Welcome to Creating Value from Data on Graphs
Organizer:
Lecturers: Troels Pedersen, Hans Peter Schwefel, Ramoni Adeogun, Rasmus L. Olsen
ECTS: 3
Date/Time: Fall 2024
Deadline: 11 August 2024
Max no. Of participants:
Description: Graph structures are underlying many use-cases of data processing and communications, for instance the connection structures of communication networks, water distribution in pipes, energy distribution infrastructure, social relation networks or ontologies for context aware systems can be described and analyzed by graph methods. In addition, the processing of data from such systems will benefit from the explicit inclusion of the underlying graph structure; use-cases involve the processing of measurements for state estimation in distribution infrastructures or the processing of distributed logs from communication infrastructures for fault localisation.
This PhD course will provide a set of methodologies to work with data on graph structures. Application cases from communication networks and from distribution infrastructures will be used to motivate the example cases and assess some of the methodologies in practical context.
The course will cover:
• Introduction to graphs, data structures for graph representations and properties of graphs; revision of selected graph algorithms
• Practical use-cases for data processing on top of graph representations: Communication Networks and Electricity Distribution Grids
• Signal processing on graphs
• Machine learning via graph neural networks and its application to communication use-cases
Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.
- Teacher: Troels Pedersen
- Teacher: Hans Peter Schwefel
Welcome to Electromagnetics
Organizer: Ondrej Franek
Lecturers: Ondrej Franek
ECTS: 3
Date/Time: March 11 - 14, 2024
Deadline: 19 February 2024
Max no. Of participants: 15
Description: This course should provide the PhD candidates in the Wireless Communications program the necessary background on the physical aspects of radiowave communication. The motivation follows the well-known fact that students in this program come from various backgrounds, often specialized in communication protocols and information theory, but lacking the necessary physical insight into electromagnetic fields, antennas and radiowave propagation. For the rest of the participants, this course should give a recapitulation of the previously acquired knowledge and extending it to meet the needs of their dissertation, as many of them will need to design an antenna and/or carry out electromagnetic simulations in their projects. Both basic and advanced aspects of electromagnetic theory will be covered, together with numerical methods for solving electromagnetic fields at high frequencies. The course consists of total 12 hours of lectures divided in 4 days plus a mini-project of approx. 1 month duration supervised and evaluated by the lecturer. Criteria for assessment are attendance of the lectures and evaluation of the mini-project.
Prerequisites: Basic BSc/MSc course in electromagnetics ; Vector calculus on MSc level
Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.
- Teacher: Ondrej Franek
Welcome to Advanced Antenna Technologies for Next Wireless Communication Systems
Organizer: Shuai Zhang and Peng Mei
Lecturers: Peng Mei
ECTS: 2.5
Date/Time: 8, 15, 22, and 29 of March, 2024, from 12:30 to 15:30
Place: FRB 7B2-109
Deadline: 16 February 2024
Max no. Of participants: 30
Description: Antennas have always been working as essential components to transmit and receive electromagnetic waves in wireless communication systems. With the rapid development of wireless communications, the types and functions of antennas have evolved a lot, e.g., from single-element antenna to large-scale antenna array, single polarization to multiple polarizations, linear polarization to circular polarization, low gain antenna to high gain antenna, etc. To fulfill the requirements such as high gain, high data rate, low latency, wide channel capacity, etc., of next wireless communication systems, antennas should be properly designed and configured to reach the above requirements for a good link budget. Reflectarray and transmitarray antennas have attracted a lot attention due to their superiorities in loss, gain, cost, and complexity, which have been widely deployed in wireless communication systems. With the deep investigations on metamaterials and metasurfaces, it is found that they could be promisingly adopted in wireless communication systems to further achieve system-level performance enhancements. Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces are proposed and extensively studied since they are regarded as one of the key enablers for next millimeter-wave and sub-terahertz wireless communication systems, which has been proved to significantly improve the spectrum efficiency.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of electromagnetics, microwave related technologies, as obtained through MSc engineering studies at Aalborg University, is expected.
Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.
- Teacher: Peng Mei
- Teacher: Shuai Zhang
Welcome to Wireless Communications Towards 6G
Organizer: Israel Leyva Mayorga
Lecturers: Israel Leyva Mayorga, Shashi Raj Pandey, Fabio Saggese, Cedomir Stefanovic, René B. Christensen, and Jimmy J. Nielsen
ECTS: 3.5
Date/Time: 29 April – 2 May 2024
Deadline: 8 April 2024
Max no. Of participants: 22
Description: The sixth generation of mobile systems (6G) is planned to be deployed in the early 2030s. While the design of 6G is still in its infancy, there is a general consensus that 6G must avoid being a direct evolution of 5G, merely providing higher throughput, lower latency, and a higher density of connected users. Therefore, numerous technologies are being developed to extend the capabilities of 6G towards more diverse KPIs, including ubiquitous and nearly uniform coverage, higher overall energy efficiency, integrating sensing and communications, granting self-optimization capabilities to the network infrastructure, and integrating new advances on quantum technologies. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the 6G roadmap and key technologies, including waveforms and schemes integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), machine learning for self-optimization and goal-oriented communications, non-terrestrial and 3D networks, distributed and centralized massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), and quantum communications, among others.
Prerequisites: The students must be familiar with the basic concepts of wireless communications in one or more of the following areas: 1) propagation of radio waves; 2) wireless communications protocols at different layers; 3) network architectures and topologies.
Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.
- Teacher: Israel Leyva Mayorga
- Teacher: Shashi Raj Pandey
- Teacher: Cedomir Stefanovic