W22: Workshop on Channel Modeling and Propagation for Future Mobile Communications
Co-Organizer: David Matolak, University of South Carolina, USA
Co-Organizer: Ke Guan, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Co-Organizer: Wei Wang, Chang’an University, China
Co-Organizer: Jose Rodriguez-Piñeiro, Tongji University, China
Co-Organizer: Carlos A. Gutierrez, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Co-Organizer: Michael Walter, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
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 expanding 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, and others. Although 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 mobility. 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 accurate channel models that capture the rapidly time-varying characteristics of mobile radio reception in highly mobile indoor and outdoor environments. 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 enhanced mobility use cases of 5G, 5G-Advanced, 6G, and other mobile communication networks.
Program:
Date: October 19th, 2025; 9:00 – 12:30 (CST)
Venue: Room “Crystal Ballroom 3”, InterContinental Century City Hotel
(No. 88 CENTURY CITY BOULEVARD, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China)
Online Access: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85166737599 (Passcode: 251019)
Agenda:
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome and Introduction (Prof. Ke Guan)
9:10 – 9:40 Keynote Speeches
Design of modulation and reference signals for 6G vehicular
communications (Prof. Ana García Armada)
9:40 – 10:30 Paper Presentations
9:45 – 10:00 Analysis and Modeling of the Delay-Doppler Characteristics of
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Air-to-Ground at 2.7 GHz (Yuanfeng He,
Zhiwei Liang, Wei Wang)
10:00 – 10:15 An Overview of Parabolic Wave Equation Methods for Tunnel
Propagation Modeling at Sub-6GHz (Hao Qin, Siyi Huang, Yunxi Mu,
Xingqi Zhang, Xinyue Zhang)
10:15 – 10:30 Code Doppler Channel Simulation Methods and Performance
Evaluation for Satellite Communication Scenarios (Hao Zhou, Yiyan
Ma, Dan Fei, Haobo Zhang, Bowen Yin, Zishen Zhao, Bo Ai)
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30 Paper Presentations
11:00 – 11:15 LEO Satellite Channel Prediction: A Transformer-LSTM Approach for
Outdated CSI (Wenqing Li, Yasaman Omid, Bo Ai, Yong Niu, Mahsa
Derakhshani)
11:15 – 11:30 Measurement and Analysis of Wideband Wireless Channel in Shore-
to-Ship Scenarios (Jiaqi Zhang, Lei Tian, Pan Tang, Peijie Liu, Zihang
Ding, Jikun Du, Jianhua Zhang, Yuanzhi He, Yanan Liu)
11:30 – 11:45 Measurement and Modeling of Rain Attenuation for Short-Range
Millimeter-Wave Channels (Mengyang Wang, Danping He, Hongyu
Duan, Ting Liu, Junchen Liu, Yujun Zhang, Ke Guan)
11:45 – 12:00 Quasi-Deterministic Modeling of Multipath Components in
Intrawagon Scenario (Shuai Li, Jingya Yang, Peiran Yu, Guoyu Ma,
Chunhua Zhu, Haoyan Chen, Menglei Luo, Ning Wang)
12:00 – 12:15 Pole Blockage in MmWave Railway Communications: Early Detection
Based on LoS Cluster Channels (Kai Mao, Nicholas Attwood, Hanpeng
Li, François Gallée, Patrice Pajusco, Qiuming Zhu, Marion Berbineau)
12:15 – 12:25 Award Ceremony “1st IEEE VTS Propagation Technical Committee Best Thesis Award”
(Associate Prof. José Rodríguez-Piñeiro)
12:25 – 12:30 Closing of the Workshop (Prof. Wei Wang)
Co-Organizer’s Bios:
David Matolak
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.
Ke Guan
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 at the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Rail Autonomous Operation and the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, and a Research Advisor at Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia. In 2016, he was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers. He was a Visiting Scholar with Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain in 2009 and 2013, respectively. From 2011 to 2013 and from 2016 to 2018, he was a Research Scholar with the Institut f\”ur Nachrichtentechnik (IfN) at Technische Universit\”at Braunschweig, Germany. From February 2023 to July 2023, he was a Guest Professor at Technische Universit\”at Wien, Austria. In 2024, he was elected as a Life Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (Life FRSA) and a Fellow of the Royal Asiati Society of Great Britain and Ireland (FRAS). He has authored/coauthored two books and five book chapters, more than 200 journal and conference papers, and ten patents. His current research interests include the measurement and modeling of wireless propagation channels, high-speed railway communications, and digital twin of electromagnetic environments in various complex scenarios based on ray-tracing and machine learning, such as vehicle-to-x communications, terahertz communication systems, integrated sensing and communications, and space-air-ground integrated networks. Dr. Guan is the pole leader of EURNEX (European Railway Research Network of Excellence. He was the recipient of the 2014 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award, the 2024 IEEE ITSS DEIB Fellowship, the 2023 Emerald Global Outstanding Award, and the 2023 JIMSE Global Young Scientist Award in Advanced Manufacturing. He is listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientists since 2020. His project TwinSWAN was listed in the finalists of 2024 IET Excellence and Innovation Awards. His papers received 14 Best Paper Awards, including the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award in 2019 and 2022. He is an Editor of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine and IET Microwave, Antenna and Propagation, 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 2018 and 2024, the International Liaison of EUSIPCO 2019, the Session Convener of EuCAP 2015-2024, and a TPC Member for many IEEE conferences, such as Globecom, ICC, VTC, etc. He is Beijing Jiaotong University’s contact person for 3GPP and ETSI and a member of the IEEE VTS Propagation Committee, IEEE AP/S TC Propagation and Scattering, and the COST IC1004, CA15104, and CA20120 initiatives.
Wei Wang
Wei Wang (Member, IEEE) received the bachelor’s degree in communications engineering from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2003, the master’s degree from the University of Kiel, Kiel,
Germany, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, in 2014. From 2007 to 2018, he was with the Institute of
Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), as a Scientific Staff. He is currently a Professor with the School of Information Engineering, Chang’an University. He was a Short- Term Scientific Visitor with the Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University in spring 2012. His current research interests include time-variant high-resolution parameter estimation and tracking, channel modeling for localization and navigation, radio-based positioning and navigation in connected vehicle networks, joint communication, and navigation. He has participated in many projects sponsored by DLR, EU-FP6/7, ESA, GSA, and Rohde & Schwarz, covering research studies in channel measurement, parameterization and modeling for indoor, airport, airplane, train, satellite and maritime propagation channel, and positioning techniques in indoors. He has authored or coauthored more than 70 publications in international journals and conferences and holds three patents. He is a member of ITG and EurAAP. He received the Best Presentation/Paper Award in ION GNSS in 2012 and EUCAP in 2018.
Jose Rodriguez-Piñeiro
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 o 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 Propagation Committee 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.
Carlos A. Gutierrez
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 Open Journal of Vehicular Technology; 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.
Michael Walter
Michael Walter 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, mobile-to-mobile channel models, prolate sphoroidal coordinates, differential forms, and algebraic curves. 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.