Dr. Claudio da Silva Assistant Professor Office:445 Durham Mailing Address: 302 Whittemore Hall (0111) Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 Tel: (540) 231-2129 Fax: (540) 231-3362 Email: Web page: http://www.ece.vt.edu/cdasilva/

Biography

Claudio R. C. M. da Silva is an Assistant Professor at The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 2005 from the University of California, San Diego, CA in the area of communication theory and systems.
His research interests are on the general area of wireless communication systems. He specifically looks at the study of issues that will enable ultra-wide band and cognitive radio systems to become practical wireless technologies, including research on interference mitigation, spectrum sensing, channel estimation, and acquisition. Dr. da Silva received the best student paper award at the 2003 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Conference on Ultra-Wide Band Systems and Technologies. He was awarded a fellowship from the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology for the academic year 2001-2002. He spent the summer of 2004 working on ultra-wideband systems with the Corporate Technology Group of Intel Corp.

Research Areas:

• Cognitive Radio Systems
  Ultra Wideband (UWB) Communication Systems Signal Estimation and Detection Interference Mitigation Analysis and Performance Evaluation of Communication Systems

Selected Publications

• C. R. C. M. da Silva and L. B. Milstein, "The effects of narrow-band interference on UWB communication systems with imperfect channel estimation," IEEE Journal on Select. Areas on Commun., vol. 24, pp. 717-723, April 2006.
• C. R. C. M. da Silva and L. B. Milstein, "Spectral-encoded UWB communication systems: Real-time implementation and interference suppression," IEEE Trans on Commun., vol. 53, pp. 1391-1401, Aug. 2005.
  
• C. R. C. M. da Silva and M. D. Yacoub, "A generalized solution for diversity combining techniques in fading channels," IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Appl., vol. 50, pp. 46-50, Jan. 2002.
  
• M. D. Yacoub, C. R. C. M. da Silva, and J. E. Vargas B., "Second-order statistics for diversity-combining techniques in Nakagami-fading channels," IEEE Trans. on Veh. Tech., vol. 50, pp. 1464-1470, Nov. 2001.
  
• C. R. C. M. da Silva and L. B. Milstein, "Performance of DS/CDMA UWB communication systems in the presence of narrow-band interference and imperfect channel estimation," in Proc. IEEE Global Telecomm. Conf., Dallas, TX, 2004, pp. 247-251.
  
• C. R. C. M. da Silva and L. B. Milstein, "Spectral-encoded UWB communication systems: Channel estimation in the presence of narrow-band interference," in Proc. IEEE Military Comm. Conf., Monterey, CA, 2004, pp. 1034-1039.
  
• C. R. C. M. da Silva and L. B. Milstein, "Spectral-encoded UWB communication systems," in Proc. IEEE Ultra-Wideband Syst. and Tech., Reston, VA, 2003, pp. 96-100. Student paper prize.
  
• M. D. Yacoub, J. C. S. S. Filho, and C. R. C. M. da Silva, "Simple closed-form solutions for level crossing rate and average fade duration in Nakagami-m equal gain combining," IEE Elect. Lett., vol. 38, pp. 1734-1735, Dec. 2002.
  
• C. R. C. M. da Silva and M. D. Yacoub, "Bit error analysis of equal gain combining reception for Nakagami fading channels: An exact formulation," IEE Elect. Lett., vol. 36, pp. 1147-1149, June 2000.
  
• M. D. Yacoub, C. R. C. M. da Silva, and J. E. Vargas B., "Second-order statistics for equal gain and maximal ratio diversity-combining reception," IEE Elect. Lett., vol. 36, pp. 382-384, Feb. 2000.