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Editors
Dr. Lars Torsten Berger is director of the R&D department of Kenus Informática, Paterna,
Spain, and founder of BreezeSolve, a Valencia-based company offering engineering and
consultancy services in telecommunications, signal processing and Smart Grid.
Dr. Berger received his Dipl-Ing in electrical engineering, MSc in communication sys-
tems and signal processing and PhD in wireless communications from the Ravensburg
University of Cooperative Education, Germany; the University of Bristol, United Kingdom;
and Aalborg University, Denmark, in 1999, 2001 and 2005, respectively.
While working for Nortel Networks, United Kingdom, and during his four years stay
at Aalborg University nanced by Nokia Networks, he focused extensively on MIMO
channel modelling, MIMO signal processing and MIMO scheduling algorithms for 3G cellular
systems. During a visiting professor term at the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, he
extended his work to 4G cellular, as well as wireless LAN systems and sensor networks.
From 2006 to 2010, he became senior engineer at Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2, Spain,
in 2010 acquired by Marvell Semiconductors), forming part of the key system architecture
team responsible for MIMO and multi-user-enabled power line silicon solutions. More
recently, he has extended his area of interest to Smart Grid technologies.
Dr. Berger has published numerous MIMO, scheduling and PLC-related articles in con-
ference proceedings and in international journals. He is the inventor of an international
patent related to MIMO PLC signal transmission, has several patent applications pending
and is editor of the book entitled Smart Grid Applications, Communications and Security.
Dr. Andreas Schwager has had interest in PLC for over 15 years. Currently, he works as a
principal engineer in Sony’s European Technology Center in Stuttgart, Germany. Sony’s
R&D in Stuttgart includes the areas of digital radio and video broadcasting, as well as
home networking.
Dr. Schwager earned a diploma in telecommunication engineering from the University
of Cooperative Education, Stuttgart, in 1993. In May 2010, the University of Duisburg-Essen
awarded him a PhD (doctor of science [engineering]) following the publication of his thesis
“Powerline Communications: Signicant Technologies to Become Ready for Integration,”
which discussed the utilisation of MIMO PLC and the concept of dynamic notching to
solve the vast EMC discussion on PLC.
Dr. Schwager’s career began at the advanced development labs at ANT Bosch Telecom,
Backnang, Germany, and Grundig, Nürnberg, Germany, where he developed narrowband
PLC functions for satellite headends. He joined Sony in 1997, where the development of
both software and hardware components for home-networking applications ignited his
enthusiasm for PLC. Today, Dr. Schwager represents Sony at various standardisation com-
mittees at IEEE, ITU, CISPR, CENELEC, Homeplug and ETSI. He is the rapporteur of more
than ten work items where technical standards and reports are published, the most recent
being the three-part ETSI TR specifying MIMO PLC eld measurements and presenting
results of MIMO PLC properties. He also led several task forces at international standardi-
sation bodies.
Dr. Schwager is the author of numerous papers presented at research conferences and
the inventor of tens of granted IPR in the area of PLC and communications.