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SUMMARY:Terminal Antenna Design for Future Wireless
DTSTART:20191025T103000
DTEND:20191025T113000
DTSTAMP:20260407T164041Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Buon Kiong Lau received the B.E. degree (with honors) from the
  University of Western Australia\, Perth\, Australia\, and the Ph.D. degre
 e from the Curtin University of Technology\, Perth\, Australia\, in 1998 a
 nd 2003\, respectively\, both in electrical engineering. During 2000 to 20
 01\, he was a Research Engineer with Ericsson Research\, Kista\, Sweden. F
 rom 2003 to 2004\, he was a Guest Research Fellow at the Department of Sig
 nal Processing\, Blekinge Institute of Technology\, Sweden. Since 2004\, h
 e has been with the Department of Electrical and Information Technology\, 
 Lund University\, where he is now a Professor in the Communications Group.
  He also holds a Senior Researcher appointment with the Swedish Research C
 ouncil since 2010. He has been a Visiting Researcher with the Department o
 f Applied Mathematics\, Hong Kong Polytechnic University\, China\; the Lab
 oratory for Information and Decision Systems\, Massachusetts Institute of 
 Technology\, Cambridge\, MA\, USA\; and the Takada Laboratory\, Tokyo Inst
 itute of Technology\, Japan.   Dr Lau's primary research interests are in
  various aspects of multiple antenna systems\, particularly the interplay 
 between antennas\, propagation channels\, and signal processing. He has co
 -authored 34 journal papers (17 in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propa
 gation)\, 5 book chapters\, over 100 conference papers and 3 patents/paten
 t applications.   Dr. Lau has been an Associate Editor\, a Senior Associa
 te Editor and a Track Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Pro
 pagation\, for which he was also a Guest Editor of the “Special Issue on
  MIMO Technology” (2012) and the Lead Guest Editor of the “Special Iss
 ue on Theory and Applications of Characteristic Modes” (2016). In additi
 on\, he was the Lead Guest Editor of the “Special Cluster on Terminal An
 tenna Systems for 4G and Beyond” (2013) for the IEEE Antennas and Wirele
 ss Propagation Letters.   From 2007 to 2010\, he was the Co-Chair of Subw
 orking Group 2.2 on “Compact Antenna Systems for Terminals” within EU 
 COST Action 2100. He has also served as a Swedish National Delegate and th
 e Chair of Subworking Group 1.1 on “Antenna System Aspects” within COS
 T IC1004 between 2001 and 2015. From 2012-2015\, he was the elected Region
 al Delegate of European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) f
 or Region 6. He is also a member of the Education Committee within the IEE
 E Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S)\, where he had been the Coordina
 tor for the annual IEEE AP-S Student Design Contest during 2013-2015.   I
 n 2015\, Dr. Lau received an award from IEEE Transactions on Antennas and 
 Propagation for exceptional performance as an Associate Editor (one of 3 a
 warded among 46 Associate Editors). His co-authored papers have received s
 everal Best Paper Awards\, including two CST University Publication Awards
  in 2010 and 2013.  \nMassive MIMO\, full-dimension (FD) MIMO\, millimete
 r-wave and small cells are some popular candidates for the 5th generation 
 (5G) wireless communication systems. However\, as much as these technologi
 es present exciting new challenges for antenna design\, the conventional d
 esign framework is expected to remain\, partly due to the current emphasis
  on non-antenna issues. Conventionally\, terminal antennas are designed ba
 sed on simple\, and often unrealistic criteria\, including an emphasis on 
 antenna performance in free space. Moreover\, the need for compact multi-a
 ntenna implementation makes it even more challenging to deliver efficient 
 antenna designs. Though poor antenna performance in reality is largely ove
 rlooked for different reasons\, future wireless systems with high performa
 nce requirements will greatly benefit from a more comprehensive antenna de
 sign paradigm.\nThis lecture starts by giving an overview of conventional 
 terminal antenna design and comment on its limitations. An outline  of th
 e current trends in terminal antenna design for 4G systems is given. Then\
 , a new antenna design paradigm that has the potential to dramatically imp
 rove 5G performance is introduced. In particular\, the paradigm takes into
  account the interactions of the antenna system with its nearfield and far
 field surroundings and provides a powerful framework to optimize these int
 eractions. Finally\, some practical techniques to take advantage of this d
 esign paradigm\, where each technique offers promising performance gains o
 ver the state-of-the-art\, are provided.
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