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Welcome to the Pervasive Wireless Systems Group. The group is led by Dr. Domenico Giustiniano and it investigates pervasive networking solutions using innovative wireless systems. The approach of the group is to build and deploy solid prototype systems to support and validate the theoretical and simulation studies. The current main areas of research are:
- Visible Light Communication Systems (openvlc.org)
- Large-scale Spectrum Monitoring Systems (electrosense.org)
- 5G Localization Systems
What’s new!
SOMIRO: New H2020 project granted!
Persys Group has been awarded funding from the European Union, for the project SOMIRO: “Soft Milli-robots”. The SOMIRO project will develop a flat-worm-inspired mm-scale swimming robot with month-long energy autonomy, local intelligence, and ability to continuously generate data and optically communicate to reduce farming’s environmental impact in terms of carbon footprint, over fertilization, pesticide use, and overfeeding. The project is led at IMDEA Networks by Domenico Giustiniano, started on January 1st 2021, and will have a duration of 36 months.
European Researchers’ Night 2020
The team, made up of Domenico Giustiniano (Research Associate Professor), Borja Genovés Guzmán (Post-doc Researcher) and Muhammad Sarmad Shahab Mir (PhD Student) from IMDEA Networks, participated in European Researchers’ Night on 27 November, an event promoted by the Regional Ministry of Science, Universities and Innovation and coordinated by the madri+d Foundation (funded by the European Union within its research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020).
“Green light for the Earth”: IMDEA Networks at Science and Innovation Week 2020
Battery disposal causes harm to the environment, and, as the number of IoT grows, replacing the battery of each IoT device on earth is not viable anymore. The scientific community is recently seeking to design networks that don’t need any battery to communicate as a solution to this problem. IMDEA Networks is actively engaged in this area, and the team consisting of Domenico Giustiniano (Research Associate Professor), Borja Genovés Guzmán (Post-doc Researcher) and Muhammad Sarmad Shahab Mir (PhD Student) from IMDEA Networks, together with Ambuj Varshney (Post-doc Researcher) from University of California, Berkeley, have designed the first prototype of battery-free IoT device that leverages the advantages of two cutting-edge technologies: LiFi and RF backscatter. The researchers of IMDEA Networks Institute have presented the system in the Week of Science and Innovation 2020 with an event titled “Green Light for the Earth”.
Team
Scientific Direction
Research
Research Engineering & Support
Admin
Interns
Nikolaos Apostolakis
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: Ikerland, Spain
Aymen Fakhreddine
PhD student
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Qing Wang
PhD student
Current Position: Assistant Professor at TU Delft, Netherlands
Projects
ENLIGHT’EM
European Training Network in Low-energy Visible Light IoT Systems
IMDEA Networks is the project coordinator
TAPIR-CM
Advanced techniques to enhance the intelligence of 5G networks
IMDEA Networks is the project coordinator
LOCUS
LOCalization and analytics on-demand embedded in the 5G ecosystem, for Ubiquitous vertical applicationS
IMDEA Networks is the beneficiary of this project
P
PinPoint 5G+
Accurate, Pervasive and Low-Latency Positioning to Innovate 5G Networks and Beyond
IMDEA Networks is the coordinator of this project
MYP-SOCRATES
Large Scale Collaborative Detection and Location of Threats in the Electromagnetic Space
IMDEA Networks is the project coordinator
Previous projects
ARMASUISSE - CompPos
SPECTRUMCOP PROGRAM: SpecScale
Technologies for Collaborative Detection of Spectrum Anomalies
ARMASUISSE - SpecScale
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
HyCloud: A system for device-to-device content distribution controlled by the cloud
The 15th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2014). Sydney, Australia. June 2014
Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks: An Experimental Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities
IEEE Communications Magazine. IEEE Communications Society. ISSN: 0163-6804. June 2014
Enabling Next Generation Airborne Communications [Guest Editorial]
IEEE Communications Magazine. 10.1109/MCOM.2014.6815899 . Volume 52 , IEEE Communications Society. ISSN: 0163-6804. May 2014
Poster abstract: Practical Limits of WiFi Time-of-Flight Echo Techniques (Other, peer-reviewed)
The 13th ACM IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2014). Berlin, Germany. April 2014
WINS: Tracking of Mobile Devices with WiFi Time-Of-Flight (Demo)
The 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in sensor Networks - Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition (IPSN 2014). Berlin, Germany. April 2014
Detection of Reactive Jamming in DSSS-based Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2013.013014.131037. Volume 13 , IEEE. ISSN: 1536-1276. March 2014
VLC: State of the Art and Challenges (Invited Talk)
Class “Visible Light Communication” on Uppsala University. Uppsala, Sweden. November 2013
Infrastructure
The group owns several USRP B210s, 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