IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
10–13 April 2022 // Austin, TX, USA
Boosting Verticals into Wireless Orbit

Program

IEEE WCNC 2022 WORKSHOP ON COST EFFICIENT HIGH THROUGHPUT SOLUTIONS FOR 5G EVOLUTION AND BEYOND

 

WORKSHOP DATE: SUNDAY, 10 APRIL 2022

 

ON-DEMAND PROGRAM

 

KEYNOTE:

  • Title: Towards a More Affordable 6G System

  • Abstract:  Low-cost broadband service is key to overcoming inequality in general and the digital divide specifically. Beyond societal mandates such as economic opportunity, education, health, and quality of life, cost efficiency also has economic and even environmental imperatives fostering growth, innovation, and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions whenever the cost savings are achieved by reduced energy consumption, for instance.

    Robust broadband connectivity means it is affordable, accessible, and available. Solutions that overcome digital inequality thus need to be tailored to indoor, rural, urban, and suburban usage. This keynote will survey technologies and architectures that can deliver cost efficiency specifically in the radio access network focusing on high throughput solutions such as enhanced massive MIMO for increased spectral efficiency and cost-per-bit reduction, densification through integrated access and backhaul, new waveforms and modulation schemes for improved energy efficiency and reduced complexity, more spectrum through full duplexing, spectrum sharing, and new spectrum regimes, and, last but not least, cost reduction through energy reduction. 
     

  • Speaker: Dr. Ralf Bendlin (AT&T Labs)

    Dr. Ralf Bendlin is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs in Austin, Texas. Before joining AT&T, he was a Senior Wireless Systems Architect with Intel Corporation and a Systems Engineer with Texas Instruments Inc. He has worked on algorithm development, performance prediction, optimization, systems architecture, spectrum research, and technology strategy for current and next-generation wireless networks and has actively participated in the definition of several global communications standards.

    Dr. Bendlin holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree from the Munich University of Technology in Munich, Germany as well as a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. All degrees are in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.

    He was a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN) and the Technical Program Chair of both the IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 Workshop on High-Dimensional, Low-Resolution Architectures for Power-Efficient Wireless Communications and the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks. He served as presidential appointee on the Advisory Council of the College of Engineering and is currently a member of the Industry Advisory Council of the Department of Electrical Engineering, all at the University of Notre Dame. During his career he has received several awards, most recently the AT&T Science and Technology Medal.

     

 

TECHNICAL SESSION:

  • PAPER 1: "A Probabilistic Shaping Scheme for MIMO Systems with Signal Space Diversity"

    Author: Weimin Kang  (North University of China)
     
  • PAPER 2: "Energy-Efficient Throughput Maximization in mmWave MU-Massive-MIMO-OFDM: Genetic Algorithm based Resource Allocation"

    Authors: Asil Koc, Tho Le-Ngoc, Farhan Bishe  (McGill University)
     
  • PAPER 3: "Dynamic Network Slicing and Resource Allocation for 5G-and-Beyond Networks"

    Authors: Alaa Awad Abdellatif (Politecnico di Torino),  Amr Mohamed (Qatar University), Aiman Erbad (Hamad Bin Khalifa University), Mohsen Guizani (Qatar University)
     
  • PAPER 4: "Simple Gray Coding and LLR Calculation for MDS Modulation Systems"

    Authors: Ferhat Yarkin, Justin P Coon (University of Oxford)
     
  • PAPER 5: "Enhanced Wireless Slotted Aloha Using Linear Physical-layer Network Coding"

    Authors: Ren Wencheng, Fangtao Yu, Tao Yang  (Beihang University)
     
  • PAPER 6: "Predictive hierarchical beam training with noisy ranging measurements for mmWave vehicular communications"

    Authors: Qin Zeng, Yawen Chen, Zifan Wang, Zhaoming Lu, Xiangming Wen, Yang Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

 

PANEL SESSION:

  • Title: Cost efficient high throughput solutions; What is it? And, how do we make it a reality?
  • Moderators:
    • Mark Cudak (Nokia)
    • Stephen Hayes (Ericsson)
  • Panelists:
    • Haseeb Akhtar (Ericsson)

      Haseeb Akhtar is currently responsible for the end-to-end network evolution at Ericsson for their North American market. His experience spans across various roles in Telecommunications with a concentration on wireless and packet based networks. Haseeb represents Ericsson at the O-RAN Alliance’s WG1 (Working Group 1) covering the ‘Use Cases and Overall Architecture’. He is also the editor of ‘O-RAN Architecture Description’ specification.

      Haseeb holds over 35 US, European and Australian patents covering various aspects of communications technology.

      Haseeb has a Master of Science in Telecommunications from Southern Methodist University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington.
       

    • Ralf Bendlin (AT&T Labs)

      Dr. Ralf Bendlin is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs in Austin, Texas. Before joining AT&T, he was a Senior Wireless Systems Architect with Intel Corporation and a Systems Engineer with Texas Instruments Inc. He has worked on algorithm development, performance prediction, optimization, systems architecture, spectrum research, and technology strategy for current and next-generation wireless networks and has actively participated in the definition of several global communications standards.

      Dr. Bendlin holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree from the Munich University of Technology in Munich, Germany as well as a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. All degrees are in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.
       

    • Amitava Ghosh (Nokia)

      Amitava Ghosh (F’15) is a Nokia Fellow and works at Nokia Standards and Strategy. He joined Motorola in 1990 after receiving his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas.  Since joining Motorola he worked on multiple wireless technologies starting from IS-95, cdma-2000, 1xEV-DV/1XTREME, 1xEV-DO, UMTS, HSPA, 802.16e/WiMAX and 3GPP LTE. He has 60  issued patents, has written multiple book chapters and has authored numerous external and internal technical papers. He is currently working on 5G Evolution and 6G technologies. Recently, he was elected chair of the NextGA (an US 6G initiative) National Roadmap Working Group. His research interests are in the area of digital communications, signal processing and wireless communications. He is the recipient of 2016 IEEE Stephen O. Rice and 2017 Neal Shephard prize, member of IEEE Access editorial board and co-author of the books titled “Essentials of LTE and LTE-A” and “5G Enabled Industrial IoT Network”.
       
    • Scott Migaldi (T-Mobile USA)

      Scott F. Migaldi is Director, Standards, and Industry Alliances for T-Mobile USA. Scott leads a group of forward thinking, creative technical experts to develop standards and industry guidelines for  5G and next-generation wireless systems. This role includes the development of Radio Access, Network and feature standards as well as establishing long term visions for evolution of wireless telecommunications. Scott ensures alignment of these activities with internal organizations and drives T-Mobile’s needs with external stakeholders.

      Scott has over 30-years’ experience of international experience in standards, product development, systems engineering, and management for the wireless industry. Scott has a proven track record of introducing, defining, and developing new technologies for the telecommunications market. Scott has published papers on seamless network technologies and future communication systems, along with being awarded several patents.

    • Elena Neira (MITRE)

      Elena Neira is Head of 5G Standards at MITRE Labs. She is responsible for technologies and strategies towards 3GPP, GSMA and other SDOs aim at demands of government sponsors and industry partners.

      Elena is a recognized technology expert in the mobile communications industry and its standards, specification, and compliance groups – 3GPP, ITU, O-RAN, IETF, FCC, ARIB and GCF. Her career spans over 15 years and includes leadership, management and executive responsibilities in R&D, P&L, product design, standards development and supply-chain operations in Fortune 500 companies (Verizon, Texas Instruments, Ericsson) and in disruptive startups in the mobile communications space (Vanu Inc). Her in-depth expertise in telecom platforms, combined with her background in large-scale high-availability carrier-grade radio, core, and services, provide her a unique acumen to transform, lead and influence technology standards at-scale.

      Elena holds a Dual Master’s Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an Engineer’s Degree from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She is an IEEE Senior Member and served in its Board of Governors as Director, and in IEEE Communications Technology News Board and Best Readings as Editor-in-Chief.

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