Talk Abstract:

Future wireless networks will embrace numerous technologies towards higher data rates and reliability. A promising direction to achieve these requirements is with the employment of reconfigurable antennas that are able to adapt to the continuous variations in demands and the physical environment. In the last few years, research efforts on this topic have focused on the so-called fluid antennas (FAs) (or movable antennas). These refer to antennas that are flexible in that they can alter their physical structures and/or adjust their electrical characteristics to support different configurations, for example, with respect to the operating frequency, radiation pattern, and polarization. This reconfiguration can be achieved through a programmable and controllable manner. The FA technology provides new degrees of freedom in the design of wireless communication systems and has the potential to push further the performance limits of wireless networks. This talk will introduce the concept of FAs and present an overview of recent research results.

Biography:

Constantinos Psomas holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics (First Class Honours) from Royal Holloway, University of London, an M.Sc. in Applicable Mathematics from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from The Open University, UK. He is currently a Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus. From 2011 to 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Informatics, Cyprus University of Technology.
His current research interests include wireless powered communications, fluid/movable antennas, and intelligent reflecting surfaces. Dr. Psomas is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.