Professor Dr.-Ing. - Technische Universität Darmstadt

Marius Pesavento
Professor Dr.-Ing.
Personal Data
Date of birth, 15.02.1973
Place of birth, Werl, Germany
Communication Systems Group
TU Darmstadt
Merckstr. 25
� +49 (0)179 7099666
� +49 (0)6151 16 64839
� +49 (0)6151 16 72109
� Marius.Pesavento@nt.tu-darmstadt.de
[http://www.nts.tu-darmstadt.de]
Education
1992–1999 Diploma studies, Electrical Engineering, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, Degree:
Dipl.-Ing.
2000–2001 Master studies, Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences, McMaster University,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Degree: Ms.-Eng. – With distinction.
2001–2005 Doctoral studies, Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences, Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, Germany, Degree: Dr.-Ing. – With distinction.
Education and Experience
01/01–04/05 Research assistant, Signal Processing Group, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
07/05–02/07 Research engineer for digital signal processing, FAG Industrial Services GmbH, an
enterprise of the Schäffler-Group. [http://www.fis-services.de].
03/07–03/09 Head of Signal Processing Department, mimoOn GmbH, Duisburg, [http://
www.mimoOn.de].
04/09–07/10 Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Communication Systems Group, Technische Universität
Darmstadt.
since 08/10 Assistant Professor for Robust Signal Processing, Communication Systems Group,
Technische Universität Darmstadt.
since 09/09 Acting head of the Communications Systems Group, at Technische Universität
Darmstadt during Prof. Dr. Alex Gershman’s absence due to illness.
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Research Interests
Robust signal processing and adaptive beamforming, high-resolution sensor array processing,
transceiver design for cognitive radio systems, co-operative communications
in relay networks, MIMO and multi-antenna communications, space-time coding, multiuser
and multicarrier wireless communication systems (3G-4G), convex optimization
algorithms for signal processing and communications, statistical signal processing, multidimensional
spectral analysis, signal processing for condition monitoring, parameter
estimation and detection theory
Teaching
Winter 2011/12 Information Theory I (undergraduate course)
Winter 2011/12 MIMO Communications and Space-Time-Coding (graduate course)
Summer 2011 Information Theory II (graduate course)
Summer 2011 Advanced Algorithms for Smart Antenna Systems (graduate seminar)
Winter 2010/11 Information Theory I (undergraduate course)
Winter 2010/11 MIMO Communications and Space-Time-Coding (graduate course)
Summer 2010 Information Theory II (graduate course)
Summer 2010 Advanced Algorithms for Smart Antenna Systems (graduate seminar)
Winter 2009/10 Information Theory I (undergraduate course)
Summer 2009 Information Theory II (graduate course)
since 05/2009 Supervision of 4 Bachelor and 13 Diploma/Master theses
Editorial board
member
Technical Area
Chair (TAC)
Academic activities
of the EURASIP SIGNAL PROCESSING Journal [http://www.elsevier.com/
locate/sigpro]
of Array Processing and Statistical Signal Processing at the Asilomar Conference on
Signals, Systems and Computers 2012 [http://www.asilomarssc.org/]
Guest Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Advanced Signal Processing, Special Issue: Advances in Two-
Dimensional Angle-of-Arrival Processing for Localization and Communications [http:
//www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/2011/si.aaoa/]
Local Liaison
Officer
of the EURASIP for Germany [http://www.eurasip.org]
Reviewer for EURASIP Signal Processing Journal, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE
Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions
on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Membership IEEE Signal Processing Society, VDE/ITG
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Projects
since 04/09 Leading role in ERC project “Robust Sensor Array Processing” (ROSE) under the Advanced
Investigators Grant of European Research Council (ERC) acquired by Prof. Alex
Gershman in 08/08, total budget approx. 2M €.
since 05/09 Project Responsible for the FET-Open project “Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks”
(CROWN) of the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme
(fp7) [http://www.fp7-crown.eu/aboutcrown.html]
since 07/09 Project Responsible for the Joint Project “Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor
Signal Processing” (CAMUS) of the DFG, collaborating partners: TU Munich and TU
Ilmenau.
since 04/11 Project Responsible (and co-author of the proposal) for the Research Priority Project
“Cooperative sensor communication” (Cocoon) under the LOEWE (Landes-Offensive
zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz) program of the State of Hessen.
in preparation: Grant application for the Graduate School “Multi-Sensor Communications” (MUSE) of
the DFG.
in preparation: Grant application for the FP7 project “Small Cells”, under the Call 8 within the Seventh
Framework Programme of the European Commission.
Awards
2010 Best Paper Award, CrownCom 2011, 5th International ICST Conference on Cognitive
Radio Oriented Wireless Networks, Cannes, France.
2006 Young Author Best Paper Award 2005, Signal Processing Society, Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
2006 Heinrich-Kost-Award 2006, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
2003 ITG Award, Association for Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE).
2001 Outstanding Thesis Research Award, McMaster University.
Invited Talks
� M. Pesavento, Invited talk at the Telecommunications Forum of the Telecommunications
Research Center Vienna (ftw), Title: Distributed beamforming in cooperative
sensor networks, October 28., 2011, Vienna, Austria.
� M. Pesavento, Invited Seminar talk at the research group of Andrea Goldsmith, Title:
Cognitive Downlink Beamforming in Femtocells, March 2011, Stanford University,
Palo Alto, CA, USA.
� M. Pesavento, LTE Tutorial at Plenary of the FemtoForum [http://www.
femtoforum.org], Part 1: LTE basics and Part 2: Advanced topics in LTE , June
15.-18., 2010, Readings, UK.
� M. Pesavento, Invited Seminar Talk at the Working Group Optimization of
Prof. Dr. Stefan Ulbrich, Title: Convex Optimization in Communications and Signal
Proecessing, April 26., 2010, TU-Darmstadt
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� M. Pesavento, LTE Tutorial at the Second COST2100 Training School entitled
MIMO: from theory to implementation, Tutorial title: LTE Implementation,
ENSTA-ParisTech, March 9.-11., 2009, Paris, France, [http://uei.ensta.fr/
cost2100_TS/home.htm].
Publications
Journals
� Y. Cheng and M. Pesavento, “Joint optimization of source power allocation and
distributed relay beamforming in multiuser peer-to-peer relay networks,” submitted
to IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2011.
� P. Parvazi, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, “Exploiting multiple shift-invariances
in harmonic retrieval: the complete sample cases,” submitted to IEEE Transactions
on Signal Processing, 2011.
� H. Du, T. Ratnarajah, M. Pesavento, and C. Papadias, “Joint transceiver beamforming
in mimo cognitive radio network via second-order cone programming,” accepted for
publication in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2011.
� N. Bornhorst, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, “Distributed beamforming for multigroup
multicasting relay networks,” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing, 2011.
� L. Li, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman, “Downlink opportunistic scheduling with
low-rate channel state feedback: error rate analysis and optimization of the feedback
parameters,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 58, pp. 2871-2880, Oct.
2010.
� A.B. Gershman, M. Rübsamen and M. Pesavento, “One-and two-dimensional
direction-of-arrival estimation: an overview of search-free techniques,” EURASIP Journal
on Signal Processing, Special Issue on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, vol.
90, pp. 1338-1349, May 2010.
� M. Pesavento, C.F. Mecklenbräuker and J.F. Böhme, “Multi-dimensional rank reduction
estimator for parametric MIMO channel estimation,” EURASIP Journal of Appl.
Signal Processing, special issue on Advances in Smart Antennas, pp. 1354-1363,
Aug. 2004.
� M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman and K.M. Wong, “Direction finding in partly calibrated
sensor arrays composed of multiple subarrays,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
vol. 50, pp. 2103-2115, Sept. 2002
� A.B. Gershman, P. Stoica, M. Pesavento and E.G. Larsson, “Stochastic Cramér-Rao
bound for direction estimation in unknown noise fields,” IEE Proc. - Radar, Sonar,
and Navig., vol. 149, pp. 2-8, Feb. 2002.
� M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman and Z.-Q. Luo, “Robust array interpolation using
second-order cone programming,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 9, pp. 8-11,
Jan. 2002.
� A. B. Gershman, M. Pesavento and M. G. Amin, “Estimating parameters of multiple
wideband polynomial-phase sources in sensor arrays,” IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, vol. 49, pp. 2924-2934, Dec. 2001.
� M. Pesavento and A.B. Gershman: “Maximum-likelihood direction of arrival estimation
in the presence of unknown nonuniform noise,” IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, vol. 49, pp. 1310-1324, July 2001.
� M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman and M. Haardt, “Unitary root-MUSIC with a real
valued eigendecomposition: a theoretical and experimental performance study,” IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 48, pp. 1306-1314, May 2000
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Conferences
� A. Schad, and M. Pesavento, “Multiuser bi-directional communications in cooperative
relay networks,” accepted for publication in Proc. International Workshop on Computational
Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP’11), San Juan,
Puerto Rico, Dec. 2011
� J. Vinogradova, N. Sarmadi, and M. Pesavento, “Subspace-based semiblind channel
estimation method for fast fading orthogonally coded MIMO-OFDM systems,” accepted
for publication in Proc. International Workshop on Computational Advances in
Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP’11), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dec. 2011
� A. Abdelkader, M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman, “Orthogonalization techniques for
single group multicasting in cooperative amplify-and-forward networks,” accepted for
publication in Proc. International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-
Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP’11), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dec. 2011
� S. Alabed, M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman, “Distributed differential space-time coding
techniques for two-way wireless relay networks,” accepted for publication in Proc. International
Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing
(CAMSAP’11), San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dec. 2011
� F. Römer, N. Sarmadi, B. Song, M. Haardt, M. Pesavento, and A.B. Gershman,
“Tensor-based semi-blind channel estimation for MIMO OSTBC-coded systems,” accepted
for publication in Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers,
Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov., 2011.
� L. Li, P.I. Derwin, and M. Pesavento, “Symbol error rate analysis in multiuser underlay
cognitive radio systems,” accepted for publication in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Personal
Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2011), pp. 309-312, Toronto,
Canada, Sept. 2011.
� N. Sarmadi and M. Pesavento, “Closed-form blind MIMO channel estimation for
OSTBCs: Re-solving ambiguities in rotable codes,” accepted for publication in
Proc. European signal processing conference (EUSIPCO’11), pp. 644-648, Barcelona,
Spain, Aug., 2011.
� N. Bornhorst and M. Pesavento, “An iterative convex approximation approach for
transmit beamforming in multi-group multicasting,” Proc. IEEE International Workshop
on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC’11), pp.
411-415, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2011.
� P. Parvazi and M. Pesavento, “A new direction-of-arrival estimation and calibration
method for arrays composed of multiple identical subarrays,” Proc. IEEE International
Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC’11),
San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2011.
� N. Sarmadi, M. Pesavento, “Closed-form blind channel estimation for orthogonally
coded MIMO-OFDM systems: A simple strategy to resolve non-scalar ambiguities,”
Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications
(SPAWC’11), pp. 301-305, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2011.
� P. Parvazi, M. Pesavento and A.B. Gershman, “Exploiting multiple shift-invariances
in harmonic retrieval: the incomplete data case,” Proc. IEEE Workshop on Statistical
Signal Processing (SSP’11), pp . 729-732, Nice, France, June 2011.
� L. Li and M. Pesavento: “The sum capacity of underlay cognitive broadcast channel,”
Proc. ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWN-
COM’11), Yokohama, Japan, May 2011.
� I. Wajid, H. Nikolaeva and M. Pesavento: “Iterative robust downlink beamforming
in cognitive radio networks,” Proc. ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented
Wireless Networks (CROWNCOM’11), Yokohama, Japan, May 2011.
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� N. Bornhorst, M. Pesavento and A.B. Gershman, “Distributed beamforming for multiuser
peer-to-peer and multi-group multicasting relay networks,” Proc. IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’11), Prague,
Czech Republic, May 2011.
� P. Parvazi, M. Pesavento and A.B. Gershman, “A new direction-of-arrival estimation
and calibration method for arrays composed of multiple identical subarrays,”
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP’11), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.
� P. Parvazi, M. Pesavento and A.B. Gershman, “Direction-of-Arrival estimation and
array calibration for partly-calibrated arrays,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’11), Prague, Czech Republic, May
2011.
� L. Li, F.A. Khan. , M. Pesavento and T. Ratnarajah, “Power allocation and beamforming
in overlay cognitive radio systems,” Proc. Vehicular Technology Conference,
VTC2011-Spring Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 2011.
� N. Sarmadi, M. Pesavento and A.B. Gershman, “Closed-form blind channel estimation
for orthogonally coded mimo-ofdm systems, an algorithm and uniqueness study,”
Proc. ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA’11), Aachen, Germany, Feb. 2011.
� I. Wajid, M. Pesavento, Y.C. Eldar and A.B. Gershman, “Robust downlink beamforming
for cognitive radio networks,” Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference
(GLOBECOM 2010), Miami, FL., Dec. 2010.
� M. Pesavento, D. Ciochina and A.B. Gershman, “Iterative dual downlink beamforming
for cognitive radio networks,” Proc. 5th International Conference on Cognitive Radio
Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CrownCom 2010), Cannes, France,
June 2010.
� L. Li, M. Pesavento and A.B. Gershman, “On ergodic sum capacity of underlay cognitive
broadcast channels,” Proc. 21st Annual IEEE International Symposium on
Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2010), Istanbul, Turkey,
Sept. 2010.
� M. Pesavento, “Exploiting multiple shift invariances in harmonic retrieval,” Proc. IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’09),
pp. 2101-2104, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
� M. Pesavento, S. Shahbazpanahi, J.F. Böhme and A.B. Gershman, “Exploiting multiple
shift invariances in multidimensional harmonic retrieval of damped exponentials,”
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP’05), vol. 4, pp. 1017-1020, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
� M. Pesavento and J.F. Böhme, “Rooting versus joint diagonalization in 2-D harmonic
retrieval,” In Proc. Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop
(SAM’04), Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.
� M. Bühren, M. Pesavento and J.F. Böhme, “Virtual array design for array interpolation
using differential geometry,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing, (ICASSP’04), vol. 2, pp. 229-32, Montreal, Canada,
May 2004.
� K.N. Mokios, N.D. Sidiropoulos, M. Pesavento and C.F. Mecklenbräuker, “On 3-D
harmonic retrieval for wireless channel sounding,” Proc. IEEE International Conference
on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’04), vol. 2, pp. 89-92, Montreal,
Canada, May 2004.
� M. Pesavento, K. Gulati and J.F. Böhme, “Estimating parameters of two dimensional
damped exponential mixtures,” Proc. IEEE Internationa Symposium on Signal Processing
and Information Technology (ISSPIT’03), Darmstadt, Germany, pp. 455-458,
Dec 2003.
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� M. Pesavento, C.F. Mecklenbräuker and J.F. Böhme, “New results in almost sure
identifiability of 2d-harmonic retrieval,” Proc. Statistical Signal Processing Workshop(SSP’03),
St. Louis, MI, Sept. 2003.
� M. Pesavento, C.F. Mecklenbräuker and J.F. Böhme, “Md-harmonic retrieval, Exploiting
algebraic structure in parameter estimation and association,” Proc. Statistical
Signal Processing Workshop (SSP’03), St. Louis, MI, Sep. 2003.
� M. Bühren, M. Pesavento and J.F. Böhme, “Virtual array design for array interpolation
using differential geometry,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’03), vol. 5, pp. 205-208, Hong Kong, China,
Apr. 2003.
� M. Pesavento, C.F. Mecklenbräuker and J.F. Böhme, “Multi-dimensional harmonic
estimation using K-D RARE in application to MIMO channel estimation,” Proc. IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’03),
vol. 4, pp. 644-647, Hong Kong, China, Apr. 2003
� M. Pesavento, C.F. Mecklenbräuker and J.F. Böhme, “Tree-structured multidimensional
RARE for MIMO channel estimation,” COST-273 , Meeting No. 6, COST-273
TD(03)020, Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 2003.
� M. Pesavento, C.F. Mecklenbräuker and J.F. Böhme, “Double-directional channel
estimation using MD RARE,” Proc. 36th Asilomar Conf. Signals, Syst., and Comp.,
vol. 1, pp. 594-598, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2002.
� M. Pesavento and J.F. Böhme, “Eigenstructure-based azimuth and elevation estimation
in sparse uniform rectangular arrays,” Proc. Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal
Processing Workshop (SAM’02), pp. 327-331, Washington DC, VA, Aug. 2002.
� M. Pesavento and J.F. Böhme, “Direction-of-arrival estimation in uniform circular
arrays composed of directional elements,” Proc. Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal
Processing Workshop (SAM’02), pp. 503-507, Washington DC, VA, Aug. 2002.
� M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman and K.M. Wong, “On uniqueness of direction of arrival
estimates using rank reduction estimator (RARE),” Proc. IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’02), pp. 3021-3024,
Orlando, FL, May 2002.
� M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman, K.M. Wong and J.F. Böhme, “Direction finding in
partly calibrated arrays composed of nonidentical subarrays, a computationally efficient
algorithm for the rank reduction (RARE) estimator,” Proc. Statistical Signal
Processing Workshop (SSP’01),pp. 536-539, Singapore, Aug. 2001.
� M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman and Z. -Q. Luo, “A robust technique for array interpolation
using second-order cone programming,” Proc. Statistical Signal Processing
Workshop (SSP’01), pp. 217-220, Singapore, Aug. 2001.
� M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman and K.M. Wong, “Direction of arrival estimation in
partly calibrated time-varying sensor arrays,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’01), pp. 3005-3008, Salt Lake City,
UT, May 2001
� M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman and K.M. Wong, “The stochastic CRB for array processing
in unknown noise fields,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing, (ICASSP’01), pp. 2898-2992, Salt Lake City, UT, May
2001.
� A.B. Gershman, M. G.Amin and M. Pesavento, “High-resolution sensor array processing
in the presence of multiple wideband chirp signals,” Proc. 34th Asilomar
Conf. Signals, Syst., and Comp., Pacific Grove, CA, invited paper, vol. 1, pp. 41-45,
Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 2000.
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� M. Pesavento and A.B. Gershman, “Array processing in the presence of unknown nonuniform
sensor noise: a maximum likelihood direction finding algorithm and Cramér-
Rao bounds,” In Proc. Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP’00), pp. 78-82,
Pocono Manor, PA, Aug. 2000.
� A.B. Gershman, M. Pesavento and M. G. Amin, “Estimating the parameters of multiple
wideband chirp signals in sensor arrays,” In Proc. Statistical Signal Processing
Workshop (SSP’00), pp. 467-471, Pocono Manor, PA, Aug. 2000.
� M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman and M. Haardt, “Sensor array processing using a unitary
root-MUSIC direction finding algorithm,” Proc. Int. Symp. on Antennas and
Propag. (ISAP’00), invited paper, pp. 677-680, Fukuoka, Japan, Aug. 2000.
� M. Pesavento, A.B. Gershman and M. Haardt, “A theoretical and experimental performance
study of a root-MUSIC algorithm based on a real-valued eigendecomposition,”
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP’00), vol. 5, pp. 3049-3052, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000.
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