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Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou {received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1988 and the Diploma in Mechanical-Electrical Engineering in 1979 from the same institution.
She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University. Her research interests are in the areas of mobile and personal communications, satellite communications, multiple access systems, routing and traffic flow in networks. She is involved in many national and international projects in these areas (Tempus, COST, Telematics, IST) and she chaired the European COST262 Action on “Spread Spectrum Systems and Techniques for Wireless and Wired Communications.”
She has served as member of the TPC (in some being the TPC chair) of many conferences supported by IEEE/IEE. She is a permanent reviewer for many international journals. She has published about 60 studies in refereed journals and conferences. She is currently chairing the joint IEEE VT&AES Chapter in Greece. She is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Technical Chamber of Greece.
Ryu Miura received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, in 1982, 1984, and 2000, respectively. He joined Communications Research Lab (CRL), Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Tokyo, Japan in 1984, where he worked for research on mobile satellite communication systems using the Engineering Test Satellite, ETS-V. During 1991–1992, he was a visiting researcher in AUSSAT, Pty. Ltd. (now Optus, Pty. Ltd.), Sydney, Australia. During 1993–1996, he was a senior researcher in ATR Optical and Radio Communications Research Labs, Kyoto, Japan, where he worked for research on digital beamforming antennas for mobile communications. He is now a group leader of Wireless Innovation Systems Group in the Yokosuka Radio Communications Research Center of NICT (National Institute on Information and Communications Technology, reorganized from CRL in April 2004), where he is leading a national R&D project on wireless communication systems using stratospheric platforms. Dr. Miura is a member of IEEE and IEICE.
John Farserotu received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park Md. in 1982 and the M.S.E.E. degree in communications engineering from the George Washington University, Washington D.C., in 1986. He received his PhD. from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 1998. Dr. Farserotu is currently the Head of the Wireless Communication Section in the Systems Engineering Division at CSEM, where he is responsible for leading a team of scientists and engineers working on R&D in wireless communication and implementation of advanced engineering prototypes. He is also the Deputy Co-ordinator for the MAGNET IST FP6 Integrated Project. His research interests include mobile Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs), ultra wideband (UWB) communication, robust modulation and coding and HAPS/satellite communication and networking.
Dr. Farserotu has authored or co-authored over 40 publications in major international journals and conferences. He is co-author of a book on Mobile Satellite over IP/ATM Networks, published by Artech House and he teaches a course on this subject at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He was the Technical Programme Chair for Vehicular Technology Conference 1999 (VTC’99), as well as, Vice-chair of Panels for WPMC’02 and WPMC’04. Dr. Farserotu is currently the Vice-Chair of the HERMES Partnership, a network of major European R&D centers in the field of wireless and mobile communication bringing together over 1000 engineers and scientists. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Wireless Personal Communications, a leading international journal on wireless communication.
Previously, Dr. Farserotu was a Principal Scientist in the Satellite Communications Branch, of the NC3A, The Hague, where he was a member of the SATCOM Post-2000 team evaluating SATCOM requirements, options and technologies for the future, as well as, the ATM project team, examining IP/ATM over SATCOM, networking and performance analysis and characterization. From 1985 to 1990, he was a Senior Engineer and Task Leader at Stanford Telecommunications, Inc. Reston Va, where he led a team of engineers in communication system design for severe fading environments.
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Pavlidou, FN., Miura, R. & Farserotu, J. Special Issue on “High Altitude Platform (HAP) Systems: Technologies and Applications”. Wireless Pers Commun 32, 189–194 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-0741-4
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