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[16] T. S. Rappaport, G. R. MacCartney, M. K. Samimi, Ismail Guvenc received his

and S. Sun. “Wideband Millimeter‑Wave Propaga‑ Ph.D. degree in electrical en‑

tion Measurements and Channel Models for Future gineering from the University

Wireless Communication System Design”. In: IEEE of South Florida in 2006. He

Trans. Commun. 63.9 (Sept. 2015), pp. 3029–3056. was with Mitsubishi Electric Re‑

[17] Fatih Erden, Ozgur Ozdemir, and Ismail Guvenc. search Labs during 2005, with

“28 GHz mmWave Channel Measurements and DOCOMO Innovations between

Modeling in a Library Environment”. In: Proc. IEEE 2006‑2012, and with Florida
Radio Wireless Symp. (RWS). San Antonio, TX, Jan. International University be‑

2020, pp. 52–55. tween 2012‑2016. Since 2016,
he has been an associate professor with the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina
State University. His recent research interests include

AUTHORS 5G wireless systems, communications and networking

with drones, and heterogeneous wireless networks.

Fatih Erden received B.S. and He has published more than 200 conference/journal

M.S. degrees from Bilkent Uni‑ papers and book chapters, and several standardization

versity, Ankara, Turkey, in 2007 contributions. He co‑authored/co‑edited three books for

and 2009, respectively, and a Cambridge University Press, served as an editor for IEEE
Ph.D. degree from Hacettepe Communications Letters (2010‑2015), IEEE Wireless

University, Ankara, Turkey, in Communications Letters (2011‑2016), and IEEE Transac‑
2015, all in electrical and elec‑ tions on Wireless Communications (2016‑present), and

tronics engineering. From 2015 as a guest editor for several other journals. Dr. Guvenc is

to 2016, he was an assistant an inventor/coinventor in some 30 U.S. patents and he is
professor with the Department a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors.
of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Atilim Uni‑ He is a recipient of the NCSU ECE R. Ray Bennett Faculty
versity, Ankara, Turkey. From 2016 to 2018, he was Fellow Award (2019), FIU College of Engineering Faculty
with the Signal Processing Group at Bilkent University, Research Award (2016), NSF CAREER Award (2015),

Ankara, Turkey as a postdoctoral researcher. Since 2018, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award

he has been a research associate at the Department of (2014), and USF Outstanding Dissertation Award (2006).
Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina
State University. His research interests include signal and David W . Matolak received B.S. degree in electrical engi‑
image processing, time‑series analysis, machine learning neering from Pennsylvania State University, State College,
in communications, mmWave communications, and PA, USA, in 1983, an M.S. degree in electrical engineer‑

UAVs. Dr. Erden received the Scienti ic and Technological ing from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA,

Research Council of Turkey National M.S. Scholarship USA, in 1987, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering

Award in 2007. He received the Best Paper Award in the from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA,
Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy in in 1995. He has over 25 years’ experience in communica‑
2019. tion system research, development, and deployment, with
industry, government institutions, and academia, includ‑
Ozgur Ozdemir received BS de‑ ing AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NY, USA; L3 Communi‑
gree in electrical and electron‑ cation Systems, New York NY, USA; MITRE, McLean, VA,
ics engineering from Bogazici USA; and Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, MD, USA. He was

University, Istanbul, Turkey, in a professor with Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA, from
1999 and MS and PhD degrees 1999 to 2012. Since 2012, he has been a professor with

in electrical engineering from the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA. He

University of Texas at Dallas, has over 250 publications and eight patents. His research
Richardson, TX, USA, in 2002 interests are radio channel modeling and communication
and 2007, respectively. Before techniques for non‑stationary fading channels. Dr. Ma‑

joining the Department of Elec‑ tolak has organized multiple IEEE workshops and special
trical and Computer Engineer‑ sessions, and is an associate editor of the IEEE TRANS‑

ing at NCSU as a visiting re‑ ACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS. He is also

search scholar, he has been an assistant professor at a member of standards groups in RTCA and ITU, and a

the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineer‑ member of Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, URSI,

ing, Fatih University, Turkey and a postdoctoral scholar ASEE, and AIAA.
at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. His research interests
include opportunistic approaches in wireless systems,
experimental multiple‑antenna systems, digital compen‑
sation of radio‑frequency impairments, wireless multi‑
carrier communications, and software defined radios.
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