PhD, 2012,
Eindhoven University of Technology
Masters of Science , 1995,
Eindhoven University of Technology
Wim van Houtum started his career in September 1980 at Philips and joined in 1982 the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven (PRLE). He received the Masters of Science (ir.) degree in 1995 and his doctor (dr.) degree in 2012 both from the Eindhoven University of Technology (EUT). He worked as a research scientist at PRLE on topics related to Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) systems like; (single-carrier) DVB-T, DVB-C and DVBS, spread spectrum for DVB-RC and Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Systems (MMDS). In April 1998 he moved to Philips Semiconductors Systems Laboratory Eindhoven (PS-SLE) and continued his work on DVB systems as a senior systems engineer/project leader for DVB-S chipset solutions. Later on he became a System Architect Wireless Networking for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) IEEE 802.11, Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN) IEEE 802.15 and Wireless Home Networking systems. Where his focus and interest was on high data-rate communication systems, modulation/demodulation technologies such as Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (COFDM), QAM, QPSK, and spread spectrum technology (e.g. DSSS, FHSS).
In 1999 he was a chairman of the working group: “HomeRF M2T3 Physical layer” in charge of defining the physical layer of the network. He was also for several years involved in the standardization of the high bit-rate versions of the IEEE 802.11b WLAN (IEEE 802.11g) and the IEEE 802.15 WPAN (IEEE 802.15.3). In 2000 he joined again the PRLE to investigate diversity techniques for COFDM systems, especially applicable to WLAN (IEEE 802.11g) like systems in the home environment.
In December 2004 he started at Catena Radio Design (CRD) as a senior system expert on COFDM based digital radio systems like DRM, DRM+, DAB, DAB+, T-DMB, HD-Radio and SDARS. He was actively contributing to the standardization activities for DRM+. In this activity he was one of the technical editors and reviewer of the new upcoming DRM+ standard. In December 2007 he started to work on (iterative) decoding techniques for non-optimal COFDM systems at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) as a part-time guest scientist, where he worked in close cooperation with prof. dr. ir. Frans Willems. He received the title of Principal System Engineer at Catena in September 2014. At the TU Eindhoven he became a Digital Wireless Communication Systems Fellow in November 2017. Dr. van Houtum holds several patents on communication and information systems related topics.
Publications:
1.Wim J. van Houtum and Frans M. J.Willems, Two-Dimensional Iterative Processing for DAB Receivers Based on Trellis-Decomposition
2.Wim J. van Houtum, Single Carrier Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting
3.Wim J. van Houtum, Quasi-Synchronous Code-Division Multiple Access with High-Order Modulation
4.Wim J. van Houtum and Frans M. J.Willems, Joint and iterative detection and decoding of differentially encoded COFDM systems
5.Wim J. van Houtum, A-Posteriori Symbol Probabilities and Log-Likelihood Ratios for Coherently Detected pi/4-DE-QPSK
6.Yunus Can Gultekin, Wim J. van Houtum, Semih Serbetli, and Frans M.J Willems, Constellation Shaping for IEEE 802.11
7.Wim J. van Houtum, On Understanding the Performance of the IEEE-802.11a WLAN Physical Layer for the Gaussian Channel
8.W.J. van Houtum and F.M.J. Willems, Complexity Reduction for Non-Coherent Iteratively Detected DE-QPSK Based on Trellis-Decomposition
9.Gültekin, Y.C., Houtum, W.J. van, Serbetli, S., and Willems, F.M.J. Approximate Enumerative Sphere Shaping
10.Y.C. Gültekin, W.J. van Houtum and F.M.J. Willems, On Constellation Shaping for Short Block Lengths
11.Houtum, W. van, Two-Dimensional Iterative Processing for DAB Receivers Based on Trellis Decomposition
Thesis:
Wim J. van Houtum, Two-Dimensional Block-Based Reception for Differentially Encoded OFDM Systems