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Barely seen in action movies until a decade ago, the progressive blending of UAVs into our daily lives will greatly impact labor and leisure activities alike. Most stakeholders regard reliable connectivity as a must-have for the UAV ecosystem to thrive, and the wireless research community has been rolling up its sleeves to drive a native and long-lasting support for UAVs in 5G and beyond. Moving up, the recent introduction of more affordable insertions into the low orbit is luring new players to the space race, making a marriage between the satellite and cellular industries more likely than ever. In this talk, we will navigate from 5G to 6G use cases, requirements, and enablers involving aerial and spaceborne communications, also acting as a catalyst for much-needed new research.
Exploiting the frequency ranges above 6 GHz has become a hallmark of modern wireless systems. The use of 20-100 GHz spectrum was a key characteristic of 5G systems, and the 100-500 GHz frequency range will be an important component in 6G. This talk will first discuss the characteristics of wireless propagation channels in those frequency bands, reviewing the fundamentals, and then discussing our recent measurement results in outdoor environments, including ones in the larger than 100 GHz frequency range that show feasibility of high-rate data links at distances up to 100 m in both line-of-sight and many non-line-of-sight situations; yet at the same time these measurements also indicate that many common assumptions about such high-frequency channels, e.g., with respect to sparsity, might not hold under all circumstances. Based on the discussions of the channels, the talk will then investigate single- and multi-user capacity, signaling methods and transceiver structures that are especially suitable for ultra-high data rates at these high frequency bands.
5G rollouts have stimulated new demand that cannot be met by 5G itself. That's where 5G-Advanced comes into play, delivering enhanced capabilities. Without a doubt, 5G-Advanced will further stimulate more new demands that only 6G can address. Looking into these new demands will be crucial to defining 6G. ITU-R is leading the consortium effort to study future technology trend (FTT) and 6G vision, aiming to issue the FTT report and vision recommendation by the end of 2022 and in the middle of 2023, respectively. 6G will go far beyond communications. 6G will serve as a distributed neural network that provides communication links to fuse the physical, cyber, and biological worlds, truly ushering in an era in which everything will be sensed, connected, and intelligent. In addition to connected people and things, we predict that 6G will be the platform for connected intelligence, where the mobile network connects vast amounts of intelligent devices and connects them intelligently. This talk will first start with 5G-advanced as an introduction, then present an overall vision for 6G with drivers, use cases, KPIs, roadmap and key capabilities. Six key capabilities: (1) Extreme connectivity, (2) Native AI, (3) Networked sensing, (4) Integrated Non-terrestrial network, (5) Native trustworthiness and (6) Sustainability, will be further discussed, including potential technologies/research directions and associated challenges.
Research activities in academia and industry worldwide towards the 6th generation (6G) mobile communication system have recently considerably gained momentum. In this overview we will highlight the anticipated 6G timeline and technology concepts which have to fulfil even more stringent requirements in comparison to 5G, such as ultra-high data rates, energy efficiency, global coverage and connectivity as well as extremely high reliability and low latency. One of the 6G technologies are sub-Terahertz and terahertz (THz) waves which have frequencies extending from 0.1 THz up to 10 THz and fall in the spectral region between microwave and optical waves. The prospect of offering large contiguous frequency bands to meet the demand for highest data transfer rates up to the terabit/sec range make it a key research area of 6G mobile communication. These efforts require an interdisciplinary approach, with close interaction of high-frequency semiconductor technology for RF electronics but also including alternative approaches using photonic technologies. The THz region also shows great promise for many applications areas ranging from imaging to spectroscopy and sensing. To fully exploit the potential of this frequency range it is also crucial to understand the propagation characteristics for the development of the future communication standards by performing channel measurements. We will highlight the characteristics of channel propagation in this frequency region and present new results from channel measurements at 158 GHz and 300 GHz.
Sitting at the intersection of wireless communication and ML, the talk will focus on two important aspects of wireless edge AI. First, we will discuss and demonstrate the application of ML in wireless communication for understanding, orchestrating, securing and maximizing the use of spectrum resources through learning. ML techniques can provide significant leaps in performance and efficiency of key L1 functions surrounding channel sensing, channel modeling, modulation and receiver design, and spatial re-use, as well as improving access and coordination schemes. We will explore how some of these ideas are advancing the 5G RAN today and how they can evolve to enable 6G.Second, we describe the role of Distributed Edge AI in the wireless environment. Owing to the distributed nature of data arising from sensors, base stations, and so forth, the goal in edge AI is to train privacy-preserving machine learning models under resource constraints. We provide an overview of recent techniques such as federated learning, distillation and split learning. We will also explore how to harness over-the-air computing and analog communication to provide scalable and privacy-preserving over-the-air model training. The talk will conclude by shedding light onto the next frontier of edge AI sitting at the confluence of semantic communication and ML.
There will be two industry panel sessions to facilitate discussion about 6G, i.e., Part 1 entitled “6G Use Cases, Requirements, and Roadmap” and Part 2 entitled “The Road to 6G - Key Technology Enablers and Their Impact on 6G Architecture”. This proposed panel is for Part 1 and its discussion topics will focus on technical and social trends that would motivate further evolution beyond 5G, representative use cases of 6G, and initial views about vision, requirements, and roadmap of standardization and commercialization for 6G. Considering that the mobile industry will continue the enhancement of 5G networks for about 10 years before the start of deploying 6G networks, it would also be worth discussing how to define the relationship between 5G evolution and 6G. In this proposed panel, we will bring together leading experts from the mobile industry as well as the academia. The proposed panel can serve as a good opportunity to share the technology leaders’ views and can provide a bridge between academia and industry.
This academic keynote is on Perspectives On Innovations and Reality - What Next? PANELISTS: Jonathan Davidson JONATHAN DAVIDSON Cisco Bio: Jonathan was named Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group in March 2020. He leads an organization that builds silicon, optics, hardware, software, and systems innovations for the largest and most advanced networks in the world. Prior to this role, Jonathan was named Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Service Provider Business in August 2018. He led the team to deliver industry leading technologies for the Internet and 5G (routing systems, IOS XR software, automation, and solutions for fixed, cable, and mobile providers). Jonathan re-joined Cisco in March 2017 as Sr. Vice President and General Manager of Service Provider Networking. In that role, he drove Cisco's leadership position in next-generation routing and network automation. Prior to rejoining Cisco, Jonathan served as Executive Vice President and General Manager at Juniper Networks leading its Engineering and Product Management. In that role, he was responsible for driving strategy, development and business growth for the company's entire portfolio including routing, switching and security, as well as leading the ongoing evolution of silicon technology and the Junos operation system. Before Juniper, Jonathan held a variety of leadership positions at Cisco over the course of 15 years. During that time, he developed service provider solutions and led the enterprise routing product management team and service provider Layer 4 through Layer 7 services team. Jonathan is co-author of the best-selling book, "Voice-over IP Fundamentals," and is a frequent speaker at high-profile industry events. Active on social media, he frequently shares his observations and insights about the industry through Twitter and blogs.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.
This industry keynote is on 6G: Defining the Next Decade. Bio: Dr. Wen Tong is the Huawei Fellow, CTO, Huawei Wireless. Dr. Tong is the head of Huawei wireless research. In 2011, he was appointed the Head of Communications Technologies Labs of Huawei, currently, he spearheads and leads Huawei’s 5G wireless technologies research and development. Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, Dr. Tong was the Nortel Fellow and head of the Network Technology Labs at Nortel. He joined the Wireless Technology Labs at Bell Northern Research in 1995 in Canada. Dr. Tong was elected as a Huawei Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He was the recipient of IEEE Communications Society Industry Innovation Award for “the leadership and contributions in development of 3G and 4G wireless systems” in 2014, and IEEE Communications Society Distingushed Industry Leader Award for “pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the mobile communications industry and innovation in 5G mobile communications technology” in 2018. He pioneered fundamental technologies from 1G to 5G wireless with more than 400 granted US patents. Dr. Tong is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, and he also serves as Board of Director of WiFi Alliance. He is based in Ottawa, Canada.
This academic keynote is on Future of MIMO Communication. Bio: Robert W. Heath Jr. received the Ph.D. in EE from Stanford University. He is a Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University. He is also the President and CEO of MIMO Wireless Inc. Prof. Heath is a recipient of several awards including recently the 2016 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2016 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, the 2017 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award, the 2017 EURASIP Technical Achievement Award, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2019 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, and the 2020 IEEE SPS Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award. He co-authored “Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications” (Prentice Hall in 2014) and "Foundations of MIMO Communications" (Cambridge 2019). He was EIC of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine from 2018-2020. He is a current member-at-large of the IEEE Communications Society Board-of-Governors (2020-2022) and a past member-at-large of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board-of-Governors (2016-2018). He is a licensed Amateur Radio Operator, a registered Professional Engineer in Texas, a Private Pilot, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and a Fellow of the IEEE.
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.
6G becomes the hotspot for the wireless research community, whilst the journey to 6G is still many years ahead. The road to 6G entails a process for the fundamental research for 6G technologies, the development of the 6G enabling technologies and standardization of 6G technologies. In this Executive Forum, we will focus on the discussion and debate of the 6G times-line, and route to global standardization on 6G.
As 5G takes to the airwaves, we now turn our imagination to the next generation of wireless technology. The promise of this technology has created an international race to innovate, with significant investment by government as well as industry. And much innovation is needed as 6G aspires to not only support significantly higher data rates than 5G, up to 100 Gbps, but also improved reliability along with excellent coverage indoors and out, including for underserved areas. New architectures including edge computing must be designed to drastically enhance efficient resource allocation while also reducing latency for real-time control. Breakthrough energy-efficiency architectures, algorithms and hardware will be needed so that wireless devices can be powered by tiny batteries, energy-harvesting, or over-the-air power transfer. There are many technical challenges that must be overcome in order to make this vision a reality. This talk will describe what the wireless future might look like along with some of the innovations and breakthroughs required to realize this vision.
Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is the cornerstone to build quantum-safe 6G network. This presentation will introduce NIST PQC standardization effort and discuss PQC applications in 6G network security.
In this talk we will look at security and privacy aspects associated to 6G thus bringing trustworthy 6G to everyone. The talk will present thoughts from the perspective of potential use-cases, possible standatdization directions and global trends. In this talk we will look at security and privacy aspects associated to 6G thus bringing trustworthy 6G to everyone. The talk will present thoughts from the perspective of potential use-cases, possible standatdization directions and global trends.
Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) is regarded as one of the potential key technologies for B5G and 6G mobile communications. No matter in the optical transmission or the radio wave transmission, OAM has been concerned as a new dimension (or a degree of freedom) which can provide additional multiplexing and higher spectrum efficiency, e.g. Tbps data rate is aimed with OAM channels multiplexed in the free space backhaul transmission and Pbps data rate is aimed in the optical fiber with OAM mode division multiplexing. In addition, the theoretical study of OAM has already been engaged in the quantum mechanics for a long time. Many researches in the vortex electron show the promising technology in OAM photon radiation and reception, e.g., relativistic electron cyclotron radiation and electron cyclotron masers. Therefore, the 3rd workshop on OAM transmission in ICC 2021 will focus on both the detailed physical theories of OAM and applications in wireless communications. The workshop is expected to be held with the discussion of the state-of-the-art research on OAM transmission and the promising future application
Vincenzo Sciancalepore, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany,Talk: Rethinking wireless network design for 6G Abstract: Information communication, computation and storage technologies are jointly reshaping the way we leverage on technology. This leads to a wide range of big data and artificial intelligence applications while paving the road to a full customized autonomous user experience. The recent standardized 5G industry is intensively working today on designing, prototyping and testing fundamental technological advances to deliver the promised performance in terms of latency, energy efficiency, wireless broadband capacity, elasticity, etc. Nevertheless, looking at the ever-increasing requests for new services and predicting the development of new technologies within a decade from now, it is already possible to envision the need to move beyond 5G so as to design a new architecture incorporating new key-technologies to satisfy upcoming needs at both individual and societal levels. It is mandatory to fully understand the key enabling technologies that will enable 6G networks to meet its challenging performance targets and how the Cloud will play an additional operational role in future wireless networks. Therefore, there is an impelling need to move to a sixth generation (6G) of mobile communication networks, starting from a gap analysis of 5G, and predicting a new synthesis of near-future services, like holographic communications, high precision manufacturing, a pervasive introduction of artificial intelligence and the incorporation of new technologies, like sub-THz or Visible Light Communications (VLC), in a truly 3-dimensional (3D) coverage framework, incorporating terrestrial and aerial radio access points to bring cloud functionalities where and when needed on demand. All will be encompassed in a full picture by showing the extraordinary opportunities that goal-oriented wireless semantic communications and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) will offer to 6G systems as core-technologies to control the Smart Radio Environment while achieving unprecedented KPIs. Dinesh Bharadia, University of California San Diego, CA, USA Talk: Breaking the curse of MIMO throughput scalability with Smart Surfaces. Abstract: In the last decade, MIMO spatial multiplexing has promised to increase data throughput by orders of magnitude. However, we are yet to enjoy such improvement in real-world environments, as achieving the capacity of the MIMO channels requires rich scattering and therefore often precludes effective MIMO spatial multiplexing. Furthermore, the gains are limited by scattering of the environment rather than MIMO antennas. In this talk, I would present ScatterMIMO, which uses smart surface to increase the scattering in the environment, to provide MIMO spatial multiplexing gain. Specifically, the smart surface pairs up with a wireless transmitter device say an active AP, and re-radiates the same amount of power as any active access point (AP), thereby creating virtual passive APs. ScatterMIMO allows the smart surface to provide spatial multiplexing gain, which can be deployed at a very low cost. Furthermore, ScatterMIMO can provide signals to their clients with power comparable to real active APs, and can increase the coverage of an AP. Furthermore, we design algorithms to optimize ScatterMIMO’s smart surface for each client with minimal measurement overhead, supporting the high mobility of the clients. Fan Yang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Talk: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Future Wireless Communications: Physical Realization and System Demonstration. Abstract: Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) exhibit great potential for future wireless communications. This talk will first present the designs and prototypes of various RISs. Their scattering performance and power consumptions will be discussed in details. Next, representative testing results will be reported where the RISs are incorporated between base stations (BS) and user equipment (UE). It is expected this talk will support the deployment of RIS in future wireless communication systems. Yifei Yuan, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing, ChinaTalk: Opportunities and challenges of RIS for future generation mobile networks Abstract: Great opportunities of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) lie in its potential of improving the radio propagation environment in such a profound way that traditional technologies would not be capable of. In this sense, RIS does not only function like low power nodes, but also can be considered as part of the infrastructures widely deployed. However, RIS faces many challenges, as more practical factors and constraints are taken into account. Comprehensive channel models of RIS are still scanty. The lackluster of relay technology in practical networks, a sort of predecessor of RIS, makes wireless industry be very cautious about the cost, the complexity, or even the use cases of RIS. Channel estimation and control mechanisms at physical layers need to be efficient and feasible in real operations. RIS devices should be manufactured at affordable costs, be able to withstand harsh weather, and maintain the desirable electric properties over many years, especially if deployed outdoor.
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.
There is rejuvenated interest in satellite communications & networking. Both the satellite and 3GPP industries aim at developing a seamlessly integrated one network. One main difference between the legacy satellite systems and the mega-constellations of the 6G era satellite system is the networking aspect with very high-speed inter-satellite links. For efficient operation, the network will have to be autonomous, intelligent, resilient, self-organizing & self-controlling to reduce the cost and risk of human intervention. Distributed decision making, fault recovery, resilience, and scalability are among the important features. These networks will rely on AI techniques at all levels: Ground operations, on-board operations, inter-satellite and satellite-to-ground links. The satellite mega-constellations in the 6G era will create unprecedented opportunities once the unprecedented challenges are addressed by the research community.
There is rejuvenated interest in satellite communications & networking. Both the satellite and 3GPP industries aim at developing a seamlessly integrated one network. One main difference between the legacy satellite systems and the mega-constellations of the 6G era satellite system is the networking aspect with very high-speed inter-satellite links. For efficient operation, the network will have to be autonomous, intelligent, resilient, self-organizing & self-controlling to reduce the cost and risk of human intervention. Distributed decision making, fault recovery, resilience, and scalability are among the important features. These networks will rely on AI techniques at all levels: Ground operations, on-board operations, inter-satellite and satellite-to-ground links. The satellite mega-constellations in the 6G era will create unprecedented opportunities once the unprecedented challenges are addressed by the research community.