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T9: Towards 6G and B6G Communications: Wireless Channel Measurements, Characteristics Analysis, and Modeling - VTC2025-Spring Oslo

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T9: Towards 6G and B6G Communications: Wireless Channel Measurements, Characteristics Analysis, and Modeling

Co-organizer: Cheng-Xiang Wang, Southeast University, China
Co-organizer: Jie Huang, Southeast University, China
Co-organizer: Chen Huang, Southeast University
Co-organizer: Harald Haas, Cambridge University, UK

Abstract: Channel measurements and realistic channel models with good accuracy-complexity-pervasiveness tradeoffs are essential for designing, evaluating, and optimizing wireless communication systems. The proposed tutorial aims to address recent advances and future challenges in channel measurement and modeling techniques for sixth generation (6G) and beyond 6G (B6G) wireless systems by providing a comprehensive and in-depth course for communication professionals/academics. Network architecture and key technologies for 6G that will enable global coverage, full spectra, and full applications will be discussed first. Channel measurements and non-predictive channel models are then reviewed for challenging 6G scenarios and frequency bands, focusing on millimeter wave, terahertz, and optical wireless communication channels under all spectra, satellite, unmanned aerial vehicle, and maritime communication channels under global coverage scenarios, and vehicle-to-vehicle, ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), industrial Internet of things (IoT), reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) channels under full application scenarios. A non-predictive 6G pervasive channel model for all frequency bands and all scenarios will then be proposed, which is expected to serve as a baseline for future standardized 6G/B6G channel models. Different channel modeling methods, including ray tracing, beam domain channel models, and digital-twin online channel modeling will also be investigated. At last, some preliminary works on three dimensional (3D) continuous-space radio channel modeling for B6G will be presented. Future research challenges and trends for 6G/B6G channel measurements and models will be discussed in the end of the tutorial.

Co-organizer’s Bios:

Cheng-Xiang Wang

Cheng-Xiang Wang received the B.Sc. and M.Eng. degrees in Communication and Information Systems from Shandong University, China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in
Wireless Communications from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2004.
He was a Research Assistant with the Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany, from 2000 to 2001, a Visiting Researcher with Siemens AG Mobile Phones, Munich, Germany, in 2004, and a Research Fellow with the University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway, from 2001 to 2005. He was with Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K., from 2005 to 2018, where he was promoted to a professor in 2011. He has been with Southeast University, Nanjing, China, as a professor since 2018, and he is now the Executive Dean of the School of Information Science and Engineering. He is also a professor with Pervasive Communication Research Center, Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing, China. He has authored 4 books, 3 book chapters, and over 620 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, including 28 highly cited papers. He has also delivered 32 invited keynote speeches/talks and 21 tutorials in international conferences. His current research interests include wireless channel measurements and modeling, 6G wireless communication networks, and electromagnetic information theory. Dr. Wang is a Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe), a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), IEEE, and IET, an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2019 and 2020, a Highly-Cited Researcher recognized by Clarivate Analytics in 2017-2020. He is currently an Executive Editorial Committee Member of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS. He has served as an Editor for over sixteen international journals, including the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, from 2007 to 2009, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, from 2011 to 2017, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, from 2015 to 2017. He has served as a TPC Chair and General Chair for more than 30 international conferences. He received IEEE Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award in 2024. He also received 19 Best Paper Awards from international conferences.

Jie Huang

Jie Huang received the B.E. degree in Information Engineering from Xidian University, China, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Shandong University, China, in 2018. From Oct. 2018 to Oct. 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China, supported by the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents. From Jan. 2019 to Feb. 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Durham University, UK. Since Mar. 2019, he is a part-time researcher in Purple Mountain Laboratories, China. Since Nov. 2020, he is an Associate Professor in the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University. He has authored and co-authored more than 120 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He received IEEE Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award in 2024 and Best Paper Awards from WPMC 2016, WCSP 2020, WCSP 2021, and WCSP 2024. He has delivered over 10 tutorials in international conferences, including IEEE Globecom and IEEE ICC. His research interests include millimeter wave, massive MIMO, reconfigurable intelligent surface channel measurements and modeling, electromagnetic information theory, and 6G wireless communications.

Chen Huang

Chen Huang received the Ph.D. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2021. From 2018 to 2020, he has been a Visiting Scholar with the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA and with the Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. From April 2021 to April 2023, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Pervasive Communication Research Center, Purple Mountain Laboratories (PML), Nanjing, 211111, China, and also in the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University (SEU), Nanjing, 211189, China. Since April 2023, he has been an research associate professor in the Pervasive Communication Research Center, PML, and an extramural supervisor in the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, School of Information Science and Engineering, SEU, China. Dr. Huang was selected in Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by China Association for Science and Technology and Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Program in Jiangsu, received 4 times the Best Paper Award from IEEE/CIC ICCC 2024, IEEE ICCT2023, WCSP 2018, IEEE/CIC ICCC 2018, and serves as the Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY and Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for several conferences, including GlobeCom, ICC, VTC-fall, VTC-spring, etc. His research interests include 6G channel measurements, characterization, and modeling, machine learning-based channel prediction, and localization. He has authored/co-authored 1 book chapters, more than 60 journal and conference
papers, as well as 17 patents.

Harald Haas

Harald Haas received the Ph.D. degree in wireless communications from the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K., in 2001. He is with Department of Engineering, Electrical Engineering Division, Cambridge University. He is also the Initiator, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of pureLiFi Ltd. He has authored 550 conference and journal papers, including papers in Science and Nature Communications. His main research interests are in optical wireless communications, hybrid optical wireless and RF communications, spatial modulation, and interference coordination in wireless networks. His team invented spatial modulation. He introduced LiFi to the public at an invited TED Global talk in 2011. This talk on Wireless Data from Every Light Bulb has been watched online over 2.72 million times. LiFi was listed among the 50 best inventions in TIME Magazine in 2011. He gave a second TED Global lecture in 2015 on the use of solar cells as LiFi data detectors and energy harvesters. This has been viewed online over 2.75 million times. In 2016, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Solid State Lighting Alliance. In 2019 he was recipient of IEEE Vehicular Society James Evans Avant Garde Award. Haas was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) in 2017. In the same year he received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and was elevated to IEEE Fellow. In 2018 he received a three-year EPSRC Established Career Fellowship extension and was elected Fellow of the IET. Haas was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2019.