2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Honolulu, Hawaii, March 13-17, 2016
ICWITS/ACES 2016 Conference Program
ISBN 978-0-9960078-2-5
2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Honolulu, Hawaii, March 13-17, 2016
General Chair:
Magdy F. Iskander
ACES Co-Chair:
Atef Z. Elsherbeni
IEEE-APS Co-Chair:
Michael Jensen
Technical Program Chairs:
Zhengqing Yun and Sami Barmada
Short Course Chair:
Randy Haupt
Registration and Finance Chair: Osama Mohammed and Atef Z. Elsherbeni
Exhibits Chair:
Magdy F. Iskander and C.J. Reddy
Local Arrangements Chair:
Magdy F. Iskander
Student Paper Contest Chair:
Ozlem Kilic
Web Masters:
Kyle Patel and Matthew Inman
Administrative Assistant:
Shanell Lopez
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Welcome Message
Welcome to 2016 IEEE-ICWITS/ACES Conference in Hawaii!
On behalf of the Steering Committee and the entire conference organization
of staff and volunteers, it is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the
2016 conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Ultimate Global Gathering
Place. At a time when there are too many conferences, and too many venues
for the attendees to choose from, we want to start this welcome message by
thanking you for choosing to participate in our conference and pledge to do
whatever possible to make your visit to Honolulu, Hawaii a most
technically productive and socially enjoyable one. We are prepared and will
offer you an informative conference that includes four stimulating parallel
Magdy F. Iskander
sessions every day, seven plenary presentations by distinguished members
of our electromagnetics community, industry exhibits, and outstanding series of tutorials spread
throughout the four days of the conference. We are truly delighted that many of our pioneering
colleagues in a variety of areas in electromagnetics have decided to join us and contribute plenary
presentations.
A social program, sure, and this includes unique and traditional activities from the islands of
Hawaii, breakfast and lunch during the conference days, awards banquet, and a magnificent
reception highlighting a traditional welcome with much appreciated Aloha from Hawaii. Please
visit the conference website http://hcac.hawaii.edu/conferences/icwits2016/, http://aces-society.org,
and learn more about the planned activities and I am sure that you will agree with us that Hawaii
cannot be beat as a truly magnificent international gathering place.
Possibly more than anyplace else on earth, Hawaii offers a variety of activities that fit every need,
taste, desire and mode of relaxation. So, please bring along the family and friends and take
advantage of your stay to enjoy the breathtaking sites, the cultural and historic locations, and
complement the outstanding technical program with a culturally rich, and relaxing experience in
Hawaii. To all of you who contributed your original and innovative work to the conference, and
to colleagues who participated in the organization of special sessions, exhibits, and tutorials,
welcome to Hawaii and we are most grateful for your participation and your scholarly
contribution to the conference.
Welcome, and Mahalo for your interest and participation!
Magdy F. Iskander
General Chair – ICWITS/ACES 2016
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Conference Sponsors
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Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Exhibitors
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Session Organizers
Daniel Aten
Amedeo Capozzoli
Abdullah Eroglu
Jun Fan
Mahbub Hoque
Taha Imeci
Ulrich Jakobus
Ozlem Kilic
Mondher Labidi
Osama Mohammed
Shishir Punjala
C. J. Reddy
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Session Chairs
Hakan Bagci
Sami Barmada
Nader Behdad
Amedeo Capozzoli
Meng Cui
Ji Ding
Dalia N. Elsheakh
Abdullah Eroglu
Jun Fan
Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny
Aly Fathy
José Luis Gomez-Tornero
Michael Greenfield
Mohamed Hameed
A-K. Hamid
Randy Haupt
Mahbub Hoque
Maxim Ignatenko
Taha Imeci
Ulrich Jakobus
Tao Jiang
Yasushi Kanai
Ozlem Kilic
Mondher Labidi
Yingsong Li
Lifford McLauchlan
Edmund Miller
Jason R. Miller
Osama Mohammed
Randall L. Musselman
Robert Nakata
Zhen Peng
Shishir Punjala
Farhan A. Qazi
C.J. Reddy
N. T. Tokan
Steven Weiss
Douglas H. Werner
T. K. Wu
Hao Xin
Xiaojian Xu
Kaida Xu
Wenhua Yu
Zhengqing Yun
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Conference Reviewers
R. A. Abd-Alhameed
Mahmoud Abdalla
Robert Adams
Saumya Adhikari
Amr Adly
Erkan Afacan
Saad Alhossin
Reza K. Amineh
Luis Angulo
Giulio Antonini
Ercument Arvas
Paolo Baccarelli
James Baker
Constantine Balanis
Sami Barmada
Adalbert Beyer
Benjamin Braaten
Amedeo Capozzoli
David Chen
Hongsheng Chen
Weng Chew
William Coburn
Tiejun Cui
Veysel Demir
Alistar Duffy
Said El-Khamy
Khaled ElMahgoub
Dalia Elsheakh
Atef Elsherbeni
Seyed Ramin Emadian
Zhenhong Fan
Aly Fathy
Lars Foged
Kenneth Foster
Ali Foudazi
Matteo Alessandro Francavilla
Jiahui Fu
Siping Gao
Mohsen Ghaffari-Miab
Alireza Ghaneizadeh
Ridha Ghayoula
H. Ghorbaninejad
Alfredo Gomes Neto
Guiru Gu
Lu Guo
Han Guo
Jatin Gupta
Sayed Abolfazl Haddadi Givi
Mohammed Hadi
Fredrik Harrysson
Randy Haupt
Mang He
Takuichi Hirano
Linh Ho
Bernard Hoenders
Bin-Jie Hu
Gui Chao Huang
Magdy Iskander
Jagadish Jadhav
Amir Jafargholi
Saman Jahani
Ulrich Jakobus
Li Jian
Jian-Ming Jin
Hanbing Jin
Luis Jofre Roca
Miroslav Joler
Jared Jordan
Uei-Ming Jow
Darko Kajfez
Chris Kalialakis
AbdolAziz Kalteh
Yasushi Kanai
Muharrem Karaaslan
Hamidreza Karami
G.S. Karthikeya
Vasudevan Karuppiah
Nitin Kathuria
Mohammad Khalil
Saeed Khan
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Conference Reviewers
Jean-Fu Kiang
Ozlem Kilic
Victor Kononov
Stavros Koulouridis
Michiko Kuroda
Ali Lalbakhsh
Dominique Lesselier
Yue Li
Ping Li
Ching-Lieh Li
Min Liang
Sungkyun Lim
Soo Yong Lim
Jau-Jr Lin
Angelo Liseno
Yang Liu
Zi-Liang Liu
Guido Lombardi
Jugal Lotiya
Peyman Mahouti
Edwin Marengo
Stanislav Maslovski
Ladislau Matekovits
Derek McNamara
Francisco Medina
Kathleen Melde
Sofiane Mendaci
Cui Meng
Rashid Mirzavand
Rabindra Mishra
Bahman Mohammadi
Pejman Mohammadi
Osama Mohammed
Sathiyamoorthy Murugan
Antonino Musolino
Ganesh Muthu
Zaiping Nie
Shinichiro Ohnuki
Mohammad Ojaroudi
Nasser Ojaroudi
Naser Ojaroudiparchin
Antonio Orlandi
Ardeshir Osanlou
Ozlem Ozgun
Alper Ozturk
Asit Panda
Mario Pantoja
Yong Bae Park
Hakan Partal
Ruthsenne Perron
Andrew Peterson
Konstantino S. Prokopidis
Farhan Qazi
Shi-Wei Qu
Rajni
Rama Rao T.
Blaise Ravelo
Jennifer Rayno
C.J. Reddy
Jimmy Roden
Vince Rodriguez
Nitin Saluja
Ghada Sami
Ai-ichiro Sasaki
Kubilay Sertel
Jiming Song
Guy Vandenbosch
Jothi Vishnu
Yuancheng Xu
Salah Yahya
Abubakar Yakubu
Fan Yang
Zhengqing Yun
Amir Zaghloul
Zhijun Zhang
Muhammad Zubair
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Plenary Speaker
Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Distinguished Professor
Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Two Recent Grand Challenges in Engineering: (i) Bio-Telemetry in Modern Healthcare Systems
and (ii) Nanostructures for Solar Cell Energy Absorption Enhancement
In this plenary talk two important research areas addressing two recently identified
topics as grand challenges by the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
will be highlighted by pointing out how the electromagnetics engineering can play
a pivotal role in dealing with these two grand challenges:
(i) Bio-Telemetry in Modern Healthcare Systems: About quarter of century
ago, the research community was advertising the concept of “global connectivity
with anyone, at any time, in any place and with any amount of data”. This is now
a reality. The next big concept is “bio-telemetry connecting patients to their
doctors and hospitals at any time, any location and with any amount of monitoring
and diagnostics data”. History has shown that it typically takes about quarter of
century to bring any out-of-the-box idea into the mainstream. We are in the midst
of this new paradigm to becoming a reality. Future outlook for the medical
monitoring and diagnostics within the paradigm of the bio-telemetry health care
systems will be highlighted including implants, flexible and wearable devices and brain machine interfaces.
(ii) Nanostructures for Solar Cell Power Absorption Enhancement: Increasing the absorption efficiency is one
of the key tasks towards maximizing the overall solar cell efficiency which is a product of absorption efficiency,
carrier generation efficiency, and carrier extraction efficiency. It has been shown that nanopillar array photovoltaic
(PV) solar cells exhibit increased electromagnetic absorption in comparison to conventional flat solar cells.
Advances in characterizing and optimizing shaped nanopillars, such as nanoconic and nanopyramid arrays will be
discussed through the application of sophisticated electromagnetic modeling augmented by the nature inspired
optimization techniques. Results will be presented to demonstrate the functionality of these novel concepts.
Yahya Rahmat-Samii is a Distinguished Professor, holder of the Northrop-Grumman Chair in electromagnetics,
member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), winner of the 2011 IEEE Electromagnetics Award and the
former chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Before
joining UCLA, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Caltech/NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Rahmat-Samii was
the 1995 President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and 2009-2011President of the United States National
Committee (USNC) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He has also served as an IEEE Distinguished
Lecturer presenting lectures internationally. Dr. Rahmat-Samii is a Fellow of the IEEE, AMTA and ACES. Dr. RahmatSamii has authored and co-authored nearly 1000 technical journal articles and conference papers and has written over 35
book chapters and five books. Dr. Rahmat-Samii has received numerous awards, including the 1992 and 1995 Wheeler
Best Application Prize Paper Award for his papers published in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Transactions, 1999
University of Illinois ECE Distinguished Alumni Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, AMTA’2000 Distinguished
Achievement Award, 2001 recipient of an Honorary Doctorate Cassa from the University of Santiago de Compostela,
Spain, 2001 Foreign Membership of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, 2002 Technical
Excellence Award from JPL, 2005 URSI Booker Gold Medal, 2007 Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the
IEEE AP-S, 2009 IEEE AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award, 2010 UCLA School of Engineering Lockheed Martin
Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 2012 elected fellow of the Applied
Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), 2015 Distinguished Engineering Achievement Awards of the
Engineers’ Council and 2015 NASA Group Achievement Award. His research contributions cover diverse areas of modern
electromagnetics and antennas spanning from small medical antennas to large space deployable antennas. Prof. RahmatSamii is the designer of the IEEE AP-S logo which is displayed on all IEEE AP-S publications.
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Plenary Speaker
Ronald Marhefka
Senior Scientist
Vector – Electromagnetics, Beavercreek, OH
Asymptotic Codes (i.e., NEC-BSC) Past, Present, and Future
It is the intent of this paper to give an overview of the development of an
electromagnetic computational engineering design tools from a high
frequency electrically large structure point of view. Asymptotic codes at
one time were viewed as necessary to analyze structures large in terms of
a wavelength. They complemented full wave codes that were limited in
memory size and computational speed. As computers have gotten larger
and faster, the size of problems that can be analyzed by full wave methods
have increased greatly. Even with these gains in such computational
methods, there are still problems that require computational resources that
challenge the present size of computers. For example, the study of
propagation of electromagnetic wave in and around buildings or even
vehicles with large radome structures can stress computer resources needed
for full wave codes.
The NEC – Basic Scattering Code (NEC-BSC) will be used as an example of an asymptotic ray based
code that has been developed over the last 45 years to analyze large structure in terms of a wavelength. It
can as a complement to moment method or finite element codes or act in its own right to predict the
antenna pattern distortion due to the presence of large complex structures or the spatial coupling between
antennas in such an environment. Some recent developments and results will be presented to illustrate the
concepts.
Ronald J. Marhefka received the B.S.E.E. degree from Ohio University, Athens, in 1969, and the M.Sc. and
Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1971 and 1976, respectively.
From 1969 until 2009, he was with The Ohio State University ElectroScience Laboratory where he was a Senior
Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor. From 2009 until 2014, he was part time at OSU-ESL and joined VectorElectromagnetics as a Senior Scientist in 2013. He also consults and has a part time Knowledge Preservation
Appointment with the Air Force Institute of Technology. He was a co-author on papers that won the IEEE
Transactions on Antennas and Propagation Best Application Paper Award in 1976 and the R. W. P. King Paper
Award in 1976. He received The Ohio State University College of Engineering Lumley Research Award in 1992
and the Annual Research Accomplishment Award in 1999. He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000.
In addition, he was the recipient of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society’s 1993 Technical
Achievement Award. Dr. Marhefka is a Fellow of IEEE and has been elected to Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Phi
Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and Commission B of URSI. He has served as an Officer of the local IEEE Antenna and
Propagation and Microwave Theory and Techniques Societies during 1977-1980. He served as Associate Editor of
the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 1988-1992 and was Editor from 1992-1995. He was
elected a Member of ADCOM in 1996, Vice President in 1997, and President in 1998. He was Co-chair of the
Technical Program Committee for the 2003 IEEE APS/URSI Symposium. In addition, he has chaired the AP-S
Publications Committee, from 1996-2003 and again from 2009-2011. From 2013-2015, he is the AP-S Award
Coordinator. He has been an Associate Editor of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal.
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Plenary Speaker
Mahbub Hoque
Division Chief - Radio Frequency Communication Division
Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD)
Communications-Electronics Research, Development & Engineering Center
(CERDEC) – US Army
Challenges in the RF Congested Environment for Tactical Communication
Mahbub Hoque is presently serving as the Division Chief of the Radio
Frequency Communications Division of the Space & Terrestrial
Communications Directorate (S&TCD) in the U.S. Army’s
Communications Electronics Research Development and Engineering
Center (CERDEC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. During the
period of June 2007 to June 2013, Dr. Hoque simultaneously served as the
Chief Scientist of S&TCD. From June 2012 to January 2013, Dr. Hoque
also served as the acting Director of S&TCD.
During his tenure as the Directorate’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Hoque led
S&TCD’s basic research program, encompassing technology areas
including network science, nanotechnologies, software-defined radios, network operations, modeling and
simulation, tactical and strategic satellite communications, information assurance, antennas,
electromagnetic interference/electromagnetic compatibility, spectrum management, and evolutionary
commercial wireless technologies.
As Division Chief, Dr. Hoque leads his 100+ strong workforce dedicated to providing engineering
solutions in the areas of spectrum management and electromagnetics. The Division operates in several
critical technology areas, including the research, development, and engineering of new antenna
technologies; modeling and simulation to study and mitigate coupling issues between collocated antennas;
metamaterial research and development; and various spectrum management initiatives, to include the
development of spectrum architectures, cognitive networks, et al.
Prior to joining S&TCD in 2000, Dr. Hoque was a Director at Telcordia Technologies where he received
1996 Bellcore Presidential Award for his work analyzing the impacts of radio interference on Digital
Subscriber Line technology. He has authored more than 70 publications and has chaired many sessions in
various national and international conferences and symposiums. Dr. Hoque received his Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering (1983) from University College London, U.K. in Electromagnetics and Antennas.
Dr. Hoque is the recipient of various awards, including the Commanders Award for Civilian Service.
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Plenary Speaker
Edmund Miller
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Retired), APS Distinguished Lecturer
Using Model-Based Parameter Estimation to Increase the Efficiency and Effectiveness of
Computational Electromagnetics
Science began, and largely remains, an activity of making observations
and/or collecting data about various phenomena in which patterns may be
perceived and for which a theoretical explanation is sought in the form of
mathematical prescriptions. These prescriptions may be non-parametric,
first-principles generating models (GMs), such as Maxwell’s equations,
that represent fundamental, irreducible descriptions of the physical basis
for the associated phenomena. In a similar fashion, parametric fitting
models (FMs) might be available to provide a reduced-order description
of various aspects of the GM or observables that are derived from it. The
purpose of this lecture is to summarize the development and application of
exponential series and pole series as FMs in electromagnetics. The specific
approaches described here, while known by various names, incorporate a
common underlying procedure that is called model-based parameter estimation (MBPE).
MBPE provides a way of using data derived from a GM or taken from measurements to obtain the FM
parameters. The FM can then be used in place of the GM for subsequent applications to decrease data
needs and computation costs. An especially important attribute of this approach is that windowed FMs
overlapping over the observation range make it possible to adaptively minimize the number of samples
needed of an observable to develop a parametric model of it to a prescribed uncertainty. Two specific
examples of using MBPE in electromagnetics are the modeling of frequency spectra and far-field radiation
patterns. An MBPE model of a frequency response can provide a continuous representation to a specified
estimation error of a percent or so using 2 or even fewer samples per resonance peak, a procedure
sometimes called a fast frequency sweep, an example of which is shown below. Comparable performance
can be similarly achieved using MBPE to model a far-field pattern. The adaptive approach can also yield
an estimate of the data dimensionality or rank so that the FM order can be maintained below some
threshold while achieving a specified FM accuracy. Alternatively, the data rank can be estimated from
singular-value decomposition of the data matrix. FMs can be also be used to estimate the uncertainty of
data while it is being generated or data that is pre-sampled that is being used for the FM computation.
Topics to be discussed include: a preview of model-based parameter estimation; fitting models for
waveform and spectral data; function sampling and derivative sampling; adaptive sampling of frequency
spectra and farfield patterns; and using MBPE to estimate data uncertainty.
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Conductance and susceptance of a fork monopole having unequal length arms from NEC and an MBPE
model using a frequency sample and 4 frequency derivatives at the 2 different wavelengths (WLs) shown
by the solid circles.
Edmund K. Miller, APS Distinguished Lecturer: Since earning his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the
University of Michigan, Edmund K. Miller has held a variety of government, academic and industrial positions.
These include 15 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he spent 7 years as a Division Leader,
and 4+ years at Los Alamos National Laboratory from which he retired as a Group Leader in 1993. His academic
experience includes holding a position as Regents-Distinguished Professor at Kansas University, Stocker Visiting
Professor at Ohio University, Physics Instructor at Michigan Technological University and Research Engineer at the
University of Michigan. Industrial positions include serving as a Senior Scientist at MBAssociates in San Ramon,
CA, Manager of Electromagnetics at the Rockwell Science Center in Thousand Oaks, CA, and Director of the
Electromagnetics Research Operation of General Research Corporation in Santa Barbara, CA. Dr. Miller has been
appointed as an AP Distinguished Lecturer for 2014-2016, and wrote the columns “PCs for AP and Other EM
Reflections” from 1984 to 2000 for the Magazine of the Antennas and Propagation Society. He received (with others)
a Certificate of Achievement from the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society for Contributions to
Development of NEC (Numerical Electromagnetics Code) and was a recipient (with others) in 1989 of the best paper
award given by the Education Society for “Computer Movies for Education.” He served as Editor or Associate
Editor of IEEE Potentials Magazine from 1985 to 2005 and in connection with which he was a member of the IEEE
Technical Activities Advisory Committee of the Education Activities Board and a member of the IEEE Student
Activities Committee. He also wrote a regular column “On the Job,” for Potentials from 1997 to 2004. He was a
Member of the 1992 Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the MTT Symposium in Albuquerque, NM, and Guest
Editor of the Special Symposium Issue of the IEEE MTT Society Transactions for that meeting. In 1994, he served
as a Guest Associate Editor of the Optical Society of America Journal special issue on 3 Dimensional
Electromagnetic Scattering. He was involved in the beginning of the IEEE Magazine “Computing in Science and
Engineering” (originally called Computational Science and Engineering) for which he has served as Area Editor or
Editor-at-Large. He has also served as an Associate Editor of Radio Science, the PIERS Journal, Journal of
Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, the AP-S Magazine, and the International Journal of Numerical
Modelling. Dr. Miller has lectured at numerous short courses in various venues, such as the Applied Computational
Electromagnetics Society (ACES), MTT-S, AP-S and local IEEE chapter/section meetings, and at NATO Lecture
Series and Advanced Study Institutes. Dr. Miller edited the book "Time-Domain Measurements in
Electromagnetics", Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY, 1986 and was Co-Editor of the IEEE Press book
Computational Electromagnetics: Frequency-Domain Moment Methods, 1991. He was Organizer and first President
of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) for which he served two terms on the Board of
Directors and he also served two terms on the AdCom of IEEE AP-S. He served a term as Chairman of Commission
A of US URSI and is or has been a Member of Commissions B, C, and F, has been on the TPC for the URSI
Electromagnetic Theory Symposia in 1992 and 2001, and was elected as a Member of the US delegation to several
URSI General Assemblies. He was elected a Member of the Electrical Engineering Academy of Michigan
Technological University and is a Life Fellow of IEEE from which he received the Third Millennium Medal in 2000.
He is also a Fellow of ACES from which he received ACES Applied Computational Electromagnetics award in
2014. His research interests include scientific visualization, model-based parameter estimation, the physics of
electromagnetic radiation, validation of computational software, and numerical modeling about which he has
published more than 165 articles and book chapters. He is listed in Who’s Who in the West, Who’s Who in
Technology, American Men and Women of Science and Who’s Who in America.
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Plenary Speaker
Wolfgang Hoefer
Professor Emeritus
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria
Canada
Computational Time Reversal - A Frontier in Electromagnetic Field Synthesis
The second law of thermodynamics will likely prevent us from ever
reversing time on earth. Time reversal may thus strike us as a frivolous
idea. However, our computational models of the laws of physics – notably
our models of wave propagation – empower us to commute freely between
virtual past and virtual future, and to interchange cause and effect. This
capability has opened a new frontier in electromagnetic design through
field-based synthesis which has been explored only tentatively so far. This
plenary talk will explore the features and challenges of computational time
reversal, demonstrate the methodology by means of simulation examples,
and discuss potential future applications in optimal electromagnetic design
through field-based synthesis.
Wolfgang J. R. Hoefer is Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria, Canada, and President of
Faustus Scientific Corporation. He received the Dipl.-Ing. diploma from RWTH Aachen, Germany, in
1965, the D. Ing. degree from the University of Grenoble, France, in 1968, and the honorary Dr.-Ing.
degree from the Technische Universität München (TUM) Germany, in 2007.
In 1969 he joined the University of Ottawa, Canada, as a Faculty member and was Chair of Electrical
Engineering from 1978 to 1981. In 1992 he joined the University of Victoria as Professor and NSERC
Industrial Research Chair in RF Engineering, and founded the Computational Electromagnetic Research
Laboratory (CERL) which he directed until 2006. From 2009 to 2012 he was Principal Scientist and
Department Director at the Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore. He held visiting
appointments at Universities and Research Institutes in North America, Europe, and Asia.
He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of
Engineering, the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), the Engineering Institute of
Canada, and the Electromagnetics Academy (MIT). He served as MTT Distinguished Microwave
Lecturer, and received the MTT Distinguished Educator Award, the MTT Pioneer Award, and the
McNaughton Gold Medal of IEEE Canada. He is also the recipient of the Peter Johns Prize, the ACES
Mainstay Award, and the A*STAR Most Inspiring Mentor Award.
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Plenary Speaker
Jun Fan
IEEE Fellow
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Missouri S&T
Director, Missouri S&T EMC Laboratory
Director, NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for EMC
Application of Computational Electromagnetics in High Speed Designs
In high-speed designs, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and
signal/power integrity issues can significantly affect the electrical
performance of the system and result in regulatory compliance issues.
Addressing the issues experimentally is not only restricted due to the
availability and the design limitations of the hardware, but also expensive
in terms of both cost and time. Effective modeling methods based on
computational electromagnetics are highly desirable in early design phases
to mitigate the issues. However, due to the complexity and the unique
nature of the problems, some special attentions and treatments are
necessary. The main topics of this talk include physics-based circuit
extraction to understand noise/coupling mechanisms, noise source
modeling for radiation and near-field coupling estimations, hybrid
transmission-line and full-wave method to handle complex harness in vehicle/aircraft. The purpose of the
talk is to overview some of the challenges and the progress in computational EM applications for highspeed design.
Jun Fan (S’97-M’00-SM’06-F’16) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 2000. From 2000 to 2007, he worked for
NCR Corporation, San Diego, CA, as a Consultant Engineer. In July 2007, he joined the Missouri
University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla), and is currently an
Associate Professor and Director of the Missouri S&T EMC Laboratory. Dr. Fan also serves as the
Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center
(I/UCRC) for Electromagnetic Compatibility and Senior Investigator of Missouri S&T Material Research
Center. His research interests include signal integrity and EMI designs in high-speed digital systems, dc
power-bus modeling, intra-system EMI and RF interference, PCB noise reduction, differential signaling,
and cable/connector designs. Dr. Fan served as the Chair of the IEEE EMC Society TC-9 Computational
Electromagnetics Committee from 2006 to 2008, and was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE EMC
Society in 2007 and 2008. He currently serves as the Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee of the
IEEE EMC Society, and is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic
Compatibility and EMC Magazine. Dr. Fan received an IEEE EMC Society Technical Achievement
Award in August 2009 and is an IEEE Fellow (Class 2016).
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2016 IEEE International Conference on Wireless
Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS) and
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Panel Speaker
Mahbub Hoque
Division Chief - Radio Frequency Communication Division
Space & Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD)
Communications-Electronics Research, Development & Engineering Center
(CERDEC) – US Army
Challenges in Army Network for Sustained Communication
The panel will discuss the unique challenges for developing robust
mobile-adhoc-network for sustained communication in the battlefield
environment. This will include recent research and development
performed in the Army laboratories such as multi-functional low signature
multiband antennas, network operating under GPS denied environment,
narrow-band waveform, electronic protection system to operate under RF
hostile environment, directional networking for mobile network.
Mahbub Hoque is presently serving as the Division Chief of the Radio
Frequency Communications Division of the Space & Terrestrial
Communications Directorate (S&TCD) in the U.S. Army’s
Communications Electronics Research Development and Engineering
Center (CERDEC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. During the period of June 2007 to June 2013,
Dr. Hoque simultaneously served as the Chief Scientist of S&TCD. From June 2012 to January 2013, Dr.
Hoque also served as the acting Director of S&TCD.
During his tenure as the Directorate’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Hoque led S&TCD’s basic research program,
encompassing technology areas including network science, nanotechnologies, software-defined radios,
network operations, modeling and simulation, tactical and strategic satellite communications, information
assurance, antennas, electromagnetic interference/electromagnetic compatibility, spectrum management,
and evolutionary commercial wireless technologies.
As Division Chief, Dr. Hoque leads his 100+ strong workforce dedicated to providing engineering
solutions in the areas of spectrum management and electromagnetics. The Division operates in several
critical technology areas, including the research, development, and engineering of new antenna
technologies; modeling and simulation to study and mitigate coupling issues between collocated antennas;
metamaterial research and development; and various spectrum management initiatives, to include the
development of spectrum architectures, cognitive networks, et al.
Prior to joining S&TCD in 2000, Dr. Hoque was a Director at Telcordia Technologies where he received
1996 Bellcore Presidential Award for his work analyzing the impacts of radio interference on Digital
Subscriber Line technology. He has authored more than 70 publications and has chaired many sessions in
various national and international conferences and symposiums. Dr. Hoque received his Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering (1983) from University College London, U.K. in Electromagnetics and Antennas.
Dr. Hoque is the recipient of various awards, including the Commanders Award for Civilian Service.
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ICWITS/ACES 2016 Tutorials
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Room Honolulu
(01:30PM - 03:00PM) Tutorial - 1
“Overview on the Fundamentals of Magnetic-Resonance Imaging (MRI)”
Abbas Omar, The University of Magdeburg
Imaging is constructing a two-dimensional or three-dimensional map of a certain physical property
of the object to be imaged. There are different types of imaging, the well-known of which is
photography, which maps the object-surface optical reflectivity. In acoustic (also known as
ultrasonic) imaging, the material density is the object physical property that is mapped. Microwave imaging on the
other hand maps the permittivity and conductivity of the imaged object.
Magnetic-Resonance Imaging (MRI) basically maps the concentration of the hydrogen-nuclei in the imaged object.
Almost all fundamental particles (electrons, protons… etc.) possess a characteristic spin magnetic moment.
Applying a strong static magnetic field to an object, results in directing these spins parallel and anti-parallel to the
applied magnetic field. This gives rise to two energy states, whose populations are governed by the lows of
thermodynamics. If, in addition, an RF field of a certain frequency is properly applied for a certain time, the spins
start to precess about the direction of the static magnetic field disturbing the thermodynamic equilibrium. During
the process of restoring the thermodynamic equilibrium, the spins radiate an electromagnetic field which can be
received and used for constructing the MR images.
In this talk, the fundamentals of MRI are presented. Technical aspects especially that related to the generation and
detection of the RF field are emphasized. One of these aspects is the design of RF coils capable of generating
homogeneous magnetic field within the object to be imaged. Utilizing a Butler Matrix (which is used in antenna
phased arrays and beam forming) for this purpose is investigated.
Monday, March 14, 2016
Room Kauai
(01:30PM - 03:00PM) Tutorial - 2
“A New Approach to Solving Electrically Large Complex Electromagnetic
Scattering Problems”
Sadasiva Rao, Naval Research Laboratory
The method of moments (MOM) solution technique, one of the most popular methods for solving
electromagnetic scattering and radiation problems, is limited by excessive computational and
memory requirements if applied in a conventional way to electrically large scattering problems.
There exist several new algorithms, which seem to overcome the limitation of MOM. Notable among them are: the
Fast Multi-pole Method (FMM), and Adaptive cross approximation (ACA) method. However, both are
approximation methods and the accuracy of the overall solution depends on the level of approximation.
In this work, we present a new method to obtain induced currents and scattered fields on a large conducting body
due to a plane wave incidence. The first step involves approximating the given structure via standard geometrical
discretization and defining the conventional basis functions to approximate the induced current. The next step
involves gathering the basis functions into a small number of groups thereby casting the moment matrix into a
collection of sub-matrices representing self and mutual interaction between the groups. Next, the procedure involves
eliminating the interaction of two immediate neighbors on any selected group by generating a set of linear equations
of size 2M X 2M, where M is the size of each group, and solving them using any linear equation solver. This process
results in a diagonally dominant moment matrix assuming the group size is sufficiently large. Also the procedure
sets the matrix blocks residing on either side of the diagonal block to zero. The new matrix equation can be solved
efficiently in many ways. The present approach is simple, efficient, highly amenable for parallel processing, and
retains all the advantages of conventional MOM scheme.
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ICWITS/ACES 2016 Tutorials
Monday, March 14, 2016
Room Kauai
(03:30PM - 05:00PM) Tutorial - 3
“An Exploration of Electromagnetic Radiation Physics”
Edmund Miller, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Retired)
All external electromagnetic fields arise from the process of radiation. There would be no radiated,
propagated or scattered fields were it not for this phenomenon. In spite of this self-evident truth,
our understanding of how and why radiation occurs seems relatively superficial from a practical
viewpoint. It’s true that physical reasoning and mathematical analysis via the Lienard-Wiechert potentials show that
radiation occurs due to charge acceleration. It’s also true that it is possible to determine the near and far fields of
rather complex objects subject to arbitrary excitation, making it possible to perform analysis and design of EM
systems. However, if the task is to determine the spatial distribution of radiation from the surface of a given object
from such solutions, the answer becomes less obvious.
One way to think about this problem might be to ask, were our eyes sensitive to X-band frequencies and capable of
resolving source distributions a few wavelengths in extent, what would be the image of such simple objects as
dipoles, circular loops, conical spirals, log-periodic structures, continuous conducting surfaces, etc. when excited as
antennas or scatterers? Various kinds of measurements, analyses and computations have been made over the years
that bear on this question. This lecture will summarize some relevant observations concerning radiation physics in
both the time and frequency domains for a variety of observables, noting that there is no unanimity of opinion about
some of these issues. Included in the discussion will be various energy measures related to radiation, the implications
of Poynting-vector fields along and near wire objects, and the inferences that can be made from far radiation fields.
Associated with the latter, a technique developed by the author called FARS (Far-field Analysis of Radiation
Sources) will be summarized and demonstrated in both the frequency and time domains for a variety of simple
geometries. Also to be discussed is the so-called E-field kink model, an approach that illustrates graphically the
physical behavior encapsulated in the Lienard-Wiechert potentials as illustrated below. Brief computer movies based
on the kink model will be included for several different kinds of charge motion to demonstrate the radiation process.
(a) Depiction of the E-field lines for an initially stationary charge, (b) that’s abruptly accelerated from the origin to a speed v =
0.3c to then coast along the positive x-axis until time t1, and (c) when it is abruptly stopped.
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Room Kauai
(01:30PM - 03:00PM) Tutorial - 4
“Effective Antenna Design Process with Design of Experiments”
Gopinath Gampala and C.J. Reddy, Altair, Engineering, Inc.
Many complex antenna and microwave circuit designs are an outcome of constant
evolution in the product design and manufacturing processes. In a simulation driven
design process, as many independent design parameters as possible needs to be
included for more flexibility in design search. However, parameter screening is critical to reduce the computational
time.
This tutorial presents a concept called Design of Experiments (DOE), to determine which input variables are most
influential on the design performance and where to set the input variables so that the output responses are tuned to
the desired values.
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ICWITS/ACES 2016 Tutorials
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Room Kauai
(03:30PM - 05:00PM) Tutorial - 5
“Lens Antennas”
Oscar Quevedo-Teruel, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Lenses have not commonly been used at microwave frequencies due to their large size compared with
the wavelength and their bulky shape. However, recently, new applications at higher frequency bands
have emerged, where it is impossible to use conventional antenna technologies such as arrays and
reflectors. To replace these devices, lenses can be employed to increase the directivity of antennas.
In this tutorial, I will introduce the theory and the basic operation of conventional lenses. Afterwards, I will develop an
introduction to two innovative techniques that can be used to improve the performance of classical designs:
Transformation optics and metasurfaces. Although conventional lenses have already been employed for THz and optical
transmitters and receivers, at the high microwave frequency bands or the low band of the THz spectrum, conventional
design techniques for lenses are demonstrated to be insufficient.
(03:30PM - 05:00PM) Vendor Tutorial
“Latest Developments in the Electromagnetic Solver FEKO”
Ulrich Jakobus and Gopinath Gampala, Altair Engineering, Inc.
The electromagnetic field solver FEKO is under constant development to add new
features and methods or to improve the existing ones. In this tutorial, we will present new
features in the latest version of FEKO 14.0, namely the introduction of curvilinear wire
segments in the MoM and MLFMM solvers (complementing the already available curvilinear surface meshes), a number
of extensions to the FDTD solver, faster modeling of equivalent sources with asymptotic solvers, an interface to very
sophisticated Design of Experiments (DoE) tool, HyperStudy, or scripting extensions and macro recording in CADFEKO.
Various new and popular features will be demonstrated during the tutorial with interactive question and answer session.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Room Kauai
(01:30PM - 03:00PM) Tutorial - 6
“Incorporating Photonic Crystals in Electromagnetic Devices Designed by Using
Coordinate Transformation Techniques”
Elena Semouchkina, Michigan Technological University
Transformation optics (TO) and conformal mapping (CM) provide new powerful computational tools
for advancing existing devices and creating novel devices with unprecedented functionalities. Coordinate
transformations derived for compressing, expanding, bending, or twisting the wave paths enable designs of invisibility
cloaks, flat lenses, curvilinear waveguides, beam shifters, unconventional antennas etc. Employing metamaterials (MM)
for implementing TO/CM designs demands solving challenging problems of homogenization, inter-resonator coupling,
high loss, and extremely narrow band. Here, all-dielectric photonic crystals are proposed as alternative media for new
devices. Step-by-step guide to obtaining desired dispersion of crystal properties and incorporating crystals in device
designs is presented.
(03:30PM - 05:00PM) Tutorial - 7
“Low-Complexity Direct Solvers”
Dan Jiao, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
State-of-the-art fast computational electromagnetic methods rely on iterative matrix solutions to solve
large-scale problems. The optimal complexity of an iterative solver is O(NN_{it}N_{rhs}) with N being
matrix size, N_{it} the number of iterations and N_{rhs} the number of right hand sides. How to invert
or factorize a dense or a sparse matrix of size N in O(N) (optimal) complexity has been a challenging research problem.
In this tutorial, I will present step-by-step details of a fast direct integral equation solver from an efficient minimal-rank
H2-matrix representation of the dense matrix to the inversion and LU factorization of such an H2-representation in low
complexity. This direct solver has an optimal (O(N)) complexity for solving electrically small and modest problems for
both surface and volume integral equations, and O(NlogN) complexity for solving electrically large volume integral
equations. If time permits, I will also present a direct finite element solver of O(N) complexity irrespective of electrical
size for fast and large-scale electromagnetic analysis.
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ICWITS/ACES 2016 Plenary/Panel Talks
Title and Presenter
Room Kauai
Monday, March 14, 2016
Yahya Rahmat-Samii
(08:10AM - 09:00AM) Plenary - 1
“Two Recent Grand Challenges in Engineering: (i) Bio-Telemetry in Modern Healthcare
Systems and (ii) Nanostructures for Solar Cell Energy Absorption Enhancement”
Ronald Marhefka
(09:10AM - 10:00AM) Plenary - 2
“Asymptotic Codes (i.e., NEC-BSC) Past, Present, and Future”
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Mahbub Hoque
(08:10AM - 09:00AM) Plenary - 3
“Challenges in the RF Congested Environment for Tactical Communication”
Edmund Miller
(09:10AM - 10:00AM) Plenary - 4
“Using Model-Based Parameter Estimation to Increase the Efficiency and Effectiveness of
Computational Electromagnetics”
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Wolfgang Hoefer
(08:10AM - 09:00AM) Plenary - 5
“Computational Time Reversal - A Frontier in Electromagnetic Field Synthesis”
Jun Fan
(09:10AM - 10:00AM) Plenary - 6
“Application of Computational Electromagnetics in High Speed Designs”
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Mahbub Hoque
(08:30AM - 10:00AM) Panel
“Challenges in Army Network for Sustained Communication”
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ICWITS/ACES 2016 Sessions Overview
Sunday, March 13, 2016 (Session 1)
Session Title
1- Tutorial – 1: Overview on the Fundamentals of Magnetic-Resonance
Imaging (MRI)
Room
Honolulu
Monday, March 14, 2016 (Sessions 2-17)
Session Title
Room
2- Plenary Talk – 1: Two Recent Grand Challenges in Engineering: (i)
Bio-Telemetry in Modern Healthcare Systems and (ii) Nanostructures
for Solar Cell Energy Absorption Enhancement
3- Plenary Talk – 2: Asymptotic Codes (i.e., NEC-BSC) Past, Present,
and Future
Kauai
Kauai
4- MIMO Systems
5- Radio Frequency Signals in Energy Harvesting Applications
Honolulu
Kahuku
6- Radar Applications
7- Low Frequency Magnetics
8- Antennas and Arrays – 1
9- Integral Equation Methods and Applications – 1
10- Metamaterials and FSS – 1
11- Student Paper Competition – 1
12- Tutorial – 2: A New Approach to Solving Electrically Large
Oahu
Waialua
Honolulu
Kahuku
Oahu
Waialua
Complex Electromagnetic Scattering Problems
13- Tutorial – 3: An Exploration of Electromagnetic Radiation Physics
14- Antennas and Arrays – 2
15- Integral Equation Methods and Applications – 2
16- Metamaterials and FSS – 2
17- Student Paper Competition – 2
Kauai
Kauai
Honolulu
Kahuku
Oahu
Waialua
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ICWITS/ACES 2016 Sessions Overview
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 (Sessions 18-33)
Session Title
18- Plenary Talk – 3: Challenges in the RF Congested Environment for
Tactical Communication
Room
Kauai
19- Plenary Talk – 4: Using Model-Based Parameter Estimation to
Increase the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Computational
Electromagnetics
20- Wave Propagation
21- Integral Equation Methods and Applications – 3
22- Metamaterials and FSS – 3
23- EMC/EMI Systems and Applications
24- Mobile and Small Antennas – 1
25- Vital Sign Detection – 1
26- Integral Equation Methods and Applications – 4
27- Optimization Techniques – 1
28- Time Domain Methods – 1
29- Tutorial – 4: Effective Antenna Design Process with Design of
Experiments
30- Tutorial – 5: Lens Antennas
31- Vendor Tutorial: Latest Developments in the Electromagnetic
Solver FEKO
32- Vital Sign Detection – 2
33- Optimization Techniques – 2
Kauai
Honolulu
Kahuku
Oahu
Waialua
Kauai
Honolulu
Kahuku
Oahu
Waialua
Kauai
Kauai
Kahuku
Honolulu
Oahu
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ICWITS/ACES 2016 Sessions Overview
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 (Sessions 35-51)
Session Title
35- Plenary Talk – 5: Computational Time Reversal - A Frontier in
Electromagnetic Field Synthesis
36- Plenary Talk – 6: Application of Computational Electromagnetics
in High Speed Designs
37- Remote Sensing and Imaging Applications
38- Bio-Electromagnetics
39- Circuits Design
40- UWB and Multi-Band Antennas – 1
41- Parallel and GPU Computations
42- Waveguides and Guided Structures – 1
43- Hybrid and Multi-Physics – 1
44- EM Modeling Using FEKO – 1
45- UWB and Multi-Band Antennas – 2
46- Tutorial – 6: Incorporating Photonic Crystals in Electromagnetic
Devices Designed by Using Coordinate Transformation Techniques
47- Tutorial – 7: Low-Complexity Direct Solvers
48- Waveguides and Guided Structures – 2
49- Hybrid and Multi-Physics – 2
50- EM Modeling Using FEKO – 2
51- Antennas and Arrays – 3
Room
Kauai
Kauai
Honolulu
Kahuku
Oahu
Waialua
Kauai
Honolulu
Kahuku
Oahu
Waialua
Kauai
Kauai
Honolulu
Kahuku
Oahu
Waialua
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ICWITS/ACES 2016 Sessions Overview
Thursday, March 17, 2016 (Sessions 52-69)
Session Title
52- Panel Talk: Challenges in Army Network for Sustained
Communication
Room
Kauai
53- Antennas and Arrays – 4
54- Computational Electromagnetic Modeling in EMC Applications
55- Nanotechnology
56- Wireless Power Transfer
57- Antennas and Arrays – 5
Honolulu
Kahuku
Oahu
Waialua
Honolulu
58- Advanced Modulation Techniques
59- EM Simulations Using Sonnet – 1
60- Mobile and Small Antennas – 2
62- Uninterrupted Communication Through Tactical Network – 1
63- Differential Equation Methods – 1
64- EM Simulations Using Sonnet – 2
65- Advanced RF and Microwave – 1
66- Metamaterials Applications in RF Circuits – 1
67- Uninterrupted Communication Through Tactical Network – 2
Kahuku
Oahu
Waialua
Honolulu
Kahuku
Oahu
Waialua
Kauai
Honolulu
68- Differential Equation Methods – 2
69- Advanced RF and Microwave – 2
Kahuku
Waialua
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ICWITS/ACES 2016 Technical Program
Sunday, March 13
02:00PM-05:00PM
01:30PM-05:00PM
Session 1
01:30PM-03:00PM
Conference Registration
ACES Board of Directors Meeting
Tutorial – 1
Kauai/Maui Foyer
Room Waianae
Room Honolulu
“Overview on the Fundamentals of Magnetic-Resonance Imaging (MRI)”
Abbas Omar
Monday, March 14
07:00AM-08:00AM
07:45AM-04:30PM
01:30PM-05:00PM
07:00PM-09:30PM
08:00AM-08:05AM
08:05AM-08:10AM
Breakfast
Conference Registration
Exhibitors
Reception
Welcome Message
Room Maui
Kauai/Maui Foyer
Kauai/Maui Foyer
Upper Helumoa
Room Kauai
Magdy Iskander, Conference General Chair
ACES Business Meeting
Room Kauai
Sami Barmada, ACES President
Plenary Talk – 1
Session 2
08:10AM-09:00AM
Session 3
09:10AM-10:00AM
10:00AM-10:20AM
Room Kauai
“Two Recent Grand Challenges in Engineering: (i) Bio-Telemetry in Modern
Healthcare Systems and (ii) Nanostructures for Solar Cell Energy Absorption
Enhancement”
Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Plenary Talk – 2
Room Kauai
“Asymptotic Codes (i.e., NEC-BSC) Past, Present, and Future”
Ronald Marhefka
Break
Room Maui
Room Honolulu
Session 4
10:20AM-12:00PM
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
12:00PM-01:00PM
MIMO Systems
Session Chair: Yingsong Li
“A New Multi-User Transmit Beamforming Scheme for Downlink MIMO
Channels”
Chaozhu Zhang and Dongmei Yin
“A Two-Element UWB-MIMO Antenna with Quad Narrowband Frequency
Rejection Characteristics”
Kai Yu, Yuanyuan Kong, and Yingsong Li
“Adaptive Coherent Power Combiner”
Randall L. Musselman and James L. Vedral
Lunch
Room Maui
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Room Kahuku
Radio Frequency Signals in Energy Harvesting Applications
Session 5
Session Organizer: Abdullah Eroglu
10:20AM-12:00PM
Session Chair: Abdullah Eroglu
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
11:20AM-11:40AM
11:40AM-12:00PM
12:00PM-01:00PM
“Multilayer Coupler Design and Implementation for RFID Systems and Energy
Harvesting Applications”
Austin Gagnon and Abdullah Eroglu
“Crane Position Detection with Sensor Network Using Energy Harvesting”
K. J. Flattery, B. Henry, M. Muadi, K. Walters, A. Eroglu, and J. Rickman
“Far-Field RF Energy Harvesting System for Distribution Power Lines”
Yaya Mahamat, Syed Rezwanur Hussain, and Abdullah Eroglu
“Patch Antenna Based on a Photovoltaic Cell”
Chokri Baccouch, Hedi Sakli, Dhaou Bouchouicha, Mohamed Latrach, and
Taoufik Aguili
“Passive RFID for IOT Using UWB/UHF Hybrid Signaling”
Faranak Nekoogar and Farid Dowla
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Oahu
Radar Applications
10:20AM-12:00PM Session Chair: Xiaojian Xu
Session 6
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
12:00PM-01:00PM
“A New Approach for Background Clutter Extraction in Radar Cross Section
Measurement”
Xiaojian Xu
“Source Anonymity in WSNs Against Global Adversary based on Low Rate
Fake Injections”
Anas Bushang, Abdelshakour Abuzneid, and Ausif Mahmood
“System Design and Simulation of Multi-Function Automotive FMCW Radar
Sensor”
Seok Kim
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Waialua
Low Frequency Magnetics
Session Organizer: Osama Mohammed
10:20AM-12:00PM
Session Chair: Osama Mohammed
Session 7
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
12:00PM-01:00PM
“The Algebra of the Ideal Doubly-Fed Induction Generator”
Giovanni Franco Crosta and Goong Chen
“Wind Power Axial-Flux PM Generator Loss Computation using Quasi-3D
FEA”
T. M. Hijazi, B. El-Masri, N. Al-Aawar, and A. A. Arkadan
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Honolulu
Session 8
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
Antennas and Arrays - 1
Session Organizer: Daniel Aten
Session Chair: Edmund Miller
“Axial Ratio Improvement of Circular Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antennas
With Dual-Point Feeds”
Stanislav Ogurtsov, Slawomir Koziel, and Adrian Bekasiewicz
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01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
“Design Curves of a Substrate-Backed Printed-Dipole in an Infinite-Array
Environment and a Novel Reflectarray Unit-Cell Design Example”
Abdul Maalik, Roberto Rojas-Teran, and Robert J. Burkholder
“Synthesis and Realization of Radiation Pattern of Reflector Antenna using an
Aperiodic Array of Microstrip Patches”
Abdul Maalik and Ismatullah
“A Simple Circularly-Polarized Traveling-Wave Array Antenna”
Obeng Kwakye Kingsford Sarkodie and Kang Kai
“Synthesis of Scanning and Nonuniformly Spaced Dolph-Chebyshev Arrays”
Edmund K. Miller
Break
Room Maui
Room Kahuku
Session 9
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
Integral Equation Methods and Applications - 1
Session Organizer: Ulrich Jakobus
Session Chair: Ulrich Jakobus
“Greens Function Surface Integral Equation Method for the Electromagnetics
of a Single Subwavelength Groove in a Metal Surface”
Thomas Søndergaard
“Adaptive Generation of Excitation-Independent Characteristic Basis
Functions”
Xinlei Chen, Chao Fei, Zhuo Li, and Changqing Gu
“Solution of Large Inverse Sources Problems”
Thomas F. Eibert
“Current Status of MMP Analysis of Photonic Structures in Layered Media”
Aytaç Alparslan and Christian Hafner
“Robust Numerical Modeling of Currents Radiating in Non-Birefringent
Anisotropic Medium Layers”
Kamalesh Sainath and Fernando L. Teixeira
Break
Room Maui
Room Oahu
Session 10
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
Metamaterials and FSS - 1
Session Chair: Douglas H. Werner
“Metamaterials for High Power Reflectarray Design”
Micah D. Gregory, Jeremy A. Bossard, Zachary C. P. O. Morgan, Cooper S.
Cicero, John A. Easum, John D. Binion, Danny Z. Zhu, Clinton P. Scarborough,
Pingjuan L. Werner, Douglas H. Werner, Scott Griffiths, and Matthew Ketner
“A Compact and Robust Circularly-Polarized Wearable Antenna Using An
Anisotropic Metasurface”
Zhi Hao Jiang and Douglas H. Werner
“A Square Helical Metamaterial for Broadband Circularly-Polarized Absorber
Applications”
Wenxing Li, Yujing Liu, and Yingsong Li
“Resonant Coupling Between a Subwavelength Metal Patch Perfect Absorbing
Metamaterial and Molecular Resonance”
Michael F. Finch and Brian A. Lail
“A New Kind of Flexible Polarization-Insensitive Ultra-Broadband
Metamaterial Absorber Design”
Junyi Xu, Shaobin Liu, Xiangkun Kong, Haifeng Zhang, Haiming Li, Hua
Yang, Wei Shi, Shaobin Liu, and Xiangkun Kong
Break
Room Maui
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Room Waialua
Session 11
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
Student Paper Competition - 1
Session Organizer: Ozlem Kilic
Session Chair: Ozlem Kilic
“Robust Numerical Modeling of Currents Radiating in Non-Birefringent
Anisotropic Medium Layers”
Kamalesh Sainath and Fernando L. Teixeira
“Calculating Electromagnetic Force Created by Static Suspension Device Used
in Permanent Magnet Electrodynamic Suspension Vehicle”
Wenlong Zhang, Kunlun Zhang, Yin Chen, and Xijun Liu
“Resonant Coupling Between a Subwavelength Metal Patch Perfect Absorbing
Metamaterial and Molecular Resonance”
Michael F. Finch and Brian A. Lail
“A Dynamic p-Adaptation Algorithm for the DGTD Simulation of Nonlinear
EM-Plasma Interaction”
Su Yan and Jian-Ming Jin
“The Derived Equivalent Circuit Model for Non-Magnetized and Magnetized
Graphene”
Ying S. Cao, Li Jun Jiang, and Albert E. Ruehli
Break
03:00PM-03:20PM
Tutorial – 2
Session 12
01:30PM-03:00PM
03:30PM-05:00PM
Room Kauai
“A New Approach to Solving Electrically Large Complex Electromagnetic
Scattering Problems”
Sadasiva Rao
Break
03:00PM-03:20PM
Session 13
Room Maui
Tutorial – 3
Room Maui
Room Kauai
“An Exploration of Electromagnetic Radiation Physics”
Edmund Miller
Room Honolulu
Session 14
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
03:40PM-04:00PM
04:00PM-04:20PM
Antennas and Arrays - 2
Session Organizer: Daniel Aten
Session Chair: N. T. Tokan
“Influence of Astigmatism in Reflector Feeds”
Fikret Tokan
“Comparison of Matching Layers for Extended Hemispherical Lenses in Beam
Scanning Applications”
Ş. Kar, N. T. Sönmez, S. Mambet, and N. T. Tokan
“Analysis of an Array with Graphene-Based Conductors”
S. Z. Sajal, A. Iftikhar, and B. D. Braaten
Room Kahuku
Session 15
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
03:40PM-04:00PM
Integral Equation Methods and Applications - 2
Session Organizer: Ulrich Jakobus
Session Chairs: Ji Ding, Ulrich Jakobus
“Analysis of Dielectric Objects Containing Permittivity and Permeability Using
Time-Domain Volume Integral Equation”
Ji Ding and Ying Li
“Numerical Experiments in Tracking the Characteristic Modes of Dielectric
Objects”
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04:00PM-04:20PM
04:20PM-04:40PM
04:40PM-05:00PM
H. Alroughani, J. L. T. Ethier, and D. A. McNamara
“The Derived Equivalent Circuit Model for Non-Magnetized and Magnetized
Graphene”
Ying S. Cao, Li Jun Jiang, and Albert E. Ruehli
“Fast Wide-band Scattering Analysis of Homogenous Objects”
Xing Wang, Yu Zhang, Bo Zhao, and Shu-Xi Gong
“A Multilevel Green’s Function Interpolation Method for the Analysis of
Microstrip Antenna Arrays”
Peng Zhao and Gaofeng Wang
Room Oahu
Session 16
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
03:40PM-04:00PM
04:00PM-04:20PM
04:20PM-04:40PM
Metamaterials and FSS - 2
Session Chair: T. K. Wu
“Improved THz/Infrared Frequency Selective Surface with Minkowski Fractal
Elements”
T. K. Wu
“A Novel Wide-band Frequency Selective Surface with Multiple Transmission
Zeros and Poles”
Wenxing Li and Xiaoliang Guo
“Broadband Nearly Perfect Visible Plasmonic Absorber”
Sameh M. Elmalt, Nihal F. F. Areed, and Salah S. A. Obayya
“Investigation and Design of Smart Frequency Agility Control System Using
Compact CRLH-TL for Communication and Radar Applications”
Yasser M. Madany, Hassan M. Elkamchouchi, and Bishoy I. Halim
Room Waialua
Session 17
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
03:40PM-04:00PM
04:00PM-04:20PM
04:20PM-04:40PM
04:40PM-05:00PM
Student Paper Competition - 2
Session Organizer: Ozlem Kilic
Session Chair: Ozlem Kilic
“Avalanche Breakdown of the Schottky Diode Analyzed by Physically-Based
Simulation”
Ke Xu and Xing Chen
“Quantum-Corrected Plasmonic Field Analysis Using a Time Domain
PMCHWT Integral Equation”
Ismail E. Uysal, H. Arda Ulku, and Hakan Bagci
“An Explicit MOT-TD-VIE Solver for Time Varying Media”
Sadeed B. Sayed, H. Arda Ulku, and Hakan Bagci
“HSS-Matrix Based Fast Direct Volume Integral Equation Solver for
Electrodynamic Analysis”
Miaomiao Ma and Dan Jiao
“Single-Channel Radar Fusion For Quadrature Life-Sign Doppler Radar”
Ashikur Rahman, Ehsan Yavari, Aditya Singh, Victor Lubecke, and Olga Boric
Lubecke
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ICWITS/ACES 2016 Technical Program
Tuesday, March 15
07:00AM-08:00AM
07:45AM-04:30PM
01:30PM-05:00PM
Session 18
08:10AM-09:00AM
Breakfast
Conference Registration
Exhibitors
Plenary Talk – 3
“Challenges in the RF Congested Environment for Tactical Communication”
Mahbub Hoque
Plenary Talk – 4
Session 19
09:10AM-10:00AM
10:00AM-10:20AM
Room Maui
Kauai/Maui Foyer
Kauai/Maui Foyer
Room Kauai
Room Kauai
“Using Model-Based Parameter Estimation to Increase the Efficiency and
Effectiveness of Computational Electromagnetics”
Edmund Miller
Break
Room Maui
Room Honolulu
Session 20
10:20AM-12:00PM
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
12:00PM-01:00PM
Wave Propagation
Session Chair: A-K. Hamid
“Study on Accuracy of Direction of Arrival Estimation in FDTD Analysis of
Radio Propagation using MUSIC Method”
Suguru Imai, Kenji Taguchi, and Tatsuya Kashiwa
“Backscattering of PEMC Elliptic Cylinder with Anisotropic Dielectric
Coating”
A-K. Hamid
“Propagation Characteristics in Urban Environments”
Daisy Green, Zhengqing Yun, and Magdy F. Iskander
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Kahuku
Integral Equation Methods and Applications - 3
Session Organizer: Ulrich Jakobus
10:20AM-12:00PM
Session Chairs: Hakan Bagci, Ulrich Jakobus
Session 21
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
11:20AM-11:40AM
11:40AM-12:00PM
12:00PM-01:00PM
“Quantum-Corrected Plasmonic Field Analysis Using a Time Domain
PMCHWT Integral Equation”
Ismail E. Uysal, H. Arda Ulku, and Hakan Bagci
“A Hierarchical Fast Direct Solver for the Method of Moment”
K. C. Wang, M. M. Li, D. Z. Ding, Z. H. Fan, Y. J. Shen, and R. S. Chen
“An Explicit MOT-TD-VIE Solver for Time Varying Media”
Sadeed B. Sayed, H. Arda Ulku, and Hakan Bagci
“Analysis of Dielectric Resonator Antennas Using Characteristic Modes”
Ling Guan, Dazhi Ding, Zhenhong Fan, Mengmeng Li, Zhaolong Li, and
Rushan Chen
“Application of the Reduced Basis Method to 1D Quasi-Periodic Array
Modeling”
Maokun Li, Xunwang Dang, Fan Yang, Shenheng Xu, and Weng Cho Chew
Lunch
Room Maui
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Room Oahu
Metamaterials and FSS - 3
Session 22
10:20AM-12:00PM Session Chair: Randall L. Musselman
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
12:00PM-01:00PM
“Exploiting Inhomogeneity in Metamaterials for Radome Application”
James L. Vedral, Randall L. Musselman, and Anatoliy O. Pinchuk
“Novel 3D Loops and Coils Utilizing Fourier Series for Low Frequency AMC
Ground Planes”
Jennifer Rayno and Magdy F. Iskander
“Geometrically-Conformal EM Horizons and PML Media”
Kamalesh Sainath and Fernando L. Teixeira
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Waialua
EMC/EMI Systems and Applications
Session 23
10:20AM-12:00PM Session Chair: Meng Cui
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
11:20AM-11:40AM
12:00PM-01:00PM
“Simulation of Electromagnetic Pulse Generation in Laser-Plasma Interaction”
Jin Hanbing and Meng Cui
“Rigorous Analysis of 3-D Statistically-Varying EMC Problems via a
Generalized Stochastic FDTD Method”
Nikolaos V. Kantartzis, Tadao Ohtani, and Yasushi Kanai
“Research on EMC Evaluation for Communication Systems on Board”
Ping Xu, Shumiao Hao, Yifang Geng, and Tao Jiang
“Electromagnetic Analysis Attack for a Lightweight Block Cipher TWINE”
Masaya Yoshikawa, Yusuke Nozaki, and Kensaku Asahi
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Kauai
Session 24
10:20AM-12:00PM
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
11:20AM-11:40AM
11:40AM-12:00PM
12:00PM-01:00PM
Mobile and Small Antennas - 1
Session Chair: Maxim Ignatenko
“LTE/WWAN Monopole Antenna for Laptop Computer Applications”
Shu-Chuan Chen and Yu-Chuan Tsou
“Antennas Wrapped up on Slender Column”
Yue Li, Zhijun Zhang, and Zhenghe Feng
“Electrically Small Half-Loop for Wideband HF On-The-Move Operation”
Maxim Ignatenko and Dejan S. Filipovic
“Modified Elliptical Nanoantenna for Energy Harvesting Applications”
Mohamed Hussein, Nihal F. F. Areed, Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, S. S. A.
Obayya
“A Novel Structure and Design of Compact UWB Slot Antenna”
Adrian Bekasiewicz and Slawomir Koziel
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Honolulu
Session 25
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
Vital Sign Detection - 1
Session Organizer: Ozlem Kilic
Session Chairs: Aly Fathy, Ozlem Kilic
“Single-Channel Radar Fusion for Quadrature Life-Sign Doppler Radar”
Ashikur Rahman, Ehsan Yavari, Aditya Singh, Victor Lubecke, and Olga Boric
Lubecke
“Signal Conditioning for UAV-Radar in Vital Sign Monitoring”
Ashikur Rahman, Arne Nakahara, Robert Nakata, and Victor Lubecke
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02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
“A Hybrid Approach and Fourier Analysis for Detection Human Respiratory
Rate and Heart Beat”
Quang Nguyen, Tuan Phan, and Ozlem Kilic
“Occupancy Detection using Radar Noise Floor”
Ehsan Yavari, Pooja Nuti, and Olga Boric-Lubecke
“Overview of Vital Sign Detection-Simulation and Measurements”
Lingyun Ren, Aly E. Fathy, Krishna Naishadham, Jean E. Piou, Vin Dang, and
Ozlem Kilic
Break
Room Maui
Room Kahuku
Session 26
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
Integral Equation Methods and Applications - 4
Session Organizer: Ulrich Jakobus
Session Chair: Ulrich Jakobus
“High-Performance Surface Integral Equation Solvers Towards Extreme-Scale
Electromagnetic Modeling and Simulation”
Zhen Peng and Brian MacKie-Mason
“Introducing the Iterative Domain Green's Function Method for Finite Array
Analysis”
D. J. Ludick, M. M. Botha, D. B. Davidson, and U. Jakobus
“Simulations and Experiments for EMC Compliance in Automotive
Environment”
Giacomo Braglia, Sami Barmada, and Alistair Duffy
“Reduction of Singular Surface Integrals of Tensor Green Function to NonSingular Line Integrals in Integral Equations for Planar Geometries”
Elizabeth Bleszynski, Marek Bleszynski, and Thomas Jaroszewicz
“Controlling the Accuracy of Double Higher Order Surface Integral Equation
Modeling by Relative Tolerance for Matrix Compression”
Branislav M. Notaroš, Ana B. Manić, Xiaoye Sherry Li, and François-Henry
Rouet
Break
Room Maui
Room Oahu
Session 27
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
Optimization Techniques - 1
Session Chair: Hao Xin
“Cost-Efficient Multi-Objective Design Optimization of Antennas in HighlyDimensional Parameter Spaces”
Adrian Bekasiewicz and Slawomir Koziel
“Rapid Multi-Objective Design Optimization of Miniaturized Impedance
Transformer By Pareto Front Exploration”
Slawomir Koziel and Adrian Bekasiewicz
“Rapid Simulation-Driven Design of Compact Photonic Y-Junction By
Variable-Dimensional Sequential Approximate Optimization”
Adrian Bekasiewicz, Slawomir Koziel, and Stanislav Ogurtsov
“Theory and Design for a Double-sided Linear Induction Motor with Varying
Pole Pitch”
Xijun Liu, Kunlun Zhang, and Wenlong Zhang
“Direction of Arrival (DOA) Estimation System using 3D Printed Luneburg
Lens”
Min Liang, Xiaoju Yu, Rafael Sabory-García, Wei-Ren Ng, M. E. Gehm, and
Hao Xin
Break
Room Maui
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Room Waialua
Session 28
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
Time Domain Methods - 1
Session Chair: Tao Jiang
“Frequency Hopping Radar Signals Blind Separation using Tensor Analysis in
Time Domain”
Chaozhu Zhang and Yu Wang
“A Mixed Finite Element Methods Approximation of the Maxwell’s Equations
in Electromagnetics”
Asad Anees and Lutz Angermann
“Improved Surface Impedance Absorbing Boundary for FDTD Method”
Yunlong Mao, Tao Jiang, and Atef Z. Elsherbeni
“A Marching-on-in-Degree Solution with Volume Surface Integral Equation
for the Scattering of Composite Bodies of Revolution”
Jihong Gu, Dazhi Ding, Zhenhong Fan, Xiaodong Ye, Zhaolong Li, and Rushan
Chen
“Towards Modeling Partial Discharge Phenomena using the Transmission Line
Matrix (TLM) Method”
Alistair Duffy, Hugh Sasse, and Jianying Li
Break
03:00PM-03:20PM
Session 29
01:30PM-03:00PM
Tutorial – 4
03:30PM-05:00PM
Session 31
03:30PM-05:00PM
Room Kauai
“Effective Antenna Design Process with Design of Experiments”
Gopinath Gampala and C.J. Reddy
Break
03:00PM-03:20PM
Session 30
Room Maui
Tutorial – 5
Room Maui
Room Kauai
“Lens Antennas”
Oscar Quevedo-Teruel
Vendor Tutorial
Room Kahuku
“Latest Developments in the Electromagnetic Solver FEKO”
Ulrich Jakobus and Gopinath Gampala, Altair Engineering, Inc.
Room Honolulu
Session 32
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
03:40PM-04:00PM
Vital Sign Detection - 2
Session Organizer: Ozlem Kilic
Session Chairs: Aly Fathy, Ozlem Kilic
“CP-Stethoscope: Phantom Model Experiments”
Leyna Tamaye, Ruthsenne R. G. Perron, Darcy Bibb, Jason Tanabe, Fernan
Suela, Gui Chao Huang, and Magdy F. Iskander
“Dynamic 3D Model of Human Thorax for the Assessment of Changes in Lung
Fluid Content and Vital Signs”
Ruthsenne R. G. Perron and Magdy F. Iskander
Room Oahu
Session 33
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
03:40PM-04:00PM
Optimization Techniques - 2
Session Chair: Farhan A. Qazi
“Optimizing Cellular Coverage in Maui Island, Hawaii”
Farhan A. Qazi, Asutosh Das, Zhengqing Yun, and Magdy F. Iskander
“Hybrid Genetic Programming with Modified Conjugate Direction Search for
3D Metamaterial Design”
Linh Ho Manh, Jennifer Rayno, Magdy F. Iskander, and Marcelo H. Kobayashi
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04:00PM-04:20PM
“Compile-Time Type Selection of Optimized Data Layout and Memory Access
Patterns for FDTD Calculations”
Jamie Infantolino and David Richie
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ICWITS/ACES 2016 Technical Program
Wednesday, March 16
07:00AM-08:00AM Breakfast
07:45AM-04:30PM Conference Registration
01:30PM-05:00PM Exhibitors
07:00PM-10:00PM Banquet
Plenary Talk – 5
Session 35
08:10AM-09:00AM
Session 36
09:10AM-10:00AM
10:00AM-10:20AM
Room Maui
Kauai/Maui Foyer
Kauai/Maui Foyer
Room Maui
Room Kauai
“Computational Time Reversal - A Frontier in Electromagnetic Field Synthesis”
Wolfgang Hoefer
Plenary Talk – 6
Room Kauai
“Application of Computational Electromagnetics in High Speed Designs”
Jun Fan
Break
Room Maui
Room Honolulu
Session 37
10:20AM-12:00PM
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
11:20AM-11:40AM
12:00PM-01:00PM
Remote Sensing and Imaging Applications
Session Chair: Lifford McLauchlan
“Spectral Analysis of Synthetic Electrode Activations in Adaptive Capacitance
Volume Tomography”
Z. Zeeshan, B. Gurlek, K. Sainath, F. L. Teixeira, and Q. M. Marashdeh
“Robust Analysis of Multi-Sensor Architecture Fault Detection and
Investigation of Pseudo Sensor Enhancement Method (PSEM)”
Yasser M. Madany, El-Sayed A. El-Badawy, and Adel M. Soliman
“3-D Complex Objects SAR Imaging Simulation based on Physical Optics
Echo”
Jiaqi Chen and Jianan Lin
“Comparison of Thermal and Hyperspectral Data to Correlate Heat Maps with
Spectral Profiles from Galvanized Steel Surfaces”
Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Shane Smith, P. A. Simionescu, and Lifford
McLauchlan
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Kahuku
Session 38
10:20AM-12:00PM
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
12:00PM-01:00PM
Bio-Electromagnetics
Session Chair: Robert Nakata
“Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform Stabilization for Remote Radar Life
Sensing”
Robert Nakata, Scott Clemens, Daren Martin, Charles Jaquiro, and Victor
Lubecke
“Modeling of Wireless Power Transfer Link for Retinal Implant”
Rangarajan Jegadeesan and Yong-Xin Guo
“Dielectric Property Measurements of Dextrose Solutions for RF Sensor
Design”
Kubra Cakmak, Tugce Ozturk, Tuba Yilmaz, and Ibrahim Akduman
Lunch
Room Maui
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Room Oahu
Circuits Design
Session 39
10:20AM-12:00PM Session Chair: Sami Barmada
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
12:00PM-01:00PM
“Novel Structure and Size-Reduction-Oriented Design of Microstrip Compact
Rat-Race Coupler”
Slawomir Koziel and Adrian Bekasiewicz
“A CMOS Broadband Low-Noise Amplifier with Flat Gain Response for UltraWideband Applications”
Sen Wang and Wei-Han Yen
“Investigation of Linearity Improvement with Dynamic Gate Bias Technique
for Flat Gain or Phase of an 10 W GaN HEMT Power Amplifier”
Dragan Gecan, Morten Olavsbråten, and Karl M. Gjertsen
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Waialua
Session 40
10:20AM-12:00PM
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
11:20AM-11:40AM
11:40AM-12:00PM
12:00PM-01:00PM
UWB and Multi-Band Antennas - 1
Session Chair: Wenhua Yu
“A Miniaturized Dual Stop-Band Filter using Meander Defected Microstrip
Structures”
Yanyan Wang, Tao Jiang, and Yingsong Li
“Characteristics of Wideband 3-Ring Loop Antenna”
Haruo Kawakami
“Size-Reduction-Oriented Design of Compact CPW-Fed UWB Monopole
Antenna”
Slawomir Koziel and Adrian Bekasiewicz
“A Novel Dual Notched UWB Antenna for Wireless Body Area Network”
Si Li, Yunlong Mao, and Wenhua Yu
“A Fan-Shaped Band-Notched UWB Antenna using Combined Filtering
Techniques”
Xiaomin Liu, Yuanyuan Kong, Yingsong Li, and Kai Yu
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Kauai
Parallel and GPU Computations
Session Organizer: Amedeo Capozzoli
10:20AM-12:20PM
Session Chair: Amedeo Capozzoli
Session 41
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
11:20AM-11:40AM
11:40AM-12:00PM
12:00PM-12:20PM
“Parallelizing Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm for Large-Scale
Electromagnetic Problem on GPU Clusters”
Nghia Tran, Tuan Phan, and Ozlem Kilic
“Efficient Analysis of GPS Antenna Onboard Self-Driving Car in Practical
Environments with GPU Accelerated MoM-PO Method”
Zi-Liang Liu and Chao-Fu Wang
“Parallel FETI-DP Algorithm for Defect Detection in Large-Area
Nanopatterned Wafers”
Kedi Zhang, Lynford L. Goddard, and Jian-Ming Jin
“A Proposed Common Format for Electromagnetics Data Interchange”
Jason R. Miller
“Application of MW-FDTD to Simulate the EM Wave Propagation over Ocean
with OpenCL”
Hanlin Duan, Zhaoqing Sun, Yongsheng Zhao, and Tao Jiang
“Why Does SBVH Outperform KD-Tree on Parallel Platforms?”
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Alfonso Breglia, Amedeo Capozzoli, Claudio Curcio, and Angelo Liseno
12:00PM-01:00PM
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Honolulu
Session 42
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
Waveguides and Guided Structures - 1
Session Chairs: Mohamed Hameed, Jason R. Miller
“An Active CMOS Bandpass Filter using Broadside Coupled Lines and CrossCoupled Pairs Topology”
Sen Wang and Yi-Huei Chen
“A Yee’s Mesh Based Modesolver for Anisotropic Waveguides”
Varun Singh
“Realistic Randomized Water Surface Generation for Computational
Electromagnetics”
Jason R. Miller
“Compact SOI Polarization Rotator Based on Asymmetric Silicon Waveguide”
Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, Shaimaa I. Azzam, Reham Zaghloul, and S. S.
A. Obayya
“CMOS Compatible TE-Pass Polarizer Based on SOI Platform”
Mohamed Abdelwahab, Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, Shaimaa I. Azzam, and
S. S. A. Obayya
Break
Room Maui
Room Kahuku
Session 43
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
Hybrid and Multi-Physics - 1
Session Chair: Zhen Peng
“Avalanche Breakdown of the Schottky Diode Analyzed by Physically-Based
Simulation”
Ke Xu and Xing Chen
“A Dynamic p-Adaptation Algorithm for the DGTD Simulation of Nonlinear
EM-Plasma Interaction”
Su Yan and Jian-Ming Jin
“Cosite Analysis of Large, Complex Structures using Novel Facet-based
Multiscale and Multiphysics Techniques”
Thomas J. Arcuri, Andrew L. Drozd, Irina Kasperovich, and C.J. Reddy
“A Hybrid Technique for Electromagnetic Scattering from Three-Dimensional
Inhomogeneous Dielectric Objects”
Tuan Phan, Quang Nguyen, and Ozlem Kilic
“Hierarchical Modeling and Scalable Algorithms for In-Situ Characterization
of 3D IC Packages”
Yang Shao, Shu Wang, and Zhen Peng
Break
Room Maui
Room Oahu
Session 44
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
EM Modeling Using FEKO - 1
Session Organizer: C.J. Reddy
Session Chair: C.J. Reddy
“Modal Analysis of Patch Slot Designs in Microstrip Patch Antennas”
Mohamed M. Elsewe and Deb Chatterjee
“Modal Analysis of Substrate Permittivities in Microstrip Patch Antennas”
Mohamed M. Elsewe and Deb Chatterjee
“Review of the Latest Feature Additions to the Electromagnetic Solver FEKO”
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02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
Ulrich Jakobus, Johann van Tonder, Marlize Schoeman, and Elia A. Attardo
“A Simulation Study of Folded Dipole in Magnetic Resonance Imaging for
Compatible Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation”
Hai Lu and Shumin Wang
“Ultra-Wideband Planar Antennas: Slot vs. Monopole”
William O’Keefe Coburn
Break
03:00PM-03:20PM
Room Maui
Room Waialua
Session 45
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
UWB and Multi-Band Antennas - 2
Session Chair: Steven Weiss
“Chaotic DPSK-MPPM Modulation Technique for a Physically Secure and
Highly Robust Optical Communication System”
Ahmed E. Morra, Salem F. Hegazy, Amr Elsonbaty, and Salah S. A. Obayya
“New Compact Tunable Filter-Antenna using Varactor Loaded Ring Resonator
for Cognitive Radio Front End System”
Hany A. Atallah, Adel B. Abdel-Rahman, Kuniaki Yoshitomi, and Ramesh K.
Pokharel
“Wideband Open Sleeve Dipole Antenna”
Zhi-Ya Zhang, Guang Fu, and Shaoli Zuo
“Design of a Cavity Backed 15:1 Bandwidth Two Arm Spiral Helix Antenna”
Nathan Jastram and Dejan S. Filipovic
“Effect of Annular Slots on the Solid Conical Antenna”
O. Agunlejika, J. A. Flint, and R. D. Seager
Break
03:00PM-03:20PM
Tutorial – 6
Session 46
01:30PM-03:00PM
03:30PM-05:00PM
Room Kauai
“Incorporating Photonic Crystals in Electromagnetic Devices Designed by
using Coordinate Transformation Techniques”
Elena Semouchkina
Break
03:00PM-03:20PM
Session 47
Room Maui
Tutorial – 7
Room Maui
Room Kauai
“Low-Complexity Direct Solvers”
Dan Jiao
Room Honolulu
Session 48
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
03:40PM-04:00PM
04:00PM-04:20PM
04:20PM-04:40PM
Waveguides and Guided Structures - 2
Session Chair: José Luis Gomez-Tornero
“Computation of Modal Coupling Effects in Meandered Long-Slot LeakyWave Antennas”
José Luis Gómez Tornero
“Ferrite Circular Waveguide Antenna”
Hedi Sakli, Mohamed Yahia, Dhaou Bouchouicha, Jun Wu Tao, and Taoufik
Aguili
“Three-Way Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Power Divider Design”
Orcun Kiris, Volkan Akan, Mesut Gokten, and Lokman Kuzu
“Ultra-Compact Plasmonic Polarization Splitter based on Dual-Core D-Shaped
PCF”
Aliaa F. Rageh, Ahmed M. Hafez, Shaimaa I. Azzam, Ahmed M. Heikal, and
S. S. A. Obayya
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Room Kahuku
Session 49
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
03:40PM-04:00PM
04:00PM-04:20PM
Hybrid and Multi-Physics - 2
Session Chair: Zhengqing Yun
“Static, Quasi-Static, and Dynamic Variational Approaches in
Electromagnetism”
Michael Grinfeld and Pavel Grinfeld
“Discontinuous Galerkin - High Order FDTD Hybridization for Scattering
Problems”
Thibault Volpert, Nicolas Deymier, and Xavier Ferrieres
“Electro- and Magneto-plasticity as a Challenge for Computational
Electromagnetics”
Nicholas Nechitailo and Michael Grinfeld
Room Oahu
Session 50
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
03:40PM-04:00PM
EM Modeling Using FEKO - 2
Session Organizer: C.J. Reddy
Session Chair: Ulrich Jakobus
“Microstrip Grid Array Fed Against an EBG”
Seth A. McCormick and William O. Coburn
“Design of Millimeter Wave Antenna Arrays for 5G Cellular Applications
using FEKO”
Gopinath Gampala and C.J. Reddy
Room Waialua
Session 51
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
03:40PM-04:00PM
04:00PM-04:20PM
04:20PM-04:40PM
04:40PM-05:00PM
Antennas and Arrays – 3
Session Chair: Sami Barmada
“Soil Moisture Estimation using UWB”
Marko Malajner and Dusan Gleich
“A Microstrip Reflectarray Antenna Using Random Fragmented Elements
Combined with Metal Loops for Mutual Coupling Suppression”
Liu Yufeng and Chen Xing
“A Pattern Reconfigurable Patch Antenna for Wide-Angle Scanning Phased
Array”
Wenxing Li and Yueming Zhao
“A Planar Ku Band Antenna for Satellite Communications”
Mesut Gokten, Lokman Kuzu, Ahmet F. Yagli, Senol Gulgonul, and Erdem
Demircioglu
“Flexible Conformal Antennas”
Altan M. Ferendeci
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ICWITS/ACES 2016 Technical Program
Thursday, March 17
07:00AM-08:00AM
07:45AM-04:30PM
01:30PM-05:00PM
Session 52
08:30AM-10:00AM
10:00AM-10:20AM
Breakfast
Conference Registration
Exhibitors
Room Maui
Kauai/Maui Foyer
Kauai/Maui Foyer
Panel Talk
Room Kauai
“Challenges in Army Network for Sustained Communication”
Mahbub Hoque
Break
Room Maui
Room Honolulu
Antennas and Arrays - 4
Session 53
Session Organizer: Daniel Aten
08:00AM-10:00AM
Session Chair: Randy Haupt
08:00AM-08:20AM
08:20AM-08:40AM
08:40AM-09:00AM
09:00AM-09:20AM
09:20AM-09:40AM
10:00AM-10:20AM
“CPW-Fed Tri-Band Slot Antenna with Impedance Matching Stub”
Te-Wei Liu and Wen-Hua Tu
“High Gain Fabry-Perot Cavity Antenna with Phase Shifting Surface”
Lin Zhou, Xing Chen, and Xin Duan
“A Non-uniform Design of the Metamaterial Superstrate for the Resonant
Cavity Antenna with Wideband Property”
Pan Feng and Xing Chen
“A Null Broadening Beamforming Method of Virtual Antenna Array”
Wenxing Li and Yu Zhao
“Electrically Small Shorted Patch Antenna Array with Switchable Radiation
Patterns for Indoor Messaging System”
Hisanori Matsumoto, Kenjiro Fuji, Makoto Tanikawara, and Tomohisa
Kohiyama
Break
Room Maui
Room Kahuku
Computational Electromagetic Modeling in EMC Applications
Session 54
Session Organizer: Jun Fan
08:00AM-10:00AM
Session Chair: Jun Fan
08:00AM-08:20AM
08:20AM-08:40AM
08:40AM-09:00AM
09:00AM-09:20AM
“Low EMI Three Phase Wireless Charger for Drone with 150 Degree
Conduction Mode of VSI”
Chiuk Song, Hongseok Kim, Yeonje Cho, Joungho Kim, Kyoungyoung Jo,
Youngbeom Kim, and Heechang Moon
“An Equivalent Circuit Model for the Wire-to-Surface Junction Based on
Method of Moments”
Yansheng Wang, Richard Kautz, Nevin Altunyurt, and Jun Fan
“Nonlinear I/O Characterization with the Time Domain Electromagnetic
Simulations”
Li Jun Jiang, Huan Huan Zhang, Ying Cao, and Ping Li
“Simulation Challenges in System Level Electrostatic Discharge Modeling”
David Pommerenke, Jun Fan, and Jim Drewniak
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09:20AM-09:40AM
09:40AM-10:00AM
10:00AM-10:20AM
“Using Transfer Function Approach to Develop MRI Visible and Low RF
Heating Sleeve for Cardiac Application”
Xin Huang, Qingyan Wang, Jason Zheng, Ji Chen, Mohamad Ghosn, Dipan J.
Shah, and Wolfgang Kainz
“Inductance Extraction for Physics-Based Modeling of Power Net Area Fills
with Complex Shapes and Voids using the Plane-Pair PEEC Method”
Siqi Bai, Chenxi Huang, Biyao Zhao, Jun Fan, Albert Rueli, James Drewniak,
Bruce Archambeault, Samuel Connor, Michael Cracraft, Matteo Cocchini, and
Brice Achkir
Break
Room Maui
Room Oahu
Nanotechnology
Session 55
08:00AM-10:00AM Session Chairs: Dalia N. Elsheakh, Randall L. Musselman
08:00AM-08:20AM
08:20AM-08:40AM
08:40AM-09:00AM
10:00AM-10:20AM
“V-Band Frequency Reconfigurable Cavity-Based Bandpass Filters”
Mahmoud Abdelfattah, Dimitra Psychogiou, ZhengAn Yang, and Dimitrios
Peroulis
“Millimeter Wave Tunable Wide Band Gap Filter”
James L. Vedral, Randall L. Musselman, and Robert Camley
“Multi Arms Quasi-Yagi Antenna for Millimeter-Wave Applications”
Dalia N. Elsheakh
Break
Room Maui
Room Waialua
Wireless Power Transfer
Session Organizer: Shishir Punjala
08:00AM-10:00AM
Session Chair: Shishir Punjala
Session 56
08:00AM-08:20AM
08:20AM-08:40AM
08:40AM-09:00AM
10:00AM-10:20AM
“A Metamaterial Harvester with Integrated Rectifying Functionality”
Xin Duan, Xing Chen, and Lin Zhou
“Challenges in Designing Coils to Enable Wireless Powering in Electric
Vehicles and Their EMC Safety Compliance”
Shishir Shanker Punjala
“Physics-based FE Model and Analytical Verification of Bi-directional
Inductive Wireless Power Transfer System”
A. A. S. Mohamed, A. Berzoy, and O. A. Mohammed
Break
Room Maui
Room Honolulu
Antennas and Arrays - 5
Session Organizer: Daniel Aten
10:20AM-12:00PM
Session Chair: Randy Haupt
Session 57
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
12:00PM-01:00PM
“Investigation and Design of Smart Distributed Subarray MIMO (DS-MIMO)
Microstrip Antenna System for Receiving Diversity Applications”
Yasser M. Madany, Hassan M. Elkamchouchi, and Ashraf E. Ahmed
“A Testbed for Adaptive Beamforming with Software Defined Radio Arrays”
Payam Nayeri and Randy L. Haupt
“Investigation of Sidelobe Behavior for Canonical Polygon and Fractal
Random Array Topologies”
Kristopher Buchanan, Carlos Flores-Molina, and John Rockway
Lunch
Room Maui
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Room Kahuku
Advanced Modulation Techniques
Session 58
10:20AM-12:00PM Session Chair: Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
12:00PM-01:00PM
“A Comparison of Linear FBMC and Circularly Shaped Waveforms”
Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny, Arman Farhang, Ahmad RezazadehReihani,
Amir Aminjavaheri, and Daiming Qu
“Hardware Implementation of Adaptive Modulation for OFDM and SOQPSK
with Preliminary Results”
Enkuang D. Wang, Brian Beck, and Timothy Brothers
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Oahu
EM Simulations Using Sonnet - 1
Session 59
Session Organizer: Taha Imeci
10:20AM-12:00PM
Session Chair: Taha Imeci
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
11:20AM-11:40AM
11:40AM-12:00PM
12:00PM-01:00PM
“Microstrip Patch Antenna Design with Unified Cornered Rectangles”
Ata Devli, Mert Celik, Berkay Demi, Taha Imeci, and Anil Saral
“Double U Slot Patch Antenna”
Atakan Oztuna, Ayse Kansız, Canberk Kaya, Merve Saracoglu, Ozan Erboyacı,
Taha Imeci, and Anil Saral
“Changing Passband on Microstrip Hairpin Band-Pass Filter”
Cem Benar, Ibrahim Abbas Tafida, Mehmet Polat Kündüz, Taha Imeci, and
Anil Saral
“Bat Shaped Patch Antenna at 14.6 GHz”
Elif Nur Kuralay, Enes Furkan Uzun, and Taha Imeci
“Perturbed Hexagonal Antenna at 14.7 GHz”
Elif N. Kuralay, Enes F. Uzun, Omer Ates, Yesim M. Sahin, and Taha Imeci
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Waialua
Session 60
10:20AM-12:00PM
10:20AM-10:40AM
10:40AM-11:00AM
11:00AM-11:20AM
12:00PM-01:00PM
Session 62
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
Mobile and Small Antennas - 2
Session Chairs: Mohamed Hameed, Nader Behdad
“Optimization of Nanoantenna for Solar Energy Harvesting Based on Particle
Swarm Technique”
Youssef M. El-Toukhy, A. M. Heikal, Mohamed Farhat O. Hameed, M. M.
Abd-Elrazzak, and S. S. A. Obayya
“Transmitting Power Handling Limitations of a Wideband, Non-Foster
Electrically-Small Antenna”
Tyler Rowe, Ting-Yen Shih, and Nader Behdad
“Computation of the Radiation Q of Dielectric-Loaded Electrically Small
Antennas in Integral Equation Formulations”
Oleksiy S. Kim
Lunch
Room Maui
Room Honolulu
Uninterrupted Communication Through Tactical Network – 1
Session Organizer: Mahbub Hoque
Session Chairs: Zhengqing Yun, Mahbub Hoque
“Reducing Simulation Time for Coupling Analysis on Large Vehicles in
FDTD”
Emanuel J. Merulla and Brian Bocskor
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01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
“Directional Networking in GPS Denied Environments”
Derya Cansever, Gilbert Green, and Jun Sun
“Intra Soldier Wireless (ISW)”
Marianne Lazzaro and Kimberly Ploskonka
“Use of Commercial Cellular 4G LTE in the Tactical Environment”
Thomas Sepka and Kimberly Ploskonka
“Performance Analysis of Realistic Multipath Modeling Using a Multiple
Detail-level Approach in Cognitive Communication Systems”
Asutosh Das, Farhan A. Qazi, Zhengqing Yun, and Magdy Iskander
Break
Room Maui
Room Kahuku
Session 63
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
Differential Equation Methods - 1
Session Chair: Yasushi Kanai
“Efficient Suppression of Artificial Reflections in the TF/SF Scheme for the
Nonstandard FDTD Method”
Tadao Ohtani, Yasushi Kanai, and Nikolaos V. Kantartzis
“Efficient Monostatic Radar Cross Section Calculation for Parabolic Equation
Method”
Z. He and R. S. Chen
“An Interface-Enriched Generalized FEM for EM Analysis of Composites with
Nonconformal Meshes”
Kedi Zhang, Jian-Ming Jin, and Philippe H. Geubelle
“Interface Homogenization Technique for Electro/Magneto-Static Finite
Element Analysis Including Anisotropic Media”
Takeshi Mifune
“Discontinuous Galerkin Time-Domain Solution of the Purely Hyperbolic
Maxwell Equations”
Su Yan and Jian-Ming Jin
Break
Room Maui
Room Oahu
Session 64
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
EM Simulations Using Sonnet - 2
Session Organizer: Taha Imeci
Session Chair: Taha Imeci
“Patch Antenna with Slits at 8 GHz”
Arman Zamani, Batuhan Mudun, Emrecan Kara, Gürsu Dilaver, and Taha
İmeci
“Design and Simulation of Antenna with Defected Ground Plane”
Umur Can Gurelli, Sinan Dindar, Merve Balci, Dilara Rizeli, Taha Imeci, and
Tahsin Durak
“Dual-Fed Rectangular Ring Slotted Patch Antenna”
Mert Bektas, K. Onur Akbal, Pamir Guzekin, Engin Tarakoglu, Taha Imeci,
and Tahsin Durak
“Serration Effect on Gain for Microstrip E-Shape Patch Antenna”
Alp Metin, Demet Delikanli, İsmail Kaya, Selim Keskiner, Taha Imeci, and
Tahsin Durak
“Quadruple Patch Antenna Surrounded by Double E Shape”
Abdullah Çerkezi and Taha Imeci
Break
Room Maui
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Room Waialua
Session 65
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
Advanced RF and Microwave - 1
Session Chair: Kaida Xu
“Compact Triple-Mode Bandpass Filter using Short- and Open-Stub Loaded
Spiral Resonator”
Han Xu, Kaida Xu, Yanhui Liu, and Qing Huo Liu
“Planar Microstrip Tri-Mode Bandpass Filter using Center-Stub-Loaded Spiral
Resonator”
Mengze Li, Kaida Xu, Yecheng Bai, Yanhui Liu, and Qing Huo Liu
“Design of UWB Bandpass Filter with Dual Notched Bands using E-Shaped
Resonator”
Xuemei Zheng and Tao Jiang
“Electrically Actuated Liquid Metal for Reconfigurable RF Devices”
M. Arifur Rahman, Ryan C. Gough, Matthew M. Moorefield, George B. Zhang,
Wayne A. Shiroma, and Aaron T. Ohta
“A Planar Liquid-Metal Shunt Switch”
Matthew M. Moorefield, Ryan C. Gough, Jonathan H. Dang, Aaron T. Ohta,
and Wayne A. Shiroma
Break
Room Maui
Room Kauai
Session 66
01:20PM-03:00PM
01:20PM-01:40PM
01:40PM-02:00PM
02:00PM-02:20PM
02:20PM-02:40PM
02:40PM-03:00PM
03:00PM-03:20PM
Session 67
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
03:40PM-04:00PM
04:00PM-04:20PM
04:20PM-04:40PM
Metamaterials Applications in RF Circuits - 1
Session Organizer: Mondher Labidi
Session Chair: Mondher Labidi
“Miniaturization of I-Slot Antenna with Improved Efficiency and Gain”
Mondher Labidi and Fethi Choubani
“A Wide-band Microstrip Antenna based on Active Circular SRRs”
Ridha Salhi, Mondher Labidi, and Fethi Choubani
“Design and Simulation of Active Metamaterial Structures”
Ridha Salhi, Mondher Labidi, and Fethi Choubani
“Mutual Coupling Reduction Between Patch Antenna Array Elements using
Metamaterial Z Shaped Resonators”
O. Tabbabi, M. Labidi, F. Choubani, and J. David
“Comparative Investigation of Miniaturized Antennas based on Chiral Slotted
Ground Plane”
O. Tabbabi, M. Labidi, F. Choubani, and J. David
Break
Room Maui
Room Honolulu
Uninterrupted Communication Through Tactical Network – 2
Session Organizer: Mahbub Hoque
Session Chairs: Zhengqing Yun, Mahbub Hoque
“Rapidly Deployed Communication Nodes using Self-Righting Antennas”
Steven Weiss and Gregory Mitchell
“Reduced Footprint of a Multi-band, Dual Polarization Microstrip Antenna”
Gregory Mitchell and Amir Zaghloul
“Electromagnetic Interference Among Cables and Antennas on Military
Ground Vehicles”
William R. “Dick” Smith and George Palafox
“Modeling of RF Propagation in a Radio Repeater Environment”
Alex Hastings
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04:40PM-05:00PM
“A Wideband Circularly Polarized Stacked Patch Antenna Array and Feed
System”
Gui Chao Huang, Magdy F. Iskander, and Mahbub Hoque
Room Kahuku
Session 68
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
03:40PM-04:00PM
Differential Equation Methods - 2
Session Chairs: Yasushi Kanai, Michael Greenfield
“An Efficient Pseudo-Spectral Method Based On Rational-Chebyshev and
Chebyshev Functions for Optical Waveguides Analysis”
Amgad Abd El-Mohsen Abdrabou, A. M. Heikal, and Salah S. A. Obayya
“ALEGRA Based Computation of Magnetostatic Configurations”
Michael Grinfeld, Jason McDonald, and John Niederhaus
Room Waialua
Session 69
03:20PM-05:00PM
03:20PM-03:40PM
Advanced RF and Microwave - 2
Session Chair: Kaida Xu
“Technology for Adaptive Error Recovery in Wireless Communication
Environments”
Kei Sakabe, Takanori Yamazoe, and Hiroshi Arita
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