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Dipl.-Ing. Adrian Schad

Dipl.-Ing. Adrian Schad

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Research interests

  • Array Signal Processing
  • Robust Adaptive Beamforming
  • Optimization Methods
  • Relay Networks

Short Bio

Adrian Schad received his Diploma degree in electrical, electronic, and communication engineering in October 2008 from the University Erlangen-Nürnberg. In September 2011 he received his Diploma degree in mathematics from the Technische Universität Darmstadt. In February 2009 he joined the Communication Systems Group where he is now working towards his PhD.

Publications

Conference Proceedings

  • A. Schad, B. Khalaj, M. Pesavento, "Precoding in Relay Networks with Frequency Selective Channels," Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2012.
  • A. Schad, K.L. Law, M. Pesavento, “A Convex Inner Approximation Technique for Rank-Two Beamforming in Multicasting Relay Networks,” Proceedings of the European Signal Processing conference (EUSIPCO 2012), Bucharest, Romania, August 2012, pp. 1369-1373.
  • A. Schad, and M. Pesavento, "Time Division Multiple Access Methods in Bi-Directional Cooperative Relay Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, Hoboken, USA, June 2012, pp. 89-92.
  • A. Schad, and M. Pesavento, "Max-Min Fair Transmit Beamforming for Multi-group Multicasting," Proceedings of the 16th International IEEE/ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2012), Dresden, March 2012, pp. 115-118.
  • A. Schad, and M. Pesavento, "Multiuser bi-directional communications in cooperative relay networks," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP'11), San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2011, pp. 217-220.
  • E. Mabande, A. Schad, and W. Kellermann, "A Time-domain Implementation of Data-Independent Robust Broadband Beamformers with Low Filter Order," Proceedings of the joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2011, pp. 81-85.
  • A. Schad, A.B. Gershman, and S. Shahbazpanahi, "Capacity maximization for distributed beamforming in one- and bi-directional relay networks," Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'11), Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011, pp.2804-2807.
  • A. Schad, H. Chen, A.B. Gershman, and S. Shahbazpanahi, "Filter-and-forward peer-to-peer beamforming in relay networks with frequency selective channels," Proceedings of the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'10), Dallas, TX, USA, March 2010, pp. 3246-3249.
  • E. Mabande, A. Schad, and W. Kellermann, "Design of robust superdirective beamformers as a convex optimization problem," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'09), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009, pp. 77–80.
  • E. Mabande, A. Schad, and W. Kellermann, "Robust superdirectional beamforming for hands-free speech capture in cars," Proceedings of the NAG/DAGA International Conference on Acoustics, Rotterdam, Netherlands, March 2009, pp. 23-26.