About the Authors
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Máirtín O'Droma, BE (NUI), PhD (NUI), CEng, FIET, SMIEEE is Director, Telecommunications Research Centre and Senior Lecturer, University of Limerick, Ireland. Recent positions and activities include IEEE Subject Matter Expert and an ITU-T Invited Expert; founding partner and steering committee member of the European Union Networks of Excellence TARGET (Top Amplifier Research Groups in a European Team); and ANWIRE (Academic Network for Wireless Internet Research in Europe); Ireland's delegate to four European Science Foundation (ESF) Cooperation in the Field of Science and Technology (COST) Research Actions: Modelling and Simulation Tools for Research in Emerging Multi-service Telecommunications (285); Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks (290); Wireless Networking for Moving Objects, WiNeMO (IC0906); and RF/Microwave Communication Subsystems for Emerging wWireless Technologies, RFCSET (IC0803). His research interests include: behavioural modeling linearization and efficiency techniques in multimode, multiband, multicarrier broadband nonlinear RF power amplifiers; complex wireless telecommunication systems simulation; wireless network and protocol infrastructural innovations for next generation networks (NGNs), the ubiquitous consumer wireless world (UCWW), and for cognitive networks. He has authored and co-authored over 180 research publications in learned journals, international conferences, and book chapters.
Yiming Lei, BSc ...
