Invited Lecture#9 – The Marriage between Random Access and Codes on Graphs: Coded Slotted ALOHA does not need Retransmissions – Thursday 04/10 from 9,00 to 10,30 am – Room Loyola
Marco Chiani
University of Bologna

Marco Chiani is a Full Professor of Telecommunications and the current Director of the Industrial Research Center on ICT, University of Bologna. He is a frequent visitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, where he presently holds a Research Affiliate appointment. He is leading the research unit of the University of Bologna on cognitive radio and UWB (European project EUWB), on Joint Source and Channel Coding for wireless video (European projects Phoenix-FP6, Optimix-FP7, Concerto-FP7), and is a consultant to the European Space Agency (ESA-ESOC) for the design and evaluation of error correcting codes based on LDPCC for space CCSDS applications. His research interests include wireless communication systems, MIMO systems, wireless multimedia, low-density parity-check codes (LDPCC) and UWB. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, past Chair (2002–2004) of the Radio Communications Committee of the IEEE Communication Society and past Editor of Wireless Communication (2000–2007) for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
