Prof. Dr. Thomas Hunziker Thomas Hunziker

Biography

Career History

• Lecturer at the Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland, since October 2011. Teaching in basic electrical engineering as well as advanced courses in signal processing and communications technology. Engagement in applied research projects in the areas of digital communications and computer vision.
• Senior Researcher at the Communications Laboratory of the University of Kassel, Germany, from April 2006 to September 2011. Coordination of research activities within the area of digital signal processing with an emphasis on wireless radio and sensor systems. Responsibilities in lecturing and student supervision.
• Researcher at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) in Kyoto, Japan, from September 2002 until March 2006. Development of novel solutions for decentralized wireless networks, partly in collaboration with industry and university partners. Focusing on array signal processing methods for directional antennas and medium access schemes for ad hoc networks.
• Research Assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Communication Technology Laboratory, from January 1997 until August 2002. Engagement in a number of European research projects and supervision of student projects while studying towards PhD degree.
• Software Architect at NCR/AT&T Global Information Solutions in Wallisellen, Switzerland, from 1992 to 1996. Development of object-oriented middleware and client-server solutions in C/C++ for various customers from industry, banking, and administration.

University Level Degrees

• “Dipl.-Ing.” Degree (equiv. Master of Science) in Electrical Engineering, in 1992.
• Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology, in 2001.
• Doctor of Technical Sciences, in 2002.

    (all degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich)

Publications

• L. Martínez Marrero, L. Martínez Marrero, S. Dominiak, J. Torres Gómez, T. Hunziker, "Channel Estimation Based on Frame Control Symbol Re-encoding and Re-Mapping", IEEE Int. Symp. on Powerline communications and its Applications (ISPLC '18), Manchester, UK, April 2018.
• L. Sadamori, S. Dominiak, and T. Hunziker, "A Characterization of the Broadband MIMO PLC Channel in Aircraft", IEEE Int. Symp. on Powerline communications and its Applications (ISPLC '17), Madrid, Spain, April 2017.
• L. Sadamori, T. Hunziker, and S. Dominiak, "Gains and Limits of MIMO Technology for Safety-Critical PLC Applications", IEEE Int. Symp. on Powerline communications and its Applications (ISPLC '16), Bottrop, Germany, March 2016.
• U. Ur Rehman, D. Dahlhaus, and T. Hunziker, "Cooperative Cognitive Spectrum Sensing using Optimized DFT Filter Banks", IEEE 21st Symp. on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT), Delft, Netherlands, November 2014.
• I. A. Shah, D. Dahlhaus, U. Y. Mohamad, N. Mansour, and T. Hunziker, "Recursive Spatial Multiplexing in Interference-Limited Indoor Scenarios ", IEEE 21st Symp. on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux (SCVT), Delft, Netherlands, November 2014.
• N. Mansour, D. Dahlhaus, I. A. Shah, and T. Hunziker, "Recursive Spatial Multiplexing with a Capacity-Limited Feedback Channel", IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC '14), Sydney, Australia, June 2014.
• T. Hunziker, "Reconstruction of Lattice-Like Objects on Mobile Devices", Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Advances in Computing and Information Technology (ACIT '14), Bangkok, Thailand, December 2013.
• U. Mohamad, I. A. Shah, T. Hunziker, and D. Dahlhaus, "Adaptive Recursive Spatial Multiplexing (RSM) in Interference-Limited Scenarios", Proc. 8th Int. Symp. on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC '13), Taipei, Taiwan, November 2013.
• T. Hunziker, U. Ur Rehman, and D. Dahlhaus, "Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radios: Design of DFT Filter Banks Achieving Maximal Time-Frequency Resolution", Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS '11), Singapore, December 2011.
• T. Edlich, T. Hunziker, I. A. Shah, and D. Dahlhaus, "Optimal Recursive Spatial Multiplexing Strategies for Slowly Time-Varying MIMO Channels", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC '11), Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.
• M. Selig, T. Hunziker, and D. Dahlhaus, "Enhancing ZF-SIC by Selective Retransmissions: On Algorithms for Determining the Decoding Order", Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technol. Conf. (VTC '11-Spring), Budapest, Hungary, May 2011.
• I. A. Shah, T. Hunziker, T. Edlich, and D. Dahlhaus, "Recursive Spatial Multiplexing in the Presence of Time-Variant Co-Channel Interference", Proc. 17th IEEE Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux, Enschede, The Netherlands, November 2010.
• T. Edlich, T. Hunziker, and D. Dahlhaus, "Recursive Spatial Multiplexing: Improving Unitary Precoding with Outdated Channel State Information", Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technol. Conf. (VTC '10-Spring), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2010.
• D. Dahlhaus, T. Hunziker, S. Vassilaras, H. Al-Raweshidy, M. de Sanctis, et al., My personal Adaptive Global NET (MAGNET), (Ed. R. Prasad), Springer, 2010.
• Z. Ju, T. Hunziker, and D. Dahlhaus, "Optimized Paraunitary Filter Banks for Time-Frequency Channel Diagonalization", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, December 2009.
• T. Hunziker, Z. Ju, and D. Dahlhaus, "Time-Frequency Channel Parameterization with Application to Multi-Mode Receivers", IEICE Trans. Commun., vol. E92-B, no. 12, pp. 3717-3725, December 2009.
• Z. Ju, T. Hunziker, and D. Dahlhaus, "Time-Frequency Parameterization of Doubly Dispersive Channels", Proc. European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO '09), Glasgow, Scotland, pp. 1675-1679, August 2009.
• T. Hunziker, Z. Ju, and D. Dahlhaus, "A Reconfigurable Baseband Receiver Architecture Based on Time-Frequency Signal Processing", Proc. ICT-MobileSummit 2009, Santander, Spain, June 2009.
• T. Hunziker, T. Edlich, and D. Dahlhaus, "On the Ergodic Performance of a Simple Closed-Loop Spatial Multiplexing Architecture", Proc. Int. Symp. on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA '08), Auckland, New Zealand, December 2008.
• C. Sun, T. Hunziker, J. Cheng, M. Taromaru, and T. Ohira, "Optimal Frame Splitting for Downlink MIMO Channels with Distributed Antenna Arrays", IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technol., vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 3848-3854, November 2008.
• T. Hunziker and S. Stefanatos, "Efficient Two-Dimensional Filters for Doubly-Dispersive Channel Estimation in Time-Frequency Signal Processing", Proc. Int. Symp. on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Appl. (ISSSTA '08), Bologna, Italy, August 2008.
• T. Hunziker, "On the Employment of SMI Beamforming for Cochannel Interference Mitigation in Digital Radio", book chapter in Handbook on Advancements in Smart Antenna Technologies for Wireless Networks, ISBN 978-1599049885, Information Science Reference, July 2008.
• T. Hunziker, T. Edlich, and D. Dahlhaus, "Feedback-Aided Selective Subspace Retransmission for Outage-Free Spatial Multiplexing", Proc. 6th Int. Conf. on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS '07), Singapore, December 2007.
• T. Hunziker, M. Westmeier, and D. Dahlhaus, "Amplify-and-Forward Relaying for Reducing Outages in TDMA-Based WPANs Operating in Unlicensed Bands", Proc. 10th Int. Symp. on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC '07), Jaipur, India, December 2007.
• T. Hunziker, Z. Ju, and D. Dahlhaus, "Efficient Channel Description in Time-Frequency Domain with Application to Flexible Radio", Proc. European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO '07), Poznan, Poland, pp. 866-870, September 2007.
• T. Hunziker, J. L. Bordim, M. Taromaru, and T. Ohira, "Maximum-Likelihood Array Signal Decoding in the Presence of Block-Wise Stationary Cochannel Interference", IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1476-1487, April 2007.
• J. L. Bordim, T. Hunziker, and K. Nakano, "Limiting the Effects of Deafness and Hidden Terminal Problems in Directional Communications", Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, vol. 4330, pp. 195-206, Springer Verlag, November 2006.
• N. Cassiau, K. Schoo, T. Hunziker, I. Siaud, and A.-M. Ulmer-Moll, "Coexistence Aspects of the MAGNET PAN-Optimized Air Interface Targeting High Data Rates", Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) 17, Heidelberg, Germany, November 2006.
• C. Mutti, D. Dahlhaus, and T. Hunziker, "Optimal Power Loading for Multiple-Input Single-Output OFDM Systems with Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation", IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 1886-1895, July 2006.
• T. Hunziker and M. Taromaru, "An Adaptive Beamforming Scheme for Enhanced Cochannel Interference Mitigation on Short Array Signal Intervals", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '06), Toulouse, France, vol. 4, pp. IV-1025 – IV-1028, May 2006.
• J. L. Bordim, T. Hunziker, T. Ueda, and K. Nakano, "Adaptive Carrier Sensing and Packet Sending – An Alternative to Boost the Performance in Directional Communications", Proc. Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technology (PDCAT ‘05), Dalian, China, December 2005.
• C. Sun, T. Hunziker, and M. Taromaru, "Employing Directional Antennas in Double-Directional Radio Channel", Proc. Int. Symp. on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS '05), Siena, Italy, September 2005.
• M. Lenoble, T. Hunziker, T. Aono, and T. Ohira, "A Practical Medium Access Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Employing ESPAR Antennas", Proc. European Conf. On Wireless Technology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 297-300, October 2004.
• T. Hunziker, J. L. Bordim, T. Ohira, and S. Tanaka, "A CSMA/CA-Based Medium Access Scheme for Array Antenna-Enhanced Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", Proc. Int. Symp. on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS '04), Mauritius, pp. 230-234, September 2004.
• T. Hunziker, J. L. Bordim, T. Ohira, and S. Tanaka, "An Interference Avoidance Technique for Ad Hoc Networks Employing Array Antennas", Proc. Int. Conf. on Telecommunications (ICT '04), Fortaleza, Brazil, pp. 43-52, August 2004.
• T. Hunziker, T. Aono, and T. Ohira, "An Iterative Beamforming Technique for OFDM-Based Wireless Networks with Uncoordinated Channel Access", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC '04), Paris, France, pp. 2751-2756, June 2004.
• T. Hunziker, T. Aono, and T. Ohira, "An Iterative Beamforming and Decoding Procedure for Wireless Networks with Uncoordinated Channel Access", IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 256-258, April 2004.
• T. Hunziker, T. Aono, and T. Ohira, "Adaptive Beamforming for Interference Suppression: An Iterative Expectation-Maximization Approach", Proc. IEICE Society Conf., Tokyo, Japan, paper SB-9-5, March 2004.
• T. Hunziker, M. Hashiguchi, and T. Ohira, "Reception of Coded OFDM Signals in Broad-Band Fading Environments with Strong Co-Channel Interference", Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2003, San Francisco, CA, pp. 2310-2314, December 2003.
• T. Hunziker, E. Taillefer, T. Aono, and T. Ohira, "Analog Domain Adaptive Beamforming for Co-Channel Interference Suppression in Networking Scenarios with Broad-Band Fading", Proc. Int. Symp. on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC '03), Yokosuka, Japan, vol. 3, pp. 232-236, October 2003.
• T. Hunziker, T. Aono, and T. Ohira, "Symbol-by-Symbol Iterative Beamforming for Co-Channel Interference Suppression in OFDM-Based Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks", Proc. IEICE Society Conf., Niigata, Japan, paper SB-8-6, September 2003.
• T. Hunziker and D. Dahlhaus, "Optimal Power Adaptation for OFDM Systems with Ideal Bit-Interleaving and Hard-Decision Decoding", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC '03), Anchorage, AK, vol. 5, pp. 3392-3397, May 2003.
• T. Hunziker and D. Dahlhaus, "Iterative Detection for Multicarrier Transmission Employing Time-Frequency Concentrated Pulses", IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 641-651, April 2003.
• T. Hunziker, M. Hashiguchi, and T. Ohira, "Joint Beamforming and Rate Adaptation in a Multiuser Networking Scenario Employing ESPAR Antennas", Proc. IEICE Society Conf., Sendai, Japan, paper SB-12-1, March 2003.
• C. Mutti, D. Dahlhaus, T. Hunziker, and M. Foresti, "Bit and Power Loading Procedures for OFDM Systems with Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation", Proc. Int. Conf. on Telecommunications (ICT '03), Papeete, French Polynesia, vol. 2, pp. 1422-1427, February 2003.
• T. Hunziker and D. Dahlhaus, "Adaptive OFDM Transmission for Broadband Fixed Wireless Access Systems", Proc. 6th International OFDM-Workshop, Hamburg, Germany, pp. 5-1 - 5-4, September 2001.
• T. Hunziker and D. Dahlhaus, "Bounds on Matched Filter Performance in Doubly Dispersive Gaussian WSSUS Channels", IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 383-384, March 2001.
• T. Hunziker and D. Dahlhaus, "Iterative Symbol Detection for Bandwidth Efficient Nonorthogonal Multicarrier Transmission", Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2000 Spring), Tokyo, Japan, vol. I, pp. 61-65, May 2000.
• T. Hunziker and D. Dahlhaus, "Analysis of Two Sequential Detection Algorithms for Nonorthogonal Multicarrier Signaling", Proc. 4th International OFDM-Workshop, Hamburg, Germany, pp. 16-1 - 16-4, September 1999.
• T. Hunziker and D. Dahlhaus, "An Iterative Algorithm for Joint Demodulation in Multicarrier CDMA Systems", Proc. Third European Personal Mobile Communications Conference (EPMCC '99), Paris, France, pp. 352-357, March 1999.
• T. Hunziker and U. P. Bernhard, "Evaluation of Coding and Modulation Schemes based on Golay Complementary Sequences for Efficient OFDM Transmission", Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC '98), Ottawa, Canada, vol. II, pp. 1631-1635, May 1998.
• J. Meierhofer, U. P. Bernhard, and T. Hunziker, "Finite State Radio Channel Model for Indoor Wireless ATM Networks", Int. Conf. on Telecommunications (ICT '98), Chalkidiki, Greece, pp. 39-43, June 1998.