| TH-SP.2A: Driving Forward: Advances in Propagation Modeling for Wireless Systems | 
| Session Type: Special Session Oral | 
| Time: Thursday, July 11, 08:00 - 11:20 | 
| Location: Grand Ballroom D | 
| Session Chairs: Alenka Zajić, Georgia Institute of Technology and Zhen Peng, University of New Mexico | 
| 08:00 - 08:20 | 
| TH-SP.2A.1: CONFIGURATION OF NETWORK LEVEL ALGORITHMS FOR WIRELESS TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEMS USING PHYSICS-BASED PROPAGATION MODELS | 
| Neeraj Sood, Sami Baroudi, Xingqi Zhang, Jorg Liebeherr, Costas Sarris, University of Toronto, Canada | 
| 08:20 - 08:40 | 
| TH-SP.2A.2: PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR STOCHASTIC CHANNEL MODELS USING TEMPORAL MOMENTS | 
| Ayush Bharti, Ramoni Adeogun, Troels Pedersen, Aalborg University, Denmark | 
| 08:40 - 09:00 | 
| TH-SP.2A.3: PHYSICS-ORIENTED STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION TRANSMISSION IN WAVE-CHAOTIC ENVIRONMENTS | 
| Shen Lin, Zhen Peng, University of New Mexico, United States | 
| 09:00 - 09:20 | 
| TH-SP.2A.4: K-FACTOR AND CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF A 2×2 MIMO OFF-BODY CHANNEL INSIDE A MINE | 
| Moulay El Hassan El Azhari, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), Canada; Larbi Talbi, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada; Mourad Nedil, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), Canada | 
| 09:20 - 09:40 | 
| TH-SP.2A.5: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF TIME-MODULATED ARRAY IN DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | 
| Qianwei Zeng, Peng Yang, Feng Yang, Yin Lu, Yuyi Gan, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China | 
| 09:40 - 10:00 Break | 
| 10:00 - 10:20 | 
| TH-SP.2A.6: PROPAGATION MODELING FOR AIR-GROUND CHANNEL OVER ROUGH SEA SURFACE IN LOW ALTITUDES | 
| Zhuangzhuang Cui, Ke Guan, Danping He, Bo Ai, Zhangdui Zhong, Beijing Jiaotong University, China | 
| 10:20 - 10:40 | 
| TH-SP.2A.7: HOW MANY ANTENNAS DO WE NEED FOR MASSIVE MIMO CHANNEL SOUNDING? – VALIDATING THROUGH MEASUREMENT | 
| Thomas Choi, Francois Rottenberg, Peng Luo, University of Southern California, United States; Jianzhong Zhang, Samsung Resarch America Inc., United States; Andreas F. Molisch, University of Southern California, United States | 
| 10:40 - 11:00 | 
| TH-SP.2A.8: PATH LOSS MODEL AS A FUNCTION OF ANTENNA HEIGHT FOR 300 GHZ CHIP-TO-CHIP COMMUNICATIONS | 
| Jinbang Fu, Prateek Juyal, Alenka Zajić, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States | 
| 11:00 - 11:20 | 
| TH-SP.2A.9: A PATH LOSS MODEL FOR THROUGH THE SOIL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS IN DIGITAL AGRICULTURE | 
| Abdul Salam, Purdue University, United States |