Organizer: Alireza Seyedi (University of Rochester, USA), Mohamed-Slim Alouini (Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar), Young-Chai Ko (Korea University, Korea), Chun-Ting Chou (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Time: 09.00-12.30

Room: TBA

Abstract: The revolutionary advances in electronics during the past decades has brought a myriad of different electronic devices into our homes and offices, such as PCs, TVs, audio players, digital cameras, and various mobile devices, taking the central part of our modern lives. One emerging trend for the next generation is networked communications between these electronic devices to share the huge amount of data processed by the individual units, for which fast and wireless connection is a necessity. Many of such technical needs are expected to be addressed by the emerging Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) and the future generations of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), for which unlicensed bands near 60 GHz worldwide are favorably considered. The unlicensed ample bandwidth available in this band (up to 7 GHz depending on the region) will enable multi-gigabit rate data transfer between such devices. Also, the high absorption rate of the electromagnetic wave around this band would allow a tight signal confinement within personal space with suppressed interference between adjacent channels. The on-going standardization effort for millimeter-wave multi-Gigabit WPANs is already being made in IEEE802.15.3c and ISO based Ecma-International TC48. Also, much interest has been shown for the future Very High throughput (VHT) version of IEEE802.11 WLANs. However, although some of the new enabling technologies to manage the multi-gigabit data rate are proposed from the contributions to the standardization, there are many wonderings about technologies such as how the multi-Gigabit rates can be processed in hardware and what is the leading edge of RF/antenna technology for the personal purpose, and what is the technique to overcome the effect of non-line-of sight link. In addition, although the available bandwidth is huge in comparison with other competing systems such as UWB, there are still needs to increase the spectral efficiency under the consideration of requirement of mm-wave hardware. Thus there is a need for the community to look globally at all these important issues in order to have millimeter-wave systems with very high data rate transfer capability a reality.

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