W11: Workshop on Mobile-to-Mobile Channel Modeling and Propagation for B5G
Co-chair: David W. Matolak, University of South Carolina, USA
Co-chair: Carlos A. Gutierrez, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Co-chair: José Rodríguez-Piñeiro, Tongji University, China
Co-chair: Ke Guan, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Co-chair: Michael Walter, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Co-chair: Daniel Benevides da Costa
Abstract: Mobile communications are constantly evolving to meet society’s demands for more and better communication services. The global rollout of the fifth-generation (5G) of mobile cellular communications is currently underway, with the promise of revolutionizing the communications landscape by improving user experience with interactive and haptic communications, and enabling machine-oriented services that are fundamental for industry automation, intelligent transportation, e-health, among others. While the future of 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) networks looks bright, the design of such networks continues to be a challenging task due to the stringent performance requirements that these networks should meet to deliver ultra-reliable and low-latency services with enhanced mobilty. In particular, the optimization of the radio access network of 5G, as well as its redesign toward the transition to sixth-generation (6G) networks, call for the development of proper channel models that serve as benchmarks for system analysis. This workshop is organized by the Technical Committee on Propagation of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society with the aim of providing a global perspective on open problems, current research trends, new results and ideas, and hot topics in the area of channel modeling and propagation for 5G, 5G-Advanced, 6G and beyond mobile-to-mobile (M2M) communication systems.
Co-chair Bios:
David W. Matolak
Bio: David W. Matolak (S’82, M’83, SM’00, F’21) received the B.S. degree from The Pennsylvania State University, M.S. degree from The University of Massachusetts, and Ph.D. degree from The University of Virginia, all in electrical engineering. He has over 25 years’ experience in communication system research, development, and deployment, with industry, government institutions, and academia, including AT&T Bell Labs, L3 Communication Systems, MITRE, and Lockheed Martin. He has published over 280 papers, multiple book chapters, and has eight patents. Professor Matolak is a Fellow of the IEEE, and is a recipient of multiple awards, including the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Best Propagation Paper award (2017). He has organized many IEEE workshops and special sessions, and has been an Associate Editor for two IEEE journals. He was a professor at Ohio University (1999-2012), and since 2012 has been a professor at the University of South Carolina. His research interests are radio channel modeling, secure and covert communications, and PHY/MAC communication techniques for statistically non-stationary fading channels. Prof. Matolak is also a member of RTCA and ITU standards groups working on aviation communications, and is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, URSI, ASEE, and AIAA.
Carlos A. Gutierrez
Bio: Carlos A. Gutierrez received the B.E. degree in electronics and digital communication systems from the Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico, in 2002, the Advanced Studies Diploma degree in signal processing and communication theory from the Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña, Spain, in 2005, the M.S. degree in electronics and telecommunications from CICESE, Mexico, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in mobile communication systems from the University of Agder, Norway, in 2009.
From 2009 to 2011, he was with the School of Engineering, Universidad Panamericana, Aguascalientes, Mexico. Since January 2012, he has been with the Faculty of Science, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico. His research interests include modeling, simulation, and measurement of wireless channels; antenna design; electromagnetic wave propagation; vehicular communications; and radio sensing for vehicular applications and human activity recognition. Dr. Gutierrez has held different positions in organizing and technical program committees of various international conferences. He has served as an Expert Evaluator for the European Commission and CONACYT (Mexico); an associate editor for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine; and a guest editor for several international journals. His publications received three best paper awards. He is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers.
José Rodríguez-Piñeiro
Bio: José Rodríguez-Piñeiro received the B.Sc. on Telecommunications (Hons.) and the M.Sc. Degree in Signal Processing Applications for Communications (Hons.) from the University of Vigo (Pontevedra, Spain), in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Between June 2008 and July 2011, he was a researcher at the Department of Signal and Communications, University of Vigo (Pontevedra, Spain). In 2011 he joined the Group of Electronics Technology and Communications of the University of A Coruña (Spain) as a researcher, obtaining his Ph.D. degree (Hons.) with the distinction “Doctor with European Mention” in 2016. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree, he continued working as a Postdoctoral researcher at the same group until July 2017.
On August 2017 he joined the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University (P.R. China), as a Postdoctoral researcher, becoming an Assistant Professor in 2020. He performed several research stays at the Technische Universität Wien (Vienna, Austria) and the National University of Asunción (Paraguay). From November 2012 he collaborates with the Department of Power and Control Systems, National University of Asunción (Paraguay) in both teaching and research, and he is an external researcher of the Group of Electronics Technology and Communications of the University of A Coruña (Spain) since 2018. Since 2023, he is an elected member of the PropagationCommittee of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS). He is the coauthor of more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, as well as three patents. He is also the leader or a member of the research team in more than 40 international, national and regional research projects funded by public organizations and private companies.
He was awarded with two national- and regional-level predoctoral grants, two national-level postdoctoral fellowships and three national-level research stay grants, as well as with a postdoctoral award and a teaching quality award. His research interests include experimental evaluation of digital mobile communications, especially for high mobility environments, including terrestrial and aerial vehicular scenarios.
Ke Guan
Bio: Dr. Ke Guan, (S’10-M’13-SM’19) received B.E. degree and Ph.D. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University in 2006 and 2014, respectively. He is a Professor in State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety & School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University. In 2015, he has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers. In 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar with Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Research Scholar with the Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (IfN) at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany. From September 2013 to January 2014, he was invited to conduct joint research in Universidad Polit\'{e}cnica de Madrid, Spain. He has authored/co-authored two books and one book chapter, more than 200 journal and conference papers, and ten patents. His current research interests include measurement and modeling of wireless propagation channels, highspeed railway communications, vehicle-to-x channel characterization, and indoor channel characterization for high-speed short-range systems including future terahertz communication systems. Dr. Guan is the pole leader of EURNEX (European Railway Research Network of Excellence). He was the recipient of a 2014 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award. His papers received 14 Best Paper Awards, including IEEE vehicular technology society Neal Shepherd memorial best propagation paper awards in 2019 and 2022. He is an Editor of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, IEEE ACCESS, IET Microwave, Antenna and Propagation, Physical Communication, and a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Communication Magazine. He serves as a Publicity Chair in PIMRC 2016, the Publicity Co- Chair in ITST 2018, the Track Co-Chair in EuCNC, the International Liaison of EUSIPCO 2019, the Session Convener of EuCAP 2015-2021, and a TPC Member for many IEEE conferences, such as Globecom, ICC, and VTC. He has been a contact person in 3GPP and a member of the IC1004, CA15104, and CA20120 initiatives.
Michael Walter
Bio: Michael Walter (Senior Member, IEEE) received his Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Ulm University, Germany, in 2008 and 2015.
Since 2009 he has been a member of the scientific staff at the Institute of Communications and Navigation at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, where he gained extensive experience in organizing and conducting numerous measurement campaigns for vehicular and aeronautical research.
He was a visiting scholar at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014.
His research interests include wireless communications, modeling of mobile-to-mobile channels, and channel coding.
Dr. Walter was the recipient of the IEEE/AIAA David Lubkowski Memorial for Advancement in Digital Avionics Best Paper Award of the 29th DASC in 2011.
Daniel Benevides da Costa
Bio: Dr. Daniel B. da Costa was born in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, in 1981. He received the B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from the Military Institute of Engineering (IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2003, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering, Area: Telecommunications, from the University of Campinas, SP, Brazil, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. His Ph.D thesis was awarded the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Electrical Engineering by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES) at the 2009 CAPES Thesis Contest. From 2008 to 2009, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with INRS-EMT, University of Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada. From 2010 to 2022, he was with the Federal University of Ceará. In 2019, Dr. da Costa was on sabbatical leave. From January 2019 to April 2019, he was Visiting Professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland, with financial support from Nokia Foundation. He was awarded with the prestigious Nokia Visiting Professor Grant in 2018 and 2021. From May 2019 to August 2019, he was with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, as a Visiting Faculty, and from September 2019 to November 2019, he was a Visiting Researcher at Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey. From 2021 to 2022, he was Full Professor at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech), Taiwan. He was the Founder and the Head of the Intelligent Wireless Communications (IWiCom) Research Group, the first research group created under the umbrella of the Future Technology Research Center. From March 2022 to January 2024, he was Principal Researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dr. Daniel B. da Costa was selected as World’s Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University (2021, 2022, 2023) and has been ranked among 1% Top Scientists in the world in the broad field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (2022, 2023). He is also a Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS), Vice-Chair of the Propagation Committee of the IEEE VTS, and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters.
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