2020 Future Technology Workshop at MWC


CANCELED: Future Technology Workshop at Mobile World Congress in Barcelonabarcelona 3226639 1920
System Optimization for the 5G Era

 

**** NOTICE ****

IEEE has been monitoring the developing Coronavirus outbreak.

The safety and well-being of all conference participants are our priorities After studying and evaluating the announcements, guidance, and news released by relevant national departments, we are sorry to announce that this event will be postponed.

Please stay connected with the Future Networks Initiative for information on future events similar to this one.

We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

 

 

Overview

IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization advancing technology for humanity is hosting a  Future Technology Workshop focusing on System Optimization for the 5G era in the backdrop of Mobile World Congress, Barcelona on Thursday, February 27, 2020.

This workshop is sponsored by IEEE Future Networks Initiative and is aimed to bring together researchers, scientists and architects from industry, academia and governments who are actively engaged in discovery of various sciences and inventing novel techniques for optimization of 5G era systems. This workshop is expected to serve as a catalyst to:

  • investigate and identify system optimization requirements for mass scale deployment of 5G era systems and drive open industry ecosystems and standards addressing such requirements;
  • identify new research areas for technologies to be developed or enhanced to support future extensions targeting next ten-year timeframe.

Patron: 

Ciena logo transp bkgd 900px


Keynote Speakers:

Hoffman

Jason Hoffman is the Chairman and CEO of MobiledgeX, a company focusing on edge computing and founded by Deutsche Telekom. Previously he was a CTO at Ericsson AB and was P&L responsible for their cloud and datacenter infrastructure business. While at Ericsson his group created the world’s first hyperscale, disaggregated system and led the market in the modernization of telecom infrastructure.

 

 

Vish

Vish Nandlall is the Head of Emerging Technologies and Ecosystems at Dell-EMC. He served as CTO for Ericsson North America, where he designed their regional market strategy and technology roadmap. Foremost among Vish’s accomplishments during his tenure with Ericsson, he led the resolution of AT&T 3G performance issues plaguing the firm. He also organised a market-by-market analytics initiative, identified signaling and network design flaws, and rolled out features efficiently in under a year to move all markets to target levels of retain ability.

Vish Nandlall also developed and executed a plan to deliver five emerging business organizations, including Cloud, SDN, OSS/BSS, Video, and Mobile Enterprise. These businesses realized an annualized $2 billion in new revenue at a time when the North American market revenue was $9 billion total. This success hinged on Vish’s ability to develop a portfolio through R&D prioritization, an effective M&A plan, and management of the service and sales support recruiting and training.

Vish Nandlall began his career at Nortel Networks, where he started in 1995 by leading the design of the world’s first distributed call processing platform. Over the course of the next ten years, he went on to pioneer 10Gbps IP forwarding, act as a key contributor and author of the Verizon A-IMS specification, and even lead the industry’s first LTE trial system. In 2005, Vish was named Nortel’s CTO for the Carrier Network Group as well as a Nortel Distinguished Engineer for his technical leadership across the firm’s IP, optical, and wireless products.

Vish holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, First Division, with a focus in Electrical Engineering, from the University of New Brunswick. He has been published several times, holds multiple patents, and has been listed by Wireless World as one of their Global 100 Wireless Experts. In 2016, he was inducted to the “Knowledge Nation 100” for his contributions to the country’s innovation agenda. Global Telecom Business listed him as one of their “50 CTOs to Watch.”

He speaks regularly at conferences, and has recently presented on topics including, “Building an IoT Strategy” at MWC 2016 and “Software Defined Transportation” at the 2016 NSW Transport Summit. Highly active within his community, Vish Nandlall has served as a director and policy chair for TIA. He also sits on the ATIS board, the FCC technology advisory committee, the Cloud Foundry board, and the EMC (now Dell Technologies) technology advisory board.

Vish shares his point of view and insights on topics like IoT and Big Data on http://vishnandlall.org/


 Speakers: 

chih lin cropped

Chih-Lin I received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She has been working at multiple world-class companies and research institutes leading the R&D, including AT&T Bell Labs; Director of AT&T HQ, Director of ITRI Taiwan, and VPGD of ASTRI Hong Kong. She received the IEEE Trans. COM Stephen Rice Best Paper Award, the IEEE ComMag Fred W. Ellersick Prize Best Paper Award, is a winner of the CCCP National 1000 Talent Program, and has won the 2015 Industrial Innovation Award of IEEE Communication Society for Leadership and Innovation in Next-Generation Cellular Wireless Networks.

In 2011, she joined China Mobile as its Chief Scientist of wireless technologies, established the Green Communications Research Center, and launched the 5G Key Technologies R&D. She is spearheading major initiatives including 5G, C-RAN, high energy efficiency system architectures, technologies and devices, green energy, and wireless big data for network embedded intelligence. She has led the launch of Wireless AI Alliance (WAIA) and O-RAN (Open RAN) Alliance.

She was an Area Editor of IEEE/ACM Trans. NET, an elected Board Member of IEEE ComSoc, Chair of the ComSoc Meetings and Conferences Board, and Founding Chair of the IEEE WCNC Steering Committee. She was a Professor at NCTU, a hih-Lin I received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She has been working at multiple world-class companies and research institutes leading the R&D, including AT&T Bell Labs; Director of AT&T HQ, Director of ITRI Taiwan, and VPGD of ASTRI Hong Kong. She received the IEEE Trans. COM Stephen Rice Best Paper Award, the IEEE ComMag Fred W. Ellersick Prize Best Paper Award, is a winner of the CCCP National 1000 Talent Program, and has won the 2015 Industrial Innovation Award of IEEE Communication Society for Leadership and Innovation in Next-Generation Cellular Wireless Networks.

In 2011, she joined China Mobile as its Chief Scientist of wireless technologies, established the Green Communications Research Center, and launched the 5G Key Technologies R&D. She is spearheading major initiatives including 5G, C-RAN, high energy efficiency system architectures, technologies and devices, green energy, and wireless big data for network embedded intelligence. She has led the launch of Wireless AI Alliance (WAIA) and O-RAN (Open RAN) Alliance.

She was an Area Editor of IEEE/ACM Trans. NET, an elected Board Member of IEEE ComSoc, Chair of the ComSoc Meetings and Conferences Board, and Founding Chair of the IEEE WCNC Steering Committee. She was a Professor at NCTU, an Adjunct Professor at NTU, and an Adjunct Professor at BUPT. She is the Chair of FuTURE 5G SIG, the Chair of WAIA Executive Committee, the Chair of O-RAN TSC, 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 Initiative, a member of IEEE ComSoc SDB, SPC, and  n Adjunct Professor at NTU, and an Adjunct Professor at BUPT. She is the Chair of FuTURE 5G SIG, the Chair of WAIA Executive Committee, the Chair of O-RAN TSC, 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 Initiative, a member of IEEE ComSoc SDB, SPC, and CSCN-SC, and a Scientific Advisory Board Member of Singapore NRF. Her current research interests center around “From Green & Soft to Open & Smart”.

Melike GB1Dr. Melike Erol Kantarci is a leading expert on wireless communications, AI-enabled networks, smart grid and electric vehicles. She is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in AI-enabled Next-Generation Wireless Networks and an associate professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. She is an influential researcher with more than 100 peer-reviewed, well-cited publications. Her pioneering work in smart grid communications has received several awards and recognitions. She has co-edited two books and delivered many invited talks around the globe. She has acted as the general chair and technical program chair for many international conferences and workshops. She is the Chair for the special interest group (SIG) of the IEEE ComSoc on “Machine Learning-Enabled Communication Software” and the Chair for “SIG on Green Smart Grid Communications”. She is a senior member of the IEEE.

 

Sachin

Dr. Sachin Katti is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and also the Director of the xRAN Foundation. He is also Co-Founder and ex-CEO of Kumu Networks which is commercializing his research on full duplex radios. He received his PhD in EECS from MIT in 2009. His research focuses on designing and building next generation high capacity wireless networks by combining techniques from information and coding theory, RF systems, and networking. His research has won numerous awards, including the 2008 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award - Honorable Mention, the George Sprowls Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in EECS at MIT, the IEEE William Bennett Prize, the Best Student Paper Award at ACM SIGCOMM 2012, USENIX ATC 2013, the Sloan Fellowship, the NSF Career Award as well as Okawa, Hooover, Packard and Terman Faculty Fellowships.

 

Aarne Mämmelä received the degree of D.Sc. (Tech.) (with honors) from the University of Oulu in 1996. He was with the University of Oulu from 1982 to 1993. In 1993 he joined VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in Oulu.  Since 1996 he has been a Research Professor of digital signal processing in wireless communications. He has visited University of Kaiserslautern in Germany in 1990-1991 and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1996-1997. Since 2004 he has been a Docent (equivalent to Adjunct Professor) at the University of Oulu. In 2014-2018 he was a Technical Editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications and in 2016-2018 a member of the Research Council of Natural Sciences and Engineering in the Academy of Finland. He has given lectures on research methodology at the University of Oulu for about 20 years, including the systems approach in addition to the conventional reductive approach. His research interests are in adaptive and learning systems and resource efficiency in telecommunications.

 

Benoit

Benoit Pelletier is the Co-founder of the 5G ENCQOR project and executive member of Innovation ENCQOR; a NPO created to deliver this collaborative innovation project across Quebec-Ontario corridor, Benoit Pelletier is currently director, Business Development and ENCQOR’s Program Lead within Ciena. He is involved in developing new business opportunities, partnerships and/or alliances as well as fostering innovation through collaborative ecosystems and synergy with Universities and Small & Medium Enterprises.

Passionate about creativity, “Innovate or Evaporate” has been its mantra over the last 30 years in different industry markets: Telecom at Ciena and Nortel, Transport at Bombardier and Aerospace at Oerlikon Aerospace. Benoit held a number of positions within design, system integration, program management and business development. Broad knowledge in Product Development, Cost Management and expertise in New Product Introduction of cutting-edge technologies and government relationships. Benoit holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree from Sherbrooke University.

ShuaibDr. Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui  is a senior researcher at i2CAT Foundation  where he is also the Area Manager for Software Networks research lab. Since 2015 he has been active in 5G related projects (under H2020) on the topics of  control, management, & orchestration platforms based on SDN/NFV, network slicing, and NFV/SDN security. Currently, he is working on the H2020 5GZORRO, as the project coordinator,  which targets Zero Touch Automation for Network  and Service Management and H2020 5GCity project, as Deputy Project Coordinator, which aims to design, develop and deploy a neutral host platform for 5G infrastructures in three cities (Barcelona, Bristol and Lucca). He holds a Ph.D. in  Computer Science from Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) (Spain) and M.Sc. in Communication Systems (2007) from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has given several talks at Mobile World Congress,  Smart City Expo  World Congress, SDN/NFV World Congress and other events. One of his publications, based on his PhD thesis, received the IEEE Internet Technical Committee (ITC) paper of the year award for 2015.

Abstract: 5GZORRO project envisions the evolution of 5G to achieve truly production-level support of diverse Vertical applications, which coexist on a highly pervasive shared network infrastructure, through automated end-to-end network slicing, across multiple operators and infrastructure/resource providers, who can share heterogeneous types of resources (spectrum, virtualized radio access, virtualized edge/core). 5GZORRO uses distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) to implement cognitive network orchestration and management with minimal manual intervention (Zero-Touch Automation). Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) are adopted to implement flexible and efficient distributed security and trust across the various parties involved a 5G end-to-end service chain. With these, we can implement an evolved 5G Service Layer for Smart Contracts among multiple non-trusted parties, which allows SLA monitoring, spectrum sharing, intelligent and automated data-driven resource discovery and management. Our crossdomain security & trust orchestration coupled with service lifecycle automation can enforce security policies in multi-tenant and multi-stakeholder environments.


Organizing Committee  

 

Dr. Ashutosh Dutta is currently the 5G Chief Strategist for the Communications Systems Branch at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). He is also a JHU/APL Sabbatical Fellow and adjunct faculty at The Johns Hopkins University. His career, spanning more than 30 years, includes Director of Technology Security and Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, CTO of Wireless for NIKSUN, Inc., Senior Scientist and Project Manager in Telcordia Research, Director of the Central Research Facility at Columbia University, adjunct faculty at NJIT, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. He has more than 90 conference and journal publications, three book chapters, 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. He also serves as IEEE Communications Society's Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2020. Ashutosh has served as the general Co-Chair for the premier IEEE 5G World Forums and has organized 65 5G World Summits around the world.

Ashutosh served as the chair for IEEE Princeton / Central Jersey Section, Industry Relation Chair for Region 1 and MGA, Pre-University Coordinator for IEEE MGA and vice chair of Education Society Chapter of PCJS. He co-founded the IEEE STEM conference (ISEC) and helped to implement EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) projects in several high schools. Ashutosh 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 the prestigious 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 obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from NIT Rourkela, India; MS in Computer Science from NJIT; and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne. Ashutosh is a Fellow of IEEE and senior member of ACM. 

mahdi original

Kaniz Mahdi Kaniz Mahdi is Vice President of Advanced Architectures at Ciena. In this role, Kaniz is responsible for Ciena’s technology vision, architecture, discovery and verification with industry and academia to drive new growth opportunities for Ciena. Her current area of focus is self-learning systems and Applied Intelligence.

Kaniz spent the last few years as VP/Head of Architecture at Ericson shaping technology landscape for the multi-faceted transformation of telecommunication industry with Cloud, SDN, and 5G. Prior to joining Ericsson, she headed Communications Services Standards Research at Huawei Technologies, and held various roles in Systems Architecture and Product Design at Nortel Networks. Kaniz has a stellar record of continuously pushing the envelope on new technologies with 45 patent grants and over 90 publications on Multimedia Broadband and Software Defined Systems. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Telecommunications.

 

Velasco

Dr. Luis Velasco received the M.Sc. degree in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) in 1993 and the PhD degree from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2009. In 1989 he joined Telefonica of Spain and was involved on the specifications and first office application of Telefonica's SDH transport network. In 2004 he joined UPC, where currently he is a full professor at the Department of Computers Architecture (DAC). He has co-authored more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed International Journals and Conferences, as well as two books related to Elastic Optical Networks. He is serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN) and in the TPC of several international conferences as well as reviewer of international journals. He has participated in various European research projects. He received the ICREA Academia award in engineering sciences in 2015. His interests include monitoring and data analytics aspects for the service and network layers.

  

meryem

Dr. Meryem Simsek is a Senior Research Scientist at the International Computer Science Institute and a visiting scientist at UC Berkeley since October 2016. Since 2014, Dr. Simsek is also a research group leader at Technical University Dresden, Germany. She earned her Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and her Ph.D. on “Learning-Based Techniques for Intercell-Interference Coordination in LTE Advanced Heterogeneous Networks” from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany in 2008 and 2013, respectively. Her current research focuses on end-to-end modelling and optimization of emerging wireless systems, heterogeneous wireless networks, achieving high reliability and low latency in 5G networks, and machine learning-based resource management. Further research interests are based on developing novel tools for wireless network management, wireless edge automation, and autonomous wireless networks. She is the recipient of the fellowships by the German Physical Society (2004-2005) and the German National Academic Foundation, which is only granted to the outstanding 0.5% students in Germany (2004-2008).

She holds the titles of the first electrical engineering student who has graduated before the regular duration of study and the best Diplom-graduate in Electrical Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen (2008). Dr. Simsek has authored more than 60 publications and has received the IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize 2015 for her IEEE Communications Magazine paper “When Cellular Meets WiFi in Wireless Small Cell Networks”. In addition, she has initiated and is chairing the IEEE Tactile Internet Technical Committee and is serving as the secretary of the IEEE P1918.1 standardization working group, which she has co-initiated.

She is also holding the honorary positions of the “industry and student activities coordinator” in the IEEE Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) committee and vice-chair of the IEEE ComSoc Mobile Communication Networks Standards Committee (MobiNets SC).