12th European Conference on

Antennas and Propagation

(EuCAP 2018)

IET Conference Publications 741

London, United Kingdom 9 – 13 April 2018

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VOLUME 1

A PLANAR DUAL-POLARIZED ULTRA-WIDEBAND MILLIMETER-WAVE ARRAY ...... 1 Sadegh Mansouri Moghaddam, Jian Yang, Andrés Alayón Glazunov

MILLIMETRE-WAVE BEAM STEERABLE LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNA FOR 5G SYSTEMS ...... 4 Muhammad Saqib Rabbani, James Churm, Alexandros Feresidis

HIGH GAIN COMPACT 57-66 GHZ FOR BACKHAUL & ACCESS COMMUNICATIONS ...... 8 Imran Aziz, Robin Dahlback, Erik Ojefors, Anders Rydberg, Dragos Dancila

EFFECTIVE BEAM-SCANNING EFFICIENCY OF MILLIMETER-WAVE SUBARRAYS FOR 5G USER EQUIPMENT APPLICATION ...... 12 Bo Xu, Zhinong Ying, Mats Gustafsson, Sailing He

WIDEBAND MILLIMETER-WAVE END-FIRE MAGNETO-ELECTRIC FED BY SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED COAXIAL LINE ...... 16 Jiexi Yin, Qi Wu, Chen Yu, Haiming Wang, Wei Hong

A MILLIMETER WAVE TRANSPARENT TRANSMITARRAY ANTENNA USING MESHED DOUBLE CIRCLE RINGS ELEMENTS ...... 20 Guang Liu, Kien Pham, Eduardo Motta Cruz, David González Ovejero, Ronan Sauleau

A WIDEBAND BASE STATION ANTENNA WITH REDUCED BEAM SQUINT ...... 25 Haihan Sun, Can Ding, Y. Jay Guo

A GENERAL DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION METHOD OF TIGHTLY-COUPLED CROSS-DIPOLES FOR BASE STATION...... 30 C. Ding, H. Sun, Y. Guo, R. Ziolkowski

BASE STATION ANTENNA ARRAY WITH CALIBRATION STRUCTURE...... 35 Jaakko Haarla, Anu Lehtovuori, Ville Viikari

A COMPACT BROADBAND DUAL-POLARIZED ANTENNA ELEMENT FOR 2G/3G/4G BASE STATION APPLICATIONS...... 40 Yejun He, Wei Tian, Jian Qiao, Long Zhang

COMPACT FOLDED FRESNEL ZONE PLATE LENS ANTENNA FOR 5G POINT-TO-POINT COMMUNICATIONS...... 44 Mohammad Reza Dehghani Kodnoeih, Yoann Letestu, Ronan Sauleau, Eduardo Motta Cruz, André Doll

A TWO-PORT DUAL-POLARIZED RING ANTENNA FOR MASSIVE MIMO ...... 49 Kushmanda Saurav, Nazih Khaddaj Mallat, Yahia M. M. Antar

COMPACT QUADRUPLE BAND MIMO ANTENNA FOR 5G MOBILE APPLICATIONS ...... 53 Xueliang Shi, Ming Zhang, Huailin Wen, Jun Wang

28 GHZ WAVEGUIDE ANTENNAS WITH FAN-SHAPED PATTERNS FOR BASE STATIONS MIMO APPLICATIONS...... 58 Andrey Mozharovskiy, Sergey Churkin, Alexey Artemenko, Roman Maslennikov

INFLUENCE OF ON-WAFER PROBES IN MM-WAVE ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS...... 63 Q. Liu, A. C. F. Reniers, U. Johannsen, M. C. Van Beurden, A. B. Smolders

PATH LOSS MEASUREMENTS AND MODELS AT 28 GHZ FOR 90% INDOOR COVERAGE...... 68 Dmitry Chizhik, Jinfeng Du, Guillermo Castro, Mauricio Rodriguez, Rodolfo Feick, Reinaldo. A. Valenzuela

MILLIMETER-WAVE DIRECTIONAL PATH LOSS MODELS IN THE 26 GHZ, 32 GHZ, AND 39 GHZ BANDS FOR SMALL CELL 5G CELLULAR SYSTEM...... 72 Mohsen Khalily, Mir Ghoraishi, Sohail Taheri, Sohail Payami, Rahim Tafazolli

COMPARISON OF MEASURED AND THEORETICALLY PREDICTED RAIN ATTENUATION AT 32 GHZ AND 38 GHZ...... 77 Pavel Valtr, Martin Fencl, Vojtech Bareš, Pavel Pechac

EM WAVE PROPAGATION EXPERIMENT AT E BAND AND D BAND FOR 5G WIRELESS SYSTEMS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS...... 80 L. Luini, G. Roveda, M. Zaffaroni, M. Costa, C. Riva

INDOOR MILLIMETRE WAVE CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS FOR 5G WIRELESS SYSTEMS...... 85 Andrew C. M. Austin, Michael J. Neve, Damla Guven

WINDOW AND WALL PENETRATION LOSS ON-SITE MEASUREMENTS WITH THREE METHODS ...... 89 Aki Karttunen, Sinh Le Hong Nguyen, Pasi Koivumäki, Katsuyuki Haneda, Tuomo Hentilä, Ari Asp

PROPAGATION GRAPH MODELING OF TIME-VARYING RADIO CHANNELS...... 94 Kristoffer Stern, Andreas Jonas Fuglsig, Kasper Ramsgaard-Jensen, Troels Pedersen

RADIO PROPAGATION PREDICTION FOR HIGH FREQUENCY BANDS USING HYBRID METHOD OF RAY-TRACING AND ER MODEL WITH POINT CLOUD OF URBAN ENVIRONMENTS ...... 99 Inoru Inomata, Tetsuro Imai, Koshiro Kitao, Yukihiko Okumura, Sasaki Motoharu, Yasushi Takatori

INCREASED RELIABILITY OF OUTDOOR MILLIMETER-WAVE LINK SIMULATIONS BY LEVERAGING LIDAR POINT CLOUD ...... 104 Julien Stéphan, Yoann Corre, Romain Charbonnier, Yves Lostalen

26GHZ RAY-TRACING PATHLOSS PREDICTION IN OUTDOOR SCENARIO IN PRESENCE OF VEGETATION ...... 109 Francesco Mani, Enrico Maria Vitucci, Marina Barbiroli, Franco Fuschini, Vittorio Degli Esposti

A SET OF PROPAGATION MODELS FOR SITE-SPECIFIC PREDICTIONS ...... 114 Henrik Asplund, Martin Johansson, Magnus Lundevall, Niklas Jaldén

POLARIMETRIC WIDEBAND DIRECTIONAL CHANNEL MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS FOR OUTDOOR SMALL CELL SCENARIOS AT 32 GHZ AND 39 GHZ ...... 119 Mohsen Khalily, Mir Ghoraishi, Sohail Taheri, Sohail Payami, Rahim Tafazolli

PATH LOSS MODEL MODIFICATION FOR VARIOUS GAINS AND DIRECTIONS OF ANTENNAS...... 124 Jan M. Kelner, Cezary Zió-kowski

BROADBAND MM-WAVE OFDM COMMUNICATIONS IN DOUBLY SELECTIVE CHANNEL: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION USING MEASURED MM-WAVE CHANNEL ...... 128 Xiaoming Chen, Wei Fan, Gert Frølund Pedersen, Shitao Zhu, Jianxing Li, Ying Zhang, Anxue Zhang

PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS FOR DEVICE-TO-DEVICE COMMUNICATION IN FOREST TERRAIN ...... 133 Johannes Hejselbæk, Jesper Ødum Nielsen, Christian Drewes, Wei Fan, Gert Frølund Pedersen

ESTIMATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MULTIPATH CLUSTERS IN URBAN SCENARIOS ...... 138 Christian Schneider, Jonas Gedschold, Martin Käske, Reiner S. Thomä, Giovanni Del Galdo

LOCATION VARIABILITY STATISTICS BASED ON MOBILE MEASUREMENTS BELOW 6 GHZ ...... 143 C. Allen, F. Riddoch, A. Lodhi

ELEVATION ANGLE DEPENDENCE OF BUILDING ENTRY LOSS ...... 147 Satyam Dwivedi, Jonas Medbo, Dennis Sundman

SPATIAL CORRELATION OF C-V2X ANTENNAS MEASURED IN THE VIRTUAL ROAD SIMULATION AND TEST AREA...... 152 Philipp Berlt, Frank Wollenschläger, Christian Bornkessel, Matthias A. Hein

CENTIMETER-WAVE PATH LOSS AND BEAM COMBINING GAIN ANALYSIS FOR BELO HORIZONTE AND MANAUS ENVIRONMENTS IN BRAZIL ...... 157 Glaucio Lopes Ramos, Mateus Henrique Batista De Rezende, Paulo Tibúrcio Pereira

STATISTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF OVER-THE-AIR MEASUREMENTS OF ANTENNA ARRAY AT 28 GHZ ...... 162 Marko E. Leinonen, Marko Sonkki, Aarno Pärssinen

MOMENT METHOD ANALYSIS OF A RECONFIGURABLE OTA REVERBERATION CHAMBER...... 167 Benjamin T. Arnold, Michael A. Jensen

THE NEW LARGE ANTENNA POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR OVER-THE-AIR TESTING AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY ...... 170 Jeff R. Guerrieri, David Novotny, Josh Gordon, Alexandra Curtin, Michael Allman

EVALUATION OF POSITIONING TECHNIQUES FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE PORTABLE SCANNERS ...... 175 Jaime Laviada, Miguel López-Portugés, Ana Arboleya, Fernando Las-Heras

OVER-THE-AIR MIMO CHANNEL EMULATION FOR AUTOMOTIVE LTE RADIO SYSTEMS USING SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO...... 180 Andreas Schwind, Philipp Berlt, Mario Lorenz, Christian Schneider, Matthias A. Hein

RECEIVER ARRAY THINNING USING DIGITALLY ASSISTED MILLS CROSS...... 185 M. Ali Babar Abbasi, Vincent Fusco

MECHANICAL BEAM STEERING CIRCULAR ...... 188 I. F. Da Costa, H. R. D. Filgueiras, J. R. Kelly, Arismar Cerqueira S. Jr., Pei Xiao

E-PLANE BEAM WIDTH RECONFIGURABLE DIPOLE ANTENNA WITH TUNABLE PARASITIC STRIP...... 192 Jin Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Gert Frølund Pedersen

ELECTRONICALLY STEERABLE CIRCULARLY POLARIZED PLANAR ANTENNA ...... 195 Soumya Sheel, Jacob Coetzee

ON OTA THROUGHPUT EVALUATION OF 8X8 MIMO HANDSET ANTENNAS USING 3D CHANNEL MODELS...... 199 Ali Hazmi, Antti O. Karilainen, Ruiyuan Tian, Konstantin Sokolov, Zlatoljub Milosavljevic

STUDY AND COMPARISON FOR DIFFERENT MIMO ANTENNA PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METHODS...... 204 Xueliang Shi, Ming Zhang, Huailin Wen, Jun Wang

DYNAMIC RANGE IMPACT ON 3D MIMO CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS IN RURAL-MACRO SCENARIO AT 3.5 GHZ ...... 208 Weite Zhang, Lei Tian, Zhongyuan Wu, Jianhua Zhang, Yi Zheng, Jingmin Cao

MIMO PERFORMANCE OF TODAY'S METAL-COVERED HANDSET...... 213 Joni Kurvinen, Anu Lehtovuori, Jari-Matti Hannula, Ville Viikari

INFLUENCE OF A METALLIC RADIATOR ON A MULTIBAND LTE MIMO ANTENNA SYSTEM...... 218 Lamia Sadaoui, Georges Kossiavas, Robert Staraj

THE STOCHASTIC ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY OF ANTENNA-ANTENNA CROSS-CORRELATION IN MIMO SYSTEMS...... 222 Said Mikki, Jocelyn Aulin

ON MEASUREMENTS OF AVAILABILITY PENALTY DUE TO ANTENNA SEPARATION IN A 2X2 LOS- MIMO LINK...... 227 Lei Bao, Bengt-Erik Olsson, Jonas Hansryd

MEASUREMENT-BASED MASSIVE MIMO CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION IN SUBWAY STATION ...... 232 Qi Wang, Bo Ai, Ruisi He, Jianzhi Li, Bei Zhang, Mi Yang, Zhangdui Zhong

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF CONFORMAL ANTENNAS FOR SMART GLASSES...... 237 W. Haydar, S. Alsayah, R. Sarkis

ROBUST DESIGN OF LOW LEVEL ARRAY BY USING LOSSY SUPERSTRATE...... 242 Yin-Hua Yu, Zhi-Yuan Zong, Wen Wu, Da-Gang Fang

DESIGN OF MILLIMETRE WAVE PHASE SHIFTING PERIODIC METASURFACES...... 247 James Churm, Muhammad Saqib Rabbani, Alexandros Feresidis

REALIZABLE SOURCE THAT RADIATES THE FIELD OF A HERTZIAN DIPOLE WITH COMPLEX SOURCE POINT...... 251 Thorkild B. Hansen

HIGH-GAIN SERIES-FED ANTENNA FOR WEARABLE WIRELESS APPLICATIONS ...... 255 Nowrin H. Chamok, Md. Nazmul Alam, Mohammod Ali

DUAL-BAND 5G MILLIMETER-WAVE MIMO ANTENNA ARRAY FOR MOBILE PHONE APPLICATION ...... 259 Anping Zhao, Fuqiang Ai

BEAM-STEERABLE MULTI-BAND MM-WAVE BOW-TIE ANTENNA ARRAY FOR MOBILE TERMINALS ...... 264 Rocío Rodríguez-Cano, Shuai Zhang, Gert F. Pedersen

A MILLIMETER-WAVE DUAL-CIRCULARLY-POLARIZED MICROSTRIP ANTENNA ARRAY WITH A NOVEL SINGLE FEED NETWORK ...... 268 Yue Zhao, Kwai-Man Luk

A PRINTED WIDEBAND ARRAY ANTENNA WITH 45 FOR 5G APPLICATIONS...... 273 Qian Zhu, Chi Hou Chan

SUBSTRATE-INSENSITIVE PHASED ARRAY WITH IMPROVED CIRCULARLY-POLARIZED SCAN ANGLE FOR 5G MOBILE TERMINALS ...... 276 Shuai Zhang, Igor Syrytsin, Gert Frølund Pedersen

SYNTHESIS OF MULTIPLE BEAM LINEAR ARRAYS WITH UNIFORM ...... 281 Yanki Aslan, Jan Puskely, Antoine Roederer, Alexander Yarovoy

FINGER RING PHASED ANTENNA ARRAY FOR 5G IOT AND SENSOR NETWORKS AT 28 GHZ...... 286 Igor Syrytsin, Shuai Zhang, Gert Frølund Pedersen

SIW BASED ANTENNA ARRAY WITH POWER EQUALIZATION IN ELEVATION PLANE FOR 5G BASE STATIONS...... 290 Jan Puskely, Yanki Aslan, Antoine Roederer, Alexander Yarovoy

THREE-STAGE SELF-INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR SMALL FORM FACTOR REALIZATION OF IN-BAND FULL DUPLEX ...... 295 Chunqing Zhang, Leo Laughlin, Mark A. Beach, Kevin A. Morris, John L. Haine

ENHANCING THE BANDWIDTH IN TRANSMITARRAY ANTENNAS USING TAPERED TRANSMISSION LINE MATCHING APPROACH...... 300 Andrea Massaccesi, Paola Pirinoli

A FULLY PLANAR SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED PROBE-BASED WIDEBAND ORTHOMODE TRANSDUCER ...... 304 Uros Jankovic, Djuradj Budimir

DIRECTIONAL MODULATION DESIGN BASED ON CROSSED-DIPOLE ARRAYS FOR TWO SIGNALS WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARISATIONS...... 309 Bo Zhang, Wei Liu, Xiang Lan

2-BIT RECONFIGURABLE CIRCULARLY-POLARIZED UNIT-CELL AT KA-BAND...... 314 Fatimata Diaby, Luca Di Palma, Antonio Clemente, Laurent Dussopt, Kien Pham, Erwan Fourn, Ronan Sauleau

A MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM DESIGN FOR WEARABLE DEVICE USING THEORY OF CHARACTERISTIC MODE...... 317 J. Chen, M. Berg, V. Somero, H. Y. Amin, A. Pärssinen

ON BODY AND ON BODY TO OFF BODY COMMUNICATION IN THE 60 GHZ BAND FOR HEALTH MONITORING SCENARIOS ...... 322 Sana Salous, Hugo Parrott, Costas Constantinou, Yuri Nechayev

MULTI-BAND UNBROKEN METALLIC RIM ANTENNA WITH 3-D PIFA BRANCH FOR SMARTWATCH WEARABLE DEVICE ...... 326 Xianbo Cao, Wen Jiang, Shuxi Gong, Peng Liu

THE INFLUENCE OF ELEVATION ANGLE ON 60 GHZ NEAR-BODY PATH GAIN ...... 330 Lei Zhang, Adrian McKernan, Simon L. Cotton, William G. Scanlon

MILLIMETER-WAVE CIRCULARLY-POLARIZED SUBSTRATE-INTEGRATED PLANAR DISCRETE LENS`...... 335 Kossaila Medrar, Loic Marnat, Laurent Dussopt

DIELECTRIC SLAB WAVEGUIDE BASED MILLIMETER-WAVE LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNAS ...... 339 Utpal Dey, Jan Hesselbarth

140 GHZ LINEAR TO CIRCULAR POLARIZATION CONVERTOR BASED ON MODIFIED CROSS SLOT FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE WITH HIGH SELECTIVITY...... 344 Hong Bin Wang, Yu Jian Cheng

140 GHZ PLANAR GAP WAVEGUIDE ARRAY ANTENNA FOR LINE OF SIGHT (LOS) MIMO BACKHAUL LINKS...... 348 Ashraf Uz Zaman, Sofia Rahiminezad, Thomas Eriksson, Sadia Farjana, Peter Enoksson

ULTRA-WIDE BAND DIVERSITY ANTENNA FOR OMNIDIRECTIONAL COVERAGE ...... 352 Maxime Volery, Tatjana Asenov, Anja K. Skrivervik

HIGH EFFICIENT AND WIDE BANDWIDTH FRESNEL LENS ANTENNA AT MILLIMETER-WAVE...... 357 A. Jouadé, M. Himdi, O. Lafond

EFFECTS OF THE FEEDING STRUCTURE ON LOW-THZ BULL'S EYE ANTENNAS...... 361 Despoina Kampouridou, Alexandros Feresidis

24GHZ PAPER BASED INKJET PRINTED QUASI YAGI-UDA ANTENNA WITH NEW BOWTIE DIRECTOR...... 366 Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Perez, Loïc Marnat, Atif Shamim

REDUCTION OF ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM RADIO BEAM DIVERGENCE USING A 3D PRINTED PLANAR GRADED INDEX LENSES ...... 369 B Allen, T. D Drysdale, S Zhang, D Isakov, A Tennant, W Whittow, C. Stevens, J Vardaxoglou, J Coon

ROLL-TO-ROLL REVERSE OFFSET PRINTING OF MILLIMETER-WAVE TRANSMISSION LINES AND ANTENNAS ON FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATES ...... 372 Jianfang Zheng, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Asko Sneck, Tapio Mäkelä, Ari Alastalo, Antti V. Räisänen

A FLAT DUAL-POLARIZED CONTINUOUS TRANSVERSE ANTENNA ARRAY BASED ON SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE ...... 376 Tian Lou, Xue-Xia Yang, Lin Li, Elobied Abubaker

BROADBAND CIRCULARLY-POLARIZED SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE ARRAY ANTENNA WITH LOW AXIAL RATIO ...... 379 H.-T. Zhang, W. Wang, M.-P. Jin, Y.-Q. Zou

SIMPLIFIED MOLECULAR ABSORPTION LOSS MODEL FOR 275 – 400 GIGAHERTZ FREQUENCY BAND...... 383 Joonas Kokkoniemi, Janne Lehtomäki, Markku Juntti

MODIFIED KIRCHHOFF DIFFRACTION OF PULSED EM WAVES RADIATED FROM A SLOT-EXCITED FABRY-PÉROT RESONATOR ANTENNA...... 388 Martin Stumpf, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Ioan E. Lager

ULTRA-MINIATURE DUAL-BAND ANTENNA BASED ON SUBWAVELENGTH RESONATORS ON LINBO3 SUBSTRATE ...... 393 A. E. Serebryannikov, M. Gokkavas, F. T. Gundogdu, G. A. E. Vandenbosch, A. Vasylchenko, E. Ozbay

TCM-BASED MINIATURIZATION PROGRESS OF A SQUARE MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA...... 397 Yanqun Liu, Xiaoxing Yin, Shunli Li, Hongxin Zhao

IMPACT OF MULTILAYER STACK-UPS ON BOND WIRE ANTENNAS AT MILLIMETRE-WAVE FREQUENCIES ...... 401 Ivan Ndip, Martin Schneider-Ramelow, Max Huhn, Flynn Brandenburger, Martin Hempel, Klaus-Dieter Lang

IMPACT OF SOURCE ANTENNA BEAMWIDTH ON ANTENNA MEASUREMENT ACCURACY AT DSRC FREQUENCIES ...... 405 Ehab M. Rahman, Daniel N. Aloi

DESIGN OF A DUAL-BAND WEARABLE PLANAR INVERTED F ANTENNA BASED ON CHARACTERISTIC MODE THEORY ...... 410 Sen Yan, Xiaomu Hu, Jiahao Zhang, Linghui Kong, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch

MEASUREMENT-BASED ANALYSIS OF DENSE MULTIPATH COMPONENTS IN A LARGE INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE...... 413 B. Hanssens, S. R. Kshetri, E. Tanghe, D. Plets, J. Hoebeke, A. Karaagac, J. Haxhibeqiri, D. P. Gaillot, M. Liénard, C. Oestges, L. Martens, W. Joseph

DENSE MULTIPATH COMPONENT POLARIZATION AND WALL ATTENUATION AT 1.35 GHZ IN AN OFFICE ENVIRONMENT...... 418 E. Tanghe, P. Laly, D. P. Gaillot, N. Podevijn, S. Denis, N. Bnilam, B. Bellekens, R. Berkvens, M. Weyn, M. Liénard, L. Martens, W. Joseph

A WIDEBAND MULTI-BEAM YAGI BASED MIMO ANTENNA SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE PARASITIC DIRECTORS ...... 423 Syed S. Jehangir, R. Hussain, M. I. Hussein, Mohammad S. Sharawi

ANTENNA MICRO-DIVERSITY SYSTEMS HIDDEN UNDERNEATH THE CAR ROOF FOR VEHICLE-TO- X APPLICATIONS...... 427 Miguel Bueno Diez, Stefan Lindenmeier

FRACTAL ANTENNA OF MIMO SYSTEM WLAN...... 432 Thanh Nghia Cao, Wojciech J. Krzysztofik

COMPACT PLANAR FOUR ELEMENT DUAL BAND-NOTCHED UWB MIMO ANTENNA FOR PERSONAL AREA NETWORK APPLICATIONS...... 437 Deepika Sipal, Mahesh P. Abegaonkar, Shiban K. Koul

360-DEGREE POLARIZATION SCANNING WITH THE DIVERSITY OF BORESIGHT AND CONICAL PATTERNS SWITCHING...... 442 Roy B. V. B. Simorangkir, Mengze Li, Yang Yang, Kaida Xu, Karu Esselle, Eryk Dutkiewicz

BEAM-SWITCHING ANTENNA USING A NOVEL TRIANGULAR ACTIVE FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE ...... 447 Ghada Hussain Elzwawi, Hifa Elzuwawi, Tayeb A. Denidni

FABRIC BASED BEAM STEERING WEARABLE ANTENNA ARRAY ...... 451 Paul Czeresko III, Nowrin H. Chamok, Mohammod Ali

RADIATION PATTERN DESIGN USING CHARACTERISTIC MODES...... 455 Zakaria Mahlaoui, Eva Antonino-Daviu, Adnane Latif, Miguel Ferrando-Bataller

COMPACT BUTLER NETWORK FOR 2D-STEERED ARRAY ...... 459 Marzieh Salarrahimi, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch

A MULTI-WALL AND MULTI-FREQUENCY HOME ENVIRONMENT PATH LOSS CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING...... 462 Marc Kacou, Valéry Guillet, Ghaïs El Zein, Gheorghe Zaharia

EFFECT OF LINE OF SIGHT IN CLUSTERING DISTRIBUTION OF SIGNAL CONTRIBUTION AT 5.8 GHZ INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS ...... 467 Jenifer Campero, Iñigo Cuiñas

INTER-LINK INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENT OF INDOOR DENSE MILLIMETER-WAVE WLANS...... 471 Kun Zengy, Ziming Yuy, Jia Hey, Guangjian Wangy, Yan Xinz, Wen Tongz

MODELING THE POWER ANGULAR PROFILE OF DENSE MULTIPATH COMPONENTS USING MULTIPLE CLUSTERS...... 476 Brecht Hanssens, Kentaro Saito, Emmeric Tanghe, Luc Martens

ANALYSIS OF RAIN RATE ESTIMATIONS IN TROPICAL REGIONS USING A 5 GHZ MICROWAVE LINK...... 481 Boris Ramos, Michele D’Amico, Alfredo Núñez, Sucre Cando

MEASUREMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DUAL-BAND LORA COMMUNICATION IN THE ANTARCTIC...... 486 P. Torre, J. Gaelens, J. Verhaevert, H. Rogier

MEASURED DELAY AND DOPPLER PROFILES OF OVERTAKING VEHICLES AT 60 GHZ...... 491 Erich Zochmann, Christoph F. Mecklenbrauker, Martin Lerch, Stefan Pratschner, Markus Hofer, David Loschenbrand, Jiri Blumenstein, Seun Sangodoyin, Gerald Artner, Sebastian Caban, Thomas Zemen, Ales Prokes, Markus Rupp, Andreas F. Molisch

WIRELESS TRANSMISSION IN VENTILATION (HVAC) DUCTS FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS AND SMARTER BUILDINGS: PROOF OF CONCEPT AND SPECIFIC ANTENNA DESIGN...... 496 G. Villemaud, F. Hutu, P. Belloche, F. Kninech

COMPRESSIVE SPATIAL CHANNEL SOUNDING ...... 500 M. Ibrahim, W. Al-Aqqad, F. Romer, M. Kaske, S. Semper, R. S. Thoma, G. Del Galdo

UNIVERSAL IONOSONDE FOR DIAGNOSTICS OF IONOSPHERIC HF RADIO CHANNELS AND ITS APPLICATION IN ESTIMATION OF CHANNEL AVAILABILITY ...... 505 D. V. Ivanov, V. A. Ivanov, N. V. Ryabova, A. A. Elsukov, R. R. Belgibaev , V. V. Ovchinnikov

STUDYING FREQUENCY DISPERSION IN TRANSIONOSPHERIC RADIO PATHS USING THE ESTIMATES OF THE TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT...... 510 D. V. Ivanov, V. A. Ivanov, N. V. Ryabova, M. I. Ryabova, A. A. Kislitsin, V. V. Ovchinnikov

MICROSTRIP ANTENNA FOR IOT/WLAN APPLICATIONS IN SMART HOMES AT 17GHZ ...... 515 Tiago Varum, Michael Duarte, João N. Matos, Pedro Pinho

AN UWB COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE FED INTEGRATED IFA DESIGN FOR WEARABLE COMMUNICATIONS...... 519 Jinxin Du, Christophe Roblin

DUAL-BAND DUAL-POLARIZED STACKED FOR RF ENERGY HARVESTING AT 1.85 AND 2.45 GHZ ...... 524 Hichem Mahfoudi, Hakim Takhedmit, Mohamed Tellache

TEXTILE-BASED UHF RFID PATCH ANTENNA WITH H-SLOT ...... 528 Andrej Galoic, Branimir Ivsic, Davor Bonefacic, Juraj Bartolic

A BROADBAND PLANAR RHOMBUS FOR 28 GHZ MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATIONS...... 533 Hidayat Ullah, Farooq A. Tahir

DISTRIBUTED OFDM TRANSMITTER SCHEME FOR INTERNET OF THINGS...... 537 Yuan Ding, Vincent Fusco, Junqing Zhang

STATISTICAL STUDY OF COUPLING IN RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED DIPOLE SETS ...... 541 Imad Adjali, Ayichatou Gueye, Benoit Poussot, Shermila Mostarshedi, Florence Nadal, Jean-Marc Laheurte

SEMI-PLATFORM TOLERANT 20-BIT CHIPLESS RFID TAG COMPOSED OF DIPOLE ARRAY CLOSELY COUPLED TO PLATE ...... 546 Milan Polivka, Milan Svanda, Jaroslav Havlicek, Jan Machac

FEASIBILITY OF AN RFID-BASED TRANSCUTANEOUS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FOR THE CONTROL OF UPPER-LIMB MYOELECTRIC PROSTHESIS ...... 549 C. Miozzi1, S. Guido, G. Saggio, E. Gruppioni, G. Marrocco

SYNCHRONIZATION OF MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT SUB-ARRAY ANTENNAS FOR IOT APPLICATIONS...... 554 Noori Bnilam, Jan Steckel, Maarten Weyn

DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF A TWO-ELEMENT HUYGENS SOURCE BASED SUPERDIRECTIVE ARRAY...... 559 Alexandre Debard, Antonio Clemente, Christophe Delaveaud, Christopher Djoma, Patrick Potier, Philippe Pouliguen

SIMULATION MODEL FOR CHASSIS ANTENNA CAVITIES MADE FROM CARBON FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER...... 563 Gerald Artner, Philipp K. Gentner, Robert Langwieser, Christoph F. Mecklenbrauker

3D COUPLED RESONATORS FOR ENHANCED FILTER DESIGN...... 568 Andrea Vallecchi, Christopher J. Stevens, Ekaterina Shamonina

NOVEL IMPLEMENTATION FOR A BROADBAND CAVITY-BACKED SLOT FED IN TRANSMISSION CON GURATION ...... 572 Alberto Hernandez-Escobar, Elena Abdo-Sanchez, Carlos Camacho-Penalosa

NEW WIDEBAND WEARABLE NOTCH ANTENNAS FOR ENERGY HARVESTING APPLICATIONS...... 575 Albert Sabban

WAVEFORM MATCHING BASED REAL-TIME ABLATION MONITORING FOR MICROWAVE BREAST CANCER ABLATION...... 580 Kazuki Kanazawa, Shouhei Kidera

CONVEX LENSES MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA SCHEME...... 585 Maha R. Abdel-Haleem, Tamer Abouelnaga, Sabah M. Ahmed, Mohammed Abo-Zahhad

NEW APPROACH FOR THE DESIGN OF UWB MONOPOLES WITH DIRECTIVE RADIATION FOR BAN APPLICATIONS...... 590 Hamza Benchakroun, Marta Cabedo-Fabrés, Miguel Ferrando-Bataller, Zakaria Mahlaoui, Adnane Latif

THIN CAVITY-BACKED FOR DEEPLY IMPLANTABLE DEVICES...... 595 Longfang Zou, Mohammad Reza Bahmanyar, Christopher McLeod

DOSIMETRIC COMPARISON USING THE HUMAN MODELS RECONSTRUCTED BY PRECISE SEGMENTATION, TISSUE SIMPLIFICATION AND TEMPLATE BASED REGISTRATION...... 598 Congsheng Li, Xiaobang Sun, Tongning Wu

EFFICIENT AND FULL-WAVE ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS OF MRI ANTENNAS USING THE ARRAY SCANNING METHOD...... 601 J. Ignacio Echeveste, Denis Tihon, Marc Dubois, Redha Abdeddaim, Stefan Enoch, Christophe Craeye

INTERDIGITAL BASED EBG: COMPACT AND POLARIZATION STABLE FOR MBAN AND WI-FI...... 606 Dinesh Rano, Mohammad Hashmi

A NEW APPROACH OF MULTI-PARAMETER UWB ANTENNA MODELING BASED ON KNOWLEDGE- BASED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK ...... 611 Mohammad Ojaroudi, Stéphane Bila, François Torrès

DECOUPLING OF DUAL-TUNED MRI COILS BY USING DISTRIBUTED MAGNETIC TRAPS ...... 616 Nunzia Fontana, Filippo Costa, Danilo Brizi, Gianluigi Tiberi, Angelo Galante, Marcello Alecci, Agostino Monorchio

HIGH SENSITIVITY INKJET-PRINTED TERAHERTZ METALLIC HOLE ARRAY SENSOR...... 621 Ahmed K. Aziz, Syeda Fizzah Jilani, Akram Alomainy, Khalid Z. Rajab

PENETRATION DEPTH EVALUATION OF SPLIT RING RESONATOR SENSOR USING IN-VIVO MICROWAVE REFLECTIVITY AND ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENTS ...... 625 Syaiful Redzwan Mohd Shah, Jacob Velander, Parul Mathur, Mauricio. D. Perez, Noor Badariah Asan, Dhanesh G. Kurup, Taco Blokhuis, Robin Augustine

BOUNDARY EXTRACTION ENHANCED INVERSE SCATTERING METHOD FOR MICROWAVE MAMMOGRAPHY ...... 630 Kazuki Noritake, Shouhei Kidera

A LIQUID WITH TUNEABLE DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES FOR WIDEBAND MICROWAVE SENSING OF BIOLOGICAL TARGETS...... 635 Tommy Henriksson, David Gibbins, Dallan Byrne, Ian Craddock

ENHANCING THE SENSITIVITY OF HARMONIC MOTION MICROWAVE DOPPLER IMAGING USING MAIN SIGNAL CANCELLATION CIRCUIT ...... 639 Umit Irgin, Can Bar s Top, Damla Alptekin Soydan, Nevzat G. Gencer

MULTI-FUNCTIONAL PHANTOM MODEL TO VALIDATE MICROWAVE SENSORS FOR HEALTH MONITORING APPLICATIONS ...... 644 Jacob Velander, Syaiful Redzwan Mohd Shah, Mauricio David Perez, Noor Badariah Asan, Taco J. Blokhuis, Robin Augustine

AN IN VIVO EXPOSURE-SYSTEM FOR WIDE-BAND ELECTRIC PULSES...... 649 C. Merla, F. Apollonio, A. Paffi, P. T. Vernier, M. Liberti

DISCRETE BOWTIE PLASMONIC NANOANTENNA ...... 653 Javier Mendez, Gabriel González, Alexander Cuadrado, J. Alda, Francisco J. González

CHARACTERISTIC OF SPATIAL DISTRIBUTED FIELD ON MARINE ENVIRONMENT WITH MULTI- SHIPS AND WAKES...... 657 Min Zhang, Jinxing Li

DOPPLER SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS FROM DYNAMIC MIXED SEA WAVES ...... 661 Ding Nie, Min Zhang

ACTIVE CANCELLATION OF BISTATIC SCATTERING OF LARGE AIRCRAFT USING CONFORMAL 4- PORT MAGNETIC ANTENNA...... 664 Andrey I. Semenikhin, Diana V. Semenikhina, Yury V. Yukhanov, Artem I. Chernokolpakov

FAST RCS PREDICTION OF ELECTRICALLY LARGE TARGETS COATED WITH RADAR ABSORBING MATERIALS...... 669 Michele Borgese, Pierpaolo Usai, Filippo Costa, Agostino Monorchio

CODING DIFFUSE SURFACE FOR RCS SUPPRESSION...... 674 M. Akbari, F. Samadi, M. J. Moghadam, A. R. Sebak

ULTRA-WIDEBAND HARMONIC-SUPPRESSED BANDPASS/STOP FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE SURFACE BASED ON L-C LUMPED ELEMENTS...... 678 Ahmed Abdelmottaleb Omar, Zhongxiang Shen

EVALUATION OF CARBON-FIBER-REINFORCED PLASTICS FOR AUTOMOTIVE RADAR APPLICATIONS...... 683 Patrick Hoerner, Niels Koch

MICROWAVE ABSORBER USING SINGLE-LAYER FSS WITH WIDEBAND OPERATION ABOVE THE X- BAND...... 686 Hamza Ahmad, Muhammad U. Khan, Farooq A. Tahir, Rifaqat Hussain, Mohammad S. Sharawi

EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL FOR CROSS-SHAPED FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE ABSORBING MATERIAL...... 689 Wei Zhang, Jianying Li, Guangwei Yang, Rui Xu, Feng Liu

LOW-PASS FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE FOR A DUALBAND GYRO-MULTIPLIER CHARACTERIZED BY THZ-TDS ...... 693 Xiaoming Liu, Jun Zhou, Cuiwei Tang, Junsheng Yu, Xiang Li, Xiaodong Chen

PHASE MANAGEMENT FOR EXTENDED SCAN RANGE ANTENNA ARRAYS BASED ON ROTMAN LENS ...... 697 Enrico Tolin, Oliver Litschke, Francesca Vipiana

DETERMINISTIC SYNTHESIS OF COMPLEX SHAPED-BEAM RADIATION PATTERNS USING CONFORMAL APERIODIC ANTENNA ARRAYS...... 702 Diego Caratelli, Giovanni Toso

UNIFORM ARRAYS WITH LOW SIDELOBE TWO-WAY ANTENNA PATTERNS ...... 707 Randy L. Haupt, Payam Nayeri

IMPLEMENTATION OF A CORRECTING COUPLING MECHANISM TO MITIGATE SURFACE WAVE IN PHASED ARRAYS ...... 709 Aurelien Ayissi Manga, Raphael Gillard, Renaud Loison, Isabelle Le Roy-Naneix, Christian Renard

COMPENSATION METHOD FOR DISTORTED ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS IN CONDITION OF QUANTIZATION ERRORS BASED ON STRUCTURAL-ELECTROMAGNETIC COUPLING...... 713 Yan Wang, Congsi Wang, Wei Gao, Qian Xu, Shuai Yuan, Haihua Li, Kang Ying

W-BAND TRUE-TIME DELAY PHASE SHIFTERS USING PARAFFIN MICROACTUATORS ...... 718 Behnam Ghassemiparvin, Nima Ghalichechian

HALF ELLIPSOID LUNEBURG GRIN DIELECTRIC LENS LOADED DOUBLE RIDGED HORN ANTENNA...... 722 Karina Vieira Hoel, Stein Kristoffersen, Maxim Ignatenko, Dejan Filipovic

RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS OF EWE ANTENNA ON ACTUAL GROUND FOR LANDSLIDES PREDICTION BASED ON BISTATIC RADAR SYSTEM USING AM RADIO BROADCASTING ...... 727 Kousei Kumahara, Futoshi Kuroki, Masanori Eguchi, Takeshi Yamakawa

COMPACT UWB CIRCULARLY POLARIZED DIELECTRIC ROD ANTENNA DESIGN ...... 732 Gregory D. Waigwright, Chi-Chih Chen

OPTIMIZATION OF A MULTI-RECEIVER FMCW RADAR FOR SNOW COVER MONITORING ...... 737 Pedro Fidel Espin-Lopez, Marco Pasian, Massimiliano Barbolini, Fabio Dell’Acqua

SIMPLE SURFACE-WAVE LAUNCHING BY PARALLEL-PLATE AND MICROSTRIP FEEDING FOR LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNAS AND OTHER PLANAR GUIDED-WAVE APPLICATIONS ...... 741 Victoria Gomez-Guillamon Buend a, Symon K. Podilchak

A HYBRID ANTENNA ELEMENT FOR TRAVELLING WAVE DUAL-PLANE MONOPULSE SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS...... 745 Gokhan Gultepe, Doganay Dogan, Ozlem Aydin Civi

ACCURATE AND SIMPLIFIED NETWORK MODEL FOR COMPOSITE RIGHT-LEFT HANDED TRANSMISSION LINE ...... 749 Ke Chen, Yunhua Zhang, Siyuan He, Guoqiang Zhu

MILLIMETER-WAVE SUBSTRATE-INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE BASED LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNA WITH BROADBEAM RADIATION AT BROADSIDE...... 753 Miguel Poveda-García, Symon K. Podilchak, George Goussetis, José Luis Gómez-Tornero

TWO-DIMENSIONAL PERIODIC LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNA FOR OBLIQUE FREQUENCY SCANNING...... 758 Amar Al-Bassam, Dirk Heberling, Christophe Caloz

MILLIMETRE-WAVE FMCW MIMO RADAR SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT USING BROADBAND SIW ANTENNAS ...... 762 Cristian A. Alistarh, Pascual D. Hilario Re, Thomas M. Strober, Samuel A. Rotenberg, Symon K. Podilchak, Carolina Mateo- Segura, Yan Pailhas, George Goussetis, Yvan Petillot, John Thompson, Jaesup Lee

A SINGLE ANTENNA RADAR SENSOR WITH FMCW RADAR TRANSCEIVER IC ...... 767 Kyung Ha Yoo, Sang Gyun Kim, Yun Seong Eo

VOLUME 2

A SEA-WAVE-DYNAMICS MONITORING RADAR BASED ON PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS OF ECHO SIGNALS...... 771 Nanxin Wang, Xuefeng Yin, Xuesong Cai, Antonio Pérez Yuste, Yuanmiao Hu

TOA ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS EVALUATED ACCORDING ED-117 MINIMUM OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS FOR MODE S MULTILATERATION SYSTEMS ...... 776 Stephan Bernhart, Gerhard A. Hofbauer, Ulrich Feichter, Erich Leitgeb

ON THE USE OF A HYBRID MONOSTATIC-BISTATIC RADAR SYSTEM FOR A 3D STANDOFF IMAGING ...... 781 Lorena Pérez-Eijo, Borja Gonzalez-Valdes, Yolanda Rodríguez-Vaqueiro, Marcos Arias, Óscar Rubiños López, Antonio Pino

TIME OF FLIGHT SPHERE-BASED RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM AND PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR MULTI-MONOSTATIC PORTAL-BASED SCANNERS ...... 785 Kurt P. Jaisle, Carey M. Rappaport

FEASABILITY OF COMPACT DUAL-POLARIZED PHASED ANTENNA ARRAY RADARS...... 789 Mariana Pralon, Leandro Pralon, Bruno Pompeo, Gabriel Beltrao, Tadeu Pasetto, Arismar Cerqueira, Edson Reis, Reiner Thoma

AUTOMOTIVE RADAR AND RADOME CALIBRATION TO IMPROVE THE DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL DETECTION PERFORMANCE ...... 794 Santi Buitrago, Sebastián Blanch, Jordi Romeu

A TECHNIQUE FOR MEASURING THE RCS OF FREE-FLYING HONEYBEES WITH A 24 GHZ CW DOPPLER RADAR...... 799 Herbert M. Aumann

DIRECTIVITY ENHANCEMENT TO ANTIPODAL WITH SLOT EDGES USING ZERO-INDEX FOR S-BAND SAR APPLICATION ...... 803 Diego Peñaloza-Aponte, Mark Clemente-Arenas

FIRST STEP TOWARDS A COMPARISON BETWEEN 3D SOURCE GEOMETRIES FOR CONFORMAL ANTENNAS ...... 808 Giovanni Leone, Maria Antonia Maisto, Rocco Pierri

NONRADIATING SOURCES, CLOAKING DEVICES AND RELATED ANAPOLE MODES ...... 812 Giuseppe Labate, Nikita A. Nemkov, Alexey A. Basharin, Ladislau Matekovits

COMPUTER TOOL FOR SIMULATING FREQUENCY MODULATED –CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR SYSTEMS IN URBAN TRAFFIC SCENES...... 815 Alvaro Somolinos, Jose-Luis García, Lorena Lozano, Iván González, Felipe Cátedra

RETRODIRECTIVE METASURFACE OPERATING SIMULTANEOUSLY AT MULTIPLE INCIDENT ANGLES...... 818 Mohammed Kalaagi, Divitha Seetharamdoo

ACCURACY TEST OF ITERATIVE PHYSICAL OPTICS FOR ANALYZING SCATTERING BY NONPERFECTLY CONDUCTING BODIES USING IMPEDANCE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ...... 823 Jae-Won Rim, Il-Suek Koh

MITIGATING INTERNAL RESONANCES OF THE MAGNETIC-FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION VIA DOUBLE-LAYER MODELING...... 827 Sadri Guler, Hande Ibili, Ozgur Ergul

MULTISTATIC RADAR FOR CONTINUOUS WIND TURBINE BLADES INSPECTION: RESULTS FROM A FIELD STUDY ...... 831 Jochen Moll, Moritz Malzer, Jonas Simon, Viktor Krozer, Dimitry Pozdniakov, Rahmi Salman, Manfred Durr, Michael Feulner, Herbert Friedmann, Andreas Nuber, Christian Kramer

HYBRID THIN FILM MULTILAYER ANTENNA FOR AUTOMOTIVE RADAR AT 77 GHZ ...... 835 Osama Khan, Johannes Meyer, Klaus Baur, Saeed Arafat, Christian Waldschmidt

DESIGN OF FILTER-HORN ANTENNA BASED ON GROOVE GAP WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY FOR V- BAND APPLICATION...... 840 H. Oraizi, M. Hamedani, D. Zarifi, A. Amini

MONOPULSE RLSA ANTENNA BASED ON A GAP WAVEGUIDE BUTLER MATRIX WITH A FEEDING CAVITY AT 94 GHZ...... 844 Adrián Tamayo-Domínguez, Yasar Kurdi, José-Manuel Fernández-González, Manuel Sierra-Castañer

A COMPLEX LOW-RCS ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR THE PLACEMENT OF MM-WAVE AUTOMOTIVE RADARS BEHIND CAR BUMPERS ...... 849 C. Vasanelli, F. Bogelsack, C. Waldschmidt

LOW-THZ TRANSMISSION THROUGH LIQUID CONTAMINANTS ON ANTENNA RADOME ...... 854 Fatemeh Norouzian, Rui Du, Emidio Marchetti, Marina Gashinova, Edward Hoare, Costas Constantinou, Peter Gardner, Mikhail Cherniakov

AN ABSORPTIVE FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE REFLECTOR BASED ON MINIATURIZED SQUARE-LOOP RESONATOR...... 858 Hao Huang, Zhongxiang Shen

AN ULTRA-THIN TRIPLE-BAND ABSORBER WITH EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT ANALYSIS...... 862 Xianliang Zeng, Linxi Zhang, Guobin Wan, Meng Gao, Bin Hu

HYBRID PHYSICAL OPTICS-RAY TRACING METHOD FOR THE RCS CALCULATION OF ELECTRICALLY LARGE OBJECTS COVERED WITH RADAR ABSORBING MATERIALS ...... 866 Pierpaolo Usai, Michele Borgese, Filippo Costa, Agostino Monorchio

RETRIEVING THE CONSTITUTIVE PARAMETERS OF METAL-BACKED RADAR ABSORBING MATERIAL BY PHASE UNWRAPPING METHOD ...... 870 Bin Fu, Xin Ma, Guobin Wan

A BROADBAND METAMATERIAL BASED RADAR ABSORBER...... 874 T. Beeharry, R. Yahiaoui, K. Selemani, H. Hafdallah Ouslimani

UNEVEN-LAYERED METAMATERIAL TILE FOR ULTRAWIDEBAND RCS REDUCTION ...... 878 Jianxun Su, Shan Zhao, Jinbo Liu, Zengrui Li

THE DESIGN OF HIGH-RESPONSIVITY MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGER USING VANADIUM DIOXIDE MICROBOLOMETERS ...... 881 Shangyi Chen, Behnam Ghassemiparvin, Nima Ghalichechian

3D PRINTED COMPRESSIVE HORN ANTENNA FOR HIGH-SENSING-CAPACITY MILLIMETER-WAVE IMAGING ...... 885 Ali Molaei, Juan Heredia-Juesas, Luis Tirado, Weite Zhang, Anthony Bisulco, Alexander Zhu, Diego Cachay, Ashkan Ghanbarzadeh Dagheyan, Jose Martinez-Lorenzo

A MODIFIED CONTRAST SOURCE INVERSION METHOD FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF INNOVATIVE DIELECTRIC DEVICES...... 889 Roberta Palmeri, Martina Teresa Bevacqua, Andrea Francesco Morabito, Tommaso Isernia

SUPPRESSING GHOST IMAGES FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE THZ IMAGING WITH LARGE SAMPLING SPACING ...... 893 Shaoqing Hu, Min Zhou, Xiaodong Chen, Yasir Alfadhl

DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF NONUNIFORM HELICAL ANTENNAS FOR DETECTION OF SIDE- CHANNEL ATTACKS IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS...... 897 Sinan Adibelli, Ružica Golubovic, Antonije Djordjevic, Dragan Olcan, Alenka Zajic

AN IMPROVED DIRECTIONAL MODULATION TECHNIQUE BASED ON FOUR-DIMENSIONAL RETRODIRECTIVE ARRAYS ...... 902 Chao Sun, Shiwen Yang, Yikai Chen

A FULLY-PLANAR 6:1 ANTENNA ARRAY APERTURE ...... 906 John T. Logan, Rick W. Kindt

SMOOTH-WALLED SPLINE-PROFILE HORN FEED TO ENLARGE COMPACT ANTENNA TEST RANGE QUIET ZONE...... 909 C. G. Parini, C. Granet, R. Dubrovka, S. F. Gregson, J. Kot

MINIATURIZED SWITCHLESS PATTERN RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA UTILIZING SPHERICAL MODES ANALYSIS ...... 914 Adam Narbudowicz, M. J. Ammann, Nicola Marchetti

A DUAL PIFA BASED MIMO AND TUNABLE DGS MIMO ANTENNA SYSTEM ...... 918 Rifaqat Hussain, Muhammad U. Khan, Mohammad S. Sharawi

DESIGN CRITERIA OF X-WAVE LAUNCHERS FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE APPLICATIONS...... 922 Walter Fuscaldo, Santi C. Pavone, Davide Comite, Guido Valerio, Matteo Albani, Mauro Ettorre, Alessandro Galli

A COMPACT PHASE SHIFTER IN GROOVE GAP WAVEGUIDE FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE APPLICATIONS...... 926 Seyed Ali Razavi, Ashraf Uz Zaman

NEAR-FIELD ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS USING A LITHIUM NIOBATE PHOTONIC PROBE ...... 929 Vince Rodriguez, Brett Walkenhorst, Jim Toney

RAY-BASED PREDICTIONS OF THE OUTDOOR-TO-INDOOR MASSIVE MIMO CHANNEL...... 934 Mohammed Zahid Aslam, Yoann Corre, Gregory Gougeon, Yves Lostanlen

TDOA-BASED OUTDOOR POSITIONING IN A PUBLIC LORA NETWORK...... 939 Nico Podevijn, Jens Trogh, Abdulkadir Karaagac , Jetmir Haxhibeqiri

ANALYSIS OF IONOSPHERIC GPS TEC MEASUREMENTS DURING TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OVER AMERICAN REGION ON AUGUST 21, 2017 ...... 943 Teddy M. Surco Espejo, Emanoel Costa

MEASUREMENTS AND MODEL FOR THE SATELLITE-TO-AIRCRAFT CHANNEL IN L-BAND...... 948 Thomas Jost, Wei Wang, Martin Schwinzerl, Fernando Perez-Fontan, Michael Schonhuber, Nicolas Floury

COMPARISON OF THEORETICAL SCINTILLATION SPECTRA WITH EQUATORIAL GNSS DATA ...... 953 Aurélien Galmiche, Laurent Féral, Vincent Fabbro, Sébastien Rougerie, Damien Serant

RSS-BASED DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL ESTIMATION WITH INCREASED ACCURACY FOR ARBITRARY ELEVATION ANGLES USING ESPAR ANTENNAS ...... 957 M. Rzymowski, L. Kulas

EFFICIENT RF COVERAGE PREDICTION THROUGH A FULLY DISCRETE, GPU-PARALLELIZED RAY- LAUNCHING MODEL ...... 961 V. Degli-Esposti, J. S. Lu, E. M. Vitucci, F. Fuschini, M. Barbiroli, J. Blaha, H. L. Bertoni

A COMPACT DUAL-WIDEBAND AUTOMOTIVE RING ANTENNA FOR GNSS L1- AND L2-BAND...... 966 Sebastian Matthie, Stefan Lindenmeier

LOW-COST HARDWARE PLATFORM FOR ANGLE OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION USING COMPRESSIVE SENSING...... 970 Jan Steckel, Dennis Laurijssen, Anthony Schenck, Noori Bnilam, Maarten Weyn

SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO SYSTEM FOR TRACKING APPLICATION...... 974 C. Campo, L. Bernard, H. Boeglen, S. Hengy, J.-M. Paillot

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF LOCALIZATION ACCURACY OF MULTIPLE SUBJECTS USING MULTIPLE RECEIVING STATIONS ...... 979 Nobuyuki Shiraki, Dai Sasakawa, Naoki Honma, Takeshi Nakayama, Shoichi IIzuka

WIRELESS DETECTION OF MOVING CHIPLESS TAGS MADE OF METAMATERIAL RESONATORS...... 981 Filippo Costa, Michele Borgese, Antonio Gentile, Simone Genovesi, Luca Buoncristiani, Francesco Alessio Dicandia, Davide Bianchi, Agostino Monorchio, Giuliano Manara

AN ARRAY ANTENNA FOR LOW POWER LOCALISATION OF GPS INTERFERENCE ...... 985 Elizabeth M. Lloyd, Robert J. Watson

METASURFACE-INSPIRED ANTENNA IN CAVITY FOR GNSS APPLICATIONS...... 990 L. García-Gámez, L. Bernard, R. Sauleau, S. Collardey, K. Mahdjoubi, P. Pouliguen, P. Potier

A SPHERICAL MODEL OF THE ARRAY FACTOR FOR ACTIVE ELEMENT PATTERN SYNTHESIS ...... 994 Ayichatou Gueye, Benoit Poussot, Florence Nadal, Genevieve Baudoin

MEASUREMENTS OF UWB PULSE PROPAGATION ALONG A WIND TURBINE BLADE AT 1 TO 20 GHZ ...... 999 Johannes Hejselbæk, Igor Syrytsin, Patrick Eggers

RAIN ATTENUATION AT LOW ELEVATION ANGLES: A STEP TOWARDS A LEO TIME SERIES GENERATOR ...... 1004 L. M. Tomaz, C. Capsoni

THREE YEARS OF ATMOSPHERIC CHARACTERIZATION AT KA/Q-BAND WITH THE NASA/POLIMI ALPHASAT RECEIVER IN MILAN, ITALY...... 1009 Michael Zemba, James Nessel, Lorenzo Luini, Carlo Riva

PREDICTING MEAN RADIATIVE TEMPERATURE AT MILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS IN CONTINENTAL CLIMATE AREAS ...... 1014 Biscarini M., Milani L., Marzano F. S., K. De Sanctis, Montopoli M., S. Di Fabio, Brost G. A.

IMPACT OF ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS ON MULTI-LAYER RADOMES INSTALLED IN ARCTIC REGIONS...... 1019 A. Martellosio, M. Pasian, F. Concaro, P. Besso

MULTI-FREQUENCY GNSS DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA WITH IN-BAND FILTERING...... 1024 Slobodan Jovic, Michel Clénet, Yahia M. M. Antar

COMPARISON OF OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES FOR THE DESIGN OF CONTINUOUS PARALLEL PLATE WAVEGUIDE MULTIPLE BEAM LENS ANTENNAS...... 1028 François Doucet, Nelson J. G. Fonseca, Etienne Girard, Hervé Legay, Ronan Sauleau

HYBRID WITH REDUCED GRATING LOBES FOR SATELLITE APPLICATIONS...... 1033 Vincent Tugend, Andrew Thain

PRELIMINARY CONFIGURATION DESIGN OF MESH ANTENNAS USING INTEGRATED STRUCTURAL- ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD...... 1038 Zong Yali, Wang Congsi, Ji Lu-Yang, Zhang Shuangxi

DISPERSION ANALYSIS OF POLAR GLIDE SYMMETRY WITH COAXIAL RINGS ...... 1042 Qiao Chen, Guido Valerio, Oscar Quevedo-Teruel

A FAST COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHM TO EVALUATE LARGE TRANSMIT-ARRAYS...... 1045 Parinaz Naseri, Sergio A. Matos, Jorge R. Costa, Carlos. A. Fernandes

REFLECTOR ANTENNA OPTIMIZATION USING ONE-SIDED LEAST-SQUARES ...... 1050 Anders Eltved, Oscar Borries, Martin S. Andersen

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED FABRY-PEROT ANTENNA FED BY AN ARBITRARILY-ROTATED SOURCE ...... 1055 Antoine Calleau, Maria Garcia-Vigueras, Hervé Legay, Ronan Sauleau, Mauro Ettorre

COMPACT FREQUENCY RECONFIGURABLE MAGNETO-ELECTRIC CROSSED DIPOLE IN VHF BAND ...... 1058 Abdul-Sattar Kaddour, Serge Bories, Anthony Bellion, Christophe Delaveaud

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF KU BAND HORN ANTENNAS FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS SPACE APPLICATIONS...... 1060 Yann Cailloce, Philippe Hourlay, Florent Lebrun, Baptiste Palacin

3D-METAL-PRINTED 60 GHZ OFFSET DUAL-REFLECTOR ANTENNA WITH INTEGRATED CONICAL FEED HORN AND CIRCULAR-TO-RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE TRANSITION ...... 1064 Ruben T. Sanchez, Olav Breinbjerg, Oleksiy S. Kim

LARGE APERTURE METAL-MESH LENSES FOR THZ ASTRONOMY ...... 1069 Paul Moseley, Giorgio Savini, Peter Ade

KU-BAND GROUNDED DIELECTRIC SLAB BASED ASYMMETRIC BULL'S-EYE ANTENNA FED BY MONOPOLE ...... 1072 U. Beaskoetxea, A. E. Torres-García, M. Beruete

INTEGRATED BEAM-SCANNING ANTENNA FOR HETERODYNE INSTRUMENTS AT SUBMILLIMETER-WAVE FREQUENCIES FOR MARTIAN CLIMATOLOGY MEASUREMENTS...... 1075 M. Alonso-Delpino, C. Jung-Kubiak, T. Reck, N. Livesey, L. Tamppari, N. Llombart, G. Chattopadhyay

3.5-THZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASER EMISSION FROM DUAL DIAGONAL FEEDHORNS ...... 1078 B. N. Ellison, A Valavanis, O. Auriacombe, T. Rawlings, N. Brewster, M. L. Oldfield1, Y. Han, L. H. Li, E. H. Linfield, A. G. Davies, E. Saenz

PLANAR METASURFACE FOR RECONFIGURABLE REFLECTOR ANTENNAS...... 1082 Badreddine Ratni, André De Lustrac, Gérard-Pascal Piau, Shah Nawaz Burokur

LARGE DEPLOYABLE ANTENNAS BENCHMARK FOR CONTOURED BEAM MISSION IN C BAND ...... 1086 Jakob Rosenkrantz De Lasson, Min Zhou, Cecilia Cappellin

UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION FOR REFLECTOR ANTENNAS ...... 1091 Oscar Borries, Erik Jørgensen, Peter Meincke, Niels Vesterdal, Michael Forum Palvig, Tonny Rubæk

COMPACT DIELECTRIC FILLED SEPTUM POLARIZER FEEDER FOR A DUAL POL MTS ANTENNA...... 1096 A. Tellechea, J. C. Iriarte, J. Teniente, I. Ederra, R. Gonzalo

HIGH-GAIN REFLECTOR FEED FOR MULTIBEAM COVERAGE...... 1099 R. T. Maximidis, D. Caratelli, G. Toso, A. B. Smolders

DIRECTIONAL COUPLER WITH 3 INPUT / 3 OUTPUT SQUARE WAVEGUIDE DUAL-POLARIZATION PORTS...... 1102 A. Morini, M. Baldelli, P. Angeletti, D. Petrolati, G. Toso, G. Venanzoni

WIDEBAND HIGH-GAIN CIRCULARLY-POLARISED ANTENNA BASED ON FABRY-PEROT CONCEPT AND A CONICAL HORN...... 1106 Yuehe Ge, Kaiyuan Qin

A MODULAR PHASED ARRAY TRANSCEIVER WITH RF-MEMS SPDT SWITCHES IN A 0.25 µM SIGE BICMOS TECHNOLOGY...... 1109 Tobias Chaloun, Filipe Tabarani, Selin Tolunay Wipf

KA-BAND MULTIBEAM ANTENNA DEVELOPMENT FOR VHTS...... 1114 Raffaele Di Bari, Benoit Albert, Alaa Abunjaileh

PREDICTING NEAR-TIME SATELLITE SIGNAL ATTENUATION AT KA-BAND USING TROPOSPHERIC WEATHER FORECAST MODEL ...... 1117 Knut Grythe, Lars Erling Bråten, Snorre Stavik Rønning, Terje Tjelta

CHANNEL MODELLING FOR VHF DATA EXCHANGE SYSTEM VIA SATELLITE...... 1122 Lars Erling Bråten, Vegard Arneson, Knut Svenes, Torkild Eriksen, Øystein Olsen

LONG-TERM AND SHORT-TERM ATMOSPHERIC IMPAIRMENTS FORECASTING FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ...... 1127 Charilaos Kourogiorgas, Apostolos Z. Papafragkakis, Athanasios D. Panagopoulos, Spiros Ventouras

KA-BAND SCINTILLATION ON LOW-ELEVATION SATELLITE- EARTH LINKS IN THE ARCTIC; LONG- TERM MEASUREMENTS AND IMPROVED MODELLING...... 1132 Martin Rytir

MEASUREMENTS AND STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A DUAL-POLARIZED MIMO LMS CHANNEL ...... 1137 Nektarios Moraitis, Sotiria Stathopoulou, Viktor Nikolaidis, Konstantina S. Nikita

RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS OF SKEWED LOADED DIPOLE ARRAYS...... 1142 Cristina Yepes, Ralph Van Schelven, Daniele Cavallo, Erio Gandini, Andrea Neto

CAPACITY EVALUATION OF A SATELLITE-TO-INDOOR NARROWBAND DUAL POLARIZED MIMO CHANNEL ...... 1145 Viktor Nikolaidis, Nektarios Moraitis, Demosthenes Vouyioukas, Athanasios G. Kanatas

RELIABILITY OF DISDROMETER-DERIVED W-BAND ATTENUATION PREDICTIONS ...... 1150 M. Schönhuber, F. Cuervo, N. Knoll, V. Mitterauer

ANTENNA AND PROPAGATION ASPECTS OF A FUTURE GNSS-REFLECTOMETRY MISSION ...... 1154 Franz Teschl, Manuela Wenger, Andreas Dielacher, Reinhard Teschl

DIAMOND TILING OPTIMIZATION FOR HEXAGONAL SHAPED PHASED ARRAYS...... 1159 Nicola Anselmi, Lorenzo Poli, Paolo Rocca, Andrea Massa

COMPRESSIVE SENSING APPROACH TO THE SYNTHESIS OF SPARSE ANTENNA ARRAYS ...... 1162 G. Buttazzoni, R. Vescovo

HYBRID SIMULATIONS WITH MEASUREMENTS AS IMPROVED TECHNIQUE TO OBTAIN THE COMPLEX ANTENNA RESPONSES ON STRUCTURES...... 1167 Adrien Beaudiot, Cyrille Le Meins, William Hubert, Cyrille Menudier, Cyril Decroze

STABLE TD-EFIE DISCRETIZED WITH IMPLICIT RUNGE-KUTTA METHODS ...... 1172 Alexandre Dely, Francesco P. Andriulli, Kristof Cools

IMPLEMENTATION OF FDTD WAVEGUIDE PORT BASED ON VIRTUAL DOMAIN...... 1175 Xi Chao Bo, Jian Feng Zhang, Tie Jun Cui

AN EFFICIENT DOMAIN CASCADING APPROACH FOR LINEAR DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN SCHEMES...... 1178 Doganay Dogan, Mustafa Kuzuoglu

TOWARDS PERFORMANCE OPTIMISATION OF THE FDTD METHOD VIA MATRIX CASTING APPROACH...... 1183 Maksims Abalenkovs

A COST-EFFECTIVE SET-UP FOR TIME MODULATED ARRAY MEASUREMENT USING SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO...... 1188 A Cost-Effective Set-Up For Time Modulated Array Measurement Using Software Defined Radio

NONCONVEX PHASELESS NEAR-FIELD FAR-FIELD TRANSFORMATION FOR ELECTRICALLY LARGE PROBLEMS ...... 1191 Alexander Paulus, Josef Knapp, Thomas F. Eibert

A SCATTEROMETER OPERATING AT MILLIMETRE AND SUB-MILLIMETRE WAVE WAVELENGTHS ...... 1196 R. Appleby, R. Wylde, S. Froud, C. Cappellin, P. H. Nielsen, P. Atkin, E. Saenz

A COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF Λ/2 AND Λ/4 SAMPLING STEP IN PHASELESS PLANAR NEAR-FIELD MEASUREMENTS AT 60GHZ ...... 1201 Javier Fernandez Alvarez, Olav Breinbjerg

COMPRESSIVE SENSING APPROACH FOR FAST ANTENNA FAR FIELD CHARACTERIZATION ...... 1206 Benjamin Fuchs, Laurent Le Coq, Sebastien Rondineau, Marco Donald Migliore

A TRUNCATION CRITERION IN PLANAR NEAR FIELD TECHNIQUES ...... 1211 Maria Antonia Maisto, Raffaele Solimene, Rocco Pierri

LENS ANTENNAS FOCUS DETERMINATION USING FULL-WAVE SIMULATION ...... 1215 Patricio Gross, Julieta Vernieri, Felipe Vico, J. Alberto Bava, Miguel Ferrando Bataller

AN APPLICATION OF SINGULARITY CANCELLATION FOR PERIODIC STRUCTURES IN FREE SPACE...... 1219 Suleyman Adan r, Lale Alatan

ON FEED LINE MODIFICATIONS FOR COMPACT WIDEBAND ANTENNA DESIGN ...... 1222 Muhammad Aziz Ul Haq, Slawomir Koziel, Qingsha S. Cheng

BEHAVIOURAL MODELLING FOR ADAPTIVE ARRAY SYSTEMS INCORPORATING HIGH-POWER AMPLIFIER NONLINEARITIES...... 1227 Tristan Jd Goss, Peter H Aaen

CIRCUIT-MODEL APPROACH FOR POLARIZING SURFACES BASED ON STACKED MEANDER-LINE GRATINGS...... 1232 Carlos Molero, Mar a Garc a-Vigueras, Raul Rodr guez-Berral, Francisco Mesa

AN EIGENMODE METHOD WITH IMPROVED ACCURACY FOR GUIDED WAVES...... 1236 Yong Wang, Scott Langdon

ERROR CONTROL IN MLFMA WITH MULTIPLE-PRECISION ARITHMETIC ...... 1240 Mert Kalfa, Ozgur Ergul, Vakur B. Erturk

DETAILED DESIGN AND RF ANALYSIS OF A SCATTEROMETER FOR MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION IN THE 50-750 GHZ RANGE...... 1243 C. Cappellin, P. H. Nielsen, R. Appleby, R. Wylde, E. Saenz

COMPENSATION OF RADOME EFFECTS IN SMALL AIRBORNE MONOPULSE ARRAYS BY CONVEX OPTIMIZATION ...... 1248 Henrik Frid, B. L. G. Jonsson

SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE GROOVE SENSOR ANTENNA FOR MEASUREMENTS...... 1253 Hossein Saghlatoon, Mohammad Mahdi Honari, Rashid Mirzavand, Pedram Mousavi

EFFICIENT UNCERTAINTY EVALUATION OF VECTOR NETWORK ANALYSER MEASUREMENTS USING TWO-TIER BAYESIAN ANALYSIS AND MONTE CARLO METHOD ...... 1256 Min Wang, Yongjiu Zhao, Tian Hong Loh, Qian Xu, Yonggang Zhou

PLANAR SENSORS FOR DIELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS MEASUREMENT: A QUANTITATIVE SENSITIVITY COMPARISON...... 1261 L. A. Bronckers, M. J. R. A. Van Rossum, A. B. Smolders

TAILORING NEAR AND FAR ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS THROUGH OPTIMIZATION...... 1265 Benjamin Vial, Yang Hao

CLOSED FORM BASIS FUNCTION FOURIER SPECTRA FOR DISPERSION CALCULATION OF METASURFACES MADE BY CIRCULAR AND ELLIPTICAL RING PATCHES...... 1270 Santi C. Pavone, Marco Faenzi, Enrica Martini, Matteo Albani, Stefano Maci

CORRECTION FOR TRANSITION BOUNDARY CONDITIONS TO CONSIDER SCATTERING BY A CHIRAL INFINITE SLAB ...... 1273 Nezahat Gunenc Tuncel, A. Hamit Serbest

DEMONSTRATION OF SUPERDIRECTIVITY FOR PCB SPLIT RING DIMERS...... 1277 J. Yan, A. Radkovskaya, A. Vallecchi, C. J. Stevens, E. Shamonina

NUMERICAL DESIGN AND INVESTIGATION OF PLASMONIC LENSES FOR MAXIMUM POWER FOCUSING ...... 1281 Sadri Guler, Cem Gurkan Sur, Ozgur Ergul

ON THE THEORY OF PROPAGATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN A REGULAR WAVEGUIDE FILLED WITH MULTI PERIODIC MODULATED MEDIUM...... 1285 E. A. Gevorkyan

COMPOUND REFLECTION METAGRATING FOR WIDEBAND BACKSCATTERING REDUCTION...... 1288 Bakhtiyar Orazbayev, Pablo Rodríguez-Ulibarri, Miguel Beruete

CONCEPT OF AN ASYMMETRIC METASURFACE ABSORBER ...... 1292 Xu-Chen Wang, Ana D az-Rubio, Viktar S. Asadchy, Sergei A. Tretyakov

DESIGN OF A METASURFACE COVERED SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE ANTENNA ...... 1295 J. Chocarro, J. M. Perez-Escudero, R. Gonzalo, I. Ederra

REFLECTING FOCUSING DIELECTRIC METASURFACE...... 1298 Andrey Sayanskiy, Mikhail Odit, Viktar Asadchy, Polina Kapitanova, Pavel Belov

ON THE USE OF THE SOURCE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD FOR METASURFACE DESIGN...... 1301 Trevor Brown, Chaitanya Narendra, Puyan Mojabi

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF A WIDE ANGLE IMPEDANCE MATCHING METASURFACE FOR WIDEBAND ANTENNA ARRAYS...... 1305 Alpha O. Bah, Richard W. Ziolkowski, Pei-Yuan Qin, Y. Jay Guo

NEW ANTENNA DESIGN CONCEPT FOR FUTURE GENERATION WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS...... 1309 G. Gottardi, G. Oliveri, A. Massa

ON PERFORMANCE OF HIDDEN CAR ROOF ANTENNAS ...... 1313 Irfan Mehmood Yousaf, Buon Kiong Lau

A WIDE BAND COMPACT SIZE UHF BAND MONOPOLE CLUSTERED WITH L AND S BAND DIPOLES FOR SELF-NETWORKING COMMUNICATION IN HANDSET DEVICES...... 1318 Jin Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Gert Frølund Pedersen

A NEW QUAD-BAND DIVERSITY ANTENNA WITH HIGH ISOLATION ...... 1321 Alaa H. Radhi, R. Nilavalan, H. S. Al-Raweshidy, Nur Ab Aziz

LOW-PROFILE CIRCULARLY-POLARIZED FILTERING ANTENNA WITH IMPROVED BANDWIDTH AND GAIN ...... 1326 Chun-Xu Mao, Steven Gao, Yi Wang

WIDEBAND MM-WAVE NON-DIFFRACTING AIRY BEAM FORMING...... 1330 Ravi Kadlimatti, Hemanth Gaddam, Hugo Larocque, Ebrahim Karimi, Robert W. Boyd, Patanjali V. Parimi

FOUR DIMENSIONAL ANTENNA ARRAYS FOR WIDEBAND TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING...... 1335 Jixin Guo, Shiwen Yang, Yikai Chen, Lorenzo Poli, Paolo Rocca, Andrea Massa

A COMPACT AND WIDEBAND VARIABLE MICROWAVE PHASE SHIFTER FOR PHASED ARRAYS AND DIVERSITY IN S-BAND ...... 1340 S. Senega, S. Lindenmeier

NOVEL RIDGE GAP WAVEGUIDE CONFIGURATION SUPPORTING TEM PROPAGATION WITH LOWER LOSS AND BETTER ISOLATION...... 1345 Nima Bayat-Makou, Ahmed A. Kishk

ASSESSMENT ON THE BANDWIDTH OF ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS FOR ANTENNA-ON- CHIP APPLICATIONS...... 1348 A. J. Van Den Biggelaar, U. Johannsen, A. B. Smolders

NEW PROPAGATION REGIMES OF SYMMETRIC HYBRID WAVES IN A NONLINEAR METAL- DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE ...... 1353 Yury Shestopalov, Yury Smirnov, Eugene Smolkin

AN INVISIBLE GRADIENT-INDEX LENS WITH NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX ...... 1358 Sergei P. Skobelev

BULK FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS FOR RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA APPLICATIONS...... 1362 Henry Giddens, Hangfeng Zhang, Chuying Yu, Yang Hao

A GAIN AND BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT FOR SIW CAVITY ARRAY ANTENNA ...... 1366 Jun Xiao, Zihang Qi, Hua Zhu, Xiuping Li

LIQUID-CRYSTAL RECONFIGURABLE, LENS-ENHANCED, MILLIMETER-WAVE PHASED ARRAY ...... 1368 Senglee Foo

POLARIZATION CONTROL OF BULK ACOUSTIC WAVE- MEDIATED MULTIFERROIC ANTENNAS BASED ON THICKNESS SHEAR MODES...... 1373 Rui-Fu Xu, Sidhant Tiwari, Rob N. Candler, Shih-Yuan Chen

ALL-METALLIC EPSILON-NEAR-ZERO GRADED-INDEX CONVERGING LENS AT TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES ...... 1378 Victor Pacheco-Peña, Nader Engheta, Sergei Kuznetsov, Alexandr Gentselev, Miguel Beruete

INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF BUILD ORIENTATION ON THE SURFACE ROUGHNESS OF THE 3D METAL PRINTED HORN ANTENNA...... 1382 Deepak Shamvedi, Cyril Danilenkoff, Paul O’Leary, Ramesh Raghavendra

PROGRESS IN 3D METAL PRINTED MICROWAVE COMPONENTS – AN OVERVIEW ...... 1387 Deepak Shamvedi, Oliver J McCarthy, Eoghan O’Donoghue, Paul O’Leary, Ramesh Raghavendra

SILVER METALLIZATION OF 77 GHZ 3D PRINTED HORN ANTENNAS ...... 1392 Arnaud Jammes, Edouard Des Gayets, Koen Staelens, Reinhard Feger, Thomas Lampersberger, Andreas Stelzer

A 3-D PRINTED COMPACT DUAL-POLARIZED MONOPULSE FEED-HORN ARRAY ...... 1396 Guang-Long Huang, Chow-Yen-Desmond Sim, Tao Yuan

COMPACT 3D-PRINTED VARIABLE-INFILL ANTENNA FOR SNOW COVER MONITORING ...... 1398 P. F. Espin-Lopez, M. Pasian

A HIGH-GAIN SHARED-APERTURE DUAL-BAND OAM ANTENNA WITH PARABOLIC REFLECTOR ...... 1402 Fan Qin, Jianjia Yi, Wenchi Cheng, Yi Liu, Hailin Zhang, Steven Gao

SEMIDEFINITE RELAXATION-BASED OPTIMIZATION OF YAGI-UDA ARRAY ANTENNAS...... 1406 Hans-Dieter Lang, Costas D. Sarris

ANTENNA EFFECTIVE AREA FOR SPHERICAL WAVES...... 1411 Makoto Nagai, Hiroaki Imada

MINIATURIZATION OF CIRCULARLY POLARIZED RING SLOT ANTENNA ETCHED ON FINITE USING CHARACTERISTIC MODES ...... 1414 Arka Bhattacharyya, Bhaskar Gupta

HEXAFERRITE SUBSTRATE VERSUS IMPEDANCE MATCHING FOR TUNEABLE PATCH ANTENNA MINIATURISATION ...... 1419 Oliver Norman James, Geoff Hilton, Mark Beach

MINIATURIZED SPOOF SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS TRANSMISSION LINE...... 1424 Zhixia Xu, Shunli Li, Hongxin Zhao, Leilei Liu, Xiaoxing Yin

COMPARISON OF NEAR-FIELD TRANSFORMING METASURFACES AND INHOMOGENOUS AND ANISOTROPIC LENSES FOR LOW-PROFILE TRANSMITARRAY ILLUMINATION...... 1427 E. B. Whiting, S. D. Campbell, D. Binion, J. Nagar, P. L. Werner, D. H. Werner

A CIRCULARLY POLARIZED METASURFACE ANTENNA...... 1430 Seyyedeh Fahimeh Babazadeh, Mostafa Khanjarian, Mohamed El Badawe, Vahid Nayyeri, Mohammad Soleimani, Omar M. Ramahi

A NOVEL DUAL-POLARIZED MILLIMETER-WAVE ANTENNA ARRAY WITH HARMONIC REJECTION FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION ...... 1433 Sumin David Joseph, Yi Huang, Shawn Hsu, Manoj Stanley, Chaoyun Song

A WIDEBAND RECTENNA ARRAY FOR RF ENERGY HARVESTING APPLICATIONS...... 1436 Alberto Reyna, Marco A. Panduro, Luz I. Balderas

POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT DUAL-BAND RF ENERGY HARVESTER ...... 1439 Mohamed El Badawe, Ali Albishi, Omar M Ramahi

DUAL POLARIZED METASURFACE FOR MICROWAVE ENERGY HARVESTING AND WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER ...... 1442 Thamer S. Almoneef, Faruk Erkmen, Maged A. Al Dhaeebi, Omar M. Ramahi

MULTI-POLARIZATION PLANAR DIPOLE ARRAY SURFACE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY HARVESTING AND WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER ...... 1445 Ahmed Z. Ashoor, Omar M. Ramahi

ANALYSIS OF FADE DYNAMICS IN SITE DIVERSITY SYSTEM IN SLOVENIA...... 1450 Arsim Kelmendi, Gorazd Kandus, Andrej Hrovat, Andrej Vilhar

VEHICLE-TO-PEDESTRIAN CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION: WIDEBAND MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN AND FIRST RESULTS...... 1455 Ibrahim Rashdan, Fabian De Ponte Muller, Wei Wang, Martin Schmidhammer, Stephan Sand

A NOVEL CLUSTERING METHOD BASED ON DENSITY PEAKS AND ITS VALIDATION BY CHANNEL MEASUREMENT ...... 1460 Hanqing Xue, Lei Tian, Yuxiang Zhang, Chao Wang, Jianhua Zhang, Wei Li, Hewen Wei

STATIC AND DYNAMIC MILLIMETER-WAVE CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS AT 60 GHZ IN A CONFERENCE ROOM ...... 1465 Vasilii Semkin, Aki Karttunen, Jan Jarvelainen, Sergey Andreev, Yevgeny Koucheryavy

INVESTIGATIONS ON THE TERAHERTZ BEAM SCANNING ANTENNAS WITH A WIDE SCANNING RANGE...... 1470 Zhang-Cheng Hao, Wei Hong, Ji-Xin Chen, Jianfeng Zhai

DIGITAL BEAMFORMING RECEIVER FOR ANALOG PHASED ARRAY BY ROTATING ELEMENT PHASE...... 1473 Tasuku Kuriyama, Takashi Maruyama, Kazunari Kihira, Toru Fukasawa, Naofumi Yoneda

DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED RECEIVING ANTENNAS FOR SATELLITE BROADCASTING...... 1476 Masafumi Nagasaka, Atsushi Iwasaki, Susumu Nakazawa, Shoji Tanaka

RECENT DEVELOPMENT ON MAGNETO-ELECTRIC DIPOLE ANTENNAS ...... 1481 Kwai-Man Luk

RECENT PROGRESS OF INCIDENCE ANGLE-INSENSITIVE BROADBAND METAMATERIAL ABSORBERS...... 1483 Toan Trung Nguyen, Sungjoon Lim

MILLIMETER-WAVE 4X4 BUTLER MATRIX FOR FEEDING CIRCUIT OF MULTI-BEAM ANTENNA USING FINLINE IN MULTILAYER SUBSTRATE ...... 1487 Kunio Sakakibara, Yuta Mizuno, Nobuyoshi Kikuma, Kojiro Iwasa

TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH INTO METASURFACE-BASED ANTENNAS ...... 1491 Zhi Ning Chen

ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS AT MILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS – OVERVIEW ...... 1493 Antti V. Räisänen, Jianfang Zheng, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Ville Viikari

CHARACTERIZATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR 5G MILLIMETRE-WAVE BROADBAND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS ...... 1496 Aldo Petosa, Nicolas Gagnon, César Amaya, Ming Li, Shailesh Raut, Jonathan Ethier, Reza Chaharmir

ANALYSIS OF APPLICABILITY OF RADIATED TWO-STAGE TEST METHOD TO 5G RADIATED PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT ...... 1501 Ya Jing, Moray Rumney, Hongwei Kong, Zhu Wen

EFFICIENT TESTING OF ANTENNAS FOR 5G MM-WAVE APPLICATIONS...... 1506 A. Scannavini, L. J. Foged, A. Giacomini, L. Duchesne, N. Gross, F. Herbiniere

ANTENNA DIAGNOSIS AND POWER DENSITY CALCULATION OF 5G MILLIMETER-WAVE MOBILE TERMINAL USING INVERSE SOURCE TECHNIQUE...... 1510 Bo Xu, Lucia Scialacqua, Alessandro Scannavini, Lars Jacob Foged, Zhinong Ying, Thomas Bolin, Sailing He

SIMULATION OF V2V BLIND CORNER COMMUNICATION USING MEASURED VEHICULAR ANTENNA PATTERN ...... 1513 T. Kopacz, D. Heberling

THEORY AND VALIDATION OF REDUCED COMPLEXITY TRANSLATED-SWE ALGORITHM WITH APPLICATIONS TO AUTOMOTIVE MEASUREMENTS WITH MINIMUM SAMPLING ...... 1518 F. Saccardi, F. Mioc, P. O. Iversen, L. J. Foged

PRECISION PHASE MEASUREMENTS OF AUTOMOTIVE ANTENNAS FOR LOCALIZATION IN ANECHOIC CHAMBERS...... 1523 Frank Wollenschlager, Syed Naser Hasnain, Christian Bornkessel, Matthias A. Hein

CHAMBERS FOR THE EVALUATION OF VEHICLE MOUNTED ANTENNAS...... 1528 Garth D'Abreu, Zubiao Xiong, Zhong Chen

VEHICLE-LEVEL ANTENNA PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS & TEST IN INTELLIGENT CONNECTED VEHICLES...... 1533 Jianmei Lei, Yang Xu, Xiaojiao Li, Zhida Lai, Qingwen Han, Rui Chen, Min Chen, Tao Chen, Yangchun Gao

ANGLE- AND DELAY-DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS IN A HALLWAY AND LOBBY AT 60 GHZ ...... 1538 Ruoyu Sun, Peter B. Papazian, Jelena Senic, Camillo Gentile, Kate A. Remley

VOLUME 3

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW ITU-R MODEL FOR BUILDING ENTRY LOSS ...... 1543 Richard Rudd, Jonas Medbo, Fryderyk Lewicki, Fabiano S. Chaves, Ignacio Rodriguez

MEASUREMENT-BASED BEAM MIS-ALIGNMENT ANALYSIS OF MILLIMETER-WAVE DIRECTIONAL BEAMFORMING IN LARGE INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS ...... 1548 J. Lee, M. Kim, K. Kim, J. Park

MEASUREMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF 28 GHZ HIGH-SPEED TRAIN BACKHAUL CHANNELS IN RURAL PROPAGATION SCENARIOS...... 1553 Mathis Schmieder, Michael Peter, Ramez Askar, Ivan Komsic, Wilhelm Keusgen

INVESTIGATION OF V2I CHANNEL TRANSITIONS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT ...... 1558 Martin Käske, Daniel Czaniera, Christian Schneider, Reiner S. Thomä, Giovanni Del Galdo, Mate Boban, Jian Luo

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ITU-R TERRESTRIAL CLUTTER LOSS MODEL ...... 1563 J. Medbo, C. Larsson, B-E. Olsson, F. S. Chaves, H. C. Nguyen, I. Rodriguez, T. B. Sørensen, I. Z. Kovács, P. Mogensen, K.-T. Lee, J. Woo, M. Sasaki, W. Yamada

MULTI-BAND SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A V2V ENVIRONMENT UNDER BLOCKAGE ...... 1568 Diego Dupleich, Robert Müller, Sergii Skoblikov, Christian Schneider, Mate Boban, Jian Luo, Giovanni Del Galdo, Reiner S. Thomä

PATH LOSS CHARACTERISTICS FROM 2 TO 66 GHZ IN URBAN MACROCELL ENVIRONMENTS BASED ON ANALYSIS USING ITU-R SITE-GENERAL MODELS ...... 1573 Motoharu Sasaki, Mitsuki Nakamura, Wataru Yamada, Naoki Kita, Yasushi Takatori, Minoru Inomta, Koshiro Kitao, Tetsuro Imai

MULTI-BAND OUTDOOR MEASUREMENTS IN A RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT FOR 5G NETWORKS ...... 1578 Xavier Raimundo, Saied El-Faitori, Sana Salous

DUAL-USER MASSIVE MIMO MEASUREMENTS AT 3.5GHZ WITH BI-DIRECTIONAL ANGULAR DISCRIMINATION...... 1582 Anders Karstensen, Jesper Ø. Nielsen, Patrick Eggers, Elisabeth De Carvalho, Martin Alm, Gerhard Steinbock

CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE ACTIVE SPACE COMMUNICATION ARRAY ANTENNAS ...... 1587 Dennis Schobert, Giovanni Toso, Jean-Christophe Angevain, Nelson J. G. Fonseca, Peter De Maagt

OPTIMISATION BY UNIT-CELL ROTATION OF LINEAR-TO- CIRCULAR POLARISING REFLECTORS FOR MULTIPLE PRIMARY FEEDS...... 1592 Salvador Mercader-Pellicer, George Goussetis, Gabriela M. Medero, Daniele Bresciani, Hervé Legay, Nelson J. G. Fonseca

METALLIC METASURFACE ANTENNAS FOR SPACE ...... 1597 David Gonzalez Ovejero, Xavier Morvan, Nacer Chahat, Goutam Chattopadhyay, Ronan Sauleau, Mauro Ettorre

ANTENNAS FOR SPACE INSTRUMENTS FROM GHZ TO THZ ...... 1601 Goutam Chattopadhyay, Maria Alonso-Delpino, Cecile Jung-Kubiak, Theodore Reck, Choonsup Lee, Nacer Chahat, David González-Ovejero, Imran Mehdi

ENHANCING BEAM CONGRUENCE IN ORTHOGONALLY POLARIZED TX/RX OFFSET ANTENNA SYSTEMS USING REFLECTARRAYS...... 1604 Min Zhou, Tonny Rubæk, Stig B. Sørensen, Yves Demers, Eric Amyotte, Giovanni Toso

A SYSTEMATIC CIRCUIT-BASED APPROACH TO EFFICIENTLY REALIZE SINGLE- AND DUAL-BAND CIRCULAR POLARIZERS ...... 1609 Mehdi Hosseini, Sean V. Hum

KA-BAND METASURFACE ANTENNA FOR DATA DOWNLINK FROM LEO SATELLITES...... 1614 G. Minatti, F. Caminita, E. Martini, V. Martorelli, A. Benini, L. Le Coq, M. Ettorre, R. Sauleau, M. Bandinelli, R. Ravanelli, M. Sabbadini, S. Maci

ALL-METAL DUAL FREQUENCY RHCP HIGH GAIN ANTENNA FOR THE EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS OF A EUROPA LANDER...... 1617 Nacer Chahat, Brant Cook, Polly Estabrook

W-BAND ARRAY ANTENNA FOR RADAR DETECTION OF SPACE DEBRIS...... 1620 Eduardo Garcia-Marin, Jose Luis Masa-Campos, Pablo Sanchez-Olivares

NISAR L-BAND AND S-BAND INSTRUMENT ANTENNAS: COMPATIBILITY TEST AND RESULTS ...... 1624 Paolo Focardi, Joseph D. Vacchione, Jefferson A. Harrell

PERFORMANCE DATA OF A NEW, LARGE COMPENSATED COMPACT RANGE FOR ANTENNA AND PAYLOAD TESTING OF FUTURE SPACECRAFTS...... 1628 J. Migl, C. Schmidt, F. Hartmann

VERIFYING THE GEOMETRIC ACCURACY OF SENTINEL-1A AND SENTINEL-1B USING L0- PRODUCTS ...... 1633 Kersten Schmidt, Nuria Tous Ramon, Jens Reimann, Marco Schwerdt

ANTENNA MEASUREMENT BASED ON VERY NEAR FIELD SCANNING...... 1637 Zhou Feng, Cheng Kai, Zhang Hai-Man, Sun Jing-Lu, Yuan Xiu-Hua

5G AND MMWAVE DEVICE MEASUREMENT CHALLENGES ...... 1642 Michael D. Foegelle

SINGLE LAYER PCB BROADBAND CIRCULAR POLARISATION MILLIMETRE WAVE MASSIVE MIMO ARRAY...... 1647 Qian Xu, Yi Huang, Tian-Hong Loh, Manoj Stanley, Lei Xing, Min Wang, Hui Gan

DESIGN OF HOOK TYPE DIPOLE PHASED ARRAY WITH ANTIMETAL STRUCTURE FOR 5G MOBILE TERMINALS...... 1652 Ruixin Wang, Siting Zhu, Na Tian, Zheng Liu, Yan Zhang, Ting Yu

EFFICIENT MEASUREMENT OF AIRCRAFT QUALITY FACTOR FOR EVALUATION AND PROTOTYPING OF WIRELESS SYSTEMS...... 1656 Jason Bommer, Dennis Lewis, Genevieve Hankins

A PARALLEL CHANNEL SOUNDER FOR MM WAVE CHANNEL MEASUREMENT AND MODELING...... 1661 Haowen Wang, Yunsong Gui, Zhongfei Cai, Yang Yang, Jianguo Xie

DESIGNING AND CHARACTERIZING MATE, THE CHALMERS MM-WAVE MIMO TESTBED ...... 1666 Koen Buisman, Thomas Eriksson

THE NEED FOR SPATIAL CHANNEL EMULATION TO EVALUATE MMWAVE UE AND BASE STATION PERFORMANCE...... 1671 Moray Rumney, Pekka Kyösti, Jukka Kyröläinen

PREDICTION OF SINR USING BER AND EVM FOR MASSIVE MIMO APPLICATIONS ...... 1676 Tim W. C. Brown, David A. Humphreys, Martin Hudlicka, Tian H. Loh

THE CHALLENGE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS FOR MODERN 5G DEVICES...... 1681 Manuel Sierra Castañer

CARDIOID TYPE PATTERN OPTIMIZATION USING CHARACTERISTIC MODE ANALYSIS ...... 1685 Bakar Rohani, Kazuki Kamiyama, Hiroyuki Arai

CHARACTERISTIC MODE THEORY FOR PRACTICAL HF ANTENNA DESIGN...... 1688 Sai Ho Yeung, Chao-Fu Wang

DESIGN OF A HIGH-GAIN MILLIMETER-WAVE ANTENNA USING CHARACTERISTIC MODES...... 1692 Daniel Santillan-Haro, Eva Antonino-Daviu, Daniel Sanchez-Escuderos, Miguel Ferrando-Bataller

CHARACTERISTIC MODES ANALYSIS FOR THE DESIGN OF CUBESAT ANTENNAS...... 1697 Francesco Alessio Dicandia, Simone Genovesi, Agostino Monorchio

IMPACT OF CAPACITIVE COUPLING ELEMENT DESIGN ON ANTENNA BANDWIDTH ...... 1701 Hanieh Aliakbari, Buon Kiong Lau

STORED ENERGY EVALUATION OF METAMATERIALS BASED ON THEORY OF CHARACTERISTIC MODE...... 1705 Chukwuka Ozuem, Divitha Seetharamdoo, M. Hassanein Rabah, Hedi Sakli

SORTING THE CHARACTERISTIC MODES OF PEC OBJECTS NOT ELECTRICALLY SMALL...... 1710 Hamad Alroughani, Derek McNamara

ANTENNA SYSTEM DESIGN FOR MULTICOPTER UAVS UTILIZING CHARACTERISTIC MODES...... 1715 Zhichao Li, George Shaker, Safieddin Safavi-Naeini, William Melek, Raj Mittra

TWO-STEP ANGLE-OF-ARRIVAL ESTIMATION FOR TERAHERTZ COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON CORRELATION OF POWER-ANGULAR SPECTRA IN FREQUENCY ...... 1718 Bile Peng, Ke Guan, Sebastian Rey, Thomas Kurner

A MULTI-CARRIER FREQUENCY DIVERSE ARRAY DESIGN METHOD FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION ...... 1723 A-Min Yao, Nicola Anselmi, Paolo Rocca

INVESTIGATION OF EFFECTIVE RANGE OF FOCUSED GAUSSIAN BEAM COMPARED TO FOCUSED UNIFORM BEAM IN FRESNEL REGION...... 1727 Seishiro Kojima, Naoki Shinohara

FAR- AND NEAR-FIELD FOCUSED WPT USING (SUB) ARRAYS ...... 1730 Hubregt J. Visser

INFLUENCE OF SYSTEM ASPECTS IN PROPAGATION BASED EVALUATION OF BEAM-FORMING AT MM-WAVES...... 1735 Diego Dupleich, Eric Schäfer, Giovanni Del Galdo, Reiner Thomä

APPLICATION OF THE DBIM-TWIST ALGORITHM TO 3-D MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY DATA ...... 1740 Ziwen Guo, Zhenzhuang Miao, Panagiotis Kosmas

THE USE OF A NOVEL MICROWAVE RADAR RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM TO IMAGE LESIONS IN REALISTIC 3D BREAST PHANTOMS ...... 1744 T. Reimer, D. Rodriguez Herrera, M. Solis Nepote, S. Pistorius

DEMONSTRATION OF DIELECTRIC HETEROGENEITY OF PREVIOUSLY ASSUMED HOMOGENEOUS TISSUES: EXAMINATION OF THE HEART...... 1749 Saqib Salahuddin, Alessandra La Gioia, Atif Shahzad, Muhammad Adnan Elahi, Arun Kumar, David Kilroy, Emily Porter, Martin O’Halloran

OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR MICROWAVE RADAR-BASED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION ...... 1754 Declan O’Loughlin, M. Adnan Elahi, Emily Porter, Atif Shahzad, Bárbara L. Oliveira, Martin Glavin, Edward Jones, Martin O’Halloran

MICROWAVE SENSING OF HUMAN HYDRATION: MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY ...... 1758 David C. Garrett, Sarah Thorson, Jeremie Bourqui, Elise C. Fear

TOWARDS AN EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF MICROWAVE IMAGING MONITORING OF THERMAL ABLATION TREATMENTS...... 1760 Rosa Scapaticci, Gennaro G. Bellizzi, Federica Perrelli, Marta Cavagnaro, Vanni Lopresto, Rosanna Pinto, Lorenzo Crocco

COMPARISON OF REGULARIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR MICROWAVE IMAGING OF BRAIN STROKE ...... 1765 Mina Bjelogrlic, Benjamin Fuchs, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Michael Mattes

THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPARSE MICROWAVE IMAGING FOR BRAIN STROKE MONITORING...... 1770 Marija Nikolic Stevanovic, Rosa Scapaticci, Lorenco Crocco

NEW IN-VIVO ESTIMATION OF ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES FOR HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT PLANNING...... 1775 Martina T. Bevacqua, Gennaro G. Bellizzi, Lorenzo Crocco, Tommaso Isernia

IMPACT OF FIBROBLAST CELL DENSITY ON THE MATERIAL PARAMETERS OF THIN ARTIFICIAL HUMAN SKIN IN THE TERAHERTZ BAND...... 1778 Rui Zhang, Ke Yang, Qammer Abbasi, Khalid A. Qaraqe, Akram Alomainy

8X8 SINGLE-LAYER 30-GHZ ANTENNA WITH A COMBINED RIDGE-GROOVE GAP WAVEGUIDE NETWORK...... 1781 Miguel Ferrando-Rocher, Jose I. Herranz-Herruzo, Daniel Sanchez-Escuderos, Alejandro Valero-Nogueira

ON THE USE OF A METASURFACE PRISM IN GAP-WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY TO REDUCE THE DISPERSION OF LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNAS...... 1785 Lei Wang, Jose-Luis Gómez-Tornero, Eva Rajo-Iglesias, Oscar Quevedo-Teruel

GAP WAVEGUIDE BASED 1-D STEERABLE BEAM ANTENNA CONCEPT FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE 5G APPLICATION ...... 1788 Ashraf Uz Zaman, Thomas Emanuelsson

DEVELOPMENTS TOWARDS THE MASS-PRODUCTION OF HIGHGAIN GAP-BASED PLANAR ANTENNAS FOR RADIO LINKS...... 1792 Esperanza Alfonso, Abolfazl Haddadi, Stefan Carlsson, Thomas Emanuelsson, Johan Andren

CHARACTERISTIC MODE ANALYSIS OF PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ANTENNAS USING VOLUME- SURFACE EQUATION ...... 1796 Qi Wu

SELECTIVE EXCITATION OF CHARACTERISTIC MODES ON AN ELECTRICALLY LARGE ANTENNA FOR MIMO APPLICATIONS...... 1800 Nikolai Peitzmeier, Dirk Manteuffel

BENCHMARK PROBLEM DEFINITION AND CROSS-VALIDATION FOR CHARACTERISTIC MODE SOLVERS...... 1805 Yikai Chen, Kurt Schab, Miloslav Capek, Michal Mašek, Buon Kiong Lau, Hanieh Aliakbari, Yigit Haykir, Qi Wu, W. J. Strydom, Nikolai Peitzmeier, Milos Jovicic, Simone Genovesi, Francesco Alessio Dicandia

EFFICIENT TECHNIQUES FOR CHARACTERISTIC MODE ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX STRUCTURES ...... 1810 W. J. Strydom, U. Jakobus

ELABORATED BREAST PHANTOMS AND EXPERIMENTAL BENCHMARKING OF A MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING SYSTEM BEFORE FIRST CLINICAL STUDY ...... 1813 Angie Fasoula, Jean-Gaël Bernard, Guillaume Robin, Luc Duchesne

TACKLING HYPERTENSION VIA ADRENAL ABLATION - THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL ABLATION BIOMARKERS ...... 1818 Padraig T Donlon, Atif Shazad, Muhammad Adnan Elahi, Jimmy Eaton-Evans, Giuseppe Ruvio, Punit Prakash,

ENHANCING QUANTITATIVE MICROWAVE IN TISSUE IMAGING ...... 1822 Daniel Tajik, Aaron D. Pitcher, Denys S. Shumakov, Natalia K. Nikolova, John W. Bandler

OPTIMIZED ANTENNA ARRAY LAYOUT IN A MICROWAVE IMAGING SYSTEM FOR BRAIN STROKE MONITORING...... 1827 R. Scapaticci, J. A. Tobon Vasquez, G. Turvani, G. Dassano, N. Joachimowicz, B. Duchêne, M. R. Casu, F. Vipiana, L. Crocco

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF BREAST: A REVIEW ...... 1830 Lourdes Farrugia, Julian Bonello, Charles V Sammut

RECENT ADVANCEMENTS IN TIME-DOMAIN BREAST HEALTH SCREENING: OBSERVATIONS ON THE PHANTOM STABILITY AND WEARABLE HARDWARE...... 1833 Lena Kranold, Mariana Perez Santa Maria, Mark Coates, Milica Popovic

ADVANCED PHYSICAL PHANTOMS FOR EVALUATION OF MEDICAL ANTENNAS AND DEVICES...... 1838 Koichi Ito

PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS FOR RELIABLE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT UWB DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY OF TISSUES AND TISSUE MIMICKING PHANTOM MATERIALS ...... 1840 Sebastian Ley, Ondrej Fiser, Ilja Merunka, Jan Vrba, Jurgen Sachs, Marko Helbig

PHANTOM STUDY OF A FLAT-FACETED AIR-BASED MICROWAVE BREAST IMAGING SYSTEM...... 1845 Joe Lovetri, Mohammad Asefi, Nasim Abdollahi, Kevin Brown, Nicholas Geddert, Ian Jeffrey

FDTD BASED SIMULATION STUDY OF A CLASSIFICATION BASED HEMORRHAGIC STROKE DETECTOR...... 1847 Andreas Fhager, Stefan Candefjord, Mikael Persson

ACCURATE AND LOW-DISPERSIVE CONTROL OF REFRACTIVE PROPERTIES IN FULLY METALLIC WAVEGUIDES POSSESSING TWIST SYMMETRY ...... 1850 Oskar Dahlberg, Oscar Quevedo-Teruel

ENGINEERING MODES OF PT SYMMETRIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS ...... 1853 Adam Mock

GLIDE-SYMMETRIC HOLEY STRUCTURES WITH SELECTED BANDGAPS FOR GAP-WAVEGUIDE TECHNOLOGY ...... 1857 Pablo Padilla, Angel Palomares, Antonio Alex-Amor, Juan Valenzuela-Valdés, J. M. Fernandez-Gonzalez, Oscar Quevedo-Teruel

A TWO-DIMENSIONAL ALL METAL USING GLIDE-SYMMETRIC HOLEY METASURFACE ...... 1860 Lars Manholm, Astrid Algaba Brazalez, Martin Johansson, Jingwei Miao, Oscar Quevedo-Teruel

A COST-EFFECTIVE D-BAND MULTI-LAYER RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE TRANSMISSION LINE BASED ON GLIDE-SYMMETRIC EBG STRUCTURE ...... 1863 Abbas Vosoogh, Zhongxia Simon He, Herbert Zirath

HIGHER MODE PROPAGATION IN PERIODIC PATCH STRUCTURES WITH TWO-DIMENSIONAL GLIDE SYMMETRIES...... 1867 Qingbi Liao, Oscar Quevedo-Teruel

TIME-MODULATED PERIODIC SYSTEMS WITH PT SYMMETRY...... 1870 Adam Mock

EXPANDING MICROWAVE ABSORPTION BANDWIDTH WITH METASURFACE SALISBURY SCREEN ...... 1875 Ziheng Zhou, Ke Chen, Junming Zhao, Yijun Feng, Yue Li

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ELECTRICALLY SMALL ANTENNAS FOR EMERGING WIRELESS APPLICATIONS...... 1879 Lin Wei, Richard W. Ziolkowski, Tang Ming-Chun

COMPACT ANTENNA WITH UNIDIRECTIONAL RADIATION PATTERNS...... 1883 Carlos Ramiro Penafiel-Ojeda, Marta Cabedo-Fabres, Eva Antonino-Daviu, Miguel Ferrando-Bataller

A NOVEL MM-WAVE PHASED ARRAY FOR 1800 COVERAGE FOR 5G SMARTPHONE APPLICATIONS ...... 1888 Manoj Stanley, Yi Huang, Hanyang Wang, Hai Zhou, Ahmed Alieldin, Sumin Joseph

STATISTICAL ASSESSMENTS OF HIGH THROUGHPUT SATELLITE PERFORMANCE...... 1891 Markus Gross, Javier Trujillo, Carlos Vieira

MULTIBEAM REFLECTOR ANTENNAS FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS: CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES IN EUROPE...... 1895 Jean-Christophe Angevain, Nelson Fonseca, Dennis Schobert, Giovanni Toso, Peter De Maagt, Cyril Mangenot

FEED DEVELOPMENT FOR MULTISPOT BEAM ANTENNAS...... 1900 Christian Hartwanger, Ralf Gehring, Un Pyo Hong, Michael Kilian, Alexander Sommer, Michael Schneider

FLEXIBILITY IN MULTI-BEAM SATELLITE ANTENNAS: REQUIREMENTS, CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS...... 1905 Sonya Amos, Hector Fenech

COMPARISON ON CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS AT 3.5 GHZ AND 28 GHZ ...... 1910 Zhongyuan Wu, Jianhua Zhang, Lei Tian, Zhixue Hu, Tao Jiang, Wei Li

IEEE 802.11P PERFORMANCE FOR VEHICLE-TO-ANYTHING CONNECTIVITY IN URBAN INTERFERENCE CHANNELS...... 1915 Thomas Blazek, Golsa Ghiaasi, Christian Backfrieder, Gerald Ostermayer, Christoph F. Mecklenbräuker

AN ONLINE SUPERVISED CALIBRATION SCHEME FOR TIME-VARYING MIMO CHANNEL MEASUREMENT ...... 1920 Haifeng Tan, Zhongfei Cai, Yunsong Gui, Haowen Wang, Yang Yang, Zhiyong Feng

MEASUREMENT BASED ULTRA-WIDEBAND CHANNEL MODEL FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS IN TUNNELS ...... 1925 Andrej Hrovat, Klemen Bregar, Tomaž Javornik

MIMO SYSTEM PERFORMANCE USING LEAKY COAXIAL CABLES IN CONFINED AREA...... 1930 Asad Saleem, Min Wang, Guoxin Zheng

VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS IN MUNICIPAL LAKE SCENARIOS AT 5.9 GHZ ...... 1935 Fuxing Chang, Kun Yang, Wei Chen, Changzhen Li, Junyi Yu

DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION OF NON-COOPERATIVE ROAD USERS BASED ON PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS AT C-BAND...... 1940 Martin Schmidhammer, Fabian De Ponte Muller, Stephan Sand, Ibrahim Rashdan

RAY-TRACING SIMULATIONS AND MILLIMETER WAVE MASSIVE MIMO PERFORMANCE EVALUATION FOR RAIL TRAFFIC SCENARIOS...... 1945 Yichuan Lin, Ke Guan, Danping He, Zhangdui Zhong, Li Tian, Jianwu Dou

CHANNEL MODELING FOR LOW-ALTITUDE UAV IN SUBURBAN ENVIRONMENTS BASED ON RAY TRACER ...... 1950 Xi Chu, Cesar Briso, Danping He, Xuefeng Yin, Jianwu Dou

WIDEBAND VEHICLE TO PEDESTRIAN PROPAGATION CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING...... 1955 Gloria Makhoul, Raffaele D'Errico, Claude Oestges

BRAND: ULTRA-WIDEBAND FEED DEVELOPMENT FOR THE EUROPEAN VLBI NETWORK - A DIELECTRICALLY LOADED DECADE BANDWIDTH QUAD-RIDGE FLARED HORN ...... 1959 Jonas Flygare, Miroslav Pantaleev, Simon Olvhammar

OPTIMIZATION OF THE QUAD-RIDGED HORN FOR THE GEODETIC VGOS STATION OF THE YEBES OBSERVATORY ...... 1964 F. Tercero, O. García-Perez, J. M. Serna, S. López-Ruiz, B. Vaquero, R. Sanchez-Montero

DESIGN OF AN ASYMMETRICAL QUADRUPLE-RIDGE FLARED HORN FEED: A SOLUTION TO ELIMINATE POLARIZATION DISCREPANCY IN THE OFFSET REFLECTING SYSTEMS ...... 1969 Bin Dong, Jian Yang, Miroslav Pantaleev, Jonas Flygare, Bhushan Billade

EMI MODELLING OF AN 80 KHZ TO 80 MHZ WIDEBAND ANTENNA AND LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIER FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY IN SPACE...... 1973 D. S. Prinsloo, M. Ruiter, M. J. Arts, J. V. D. Marel, A. J. Boonstra, G. Kruithof, M. Wise, H. Falcke, M. Klein-Wolt, H. Rothkaehl, B. Cecconi, M. Dekkali, J. Ping

CRYOGENIC 1.2 TO 116 GHZ RECEIVER FOR LARGE ARRAYS ...... 1977 Sander Weinreb, Hamdi Mani, Weiye Zhong, Jonas Flygare, Bushan Billade, Ahmed Akgiray, Li Dong

IMPROVED ACCURACY COMBINED SOURCE AND MAGNETIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATIONS WITH LOW-ORDER DISCRETIZATION ...... 1981 Jonas Kornprobst, Thomas F. Eibert

REDUCTION OF SINGULAR SURFACE INTEGRALS TO NON-SINGULAR LINE INTEGRALS FOR MATRIX ELEMENTS OF TENSOR AND VECTOR GREEN FUNCTIONS FOR ARBITRARILY ORIENTED PAIRS OF FLAT SURFACE ELEMENTS ...... 1984 Elizabeth Bleszynski, Marek Bleszynski, Thomas Jaroszewicz

VERSATILE AND ACCURATE ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS OF PIECEWISE HOMOGENEOUS COMPOSITE OBJECTS ...... 1989 Ivan Sekulic, Eduard Ubeda, Juan M. Rius

FAST SPECTRAL ITERATIVE TECHNIQUE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF PLANAR METASURFACE-TYPE STRUCTURES ...... 1993 Simon Hubert, Modeste Bodehou, Christophe Craeye

SOME RECENT ADVANCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUMERICALLY EFFICIENT COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC TECHNIQUES ...... 1997 Raj Mittra, Nathawut Homsup, Kapil Sharma, Rajarshi Bhattacharya

NONUNIFORM ARRAY ANTENNA DESIGN INCORPORATING THE MUTUAL COUPLING BETWEEN RECTANGULAR APERTURE ANTENNAS ...... 2002 Zhengzheng Wang, Ioan E. Lager, Massimiliano Simeoni

HIGH ORDER DESCRIPTION OF COMPLEX GEOMETRIES FOR INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS IN ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING PROBLEMS...... 2007 Felipe Vico, Miguel Ferrando-Bataller, Eva Antonino-Daviu, Marta Cabedo

DDM-ASSISTED ANALYSIS OF LARGE SCALE RADIATING STRUCTURES ...... 2010 Diego M. Solís, V. F. Martín, D. Larios, J. M. Taboada, J. L. Rodríguez, F. Obelleiro

COMPRESSIVE SENSING FOR INVERSE PROBLEMS...... 2013 Nicola Anselmi, Massimo Donelli, Giacomo Oliveri, Lorenzo Poli, Paolo Rocca, Federico Viani, Andrea Massa

A SIMPLE TECHNIQUE TO FIND LANDMINES FROM TOTAL NEAR-FIELD MEASUREMENTS...... 2017 Adriana Brancaccio, Marco Donald Migliore

APPLICATION OF SUPERVISED DESCENT METHOD TO NONLINEAR INVERSION FOR TRANSIENT EM DATA ...... 2021 Rui Guo, Maokun Li, Fan Yang, Shenheng Xu, Guangyou Fang, Aria Abubakar

MODEL BASED INVERSION STRATEGY DEDICATED TO NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING APPLICATIONS...... 2026 Christophe Reboud, Roberto Miorelli, Florian Le Bourdais, Xavier Artusi, Pierre Calmon

EXPLOITING THE ORTHOGONALITY SAMPLING METHOD TO DESIGN VIRTUAL SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS...... 2030 Martina Teresa Bevacqua, Roberta Palmeri, Tommaso Isernia, Lorenzo Crocco

HIGH CAPACITY AND EFFICIENCY OPTIMIZATION OF COMPRESSIVE ANTENNAS FOR IMAGING APPLICATIONS...... 2034 Richard Obermeier, Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo

COMPARISON OF BOWTIE SLOT AND RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE-BASED ANTENNAS FOR MICROWAVE MEDICAL IMAGING...... 2038 Ilja Merunka, Jan Vrba, Ondrej Fiser, David Vrba

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF A NOVEL MULTISTATIC TOROIDAL REFLECTOR NEARFIELD IMAGING SYSTEM FOR CONCEALED THREAT DETECTION ...... 2043 Mohammad. H Nemati, Spiros Mantzavinos, Dan Busuioc, Nicholas Pelepchan, Thurston Brevett, Jacob Londa, Nikhil Phatak, Daniel Castle, Carey M. Rappaport

PERFECT ANOMALOUS REFRACTION WITH METAGRATINGS...... 2046 Ariel Epstein, Oshri Rabinovich

APPLICATION OF A CIRCULARLY POLARIZED METALINE TO BEAM-STEERABLE ANTENNAS ...... 2051 H. Nakano, T. Abe, A. Mehta, J. Yamauchi

A NOVEL LOW-PROFILE WIDEBAND RECONFIGURABLE CP ANTENNA ARRAY...... 2055 Shu-Lin Chen, Wei Lin, Pei-Yuan Qin, Y. Jay Guo, Richard W. Ziolkowski

AMC-BACKED DIPOLE ARRAY ANTENNA FOR BEAMFORMING LESS VULNERABLE TO NEARBY METAL PLANES...... 2060 Sungtek Kahng, Dajung Han, Changhyeong Lee, Heejun Park, Aurora Andujar, Jaume Anguera

DUAL-BAND SELF-DIPLEXED MODULATED METASURFACE ANTENNAS...... 2064 Marco Faenzi, David González-Ovejero, Francesco Caminita, Stefano Maci

FLEXIBLE ANTENNAS FOR WEARABLE APPLICATIONS: RECENT ADVANCES AND DESIGN CHALLENGES ...... 2068 Saad Alharbi, Raed M. Shubair, Asimina Kiourti

WEARABLE ANTENNAS BASED ON GRAPHITE PAPER AND CONDUCTIVE POLYMER...... 2071 Shengjian Jammy Chen, Christophe Fumeaux

TEXTILE-INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS FOR SMALL AIRPLANES ...... 2075 Miroslav Cupal, Jirí Drínovský, Tomáš Götthans, Roman Hermány, Martin Kokolia, Jaroslav Lácík, Tomáš Parízek, Jan Prášek, Zbynek Raida, Jan Špurek, Dita Krácalová, Zdenka Lédrová, Jirí Procházka, David Krutílek, David Reznícek

ROBUST IMPLEMENTATION OF FLEXIBLE WEARABLE ANTENNAS WITH PDMS-EMBEDDED CONDUCTIVE FABRIC ...... 2080 Roy B. V. B. Simorangkir, Yang Yang, Karu P. Esselle

NOVEL COMPACT MULTIBAND ANTENNAS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS...... 2085 Zengdi Bao, Yong-Xin Guo, Raj Mittra

DESIGN OF A COMPACT AND LOW-PROFILE WEARABLE MIMO ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS ...... 2088 Dingliang Wen, Yang Hao, Hanyang Wang, Hai Zhou

DESIGN AND INTEGRATION OF A WEARABLE ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR ON- AND OFF-BODY COMMUNICATION BASED ON 3D-MID TECHNOLOGY...... 2093 Lukas Berkelmann, Timo Martinelli, Aline Friedrich, Dirk Manteuffel

EPIDERMAL DESIGN AT 900 MHZ FOR BIOTELEMETRY...... 2097 Haitham Abu Damis, Nabil Khalid, Rashid Mirzavand, Hyun-Joong Chung, Pedram Mousavi

3D PRINTED PATCH ANTENNA FOR MILLIMETER WAVE 5G WEARABLE APPLICATIONS...... 2100 M. Fawaz, S. Jun, W. B. Oakey, C. Mao, A. Elibiary, B. Sanz-Izquierdo, D. Bird, A. McClelland

WEARABLE SENSOR FOR COMMUNICATION WITH IMPLANTABLE DEVICES ...... 2105 M. Ali Babar Abbasi, Abdul Quddious, Marco A. Antoniades, Photos Vryonides, Symeon Nikolaou

MIMO DEVICE PERFORMANCE TESTING WITH THE WIRELESS CABLE METHOD...... 2109 Wei Fan, Pekka Kyösti, Lassi Hentilä, Fengchun Zhang, Gert F. Pedersen

SPATIAL CHANNELS FOR WIRELESS OVER-THE-AIR MEASUREMENTS IN REVERBERATION CHAMBERS ...... 2114 Maria G. Becker, Robert D. Horansky, Damir Senic, Vincent Neylon, Kate A. Remley

A NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RANDOM-LOS MEASUREMENT ACCURACY FOR VEHICLE APPLICATIONS...... 2119 Madeleine Schilliger Kildal, Andres Alayon Glazunov, Jan Carlsson

MITIGATION OF DOUBLE-RAYLEIGH FADING WHEN USING REVERBERATION CHAMBER CASCADED WITH CHANNEL EMULATOR...... 2122 John Kvarnstrand, Erik Silfverswärd, Derek Skousen, Doug Reed, Alfonso Rodriguez-Herrera

CHARACTERIZATION CHALLENGES FOR MILLIMETER-WAVE MULTI-ANTENNA 5G DEVICES...... 2127 Minu Jacob, Todd Marshall, Chris Coleman, Moray Rumney, Prasadh Ramachandran, Greg Vanwiggeren

EMULATING DYNAMIC RADIO CHANNELS FOR RADIATED TESTING OF MASSIVE MIMO DEVICES...... 2131 Pekka Kyosti, Lassi Hentila, Jukka Kyrolainen, Fengchun Zhang, Wei Fan, Matti Latva-Aho

MASSIVE MIMO ARRAY TESTING USING A PROGRAMMABLE PHASE MATRIX AND CHANNEL EMULATOR...... 2136 Doug Reed, Alfonso Rodriguez-Herrera, Jukka-Pekka Nuutinen

EIRP OF USER EQUIPMENT WITH BEAM FORMING CAPABILITIES AT 28 GHZ ...... 2140 Kun Zhao, Olof Zander, Thomas Bolin, Zhinong Ying

PERFORMANCE TESTING OF MASSIVE MIMO BASE STATION WITH MULTI-PROBE ANECHOIC CHAMBER SETUPS ...... 2144 Fengchun Zhang, Wei Fan, Yilin Ji, Mattias Gustafsson, Tommi Jamsa, Gerhard Steinböck, Pekka Kyösti, Gert F. Pedersen

ON MODELING OTA CHANNEL EMULATION SYSTEMS ...... 2149 Mario Lorenz, Wim Kotterman, Giovanni Del Galdo

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES TO ACCELERATE REFLECTARRAY ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION ...... 2154 Daniel R. Prado, Jesus A. Lopez-Fernandez, Manuel Arrebola, Fernando Las-Heras

INNOVATIVE SYNTHESIS OF REFLECTARRAYS WITHIN THE NON-RADIATING INVERSE SOURCE FRAMEWORK ...... 2158 A. Gelmini, M. Salucci, G. Oliveri, A. Massa

MANUFACTURABLE ULTRA-THIN RESISTIVE FSS FOR CHALLENGING EM MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS...... 2162 S. N Zabri, R. Cahill, G. Conway, N. McGuigan, D. Zelenchuk, R. Dickie

FSS DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE SPACE SCIENCE MISSIONS...... 2167 R. Dickie, R. Cahill, P. Baine, V. F. Fusco

OPTIMISATION BY UNIT-CELL ROTATION OF LINEAR-TO- CIRCULAR POLARISING REFLECTORS FOR PRACTICAL PRIMARY FEEDS ...... 2171 Salvador Mercader-Pellicer, George Goussetis, Gabriela M. Medero, Daniele Bresciani, Hervé Legay, Nelson J. G. Fonseca

REFLECTARRAY SYNTHESIS ON GPUS ...... 2175 Amedeo Capozzoli, Claudio Curcio, Angelo Liseno

BIFOCAL TECHNIQUE APPLIED TO DUAL TRANSMITARRAY ANTENNAS...... 2180 Eduardo Martinez-De-Rioja, José A. Encinar, Antonio Pino, Borja Gonzalez-Valdes, Sean V. Hum, Carolina Tienda, Giovanni Toso

DESIGN OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE ANTENNA SYSTEMS WITH QUASI-PERIODIC SURFACES ...... 2185 Min Zhou, Erik Jørgensen, Niels Vesterdal, Oscar Borries, Stig B. Sørensen, Peter Meincke, Massimiliano Simeoni, Giovanni Toso

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF A HIGH GAIN DUAL-BAND BEAM STEERABLE TRANSMIT- ARRAY...... 2190 Sérgio A. Matos, Eduardo B. Lima, Jorge R. Costa, Carlos A. Fernandes, Nelson J. G. Fonseca

SINGLE POLARIZATION REFLECTARRAY DESIGN BASED ON AN ELEMENT WITH SEVEN PARALLEL DIPOLES TO GENERATE INDEPENDENT BEAMS IN THREE FREQUENCY BANDS ...... 2194 Rafael Florencio Díaz, Gerardo Pérez Palomino, José Antonio Encinar, Rafael Rodríguez Boix

MODELING OF INTRA-CLUSTER MULTIPATHS FOR 60 GHZ FADING CHANNELS ...... 2199 Naveed Iqbal, Diego Dupleich, Christian Schneider, Jian Luo, Robert Muller, Stephan Hafner, Giovanni Del Galdo, Reiner. S. Thoma

COMPARING RADIO PROPAGATION CHANNELS BETWEEN 28 AND 140 GHZ BANDS IN A SHOPPING MALL ...... 2204 Sinh L. H. Nguyeny, Jan Jarvelainenyz, Aki Karttuneny, Katsuyuki Haneday, Jyri Putkonen

FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE OF PENETRATION THROUGH GAPS INTO BUILDINGS AT MMWAVE ...... 2209 Tim W. C. Brown, Ruhan Xie, Pat Chambers

CLUTTER LOSS MEASUREMENTS IN SUBURBAN ENVIRONMENT AT 26 GHZ AND 40 GHZ...... 2213 B. Montenegro-Villacieros, J-M. Chareau, J. Bishop, P. Viaud, T. Pinato, M. Basso

3GPP CHANNEL MODEL DEVELOPMENTS FOR 5G NR REQUIREMENTS AND TESTING ...... 2217 Moray Rumney, Pekka Kyösti, Lassi Hentilä

CHANNEL CHARACTERISATION AT THZ FREQUENCIES FOR HIGH DATA RATE INDOOR COMMUNICATIONS...... 2222 Xavier Raimundo, Maryam Hajji, Andreas Klein, Sana Salous, Andrew Gallant, Claudio Balocco

WIDEBAND POLARIZATION-RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNA BASED ON TIGHTLY COUPLED ARRAY MECHANISM ...... 2224 Ying Liu, Hu Liu, Shuxi Gong

RECONFIGURABLE HALF-MODE SUBSTRATE-INTEGRATED CAVITY ANTENNA ARRAYS ...... 2227 Nghia Nguyen-Trong, Christophe Fumeaux

FREQUENCY-RECONFIGURABLE PATTERN-STEERABLE ANTENNA USING ACTIVE FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE ...... 2231 Chao Gu, Steven Gao, Benito Sanz-Izquierdo, E. A. Parker, Geyi Wen, Zhiqun Cheng

28 GHZ 5G DUAL-POLARIZED END-FIRE ANTENNA WITH ELECTRICALLY-SMALL PROFILE ...... 2236 Junho Park, Dooseok Choi, Wonbin Hong

GAIN ENHANCEMENT OF RECONFIGURABLE ARRAY...... 2240 Ziheng Ding, Weile Yuan, Yifeng Chen, Ronghong Jin, Junping Geng, Xianling Liang

EVALUATION OF A WIDEBAND PATTERN-RECONFIGURABLE MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR VEHICULAR APPLICATIONS ...... 2244 Jerzy Kowalewski, Jonathan Mayer, Tobias Mahler, Thomas Zwick

RECONFIGURABLE REFLECTARRAYS AND TRANSMITARRAYS: FROM ANTENNA DESIGNS TO SYSTEM APPLICATIONS ...... 2249 Fan Yang, Shenheng Xu, Xiaotian Pan, Xue Yang, Jun Luo, Min Wang, Yu Wang, Maokun Li

5G RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS ...... 2253 Q. Bai, L. Li, S. M. Asif, R. Singh, K. L. Ford, R. J. Langley, T. O’Farrell

IMPACT OF DEFICIENT ARRAY ANTENNA ELEMENTS ON DOWNLINK MASSIVE MIMO PERFORMANCE IN RIMP AND RANDOM-LOS CHANNELS...... 2256 Andres Alayon Glazunov

OPTICAL SWITCHING OF GETE PHASE CHANGE MATERIAL: APPLICATION TO A FREQUENCY AGILE MILLIMETER-WAVES PATCH ANTENNA...... 2260 L. Huitema, J. Leon Valdes, H. Wong, A. Crunteanu

A PATTERN RECONFIGURABLE MICROSTRIP ANTENNA FOR FUTURE AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS...... 2265 Jerzy Kowalewski, Jonathan Mayer, Tobias Mahler, Thomas Zwick

A COGNITIVE RADIO SIMULATOR FOR MOBILE AUTONOMOUS RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS...... 2270 Y. Tawk, A. El-Amine, S. Saab, J. Costantine, C. G. Christodoulou

FREQUENCY RECONFIGURABLE DUAL NARROW BAND ANTENNA MATCHED ON THE LOW BAND LTE FDD PHYSICAL LAYER...... 2273 S. Bories, F. Sarrazin, A. Giry

PATTERN-RECONFIGURABLE MOBILE TERMINAL ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR MIMO AND LINK STABILIZATION IN LTE ...... 2278 Igor Syrytsin, Henrik A. Vesterager, Søren B. Nørgaard, Lasse Thomsen, Samantha Caporal Del Barrio, Gert F. Pedersen

RECONFIGURABLE MULTI-BAND ANTENNA FOR MINIATURE TRACKING TERMINAL ...... 2283 Rania Khalifeh, Leonardo Lizzi, Fabien Ferrero

BEAM SWITCHING COLLOCATED ANTENNAS FOR WLAN SYSTEMS ...... 2286 Halim Boutayeb, Paul Watson, Teyan Chen, Tao Wu, Jingjing Huang

A COMPACT PLANAR 60-GHZ CPW-FED PATTERN RECONFIGURABLE QUASI-YAGI ANTENNA...... 2291 Yu-Chen Lo, Sung-Jung Wu, Nai-Chen Liu, Jenn-Hwan Tarng

ACCURATE DETERMINATION OF RADIATION PATTERNS FROM NEAR-FIELD MEASUREMENTS IN HIGHLY REFLECTIVE ENVIRONMENTS ...... 2294 Josef Knapp, Thomas F. Eibert

A SVD APPROACH TO COMPENSATE PROBE POSITIONING ERRORS IN A NON-CONVENTIONAL PLANE-RECTANGULAR NEAR-TO-FAR-FIELD TRANSFORMATION ...... 2297 Francesco D’Agostino, Flaminio Ferrara, Claudio Gennarelli, Rocco Guerriero, Massimo Migliozzi

FULL PROBE CORRECTED SPHERICAL NEAR FIELD MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE USING STANDARD WIDEBAND ANTENNAS AS PROBES...... 2302 F. Saccardi, A. Giacomini, L. M. Tancioni, L. J. Foged

EVALUATION OF AN UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM FOR ANTENNA DIAGNOSTICS AND CHARACTERIZATION...... 2307 Maria Garcia-Fernandez, Yuri Alvarez-Lopez, Fernando Las Heras

VOLUME 4

OPTIMIZED NEAR FIELD WITH AN OPTIMIZED CONTROLLER ...... 2312 Amedeo Capozzoli, Laura Celentano, Claudio Curcio, Angelo Liseno, Salvatore Savarese

A LOW-PROFILE DUAL-BAND TUNABLE AMC STRUCTURE FOR GNSS ANTENNAS AND ITS PERFORMANCE TRADE-OFFS...... 2317 M. K. Emara, S. Gupta, J. S. Wight, J. Hautcoeur, G. Panther

ALL-GNSS-BAND DRA ANTENNA FOR HIGH-PRECISION APPLICATIONS...... 2321 S. Caizzone, M. S. Circiu, W. Elmarissi, C. Enneking

A MULTI-FREQUENCY AND MULTI-CONSTELLATION GNSS ANTENNAS AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS...... 2325 Ning Yang

DUAL CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ANTENNAS WITH LOW CROSS-POLARIZATION FOR GNSS-R APPLICATIONS...... 2330 Yan Jia, Gianluca Dassano, Patrizia Savi

WIDEBAND CROSSED DIPOLES ANTENNA FOR ALL GNSS BANDS USING WIDEBAND AMC...... 2335 Wasim Alshrafi, Vladimir Ekaterinichev, Dirk Heberling

CALIBRATION AND USE OF MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS IN MULTIPLE-SITE EM WAVE PROPAGATION EXPERIMENTS ...... 2339 L. Luini, C. Riva, R. Nebuloni, M. Mauri, J. Nessel, A. Fanti

PROPAGATION MODELING FOR RADIO OCCULTATION REMOTE SENSING...... 2344 Charles-Antoine L’Hour, Vincent Fabbro, Alexandre Chabory, Jérôme Sokoloff

EXAMINING THE USE OF GENERALIZED GAMMA MODEL TO REPRESENT THE FULL RAIN DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS ...... 2347 Merhala Thurai, Viswanathan Bringi

INTERFERENCE IN WEATHER RADARS CAUSED BY WINDPARKS: SCATTERING MODEL FOR WEATHER RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING...... 2352 Madhu Chandra, Frank Gekat

EXPLORING THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARRAY RECEIVERS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY...... 2356 G. A. Hampson, J. G. Bij De Vaate, J. D. Bunton, A. Brown, G. Schoonderbeek, J. Tuthill, R. Beresford

COMMISSIONING OBSERVATIONS WITH THE FOCAL L-BAND ARRAY ON THE GREEN BANK TELESCOPE (FLAG) ...... 2359 K. F. Warnick, M. Ruzindana, B. D. Jeffs, R. A. Black, M. Burnett, D. J. Pisano, D. R. Lorimer, N. Pingel, K. Rajwade, R. M. Prestage, S. White, B. Simon, L. Hawkins, W. Shillue, D. A. Roshi

EFFICIENT ANALYSIS OF A 3D ANTENNA INSTALLED ON A FINITE GROUND PLANE...... 2361 Jean Cavillot, Ha Bui-Van, Christophe Craeye, Hardie Pienaar, Eloy De Lera Acedo

A LARGE PHASED ARRAY FEED WITH CMOS LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS...... 2365 T. Burgess, B. Veidt, L. Belostotski, A. J. Beaulieu, E. Zailer, J. W. Haslett

DIFFERENTIAL PHASE PATTERNS OF THE LOFAR LBA ARRAY MEASURED IN SITU...... 2368 Fabio Paonessa, Giuseppe Virone, Stefania Matteoli, Pietro Bolli, Giuseppe Pupillo, Stefan J. Wijnholds

LOW-COST ANTENNA FOR IOT DEPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRY ...... 2372 F. Ferrero, C. Pham

COPLANAR MULTIBAND ANTENNA ON FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE IN ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM FOR IOT APPLICATIONS...... 2377 D. H. N Bui, T. P Vuong, G. Depres, J. Verdier, B. Allard, P. Benech

MINIATURIZATION OF A CIRCULAR POLARIZED ANTENNA USING FERRITE MATERIALS ...... 2381 E. Arnaud, L. Huitema, R. Chantalat, A. Bellion, T. Monediere

A DIGITALLY TUNED RECONFIGURABLE SEMI-BOWTIE ANTENNA FOR IOT DEVICES ...... 2386 F. A. Asadallah, J. Costantine, Y. Tawk

ON THE ANTENNA FOR LONG RANGE LOW POWER GEOGRAPHICAL MONITORING IOT NETWORK ...... 2388 Yuanjun Shen, Linyu Cai, Yu Liu, Xuyang Ding, Xiandong Qiu, Ying Liu, Kin-Fai Tong

EMBEDDED ANTENNA DESIGN ON LORA RADIO FOR IOT APPLICATIONS...... 2391 Qianyun Zhang, Yue Gao

LOW-COST TRANSFER PRINTING OF ANTENNAS FOR SMART TEXTILES...... 2394 J. Atkinson, Y. Cao, G. Shaker, I. Goldthorpe

DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR PRINTABLE MAGNETIC SHIELDING FILMS FOR NFC TAGS ON METAL ...... 2398 Badredin M. Turki, John C. Batchelor

SPATIALLY EFFICIENT CHIPLESS RFID TAG, SCREENPRINTED ON FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE...... 2403 Sika Shrestha, Ram Prakash Yerramilli, Nemai Chandra Karmakar

BREAST TUMOR TISSUES CLASSIFICATION USING THE MODIFIED COLE-COLE PARAMETERS WITH MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUE...... 2407 Hang Song, Hikaru Sato, Tetsushi Koide, Koji Arihiro, Morihito Okada, Takayuki Kadoya, Takamaro Kikkawa

MINIMUM REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR DIELECTRIC PROPERTY MEASUREMENTS OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES ...... 2409 Emily Porter, Alessandra La Gioia, Saqib Salahuddin, Atif Shahzad, Muhammad Adnan Elahi, Martin O’Halloran

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES: ACHIEVING ACCURATE DATA AS THE BASIS FOR NOVEL MEDICAL DEVICE DEVELOPMENT...... 2413 Andrew P Gregory

DIELECTRIC METHODOLOGIES OF COAXIAL SENSORS FOR MEASUREMENT OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES UP TO 100 GHZ ...... 2418 Kensuke Sasaki, Atsuhiro Nishikata, Soichi Watanabe, Osamu Fujiwara

QUALITY FACTOR FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUES...... 2421 V. Lopresto, L. Farina, G. Ruvio, R. Pinto, L. Vannucci, M. Cavagnaro

EFFECT OF NETWORK ANALYZER TRACE NOISE ON DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS WITH AN OPEN-ENDED COAXIAL PROBE...... 2426 Mykolas Ragulskis, Alessandra La Gioia, Manuel Kasper, Ivan Alic, Martin O’Halloran, Emily Porter, Ferry Kienberger

ADVANCES IN MULTI-TARGET FOCO FOR HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT PLANNING: A ROBUSTNESS ASSESSMENT...... 2431 Gennaro G. Bellizzi, Tomas Drizdal, Gerard C. Van Rhoon, Lorenzo Crocco, Tommaso Isernia, Margarethus M. Paulides

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF BREAST TISSUES: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS UP TO 50 GHZ...... 2435 S. Di Meo, P. F. Espin-Lopez, A. Martellosio, M. Pasian, M. Bozzi, L. Perregrini, A. Mazzanti, F. Svelto, P. E. Summers, G. Renne, L. Preda, M. Bellomi

FEASIBILITY OF MICROWAVE DIELECTRIC SENSING TO MONITOR POTASSIUM CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD ...... 2440 Lijo G. Thomas, Muhammad Adnan Elahi, Martin O’Halloran, Atif Shahzad

SELF-CALIBRATION ALGORITHMS FOR MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA ANTENNA ARRAYS ...... 2444 Massimiliano Zanoli, Mikael Persson, Hana Dobs cek Trefna

CIRCULARLY-POLARIZED ON-CHIP DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA...... 2448 Julio Gonzalez Marin, Jan Hesselbarth

WIDEBAND SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE ANTENNA FOR NEXT-GENERATION MMWAVE WIRELESS SYSTEMS ...... 2452 Thomas Deckmyn, Ad C. F. Reniers, A. Bart Smolders, Hendrik Rogier, Dries Vande Ginste, Sam Agneessens

MULTIBEAM ANTENNA WITH A PASSIVE BEAMFORMING SYSTEM IN LTCC TECHNOLOGY FOR MM-WAVE SYSTEMS-IN-PACKAGE...... 2456 Francesco Foglia Manzillo, Maciej Smierzchalski, Mauro Ettorre, Jouko Aurinsalo, Kari T. Kautio, Markku S. Lahti, Antti E. I. Lamminen, Jussi Saily, Ronan Sauleau

EFFICIENT MILLIMETER-WAVE HIGH POWER GENERATION WITH SPATIAL POWER-COMBINED FEEDING ELEMENT...... 2459 Artem Roev, Rob Maaskant, Anders Höök, Marianna Ivashina

PARTIALLY MOLDED ANTENNA-IN-PACKAGE CONCEPT FOR 122 GHZ SIGE RADAR SENSOR ...... 2463 Akanksha Bhutani, Benjamin Goettel, Jochen Schaefer, Thomas Zwick

ANTENNA-ON-CHIP INTEGRATION IN MAINSTREAM SILICON SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES...... 2467 U. Johannsen, A. B. Smolders

CHALLENGES OF MILLIMETER-WAVE ACTIVE ANTENNA SYSTEMS IN 5G ...... 2472 Ulf Gustavsson, Martin Johansson, Fredrik Athley, Ali Zaidi

A HIGH-EFFICIENCY BROADBAND WR3 BOND WIRE ON-CHIP ANTENNA...... 2477 D. Muller, J. Schafer, A. Lipp, A. Leuther, T. Zwick, I. Kallfass

COMPACT WIDE-BAND MIMO ANTENNA WITH HIGH PORT ISOLATION...... 2482 Wen Jiang, Ying Liu, Yue Cui, Binbin Wang, Shuxi Gong

PATTERN RECONFIGURABLE TECHNIQUES FOR LP AND CP ANTENNAS WITH THE BROADSIDE AND CONICAL BEAMS ...... 2485 Wei Lin, Richard W. Ziolkowski, Hang Wong

A SIMPLE WIDEBAND SLOT ANTENNA...... 2489 Zhou Changfei, Hang Wong, Lawrence Kwan Yeung

COMPACT BUTLER MATRIX FOR WIDEBAND BEAMFORMING...... 2492 Qiu Ping Chen, Shao Yong Zheng, Yun Liang Long

STATE PROPAGATION CHANNEL MODEL FOR 2 GHZ UAV LINKS IN CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENT...... 2496 Jan Zeleny, Milan Kvicera, Pavel Valtr, Fernando Perez-Fontan, Pavel Pechac

WIDE BAND PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS AND MODELLING FOR LOW ALTITUDE UAVS...... 2501 César Calvo-Ramírez, Ana Gonzalez-Plaza, César Briso, Antonio Pérez-Yuste

INITIAL KU-BAND AIR-GROUND CHANNEL MEASUREMENT RESULTS...... 2506 David W. Matolak, Albert Smith, Kurt A. Shalkhauser, Steven C. Bretmersky

CROSS-CHANNEL SOUNDING FOR HF GEOLOCATION: CONCEPTS AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS...... 2510 Ankit Jain, Pascal Pagani, Rolland Fleury, Michel M. Ney, Patrice Pajusco

DESIGN TOOLS FOR SMALL IMPLANTABLE ANTENNAS...... 2515 Ismael Vico Trivino, Zvonimir Sipus, Marko Bosilievac, Anja K. Skrivervik

ATOM: A VERSATILE MATLAB TOOL FOR ANTENNA SYNTHESIS...... 2519 Miloslav Capek, Pavel Hazdra, Viktor Adler, Petr Kadlec, Vladimir Sedenka, Martin Marek, Michal Masek, Vit Losenicky, Martin Strambach, Milos Mazanek, Jaroslav Rymus

ADVANCED MEASUREMENT POST-PROCESSING BY EQUIVALENT CURRENTS ON SMALL 5G ANTENNAS ...... 2524 L. Scialacqua, L. J. Foged, A. Scannavini, F. Herbiniere, F. Mioc, Bo Xu, Zhinong Ying, Thomas Bolin

MODELING AND DESIGN TOOLS FOR SMALL ANTENNAS: STATE-OF-THE-ART AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES...... 2529 Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Francesca Mioc

MODELING OF THZ CHIP-TO-CHIP WIRELESS CHANNELS IN METAL ENCLOSURES ...... 2532 Alenka Zajic, Prateek Juyal

INTERFERENCE STUDY FOR THZ INTRA-DEVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE LINKS...... 2537 Alexander Fricke, Thomas Kürner

EXAMPLE ANTENNA AND LINK PERFORMANCE FOR WIRELESS NETWORK ON CHIP APPLICATIONS...... 2542 William Rayess, David W. Matolak

ANTENNA CONCEPTS FOR BOARD-TO-BOARD COMMUNICATION...... 2546 Ronny Hahnel, Patrick Seiler, Bernhard Klein, Xiaozhou Wang, Michael Jenning, Dirk Plettemeier

ON-CHIP WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATION THROUGH PLASMONIC NANOANTENNAS ...... 2551 Giovanna Calo, Gaetano Bellanca, Ali Emre Kaplan, Franco Fuschini, Marina Barbiroli, Michele Bozzetti, Paolo Bassi, Vincenzo Petruzzelli

ON-CHIP ANTENNAS FOR INTER-CHIP WIRELESS INTERCONNECTIONS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES...... 2556 Rounak Singh Narde, Naseef Mansoor, Amlan Ganguly, Jayanti Venkataraman

VALIDATION OF AN LTE BACKBONE FOR INTER-CAR COMMUNICATIONS IN METRO ENVIRONMENTS...... 2561 V. Díez, I. Val, J. García, A. Arriola, E. Echeverria, I. López, M. Korta, I. Zabala, T. Aubourg, T. Tichý

FIELD TRIAL OF MILLIMETER-WAVE-BASED MHN SYSTEM FOR VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS ...... 2566 Junhyeong Kim, Heesang Chung, Gosan Noh, Bing Hui, Ilgyu Kim, Youngmin Choi, Youngnam Han

INFLUENCES OF TRAIN WAGON VIBRATIONS ON THE MMWAVE WAGON-TO-WAGON CHANNEL ...... 2571 Mohammad Soliman, Youssef Dawoud, Emanuel Staudinger, Stephan Sand, Andreas Schuetz, Armin Dekorsy

MEASUREMENT BASED SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MPCS IN TRAIN-TO-TRAIN PROPAGATION ...... 2576 Paul Unterhuber, Thomas Jost, Wei Wang, Thomas Kurner

INTRA-TRAIN PROPAGATION BETWEEN 26-40 GHZ FOR 5G APPLICATIONS...... 2581 Juan Moreno García-Loygorri, César Briso, Israel Arnedo, César Calvo, Mikel Laso, Florentino Jiménez, Vicente González

SPATIAL MODE APPROACHES TO ENHANCING TRANSPORT COMMUNICATIONS CAPACITIES ...... 2586 T. D Drysdale, B Allen, J Coon

ANGULAR SPREAD CHARACTERISTICS IN HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY SCENARIOS IN MILLIMETER- WAVE BAND ...... 2589 Xue Lin, Bo Ai, Danping He, Ke Guan, Chen Zhao, Zhangdui Zhong

STOCHASTIC CHANNEL MODELING FOR HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY VIADUCT SCENARIO AT 93.2 GHZ ...... 2594 Longhe Wang, Bo Ai, Ke Guan, Danping He, Zhangdui Zhong, Li Tian, Jianwu Dou

RADIO-WAVE PENETRATION MODELLING THROUGH COMPOSITE TRAIN BODIES AND HEAT- ABSORBING GLAZING ...... 2598 Divitha Seetharamdoo, Charbel Amoussou, Hassan Ghannoum, Yann Cocheril

ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENT OF PENETRATION LOSS FOR TRAIN WAGONS WITH COATED VS UNCOATED WINDOWS ...... 2603 Nima Jamaly, Damiano Scanferla, Carine Genoud, Hugo Lehmann

A NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL GREEN'S FUNCTION FOR ELLIPTICALLY STRATIFIED MEDIA...... 2608 Alessandro Fedeli, Matteo Pastorino, Mirco Raffetto, Andrea Randazzo

SCATTERING AND TRANSMISSION OF PULSED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES WITH THE CWA ...... 2612 Cristina Ponti, Massimo Santarsiero, Giuseppe Schettini

3D PRINTED INDEX MODULATED DIELECTRIC MEDIUM IN PARTIALLY REFLECTING SURFACE FOR BEAM STEERING...... 2615 Badreddine Ratni, O. Kessi Sayad, André De Lustrac, Gérard-Pascal Piau, Shah Nawaz Burokur

ENABLING EXTRUSION BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FOR RF APPLICATIONS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES ...... 2619 Shiyu Zhang, Darren Cadman, Will Whittow, J(Yiannis) C. Vardaxoglou

A W-BAND SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE ARRAY ANTENNA BASED ON 3D PRINTING TECHNOLOGY ...... 2624 Adnan Kantemur, Yashika Sharma, Jinpil Tak, Hao Xin

ROBUST AND COMPACT PDMS ANTENNAS FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS AND EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS ...... 2627 Rahil Joshi, Constantin Constantinides, Symon K. Podilchak, Muhammad Nazrin Ramli, Herwansyah Lago, Ping Jack Soh

EPIDERMAL RADIO-SENSORS FOR WIRELESS DETECTION OF PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND SENSE AUGMENTATION ...... 2632 M. C. Caccami, C. Miozzi, V. Greco, G. Marrocco

RADAR DOPPLER TECHNIQUE TO ESTIMATE THE ENERGY EXPENDITURE OF HUMAN PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES...... 2637 P. Russo, V. Di Mattia, G. Manfredi, A. De Leo, G. Cerri

REMOTE VITAL SIGN RECOGNITION THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING AUGMENTED UWB...... 2642 Soumya Prakash Rana, Maitreyee Dey, Robert Brown, Hafeez Ur Siddiqui, Sandra Dudley

RFID MONITORING FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES BEYOND THE CLINIC...... 2647 J. C. Batchelor, R. J. Horne, P. S. Taylor, M. I. Sobhy

GAN-INTEGRATED BEAM-SWITCHING HIGH-POWER ACTIVE ARRAY FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS...... 2651 Q. Luo, S. Gao, N. Carvalho, K. Osipov, J. Wurfl, R. Vilaseca, D. Pham-Minh, A. Marques, J. Pinto, R. Martins

RESEARCH ADVANCES IN PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS FOR SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS...... 2656 Peng Chen, Wei Hong

A LOW-COST SATELLITE-TO-SATELLITE LINK USING META- LENS...... 2659 Huan Yi, Kung Bo Ng, Chun Kit Wong, Shi-Wei Qu, Chi Hou Chan

A COMPACT LOW-COST DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEM FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES...... 2662 Attiya Mahmood, Rashid Mehmood, Michael A. Jensen

UHF AND S-BAND ANTENNA ARRAYS FOR NANO-SATELLITE-BASED DATA-RELAY...... 2666 Juner M. Vieira, Eduardo Yoshimoto, Filipe G. Ferreira, Vin cius M. Pereira, Marcos V. T. Heckler

BODY-WORN CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION UNIT FOR THE 868 MHZ BAND ...... 2671 Patrick Van Torre, Sam Agneessens, Jo Verhaevert, Hendrik Rogier

PRELIMINARY PATH-LOSS MEASUREMENT OF ON-BODY WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORK AT 490 GHZ ...... 2676 Taichi Shichijoo, Takahiro Aoyagi

FADING CHARACTERISTICS FOR DYNAMIC BODY-TO-BODY CHANNELS IN INDOOR AND OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS ...... 2679 Kenan Turbic, Slawomir J. Ambroziak, Luis M. Correia

FULL-SPECTRUM PHANTOMS FOR CM-WAVE AND MEDICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ...... 2683 Sergio Castelló-Palacios, Concepcion Garcia-Pardo, Alejandro Fornes-Leal, Narcís Cardona, Ana Vallés-Lluch

FADING CHARACTERIZATION OF UE TO CEILING-MOUNTED ACCESS POINT COMMUNICATIONS AT 60 GHZ...... 2686 Seong Ki Yoo, Simon L. Cotton, Young Jin Chun, William G. Scanlon

FREQUENCY DEPENDENCY ANALYSIS OF SHF BAND DIRECTIONAL PROPAGATION CHANNEL IN INDOOR ENVIRONMENT...... 2691 Kentaro Saito, Panawit Hanpinitsak, Jun-Ichi Takada, Wei Fan, Gert F. Pedersen

CHARACTERIZATION OF SUB-THZ AND MMWAVE PROPAGATION CHANNEL FOR INDOOR SCENARIOS...... 2696 Laura Pometcu, Raffaele D’Errico

ANTENNA APERTURE IMPACT ON CHANNEL DELAY SPREAD IN AN URBAN OUTDOOR SCENARIO AT 17 AND 60 GHZ...... 2700 Cheikh A. L. Diakhate, Jean-Marc Conrat, Jean-Christophe Cousin, Alain Sibille

ON THE FREQUENCY DEPENDENCY OF RADIO CHANNEL'S DELAY SPREAD: ANALYSES AND FINDINGS FROM MMMAGIC MULTI-FREQUENCY CHANNEL SOUNDING...... 2705 Sinh L. H. Nguyen, Jonas Medbo, Michael Peter, Aki Karttunen, Katsuyuki Haneda, Aliou Bamba, Raffaele D’Errico, Naveed Iqbal, Cheikh Diakhate, Jean-Marc Conrat

BUILDING ENTRY LOSS FOR TRADITIONAL AND THERMALLY EFFICIENT HOUSES BETWEEN 0.4 AND 73 GHZ...... 2710 Jack Lewis Towers, Sana Salous, Xavier Raimundo, Adnan Cheema

K/KA-BAND TRANSMITARRAY ANTENNAS BASED ON POLARIZATION TWISTED UNIT-CELLS...... 2714 Kien Pham, Ronan Sauleau, Erwan Fourn, Fatimata Diaby, Antonio Clemente, Laurent Dussopt

COMPACT BROADBAND INVERTED-L FILTERING MICROSTRIP ANTENNA WITH MULTIPLE-MODE RESONATOR...... 2719 Tao Xu, Fei Liu, Hui Gan, Hongwei Deng, Yonggang Zhou

COMPACT L/S-BAND CIRCULARLY POLARIZED MICROSTRIP ANTENNA OVER REACTIVE IMPEDANCE SURFACE ...... 2722 Rongjie Ma, Qi Wu, Jiexi Yin, Chen Yu, Haiming Wang, Wei Hong

ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND GAP RESONATOR, HIGH GAIN,...... 2726 Ali Lalbakhsh, Muhammad U. Afzal, Karu P. Esselle, Stephanie L. Smith

MM-WAVE SLOT ARRAY ANTENNA BACKED BY AMC REFLECTOR FOR 5G SMARTWATCH APPLICATIONS...... 2729 Jihoon Bang, Youngtaek Hong, Jaehoon Choi

INFLUENCE OF ANTENNA MOUNTING LOCATION ON THE OF AN AUTOMOTIVE ANTENNA...... 2733 Muhammad Ehtisham Asghar, Frank Wollenschlager, Aidin Asgharzadeh, Jasmeet Singh, Matthias A. Hein

A NOVEL ELECTRONICALLY WIDEBAND STEERING SYSTEM USING ROTMAN LENS FOR 5G APPLICATIONS AT 28 GHZ ...... 2738 Mohamed A. Hassanien, R. Hahnel, D. Plettemeier

ABOUT THE BEAM COSINES AND THE RADIATION EFFICIENCY OF A MULTIPORT ANTENNA ARRAY...... 2743 Frédéric Broydé, Evelyne Clavelier

DUAL BAND DUAL MODE LOW CROSS-POLARIZATION SLOT-PATCH ANTENNA FED BY MICROSTRIP LINE ...... 2748 Yifan Yin, Ke Wu

NOVEL WIDEBAND OMNIDIRECTIONAL MONOPOLE ANTENNA FOR INDOOR COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT ...... 2752 Chenfeng Li, Xiao-Wei Zhu, Pengfei Liu, Chao Yu

LINEARLY POLARIZED 64-ELEMENT ANTENNA ARRAY FOR MM-WAVE MOBILE BACKHAUL APPLICATION ...... 2755 Marko Sonkki, Sami Myllymäki, Nuutti Tervo, Marko E. Leinonen, Maciej Sobocinski, Giuseppe Destino, Aarno Pärssinen

IMPLEMENTATION OF ROTMAN LENS BEAMFORMER FOR RELATIVELY FLEXIBLE MULTI-BEAM RADIATION CONTROL BY ELECTRICALLY LARGE PHASED ARRAYS OF ANTENNAS...... 2760 Chen-Yi Chang, Hsi-Tseng Chou

ADAPTIVE CONTINUOUS BEAM STEERING IN QUASI-OPTICAL ANTENNA SOLUTIONS ...... 2763 Mohammad Reza Dehghani Kodnoeih, Romain Negrier, Eduardo Motta Cruz, Yoann Letestu, Ronan Sauleau, Laurent Ferro-Famil

A WIDEBAND CPW-FED STEPPED MONOPOLE SLOT ANTENNA FOR 5G COMMUNICATIONS...... 2768 Hidayat Ullah, Farooq A. Tahir

LINK CHARACTERISTICS OF DIRECTIONAL SURFACE WAVE ANTENNA ARRAYS...... 2772 Prabhat Baniya, Kathleen L. Melde

DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF A FLEXIBLE 60-GHZ ROTMAN LENS-BASED ARRAY BEAMFORMER ...... 2777 Ardavan Rahimian, Yasir Alfadhl, Akram Alomainy

TIME-DOMAIN ANALYSIS OF CLASSICAL OMNIDIRECTIONAL AXIS-DISPLACED DUAL-REFLECTOR ANTENNAS ...... 2779 Rafaela Neves De Barros Carvalho, Fernando José Da Silva Moreira, Cássio Gonçalves Do Rego

W-BAND HIGH-GAIN LOW PROFILE CIRCULARLY POLARIZED MAGNETO-ELECTRIC DIPOLE ANTENNA ARRAY WITH GAP WAVEGUIDE FEEDING TECHNOLOGY ...... 2783 Jianyin Cao, Hao Wang, Jian Yang, Yan Wang, Shanxiang Mou

PRINTED-CIRCUIT MONOPOLE ANTENNA FOR SUPER- WIDEBAND APPLICATIONS ...... 2787 Alireza Seyfollahi, Jens Bornemann

AN UWB COMPACT MICROSTRIP ANTENNA FOR S BAND, C BAND AND X BAND APPLICATIONS ...... 2792 Tapesh Bhandari, Sudeep Baudha

DIVERSITY ANTENNA USING DIPOLE/MONOPOLE MODES WITH SIMPLE CONFIGURATION ...... 2797 Shimpei Akimoto, Kengo Nishimoto, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Naofumi Yoneda

SYSTEMATIC OCTOPUS-SHAPE ANTENNA DESIGN WITH CIRCULAR POLARIZATION BY CHARACTERISTIC MODE THEORY ...... 2799 Mohammad Poordaraee, Homayoon Oraizi, Seyfollah Khajevandi, Farrokh Hodjat-Kashani

DUAL-RESONANCE NFC ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR MOBILE PHONE WITH METAL BACK COVER ...... 2804 Fuqiang Ai, Anping Zhao

RECONFIGURABLE CIRCULARLY POLARIZED CROSS-DIPOLE ANTENNA WITH A NEAR-FIELD RESONANT PARASITIC ELEMENT...... 2808 Son Xuat Ta, Ikmo Park, Richard W. Ziolkowski

INTERNALLY LOADED ENDFIRE SUPERDIRECTIVE ARRAY FOR WIDEBAND PERFORMANCE ...... 2812 Hussein Jaafar, Sylvain Collardey, Ala Sharaiha

P1 POSTERS - ANTENNAS-T04...... 2816 Nadir Sarsri, Sami Myllymäki, Mohamed Nabil Srifi

DESIGN OF A MONOPOLAR WIRE-PLATE ANTENNA LOADED WITH MAGNETO-DIELECTRIC MATERIAL ...... 2820 Lotfi Batel, Jean-François Pintos, Christophe Delaveaud

A HIGHLY SENSITIVE MICROWAVE RESONATOR FOR NON- INVASIVE BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVEL DETECTION ...... 2825 Ayodunni A Oloyo, Zhirun Hu

BACTERIAL DETECTION BY USING MICRO IMMUNOSENSING BIOMEDICAL CAVITY RESONATOR...... 2830 Dalia Elsheakh, Mohamed Ismail, Hala Elsadek, Esmat Abdallah, Saad A. M. Moghannem, Waleed Nazmy Elmazny

DUAL-BAND DUAL-POLARIZED TEXTILE ANTENNA FOR LOCATION TRACKING IN AAL...... 2834 Ezzaty Faridah Nor Mohd Hussin, Ping Jack Soh, Azremi Abdullah Al-Hadi, Mohd Faizal Jamlos, Muhammad Nazrin Ramli, Herwansyah Lago, Niels Kuster, Symon K. Podilchak

TECHNIQUE TO SUPPRESS MUTUAL COUPLING IN DENSELY PACKED ANTENNA ARRAYS USING METAMATERIAL SUPERSUBSTRATE...... 2838 Mohammad Alibakhshikenari, Bal Singh Virdee, Ernesto Limiti

CAUSTICS, PLANE WAVES AND APPLICATIONS TO ANTENNAS ...... 2842 Giuseppe Orlando

SURFACE MOUNTED NOTCH ELEMENT FOR AESA APPLICATIONS ...... 2847 Bengt Svensson, Jacob Samuelsson

DIELECTRIC MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION IN THE FREQUENCY RANGE 68 - 92 GHZ ...... 2851 Isam Alawneh, Jan Barowski, Ilona Rolfes

A UHF SEA-WATER ARRAY ANTENNA FOR MARITIME WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS...... 2855 Xinhe Pan, Zhenxin Hu, Mingzhou Zheng, Zhen Ren, Qiaoyu Chen

WIDEBAND DUAL-CIRCULARLY POLARISED FEED FOR COMPACT ANTENNA TEST RANGES WITH LOW CROSS POLARISATION...... 2858 I. Montesinos-Ortego, S. Pivnenko, A. Ruiz

3D HODOGRAPH OF ANTENNA LOCAL PHASE CENTER ...... 2862 Yu. I. Choni

ACCURACY OF HARMONIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES FOR DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION USING TIME MODULATED ARRAYS ...... 2867 Ben Clark, James A. Flint

DESIGN PROCEDURES FOR RECTANGULAR PATCH ANTENNAS...... 2871 G. Buttazzoni, A. Cuttin, R. Vescovo

3D PRINTED HELIX ANTENNA ...... 2873 K. Lomakin, T. Pavlenko, M. Sippel, G. Gold, T. Weidner, K. Helmreich, M. Ankenbrand, J. Franke

A POSTERIORI ANTENNA SURFACE REWORK: A SIMPLE TECHNIQUE TO CORRELATE DISTORTIONS TO PATTERN DEGRADATIONS ...... 2878 A. Iacono, S. McLaren

PHASE RETRIEVAL OF SCALAR FIELDS AS A LOW NUMBER OF SEQUENTIAL OPTIMIZATIONS...... 2881 T. Isernia, A. R. Laganà, V. A. Morabito, A. F. Morabito

NOVEL MINIATURIZED CIRCULAR POLARIZATION ANTENNA WITH ELLIPTICAL SLOTS AND FEED WITH LOADED STUBS...... 2885 Adrian Bekasiewicz, Slawomir Koziel, Qingsha S. Cheng

DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF CORPORATE FEEDS FOR LOW- SIDELOBE MICROSTRIP LINEAR ARRAYS...... 2889 Stanislav Ogurtsov, Slawomir Koziel, Yang Yu, Qingsha S. Cheng

DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF AN UWB PATCH ANTENNA WITH ENHANCED BANDWIDTH CHARACTERISTICS ...... 2894 Mohamed S. Soliman, Majed O. Dwairi, Ahmad A. Alahmadi

EXPLOITING THE APERTURE ANTENNAS THEORY IN THE ASSESSMENT OF ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM ANTENNAS LIMITATIONS IN FAR-FIELD LINKS ...... 2898 Andrea Francesco Morabito, Tommaso Isernia

TERAHERTZ DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA COUPLED TO GRAPHENE PLASMONIC DIPOLE ...... 2902 Seyed Ehsan Hosseininejad, Mohammad Neshat, Reza Faraji-Dana, Sergi Abadal, Max C. Lemme, Peter Haring Bol var, Eduard Alarcon, Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

SLOTTED SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE ANTENNA ...... 2907 Yasameen F. Azeez, P. R. Young

DESIGN OF ANTIPODAL TAPERED SLOT ANTENNA DIVIDED INTO THREE UNITS...... 2911 Kuniaki Suto, Akinori Matsui

P1 POSTERS - MEASUREMENTS-T01 ...... 2915 Jinnan Zhan, Jianhua Zhang, Lei Tian, Xinzhuang Zhang, Pan Tang, Jianwu Dou, Hewen Wei

NON-INTRUSIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF 60GHZ ANTENNA ARRAY, USING PACKET MEASUREMENTS...... 2920 T. G. Pelham, D. Reyes, M. Beach, E. Mellios, M. Rumney

PLANE WAVE CONVERTER FOR 5G MASSIVE MIMO BASESTATION MEASUREMENTS ...... 2923 Corbett Rowell, Adam Tankielun

ASSESSMENT OF BEAMFORMING CAPABILITIES OF A 4-ELEMENT ARRAY IN A SMARTPHONE AT 26 GHZ ...... 2926 Fabien Ferrero, Philippe Ratajkzack, Tran Quang Khai Nguyen

HIGH-FREQUENCY CHARACTERIZATION OF EMI/EMC GROUND TEST FACILITY FOR THE MEASUREMENTS OF ELECTRIC PROPULSION THRUSTER EMISSIONS...... 2929 Matteo Albani, Federico Puggelli, Alberto Toccafondi, Gianfranco Meniconi, Fabrizio Scortecci

IMAGING THE INNER STRUCTURE OF A COMET FROM FEW MEASUREMENTS IN A BISTATIC SCENARIO: CASE OF A SCALE MODEL...... 2934 C. Eyraud, A. Herique, J.-M. Geffrin, W. Kofman

REALIZATION OF FDA USING VARIABLE-PERIOD TIME MODULATED TECHNIQUE ...... 2937 Jin-Dong Zhang, Wen Wu, Da-Gang Fang

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES MEASUREMENT BASED ON SPLIT RING RESONATOR FOR MICROFLUIDIC CHARACTERIZATION ...... 2941 Amyrul Azuan Mohd Bahar, Zahriladha Zakaria, Azmi Awang Md Isa, Yosza Dasril, Rammah A. Alahnomi

RESULTS OF MEDIUM WAVE HD RADIO MOBILE RECEPTION MEASUREMENTS IN A DENSE URBAN REGION ...... 2946 E. Verdugo Muñoz, L. Da Silva Mello, M. P. C. Almeida

DESIGN-ORIENTED CONSTRAINED MODELING OF ANTENNA STRUCTURES ...... 2951 Slawomir Koziel, Ari T. Sigurðsson

LONG-TERM SPECTRUM MONITORING AND OCCUPANCY FROM 174 TO 1000 MHZ IN RURAL WESTERN MONTANA...... 2956 Erin Wiles, Kevin Negus

DESIGN OF A BENCHTOP RF VECTOR PARAMETER ANALYZER ...... 2961 Zhengbo Jiang, Ming Liu, Jianfeng Zhai

A NOVEL DESIGN APPROACH FOR NB-IOT NETWORKS USING HYBRID TEACHING-LEARNING OPTIMIZATION ...... 2965 Sotirios K. Goudos, Margot Deruyck, David Plets, Luc Martens, Wout Joseph

CONSIDERATIONS ON SERIES AND INDUCTIVELY COUPLED LOOP MATCHING CIRCUITS FOR UHF RFID TAGS...... 2970 F. Gourari, S. M. Meriah, S. Protat, J. Dubouil, J.-M. Laheurte

STUDY ON CURVED BARRIER TO REDUCE ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE FROM SOLID CABLES ...... 2974 Jaeyul Choo, Dong-Jin Lee

A COMPACT QUAD-PORT DUAL-POLARIZED DIPOLE RECTENNA FOR AMBIENT RF ENERGY HARVESTING ...... 2978 Shanpu Shen, Yujie Zhang, Chi-Yuk Chiu, Ross D. Murch

ENHANCED COOPERATIVE SPECTRUM SENSING IN HYBRID HOMOGENEOUS-HETEROGENEOUS COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS...... 2982 Md Sipon Miah, Michael Schukat, Enda Barrett

MICROWAVE RADAR IMAGING FOR MONITORING DYSPHAGIA ...... 2987 Zhenhua Hu, Huihai Wang, Lin Sun, Rui Wu, Xiaofeng Zhang, Fan Yang

WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER: EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT FOR GROUNDED AND UNGROUNDED HUMAN BODY ...... 2990 Mohsen Koohestani, Mauro Ettorre, Maxim Zhadobov

SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO ENHANCEMENT OF HIGH FREQUENCY GROUND WAVE RADAR BASED ON A METAMATERIAL-BASED TRANSITION STRUCTURE...... 2994 Liang Yu Ou Yang, Shih Yuan Chen

HIGH POWER NON-FOSTER CIRCUIT CLASS-J GAN HEMT AMPLIFIER ...... 2998 Charles Nwakanma Akwuruoha, Zhirun Hu

AN ACCURATE CLOSED-FORM DESIGN FOR MICROSTRIP DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS WITH COMPENSATIVE ...... 3003 Jin Ling

MULTI-RADAR COHERENTLY COMBINING BASED ON CLEAN SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION ...... 3008 Xinghua Liu, Zhenhai Xu, Luoshengbin Wang, Wei Dong, Shunping Xiao

DESIGN OF A SIMULTANEOUS X/KA-BAND SATCOM-ON-THE-MOVE TERMINAL FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY APPLICATIONS WITH MONOPULSE TRACKING IN BOTH BANDS ...... 3013 Christophe Granet, John S. Kot, John Ness, Glen Callaghan

BROADBAND LINEAR POLARIZATION CONVERSION METASURFACE BASED ON GROUNDED VIAS...... 3017 F. Samadi, M. Akbari, R. Chaharmir, A. R. Sebak

RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS OF FILAMENTARY SOURCES IN THE PRESENCE OF PERIODICALLY SPACED NONRECIPROCAL CYLINDRICAL SCATTERERS...... 3020 Alexander V. Kudrin, Alexander V. Ivoninsky, Vasiliy A. Es’Kin

DUAL-POLARIZED FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE FOR SOTM APPLICATIONS...... 3023 Daniel Sanchez-Escuderos, Miguel Ferrando-Rocher, Jose I. Herranz, Hon Ching Moy-Li, Alejandro Valero-Nogueira

DIRECTIONAL MODULATION VIA WEIGHTED FRACTIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORM - A WAY TO ENHANCE SECURITY ...... 3028 Feng Liu, Ling Wang, Jian Xie

PROPAGATION PREDICTION BASED ON TIME DOMAIN ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION FOR SMOOTHLY IRREGULAR TERRAINS ...... 3033 Ruã Luz Barbosa, Fernando José Da Silva Moreira

ATMOSPHERIC IMPACT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF A 60GHZ POINT-TO-POINT LINK FOR 5G INFRASTRUCTURES ...... 3037 Nigel Linge, Rowani Odum, Steve Hill, Sabine Von-Hunerbein, Patrick Linnebank, Andy Sutton, Dave Townend

PROPAGATION MODELS TUNING FOR LONG TERM EVOLUTION AND LONG TERM EVOLUTION- ADVANCED USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND LEAST MEAN SQUARE ...... 3041 Bruno J. Cavalcanti, Gustavo A. Cavalcante, Marcela T. G. Santos, Gabriel M. Cantanhede, Adaildo G. D’Assunção, Laércio M. De Mendonça

A RAIN MODEL FOR THE TROPICS BASED ON TRMM DATA FITTED TO DBSG3...... 3046 Kevin S. Paulson, Geraldine R. Rimven, Timothy Bellerby

ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION OF THE TIME-DEPENDENT ANTENNA CROSS-CORRELATION GREEN’S FUNCTION...... 3050 Debdeep Sarkar, Said M. Mikki, Kumar Vaibhav Srivastava, Yahia M. M. Antar

STATISTICS OF RAIN ATTENUATION IN PRAGUE, EMPIRICAL DATA AND NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS ...... 3055 Martin Grabner

CHANNEL MODEL IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS...... 3059 Zhi Yang, Lai Zhou, Guangyue Zhao, Shidong Zhou

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK OPTIMAL MODELLING OF RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS USING UAV MEASUREMENTS ...... 3064 Sotirios K. Goudos, George Tsoulos, Georgia Athanasiadou

RADIO WAVE DIFFRACTION ON LEDGE-LIKE UNDERLYING SURFACE ...... 3068 Yungaitis E. M., Voytovich N. I., Golovnin A. A., Zhdanov B. V.

EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDIES ON SCATTERING FROM MULTIPLE PROPELLERS OF SMALL UAVS ...... 3073 Tamas Peto, Karoly Marak, Sandor Bilicz, Jozsef Pavo

CALIBRATION OF THE SIMULTANEOUS POLARIMETRIC RADAR BASED ON THE SAMPLING RATE COMPENSATION...... 3077 Li Chao, Yang Yong, Li Yong-Zhen, Wang Xue-Song

VOLUME 5

ESTABLISHING THE LIMITS OF ANTENNA MEASUREMENT IN FADING CHANNELS...... 3082 Mohammed A. Almoteriy, Mohamed I. Sobhy, John C. Batchelor

RETRIEVING OF SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT AND PERIOD FROM THE DOPPLER SPECTRUM OF BACKSCATTERED MICROWAVE SIGNAL...... 3086 Maria Panfilova, Maria Ryabkova, Yuriy Titchenko, Vladimir Karaev

A SUPERSTRATE INDEPENDENT TO THE LINEAR POLARIZATION DIRECTION OF AN INCIDENT PLANE WAVE WITH TRANSMITTANCE HIGHER THAN 80% ...... 3089 Yin-Hua Yu, Zhi-Yuan Zong, Wen Wu, Da-Gang Fang

ANALYTICAL STUDY OF 5G BEAMFORMING IN THE REACTIVE NEAR-FIELD ZONE...... 3093 Maryna Nesterova, Stuart Nicol

THERMAL MODELING OF THE NEAR-FIELD EXPOSURE FROM WIRELESS 5G DEVICES...... 3098 Andreas Christ, Davide Colombi, Ken Joyner

MULTI-ANTENNA CONFIGURATION MODELING FOR MASSIVE MIMO V2I ...... 3102 A. Pfadler, C. Ballesteros, J. Romeu, L. Jofre

LOW-COST MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF ANTENNAS BY MEANS OF GENERALIZED PARETO RANKING BISECTION ALGORITHM...... 3107 Sigmar D. Unnsteinsson, Slawomir Koziel

A NEW SUB-ENTIRE-DOMAIN BASIS FUNCTION FOR THE ACCURATE ANALYSIS OF LARGE-SCALE FINITE-SIZED PERIODIC STRUCTURES WITH CONNECTED-CELL...... 3112 Tao Xiong, Wei Bing Lu, Wu Yang, Zhen Guo Liu

EM SIMULATION BASED ON STATE OF THE ART CAD DATA CONVERSION AND SIMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES ...... 3115 Patrick Soboll, Rainer Kronberger, Winfried Simon, Thorsten Liebig, David Schaefer, Matthias Geissler

LINEAR ANTENNA TRANSIENT ANALYSIS USING RUNNING FOURIER TRANSFORM AND PAGE SPECTRUM...... 3119 Anna Witenberg, Maciej Walkowiak, Katarzyna Jagodzinska

HYBRID TECHNIQUE FOR EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE ANALYSIS OF THE V2X CHANNEL IN URBAN TRAFFIC SCENARIOS...... 3122 Jose-Luis García, Alvaro Somolinos, Lorena Lozano, Iván González, Felipe Cátedra

SYNTHESIS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIVALENTS OF COMPOSITE SHEETS BY MULTI- OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION OF ANISOTROPIC BAND-STOP FILTERS ...... 3126 Martin Marek, Zbynek Raida, Petr Kadlec

ACCURATE SCATTERING MATRIX RECONSTRUCTION FOR MULTI-ELEMENT ANTENNAS – APPLICATION TO HYBRID ARRAY...... 3130 Amel Maati, Cyrille Menudier, Marc Thevenot, François Torres, Thierry Monediere

A NUMERICAL STUDY FOR THE DESIGN OF A NEW DD COIL PROTOTYPE FOR DYNAMIC WIRELESS CHARGING OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES ...... 3135 Rosanna Pinto, Vanni Lopresto, Antonino Genovese

THE GENERATION OF CIRCULAR POLARIZATION IN CYLINDRICAL DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA USING AN ARC-SHAPED DIELECTRIC ELEMENT...... 3140 Gaurav Varshney, Shailza Gotra, V. S. Pandey, R. S. Yaduvanshi

A LOW-PROFILE 2D TILTED-BEAM RESONANT CAVITY ANTENNA ...... 3143 Shufeng Zheng, Yapeng Li, Steven Gao, Luyu Zhao, Wei Hu, Yuanming Cai, Qi Luo, Chao Gu

OPTIMIZATION OF THE VSWR OF RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS WITH A COUPLED MULTIELEMENT CONCEPT...... 3147 H. Alzein, J. Milbrandt, C. Menudier, M. Thevenot, T. Monediere

A BESPOKE LENS FOR A SLOT LOG-SPIRAL EXCITATION ...... 3151 Mahsa Ebrahimpouri, Oscar Quevedo-Teruel

A COMPACT SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE CAVITY BACKED ANTENNA WITH STABLE RADIATION PATTERNS FOR DUAL-BAND APPLICATIONS ...... 3154 Mohammad Mahdi Honari, Rashid Mirzavand, Hossein Saghlatoon, Pedram Mousavi

DESIGN OF A PHASED-ARRAY ANTENNA FOR 5G BASE STATION APPLICATIONS IN THE 3.4-3.8 GHZ BAND...... 3157 R. Schulpen, U. Johannsen, S. C. Pires, A. B. Smolders

COMPACT PRINTED LOG-PERIODIC DIPOLE ARRAYS FED BY SIW HORN...... 3162 Qiao Chen, Xiaoxing Yin, Lei Wang

HIGH ISOLATION CONFIGURATIONS FOR FULL-DUPLEX COMMUNICATIONS ...... 3165 Prafulla Deo, Dariush Mirshekar-Syahkal, Gan Zheng

A LOW-COMPLEXITY ARRAY OF DIRECTLY PHASE MODULATING ANTENNAS ...... 3170 Stephen Henthorn, Kenneth Lee Ford, Timothy O’Farrell

OPTIMAL SYNTHESIS OF WIDEBAND PLANAR PHASED ARRAYS WITH MAXIMUM BANDWIDTH ...... 3174 Le Trong Phuoc Bui, Mohammad Adbul Hannan, Nicola Anselmi, Lorenzo Poli, Paolo Rocca

BROADBAND ANTENNA DESIGN FOR NEW MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS...... 3177 Sergio Martin-Anton, Daniel Segovia-Vargas`

LAYERED PATCH ANTENNA STRUCTURE FOR GAIN ENHANCEMENT OF 4X4 SYSTEM...... 3182 Yun Sik Kim, Dong-Ho Cho

P2 POSTERS - ANTENNAS-T01...... 3187 Dazhi Piao, Junping Song, Hailong Yu, Yajin Wang

WORD TINTEGRATION OF A NON-RESONANT ANTENNA IN A SMARTPHONE FOR MULTIBAND OPERATION...... 3189 Aurora Andújar, Jaume Anguera

A WIDEBAND HIGH-GAIN AND HIGH-EFFICIENCY SLOT ARRAY ANTENNA BASED ON GROOVE GAP WAVEGUIDE...... 3193 A. Farahbakhsh, D. Zarifi, A. U. Zaman

A TWO-STAGE OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE FOR MULTIBAND ANTENNA DESIGN ...... 3196 Yen-Sheng Chen

A 60-GHZ CMOS QUASI-YAGI ANTENNA WITH ENHANCED RADIATION PROPERTIES ...... 3200 K. S. Sultan, M. A. Basha, H. H. Abdullah, E. A. Abdallah, H. El-Hennawy

FAR-FIELD RADIATION PROPERTIES OF IMPEDANCE-LOADED LOOP ANTENNAS FROM RF TO OPTICAL FREQUENCIES...... 3203 Jogender Nagar, Arnold F. McKinley, Douglas H. Werner

AUTOMATIC DESIGN OF A RHCP LINEAR SLOT ARRAY IN SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE...... 3208 Santi C. Pavone, Massimiliano Casaletti, Matteo Albani

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED BRICK-WALL NANTENNA ARRAY FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS ...... 3211 Mai O. Sallam, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Georges Gielen, Ezzeldin A. Soliman

AN INTEGRATED DUAL-BAND WIRELESS LAN ANTENNA FOR FULL METAL CHASSIS TABLET WITH A SOUND-FLOW ENHANCEMENT SLOT...... 3216 Kai-Cheng Chi, Shih-Yuan Chen, Powen Hsu

FREQUENCY TUNABLE MINIATURIZED QUARTER-MODE SIW ANTENNA BASED ON CRLH-TL ...... 3220 Chunyue Shi, Yonggang Zhou, Ming Yu, Steven Gao, Geyi Wen

A PRINTED 4×4 MIMO ANTENNA WITH HIGH ISOLATION FOR WLAN APPLICATION...... 3224 Sonika Priyadarsini Biswal, Sushrut Das

COMPACT DUAL-BAND BOW-TIE MIMO ANTENNAS WITH FRAGMENT-TYPE ISOLATION STRUCTURE...... 3229 Diqun Lu, Lu Wang, Yijun Du, Xiaopo Wu, Gang Wang

ULTRA HIGH FIGURE-OF-MERIT MUSHROOM NANOANTENNA ARRAY FOR REFRACTIVE INDEX SENSING...... 3233 Nada Belal, Mohamed Serry, Gaurav Jayaswal, Atif Shamim, Ezzeldin A. Soliman

NEW ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR THE CHARACTERISATION OF PRINTED SPIRAL COILS FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER ...... 3238 Sadeque Reza Khan, Sumanth Kumar Pavuluri, Marc P. Y. Desmulliez

COMPACT YAGI ANTENNA UTILIZING MU-NEGATIVE METAMATERIAL LOADING OF DIRECTOR ELEMENT ...... 3243 Sasan Ahdi Rezaeieh, Marco A. Antoniades, Amin M. Abbosh

A FLEXIBLE 2.45 GHZ RECTENNA USING ELECTRICALLY SMALL LOOP ANTENNA ...... 3246 Khaled Aljaloud, Kin-Fai Tong

FLEXIBLE DUAL-BAND AMC-BACKED PDMS ANTENNA WITH FLUIDIC METAL FOR WBAN AND WLAN...... 3249 Muhammmad Nazrin Ramli, Ping Jack Soh, Sharul Kamal Abdul Rahim, Mohd Faizal Jamlos, Azremi Abdullah Al-Hadi, Mohd Firdaus Ibrahim, Herwansyah Lago, Niels Kuster

I-SHAPED RESONATOR (ISR) PHASE SHIFTER FOR BEAM STEERING WAVEGUIDE ANTENNAS ...... 3252 Amirhossein Ghasemi, Jean-Jacques Laurin

A WIDEBAND RECONFIGURABLE USING SINGLE-LAYER VARACTOR- LOADED SPLIT PATCH ELEMENTS...... 3255 Guang Liu, Hongjian Wang, Fei Xue, Di Zhu, Xiaolong Dong

A COMPACT OMNIDIRECTIONAL CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ANTENNA...... 3259 Chao-Yong Liu, Qing-Xin Chu

DESIGN OF UWB ANTENNAS INTEGRATING GEOPOLYMER MATERIAL ...... 3261 H. Nadir, A. Gharzouni, E. Martinod, N. Feix, O. Tantot, V. Bertrand, S. Rossignol, M. Lalande

COMBINING LINEAR BORO ARRAYS INTO COMPLEX PLANAR ARRAYS TO ACHIEVE HIGH GAIN AND EFFICIENCY PRINTED ANTENNA ARRAYS...... 3265 Dr Boro M. Reljic, Dr Aleksa J. Zejak, Dr Zoran Golubicic, Dr Slobodan Simic

INVESTIGATION OF MUTUAL COUPLING IN VIVALDI ANTENNA ARRAYS INSTALLED IN AIRBORNE RADOMES...... 3269 Ana Vukovic, Phillip Sewell, Trevor M. Benson

AD-HOC FEED SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED FEATURES CONVEX CONFORMAL REFLECTARRAY ...... 3273 M. Beccaria, G. Addamo, P. Pirinoli, G. Dassano, O. A. Peverini, G. Virone, D. Manfredi, F. Calignano, M. Orefice

AGILE METHOD FOR ANTENNA POLARIZATION CHARACTERIZATION BASED ON MEASUREMENTS...... 3276 M. Vera-Isasa, V. Santalla Del Río, I. Expósito, B. Sánchez-Rama

ELECTRONICALLY RECONFIGURABLE MICROSTRIP ARRAY ANTENNA WITH REFLECTIVE PHASE SHIFTERS AT KU BAND ...... 3279 E. Garcia-Marin, P. Sanchez-Olivares, J. Herranz-Alpanseque, A. J. Martin-Trueba, J. L. Masa-Campos, J. Corcoles

DUAL-CIRCULARLY POLARIZED PATCH ANTENNA USING SIMPLE ISOLATION TECHNIQUES AND ITS ARRAY APPLICATION ...... 3284 Paul Le Bihan, Yelzhas Zhaksylyk, Pascual David Hilario Re, Symon K. Podilchak, María García-Vigueras, George Goussetis

BEAM-STEERING KA-BAND PHASE ROTATION CELLS-BASED TRANSMIT-ARRAY FOR CIRCULAR- POLARIZATION...... 3289 Parinaz Naseri, Sergio A. Matos, Jorge R. Costa, Carlos. A. Fernandes

HIGH GAIN K-BAND PATCH ANTENNA FOR LOW EARTH ORBIT INTERLINK BETWEEN NANOSATELLITES ...... 3292 Paolo Squadrito, Shuai Zhang, Gert Frølund Pedersen

CONICAL SURFACE MOUNT SHORT HORN FOR CIRCULAR POLARIZED PATCH ANTENNAS...... 3296 Vignesh Shanmugam Bhaskar, Eng Leong Tan, King Ho Holden Li, Man Siu Tse

ORIGAMI FOLDING TECHNIQUE USING FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE WITH ARRAYS OF VIVALDI ANTENNAS ...... 3299 Calvin Chun Hin Ng, P. R. Young

KU-BAND RF APERTURE ASSEMBLY FOR AIRBORNE SOTM ...... 3303 Ana Rosa Ruiz, Alberto Pellon, Ignacio Montesinos-Ortego, Manuel J. González

DESIGN OF A MICROSTRIP MULTI-PATCH END-FIRED ANTENNA FOR COLLISION AVOIDING SYSTEM OF AIRCRAFT...... 3308 Debajit De, Prasanna Kumar Sahu

SIMULTANEOUS S/KA FEED SYSTEM AND 7.5M DIAMETER ANTENNA CONCEPT ...... 3313 Christophe Granet, John S. Kot, John Ness, Glen Callaghan

A NOVEL 1-BIT RECONFIGURABLE ELEMENT FOR WIDEBAND AND MULTI-POLARIZATION REFLECTARRAY...... 3317 Yifeng Fan, Yongzhi Sun, Zhijian Li, Yunfei Yu

WIDEBAND CAVITY-BACKED CUBESAT ANTENNA IN S BAND...... 3320 Miroslav J. Veljovic, Anja K. Skrivervik

BROADBAND RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDE LAUNCHER DESIGN USING DUAL SOURCE EXCITATION ...... 3325 Daniel Koch, Michael Havrilla

CLOSED-TO-OPEN CONVERSION OF A MM-WAVE GAUSSIAN HORN ANTENNA...... 3329 Giuseppe Torrisi, Gino Sorbello, Ornella Leonardi, Luigi Celona, Giorgio Mauro, Santo Gammino, Giovanni Castorina, Bruno Spataro, Valery Dolgashev

LOOP ANTENNAS FOR UNDERWATER COMMUNICATIONS ...... 3333 Andrea Massaccesi, Paola Pirinoli

TEXTILE WEARABLE ANTENNA SENSORS BASED ON OPEN RING RESONATORS ...... 3337 Bahareh Moradi, Raúl Fernández-García, Ignacio Gil

USER IDENTIFICATION THROUGH WEARABLE ANTENNA CHARACTERISTICS AT 2.45 GHZ ...... 3340 Waqar Saadat, Sumit A. Raurale, Gareth A. Conway, John McAllister

ISOLATION ENHANCEMENT BETWEEN TWO CLOSELY SPACED RECTANGULAR PATCHES FOR MIMO APPLICATIONS...... 3344 Ali I. Hammoodi, Mustafa S. Bakr, Haider Khaleel, Mariofanna Milanova

BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT OF RECTANGULAR DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA USING CIRCULAR AND SECTOR SLOT COUPLED TECHNIQUE ...... 3347 C. Zebiri, M. Lashab, D. Sayad, I. T. E. Elfergani, A. Ali, M. Al Khambashi, J. Rodregiez, F. Benabdelaziz, R. A. Abd-Alhameed

DISCRETE PAGE SPECTRUM IN ANALZYING PHENOMENA IN LINEAR ANTENNA...... 3351 Maciej Walkowiak, Anna Witenberg, Katarzyna Jagodzinska

UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM FOR ANTENNA MEASUREMENT (UASAM)...... 3356 Maria Garcia-Fernandez, Yuri Alvarez-Lopez, Fernando Las Heras, Ana Arboleya-Arboleya, Borja Gonzalez-Valdes, Yolanda Rodriguez-Vaqueiro

FEED ARRAY BREADBOARD FOR FUTURE PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER ANTENNAS...... 3359 C. Cappellin, J. R. De Lasson, O. Iupikov, M. Ivashina, N. Skou, K. Pontoppidan1, B. Fiorelli

A TIME-DOMAIN SOLUTION FOR PLANE WAVE SCATTERING BY A PEC HALF-PLANE IN RELATIVISTIC TRANSLATIONAL MOTION ...... 3364 Julio L. Nicolini, Guilherme S. Rosa, Flavio. J. V. Hasselmann

ANTENNA REFLECTION COEFFICIENT MEASUREMENT USING BI-DIRECTIONAL OPTICAL FIBER LINK TRANSCEIVER UP TO 40 GHZ ...... 3368 Satoru Kurokawa, Masanobu Hirose

URBAN MOBILE CHANNEL DELAY SPREAD MEASUREMENTS AT 700 MHZ, 2.5 GHZ AND 3.5 GHZ ...... 3371 Marcelo Molina Silva, Luiz Da Silva Mello, Carlos V. Rodríguez R., M. P. C. Almeida

PENETRATION LOSS MEASUREMENT AT 300 GHZ FOR BUILDING ENTRY LOSS ESTIMATION...... 3375 Hirokazu Sawada, Kentaro Ishizu, Fumihide Kojima, Keizo Inagaki, Hiroyo Ogawa, Katsumi Fujii, Akifumi Kasamatsu, Iwao Hosako

CONCURENT KA BAND RF MEASUREMENT AND FISH-EYE IMAGES FOR LAND MOBILE SATELLITE PROPAGATION CHANNEL...... 3379 S. Rougerie, B. Benammar

LTE GROUND-TO-AIR MEASUREMENTS FOR UAV-ASSISTED CELLULAR NETWORKS ...... 3384 Michael C. Batistatos, Georgia E. Athanasiadou, Dimitra A. Zarbouti, George V. Tsoulos, Nikos C. Sagias

ELECTRONICALLY TUNABLE PHASE SHIFTER WITH ENHANCED PHASE BEHAVIOUR AT KU BAND ...... 3389 Mohamed Taha Elkhorassani, Miguel Ángel Vaquero, Ángel Palomares, Juan F. Valenzuela-Valdés, Pablo Padilla, Naima Amar Touhami

ON THE OPERATING PRINCIPLE OF AN LTE HANDSET ANTENNA WITH MULTIPLE CLOSELY- LOCATED RADIATORS ...... 3392 Kimmo Rasilainen, Anu Lehtovuori, Ville Viikari

SIMPLIFIED SPATIAL DIVISION ANALOG BEAMFORMING BASED ON FOURIER ROTMAN LENS ...... 3396 Irina Munina, Pavel Turalchuk, Alexey Shitvov, Dmitry Kozlov

LINEAR LINC TRANSMITTERS USING DUAL-POLARIZED POWER-COMBINING ANTENNAS ...... 3400 D. Tresnawan, P. F. M. Smulders, B. Van Ark, A. B. Smolders

POLARIZATION DIVERSITY FOR UAV TO GROUND LINKS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS ...... 3404 Eran Greenberg, Pascal Levys

CELLULAR NETWORKS BACKHAULING THROUGH SATELLITE: PERFORMANCE EVALUATION USING ALPHASAT SITE DIVERSITY EXPERIMENT IN GREECE...... 3408 Anargyros J. Roumeliotis, Apostolos Z. Papafragkakis, Charilaos I. Kourogiorgas, Athanasios D. Panagopoulos

DUAL BAND FREQUENCY SELECTIVE FILM DESIGN FOR INDOOR WIRELESS LAN ENVIRONMENT IMPROVEMENT...... 3412 Sung-Sil Cho, Sang-Hwa Lee, In-Gon Lee, Ic-Pyo Hong

ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE POWER TRANSFER EFFICIENCY BETWEEN RADIATING APERTURES...... 3416 Siyi Zhou, Mauro Ettorre

MULTI-RESONANT CIRCUIT BASED ON DUAL-BAND MATRYOSHKA RESONATOR FOR CHIPLESS RFID TAG...... 3419 Hillner De P. A. Ferreira, Alexandre J. R. Serres, Francisco M. De Assis, Joabson Nogueira De Carvalho

BROAD-BAND EFFICIENT LINEARLY POLARIZATION CONVERSION RATIO (PCR) METASURFACES...... 3423 M. J. Moghadam, M. Akbari, A. R. Sebak

A NOVEL METAMATERIAL ELEMENT FOR COMPRESSED SENSING IMAGING SYSTEM ...... 3426 Shuncheng Tian, Guangyao Liu, Long Li

POLARIZATION SCATTERING MATRIX ESTIMATION FOR UNIFORM MOVING TARGET ...... 3428 Li Chao, Yang Yong, Li Yong-Zhen, Wang Xue-Song

RANGE-DOPPLER RADAR SIGNATURE PREDICTION OF WIND TURBINE USING SBR...... 3433 Stefano M. Canta, Robert A. Kipp, Shawn Carpenter, L. E. Rickard Petersson

ELECTRONICALLY SWITCHABLE NOTCH RESPONSE FOR WIDEBAND BANDPASS APPLICATIONS ...... 3437 M. A. Mutalib, Z. Zakaria, N. A. Shairi

A RADIAL TRANSMISSION LINE MODEL FOR MANTLE CLOAKING WITH IMPEDANCE METASURFACES...... 3441 Giuseppe Labate, Barbara Cappello, Ladislau Matekovits

BROADBAND POLARIZATION CONVERSION METASURFACE FOR RCS REDUCTION...... 3444 F. Samadi, M. Akbari, R. Chaharmir, A. R. Sebak

A PERTURBATION-BASED METHOD TO MODEL ELECTROMAGNETIC LOGGING SENSORS IN ECCENTRIC BOREHOLES VIA CONFORMAL TRANSFORMATION OPTICS ...... 3447 Guilherme S. Rosa, Jose R. Bergmann, Fernando L. Teixeira, Marcela S. Novo

AOA/RANGE ESTIMATION METHOD FOR UHF RFID TAGS LOCATED IN NEAR-FIELD REGION OF READER ANTENNAS ...... 3452 Y. Mohamedatni, M. Benbaghdad , B. Fergani, J.-M. Laheurte, B. Poussot

BROADBAND SUPERLUMINAL TRANSMISSION LINE WITH NON-FOSTER NEGATIVE CAPACITOR...... 3456 A. Niang, A. De Lustrac, N. Burokur

DESIGN OF A 4-BIT SPOOF SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON PHASE SHIFTER FOR THE TERAHERTZ BAND...... 3459 Muhammed Abdullah Unutmaz, Mehmet Unlu

A V-BAND BRANCH GUIDE 3-DB COUPLER BASED ON GAP WAVEGUIDE FOR USE IN ANTENNA ARRAY...... 3462 D. Zarifi, A. Farahbakhsh, A. U. Zaman

26 GHZ INDOOR WIDEBAND DIRECTIONAL CHANNEL MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS IN LOS AND NLOS SCENARIOS...... 3465 Mohsen Khalily, Sohail Taheri, Pei Xiao, Fariborz Entezami, Timothy A. Hill, Rahim Tafazolli

EFFECT OF DIFFUSE SCATTERING FOR REFLECTIONS AND DIFFRACTIONS IN RAY LAUNCHING AT 5.4GHZ ...... 3470 Andres Navarro, Dinael Guevara, Marlon J. Lizarazo

PERSISTENT Q ANTI-COLLISION ALGORITHM FOR RFID ...... 3475 Jin Xiao-Fang, Zhang Yu-Xi, R. M. Edwards, Z. Wang

SPACE-FREQUENCY PROPAGATOR METHOD FOR TIME- REVERSAL IMAGING ...... 3478 Bin Hu, Linxi Zhang, Zuxun Song

CONSIDERATION OF DIFFRACTION EFFECT IN ITERATIVE PHYSICAL OPTICS COMBINING PHYSICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION FOR CONDUCTING BODY...... 3481 Hyunsoo Lee, Il-Suek Koh

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS FOR THE ESTIMATE OF CLEAR-SKY ATTENUATION LEVEL IN ALPHASAT BEACON MEASUREMENT...... 3486 Laurent Quibus, Lorenzo Luini, Carlo Riva, Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier

CLASSIFICATION OF RAINFALL EVENTS AND EVALUATION OF DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS USING A K-BAND DOPPLER RADAR...... 3491 Nicolás Gil-De-Vergara, José Manuel Riera, Santiago Pérez-Peña, Jose Garcia-Rubia, Ana Benarroch

CLOUD ATTENUATION PREDICTION STATISTICS FOR GEO AND NGSO SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS OPERATING AT Q/V BAND AND ABOVE ...... 3496 Nikolaos K. Lyras, Charilaos I. Kourogiorgas, Athanasios D. Panagopoulos

ANNUAL HOURLY VARIABILITY OF RAIN ATTENUATION AND RAINFALL RATE FOR IMPROVED EARTH-SPACE LINKS DESIGN ...... 3501 Flávio Jorge, Armando Rocha, Carlo Riva

A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN SSPE METHODS AND A HO-FDTD ALGORITHM FOR EM PROPAGATION OVER LOSSY TERRAINS ...... 3506 Diego A. Parada, Cassio G. Rego, Claudio G. Batista, Glaucio Lopes Ramos

ANALYSIS OF MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS ON MULTILAYER UNIAXIAL ANISOTROPIC SUBSTRATE WITH DISCRETE MODE MATCHING METHOD ...... 3509 Veenu Kamra, Achim Dreher

A NOVEL TECHNIQUE FOR IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF MEASUREMENTS IN THE NEAR-FIELD ZONE ...... 3514 Liliana Anchidin, Razvan D. Tamas

APPLICATION OF MOM-BASED WAVEGUIDE PORT APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF EM COUPLING PROBLEMS RELATED TO MICROWAVE ANTENNAS ...... 3518 Faik Bogdanov, Lily Svanidze, Anna Gheonjian, Diana Eremyan, Zviad Kutchadze, Roman Jobava

ADAPTIVE CROSS APPROXIMATION ALGORITHM ACCELERATED INVERSE EQUIVALENT CURRENT METHOD FOR NEAR-FIELD ANTENNA MEASUREMENT ...... 3523 Yiling Wang, Zaiping Nie

A BOUNDARY ELEMENT TEARING AND INTERCONNECTING METHOD USING TWO LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS ...... 3526 Kristof Cools, Francesco P. Andriulli

ACCELERATING A RAY LAUNCHING MODEL USING GPU...... 3529 Zhuangzhuang Dai, Robert J Watson

AN ACCELERATION METHOD FOR RAY-TRACING SIMULATION BASED ON CHANNEL QUASI- STATIONARITY REGIONS...... 3532 Zhuangzhuang Cui, Zhangdui Zhong, Ke Guan, Danping He

MULTIBAND ANTENNA OPERATION WITH A NON-RESONANT ELEMENT USING A RECONFIGURABLE MATCHING NETWORK ...... 3537 Jaume Anguera, Aurora Andújar, José L. Leiva, Cor Schepens, Robert Gaddi, Sungtek Kahng

A LOW COST WIDE BAND AND CIRCULARLY POLARIZED MODIFIED HALF E-SHAPED PATCH ANTENNA FOR 5G MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS...... 3541 Sotirios K. Goudos, Traianos V. Yioultsis, Krystalia Dalidou, Katherine Siakavara

INVESTIGATION OF USER EFFECTS ON MOBILE PHASED ANTENNA ARRAY FROM 5 TO 6 GHZ...... 3546 Carla Di Paola, Igor Syrytsin, Shuai Zhang, Gert Frølund Pedersen

A COMPACT LOW COST HIGH ISOLATION SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE FED SLOT ANTENNA ARRAY AT 28 GHZ EMPLOYING BEAMFORMING AND BEAM SCANNING FOR 5G APPLICATIONS...... 3551 Jamal Abdul Nasir, Mutee Ur Rehman, Ali Javed Hashmi, Wasif Tanveer Khan

3D-PRINTED MM-WAVE CORRUGATED PLATE ANTENNA FOR 5G COMMUNICATIONS...... 3556 Shaker Alkaraki, Yue Gao, Clive Parini

MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA ARRAYS WITH FAN-SHAPED 90 AND 45-DEGREE WIDE RADIATION PATTERNS FOR 28 GHZ MIMO APPLICATIONS ...... 3560 Sergey Churkin, Andrey Mozharovskiy, Alexey Artemenko, Roman Maslennikov

COMPACT VIVALDI ANTENNA ARRAY FOR 5G CHANNEL SOUNDING APPLICATIONS ...... 3565 Naser Ojaroudi Parchin, Raed Abd-Alhameed

ANOMALOUS LEAKY-MODE DISPERSION OF COUPLED- CAVITY WIDEBAND LEAKY-WAVE ANTENNAS ...... 3568 Miguel Poveda-García, Raúl Guzmán-Quirós, Samuel Rottenberg, José Luis Gómez-Tornero, Carolina Mateo-

ON THE USE OF FOCAL-PLANE ARRAYS IN MM-WAVE 5G BASE STATIONS ...... 3573 A. Elsakka, T. A. H. Bressner, A. J. Van Den Biggelaar, A. Al-Rawi, U. Johannsen, M. V. Ivashina, A. B. Smolders

DUAL BAND ANTENNA FOR PORTABLE CONSUMER DEVICES ...... 3577 Shruti Joshi, Sanket Deshpande, Sudeep Baudha

DUAL BAND ANTENNA FOR PORTABLE CONSUMER DEVICES EMPTY SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDE-FED MMW APERTURE-COUPLED PATCH ANTENNA FOR 5G APPLICATIONS...... 3581 Zia Ullah Khan, Syeda Fizzah Jilani, Angel Belenguer, Tian Hong Loh, Akram Alomainy

HIGH GAIN DUAL-BAND MILLIMETER WAVE ANTENNA USING FLEXIBLE PET SUBSTRATE...... 3584 Ali Ghavidel, Ali Araghi, Sami Myllymäki, Marko Sonkki

TRANSPARENT AND FLEXIBLE Y-SHAPED ANTENNA FOR 5G WIRELESS APPLICATIONS...... 3588 Sahariar Rahman, Shahed Alam, Majedul Haque, Nazmu Shahadat Siddique, Md Hasanuzzaman Sagor

DUAL-PORT DUAL-BAND (28/38 GHZ) SIW LEAKY WAVE ANTENNA FOR 5G BASE STATIONS...... 3591 R. Yazdani Mianroodi, H. Aliakbarian, Guy A. E. Vandenbosch

MULTIBAND PATTERN-RECONFIGURABLE PIFA FOR 5G MIMO MOBILE TERMINALS ...... 3595 Surentiran Padmanathan, Azremi Abdullah Al-Hadi, Ping Jack Soh, Mohd Faizal Jamlos, Sharul Kamal Abdul Rahim

SUBARRAY DESIGN OF A SINGLE-LAYER CORPORATE-FED DIELECTRIC-FILLED WAVEGUIDE SLOT ARRAY ANTENNA ...... 3600 Baoquan Duan, Miao Zhang, Jiro Hirokawa, Qing Huo Liu

DESIGN OF A WIDEBAND ARRAY ANTENNA PROTOTYPE WITH GAP WAVEGUIDE FOR W-BAND WIRELESS LINKS...... 3602 Jinlin Liu, Ashraf Uz Zaman, Jian Yang

IMPULSE RESPONSE WITH CORRELATION STUDY OF A BROADBAND BENDED WEARABLE MONOPOLE ANTENNA ...... 3606 Sherif R. Zahran, Mahmoud A. Abdalla, D. Budimir

A CIRCULARLY POLARIZED RECONFIGURABLE DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNA ...... 3611 Zhe Chen, Hang Wong

A SMART AND LOW-COST ENHANCED ANTENNA SYSTEM FOR INDUSTRIAL WIRELESS BROADBAND COMMUNICATION ...... 3614 Moh Chuan Tan, Minghui Li, Qammer H Abbasi, Muhammad Imran

MINIATURIZATION OF QUAD PORT FOR WIRELESS 5G MASSIVE MIMO APPLICATION ...... 3618 Fayez Hyjazie, Halim Boutayeb

UTILIZING EVERYDAY METALLIC STRUCTURES AS UHF RFID ANTENNAS...... 3622 P. S. Taylor, J. C. Batchelor

CYLINDRICAL BEAM SWEEPING ANTENNA USING A NEW ACTIVE FSS STRUCTURE...... 3627 M. M. Leingthone, N. Hakem, T. Elkarkraoui

UHF RFID TAG ANTENNA DESIGN FOR CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENT SURFACES...... 3630 Abubakar Sharif, Jun Ouyang, Hassan Tariq Chattha, Rui Long, Ali Raza, Qammer Hussain Abbasi

MICROWAVE-BASED NON-INVASIVE BLOOD GLUCOSE LEVELS MONITORING USING FLEXIBLE UWB ANTENNAS...... 3634 Fengzhou Wang

INKJET PRINTED RF SENSOR ARRAY FOR LUNG DISEASE DETECTION ...... 3638 Muhammad Tayyab, Mohammad S. Sharawi, Atif Shamim

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMPRESSIVE SENSING IMAGING IN DIFFERENT ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS...... 3642 Qiao Cheng, Akram Alomainy, Yang Hao

ANTENNA PROPERTIES OF THE MODIFIED LUNEBURG LENS WITH BACKWARD RADIATION ...... 3647 Boris Panchenko, Dmitry Denisov, Sergey Shabunin

ANTENNA RANGE MEASUREMENTS FOR AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING ANTENNAS ...... 3650 Bernd Gabler, Alicja Kosc, Markus Limbach

ICE INFLUENCE ON WIDEBAND DIPOLE ANTENNA CHARACTERISTICS...... 3655 Ershov A. V., Voytovich N. I.

CONTROLLING THE GAIN OF WIDE BAND OPEN QUAD RIDGE ANTENNAS...... 3660 German Cortes-Medellin

HIGH TRL ACHIEVED FOR EUROPEAN LARGE DEPLOYABLE REFLECTOR ANTENNAS...... 3663 Leri Datashvili, Nikoloz Maghaldadze, Horst Baier, Matthias Friemel, Luiz Da Rocha-Schmidt

DESIGN OF MULTIBAND CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ANTENNA ARRAYS FOR GNSS APPLICATIONS ...... 3667 Yuan Yao, Xuan Shao, Ying Li, Junsheng Yu, Xiaodong Chen

SPATIAL DISPERSION ANALYSIS OF HOMOGENIZED METAFURFACES FOR TERAHERTZ LEAKY- WAVE ANTENNAS...... 3672 Silvia Tofani, Walter Fuscaldo, Dimitrios C. Zografopoulos, Paolo Baccarelli, Paolo Burghignoli, Romeo Beccherelli, Alessandro Galli

ALL-TEXTILE STRIPLINE FOR WEARABLE APPLICATIONS: PRACTICAL INTERCONNECTION IMPLEMENTATION...... 3675 Aris Tsolis, Antonis A. Alexandridis, Fotis Lazarakis, William G. Whittow, Yiannis C. Vardaxoglou

A NOVEL MOBILE PHONE ANTENNA FOR EFFECTIVELY REDUCING SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE ...... 3678 Yejun He, Kun Liang, Jun Li, Qammer H. Abbasi

IMPACT OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON 3D PRINTED SLS HORN ANTENNAS ...... 3683 K. Lomakin, T. Pavlenko, M. Sippel, G. Gold, K. Helmreich, M. Ankenbrand, N. Urban, J. Franke

V-BAND HIGH-GAIN SLOT ANTENNA USING SINGLE LAYER PARTIALLY REFLECTIVE SURFACE...... 3687 Hussein Attia

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS OF HIGH DIELECTRIC CONSTANT CERAMICS BY POWDER MIXTURE EQUATIONS – A FURTHER STUDY ...... 3691 Jyh Sheen, Yong-Lin Wang

CLINICAL INVESTIGATION OF BREAST BIOPSIES: CONCURRENT UWB MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY AND ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENTS...... 3695 Stefanie Goram, Jochen Moll, Dennis Wortge, Viktor Krozer, Frank Hubner, Babak Bazrafshan, Thomas J. Vogl

ANALYSIS OF GPS REFLECTED SIGNALS BASED ON SNR MEASUREMENTS: LAND VERSUS WATER...... 3700 Rameez Ur Rahman Lighari, Erkki T. Salonen, Markus Berg, Aarno Parssinen

AN APPROACH TO THE COMPENSATION OF INACCURACIES IN NEAR-FIELD ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS...... 3705 A. B. Khashimov, R. R. Salikhov

FURTHER REFINING AND VALIDATION OF RF ABSORBER APPROXIMATION EQUATIONS FOR ANECHOIC CHAMBER PREDICTIONS ...... 3710 Vince Rodriguez

A SUPERSONIC PROJECTILE - EMBEDDED OFDM CHANNEL SOUNDER. FIRST VALIDATION EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS...... 3715 M. Milla, D. Schmoltzi, H. Boeglen, L. Bernard, R. Vauzelle

CLUTTER ANALYSIS IN A TIME-DOMAIN MILLIMETER-WAVE REFLECTOMETRY SETUP ...... 3720 Sebastian Heunisch, Lars Ohlsson, Lars-Erik Wernersson

THE UNIVERSAL STRUCTURE OF A SEGMENT OF THE MICROSTRIP TRANSMISSION LINE AS A BASIC ELEMENT OF COMPACT MICROWAVE DEVICES ...... 3724 Denis A. Letavin, Sergey N. Shabunin

CONSIDERATION OF IEEE 802.11P AND PROPOSED 5G FOR HOLOGRAMS IN VEHICULAR COMMUNICATION ...... 3729 M. Thomas, R. M. Edwards, Z. Wang

COMPACT DOUBLE-FREQUENCY MICROSTRIP COUPLER...... 3734 Denis A. Letavin, Sergey N. Shabunin

A NOVEL SINGLE LAYER DUAL LINEAR POLARIZATION BAND-PASS FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE FOR AUTOMOTIVE FULLY COATED GLASS ...... 3738 M. Oussayran, R. Sarkis, T. Makdissy

COMPARING A TIME-DOMAIN AND FREQUENCY-DOMAIN BASED ALGORITHM IN MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY ...... 3742 Tomas Rydholm, Andreas Fhager, Mikael Persson, Paul M. Meaney

PREDICTION OF TUMOR HEATABILITY IN MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA APPLICATORS...... 3745 Pegah Takook, Erika Ek, Ellen Eskilsson, Hana Dobs cek Trefna, Mikael Persson

PRELIMINARY STUDY ON MICROWAVE SENSOR FOR BONE HEALING FOLLOW-UP AFTER CRANIAL SURGERY IN NEWBORNS...... 3748 Mauricio D Perez, George Thomas, Syaiful Redzwan Mohd Shah, Jacob Velander, Noor Badariah Asan, Parul Mathur, Mohammad Nasir, Daniel Nowinski, Dhanesh Kurup, Robin Augustine

A MULTIMODAL ULTRASOUND-MICROWAVE QUANTITATIVE IMAGING TECHNIQUE FOR BREAST CANCER ...... 3753 Joe Lovetri, Elise Fear, Ian Jeffrey, Muhammad Omer, Pedram Mojabi, Doug Kurrant, Nasim Abdollahi

FURTHER ANALYSIS OF RETRODIRECTIVE CROSS-EYE JAMMING: POLARIZATION CONSIDERATIONS...... 3755 Jiazhi Ma, Longfei Shi, Gang Cui, Shunping Xiao

HIGH-ACCURACY GAUSSIAN PROCESS MODELLING OF MISSILE RCS WITH COST-BASED PREFERENTIAL TRAINING DATA SELECTION ...... 3760 J. P. Jacobs, W. P. Du Plessis

A LINEAR PERTURBATION MODEL WITH PHYSICAL OPTICS APPROXIMATION TO RECOVER INHOMOGENEOUS SURFACE IMPEDANCE...... 3765 S. Loillier, S. Méric, R. Loison, G. Maze-Merceur

INCREASING THE RANGE OF UWB RADARS ...... 3770 B. Lagovsky, A. B. Samokhi, Y. V. Shestopalov

LIGHTWEIGHT AND WIDE-ANGLE METAMATERIAL ABSORBING MATERIAL CONCEPT...... 3775 Anne Claire Lepage, Yenny Pinto, Olivier Rance, Xavier Begaud, Nicolas Capet

COMPACT BROADBAND ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLABLE SIW PHASE SHIFTER FOR 5G PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS...... 3778 Bilal T Malik, Viktor Doychinov, Ian D Robertson

GAIT SPEED TRACKING SYSTEM USING UWB RADAR ...... 3783 Bernard Lau, Sahar Haider, Ameneh Boroomand, George Shaker, Jennifer Boger, Plinio Morita

A STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF OVER-ROOF-TOP PROPAGATION MODELS IN DENSE URBAN ENVIRONMENT ...... 3787 Enrico M. Vitucci, Franco Fuschini, Marina Barbiroli, Marco Zoli, Vittorio Degli-Esposti

ANALYSIS OF WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMONIC HOLEY METASURFACES WITH CYLINDRICAL HOLES...... 3791 Fatemeh Ghasemifard, Guido Valerio, Martin Norgren, Oscar Quevedo-Teruel

SIMULATING THE RELIABILITY OF RADIO LINKS DURING SUPERIOR SOLAR CONJUNCTIONS ...... 3794 A. J. Stocker , A. Argyriou, A. Giorgetti, E. Paolini, D. R. Siddle, P. Tortora, A. Zeqaj, J. De Vicente, R. Abello, M. Mercolino

EXPERIMENTAL OPTICAL SATELLITE DOWNLINK IRRADIANCE STATISTICS AND TURBULENCE CONDITIONS ESTIMATION ...... 3799 Nikolaos K. Lyras, Charilaos I. Kourogiorgas, Athanasios D. Panagopoulos, Konstantinos P Liolis, Zoran Sodnik

PROPAGATION CAMPAIGN AT Q-BAND AND KA-BAND USING THE ALPHASAT AND KA-SAT SATELLITES ...... 3804 Armando Rocha, Susana Mota, Flávio Jorge

VARIABILITY OF THE 0º ISOTHERM IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA...... 3809 Ana Benarroch, Gustavo A. Siles, José Manuel Riera

EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORM FOR THROUGH-THE-EARTH COMMUNICATION...... 3814 Henrique Berilli Silva Mendes, Adoniran Judson Braga, Josua Daniel Pena Carreno, Andre Noll Barreto, Leonardo Aguayo, Luis Guilherme Uzeda Garcia

HYBRID MATERIAL BASED ON METAMATERIAL FOR ABSORPTION IMPROVEMENT OF PYRAMIDAL ABSORBERS...... 3819 Laura Pometcu, Ala Sharaiha, Ratiba Benzerga, Philippe Pouliguen

NETWORK MODEL OF A 5G MIMO BASE STATION ANTENNA IN A DOWNLINK MULTI-USER SCENARIO ...... 3822 N. Amani, R. Maaskant, A. A. Glazunov, M. Ivashina

MODELING POWER ANGLE SPECTRUM AND ANTENNA PATTERN DIRECTIONS IN MULTIPATH PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENT...... 3827 Jan M. Kelner, Cezary Zió-kowski

NEAR-TO-FAR-FIELD TRANSFORM SAMPLE REDUCTION THROUGH STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ...... 3832 Franz Muller Eduardo Camilo, Cassio Goncalves Do Rego, Glaucio Lopes Ramos

PHASE SENSITIVITY OF THE PROJECTION METHOD FOR A BEAM TILTING DEFORMED ARRAY...... 3836 Francesco Rigobello, Giulia Mansutti, Antonio-D. Capobianco, Andrea Galtarossa

SIMULATION OF TERAHERTZ INTRABODY WIRELESS NANO SENSOR NETWORKS IN THE PRESENCE OF NOISE AND INTERFERENCE...... 3839 Ratna Indrawijaya, Thomas Kürner

FDTD NUMERICAL DISPERSION RELATION IN SPHERICAL COORDINATES...... 3844 Mohammed F. Hadi, Atef Z. Elsherbeni, Ravi C. Bollimuntha, Melinda J. Piket-May

METHOD OF MOMENTS APPLIED TO QUASI-STATIC ANTENNAS IN MEDIA WITH DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY: CONVERGENCE STUDY...... 3846 Evgenii Shirokov

FRACTAL-BASED 3D MODEL FOR PROPAGATION IN VEGETATION AT MILLIMETER-WAVE FREQUENCIES ...... 3849 Nuno Leono, Rafael Caldeirinha, Telmo Fernandes, Manuel Sanchez

EMULATION OF BENT THIN-WIRE IN CARTESIAN FDTD MESH BY USING ELECTRIC CHARGE CORRECTION ON THE STAIRCASED EDGES ...... 3854 Tarcísio C. Fonseca, Sandro T. M Gonçalves, Marcio M. Afonso, Ursula Do C. Resende

MODEL FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE LOSS TANGENT OF A DIELECTRIC MATERIAL WITH A SCANNING SPLIT-RING RESONATOR PROBE...... 3858 Andrea Vallecchi, Dmitry Isakov, Chris J. Stevens, Patrick S. Grant

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