DL TOUR LA March 2017 (ComSoc) - PR&C Section
Professor A. Manikas holds the Chair of Communications & Array Processing in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, and he is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (ComSoc).
He has published an extensive set of journal and conference papers in the area of digital wireless communications and array signal processing and is the Author of a book (monograph) entitled "Differential Geometry in Array Processing". He is currently on the Editorial Board of the IET Signal Processing, the Scientific World Journal (Communications), the Journal on Telecom and Digital Media of the Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF) and the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. He is also the Editor of the ICPress research book-series on Communications and Signal Processing.
He was the Technical Lead of the MOD-UK University Defence Research Centre in Signal Processing (DSTL/EPSRC) from 2008 until 2013 and has held a number of research consultancies for the EU, industry and government organisations. He has had various technical chairs at international conferences, including the TPC Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2015 (IEEE ICC 2015 London). He has served as an Expert Witness in the High Court of Justice (UK) and was a member of the Royal Society's International Fellowship Committee (2008-2011). He is currently the vice-Chair of the IEEE Communications Technical Committee on Transmission, Access and Optical Systems (TAOS).
Professor Manikas is leading a strong group of researchers at Imperial College and has solely supervised successfully more than 45 PhDs and more than 150 Master students.
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- Date: 25 Mar 2017
- Time: 09:00 AM to 12:00 PM
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- Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico Recinto de Bayamon
- 500 Dr.John Will Harris Street
- Bayamon , Puerto Rico
- United States 00957
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Lecture: The Art of Multi-Antenna Wireless Communications: From “Space” to “Space-Time” Communications
Abstract: There are various critical challenges in future generation of mobile communication systems (5G+), such as high path-loss, very high interference levels and severe multipath fading. One of the potential solutions is to use massive multi-antenna wireless systems (massive MIMO). However, no attention has been given to the following question: is it possible to achieve the performance of a massive MIMO with a much smaller number of antennas? For example, is it possible to design a beamformer of 9 antennas which outperforms a massive MIMO beamformer of 500 antennas by 15dB (say)? This Lecture will address, amongst others, this type of questions and present a novel robust parametric theoretical framework to increase the “degrees-of-freedom” and enhance system capabilities without increasing the number of antenna elements. In particular, a family of space-time multi-antenna wireless systems will be introduced using antenna arrays - where the antenna elements are widely distributed in space, located close to each other, or have a flexible geometrical structure (i.e. their geometry changes with time). The presented space-time concepts will be highlighted by several representative examples, including: estimation of channel parameters, combining multipaths, cochannel interference cancellation and tracking of moving sources.