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Monday, 9 December 2019 

09:00-17:30
Industry Workshop/Forum 1 (IWF-01):
Future Networks Toward 6G

09:00-12:30
Industry Workshop/Forum 2 (IWF-02):
Connecting the Unconnected in 5G and Beyond Networks

14:00-17:30
Industry Workshop/Forum 3 (IWF-03):
Roadmap for Transformation of Industrial Manufacturing

Friday, 13 December 2019

09:00-17:30
Industry Workshop/Forum 4 (IWF-04):
Wireless Positioning and Navigation (WPN)

09:00-12:30
Industry Workshop/Forum 5 (IWF-05): Blockchain in Telecomm

14:00-17:30
Industry Workshop/Forum 6 (IWF-06): Fog/Edge Computing and Networking


Industry Workshop/Forum 1 (IWF-01): Future Networks toward 6G

Date/Time: 9 December 2019, Monday: 09:00-17:30
Room: Hilton, Waikoloa 2

Schedule:

9:00-9:10 Welcome and opening remarks by the workshop organizers

9:10-9:40 Keynote by Ed Tiedeman (Qualcomm) 

9:40-10:00 Haris Gacanin (Nokia Bell Labs), "Toward Autonomous Wireless Systems with Intelligence and Learning"

10:00-10:20 Ari Pouttu (University of Oulu), “6G Flagship – Initial Findings of 6G White Paper”

10:20-10:40 Clara Li (Intel), “Communication and computing in 5G and Beyond” Yang Yang (Shanghai Tech), "Multi-tier Computing Networks for Intelligent 6G"

10:40-11:10 Coffee/Tea Break/Networking

11:10-11:30 Russell’s Hsing (National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan), "Intelligent Fog/Edge Platform: The Key Enablers to Uberizing the IOT for Future Work Toward 6G 

11:30-11:50 Yang Yang (Shanghai Tech), "Multi-tier Computing Networks for Intelligent 6G"

11:50-12:10 Suajata Tiberwala (Intel), "App Driven Edge and Unified Platform Architecture as Enabler”

12:10-12:30 Mohammad Patwary (Birmingham City Univ), “6G to Redefine Consumer Electronics with Ultra-reliable Ultra-latency Communication & Edge Processing as Service”

12:30-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-13:55 Keynote by Frank Fitzek (TU Dresden), "Machine Learning: Neither machine nor learning, Revolution for 6G and beyond"

13:55-14:15 Urbasahi Mitra (USC), “6G?  Reflections on Things, People & Intelligence in the context of Wireless”

14:15-14:35 Sastry Kota, "Exploring New Satellite Frontiers: B5G and 6G"

14:35-14:55 Michele Zorzi (Univ of Padova), “Satellite Communication at Millimeter Waves: a Key Enabler of the 6G Era”

14:55-15:15 Hung-Yu Wei (NTU), “Challenges and Opportunities for Beyond mmWave Communications: A Cross-Layer Viewpoint”

15:15-15:35 Ashutosh Dutta (JHU), "Security in 5G Networks - Opportunities and Challenges" 

15:35-16:00 Coffee/Tea Break/Networking

16:00-16:20 Sudhir Dixit (Wireless World Research Forum),  "What comes next? Is there a need for a new generation after 5G?: A View from WWRF    

16:20-16:45 Klaus David (University of Kassel), “5G Beyond towards 6G: Requirements and Innovations for 6G”

16:45-17:25 Panel Discussion (All speakers)

17:25-17:35 Wrap-up and closing remarks

Organizers:     

  • Prof. Matti Latva-aho, University of Oulu, Finland
  • Prof. Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA
  • Prof. Zhisheng Niu,Tsinghua University, China
  • Dr. Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation and University of Oulu

Abstract:  Our future society will be increasingly digitised, hyperconnected and globally data-driven whereby near-instant wireless connectivity will be the key technical driver to connect people, devices, objects and automate processes. Meanwhile 5G standardization is finalizing, recent advances in machine learning infused with network edge intelligence is driving a paradigm shift towards truly intelligent societies. Enabling the vision requires addressing a myriad of theoretical and practical challenges.

The goal of the 1st Industry Workshop/Forum on Future Networks toward 6G is to present and discuss the latest insights and innovations from industry and academia on 5G and beyond, paving the road for the coming of 6G. This workshop/forum will attract contributions exploring the following topics of interest (but not limited to): Wireless connectivity, devices, circuit technology and signal processing, distributed computing, services and applications.

TITLE: Toward Autonomous Wireless Systems with Intelligence and Learning

ABSTRACT: Design of autonomous wireless systems with simultaneous service delivery in real time cannot be accomplished by incremental changes to the present deterministic control and optimization methodologies. It requires a fundamental leap in the system’s thinking by embedding active learning and sensing strategies into temporal wireless infrastructure itself. This means that the infrastructure will become aware of the way it is being used to anticipate actual requirements at the specific moment and what it is likely to be required at later time. As such it will facilitate wireless as a true application-aware platform for a plethora of novel applications.

With artificial intelligence (AI) machines can be designed to perform “autonomous” tasks (e.g. planning, problem solving) without being programmed to accomplish a single (repetitive) task, while being adaptive to different environments. We presume that AI provides techniques to enable autonomous wireless systems with stringent service requirements in real time. Such system requires full awareness of its environment in real time while being designed not only through data-driven methodology by ML, but through knowledge management by AI. This talk discusses challenges and opportunities to embrace AI in the design of autonomous wireless systems. By looking beyond recent data-driven methodology for prediction problems such as deep learning, we introduce the concept of machine intelligence by employing broader disciplines of AI such as sensing, reasoning, active learning, and knowledge management. We start discussion by summarizing the properties of training-free and training-based methods of AI in wireless environment. To understand limitations of these methods we compare the traditional optimization theory, deep learning and reinforcement learning in wireless environment. Finally, we discuss the conceptual functions of autonomous agent with knowledge management. The talk provokes new coming challenges and unveil interesting future directions across multi-disciplinary research areas.

BIO:

Haris GačaninHaris Gačanin received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical engineering from University of Sarajevo in 2000. In 2005 and 2008, respectively, he received MSc and PhD from Tohoku University in Japan. He worked at Tohoku University until 2010 as Assistant Professor and joined Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia) in 2010, where he established research on data-driven analysis of communication systems at physical and media access layers. Currently, he is department head at Bell Labs and adjunct professor at KU Leuven. His professional interests relate to broad areas of digital signal processing and artificial intelligence with applications in communication systems. He has 200+ scientific publications (journals, conferences and patens) and invited/tutorial talks. He is senior member of IEEE and IEICE. Dr. Gacanin is distinguished lecturer of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He is recipient of 2018 Nokia Innovation Awards, IEICE Communication Systems Best Paper Award (joint 2014, 2015, 2017), The 2013 Alcatel-Lucent Award of Excellence, the 2012 KDDI Foundation Research Award, the 2009 KDDI Foundation Research Grant Award, the 2008 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Foreign Researchers, the 2005 Active Research Award in Radio Communications, 2005 Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2005-Fall) Student Paper Award from IEEE VTS Japan Chapter and the 2004 Institute of IEICE Society Young Researcher Award.

TITLE: 6G Flagship – Initial Findings of 6G White Paper

BIO:

Ari PouttuProf. Ari Pouttu has scientific and engineering experience as a researcher, project manager and research manager in various domains of ICT development. The projects under his command have resulted in waveforms and system designs for military radio communication, radar systems, embedded device networks, future wireless radio communications including cellular systems, cognitive networks and navigation applications.

He has published more than 60 conference or journal papers in the field of wireless communications, and he holds a number of patents. He was the Director of Centre for Wireless Communications in the University of Oulu from 2006 to 2012. Currently he is heading as a professor a research group targeting dependable wireless solutions for business verticals such as energy, industry, health and automotive including solutions for 5G. He is the principal investigator of 5G test network (5GTN) experimental research, co-PI of H2020 Sat5G, 5GDrones, and 5G-ENHANCE projects and is acting as vice-director of the national flagship targeting 6G solutions.

TITLE: Communication and computing in 5G and beyond

ABSTRACT: With the development of 5G in enabling eMBB communications and connections of things beyond smart phones, we see increasing correlation among communication, computation and data. This trend is expect to continue in 5G evolution and in next generation communication systems. The tight correlation of communication, computing and data would fundamentally impact communication system design moving forward, i.e., communication system should not simply serve as a data pipe but need to incorporate computing and enable efficient processing, communication and usage of data. This talk will reflect learnings from current 5G journey and look into fundamental capabilities that communication systems need to enable moving forward.

BIO:

Clara LiDr. Qian (Clara) Li is a Senior Principal Engineer with the Next Generation and Standards division of Intel. Since joining Intel in 2012, she has been working on LTE and 5G communications system design and standardization with focus on air interface, radio access network, core network, edge computing. Clara receive her Ph.D degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2011 with focus on information theory and communication theory. Clara has published more than 40 papers in IEEE journals and conferences, 3 book chapters and has been issued more than 30 US patents.    

 

 

 

TITLE: Multi-tier Computing Networks for Intelligent 6G

ABSTRACT: In order to meet the future requirements of intelligent 6G applications and services, more and more computing resources and distributed AI algorithms have been deployed in communication networks, thus achieving massive data processing and real-time decision making at local or regional sites. In this talk, we will first introduce the architecture, advantages and future trends of multi-tier computing networks, including the differences and collaborations between cloud, fog, and edge computing technologies. Our goal is to support future intelligent societies by providing multi-tier computing resources and a horizontal service architecture across a variety of communication networks and applications.

BIO:

Yang YangDr. Yang Yang is currently a full professor at ShanghaiTech University, China, serving as the Executive Dean of School of Creativity and Art and the Co-Director of Shanghai Institute of Fog Computing Technology (SHIFT). Before joining ShanghaiTech University, he has held faculty positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Brunel University (UK), University College London (UCL, UK), and SIMIT, CAS (China).

Yang’s current research interests include fog computing networks, service-oriented collaborative intelligence, wireless sensor networks, IoT applications, and advanced testbeds and experiments. He has published more than 200 papers and filed more than 80 technical patents in these research areas. He is the Chair of the Steering Committee of Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) since January 2019. In addition, he is a General Co-Chair of the IEEE DSP 2018 conference and a TPC Vice-Chair of the IEEE ICC 2019 conference. Yang is a Fellow of the IEEE.

TITLE: Intelligent Fog/Edge Platform: The key Enablers to Uberizing the IoT for Future Work Toward 6G

ABSTRACT: It have been almost 50 years since ARPANET adopted TCP/IP as a standard, marking the era of Internet to govern our daily life related to shop, personal communications, and even social media communications as well. Now we are in a stage of another disruptive paradigm shift for both of technology innovation and business model. During this coming digital transformation era, Fog/Edge Computing & Networking, a technology disrupter with a business model abrupter, will be key enablers to uberizing the Internet of Things for Future work toward 6G.

For mobile systems, there are four key pillars; Communications, Caching, Computing and Energy (e.g. Battery). The goal of starting the Fog Computing & Networking research is to investigate the optimization of resources that are virtualized, pooled, and shared unpredictably. Fog Networking revisits the role of clients in network architectures, more than just an end-user device, but also as an integral part of the control plane that monitors, measures, and manages the network. This is rewriting the traditional practice of using heavy-duty and dedicated network elements for network measurement and management Fog Computing & Networking combine the study of mobile communications, fogbased radio access network (F-RAN) in current 5G and future 6G, distributed systems, and big data analytics into an exciting new area. Based on our preliminary research, it shows that new emerging services (such as V2V in Vehicular Telematics Services, Manufacturing 4.0 and Mobile Healthcare Services) could be realized and implemented easily and economically. It could be also served as core engine to enable many Services in next generation Internet of Things (IoT) applications for future work toward 6G.

In this proposed talk, we will first define Fog/Edge Computing and Networking and Intelligent Fog/Edge Platform first, and then discuss its enablement, innovation and creation. Some of our current R&D initiatives (such as AR/VR, which is widely considered as a killer application for Fog/Edge Computing enabled mobile communication networks, and V2V in Vehicular Telematics Services in car safety) with customers’ vertical services will be shared audience.

BIO:

Prof. T. Russell Hsing, Executive Director of Applied Research, Bellcore/Telcordia/Ericsson (Retired) Honorary Chair Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Member of Advisory Council, Harvard Business Review, US Visiting Professor, IIT Mumbai, India and Peking University, China Board Member/Board Advisor/Mentor, High-Tech Start-Ups via Academic-Spinoffs, US

 

 

 

 

TITLE: App Driven Edge and Unified Platform architecture as enabler 

ABSTRACT: 5G, Edge, cheap computing means deluge of micro Data Centers spawning close to the user locations. This opens up a whole new model of delivering apps and services across multiple  architectures and implementations in the industry. This infrastructure also needs to be scalable enough to distribute functions to serve billions of parallel devices and tasks at the edge. . We talk about how workloads and applications will drive the edge architecture for Domain Specific Applications (DSA) where by  various technology enablers such as AI, ML and oneAPI- a set of developer tools that provide a unified programming model that simplifies development for workloads across diverse architectures, can create a level playing field for the developers of these applications by letting them take full advantage of multi architecture platforms easily. Various DSA’s include  Green Applications aka Rideshare, Green champion social app, Real time location-based services, Social networking applications, Real Time XR based use case. With the push towards 5G and the promise of connecting the unconnected technologies such as ad Hoc Network based apps where any node can opt in to connect other nearby nodes have huge potential  to bridge the Digital Divide.  We will  conclude by talking about various Open source efforts in the edge space in general and Akraino Edge Stack  in particular which aims at making the edge a more accessible space for software developers on the edge.

BIO: 

Sujata TibrewalaSujata Tibrewala is an Intel community development manager and technology evangelist who defines programs to enable ecosystem developers to drive AI/ML. With OneAPI being the latest program she has taken the responsibility of evangelizing, she is also a co-chair for IEEE Edge Automation Platform Roadmap, for Beyond 5G Technology Roadmap. Under her leadership Intel Network Developer Evangelism program was nominated for Network Transformation Awards 2018, and received Edison award and Network Developer Dynamo award at Intel. She is a frequent presenter at various IEEE and industry conferences in SDN/NFV, Director at Silicon Valley Engineering Council and TSC chair for Documentation Sub-committee Akraino. Sujata has worked at several companies, including CISCO, Agere, Ericsson, Avaya, Brocade, leading all phases of diverse software technology projects such as an SDN open flow implementation, TCP/IP/Ethernet/VLAN forwarding software development on CISCO switches, and network processors and cloud deployments using virtualization technologies. She has a Masters from IISc Bangalore and Bachelors from IIT Kharagpur and has completed an Executive Women Leadership Program from Stanford.

TITLE: “6G to redefine consumer electronics with ultra-reliable ultra-latency communication & edge processing as service”

Abstract: 5G provides the industry and research community with the privilege to re-think the usages of wireless connectivity. The ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) feature of 5G provides us to consider edge (computing) processing as a service for consumer electronics. Considering the contemporary latency requirements of consumer electronics ( e.g., entertainment, gaming, etc.), to enhance the commercial potential of ‘edge processing as service’ – research community should commit towards the possibility of ultra-reliable ultra-latency (URULC) feature for the next-generation wireless networks. Ultra-latency is defined to be 10s micro-second or lower, compared to its 5G counterpart that is within the range of few milliseconds. The ability to achieve such URULC feature will facilitate most of the consumer electronics to become more affordable to a wider range of users as the user/consumer have to pay to own only the user interface. It is anticipated that the users can rent the most expensive part of the consumer electronics ‘the processor’ as ‘edge processing as service’ on a pay as you go basis with real-time (ultra-latency) on demand. This will also facilitate ‘energy efficiency’ of the energy usage of such exponentially growing connectivity dependent consumer devices and build an environmentally friendly consumer device eco-system to help the climate. The talk will elaborate the our vision & effort towards this.

BIO:

Mohammad PatwaryMohammad Patwary is currently a Full Professor of Telecommunication Networks and Digital Productivity and the Head of the Intelligent Systems and Networks (ISN) research group at School of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University, UK.

He is also Principal Data Architect for a multicity 5G testbed in the UK that aims at accelerating digital productivity & develops urban connected community within the UK. He received the B.Eng. degree (Hons). in electrical and electronic engineering from the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication engineering from The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in 2005.

He was with General Electric Company of Bangladesh from 1998 to 2000 and with Southern-Poro Communications, Sydney, from 2001 to 2002, as Research and Development Engineer. He was a Lecturer with The University of New South Wales from 2005 to 2006, and then a Senior Lecturer with Staffordshire University, UK, from 2006 to 2010. He was a Full Professor of Wireless Systems and Digital Productivity and the Chair of the Centre of Excellence on Digital Productivity with Connected Services, Staffordshire University, until 2016.

His current research interests include – sensing & processing for intelligent systems, wireless communication systems design and optimization, signal processing for energy-efficient systems, future generation of cellular network architecture and business modelling for Data-economy.

TITLE: Machine Learning: Neither machine nor learning, Revolution for 6G and beyond

ABSTRACT: The talk will advocate that there is no need, but maybe harm, in introducing a new term 6G. It will also describe current developments in machine learning and softwarization of communication networks to introduce innovations on the fly rather than "wait for next generation. If successful the talk will define the granularity generation as the wrong concept for the future.

BIO:

Frank FitzekFrank H. P. Fitzek is a Professor and head of the “Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks” at TU Dresden coordinating the 5G Lab Germany. He is the spokesman of the DFG Cluster of Excellence CeTI.

He received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology – Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) – Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2002 and became Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy in the same year. In 2003 he joined Aalborg University as Associate Professor and later became Professor.

He co-founded several start-up companies starting with acticom GmbH in Berlin in 1999. He has visited various research institutes including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), VTT, and Arizona State University. In 2005 he won the YRP award for the work on MIMO MDC and received the Young Elite Researcher Award of Denmark. He was selected to receive the NOKIA Champion Award several times in a row from 2007 to 2011. In 2008 he was awarded the Nokia Achievement Award for his work on cooperative networks. In 2011 he received the SAPERE AUDE research grant from the Danish government and in 2012 he received the Vodafone Innovation prize. In 2015 he was awarded the honorary degree “Doctor Honoris Causa” from Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE).

His current research interests are in the areas of wireless and 5G communication networks, network coding, cloud computing, compressed sensing, cross layer as well as energy efficient protocol design and cooperative networking.

TITLE: 6G?  Reflections on Things, People & Intelligence in the context of Wireless

ABSTRACT: Among the many promises of 6G are the use of larger bandwidth and higher carrier frequencies which suggest that localization and domain awareness, coupled with extremely low latency will achievable with higher precision than before.  Given the current resurgence of neural networks, now intertwined with machine learning, there is also the hope that future 6G systems will be intelligent with the capability to adapt and learn any environment.  It is in this context, that prior and ongoing work on localization and synchronization, wireless body area sensing networks, autonomous systems and neural networks for wireless communications will be presented, highlighting some lessons learned and new opportunities for future research directions.  A unifying theme is the need to treat communications, sensing and actuation in a more holistic manner than has been typically undertaken.  To realize 6G systems, we will need to revisit problems.  Some we considered solved and need to be reconsidered; others were labeled intractable, but now potential solutions exist.

BIO:

Urbashi MitraUrbashi Mitra received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Princeton University.  Dr. Mitra is currently the Gordon S. Marshall Professor in Engineering at the University of Southern California. She was the inaugural Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, BIOlogical and Multi-scale Communications. She has been a member of the IEEE Communication Society's Board of Governors (2018-2020), the IEEE Information Theory Society's Board of Governors (2002-2007, 2012-2017), the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networks (2012-2016), the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Awards Board (2017-2018), and the Chair/Vice Chair of the IEEE Communications Society, Communication Theory Techcnial Committee(2019-2020,2017-2018). Dr. Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE.  She is the recipient of: the 2017 IEEE Women in Communications Engineering Technical Achievement Award, a 2015 UK Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Professorship, a 2015 US Fulbright Scholar Award, a 2015-2016 UK Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship, IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2012 Globecom Signal Processing for Communications Symposium Best Paper Award, 2012 US National Academy of Engineering Lillian Gilbreth Lectureship, the 2009 DCOSS Applications & Systems Best Paper Award, 2001 Okawa Foundation Award, 2000 Ohio State University’s College of Engineering Lumley Award for Research, 1997 Ohio State University’s College of Engineering MacQuigg Award for Teaching, and a 1996 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.  She has been an Associate Editor for multiple IEEE publications. Dr. Mitra has held visiting appointments at: King’s College, London, Imperial College, the Delft University of Technology, Stanford University, Rice University, and the Eurecom Institute. Her research interests include: wireless communications, communication and sensor networks, BIOlogical communication systems, detection and estimation and the interface of communication, sensing and control.

TITLE: Exploring New Satellite Frontiers: B5G and 6G

ABSTRACT

The beyond 5G and 6G networks promise to provide high throughput, low latency, massive device connectivity, reduced cost and consistent user quality of experience. The 6G Ubiquitous Wireless Intelligence is expected to meet the growing global population, increasing urbanization and a world climate change in 2030. These intelligent networks and enabling technologies are expected to transform the way we live and work. The Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), with new applications and services are introduced.

The satellite communications play a significant role as a complementary solution to the B5G and 6G terrestrial networks due to its ubiquitous coverage, broadcast/multicast and emergency/disaster recovery, not only in rural but in urban areas.  Following an introduction on B5G and the vision of 6G, satellite new architectures with various system design options e.g. LEO/MEO/GEO, different spectrum bands Ka/Q/V and regenerative versus bent pipe options are discussed. The potential application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) and drones are described with case studies. The current High Throughput Satellites (HTS) expected to deliver tera bits per second makes these B5G and 6G satellite systems achievable. A brief overview of mega satellite constellation status with examples is included. An overview of technical challenges for 6G satellite such as reference architectures, advanced modulation coding, machine learning and artificial intelligence along with Network Function Virtualization (NFV), quality of experience (QoE), integrated protocol and, and quantum key distribution techniques are introduced. In conclusion, the current standardization activities for satellite B5G and the standardization requirements for 6G are outlined.

BIO:

Dr. Sastri KotaOver the past 45 years, Dr. Sastri Kota has developed expertise and dedicated himself to furthering the quality and applications of large satellite systems, broadband networks, mobile wireless, DVB technologies, and tactical networks. He has held several management and senior technical positions at Harris, Loral, Lockheed Martin, SRI International, MITRE, XEROX, and CSC. In addition to designing and architecting large scale commercial and military satellite broadband networks, he has also been a docent (adjunct professor) at the University of Oulu, Finland, since 2006, teaching advanced communication system design for wireless and satellite networks. Currently, he is the working group co-chair of the IEEE Beyond 5G Satellite International team. Early in 2019, he was selected by the U.S. State Department to be a Fulbright Specialist.  Also, as the U.S. Chair and Head of the U.S. Delegation for ITU-R (1997-2011), he developed recommendations on satellite system performance for fixed, mobile, and broadband services. He has been a keynote and an invited speaker at several European Universities and Asian Information Institutes.  He has contributed a wealth of special issues for IEEE Communications, Wireless, Vehicular Technology, International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, Space Communications, and Wireless Information Networks. He has also served as an Executive and Technical Committee and Symposium Chair at IEEE, AFCEA, and AIAA Conferences such as MILCOM, GLOBECOM, ICC, PIMRC, and WCNC. He is a Life Senior Member of IEEE and an Associate Fellow of AIAA.

TITLE: Satellite Communication at Millimeter Waves: a Key Enabler of the 6G Era

ABSTRACT: While technical standard development for 5G radio services is still an ongoing process, the scientific community is drafting the key drivers, requirements, challenges and re- search questions towards 6th generation (6G) networks. 6G developments will foster, among other innovations, the evolution of wireless systems towards a 3D, continuous and ubiquitous service coverage by complementing terrestrial networks with computing stations placed on satellite platforms. Along these lines, in this paper we demonstrate the feasibility of using millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies to establish high-capacity satellite communications, in view of the huge traffic demands and service continuity requirements of forthcoming 6G applications. We also identify the most promising configuration(s) for satellite networking and discuss the design trade-offs in this domain.

BIO:

Michele ZorziMichele Zorzi received his Laurea and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Padova in 1990 and 1994, respectively. During academic year 1992/1993 he was on leave at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). After being affiliated with the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, the Center for Wireless Communications at UCSD, and the University of Ferrara, in November 2003 he joined the faculty of the Information Engineering Department of the University of Padova, where he is currently a professor. His present research interests include performance evaluation in mobile communications systems, random access in mobile radio networks, ad hoc and
sensor networks and IoT, energy constrained communications protocols, 5G millimeter-wave cellular systems, and underwater communications and networking. He was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications from 2003 to 2005, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Communications from 2008 to 2011, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He was Guest Editor for several Special Issues in IEEE Personal Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Network, and IEEE JSAC. He served as a Member-at-Large in the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society from 2009 to 2011, and as its Director of Education from 2014 to 2015. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

TITLE: Challenges and Opportunities for Beyond mmWave Communications: A Cross-Layer Viewpoint

ABSTRACT: Due to the spectrum availability, people are look for using higher frequency bands (e.g. mmWave, THz) for future wireless communications. There are many challenges and opportunities to provide cost-effective design in these challenging radio environment. Cross-layer design and optimization principles should be applied to provide an integrated system design to achieve the desirable performance. In this talk, challenges and opportunities for beam-aware design and cross-layer optimization for future wireless will be discussed. 

BIO:

Hung-Yu WeiProf. Hung-Yu Wei is a Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Communications Engineering, National Taiwan University. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1999. He received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2001 and 2005 respectively. He was a summer intern at Telcordia Applied Research in 2000 and 2001. He was with NEC Labs America from 2003 to 2005. He joined Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Taiwan University in July 2005. His research interests include next-generation wireless broadband networks, mobility management in mobile Internet, IoT, vehicular networking, fog computing, cross-layer design and optimization in wireless multimedia communications, and game theoretical models for communications networks.

He received NTU Excellent Teaching Award in 2008 and 2018. He also received "Recruiting Outstanding Young Scholar Award" from the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship in 2006, K. T. Li Young Researcher Award from ACM Taipei/Taiwan Chapter and The Institute of Information and Computing Machinery in 2012, Ministry of Science and Technology Research Project for Excellent Young Scholars in 2014, Excellent Young Engineer Award from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2014, and Wu Ta You Memorial Award from MOST in 2015. He was a consulting member of Acts and Regulation Committee of National Communications Commission during 2008-2009. He has been actively participating in NGMN, IEEE 802.16, 3GPP, IEEE P1934 standardization, and was a voting member of the IEEE 802.16 working group. He is currently the Vice Chair of IEEE P1934 Working Group to standardize fog computing and networking architecture. Recently, he starts to serve as Chair of P1935 working group on Standard for Edge/Fog Manageability and Orchestration. He also serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE IoT journal. He is an IEEE certified Wireless Communications Professional. He was the Chair of IEEE VTS Taipei Chapter during 2016-2017

TITLE:  Security in 5G Networks - Opportunities and Challenges

ABSTRACT: Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are the key pillars of future networks, including 5G and beyond that promise to support emerging applications such as enhanced mobile broadband, ultra-low latency, massive sensing type applications while providing the resiliency in the network. Service providers and other verticals (e.g., Connected Cars, IOT, eHealth) can leverage SDN/NFV to provide flexible and cost-effective service without compromising the end user quality of service (QoS).

This talk will largely focus on various security challenges and opportunities introduced by SDN/NFV and 5G networks such as Hypervisor, Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), SDN controller, orchestrator, network slicing, cloud RAN, and security function virtualization. This talk will also highlight some of the ongoing activities within various standards communities and will illustrate a few deployment use case scenarios for security including threat taxonomy for both operator and enterprise networks. 

BIO:

Ashutosh DuttaAshutosh Dutta is currently Senior Wireless Communication Systems Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs (JHU/APL), USA. Most recently he served as Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs in Middletown, New Jersey. His career, spanning more than 30 years, includes leading position in several industries. Ashutosh served as the chair for IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey Section, Industry Relation Chair for Region 1 and MGA, Pre-University Coordinator for IEEE MGA and vice chair of Education Society Chapter of PCJS. He co-founded the IEEE STEM conference (ISEC) and helped to implement EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) projects in several high schools. Ashutosh currently serves as the Director of Industry Outreach for IEEE Communications Society and is the founding co-chair for IEEE 5G initiative. He also serves as IEEE Communications Society’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2018. Ashutosh serves as the general co-chair for the premier IEEE 5G World Forum. He was recipient of the prestigious 2009 IEEE MGA Leadership award and 2010 IEEE-USA professional leadership award. Ashutosh is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.

TITLE: What comes next? Is there a need for a new generation after 5G?: A View from WWRF 

ABSTRACT: After introducing the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), this talk provides a short overview of European and IEEE Views on B5G research. Then it goes into potential 6G technology directions and the approach taken by the WWRF and conclude the talk with key takeaways. 

Sudhir Dixit is a Co-Founder, Senior Fellow and Evangelist at the Basic Internet Foundation in Oslo, Norway, and heads its US operations.  He is also associated with the Academy of Finland Flagship Programme, 6Genesis, led by the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland.  From 2015 to 2017 he was the CEO and Co-Founder of a start-up, Skydoot, Inc. From 2009 to 2015, he was a Distinguished Chief Technologist and CTO of the Communications and Media Services for the Americas Region of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services in Palo Alto, CA, and the Director of Hewlett-Packard Labs India in Palo Alto and Bangalore. Before joining HP, he held various leadership positions at BlackBerry, Nokia, NSN and Verizon Communications.

He has been a technical editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, and is presently a Board Member & Working Group Chair at the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). He is also on the editorial boards of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and Springer’s Wireless Personal Communications Journal. He is a Co-Chair of the Industry Engagement Committee of the IEEE Future Network Initiative and is on its Industry Outreach Board (IOB).  In 2018, he was appointed a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Communications Society. From 2010 to 2012, he was an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, and, since 2010, he has been a Docent at the University of Oulu, Finland. A Life Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of IET and IETE, Dixit holds a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. and an M.B.A. from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida.

TITLE: 5G Beyond towards 6G:  Requirements and Innovations for 6G

ABSTRACT: First, an overview of the various mobile generations so far (starting with 1G, 2G throughout 5G) is provided. This overview includes the factors of success in terms of regulation, technology, and applications. Based on this and recent literature, requirements for the next generation - 6G - are presented. This provides the basis for a discussion about how such a next generation will look like. Emphasis is on the paradigm changes to accomplish such a next generation. One such paradigm change is the extensive usage of machine learning. Also, socio-technical design is a significant paradigm change.

This vision includes the provisioning of ultrahigh bitrates, like 100 or even 1000 Gbit/s, realised in special places only and e.g., a long range, low bitrate, ultra-low power, long latency (up to 1 s) service. For services, the inclusion of additional senses and emotions is suggested. Also, battery life of mobile devices should be substantially extended.

BIO

Prof. Dr. Klaus DavidProf. Dr. Klaus David is a full professor at the University of Kassel since 2000. He studied Physics at the University of Siegen (Germany). Then he was for 4 years researcher with IMEC in Gent (Belgium). Between 1992 - 1998, he was with T-Mobile (Münster, Bonn, Germany) as project leader and group head. Then he became Professor at the chair for mobile systems at the Technical University of Brandenburg (BTU, Cottbus, Germany) between 1998 - 2000. Here he was a co-founder of the lesswire AG and department head at IHP. Altogether he was working and living for about 5 years outside of Germany (UK, Belgium, USA, and Japan). Prof. David has filed more than 10 patents, has written 2 Textbooks, and has published more than 200 publications. He is active in international organisations, such as IEEE, 2015 – 2018 EIC IEEE VT Magazine, Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), elected member of the steering board 2016 – 2021, reviewer for the German Research Organisation (Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG)), the ministry of research and education (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)), and of the EU.

His research focuses on mobile applications and networks, context awareness, machine learning, and software (architectures). Application areas include: mobility, digital work, E-Learning, and energy efficiency (home networking, smart grid). Since 2005 Prof. David is a co-founder and director of the ITeG (Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Informationstechnik-Gestaltung, in Engl. Centre for interdisciplinary IT design). In 2010 he was a co-founder of the start-up PhoneTec. From 2014 till 2017 Prof. David was the co-ordinator of the LOEWE excellence in research activity "Social Link."

Industry Workshop/Forum 2 (IWF-02): Connecting the Unconnected in 5G and Beyond Networks

Date/Time: 9 December 2019, Monday: 09:00-12:30
Room: Hilton, Waikoloa 3

Organizers:     

  • Dr. Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation and University of Oulu
  • Dr. Ashutosh Dutta, Columbia University, USA
  • Dr. Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University, USA

09:00 – 09:05 – Dr. Sudhir Dixit – Welcome and introduce the theme of the workshop

09:05 – 09:35 – Dr. Soloman Darwin (University of California, Berkeley) –  Empowering Rural People: Building Global Ecosystems through Uberization of Dead Resources
09:35 – 10:05 – Ken Riordan (Loon, LLC, an Alphabet Company), Harnessing the Stratosphere to Connect People Everywhere

10:05 - 10:35 - Dr. Sudhir Dixit (Basic Internet Foundation & IEEE Future Network) - Internet 4All Through "Internet Lite" - The Killer App for 5G and B5G  

10:35 – 11:05 – Coffee/Tea Break/Networking

11:05 – 11:35 – Dr. Pranav Jha (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) -  Frugal 5G Network – Addressing the Challenges of Rural Connectivity

11:35 – 12:20 – Panel discussion with all the speakers

12:20 – 12:30 – Wrap up  

Presentation deals with augmenting 5G with requirements and solutions to make it affordable

Title: Empowering Rural People: Building Global Ecosystems through Uberization of Dead Resources

BIO:

Solomon DarwinSolomon Darwin has broad leadership experience in corporate management and academia. He is an international speaker recognized by peers, executives, and students with numerous awards for his innovative leadership and passion for teaching. He inspires students from both business and engineering disciplines in his courses for open innovation, business models, smart cities, scalable smart villages, IBM Watson and business models for emerging economies.

As an expert in “open innovation” and “open business models,” he is an adviser to senior executives of multinationals and government leaders in the emerging world. The list includes Google, Genentech, HP, Health Net, J&J, Toyota, NHS of UK, UCSF, Royal Caribbean, Autodesk, Nestle and government entities in Mexico, China, Russia, India, Colombia and Europe. He directs and moderates international innovation conferences and forums, and chairs quarterly Chief Innovation Officer round tables in Silicon Valley.

Prior to joining Berkeley Haas in 2005, he was an Associate Professor for nine years at University of Southern California. His progressive corporate leadership experience covers a span of 14 years as a Senior Executive Officer at Bank of America, First Interstate Bank, and Glendale Federal Bank and Motorola.

During summers, Darwin regularly teaches in executive programs at prominent international universities and institutions. He has conducted workshops and programs in over 18 countries. He also serves as honorary professor at several universities in Europe, China, and India. His current project, “Building Scalable Smart Villages,” was commissioned by the government of India.

Title: Internet4All through “Internet Lite”: The Killer App for 5G and Beyond

Abstract: The arrival of 5G mobile communications in 2020 will be a major factor in driving productivity and will be the key enabler for long-envisaged verticals. This new wave of technology will accelerate the digitalisation of economies and society, moving the world significantly closer to being a truly global, digital community. Unfortunately, 5G is likely to miss the billions of users from digital revolution, resulting in broadening of the digital divide.  Therefore, this presentation deals with augmenting 5G with requirements and solutions to make it affordable and usable for the digitally disadvantaged users, especially those living in remote and rural areas. Thus, the talk focuses on (i) need to bridge the digital divide, (ii) “Internet Lite” solution that enables free access to Internet by everybody, (iii) sustainable business models, (iv) success stories from pilots of Internet Lite, and (v) soft challenges to adoption of internet in rural communities.

BIO:

Sudhir DixitSudhir Dixit is a Co-Founder, Senior Fellow and Evangelist at the Basic Internet Foundation in Oslo, Norway, and heads its US operations.  He is also associated with the Academy of Finland Flagship Programme, 6Genesis, led by the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland.  From 2015 to 2017 he was the CEO and Co-Founder of a start-up, Skydoot, Inc. From 2009 to 2015, he was a Distinguished Chief Technologist and CTO of the Communications and Media Services for the Americas Region of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services in Palo Alto, CA, and the Director of Hewlett-Packard Labs India in Palo Alto and Bangalore. Before joining HP, he held various leadership positions at BlackBerry, Nokia, NSN and Verizon Communications.

He has been a technical editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, and is presently a Board Member & Working Group Chair at the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). He is also on the editorial boards of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and Springer’s Wireless Personal Communications Journal. He is a Co-Chair of the Industry Engagement Committee of the IEEE Future Network Initiative and is on its Industry Outreach Board (IOB).  In 2018, he was appointed a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Communications Society. From 2010 to 2012, he was an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, and, since 2010, he has been a Docent at the University of Oulu, Finland. A Life Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of IET and IETE, Dixit holds a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. and an M.B.A. from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida.

Title: Frugal 5G Network – Addressing the Challenges of Rural Connectivity

Abstract: Internet Connectivity holds tremendous significance in our lives today. In most of the developed countries, high-speed Internet connectivity is enabled through wired communication infrastructure such as FTTH and VDSL. Unfortunately, the situation is not particularly encouraging in developing countries in this regard. Owing to the paucity of the Fiber & DSL based communication infrastructure, cellular technology has emerged as the primary broadband access mechanism in these countries. However, the penetration of cellular network is limited in rural areas due to challenges, such as, low average revenue per user, sparse population density, and intermittent availability of electricity, which leaves majority of the rural population unconnected creating a huge rural-urban digital divide.

The emerging Fifth Generation cellular system (5G) may be able to bridge this divide if the above-mentioned challenges are factored into the system specification and design. Unfortunately, so far, the focus has been on meeting the requirements such as 10 Gbps data rate, 1 ms latency, and 500 km/h mobility, which may be more aligned to serve the typical urban use cases.

This talk describes an innovative wireless network architecture, also called the “Frugal 5G Network” to address the problem of rural broadband connectivity. The architecture has been developed with a focus on the needs and challenges of rural broadband connectivity. We propose to define a heterogeneous Access Network wherein macro cells provide carpet coverage in a large area while Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) provide additional capacity to serve the village clusters. WLAN is backhauled via a wireless backhaul, also called the wireless middle mile network. By combining these technologies under a unified SDN based framework, we are able to bring significant advantages and effectively address the rural broadband communication requirements.

BIO:

Pranav JhaPranav Jha has 20+ years of research and development experience in communication and networking technologies with expertise in wireless network architectures, communication protocols and resource management algorithms. He is an active participant in the development of technical standards in the areas of fifth generation wireless communication networks and Software Defined Networking (SDN) and currently chairs two IEEE working groups, namely, SDN based Middleware for Control and Management of Networks - IEEE P1930.1 and Frugal 5G Networks - IEEE P2061.

He currently works with IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India as a Senior Research Scientist where he focusses on research programmes under the broad umbrella of wireless communication and networking, with emphasis on SDN based architectures for Wireless Networks, Public Safety Communication and Rural Broadband Communication. Pranav has multiple patents issued and pending, contribution to IEEE and 3GPP standards and research papers in these areas. He has also developed and delivered workshops/tutorials on wireless communication networks, communication network architectures, system design, resource management schemes in wireless networks and SDN.

Industry Workshop/Forum 3 (IWF-03): Roadmap for Transformation of Industrial Manufacturing

Date/Time: 9 December 2019, Monday: 14:00-17:30
Room: Hilton, Waikoloa 3

14:00 – 14:20 – Gary Martz – Welcome, Set the stage for the workshop by introducing the topic
14:20 – 15:05 – OPAF Speaker – OPAF role as it pertains to the topic
15:05 – 15:50 – Peter Lutz - OPC Foundation Speaker – How OPC-FLC helps to address the issues in the industry
15:50 – 16:30 – Gary Stuebing – AVNU Alliance and TSN significance
16:30 – 17:10 – Shane Dewing – Role of Open Source for Industrial
17:10 – 17:25 – Q&A with all Panelists
17:25 – 17:30 – Gary Martz – Wrap up

Organizers:     

  • Gary Martz, Intel; Shane Dewing, Intel; Kirk Smith, Intel; Gary Stuebing, Cisco; Peter Lutz, OPC Foundation Speaker

Abstract:  Use of smart manufacturing is well underway across multiple verticals, but existing solutions primarily remain hardware-based, monolithic and proprietary, thus limiting the ability of end customers (or factory owners) to replace existing technology, implement new solutions, and galvanize their vendors to innovate more quickly. The application of open standards to smart manufacturing is poised to transform the industry with new software-defined architectures; the ability to rapidly replace and/or implement new technologies; reduce CapEx and OpEx; enable new business models; and incentivize innovation among suppliers and vendors.

BIO:

Shane DewingShane Dewing is Senior Director, Software Strategy and Open Source in the Industrial Solutions Division of the Internet of Things Group at Intel Corporation, Inc. Shane is a veteran software developer and technologist, and a pragmatic proponent of open source software. Shane is currently a Project Technical Lead at the Akraino Edge Stack Project at Linux Foundation and previously served as a Work Group Chair in the AllSeen Alliance and the AllJoyn open source project. Shane also works in IOT and Industrial Standards, including the Open Process Automation Forum, the OPC Foundation, and the Open Connectivity Foundation, where Shane chaired the Industrial TG 2015-2017.

Kirk SmithKirk Smith has over 30 years of experience in embedded and end-to-end automation and control system design for manufacturing operations across the continuous, batch and discrete process industries.  As a practicing principal engineer and control systems architect in the Industrial Solutions Division within Intel's Internet of Things Group, Kirk is chartered to create end-to-end architectures and solutions that enable the realization of scalable, open and secure, software defined industrial systems for today's IoT automation landscape.  Kirk is an active member in SPE, IEEE, and most notably today is with The Open Group Open Process Automation Forum where he is currently the acting Technology Working Group Co-Chair.

Gary MartzGary Martz is the Director of Industrial IoT Standards at Intel Corporation, Gary leads the team defining and implementing Intel’s Industrial IoT standards strategy. During his 20 plus year technology career at Intel, Gary has spent more than 10 years working on wireless related technology standards, was a manufacturing engineer in the early days of Intel’s Data Center Group, and helped build new businesses within Intel as part of Intel Lab’s New Business Initiatives team. Gary was the leading force behind Intel’s push for Wi-Fi peer-to-peer technology which resulted in the development of the Wi-Fi Alliance’s Wi-Fi Direct™ specification and provides the communications solution for Intel’s Wireless Display (WiDi) Technology.  Gary currently sits on the board of directors for the Open Mobile Alliance and the steering committee for the OPC Foundation’s Field Level Communications group.  Previously, Gary was a founding member and board member for the Open Connectivity Foundation and served on the Wi-Fi Alliance board of directors for 5 years.  Gary is currently helping build the market for both Industrial IoT and 5G as part of Intel Corporation’s Next Generation Standards team. Gary holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington (’95) and an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business (’00).

Gary StuebingGary Stuebing is currently leading the IoT standards efforts at Cisco Systems as part of the Enterprise Networking Business group. Gary has a long history in networking, including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Retail, Energy and finally Cisco. Prior to Cisco, Gary had been the lead for Powerline Communications standards and regulatory work at Duke Energy. In 2007 Gary joined the Smart Grid PLC and Network Design team as a Strategic Planning Manager. In 2012, Gary led the efforts for Smart Grid Standard in Cisco’s Connected Energy business group. Gary currently represents Cisco as a contributor and leader in a number of standardization and certification efforts. These include IEEE, ITU, IEC and the UCAIug. He represents Cisco on the Boards of Wi-Sun, LoRa, Avnu. He is the Chairman of the AVnu Alliance and serves as Chair of the IEEE 802.15.4md working group. He also serves on the IEEE-Standards Association Corporate Advisory Group and is the Treasurer of the LoRa and Wi-SUN Alliance.

Peter LutzPeter Lutz (Dipl.-Ing.) studied electrical engineering at the University of Stuttgart with a focus on computer science. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Facilities (ISW) at the University of Stuttgart in the field of open control systems and industrial communication systems. Afterwards, he became full-time managing director of Sercos International e.V., responsible for the coordination of worldwide activities around the automation bus Sercos. Since April 2019, he has been managing the OPC Foundation's FLC Initiative with the goal of establishing OPC UA as a globally accepted standard for field level communications in the factory and process industries.

 

Industry Workshop/Forum 4 (IWF-04): Wireless Positioning and Navigation (WPN): Can we find it?

Date/Time: 13 December 2019, Friday: 09:00-17:30
Room: Hilton, Waikoloa 2

Organizers:     

  • Dr. Yi Wang, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China

Abstract: 

Abstract:  Wireless location systems have been studied extensively in recent years and are advancing at a rapid pace. State-of-the-art location systems now achieve very high levels of accuracy down to the decimeter-level and below, even without dedicated positioning hardware, based purely on off-the-shelf communication devices. In addition to conventional data analytics and location-based services, positioning data can bring dramatic benefits to the mobile networks, not just for the services running over the network, but for the management and control of the network itself.

Location information can be used to optimize resource allocation and network control decisions as networks become denser and support high-order MIMO and wider bandwidths, which allows devices to accurately measure the wireless environment. It is particularly relevant for emerging technologies such as millimeter-wave communication systems, where the antenna configuration, availability of paths, access point to associate with, and the data rate strongly depend on the location of the devices and on reflectors and obstacles in the environment. Location information can also be used, for example, for anticipatory networking mechanisms in mobile networks, where resource allocation decisions are based on the predicted future state of the network and users. Localizing terminals, people and things accurately and reliably allows network operators to better deploy, provision, and manage mobile and wireless networks, thus increasing the reliability and scalability of such networks. Furthermore, artificial intelligence may have the potential to improve positioning accuracy without the need of additional hardware. This will usher in the error of high definition positioning for the masses.

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry to present and discuss the latest developments in wireless location systems, their impact on network management and control to enhance the efficiency of communication networks, and the inherent technical challenges.

Chair: Anthony C.K. Soong, Chief Scientist, Futurewei Technologies, USA

Panelist: Zhiyong Feng, Professor, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; Ali Imran, Director AI4Networks Research Center, The University of Oklahoma, USA; JIanglei Ma, Chief Scientist, Huawei Technologies, Canada; Yuan Shen, Professor, TsingHua University, China

BIO:

Anthony C. K. SoongAnthony C. K. Soong (S’88-M’91-SM’02-F’14) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta. He is currently the Chief Scientist for Wireless Research and Standards at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, in the US. He currently serves on the Engineering College Industrial Advisory Board of The University of North Texas. He served as Secretary and the founding board member of OPNFV (2014-2016), the chair for 3GPP2 TSG-C NTAH (the next generation radio access network technology development group) from 2007-2009 and vice chair for 3GPP2 TSG-C WG3 (the physical layer development group for CDMA 2000) from 2006-2011. Prior to joining Huawei, he was with the systems group for Ericsson Inc and Qualcomm Inc. His research group is actively engaged in the research, development and standardization of the next generation cellular system. His research interests are in statistical signal processing, robust statistics, wireless communications, spread spectrum techniques, multicarrier signaling, multiple antenna techniques, network virtualization, SDN and physiological signal processing.

Dr. Soong is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has published more than 100 scientific papers and has more than 100 patents granted or pending. He received the 2017 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society James R. Evans Avant Garde Award, the 2013 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award and the 2005 award of merit for his contribution to 3GPP2 and cdma2000 development. He is the Industrial Chair for the 2019 Fall IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Industrial Co-Chair for 2019 Spring IEEE VTC and 2020 Fall IEEE VTC, has served on the advisory board of 2014 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, Steering Committee of IEEE Int. Workshop on HetSNet and on the technical program committee, as well as, chaired at numerous major conferences in the area of communications engineering. He has acted as guest editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

Dr. Zhiyong FengDr. Zhiyong Feng is currently serving as professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication (BUPT). She is the Director of the Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications Ministry of Education. Her research interests include spectrum monitoring and management, cognitive radio networks, and wideband wireless communication. She is a member of the frequency expert group of the “Beidou Satellite System”. She is also an editor of international academic magazine KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems. She is the project leader of national “973” Project on Fundamental Theory and Key Technology in Cognitive Radio Network. Besides, she has been responsible for or involved in four “863” projects, two Major Programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China and five key state science and technology projects. She is also the responsible person from BUPT side in mangy international cooperation projects, such as the End-to-End Reconfiguration (E2R) European Project of FP6 and the End-to-End Efficiency (E3) European Project of FP7. She has published 120 papers. She now owns 21 patents, 4 published books and 40 standard proposals accepted by ITU、IEEE and CCSA.

Dr. Ali ImranDr. Ali Imran is founding director of AI4Networks Research Centre (www.ai4networks.com) at the University of Oklahoma. AI4networks is one the pioneering academic research centre on zero touch deep network automation. The Centre is host to TurboRAN (http://bsonlab.com/TurboRAN/ ) testbed and numerous multinational R&D projects on AI for wireless networks. Dr. Imran is also co-founder of a start-up AISON (www.aison.co ) that has launched world’s first  deep AI enabled RAN automation and performance optimization solution currently being evaluated by several operators around the world for its game changing gains over current SON paradigm. 

Dr Imran’s research on AI enabled wireless networks has played pioneering role in this emerging area and has been supported by over $4M in nationally and internationally competitive research grants. He has published over 100 refereed journal and conference papers and has several patents granted and pending. His work includes some of the most influential publications in the area of mobile network automation.  The impact of his work on network automation has been recognized by several prestigious awards such as VPR Outstanding International Impact Award at the University of Oklahoma, 2018, IEEE Green ICT YP International award 2017, and best paper award IEEE CAMAD 2013.  In 2018 he has been named William H. Barkow Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma for his contributions to this field. For more detailed bio of Dr. Imran see: www.ali-imran.org

Jianglei MaJianglei Ma is a Chief Scientist of 5G air interface based at Huawei Ottawa R&D Center. Her research area is next generation wireless access technologies with more than 300 granted US patents. She is currently leading 5G air interface research in Huawei. Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, she was in charge of LTE air interface research in Wireless Technology Lab at Nortel.  Jianglei Ma was a visiting Associate Professor of Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Professor of National Laboratory of Millimeter Waves & Dept. of Electronic Engineering in Southeast University.   Jianglei Ma received her Ph.D. degree from Southeast University in China.

Yuan Shen

Yuan Shen received the Ph.D. degree and the S.M. degree in EECS from MIT in 2014 and 2008, respectively, and the B.E. degree in EE from Tsinghua University in 2005. He is now an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. Prior to that, he was a Research Assistant and then Postdoctoral Associate with the Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory at MIT in 2005-2014. His current research focuses on network localization and navigation, inference techniques, resource allocation, and cooperative networks.

Professor Shen was a recipient of the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Board Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar Award, the China’s Youth 1000-Talent Program, and the Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award. His papers received the IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize and three Best Paper Awards from IEEE international conferences. He is elected Chair (2019–2020) for the IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Technical Committee. He has served as TPC symposium Co-Chair for the IEEE ICC, Globecom, and the IEEE ICC Advanced Network Localization and Navigation Workshop. He also serves as Editor for the IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Letter, CHINA Communications, and IEEE Communications Letter (2015–2018).

 

Industry Workshop/Forum 5 (IWF-05): Blockchain in Telecomm

Date/Time: 13 December 2019, Friday: 09:00-12:30
Room: Hilton, Waikoloa 3

Organizers:     

  • Dr. Fred Douglis, Chief Research Scientist at Perspecta Labs, USA
  • Dr. Claudio Lima, Blockchain Engineering Council, USA

Abstract:  Blockchain is a decentralized, transparent and trusted database, defined as part of the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) framework, and considered as an enabling technology of new IT enterprise systems and applications. Blockchain in Telecommunications is a new powerful concept that can tremendously improve telecom networking operations and customer-facing processes experience, adding a new layer of authentication, validation and security for all telecom assets and transactions. Telecom companies will benefit most from enterprise, permissioned Blockchain solutions to enhance existing IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operations Technology) solutions to address fraud prevention, customer identity management, mobile transactions settlement and mobile payment, among others, Blockchain is still a nascent technology and as such there are challenges for the wide adoption of Blockchain/DLT as a new enterprise and operational layer. These challenges are around scalability, interoperability, standards, privacy, security, governance and consensus mechanisms that need to be defined and validated for telecom-specific applications.

This IEEE Globecom Telecom Blockchain Workshop will introduce the basic concepts of Blockchain applied to Telecommunications, and will discuss emerging trends and the challenges ahead. It will also provide a forward-looking perspective on the emerging technologies and key applications in this new field.

9:00-9:05am : Chairs’ Introductory. Claudio Lima, Blockchain Engineering Council, BEC; Fred Douglis, Perspecta Labs

9:05-10:00am: Blockchain Applicability & Security in Communications: Evaluating Opportunity, Selection and Risk. Brian Scriber, Cable Labs

10:00-10:30am: The Use of Blockchains in Commercial Applications and their Related Telco Challenges. Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller, Communication Systems Group CSG, Department of Informatics IfI, University of Zurich UZH

10:30-11:00am: Coffee Break

11:00-11:30am: Blockchain in Telecom Interoperability. Claudio Lima, Blockchain Engineering Council, BEC

11:30-12:30pm: PANEL:  What are the Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain in Telecom

Moderator: Fred Douglis, Perspecta Labs

Panelists: Brian Scriber, Cable Labs;  Prof. Dr. Burkard Stiller, University of Zurich UZH; Claudio Lima, Blockchain Engineering Council, BEC;  Prof. Dr. Khaled Salah, Khalifa University, UAE

Chairs:

Claudio LimaDr. Claudio Lima is a seasoned technology executive and thought leader in Advanced Blockchain, IoT and AI technologies with expertise in energy (utilities, oil and gas), smart city and telecom/IT digital transformation. He has a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering at the UKC (England). Previously he was the Global Smart Grid CTO of Huawei Technologies in Europe-Asia-Pacific and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) at Sprint Advanced Technology Labs (Sprint ATL), in Silicon Valley-CA. Dr. Lima is currently is the Co-Founder of the Blockchain Engineering Council (BEC), and leads the IEEE Blockchain Standards development as Chair and Vice-Chair of IoT and Energy Working Groups, respectively. He also serves as the Blockchain Cybersecurity Industry Advisory Board Member of the US Department of Energy (DOE)/PNNL. He can be reached at clima@blockchain-eng.org.

Fred DouglisDr. Fred Douglis is a Chief Research Scientist at Perspecta Labs, where he works in the areas of blockchain, network optimization, and security.  He was previously with Matsushita, AT&T, IBM, and (Dell) EMC. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from U.C. Berkeley. He is an IEEE fellow and a member of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors.  He is on the editorial boards of IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and ACM Transactions on Storage. 

Speakers:

Brian ScriberBrian Scriber is a Distinguished Technologist at CableLabs and the Vice President of Security Technology. Brian works with wired and wireless networking leaders on security strategy and implementation using advanced technologies and techniques including PKI, blockchains, encryption, and differential privacy. Brian holds a B.S.E in Computer Engineering (University of Michigan) a M.S. in Computer Science (University of Colorado), and an M.B.A. in Technical Strategy (University of Colorado). From 2015 through 2019, Brian was the chair of the Security Working Group here at the Open Connectivity Foundation. Brian brings his extensive experience in software, security, and cryptographic governance to both economic and technical analysis activities. Brian’s background includes technical and executive leadership roles creating and protecting strategic network communications at companies including Lockheed Martin, Sun Microsystems; protecting financial information and transactions in the financial sector as well as protecting privacy and portability of personal information with companies in the healthcare and insurance markets.

Burkhard StillerProf. Dr. Burkhard Stiller is a full professor for Communication Systems, heading the Communication Systems Group CSG, Department of Informatics IfI at the University of Zürich UZH, Switzerland. Burkhard is Editor-in-Chief of Elseviers Computer Networks journal, organized major conferences as General Chair (e.g., IFIP Networking 2018, CNSM 2013, IEEE LCN 2009 in the more recent past), chaired events as TPC Chair (e.g., WMAN 2011, ETM 2010, AIMS 2010, MUCS 2010, ICQT 2009, KiVS 2007,IFIP/IEEE NOMS 2006, IEEE LCN 2003 and 2002, and ICQT 2001), He is a senior advisor of modum.io, an ICO-financed start-up in the  blockchain and logistics domain in Zürich, currently IFIP TC6 Chair, was Chair of the IEEE Computer Society TCCC, and is Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), International Journal of Network Management (Wiley and Sons), the Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNMS/JONS, Springer), Netnomics: Economic Research and Electronic Networking (Springer), and the Journal of Cloud Computing (Springer).

Khaled SalahProf. Dr. Khaled Salah is a full professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE. He received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from Iowa State University, USA, in 1990, the M.S. degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the same institution in 2000. Khaled has over 220 publications and 3 US patents, has been giving a number of international keynote speeches, invited talks, tutorials, and research seminars on the subjects of Blockchain, IoT, Fog and Cloud Computing, and Cybersecurity. Khaled served as the chair of the Track Chair of IEEE Globecom 2018 on Cloud Computing. Khaled is an Associate Editor of IEEE Blockchain Tech Briefs, and a member of IEEE Blockchain Education Commitee. Khaled is now leading a number of projects on how to leverage blockchain for Healthacare, 5G Networks, Combating Deepfake Videos, Supply Chain Management, and AI.

 

Industry Workshop/Forum 6 (IWF-06): Fog/Edge Computing and Networking

Date/Time: 13 December 2019, Friday: 14:00-17:30
Room: Hilton, Waikoloa 3

Organizers:     

  • Prof. Hung-Yu Wei, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Abstract:  In this industry forum, we aim to discuss the technical issues and future direction of the emerging fog/edge computing and networking technologies. Some presenters will also share the use cases and applications in the industry. Standards and industry forum activities in fog/edge will also be addressed. 

The IoT and other paradigms (e.g., “5G and Beyond” Wireless) depend upon low latency interaction between devices at the network edge and the cloud at centralized data centers. However, the potentially huge amount of data resulting from edge devices may make it impractical to directly communicate with the cloud. To significantly expand the usefulness of IoT and other demanding applications, the Fog/Edge paradigm provides the intermediate computing, communications, storage and processing capabilities needed between the cloud and its edge devices, i.e., Fog/Edge bridges the "Cloud-to-Thing" continuum.

Technical Program:

(1) "Technologies and Cases for Edge/Fog computing", Ken Hatano, Toshiba Corporation

(2) "IoT Security with Fog Computing and Security-by-Contract" Nicola Dragoni, Technical University of Denmark

(3) "Fog/Edge Computing and Networking: The Key Enablers to Uberizing The IoT in Future Network Toward 6G" T. Russell Hsing, National Chiao Tung University

(4) "Wireless Multimedia Streaming and Video Surveillance in Fog/Edge System", Hung-Yu Wei, National Taiwan University

(5) "The Future Power-Edge Computing for the Smart Grid", Wen Hong, UESTC, China

(6) Round Table Discussions: "Research Directions, Applications, Standard Activities and Roadmap in Fog/Edge", all speakers

BIO:

Hung-Yu WeiProf. Hung-Yu Wei is a Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering and Graduate Institute of Communications Engineering, National Taiwan University. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1999. He received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 2001 and 2005 respectively. He was a summer intern at Telcordia Applied Research in 2000 and 2001. He was with NEC Labs America from 2003 to 2005. He joined Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Taiwan University in July 2005. His research interests include next-generation wireless broadband networks, mobility management in mobile Internet, IoT, vehicular networking, fog computing, cross-layer design and optimization in wireless multimedia communications, and game theoretical models for communications networks. 


He received NTU Excellent Teaching Award in 2008 and 2018. He also received "Recruiting Outstanding Young Scholar Award" from the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship in 2006, K. T. Li Young Researcher Award from ACM Taipei/Taiwan Chapter and The Institute of Information and Computing Machinery in 2012, Ministry of Science and Technology Research Project for Excellent Young Scholars in 2014, Excellent Young Engineer Award from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering in 2014, and Wu Ta You Memorial Award from MOST in 2015. He was a consulting member of Acts and Regulation Committee of National Communications Commission during 2008-2009. He has been actively participating in NGMN, IEEE 802.16, 3GPP, IEEE P1934 standardization, and was a voting member of the IEEE 802.16 working group. He is currently the Vice Chair of IEEE P1934 Working Group to standardize fog computing and networking architecture. Recently, he starts to serve as Chair of P1935 working group on Standard for Edge/Fog Manageability and Orchestration. He also serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE IoT journal. He is an IEEE certified Wireless Communications Professional. He was the Chair of IEEE VTS Taipei Chapter during 2016-2017

Ken HatanoKen Hatano is Chief Specialist in the Strategic Technology Planning Office, Corporate Technology Planning Div., Toshiba Corporation. He started his career on embedded system firmware development, including Web DVD player, ADSL WiFi Router. He studied information networking in the US. After developing BIOS on Toshiba’s laptop PC in Japan, he lived in Seattle to work with Microsoft for more than 3 years. Back to Japan again, started working on cloud and AI solution, focusing on strategic alliances by exploring partnerships to better leverage Toshiba’s AI/IoT solutions, and worked as usecase lead of the OpenFog Consortium. He has extensive ICT (information and communications technology), software development, cloud and AI experience. Now, he builds Toshiba's Strategic Technology Plan. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science, a master’s degree in computational intelligence and systems science from Tokyo Institute of Technology, along with a master’s degree in information networking from Carnegie Mellon University.

T. Russell HsingT. Russell Hsing is IEEE Life Fellow and Fellow of the British Computer Society and SPIE. He received his B.S. from National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) in 1970, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Rhode Island (US) in 1977. He accumulated rich R&D experience of 40+ years as technical staff, engineer director and executive director through affiliations with Burroughs, Xerox, GTE Labs, TASC and Bellcore/Telcordia/Ericsson as Technical Staff, Research Director and Executive Director since 1977. He is currently Chair Professor with the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, and Advisory Council Member for Harvard Business Review (HBS). During his tenure at Telcordia, he has established two significant R&D centers, one in Taipei, Taiwan, and the other in Poznan, Poland. Both centers focused on advanced technologies for Telecommunication and Information Sciences partnering with local institutions to win significant contract funding from both commercial and local government sources. After March, 2012, He has held visiting positions at numerous universities around the world including Nanyang Technological University and Singapore University of Technology & Design (Singapore), IIT Bombay (India), Arizona State University (US), University of Electronics, Science and Technology in China, Peking University (China), POSTECH (Korea), and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been pioneering the technologies commercialization through joint business ventures and academic spin-offs. He is also serving as Board Director/ Board Advisory/Mentor for several academic spin-offs (such as Smartiply and Datami). He had been board of director for the Open Fog Consortium in 2016-2018. He has been teaching the courses of “Technology Entrepreneurship: From IP to IPO” (since 2014) and “Internet Economics” (since 2017) during past years. His research interests include Intelligent Fog/Edge Computing & Networking and Platform, Vehicular Telematics & Services, Wireless Communication, Future Network Towards 6G, and Next Generation IoT Services and Applications, and Academic Spin-offs. He has been active as an IEEE ComSoc volunteer for many years. He was a member (2006-2008) and then chair (2010-2011) of the Fellow Evaluation Committee, and a member of the Award Committee (2010-2012). He is founding chair (2010-2012) of Sub-TC on Vehicular Networks and Telematics Applications for Comsoc. Within the IEEE, he was a member (2008-2010)/ Chair (2010-2011)/Past Chair (2012) for the IEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award Committee, and then the IEEE Eric Sumner TFA Committee (2010-2012). He has been a member for the IEE Fellow Committee since 2012 and the Strategic Planning Committee in 2013. He was the Vice Chair for the IEEE TFA Committee in 2014. He has led an Ad Hoc Committee to Review the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Criteria and Process since June, 2015, and then made final recommendations to the Board of Governors for the IEEE ComSoc in December, 2017. He has been editorial board member for the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (since 2018) and Advisory Board Member for the IEEE Fog/Edge Professional Community (since 2019).

Hong WenHong Wen received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sichuan University of Sichuan, P. R. China, and pursued her Ph.D. degree in Communication and Computer Engineering Dept. at the Southwest Jiaotong University and University of Waterloo (Canada). Then she worked as an associate professor in the National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Communications at UESTC, P. R. China. From January 2008 to August 2009, she was a visiting scholar and postdoctoral fellow in the ECE Dept. at University of Waterloo. Now she holds the professor position at UESTC, P. R. China. She is the sole author of three books, and has published more than 100 papers and book chapters, and she also has over 50 licensed patents. She is the PI of several key and major research projects. Her major interests focus on the wireless system reliability and security for the fog and cloud network.

Nicola DragoniNicola Dragoni is Professor in Secure Pervasive Computing at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, and Professor in Computer Engineering at Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, Örebro University, Sweden. He is also affiliated with the Copenhagen Center for Health Technology (CACHET) and the Nordic IoT Hub. He got a M.Sc. Degree (cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Bologna, Italy. His main research interests lie in the areas of pervasive computing and security, with focus on domains like Internet-of-Things, Fog computing and mobile systems. He has co-authored 100+ peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conference proceedings, he has edited 3 journal special issues and 1 book. He is active in a number of national and international projects.

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