T6: Leveraging Full-Duplex MIMO Systems for Beyond 5G Simultaneous Transmit and Receive Applications

Co-organizer: George Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Co-organizer: Himal A. Suraweera, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Co-organizer: Kenneth Kolodziej, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

 

Abstract: This tutorial focuses on the latest advances in the full duplex Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology, detailing its enabling features for beyond 5G wireless systems and overviewing the available hardware prototypes. The evolution of full duplex radios, from their initial proof of concept till their recent partial consideration in 3GPP Release 17 via the integrated access and backhaul paradigm, will be discussed together with the various emerging simultaneous transmit and receive applications, which can boost the physical-layer performance, while enabling channel sensing and localization. The key architectural components of the latest FD MIMO systems, their underlying mixed analog and digital optimization approaches, and their recent applications for simultaneous data communication and channel estimation, direction-aided beam alignment and localization, and integrated sensing and communication will be presented. Moreover, the latest considerations of FD MIMO radios with metasurface-based antenna panels, wideband channels, machine learning, and up to THz frequencies will be overviewed. The tutorial will be concluded with a detailed discussion on novel perspectives and future directions for FD MIMO radios in 6G wireless systems.

 

Co-organizer’s bios:

 

George Alexandropoulos

Bio: George C. Alexandropoulos received the Engineering Diploma, M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the School of Engineering, University of Patras, Greece in 2003, 2005, and 2010, respectively. He has held research positions at various Greek universities and research institutes, as well as at the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Paris Research Center, Huawei Technologies France, and he is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. He also serves as a Principal Researcher for the Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. His research interests span the general areas of algorithmic design and performance analysis for wireless networks with emphasis on multi-antenna transceiver hardware architectures, active and passive reconfigurable metasurfaces, full duplex radios, integrated communications and sensing, millimeter wave and THz communications, as well as distributed machine learning algorithms. He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, ELSEVIER Computer Networks, Frontiers in Communications and Networks, and the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies. In the past, he has held various fixed-term and guest editorial positions for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Communications Letters, as well as for various special issues at IEEE journals. Prof. Alexandropoulos is a Senior Member of the IEEE Communications, Signal Processing, and Information Theory Societies as well as a registered Professional Engineer of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He is also a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has participated and/or technically managed more than 10 European Union (EU) research and innovation projects, as well as several Greek and international research projects. He is currently NKUA’s principal investigator for the EU H2020 RISE-6G research and innovation project dealing with RIS-empowered smart wireless environments. He has received the best Ph.D. thesis award 2010, the IEEE Communications Society Best Young Professional in Industry Award 2018, the EURASIP Best Paper Award of the Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2021, the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications 2021, and a Best Paper Award from the IEEE GLOBECOM 2021. More information is available at www.alexandropoulos.info.

 

Himal A. Suraweera

Bio: Himal A. Suraweera received the B.Sc. Engineering (First Class Honors) degree from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree from Monash University, Australia in 2007. Currently he is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. From January 2011 to May 2013, he was a Post- Doctoral Research Associate at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. From July 2009 to January 2011, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore as a Research Fellow. From February 2007 to June 2009, he was a Research Fellow at Victoria University, Australia. His academic achievements include receiving the Mollie Holman medal, Kenneth Hunt medal upon graduating from Monash University, and the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2011. He received an IEEE Communications Letters exemplary reviewer certificate in 2009, three IEEE Wireless Communications Letters exemplary reviewer certificates in 2012, 2013, and 2014, an IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Top Reviewer Award in 2013, three IEEE Transactions on Communications exemplary reviewer certificates in 2014, 2015 and 2019 and two IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications exemplary reviewer certificates in 2017 and 2018. He was a co-recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize. Also, he received best paper awards at WCSP 2013 and SigTelCom 2017. Dr. Suraweera currently serves as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He was an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2014 to 2019, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications – Series on Green Communications and Networking from 2015 to 2016, IEEE Communications Letters from 2010 to 2015 and IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences from 2014 to 2018. He has been involved as a co-chair, Green Communications and Networks Track of IEEE VTC 2015-Spring, co-chair, Signal Processing for Communications Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, co-chair, Cooperative Communications, Distributed MIMO and Relaying Track of IEEE VTC 2017-Spring, co-chair, Emerging Technologies, Architectures and Services Track of IEEE WCNC 2018, co-chair, Green Communications and Networks Track of IEEE VTC 2018-Spring, and co-chair, Green Communications and Networks Track of IEEE VTC 2019-Fall. His research interests are in the areas of wireless communications, signal processing for communications and communication theory, in particular, relay networks, energy harvesting communications, massive MIMO systems, full-duplex communications, and cognitive radio. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

 

Kenneth Kolodziej

Bio: Mr. Kenneth E. Kolodziej is a technical staff member in the RF Technology Group, where he is pursuing research on wideband electronic and simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR) systems. He was previously an RF Engineer at BAE Systems in New Jersey. Since joining Lincoln Laboratory, Mr. Kolodziej has conducted research on RF, microwave and photonic circuits, including antenna, radar and communication systems. He is currently designing compact transceivers and RF cancellation techniques for STAR applications. Mr. Kolodziej also teaches an electromagnetics course to undergraduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and several “Build Your Own Radar” courses on MIT campus. He has published more than 20 journal articles and conference papers, and holds several patents in the field of antennas and RF systems. He is a member of both the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques and IEEE Antennas and Propagation Societies, where he serves as a reviewer for several journals and conferences as well as on the steering and technical program committees for the International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Mr. Kolodziej received his BE and ME degrees in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. His specialties include wideband electronic systems, technologies for STAR, antenna systems, and Education & Outreach.