Date: Sunday, April 3,

Time: 14:00 - 14:40

 

 

 

WS-02-Keynote-01: Promising PHY Research Directions for 5G+ Wireless

 

 

 

Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, Canada

 

 

 

Room: Al Basir

 

 

 

Chair: Abd-Elhamid M. Taha (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)

 

 

 

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 -- 1) Some recent advances in PHY research. 2) Signal constellation design: Revisiting a well-investigated concept with new enablers in novel use cases. 3) Noncoherent communications: Getting away with pilot signals. 4) Faster-than-Nyquist signaling: How fast is too fast?

 

Time: 14:40 - 15:20

 

 

 

WS-02-Keynote-02: Resource Allocation in the D2D Communications

 

 

 

Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia

 

 

 

Room: Al Basir

 

 

 

Chair: Abd-Elhamid M. Taha (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Time: 15:20 - 16:00

 

 

 

WS-02-Keynote-03: Resource Allocation and Cross Layer Design in 5G Wireless Networks

 

 

 

Mohamad Assaad, SUPÉLEC, France

 

 

 

Room: Al Basir

 

 

 

Chair: Abd-Elhamid M. Taha (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Time: 16:00 - 17:00

 

 

 

WS-Interactive-02: Networking Break & Poster session for afternoon WS

 

 

 

Room: Al Dafna

 

 

 

Chair: Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

 

 

 

1: Hardware Experiments on Multi-Carrier Waveforms for 5G

 

 

 

Petra Weitkemper (DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany); Johannes Koppenborg (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Jamal Bazzi (DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany); Rupert Rheinschmitt (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Katsutoshi Kusume (DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany); Dragan Samardzija (Bell Labs, Nokia, USA); Rolf R.M. Fuchs (Bell Labs, Nokia, Germany); Anass Benjebbour (NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan)

 

 

 

2: Centralised and Distributed Interference Management in Coordinated Downlink Beam-forming

 

 

 

Swagato Barman Roy and A S Madhukumar (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Francois Chin (Institue for InfoComm Research, Singapore)

 

 

 

3: On the Performance of Time Constrained OQAM-OFDM Waveforms with Preamble Based Channel Estimation

 

 

 

Toni A Levanen and Markku K. Renfors (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Tero Ihalainen (Nokia Research Center, Finland); Eeva Lähetkangas (Nokia Networks, Finland); Ville Syrjälä (Tampere University of Technology & Kyoto University, Finland); Mikko Valkama (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

 

 

 

4: Performance Analysis for the QoS Support in LTE and WiFi

 

 

 

Amer Saeed, SAEED (University of New Haven, USA); Amir Esmailpour (University of New Haven & Ryerson University, USA); Nidal Nasser (Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia)

 

 

 

5: SDRAN-Based User Association and Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

 

 

 

Mohamad Zalghout (INSA de Rennes & Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication of Rennes (IETR), France); Ayman Khalil (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes - IETR & INSA, France); Matthieu Crussière (IETR - Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Rennes (IETR) & INSA - National Institute of Applied Sciences, France); Samih Abdul-Nabi (Lebanese International University, Lebanon); Maryline Hélard (INSA Rennes & IETR Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes, France)

 

 

 

6: Block Lower Multi-diagonalization for Multiuser MIMO Downlink

 

 

 

Hiroshi Nishimoto and Hiroki Iura (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan); Akinori Taira (Mitsubishi Electric Corp. & RIEC, TOHOKU University, Japan); Akihiro Okazaki and Atsushi Okamura (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)

 

 

 

7: Codeword based power loading in MU-MIMO

 

 

 

Filippo Tosato (Toshiba Research Europe, United Kingdom); Magnus Sandell (Toshiba TRL, United Kingdom)

 

 

 

8: On Handovers in Uplink/Downlink Decoupled LTE HetNets

 

 

 

Mukesh Giluka (Indian Institute Of Technology Hyderabad, India); Sibgath Khan (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Gadde Murali Krishna (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderbad, India); Touheed Atif and Vanlin Sathya (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma (IIT Hyderabad, India)

 

 

 

9: Performance of Wireless Backhaul in Satellite Communication system

 

 

 

Abdurrahman Alfitouri (Manchester University, United Kingdom); Khairi A. Hamdi (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

 

 

 

10: A distributed Multi-channel MAC Protocol with Parallel Cooperation for the Next Generation WLAN

 

 

 

Bo Yang (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, P.R. China); Bo Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Zhongjiang Yan (Northwestern Ploytechnical University, P.R. China); Mao Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China)

 

 

 

Time: 17:00 - 17:40

 

 

 

WS-02-Keynote-04: When Nanotechnology meets Internet of Things

 

 

 

Najah Abed AbuAli, UAE University, UAE

 

 

 

Room: Al Basir

 

 

 

Chair: Shahid Mumtaz (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

TIme: 17:40 - 18:20

 

 

 

WS-02-02: Uplink waveform for 5G

 

 

 

Room: Al Basir

 

 

 

Chair: Najah A. Abu Ali (UAEU, UAE)

 

 

 

11: Resource Block Management for Uplink UFMC Systems

 

 

 

Hyunsoo Kim (Yonsei University, Korea); Jonghyun Bang (University of Yonsei, Korea); Sooyong Choi and Daesik Hong (Yonsei University, Korea)

 

 

 

12: MIMO Uplink NOMA with Successive Bandwidth Division

 

 

 

Soma Qureshi and Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan)