Scope

The tutorial will give an overview of the state-of-the-art mobile radio channel sounding and data analysis. It will cover the following topics:

• The fundamentals of propagation This includes propagation mechanisms and their impact on CW and wideband signals, and polarization.
• The design of channel sounders: an overview of channel sounder requirements and channel sounder techniques, waveforms: narrow pulse vs pulse compression techniques (chirp and PRBS), in addition to multi-dimensional and multi-band channel sounding in the high frequency bands for 5G and 6G.
• Channel sounder calibration, validation, and parameter estimation.
• Channel models including channel parameters such as rms and angular delay spreads.
• Measurements examples of directional and omni-directional and estimation of channel parameters such as path loss in indoor and outdoor scenarios, clutter loss, building entry loss and impact of precipitation.
• An overview of the requirements for channel models for 5G and 6G and their parametrization.

Targeted Audience

Ph.D. Students, but open to the research community in general.

Speakers

Sana Salous, Durham University, United Kingdom

Diego Dupleich, TU Illmenau, Germany

General Programme

The tutorial will be divided into two sessions each for approximately 90 minutes with half an hour break.

General Schedule

The overall schedule is given below:

In the afternoon, from 2 to 5.30 pm. 

Supporting Texts

1. Sana Salous, Radio propagation measurements and channel modelling, Wiley, 2013, Print ISBN 9780470751848 |Online ISBN:9781118502280 |DOI:10.1002/9781118502280
2. Salous; Stuart M. Feeney; X. Raimundo; Adnan A. Cheema, Wideband MIMO Channel Sounder for Radio Measurements in the 60 GHz Band, IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, Volume: 15, Issue: 4, April 2016.
3. Jie Huang; Yusheng Cao; Xavier Raimundo; Adnan Cheema; Sana Salous, Rain Statistics Investigation and Rain Attenuation Modeling for Millimeter Wave Short-Range Fixed Links, IEEE Access,24 October 2019, Electronic ISSN: 2169-3536, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2949437

4. Salous; J. Lee; M. D. Kim; M. Sasaki; W. Yamada; X. Raimundo; A. A. Cheema, Radio propagation measurements and modeling for standardization of the site general path loss model in international telecommunications union recommendations for 5G wireless networks, Radio Science, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, January 2020
5. Sana Salous al, Millimeter-Wave Propagation: Characterization and modeling toward fifth-generation systems, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Volume: 58, Issue: 6, December 2016.
6. Kürner (ed.), D. M. Mittleman (ed.), T. Nagatsuma (ed.), “THz Communications – Paving the Way Towards Wireless Tbps,” Springer Cham, 09 Dec 2022, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73738
7. Theodore S. Rappaport (ed.), A. Remley (ed.), Camillo Gentile (ed.), Andreas F. Molisch (ed.), Alenka Zajić (ed.), “Radio Propagation Measurements and Channel Modeling: Best Practices for Millimeter-Wave and Sub-Terahertz Frequencies,” Cambridge University Press, Aug 2022, ISBN: 9781009301886
8. Dupleich, S. Semper, M. D. Al-Dabbagh, A. Ebert, T. Kleine-Ostmann and R. Thomä, “Verification of THz Channel Sounder and Delay Estimation with Over-The-Air Multipath Artifact,” 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Madrid, Spain, 2022, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.23919/EuCAP53622.2022.9769269.
9. Dupleich, A. Ebert, R. Müller, G. Del Galdo and R. Thomä, “Verification of Dual-Polarized Ultra-Wideband Channel Sounder for THz Applications,” 2021 IEEE 32nd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PIMRC50174.2021.9569491
10. Dupleich et al., “From Sub-6 GHz to mm-Wave: Simultaneous Multi-band Characterization of Propagation from Measurements in Industry Scenarios,” 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Madrid, Spain, 2022, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.23919/EuCAP53622.2022.9768944.

Language

The School will be entirely held in English.

Location

PUT, Lecture Centre, Room 121

Registration

It is possible to register for the training Day through the registration process for the 5^th MC and Technical meeting itself. Please access your member’s area, register for the meeting and select “TR” within the activities available.

Organisation and Scientific Programme Committee

Sana Salous, Durham University, United Kingdom

Diego Dupleich, TU Illmenau, Germany

Detailed Programme

14:00 – 15:30: Sana Salous

15:30 – 16:00: Tea/coffee break

16:00 – 17:30: Diego Dupleich