Title: Promising PHY Research Directions for 5G+ Wireless
Abstract:
The 5G exploratory phase is winding down as 2016 marks the beginning of the 5G standardization phase. Accordingly, it is time to reinitiate a brainstorming endeavour for the beyond-5G wireless networks (5G+ wireless). Towards that end, this talk will present some promising PHY research directions for 5G+ wireless, including but not limited to
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Some recent advances in PHY research
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Signal constellation design: Revisiting a well-investigated concept with new enablers in novel use cases
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Noncoherent communications: Getting away with pilot signals
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Faster-than-Nyquist signaling: How fast is too fast
Biography
Halim Yanikomeroglu is a Professor at the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. His research interests cover many aspects of wireless technologies with a special emphasis on cellular networks. He coauthored about 80 IEEE journal papers, and has given a high number of tutorials and invited talks on wireless technologies in the leading international conferences. In recent years, his research has been funded by Huawei, Blackberry, Samsung, Telus, Allen Vanguard, DragonWave, Communications Research Centre of Canada (CRC), and Nortel. This collaborative research resulted in about 25 patents (granted and applied). Dr. Yanikomeroglu has been involved in the organization of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) from its inception, including serving as Steering Committee Member as well as the Technical Program Chair or Co-Chair of WCNC 2004 (Atlanta), WCNC 2008 (Las Vegas), and WCNC 2014 (Istanbul). He was the General Co-Chair of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall 2010 held in Ottawa. He has served in the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. He was the Chair of the IEEE’s Technical Committee on Personal Communications (now called Wireless Technical Committee). He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society as well as the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.
Title: Resource Allocation in the D2D Communications
Abstract: Device-to-Device (D2D) continues to hold strong promise, not only for enhancing spectrum utilization, but also for improving wireless services. To date, various efforts have been in both research and industry, with practical implementation instances now emerging. We take a multi-faceted view of resource allocation and management in Device-to-Device Communications (D2D) in different settings: whether overlaid/underlaid; and whether in-band/out-of-band. We review the problem at the heart of the matter, and discuss its tractability, the state of the art solutions, and the road ahead.
Biography
Abd-Elhamid M. Taha is currently an Assistant Professor at Alfaisal University, KSA, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queen’s University, Canada. He has written and lectured extensively on broadband wireless networks, focusing on radio resource management techniques. He is also the co-author of the book ‘LTE, LTE-Advanced and WiMAX: Toward IMT-Advanced Networks’ by Wiley & Sons and a presenter for several tutorials at flagship IEEE communication Society events. Dr. Taha’s other interests include scalability issues in the Internet of Things and modelling challenges in networked cyber physical systems.
Title: Resource Allocation and Cross Layer Design in 5G Wireless Networks
Abstract: The proliferation of wireless multimedia applications necessitates the development of new wireless systems that can support the expected high amount of mobile data traffic in the next years. It has been adopted by the 3GPP that the future 5G cellular networks must support the 1000-fold increase in traffic demand. This requires developing new physical layer techniques, e.g. Massive MIMO and Millimeter wave (mmWave), and new network architecture. In fact, Massive MIMO systems where base stations are equipped with hundreds of antennas have been recognized as an efficient technique to increase the spectral efficiency of wireless networks. However, the increase of capacity obtained by physical layer techniques may not be enough to meet the traffic demands and a new architecture is required. 5G networks will have a heterogeneous architecture where macro cells, small cells and D2D co-exist and may cooperate between each other to enhance the performance of the network. This will certainly add additional challenges to the problems of resource allocation. In this talk, we will highlight these challenges and provide some recent results in this area. In particular, a cross layer design framework taking into the physical layer (Massive MIMO), the heterogeneous architecture and the dynamic traffic pattern will be described. The interplay between D2D and Massive MIMO will be covered as well.
Biography
Dr. Mohamad Assaad received a B.S. in electrical engineering with highest honors from Lebanese University in Beirut, in 2001. In 2002 and 2006, he received a M.Sc. degree with highest honors and a Ph.D., both in telecommunications, from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST) in Paris, France. While pursuing his Ph.D., he was a research assistant in the wireless networks & multimedia services department at the Institut National des Telecommunications (INT) in Evry, France, working on cross-layer design in UMTS/HSDPA system and interaction of TCP with MAC/RLC and physical layers. Since March 2006, he is assistant professor in the telecommunications department at the Ecole Superieure d’Electricite (Supelec) in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. His research interests include 3G systems and beyond, TCP protocol in wireless networks, cross-layer design and resource optimization in wireless systems, cooperative networks and MIMO systems. He has published several international journal and conference papers in this area and worked in collaboration with some academic and industrial partners.
Title: When Nanotechnology meets Internet of Things
Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is the main paradigm through which medical devices will be connected to the Internet, thereby empowering near-real-time health services and transforming a patient's physical space into a smart space. Recent developments in nanotechnology enabled designing novel applications that can be supported by nanomachines such as smart drug administration, nanoscale surgeries, and epidemic spread detection and management. This upholds health services from being near-real time health service into real-time services. In this talk, we present a glimpse on the state-of-the art of the Internet of nanothings (IoNT). We will identify the architectural requirements necessary for IoNT-based healthcare applications, and the networking requirements entailed by those applications. We will also discuss the IoNT implementation and performance evaluation issues, especially those related to deployment, communication, and co-existence with other networking paradigms. Finally, we will highlight the main challenges and opportunities of IoNT for realizing healthcare applications and services.
Biography
Currently an assistant professor at the college of Information Technology in the United Arab Emirates University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Networks from Electrical Engineering department at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, and her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1989 and 1995 respectively from University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. Dr. Najah worked as a postdoctoral fellowship at School of Computing in Queen's University from January 2006 to August 2006. From 2002 to 2003, she worked as a lecturer at the computer science department at King Fisal University at Dammam Saudi Arabia, and as the head of the electrical engineering department at Queen Nour College in Amman, Jordan. Her research interests comprise wired and wireless communication networks. Specifically, analytical and measurement based network performance management and Quality of Service and resource management of single and multihop wireless networks. She published over 30 refereed papers in several conferences and reputable journal.
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