Personal Data

 

Bart Scheers, Dr. Ir. was born in Rumst, Belgium, in November 1966. He received his degree of engineer, with a specialization in telecommunications, from the Royal Military Academy in 1991. After his studies he served as an officer in a territorial signal unit of the Belgian Army. In 1994 he became assistant at the Royal Military Academy in the field of signal processing. In 2001 he presented his PhD thesis on the use of ground penetrating radars in the field of humanitarian demining. From 2001 he works as an associate professor in the “Communications Information Systems and Sensors” (CISS) department, in the field of telecommunication systems and networks. His current domains of interest are Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (layers 2 and 3) and Cognitive Radio.

 

 

Business Card

Academic titles
  • Civil Engineer in Telecommunication at the Royal Military Academy (1991).
  • PhD in Applied Sciences. (2001 UCL)

 

PhD Dissertation

 

Current Research Activities
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)
  • Software Defined - and Cognitive Radio

 

Courses

 

Activities in International Workgroups or Projects

 

  • Representative for BE MOD in IST077/RTG033 on the use of Cognitive Radio in NATO
  • Representative for BE MOD as CapTech Governmental Expert (CGE) at EDA
  • Representative for BE MOD as member of the Management Group in the EDA Cat B projects:
    • ETARE
    • HDR-HF
    • CORASMA

 

Publications

Journal papers - First author

  • B. Scheers, V. Le Nir "Delay and Add Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum Modulation Scheme ", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 14, No. 11, pp. 1002-1004, November 2010 (pdf).
  • B. Scheers, W. Mees, and B. Lauwens, “Developments on an IEEE802.15.4-based Wireless Sensor Networks,” Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, vol. 2, pp.46-53, 2008 (pdf)
  • B. Scheers, M. Acheroy and A. Vander Vorst, “Time domain simulation and characterisation of TEM horns using normalised impulse response,” IEE Proceedings - Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, vol. 147, no. 6, pp. 463-468, Dec. 2000. (pdf)
  • B. Scheers, “Ground penetrating radar for antipersonnel mine detection,” Revue HF, no. 3, pp. 25-33, 1998.

 

Journal papers – Non first author

  • V. Le Nir, B. Scheers, "Resource Allocation for Parallel Gaussian MIMO Wire-tap Channels", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 1092-1094, December 2010 (pdf)
  • V. Le Nir, B. Scheers, "Distributed Power Allocation for Parallel Broadcast Channels with Only Common Information in Cognitive Radio Networks for Tactical Communications", submitted to EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, January 2010
  • B. Lauwens, B. Scheers, and A. Van de Capelle, “Fast Simulation of Queuing Networks Handling Many Traffic Flows,” IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking,2010
  • B. Lauwens, B. Scheers, and A. Van de Capelle, “Performance Analysis of Unslotted CSMA/CA in Wireless Networks,” Springer Telecommunciation Systems, Special Issue on Adhoc Networks, vol. 44, no. 1-2, pp. 109-123, Nov 2009.

 

Books

  • Ground Penetrating Radar – 2nd Edition, Edited by David J. Daniels, published by IEE, ISBN 0 86341 360 9, pp. 283-293, 2004
  • Ultra-Wideband Ground Penetrating Radar with Application to the Detection of Anti Personnel Landmines, Doctoral thesis by B. Scheers, Université catholique de Louvain and Royal Military Academy, Mar. 2001

 

Conference proceedings - First author or presenting author

  • B. Scheers, V. Le Nir "A Modified Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum Modulation Scheme for Burst Transmissions", Military Communications and Information Systems Conference MCC2010, September 27-28, 2010, Wroclaw, Poland (pdf)
  • S. Couturier, B. Scheers, “The State of the Art of Dynamic Spectrum Access”, Military Communication and Information Systems Conference MCC2009, September 29-30, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic (pdf)
  • Mathias Becquaert, Bart Scheers, Ben Lauwens, “Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Military Communication and Information Systems Conference MCC2008, Cracow, Poland, Sep. 2008 (pdf)
  • B. Scheers, W. Mees, B. Lauwens, ”Development on an IEEE802.15.4-based Wireless Sensor Network”, Military Communication and Information Systems Conference MCC2007, Bonn, Germany, Sep. 2007 (pdf)
  • S. Pigeon, B. Scheers, ” External FEC Design to Increase Data Transfer Rates over BAMS Radios”, Military Communication and Information Systems Conference MCC2006, Gdynia, Poland, Sep. 2006
  • B. Scheers, M. Acheroy, “Migration technique based on the time-domain model of the Ground Penetrating Radar”, Progress In Electromagnetics Symposium, Hawaii, pp. 115, Oct. 2003. (pdf)
  • B. Scheers, M. Acheroy, A. Vander Vorst, “Migration technique based on the time-domain model of the Ground Penetrating Radar”, Proceedings of SPIE, Subsurface and Surface Sensing Technologies and Applications II, San Diego, USA, vol. 4491-15, pp. 111-119, Aug. 2001. (pdf)
  • B. Scheers, M. Acheroy, A. Vander Vorst, “Time domain modelling of UWB GPR and its application on landmine detection”, Proceedings of SPIE, Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets V, Orlando, USA, vol. 4038 II, pp.1452-1460, Apr. 2000. (pdf)
  • B. Scheers, Y. Plasman, M. Piette, M. Acheroy and A. Vander Vorst, “Laboratory UWB GPR system for landmine detection,” Eight International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 747-752, May 2000.
  • B. Scheers, M. Piette and A. Vander Vorst, “Development of dielectric-filled TEM horn antennas for UWB GPR,” Millennium Conference on Antennas & Propagation AP-2000, Davos, Switzerland, vol. II, p. 187, April 2000. (pdf)
  • B. Scheers, “Development of a laboratory UWB GPR system for mine detection,” HUDEM Symposium, Brussels, BE, April 1999.
  • B. Scheers, M. Piette and A. Vander Vorst, “The detection of AP mines using UWB GPR,” IEE Second International Conference on the Detection of Abandoned Land Mines, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 50-54, Oct. 1998.
  • B. Scheers and M. Piette, “Short-pulse response of antipersonnel landmines to UWB GPR signals,” Seventh International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Kansas, USA, pp. 337-341, May 1998.

 

Conference proceedings - Non first author

  • V. Le Nir, B. Scheers, "Autonomous Dynamic Spectrum Management for Coexistence of Multiple Cognitive Tactical Radio Networks", 5th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM'2010), June 9-11, 2010, Cannes, France (pdf)
  • V. Le Nir, B. Scheers, "Coexistence of tactical cognitive radio networks", SDR Forum European Reconfigurable Radio Technologies Workshop (ERRT'2010), June 23-25, 2010, Mainz, Germany (pdf)
  • B. Lauwens, R. Fallier, B. Scheers, “Validation of an event-driven simulator for the non beacon-enabled IEEE 802.15.4 MAC”, Military Communication and Information Systems Conference MCC2009, Prague, Czech Republic, Sep. 2009
  • B. Lauwens, B. Scheers, and A. Van de Capelle, “Throughput Analysis of Multi-Hop CSMA/CA Wireless Networks,” in IEEE Sarnoff, 2008
  • Ben Lauwens, Bart Scheers, Antoine Van de Capelle, ”Queuing analysis of multi-hop CSMA/CA wireless networks handling many traffic flows”, ICST QoSim2008, SimuTools 2008
  • Ben Lauwens, Bart Scheers, Antoine Van de Capelle, ”Buffer Occupation Probability of Trace-Driven Background Streams in Hybrid Simulation”, IEEE ICC 2007, p. 581-587, 2007
  • Ben Lauwens, Jan Potemans, Bart Scheers, Antoine Van de Capelle, “Hybrid simulation of a FIFO queuing system with trace-driven background traffic”, VALUETOOLS 2007, p.40
  • B. Lauwens, B. Scheers, and A. Van de Capelle, “Characterization of background traffic in hybrid network simulation,” in NATO IST-062, 2006
  • N. Milisavljevic, B. Scheers and Y. Yvinec, ”Laboratory UWB GPR for 3D data acquisition and shape extraction of AP landmines,” PHOTOMEC'99-ETE'99, European Workshop, Hotel Bedford, Liège, BE, pp. 65-70, Nov. 1999.
  • N. Milisavljevic, B. Scheers, Y. Yvinec and M. Acheroy, “3D visualisation of data acquired by laboratory UWB GPR in the scope of mine detection,” Mine'99, Proc. of EUROCONFERENCE ON: Sensor systems and signal processing techniques applied to the detection of mines and unexploded ordnance, Florence, IT, pp. 149-154, 1999.

 

Posters

  • Le Nir V., Scheers B., ”Cognitive Radio: A state of the art”, Communication, Information Systems & Sensors (CISS) day, October 1, 2009, Brussels, Belgium. (pdf)
  • Bart Scheers, Stijn Ceyssens , Alain Muls, “Study of a Software Galileo Receiver”, Military Communication and Information Systems Conference MCC2008, Cracow, Poland, Sep. 2008 (pdf)
  • B. Scheers, M. Acheroy and A. Vander Vorst, “Time modelling and signal processing for UWB GPR in close-in mine detection,” EuMW workshop and short courses, WS2, Paris, FR, Oct. 2000.
  • N. Milisavljevic, B. Scheers, O. Thonnard and M. Acheroy, ”Current contribution of the RMA/SIC to the HUDEM project,” Poster for Second International Symposium on Operationalization of remote sensing, ITC Enschede, NL, 1999