Centre for Wireless Communications University of Oulu
CWC
University of Oulu

Street Address:
Erkki Koiso-Kanttilan katu 2S-door
90570 Oulu

Postal Address:
P.O. Box 4500
FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland

Tel. +358 8 553 1011
Fax. +358 8 553 2845
cwcinfo@ee.oulu.fi
GIUSEPPE ABREU, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor

Personal Contact Information:
E-mail: name.surname@ee.oulu.fi
Street Address: Erkki Koiso-kanttilan katu 2S, FI-90570 Oulu, Finland
Room: TF411
Postal Address: P.O.Box 4500, FI-90014 University of Oulu
Telephone: +358 8 553 2887
GSM: +358 40 744 1395
Fax: +358 8 553 2845
BOOK CHAPTERS
  1. 4G Mobile & Wireless Communications Technologies - Davide Macagnano, Giuseppe Destino and Giuseppe Abreu: "Metric Multidimensional Scaling for Localization and Tracking," in 4G Mobile & Wireless Communications Technologiesin, River Publishers, 2008.
  2. Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communications and Networks - Kegen Yu, Harri Saarnisaari, Jean-Philippe Montillet, Alberto Rabbachin, Ian Oppermann and Giuseppe Abreu: "Localization," in Ultra-Wideband Wireless Communications and Networks, Xuemin Shen, Mohsen Guizani, Robert Caiming Qiu and Tho Le-Ngoc (Editors), John Wiley, 2006.
SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES
  1. IEEE Transactions on Communications - Giuseppe Abreu: "Jensen-Cotes Bounds on the Gaussian Q-function and Related Functions," IEEE Transactions on Communications (in press).
  2. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications - Giuseppe Destino and Giuseppe Abreu: "Weighing Strategy for Network Localization under Scarce Ranging Information," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (in press).
  3. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications - Behrouz Maham, Are Hjørungnes and Giuseppe Abreu: "Distributed GABBA Space-Time Codes in Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 2036 - 2045, April 2009.
  4. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology - Gabriel Porto Villardi, Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "Modified Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes for Time-Selective Fading Channels," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (to appear, September 2008).
  5. IEEE Transactions on Communications - Giuseppe Abreu: "On the Generation of Tikhonov Variates," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 1157-1168, July 2008.
  6. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing - Giuseppe Abreu: "Closed-form Correlation Functions of Generalized Hermite Wavelets," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 2258-2261, June 2005.
  7. EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing - Giuseppe Abreu, Craig Mitchell and Ryuji Kohno: "Jitter-Robust Orthogonal Hermite Pulses for Ultra Wideband Impulse Radio Communications," EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing - Special Issue on Ultra-Wideband State of the Art, No.3, pp. 369-381, March, 2005.
  8. IEE Proceedings on Communications - Giuseppe Abreu, Hideki Ochiai and Ryuji Kohno: "Linear Maximum Likelihood Decoding of Space-Time Block Coded OFDM Systems for Mobile Communications," IEE Proceedings on Communications - Special Issue on Wireless LAN Systems and Internetworking, vol. 151, No. 5, pp. 447-459, October 2004.
  9. IEEE Transactions of Antennas and Propagations - Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "A Modified Dolph-Chebyshev Approach for the Synthesis of Low Sidelobe Beampatterns with Adjustable Beamwidth," IEEE Transactions of Antennas and Propagations, Vol. 51, Issue 10, pp. 3014 -3017, October 2003.
SELECTED CONFERENCE ARTICLES
  1. IEEE ICC (Germany) - Giuseppe Abreu: "Arbitrarily Tight Upper and Lower Bounds on the Gaussian Q-function and Related Functions," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications - Wireless Communications Symposium (ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany, June 14th - 18th, 2009.
  2. IEEE ICC (Germany) - Pedro Nardelli, Giuseppe Abreu and Paulo Cardieri: "Multi-Hop Aggregate Information Efficiency in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications - Wireless Communications Symposium (ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany, June 14th - 18th, 2009.
  3. IEEE ICC (Germany) - Giuseppe Desino and Giuseppe Abreu: "Solving the Source Localization Problem via Global Distance Continuation," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications - Wireless Communications Symposium (ICC 2009), Dresden, Germany, June 14th - 18th, 2009.
  4. IEEE IWT (Greece) - Qiang Xue, Giuseppe Abreu and Behnaam Aazhang: "Mutual Information of Amplify-and-Forward DSTBCs over the Random Set Relay Channel," in Proc. IEEE Sixth Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC 2009), Volos, Greece, June 9th - 12th, 2009.
  5. IEEE IWT (Greece) - Carlos Lima and Giuseppe Abreu: "Analysis of Contention-based Relay Selection Mechanisms in Autonomous Multi-hop Networks," in Proc. IEEE Sixth Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (ITW 2009), Volos, Greece, June 9th - 12th, 2009.
  6. IEEE WCNC (Hungary) - Davide Macagnano and Giuseppe Abreu: "Improved MDS-Based Multi-Target Tracking Algorithm," in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2009), Budapest, Hungary, April 5-8, 2009.
  7. IEEE WPNC (Germany) - Carlos Lima and Giuseppe Abreu: "Collision Probability of Distributed Position-Centric Relay Selection Strategy," in Proc. IEEE Sixth Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC 2009), Hanover, Germany, March, 2009.
  8. IEEE WPNC (Germany) - Davide Macagnano and Giuseppe Abreu: "Wavelet-based Scheme for MDS Tracking," in Proc. IEEE Sixth Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC 2009), Hanover, Germany, March, 2009.
  9. IEEE WPNC (Germany) - Pedro Nardelli and Giuseppe Abreu: "Analysis of Hopping Strategies in Multi-hop Wireless Networks," in Proc. IEEE Sixth Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC 2009), Hanover, Germany, March, 2009.
  10. IEEE WPNC (Germany) - Pedro Nardelli and Giuseppe Abreu: "Evaluation of Location-Aware Routing in Heterogeneous Networks," in Proc. IEEE Sixth Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC 2009), Hanover, Germany, March, 2009.
  11. IEEE WPNC (Germany) - Golaleh Rahmatollahi, Thomas Kaiser and Giuseppe Abreu: "Evaluation of Loca-tion-Aware Routing in Heterogeneous Networks," in Proc. IEEE Sixth Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC 2009), Hanover, Germany, March, 2009.
  12. IEEE Asilomar (USA) - Qiang Xue, Giuseppe Abreu and Behnaam Aazhang: "Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward DSTBCs over the Random Set Relay Channel," in Proc. Forty-second Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (Asilomar 2008), Pacific Grove, U.S.A., October 26 - 29, 2008 (accepted).
  13. IEEE ICUWB (Germany) Giuseppe Destino and Giuseppe Abreu: "Optimized Confidence Weights for Localization Algorithms with Scarce Information," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2008), Hanover, Germany, September 10-12, 2008 (accepted).
  14. IEEE SAM (Germany) - Behrouz Maham, Are Hjørungnes and Giuseppe Abreu: "Distributed GABBA Space-Time Codes with Complex Signal Constellations," in Proc. IEEE Fifth Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2008), Darmstadt, Germany, July 21-23, 2008.
  15. IEEE WCNC (USA) - Carlos Lima and Giuseppe Abreu: "Clusterization for Robust Geographic Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference - Network Track (WCNC 2008), Las Vegas, March 31st - April 3rd, 2008, pp.2385 - 2390.
  16. IEEE WPNC (Germany) - Davide Macagnano and Giuseppe Abreu: "Tracking Multiple Dynamic Targets in LOS/NLOS Conditions with Multidimensional Scaling," in Proc. IEEE Fifth Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC 2008), Hanover, Germany, March 27nd, 2008, pp.251-257.
  17. IEEE WPNC (Germany) - Giuseppe Destino and Giuseppe Abreu: "Network Boundary Recognition via Graph Theory," in Proc. IEEE Fifth Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC 2008), Hanover, Germany, March 27nd, 2008, pp. 271-275.
  18. IEEE WPNC (Germany) - Carlos Lima and Giuseppe Abreu: "Game-Theoretical Relay Selection Strategy for Geographic Routing in Multi-hop WSNs," in Proc. IEEE Fifth Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC 2008), Hanover, Germany, March 27nd, 2008, pp. 277-283.
  19. IEEE Asilomar (USA) - Giuseppe Destino, Davide Macagnano and Giuseppe Abreu: "Hypothesis Testing and Iterative WLS Minimization for WSN Localization under LOS/NLOS Condition," Forty-first Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (Asilomar 2007), Pacific Grove, U.S.A., November 4 - 7, 2007, pp. 2150 - 2155.
  20. IEEE PIMRC (Greece) - Giuseppe Abreu: "BER and Mutual Information of STBCs over Fading Channels with PSK-QAM Modulations," in Proc. IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2007), Athens, Greece, September 3rd-7th, 2007.
  21. IEEE PIMRC (Greece) - Davide Macagnano and Giuseppe Abreu: "Tracking Multiple Dynamic Targets with Multidimensional Scaling," in Proc. IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2007), Athens, Greece, September 3rd-7th, 2007.
  22. IEEE IST Mobile Summit (Hungary) - Giuseppe Destino, Davide Macagnano and Giuseppe Abreu, Benoit Denis and Laurent Ouvry: "Localization and Tracking for LDR-UWB Systems," in Proc. 16th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit (IST-Summit 2007), Budapest, Hungary, 1-5 July, 2007.
  23. IEEE ICC (Scottland) - Giuseppe Abreu: "On the Simulation of Tikhonov Random Processes," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications - Wireless Communications Symposium (ICC 2007), Glasgow, Scottland, June 24th - 27th, 2007.
  24. IEEE WPNC (Germany) - Giuseppe Destino, Davide Macagnano and Giuseppe Abreu, "A Clusterized WLS Localization Algorithm for Large Scale WSNs," in Proc. IEEE 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC 2007), Hanover, Germany, March 22nd, 2007.
  25. IEEE WPNC (Germany) - Davide Macagnano, Giuseppe Destino, Flavio Esposito and Giuseppe Abreu, "MAC Performances for Localization and Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. IEEE 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication (WPNC 2007), Hanover, Germany, March 22nd, 2007.
  26. IEEE WCNC (Hong-Kong) - Giuseppe Abreu and Giuseppe Destino, "Super MDS - Source Location from Distance and Angle Information," in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference - Network Track (WCNC 2007), Hong-Kong, March 11th - 15th, 2007.
  27. IEEE Globecom (USA) - Giuseppe Abreu: "Accurate Simulation of Piecewise Continuous Arbitrary Nakagami-m Phasor Processes," in Proc. IEEE Global Conference on Telecommunications - Communication Theory Simposium (Globecom 2006), San Francisco, USA, November 27th - December 1st, 2006.
  28. IEEE Globecom (USA) - Giuseppe Destino and Giuseppe Abreu: "Sensor Localization from WLS Optimization with Closed-form Gradient and Hessian," in Proc. IEEE Global Conference on Telecommunications - Wireless Communications & Networking Symposium (Globecom 2006), San Francisco, USA, November 27th - December 1st, 2006.
  29. IEEE PIMRC (Finland) - Giuseppe Destino and Giuseppe Abreu, "Localization from Imperfect and Incomplete Ranging," in Proc. IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2006), Helsinki, Finland, September 11th-14th, 2006.
  30. IEEE Asilomar (USA) - Giuseppe Abreu: "GABBA Codes - Generalized Full-Rate Orthogonally Decodable Space-Time Block Codes," in Proc. Thirty-ninth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (Asilomar 2005), Pacific Grove, U.S.A., October 30 - November 2, 2005.
  31. IEEE Asilomar (USA) - Gabriel Porto Villardi, Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno, "Modified Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes for Time-Selective Fading Channels," in Proc. Thirty-ninth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (Asilomar 2005), Pacific Grove, U.S.A., October 30 - November 2, 2005.
  32. IEEE ICU (Switzerland) - Giuseppe Abreu: "Performance of Parameter Estimation from UWB-IR Signals with an Array of Orthonormal Correlators," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband Telecommunications (ICU 2005), Zurich, Switzerland, September 5-8, 2005.
  33. IEEE VTC-Spring (Sweden) - Jean-Philippe Montillet, Giuseppe Abreu Harri Sarnisari and Ian Opperman: "Comparison of UWB and WCDMA Positioning Accuracies," in Proc. IEEE 61st Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring 2005), Stockholm, Sweden, May 30th to June 1st, 2005.
  34. IEEE ISSSTA (Australia) - Alex Cartagena Gordillo, Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "Band-Limited Frequency Efficient Orthogonal Pulse-Shape Modulation for UWB Communications," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA 2004), Sidney, Australia, August 30th to September 2nd, 2004.
  35. IEEE Globecom (USA) - Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "Design of Jitter-Robust Orthogonal Pulses for UWB Systems," in Proc. IEEE Global Conference on Telecommunications - Wireless Communications Symposium (Globecomm 2003), San Fracisco, USA, December 1st-5th, 2003.
  36. IEEE ISIT (Japan) - Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "Orthogonal Decoding of Space-Time Block Codes in Fast Fading," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2003), Yokohama, Japan, June 29th-July 4th, 2003.
  37. IEEE ISIT (Japan) - Kouji Ishii, Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "Turbo-Like Space-Time Coding for Beamforming Arrays," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2003), Yokohama, Japan, June 29th-July 4th, 2003.
  38. IEEE IWUWBS (Finland) - Giuseppe Abreu, Craig Mitchell, Louis Trichard and Ryuji Kohno: "A Note on the Design of Orthogonal Hermite Pulse for UWB Communications," in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Ultra Wideband Systems (IWUWBS 2003), Oulu, Finland, June 2nd-5th, 2003.
  39. IEEE IWUWBS (Finland) - Tadatomo Sato, Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "Beamforming Array Antenna for Ultra Wideband Communications," in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Ultra Wideband Systems (IWUWBS 2003), Oulu, Finland, June 2nd-5th, 2003.
  40. IEEE PIMRC (Portugal) - Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "Non-Differential Space-Time Transmission Diversity in Fast Fading," in Proc. IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2002), Lisbon, Portugal, November 15th-18th, 2002.
  41. IEEE ISSSTA (Czech Republic) - Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "Beamwidth-Adjustable Low Sidelobe Beamforming for Space-Time Diversity," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA 2002), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 526-530, November 2nd-5th, 2002.
  42. IEEE PIMRC (England) - Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "Smart Array Antenna for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN II with Near Field Distortion Compensation," in Proc. IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2000), London, England, pp. 1454-1458, September 18th-21st, 2000.
  43. IEEE ISSSTA (USA) - Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "Near Field Smart Array Antenna for IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN II," in Proc. International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA 2000), Parsippany, USA, pp. 25-29, September 6th-8th, 2000.
ARTICLES IN PREPARATION
  1. Giuseppe Abreu: "Generalized ABBA Space-Time Block Codes".
REGISTERED PATENTS
  1. Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "A Method to Design Low Sidelobe, Beamwidth-Adjustable Array Patterns and Applications," Sony Co., Japan (2001).
  2. Giuseppe Abreu and Ryuji Kohno: "Method and Device for Using Array Antenna to Estimate Direction of Source in Near Field," Sony Co., Japan (2000).
Updated 26 July, 2008 Updated 4 September, 2007