Faculty
Professor
Robert Schober
Born in Neuendettelsau, Germany, Robert Schober received his Diplom (Univ.) and his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuermberg in 1997 and 2000, respectively. From May 2001 to April 2002 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto, sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Since May 2002 he has been with the UBC, where he is now a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Wireless Communications. His research interests fall into the broad areas of Communication Theory, Wireless Communications, and Statistical Signal Processing.
Dr. Schober received the 2002 Heinz Maier–Leibnitz Award of the German Science Foundation (DFG), the 2004 Innovations Award of the Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications, the 2006 UBC Killam Research Prize, the 2007 Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the 2008 Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research from UBC. In addition, he received best paper awards from the German Information Technology Society (ITG), the European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), IEEE ICUWB 2006, the International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications, and European Wireless 2000. Dr. Schober is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Area Editor for Modulation and Signal Design for the IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Research Areas
Research Groups
Courses
| EECE 359 |
Signals and Communications Continuous and discrete time signal analysis by Fourier methods; convolution and correlation; filtering, sampling, and multiplexing; amplitude, phase and pulse modulation. Credit will only be given for one of EECE 359 or EECE 369, although EECE 359 is not equivalent to EECE 369. |
| EECE 564 |
Detection and Estimation of Signals in Noise Formulation of the detection problem, optimum receiver principles, signal space, maximum likelihood decisions, error performance calculations. Estimation of signals in noise, linear and non-linear estimation, cost functions, recursive mean square estimation, Wiener and Kalman filters. Course Outline 1. Basic Elements of a Digital Communication System Transmitter Receiver Communication channels What problem do we try to solve? 2. The Probability and Stochastic Processes |
Latest Publications
| 2010 |
On the performance of non-coherent transmission schemes with equal-gain combining in generalized #x039A;¿fading Journal Article | Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on |
| 2010 |
Improved OFDMA uplink transmission via cooperative relaying in the presence of frequency offsets-Part I: Ergodic information rate analysis Journal Article | European Transactions on Telecommunications |
| 2010 |
Finite-SNR Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in Bidirectional Cooperative Networks Conference Paper | Communications (ICC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on |
| 2010 |
Coherent free-space optical transmission with diversity combining for Gamma-Gamma atmospheric turbulence Conference Paper | Communications (QBSC), 2010 25th Biennial Symposium on |
| 2010 |
Cross-Layer Scheduling for OFDMA Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks Journal Article | Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on |
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Contact
Office: KAIS 4103Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
4103 - 2332 Main Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~rschober
