Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Krone

	Postal Address:	Technische Universität Dresden Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems 01062 Dresden, Germany
	Visit Address:	Barkhausen-Building, Room II 4D Georg-Schumann-Straße 11 01187 Dresden, Germany
	Phone:	+49 351 463 41050
	Fax:	+49 351 463 41099
	E-mail:	stefan.krone@ifn.et.tu-dresden.de

Scientific Interests

• Wireless short range communications
• Analog-to-digital conversion, Dirty RF
• Information theory, signal processing

Curriculum Vitae

      2010:              Research visitor at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
      Since 2007:   Research associate (Ph.D. student) at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
      2007:              Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.E.E.) from Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
      2005 - 2006:  Research assistant at Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany
      2001 - 2005:  Research assistant at Fraunhofer IPMS, Dresden, Germany
      2000:              Abitur (high school graduation) from Gymnasium Dresden-Blasewitz, Germany

Projects

• EASY-A (Enablers for Ambient Services and Systems - Part A: 60 GHz Broadband Links)
• ZMDI ZigBee Chip Review Support

Publications

• S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  A Fundamental Physical Limit to Data Transmission and Processing
  In IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 305 - 307, March 2010.
  

• S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  Fading Channels with 1-Bit Output Quantization: Optimal Modulation, Ergodic Capacity and Outage Probability
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'10),
  Dublin, Ireland, 30 August - 03 September 2010.
  
  
• J. Dohl, S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  On the Impact of Non-Linear Amplifiers in Single-Carrier Systems: An Analytical Approach
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'10),
  Taipei, Taiwan, 16 - 19 May 2010.
  
  
• S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  Achievable Rate with 1-Bit Quantization and Oversampling at the Receiver
  At IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW'10),
  Cancun, Mexico, 10 - 12 May 2010.
  
  
• S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  Optimal Gain Control for Single-Carrier Communications with Uniform Quantization at the Receiver
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'10),
  Dallas, USA, 14 - 19 March 2010.
  
  
• S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  Achievable Rate of Single-Carrier Systems with Optimal Uniform Quantization at the Receiver
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'10),
  Cairo, Egypt, 06 - 08 January 2010.
  
  
• S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  Fundamental Limits to Communications with Analog-to-Digital Conversion at the Receiver
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'09),
  Perugia, Italy, 21 - 24 June 2009.
  
  
• S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  Aspects of Optimal Quantization in Communications
  At IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW'09),
  Napa Valley, USA, 10 - 13 May 2009.
  
  
• S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  Capacity Analysis for OFDM Systems with Transceiver I/Q Imbalance
  In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'08),
  New Orleans, USA, 30 November - 04 December 2008.
  
  
• S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  On the Capacity of OFDM Systems with Receiver I/Q Imbalance
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'08),
  Beijing, China, 19 - 23 May 2008.
  

• P. Koenig, S. Krone, S. Woschech, M. Boehm and A. Schroth.
  Method for Detecting an Offset Drift in a Wheatstone Measuring Bridge
  US 7088108, EP 1586909, DE 102004056133.
  

Talks and Tutorials

• S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  Optimal Quantization for Communications Systems: Maximum Rate vs. Minimum Distortion
  At Meeting of ITG-Fachgruppe "Angewandte Informationstheorie",
  Aachen, Germany, 16 October 2009.
  
  
• S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  Fundamental Limits to Communications with Analog-to-Digital Conversion
  At TUD/FAU/UUlm Joint Workshop on Wireless Communications,
  Port d'Andratx, Spain, 16 - 19 March 2009.
  
  
• S. Krone, M. Windisch, T.-J. Liang and G. Fettweis.
  Preamble Based Estimation of Frequency Selective I/Q Imbalance in MIMO OFDM Systems
  At TUD/EPFL Joint Workshop on Information Theory and Signal Processing in Communications,
  Flims, Switzerland, 04 - 08 March 2007.
  
  
• S. Bittner, S. Krone and G. Fettweis.
  Tutorial on Discrete Time Phase Noise Modeling for Phase Locked Loops

Supervised Theses

• R. von Schwerdtner.
  Sampling Jitter and I/Q Sampling Mismatch of Analog-to-Digital Converters with Low Quantization Resolution
  Student project, May - September 2009.
  
  
• J. Dohl.
  Sensitivity of Broadband OFDM and Single-Carrier Systems towards Analog Hardware Impairments
  Diploma thesis, January - July 2009.
  Awarded the "Herman Willkomm Prize 2009" for the best Diploma thesis in information technology at Technische Universität Dresden.

Teaching Assistance

• Communications (Nachrichtentechnik), 2007 - 2010.
• Communications seminar "Ultra-Wideband - Brand-Old Radio Technology", 2007.
• Communications seminar "Wireless Communications @ 60 GHz: Prospects and Challenges", 2008 and 2009.