Autor/-in: Rainer Strobel

Rainer Strobel received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg and his M.Sc. degree from the Technische Universität München in 2011. He completed the doctoral thesis in 2017 at the Signal Processing Laboratory of the Technische Universität München in cooperation with Intel.

Rainer Strobel actively contributed to the ITU G.fast standard for gigabit copper access networks with more than 20 papers covering different aspects of the G.fast physical layer, e.g., precoding and spectrum optimization, discontinuous operation for power saving, channel estimation and initialization. The channel model developed during this work is part of the Broadband Forum technical recommendation TR-285 for broadband copper cable models. The work on coexistence between G.fast and VDSL2 is part of the NICC UK standards study document ND-1520. During the work on the G.fast specification and the Intel G.fast transceiver, more than 20 patent applications were filed and 6 patents have been already granted. His scientific contributions include conference papers on channel modeling (IEEE Globecom 2013), precoding and spectrum optimization (IEEE ICC 2015, IEEE Globecom 2015, 2016, 2017), coexistence of VDSL2 and G.fast (EUSIPCO 2015), nonlinear precoding implementation aspects (EUSIPCO 2016) and discontinuous operation (IEEE ICASSP 2016).