Dr. Lars Torsten Berger is director of the R&D department of Kenus Informática, Paterna, Spain, and founder of BreezeSolve, a Valencia-based company offering engineering and consultancy services in telecommunications, signal processing and Smart Grid.
Dr. Berger received his Dipl-Ing in electrical engineering, MSc in communication systems and signal processing and PhD in wireless communications from the Ravensburg University of Cooperative Education, Germany; the University of Bristol, United Kingdom; and Aalborg University, Denmark, in 1999, 2001 and 2005, respectively.
While working for Nortel Networks, United Kingdom, and during his four years stay at Aalborg University financed by Nokia Networks, he focused extensively on MIMO channel modelling, MIMO signal processing and MIMO scheduling algorithms for 3G cellular systems. During a visiting professor term at the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, he extended his work to 4G cellular, as well as wireless LAN systems and sensor networks. From 2006 to 2010, he became senior engineer at Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2, Spain, in 2010 acquired by Marvell Semiconductors), forming part of the key system architecture team responsible for MIMO and multi-user-enabled power line silicon solutions. More recently, he has extended his area of interest to Smart Grid technologies.
Dr. Berger has published numerous MIMO, scheduling and PLC-related articles in conference proceedings and in international journals. He is the inventor of an international patent related to MIMO PLC signal transmission, has several patent applications pending and is editor of the book entitled Smart Grid Applications, Communications and Security.
Dr. Andreas Schwager has had interest in PLC for over 15 years. Currently, he works as a principal engineer in Sony’s European Technology Center in Stuttgart, Germany. Sony’s R&D in Stuttgart includes the areas of digital radio and video broadcasting, as well as home networking.
Dr. Schwager earned a diploma in telecommunication engineering from the University of Cooperative Education, Stuttgart, in 1993. In May 2010, the University of Duisburg-Essen awarded him a PhD (doctor of science [engineering]) following the publication of his thesis “Powerline Communications: Significant Technologies to Become Ready for Integration,” which discussed the utilisation of MIMO PLC and the concept of dynamic notching to solve the vast EMC discussion on PLC.
Dr. Schwager’s career began at the advanced development labs at ANT Bosch Telecom, Backnang, Germany, and Grundig, Nürnberg, Germany, where he developed narrowband PLC functions for satellite headends. He joined Sony in 1997, where the development of both software and hardware components for home-networking applications ignited his enthusiasm for PLC. Today, Dr. Schwager represents Sony at various standardisation committees at IEEE, ITU, CISPR, CENELEC, Homeplug and ETSI. He is the rapporteur of more than ten work items where technical standards and reports are published, the most recent being the three-part ETSI TR specifying MIMO PLC field measurements and presenting results of MIMO PLC properties. He also led several task forces at international standardisation bodies.
Dr. Schwager is the author of numerous papers presented at research conferences and the inventor of tens of granted IPR in the area of PLC and communications.
Dr. Pascal Pagani is an associate professor at the graduate engineering school Telecom Bretagne in Brest, France, and is a member of the Lab-STICC laboratory (UMR CNRS 6285) dedicated to information and communication science.
He received his MSc in communication systems and signal processing from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, in 2002, and his PhD in electronics from INSA Rennes, France, in 2005.
Prior to joining Telecom Bretagne in 2012, he worked with France Telecom Orange Labs, where he was active in various projects, including UWB propagation channel characterisation and modelling, short range wireless system design and development of in-home wireline communications. He led France Telecom standardisation activities in the IEEE 802.15.3c, ITU SG15 G.hn and HomePlug TWG groups and participated in the ETSI Specialist Task Force 410 for the experimental assessment of the PLC MIMO transmission channel.
Dr. Pagani is a member of the Technical Committee on PLC within the IEEE Communications Society. He is the author of more than 50 publications, including books, book chapters and journal and conference papers in the fields of wireless and wired communication and has filed several pending patents. His current research interests are in the field of radio and wireline transmission, particularly long-haul radio wave propagation and advanced PLC.
Dr. Daniel Schneider currently works as a senior engineer in the European Technology Center of Sony in Stuttgart, Germany, where his work is concerned with communications systems and PLC in particular. He contributed to the work of the PLC HomePlug AV2 specification and was involved in the ETSI MIMO PLC field measurement campaign.
He received his Dipl-Ing in electrical engineering, with a focus on signal processing and communications, and his Dr-Ing for his thesis “In-Home Power Line Communications Using Multiple Input Multiple Output Principles” from the University of Stuttgart in 2006 and 2012, respectively.
Dr. Schneider has published multiple papers related to PLC and MIMO and is inventor of several international patents.