Publications of Ruben Merz

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Journals and Magazines

1. Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec. Performance Evaluation of Impulse Radio UWB Networks using Common or Private Acquisition Preambles. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 8(7):865-879, July 2009. download

2. Manuel Flury, Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec. Managing Impulsive Interference in Impulse Radio UWB Networks. ST Journal of Research, 4(1), May 2007. download

3. Ruben Merz, Jörg Widmer, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Bozidar Radunovic. A Joint PHY/MAC Architecture for Low-Radiated Power TH-UWB Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, Special Issue on Ultrawideband (UWB) Communications, 5(5):567-580, 2005. download

4. Alaeddine El Fawal, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Bozidar Radunovic, Jörg Widmer, Gian Mario Maggio. Tradeoff Analysis of PHY-aware MAC in Low-Rate, Low-Power UWB networks. IEEE Communications Magazine, 43(12):147-155, December 2005. download

Conferences and Workshops

1. Manuel Flury, Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec. Robust IEEE 802.15.4a Energy Detection Receiver Using Statistical Interference Modeling. In Proceedings of 43rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, (Location: Pacific Grove, CA, USA), November 2009. (To appear)

2. Manuel Flury, Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec. Robust Non-Coherent Timing Acquisition in IEEE 802.15.4a IR-UWB Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2009), (Location: Tokyo, Japan), September 2009. (To appear) download

3. James Colli-Vignarelli, Jerome Vernez, Ruben Merz, Catherine Dehollain, Stephan Robert, Jean-Yves Le Boudec. Concurrent Transmissions in IR-UWB Networks: an Experimental Validation. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wide Band (ICUWB '09), (Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Pages 534-539, ACM, September 2009.

4. Manuel Flury, Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec. Clock-Offset Tracking Software Algorithms For IR-UWB Energy-Detection Receivers. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wide Band (ICUWB '09), (Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Pages 337-342, ACM, September 2009.

5. Manuel Flury, Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec. Clock-Offset Tracking Software Algorithms For IR-UWB Energy-Detection Receivers. In Proceedings of the 2009 NCCR MICS Workshop, Cluster 2 on Mobile communication and processing platforms, June 2009.

6. Harald Schiöberg, Ruben Merz, Cigdem Sengul. A Failsafe Architecture for Mesh Testbeds with Real Users. In Proceedings of the ACM MobiHoc Wireless S$^3$ Workshop 2009, (Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA), Pages 29-31, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, May 2009.

7. Ruben Merz, Cigdem Sengul, Mustafa Al-Bado. Accurate Physical Layer Modeling for Realistic Wireless Simulation. In 2009 ns-3 Workshop, March 2009. download

8. Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz. Concurrent and Parallel Transmissions are Optimal for Low Data-Rate IR-UWB Networks. In IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2008), (Location: Cannes, France), September 2008. download

9. Manuel Flury, Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec. An Energy Detection Receiver Robust to Multi-User Interference for IEEE 802.15.4a Networks. In IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2008), (Location: Hannover, Germany), Pages 149-152, September 2008. download

10. Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jörg Widmer. An Architecture for Wireless Simulation in NS-2 Applied to Impulse-Radio Ultra-Wide Band Networks. In SpringSim '07: Proceedings of the 2007 spring simulation multiconference, (Location: Norfolk, VA), Pages 256-263, Society for Computer Simulation International, San Diego, CA, USA, 2007. download

11. Manuel Flury, Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Julien Zory. Performance Evaluation of an IEEE 802.15.4a Physical Layer with Energy Detection and Multi-User Interference. In IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2007), (Location: Singapore), Pages 663-668, September 2007. download

12. Ruben Merz, Alaeddine El Fawal, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Bozidar Radunovic, Joerg Widmer. The Optimal MAC Layer for Low-Power UWB is Non-Coordinated. In IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2006), (Location: Island of Kos, Greece), Pages 4-0, 2006. download

13. Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Saravanan Vijayakumaran. Effect on Network Performance of Common versus Private Acquisition Sequences for Impulse Radio UWB Networks. In IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2006), (Location: Waltham, MA), Pages 375-380, September 2006. download

14. Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec. Effect of Interfering Users on the Modulation Order and Code Rate for UWB Impulse-Radio Bit-Interleaved Coded M-ary PPM. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Broadband Networks (Broadnets'05), (Location: Boston), Pages 1156-1162, October 2005. download

15. Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec. Conditional Bit Error Rate for an Impulse Radio UWB Channel with Interfering Users. In IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICU 2005), (Location: Zürich, Switzerland), Pages 130-135, September 2005. download

16. Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Jörg Widmer, Bozidar Radunovic. A Rate-Adaptive MAC Protocol for Low-Power Ultra-Wide Band Ad-hoc Networks. In Ad-Hoc Now 04, 3rd International Conference on AD-HOC Networks, (Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Pages 630, 2004. download

17. Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ruben Merz, Bozidar Radunovic, Jörg Widmer. DCC-MAC: A Decentralized MAC Protocol for 802.15.4a-like UWB Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Based on Dynamic Channel Coding. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Broadband Networks (Broadnets'04), (Location: San Jose), Pages 396-405, IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, October 2004. download

Misc (Posters, Talks, etc.)

1. Mustafa Al-Bado, Anja Feldmann, Thorsten Fischer, Thomas Hühn, Ruben Merz, Harald Schiöberg, Julius Schulz-Zander, Cigdem Sengul, Benjamin Vahl. Demo: Disruption Free Live Reconfiguration in a Wireless Testbed. Demo at the Symposium on Click Modular Router (SyClick!), November 2009. (To appear)

2. Mustafa Al-Bado, Anja Feldmann, Thorsten Fischer, Thomas Hühn, Ruben Merz, Harald Schiöberg, Julius Schulz-Zander, Cigdem Sengul, Benjamin Vahl. Automated Online Reconfigurations in an Outdoor Live Wireless Mesh Network. Demo at ACM SIGCOMM '09, August 2009.

3. Manuel Flury, Ruben Merz, Jean-Yves Le Boudec. Method for retrieving data from Ultra Wideband radio transmission signals. Patent US Patent Application 61/006,972, 2008.

Ph.D. Thesis

1. Ruben Merz. Interference management in impulse-radio ultra-wide band networks. PhD Thesis Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, 2008. download

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