.Savazzi, M. Nicoli and M.Sternad, “Spatial
multiplexing for outdoor MIMO-OFDM systems with limited feedback costraint” Proc. IEEE International Conference on
Communication ICC, Istanbul, Turkey, 11-15 June, 2006
[B.3] M. Nicoli, L. Sampietro,
C. Santacesaria, S. Savazzi,
O. Simeone and U. Spagnolini, “Throughput optimization for non-uniform linear
antenna arrays in multicell WiMAX
systems” International ITG - IEEE Workshop on Smart
Antennas, March 2006.
[B.4] S.Savazzi and U. Spagnolini, “Energy Aware
Power Allocation Strategies for Multihop-Cooperative
Transmission Schemes” Proc. Conference on
Information Sciences and Systems CISS-IEEE, 22-24 March 2006.
[B.5] A. del Coso, S.Savazzi, U. Spagnolini and C. Ibars, “Virtual MIMO
Channels in Cooperative Multihop Wireless Sensor
Networks” Proc. Conference
on Information Sciences and Systems CISS-IEEE, 22-24 March 2006.
[B.6] C. Galli, S.Savazzi, U. Spagnolini,
“A multihop-cooperative transmission
protocol for energy limited WPAN systems,” Proc. IEEE 6th Scandinavian Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc Networks, 3-4 May
2006.
[B.7] S.Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Design of Distributed Randomized Orthogonal
Space-Time Coding schemes for Cooperative H-ARQ,” Proc. 40th IEEE Asilomar
Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computer, Nov 2006.
[B.8] S.Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Cooperative Space-Time coded
transmissions in Nakagami-m fading channels, ” Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM,
[B.9] S.Savazzi, U.Spagnolini, “Training structure design optimization
for continuous time-varying fading channels, ” Proc. IEEE WCNC,
April 2008.
[B.10] S.Savazzi, U.Spagnolini,
“Virtual MIMO channels: diversity
and outage analysis in arbitrary fading channels,” Proc. of 1st COST2100 Workshop on MIMO and
Cooperative Communications,
[B.11] P. Castiglione, M. Nicoli,
[B.12] S. Savazzi,
U. Spagnolini, “Synchronous Ultra-Wide Band Wireless Sensor Networks for oil and gas
exploration,” IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
(ISCC'09), Sousse , Tunisia
[B.13] S. Savazzi, L. Goratti,
U. Spagnolini, M. Latva-aho,
“Short-range Wireless Sensor Networks for
high density seismic monitoring,” Proc. of WWRF 22th meeting
5-7 May 2009, Paris, France.
[B.14] S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini,
M. Nicoli, D. Fontanella, “Self-configuring wireless sensor networks for seismic applications,”
joint Newcomm++ - AcoRN
Workshop,
[B.15] P. Castiglione,
[B.16] P. Castiglione,
[B.17] R. Heath,
[B.18] D. Molteni,
S. Savazzi, U. Spagnolini, “Cross Layer Optimization for
Efficient Data Aggregation in Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proc. of IWCMC, Workshop Emergency
Management-Communication and Computing Platforms,
[B.19] I. L’Abbate, S. Savazzi, L. Goratti, U. Spagnolini, M. Latva-aho “Multi-Band UWB Sensor Networks for high density sub-surface
diagnostic: Energy Consumption and Network Set-Up Delay,” Proc. of IWCMC,
Workshop Emergency Management-Communication and Computing Platforms,
C. International Patents
[C.1] M.Nicoli, L.
Sampietro, C. Santacesaria,
S.Savazzi, O.Simeone, and U.Spagnolini, “Methos for optimizing the spacing
between receiving antennas of an array usable for counteracting both interference
and fading in cellular systems”, Publication date 29 Ago. 2007.
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