AIT’s 1st International Workshop on
COMPact Antenna Systems, technology and applicationS
 (COMPASS 2011)

Athens Information Technology (AIT)
 Athens, Greece, March 1, 2011

Workshop Program

9: 30 – 9:45 Welcome & Kick-off (Professors C. B. Papadias & A. Kalis, Workshop Chairmen)

Module A: Theoretical Trends (Chair: Prof. R. Müller)

9:45 – 10:15: “Parasitic Antenna Arrays: The Latest Episode of the MIMO Story,” Dr. C. B. Papadias, Professor, AIT, Greece

10:15 – 10:45: “Smart Antennas with Smart Front-Ends,” Dr. A. Kalis, Assoc. Professor, AIT, Greece 

10:45 – 11:15: "Exploiting the Beamspace Domain for Single RF Front-end MIMO Systems: Degrees of Freedom and Performance Evaluation,” Dr. A. G. Kanatas, Assoc. Professor, University of Piraeus, Greece

11:15 – 11:45: "MIMO Systems Revisited," Dr. R. Müller, Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

11:45 – 12:00: Coffee Break
 
Module B: Designs & Prototypes (Chair: Dr. J. Perruisseau-Carrier)

12:00 – 12:10: IET Presentation: “Building Global Communities through the IET Technical and Professional Networks,” Dr. A. Shukla, Qinetiq, United Kingdom

12:10 – 12:30:  “Reactance-Assisted Techniques for MIMO Transmission,” Dr. O. Alrabadi, AIT, Greece & Aalborg University, Denmark

12:30 – 13:00:  “Reduced Complexity Array Architectures for Cognitive Radio and MIMO Systems,” Ms. E. Tsakalaki, AIT, Greece & Aalborg University, Denmark

13:00 – 13:30: “Design and Implementation of a Fast Pattern-Reconfigurable Antenna for Single RF Front-end MIMO,” Dr. J. Perruisseau-Carrier, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain

13:30 – 14:30: Lunch Break

Module C: Demonstrations & Discussion

14:30 – 15:00: “Over-the-Air Point-to-Point MIMO Transmission with a Single RF Chain and Cognitive Radio Demo (CROWN Q&D Demo),” Mr. P. Tragas, B-WiSE Lab, AIT, Greece

15:00 – 16:00: Round Table Discussion: “The Future Challenges of Compact Antenna Systems”
 Drs. A. G. Kanatas, R. Müller, J. Perruisseau-Carrier, O. Alrabadi, A. Kalis & C. B. Papadias

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