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Journal Papers

  • Jacoby, D., Messer, H., & Ostrometzky., J. (2025). Spatio-Temporal Model for Predicting Multivariate Weather-Induced Attenuation in Wireless Networks. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 74, pp 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2025.3555716.

  • Fencl, M., Bareš, V., Ostrometzky, J., Messer, H., Winterrath, T., Priestley, A., & Chwala, C. (2025). A new initiative to facilitate the global collection of microwave link data and its use in hydrometeorology. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106, E438-E440. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0346.1.

  • Bragin, I., Rubin, Y., Alpert, P., & Ostrometzky, J. (2025). Water Vapor Density Field Estimation Using Commercial Microwave Link Attenuation Combined With Temperature Measurements. Frontiers in Signal Processing, vol 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2024.1468789.

  • Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2024). Opportunistic Weather Sensing by Smart City Wireless Communication Networks. Sensors, vol. 24, no. 24:7901.

  • Fencl, M., Nebuloni, R., C. M. Andersson, J., Bares, V., Blettner, N., Cazzaniga, G., Chwala, C., Colli, M., de Vos, L., El Hachem, A., Galdies, C., Giannetti, F., Graf, M., Jacoby, D., Victor Habi, H., Musil, P., Ostrometzky, J., Roversi, G., Sapienza, F., Seidel, J., Spackova, A., van de Beek, R., Walraven, B., Wilgan, K., Zheng, X. (2024). Data Formats and Standards for Opportunistic Rainfall Sensors, Open Research Europe, vol. 3:169. https://doi.org/ 10.12688/openreseurope.16068.2.

  • Weiss, T., Routtenberg, T., Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2024). Intensity Estimation After Detection for Accumulated Rainfall Estimation. Frontiers in Signal Processing, vol. 4, mmWave Technologies as Opportunistic ISAC for Environmental Monitoring Special Issue. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsip.2024.1291878.

  • Janco, R., Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2023). In-City Rain Mapping from Commercial Microwave Links – Challenges and Opportunities. Sensors, vol 23. no. 10: 4653.

  • Kadota, I., Jacoby, D., Messer, H., Zussman, G., & Ostrometzky, J. (2022). Switching in the Rain: Predictive Wireless x-haul Network Reconfiguration. ACM POMCAS, vol 3. no. 3. pp 1-26. (also presented in SIGMETRICS’23).

  • Ostrometzky, J., Rafalovich, G., Kagan, B., & Messer, H. (2022). Stand-Alone, Affordable IoT Satellite Terminals and Their Opportunistic use for Rain Monitoring. IEEE Interent of Things Magazine, vol. 5, no. 4. pp 100-105.

  • Skirmponis, P., Makris, N., Borges Rajguru, S., Cheng, K., Ostrometzky, J., Ford, E., Kostic, Z., Zussman, G., & Korakis, T. (2020). COSMOS Educational Toolkit. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, vol. 50, no. 4. pp 58-65.

  • Eshel, A., Ostrometzky, J., Gat. S., Alpert, P., & Messer, H. (2020). Spatial Reconstruction of Rain Fields from Wireless Telecommunication Networks – Scenario Dependent Analysis of IDW-Based Algorithms.  IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 770-774.

  • Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2020). On the Information in Extreme Measurements for Parameter Estimation. Journal of the Franklin Institute, 357(1), pp. 748-771.

  • Ostrometzky, J., Bernstein, A., & Zussman, G. (2019). Irradiance Field Reconstruction From Partial Observability of Solar Radiation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 16(11), 1698-1702.

  • Ostrometzky, J., & Eshel, A. (2018). Empirical Study of the Quantization Induced Bias in Commercial Microwave Links’ Min/Max Attenuation Measurements for Rain Monitoring. Environments, 5(80).

  • Ostrometzky, J., Raich R., Bao, L., Hansryd, J., & Messer H. (2018). The Wet-Antenna Effect – A Factor to be Considered in Future Communication Networks. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 66(1), pp. 315-322.

  • Ostrometzky, J., & Messer H. (2018). Dynamic Determination of the Base-Line Level in Microwave Links for Rain Monitoring From Minimum Attenuation Values. IEEE Journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing, 11(1), pp. 24-33.

  • Eshel, A., Messer, H., Ostrometzky, J., Raich, R., Alpert, P., Laronne, J. B. (2017). On the Use of Measurements From a Commercial Microwave Link for Evaluation of Flash Floods in Arid Regions. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2017-963.

  • Ostrometzky, J., & Messer H. (2017). Comparison of Different Methodologies of Parameter Estimation from Extreme Values. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 24( 9), pp. 1293-1297.

  • Berestizshevsky, K., Even, G., Fais, Y., & Ostrometzky, J. (2017). SDNoC: Software Defined Network on a Chip. Microprocessors and Microsystems, 50, pp. 138-153.

  • Ostrometzky, J., Cherkassky, D., & Messer, H. (2015). Accumulated Mixed Precipitation Estimation Using Measurements From Multiple Microwave Links. Advances in Meteorology, Volume 2015.

  • Cherkassky, D., Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2014). Precipitation Classification Using Measurements From Commercial Microwave Links. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 52(5), pp. 2350-2356.

Full-Length
Conference
Proceedings

  • Jacoby, D., Ostrometzky, J., Messer, H. (2024, Aug.). Hybrid Hierarchical Models for ISAC Predictions with Wireless Links. In Proc. of European 32nd Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO’24), pp. 1982-1986.

  • Jacoby, D., Ostrometzky, J., Messer, H. (2024, Apr.). Integrated RNNs for Rainfall Sensing with Wireless Communication Networks. In Proc. of IEEE 49th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW’24).

  • Timinsky, S., Habi, H. V., & Ostrometzky, J., (2023, June.). Rain Estimation Over a Region Using Cyclegan. In Proc. of IEEE 48th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW’23).

  • Bragin, I., Rubin, Y., Alpert, P., & Ostrometzky, J., (2023, June.). Improved Water Vapor Density Estimation With Commercial Microwave Links Attenuation and Temperature. In Proc. of IEEE 48th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW’23).

  • Jacoby, D., Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2023, June.). Model-based vs. Data-driven Approaches for Predicting Rain-induced Attenuation in Commercial Microwave Links: A Comparative Empirical Study. In Proc. of IEEE 48th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’23).

  • Janco, R., Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2022, June). Rain Estimation from Smart City’s E-band Links. In Proc. of IEEE 14th Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP), pp 1-5.

  • Jacoby, D., Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2021, Nov.). Adaptive Models for the Attenuation Times Series Forecasting. In Proc. of IEEE 8th International Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas, Biomedical Engineering & Electronic Systems (COMCAS’21), pp. 522-528.

  • Regev, A., Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2021, Aug.). Inherent Limitation of Parameter Estimation of a Tempo-spatial Field Using an Array of Heterogeneous Sensors. In Proc. of European 29th Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO’21), pp. 2010-2014.

  • Jacoby, D., Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2021, Jan.). Short-Term Prediction of the Attenuation in a Commercial Microwave Link Using LSTM-based RNN. In Proc. of European 28th Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO’20), pp. 1628-1632.

  • Skrimponis, P., Makris, N., Cheng, K., Ostrometzky, J., Kostic, Z., Zussman, G., Korakis, T., & Borges Rajguru, S. (2020). Evaluation: A Teacher Professional Development Program Using Wireless Communications and NGSS to Enhance STEM Teaching & Learning. In Proc. of ASEE Annual Conference, 2020.

  • Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2020, May). Statistical Signal Processing Approach for Rain Estimation Measurements From Network Management Systems. In Proc. of IEEE 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’20), pp. 9026-9030. Best Paper Award Finalist.

  • Mor, H., Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2020, May). Parameter Estimation of in-City Frontal Rainfall Propagation. In Proc. of IEEE 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’20), pp. 4910-4914. Best Student Paper Award Finalist.

  • Yang, S., Bailey, E., Yang, Z., Ostrometzky, J., Zussman, G., Seskar, I., & Kostic, Z. (2020, Mar.). COSMOS smart intersection: Edge compute and communications for bird’s eye object tracking. In Proc. of 4th International Workshop on Smart Edge Computing and Networking (SmartEdge’20), pp. 1-7.

  • Ostrometzky, J., Eshel, A. (2017, Aug.). Empirical Study of the Quantization Bias Effects in Commercial Microwave Links Min/Max Attenuation Measurements for Rain Monitoring. In Proc. of 15th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST’17).

  • Ostrometzky, J., Eshel, A., Alpert, P., & Messer, H. (2017, Mar.). Induced Bias in Attenuation Measurements Taken From Commercial Microwave Links. In Proc. of IEEE 42nd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’17), pp. 3744-3748.

  • Ostrometzky, J., Raich, R., Eshel, A., & Messer, H. (2016, Mar.). Calibration of the Attenuation-Rain Rate Power-Law Parameters Using Measurements From Commercial Microwave Networks.  In Proc. IEEE 41st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’16), pp. 3736-3740.

  • Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2014, Jun.). Accumulated Rainfall Estimation Using Maximum Attenuation of Microwave Radio Signal. In Proc. of IEEE 8th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM’14), pp. 193-196.

  • Cherkassky, D., Ostrometzky, J., & Messer, H. (2012, Mar.). The Use of Linear Feature Projection for Precipitation Classification Using Measurements From Commercial Microwave Links. In LVA/ICA, pp. 511-519.

Preprints and
Magazines

  • Messer, H., & Ostrometzky, J. (2023). Opportunistic ISAC for Weather in the IoT Era. IEEE ComSoc ISAC FOCUS newsletter, Issue 6, pp. 10-18.

  • Ostrometzky, J., Berestizshevsky, K., Bernstein, A., & Zussman, G. (2019). Physics-Informed Deep Neural Network Method for Limited Observability State Estimation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.06401.

Selected Talks
and Outreach
Activities

  • Opportunistic ISAC of Weather Satellite Workshop, IEEE 48th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, June 5th, 2023, Workshop Organizer and Session Chair.

  • CellEnMon Workshop, IEEE 8th International Conference on Microwaves, Communications, Antennas, Biomedical Engineering and Electronic Systems (COMCAS’21), November 3rd, 2021, Chair – Poster Session.

  • Physics-Informed Deep Neural Network Method for Limited Observability State Estimation, IEEE Workshop on AI/ML in Networks and Cloud, February 17th, 2020, Invited Talk.

  • Symposium on the Hydrometeorological Usage of Data from Commercial Microwave Link Networks, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) – Campus Alpine, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Jun. 25th – 28th, 2019, Contributed Talk.

  • Opportunistic Sensing in Microwave and mmWave Communication Networks of 5G and Beyond, EE and CS Seminar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April 14th, 2019 – Seminar.

  • Statistical Signal Processing Approach for Rain Monitoring Using Commercial Microwave Links, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colorado, May 25th, 2018 – Seminar.

  • Statistical Signal Processing of Extreme Attenuation Measurements Taken by Commercial Microwave Links for Rain Monitoring, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, October 13th , 2017 – Seminar.

  • Rain Estimation from Standard Received Signal Level Measurements Taken from Commercial Microwave Links, Institute of Environmental Engineering (IfU), ETH Zürich, May 2th, 2017 – Seminar.

  • Review of Commercial Wireless Communication Microwave Links as a Virtual Sensor Network for Precipitation Mapping, Student Conference on Research in Environmental, Earth and Planetary Sciences, EPScon 2017, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, February 9th, 2017 – Contributed Talk.

  • Commercial Wireless Communication Microwave Links as a Virtual Sensor Network for Precipitation Monitoring – A Real Life IoT Application, IEEE Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Limassol, December 12th – 14th, 2016 – Tutorial, also given as a seminar at Tel-Aviv University, November 23rd, 2016.

  • Accumulated Rainfall Estimation Using Measurements from Commercial Microwave Links, Radar Symposium, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, January 25th, 2016 – Invited Talk.

  • Estimation of Rain from Minimum and Maximum Attenuation Levels, “CELLular ENvironment MONitoring” (CELLENMON) Workshop, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, December 31st, 2015 – Contributed Talk.

  • Mixed precipitation estimation using multiple microwave links, “CELLular ENvironment MONitoring” (CELLENMON) Workshop, The Open University, Ra’anana, April 4th, 2013 – Contributed Talk.

  • KIT Winter School, “Remote Sensing of Precipitation Using Microwave Links: Techniques and Applications”, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), February 27th – March 2nd, 2012 – Workshop Coordinator.​​​​​​​

  • October 2021 – present: European Cost Action OpenSense Science Communication Coordinator.

  • February 2020: Coordinator and Presenter at the “Kids Week” at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, NYC, USA, with teams from Columbia University and NYU Tandon School of Engineering (https://www.intrepidmuseum.org/kidsweek);

  • February 2020: Presenter at “Women in Science at Columbia”, in Columbia University, NYC, USA, “Girls Science Day” venue. Hands-on title: “Properties of Wave Signals” (https://womeninscienceatcolumbia.org/girls-science-day/);

  • 2019 to 2020: Part of the joint NYU and Columbia University team that designed the 5G COVET after winning the Verizon 5G EdTech Challenge for harnessing 5G speed and bandwidth to enrich curricula in under-resourced middle schools (https://www.5gedtechchallenge.com/);

  • 2018 to 2020: Part of Columbia University COSMOS outreach activities (https://datascience.columbia.edu/passing-the-torch-of-knowledge-in-wireless-technology).

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