Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum

Pierluigi Salvo Rossi

July 2, 2007

Contents
1 General Information 2
1.1 Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Affiliation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2 Education 3
2.1 Degrees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2 Grad. Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

3 Professional Experience 4
3.1 Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2 Technical Program Committee Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.3 Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.4 Participation in Funded Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.5 Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.6 Student Co-advising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

4 Research Activity 8
4.1 Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.2 Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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1 General Information

• First Name: Pierluigi

• Last Name: Salvo Rossi
• Date of birth: April 26, 1977
• Place of birth: Naples, Italy
• Nationality: Italian

1.1 Contacts
• Email:
salvoros@iet.ntnu.no
salvoros@unina.it
• Webpage:
http://wpage.unina.it/salvoros

1.2 Affiliation
• Current:
Signal Processing Group,
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
O.S. Bragstads plass 2B, 7491 Trondheim, Norway,
Phone +47 735 50398 - Fax +47 735 92640
• Previous:
– Department of Computer Science and Systems,
University of Naples “Federico II”,
Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy,
Phone +39 081 7683911 - Fax +39 081 7683816
– Department of Information Engineering,
Second University of Naples,
Via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa (CE), Italy,
Phone +39 081 5010371 - Fax +39 081 5037042

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2 Education
2.1 Degrees
• Ph.D. in Computer Science.
University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy.
Thesis: “End-to-End Packet-Channels Modeling”.
Advisors: Prof. G. Iannello, Prof. F. Palmieri, Prof. C. Sansone.
January 2005.
• “Laurea” degree (summa cum laude) in Telecommunications Engineering,.
University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy.
Thesis: “Speech Prosody Modeling”, in collaboration with CIRASS (Inter-departmental Research
Center for Signals Analysis and Synthesis), University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy.
Advisors: Prof. F. Palmieri, Prof. F. Cutugno.
January 2002.

2.2 Grad. Schools

• School for Ph.D. students in Information Engineering.
University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy.
February 2003.
• “Functional Analysis” for Ph.D. students.
University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy.
November 2002 - May 2003.
• School for Ph.D. students “Computer Vision”.
GIRP, University of Salerno, ICAR and CNR, Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy.
November 2002.
• School for Ph.D. students in Information Engineering.
University of Padova, Bressanone (BZ), Italy.
July 2002.

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3 Professional Experience
3.1 Research
• Postdoc Research Engineer.
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and Technol-
ogy, Trondheim, Norway.
November 2006 - October 2008.
• Visiting Postdoc Research Engineer.
Department of Electroscience, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
April 2007.
• Postdoc Research Engineer.
Department of Information Engineering, Second University of Naples, Aversa (CE), Italy, funded
by CRdC-ICT (Regional Institute for Research on Information and Communication Technology),
Benevento, Italy.
July 2006 - June 2007.
• Postdoc Research Engineer.
Department of Computer Science and Systems, University of Naples, Naples, Italy, funded by
CINI-ITeM (National Laboratory for Multimedia Informatics and Telematics, Italian University
Consortium for Computer Science and Engineering), Naples, Italy.
February 2005 - October 2005.
• Visiting Assistant Research Engineer.
CSPL (Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory), Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, US.
February 2004 - July 2004.
• Research Engineer.
Department of Information Engineering, Second University of Naples, Aversa (CE), Italy.
October 2003 - November 2003.
• Research Engineer.
CIRASS (Inter-departmental Research Center for Signals Analysis and Synthesis), University of
Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy.
February 2002 - January 2003.

3.2 Technical Program Committee Membership

• IEEE International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC).
Las Vegas, NV, US, June 2007.

3.3 Review

Journals
• Computer Communications, Elsevier.
• IEE Proceedings - Communications.
• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

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 • Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, John Wiley & Sons.
• Journal of Internet Technology.

Conferences
• IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
Washington, DC, US, November 2007.
• IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS).
Trondheim, Norway, October 2007.
• IEEE International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services
and Technologies (NGMAST).
Cardiff, UK, September 2007.
• IEEE International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC).
Las Vegas, NV, US, June 2007.
• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT).
Nice, France, June 2007.
• IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC).
San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 2007.
• IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM).
San Francisco, CA, US, November 2006.
• International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU).
London, UK, October 2006.
• IEE International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems (MOBILITY).
Bangkok, Thailand, October 2006.
• EURASIP European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO).
Florence, Italy, September 2006.

3.4 Participation in Funded Projects

• WILATI (Wireless LANs with high throughput in interference-limited environments), funded by
RCN (Research Council of Norway), VINNOVA (Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovations
Systems) and Tekes (Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation), within the NORDITE
research program, 2006-2008.
Researcher, Leader of the WorkPackage2 (Multiuser Detection and Channel Estimation).
• WEB-MINDS (Middleware for advanced services over large-scale, wired-wireless distributed sys-
tems), funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry for University and Research), 2001-2005.
Researcher.
• CLIPS (Spoken and written Italian corpora), funded by MIUR (Italian Ministry for University and
Research), 2000-2003.
Researcher.

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3.5 Teaching
• Adjunct Professor.
“Digital Signal Processing”.
B.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering and Electronic Engineering, Second University of Naples,
Naples, Italy.
Academic year 2006-2007.
• Adjunct Professor.
“Digital Signal Processing”, “Laboratory of Telecommunication II ”.
B.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering and Electronic Engineering, Second University of Naples,
Naples, Italy.
Academic year 2005-2006.
• Adjunct Professor.
“Digital Signal Processing”.
B.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering and Electronic Engineering, Second University of Naples,
Naples, Italy.
Academic year 2004-2005.

• Teaching assistant.
“Telecommunications I ”, “Telecommunications II ”, “Digital Transmissions”, “Telecommunications
Networks”, “Telecommunications Systems”.
B.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering and Electronic Engineering, Second University of Naples,
Naples, Italy.
Academic year 2006-2007.
• Teaching assistant.
“Telecommunications I ”, “Telecommunications II ”, “Digital Transmissions”, “Telecommunications
Networks”, “Telecommunications Systems”.
B.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering and Electronic Engineering, Second University of Naples,
Naples, Italy.
Academic year 2005-2006.
• Teaching assistant.
“Telecommunications I ”, “Telecommunications II ”, “Digital Transmissions”, “Telecommunications
Networks”, “Telecommunications Systems”.
B.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering and Electronic Engineering, Second University of Naples,
Naples, Italy.
Academic year 2004-2005.
• Teaching assistant.
“Telecommunications I ”, “Telecommunications II ”, “Digital Transmissions”, “Telecommunications
Networks”, “Telecommunications Systems”, “Digital Signal Processing”.
B.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering and Electronic Engineering, Second University of Naples,
Naples, Italy.
Academic year 2003-2004.
• Teaching assistant.
“Telecommunications I ”, “Telecommunications II ”, “Digital Transmissions”, “Telecommunications
Networks”, “Telecommunications Systems”, “Digital Signal Processing”.
B.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering and Electronic Engineering, Second University of Naples,

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 Naples, Italy.
Academic year 2002-2003.
• Teaching assistant.
“SAR Systems”, “Signals Theory”.
“Laurea” degree in Electronic Engineering, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
Academic year 2002-2003.

3.6 Student Co-advising

“Laurea” degree
• G. Cirillo, “Interleaving and Path Diversity for Packet-based Communications”, Telecommunica-
tions Engineering, University of Naples “Federico II” (advisor: Prof. G. Ventre), July 2006.
• S. Flumini, “Design and Simulation of a Node for a Wireless Cooperative Network”, Electronic
Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (advisor: Prof. A. Chiari), October 2005.
• F. De Martino, “Voice Activity Detection in Noisy Environments”, Electronic Engineering, Second
University of Naples (advisor: Prof. F. Palmieri), October 2005.
• V. La Marca, “HMM-based Adaptive Communications”, Computer Engineering, University of
Naples “Federico II” (advisor: Prof. G. Iannello), May 2004.
• D. Di Lauro, “Adaptive Modulation and Coding Schemes”, Electronic Engineering, Second Univer-
sity of Naples (advisor: Prof. F. Palmieri), December 2003.
• G. Scarano, “Cancellation Correction Codes for Lossy Networks”, Electronic Engineering, Second
University of Naples (advisor: Prof. F. Palmieri), October 2003.
• S. Di Pietro, “Video Streaming on IP Channels”, Electronic Engineering, Second University of
Naples (advisor: Prof. F. Palmieri), March 2003.

B.Sc. degree
• P. Merola, “Packet-Level Simulation of Wireless Networks”, Electronic Engineering, Second Uni-
versity of Naples (advisor: Prof. F. Palmieri), December 2006.
• M. Luongo, “Packet-Level Simulation of Wired Networks”, Electronic Engineering, Second Univer-
sity of Naples (advisor: Prof. F. Palmieri), December 2006.
• F. Chianese, “Algorithms for Audio Watermarking”, Electronic Engineering, Second University of
Naples (advisor: Prof. F. Palmieri), June 2006.
• S.A. Iannucci, “Numerical Estimation of Acoustic Ambient Response”, Electronic Engineering,
Second University of Naples (advisor: Prof. F. Palmieri), October 2005.

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4 Research Activity
4.1 Topics
• Wireless Communications.
– Joint iterative multiuser decoding and channel estimation.
– Cooperative algorithms with distributed linear block codes.
– Multiple access techniques.
• Communications Systems.

– Bayesian modeling of end-to-end packet channels and of packet sources for content-adaptive
transmission and network simulation.
– Diversity techniques for reliable communications over lossy packet channels.
• Speech Processing.
– Speech prosody modeling and processing for natural-sounding speech synthesis.

4.2 Publications

Journal papers
J03- P. Salvo Rossi, A.P. Petropulu, F. Palmieri, G. Iannello,
“Distributed Linear Block Coding for Cooperative Wireless Communications,”
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, to appear in October 2007.
J02- P. Salvo Rossi, G. Romano, F. Palmieri, G. Iannello,
“Joint End-to-End Loss-Delay Hidden Markov Model for Periodic UDP Traffic over the Internet,”
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 54(2), pp. 530-541, February 2006.
J01- G. Romano, P. Salvo Rossi, F. Palmieri,
“Optimal Correlating Transform for Erasure Channels,”
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 12(10), pp. 677-680, October 2005.

Conference Proceedings
C21- P. Salvo Rossi, R.R. Müller,
“Joint Iterative Time-Variant Channel Estimation and Multi-User Detection for MIMO-OFDM
Systems,”
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), November 2007, accepted for publi-
cation.

C20- P. Salvo Rossi, P. Pakniat, R.R. Müller, O. Edfors,

“Iterative Joint Channel Estimation and Multiuser Detection for Wireless MIMO-OFDM Systems:
Performance in a Real Indoor Scenario,”
IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), October 2007, ac-
cepted for publication.

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C19- G. Romano, D. Ciuonzo, F. Palmieri, P. Salvo Rossi,
“Group Gain Design for Overloaded CDMA,”
IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), pp. 1-5,
June 2007.
C18- G. Romano, D. Ciuonzo, F. Palmieri, P. Salvo Rossi,
“On Asymptotic Efficiency for Asynchronous CDMA,”
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), pp. 1-5, March 2007.
C17- P. Salvo Rossi, G. Romano, D. Mattera, F. Palmieri, S. Marano,
“A Scheme for Multiuser Communications based on Energy Division,”
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), pp. 1-5, March 2007.
C16- A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, P. Salvo Rossi, G. Iannello, F. Palmieri, G. Ventre,
“An HMM Approach to Internet Traffic Modeling,”
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1-6, December 2006.
C15- P. Salvo Rossi, G. Romano, D. Mattera, F. Palmieri, S. Marano,
“An Energy-Division Multiple Access Scheme,”
International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), pp. 1-5, July 2006.
C14- G. Iannello, F. Palmieri, A. Pescapè, P. Salvo Rossi,
“End-to-End Packet-Channel Bayesian Model applied to Heterogeneous Wireless Networks,”
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Vol. 1, pp. 484-489, December 2005.
C13- P. Salvo Rossi, S. Yatawatta, A.P. Petropulu, F. Palmieri, G. Iannello,
“A Distributed Coding Cooperative Scheme for Wireless Communications,”
IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), pp. 89-93,
June 2005.
C12- P. Salvo Rossi, F. Palmieri, G. Iannello,
“An Algebraic Approach for Path-Diversity Multiple-Description-Coding scenario,”
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), pp. 1-6, March 2005.
C11- S. Avallone, P. Salvo Rossi, V. La Marca, G. Iannello, F. Palmieri, G. Ventre,
“Congestion Control for UDP Traffic,”
IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), pp.
258-261, December 2004.
C10- P. Salvo Rossi, F. Palmieri, G. Iannello, A.P. Petropulu,
“Packet Interleaving over Lossy Channels,”
IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), pp.
476-479, December 2004.

C09- P. Salvo Rossi, A.P. Petropulu, J. Yu, F. Palmieri, G. Iannello,

“Internet Loss-Delay Modeling by Use of Input/Output Markov Models,”
IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), pp. 470-473, October
2004.
C08- G. Romano, P. Salvo Rossi, F. Palmieri,
“Multiple Description Image Coder Using Correlating Transforms,”
EURASIP European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 1321-1324, September 2004.

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C07- P. Salvo Rossi, P. Falco, A. Budillon, D. Mattera, F. Palmieri,
“Prosody Modification and Fujisaki’s Model: Preserving Natural Soundness,”
EURASIP European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 1019-1022, September 2004.
C06- P. Salvo Rossi, F. Palmieri, G. Iannello,
“HMM-based Monitoring of Packet Channels,”
IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC),
in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, Vol. 3079/2004, pp. 144-154,
July 2004.
C05- P. Salvo Rossi, G. Romano, F. Palmieri, G. Iannello,
“Interleaving for Packet Channels,”
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), pp. 1560-1564, March 2004.
C04- P. Salvo Rossi, G. Romano, F. Palmieri, G. Iannello,
“A Hidden Markov Model for Internet Channels,”
IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), pp.
50-53, December 2003.
C03- P. Salvo Rossi, G. Romano, F. Palmieri, G. Iannello,
“Bayesian Modelling for Packet Channels,”
Italian Workshop on Neural Nets (WIRN), in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, Springer-Verlag
Heidelberg, Vol. 2859/2003, pp. 218-225, June 2003.
C02- P. Salvo Rossi, F. Palmieri, F. Cutugno,
“Inversion of F0 Model for Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesis,”
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 1, pp.
520-523, April 2003.
C01- P. Salvo Rossi, F. Palmieri, F. Cutugno,
“A Method for Automatic Extraction of Fujisaki-Model Parameters,”
ISCA Speech Prosody (SP), pp. 615-618, April 2002.

Other
O01- P. Salvo Rossi, P. Pakniat, R.R. Müller, O. Edfors,
“Theoretical Study and Literature Overview for Multiuser Detection and Channel Estimation in
the Presence of Interference,”
D2.1 and D2.2 WILATI project, NORDITE Technology program, pp. 1-19, May 2007.

Under Review

1. A. Dainotti, A. Pescapè, P. Salvo Rossi, F. Palmieri, G. Ventre,

“Internet Traffic Modeling by means of Hidden Markov Models,”
Elsevier Computer Networks, submitted in February 2007.
2. P. Salvo Rossi, R.R. Müller,
“Slepian-Based 2-Dimensional Estimation of Time-Frequency Variant MIMO-OFDM Channels,”
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, submitted in June 2007.

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