Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto

Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto obtained her Ph.D. degree in telecommunications in 1987 from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. In 1991, she joined the faculty of the School of Engineering, the University of Rome La Sapienza, where currently she is a Full Professor of telecommunications at the Infocom Department. She has held visiting positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Paris XI, France. In 1994, she received the Mac Kay Professorship Award from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include speech analysis and synthesis, and digital communication systems. From 1995 to 2000, she directed four European projects for the design of UMTS. Since 2000, she has been active in fostering the development of ultra-wideband (UWB) telecommunication systems in Europe. She is currently the Director for Infocom of two European IST projects of the 5th European Union Framework Program (Whyless.com and UCAN), and of two integrated projects (IP) within the 6th European Union Framework Program (PULSERS and Liaison). The four mentioned projects are aimed at the design and implementation of UWB systems. Her research group also participates in the European Union Network of Excellence on Hybrid System Modeling and Control (HYCON). She recently completed together with Guerino Giancola a book Understanding Ultra Wide Band Radio Fundamentals on UWB from radio to the network, which was published in June 2004 by Prentice Hall.

Biography Updated on 24 May 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. MONET special issue editorial
    Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 427–428, 2006
  2. Fluid coding and coexistence in ultra wide band networks
    Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 501–508, 2006
  3. Introducing consciousness in UWB networks by hybrid modelling of admission control
    Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 521–534, 2006
  4. Tuning UWB signals by pulse shaping: Towards context-aware wireless networks
    Signal Processing, vol. 86, no. 9, pp. 2172–2184, 2006
  5. A novel approach for estimating multi-user interference in impulse radio UWB networks: The pulse collision model
    Signal Processing, vol. 86, no. 9, pp. 2185–2197, 2006
  6. UWB ranging accuracy in high- and low-data-rate applications
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 1865–1875, 2006
  7. Editorial
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2005, no. 3, pp. 249–251, 2005
  8. Radio resource management in infrastructure-based and ad hoc UWB networks
    Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 581–597, 2005
  9. Guest Editorial
    Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 591–592, 2005
  10. (UWB)2: Uncoordinated, Wireless, Baseborn Medium Access for UWB Communication Networks
    Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 663–674, 2005
  11. Guest editorial ultra-wideband radio in multiaccess wireless communications
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 1609–1610, 2002
  12. Modeling and optimization of UWB communication networks through a flexible cost function
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 1733–1744, 2002
  13. Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 175–186, 2000
  14. Acoustical and perceptual study of gemination in Italian stops
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 106, no. 4, p. 2051, 1999
  15. Effect of vocal effort on spectral properties of vowels
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 106, no. 1, p. 411, 1999
  16. An application of MMSE predistortion to OFDM systems
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 1417–1420, 1996
  17. A new analog predistortion criterion with application to high efficiency digital radio links
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 2966–2974, 1995
  18. Macro and micro features for automated pronunciation improvement in the SPELL system
    Speech Communication, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 31–44, 1992
  19. Vowel representation: Some observations on temporal and spectral properties of the first formant frequency
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 86, no. 1, p. 55, 1989
  20. Frequency and time variations of the first formant: Properties relevant to the perception of vowel height
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 86, no. 1, p. 67, 1989
  21. A Bayesian-adaptive decision method for the V/UV/S classification of segments of a speech signal
    IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 556–559, 1987