IEEE Global Communications Conference
4–8 December 2022 // Rio de Janeiro, Brazil // Hybrid: In-Person and Virtual Conference
Accelerating the Digital Transformation through Smart Communications

Industry Panels

Most of the Industry Program will be happening on-site and live streamed to remote attendees, while a small part will be only virtual. All presentations and panels will be available to be watched on-demand on the virtual platform from the conference dates.

LIST OF PANELS:

*All times are BRT (GMT-3)

IPA 16: FUTURE G RESEARCH PLATFORMS

MONDAY, DEC 5 8:00 - 9:30  /  LOCATION: Americas I

Moderator: Serge Fdida, Sorbonne University, France

Panelists:
Abhimanyu Gosain, Northeastern University, USA
José F. de Rezende, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gustavo Correa, CPqD, Brazil
Ivan Seskar, WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA
 
Abstract:
This panel will discuss the critical enabling technology that the community wants to develop for 6G, and possibly beyond, so that the future standards can be shaped accordingly. The science of Digital Infrastructures raises multiple complex challenges to the research community that already started to explore them with an agenda towards 6G!. Experimentation is becoming an even more important methodology to assess and qualify the diverse design assumptions and choices in realistic conditions.

Biography:

Serge Fdida

Pr. Serge Fdida is a Professor with Sorbonne Université (formally UPMC) since 1995. His research interests are related to the future internet technology and architecture. He has been leading many research projects in Future Networking in France and Europe, notably pioneering the European activity on federated Internet testbeds. He established PlanetLab Europe in 2007 and the OneLab and FIT facilities. Serge Fdida has published numerous scientific papers, in addition to a few patents and one rfc. He was one of the founders of the ACM Conext conference, general chair of ACM Mobicom 2015 and IEEE Infocom 2019. He is a Distinguished ACM Member and an IEEE Senior member. Serge Fdida has also developed a strong experience related to innovation and industry transfer, - he was the co-founder of the Qosmos company, - one of the active contributor to the creation of the Cap Digital cluster in Paris and President of EIT Health France. Serge Fdida also contributed to the governance of Higher Research and Education institutions as Vice-President European affairs of UPMC (2014-2018) and VP International Development of Sorbonne Université (2018-2021). He also was a member of the LERU Policy Committee. He is currently coordinating SLICES, the first scientific instrument in Digital Sciences, supported by the EU ESFRI framework and is a co-founder of the Hopcast startup company.

Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain

Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain is a Senior Director for Institute of Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University, Executive Director for Open6G,co-Chair for the FCC 6G Technology Advisory Council and Senior Advisor for NTIA and DoD OUSD R&E. He is in charge of setting strategic goals and the research agenda for a $100M public-private partnership for the NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program and $25M DARPA Colosseum program. He serves as a Board Member for the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance, Founding member for Magma Core Foundation, University representative for ORAN Alliance, Telecom Infra Project, NextG Alliance and co-chair on organizing committee and program committees for 6GSymposium, EuCNC,IEEE InfoCom and ACM WinTech. His numerous professional publications and experience exemplify useinspired basic research in the field of networking technologies such as 5G,6G, AI/ML, edge computing and Internet of Things. He is an IEEE Senior Member. He received his M.S. degree from Tufts University and M.B.A. from Boston University with High Honors.

José F. de Rezende

José F. de Rezende received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 1997. He is an associate professor at UFRJ and, since 2016, he is R&D assessor at Brazilian NREN (RNP). His current research interests are in mobile and software-defined networks, experimental platforms and performance evaluation.

 

Gustavo Correa Lima

Gustavo Correa Lima - Wireless Solutions Manager, CPQD, Electrical Engineer with emphasis in Telecommunications from UNIFEI (2001), Master in Communications and Signal Processing from UFSC (2004) and Specialist in Regulation of Public Telecommunications Services from ANATEL (2005). He currently works as Wireless Communications Solutions Manager at CPQD and is a participating member of initiatives such as Conexis/5G Brasil Project, Anatel's Open RAN Workgroup, Open RAN @Brazil Program, Brazilian Forum on Internet of Things, Cigre-Brasil 5G study group and Telecom Infrastructure Project (TIP).

Ivan Seskar

Ivan Seskar is the Chief Technologist at WINLAB, Rutgers University responsible for experimental systems and prototyping projects. He is currently the program director for the COSMOS project responsible for the New York City NSF PAWR deployment, the PI for the NSF GENI Wireless project, which resulted in campus deployments of LTE/WiMAX base stations at several US universities, and the PI for the NSF CloudLab deployment at Rutgers. He has also been the co-PI and project manager for all three phases of the NSF-supported ORBIT mid-scale testbed project at WINLAB, successfully leading technology development and operations since the testbed was released as a community resource in 2005 and for which the team received the 2008 NSF Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation. Ivan is a co-chair of the IEEE Future Networks Testbed Working Group, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of ACM and the co-founder and CTO of Upside Wireless Inc.

IPA 8: LOCALIZATION AND SENSING IN 5G-ADVANCED AND BEYOND - RESEARCH AND STANDARDISATION OUTLOOK

MONDAY, DEC 5 8:00 - 9:30  /  LOCATION: Americas IV

Moderator: Mythri Hunukumbure, Samsung Electronics, United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Panelists:
Andrea Conti, DE and CNIT, University of Ferrara, Italy
David M Gutierrez-Estevez, Samsung Electronics, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
Sara Modarres Razavi, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain
 
Abstract:
Localization technologies have advanced rapidly in recent years. Within 3GPP, support for localization started in 3G and early 4G to meet coarse outdoor emergency response requirements and evolved in LTE-Advanced to accommodate the burgeoning commercial applications. 5G localization aims to satisfy very tight accuracy, latency and reliability requirements of multiple verticals like Industry IoT and V2X, covering both indoor and outdoor scenarios. Presently in the research domain, much work is done to include AI/ML techniques for improving the accuracy and reliability of localization. There is also huge interest in passive localization or sensing as a beyond 5G or 6G technology - using the radar like properties of the higher frequency mm-wave and THz bands. While these developments open up opportunities for novel services and applications, they also raise ethical questions about handling of sensitive data and user privacy. 3GPP is also responding to these research developments, with 5G- Advanced study items and use case/requirements definitions on these topics included in the current Release 18. At this critical juncture, where rapid progress made within the last few years can be outpaced by the new challenges and opportunities, we propose this Industry panel on localization and sensing. We will have 3GPP subject matter experts from key industry players and leading research professors to share their views on this intriguing topic.

Biography:

Mythri Hunukumbure

Dr. Mythri Hunukumbure is a Chief Engineer and a Project Lead at Samsung Electronics R&D Institute UK. He currently leads Samsung research in the LOCUS EU project and is also a work package leader for Localization enablers and a task lead for standardisation in this project. He has previously played similar roles in ONE5G and mmMAGIC EU projects. He also supports 3GPP standardization activities in SA2 and RAN2 in topics related to Localization and the use of AI/ML. In an industry career spanning over 15 years, he has contributed to and later led mobile communications research, standardisation and product development activities. Prior to joining Samsung UK, he was with Fujitsu Research Labs Europe. He has filed over 40 patents and has also published extensively in leading IEEE conferences and journals. He is the lead author of the recent book ‘The Technology and Business of Mobile Communications – An Introduction’, published by Wiley/IEEE. Mythri was the lead organizer and moderator for the Industry panel ‘Industry Roadmap to 5G: Standards Timeline and Spectrum Requirements’, previously at IEEE ICC 2016. He has also taken part in industry panels in ICC and Globecom workshops and in VTC from 2017 to 2019. He holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in wireless communications from University of Bristol, UK.

Andrea Conti

Andrea Conti is a professor and the founding director of the Wireless Communication and Localization Networks Laboratory at the University of Ferrara, Italy. He is frequent visitor to the Wireless Information and Network Sciences Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he presently holds the Research Affiliate appointment. His research interests involve theory and experimentation of wireless systems and networks including network localization, distributed sensing, adaptive diversity communications, and quantum information science. He is recipient of the HTE Puskás Tivadar Medal and co-recipient of the IEEE ComSoc’s Stephen O. Rice Prize in the field of Communications Theory and of the IEEE ComSoc’s Fred W. Ellersick Prize. He has served as editor for IEEE journals, as well as chaired international conferences. He has been elected Chair of the IEEE ComSoc’s Radio Communications Technical Committee. He is an elected Fellow of the IEEE and of the IET.

David M. Gutierrez Estevez

David M. Gutierrez Estevez is Chief Engineer and 3GPP rapporteur at Samsung Electronics R&D Institute UK. David holds M.S. (2011) and Ph.D. (2014) degrees on wireless networks from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, USA. Prior to joining Samsung in 2016, David held positions at Huawei and Qualcomm in California, and several Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany. Since then, David first led several large-scale research projects within the 5GPPP ecosystem, and since 2019 he is a member of the Samsung 3GPP delegation in SA2. In Rel-18, he is leading the company’s 5G-Advanced efforts on system support for AI/ML services in the role of co-rapporteur, as well as system aspects of localization and ranging including the role of AI/ML and analytics. David’s publications accumulate 1400+ citations and is coinventor of 30+ patents and patent applications.

Sara Modarres Razavi

Sara Modarres Razavi is currently the Innovation Program Manager for Ericsson Cloud RAN. Before, she was Master Researcher and the project manager of 5G 3GPP RAN standardization project at Ericsson. She holds a Ph.D. in Infra-Informatics from Linköping University (2014) and MSc. in Hardware for Wireless Communication from Chalmers University of Technology (2008), Sweden. Her research focus has been on 4G, 5G and now 5G-Advanced cellular networks positioning, radio resource optimization and tracking area management. She contributes to several EU funded international 5G R&D projects including LOCUS and ESA funded project called HOP-5G. Sara Modarres Razavi’ s published contributions include 30+ peer reviewed articles and 100+ filed patents mainly in the area of positioning in wireless networks.

Joerg Widmer

Joerg Widmer is Research Professor and Research Director of IMDEA Networks in Madrid, Spain. Before, he held positions at DOCOMO Euro-Labs in Munich, Germany and EPFL, Switzerland. His research interests are in wireless networking, with specific focus on multi-band location systems and millimeter-wave joint communication and sensing. Joerg has authored more than 200 conference and journal papers and three IETF RFCs, and holds 14 patents. He was awarded an ERC consolidator grant, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a Mercator Fellowship of the German Research Foundation, a Spanish Ramon y Cajal grant, as well as nine best paper awards. He is an IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Member of the ACM.

 

IPA 2: RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACES (RIS) FOR 5G-ADVANCED AND 6G

MONDAY, DEC 5 14:00 - 15:30  /  LOCATION: Americas I

Moderator: Nan Zhang, ZTE Corporation, China

Panelists:
Arman Shojaeifard, InterDigital Europe, UK
Xiaolin Hou, DOCOMO Beijing Laboratories, China
Qingqing Wu, University of Macau, China
Dinh Thuy PHAN HUY, Orange Innovation, France
 
Abstract:
With the deployment of 5G networks and the start of standardizing 5G-Advanced, both academia and industry are exploring actively into future technologies for next generation wireless communication systems. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been envisioned to reduce the energy consumption and improve the spectral efficiency of wireless networks by artificially re-configuring the propagation environment of electromagnetic waves. RIS-based transmission, in which the large number of small, low-cost, and passive elements on RIS only reflect the incident signal with an adjustable reflection amplitude and phase shift without requiring a dedicated energy source for radio frequency processing, decoding or encoding, is completely different from existing active relays and open up a new area of research for wireless communications. RISs are being discussed actively in regional and global standardization development organizations and are likely to become a critical component of 5G-Advanced networks.

Biography:

Nan Zhang

Nan Zhang received the B.S. and M.S. degree in electronic engineering from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tongji University in 2012 and 2015, respectively. He is now a master researcher and a project manager in ZTE Corporation, responsible for long-term research as well as standardization. His research interests include reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, non-terrestrial network, MIMO and NOMA. He has contributed a plenty of technical documents in SDO including 3GPP and ETSI, where he served as the rapporteur of the item on NR network controlled repeater and Reconfiguration intelligent surface, respectively. He also actively participates in technical sessions, workshops, symposia and industrial panels in IEEE conferences as the organizer, chair, moderator or panelist.

Arman Shojaeifard

Arman Shojaeifard (PhD) has extensive experience in project management, research, development, and standardization of wireless transmission technologies, protocols, and architectures. Heiscurrently a Senior Manager at InterDigital where he is responsible for Radio Interface R&Dat Future Wireless Europe Lab. He also serves as the Chairman of the ETSI Industry SpecificationGroup on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (ISG RIS) and the Technical Manager of theEuropean collaborative R&D project on AIMM (AI-enabled Massive MIMO). Prior to InterDigital, he was a WirelessResearch Manager and 3GPP RAN1 WG Delegate at British Telecommunications plc. Prior, he held post-doctoral research positions at University College London, University of Manchester, and King’s College London. He receivedthe B.Eng. degree in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College London in 2008, and the M.Sc. degreeinSignal Processing (with Distinction) and the Ph.D. degree in Wireless Communications from King’s College Londonin2009 and 2013, respectively.

Xiaolin Hou

Xiaolin Hou (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and the Ph.D. degrees fromBeijing UniversityofPosts and Telecommunications, China. Currently he is the director of wireless technology department of DOCOMO Beijing Laboratories. He has actively contributed to the 4Gand 5Gresearch, standardization, and trials. He is now focusing on the 6G research, including RIS, mega MIMO, non-orthogonal physical layer design and ISAC.
 
 
 

Qingqing Wu

Qingqing Wu is currently an assistant professor with the State key laboratory of Internet of ThingsforSmart City, University of Macau. From 2016 to 2020, he was a Research Fellow in the Department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore. His current researchinterest includes intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications, andMIMO transceiver design. He has coauthored more than 100 IEEE journal papers with 25 ESI highlycited papers and 8 ESI hot papers, which have received more than 12,000 Google citations. Hewaslisted as the Clarivate ESI Highly Cited Researcher in 2021, the Most Influential Scholar AwardinAI-2000 by Aminer in 2021 and World’s Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University in 2020 and2021. He was the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award in 2021, the OutstandingPh.D. Thesis Award of China Institute of Communications in 2017, the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Funding inSJTUin2016, the IEEE ICCC Best Paper Award in 2021, and IEEE WCSP Best Paper Award in 2015. He was the Exemplary Editor of IEEE Communications Letters in 2019 and the Exemplary Reviewer of several IEEE journals. He serves asanAssociate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEEWirelessCommunications Letters, IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society (OJ-COMS), and IEEE Open Journal ofVehicular Technology (OJVT). He is the Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communicationson"UAV Communications in 5G and Beyond Networks", and the Guest Editor for IEEE OJVT on “6GIntelligent Communications" and IEEE OJ-COMS on “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Based Communications for 6GWirelessNetworks". He serves as the Workshops and Symposia Officer of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces EmergingTechnology Initiative and Research Blog Officer of Aerial Communications Emerging Technology Initiative. HeistheIEEE Communications Society Young Professional Chair in Asia Pacific Region.

Dinh-Thuy PHAN HUY

Dr. Dinh-Thuy PHAN HUY is currently a research project manager in Orange Innovation/Networks entity. She received the degree in engineering from Supelec, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics and telecommunications from the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Rennes, France, in 2015. In 2001, she joined France Telecom R&D (now Orange Innovation), Châtillon, France. She has contributed to and led several collaborative research projects on 5G. She is co-inventor of more than 40 patents. She is the recipient of the “Prix Irène Joliot Curie 2018 – catégorie Femme-Recherche-Entreprise” from the French Ministry of Education and Research. She is a Senior Orange Expert and an IEEE senior member. Her research interests include wireless communications and 6G. She is currently involved in Hexa-x EU project on 6G, in RISE-6G EU project on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (as workpackage leader on sustainability and security), in the IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on RIS (as industry liaison officer), and in the ETSI ISG RIS.

IPA 3: THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED BY: PATHWAYS TO ACCELERATE 6G CANDIDATE TECHNOLOGY AREAS USING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP TESTBEDS

MONDAY, DEC 5 14:30 - 15:30  /  LOCATION: Americas IV

Moderator: Abhimanyu Gosain, Northeastern University, USA

Panelists:
Roger Nichols, Keysight Technologies, USA
Ali Khayrallah, Ericsson Inc., USA
Amitava Ghosh, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Kiran Mukkavilli, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA
 
Abstract:
The scope of this panel is twofold; firstly, to provide an overview of globally identified 6G candidate technology areas and secondly; to suggest a roadmap for leveraging public-private partnership research testbeds to influence the 6G vision and accelerate the full lifecycle of research and development, manufacturing, standardization, and market readiness for 6G. The panel will detail the technology areas, some of which are being discussed in 5G whereas others represent fundamental departures from the concepts and architectures of 5G, spanning the domains of: · Component technologies · Radio technologies · System and network architecture · Native and Cross Domain AI · Trustworthiness - Security, Reliability, Privacy, and Resilience.

Biography:

Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain

Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain is a Senior Director for Institute of Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University, Executive Director for Open6G,co-Chair for the FCC 6G Technology Advisory Council and Senior Advisor for NTIA and DoD OUSD R&E. He is in charge of setting strategic goals and the research agenda for a $100M public-private partnership for the NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program and $25M DARPA Colosseum program. He serves as a Board Member for the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance, Founding member for Magma Core Foundation, University representative for ORAN Alliance, Telecom Infra Project, NextG Alliance and co-chair on organizing committee and program committees for 6GSymposium, EuCNC,IEEE InfoCom and ACM WinTech. His numerous professional publications and experience exemplify useinspired basic research in the field of networking technologies such as 5G,6G, AI/ML, edge computing and Internet of Things. He is an IEEE Senior Member. He received his M.S. degree from Tufts University and M.B.A. from Boston University with High Honors.

Roger Nichols

Roger Nichols’ 37 years of engineering and management experience in wireless design and measurement at Hewlett-Packard, Agilent, and Keysight Technologies spans roles in R&D, marketing, and manufacturing. He has managed projects, programs, and departments beginning with analog cellular radio and on every subsequent standard evolving to 6G. He directed Keysight’s 5G program starting in 2014 and has been directing Keysight’s 6G program since its inception in 2019. He is a member of the FCC Technical Advisory Council and is also the director of Keysight’s work in wireless standards. Roger holds a BSEE from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Ali Khayrallah

Ali Khayrallah is a senior scientist with the Advanced Technology Group at Ericsson in Santa Clara, CA. He has been with Ericsson in various research positions, in Santa Clara, CA, where he led a team shaping future wireless technology, and earlier in Research Triangle Park, NC. His current focus is on 6G, and he has contributed to the development of 5G, 4G, 3G, Bluetooth, mobile satellite, land mobile radio etc. Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Delaware. He received a Ph.D. and an M.S. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.Eng. from the American University of Beirut. He holds 100+ patents and received the Ericsson inventor of the year award.

Amitabha Ghosh

Amitabha (Amitava) Ghosh (F’15) is a Nokia Fellow and works at Nokia Standards and Strategy. He joined Motorola in 1990 after receiving his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Since joining Motorola he worked on multiple wireless technologies starting from IS-95, cdma-2000, 1xEV-DV/1XTREME, 1xEV-DO, UMTS, HSPA, 802.16e/WiMAX and 3GPP LTE. He has 60 issued patents, has written multiple book chapters and has authored numerous external and internal technical papers. He is currently working on 5G Evolution and 6G technologies. Recently, he was elected chair of the NextGA (an US 6G initiative) National Roadmap Working Group. His research interests are in the area of digital communications, signal processing and wireless communications. He is the recipient of 2016 IEEE Stephen O. Rice and 2017 Neal Shephard prize, member of IEEE Access editorial board and co-author of the books titled “Essentials of LTE and LTE-A” and “5G Enabled Industrial IoT Network”.

Kiran Mukkavilli

Dr. Kiran Mukkavilli is a Sr. Director of Engineering in Qualcomm Wireless Research where he currently leads the systems research team for sub-7GHz technologies of 5G. He joined Qualcomm in 2003, holds more than 150 granted U.S. patents, and has been involved in system design, standardization, implementation and commercialization of a variety of projects at Qualcomm. He was one of the principal architects of MediaFLO, a mobile broadcast solution from Qualcomm, and played a key role in the product development, standardization and commercialization efforts. He was also the systems design lead responsible for commercialization of the UMTS modem in Qualcomm Snapdragon 800/801 products. In his current role, he is responsible for R&D efforts for PHY/MAC system design, standardization and prototyping for Sub 7GHz aspects of 5G NR. He successfully led Qualcomm’s effort to set up industry’s first end to end 3GPP Rel 15 spec compliant 5G NR call with the leading infra vendors using proto UE implementation. Dr. Mukkavilli received his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rice University and holds Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

IPA 1: MEGA-CONSTELLATION-BASED NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK FOR 6G

MONDAY, DEC 5 16:00 - 17:30  /  LOCATION: Americas I

Moderator: Wen Tong, Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd., Canada

Panelists:
Björn Ottersten, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, Canada
Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, Great Britain
Riccardo De Gaudenzi, European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands

Abstract:
Non-terrestrial networks (NTN) are complimentary to terrestrial network and expected to provide eMBB services to the areas where there are limitations. In recent years, this non-terrestrial industry has been evolving at an unprecedented speed. A couple of mega constellations have been initiated or planned in the coming years as the cost of launching rockets and rolling out satellites are hugely reduced, which make it possible to build mega (Low Earth Orbit) LEO/VLEO constellation. The emergence of low-cost mega LEO/VLEO constellations tends to be a game changer, since (i) their lower orbit altitude ensures a low latency close to that of a global cellular network and (ii) the scale of constellation provides much higher area capacity than a traditional satellite network. Both are crucial to providing eMBB services. The integration of NTN into terrestrial cellular networks is another important aspect in achieving truly global coverage, since it facilitates seamless roaming between cellular and non-terrestrial networks with a single device. The above-mentioned low latency, high capacity and seamless roaming will jointly contribute to a better user experience. However, a set of enablers are needed to realize the benefits of LEO/VLEO constellations. In this panel, we would like to invite experts from both industry and academia to shape the future of integrated mega constellation based network, deep dive the pain point of existing solutions and find out the potential research directions.

Biography:

Wen Tong

Dr. Wen Tong is the CTO, Huawei Wireless. He is the head of Huawei wireless research. In 2011, Dr. Tong was appointed the Head of Communications Technologies Labs of Huawei, currently, he is the Huawei 5G chief scientist and leads Huawei’s 10‐year‐long 5G wireless technologies research and development. Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, Dr. Tong was the Nortel Fellow and head of the Network Technology Labs at Nortel. He joined the Wireless Technology Labs at Bell Northern Research in 1995 in Canada. Dr. Tong is industry recognized leader in invention and standardization of advanced wireless technologies, he is the key contributor to 3GPP since its inception. Dr. Tong was elected as a Huawei Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He was the recipient of IEEE Communications Society Industry Innovation Award for “the leadership and contributions in development of 3G and 4G wireless systems” in 2014, and IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Industry Leader Award for “pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the mobile communications industry and innovation in 5G mobile communications technology” in 2018. He is also the recipient of R.A. Fessenden Medal. For the past three decades, he had pioneered fundamental technologies from 1G to 5G wireless with more than 450 granted US patents. Dr. Tong is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, and he also serves as Board of Director of WiFi Alliance. He is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Björn Ottersten

Professor Björn Ottersten received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and applied physics from Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Dr. Ottersten has held research positions at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Linkoping University, the Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven. During 96/97 Dr. Ottersten was Director of Research at ArrayComm Inc, San Jose, California, a start‐up company based on Ottersten's patented technology. He has co‐authored papers that received an IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 1993, 2001, 2006, 2013, and 2019, and 8 IEEE conference papers receiving Best Paper Awards. In 1991 he was appointed Professor of Signal Processing at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. Dr. Ottersten has been head of the department for Signals, Sensors, and Systems at KTH and dean of the School of Electrical Engineering at KTH. He is currently Director for the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust at the University of Luxembourg. Dr. Ottersten has been Digital Champion of Luxembourg, acting as an adviser to the European Commission and member of the boards of the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Dr. Ottersten has served as Editor in Chief of EURASIP Signal Processing, and acted on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Open Journal for Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing and Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing. He is currently Director of Technical Activities on the Board of EURASIP. Dr. Ottersten is a Fellow of the IEEE and EURASIP. He has received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award, the EURASIP Group Technical Achievement Award and has received the European Research Council advanced research grant twice. His research interests include signal processing, wireless communications, radar and computer vision.

Halim Yanikomeroglu

Halim Yanikomeroglu is a Professor in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Canada. His primary research domain is wireless communications and networks. His research group has made substantial contributions to 4G/5G wireless technologies. His group’s current focus is the wireless infrastructure for the 6G and B6G era with terrestrial, aerial (HAPS and UAV), and satellite network elements. Dr. Yanikomeroglu’s extensive collaboration with industry resulted in about 40 granted patents. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). He is an IEEE Distinguished Speaker for ComSoc and VTS. He has given over 150 keynotes, tutorials, and invited seminars in the last ten years. Dr. Yanikomeroglu is currently serving as the Steering Committee Chair of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). He is also a member of the IEEE ComSoc Conference Council and IEEE PIMRC Steering Committee. He served as the General Chair and Technical Program Chair of several IEEE conferences. He has also served in the editorial boards of various IEEE periodicals. Dr. Yanikomeroglu received several awards for his research, teaching, and service, including the IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2021), IEEE VTS Stuart Meyer Memorial Award (2020), and IEEE ComSoc Wireless Communications TC Recognition Award (2018). He received best paper awards at IEEE ICC 2021 and IEEE WISEE 2021.

Rahim Tafazolli

Rahim Tafazolli is Regius Professor of Electronic Engineering, Professor of Mobile and Satellite Communications, Founder and Director of 5GIC, 6GIC and ICS (Institute for Communication System) at the University of Surrey. He has over 30 years of experience in digital communications research and teaching. He has authored and co‐authored more than 1000 research publications and is regularly invited to deliver keynote talks and distinguished lectures to international conferences and workshops. Professor Tafazolli was awarded the 28th KIA Laureate Award in 2015 for his contribution to communications technology.

Riccardo De Gaudenzi

Riccardo De Gaudenzi (M'88‐‐SM'97) received his Doctor Engineer degree (cum Laude) in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy in 1985, a PhD from the Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands in 1999. From 1986 to 1988 he was with the European Space Agency (ESA), Stations and Communications Engineering Department, Darmstadt (Germany) where he was involved in satellite Telemetry, Tracking and Control (TT&C) ground systems design and testing. In 1988, he joined ESA’s Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, the Netherlands where he has been covering several technical and managerial positions inside the Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality. He is currently the Head of the ESA’s Electrical Engineering Department. The department covers radio‐frequency systems and payloads for navigation, telecommunication TT&C and Earth Observation, EEE components and microelectronics, data handling systems, power systems and energy sources, electromagnetic compatibility, space environments and their effects. He has been responsible for a large number of R&D activities for TT&C, Telecom and Navigation applications. In 1996 he spent one year with Qualcomm Inc., San Diego USA, in the Globalstar LEO project system group under an ESA fellowship. His current interest is mainly related with efficient digital modulation and multiple access techniques for fixed and mobile satellite services, synchronization topics, adaptive interference mitigation techniques and communication systems simulation techniques. He actively contributed to the development and the demonstration of the ETSI S‐UMTS Family A, S‐MIM, DVB‐S2, DVB‐S2X, DVB‐RCS2 and DVB‐SH standards. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He has published more than 140 scientific papers and own more than 28 patents. From 2001 to 2005 he has been serving as Associate Editor for CDMA and Synchronization for IEEE Transactions on Communications and Associate Editor for Journal of Communications and Networks. He is co‐recipient of the 2003 and 2008 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award Best Paper from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.

IPA 4: INTEGRATED SENSING AND COMMUNICATION (ISAC), NEW CORNER STONE FOR 6G

MONDAY, DEC 5 16:00 - 17:30  /  LOCATION: Americas IV

Moderator: Peiying Zhu, SVP/Fellow, Huawei Technologies, Canada

Panelists:
Patrick Waldemar, VP Telenor Research, Telenor Group, Norway
Natalia Nikolova, Professor, McMaster University, Canada
Maxime Flament, CTO, 5GAA, Germany
Fan Liu, Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
 
Abstract:
ISAC has been now widely recognized as one of most important 6G key enabler. With integrated sensing capability, 6G will be no longer just a platform that connects everything. It will be an intelligent platform that offers both integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) and integrated computing and communications. This platform will provide intelligent services and applications for industries to create greater social value. Bit transmission is not the only function of the 6G network. The physical world will be reconstructed and represented by using the propagation properties of radio waves such as reflection, scattering, refraction, and multipath. The 6G network will serve as a sensing network and 6G terminals will serve as sensing terminals. With network sensing and terminal sensing working in tandem, we can model the physical world covered by the entire network based on 6G. The sensing data extracted from the 6G network will not just be used for modeling the physical world, it will also serve as a big data source and entry for AI learning. Network sensing will enable a new usage scenario beyond communications, covering a series of use cases, including device-based or device-free target positioning, imaging, environment reconstruction and monitoring, and gesture and action recognition. Such use cases will be widely applied to industries, including human-machine coordination, environment reconstruction for smart cities, climate sensing, healthcare, and security detection.

Biography:

Peiying Zhu

Dr. Peiying Zhu (Fellow, IEEE), Senior Vice President of Wireless Research, a Huawei Fellow, IEEE Fellow and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering. She is currently leading 5G and beyond wireless research and standardization in Huawei. The focus of her research is advanced radio access technologies. She is actively involved in 3GPP and IEEE 802 standards development. She has been regularly giving talks and panel discussions on 5G vision and enabling technologies. She led the team to contribute significantly to 5G technologies. Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, Peiying was a Nortel Fellow and Director of Advanced Wireless Access Technology in the Nortel Wireless Technology Lab. She led the team and pioneered research and prototyping on MIMO-OFDM and Multi-hop relay. Many of these technologies developed by the team have been adopted into LTE standards and 4G products. Dr. Zhu has more than 200 granted patents.

Patrick Waldemar

Patrick Waldemar is VP Telenor Research, Telenor Group. Patrick Waldemar joined Telenor in 2002 and is Vice President in Telenor Research. He has more than 20 years of management experience and education within Strategic Management, Strategic Marketing and Information Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Telecommunication from NTNU and a Master of Management from Oslo Business School (BI). He has experience from research & development in telecommunications and the oil industry, software development and strategic management work. Over the last 8 years, Patrick has been head of Telenor's research on next generation network technologies focusing on 5G and 6G. Previously he has been head of development in Canal Digital.

Natalia K. Nikolova

Prof. Natalia K. Nikolova (Fellow, IEEE) received the Dipl.Eng. degree in Radio Electronics (M.Eng. equivalent) from the Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, in 1997. From 1998 to 1999, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), during which time she was initially with the Microwave and Electromagnetics Laboratory, DalTech, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, and, later, for a year, with the Simulation Optimization Systems Research Laboratory, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. In July 1999, she joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, where she is currently a Professor. Her research interests include inverse scattering and microwave imaging, theoretical and computational electromagnetism, as well as high-frequency computer-aided design.

Maxime Flament

Dr. Flament represents 5GAA, the global cross-industry association for the development of connected and automated cars, where he works as Chief Technology Officer since April 2018. Maxime was working previously as Head of Department for Connected & Automated Driving (CAD) at ERTICO – ITS Europe, the European association promoting research and deployment on Intelligent Transportation Systems. For 15 years, he has been a leading contributor to many European activities on road safety, connected vehicles, automated driving, large-scale pilots, and digital mapping. Maxime holds a Ph.D. E.E. (2002) and M.Sc. E.E. (1997) from Chalmers Technical University, Sweden. He also holds an “Ingénieur Civil” degree from the Free university of Brussels (1997). In 2001, he was visiting researcher at Stanford University, CA, USA.

Fan Liu

Dr. Fan Liu is currently an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). His research interests include the general area of signal processing and wireless communications, and in particular in the area of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC). He is the Founding Academic Chair of the IEEE ComSoc ISAC Emerging Technology Initiative (ISAC-ETI), an Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters and the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, and a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and the IEEE Wireless Communication. He was also the recipient of the IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award of 2021, the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award of Chinese Institute of Electronics of 2019, and the EU Marie Curie Individual Fellowship in 2018.

IPA 11: MEGATRENDS TO ROADMAPS TO STANDARDS: WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

TUESDAY, DEC 6 8:00 - 9:30  / LOCATION: Americas I

Moderator: William R. Tonti, IEEE Fellow, USA

Panelists:
John P. Verboncoeur, Michigan State University, USA
Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
Rakesh Kumar, TCX Technology Connexions, USA
Anwer Al-Dulaimi, EXFO Montreal, Canada
Mehmet Ulema, Computer Information Systems Manhattan College, USA
Alexander Gelman, IEEE Life Fellow, USA
 
Abstract:
Megatrends in Wireless Communication include electrification; data, bandwidth, latency, automation, and AI; along with current technologies and future requirements. These Megatrends have broad implication across the Communications space and will influence the upcoming releases of the existing IEEE Networks Generation Roadmap (INGR). The panelists will describe: - What is a Technical Roadmap, and what is currently included in the INGR - A current view of Communication Megatrends - How these Megatrends may influence future INGR releases - Opportunity for the Communications Industry to incorporate Megatrends into the INGR roadmap Note: One or more presenters may be remote.
 
Biography:
 

William R. Tonti

Dr. Tonti holds a BSEE from Northeastern University, an MSEE and a Ph.D. from the University of Vermont, and an MBA from St. Michael’s College. He worked for over 30 years for the IBM corporation in the area of semiconductor technology research where he developed advanced DRAM and Logic nodes. Dr. Tonti designed and deployed the first field programmable fuse, the “e-fuse” in all IBM products beginning in the 350nm node. Dr. Tonti is responsible for the design and implementation of transistors that are hot electron immune. Presently he is an IEEE staff Senior Director, managing IEEE Future Technology Directions. Dr. Tonti is a Fellow of the IEEE, a past IEEE Reliability Society President, a recipient of the IEEE Reliability Engineer of the Year award, and the IEEE 3’rd Millennium medal. Dr. Tonti has 297 issued patents and is cited as one of the world’s top patent holders.

John P. Verboncoeur

John P. Verboncoeur received a Ph.D. (1992) in nuclear engineering from the University of California at Berkeley (UCB). After a postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Lab and UCB, he was appointed Associate Research Engineer at UCB. He joined the UCB Nuclear Engineering faculty in 2001 (Full Professor in 2008), where he cofounded and chaired the Computational Engineering Science program (2001-2010). In 2011, he was appointed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering (added in 2015) at Michigan State University (MSU), where he currently serves as Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering. His research interests are in theoretical and computational plasma physics, with a broad range of applications spanning low temperature plasmas for lighting, thrusters and materials processing to hot plasmas for fusion, from ultra-cold plasmas to particle accelerators, from beams to pulsed power, from intense kinetic nonequilibrium plasmas to high power microwaves. He is the author/coauthor of the MSU (formerly Berkeley) suite of particle-in-cell Monte Carlo (PICMC) codes, including XPDP1 and XOOPIC, used by over 1000 researchers worldwide with over 450 journal publications in the last decade. He has authored/coauthored over 400 journal articles and conference papers, with over 5,600 citations. He was President of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (2015-16), IEEE Director (2019-20), past Acting VP of IEEE Publications, Services, and Products Board (2020), VP-elect of IEEE Technical Activities (2022), and serves on the Board of Directors for the American Center for Mobility national proving ground. He is Associate Editor of Physics of Plasmas and serves on the DOE Fusion Energy Science Advisory Committee and recently on the Sandia National Laboratories Grand Challenge LDRD External Advisory Board. He has led a number of successful startups, including computerized fitness equipment, digital health systems, and distributed publication software, with a role in the USPS mail forwarding system and the consumer credit report for a big-three.

Dejan Milojicic

Dejan Milojicic is a distinguished technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs, Milpitas, CA. He leads research on Future Architectures and is the Principal Investigator of the Heterogeneous Serverless Architecture that spans all Hewlett Packard Labs. Earlier he has led the software of the Dot Product Engine, an in-Memory AI accelerator. In his lengthy HP(E) career, he contributed to numerous research efforts spanning software, distributed computing, systems management, and HPC. Dejan led large industrygovernment-academia collaborations, such as Open Cirrus for the HPC in Cloud program and New Operating System for The Machine program. Dejan has written over 200 papers, 2 books and 68 patents. Dejan is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Engineer, and HKN and USENIX member. Dejan was on 8 PhD thesis committees, and he mentored over 50 interns. He founded and taught Cloud Management class at San Jose State University. Dejan was president of the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE presidential candidate, editor-inchief of IEEE Computing Now and IEEE Distributed Systems Online and he has served and continues to serve on many editorial boards, technical program committees and steering committees. Previously, Dejan worked in the OSF Research Institute, Cambridge, MA and Institute “Mihajlo Pupin”, Belgrade, Serbia. He contributed to novel systems software and parallel and distributed systems that were deployed throughout Europe. Dejan received his Ph.D. from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany; and his MSc/BSc from Belgrade University, Serbia.

Rakesh Kumaris

Dr. Rakesh Kumaris a semiconductorindustry veteran, an entrepreneur, and an educator. He is the founder, President and CEO of TCX Technology Connexions. Currently he Chairs the IEEE Data-based Business Strategy Ad Hoc and Roadmaps committees. He has been an HKN Governor, and on the Adcom’s of IEEE SSCS, TEMS, and SSIT. He educates and mentors potential entrepreneurs at UCSD. Dr. Kumar authored the book “Fabless Semiconductor Implementation”, published by McGraw Hill. He is an IEEE Life Fellow. During 40+ years in the semiconductor industry he has been VP&GM at Cadence Design, and has held various technical and management positions at Unisys and Motorola. He received the Ph.D.. M.S. and B.S diplomas in EE in 1974, 1971 and 1969 respectively, and an Executive “MBA” from UCSD in 1989.

Anwer Al-Dulaimi

Anwer Al-Dulaimi is currently a Senior Manager of Emerging technologies & Innovations and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at EXFO Inc., Montreal, Canada. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Brunel University, London, U.K., in 2012 after receiving M.Sc. and B.Sc. honors degrees in communication engineering. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, sponsored by Blackberry’s advanced research team. In his current role, Anwer is responsible for identifying new trends of mobile technology evolutions and the adaptation phases that EXFO need to take for compliancy. He is the chair of the newly established IEEE 5G & Beyond Testbed Project working to develop a virtual testing platform for E2E network innovation. He is the chair of the IEEE 1932.1 ‘Standard for Licensed/Unlicensed Spectrum Interoperability in Wireless Mobile Network’. He is also representing EXFO in many industrial forums such as One6G and other collaborative projects. He is the Editor of IEEE Future Networks Series on 5G & 6G published by IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, editor of Vehicular Networking Series in IEEE Communication Standards Magazine and guest editor of many other IEEE series issues. His research interests include 5G and 6G networks, cloud computing, Blockchains and cybersecurity. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), registered as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) by the British Engineering Council since 2010. He is a member of the NSERC discovery grants committee and a senior member of IEEE.

Mehmet Ulema

Dr. Mehmet Ulema is a professor of Computer Information Systems at Manhattan College, New York. Previously, he held management and technical positions in AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bellcore, and Daewoo Telecom. He has been on the editorial board of a number of journals. He is also the co-editor of a IEEE Press-Wiley book series on Network and Service Management. Dr. Ulema is the author of a book entitled “Fundamentals of Public Safety Networks and Critical Communications” published by Wiley. Mehmet was actively involved in standardization in ITU, TIA, ATIS, and IEEE. Currently, he is a member of IEEE Standards Association Board of Governors. He is also a co-chair of the IEEE Public Safety Technology Initiative. Dr. Ulema had leading roles in numerous IEEE ComSoc conferences including IEEE ICC and IEEE GLOBECOM. He is the co-founder of IEEE BlackSeaCom conference series. Dr. Ulema has received a number of awards including IEEE SA Standards Medallion award and IEEE ComSoc Harold Sobol Award. Dr. Ulema holds MS & Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at Polytechnic University (now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He also received BS & MS degrees at Istanbul Technical University.

Alexander Gelman

Alexander D. Gelman is an IEEE Life Fellow. He received M.E. and Ph.D. (EE) from the City University of New York. Presently he is CTO of NETovations Consulting Group. During 1998-2007 Alex worked the Chief Scientist of Panasonic Research Laboratory located in Princeton NJ and San Jose Ca; during 1984-1998 worked at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), lastly as Director-Internet Access Architectures Research. Alex has numerous publications and several patents. He pioneered Multimedia Multi-point communications, Streaming Video over Networks, XDSL-based Internet Access. Alex co-founded eight IEEE conferences and two publications; initiated ComSoc Standards Activities; initiated ComSoc Technical Committee and standardization in Power Line Communications and IEEE standardization in the area of cognitive radio; chaired the Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications; served four terms as ComSoc Vice President, e.g. was elected as ComSoc’s first Vice President-Standards Activities. Alex served two terms on IEEE SA BoG, e.g. as Vice President-Technical Innovation and Engagement; served several terms on IEEE SA Standards Board, e.g. representing TAB; chaired TAB Ad Hoc Committee on Standards in 2008 and served as the Inaugural Vice-chair of  the TAB committee on Standards in 2018.Presently Alex is a chair of the IEEE Access and Core Networks Standards Committee, Vice Chair of the IEEE SA Fellow Nominations Support Committee, co-chair of the Standardization Building Blocks Working Groups of the FDC INGR Initiative. Alex is a recipient of ComSoc Donald McLellan Meritorious Service Award, IEEE SA Corporate Standards Sponsor Award and IEEE SA Standards Medallion.

IPA 6: THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TWINS IN 6G

TUESDAY, DEC 6 8:00 - 9:30  /  LOCATION: Americas IV

Moderator: Dylan McGrath, Keysight, USA

Panelists:
Rajive Bagrodia, General Manager - Scalable, Keysight, country
Alexander Linhares, Head of Industry – Telco and Media, Google, Brazil
Catello Di Martino, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
 
Abstract:
Simulation and emulation capabilities have significantly improved with the advances in compute power in the last few decades. Many applications are utilizing the power of enhanced simulation and emulation, but the wireless network quickly becomes an application that can maximize these tools due to its ever-increasing scope, scale and expanding requirements. As new network topologies are explored and the complexity of the network increases, these network tools can harness the capabilities of Digital Twins to evaluate wired and wireless network functions, design resiliency, and validate network design. This spike in complexity in network topologies is happening in tandem to the need flexible and adaptive research platforms that are capable of iterating and scaling from 5G to 6G and beyond in order to deliver novel technical results but still be useable by the larger research community. Digital twins, measurement and data fed simulations and models, offer an infrastructure to meet the rapid acceleration of design challenges that face a research ecosystem. Understanding the architectures, tools and methodologies for these model-based systems and being able to contrast them and utilize them with their physical counterparts will be integral in their use.

Biography:

Dylan McGrath

Dylan McGrath is a 25-year veteran of technology journalism, marketing, and public relations. McGrath spent more than 10 years at EE Times, eventually serving as editor-in-chief of the venerable 50-year old electronics industry trade publication. His career has also included stints at Electronic News, IHS Markit, and the Hoffman Agency. McGrath joined Keysight in 2019. He holds a BA in journalism from California State University, Sacramento, and an MA in English/create writing from San Francisco State University.

 

Rajive Bagrodia

Dr. Rajive Bagrodia is General Manager (Scalable) in the ADGS Group at Keysight Technologies. Previously he was the Founder and CEO of Scalable Network Technologies, Inc. SCALABLE, founded in 2001, was acquired by Keysight in September 2021. Dr. Bagrodia is also an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. Together with his team at UCLA and SCALABLE, he has published over 175 research papers on parallel simulation, high performance computing, wireless communications and network digital twins. At SCALABLE, Dr. Bagrodia led the company to become a leader in the design and use of network digital twins to assess performance and cyber resilience of a diverse set of networked systems. Rajive obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Alexander Linhares

Alexander Linhares is an experienced Sales Executive, currently Industry leader for Google in Brazil, Global Account Management and Business Development in Web Scale Companies. Proven track-record in working with multicultural environments, leading remote teams towards common sales Goals and Strategy . Skilled in Cloud, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, 5G, Telco, EDGE and IoT. Guides Communication Service Providers becoming Digital Service Providers and Media companies on their Digital Transformation Journeys.
 

Catello Di Martino

Catello (Lelio) Di Martino is the Head of the Network Application Department at Nokia Bell Labs. He joined Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, USA in 2015. Before that, he worked at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as research associate. He holds a PhD in computer Engineering from University of Naples Federico II. Catello has a successful track record of research projects in the area of industrial internet of things, data-intensive systems, highly resilient largescale clouds, 5G networks and supercomputing. His career path touched several countries (Italy, Portugal, US, Brazil, and India) and his operations extend to several regions (LAT, NAM, and Europe).

IPA 7: 6G RESEARCH & INNOVATION CLUSTER (6G-RIC): A PERSPECTIVE ON SUB-THZ COMMUNICATION AND SENSING

TUESDAY, DEC 6 14:00 - 15:30  /  LOCATION: Americas I

Moderator: Slawomir Stanczak, Technische Universität Berlin & Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany

Panelists:
Robert Schober, Professor, FAU, Germany
Robert Baldemair, Principal Researcher, Ericsson
Luciano Leonel Mendes, Professor, INATEL, Brazil
José Gustavo Sampaio Gontijo, Secretary for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Brazil
Taro Eichler, Rohde & Schwarz, Germany
 
Abstract:
The exploitation of the large portions of available spectrum in the sub-THz band (90-300GHz) is one of the most promising directions for enhancing the capacity of current wireless access networks. However, several formidable technological, societal, and business challenges need to be addresses, in particular related to the development of economically attractive and energy efficient solutions. A part from its obvious impact in terms of costs and range of use cases, energy efficiency is a crucial parameter in the context of the ambitious climate targets imposed, for instance, by the German and Brazilian governments. Addressing these challenges requires a complete rethinking of the entire value chain of communication systems, and hence a continuous interaction between academia, industry, government, and public interest organizations. Furthermore, possible synergies with new promising paradigms such as reflective intelligent surfaces (RISs) or integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) need to be explored. Following the above spirit, this panel will bring together experts from top Brazilian institutions, and prominent partners of the German 6G Research & Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC). The 6G-RIC is a research hub designed to provide scientific and technical foundations for the next generation of mobile communications, and it is financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany. It is based on the interdisciplinary and coordinated collaboration of a total of 32 research groups from 20 universities and research institutions, supported by more than 60 associated partners from science, industry, and governing bodies.

Biography:

Slawomir Stanczak

Prof. Slawomir Stanczak is Professor of Network Information Theory at the Technical University of Berlin and Head of the Wireless Communications and Networks Department at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI). Prof. Stanczak is co-author of two books and more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers in the field of information theory, wireless communications, signal processing, and machine learning. Prof. Stanczak received research grants from the German Research Foundation and the Best Paper Award from the German Society for Telecommunications in 2014. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2012 to 2015 and chair of the ITU-T Focus Group on Machine Learning for Future Networks including 5G from 2017 to 2020. Since 2020 Prof. Stanczak is chairman of the 5G Berlin association and since 2021 he is coordinator of the projects 6GRIC (Research & Innovation Cluster) and CampusOS.

Robert Schober

Robert Schober (S'98, M'01, SM'08, F'10) received the Diplom (Univ.) and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from FriedrichAlexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. From 2002 to 2011, he was a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. Since January 2012 he is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor and the Chair for Digital Communication at FAU. His research interests fall into the broad areas of Communication Theory, Wireless and Molecular Communications, and Statistical Signal Processing. Robert received several awards for his work including the 2002 Heinz Maier- Leibnitz Award of the German Science Foundation (DFG), the 2004 Innovations Award of the Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications, a 2006 UBC Killam Research Prize, a 2007 Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the 2008 Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research from UBC, a 2011 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, a 2012 NSERC E.W.R. Stacie Fellowship, a 2017 Wireless Communications Recognition Award by the IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee, and the 2022 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Stuart F. Meyer Memorial Award. Furthermore, he received numerous Best Paper Awards for his work including the 2022 ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize. Since 2017, he has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science. Robert is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering.

Robert Baldemair

Robert Baldemair received his Dipl. Ing. and Dr. degree from the Vienna University of Technology in 1996 and 2001, respectively. In 2000 Robert joined Ericsson where he initially was engaged in research and standardization of digital subscriber line technologies ADSL and VDSL. Since 2004, Robert has been working with research and standardization support of radio access technologies for LTE, 5G NR, and since 2019 for 6G. His current research interests include signal processing, wireless communications systems, and joint communication and sensing. Robert holds a Principal Researcher position at Ericsson. He is a prolific inventor and key contributor to Ericsson’s 4G and 5G patent portfolio, he is listed as one of Sweden’s most active inventors.

Luciano Leonel Mendes

Luciano Leonel Mendes received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Inatel, Brazil, in 2001 and 2003, respectively, and the Doctor degree from Unicamp, Brazil, in 2007, all in electrical engineering. Since 2001, he has been a professor with Inatel. He has led several research projects funded by FAPEMIG, FINEP, and BNDES. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Technical University of Dresden in the Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, where he has developed his postdoctoral program sponsored by CNPq. Since 2015, he has acted as the Research Coordinator of the Radiocommunication Reference Center with Inatel, which is a research project aiming at addressing the main challenges for the Brazilian society regarding mobile, satellite, and terrestrial communications. His main research interests include solutions for the physical layer of the future fifth generation of mobile communication systems (5G), a research field where he has published several papers in the last years. He is also a CNPq level 1D Research Fellow. In 2017, he was elected Research Coordinator of the 5G Brazil Project, an association involving industries, telecom operators, and academia which aims for funding and build an ecosystem toward 5G, improving the discussions about the Brazilian needs for this network and how Brazil can contribute with the international standardization. Today he is the research coordinator of the Brazil 6G Project and member of the FAPEMIG Reviewer Board.

José Gustavo Sampaio Gontijo

José Gustavo Sampaio Gontijo holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brasília (2002) with a specialization in Public Management in Science and Technology (2009). Since 2009, he has been a career server of the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (Analyst in Science and Technology). He has worked in Anatel Spectrum Engineering Management (2003-2007), in the ICT Secretariat (2007-2009), and in the Technological Development and Innovation Secretariat (2009-2010) of the MCTI. He was also an advisor for the area of digital inclusion in the Presidency of the Republic (2010) and Director of the Department of Industry, Science and Technology at the Telecommunication Secretariat (2012-2016), of the Ministry of Communication. In the Ministry of Communications, before assuming this Department, he was project manager and Deputy Director at the Broadband Department since 2011.
 

Taro Eichler

Taro Eichler is Technology Manager for wireless communications and photonics at Rohde & Schwarz in Munich with a focus on 5G/6G technologies. With 15 years of experience in wireless communication, he is currently working on 6G industry research projects covering sub-THz communication, photonics and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). Prior to joining Rohde & Schwarz, Taro worked for Intel Corporation as specialist for photonic communication solutions and for NTT Basic Research Laboratories. He also worked on research projects at The University of Tokyo in the field of quantum optics. He holds a diploma in physics from the Technical University of Munich with thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Bonn, Germany.

IPA 5: 6G MASSIVE MIMO: EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION?

TUESDAY, DEC 6 14:00 - 15:30 / LOCATION: Americas IV

Moderator: Jianglei Ma, Technical VP, Huawei Technologies, Canada

Panelists:
Robert Heath, Lampe Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University
Kiran Mukkavilli, Director of Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Charlie Jianzhong Zhang, SVP and Head of the Standards and Mobility Innovation Laboratory, Samsung Research America
Wei Yu, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Information Theory and Wireless Communications,  Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Toronto
 
Abstract:
MIMO technology has been a key technical component for LTE and LTE-advanced. Although a variety of MIMO modes, including open-loop MIMO, closed-loop MIMO, transmit diversity, spatial multiplexing, etc were supported by LTE, only limited number of antenna ports were assumed especially for early LTE deployment. To support C-band transceiver with more digital RF chains and millimeter wave transceiver with large number of antenna elements, massive MIMO has been considered as one of basic enabling technologies in designing NR system. Beamforming and beam management technologies, including high-precision CSI acquisition for MU-MIMO transmission, beam training and tracking, beam failure recovery have been designed and specified by NR standards. In order to meet 6G requirements new spectra such as 10~15GHz mid-band and high end mmWave & THz are being explored. On the other hand, the emergence of new materials (e.g. meta-surface material), advanced antenna array design technology, native AI learning and sensing capability provide us new enablers to achieve technology breakthrough in the research of 6G massive MIMO. It is expected that 6G ultra-Massive MIMO technologies will significantly increase system capacity for 6G network. The proposed panel will address new massive MIMO innovation opportunities and new challenges to researchers in academy and industry.

Biography:

Jianglei Ma

Jianglei Ma is a Technical VP based at Huawei Ottawa R&D Center. Her research area is advanced wireless access technologies. She has been actively contributed to 3GPP standards since LTE.  She led NR air interface research and is currently leading beyond 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.  She has more than 300 granted patents.

Robert W. Heath Jr.

Robert W. Heath Jr. received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, in 1996 and 1997 respectively, and the Ph.D. from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2002, all in electrical engineering. From 1998 to 2001, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff then a Senior Consultant at Iospan Wireless Inc, San Jose, CA where he worked on the design and implementation of the physical and link layers of the first commercial MIMO-OFDM communication system. He is a Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University. From 2002-2020 he was with The University of Texas at Austin, most recently as Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering and Director of UT SAVES. He is also President and CEO of MIMO Wireless Inc. He authored "Introduction to Wireless Digital Communication" (Prentice Hall, 2017) and "Digital Wireless Communication: Physical Layer Exploration Lab Using the NI USRP" (National Technology and Science Press, 2012), and coauthored "Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications" (Prentice Hall, 2014) and "Foundations of MIMO Communication" (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and is a member-at-large of the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors.

Kiran Mukkavilli

Kiran Mukkavilli is a Sr. Director of Engineering in Qualcomm Wireless Research where he currently leads the systems research team for sub-7GHz technologies for 5G Advanced and 6G. He joined Qualcomm in 2003, holds more than 150 granted U.S. patents, and has been involved in system design, standardization, implementation and commercialization of a variety of technologies at Qualcomm. He was one of the principal architects of MediaFLO, a mobile broadcast solution from Qualcomm, and played a key role in the product development, standardization and commercialization efforts. He was also the systems design lead responsible for commercialization of the UMTS modem in Qualcomm Snapdragon 800/801 products. In his current role, he is responsible for R&D efforts for PHY/MAC system design, standardization and prototyping for Sub 7GHz aspects of 5G NR. He successfully led Qualcomm’s effort to set up industry’s first end to end 3GPP Rel 15 spec compliant 5G NR call with the leading infra vendors using proto UE implementation. Dr. Mukkavilli received his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rice University and holds Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Charlie Jianzhong Zhang

Charlie Jianzhong Zhang is SVP and head of the Standards and Mobility Innovation Team at Samsung Research America, where he leads research, prototyping, and standards for 5G/6G and future multimedia networks. He is also currently serving as the Chairman of the Board with FiRa Consortium, which is dedicated to the development of seamless user experiences using the secured fine ranging and positioning capabilities of interoperable UWB technologies. From 2009 to 2013, he served as the Vice Chairman of the 3GPP RAN1 working group and led development of LTE and LTE-Advanced technologies such as 3D channel modeling, UL-MIMO, CoMP, Carrier Aggregation for TD-LTE. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE.

Wei Yu

Wei Yu (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.A.Sc. degree in computer engineering and mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2002, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, where he is currently a Professor and holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Information Theory and Wireless Communications. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. He was the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2021, and has served on its Board of Governors since 2015. He was the Chair of the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2017 to 2018. He was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2015 to 2016. He was the recipient of the Steacie Memorial Fellowship in 2015, the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in wireless communications in 2019, the IEEE Communications Society Award for advances in communication in 2019, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2008, 2017, and 2021, the Journal of Communications and Networks Best Paper Award in 2017, and the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2015. He is currently an Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

IPA 9: AI FOR 5G AND BEYOND

TUESDAY, DEC 6 16:00 - 17:30 /  LOCATION: Americas I

Moderator: Liya Yuan, ZTE Corporation, China

Panelists:
Lingli Deng, Director of Standards and Industrial Collaboration, China Mobile, China
Leon Wong, Research Collaboration and Engineering Lead, Rakuten Mobile, Japan
Paul Patras, CEO, Net AI, Scotland
Yuntao Wang, Senior Engineer, CAICT, China
 
Abstract:
There is a clear sense that AI can be a disruptive enabler to build a more agile and efficient future network. However, despite the constant efforts from researchers and engineers, the potential of AI is far away from being fully exploited and there's still a great gap between the current intelligence level of the network and our fancy expectations for it. Hence this panel is proposed to discuss the challenges and opportunities that we may face in "AI for 5G and beyond" exploration.

Biography:

Liya Yuan

Liya Yuan is an open source & standardization engineer in ZTE corporation, focusing on the field of AI technology and its application in telecommunication network. She is currently the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) chair of Adlik, an AI open source project incubated in Linux Foundation AI Foundation. She also takes an active part in ITU-T standardization activities as the editor of several ITU-T specifications, and serves as WG3 chair in ITU-T Autonomous Network Focus Group.

 

Lingli Deng

Lingli Deng, Doctor of Engineering (Chinese Academy of Sciences), is working as Director of Standards and Industrial Collaboration at AI &Intelligent Operation Center, China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI). Her major job respnosibilities include: 1.Develop and carry out the company’s strategic goal and industrial promotion program for Network Intelligence and Autonomous Networktransformation. 2.Host and operate network transformation and intelligent operation industrial initiatives, open source community, and write industry focus reports for the company's leadership. 3.Develop technology introduction planning; R&D of related prototype systems and testing and verification of open source products. 4. Formulate relevant international industry standards.

Leon Wong

Leon Wong is the Research Collaboration and Engineering Lead for Research & Innovation Lab in Rakuten Mobile. He is also currently servingas chairman of ITU-T Focus Group of Autonomous Networks (FG-AN), established under ITU-T Study Group 13 - Future networks and emerging network technologies.

 

 

 

Paul Patras

Paul Patras is a co-founder and the CEO of Net AI, a pioneering networkintelligence company based in Scotland. He is also an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where he leads the Mobile Intelligence Lab. Dr Patras has spearheaded the use of deeplearning to solve problems in the mobile networking domain, which werepreviously considered intractable. With Net AI, his mission is to create themarket leading platform for decomposition and deep analysis of traffic across 5G and beyond 5G mobile networks.

Yuntao Wang

Yuntao Wang, Senior Engineer, Deputy Chief Engineer of Cloud Computing and Big Data Research Institute of China Academy of Information and Communication Technology（CAICT）, Deputy Director of Internet Governance Research Center of CAICT, Head of Overall Teamof Artificial Intelligence Team of CAICT, Head of Overall Teamof Blockchain Team of CAICT, Vice Chairman of Young Experts Committeeof CAICT, Rapporteur of ITU-T Q5/16 of United Nations International Telecommunication Union, Postgraduate Tutor of Institute of Telecommunication Science and Technology, National Science and Technology expert (Ministry of Science and Technology), expert appointedby the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, expert appointed by the Chinese Institute of Electronics, expert appointed by theEducation and Examination Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. His main research interests are focused on the research of new generation information and communication technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, standardization and industrial development policy formulation. He has led the completion of three national key projects, participated in the formulation of more than ten international standards related to artificial intelligence, published one book, two translations, participated in the writing of three books, published morethan ten papers and four research reports. He has rich experience in international cooperation and has undertaken many bilateral and multilateral international cooperation counterpart liaison work.

IPA 10: ACCELERATING INDUSTRY VIA MISSION-CRITICAL NETWORKS: REAL-WORLD STORIES AND FORWARD-LOOKING APPS

TUESDAY, DEC 6 16:00 - 17:30  /  LOCATION: Americas IV

Moderator: Catello Di Martino, Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Panelists:
Mario Azevedo, Vale, Brazil
Marcelo Marcomini, Flex, Brazil
 
Abstract:
This panel include experts from world leading industries to identify what has been achieved so far and what is still to be done for boosting current production processes through mission-critical wireless networks. This panel will help both academic and industrial communities to prioritize their backlog for more focused effort towards the most needed solutions for 5G and beyond, focusing on open problems and forward-looking use cases.

Biography:

Catello Di Martino

Catello (Lelio) Di Martino is the Head of the Network Application Department at Nokia Bell Labs. He joined Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, USA in 2015. Before that, he worked at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as research associate. He holds a PhD in computer Engineering from University of Naples Federico II. Catello has a successful track record of research projects in the area of industrial internet of things, data-intensive systems, highly resilient largescale clouds, 5G networks and supercomputing. His career path touched several countries (Italy, Portugal, US, Brazil, and India) and his operations extend to several regions (LAT, NAM, and Europe).

Mario Azevedo

Mario Azevedo holds the position of Global Project Manager at Fundação Tecnologica e Engenharia, responsible for defining technologies and implementing related projects globally, including private 4G/5G deployment in mines, ports, and railroads. Mario has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications market and emerging technologies, defining strategy and leading teams in several strategic digital transformation programs, mainly in the Mining area. He holds a degree in Computer Science, with specialization in High-Speed Networks, and a master’s in project management and Business Administration.

Ricardo Mendes

Ricardo Mendes is the Industry 4.0 Solution Architect Manager for Nokia Brazil. He holds a degree in electronic engineering from University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), and an MSc from PUC-Rio. He covered different roles including E2E Optimization for Public Networks, Packet Core Planning and Optimization. Ricardo has several years of experience covering a variety of private wireless network deployments for various vertical segments, including manufacturing, oil & gas, mining, and smart cities. Recently, Ricardo is in charge for designing LTE and 5G Mission Critical Networks for Industry 4.0.
 

Fabiana Morgante de Alencar

Fabiana Morgante de Alencar is the IT and Security Manager at BTP (Brasil Terminal Portuário) since July 2011. She holds a degree in computer science with focus on IT project management, and an MBA from FGV. She has experience in International Logistics, Agile projects, and software development. She is currently leading several projects focusing on 5G use cases to automate port operations and increase worker safety.
 
 
 

Marcelo Marcomini

Marcelo Marcomini is the industry 4.0 Executive Manager for Flex Brazil. He holds a degree in electronic engineering from University of Sao Paulo (USP), and an MBA from FGV. He covered different roles including Product Development, Processes, Industrial Automation, Plant Management, Operational Excellence, Lean Manufacturing, and Innovation Lead. He worked several years in the Automotive Industry (Tier 1). Recently, Marcelo is exploring the benefits of applying Private 5G Networks in industrial environment to increase productivity of the factory floor.
 

IPA 17: NETWORK AS A PLATFORM (NWAAP): OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

WEDNESDAY, DEC 7 8:00 - 9:30  /  LOCATION: Americas I

Moderator: Deepak Kataria, Ericsson, USA

Panelists:
Satish Jamadagani, Head of Standards, Technology Development, Reliance Jio
Jitendra Manocha, Senior Portfolio Manager, Ericsson
Venkatesh Ramaswamy, Chief Technologist for NextG, MITRE Labs
Srini Addepalli, CTO, Aryaka
César Antón Mayoral, Network as a Platform Design and Development Manager, Vodafone
Santosh Kumar, Chief Cloud Architect and Head of Network Cloud Strategy at Bharti Airtel Limited
Babatunde Akindele, Director of Technology Strategy, Verizon Communications
 
Abstract:
Network as a Platform (NWaaP) reimagines CSP (Communication Service Provider) network as a platform with exposure capabilities across different layers of stack such as RAN, Edge, Core, Cloud, OSS, BSS. These exposure capabilities are available as Network APIs to partners (HCPs, IT/OTT players), so they can build innovative applications and services for their customers in B2B, B2B2X settings. This does not preclude B2C or internal use cases for CSPs. This panel will discuss challenges and opportunities associated with providing customer-facing cloud-based platforms and software that will enable CSPs to deliver the next wave of premium and new communication experiences.

Biography:

Deepak Kataria

Deepak Kataria has over 25 years' experience in data networking, cloud computing and telecom domains with unique distinction of having worked in technical leadership roles with AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Fujitsu, Agere Systems, LSI and HCL America. He co-founded IPJunction Inc in 2009 consulting telco clients on new solution opportunities, target markets, product management consulting and ecosystem partnerships. Currently, he serves as the Principal Solution Consultant for Ericsson working on AT&T projects. He was Chair of IEEE Princeton Central Jersey Section from 2020- 2022, General Chair of IEEE Sarnoff Symposium since 2015 and leads the IEEE FNI Group on AI/ML as Co-Chair. He holds B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering, and pursued M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University. He completed Harvard's Emerging Leader's professional program on virtual leadership covering strategy, customer focus, corporate governance, and innovation.

Satish Jamadagni

Satish Jamadagni is working as a Vice President in the Network Planning and Engineering division of Reliance Jio. He has over 20 years of industry experience in the telecom domain covering Devices, Networks, Platforms and Services. He has led teams contributing towards product development and delivery, develop standards and delivered essential patents for key organizations. He has been a member of the following industry bodies (past/present): Current Chair of Study Group ‐ Networks, TSDSI ; Co‐Chair of the Asia Regional Operators Group; Small Cell Forum (SCF) ; Active member of GTI (Global TDD Initiative) & 3GPP ‐Previously on the board of the International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium (IMTC) with responsibility towards VoLTE/RCS and WebRTC test standards. Mr. Jamadagni has over 120 granted/pending patents in the wireless devices/platform domain and over 25 publications in the Wireless/Telecom areas.

Jitendra Manocha

Jitendra Manocha is a Senior Portfolio Manager in the Business area of Cloud Software & Services. In his 20+ years of experience, he has held various leading positions in product management, R&D, and services. In recent years he has worked in the Business area of Cloud Software & Services AI/ML strategy, Edge computing, and Network as a Platform. He previously worked in 5G Analytics and 5G network exposure. He has experience in creating products from concepts to industrialization and scaling them to tangible businesses. He holds two M.Sc degrees from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, in the areas of Information technology and Industrial Management and an engineering degree in Electronics & Communication.

Venkatesh Ramaswamy

Dr. Venkatesh Ramaswamy is Chief Technologist at MITRE Labs in Bedford, Massachusetts where he currently leads technical innovation and R&D activities in 5G/xG technologies. He has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has held technical leadership positions at top technology companies, startups and research labs. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and patents, served as a TPC member for various conferences, and participated in several technical panels. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mississippi.

Srini Addepalli

Srini Addepalli is a security and Edge computing expert with 25+ years of experience. Before joining Aryaka, Srini was at Intel, where he incubated multiple open-source edge computing and security initiatives including Service Mesh, cloud native SASE framework, Distributed HSM and Multi Edge/Cloud orchestration technologies. Before Intel, he held the Fellow position at Freescale and CTO position at Intoto Inc. As part of Intoto, which was acquired by Freescale, he is instrumental in leading the development of Gateway and UTM (Unified Threat Management) product lines. Srini has multiple patents in networking and security technologies

César Antón Mayoral

César Antón is a Vodafone Senior Engineer with more than 14 years of experience on Mobile Networks and API design. During last eight years he has played different roles in Vodafone Group, contributing to deliver new network features and products in the Data Core domain. Last two years he has been playing the Senior NaaP Design Manager role, supporting to the team to transform network capabilities into REST APIs in a secure way. He holds a MSc and a Bachelor in Telecommunications Engineering by University of Alcalá, Madrid.
 

Santosh Kumar

Santosh Kumar is a Chief Cloud Architect & also heads the Network Cloud Strategy at Bharti Airtel Limited. He is a technocrat & has contributed to a lot of Open Source Cloud Projects. Santosh is a key proponent of open source technologies. He has delivered innovative cloud solutions in Telco, E-Commerce & Financial domain over the last 12 years. Prior to joining Airtel he played a key role in developing cloud strategies for organizations like Paytm, Comviva, Snapdeal, Aricent & Sapient. He is a Gold Medallist in Computer Science Engineering from India and has also completed his Advanced Leaders Program from Cornell University.
 

Babatunde Akindele

Babatunde Akindele (Tunde) leads Strategy Development for Global Network and Technology at Verizon. He is responsible for developing technology strategies to ensure Verizon maintains its network and technology leadership. He has led strategy and innovation management across industry verticals within the company, helping to develop several breakthrough business concepts. Tunde has held responsibilities for deal negotiation, growth strategy, strategic planning, corporate venturing and M&A evaluation within Verizon over the past decade. Prior to Verizon, Tunde worked with IXL Center, where he helped fortune 100 corporations develop strategies and commercialize innovative business concepts. Tunde previously held regional leadership role in a multinational telecommunication provider in Nigeria, successfully designing sales expansion strategies, and leading significant business turnaround initiatives. Tunde sits on the Advisory Board of the Global Innovation Management Institute, and he is the North America Co-Chair of the GSMA 5G IoT for Manufacturing Forum. Tunde is passionate about leadership, he is a leadership trainer / coach, and a frequent keynote speaker, panelist, and moderator at conferences / events globally. In addition, he spends time mentoring startups and small businesses.
 

IPA 18: THE FUTURE OF SMART ECOSYSTEM EMPOWERED BY IOT COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

WEDNESDAY, DEC 7 8:00 - 9:30  /  LOCATION: Americas IV

Moderator: Fawzi Behmann, President TelNet management Consulting Inc.

Panelists:
Semih Aslan, Ingram School of Engineering , Texas State University, Texas
Narendra Mangra, GlobeNet
Hongyang Chen, Senior Research Expert/PI, Zhejiang Lab, China
Bharat Rawal, Capitol Technology University, USA
Damian Valles, Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University

Abstract:

IoT and several collaborative technologies of sensors, wearables, communications protocols and analytics are gradually becoming an integral part of smart ecosystem solutions. Such a solution can offer new classes of applications and services which were not feasible before. This talk will present vision of IoT disruptive technology and architectural evolution including collaborative technologies of 5G and Analytics impacting many markets. Evolution of 5G/6G & AI/ML empowered IoT will have greater impact in building future smart ecosystem for smart cities and communities. 
The talk include the following: 
a) Power and evolution of IoT disruptive technology 
b) Smart connectivity and ecosystem solutions in key markets 
c) Future Trends and Key Challenges
 

Biography:

Fawzi Behmann

Fawzi is currently the founder and president of TelNet Management Consulting Inc. offering international professional services in the areas of technology trends; positioning and building smart networking ecosystem solutions in key markets. Prior, Fawzi held various executive and leadership positions with Tier 1 companies in the areas of communications and networking in Canada and US. He championed the development of Telecom Network Management systems, led efforts in rolling out product releases for network edge and core and marketing SoC product line and roadmap. Fawzi has been a keynote speaker and distinguished lecturer at several domestic and international conferences and events. He has several publications and co-authored book on "Collaborative Internet of Things for Future Smart Connected Life and Business" published by Wiley. Fawzi volunteered at IEEE, and is currently ComSoc distinguished Lecturer and North America Director for Regions 1-7 (serving 95 chapters and over 10,000 members) and BoG voting member. Fawzi championed the delivery of several conferences and summits and has has been the general chair for IEEE WCNC 2022 international wireless conference held in Austin (April 10-13) and also offered as hybrid format. Fawzi Co-Chair IEEE SA Transdisciplinary Framework working groups and contributor to IEEE Future Direction Initiatives. Fawzi is a voting member of IEEE Conference Committee. He chairs multiple joint chapters on Communications, signal processing, Computer, EMBS and Consumer technology. Prior, Fawzi was Region 5 conference committee chair and Central Texas chair. Fawzi received multiple awards including IEEE Communications Society NAB Exceptional Service Award (2020 and 2021); IEEE Communications Society North America Director for regions 1-7 (2020-2021); IEEE Leadership Section chair for Central Texas Section (2017-2018); IEEE USA Professional Leadership Award (2017); ComSoc Chapter Achievement Award (2021); IEEE ComSoc Chapter of the Year and Chapter Achievement Awards (2020, 2017, 2015); MGA Regional outstanding Member Award (2013, 2014 and 2015) and Freescale CEO Diamond Chip Award (2008). Fawzi has MBA, Masters in Computer Science, Bachelor in Science with honors in Mathematics with distinction.

Semih Aslan

Dr. Semih Aslan is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas State University, where he joined in 2011. He previously worked as a Senior FPGA Design Engineer with Motorola and full-time instructor at ITT Technical Institute. At ITT Technical Institute, Dr. Aslan worked with minority students as a full-time instructor and assistant dean for over 10 years on the west side of Chicago. Dr. Aslan is the founding director of the System Modeling and Green Technology (SMART) Lab in the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State. He currently advises graduate and undergraduate senior students on green energy, multi-processor system design and data analysis projects and has numerous publications.

Narendra Mangra

Narendra Mangra is the Principal at GlobeNet LLC, where he provides provides advisory and consulting services across industry, government, and academia. His diverse experience spans strategy development, smart city roadmap development, spectrum management, mobile network planning and system deployments, enterprise-wide modernization, program management, and education. He teaches graduate courses on 5G and project management with a focus on smart cities at the George Mason University. Narendra also leads several IEEE initiatives on technology roadmap development, smart cities architecture standards development, and industry connections on telehealth and the transdisciplinary framework with a focus on agriculture. These initiatives aim to systematically extend the reach and depth of agriculture, public safety, telehealth, smart cities, and rural development using a transdisciplinary approach that integrate ecosystems, networks, and governance functions. His current interests include comprehensive transdisciplinary frameworks, 5G and future networks, digital transformation, smart communities, and related ecosystems.

Hongyang Chen

Hongyang Chen (M’08-SM’16) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2011. From 2011 to 2020, he was a Researcher with Fujitsu Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a Senior Research Expert with Zhejiang Lab, China. He has authored or coauthored 100+ refereed journal and conference papers in the IEEE TSP, JSAC, TMC, WWWJ, TIFS, TCOM and has been granted 20+ PCT patents. His research interests include data-driven intelligent systems, graph machine learning, big data mining, and intelligent computing. He was the Editor of the IEEE Journals and a Symposium Chair or Special Session Organizer for some flagship conferences. He was a leading Guest Editor of the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED TOPICS OF SIGNAL PROCESSING on tensor decomposition. Currently, he is an Associate Editor for the IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL. He has been selected as the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communication Society from 2021 to 2022. He is an adjunct professor with Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Bharat S. Rawal

Dr Bharat S. Rawal is a full Professor & Chair of Computer Science at Capitol Technology University, USA. His research focuses on network security, cloud computing and security, blockchain, Big Data and analytical modeling, smart grid, and health informatics for the development of next-generation cyber defense and operation technologies. He has published peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and journal publications, and has two patents. He is a member of (ACM, IEEE, IET, etc.). He received his D.Sc degree in IT from Towson University Maryland. Previous Faculty Positions: Associate Professor at Gannon University, Pennsylvania State University, Duke University, Industry Served: Biochem Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Bashundhara Pharmaceutical Ltd. Coracias Advance Technologies LLC. Roles he served in industry: Chairman, President, CEO, and Director of Marketing.

Damian Valles

Damian Valles, Ph.D. Dr. Damian Valles is an Assistant Professor for the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University. He focuses on High-Performance Computing (HPC), Machine Learning (ML), and Embedded System implementations under the High-Performance Engineering (HiPE) research group. Dr. Valles received his B.S., M.S, and PhD. from The University of Texas at El Paso from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, focusing on Reconfigurable Processors and HPC research. Dr. Valles did a post-doc at Montana Tech as the HPC Application Scientist under the Computer Science department. He also worked as an HPC System Administrator in the Information Systems department and an adjunct position in the Computer Science department at Wake Forest University. He is currently a member of IEEE, ACM, ACM's SIGHPC, and SHPE.

IPA 12: IEEE 5G & BEYOND TESTBED: JOURNEY FOR INDUSTRY COLLABORATIONS

WEDNESDAY, DEC 7 14:00 - 15:30  /  LOCATION: Americas I

Moderator: Anwer Al-Dulaimi, EXFO Inc., Canada

Panelists:
Chih-Lin I, China Mobile Chief Scientist, Wireless Technologies China Mobile Research Institute, China
Tracy Van Brakle, Principal Member of Technical Staff with AT&T Labs
Benoit Pelletier, Director, Edge AI Ecosystems, VMware Advanced Technologies Telco Edge Cloud, Montreal, Canada
Aloknath De, Vice President of Samsung Electronics and the Chief Technology Officer of Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India
Ashutosh Dutta, Senior Scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) and co-chair of of IEEE Future Networks Initiative, USA
 
Abstract:
The IEEE Future Networks Initiative has begun a newly funded project to create a virtual testing and experimentation platform to accelerate network innovations. This platform will host an end-to-end 5G network in the form of a private network that incorporates all segments from RAN through core network. The platform is meant primarily to help industry emulate the functionality and behavior of 5G and Beyond 5G networks. This project comes on the heels of a global financial downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, where many innovation projects were dropped for cost-saving reasons. The goal of this project is to develop a collaborative platform that brings value to individual member companies while encouraging and facilitating reduced-cost industry-centered innovation in collaboration with academia, governments, etc. The current inaugural members are EXFO, AT&T, VMware, China Mobile, and Samsung, who will provide oversight of the deployment of the platform's basic infrastructure over the coming 12 months. Long term, the platform will encourage participation from academia to stimulate next-generation network advances and easy collaboration opportunities between academia and industry. The discussions and presentations from member companies will provide an overview of the platform design, evolution plan, relevance to industry, 5G and 6G advancement opportunities, transformation of knowledge, and adoption of new innovations by standards. The project members recognize that IEEE GlobeCom is the most relevant venue to this initiative and so have written this proposal for consideration by industrial panel committee.

Biography:

Anwer Al-Dulaimi

Anwer Al-Dulaimi is currently a Senior Manager of Emerging technologies & Innovations and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at EXFO Inc., Montreal, Canada. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Brunel University, London, U.K., in 2012 after receiving M.Sc. and B.Sc. honors degrees in communication engineering. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, sponsored by Blackberry’s advanced research team. In his current role, Anwer is responsible for identifying new trends of mobile technology evolutions and the adaptation phases that EXFO need to take for compliancy. He is the chair of the newly established IEEE 5G & Beyond Testbed Project working to develop a virtual testing platform for E2E network innovation. He is the chair of the IEEE 1932.1 ‘Standard for Licensed/Unlicensed Spectrum Interoperability in Wireless Mobile Network’. He is also representing EXFO in many industrial forums such as One6G and other collaborative projects. He is the Editor of IEEE Future Networks Series on 5G & 6G published by IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, editor of Vehicular Networking Series in IEEE Communication Standards Magazine and guest editor of many other IEEE series issues. His research interests include 5G and 6G networks, cloud computing, Blockchains and cybersecurity. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), registered as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) by the British Engineering Council since 2010. He is a member of the NSERC discovery grants committee and a senior member of IEEE.

Chih-Lin I

Chih-Lin I is CMCC Chief Scientist of Wireless Technologies. She received Ph.D. EE from Stanford University. She has won 2005 IEEE ComSoc Stephen Rice Prize, 2018 IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 7th IEEE Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, and 2015 IEEE Industrial Innovation Award for Leadership and Innovation in Next-Generation Cellular Wireless Networks. She is the Chair of O-RAN Technical Steering Committee and an O-RAN Executive Committee Member, the Chair of FuTURE 5G/6G SIG, the Chair of WAIA (Wireless AI Alliance) Executive Committee, an Executive Board Member of GreenTouch, a Network Operator Council Founding Member of ETSI NFV, a Steering Board Member and Vice Chair of WWRF, a Steering Committee member and the Publication Chair of IEEE 5G and Future Networks Initiatives, a member of IEEE ComSoc SDB, SPC, and CSCN-SC, and a Scientific Advisory Board Member of Singapore NRF. She has published over 200 papers in scientific journals, book chapters and conferences and holds over 100 patents. She is co-author of the book “Green and Software-defined Wireless Networks –From Theory to Practice” and has also Co-edited two books: “Ultradense Networks –Principles and Applications” and “5G Networks –Fundamental Requirements, Enabling Technologies, and Operations Management”. Her current research interests center around ICDT Deep Convergence: “From Green & Soft to Open & Smart”.

Tracy Van Brakle

Tracy Van Brakle –Tracy Van Brakle is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with AT&T Labs - Wireless Technologies. She is a co-chair and/or contributor within several open-source projects and standards development organizations (SDOs) as well as Principal Investigator (PI) for INDIGO (Intelligent 5G Networks Designed and Integrated for Globalized Operations), a recent awardee of the NSF Convergence Accelerator program.  INDIGO involves integrating and automating open RAN technologies using model-driven interface specifications from O-RAN, 3GPP, and other SDOs, to address the security and resilience requirements of both military and civilian search-and-rescue teams.  Tracy is also Co-PI or Industry Affiliate for NSF SII-NRDZ (Spectrum Innovation Initiative – National Radio Dynamic Zones) and NSF Regional Innovation Engines.  Before joining AT&T, Tracy was a Senior Technologist with Goldman Sachs. She holds 17 active US patents in Wireless Technologies.

Benoit Pelletier

Benoit Pelletier is currently Director, Edge AI Ecosystems in the Advanced Technologies Telco Edge Cloud Business Unit at VMware with a Global mandate. Co-founder of the $400M ENCQOR 5G Public Private Partnership initiative with international collaboration between Canada, USA, Europe and UK, executive member of the board for Innovation ENCQOR, a NPO created to deliver this PPP across Quebec-Ontario corridor. Creative thinker and passionate about collaborative innovation, disruptive technologies and execution! Proven leader with an intrapreneur mindset who creates rich and unique ecosystems that connect multinational corporations, SMBs, governments and academia. “Innovate or Evaporate” has been his mantra over the last 30 years in different industry markets: Telecomat VMware, Ciena and Nortel, Transport at Bombardier andMilitaryAerospace at Oerlikon Aerospace. Benoit held several leadership positions in design, system integration, program management and business development. Broad knowledge in Product Development and expertise in New Product Introduction of cutting-edge technologies along with government relationships. Benoit holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sherbrooke.

Aloknath De

Dr. Aloknath De is a corporate vice president of Samsung Electronics and chief technology officer of Samsung R&D Institute India in Bangalore where he is responsible for Samsung’s IoT Data Platform and Advanced Service. Dr. De is considered one of the “Most Influential CIO/CTOs of India.” He is a recipient of the Alexander Graham Bell Prize in Canada. He has also received IETE Memorial Awards for distinguished contributions in Electronics and Communications, IDC Insights Award for Innovation in Telecom, and the Zinnov Intrapreneur of the Year award. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of IE, IETE, and Indian National Academy of Engg (INAE). Dr. De promotes science and technology linkage through IP creation, startup collaboration, and innovative solutions. In addition to more than 30 years of industrial and research experience, including BEL, Nortel (Montreal), Hughes and with ST-Ericsson where he was country director, he served as a visiting professor with IIT-Roorkee and IIT-Delhi from 2005 to 2011. Dr. De holds a B.Tech. from IIT, Kharagpur, an M.E. from IISc, Bangalore, and a Ph.D. from McGill University, Montreal.

Ashutosh Dutta

Ashutosh Dutta is currently Chief 5G Strategist and JHU/APL Sabbatical Fellow at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs (JHU/APL), USA. He also serves as Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering for Engineering Professional Program at JHU. His career, spanning more than 30 years, includes Director of Technology Security and Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, CTO of Wireless at a Cybersecurity company NIKSUN, Inc., Senior Scientist in Telcordia Research, Director of Central Research Facility at Columbia University, adjunct faculty at NJIT, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. Ashutosh is author of more than 100 technical papers and 31 issued patents. Ashutosh is co-author of the book, titled, “Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimization: Design, Evaluation and Application” published by IEEE and John & Wiley. As a Technical Leader in 5G and security, Ashutosh has been serving as the founding Co-Chair for the IEEE Future Networks Initiative that focuses on 5G standardization, education, publications, testbed, and roadmap activities. Ashutosh is IEEE Communications Society's Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2020 and as an ACM DistinguishedSpeaker (2020-2022). Ashutosh currently serves as the founding co-chair for IEEE Future Networks Initiative and Member-At-Large for IEEE Communications Society. He co-founded the IEEE STEM conference (ISEC) and helped to implement EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) projects in several high schools. Ashutosh has served as the general Co-Chair for the IEEE STEM conference for the last 10 years. Ashutosh served as the Director of Industry Outreach for IEEE Communications Society from 2014-2019. He was recipient of 2009 IEEE MGA Leadership award and 2010 IEEE-USA professional leadership award. Ashutosh currently serves as Member-At-Large for IEEE Communications Society for 2020-2022. Ashutosh has served as the general Co-Chair for the premier IEEE 5G World Forums and has organized 73 5G World Summits around the world. Ashutosh currently serves as the Chair for IEEE Industry Connection’s O-RAN activities. Ashutosh is a Distinguished Alumnus of NIT Rourkela with BS in Electrical Engineering, MS in Computer Science from NJIT, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne. Ashutosh is a Fellow of IEEE and Distinguished member ACM.

IPA 14: NGA SHAPING 6G VISION

WEDNESDAY, DEC 7 14:00 - 15:30  /  LOCATION: Americas IV

Moderator: Ali Khayrallah, Ericsson Inc., USA

Panelists:
Muriel Médard, Professor, MIT, USA
Tommaso Melodia, Professor, Northeastern University, USA
Venkatesh Ramaswamy, Chief Technologist, MITRE Labs, USA
Ed Tiedemann, Sr. Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm, USA
Ian Wong, Director, VIAVI Solutions, USA
 
Abstract:
The purpose of the panel is to present the ATIS Next Generation Alliance (NGA), an initiative to advance North American leadership in mobile technology. Since the original call to action by ATIS in Fall 2020, NGA is now a fully formed organization representing members from industry, academia and government. NGA has organized the following working groups: National 6G Roadmap, Technology, Applications, Spectrum, Green, and Societal and Economic Needs. These groups have issued publications reporting on their findings. We highlight 2 outcomes: - Roadmap to 6G, which outlines 6 audacious goals in the areas of trust; security and resilience; digital world experience; sustainability; cost-efficient solutions; distributed cloud and communications systems; and AI-native wireless solutions. - Research priorities, which cover applications; technologies; sustainability goals; and social and economic drivers; identify barriers and challenges. In addition, NGA recently launched it Research Council, with 6 experts from academia and 6 from industry, to drive the NGA agenda forward, in particular in engagements with academic, governmental, and industrial research forums.

Biography:

Ali Khayrallah

Ali Khayrallah is a senior scientist with the Advanced Technology Group at Ericsson in Santa Clara, CA. He has been with Ericsson in various research positions, in Santa Clara, CA, where he led a team shaping future wireless technology, and earlier in Research Triangle Park, NC. His current focus is on 6G, and he has contributed to the development of 5G, 4G, 3G, Bluetooth, mobile satellite, land mobile radio etc. Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Delaware. He received a Ph.D. and an M.S. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a B.Eng. from the American University of Beirut. He holds 100+ patents and received the Ericsson inventor of the year award.

Muriel Médard

Muriel Médard is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at MIT, where she leads the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group in the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT. She obtained three Bachelors degrees (EECS 1989, Mathematics 1989 and Humanities 1991), as well as her M.S. (1991) and Sc.D (1995), all from MIT. Muriel is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (elected 2020), a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (elected 2022), a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (elected 2018), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2021), and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (elected 2008). She holds Honorary Doctorates from the Technical University of Munich (2020) and from The University of Aalborg (2022). Muriel was co-winner of the MIT 2004 Harold E. Egerton Faculty Achievement Award and was named a Gilbreth Lecturer by the US National Academy of Engineering in 2007. She received the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award and the 2016 IEEE Vehicular Technology James Evans Avant Garde Award. Muriel was awarded the 2022 IEEE Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award. She received the 2019 Best Paper award for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, the 2018 ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award, the 2009 IEEE Communication Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, the 2009 William R. Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Networking, the 2002 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Prize Paper Award, as well as nine conference paper awards. Most of her prize papers are co-authored with students from her group. Muriel has served as technical program committee co-chair of ISIT (twice), CoNext, WiOpt, WCNC and of many workshops. She has chaired the IEEE Medals committee, and served as member and chair of many committees, including as inaugural chair of the Millie Dresselhaus Medal. She was Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and has served as editor or guest editor of many IEEE publications, including the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, the IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, and the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. Muriel was a member of the inaugural steering committees for the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory. She currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Muriel was elected president of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2012, and serves on its board of governors, having previously served for eleven years. Muriel received the inaugural 2013 MIT EECS Graduate Student Association Mentor Award, voted by the students. She set up the Women in the Information Theory Society (WithITS) and Information Theory Society Mentoring Program, for which she was recognized with the 2017 Aaron Wyner Distinguished Service Award. She served as undergraduate Faculty in Residence for seven years in two MIT dormitories (2002–2007). Murielwas elected by the faculty and served as member and later chair of the MIT Faculty Committee on Student Life and as inaugural chair of the MIT Faculty Committee on Campus Planning. She was chair of the Institute Committee on Student Life. She was recognized as a Siemens Outstanding Mentor (2004) for her work with High School students. She serves on the Board of Trustees since 2015 of the International School of Boston, for which she is treasurer. Muriel has over sixty US and international patents awarded, the vast majority of which have been licensed or acquired. For technology transfer, she has co-founded CodeOn, for which she consults, and Steinwurf, for which she is Chief Scientist. Muriel has supervised over 40 master students, over 20 doctoral students and over 25 postdoctoral fellows.

Tommaso Melodia

Tommaso Melodia is the William L. Smith Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. He is also the Founding Director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things and the Director of Research for the PAWR Project Office. He received his Laurea (integrated BS and MS) from the University of Rome - La Sapienza and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007. He is an IEEE Fellow and recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award. Prof. Melodia is serving as Editor in Chief for Computer Networks. Prof. Melodia is a co-founder of 6G Symposium, and was the Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE Infocom 2018. Prof. Melodia’s research has been funded by US industry and a number of Federal agencies including the US National Science Foundation, the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Air Force Research Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research, DARPA, the the Army Research Laboratory, the Department of Transportation, IARPA, and NASA.

Venkatesh Ramaswamy

Dr. Venkatesh Ramaswamy is Chief Technologist at MITRE Labs in Bedford, Massachusetts where he currently leads technical innovation and R&D activities in 5G/xG technologies. He has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has held technical leadership positions at top technology companies, startups, and research labs. He has published more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and patents, served as a TPC member for various conferences, and participated in several technical panels. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mississippi.

Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr.

Dr. Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr. is an IEEE Fellow, a Qualcomm Fellow, and a Senior Vice President of Engineering of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He leads Qualcomm’s worldwide standardization and industry organization activities. Dr. Tiedemann was instrumental in the design and development of the TIA/EIA/IS-95 CDMA system, also called cdmaOne™. He has been active in every G since then. Dr. Tiedemann has almost 300 granted US patents and has participated in many papers, conference lectures, and industry panels. He is interested in multiple topics in communications including 5G and beyond, IoT, and V2x. Dr. Tiedemann holds the Ph.D. degree from MIT where he worked in the areas of queueing theory and communications networks. He holds the Master of Science degree from Purdue University and the Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Va Tech). Dr. Tiedemann currently is a member of the Next G Alliance Research Council, the Purdue University Semiconductor Degrees Leadership Board, the Advisory Board of the Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) School of Engineering Advisory Committee, and the International Advisory Panel of the Singapore Future Communications Research & Development Programme. He also serves as the IEEE Communications Society as Director, Standards Development. Dr. Tiedemann is past chairman of the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Va Tech) and was General Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2015. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Peabody Essex Museum and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Concord Museum. He has received numerous recognitions, including the Robert M. Walp Industry Humanitarian Award from the IEEE Communications Society.

Ian C. Wong

Dr. Ian C. Wong is presently the Director of RF and Wireless Architecture in the CTO office at VIAVI Solutions, where he is leading RF and wireless technology strategy, architectures, and standards. He is the co-chair of the Test and Integration Focus Group (TIFG) and the Next-Generation Research Platforms research stream in the O-RAN Alliance, and VIAVI’s representative at the full member and steering groups of the NextG Alliance. From 2009 – Aug 2020, he was with NI (formerly National Instruments) where his last position was Section Manager of Wireless Systems R&D where he led the development of real-time end-to-end 5G wireless test and prototyping systems, and managed the company’s 3GPP wireless standards and IP strategy. From 2007-2009, he was a systems research and standards engineer with Freescale Semiconductor where he represented Freescale in the 3GPP LTE standardization efforts. He is a senior member of the IEEE, was the Director of Industry Communities for IEEE Communications Society 2016-2019, and was the Industry Program Chair for IEEE Globecom 2014 in Austin. Dr. Wong co-authored the Springer book “Resource Allocation for Multiuser Multicarrier Wireless Systems,” numerous patents, standards contributions, and IEEE journal and conference publications. He was awarded the Texas Telecommunications Engineering Consortium Fellowship in 2003-2004, and the Wireless Networking and Communications Group student leadership award in 2007. He received the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and 2007, respectively, and a BS degree in electronics and communications engineering (magna cum laude) from the University of the Philippines in 2000.

 

IPA 13: IEEE FUTURE NETWORKS ROADMAP TOWARDS 6G

WEDNESDAY, DEC 7 16:00 - 17:30  /  LOCATION: Americas I

Moderator: Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs (JHU/APL), USA

Panelists:
Tim Lee, IEEE MTT-S, USA
Eman Hammad, Professor University of Texas A&M
Narendra Mangra, Principal, Globenet, USA, Co-Chair IEEE Future Networks Roadmap
Sudhir Dixit, Co-Founder and Senior Fellow at the Basic Internet Foundation in Oslo, Norway
Rose Hu, Co-Chair INGR, Associate Dean for Research and Professor , Utah State University
 
Abstract:
INGR (International Networks Generation Roadmap) is a key component of IEEE Future Networks Initiative (futurenetworks.ieee.org). The first version of roadmap white paper was published in 2017 that led to the creation of 15 working groups. These working groups include Applications and Services, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Connecting the Unconnected, Deployment, Edge Services and Automation, Energy Efficiency, Hardware, Massive MIMO, Millimeter Wave and Signal Processing, Optics, Satellite, Standardization and Building Blocks, Systems Optimization, and Testbed. As the industry continues to advance, the evolution and deployment of network generations is influenced and impacted not only by emerging, evolving, and potential convergence of technologies, but also by local and world socio-economic and health conditions (and politics). So much can happen in a year, which is why the INGR is a living document that is updated annually. The inaugural INGR was released in 2020 and its focus was primarily on the evolution of 5G networks. The intention of the 2021 INGR Edition was to take a more end-to-end perspective that included integrating future network technologies and establish a transdisciplinary framework and a predictive model for mobile networks. 2022 and the next two years will be a time of heavy 5G deployment, transformation at the edge, and increased interworking of network technologies and systems. Hence, the 2022 Edition of the IEEE Future Networks International Network Generations Roadmap (INGR) points to trends, challenges, and solutions in the current and near-term mobile network landscape, and the future vision as being cultivated through the activities of Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and the industry around the globe. This 2022 INGR Edition broadens applications of the transdisciplinary framework, progresses each technology and system challenges and opportunities especially while interworking with other areas - while noting lessons learned that can be applied to beyond 5G. As part of this panel, the working group co-chairs will share the highlights of various INGR technology working groups and how these will affect the evolution of next generation networks and deployments over varying timelines.

Biography:

Ashutosh Dutta

Ashutosh Dutta is currently Chief 5G Strategist and JHU/APL Sabbatical Fellow at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs (JHU/APL), USA. He also serves as Chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering for Engineering Professional Program at JHU. His career, spanning more than 30 years, includes Director of Technology Security and Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, CTO of Wireless at a Cybersecurity company NIKSUN, Inc., Senior Scientist in Telcordia Research, Director of Central Research Facility at Columbia University, adjunct faculty at NJIT, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. Ashutosh is author of more than 100 technical papers and 31 issued patents. Ashutosh is co-author of the book, titled, “Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimization: Design, Evaluation and Application” published by IEEE and John & Wiley. As a Technical Leader in 5G and security, Ashutosh has been serving as the founding Co-Chair for the IEEE Future Networks Initiative that focuses on 5G standardization, education, publications, testbed, and roadmap activities. Ashutosh is IEEE Communications Society's Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2020 and as an ACM DistinguishedSpeaker (2020-2022). Ashutosh currently serves as the founding co-chair for IEEE Future Networks Initiative and Member-At-Large for IEEE Communications Society. He co-founded the IEEE STEM conference (ISEC) and helped to implement EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) projects in several high schools. Ashutosh has served as the general Co-Chair for the IEEE STEM conference for the last 10 years. Ashutosh served as the Director of Industry Outreach for IEEE Communications Society from 2014-2019. He was recipient of 2009 IEEE MGA Leadership award and 2010 IEEE-USA professional leadership award. Ashutosh currently serves as Member-At-Large for IEEE Communications Society for 2020-2022. Ashutosh has served as the general Co-Chair for the premier IEEE 5G World Forums and has organized 73 5G World Summits around the world. Ashutosh currently serves as the Chair for IEEE Industry Connection’s O-RAN activities. Ashutosh is a Distinguished Alumnus of NIT Rourkela with BS in Electrical Engineering, MS in Computer Science from NJIT, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne. Ashutosh is a Fellow of IEEE and Distinguished member ACM.

Tim Lee

Tim currently is a Boeing Technical Fellow at the Boeing Company Research and Technology with focus on advanced microelectronics for communications, sensing and data processing. His areas of interests include RF electronics, and advanced packaging mission systems. He is the co-chair of the IEEE Future Networks Initiative with focus on RF / millimeter-wave electronics and antennas for 5G and 6G applications. He was the 2015 IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society president. Currently he is serving on the IEEE Board of Directors and as the IEEE Region 6 Director.

Eman Hammad

Dr. Eman Hammad is a cybersecurity & interdisciplinary professional focusing on trustworthy & resilient complex systems and emerging technologies. She is the director of the innovations in Systems Trust & Resilience (iSTAR) lab and professor of cybersecurity at Texas A&M University System. Recently, Eman was honored as one of Canada's Top 20 Women in Cybersecurity. Eman is actively involved with several IEEE initiatives and activities including Toronto ComSoc chapter, Future Networks INGR, P1950.1 smart cities standard, and Public Safety Technology Initiative. She delivered numerous invited talks and panels in academic and industrial conferences, chaired and co-chaired several conferences and workshops. Her service has been recognized by IEEE exceptional, chapter achievement, and exemplary service awards. Eman is an active advocate for diversity and inclusion in STEM and Cybersecurity.

Narendra Mangra

Narendra is a Principal at GlobeNet LLC and provides advisory and consulting services. across industry, government, and academia. His diverse experience spans strategy development, roadmap development, spectrum management, mobile network planning and system deployments, enterprise-wide modernization, program management, and education. He is an Adjunct Professor at the George Mason University. Narendra also leads several IEEE initiatives such as the Future Networks INGR, P1950.1 smart cities architecture standards development, Public Safety Technology Initiative, and the Telehealth and Transdisciplinary Framework Industry Connections. His current interests include comprehensive transdisciplinary frameworks, 5G and future networks, digital transformation, smart communities, and related ecosystems.

Sudhir Dixit

Sudhir Dixit is a Co-Founder and Senior Fellow at the Basic Internet Foundation in Oslo, Norway, and heads its US operations. He is also associated with the Academy of Finland Flagship 6G Project, led by the University of Oulu, Finland where he has been a Docent since 2010. 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 engineering and leadership positions at BlackBerry, Nokia, NSN and NYNEX (currently Verizon Communications). He has published nine books,and holds 21 U.S. patents. From 2010 to 2012, he was an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, and, since 2022 he is also a VAJRA Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. A Life Fellow of the IEEE, 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.

Rose Hu

Rose is a professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Associate Dean for research of College of Engineering at Utah State University, where she also directs Communications Network Innovation Lab. Besides decades of academia experience, she has more than 10 years industrial R&D experience with Nortel, Blackberry, and Intel as a technical manager, a senior research scientist, and a senior wireless system architect, actively participating 4G technology development, standardization, system level simulation and performance evaluation. Rose is an IEEE Fellow, IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer, NIST Communication Technology Laboratory Innovator 2020. She is currently a co-chair of IEEE International Network Generations Roadmap (INGR), IEEE ComSoc BoG as CIO, a voting member of IEEE ComSoc Conference Council, and site selection chair of GIMS standing committee.

 

IPA 15: ELECTROMAGNETIC INFORMATION THEORY: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THE MASSIVE MIMO EVOLUTION

WEDNESDAY, DEC 7 16:00 - 17:30  /  LOCATION: Americas IV

Moderator: Tengjiao Wang, Huawei Technologies, China

Panelists:
Mérouane Debbah, Technology Innovation Institute, France
Cheng-Xiang Wang, Southeast University, China & Purple Mountain Laboratories, China
Emil Björnson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Linglong Dai, Tsinghua University, China
Mengnan Jian, ZTE Corporation, China
 
Abstract:
In the past ten years, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has been developed rapidly from a theoretical concept to a practical technique and greatly enhanced the performance of 5G wireless communications. In the future, it is predicted that the data of usage (DoU) of an individual user per month will increase from 10 GB to 150 GB by 2025. In order to meet the immensely higher data rate, reliability, and traffic demands in the future 5G-Advanced communications, novel architectures and frameworks beyond massive MIMO are rapidly emerging to fully utilize the electromagnetic waves to convey information, including holographic MIMO, extremely large antenna arrays (ELAA), reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), etc. The ultimate limitation of the channel capacity and the ways to achieve this capacity are two fundamental questions for these novel architectures. However, current analysis and design methods are usually based on the scalar-quantity, far-field, planar-wavefront, monochromatic and other non-physically-consistent assumptions, which may cause mismatch between the system design and the realistic propagation environment. To solve this problem, the emerging electromagnetic information theory (EIT) is proposed and has attracted increasing interests from both academia and industry. By integrating the statistical information theory with the deterministic electromagnetic theory, it is able to build a more physically consistent communication model and establish more fundamental limitations. It is expected that EIT will bring brand new theoretical analysis and system design paradigms to the future wireless communications beyond massive MIMO.
 

Biography:

Tengjiao Wang

Tengjiao Wang (IEEE Member) received his B.S. degree and Ph. D. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2016 and 2021, respectively. He was a visiting scholar with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2019. Currently, he is a principal research engineer with Wireless Network RAN Research Department, Huawei Technologies CO., Ltd, Shanghai, China. His research interests lie in the fields of 5.5G wireless communications, electromagnetic information theory, visible light communications, and machine learning for wireless communications. He was a recipient of the Wang Daheng Optical Award in 2021, the Academic Star of Tsinghua University in 2021, the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Tsinghua University in 2021, and the National Scholarship in 2018.

Mérouane Debbah

Mérouane Debbah (IEEE Fellow) received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France. Since 2021, he has been the chief research officer at the Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi. He also jointly leads the AI and telecommunication centers. He has managed 8 EU projects and more than 24 national and international projects. His research interests lie in fundamental mathematics, algorithms, statistics, information, and communication sciences research. He is a WWRF Fellow, a Eurasip Fellow, an Institute Louis Bachelier Fellow, and a Membre émérite SEE. He was a recipient of the Mario Boella Award in 2005, the IEEE Glavieux Prize Award in 2011, the Qualcomm Innovation Prize Award in 2012, the 2019 IEEE Radio Communications Committee Technical Recognition Award, and the 2020 SEE Blondel Medal. He has received more than 20 best paper awards.

Cheng-Xiang Wang

Cheng-Xiang Wang (IEEE Fellow) received his Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2004. He is a professor with the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China, and also a part-time professor with Purple Mountain Laboratories, China. He is a Member of the Academy of Europe, a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His research interests include wireless channel measurements and modeling, 6G wireless communication networks, and electromagnetic information theory. He has authored 4 books, 3 book chapters, and more than 480 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, including 26 highly cited papers. He delivered 24 invited keynote speeches/talks and 14 tutorials in international conferences, and received 15 Best Paper Awards.

Emil Björnson

Emil Björnson (IEEE Fellow) received his Ph.D. degree from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2011. He is a professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 10044, Sweden. His research interests include multiple-input, multiple-output and reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided communications; radio resource allocation; and energy efficiency. He received the 2018 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award, 2019 European Association for Signal Processing Early Career Award, 2019 IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Prize, 2020 Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award, 2020 Communication Theory Technical Committee Early Achievement Award, and 2021 IEEE Communications Society Radio Communications Committee Early Achievement Award. He has performed MIMO research for over 15 years, his articles have received more than 17000 citations, and he filed more than 20 patent applications.

Linglong Dai

Linglong Dai (IEEE Fellow) is an associate professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University in 2011. His research interests include massive multiple-input, multiple-output, millimeter-wave/terahertz communications, non-orthogonal multiple access, reconfigurable intelligent surface, and machine learning for wireless communications. He has authored or coauthored over 70 IEEE journal papers and over 40 IEEE conference papers. He also holds 19 granted patents. He has received five IEEE Best Paper Awards at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2013, the IEEE ICC 2014, the IEEE ICC 2017, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2017-Fall, and the IEEE ICC 2018. He was listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2020 and 2021.

Mengnan Jian

Mengnan Jian received the B.S. and M.S. degree in electronic engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2016 and Tsinghua Unversity in 2019 respectively. She is now a master researcher in the wireless research institute of ZTE Corporation, responsible for long-term research and early standardization of candidate technologies for next generation wireless networks. Her research interests include ultra-massive MIMO, reconfigurable intelligent surface, electromagnetic information theory and orbital angular momentum. She is the author or co-author of several books and book chapters. She has published more than 20 academic papers and holds a number of patents. She has authored and submitted multiple technical contributions to standardization bodies, such as ETSI ISG RIS and CCSA.
 

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