ultrawideband (UWB) communications and geolocation, in particular UWB transceiver structures, modulation and coding, ranging algorithms, performance analysis in realistic (measured) channels
(ii) wireless propagation channels, with particular emphasis on channels for multiple-antenna systems and UWB communications, generic modeling methods, measurement techniques, high-resolution data extraction
(iii) multiple-antenna systems, especially antenna selection techniques in MIMO systems and base-station cooperation methods
(iv) cooperative communications, including physical-layer techniques (virtual beamforming, Fountain code based transmission, distributed space-time codes), routing techniques, and cross-layer design
