Program

International Workshop on Large-Scale Antenna Systems in Licensed and Unlicensed Bands
 
Technical program at a glance

Friday 8 December 2017, Singapore
Workshop location:
Melati Main Ballroom 4102, Level 4, Marina Bay Sands Singapore

                      Time                                               Title
9:00 - 9:30 Keynote 1: Luca Sanguinetti
9:30 - 10:00  Keynote 2: Andreas Molisch
10:00 - 10:30 Keynote 3: Asimakis Kokkos
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Poster session


Detailed technical program

Poster presentations
To promote close interaction among attendees, all presenters will introduce their work in a common poster session. The size of the posters is A0 in portrait format. Velcro will be provided at the venue. The works presented in the workshop are:

Paper title Authors and affiliations
Optimal Base Station Design with Limited Fronthaul: Massive Bandwidth or Massive MIMO?
Kamil Senel, Emil Björnson and Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)
Blind Pilot Decontamination in Massive MIMO by Independent Component Analysis

Ebrahim Amiri (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Ralf R. Müller (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Wolfgang Gerstacker (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)

Massive MIMO Unlicensed for High-Performance Indoor Networks
Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez, Giovanni Geraci, David López-Pérez and Lorenzo Galati Giordano (Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland); Ming Ding (Data 61, Australia); Holger Claussen (Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland)
What is the Optimal Network Deployment for a Fixed Density of Antennas?

Xuefeng Yao (University of Sydney, Australia); Ming Ding (Data 61, Australia); David López-Pérez (Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland); Zihuai Lin (University of Sydney, Australia); Guoqiang Mao (The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)

Joint UL and DL Spectral Efficiency Optimization of Superimposed Pilots in Massive MIMO

Daniel Verenzuela and Emil Björnson (Linköping University, Sweden); Luca Sanguinetti (University of Pisa & CentraleSupélec, Italy)

Hybrid Massive MIMO Unlicensed Transmission with 1-Bit Quantization

Ang Li and Christos Masouros (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Low-complexity CFO Compensation for OFDM-based Massive MIMO Systems

Parna Sabeti (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Arman Farhang (CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Nicola Marchetti and Linda Doyle (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Can We Rely on Channel Hardening in Cell-Free Massive MIMO?

Zheng Chen and Emil Björnson (Linköping University, Sweden)

Device Activity and Embedded Information Bit Detection Using AMP in Massive MIMO

Kamil Senel and Erik G. Larsson (Linköping University, Sweden)

Robust Regularised Channel Inversion for Massive MIMO Unlicensed

Haoran Qiang (University of New South Wales & Data 61, Australia); Ming Ding (Data 61, Australia); Giovanni Geraci and Adrian Garcia-Rodriguez (Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland); Jinhong Yuan (University of New South Wales, Australia)

On the Capacity of ZF Beamforming in Massive MIMO Systems with Imperfect Reciprocity Calibration

Wanzhi Ma (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China); Donglin Liu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), P.R. China); Ying Liu, Wensheng Pan and Hongzhi Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China)




Keynote speakers

Luca Sanguinetti
 
Biography: Luca Sanguinetti received the Laurea Telecommunications Engineer degree (cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Since 2005 he has been with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione of the University of Pisa. In 2004, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. During the period June 2007 - June 2008, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Dept. Electrical Engineering at Princeton. During the period June 2010 - Sept. 2010, he was selected for a research assistantship at the Technische Universitat Munchen. From July 2013 to July 2015 he was with the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio, Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Dr. Sanguinetti is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, and IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS OF COMMUNICATIONS (series on Green Communications and Networking) and as Lead Guest Editor of IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS OF COMMUNICATIONS 2016 Special Issue on ”Game Theory for Networks”. Dr. Sanguinetti served as Exhibit Chair of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) and as the general co-chair of the 2016 Tyrrhenian Workshop on 5G&Beyond. His expertise and general interests span the areas of communications, with special emphasis on multi-antenna communications, Massive MIMO, energy-efficient communications, and network design. He was the co-recipient of two best paper awards: IEEE Wireless Commun. and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2013 and IEEE Wireless Commun. and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2014. He is also the recipient of the FP7 Marie Curie IEF 2013 “Dense deployments for green cellular networks”. Dr. Sanguinetti is an Senior IEEE Member.
 
Talk title: A fresh look at massive MIMO.
Abstract: Since its inception, the following facts about Massive MIMO had been taken for granted without further questioning: 1) Due to pilot contamination, the capacity saturates as the number of antennas increases indefinitely; 2) Maximum ratio precoding/combining are asymptotically optimal; 3) Sophisticated linear combining and precoding schemes can only improve the performance for finite number of antennas. The aim of this talk is to show that all of these “facts” are incorrect and essentially an artifact from using simplistic channel models and suboptimal precoding/combining schemes. Specifically, we show that with multicell MMSE precoding/combining and a tiny amount of spatial channel correlation or large-scale fading variations over the array, the capacity increases without bound as the number of antennas increases, even under pilot contamination.
 
Asimakis Kokkos
 
Biography: Asimakis Kokkos serves as the MulteFire Alliance Technical Specification Working Group Chair driving the creation of timely and competitive standards to give MulteFire the necessary technological edge to deliver its objectives. Makis is also heading Industry Engagement Strategic Initiatives Steering at Nokia Mobile Networks, bringing together modern concepts of standardization and innovation. Makis joined Nokia in 1994,and held leadership positions spanning from global services to research and standardization. He has been a pioneer in getting frequency bands opened in Europe for new license exempt systems and mesh networks, led technology and standardization work in China, and has served as the chairman of Information and Communication Technology in EU China Chamber of Commerce. Makis received his first degree in Physics and Electronic Automation from University of Athens, Greece, his MSc degree in Digital Communication Systems from Loughborough University, UK and his PhD in modulation and coding from Bangor University, UK. He is a UK Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Talk title: The role of MIMO in next generation mobile communications. [Download]
Abstract: The next generation mobile systems will be very demanding in capacity and performance and will be planned not only for sub 6GHz bands but also for higher frequencies (mm Wave). Beamforming can increase capacity and performance in mobile networks and will play a key role in the design of the next generation mobile systems. Active antennas will enable beamforming and MIMO and they are becoming technically and commercially feasible. Beamforming and MIMO are currently standardized in 3GPP.



Andreas F. Molisch

Biography:
Andreas F. Molisch is the Solomon Golomb – Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair Professor at the University of Southern California. He previously was at TU Vienna, AT&T (Bell) Labs, Lund University, and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. His research interest is  wireless communications, with emphasis on wireless propagation channels, multi-antenna systems, ultrawideband signaling and localization, novel modulation methods, and caching for wireless content distribution. He is the author of four books, 18 book chapters, more than 200 journal papers, 300 conference papers, as well as 80 patents and 70 standards contributions. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, AAAS, and IET, as well as Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and recipient of numerous awards.
 

Talk title: Orbital Angular Momenta (OAM) Multiplexing: from basic principles to realistic demos.
Abstract: Orbital Angular Momenta (OAM) multiplexing has drawn great attention over the past years as a method of multiplexing data streams in line-of-sight situations. This talk will give an overview of the technology, starting with the basic principles, discussing the relationship to spatial multiplexing, and analyzing practical constraints as well as impacts of realistic propagation effects.