Embedded Files
2022-2027 LUQCIA (VPI and Project Manager) project is a 5-year initiative to build a national testbed for Quantum Communication Infrastructure (QCI) and enable advanced collaborative research in this domain. The motivation is to make Luxembourg competitive at a European and international level and foster an active research ecosystem by pooling resources from public and private stakeholders. It is funded by the European Union – Next-Generation EU, with the collaboration of Luxembourg's Department of Media, Connectivity and Digital Policy (SMC).
2022-2025 ARMMONY (PI): Ground-Based Distributed Beamforming Harmonization For The Integration Of Satellite And Terrestrial Networks. This project proposes using distributed and collaborative beamforming among a set of distributed terrestrial antennas for the transmission and reception of the satellite signals. The proposed techniques are validated in laboratory experiments and a live demonstrator. (FNR CORE).
2021-2023 DIVERSITY (VPI and Project Manager): User Terminal With Path Diversity For Constellations. This activity aims to develop and test in a representative environment a ground transceiver that combines the RF signals from two or more medium-orbit or low-orbit satellites operating in Ka-Band using advanced diversity combining techniques. In partnership with SES. (ESA- ARTES program).
2021-2023 EGERTON (VPI and Project Manager): Efficient digital beamforming techniques for onboard digital processors. This activity aims to develop and demonstrate efficient digital beamforming algorithms and architectures for SATCOM payloads utilizing digital processors and validate them on a representative digital processor testbed. In partnership with SES and Thales Alenia Space (ESA- ARTES program).
2021-2022 MEO Precoding POC (VPI and Project Manager). This project aims to validate and de-risk the Precoding technologies using satellites in the MEO orbits in a realistic scenario. This project includes laboratory experiments and a live demonstrator. The project is directly funded by the Industrial Partnership with SES.
2020-2021 REDSAT (PI): Real-Time Satellite Emulation Testbed. As the POC (Prove of Concept) call Pathfinder from FNR, this project aims to industrialize and commercialize the real-time SATCOM emulations technologies available at SNT Commlab.
2018-2021 COHESAT (PI): Cognitive Cohesive Networks of Distributed Units for Active and Passive Space Applications. This project proposes an innovative close-formation array of satellite units capable of performing distributed beamforming applications and focuses on the synchronization and coordination strategies among the units. The proposed techniques are validated in laboratory environments, as a previous stage of future live demonstrators. (FNR CORE-JT).
2020-2023 CGD: Prototype of a Centralized Broadband Gateway for Precoded Multi-Beam Networks. (Tech. Coordinator). The objective of the activity is to design and test a hardware prototype of a broadband gateway suitable for a Very High Throughput Satellite (VHTS) network supporting precoding technique (ESA- ARTES program).
2018-2020 LiveSatPredem (Implementation Leader and manager of some WP): Live Satellite Demonstration of Advanced Interference Management Techniques. Validation over a real GEO satellite scenario of advanced interference management techniques, particularly MU-MIMO Precoding. In partnership with SES and Airbus (ESA- ARTES program).
2020-2023 DISBuS (Implementation Leader and manager of some WP): Dynamic Beam Forming and In-band Signalling for Next-Generation Satellite Systems. In this project, the consortium comprising SnT and SES develops a comprehensive framework that enables the performance optimization of the emerging generation of SES satellites equipped with onboard processing and dynamic beamforming capabilities. (FNR Bridges).
2020-2023 5G-SKY (Implementation Leader and manager of some WP): Interconnecting the Sky in 5G and Beyond - A Joint Communication and Control Approach. This activity investigates whether drones equipped with cellular base stations (BSs) are beneficial or harmful for terrestrial 5G infrastructure. (FNR CORE.)
2020-2023 MEESST: MHD Enhanced Entry System for Space Transportation: Hardware prototyping of MIMO Antenna system resilient to the plasma blackout effects over communication links. EU H2020.
2018-2021 CIPHY: Exploiting interference for physical layer security in 5G networks (EPSRC-FNR): Support in the WPs related to SDR implementation.
2016-2018 SATSENT: SATellite Sensor NETworks for spectrum monitoring. Devise innovative spectrum sensing schemes using power-efficient multi-antenna technologies. The project includes experimental evaluation in USRP platforms of multi-antenna spectrum sensing and interference detection techniques. (FNR CORE-JT).
2016-2018 SERENADE: Satellite Precoding Hardware Demonstrator. SERENADE is a demonstrator of Full Frequency Reuse for Multibeam Satellite Systems employing Precoding. It includes the emulation of the satellite channel and the user terminals using SDR platforms. (FNR POC).
2016-2020 ECLECTIC: Energy and Complexity Efficient millimeter-wave Large-Array Communications: Implementation of hybrid digital/analog beamforming using SDR platforms and commercial off-the-shelf RF component in millimeter-wave frequencies. (FNR-CORE-JT)
2016-2020 ESSTIMS (Support for the hardware testbed): Enhanced Signal Space Optimization for Satellite Communication Systems. (FNR CORE JT.).
2016-2018 IEE/SnT consortium: MIMO radar for Automotive applications: Implementation of MIMO radar functionalities on the USRP- FPGA for high-speed data processing.
2013-2016 Dynamic spectrum sharing techniques for next-generation wireless networks. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS).
2015 Agro-Tech Start-up price for Airborne Remote Sensing project. Government of Spain.
2015 Collaborator: “Interference mitigation in satellite communications (AVIO-601): Investigation of novel cognitive systems architectures and advanced digital signal processing techniques for Next-Generation Satellite Communications.” Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in agreement with L'École de technologie supérieure (ETS) de Montréal.
2007 - 2009 Implementation Leader: "Bistatic Polarimetry in Synthetic Aperture Radars." MEC (Spanish Science and Education Ministry), with the reference: TEC 2007-65690. In this project, a C/X-Band Bistatic Radar receiver was designed employing PCB integration, embedded system design, digital signal processing, and software development.
2007 - 2009 Implementation Leader: "Multiple Active Transmitters (MAT) for subsidence monitoring with orbital SAR systems." University-Industry project for Altamira Information. Here is proposed the design of a set of synchronized terrestrial transponders to enhance the capabilities of the conventional orbital SAR systems. The project had three phases: an initial feasibility study, a hardware prototyping and testing of a simplified system using only one transmitter, and finally, the design and prototyping of a phase synchronization subsystem used to synchronize multiple transmitters with a shared phase reference.
2006 Urban Public Transportation Service Management System. Proposal and definition of the project, which was approved and co-funded by COLCIENCIAS (Colombia Science and Tech organism), within the national call 282 for scientific and technological research projects in the year 2005. Full-time engagement. The objective was to develop an electronic system to provide management tools for the local public transportation service. The designs were done at the PCB integration level and using programmable logic. Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia.
2005-2006 Telemetry Device for the Management of the Public Transportation Service in Barranquilla. Within the Young Researchers Program of COLCIENCIAS, national call 257. The objective of the project was to build an electronic device onboard urban public service vehicles allowing the telemetry of their parameters using a wireless connection. The design was at the PCB integration level. Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia
Google Sites
Report abuse