Program

mmNets 2022 - Program

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Date Monday 17 October 2022

9:00am -- 9:05am Opening remark

9:05am -- 10:00am Keynote 1: Pushing the Boundaries of Millimeter-Wave Networking, Imaging, and Sensing.

Speaker: Prof. Haitham Al Hassanieh, EPFL

10:00am -- 10:55am Keynote 2: Active Spatio-Temporal mmWave Arrays and THz Metasurfaces for Resilient and Secure Networks.

Speaker: Prof. Kaushik Sengupta, Princeton University

10:55am -- 11:00am Coffee break

11:00am -- 12:20pm Technical paper session

11:00am -- 11:20am Soil Moisture Sensing with mmWave Radar

Authors: Wenyao Chen (University of New South Wales), Yimeng Feng (University of New South Wales), Mark Cardamis (University of New South Wales), Cheng Jiang (University of New South Wales), Wei Song (University of New South Wales), Oula Ghannoum (Western Sydney University), Wen Hu (University of New South Wales)

11:20am -- 11:40am On the Modeling of Scattering Mechanisms of Rough Surfaces at the Terahertz Band

Authors: Ke Guan (Beijing Jiaotong University), Pengxiang Xie (Beijing Jiaotong University), Danping He (Beijing Jiaotong University), Zhangdui Zhong (Beijing Jiaotong University), Jianwu Dou (ZTE Corporation), Fusheng Zhu (Guangdong Communications and Networks Institute)

11:40am -- 12:00pm Terahertz Communications Can Work in Rain and Snow: Impact of Adverse Weather Conditions on Channels at 140 GHz

Authors: Priyangshu Sen (Northeastern University), Jacob Hall (Northeastern University), Michele Polese (Northeastern University), Vitaly Petrov (Northeastern University), Duschia Bodet (Northeastern University), Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University), Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University), Josep M. Jornet (Northeastern University)

12:00pm -- 12:20pm Millimeter-Wave User Association and Low-Interference Beam Scheduling

Authors: Veljko Boljanovic (University of California, Los Angeles), Shamik Sarkar (University of California Los Angeles), Danijela Cabric (University of California Los Angeles)

12:20pm -- 1:30pm Lunch break

1:30pm -- 2:25pm Keynote 3: 5G mmWave Has the Ability to Transform Every Industry

Speaker: Dr. Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran, Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Movandi Corporation

2:25pm -- 3:00pm Invited Talk: E-Band Multibeam Conformal Transmitarrays for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aided 6G Networks

Speaker: Prof. Peiyuan Qin, University of Technology Sydney

3:00pm -- 3:10pm Coffee break

3:10pm -- 4:10pm Panel discussion

Panelists: Prof. Haitham Al Hassanieh (EPFL), Prof. Kaushik Sengupta (Princeton University), Dr. Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran (Movandi), Prof. Joerg Widmer (IMDEA Networks), and Prof. Josep M. Jornet (Northeastern University)

Moderators: Prof. Yasaman Ghasempour (Princeton University) and Prof. Nan Yang (Australian National University)

4:10pm -- 4:15pm Closing remark

Keynote and Invited Talk - Speaker Bios and Abstracts

Keynote 1: Pushing the Boundaries of Millimeter-Wave Networking, Imaging, and Sensing.

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed much interest in expanding the use of networking signals beyond communication to sensing, localisation, robotics, and autonomous systems. In fact, wireless sensing is expected to play a central role in next-generation wireless networks like 6G and WiFi. Millimeter wave technology offers unique capabilities that make it suitable not only for communication but also sensing, in particular, huge bandwidth, narrow directional beams, and penetration through fog and thin obstacles. However, despite these capabilities, the performance of millimeter wave networks and sensors remains limited. In this talk, I will describe our work to push the performance boundaries of millimeter wave networking, imaging, and sensing. I will discuss how to enable fast beamforming, interference nulling and extremely dense spatial reuse in millimeter wave networks. I will also discuss how we leverage mmWave signals to enable through-fog high-resolution mmWave imaging and detection for self-driving cars. Finally, I will describe how we can enable joint communication and sensing by using ambient 5G signals to localize IoT devices without requiring any changes or coordination with the 5G base stations.

Bio: Haitham Al Hassanieh is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Computer Science at EPFL. His research is in the areas of wireless networks, mobile systems, sensing, and algorithms. Before joining EPFL, he was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) and he received his PhD from MIT in 2016. His PhD thesis on the Sparse Fourier Transform won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, the Sprowls best thesis award at MIT, and TR10 Award for top ten breakthrough technologies in 2012. His research has received best paper awards at ACM SIGCOMM and ACM MobiSys. He is also the recipient of the NSF Career Award, the Google Faculty Research Award and the Alfred Sloan Foundation Fellowship.

Keynote 2: Active Spatio-Temporal mmWave Arrays and THz Metasurfaces for Resilient and Secure Networks.

Abstract: The initial deployment of 5G millimeter-Wave (mmWave) networks have shown that while they can sustain Gb/s wireless links with spatial multiplexing at low latencies, they are also highly susceptible to blockages, channel disruptions, and fading due to the nature of their directive beams. Robust mmWave coverage requires high densification of base stations that is prohibitively expensive and complex. Reconfigurable reflect/transmit arrays has promise to address this by allowing smart reconfiguration of the radio propagation environment by creating more favorable transmission characteristics. Constituted as an array of reconfigurable scattering or antenna elements, such passive surface (with near zero DC power consumption) are scalable and widely deployable. Traditionally referred to as reflect/transmit arrays in the microwave community, these arrays, when combined with silicon ICs, can now allow frequency scaling into the mmWave/THz, rapid programmability, scalability, amplification on-demand (for active surfaces), and sensing. When temporal modulation is added such surfaces or transmitter arrays, new physical layer security features emerge that are resilient to distributed eavesdropper settings. Here, we present the case for such surfaces, design challenges, recent state-of-the-art work, and their impact for future wireless networks.

Bio: Kaushik Sengupta is an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Princeton University and directs the IMRL lab focused on intelligent integrated wireless sensing and communication systems, and chip-scale bio-sensing. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2012, and he is a recipient of the 2015 Microwave Prize from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, DARPA Young Faculty Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, and the 2017 Bell Labs prize. He serves as the co-Chair of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Directions, served as the Chair for Emerging Technologies for IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) in 2022, and currently servers in the ISSCC TPC. He had served as Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society from 2019 to 2020, and is currently serving as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques (2021--2023). He is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Engineer Award from IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques in 2021, and the New Frontier Award from IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society in 2022.

Keynote 3: 5G mmWave Has the Ability to Transform Every Industry

Abstract: The industry has spoken about the benefits of “real 5G” and the transformative aspects of mmWave performance, latency, and throughput. At the same time the pundits have lamented over the cost and complexity of deployment. If we are able to address these challenges in the near-term, across different applications and use cases, we will be able to achieve the 5G mmWave benefits. From there we will be able to evolve and expand the capabilities of the networks far beyond anything imagined. This will enable the vision of next generation of wireless with powerful combination of sensing and communication at THz frequencies. Today, companies have demonstrated the first step of ubiquitous coverage with select operators across different indoor and outdoor use cases. This first step will continue to evolve as we drive towards higher levels of performance in future 3GPP networks.

Bio: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran is an engineering executive, inventor and entrepreneur. He is a pioneering figure in the wireless communications industry, his engineering and patent contributions have helped change the way we live. He is best known for pioneering RF CMOS technology and led the integration of the RF radio with digital processors to enable short range wireless connectivity, Bluetooth, and short-range wireless network, Wi-Fi, and millimeter RF. As of 2008, the radio transceivers in all wireless networking devices and modern mobile phones are mass-produced as RF CMOS devices. Mr. Rofougaran received his BS in 1986, MS in 1988, PhD in 1998 all in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. He is an inventor in 869 U.S. patents and named to the list of prolific inventors. He is an IEEE Fellow for his contribution to integration of RF radios into single chip CMOS technology, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In 2018, he received IEEE Industrial Pioneer award, for research in RF CMOS and the industrialisation of single-chip CMOS radio-on-chip that enable today’s smartphones. He was also recognised by UCLA as a pioneering figure in the wireless communications industry and a prolific inventor, awarded the UCLA 2018 Alumnus of the Year. Recently he was inducted to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for the development of radio system-on-a-chip technology for wireless networking.

Invited Talk: E-Band Multibeam Conformal Transmitarrays for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aided 6G Networks

Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) aided wireless communications promise to provide high-speed cost-effective wireless connectivity without needing fixed infrastructure coverage. They are a key technology enabler for sixth generation (6G) wireless networks, where a three-dimensional coverage including space, aero and terrestrial networks are to be deployed to guarantee seamless service continuity and reliability. Owing to the aerodynamic requirements, it is highly desirable to employ conformal antennas that can follow the shapes of the UAVs to reduce the extra drag and fuel consumption. To enable hundred gigabits-per-second (Gbps) data rates and massive connectivity for 6G networks, E-band antennas have drawn an increasing amount of attention due to the vast available spectrum and low atmospheric attenuation. To this context, E-band conformal antenna arrays featured with high gains and multiple beams are highly demanded. However, new challenges exist in designing and implementing high-gain multi-beam conformal arrays for UAV platforms. This talk will present the latest advances on E-band conformal transmitarrays developed by Peiyuan’s group. In particular, a new method to achieve multi-beam radiations with a wide angular coverage will be discussed. Antenna prototypes with simulated and measured results will be demonstrated to verify the developed method.

Bio: Peiyuan Qin received a Bachelor Degree in Electronic Engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2006, and a joint Ph.D. Degree from Xidian University and Macquarie University, Australia, in electromagnetic fields and microwave technology in 2012. He is a visiting scholar with Harvard University in 2018. From 2012 to 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Lecturer with University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. Since 2017, he has been a Senior Lecturer with UTS. His research interests include reconfigurable antennas, conformal antennas, and MIMO communications. He was awarded an Australia Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award in 2017, won the international Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship in 2010, and was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for academic excellence by Macquarie University in 2012. One of his journal papers was selected as 2016 Computer Simulation Technology (CST) University Publication Award and one of his conference papers was selected as Finalist of the Best Paper Award in 2017 ISAP. He has served as General Co-Chairs/organising committee members for many flagship conferences in Antennas and Propagation Society. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.

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