6GEM @ EuCNC & 6G Summit: Latest Research on IRS-assisted Communications presented on 6G Platform booth

6GEM @ EuCNC & 6G Summit: Latest Research on IRS-assisted Communications presented on 6G Platform booth

6GEM presented recent mmWave communications trials featuring both HELIOS and R-HELIOS IRSs in various challenging real-life environments in collaboration with 6G projects in Germany (6G-ANNA) and on EU level (6G-SANDBOX). Moreover, 6GEM demonstrated the new open source Reconfigurable HELIOS (R-HELIOS) IRS approach: interested visitors of our booth could initialize beam switching and tracking procedures as well as configure individual IRS reflection beam configurations with the demonstrator.

6G-Platform Germany booth at EuCNC & 6G Summit 2025 featuring exhibition area of 6GEM with TU Dortmund’s R-HELIOS IRS Demonstrator (right photo) and Exhibition of HELIOS IRS Panel (left photo, presented by TU Dortmund’s Simon Häger) accompanied by a video demo highlighting most recent research results from mmWave field trials with HELIOS, R-HELIOS, and STING systems.

Further reading:

S. Häger, M. Kaudewitz, F. Schmickmann, S. Böcker, C. Wietfeld, "Field Performance Evaluation of a Mechatronic Reflector System in a Private mmWave Network Environment," in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, pp. 1-24, May 2025. DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3572723. (Early access.) [pdf] [Open Source] [Details]
S. Häger, S. Böcker, C. Wietfeld, "Reflection Modeling of Modular Passive IRS Geometries," in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 1366-1370, May 2025. DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2025.3542564. [pdf] [Details]
M. Danger, C. Arendt, H. Schippers, S. Böcker, N. Beckmann, R. Schmitt, C. Wietfeld, "6G Industrial Networks: Mobility-Centric Evaluation of Multi-cell mmWave Systems," in IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), Oslo, Norway, June 2025. (Accepted for Presentation.) [pdf] [Details]