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Owing to the 5G age, the mm-Wave technologies and applications are getting more and more important and popular. Obviously, radiations of mm-Wave are quite crucial to the mm-Wave wireless communication performance. However, the mm-Wave radiation technologies and solutions are significantly different from those for the conventional FR1 (non-mm-Wave) cellular bands. Therefore, this industry panel will mainly focus on the 5G mm-Wave radiation technologies and solutions, including antenna designs, beamforming-system designs, and OTA (over-the-air) chamber designs, to discuss, share and complement the technological understanding of and information updates on the latest studies, emerging development, and commercialized progress from the industry perspectives. Through this industry panel, the new inspiration and scope expansion for the researchers and designers from the Comm. and related communities hence can be achieved to facilitate and benefit their future studies or the product developments. Thus, all interested audience are cordially welcome to enjoy this industry panel.
The recent advancement of robotics technology would bring new business opportunities in telecommunication market, especially in the context of Service-Oriented Robots (or Service Robots) staying with and/or working for human customers, which are different from industrial robots in the application goal, target interaction points, target customers/business and technology readiness. The technology and business aspects of Service Robots are interesting discussion topics for interdisciplinary and cross-industry collaborations, such as connected robots (robotics and communications technology) and autonomous robots (state-of-art communications technology and data science-based technology for realtime decision making/support). On the other hand, there is a growing demand in consumer electronics segments that expects a great deal of roles that Service Robots should play in order to improve the quality of assisting human user’s daily behaviors for, such as shopping, traveling and more to come upon us resulting from smart-living innovations. The applications of Service Robots are gaining more interests amid COVID-19 where people have a reduced degree of physical involvement with learning, shopping and other activities they want to do for their daily lives. The technical issues of this panel will cover a Wireless Network of Service Robots with the focus on the roles of wireless communications technology for the reliable support of Service Robots: From Industrial Robots to Service Robots Technology review for a network of Service Robot to stay with human as an assistant in living Public Safety Aspects Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Aspects: Industry collaboration update, 3GPP UAV standardization update, 5G enablers for UAVs including indoor flights, and applications, use cases and technology enablers related to Service Robots Autonomic networking/communications for the support of multiple robots: Aspects on communication layer support of timely or preventive reconfiguration/management of robot-initiated communication path among multiple robots that can help reduce service disruptions (e.g. due to breakdown/functional failure or precursory indications): Efficient distribution of operation-related information (e.g., task status information) among participating robots (in cloud-/networked-/standalone operation of robots).
One of the main reasons attributed to the digital divide is the business cost and return on investment (RoI). In poorer or lower population density regions, the cost of deployment of optical fiber in the backbone network and related infrastructure, in particular a reliable electrical power grid, becomes prohibitively large, whereas the RoI remains marginal at best. In this scenario, a viable solution to cut down on the cost factor is to deploy satellites in the backbone network in order to provide connectivity to far-flung or less populated areas, to passengers in airplanes, ships, and trains, or to disconnected people in areas affected by natural disasters. More specifically, a constellation of satellites can provide worldwide coverage if a sufficient number of those are utilized. For instance, in recent years, different constellations of satellites have been proposed to provide global broadband access to Internet which includes the Starlink supported by SpaceX with 12000 LEO satellites, Amazon’s Project Kuiper with 3236 LEO satellites , and Telesat LEO with 300 to 500 satellites. Such a large number of satellites has allowed mass production of components, thereby resulting in a significant reduction in satellite manufacturing costs. Alternatively, if a large footprint on the remote location is not required, a high altitude platform (HAP) or a swarm/cascade of HAP’s or balloons/helikites can be used in the backbone network in the sky. The service model envisaged in this regard comprises of two configurations. In the first arrangement, a single HAP functions in a “tower-in-the-air” configuration whereby it relays data obtained from the ground station (uplink) to various service delivery stations (such as base stations) in the downlink. In the second configuration, a swarm/cascade of HAP’s is used as both relay nodes and service delivery devices for the local users. The same configuration can also be used in conjunction with LEO or MEO satellites if the area to be covered is significantly large. In this context, this panel aims to go over the recently proposed integrated space-air-terrestrial network solutions to provide high-speed connectivity not only in under-covered/remote/rural areas but also to moving cells in the air (airplanes) and the sea (cruises/ships).
Massive MIMO is seen as a key enabling technology for 5G in terms of capacity improvement and coverage enhancement. Major advances have been made by 3GPP and mobile vendors in order to bring Massive MIMO to reality. At the same time, further Massive MIMO technology evolution is also being continued to satisfy higher network requirements such as extremely high data rates for emerging high-definition videos and AR/VR services, friendly and consistent mobile UE experience, ultra-low latency and super dense connectivity. In this panel, we will bring leading experts to discuss the potential evolution directions of the Massive MIMO technology towards the future. As such, the following topics shall be covered by the panel: High-efficiency CSI acquisition for numerous scenarios, such as low-overhead for multi-user multiplexing, robustness for high-speed mobility, and unified FDD/TDD by virtue of channel reciprocity. User centric no cell (UCNC) deployment, such as powerful interference suppression precoding and intelligent coordinated transmission scheme. Agile beam management for mmWave and mobility, such as blockage prediction and fast intra-cell and inter-cell beam switching. AI and ML, expected to be the foundation for intelligent air interface design of massive MIMO transceivers. Novel antenna system architectures, such as extremely large aperture arrays (ELAA) and smart surfaces (e.g., reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and large intelligent surface (LIS)), and corresponding communication system design.
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed our lives. As a result of this crisis, various new technologies are now used to help human lives, for example, keep connected to our families, tracing pandemic disease, detecting outbreak. Now many researchers are thinking about how emerging technologies especially Smart City and Healthcare Systems using IoT can be used to eradicate the pandemic and get back our normal life. The massive volume of epidemiological and scientific Big Data collected from Smart City and Healthcare systems can empower frontline healthcare workers, strategists, scientists, and epidemiologists to make smart decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. IoT enabled smart city and healthcare systems can enable scientists to gather, combine, evaluate huge data collected from various smart city services. This will allow such systems to better handle pandemic impacts. This panel will focus on introducing the smart city and healthcare systems that can be used for the pandemic. The theme, key ideas and structure of the session include: -Infrastructure and technologies for pandemic -Data, privacy & security issues to handle huge amount of smart city data for pandemic -Global standards for IoT, smart city and healthcare system for pandemic -Testbed and trial systems around the world for pandemic
KJ Liu VP of Smart City Integrated Solution, Askey Computer 30 year ITC Experience, focused on 5G, AI, IoT, Big Data, Cloud Computing, VR/AR, UAV, ... Askey Computer, VP of Smart City Integrated Solution. Asus Cloud, Chief Marketing Officer. Cloudena Technology, Founder/CEO, fund raised 6M USD, located in Taipei, offering cloud solutions, cloud storage, and services. Saico Technology, Co-founder/VP Sales, fund raised 8M USD, located in Shanghai, offering cloud solutions and services. CipherMax Technology, Co-funder/VP Sales/Finance and Asia GM, located in San Jose, fund raised 145M USD, offering cloud storage , security solutions and services. Education Background: Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA - MBA, December 1998Focuses: Marketing and Finance Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA - MSEE, June 1984 Consultant & Board Director: TSSA, Overseas Promotion, SIG Chairperson Taiwan Green Industry Alliance, BoD VR AT Taiwan Alliance, BoD Asia IoT Alliance, BoD
RAN (Radio Access Networks) become increasingly complex with the advent of 5G by flexible network architecture, discrete frequencies, densification and richer demanding applications. To tame this complexity, traditional human designed ways of deploying, optimizing and operating a network lead to pretty high TCO (Total Cost Of Owners) and gets very low ROI (Return of Investment). The fast development of AI/ML technologies obviously influenced and changed the world (including traditional telecom industry) a lot in the recent years, leveraging AI/ML based technologies to build self-driving networks to reduce OPEX and increase network gains becomes possible and essentially the expanded eco-system may bring to new business model as well. The expanded RAN eco-system with AI/ML, IT (Information Technology), CT (Communication Technology) and DT (Data Technology) industry players have worked closely to leverage emerging deep learning techniques to enable intelligence in every layer of the RAN architecture. In this Industry forum, we will bring industry leaders and experts who are driving and leading the RAN intelligence development to share their key findings, challenges and future directions with the Globecom 2020 audience, these experts’ companies play diverse roles in the RAN intelligence eco-system thus we expect they will share lots of useful information to form an overall technical picture of RAN intelligence. It is also expected to leverage this interactive communication chance to gather feedback from Globecom 2020 audience and also broaden the RAN intelligence eco-system.
The networking landscape is expected to undergo profound changes over the course of the next decade. New networking use cases such as tele-driving and tele-operations are emerging that require high-precision communications with stringent latency and loss objectives that cannot be met by current technology. Pressure is mounting on industrial networks, up to this point a bastion from Internet technology, to converge. At the same time, other forces are becoming more pronounced, such as the “Manynets” phenomenon, which is beginning to fragment the existing Internet, and concerns about the increasing ossification of the Internet, which slows down the ability to innovate inside the network when the pace for needed innovation is actually accelerating. Considering all this, recent proposals for a “New IP” have emerged that suggest defining new solutions for IP networking. What sets these proposals apart is that they are aimed at Layer 3, the core layer of the Internet, not simply the transport or application layer. They claim that innovation at the IP layer is required to address the root of the issues that need to be confronted to unleash a new wave of Internet innovation. This, in turn, has been met with fierce resistance from the IETF and its governing body, the Internet Society, who as guardians of IP object to any proposals that put into question the “thin waist” defined by IP in the hourglass structure of the Internet protocol stack, and who claim that innovation outside IP itself will in fact be sufficient to meet emerging networking challenges. The panel will examine the issues underlying this controversy and panelists will represent the different sides of the argument. Specifically, panelists will debate whether network innovation inside IP itself needs to occur or whether work at other networking layers will be enough to address newly emerging challenges and issues that emerging applications are faced with.
William Xu Director of Board, President of the Institute of Strategy Research, Huawei William Xu was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1963. He was admitted to the Department of Automatic Control of Nanjing Institute of Technology in 1980, and received a bachelor's degree from Nanjing Institute of Technology and a master's from Southeast University. He joined Huawei in 1991, and currently serves as Huawei's Director of the Board and President of the Institute of Strategic Research. Mr. Xu has served as Huawei's President of Research, President of R&D, President of the European Area, President of HiSilicon, Chief Sales & Service Officer, CEO of the Enterprise BG, and Chairman of the Investment Review Board. He has achieved many great things in product R&D, marketing, strategy development, and market presence planning, all of which have contributed to Huawei's leading position in the world. Mr. Xu is a strategy scientist with an international outlook and extensive experience of success in the industry. He displays outstanding strategic thinking during high-level design, has global influence, and is capable of guiding industry development. Mr. Xu has an extensive scientific and technical background and has led Huawei's product and technology R&D for many years, as well as being responsible for work related to chip design, general technology, and research. He led the development of Huawei's first generation of public program-controlled switches, and oversaw the design of the company's first chip and the establishment of the chip design center – the predecessor to HiSilicon. In addition, he has substantial market insights and deep knowledge of industry trends, supports the translation of research results into industry applications, creates new markets, and leads industry development. He has led Huawei into the Innovation 2.0 era, which is a shift from engineering and technical innovation (from 1 to N) to theoretical breakthroughs and technical inventions (from 0 to 1). As the President of the Institute of Strategy Research, Mr. Xu is responsible for Huawei's basic research and cutting-edge technology research, as well as collaboration with over 300 universities around the world. Mr. Xu directs future-oriented research into basic, cutting-edge, and disruptive technologies that will help overcome worldwide technological challenges in photonic computing, free-electron laser, naked-eye 3D, and healthcare. This research will guarantee Huawei's presence in these technology fields over the next 5–10 years, fill Huawei's gaps, and enhance Huawei's strengths, preventing the company from losing its way or missing out on future opportunities. Currently, Mr. Xu is committed to innovations related to next-generation optical computing, optical transmission, and new display technologies, such as optical switch matrix operations, few-mode multicore fiber transmission, and light field displays based on micro- and nano-grating. These innovations aim to achieve the creation of large-scale, high-speed optical computing chips, ultra-large-capacity optical transmission technology, and next-generation naked-eye 3D display technology. Mr. Xu's team is collaborating with global universities and research institutes on 18 projects. Their work covers theories, structure design, system encapsulation, and prototype implementation that will enhance Huawei's research and presence in strategic technologies over the next 5–10 years.
Jamie Lin President, Taiwan Mobile Jamie now serves as President at Taiwan Mobile and Chairman & Partner at AppWorks, the Greater Southeast Asia leading startup accelerator and venture capital firm founded by Jamie in 2009. Taiwan Mobile and AppWorks formed a strategic alliance in January 2019, resulting in Jamie taking over as the President of Taiwan Mobile. Before Taiwan Mobile and AppWorks, Jamie was an entrepreneur. In 1999, he co-founded Hotcool.com that eventually evolved into Intumit, a successful AI software-as-a-service company. In 2006, he co-founded Sosauce.com that evolved into Muse Games. He received his BS in Engineering from National Taiwan University and an MBA from NYU Stern. His blog, MR JAMIE, has provided inspiration to millions of readers in the startup community since 2009. Education: MBA, NYU Stern School of Business BS Engineering, National Taiwan University Notable Additional Positions: Chairman & Partner, AppWorks Director, momo.com Executive Director, Taiwan Internet and E-commerce Association (TiEA)
This panel aims at discussing the key drivers and technology trends being envisaged for future wireless networks (2030). The European Union and United States of America have both started their own research programmes with the objective to lead the evolution towards next generation wireless networks. Although the objective is the same, the European and USA approaches seem to differ significantly in inception and execution.Members of this panel include an industrial thought leader (Alain Mourad) from Interdigital, who is involved in both USA and European wireless research programmes and knows from first-hand the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Serge Fdida, coordinator of the EMPOWER project has a long experience on the management of shared experimental platforms, especially as coordinator of the federated OneLab facility, the FIT French research infrastructure or the PlanetLab Europe testbed. Finally, Abhimanyu Gosain, as technical programme director of the PAWR office is the key person regarding the North American advanced wireless research platforms. This panel aims at discussing a mix of market and technology questions such as: What are the key drivers; technical and societal, influencing research programmes towards 6G? What are the key technology trends in the wireless system and in the network? How are different countries, noticeably in EU and USA approaching the research towards 6G? Is the role of experimental research becoming more or less important? What makes the case to strengthen cooperation on the research platforms? How the costs of such platforms should be shared between public and private organizations? Do we see the need for a different governance model of these research platforms than what we are used to? How should non-traditional partner requirements (e.g. from Vertical Industries) be incorporated in future experimental wireless research platforms? What needs to be done to ensure large participation and use of these research platforms? How do we ensure reproducibility of the experiments? What models for experimental data sharing and governance need to be considered?
Dr. Jay Lee is Ohio Eminent Scholar, L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor, and Univ. Distinguished Professor and is founding director of National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems which consists of the Univ. of Cincinnati (lead institution), the Univ. of Michigan, and the Univ. of Texas-Austin. Since its inception in 2001, the Center has been supported by over 100 global companies. The IMS Center was selected as the most economically impactful I/UCRC in the NSF Economic Impact Study Report in 2012. He has mentored his students and developed a number of start-up companies including Predictronics (a start-up company from NSF IMS Center of the Univ. of Cincinnati through NSF ICorp award in 2012), etc. He has also advised his students to win the 1st Place PHM Data Challenges five time out of nine competitions since 2008. In addition, he is the Founding Director of Industrial AI Center. Currently, he is on leave from Univ. of Cincinnati to serve as Vice Chairman and Board Member of Foxconn Technology Group. He also serves as a member of Board of Governors of the Manufacturing Executive Leadership Council of National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), as well as a member of the Global Future Council on Advanced Manufacturing and Production of the World Economics Council (WEF) to engage the global leaders for the development of collaborative activities in smart manufacturing. Previously, he served as senior advisor to McKinsey & Company. Prior to his academic career, he served as Director for Product Development and Manufacturing at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) as well as Program Directors for a number of programs at NSF including the Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Program, the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC) Program, and Materials Processing, and Manufacturing Program at the Design, Manufacture, and Industrial Innovation Division, etc., He is a fellow of ASME, SME, PHM (Prognostics and Health Management), as well as a founding fellow of International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM). He is a frequently invited speaker and has delivered over 270 keynote and plenary speeches at major international conferences He has received a number of awards including the Prognostics Innovation Award at NI Week by National Instruments in 2012, NSF Alex Schwarzkopf Technological Innovation Prize in 2014, MFPT (Machinery Failure Prevention Technology Society) Jack Frarey Award in 2014, and PICMET Medal of Excellence in 2016. He was selected as 30 Visionaries in Smart Manufacturing in by SME in Jan. 2016 and 20 most influential professors in Smart Manufacturing in June 2020.
David Tse is the Thomas Kailath and Guanghan Xu Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. He received the 2017 Claude E. Shannon Award and the 2019 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. He is the inventor of the proportional-fair scheduling algorithm, used in all modern-day cellular systems serving 3 billion subscribers around the world. His research interests are in information theory, blockchains and machine learning.
Muriel Médard is the Cecil H. Green Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at MIT and leads the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group at the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT.She has served as editor for many publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), of which she was elected Fellow, and she has served as Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. She was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2012, and served on its board of governors for eleven years. She has served as technical program committee co-chair of many of the major conferences in information theory, communications and networking. She received the 2019 Best Paper award for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 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, the 2018 ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award and several conference paper awards. She was co-winner of the MIT 2004 Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award, received the 2013 EECS Graduate Student Association Mentor Award and served as undergraduate Faculty in Residence for seven years. In 2007 she was named a Gilbreth Lecturer by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. She received the 2016 IEEE Vehicular Technology James Evans Avant Garde Award, the 2017 Aaron Wyner Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society and the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award. She is a member of the National Academy of Inventors. She was elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.