Workshop Program

Workshop on Mobile Communications in Higher Frequency Bands (MCHFB)
Date : December 4, 9 :00-17 :30

9:00-10:30 Keynotes Session Chair: Dr. Wen Tong, Huawei, Canada

• Welcome speech (5 min) -Dr. Wen Tong, Huawei, Ottawa.
• Keynote Speech I ‘MmWave communication using out of band information’ – Prof. Robert Heath (University of Texas&Austin, USA)
• Keynote Speech II ‘5G PPP mmMAGIC project: new frontiers in 5G mobile communications and networking in mm-wave bands’ – Dr. Maziar Nekovee (Samsung and mmMAGIC Project)
• Panel presentation ‘5G mmWave’ – Dr. Wen Tong (Huawei,China)

10 :30-11 :00 Coffee Break

11 :00-12 :30 Channel Model and MIMO, Session Chair: Dr. Yi Wang, Huawei, China

1. Attainable Capacity of Spatial Radio Channels: A Multiple-Frequency Analysis, Katsuyuki Haneda and Sinh Nguyen (Aalto University, Finland); Afroza Khatun (Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland)
2. Measurement and modeling of penetration loss in the range from 2 GHz to 74 GHz, Chang Cao (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Yanshen Du (Huawei Technology CO., LTD, P.R. China); Jia He (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Hua Yan (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Guangjian Wang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China); David Steer (Huawei Technologies Co, Canada)
3. Investigation of Orthogonality of Multi-user channels Using 73 GHz Statistical Channel Models, Waqas Ahmad (Center For Advanced Studies In Engineering & Huawei, Pakistan); Naveed Iqbal (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)
4. Pilot Designs and Compensation Scheme for Severe RF Distortions in Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Systems, Amin Khansefid, Hlaing Minn and Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Huang Huang and Xianfeng Du (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China)
5. Propagation Characteristic for Indoor E-Band Wideband Channels, Chang Cao and Xiongfei Zou (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China); Hua Yan (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, P.R. China); Xiaofeng Lu (Huawei Technology Company, P.R. China); Jia He and Guangjian Wang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China); David Steer (Huawei Technologies Co, Canada)

14 :00-15 :30 mmWave System Session, Session Chair: Takehiro Nakamura, NTT DoCoMo, Japan

1. Low Complexity Channel Estimation for Millimeter Wave Systems with Hybrid A/D Antenna Processing, George C. Alexandropoulos (Huawei Technologies France, France); Symeon Chouvardas (Huawei France Research Center, Greece)
2. Green Deployment of Camera-assisted mmWave Networks via Submodular Optimization, Yuta Oguma (Kyoto University & Graduate School of Informatics, Japan); Takayuki Nishio, Koji Yamamoto and Masahiro Morikura (Kyoto University, Japan
3. Indoor and Outdoor Experiments on 5G Radio Access Using Distributed MIMO and Beamforming in 15 GHz Frequency Band, Daisuke Kurita, Kiichi Tateishi, Atsushi Harada and Yoshihisa Kishiyama (NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan); Shoji Itoh (Nippon Ericsson, Japan); Hideshi Murai (Ericsson Japan, Japan); Peter Ökvist and Arne Simonsson (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
4. A Solution to Timing Mismatches between the In-Phase and Quadrature Branches of Millimeter-wave Transmitter and Receiver, Qi Zhan, Hlaing Minn and Naofal Al-Dhahir (University of Texas at Dallas, USA); Huang Huang (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., P.R. China)
5. A LSE and Sparse Message Passing-Based Channel Estimation for mmWave MIMO Systems, Chongwen Huang (SUTD, Singapore); Lei Liu (Xidian University, P.R. China); Chau Yuen (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore); Sumei Sun (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)

15 :30-16 :00 Coffee Break

16 :00-16 :45, WiFi and Security Session Session Chair: Takehiro Nakamura, NTT DoCoMo, Japan

1. Experimental Performance Evaluation and Analysis of LAA and Wi-Fi Coexistence in the Unlicensed Spectrum, Yuan Gao, Qing Huang and Shaoyi Xu (Beijing Jiaotong University, P.R. China)
2. Wi-Fi-Based mmWave Backhaul Part 1: Feasibility, Majid Ghanbarinejad (University of Alberta, Canada); George Calcev (Huawei Tecnologies, USA); Diana Maamari (Huawei, USA)
3. Enhancing Physical Layer Security of Multiuser SIMO Mixed RF/FSO Relay Networks with Multi-Eavesdroppers, Ahmed Hassan Abd El-Malek (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Anas M. Salhab (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia); Salam A. Zummo (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia); Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)

16 :45-17 :45 Panel ‘Reality of 5G mmWave’
　　　Session Chair : Dr. Yallapragada, Rao, Intel, USA
　　　Invited Panelists :
　　　Dr. Wen Tong, Huawei, Ottawa
　　　Dr. Maziar Nekovee,  Samsung and mmMAGIC Project
　　　Prof. Robert Heath