Bertrand Devillers

Contents 1 Contact 2 Short bio 3 Research Interests 4 Publications 5 PhD Thesis

Contact

Research Associate
Tel. +34 93 645 29 15
Fax +34 93 645 29 01
Email: bertrand.devillers x cttc.es

Short bio

Bertrand Devillers received the Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. degree from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, in June 2004 and March 2009, respectively. From October 2004 to September 2008, he was a Research Fellow of the F.R.S.-FNRS (Belgium) in the digital communication group of the Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory of UCL. From October 2008 to March 2009, he was a research assistant at UCL. In April 2009, he joined the CTTC as Research Associate.

Research Interests

Wireless Communications, Satellite Communications.

Publications

:: In Journals

• X. Artiga, B. Devillers, and J. Perruisseau-Carrier, Evaluation of Realistic Base Station Antennas for Large-Scale Multi-user MIMO Systems, submitted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

• I. Thibault, B. Devillers, E.A. Candreva, F. Lombardo, A. Vanelli-Coralli, G. E. Corazza, Joint Feeder Link Bandwidth Compaction and Interference Mitigation based on a Hybrid Space/Ground Processing Architecture for a Broadband Multi Beam Satellite System, submitted to the International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking.

• J. Arnau, B. Devillers, C. Mosquera, A. Pérez-Neira, Performance Study of Multiuser Interference Mitigation Schemes for Hybrid Broadband Multibeam Satellite Architectures, submitted to the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

• B. Devillers, D. Gündüz, A general framework for the optimization of energy harvesting communication systems with battery imperfections, to appear, Journal of Communications and Networks, Special Issue on Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks, April 2012.

• B. Devillers, L. Vandendorpe, Bit Rate Comparison of Adaptive OFDM and Cyclic Prefixed Single-Carrier with DFE, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 13, No. 11, pp. 838-840, November 2009.

• B. Devillers, J. Louveaux, L. Vandendorpe, About the Diversity in Cyclic Prefixed Single-Carrier Systems, Elsevier Physical Communication (PHYCOM) journal, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 266-276, Dec. 2008.

• B. Devillers, J. Louveaux, L. Vandendorpe, Bit and Power Allocation for Goodput Optimization in Coded Parallel Subchannels with ARQ, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 3652-3661, Aug. 2008.

:: In International Conferences

• X. Artiga, B. Devillers, and J. Perruisseau-Carrier, Mutual Coupling Effects in Multi-User Massive MIMO Base Stations, IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, July 2012.

• D. Gündüz and B. Devillers, Two-hop communication with energy harvesting, IEEE Int'l Workshop Comput. Adv. in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Proc. (CAMSAP), San Juan, PR, Dec. 2011.

• B. Devillers and D. Gündüz, Energy harvesting communication system with battery constraint and leakage, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Houston, TX, Dec. 2011.

• B. Devillers, A. Pérez-Neira, C. Mosquera, Joint Linear Precoding and Beamforming for the Forward Link of Multi-Beam Broadband Satellite Systems, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Houston, TX, Dec. 2011.

• J. Arnau-Yañez, M. Bergmann, E.A. Candreva, G.E. Corazza, R. de Gaudenzi, B. Devillers, W. Gappmair, F. Lombardo, C. Mosquera, A. Perez-Neira, I. Thibault, A. Vanelli-Coralli, Hybrid Space-Ground Processing for High-Capacity Multi-beam Satellite Systems, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Houston, TX, Dec. 2011.

• B. Devillers, A. Pérez-Neira, Advanced Interference Mitigation Techniques for the Forward Link of Multi-Beam Broadband Satellite Systems, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR), Pacific Groove (California, USA), 6-9 November 2011.

• A. Pérez-Neira, B. Devillers and M. Lagunas, A Novel Non-Iterative Architecture for Broadcast MIMO, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cognitive Information Processing (CIP 2010), Elba Island (Italy), 14-16 June, 2010

• J. J. Escudero-Garzás, B. Devillers, L. Vandendorpe, A. García-Armada, Subchannel, Bit and Power Allocation in Multiuser OFDM Systems for Goodput Optimization with Fairness, in Proceedings of The 12th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2009), 7-10 September 2009, Sendai (Japan).

• B. Devillers, A. García Armada, J. Louveaux, L. Vandendorpe, Resource Allocation for Goodput Optimization in Parallel Subchannels with Error Correction and Selective Repeat ARQ, EUSIPCO 2007, 15th European Signal Processing Conference, Sept. 3-7, 2007, Poznan, Poland.

• B. Devillers, J. Louveaux, L. Vandendorpe, Exploiting Cyclic Prefix for Performance Improvement in Single Carrier Systems, SPAWC 2006, IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, July 2-5, 2006, Cannes, France.

• B. Devillers, L. Vandendorpe, Bit and Power Allocation for Goodput Optimization in Coded OFDM Systems, ICASSP 2006, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, May 14-19, 2006, Toulouse, France.

• B. Devillers, T. Sartenaer, L. Vandendorpe, Bit Rate Comparison between MIMO Cyclically Prefixed Single Carrier and Multicarrier Rransmissions, EUSIPCO 2005, 13th European Signal Processing Conference, Sept. 4-8, 2005, Antalya, Turkey.

:: In National Conferences

• J. J. Escudero-Garzás, B. Devillers, L. Vandendorpe, A. García-Armada, Subchannel, Bit and Power Allocation in Multiuser OFDM Systems for Goodput Optimization with Fairness, in Proceedings of The 12th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2009), 7-10 September 2009, Sendai (Japan).

PhD Thesis

B. Devillers, "Cyclic Prefixed Block Transmission for Wireless Communications: Performance Analysis and Optimization", Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, March 2009