Matthias Holzbock

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Industry:

2002-date
Managing Director of TriaGnoSys GmbH

1996-2004
DLR German Aerospace Center, Institute of Communications and Navigation as researcher and project manager

1995 - 1996
DLR Institute of Communication Technology as researcher at the Optical Networks Group


Academic career:

2001 - 2004
Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Bradford

2003
Lecture at University of Maryland

2003
Lecture at Università di Ferrara

2003
Lecture at Università di Bologna


Education:

1996
Dipl.-Ing. degree
Technische Universität München in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology 'Combined Channel and Line Coding for Optical Networks'


Expertise:
  • Terminal design for mobile satellite communication and multimedia applications
  • Design of technology and service demonstrators for mobile satcom
  • Prototype development
  • PAT for mobile satcom terminals
  • Measurement of transmission channels
  • Communication protocols (OSI layers 1-3)
  • ATM laboratory, IP laboratory Design of RF transmission systems (L/S band, K/Ka band, EHF band)


Other Subjects:
  • Author and co-author of more than 60 scientific publications with six journal papers and several patents and patent applications
  • Session Chairman on at a variety of conferences.

Dr. Axel Jahn

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Industry:

2002-date
Managing Director of TriaGnoSys GmbH

1990-2004
DLR-German Aerospace Center, Institute of Communications and Navigation as group leader (1999), project manager (1994) and researcher


Academic career:

1993-date
Lecturer at Carl-Cranz-Gesellschaft (CCG) for mobile satellite communication

1995-96
Lecturer at Technical University Ilmenau for mobile satellite communication in WS


Education:

1999
Ph.D. from FernUniversität Hagen Resource management in communication networks with low-earth orbit satellites

1990
Dipl.-Ing. degree Karlsruhe Technical University Electrical Engineering. Focus on Optical Communications and RF Technology


Expertise:
  • Mobile / multimedia satellite communication
  • Dimensioning, capacity evaluation, resource management of radio networks
  • Communication protocols (OSI layers 1-3)
  • Design of RF transmission systems (L/S band, K/Ka band, EHF band)
  • Simulation of communications networks
  • Measurement and modeling of transmission channels
  • Transport protocols (ATM, IP) and interworking with terrestrial systems


Other Subjects:
  • DLR Science Award (2002) Best Paper Award of ITG conference
  • 'Mobile Communications' (1993)
  • Listed in "Who is Who"
  • Author and Co-author of more than 95 publications, two scientific textbooks and 15 journal papers
  • Reviewer for IEEE Trans. on Communications, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Magazine, International Journal on Satellite Communications, and European Trans. on Telecommunications
  • Session Chairman on different conferences, including International Mobile Satellite Conference, IEEE Conf., Antennas and Propagation, AIAA Int. Communications Satellite Systems Conference, European Workshop on Mobile/Personal Communications
  • Senior Member IEEE since 2000

Dr. Markus Werner

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Industry:

2002-date
Managing Director of TriaGnoSys GmbH

1991-2004
DLR-German Aerospace Center, Institute of Communications and Navigation as group leader (1999), project manager (1995) and researcher, working specifically on broadband satellite networks


Academic Career:

1993-date
Lecturer at Carl-Cranz-Gesellschaft (CCG) for mobile satellite communication

1995-96
Lecturer at Technical University Ilmenau for mobile satellite communication


Education:

2002
Ph.D. from Munich Technical University in Routing and Dimensioning in Satellite Networks with Dynamic Topology

1991
Dipl.-Ing. degree
Darmstadt Technical University
Electrical Engineering, with focus on Communications
Diploma Thesis: Investigation of an Iterative Decoding Algorithm for Multiply Concatenated Reed-Solomon Codes


Expertise:
  • Mobile and Broadband Satellite Systems
  • Satellite Constellations and Intersatellite Link Networks
  • Backbone Network Concepts and Technologies (ATM, IP, MPLS, WDM/Optical Networking)
  • Integrated Network Design for Satellite Systems (Topological design, Routing, Capacity dimensioning)
  • Modeling and Simulation of Satellite Networks (C, C++, Matlab) Communication Protocols (OSI layers 1-4)


Other Subjects:
  • Senior Member IEEE since 2001
  • Author of more than 80 publications including one textbook and 11 journal papers
  • Best Paper Award of ITG conference 'Mobile Communications' (1993)
  • Reviewer for various journals: IEEE Transactions on Communications; IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electr. Syst.; IEEE Journal on Sel. Areas in Commun.; IEEE Communications Magazine; IEEE Personal Communications; IEEE Multimedia Magazin;e Int. Journal of Sat. Communications; European Transactions on Telecomm.
  • Wireless Networks
  • Mobile Networks and Applications
  • Telecommunications Systems
  • Computer Networks
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Session Chairs: European Workshop on Mobile/Personal; Satcoms (EMPS) 1998; Int. Mobile Satellite Conf. (IMSC) 1999; Eur. Conf. on Sat. Commun. (ECSC) 1999
  • Technical Program Committees TCP: Networking 2000 Conference; Globecom 2002
  • German Delegate for Management Committees of COST 227, COST 252, COST 272