weihong xiao

Metantenna Technology for 5G/6G Base Stations: Opportunities and Challenges

The rapid development of wireless technology from 5G towards 6G has led to many new opportunities for base stations, as well as imposed many technical challenges. The multiband integrated antenna design is increasingly demanded for 5G/6G base stations with a compact volume. However, it usually leads to radiation pattern distortion, input impedance mismatch, and port isolation deterioration due to the small interelement spacing and complicated electromagnetic environment. On the other hand, metantenna technology has experienced significant advancement in the last two decades, and is considered a key enabling technology for large-scale high-density multiband integrated base station antennas. After introducing two exemplified metantenna techniques for base stations, several challenging research topics of the meta-technology will be released for potential cooperation.

Weihong Xiao received the Bachelor and Master degrees from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, both in Electronic Engineering, in 2003 and 2006 respectively. Mr. Xiao has been with Huawei Technologies since 2006, where he is the CTO for Base Station Antenna. Under his leading of the antenna R&D, Huawei has become the Market Leader in base station antenna. The newly launched Huawei BladeAAU Pro has been widely recognized in the industry, packaging the iF Design Award, Red Dot Design Award, and Best Mobile Network Infrastructure Award. His research interests include the theory and design of antennas and arrays for base station, and the integration of antenna, filter and wireless algorithm for 5G mobile communications. He holds over 130 granted and pending US/WO/PCT/CN patents.