Ramon Ferrús (Associate Professor)

UPC-TSC

Campus Nord

C/Jordi Girona, 1-3

08034 Barcelona, Spain

Office: D4-112

Phone: 93 401 71 96

Email: ramon.ferrus@upc.edu

Ramon Ferrús Ferré was born in Batea (Tarragona), Spain, on March 16, 1971. He received the Engineer of Telecommunications degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree from the same University in 2000. In 1996 he joined UPC, where he was an Assistant Professor from 1996 to 2002. He is currently Associate Professor in the Signal Theory and Communications Department. He currently lectures on mobile communications, data transmission systems and communication theory. Since 1996 his research field has been mobile radio communications. His doctoral thesis contributed to the study of the radio access and handover mechanisms in cellular systems.

Currently his research interest is focused on architectures, QoS, mobility and radio resource management in the context of heterogeneous IP-based mobile communications systems. He has actively participated in several research projects in the frame of European programs ACTS (RAINBOW project) and IST (WINE GLASS, ARROWS and EVEREST projects) where his main contributions have been focused on the development of real-time hardware/software platforms for the emulation of different wireless access networks. He also has been involved in technology transfer projects addressing the development of aplications for different mobile technologies (Bluetooth, WLAN, WAP platforms, embedded systems).