Michael Cheffena
Background and activities
Michael Cheffena is a Professor at NTNU Gjøvik, Faculty of Engineering. He conducts research and teaching within the field of radio communications and signal processing for wireless communication systems. His research activities are mainly centered on issues related to antenna and wave propagation for wireless communication systems and their system aspects. It incorporates measurement campaigns and analyses of measurement data collected from various propagation experiments, development of theoretical and empirical channel and prediction models, system solutions and performance evaluation of various wireless communication systems. It can primarily be divided into four main areas: i) Antenna and wave propagations; ii) Land mobile satellite systems; iii) Wireless sensor networks (WSN), with focus on industrial WSN and wireless body area networks; iv) Measurements and system aspects of wireless systems. He has a Ph.D in telecommunications (2008), M.Sc in signal processing for communication systems (2005) and B.Sc in computer science (2003).
Research Interests
- Radio channel modeling and prediction
- Antennas
- Signal processing
- Software defined radio
- Industrial wireless sensor networks
- Performance evaluation of communication systems
- Physical-layer security of wieless communication systems
- Game theory and machine learning techniques
- Cross-layer protocol design
- Sensors and sensor systems
Work Experience
- 01.2016 – Full Professor at NTNU, Gjøvik
- 11.2013 – 12.2015 Full Professor at Gjøvik University College (GUC)
- 11.2010 – 10.2013 Associate Professor at GUC
- 01.2010 – 11.2012 Researcher at University Graduate Center (Unik), Kjeller
- 01.2010 – 12.2010 Postdoc at French Space Agency, Toulouse, France
- 03.2009 – 12.2009 Postdoc at UniK, Kjeller
- 08.2005 – 10.2008 PhD student at NTNU
Research Projects
- 2020 – 2023 Multiparameter Active Antenna Sensor. Project manager, Research Council of Norway.
- 2020 – 2022 Cooperative Human Activity Recognition and Localization
for Healthcare and Wellbeing. Work package leader. Research Council of Norway. - 2018 – 2021 Intelligent Bolted Joints. Project manager, Regional Research Fund.
- 2013 – 2016 Wireless sensor network for industrial process automation and smart grid. Project manager, Regional Research Fund.
- 2012 – 2016 Ka-band radio characterization for SatCom services in arctic and high latitude regions. Investigator, European Space Agency.
- 2012 – 2013 Channel modelling and prediction, routing and adaptive data rate for industrial wireless sensor networks. Project manager, Regional Research Fund.
- 2010 – 2012 RAPIDS II- Propagation analysis tool for design of fixed and mobile multimedia systems. Work package leader, European Space Agency.
- 2009 – 2009 Radio communications for the Polar Regions. Project manager, University Graduate Center.
- 2005 - 2008 Modeling and Prediction of mm Wavelength Channels, Scheduling and Adaptive Data Rate for Wireless Access Systems, Research Council of Norway.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2020) Effective Throughput Analysis of α-η-κ-µ Fading Channels. IEEE Access. vol. 8.
- (2020) Secrecy enhancement of RF backhaul system with parallel FSO communication link. Optics Communications. vol. 475.
- (2020) Statistical Analysis of Rain at Millimeter Waves in Tropical Area. IEEE Access. vol. 8 (1).
- (2020) Rain Attenuation Measurements and Analysis at 73 GHz E-Band Link in Tropical Region. IEEE Communications Letters. vol. 24 (7).
- (2020) Performance of Full-DuplexWireless Back-Haul Link Under Rain Effects Using E-Band 73 GHz and 83 GHz in Tropical Area. Applied Sciences. vol. 10 (17).
- (2020) Channel-based Optimal Back-off Delay Control in Delay-Constrained Industrial WSNs. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. vol. 19 (1).
- (2019) Secrecy Performance Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Sensors Letters.
- (2019) Secrecy outage analysis of double shadowed Rician channels. Electronics Letters. vol. 55 (13).
- (2019) Physical Layer Security of Hybrid Satellite-FSO Cooperative Systems. IEEE Photonics Journal. vol. 11 (1).
- (2019) Exploiting Dispersive Power Gain and Delay Spread for Sybil Detection in Industrial WSNs: A Multi-Kernel Approach. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. vol. 18 (3).
- (2019) Secrecy Performance of Correlated α-μ Fading Channels. IEEE Communications Letters. vol. 23 (8).
- (2019) Characterization of Off-Body Area Network Channels During Walking. International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology.
- (2019) Characterization of dynamic wireless body area network channels during walking. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. vol. 2019 (1).
- (2018) On Physical Layer Security of Double Rayleigh Fading Channels for Vehicular Communications. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. vol. 7 (6).
- (2018) The Application of Lognormal Mixture Shadowing Model for B2B Channels. IEEE Sensors Letters. vol. 2 (3).
- (2018) On Physical Layer Security of α-η-κ-μ Fading Channels. IEEE Communications Letters. vol. 22 (10).
- (2018) Performance Analysis of a Dual-Hop Wireless-Power Line Mixed Cooperative System. IEEE Access. vol. 6.
- (2018) Received Signal Strength Based Gait Authentication. IEEE Sensors Journal. vol. 18 (16).
- (2018) A Dynamic Channel Model for Indoor Wireless Signals: Working Around Interference Caused by Moving Human Bodies. IEEE Antennas & Propagation Magazine. vol. 60 (2).
- (2018) Characterization of the Body-to-Body Propagation Channel for Subjects during Sports Activities. Sensors. vol. 18 (2).
- (2017) Path-Loss Prediction for an Industrial Indoor Environment Based on Room Electromagnetics. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. vol. 65 (7).
- (2017) On Multi-Hop Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Relaying for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks. Sensors. vol. 17 (4).
- (2017) Empirical Path Loss Models for Wireless Sensor Network Deployment in Snowy Environments. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. vol. 16 (1).
- (2017) Channel-based Sampling Rate and Queuing State Control in Delay-Constraint Industrial WSNs. IEEE Global Communications Conference, Exhibition, & Industry Forum (GLOBECOM).
- (2017) Channel-based Sybil Detection in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: a Multi-kernel Approach. IEEE Global Communications Conference, Exhibition, & Industry Forum (GLOBECOM).
- (2017) Physical-Statistical Channel Model for Off-body Area Network. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. vol. 16 (1).
- (2017) Three-Site Diversity at Ka-Band Satellite Links in Norway: Gain, Fade Duration and the Impact of Switching Schemes. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. vol. 65 (11).
- (2016) Fall detection using smartphone audio features. IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics. vol. 20 (4).
- (2016) Industrial wireless communications over the millimeter wave spectrum: opportunities and challenges. IEEE Communications Magazine. vol. 54 (9).
- (2016) Propagation channel characteristics of industrial wireless sensor networks [Wireless Corner]. IEEE Antennas & Propagation Magazine. vol. 58 (1).
- (2015) Performance Evaluation of Wireless Body Sensors in the Presence of Slow and Fast Fading Effects. IEEE Sensors Journal. vol. 15 (10).
- (2014) Time-varying on-body wireless channel model during walking. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. vol. 29.
- (2012) High-Capacity Radio Communication for the Polar Region: Challenges and Potential Solutions. IEEE Antennas & Propagation Magazine. vol. 54 (2).
- (2012) Industrial wireless sensor networks: channel modeling and performance evaluation. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. vol. 2012:297.
- (2012) Physical-statistical channel model for signal effect by moving human bodies. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. vol. 77.
- (2012) Land Mobile Satellite Dual Polarized MIMO Channel Along Roadside Trees: Modeling and Performance Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. vol. 60 (2).
- (2011) Low-Cost Digital Beacon Receiver Based on Software-Defined Radio. IEEE Antennas & Propagation Magazine. vol. 53 (1).
- (2011) Channel Simulator for Land Mobile Satellite Channel Along Roadside Trees. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. vol. 59 (5).
- (2010) Measurement Analysis of Amplitude Scintillation for Terrestrial Line-of-Sight Links at 42 GHz. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. vol. 58 (6).
- (2010) Combined Dynamic Channel Simulator for High Capacity Broadband Fixed Wireless Access Systems. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. vol. 58 (10).
- (2010) Land Mobile Satellite Channel Simulator Along Roadside Trees. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. vol. 9.
- (2009) On the Space-Time Variations of Rain Attenuation. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. vol. 57 (6).
- (2009) Dynamic Model of Signal Fading due to Swaying Vegetation. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.
- (2008) Prediction Model of Fade Duration Statistics for Satellite Links Between 10–50 GHz. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. vol. 7.
Books
- (2008) Modeling the Dynamic Effects of Vegetation on Radiowave Propagation. IEEE conference proceedings. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4244-2075-9. IEEE International Conference on Communications (10.1109/ICC.2008.838).
Part of book/report
- (2020) Indoor Channel Estimation Using Single-Snapshot Wideband Measurement. Proceedings of 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2020).
- (2020) Performance of Hybrid ARQ over Power Line Communications Channels. Proceedings of 2020 IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Spring).
- (2017) Game-Theoretical Analysis of PLC System Performance in the Presence of Jamming Attacks. Decision and Game Theory for Security.
- (2017) Performance Analysis of Hybrid-ARQ over Full-Duplex Relaying Network Subject to Loop Interference under Nakagami- Fading Channels. 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring) Proceedings; Sydney, Australia 4–7 June 2017.
- (2017) Performance Analysis of PLC over Fading Channels with Colored Nakagami- Background Noise. 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring) Proceedings; Sydney, Australia 4–7 June 2017.
- (2017) A measurement-based boundary estimation approach for localization in industrial WSNs. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
- (2017) Results of a Ka Band Campaign for the Characterisation of Propagation Conditions for SatCom Systems at High Latitudes. 2017 11th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), 19-24 March 2017.
- (2016) Capacity Analysis of PLC Systems over Rayleigh Fading Channels with Nakagami- Additive Noise. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 84th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall).
- (2016) Performance Analysis of Hybrid-ARQ with Chase Combining over Cooperative Relay Network with Asymmetric Fading Channels. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 84th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall).
- (2016) Exploiting Dispersive Power Gain and Delay Spread for Sybil Detection in Industrial WSNs. 2016 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) - Proceedings.
- (2015) Power delay profile analysis and modeling of industrial indoor channels. 2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Lisbon, 13-17 April 2015.
- (2015) Radio frequency measurements and capacity analysis for industrial indoor environments. 2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Lisbon, 13-17 April 2015.
- (2015) Geometry-Based Modeling of Wideband Industrial Indoor Radio Propagation Channels. Proceedings IECON 2015 - 41st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
- (2015) Experimental campaign with first results for determining high north 20 GHz satellite links propagation conditions. 2015 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Lisbon, 13-17 April 2015.
- (2011) Land Mobile Satellite Dual Polarized MIMO Channel along Roadside Trees: Modeling and Performance Evaluation. EuCAP 2011: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP) : Rome, 11-15 April, 2011.
- (2006) Space-time dynamic channel model for broadband fixed wireless access. The first European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2006).
Report/dissertation
- (2015) A Comparative Study of Wireless Channel Propagation Characteristics in Industrial and Office Environments. 2015.
- (2008) Modeling and Prediction of Millimeter Wavelength Channels. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. 2008. ISBN 978-82-471-1239-7. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2008:271).
Others
- (2014) Industrial indoor multipath propagation – a physical-statistical approach. 25th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Communica; Washington DC. 2014-09-02 - 2014-09-05.
- (2011) Wideband tree shadowing and scattering modeling in slant paths. 12th URSI Commission F Triennial Open Symposium on Radio Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing ; Garmisch-Partenkirchen. 2011-03-08 - 2011-03-11.
- (2011) Wideband tree shadowing and scattering modeling in slant paths. 12th URSI Commission‐F Triennial Open Symposium on Radio Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing ; 2011-03-08 - 2011-03-11.
- (2011) Land mobile satellite dual polarized MIMO channel along roadside trees: Modeling and performance evaluation. EuCAP 2011: the 5th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation ; 2011-04-11 - 2011-04-15.
- (2011) RAPIDS II - Version pastel, a new propagation analysis tool for design of fixed and mobile systems. ESA Workshop on Radiowave Propagation ; Noordwijk. 2011-11-30 - 2011-12-02.
- (2010) Land mobile satellite channel simulator for roadside trees. Cost 0802 Workshop ; Athens. 2010-04-26 - 2010-04-28.
- (2010) Fade duration statistics of milimeter wavelenght terrestrial line-of-sight links. 4th European Conference on antenna and propagation ; Barcelona. 2010-04-12 - 2010-04-16.
- (2009) Low-cost digital beacon receiver base on software defined radio. Cost 0802 Workshop ; Toulouse. 2009-11-04 - 2009-11-06.
- (2008) A robust estimator of the dynamic characteristics of rain attenuation - Application to time series synthesis for Ka-band and Q/V-band communication systems. 14th Ka and broadband communication conference ; Metera. 2008-09-24 - 2008-09-26.
- (2008) The Effect of Rain Attenuation on the Performance of BFWA aroud Kjeller, Norway. 68th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) ; Calgary. 2008-09-21 - 2008-09-24.
- (2008) Theoretical multipath channel model during rain for BFWA employed in dense urban areas. 2nd Internationale Conference on Signal Processing and Communication System ; Gold Coast. 2008-12-15 - 2008-12-17.
- (2006) Space-time dynamic channel model for broadband fixed wireless access. The first European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2006) . European Network of Excellence ACE; Nice. 2006-11-06 - 2006-11-10.
- (2006) Time dynamic channel model for broadband fixed wireless access systems. IST Mobile and wireless summit 2006 . IST; Myconos. 2006-06-04 - 2006-06-08.