FRIDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2019 (MORNING)
Room: King's 2
Welcome and Opening Statement 9:00 – 9:05
Keynote 9:05 – 9:55
- Title: Application Prospects and Technical Challenges for 6G Terahertz Communications
- Speaker: Zhi Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
- Abstract: With the exponential growth of the data traffic in wireless communication systems, terahertz (THz) frequency band is envisioned as a promising candidate to bridge the gap between millimeter wave band and optical frequency band, which is capable of supporting future sixth generation (6G) diverse application scenarios, including ultra-high-speed networks, nano-scale communications, wireless data center, secure communication and space communication. Also, the development of THz communication technology is addressed here. Some statistics of THz research directions and projects will be presented. Next, three different kinds of THz communication systems are introduced, such as the solid-state based THz system, the photoelectric-combination based THz System, and the direct modulation based THz system. To overcome the bottleneck of high complexity signal processing faced in THz communication, we employ signal processing method based on low bit quantization and the circuit design method based on probability calculation to effectively reduce power consumption and the hardware cost. Except for the THz technology, progress in standardization will also be discussed briefly. Finally, we discuss several technical challenges that will be encountered in the future 6G THz communications, including core devices, system integration, RF integrated circuits, THz array antennas, THz beam control, baseband processing, THz channel modeling and THz networks.
- Bio: He is currently a Professor with the National Key Lab of Science and Technology on Communications, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), since August 2013. He received B. Eng, M. Eng., and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from UESTC, in 1997, 2000, 2006, respectively. On April 2006, he joined the National Key Lab of Science and echnology on Communications, UESTC. He was a visiting scholar at University of California, Riverside, during 2010-2011. He was also a senior visiting professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 2016. He is the deputy director of Key Laboratory of Terahertz Technology, Ministry of Education. His current research interests include Terahertz Band Communication, 5G/G Mobile Communications. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Technical Session I: THz Communication Technologies 9:55 – 10:30 (18mins for each paper, 2 papers in total)
- 1570573160 Deep Kernel Learning-Based Channel Estimation in Ultra-Massive MIMO Communications at 0.06-10 THz.
Shuai Nie and Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) - 1570575337 Interference and Coverage Analysis for Indoor Terahertz Wireless Local Area Networks.
Yongzhi Wu and Chong Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
Coffee break 10:30 – 11:00
Technical Session II: Device Technologies for THz Communications 11:00 – 12:30 (18mins for each paper, 5 papers in total)
- 1570575771 Improving Security of THz Communication with Intelligent Reflecting Surface.
Boyu Ning, Zhi Chen and Wenjie Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Lingxiang Li (Central South University, P.R. China) - 1570568508 Ethernet Transmission over a 100 Gb/s Real-Time Terahertz Wireless Link.
Carlos Castro and Robert Elschner (Fraunhofer Heinrich-Herz-Institut, Germany); José Machado (Altice-Labs, Portugal); Thomas Merkle (Fraunhofer IAF, Germany); Colja Schubert and Ronald Freund (HHI Fraunhofer, Germany) - 1570569955 Electronically Reconfigurable Binary Phase Liquid Crystal Reflectarray Metasurface at 108 GHz.
Xiaomin Meng, Maziar Nekovee and Dehao Wu (University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Richard Rudd (Plum Consulting Ltd, United Kingdom (Great Britain)) - 1570571667 Terahertz Wireless CDMA Communication using Resonant Tunneling Diodes.
Julian L Webber and Naoki Nishigami (Osaka University, Japan); Jaeyoung Kim (Rohm Co, Ltd., Japan); Masayuki Fujita and Tadao Nagatsuma (Osaka University, Japan) - 1570573789 Terahertz and photonics seamless networks.
Tetsuya Kawanishi (Waseda University & National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
