Keynotes

Title: MIMO Channel Measurement and Modeling

Bio:

Bo Ai (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Xidian University, Xian, China, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. He was with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, where he was an Excellent Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2007. He was a Visiting Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 2015. He is currently a Full Professor with Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, where he is the Dean of the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, and Deputy Director of the International Joint Research Center. He is one of the directors of the Beijing Urban Rail Operation Control System International Science and Technology Cooperation Base and Backbone Member of the Innovative Engineering based jointly granted by the Chinese Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. He is the Research Team Leader of 26 national projects. He holds 26 invention patents. His research interests include the research and applications of channel measurement, channel modeling, and dedicated mobile communications for rail traffic systems. He has authored or coauthored eight books and authored more than 300 academic research articles in his research area. Five papers have been the ESI highly cited paper. He was the recipient of some important scientific research prizes. He has been notified by the Council of Canadian Academies that based on the Scopus database and listed as one of the top 1% authors in his field all over the world. He was also the recipient of Distinguished Youth Foundation and Excellent Youth Foundation from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Qiushi Outstanding Youth Award. He has also been feature-interviewed by the IET Electronics Letters. Dr. Ai is a fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology and an IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer.

Abstract:

The future of wireless communication is set to be more diverse and dynamic, with a wider range of scenarios and services. The emergence of satellite internet, smart railways, maritime communications, and unmanned aerial vehicles has expanded the communication demands. The wireless channel is the medium through which communication occurs and is one of the fundamental factors determining wireless communication capacity and system performance. Consequently, the evolution of wireless communication technologies also presents new challenges and demands for channel modeling. This report, based on our team’s research achievements in the field of wireless channel measurement and modeling, highlights the latest advancements and findings in three typical scenarios: massive MIMO, high-speed mobility, and millimeter-wave integrated communication and sensing. The report covers specific content such as channel measurement methods, analysis of measured results, channel modeling, and simulation methods. Finally, the report offers a perspective on the research prospects and development directions for channel modeling in future wireless systems.

Title:Key Technologies and Prototype Design for Integrated Sensing and
Communications System

Bio:

Feifei Gao (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree from  Jiaotong University,
 China in 2002, the M.Sc. degree from McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2007. Since 2011, he joined the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China,
where he is currently a tenured full professor. Prof. Gao research interests include signal processing for communications, array signal
processing, convex optimizations, and artificial intelligence assisted communications. He has authored/coauthored more than 200 refereed IEEE journal papers and more than 150 IEEE conference proceeding papers that are cited more than 18000 times in Google Scholar. Prof. Gao has served as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (Lead Guest Editor), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (Senior Editor), IEEE Communications Letters (Senior Editor), IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and China Communications. He has also served as the symposium co-chair for 2019 IEEE Conference on Communications (ICC), 2018 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC), 2015 IEEE Conference on Communications (ICC), 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM),2014 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC), as well as Technical Committee Members for more than 50 IEEE conferences.

Abstract:

In the future, millions of base stations (BSs) and billions of users (UEs) will natively build an integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, which can utilize intelligent ubiquitous methods to realize the ultimate goal of sensing, i.e., constructing the global mapping from real physical world to digital twin world, while providing communications services at the same time. For this purpose, we conduct a series of theoretical and technical researches on ISAC, in which we decompose the real physical world into static environment, dynamic targets, and various object materials. The ubiquitous static environment occupies the vast majority of the physical world, for which we design static environment reconstruction (SER) scheme to obtain the layout and point cloud information of static buildings. The dynamic targets floating in static environments create the spatiotemporal transition of the physical world, for which we design comprehensive dynamic target sensing (DTS) scheme to detect, estimate, track, image and recognize the dynamic targets in real-time. The object materials enrich the electromagnetic laws of the physical world, for which we develop object material recognition (OMR) scheme to
estimate the electromagnetic coefficient of the objects. Finally, based on these theoretical researches, we build an ISAC hardware prototype platform working in millimeter wave frequency band, realizing high-precision SER, DTS, and basic OMR, which provides preliminary verification for building the digital twin for communications networks.

 

Prof. Min Chung Tung

               Title: Electrically Small Huygens Source Antennas and Arrays: From Theory to Practice

Bio: 

Ming-Chun Tang received the Ph. D. degree in radio physics from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), in 2013. From August 2011 to August 2012, he was also with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, as a Visiting Scholar. He is currently a full Professor in the School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, China. His research interests include electrically small antennas, RF circuits, metamaterial designs and their applications.
Prof. Tang is the Senior Member of the IEEE and the Chinese Institute of Electronics. He was a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2024 and a recipient the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2019. He was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award in the 2010 International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics (ISSSE2010) held in Nanjing, China. His Ph.D. students received Best Student Paper Awards from the IEEE 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (2018 IEEE APCAP) held in Auckland, New Zealand, 2019 IEEE International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium held in Nanjing, China, 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetics: Applications and Student Innovation Competition held in Qingdao, China, and 2019 Cross Strait Quad-Regional Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference held in Taiyuan, China. He is the founding Chair of the IEEE AP-S / MTT-S Joint Chongqing Chapter. He serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals, including IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Electronics Letters and IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation. He has also served on the review boards of various technical journals, and many international conferences as a General Chair, TPC Member, Session Organizer, and the Session Chair.

Abstract:

The Huygens Source Antennas, with their unique performance advantages, such as electrically small sizes, ultra-low profiles, high efficiencies, high gains, and directional radiations without side lobes, received widespread attention in both academic and industry communities in recent years. This talk will report the recent research progress of the Huygens source antennas and their high-density arrays in the aspects of the basic theory, design principle, and engineering applications.