Publications - WaveComBE

Conferences & Journals

Date	Title and authors	File
5 April 2022	Long Term Rain Attenuation Measurement for short-range mmWave Fixed Link using DSD and ITU-R Prediction Models O. Zahid and S. Salous Department of Engineering, Durham University, Durham, the United Kingdom Radio Science, doi:10.1029/2021RS007307
10 Sep. 2021	Lower-Bound Capacity-Based Wireless Friendliness Evaluation for Walls as Reflectors Y. Zhang, J. Zhang, X. Chu, and J. Zhang IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, doi: 10.1109/TBC.2021.3113283
28 Aug – 4 Sep 2021	Simulation based channel hardening of cell-free massive MIMO in mm-Wave C. Qin, Y. Gao, J. Chen, A.A. Glazunov and J. Zhang URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2021
28 Aug – 4 Sep 2021	Millimeter-Wave Indoor Channel Characterization based on Directional Measurements at 39 GHz and 70 GHz Amar Al-Jazri, Mohamed Abduali and Sana Salous URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2021
28 Aug – 4 Sep 2021	MISO Measurements in Indoor Environments at 25 GHz Mohamed Abdulali, Amar Al-jzari, and Sana Salous URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (URSI GASS), 2021
21 July 2021	On the Optimal Base-station Height in mmWave Small-cell Networks Considering Cylindrical Blockage Effects Chen Chen, Graduate Student Member, IEEE, Jiliang Zhang, Senior Member, IEEE, Xiaoli Chu, Senior Member, IEEE, and Jie Zhang, Senior Member, IEEE IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology DOI:10.1109/TVT.2021.3098626
8 July 2021	Millimeter-wave Human Blockage Model Enhancements for Directional Antennas and Multiple Blockers D. Prado-Alvarez, Student Member, IEEE, S. Inca, D. Martín-Sacristán and J. F. Monserrat Senior, IEEE IEEE Communications Letters, doi: 0.1109/LCOMM.2021.3095617
22-26 March 2021	Multi-band Measurements in Indoor Environments Sana Salous, Amar Al-Jzari, Mohamed Abdulali, and Jack Towers Durham University, United Kingdom 2021 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
22-26 March 2021	Millimeter-Wave Indoor Directional Propagation Measurements Amar Al-jzari, and Sana Salous Durham University, United Kingdom 2021 15th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
25-28 Jan. 2021	A 2-layer 45° -Slant-Polarised Phased Array Antenna with Baffles Based on Gap Waveguide Technology for mmWave 5G Systems G. Meulman, A. Bagheri and A. A. Glazunov International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2021, pp. 575-576, doi: 10.23919/ISAP47053.2021.9391397
25-27 January 2021	4 × 4 Magneto-Electric Dipole Array with Single-Layer Corporate-Feed Ridge Gap Waveguide for mmWave Applications Wai Yan Yong1∗, Thomas Emanuelsson2, and Andres Alayón Glazunov´1,3 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Twente, 7522NB, Enschede, The Netherlands. 2 GAPWAVES AB, Gothenburg, Sweden International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, ISAP 2020
25-27 January 2021	Wideband H-Slot Antenna Fed by Substrate Integrated Gap Waveguide for mmWave Arrays Ryosuke Kon1, Wai Yan Yong2∗, and Andres Alayón Glazunov2,3 1 School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Twente, 7522NB, Enschede, The Netherlands 3 Department of Electrical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, ISAP 2020
28 October 2020	On the Performance of Indoor Multi-storey Small-cell Networks Chen Chen, Graduate Student Member, IEEE, Yixin Zhang, Graduate Student Member, IEEE, Jiliang Zhang, Senior Member, IEEE, Xiaoli Chu, Senior Member, IEEE, Jie Zhang, Senior Member, IEEE IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2020.3032740.
9 September 2020	A Bandwidth-Enhanced Cavity-Backed Slot Array Antenna for mmWave Fixed-Beam Applications Wai Yan Yong, Student Member, IEEE; Abolfazl Haddadi, Thomas Emanuelsson and Andrés Alayón Glazunov, Senior Member, IEEE IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS (Volume: 19, Issue: 11, Nov. 2020). DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2020.3022988
29 June 2020	How Friendly Are Building Materials as Reflectors to Indoor LOS MIMO Communications? Y. Zhang, Student Member, IEEE, C. Chen,Student Member, IEEE, S. Yang, Student Member, IEEE, J. Zhang, Student Member, IEEE, X. Chu, Student Member, IEEE and J. Zhang, Student Member, IEEE IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 9116-9127, Sept. 2020, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3004008
9 September 2020	Effects of Wall Reflection on the Per-Antenna Power Distribution of ZF-Precoded ULA for Indoor mmWave MU-MIMO Transmissions Y. Zhang, Graduate Student Member, IEEE, J. Zhang, Senior Member, IEEE, X. Chu, Senior Member, IEEE, and J. Zhang, Senior Member, IEEE IEEE Communications Letters, doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2020.3022914
29 August – 5 September 2020	Simulation-based Investigation on Spatial Channel Hardening of Massive MIMO in Different Indoor Scenarios and with Different Array Topologies C. Qin(1,2), Y. Miao(1), Y. Gao(2), J. Chen(2), J. Zhang(2,3) and A.A. Glazunov(1,4) (1) University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands (2) Ranplan Wireless Inc., Cambridge, U.K. (3) University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K. (4) Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden URSI GASS 2020, SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, ROME, ITALY
29 Aug. – 5 Sept. 2020	Long Term Rain Attenuation Measurements at Millimeter Wave Bands for Direct and Side Short-Range Fixed Links Zahid, Othman; Huang, Jie; Salous, Sana Durham University, United Kingdom URSI GASS 2020, SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, ROME, ITALY
29 Aug. – 5 Sept. 2020	Characterization of Indoor Environment in the 60 GHz band Al-Jzari, Amar; Towers, Jack; Salous, Sana Durham University, United Kingdom URSI GASS 2020, SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, ROME, ITALY
29 Aug. – 5 Sept. 2020	Clutter Loss Measurements and Modeling at 26 GHz Band J. Huang, O. Zahid, and S. Salous Durham University, United Kingdom URSI GASS 2020, SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, ROME, ITALY
25-28/05/2020	Parameter Optimization for Energy Efficient Indoor Massive MIMO Small Cell Networks Chen Chen, Yan Jiang, Jiliang Zhang, Xiaoli Chu, Jie Zhang Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4ET United Kingdom 2020 IEEE 91st Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2020-Spring
15-20/03/2020	Chamber Array Antenna Layout for Compact OTA Measurements. M. Poordaraee and A. A. Glazunov University of Twente, Department of Electrical Engineering, Enschede, Netherlands 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
15-20/03/2020	Channel Modelling based on Game Engines Light Physics for mmW in Indoor Scenarios Saul Inca, Danaisy Prado, David Martín-Sacristan, Jose F. Monserrat iTEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
15-20/03/2020	Irregular MultiFocal Reflector for Efficient mmWave Propagation in Indoor Enviroments J. Samuel Romero-Peña, Narcis Cardona iTEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
15-20/03/2020	5G Wideband Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna Fed by a Single-Layer Corporate-Feed Network based on Ridge Gap Waveguide Wai Yan Yong∗, Thomas Emanuelsson†‡, Andres Alayón Glazunov∗‡ ∗University of Twente, Department of Electrical Engineering, Enschede, Netherlands †GAPWAVES AB, Gothenburg, Sweden ‡Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Gothenburg, Sweden 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
15-20/03/2020	Microstrip to Ridge Gap Waveguide Transition for 28 GHz Steerable Slot Array Antennas Alireza Bagheri∗†, Hanna Karlsson∗, Carlo Bencivenni∗, Abolfazl Haddadi∗,Thomas Emanuelsson∗‡, Andres Alayón Glazunov†‡ ∗Gapwaves AB, Gothenburg, Sweden †University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands ‡Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
1 January 2020	Tractable performance analysis of small‐cell networks with a novel bounded path loss model Chen Chen, Songjiang Yang, Jiliang Zhang, Xiaoli Chu, Jie Zhang The University of Sheffield Electronics Letters, Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology DOI: 10.1049/el.2019.3299
16/12/2019	Long Term Rain Attenuation Measurements for Millimeter Wave Short-range Fixed Links for 5G applications Othman Zahid, Jie Huang, and Sana Salous Department of Engineering, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE U.K. UK Union Radio Scientifique Internationale-URSI Symposium 2019
16/12/2019	Characterisation of conference room environment in the 60 GHz band Amar Al-jzari, S. Salous Department of Engineering, Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE UK UK URSI Symposium 2019
29/10/2019	A ±45º Dual-Polarized Antenna for 5G mmWave Applications Based on Gap Waveguide Technology Alireza Bagheri^∗†, Julius Petersson^∗, Abolfazl Haddadi^∗, and Andres Alayón Glazunov^†‡ ^∗Gapwaves AB, Gothenburg, Sweden ^†University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands ^‡Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden 2019 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP)
29/10/2019	Wideband Cavity-Backed Slot Subarray Fed by Gap Ridge Waveguide for 5G mmWave Base Station Wai Yan Yong¹, Abolfazl Haddadi², Alireza Bagheri^1,2, Thomas Emanuelsson², Andres Alayón Glazunov^1,3 ¹University of Twente, Department of Electrical Engineering, Enschede, Netherlands ²GAPWAVES AB, Gothenburg, Sweden ³Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Gothenburg, Sweden 2019 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP)
10/09/2019	mmWave Array Antenna based on Gap Waveguide Technology for 5G Applications Alireza Bagheri, Carlo Bencivenni, Gapwaves AB, Andres Alayón Glazunov. University of Twente, Chalmers University of Technology 2019 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA)
21/06/2019	Comparison of Optimization Methods for Aerial Base Station Placement with Users Mobility Danaisy Prado, Saul Inca, David Martín-Sacristan and Jose F. Monserrat iTEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València 2019 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC)
31/03/2019	High Gain, Wideband Grid Array Antenna for 28 GHz 5G Base Station Wai Yan Yong and Andrés Alayón Glazunov Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Twente 2019 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
31/03/2019	Plane Wave Synthesis with Irregular Chamber Planar Antenna Arrays for Compact OTA Measurements Mohammad Poordaraee, and A. Alayón Glazunov Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Twente 2019 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
31/03/2019	Applicability Limits of Simplified Human Blockage Models at 5G mm-Wave Frequencies J. Samuel Romero-Peña, Narcís Cardona iTEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València 2019 13th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
11/12/2018	Multi-power-level Beam Sensing-Throughput Tradeoff in Millimeter Wave Multi-user Scenario Yixin Zhang^†, Sai Huang^†, Zhengyu Zhu^, Di Zhang^, Yue Gao^§, Zhiyong Feng^† ^†BUPT, Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications, Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100876, P.R.China ^Zhengzhou University, School of Information Engineering, Henan Province, 450001, PRChina ^§Queen Mary University of London, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, London, E1 4NS, UK GLOBECOM 2018 – 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference*

Patents (IPR)

Date	Title and authors
March 31st, 2021	“PROCEDIMIENTO DE ANÁLISIS DE LA COBERTURA EN ESPACIOS INTERIORES PARA REDES INALÁMBRICAS” (COVERAGE ANALYSIS PROCEDURE IN INTERIOR ENVIRONMENTS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS) Samuel Romero (ESR6) and Narcís Cardona from iTEAM (UPV). Patent request P202130290
January 27th, 2021	“REFLECTOR PARA ONDAS MILIMÉTRICAS” (“millimeter wave reflector”) Samuel Romero (ESR6) and Narcís Cardona from iTEAM (UPV). Patent request (P202130068)

Inputs to the Radiocommunication Study Groups (ITU)

Date	Title and authors	File
2021-06-14	Contribution to Recommendation ITU-R P.1238 – Multi-band measurements in various indoor environments Amar Al-Jzari and Sana Salous ITU-R WP3K Contribution 170 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2021-06-09	Fixed link long term measurements Othman Zahid and Sana Salous ITU-R WP3M Contribution 218 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2021-06-09	Submission of rain statistics for DBSG-3 Othman Zahid y Sana Salous ITU-R WP3M Contribution 224 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2020-08-01	Contribution document – Clutter loss measurements at 26 GHz Othman Zahid y Sana Salous ITU-R WP3M Contribution 55 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2020-07-31	Contribution to Recommendation ITU-R P.1238 – Multi-band measurements in various indoor environment Amar Al-Jzari and Sana Salous ITU-R WP3K Contribution 46 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2021-07-29	Report ITU-R P.2406-2 which includes the inputs to the ITU (open access)

Deliverables

WP	Title	Dissemination
WP 1	D1.1. Report on massive MIMO antenna numerical models	Public
WP1	D1.2 Report on Guidelines for OTA characterization of massive MIMO antennas (to be submitted to CTIA and 3GPP	Public
WP1	D1.3 Report on massive MIMO antenna prototype and characterization	Public
WP1	D1.4 Report on Network performance impact of massive MIMO antenna	Public
WP2	D2.1 Report on scattering model of mmW	Public
WP2	D2.2 Report on estimated channel parameters in the built environment	Public
WP2	D2.3 Report on precipitation effects and potential interference between mmW radio links	Public
Wp2	D2.4 Technical documents to be submitted to the ITU to be incorporated in ITU-R 1411 & 1238	Public
WP3	D3.1 Report on the fundamental performance limits of dense 3D mmW SC deployment	Public
WP3	D3.2 Recommendation on optimal MIMO configurations for mmW SCs in 3D BEs	Public
WP3	D3.3 Recommendation (to 3GPP, NGMN, Small Cell Forum, etc.) on optimal mmW SC deployment in typical BEs	Public
WP4	D4.1 Dissemination and outreach plan	Confidential
WP4	D4.2 Result exploitation plan	Confidential
WP4	D4.3 WAVECOMBE training school	Public
WP4	D4.4 Year 1 evaluation of dissemination and outreach	Confidential
WP4	D4.5 Year 2 evaluation of dissemination and outreach	Confidential
WP4	D4.6 Year 3 evaluation of dissemination and outreach	Confidential
WP4	D4.7 Year 4 evaluation of dissemination and outreach	Confidential
WP4	D4.8 Year 1 project workshop	Public
WP4	D4.9 Year 2 project workshop	Public
WP4	D4.10 Year 3 project workshop	Public
WP4	D4.11 Year 4 project workshop	Public
WP5	D5.1 Consortium agreement	Confidential
WP5	D5.2 Project management plan	Confidential
WP5	D5.3 Supervisory Board of the network	Confidential
WP5	D5.4 Year 1 project progress and evaluation report	Confidential
WP5	D5.6 Year 2 project progress and evaluation report	Confidential
WP5	D5.7 Year 3 project progress and evaluation report	Confidential
WP5	D5.8 Year 4 project progress and evaluation report	Confidential
WP6	NEC – Requirement No. 1	Confidential