Martin Klepal, PhD

Position:  Principle Investigator and Supervisor Office: B285 Email: mklepal@cit.ie Phone: +353-21-432-6865 Fax: +353-21-432-6625 Web Page: www.ubiaware.com

Brief Resume:

I have been a post-doctoral researcher in the Centre for Adaptive Wireless Systems at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland since September 2003. I received Bachelor, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Radioelectronics from the Department of Electromagnetic Field Theory, School of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague in 1998, 2000, and 2003, respectively. From 1998 until August 2003 I was a member of the anechoic and EMC antenna chamber research group at Czech Technical University, working toward my Ph.D. degree. I took up a research fellowship at Alcatel Bell in Belgium in 1999 and at the Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland in 2002. My research interests are in radio propagation modelling and self-managed sensor networks. I am the author or co-author of over 30 journal and conference publications and co-founder of I-Prop Ltd, a radio propagation modelling Campus Company, bought by StrixSystems in 2003. I received the URSI Young Scientist Award in Maastricht in 2002, and an award from the Czech Republic Branch of IEE in 2002. My recent work is on radio propagation modelling for a ubiquitous computing simulator and game-theoretic approach to self-management of sensor network.

For more details about my past check out my former not maintained yet still on Home Page at Czech Technical University in Prague

Dissertation Thesis:

• Motif Model - Novel Approach to Indoor Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Modelling (download)
• Motif Model - Viva Presentation (2003)

  Supervised Projects:

• Optimization and Evaluation of Large Scale WLAN Design
  - Presentation from M-Zones Workshop 2005
  
  
• Disappearing User Interface in Ubiquitous Computing
  - Presentation from M-Zones Workshop 2005
  
  
• UWB Radar for People Location and Tracking in Sensor Networks
  - Presentation from M-Zones Workshop 2005
  
  
• Simulator of Ubiquitous Computing – UbiWorld
  - Presentation from M-Zones Workshop 2005
  
  
• Real-Time Location and Tracking of Terminals in IEEE802.11 Network
  - Online Wlan Monitor (Youll need the SVG Viewer)

  Teaching:

In the academic year 2005/2006 I am teaching the following course:

• Antennas and Propagation for Wireless Communication

  Other Links:

• Online RF Server

• AWS WebServices

  Featured Presentations:

• Presentation given at the Innovation Club meeting entitled “Optimisation in Telecommunications” organised by The Technology Transfer Initiative in conjunction with the Cork Constraint Computation Centre at University College Cork 2005. Optimising Cellular Wireless Networks using Evolutionary Computing
• Presentation for the Friday seminars at University Colelge Cork 2005. Channel Parameters Prediction in the Simulator of Ubiquitous Computing

  Past Papers on Ray-Tracing:

• M. Klepal, P. Pechac, “Large Dynamic Range Prediction of AOA, AOD and PDP for MIMO Systems”, IEE 12th International Conference on Antennas & Propagation - ICAP 2003, Exeter, March 2003,pp. 775-779, ISBN 0-85296-7527
• M. Klepal, P. Pechac, “Prediction of Wide-Band Parameters of Mobile Propagation Channel”, XXVIIth URSI General Assembly the International Union of Radio Science [CD-ROM], Maastricht, August 2002, pp. 459
• M. Klepal, D. Pesch, Z. Hradecký, “Optimising Motif Models for Indoor Radio Propagation Prediction using Evolutionary Computation”, The Irish Signals and Systems Conference 2002, Cork, June 2002, pp. 301-306. ISBN 0-9542973-0-X
• M. Klepal, P. Pechac, M. Mazanek, “New Fast Approach to Wide-Band Propagation Prediction in Picocells”, 11th IEE International Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Manchester, April 2001, vol.1, pp. 216-217, ISBN 0-85296-733-0
• M. Mazanek, M. Klepal, P. Pechac, M. Polívka, “Anechoic and EMC Chambers – Modelling, Design, Testing”,Millennium Conference on Antennas & Propagation in Davos, April 2000, vol. p0725.pdf (CD-ROM), ISBN 92-9092-776-3
• P. Pechac, M. Klepal, M. Mazanek, “Indoor Propagation Modelling in Multi-Storey Buildings in Prague”,Millennium Conference on Antennas & Propagation in Davos, April 2000, p1580.pdf (CD-ROM), ISBN 92-9092-776-3

The Best Poster in Communication Section and its nomination for the Siemens Award for the poster: ”Prediction of wide-band parameters of mobile communication channel”, at the XXVIIth URSI General Assembly, Maastricht, August 2002

Selected Papers

Alan Mc Gibney, Martin Klepal, Dirk Pesch, A Wireless Local Area Network Modeling Tool for Scalable Indoor Access Point Placement Optimisation, April, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2010   Martin Klepal, Marteen Weyn, Warsun Najib, Inge Bylemans, Sigit Basuki Wibowo, Widyawan, Bimo Sunarfri Hantono, OLS – Opportunistic Localization System for Smart Phones Devices, An ACM SIGCOMM 2009 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, 2009   Sigit Basuki Wibowo, Martin Klepal, Dirk Pesch, Time of Flight Ranging using Off-the-self IEEE802.11 WiFi Tags, International Conference on Positioning and Context-Awareness (POCA 2009), 2009   Widyawan, Martin Klepal, Stephane Beauregard, A Backtracking Particle Filter for Fusing Building Plans with PDR Displacement Estimates, WPNC, Hannover, Germany, March, 2008   Widyawan, Martin Klepal, Stephane Beauregard, Dirk Pesch, A Novel Backtracking Particle Filter for Pattern Matching Indoor Localization, The First ACM MELT, San Fransisco, 2008   Alan Mc Gibney, Martin Klepal, James O Donnell, Design of Underlying Network Infrastructure of Smart Buildings, The 4th IET International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE08, Seattle, USA 21- 22 July, 2008   Warsun Najib, Martin Klepal, Widyawan, Dirk Pesch, A Software Development Model for Localization System, International Conference on Positioning and Context awareness (POCA2009), University College of Antwerp, Belgium, 2008   Stephane Beauregard, Widyawan, Martin Klepal, Indoor PDR Performance Enhancement using Minimal Map Information and Particle Filters, IEEE/ION PLANS. Monterey, California, May, 2008   Widyawan, Martin Klepal, Dirk Pesch, A Bayesian Approach for RF-Based Indoor Localisation, IEEE ISWCS, Trondheim, Norway, October, 2007   Alan Mc Gibney, Martin Klepal, Dirk Pesch, User Demand based WLAN Design and Optimisation,  Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring 2007, Dublin, Ireland, April, 2007   Olivia Brickley, Chong Shen, Martin Klepal, Dirk Pesch, A Data Dissemination Strategy for Cooperative Vehicular Systems,  Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring 2007, Dublin, Ireland, April, 2007   Widyawan, Martin Klepal, Dirk Pesch, RF-Based Location System in Harsh Environment, IFAWC, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2007, accepted for presentation and inclusion in proceedings, 2007   Widyawan, Martin Klepal, Dirk Pesch, Influence of Predicted and Measured Fingerprint on the Accuracy of RSSI-based Indoor Location Systems, WPNC, Hannover, Germany, March, 2007   Stephane Beauregard, Martin Klepal, Widyawan, David Lopes Perez, Progress in WearIT@Work Positioning Technologies, in Proc. IFAWC, Israel, 2007, 2007   Stephane Beauregard, Martin Klepal, Widyawan, Positioning in WearIT@Work, in Proc. ISHTAR/LIAISON Workshop, Athens, Greece, Sep. 2006, 2006   Alan Mc Gibney, Martin Klepal, Dirk Pesch, Evaluation of developed WLAN Optimisation Tool,  in Proc. CSSN IT&T Conference, Carlow, Ireland, Oct., 2006   David Lopéz Peréz, Martin Klepal, Measuring round trip times for distance estimation between WLAN nodes, Project Report, Cork Institute of technology, Ireland, July, 2006   Widyawan, Martin Klepal, Real Time Location and Tracking Terminal in IEEE802.11 Network,  in Proc. MUCS2006, Cork, Ireland, May, 2006   Eleanor O'Neill, Martin Klepal, Tony O'Donnell, David Lewis, Declan O'Sullivan, Dirk Pesch, A Testbed for Evaluating Human Interaction with Ubiquitous Computing Environments, Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities (Trident), 2005   Alan Mc Gibney, Martin Klepal, Tool for automatic design and Optimisation of Large Scale WLAN, The 7th IFIP International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks, 2005   Pavel Pechac, Martin Klepal, Ana Martinez, Modeling and Optimization of Heterogeneous Wireless LAN, VTC Fall 2004, Los Angeles, USA, 2004   Martin Klepal, Rajiv Mathur, Alan Mc Gibney, Dirk Pesch, Influence of People Shadowing on Optimal Deployment of WLAN Access Points, VTC Fall 2004, 2004   Rajiv Mathur, Martin Klepal, Dirk Pesch, Indoor Wireless Location Management System for Smart Space Applications, Indoor Wireless Location Management Systems for Smart Space Applications”, Smart Space Management Workshop at eChallenges 2004, Vienna, Austria, 2004   Alan Mc Gibney, Martin Klepal, Rajiv Mathur, Indoor Channel Model for Link BER Estimation, IT&T conference Limerick, 2004