Dr.-Ing. Michael Schnell DLR Oberpfaffenhofen Institut for Communications and Navigation P.O. Box 1116 D-82230 Wessling, Germany Tel: +49-8153-28-2858 Fax: +49-8153-28-1442 email: Michael.Schnell@dlr.de

Areas of Involvement:

• Satellite Communications at Ka-Band and Above (20-50 GHz)
• Statistical channel description
• Channel modelling
• Fade countermeasures and adaptive resource sharing
• Spread-Spectrum Technique
• Direct-Sequence Code-Division Multiple-Access (DS-CDMA)
• Spreading codes for CDMA
• Multi-Carrier Transmission Technique
• Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
• OFDM based multi-carrier multiple-access techniques, especially Multi-Carrier Code-Division Multiple-Access (MC-CDMA)
  and Code-Division Multiplexing - Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple-Access (CDM-OFDMA)
  
• Non-OFDM based multi-carrier techniques, especially Interleaved Frequency-Division Multiple-Access (IFDMA)
• Mobile Radio Communications
• Terrestrial mobile radio communications (GSM, UMTS)
• Fourth generation mobile radio communications ("4G")
• Aeronautical Communications
• VHF analogue voice transmission: DSM-AM with 25 kHz and 8.33 kHz channel spacing
• Digital aeronautical communications: VDL ("VHF Digital Link") Modes 2, 3, 4
  
• Future aeronautical communications systems, ground- and satellite-based

Publications:

• Ph.D. Thesis
• Journals
• Conferences

Others:

• Member of VDE and IEEE
• Member of Steering Committee of the IEEE German Chapter on Information Theory
• Visiting Researcher at University of Victoria, Canada: Oct.-Dec. 1997
• Lecturer for "Wireless Multi-Carrier Communications" at the University of Karlsruhe (Prof. Jondral)
  
• Hobbies: Tennis, table tennis, squash, cycling, mountaineering, music