Wolfgang Schott

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Wolfgang Schott

Research staff member


Research lab: Zurich Research Lab


Wolfgang Schott was born in Birkenau, Germany, in 1951. He received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 1977 and 1982, respectively. In 1982, he joined the Communication Systems Department at the IBM Research Laboratory, Zürich, Switzerland, where he initially developed signal processing concepts for digital storage devices. From 1989 to 1990, he was assigned to the IBM System Storage Products Division, San Jose, CA, contributing to a VLSI implementation of the PRML magnetic-recording channel. Since 1992, he has pursued research on wireless mobile communication. His work concentrated on the design of transceiver algorithms and protocols for cellular wide-area and short-range communication systems. Currently, his main scientific interest focuses on wireless sensor networks.


Last updated 21 Jun 2006

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