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Prof. Dr. Jan Mietzner
- Visiting Professor 2023/24 -
- Former Postdoc Research Fellow 2007/08 -

Communication Theory Group
Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engineering (ECE)
The University of British Columbia (UBC)
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Now with:
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW)
Faculty of Design, Media, and Information (DMI)
Finkenau 35
D-22081 Hamburg, Germany

E-mail:

jan.mietzner (at) haw-hamburg.de

Biography and Publications
For a short biography, please click here. A list of my publications can be found here.

Research Interests
My main research interests are in the field of wireless communications, especially in the area of spatial diversity schemes and cooperative wireless networks.
Spatial diversity schemes are special signal processing techniques for wireless digital communication systems, which utilize multiple antennas at the transmitter and/or the receiver side. By this means they accomplish significant performance gains over single-antenna systems and offer reliable data transmission at high bit rates, which is a key requirement for future wireless communication systems.
In cooperative wireless networks, multiple network nodes, e.g. mobile stations, cooperate in order to improve the overall system performance. For example, the individual network nodes may share their antennas by employing a distributed spatial diversity scheme. By this means, the cooperating nodes can enjoy some of the benefits offered by conventional multiple-antenna system with co-located antennas.
Further research interests concern topics in channel modeling, equalization, and pre-filter design, as well as transmit power allocation algorithms, relaying for ultra-wideband (UWB) systems, and coexistence issues for cognitive radio systems (see poster), software-defined radio, visible light communications, as well as theoretical issues concerning jammer and radar systems.

Reviewer, TPC, and Editor Activities
I regularly serve as reviewer for international journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Communications. Moreover, I have served/ will serve as technical program committee (TPC) member for the following international conferences:

IEEE WCNC 2009 (Physical Layer Track)
IEEE Globecom 2009 (Wireless Communications Symposium)
IEEE WCNC 2010 (Physical Layer Track)
IEEE Globecom 2010 (Wireless Communications Symposium)
IEEE ICC 2011 (Wireless Networking Symposium)
IEEE Globecom 2011 (Wireless Communications Symposium)
IEEE ICC 2012 (Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium)
IEEE VTC-Spring 2013 (Cooperative Communications/ Relaying Track)
IEEE ICC 2013 (Wireless Communications Symposium)
IEEE VTC-Fall 2013 (Cooperative Communications/ Relaying Track)
IEEE Globecom 2013 (Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium)
IEEE ICC 2014 (Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium)
IEEE WCNC 2014 (Physical Layer Track)
IEEE Globecom 2014 (Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium)
IEEE ICC 2015 (Wireless Communications Symposium)
IEEE WCNC 2015 (Physical Layer and Fundamentals Track)
IEEE VTC-Fall 2015 (Cooperative Communications, Distributed MIMO, Relaying Track)
IEEE Globecom 2015 (Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium)
IEEE WCNC 2016 (Physical Layer and Fundamentals Track)
IEEE ICC 2016 (5G RAN Design Workshop)
22nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC 2016)
IEEE Globecom 2016 (Mobile and Wireless Networks Track)
IEEE WCNC 2017 (Physical Layer and Fundamentals Track)
IEEE ICC 2017 (Mobile and Wireless Networks Track)
IEEE ICC 2017 (5G RAN Design Workshop)
IEEE BlackSeaCom 2017
IEEE Globecom 2017 (Mobile and Wireless Networks Track)
IEEE Globecom 2017 (Signal Processing for Communications Track)
IEEE VTC-Spring 2018 (Radio Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks Track)
IEEE VTC-Spring 2018 (Signal Transmission and Reception Track)
IEEE WCNC 2018 (Physical Layer and Fundamentals Track)
IEEE WCNC 2018 (Wireless Networks Track)
IEEE ICC 2018 (Wireless Communications Symposium)
IEEE VTC-Fall 2018 (Multiple Antenna Systems and Cooperative Communications Track)
IEEE VTC-Fall 2018 (Recent Results Track)
IEEE Globecom 2018 (Signal Processing for Communications Track)
IEEE VTC-Spring 2019 (Radio Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks Track)
IEEE ICC 2019 (Wireless Communications Symposium)
IEEE WCNC 2019 (MAC and Cross-layer Design Track)
IEEE BalkanCom 2019
IEEE VTC-Fall 2019 (Future Trends and Emerging Technologies Track)
IEEE Globecom 2019 (Signal Processing for Communications Track)
IEEE VTC-Spring 2020 (Signal Processing for Wireless Communications Track)
IEEE ICC 2020 (Wireless Communications Symposium)
IEEE WCNC 2020 (PHY & Fundamentals Track)
IEEE PIMRC 2020 (Track Applications & Business)
IEEE Globecom 2020 (Signal Processing for Communications Track)
IEEE ICC 2021 (Wireless Communications Symposium)
IEEE VTC-Spring 2021 (Spectrum Management, Radio Access Technology, Services and Security Track)
IEEE WCNC 2021 (PHY & Fundamentals Track)
IEEE ICC 2022 (Wireless Communications Symposium)
IEEE WCNC 2022
IEEE ICC 2023 (Wireless Communications Symposium)
IEEE ICC 2023 (Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Smart Environments Track)
IEEE ICC 2023 (Integrated Sensing and Communication Track)
IEEE WCNC 2023
IEEE ICC 2024 (Wireless Communications Symposium)
IEEE ICC 2024 (Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Smart Environments Track)
IEEE ICC 2024 (Integrated Sensing and Communication Track)
IEEE WCNC 2024 (PHY Layer & Communication Theory Track)

I have also served as National Champion for IEEE ICC 2013 and was active as Lead Guest Editor for the EURASIP JASP Special Issue on 'Advanced Distributed Wireless Communication Techniques'.
Moreover, I have served as Track Co-Chair for the Transmission Technologies and Communication Theory Track of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall 2014. Since August 2016, I serve as an Editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

Industry Experience

Diploma thesis in cooperation with Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs U.K., in Swindon, England (in 2001, topic: application of space-time codes in the GSM/EDGE system)
Participation in an industry project in cooperation with Siemens AG Munich/ BenQ Mobile (2002-2005, topic: space-time coding techniques in wireless communications with focus on spatial correlation effects)
Full-time employee with Airbus (formerly EADS) in the departments

"COMs Jammer Systems & Algorithms" (03/2009 - 09/2011)
"System Concepts Radar" (10/2011 - 08/2017)

Teaching
Since winter semester 2014/15, I give a lecture "Radar Signal Processing and Algorithms" at the University of Kiel. During my time with the Information and Coding Theory Lab (University of Kiel, Germany), I held exercises and tutorials in channel coding and wireless communications, held tutorials in mathematics, and supervised a communications lab for master students, and (co-)supervised several students theses. In the Communication Theory Group (CTG) I have co-supervised different master theses as well as students term projects, organized the CTG Reading Group (Spring 2008), and assisted in lectures on different topics.

MIMO lecture
MATLAB workshop (Slides, MATLAB file 1, MATLAB file 2)

Since September 2017, I am a Professor for Communications Engineering at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW).

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