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The IEEE Communications Society History committee organized a special panel at IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of ComSoc. The panel featured well known individuals in communications technology as speakers who recognized communications leaders who had been instrumental in advancing communications and also ComSoc, but who had died in 2022. Looking at their lives and careers made communications technology come alive.
The evolution to 6G promises communication-and-compute networks that are larger in scale and with significantly heterogeneous edge devices. These modern networks challenge our ability to design and optimize efficiently. While cognitive networks promise to introduce agility and intelligence, there is a need to significantly scale up such approaches in an internet-of-everything world. We present modeling strategies that effectively capture the dynamics and heterogeneity of these modern networks – however, the models come at the price of complexity. To this end, we propose a multi-pronged approach to network design and optimization. We review strategies exploiting graph signal processing for network optimization including new representations for network behavior. We show that the new representations allow for efficient graph reduction and enable low complexity optimization of network control policies. An exciting consequence is that the graph representations allow for the efficient creation of related synthetic networks, or digital cousins, that accurately capture network behavior without the need for excessive trajectory sampling of the actual network. A novel on-line/off-line Q-learning methodology is proposed enabling ensemble learning across the digital cousins. The proposed strategy offers significantly improved convergence rates and performance versus current state-of-the-art learning methods including those based on neural networks. Theoretical guarantees can be provided, and the proposed methods offer strong performance gains across a variety of networks.
The Internet as a whole, including access technologies and cellular networks, has undergone a significant evolution since its original setup. However, key TCP/IP functionalities, such as multicast and service differentiation, have not been widely deployed and core protocols have not always kept up with advancements. Meanwhile, the number and diversity of online applications and content have skyrocketed, not to mention the amount of traffic they generate, while network operators encountered difficulties in diversifying their portfolio of services. In addition, business models have changed a lot and new ones have emerged. The combination of these factors has resulted in two momentous outcomes: i) the network is diverse and patchy, with performance greatly varying across different regions, whereas important functionalities are provided unevenly and/or as network overlays; ii) new players have entered the market, narrowing the role of traditional network providers: hyperscalers, providing applications and content as well as cloud services and connectivity; CDN providers; cybersecurity providers; IXPs and intermediaries, but also new connectivity providers, such as utilities and municipalities. Despite impressive improvements in network protocols and performance, the question remains whether the architecture and current service offerings of the public Internet are at par with the requests of users, and especially of innovative businesses. This talk will discuss some options for the evolution of the network. Shall we accept the current situation and confide in good/over dimensioning and market dynamics? Or should we consider innovative network architectures? Should we update net neutrality principles and introduce so called specialised services on top of basic Internet access services? In this context, we will analyse the role of stakeholders in the changing landscape and identify open challenges.
Every generation of wireless technology needs to bring new system capabilities to enable future-generation applications and services. The sixth-generation mobile system (6G) is no exception. This talk will provide an overview of the technology transformation from the communication-centric 4G/5G systems to the compute-centric 6G system. The speaker will explain the technical and business motivations for this technology transformation, the important new use cases and corresponding workload models, the enabling programmable networking and data-center computing technologies, the design considerations for sustainability, and the protection of privacy and security. The speaker will present a 6G cloud-native system framework based on a direct extension of the 5G service-based architecture, serving as the foundation for developing a 6G wide-area softwarized distributed cloud to enable next-generation intelligent sensing, machine learning, and machine inference capabilities. The speaker will share a number of important design and performance tradeoffs with the audience to trigger further discussions, to stimulate technical innovations and to bring the technology transformation from concept to reality.
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable success in natural language processing (NLP) tasks, such as language translation, text summarization, and sentiment analysis. They can also help in identifying network faults, improving network security, and facilitating spectrum sharing. LLM-based solutions can be trained on large-scale datasets to capture the heterogeneity and diversity of wireless networks. These models can be deployed on resource-limited devices, such as smartphones, to provide intelligent wireless services. Based on our recent announcement of FALCON LLM in march 2023 (UAE-owned AI language model outperforms ChatGPT - ITP.net), which is a foundational large language model (LLM) with 40 billion parameters, outperforming GPT 3, developed by the AI and Digital Science Research Center at TII, we will discuss our recent progress on LLM features and the potential of FALCON LLM in enabling intelligent wireless communication systems.
Over the past decade, cellular technology has grown exponentially. This growth has led to a massive increase in cellular infrastructure, as well as a massive increase in power consumption to operate. The increase in power usage is expensive, both financially and environmentally. In 5G, wireless systems have grown more complex and it is difficult to know where energy goes and there are no methods for measuring energy usage built into the standard. 6G is the first generation of wireless technology that is focused on sustainability from the beginning. 6G looks to reduce the overall resource consumption of wireless systems and to enable other industries to be more sustainable. But to reduce resource consumption, it first must be measured. The start of a new generation gives engineers a chance to add power consumption measurements and others to the standards. Having a detailed knowledge of how energy is being used in wireless systems is key to building a greener, more sustainable 6G. This keynote will walk through the economic and technology forces driving the push for higher energy efficiency in 6G, the current work being done in the industry and standards, and the engineering challenges that must be addressed to make 6G the first green G.
Mobile communication technologies have been changing our lives at a steady pace with a regular cycle of decades. From voice calls through analog signals to immersive services and seamless connections, the communication industry has come a long way. Now, 6G is becoming one of the most trendy and popular keywords while we are still evolving our 5G standards to 5G Advanced for extension of its roll-out covering more and more business sectors including verticals. In the past generations, we have seen how mobile services and applications boosted the innovation, industry eco-system and economy, and gradually re-shaped our human society and everyday lives. When we talk about the future of mobile communications, we must learn from the past and face concurrent challenges. Following the paradigm of mobile communications technology evolution, adopting mobile services in vertical segments, and ensuring sustainable market development will enlighten the evolution path towards 5G-Advanced and 6G. Continuous advancements of emerging wireless technologies will fuel the smooth evolution from 5G to 5G advanced, 6G and beyond.
Today, we are driving the continued evolution of 5G Advanced, which is expected to bring enhanced end-to-end 5G system capabilities enabling new levels of performance and efficiency through the rest of this decade. At the same time, the early vision for 6G is starting to emerge. The next-generation mobile platform is targeted to bring a large technology leap for 2030 and beyond. 6G will be more than a new radio, it is envisioned to be an innovation platform of technologies, including AI, sensing, security, green networks/devices, and more, which will enable sustained expansion of the Connected Intelligent Edge. At Qualcomm, we are driving longer-term research to lead the 5G Advanced evolution and establish the technical foundation for 6G. Join this session to learn about the new technologies underpinning the ongoing 5G Advanced evolution, see the expected 5G Advanced and 6G timelines, market drivers, and potential design requirements, as well as get a glimpse of our longer-term research vectors that are essential for 5G Advanced and 6G.
With the rise of ChatGPT type of machine learning technology, it opens the door for post Shannon communications, namely, the effectiveness communications. The purpose of communications has been generalized into transmission of the intend-intelligent, rather than information bits in the form of the text or sensory data. The goal of the effectiveness communications is to transmit the intend generated from machine learning such that, at the receive-end, to generate the desired generative intelligence and associated actions to achieve the goal of communications. In this talk, we resent a framework of machine-to-machine communications based on the generated pre-trained model, for example in the usage scenario of cloud-driven robots, we also present a new distributed wireless network computing architecture for 6G to support the “data-driven” AI or even AGI services and applications in 2030-2050 time-frame.
There is much confusion in the field of network protocols. Nobody would have designed what we have deployed today. There is no way to understand today’s network protocols without knowing some of the history of how we got here. For example, given that Ethernet is no longer a shared (CSMA/CD) link, but instead, point-to-point links connected with spanning tree bridges, why can’t we simply remove all the bridges and connect all the links in the Internet with IP routers? We talk about CLNP, a 20-byte alternative to IP that almost got adopted in 1992, that would have eliminated the need for bridges and the Ethernet header. We also talk about how, given that the Internet was living with IPv4, the world invented DHCP and NAT. These protocols would work just as well with CLNP as they do with IP, but may not have been invented because the immediate needs for them would not have been obvious with CLNP. These have important advantages beyond what they were invented for. We also talk about Internet authentication. Isn’t that a solved problem? We have certificate standards, and protocols such as TLS. This talk discusses some important gaps between theory and reality in Internet authentication.
With the growing demand of ubiquitous and reliable wireless connectivity, as well as the imperative for future communication networks that are environmentally sustainable, the option of non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) that are energy neutral seems as an attractive solution. NTNs embrace several tiers of off-the-ground serving nodes, mounted on devices that fly at heights as low as a few meters and up to no more than 100s of meters from the ground (such as unmanned aerial vehicles – UAVs) and moving up to high altitude platforms (HAPs) in the troposphere and the stratosphere (up to and over 20 km above the ground, respectively) to low earth orbit (LEO) and medium earth orbit (MEO), satellites, which fly at 160-2000 km and above 2000km heights, respectively. While these “flying” serving nodes can provide improved coverage compared to terrestrial layouts, their operation in the net-zero energy regime requires the combination of a number of relevant energy technologies (e.g. solar and radio harvesting, efficient energy storage and balancing, etc.), which should be optimized jointly with the communication system design (in terms of energy efficiency, including the RF, baseband and antenna units and within the link requirements and quality of service constraints).This proposed technical panel at ICC 2023 aims to showcase both the opportunity and the associated challenges of net-zero energy NTNs. The key technical areas that will be addressed are: Design of NTNs and their incorporation with the ground segment Net-zero energy technologies suited for non-terrestrial networks Energy consumption/generation/storage modelling and balancing Joint optimization of communication and energy resources UAV-based portable access Intelligent and energy-aware satellite communications
The requirements for IT infrastructure are changing from high-performance focused to additional consideration of decarbonization and sustainability. IOWN is a next-generation communication and computing infrastructure for both high-performance and sustainability. It is also expected to be an infrastructure for 6G platform. IOWN Global Forum was established in January 2020 in order to develop IOWN technologies and IOWN use cases. Its approximately 120 members would try to make innovations through cross-industry collaborative activities. This presentation illustrates IOWN and activities of IOWN Global Forum.
When your phone is turned on, it says ALOHA - A Tribute to the AlohaNET pioneers. In Memoriam: Norman Abramson, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawa’ii and ALOHAnet co-founder.
As it is known, for 5G (the 5th generation mobile communications), there are two frequency segments, the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) one and the micro-wave (i.e., non-mm-wave) one; also, antennas are crucial to the wireless communication performance. Currently, in 5G mobile phones, the mm-wave and non-mm-wave are separate and the antenna numbers are much more than those in 4G mobile phones. To reduce the occupied volumes by antennas in 5G phones, the integrations of mm-wave and non-mm-wave antennas to achieve the total solution of 5G antennas to enhance competitiveness of mobile phones have attracted strong and wide interest and researches from the industry and academia. In this presentation, several innovative and inspiring integration solutions (including the module type, FPC type, exterior type, and display type) of mm-wave and non-mm-wave antennas are systematically retrospected and prospected. Furthermore, the integration evolution is also analyzed to benefit and enlighten the future developments.
Incredibly, today's networks have formed an intelligent digital infrastructure offering endless possibilities to individuals, enterprises, and governments worldwide. The rollout of 5G will enable robust new solutions for a wide range of social, environmental, and economic challenges. We are already on the way towards the next paradigm shift formed by a combination of emerging technology trends. That paradigm shift will take us to the 6G era which will give rise to challenges beyond what even 5G can meet. The increasing expectations set a clear target for us in the industry and research community? 6G should contribute to an efficient, human-friendly, sustainable society through ever-present intelligent communication. This presentation will outline Ericsson's vision where 6G will enable a cyber-physical continuum blending the physical real world of sensing, action and experience with a programmable digital representation of that same world, and call on the audience to engage in the shaping of the future network platform.
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.
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.