Multi-AP Coordination Approaches over Emerging WLANs: Future Directions and Open Challenges

报告题目： Multi-AP Coordination Approaches over Emerging WLANs: Future Directions and Open Challenges

报 告 人： Nei Kato，日本东北大学教授、博导

报告时间： 2026年8月2日 10：00 -12:00

报告地点：安徽工业大学秀山校区先进技术研究中心513

报告对象：计算机科学与技术学院及相关师生

主办单位：计算机科学与技术学院

报告人简介： Nei Kato is a Distinguished Professor with Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan. He served as the Dean of Graduate School of Information Sciences. His research areas include computer networking, wireless mobile communications, satellite communications, ad hoc & sensor & mesh networks, UAV networks, AI, IoT, and Big Data. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Network Magazine, the Vice President for Member and Global Activities, the Chair of Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee and Internet of Things, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee, IEEE Communications Society. He received The Stuart F. Meyer Memorial Award and Outstanding Service Award from IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, the Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Computers, the Prize for Science and Technology from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher, a Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan, a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of IEICE.

报告内容：The 802.11 IEEE standard aims to update current Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) standards to meet the high demands of future applications, such as 8K videos, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), the Internet of Things, telesurgery, and more. Two of the latest developments in WLAN technologies are IEEE 802.11be and 802.11ay, also known as Wi-Fi 7 and WiGig, respectively. These standards aim to provide Extremely High Throughput (EHT) and lower latencies. IEEE 802.11be includes new features such as 320 MHz bandwidth, multi-link operation, Multi-user Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO), orthogonal frequency-division multiple access, and Multiple-Access Point (multi-AP) cooperation (MAP-Co) to achieve EHT. With the increase in the number of overlapping Access Points (APs) and inter-AP interference, researchers have focused on studying MAP-Co approaches for coordinated transmission in IEEE 802.11be, making MAP-Co a key feature of future WLANs. Additionally, the high overlapping AP densities in EHF bands, due to their smaller coverage, must be addressed in future standards beyond IEEE 802.11ay, specifically with respect to the challenges of implementing MAP-Co over 60GHz bands. In this talk, the state-of-the-art in MAP-Co features and their drawbacks concerning emerging WLAN, several novel future directions and open challenges will be provided。