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Intelligent and autonomous driving has been emerging as one of the most prominent advances in the industry of vehicles. Road vehicles including passenger cars and trucks as well as aerial vehicles like drones are expected to be capable of sensing their environment and moving safely with little or no human input, thereby making people’s daily lives safer, more efficient, and more convenient. Connectivity is considered as a key component in enabling such an advance, and 5G has been designed from its beginning as a communication tool for intelligent and autonomous vehicles. 5G’s high data rate is suitable to deliver rich map and sensor information to the vehicles in order to enhance environment sensing. Support of ultra reliability and low latency communications (URLLC) in 5G allows the vehicles to send and receive critical information that should be delivered with a very short latency and almost zero error for the safe decision of vehicles’ maneuver and reaction to an emerging risk. There are a lot of efforts to launch successful commercialization of 5G-based intelligent/autonomous vehicles, and in parallel with it, evolution is ongoing towards Beyond-5G in the standardization organizations and academia to find out technical solutions that can address the industry requirements better.
5G has from its early standardization been scoped to address new industrial use cases including smart manufacturing. To this end the communication requirements for industrial use cases have been analyzed and novel capabilities for 5G have been specified. Some of the new capabilities of 5G for smart manufacturing and the industrial internet of things (IIoT) are ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC), support for 5G non-public (campus) networks, support of Ethernet and Time-Sensitive Networking, inbuilt positioning and time synchronization. 5G for manufacturing is being investigated in several collaborative research activities. In the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA), more than 80 members from the operational technology (OT) and the information and communication technology (ICT) industries have gathered to form a global forum to shape 5G for the industrial domain. 5G-ACIA has investigated industrial use cases, such as factory and process automation, advanced robotics, and defined requirements on the 5G system that have been fed into the 5G standardization process. Validation of 5G for such use cases is ongoing in 5G-ACIA endorsed testbeds. The panel will provide an overview of the Smart Manufacturing use cases and requirements, the capabilities of 5G for IIoT and its evolution and learnings from early testbeds.
3GPP has named Release-18 as the starting point of 5G-Advanced, an intermediate step between current commercial 5G networks and future 6G networks. As such, it is expected that 5G-Advanced will introduce many technologies later being part of 6G. Some examples being mentioned as potential candidate for 5G-Advanced are AI/ML-based radio access and simultaneous transmission/reception on the same frequency (“full-duplex operation”). The content of 5G-Advanced is not yet decided upon although it is expected that 3GPP will have taken some decisions by the spring of 2022, making this panel a timely and highly relevant discussion for anyone interested in the evolution of 5G technologies towards 6G.
The rollout of 5G systems all over the world comes with an increasing demand for coverage and capacity for new use cases while spectral and energy efficiency as well as latency play an increasing role. Both academia and industry are exploring actively into future technologies for 5G advanced and 6G networks. Full Duplex Radio (FDR) allows a communication device to simultaneously transmit and receive wireless signals on the same channel (frequency band). Enabled by means of self-interference cancelation, FDR can significantly increase the throughput for each allocated channel and therefore increase cell and system capacity and inherently reduce transmit buffer waiting time for data transmissions and therefore to reduce round-trip latencies, associated with acknowledgments or channel feedback. The benefits are enhanced link performance for in-band and out-of-band relaying, device-to-device links as well as in base station – mobile terminal links. In 3GPP, some Study Item (SI) proposals are submitted for Release 18 standardization. Benefits and challenges of applying Full Duplex to Wi-Fi standards have recently been discussed in IEEE802.11. In academia, Full Duplex Emerging Technology Initiative (ETI) in IEEE ComSoc and several international workshops discuss on the feasibility of applying FDR for next generation cellular networks have recently been organized. FDR will be an important role in future wireless communication. Duplex evolution in 3GPP: Full Duplex Radio: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Perspective of FDR TechnologiesFull duplex in 5G and 6G Full-Duplex Hybrid Beamforming for MU-mMIMO in Factory Applications XDD (Cross-Division Duplex), Advanced Duplex Technology”
This industry keynote is on Modern AI Meets Cell Phone Network Optimization. Bio: Gregory Dudek is a Professor with the School of Computer Science and a member of the McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) and an Associate member of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at McGill University. In 9/2008 he became the Director of the McGill School of Computer Science. Since 2012 he has been the Scientific Director of the NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN): http://ncfrn.mcgill.ca He is the former Director of McGill's Research Center for Intelligent Machines, a 25 year old inter-faculty research facility. In 2002 he was named a William Dawson Scholar. In 2008 he was made James McGill Chair. In 2010 he was awarded the Fessenden Professorship in Science Innovation. In 2010 he was also awarded the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Award for Research Excellence and also for Service to the Research Community. He directs the McGill Mobile Robotics Laboratory. He has been on the organizing and/or program committees of Robotics: Systems and Science, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS), the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Computer and Robot Vision, IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and International Conference on Hands-on Intelligent Mechatronics and Automation among other bodies. He is president of CIPPRS, the Canadian Information Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, an ICPR national affiliate. He was on leave in 2000-2001 as Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). During his sabbatical in 2007-2008 he visited the Massachusetts Institute of technology and co-founded the company Independent Robotics Inc. He obtained his PhD in computer science (computational vision) from the University of Toronto, his MSc in computer science (systems) at the University of Toronto and his BSc in computer science and physics at Queen's University. He has published over 200 research papers on subjects including visual object description and recognition, robotic navigation and map construction, distributed system design and biological perception. This includes a book entitled "Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics" co-authored with Michael Jenkin and published by Cambridge University Press. He has chaired and been otherwise involved in numerous national and international conferences and professional activities concerned with Robotics, Machine Sensing and Computer Vision. His research interests include perception for mobile robotics, navigation and position estimation, environment and shape modelling, computational vision and collaborative filtering. He grew up in Montreal and favors light food. With his children he is re-discovering model rocketry, rollerblading, and has discovered he's not good at surfing but loves it.
This VIP keynote panel is on the The Art of the Possible—Three Tech Leaders Share Their Practical Insights and Vision Around a Few of the Biggest Trends in the Industry. PANELISTS: TODD ZEILER Assistant Vice President of Network Services, AT&T Bio: Todd is Assistant Vice President of Network Services. His team owns Global Network Architecture, Implementation, Inter-Carrier Usage Mediation/Delivery, and Network Operations for wholesale, domestic, & international roaming as well as network sharing services. His team’s mission statement is to “paint the world AT&T blue” with a seamless mobility experience. Todd recently transitioned from a 4yr stint as Director Member of Technical Staff Converged Access & Device Technology where his team owned wireless access architecture for 5G, LTE Advanced/Pro, IoT, FirstNet, Fixed Wireless, and Enterprise.He has >25+ years of industry experience beginning his career in BellSouth Outside Plant Engineering in 1992. Todd’s larger projects included the program lead over the integration of ATT’s purchase of Alltel in 2009 and various technology overlays including a the recent 5G architecture evolution roadmap. Todd has held positions in outside plant, wireless operations, RF engineering, RF performance, systems automation, equipment engineering, project management, mobility core planning, M&A projects, in-building mobility (ASG), and was the Director for GA Radio Access Network prior to his role in the CTO Wireless Architecture Organization.Todd holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University. Todd resides in Atlanta and is married with 3 daughters and enjoys being/teaching with his church family, speaking engagements, as well as enjoying sports and other outside activities.Kevin SheehanKEVIN SHEEHAN CTO of the Americas, Ciena Bio: Kevin Sheehan serves as CTO of the Americas and VP of Strategic Solution Sales for Ciena. He has more than 25 years of experience leading high-performance cross-functional teams and building very successful product lines and early-stage companies. Prior to his current role at Ciena, Kevin was General Manager of Ciena Agility, where he was responsible for building and leading Ciena’s software business. Prior to that, Kevin was a key leader and strategist within one of Ciena’s fastest-growing business segments while serving as Ciena’s Vice President of Product Line Management for packet networking solutions. Before his time at Ciena, from 2003 to 2011, Kevin was CEO of Hatteras Networks, where he led the company from zero revenue to tens of millions in annual revenue with profitable growth. Before joining Hatteras, Kevin held senior leadership positions with Alcatel, Packet Engines and SMC. Kevin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering and a Master of Science degree from Stony Brook University in New York, and a Master of Business Administration from Dowling College. Kevin has been globally recognized with American Business Awards “Stevie Award” as Best Telecommunications CEO in 2008 and Light Reading’s Leading Lights CEO of the Year Award in 2006.Ibrahim GedeonIBRAHIM GEDEON CTO, TELUS Bio: Ibrahim Gedeon is one of the global telecommunications industry’s eminent thought leaders. He has carved out an international career by combining insight and skill as an applied scientist with a lighthearted approach to leadership. As Chief Technology Officer for TELUS, a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, he is responsible for all technology development and strategy, security, service and network architecture, service delivery and operational support systems, as well as service and network convergence, and network infrastructure strategies and evolution. Under his leadership the TELUS wireless broadband network has become one of the best in the world. Ibrahim serves on the board of the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions and the Institute for Communication Technology Management. In addition to his industry leadership roles, he has been awarded with IEEE Communications Society’s prestigious Distinguished Industry Leader Award and elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) for his significant contributions to the field of engineering. Ibrahim has also been named one of the 100 most powerful and influential people in the telecoms industry in Global Telecoms Business magazine’s GTB Power 100. Ibrahim holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Beirut, a Master’s in Electronics Engineering from Carleton University and an Honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of British Columbia and is passionate about supporting engaged, high-performing teams.
A self-describing digital asset carries its meta-data along with it. When building distributed enterprise AI solutions, having a catalog of self-describing assets can be very valuable. In this talk, we would describe an open-source community effort to create a catalog of such assets, and discuss the various use-cases that such a catalog can enable. We would also provide an overview of the Enterprise Neuro-System Group which is supporting the creation of this technology in its quest to enable enterprise AI Solutions.
The ability for public safety personnel and their devices to communicate securely within their communities and with external partners, when and as authorized, is essential in the day-to-day conduct of their operations, and vital during emergencies. The ways in which the public safety community uses communications services and tools are constantly evolving. The distinguished speakers of this forum will provide their unique perspectives on how technologies, industry standards and regulations are able to support the needs of public safety and where lie potential opportunities to better meet current and future needs.
Connected and autonomous vehicles and related technologies are expected to profoundly transform future intelligent transportation systems (ITS). These technologies are ushering in an era of smart transportation that can end traffic accidents, improve public transportation, and drastically reduce congestion and carbon emissions. Connected and smart vehicles will bring massive amounts of data that will need to be transmitted over 5G and beyond networks as part of the broader framework of future smart cities. The stringent demands of autonomous vehicles and data-intensive applications in ITS are already driving new requirements for future communication systems. Fueled by the amounts of data available, autonomous vehicles and intelligent transportation systems will increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to improve efficiency and performance. A variety of artificial intelligence techniques are being developed to bolster dynamic decision making, system cybersecurity and intelligent traffic control. Artificial intelligence is expected to be one of the key enablers of smart autonomous transportation supported by future communication networks. In this Industry forum, we will bring together experts from industry and the public sector who are driving and leading efforts in the autonomous vehicles and ITS arena, to discuss challenges and future directions in the area with the ICC 2021 audience.
With 5G and similar technologies such as AI gaining more and more momentum in their implementation into vertical industries and with research on them ongoing, it becomes more important to understand how they are being applied across multiple sectors of industry and society. Insights can often be gained in environments with multiple vertical ecosystem participants that may have differing perspectives and may orient part of the next stage of research on them. Initiatives such as Networld Europe, 5GPPP, PAWR, ENCQOR and others offer opportunities to apply new technologies in many areas, foster participation of SMEs and link with research initiatives in various verticals.
"Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found fast growing applications during the past few years. As such, it is imperative to develop innovative communication technologies for supporting reliable UAV command and control (C&C), as well as mission-related payload communication. However, traditional UAV systems mainly rely on the simple direct communication between the UAV and the ground pilot over unlicensed spectrum (e.g., ISM 2.4GHz), which is typically of low data rate, unreliable, insecure, vulnerable to interference, difficult to legitimately monitor and manage, and can only operate within the visual line of sight (LoS) range. To overcome the above limitations, there has been significant interest in integrating UAVs into cellular communication systems. On the one hand, UAVs with their own missions could be connected into cellular networks as new aerial users. Thanks to the advanced cellular technologies and almost ubiquitous accessibility of cellular networks, cellular-connected UAVs are expected to achieve orders-of-magnitude performance improvement over the existing point-to-point UAV communications. It also offers an effective option to strengthen the legitimate UAV monitoring and management, and achieve more robust UAV navigation by utilizing cellular signals as a complement to GPS (Global Position System). On the other hand, dedicated UAVs could be deployed as aerial base stations (BSs), access points (APs), or relays, to assist terrestrial wireless communications from the sky, leading to another paradigm known as UAV-assisted communications. UAV-assisted communications have several promising advantages, such as the ability to facilitate on-demand deployment, high flexibility in network reconfiguration, high chance of having LoS communication links, and enable numerous applications such as BS traffic offloading, information dissemination and collection for Internet of Things (IoTs). UAV communications are significantly different from conventional communication systems, due to the high altitude and high mobility of UAVs, the unique channel of UAV-ground links, the asymmetric quality of service (QoS) requirements for downlink C&C and uplink mission-related data transmission, the stringent constraints imposed by the size, weight, and power (SWAP) limitations of UAVs, as well as the additional design degrees of freedom enabled by joint UAV mobility control and communication resource allocation."
The goal of the workshop is to solicit the recent developments in ultra-high speed, low latency, and massive connectivity communication with a vision of their potential advancement into beyond 5G and towards 6G. We aim to organize the 4th Workshop on “Ultra-high speed, Low latency and Massive Communication for futuristic 6G Networks (ULMC6GN)” in ICC 2021 to bring together academic researchers, industrial practitioners, and individuals working on this emerging exciting research areas to share their new ideas, latest findings, identify and discuss potential use cases, open research problems, technical challenges, and solution methods in this context.
The goal of the workshop is to solicit the recent developments in ultra-high speed, low latency, and massive connectivity communication with a vision of their potential advancement into beyond 5G and towards 6G. We aim to organize the 4th Workshop on “Ultra-high speed, Low latency and Massive Communication for futuristic 6G Networks (ULMC6GN)” in ICC 2021 to bring together academic researchers, industrial practitioners, and individuals working on this emerging exciting research areas to share their new ideas, latest findings, identify and discuss potential use cases, open research problems, technical challenges, and solution methods in this context.
KEYNOTE SPEECH ON “EMERGING DIVERSITY INITIATIVES IN COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING” Abstract: This presentation will highlight recent efforts by ComSoc and IEEE to broaden participation, engagement, and success in communications engineering. Worldwide trends and initiatives will be described. The talk will conclude with a discussion of emerging efforts towards diversity, equity, and inclusion, and what remains to be done.