Mohamed Siala received his general engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, in 1988, his specialization engineering degree in telecommunications from Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France, in 1990, and his Ph.D. in digital communications from Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France, in 1995. From 1990 to 1992, he was with Alcatel Radio-Telephones, Colombes, France, working on the GSM physical layer. In 1995, he joined Wavecom, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, where he worked on advanced multicarrier modulations and channel estimation for low-orbit mobile satellite communications. From 1997 to 2001, he worked at Orange Labs, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, on the physical layer of 3G systems and participated actively on the standardization of the physical layer of the UMTS system. In 2001, he joined Sup’Com, Tunis, Tunisia, where he is now a full Professor. His research interests are in the areas of digital and wireless communications with special emphasis on multicarrier systems, channel estimation, synchronization, adaptive modulation and coding, ARQ, MIMO systems, space-time coding, relaying, cooperative networks and cognitive radio.
