Vitaly Petrov

Vitaly Petrov
Principal Research Scientist

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115

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Biography

Dr. Vitaly Petrov is a Principal Research Scientist with Northeastern University (NU), Boston, MA, USA, and a member of the ultra-broadband nano networking laboratory directed by Dr. Josep Jornet. Before joining NU in 2022, Vitaly was a Senior Standardization Specialist with Nokia Bell Labs and later Nokia Standards working on supporting extended reality (XR) devices in next-generation cellular networks, as well as on extending New Radio operation toward the 60 GHz mmWave band. Vitaly obtained his Ph.D. degree from Tampere University, Finland in 2020. During his studies, Vitaly was a visiting researcher with University at Buffalo, the University of Texas at Austin, Georgia Institute of Technology, and King’s College London. He is the recipient of several IEEE conference and regional awards. Vitaly’s research interests are in enabling terahertz and sub-terahertz band communications for 6G and beyond.

 

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Ph.D. Graduation Award by Industrial Research Fund at Tampere University for one of the 10 best engineering Ph.D. theses defended at Tampere University in 2020.
  • IEEE Finland Section, Best Student Journal Paper Award (first author), Oct. 2019. Best student journal paper published in Finland in 2018.
  • IEEE WCNC’17 Best Student Poster Award sponsored by Marconi Society (first author), San Francisco, CA, USA, Mar. 2017.
  • IEEE VTC-Fall’15 Best Student Paper Award (first author), Boston, MA, USA, Mar. 2015.
  • Tampere University of Technology President’s Scholarship, 4-years grant for the Ph.D. project “The Last Meter Terabit-per-Second Wireless Access,” 2015-2019.

UN Lab Publications

A. Singh, V. Petrov, H. Guerboukha, I. V. A. K. Reddy, E. W. Knightly, D. M. Mittleman, and J. M. Jornet, “Wavefront Engineering: Realizing Efficient Terahertz Band Communications in 6G and Beyond,” in IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 133-129, June 2024. PDF
J. Kokkoniemi, J.M. Jornet, V. Petrov, Y. Koucheryavy, and M. Juntti, “Channel Modeling and Performance Analysis of Airplane-Satellite Terahertz Band Communications,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 2047 – 2061, March 2021. PDF
V. Petrov, D. Moltchanov, Y. Koucheryavy, and J. M. Jornet, “Capacity and Outage of Terahertz Communications with User Micro-mobility and Beam Misalignment,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 6, pp. 6822-6827, June 2020. PDF
V. Petrov, M. Komarov, D. Moltchanov, J. M. Jornet and Y. Koucheryavy, “Interference and SINR in Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Communication Systems with Blocking and Directional Antennas,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1791-1808, March 2017. PDF
V. Petrov, M. Komarov, D. Moltchanov, J. M. Jornet and Y. Koucheryavy, “On the Use of Integral Geometry for Interference Modeling and Analysis in Wireless Networks,” IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 2530-2533, December 2016. PDF
P. Boronin, V. Petrov, D. Moltchanov, Y. Koucheryavy, and J. M. Jornet, “Capacity and Throughput Analysis of Nanoscale Machine Communication through Transparency Windows in the Terahertz Band,” Elsevier Nano Communication Networks, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 72-82, September 2014. PDF
V. Petrov, J. M. Jornet, and A. Singh, “Near-field 6G Networks: Why Mobile Terahertz Communications MUST Operate in the Near Field,” in the Proc. of the 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2023. PDF
A. Singh, V. Petrov and J. M. Jornet, “Utilization of Bessel Beams in Wideband Sub Terahertz Communication Systems to Mitigate Beamsplit Effects in the Near-field,” in ICASSP 2023 – 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, 2023, pp. 1-5. PDF
S. Aliaga, V. Petrov, and J. M. Jornet, “Cross-Link Interference Modeling in 6G Millimeter Wave and Terahertz LEO Satellite Communications,” ICC 2023 – IEEE International Conference on Communications, Rome, Italy, May 2023. PDF
P. Sen, J. Hall, M. Polese, V. Petrov, D. Bodet, F. Restuccia, T. Melodia and J. M. Jornet, “Terahertz Communications Can Work in Rain and Snow: Impact of Adverse Weather Conditions on Channels at 140 GHz,” in the Proc. of the 6th ACM Workshop on Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Networks and Sensing Systems (mmNets), October 2022. PDF
V. Petrov, D. Moltchanov, J. M. Jornet and Y. Koucheryavy, “Exploiting Multipath Terahertz Communications for Physical Layer Security in Beyond 5G Networks,” in Proc. of the IEEE First IEEE Workshop on Ultra-High Broadband Terahertz Communication for 5G and Beyond Networks, Paris, France, April 2019. PDF
V. Petrov, D. Moltchanov, Y. Koucheryavy, and J. M, Jornet, “The Effect of Small-Scale Mobility on Terahertz Band Communications,” in Proc. of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communications (NanoCom), Reykjavik, Iceland, September 5-7, 2018. PDF
V. Petrov, M. Komarov, D. Moltchanov, J. M. Jornet and Y. Koucheryavy, “Interference Analysis of EHF/THF Communications Systems with Blocking and Directional Antennas,” in Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1-6, Washington, DC, December 2016. PDF
V. Petrov, H. Guerboukha, Z. Shaikhanov, E. W. Knightly, D. M. Mittleman, and J. M. Jornet, “Physical Layer Security for Terahertz Communications in Massive IoT,” to appear in Security and Privacy for 6G Massive IoT, July 2024.
J. M. Jornet, Z. Hossain and V. Petrov, “Noise and Interference,” Terahertz Communications, Chapter 9, Springer 2022. PDF

Other Publications

  1. V. Petrov, T. Kürner, and I. Hosako, “IEEE 802.15.3d: First Standardization Efforts for Sub-Terahertz Band Communications toward 6G,” in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 28-33, Nov. 2020. In IEEE ComSoc “Featured articles on 6G wireless communications,” Nov. 2021. Also, in IEEE ComSoc “Best Readings in Terahertz Communications”, Apr. 2022.
  2. J. M. Eckhardt, V. Petrov, D. Moltchanov, Y. Koucheryavy, and T. Kürner, “Channel Measurements and Modeling for Low Terahertz Band Vehicular Communications,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE JSAC), Apr. 2021. In IEEE ComSoc “Best Readings in Terahertz Communications”, Apr. 2022.
  3. V. Petrov, M. Gapeyenko, D. Moltchanov, S. Andreev, and R. W. Heath, “Hover or Perch: Comparing Capacity of Airborne and Landed Millimeter-Wave UAV Cells,” in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (IEEE WCL), vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 2059-2063, Dec. 2020.
  4. V. Petrov, D. Moltchanov, J. M. Jornet, and Y. Koucheryavy, “Exploiting Multipath Terahertz Communications for Physical Layer Security in Beyond 5G Networks,” in Proc. of the Workshop on Ultra-high Broadband Terahertz Communication for 5G and Beyond Networks (UBTCN), in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM, Paris, France, Apr. 2019.
  5. M. Gapeyenko, V. Petrov, D. Moltchanov, S. Andreev, N. Himayat, and Y. Koucheryavy, “Flexible and Reliable UAV-Assisted Backhaul Operation in 5G mmWave Cellular Networks,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE JSAC), vol. 36, no. 11, Nov. 2018. In IEEE ComSoc “Best Readings in UAV Assisted Wireless Networks”, Jan. 2020.
  6. V. Petrov et al., “Achieving End-to-End Reliability of Mission-Critical Traffic in Softwarized 5G Networks,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE JSAC), vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 485-501, Mar. 2018. “Monthly 50 most popular articles from IEEE JSAC” during each of the thirty eight consecutive months (June 2018 – July 2020).
  7. V. Petrov et al., “Dynamic Multi-Connectivity Performance in Ultra-Dense Urban mmWave Deployments,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE JSAC), vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 2038-2055, Sept. 2017.
  8. V. Petrov, M. Komarov, D. Moltchanov, J. M. Jornet, and Y. Koucheryavy, “Interference and SINR in Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Communication Systems with Blocking and Directional Antennas,” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IEEE TWC), vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1791-1808, Mar. 2017.
  9. V. Petrov, D. Moltchanov, and Y. Koucheryavy, “Interference and SINR in Dense Terahertz Networks,” in Proc. of the IEEE 82nd Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC-Fall), Boston, MA, USA, Sept. 2015. Best Student Paper Award
  10. P. Boronin, V. Petrov, D. Moltchanov, Y. Koucheryavy, and J.M. Jornet, “Capacity and Throughput Analysis of Nanoscale Machine Communication through Transparency Windows in the Terahertz Band,” in Elsevier Nano Communications Networks, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 72-82, Sept. 2014. The most-cited article in 2014-2019, Elsevier Nano Communications Networks.

Service

  • Member, IEEE ComSoc Special Interest Group on Terahertz Communications.
  • Member (Nokia delegate), European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), 3GPP RAN1 (Physical Layer), 2020 – 2022.
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences (ITC), Tampere University, Finland, 2019 – 2020.
  • Member, Doctoral training network in Electronics, Telecommunications and Automation (DELTA), 2015 – 2020.
  • Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), since 2011.