Dr. Giovanni Giambene

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione

Università degli Studi di Siena

Via Roma, 56 Siena, 53100, Italy

Tel: +39 0577 234603

Fax: +39 0577 263602

e-mail: giambene at unisi.it

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

G. Giambene received the Dr. Ing. degree in Electronics from the University of Florence, Florence in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications and Informatics in 1997.

From 1994 to 1997, he was with the Electronic Engineering Department of the University of Florence where he supplied the task of Technical External Secretary of the European Community Project COST 227 ("Integrated Space / Terrestrial Mobile Networks") and he also contributed to the "Satellite Integration in the Future Mobile Network" (SAINT, RACE II) Project within the RACE II framework. During these years he studied problems related to Dynamic Channel Allocation (DCA) and handoff techniques in mobile cellular networks.

From 1997 to 1998 he was with OTE of Marconi Communications - Mobile Networks, where he was involved in a GSM development program. In the same period he also contributed to the activities of the COST 252 Project ("Evolution of Satellite Personal Communications from Second to Future Generation Systems") for what concerns the performance analysis of packet access schemes for Low Earth Orbit Satellites.

At present, he his assistant professor with the Information Engineering Department of the University of Siena, where he is working on efficient access schemes for future Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for wireless systems, cross-layer techniques for mobile satellite communications, mobility models for 3G systems. Moreover, he contributes to the following research projects:

o        "Personalised Access to Local Information and services for tOurists" (PALIO) IST 20656 Project within the fifth Research Program financed by the European Commission, with an activity dealing with user localization and nomadic access to information contents;

·         "Multimedialità" Project, financed by the Italian National Research Council (CNR);

·         SatNEx Network of Excellence of the 6th EU framework.

The results of his research activity have been published in the book entitled “Protocols for High-Efficiency Wireless Networks”. For more details see also the following link.

He has also recently authored a book entitled “Queuing Theory and Telecommunications: Networks and Applications”. This is a textbook intended for the courses of Telecommunication Networks. This book contains many solved exercises on the application of queuing theory to telecommunication systems. For more details, see the following link.

Dr. Giambene is a reviewer of the following journals: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEE Proceedings - part I and IEE Electronics Letters.

Dr. Giambene is member of IEEE and IEICE.

 

Research Activities

o        Radio resource management schemes for terrestrial and satellite communication systems

o        Performance evaluation of cellular systems and protocols,

o        Stability analysis of random access schemes on the basis of the catastrophe theory,

o        Mobility models for cellular systems,

o        Queuing theory,

o        Fuzzy logic applied to traffic policing in wireless broadband access systems,

o        Scheduling techniques for UTRA-TDD systems.

o        Cross-layer design of air interfaces.

Events

o        VTC2003-Fall to be held in Orlando, FL, October 4-9, 2003 (www.vtc2003.org ; call for papers). I am co-chairing in cooperation with Prof. Fantacci (University of Florence) a Symposium on “Access Protocols and Scheduling for Wireless Systems” for the VTC2003-Fall conference (call for papers). See also the Technical Program Committee.

·         International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking (NEW2AN'04) Organized by Tampere University of Technology (Finland) and R&D Institute LONIIS (Russia) in cooperation with ITC (International Teletraffic Congress), Popov Society and IEEE St. Petersburg Communications Chapter February 02-06, 2004, R&D LONIIS, St. Petersburg, Russia. See the call for papers.

·         VTC2004-Spring held in Milan, Italy, May 11-14, 2004 (http://www.vtc2004spring.com/). I have coordinated the track on “Satellite Networks and Services” for the VTC2004-Spring conference (see the specific call for papers for more details).

·         VTC2005-Spring held in Stockholm, Sweden, May 30 – June 1, 2005 (http://www.vtc2005spring.org/). I have coordinated the track on “Satellite Networks and Services” for the VTC2005-Spring conference.

·         ISWCS2005 and IWSSC2005 held in Siena, Italy, September 5-9, 2005 (http://www.iswcs.org/iswcs2005/). I was the General Chair of these Conferences. For more details, please see the conference Web site. For a photo gallery of both events, please take a look at ISWCSphotos and IWSSCphotos.

·         Workshop #4 of Globecom 2005 co-organized with Dr. Sastri Kota of Harris Corporation, USA (http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2005/workshopw04.html) “Advances in Satellite Communications: New Services and Systems”, Friday, 2 December, 2005, St. Louis (MO), USA. For more details, see the following link.

 

Recent Publications

 

Journal papers:

·        A. Andreadis, G. Benelli, G. Giambene, B. Marzucchi, “A performance evaluation approach for GSM-based information services”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 313 – 325, March 2003.

·        G. Benelli, R. Fantacci, G. Giambene, C. Ortolani, “Performance analysis of a PRMA protocol suitable for voice and data transmissions in low Earth orbit mobile satellite systems”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.156 – 168, Jan. 2002.

·        A. Andreadis, G. Benelli, G. Giambene, F. Partini, “Integration of Video and Data Bursty Traffics in Wireless ATM Networks”, Journal on Wireless Personal Communications, Kluwer, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 243 – 262, December 2001.

·        A. Andreadis, G. Benelli, G. Giambene, B. Marzucchi, “Analysis of the WAP protocol over SMS in GSM networks”, Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, John Wiley and Sons, 2001.

·        G. Benelli, R. Fantacci, G. Giambene, C. Ortolani, “Voice and data transmissions with a PRMA-like protocol in high propagation delay cellular systems”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 49, No. 6 , pp. 2126 – 2147, Nov. 2000.

·        E. Del Re, R. Fantacci, G. Giambene, "Handover Queueing Strategies with Dynamic and Fixed Channel Allocation Techniques in Low Earth Orbit Mobile Satellite Systems", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 47, N. 1, pp. 89-102, January 1999.

·        G. Maral, J. Restrepo, E. Del Re, R. Fantacci, G. Giambene, "Performance Analysis for a Guaranteed Handover Service in a LEO Constellation with a Satellite-Fixed Cell System", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 47, N. 4, pp. 1200-1214, November 1998.

·        Y. F. Hu, R. E. Sheriff, E. Del Re, R. Fantacci, G. Giambene, "Satellite-UMTS Dimensioning and Resource Management Technique Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 47, N. 4, pp. 1329-1341, November 1998.

 

Papers in conference proceedings:

·       G. Giambene, F. Miano, E. Zoli, “Energy-Efficient Packet Access Scheme for MF-TDMA in non-GEO Satellite Systems", in Proc. VTC 2004-S, Milan, May 17-19, 2004.

·       G. Giambene, C. Ortolani, E. Zoli, “A Novel Approach for Optimizing Packet Access Schemes in Non-Geostationary Satellite Systems”, November 2003, GLOBECOM 2003, San Francisco, USA.

·       G. Giambene, E. Zoli, “Stability Analysis of an Access Scheme for Mixed Traffics in LEO and MEO Systems”, VTC 2003 – Fall, Orlando, USA, October 6-9, 2003.

·       G. Giambene, E. Zoli, “Proposal of an Adaptive Packet Access Scheme for Low Earth Orbit Mobile Satellite Systems”, Proc. of ECWT 2002, September 26-27, 2002, Milan, Italy.

·       A. Andreadis, G. Benelli, G. Giambene, F. Petiti, “Analysis of downlink scheduling for Web traffics in 2G and 2.5G mobile networks”, The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2002, Vol. 2, pp. 794 – 798, 15-18 Sept. 2002.

·       A. Andreadis, G. Benelli, G. Giambene, B. Marzucchi, “Performance analysis of the WAP protocol over GSM-SMS”, ICC 2001. IEEE International Conference on Communications, Vol. 2 , pp. 467 - 471, 11-14 June 2001.

·       G. Giambene, “MAC Schemes for LEO Satellites”, Lecture webcast on October 10, 2000. This multimedia lecture is available at the following URL: http://www.techonline.com/community/ed_resource/13655

·       G. Benelli, R. Fantacci, G. Giambene, R. Angioloni, "Performance Comparison of Different Demand-Assignment MAC Protocols in Low Earth Orbit Mobile Satellite Systems", Proc. of the Fourth European Workshop on Mobile/Personal SatComs - 2000, September 18, 2000, London, United Kingdom.

·       E. Del Re, R. Fantacci, G. Giambene, "Performance Evaluation of the PRMA Protocol for Voice and Data Transmissions in Low Earth Orbit Mobile Satellite Systems", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications 1998, pp. 1037-1041, Florence, Palazzo degli Affari, 5-9 October 1998.

·       E. Del Re, R. Fantacci, G. Giambene "Queuing of Handover Requests in Low Earth Orbit Mobile satellite Systems", Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM '96, pp. 1684 - 1688, 18 - 22 November 1996, London, UK.