Speaker: Prof. Thomas Kürner, Professor of Electrical Engineering, the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Title: THz communication - Channel Models, Demonstrators and Standards

Abstract:
Already a couple of years ago THz communications have not only become an attractive new research area on channel modeling but also triggered a couple of projects heading to develop hardware demonstrators. In parallel discussions and activities in standardization and regulation took off. In March 2014, IEEE 802 established its project P802.15.3d with the task to develop the worldwide first wireless communications standard operating in the 300 GHz frequency band. The standardization process is accompanied by activities at the ITU-R level targeting on the provision of an appropriate regulatory framework at the World Radio Conference 2019 (WRC-2019) via a dedicated agenda item. The lecturer has been actively involved in all those areas. The talk will provide a brief overview on channel modeling at 300 GHz, present results achieved by a 300-Ghz HW demonstrator with electrical beam steering and will sketch the current status at IEEE 802 and the WRC 2019 preparations.

Speaker Bio:
Thomas Kürner received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990, and his Dr.-Ing. degree in 1993, both from Univerity of Karlsruhe (Germany). From 1990 to 1994 he was with the Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE) at the University of Karlsruhe working on wave propagation modelling, radio channel characterisation and radio network planning. Since 2003 he is Full University Professor for Mobile Radio Systems at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. He has been engaged in several international bodies such as ITU-R SG 3, UMTS Forum, COST 231/273/259/2100/IC 1004 and NGMN. He participated in six large European projects amongst them the recently finished FP7-SEMAFOUR (‘Self-management for unified heterogeneous radio access networks’) project and the currently running H2020-iBroW (‘Innovative ultra-BROadband ubiquitous Wireless communications through terahertz transceivers’) project. He has actively contributed to the IEEE 802.11ad channel modeling document.Currently he is chairing the IEEE 802.15 IG THz and the IEEE 802.15.3d TG 100G. He was the project coordinator of the German TERAPAN project (“Terahertz communications for future personal area networks”). Kürner is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) and chairs the EurAAP WG Propagation. He has been co-organizer of all six editions of the International Workshop on Self-Organizing Networks (IWSON). Since 2008 he is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. In 2012 he was a guest lecturer at Dublin City University within the Telecommunications Graduate Initiative in Ireland.

Sponsored by the IEEE AP/MTT Chapter, Atlanta
Co-Sponsored by the Electromagnetics TIA, School of ECE, Georgia Tech
Food and refreshments available after the seminar.