

Special Session at EuCAP 2018
Date: April 9-13, 2018
Location: London, UK
COST Action CA15104 (IRACON) organizes Special Sessions at the 12nd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), to be held in London, UK, on 9-13 April 2018.
Monday 9 April 2018, 16:00 – 18:00
CS25: COST CA15104 IRACON Session on MM Wave and THz Channel Modelling Cellular Networks & 5G | Convened Session | Propagation
Room 7
Chairs: Claude Oestges (UC Louivain, Belgium) and Reiner S. Thomä (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany)
16:00 CS25.1 Modeling of Intra-Cluster Multipaths for 60 GHz Fading Channels
Naveed Iqbal and Jian Luo (Huawei Technologies, Germany); Diego Dupleich, Christian Schneider, Robert Müller, Stephan Häfner, Giovanni Del Galdo and Reiner S. Thomä (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)
16:20 CS25.2 Comparing Radio Propagation Channels Between 28 and 140 GHz Bands in a Shopping Mall
Sinh Nguyen, Jan Järveläinen, Aki Karttunen and Katsuyuki Haneda (Aalto University, Finland); Jyri Putkonen (Nokia Bell Labs, Finland) 16:40 CS25.3 Frequency Dependence of Penetration Through Gaps into Buildings at mmWave Tim Brown (University of Surrey, United Kingdom ); Pat Chambers (Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom); Ruhan Xie (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
17:00 CS25.4 Clutter Loss Measurements in Suburban Environment at 26 GHz and 40 GHz
Belen Montenegro-Villacieros, Jean Marc Chareau, James Bishop, Philippe Viaud, Tiziano P Pinato and Marco Basso (European Commission, Italy)
17:20 CS25.5 3GPP Channel Model Developments for 5G NR Requirements and Testing
Moray Rumney (KeysightTechnologies, United Kingdom); Pekka Kyösti and Lassi Hentila (Keysight Technologies, Finland)
17:40 CS25.6 Channel Characterization at THz Frequencies for High Data Rate Indoor Communications
Sana Salous, Xavier Raimundo, Maryam Hajji, Andreas Klein, Claudio Balocco and Andrew Gallant (Durham University, United Kingdom)
Thursday 12 April 2018, 09:00 – 10:40
CS44: COST CA15104 (IRACON): Measurements and Simulations in Channel Modelling in Wireless Body Area Networks Biomedical | Convened Session | Propagation
Room: Room 15
Chairs: Slawomir J. Ambroziak (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) and Simon L. Cotton (Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom)
09:00 CS44.1 Body-worn Channel Characterization Unit for the 868 MHz Band
Patrick Van Torre, Sam Agneessens, Jo Verhaevert and Hendrik Rogier (Ghent University, Belgium)
09:20 CS44.2 Preliminary Path-Loss Measurement of On-Body Wireless Body Area Network at 490 GHz
Taichi Shichijoo and Takahiro Aoyagi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
09:40 CS44.3 Fading Characteristics for Dynamic Body-to-Body Channels in Indoor and Outdoor Environments
Kenan Turbic and Luis M. Correia (IST – University of Lisbon and INESC, Portugal); Slawomir J. Ambroziak (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
10:00 CS44.4 Full-Spectrum Phantoms for cm-Wave and Medical Wireless Communications
Sergio Castelló-Palacios, Concepcion Garcia-Pardo, Alejandro Fornes-Leal, Narcis Cardona and Ana Valles-Lluch (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain) 10:20
CS44.5 Fading Characterization of UE to Ceiling-Mounted Access Point Communications at 60 GHz
Seong Ki Yoo, Simon Cotton, Young Jin Chun and William G. Scanlon (Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom)
Thursday 12 April 2018 11:10 – 12:50
CS45: COST CA15104 (IRACON) Session on Frequency Dependency Modelling of Radio Channels Ultra-High Data Rate Communications | Convened Session | Propagation
Room: Room 14
Chairs: Sana Salous (Durham University, United Kingdom) and Katsuyuki Haneda (Aalto University, Finland)
11:10 CS45.1 Frequency Dependency Analysis of SHF Band Directional Propagation Channel in Indoor Environment
Kentaro Saito, Panawit Hanpinitsak and Jun-ichi Takada (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan); Wei Fan and Gert Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
11:30 CS45.2 Characterization of sub-THz and mmWave Propagation Channel for Indoor Scenarios
Raffaele D’Errico and Laura Pometcu (Minatec University, France)
11:50 CS45.3 Antenna Aperture Impact on Channel Delay Spread in an Urban Outdoor Scenario at 17 and 60 GHz
Cheikh Diakhate (Université Paris-Saclay and Orange Labs, France); Jean-Marc Conrat (Orange Labs, France); Jean Cristophe Cousin and Alain Sibille (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
12:10 CS45.4 On the Frequency Dependency of Radio Channel’s Delay Spread: Analyses and Findings from mmMAGIC Multi-frequency Channel Sounding
Sinh Nguyen, Aki Karttunen and Katsuyuki Haneda (Aalto University, Finland); Jonas Medbo (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Michael Peter (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany); Aliou Bamba and Raffaele D’Errico (Minatec, University, France); Naveed Iqbal (Huawei Technologies, Germany); Cheikh Diakhate and Jean-Marc Conrat (Orange Labs, France)
12:30 CS45.5 Building Entry Loss for Traditional and Thermally Efficient Houses Between 0.4 and 73 GHz
Sana Salous, Xavier Raimundo, Jack Towers and Adnan Cheema (Durham University, United Kingdom)
Thursday 12 April 2018 16:30 – 18:10
CS09: Beamforming Techniques for Information and Power Transmission – a Joint COST IRACON and COST WiPE Session Future applications | Convened Session | Propagation
Room: Room 2
Chairs: Vittorio Degli Esposti and Jonathan Pinto (BAE Systems, United Kingdom)
16:30 CS09.1 Two-Step Angle-of-Arrival Estimation for Terahertz Communications Based on Correlation of Power-Angular Spectra in Frequency
Bile Peng, Ke Guan, Sebastian Rey and Thomas Kürner (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
16:50 CS09.2 A Multi-Carrier Frequency Diverse Array Design Method for Wireless Power Transmission
A-Min Yao, Nicola Anselmi and Paolo Rocca (University of Trento, Italy)
17:10 CS09.3 Investigation of Effective Range of Focused Gaussian Beam Compared to Focused Uniform Beam in Fresnel Region
Seishiro Kojima and Naoki Shinohara (Kyoto University, Japan)
17:30 CS09.4 Far- and Near-Field Focused WPT Using (Sub)
Arrays Huib J. Visser (IMEC Netherlands, The Netherlands)
17:50 CS09.5 Influence of System Aspects in Propagation Based Evaluation of Beamforming at mm-Waves
Diego Dupleich, Eric Schäfer, Giovanni Del Galdo and Reiner S. Thomä (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)