About the Authors
Sebastian Caban was born in Vienna, Austria, on March 13, 1980. After attending a technical high school and a mandatory service in the Austrian Armed Forces, he started studying electrical and communication Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology. He received his masters degree in 2005 and his Ph.D. degree in 2009 as “sub-auspiciis presidentis rei publicae.” In between, he studied a year at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. In 2005, Sebastian Caban also started to study economics at the Vienna University to relax from engineering. He completed a 5-year masters degree in business administration in 2010. Nonetheless, Sebastian Caban's work and research interest at the Vienna University of Technology focuses on developing measurement methodologies and building testbeds to quantify the actual performance of wireless cellular communication systems (UMTS, LTE) in realistic scenarios. Next to 12 national scholarships and prizes, Sebastian Caban was awarded the “Förderpreis 2006” of the German Vodafone Stiftung für Forschung for his research. E-mail: scaban@nt.tuwien.ac.at.
Christian Mehlführer was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1979. In 2004 he received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology. Besides his diploma studies he worked part time at Siemens AG, where he performed integration tests of GSM carrier units. After finishing his diploma thesis on implementation and real-time testing of space–time ...
