报告题目(Title): Be Water My Friend - It may change the future mobile communications
报告人(Speaker): Prof. Kin-Fai (Kenneth) Tong, Professor, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, UK
时间(Date)：2023年09月27日（周三）下午15:00-16:00
地点(Venue): 江宁开发区，秣周东路9号，无线谷A3楼3412会议室
主办单位(Host)：东南大学毫米波国家重点实验室
IEEE AP-MTT-EMC Joint Nanjing Chapter
Abstract:
Many people know the famous quote of Bruce Lee: “Empty your mind, be formless, like water”. Such concept has been proven very effective in Martial Art, but can we apply similar concept to our scientific research?
With research efforts gearing up to build the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communications, it is only logical to seek new mobile technologies that can provide the next generational leap for much better performance under harsher environments. To this end, one interesting concept is fluid antenna system (FAS) which utilizes flexible antenna architectures such as liquid-based antennas, reconfigurable RF pixel-based antennas, stepper motor-based antennas, and etc., to enable reconfigurability of antenna’s position (i.e., port). In so doing, tremendous space diversity can be obtained in a novel way. The possibility of accessing seemingly a continuous fading envelope in the spatial domain also means that multiple access can be realized in a simple manner without complex optimization and processing. This is the first of a three-part letter that reviews the basic principles of FAS. Our scope focuses on the physical-layer performance metrics and we discuss the evolution of the channel models being adopted for FAS and summarize the key results highlighting its potential.
In this talk, we will share our experience with you how fluid antenna may replace its solid counterpart and be used in mobile communications. How fluid’s formless feature can solve the problems in modern wireless communications. Although you may not see any board breaking demonstration, hopefully it could inspire you to some new ground-breaking ideas.
Prof. Kin-Fai (Kenneth) Tong is a Professor of Antennas and Applied Electromagnetics and member of the Sensors, Systems and Circuits Group at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE) in UCL. He has a track record in novel antenna design and microwave/millimetre-wave measurement in different applications such as radar, wireless communications, and medical related applications. During his PhD research, he has been credited to be one of the first who introduced the idea of embedding microstrip patch antennas into mobile phone handsets. He was an Expert Researcher in the Photonic and Millimetre-wave Devices Group of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan. Prof. Tong is a Fellow of IEEE, Chartered Engineer of UK Engineering Council, Fellow of Electromagnetic Academy USA and Fellow of Higher Education Academy UK.
