I had the privilege of visiting Peking University in China as a guest of Prof. Chenren Xu discussing on research with him and several other faculty members.

The main purpose of the trip was to deliver a talk on “Resilient Self-Backhauling in mmWave Cellular Networks”. In this talk, I delved into our recent endeavors addressing the challenges of self-backhauling in millimeter-wave networks. Specifically, I elaborated on techniques for mitigating adverse network conditions, including temporary and permanent blockages, as well as base station failures, by harnessing the power of reinforcement learning techniques.

In addition to the talk, I visited the lab facilities of Peking university. This included the backscatter system developed at Prof. Xu’s lab and the 28GHz reconfigurable intelligent surface prototype developed by Prof. Di’s team.