This year, for the first time at ONDM (International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modellin, CTTC has organized a special event on “Women in Photonics & Diversity Dimensions in Research” supported by the IEEE Photonics Society in the framework of IEEE Women in Photonics. This event promoting diversity and inclusion has been organized as [...]

In March 2020, Michela Svaluto Moreolo delivered an invited talk on Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) at the Suzanne Nagel Lounge during the conference OFC 2020 in San Diego, CA, USA. This lounge is an inclusive networking space entitled to Suzanne Nagel, a pioneer in creating women-focused mentoring opportunities. She was the first woman [...]

Due to the uncertainty around the COVID-19 situation, and in order to guarantee the health and safety of conference delegates, attendees and supporting staff, the ONDM 2020 General Chairs, in agreement with the Program Chairs, have decided that ONDM 2020 will take place virtually and online, using video conferencing tools, and Registration fees have been adjusted [...]

ICASSP2020 COVID-19 Announcement [16 March 2020] The safety and well-being of our participants is of paramount importance to IEEE Signal Processing Society. On 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic. After careful consideration and in light of the global health emergency and pervasive travel restrictions, IEEE Signal Processing Society has [...]

For the first time, ICASSP2020 congress will be held as an entirely virtual congress that will offer the scientific community the possibility to exchanges knowledges while protecting the safety, health, and well-being of all congress participants. The virtual conference will take place between the 4-8 May 2020.  You will have access not only to the [...]

ABSTRACT: NB-IoT is a recent addition to 3GPP 4G standardization which represents a first step towards massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) services to be further developed as part of 5G technology. In this talk, we describe the collaboration of ICONIC centre research team at the University of Novi Sad with a mobile operator in Serbia in [...]

ABSTRACT: In this talk, Prof. Hari will briefly introduce the motivation to study channel modeling followed by a brief overview of the experiments in channel measurements leading to the IEEE 802.16 standard. He will present the challenges in developing a communication system for drone communication links using current systems like LTE and the motivation to study the wireless channel models [...]

ABSTRACT: Introduction / Objective Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or the so-called drones are increasingly used in many applications. UAVs can be used as complementary infrastructure to provide wireless services for the ground users or they may require wireless connectivity from the ground for a safe and reliable operation. In this talk, four emerging scenarios are [...]