Personal information
• NORDIO Alessandro, PhD
• Born in Susa, Italy, on January 3, 1974 • email: [email protected] • Phone: +39 0110905401
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Home page: http://www.sct.ieiit.cnr.it/contents/people/nordio/index.htm • ORCID number: 0000-0001-8258-051XEducation
• PhD degree, Telecommunications, École Polytechnique Fédérale del Lausanne, Switzerland; awarded on April 19, 2002. Advisor: Prof. Giuseppe Caire
• M.Sc. degree cum laude, Telecommunications Engineering, Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; awarded on July 17, 1998. Advisor: Prof. Ezio Biglieri
Current position and previous work experience
• Jul. 2009 – present: Researcher, Institute of Electronics Computer and Telecommunication Engineering of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-IEIIT)
• Apr. 2002 – Jul. 2009: Research Fellow, Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy • Jan 1999 – Apr. 2002: Visiting Scholar, Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France
• Aug. 1998 – Dec. 1998: Research Engineer, Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Fellowships and grants
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Apr. 2002–Oct. 2005: research fellowship at Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Subject: “Space-time coding for multiple antenna systems”•
Oct. 2005–Apr. 2006: research fellowship at Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Subject: “Energy saving techniques using multiple antennas”•
Apr. 2006–Apr. 2007: research fellowship at Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Subject: “Space-time coding for multiple antenna systems in vehicular networks”•
Apr. 2007–Apr. 2008: research fellowship at Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Subject: “Analysis and implementation of wireless technologies for ad-hoc and vehicular networks”•
Jun. 2008–Jul. 2009: research fellowship on “Information technology” (fellowship for Italian researchers abroad)Teaching activities
Every year, starting from 2002, I taught several undergraduate and graduate courses in the field of Wireless Mobile Communications and Digital Communications at Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.
Commission of trust
• Apr. 2014 – present: Editorial Board of International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
• Technical Program Committee of the International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 2007)
• General secretary of the 2004 International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications. • Session Chair at the Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS 2013), Trento, Italy. • Reviewer for several international prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on
Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
• Scientific evaluator for Italian regional projects (2011 Sardinia and Lombardy joint projects)
• Scientific supervisor of post doc research fellows: Davide Cuda (Jan. - Dec. 2010), Giuseppa Alfano (Apr. 2012- Mar. 2013)
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Supervisor of PhD students: Vahid Forutan (with Prof. Chiasserini, 2010-2012, now at the Institute of Communications Engineering, Universität Ulm, Germany), Siyuan Zhou (with Prof. Chiasserini, 2012-2014, defense date Dec. 2014)Membership of scientific societies
• 1999 – present: IEEE MemberPast and ongoing major collaborations
Since 1999 I collaborated with several high profile researchers in the field of communications. In particular, extensive research activity has been carried out with:
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Prof. Pierre A. Humblet, and Prof. Raymond Knopp, Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France, on the development of a software radio UMTS platform;• Prof. Ezio Biglieri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, on space-time coding for multiple antenna systems;
• Prof. Emanuele Viterbo, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, on the reconstruction of signals from their non-equally spaced samples;
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Prof. Giorgio Taricco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, on the design of linear receiver interfaces for multi-antenna systems;•
Proff. Carla Chiasserini and Emilio Leonardi, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, on the analysis of dense wireless relay networks;•
Prof. Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, on the transient behavior of sensor networks; • Dr. Michele Garetto and Dr. Daniele Manini, Università di Torino, Italy, on the theoretical behaviourof dense wireless networks;
• Prof. Antonia Tulino, Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy, on the theory of large random matrices; • Dr. Marco Fiore, INSA Lyon, France, on urban sensing;
• Dr. Fabrizio Dabbene, Alberto Tarable and Roberto Tempo, CNR-IEIIT, Torino, on the control of remote systems through a wireless network;
• Prof. Costantino Lagoa, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA, on the performance of signal reconstruction techniques;
• Prof. Tamer ElBatt, Nile University, Giza, Egypt, on wireless relay communications.
Summary of research activity
Since 1999 my research activity mainly focused on the theoretical study and the performance assessment of wireless systems. I've started studying channel estimation and synchronization aspects for the UMTS-TDD standard. Then, in the context of wireless mobile networks based on code division multiple access, I proposed innovative joint equalization and multiuser detection techniques.
Later, I've researched on space-time coding techniques for multiple-antenna systems and I have designed highly efficient linear receiver interfaces. Furthermore, I've applied my knowledge in the field of signal processing to Global Navigation Satellite Systems and contributed to the development of an innovative low complexity receiver, also compliant with the GALILEO standard.
More recently, I've conducted a profitable research on large random matrices which finds applications in the field of sensor networks and in the reconstruction of signals from non-equally spaced samples. At present I'm conducting active research in the field of wireless multi-hop networks, in sensor networks for control of remote systems and in the design of anytime reliable channel codes.
Publications
I have published 61 peer-reviewed articles, out of which 23 in highly prestigious international journals, and 38 in major international conferences. I've also co-authored 5 book chapters. The journal publications include 16 IEEE Transactions, 2 IEEE Letters, and 1 ACM Transaction. These journals have a high impact factor and are among the most prestigious in my field. The conference papers have mainly been published in the proceedings of IEEE. In particular I have presented my works at IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE INFOCOM, and IEEE ISIT which are among the most famous conferences in the fields of communications, signal processing and information theory. For these journals and conferences the review process is very strict and the acceptance ratio is low.
Google Scholar reports 347 citations for my works, out of which 203 in the last 5 years. My h-index is 9. A list of selected publications is reported below. The selection is based on the journal impact factor, on the relevance of the contribution, and on the number of citations (computed using Google Scholar). The list does not contain publications where my PhD supervisor (Prof. Giuseppe Caire, Department of Electrical
Engineering, USC, California, USA) is a co-author. In most of the listed publications I'm the senior author and my contribution was prominent (see e.g. [1], [4], [5], [6], and [7]), while in [2], [3], [8], [9], and [10] all authors contributed equally. Publications [6] and [9] are highly cited, testifying their importance for the researcher working in the field.
A complete list of my publications is available at http://www.sct.ieiit.cnr.it/contents/people/nordio/index.htm.
[1]
A. Nordio, C.-F. Chiasserini, T. ElBatt, “Fair Traffic Relaying for Two-Source-One-Destination Wireless Networks,” Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 1, n. 1, pp. 6-9, February 2012. (2 citations)[2]
M. Garetto, A. Nordio, C.-F. Chiasserini, E. Leonardi, “Information-Theoretic Capacity of Clustered Random Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, n. 11, pp. 7578-7596, November 2011. (5 citations)[3] M. Gribaudo, D. Manini, A. Nordio, C.-F. Chiasserini, “Transient Analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 10, n. 4, pp. 1165-1175, April 2011. (7 citations)
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A. Nordio, C.-F. Chiasserini, E.Viterbo, “The Impact of Quasi-equally Spaced Sensor Topologies on Signal Reconstruction,” ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. 6, n. 2, pp. 1-31, February 2010. (13 citations)[5] A. Nordio, C.-F.Chiasserini, E. Viterbo, “Reconstruction of Multidimensional Signals from Irregular Noisy Samples,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, no. 9, pp. 4274-4285, September 2008. (23 citations)
[6] A. Nordio, C.-F. Chiasserini, E. Viterbo, “Performance of Linear Field Reconstruction Techniques with Noise and Uncertain Sensor Locations,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56 n. 8, pp. 3535-3547, August 2008. (33 citations)
[7] A. Nordio, G.Taricco, “Linear Receivers for the Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Multiple Access Channel,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol.54, n. 8, pp. 1446-1456, August 2006. (24 citations)
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E. Biglieri, A. Nordio, G. Taricco, “Doubly-Iterative Decoding of Space Time Turbo Codes With a Large Number of Antennas,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 53, n. 5, pp. 773-779, May 2005. (39 citations)[9]
E. Biglieri, A. Nordio, G. Taricco, “MIMO Doubly-Iterative Receivers: Pre- vs. Post-Cancellation Filtering,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 9, n. 2, pp. 106-108, February 2005. (23 citations)[10]
E. Biglieri, A. Nordio, G. Taricco, “Suboptimum Receiver Interfaces and Space-Time Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 51, n.11, pp. 2720-2728, November 2003. (33 citations)[11]
C. Bonnet, L. Gauthier, P. Humblet, R. Knopp, A. Menouni-Hayar, Y. Moret, A. Nordio, D. Nussbaum, M. Wetterwald, “An all IP software radio architecture under RTLinux,” Annales des télécommunications, vol. 57, n. 7-8, pp. 677-698, 2002. (9 citations)Main research results
Wireless relay networks. I conducted a profitable research in the field of wireless relay networks taking into account theoretical and practical aspects. Among my publications in the field two ([1] and [2]) are listed above. In this domain I proposed an innovative scheduling technique allowing to increase the throughput of the network and reduce the energy expenditure of the nodes.
Sensor networks and theory of large random matrices. I gave fundamental contributions to the theory of large random matrices which finds applications in sensor networks and in the sampling and reconstruction of multidimensional signals. This work led to the publication of 8 journal papers, among which 7 on IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing ([4], [5], [6]). In particular [6] is one of my most cited publications. I also developed a semi-analytic method able to describe transient behaviours of sensor network. The work done in this field and my expertise contributed to attract funding from Italian Regional Institutions.
Multi-antenna systems. I proposed innovative and highly efficient linear receivers for wireless systems equipped with multiple antennas. The excellence of my research in this field is testified by several journal
publications among which [8] and [10] are highly cited. I've recently proposed a method for evaluating analytically the performance of multi-antenna wireless systems for a variety of channel models. This method also leverages on recent result on random matrix theory.
3rd generation wireless mobile communications. One of my earlier scientific contributions to the field of wireless mobile communications concerned the optimization of the physical layer of the 3GPP standard UMTS-TDD. That research activity was recognized by several publications on highly prestigious journals and conferences. Moreover it led to the design and implementation of the first fully-software real-time testbed, compliant with the UMTS-TDD standard, and available for research and teaching purposes.
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). One of the achievements of my career was the design and implementation of the core signal processing routines of a fully-software real-time receiver for GNSS, compliant with both GPS and GALILEO standards. This task was done in the framework of the research project IRGAL, funded by Regione Piemonte, Italy.
Awards
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My paper entitled “Estimation Quality of High-dimensional Fields in Wireless Sensor Networks” received the Best Paper Award at the Sixth International Conference on Advances in Satellite and Space Communications (SPACOMM), Nice, France, February 23 – 27, 2014.Invited presentations
• December 2000: “Slot-timing maximum likelihood estimation with bursty pilot signals for DS-CDMA in multipath fading channels”, presented at the Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University, California, USA.
• March 2008: “Signal reconstruction errors in jittered sampling”, presented at Università della Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy.
Grants and Funding ID
Project Title Funding source Amount
(Euros)
Period Role of the
PI
Relation to current ERC proposal
MASP: Control of Protected Areas through Cognitive Monitoring Techniques Regione Piemonte, Italy €850,000 Sep. 2010 – Feb. 2012 Principal Investigator
The MASP project is related to the project INTERFREE since it concerned the analysis and the implementation of a heterogeneous wireless network, including stationary and vehicular nodes. HYCON2: Network of Excellence "Highly-complex and networked control systems" European Commission under the FP7 €4.9 M Sep. 2010– Aug. 2014
Participant The project aims at stimulating and
establishing a long-term integration in the strategic field of control of complex, large-scale, and networked dynamical systems. OpenKnowtech: Technology laboratory for integrating
managing, and sharing data and knowledge
PON, Italy €4.9 M July 2006 – June 2011
Principal Investigator
The scope of the project was to create an open-source software technology laboratory. This project gave me the opportunity to improve my knowledge on open-source
systems, which will be exploited during the development of the testbed envisaged in the project INTERFREE MEADOW: mesh
adaptive home wireless networks Italian Ministry for Education, University and Reaseach
€2.41M 2006-2009 Participant The project focused on the study, development and prototyping of a novel approach to wireless home networking. IRGAL: Innovation and
Research GALILEO
Regione Piemonte, Italy
€4.3M Dec. 2006 – Sep. 2008
Participant The project helped to strengthen the local scientific community working in the field of satellite navigation, through the attainment of scientific and technological
objectives. The project increased my
knowledge on real-time software testbeds, as the one envisaged in INTERFREE
VICSUM:Vehicle-to-Ve hicle-to-Infrastructure Communication for Sustainable Urban Mobility Regione Piemonte, Italy
€1.7M 2007-2009 Participant The project focused on a urban, vehicular communications, where services such as information dissemination and content sharing are of interest to the users. EURO NGI: Design
and Engineering of the Next Generation Internet, towards convergent multi-service networks. European Commission NoE
€5M 2003-2006 Participant The aim was to establish expertise and to foster collaborative research in the area of “Design and
Engineering of the Next Generation Internet”, including wireless networks.
