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Welcome to the Pervasive Wireless Systems Group. The group is led by Dr. Domenico Giustiniano. The group investigates novel system solutions for the next generation of pervasive wireless systems. The main objective is to create impact, publishing in top system conferences, and transferring the results to the society. The current main areas of research are:
- Low Power LiFi for IoT (openvlc.org)
- Large-scale Spectrum Monitoring and Analytics (electrosense.org)
- 5G and Beyond Localization Systems
What’s new!
Protecting the Spectrum Users with Internet of Things
the SOCRATES project concluded successfully at the end of October 2021, experimentally showing that a novel Internet of Things network can be used to protect the spectrum, identifying and localizing unauthorized transmissions. The final workshop took place in Leuven, on the 29th of October 2021, with the participation of project members and Dr. Claudio Palestini from SPS NATO. The workshop presented the main achievements of the projects as well as the final demonstrator.
Wireless communication devices without batteries?
The Pervasive Wireless Systems Group has presented important advances in the creation of sustainable wireless communication systems. This represents a new step towards making battery-free devices a reality, through the convergence of two emerging technologies: LiFi and radio frequency (RF) backscatter. Potential applications include smart homes, smart cities, and smart agriculture.
European Researchers’ Night 2021
IMDEA Networks researchers Domenico Giustiniano (Research Associate Professor), Borja Genovés (Post-Doc Researcher), Muhammad Sarmad Mir (PhD Student), Javier Talavante (PhD Student), and Dayrene Frómeta (PhD Student), participated in European Researchers’ Night on 24 September, an event promoted by the Regional Ministry of Science, Universities and Innovation and coordinated by the madri+d Foundation.
Team
Scientific Direction
Research
Research Engineering & Support
Admin
Alumni
Roberto Calvo
PhD student and Postdoctoral Researcher
Current Position: Assistant Professor at URJC, Spain
Maurizio Rea
PhD student and Postdoctoral Researcher
Current Position: Senior Researcher at i2cat, Spain.
Ander Galisteo
PhD student
Current Position: Dojo Five: The Embedded Experts. St. Paul, Minnesota. USA
Aymen Fakhreddine
PhD student
Current Position: Senior Researcher at LakeSide Lab, Austria
Qing Wang
PhD student
Current Position: Assistant Professor at TU Delft, Netherlands
Projects
SOMIRO
Soft Milli-robots
Financed by: European Union H2020-ICT-2020-2 (Information and Communication Technology) Grant
ENLIGHT’EM
European Training Network in Low-energy Visible Light IoT Systems
Financed by: European Union H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018 (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks) Grant
TAPIR-CM
Advanced techniques to enhance the intelligence of 5G networks
Financed by: Department of Education and Research of the Regional Government of Madrid, through the 2018 R&D technology program for research groups, co-financed by the Operational Programs of the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
LOCUS
LOCalization and analytics on-demand embedded in the 5G ecosystem, for Ubiquitous vertical applicationS
Financed by: European Union H2020-ICT-2018-2020 (Information and Communication Technology) Grant
Previous projects
PinPoint 5G+
Accurate, Pervasive and Low-Latency Positioning to Innovate 5G Networks and Beyond
TecLoch
Technology Classification and Localization of Anomalies in the Spectrum
MYP-SOCRATES
Large Scale Collaborative Detection and Location of Threats in the Electromagnetic Space
CompPos
SPECTRUMCOP PROGRAM: SpecScale
Technologies for Collaborative Detection of Spectrum Anomalies
SPECTRUMCOP PROGRAM: MONTEBIANCO
Technologies for Collaborative Detection of Spectrum Anomalies
Location-aware MAC scheduling in Mobile and Dense Networks
Location-aware MAC programming in dense and mobile networks
SPECTRUMCOP PROGRAM: SPECTRUMCOP II
Technologies for Collaborative Detection of Spectrum Anomalies
Flex5Gware
Flexible and efficient hardware/software platforms for 5G network elements and devices
SPECTRUMCOP PROGRAM: SPECTRUMCOP I
Technologies for Collaborative Detection of Spectrum Anomalies
MATISSE
Pervasive Mobile Location and Spectrum Sensing Systems
WIRELESS NETWORK DEPLOYMENT AND Wi-Fi BASED INDOOR LOCALIZATION
OPPORTUNISTIC TIMING SIGNALS FOR PERVASIVE MOBILE LOCATION
SWARMIX
Synergistic Interactions in Swarms of Heterogeneous Agents
Publications
Evaluation of Self-Positioning Algorithms for Time-of-Flight based Localization
The 14th International Symposium on Modelling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2016). Tempe, Arizona, USA. May 2016
Robust WiFi Time-of-Flight Positioning System (Demo)
The 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks - Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition (IPSN 2016). Vienna, Austria. April 2016
Demonstration Abstract: Research Platform for Visible Light Communication and Sensing Systems (Demo)
The 15th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2016). Vienna, Austria. April 2016
Embedded Visible Light Communication: Link Measurements and Interpretation
MadCom: New Wireless Communication Paradigms for the Internet of Things, in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2016). TU Graz, Austria. February 2016
Offloading Cellular Traffic Through OpportunisticCommunications: Analysis and Optimization
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2015.2452472. Volume 34 , IEEE. ISSN: 0733-8716. January 2016
Jamming Mitigation by Randomized Bandwidth Hopping
The 11th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT 2015). Heidelberg, Germany. December 2015
Deep Inspection of the Noise in WiFi Time-of-Flight Echo Techniques
The 18th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM MSWIM). Cancun, Mexico. November 2015
Low-Cost, Flexible and Open Platform for Visible Light Communication Networks
The 2nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless (HotWireless 2015), The 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2015). Paris, France. September 2015
On a Cloud-Controlled Architecture for Device-to-DeviceContent Distribution
The 10th ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks (ACM Chants 2015), The 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2015). Paris, France. September 2015
Demo: OpenVLC1.0 Platform for Research in Visible Light Communication Networks (Demo)
The 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2015). Paris, France. September 2015
Infrastructure
The group owns several USRP B210s and N310s, used for 5G localization, spectrum sensing and LiFi infrastructure. It owns an experimental testbed for Wi-Fi indoor localization based on Time-of-Flight ranging and several Soekris boards operating as network infrastructure, being used also in indoor localization competitions, as well as FitLet 2 with Intel8260 chipset access points. Training of deep learning algorithms for spectrum sensing are performed using GPU NVIDIA RTX2080Ti.NUC i5 and NUC i7 boards are used for several activities of the group, such as controlling outdoor spectrum sensors and LiFi infrastructure. The LiFi lab unit of the group includes several OpenVLC boards, it hosts different testbeds based on a large number of OpenVLC boards, moved through the OpenBuilds Acro Systems, and has the software and laboratory equipment to develop new versions and extensions of OpenVLC boards such as Agilent 3000 X-series oscilloscope. Finally, the group has an FPC1000 Spectrum Analyzer of Rohde&Schwarz that goes from 5kHz to 3GHz. It may be used transversally to all projects in the group to analyze RF emissions at different bands.
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Contact
- Group leader: Domenico Giustiniano
- Email: domenico.giustiniano@imdea.org
- Contact phone: +34 914 816 970
- Fax: 3491481696
Office & Postal Address
- IMDEA Networks Institute
- Avda. del Mar Mediterraneo, 22
- 28918 Leganes (Madrid)
- SPAIN