Program 48th Wireless World Research Forum, Abu Dhabi, UAE November 7-9th 2022 Venue : W Abu Dhabi Yas Island
Day: 1
08 Novemer 2022
Monday – 07 November 2022
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
9:00 - 09:50
Plenary Session 1 – Opening of WWRF 48
Mérouane Debbah, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
Nigel Jefferies, Chairman of WWRF
Chair: Mérouane Debbah, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
09:00 – 09:10
Opening Speech
Speaker: Mérouane Debbah, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
09:10 – 09:20
Welcoming Speech
Speaker: Nigel Jefferies, Chairman of WWRF
09:20 – 09:50
Opening Keynote
Speaker: Ray O. Johnson, CEO, TII
09:50 – 10:20
Coffee Break
10:20 - 11:50
Plenary Session 2 – Title: Next Generation Radio Technologies
Chair: Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Chair: Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece
10:20 – 10:50
Title: VisionX: Semantic Communication Meets System2 ML
Speaker: Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu, Finland
10:50 – 11:20
Title: Exploiting Physical Properties of Electromagnetic Waves toward Next Generation Wireless Technology: Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexing and its Extension to Multishape Radio
Speaker: Doohwan Lee, NTT, Japan
11:20 – 11:50
Title: Wavefront shaping for Wireless Communications with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: How to manage very large bandwidth?
Speaker: Mathias Fink, ESPCI, France
11:50 – 14:10
Lunch
WWRF General Assembly (members only)
Nigel Jefferies, Chairman of WWRF
13:10 – 14:10
Chair: Nigel Jefferies, Chairman of WWRF
14:10 – 16:40
Plenary Session 3 – 6G: Visions and Technologies
Chair: Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation
Chair: Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation
14:10 – 14:40
Title: Update of the Gearbox PHY for 6G
Speaker: Gerhard P. Fettweis, TU, Dresden
14:40 – 15:10
Title: The Progress of 6G: A Check Point
Speaker: Wen Tong, CTO, Huawei
15:10 – 15:40
Title: Mobile Technology Evolution Towards 6G
Speaker: Doru Calin, Head of MediaTek, USA
15:40 – 16:10
Title: Open Radio Access Network Design for 6G
Speaker: Tony Q. S. Quek, SUTD, Singapore
16:10 – 16:40
Title: Update from European 6G Flagship Hexa-X
Speaker: Mikko Uusitalo, Head of Nokia Bell Labs, Finland
16:40 – 17:00
Coffee Break
WG C & 6G Session
Chair: Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation
Author: Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation
17:00 – 17:20
Title: WG C - White Paper Update and Overview
Speaker: Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation
17:20 – 17:40
Title: Semantic-Native Communication: A Simplicial Complex Perspective
Speaker: Qiyang Zhao, TII, UAE
17:40 – 18:00
Title: Virtual Reality and Multimedia Towards the Internet of Senses
Speaker: Nassim Sehad, Aalto University
18:00 – 18:20
Title: 6G White Paper Update and Overview
Speaker: Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation
Day: 2
09 Novemer 2022
Tuesday – 08 November 2022
08:30 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 10:30
Plenary Session 4 – Title: Non-Terrestrial Networks
Chair: Bharat Bhatia, ITU-APT, India
Chair: Bharat Bhatia, ITU-APT, India
09:00 – 09:30
Title: Learning and Communications for Urban Air Mobility (UAM)
Speaker: Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA
09:30 – 10:00
Title: ETRI 6G R&D Activities
Speaker: Junhwan Lee, ETRI, South Korea
10:00 – 10:30
Title: Deep Reinforcement Learning for MEC Enabled Non-Terrestrial Networks: Models, Applications and Challenges
Speaker: Paresh Saxena, BITS-Pilani, India
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00
Plenary Session 5 – Title: Connected Intelligence
Chair: Ebtesam Almazrouei, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
Chair: Ebtesam Almazrouei, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
11:00 – 11:30
Title: (AIR) Artificially Intelligent Regulation of Spectra and Space
Speaker: John M. Cioffi, Stanford University, USA
11:30 – 12:00
Title: Semantic and Pragmatic Communications in the Age of AI
Speaker: Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London, UK
12.00 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
Plenary Session 6 – Regional Activities and Initiatives
Chair: Hendrik Berndt, Vice-Chair, WWRF
Chair: Hendrik Berndt, Vice-Chair, WWRF
13:30 - 14:00
Title: How Disruptive Technologies Are Reshaping The Future Of The UAE
Speaker: Saeed Aldhaheri, Director, University of Dubai, UAE
14:00 – 14:30
Title: Khalifa University System on Chip is Fusion of Technologies for Efficient ICT
Speaker: Baker Mohammad, Khalifa University, UAE
14:30 – 15:00
Title: IoT & AI Technologies to Achieve Sustainable Goals & Reduce Non-Revenue Water
Speaker: Abdullah Albadi, NEC, Oman
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30
Plenary Session 7 – 5G Technologies: Evaluation and Application
Chair: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark
Chair: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark
15:30 – 16:00
Title: WWRF Independent Evaluation Group on proposed IMT-2020 technology EUHT-5G
Speaker: M. Arslan Usman, Kingston University London
16:00 – 16:30
Title: 5G for Healthcare Applications: Challenges and Requirements for Future Mobile Networks
Speaker: Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece
WGBM Session
Room: Studio 1 + 2
Chair: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark
WGD/HF Session
Room: Studio 3 + 4
Chair: Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece
Chair: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark
Chair: Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece
16:30 – 16:50
Title: Future Business Models supported and enabled by 5G and Beyond wireless technologies
Speaker: Paulo Sergio Rufino Henrique, Spideo
16:30 – 16:50
Title: Interference Mitigation via Beamforming in Coexisting Satellites and Cloud-Enabled Networks
Speaker: Sirine Ben Ati, Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, Tunisia
16:50 – 17:10
Title: Using green business modeling innovation ecosystem platform to facilitate green digitalization with open-source software
Speaker: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark
16:50 – 17:10
Title: On the performance of the mmWave communications with adaptive modulation
Speaker: Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece
17:10 – 17:30
Title: A BM Ecosystem value activity analysis on sustainable, green, and circular business model initiatives
Speaker: Mirielle Torgersen, Østfold University College
17:10 – 17:30
Title: Laplace integral using Short Blocklength for 5G and Beyond
Speaker: Kumud Altmayer, University of Arkansas Little Rock, USA
17:30 – 17:50
Title: Coining Green Business Model in Licensed Shared Access regime
Speaker: Anita Priyadarshini Durai Pandian, Aarhus University
17:30 – 17:50
Title: Bayesian Learning based Link adaptation in IEEE 802.11ax WLANs.
Speaker: Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
17:50 – 18:10
Title: Wrap-up
Moderator: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark
17:50 – 18:10
Title: NS-3 module for simulating end-to-end 5G NR with terahertz wireless backhaul
Speaker: Rafay Iqbal Ansari, Northumbria University Newcastle
19:00 - 22:00
Dinner
Day: 3
10 Novemer 2022
Wednesday – 09 November 2022
09:00 – 10:00
Plenary Session 8 – Title: Spectrum and deployment
Chair: Vinod Kumar, WWRF
Chair: Vinod Kumar, WWRF
09:00 – 09:30
Title: Millimeter-Wave and Sub-TeraHz Spectrum Bands to Meet the Requirements of 5G and Beyond
Speaker: Renato Lombardi, Head of Huawei, Italy
09:30 – 10:00
Title: Expectation of WRC-23
Speaker: Tariq Al Awadhi, Executive Director, TDRA, UAE
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00
Fellowship Address – Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
11:00 – 11:30
Title: Channel Coding Challenges for Next Generation Radio Technologies
Speaker: Erdal Arikan, Bilkent University, Turkey
11:30 – 12:30
Plenary Session 9 – Title: Towards 6G (Panel Session)
Chair: Mérouane Debbah, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
Chair: Mérouane Debbah, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
11:30 – 12:30
Panelists: Peiying Zhu, Senior VP, Huawei; Erdal Arikan, Bilkent University, Turkey; Mikko Uusitalo, Head of Nokia Bell Labs, Finland; Petar Popovski, Aalborg University
12:30 - 13:50
Lunch
13:50 – 14:20
Title: One6G’s 6G vision & MOU Signature
Speaker: Prof. Nancy Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece
WG CV Session
Room: Grand Ballroom
Chair: Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
Chair: Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
14:20 – 14:40
Title: On the Impact of CDL and TDL Augmentation for RF Fingerprinting under Impaired Channels
Speaker: Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada
14:40 – 15:00
Title: A Hybrid Lane Detection Model for Wild Road Conditions
Speaker: Abhishek Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
15:00 – 15:20
Title: Optimal Control in Connected and Automated Vehicles: A review
Speaker: Sayon Karmakar, Intel, India
15:20 – 15:40
Title: Statistical Analysis of mm-Wave Features for V2V Scenario in Urban Environment
Speaker: Yaser Awadh Bakhuraisa, Multimedia University, Malacca, Malaysia
15:40 – 16:00
Title: Discussion on White Paper - The Role of AI/Machine Learning in the Evolution of Connected Vehicles
Speaker: Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break
WG EMW Session
WG EMW Session
Room: Studio 1 + 2
Chair: Costas Danas, WWRF
WG VIP Cybersecurity Session
Room: Studio 3 + 4
Chair: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark
Chair: Costas Danas, WWRF
Chair: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark
16:30 – 16:40
Title: Opening and Welcome
Speaker: Costas Danas, WWRF
16:30 – 16:50
Title: Cybersecurity of IoTs: Challenges, Attacks, and Mitigations
Speaker: Bassem Ouni, TII, UAE
16:40– 17:00
Title: 5G Use Cases and Challenges
Speaker: Arslan Usman, Kingston University, London
16:50– 17:10
Title: Security of Software Systems with Applications on the Internet of Things
Speaker: Lucas Cordeiro, University of Manchester, UK and TII, UAE
17:00 – 17:20
Title: Title: IoT and Wearables: 5G Challenges and 6G Opportunities
Speaker: Panos Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
17:10 – 17:30
Title: Data-driven Security for 5G
Speaker: Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University, UAE
17:20 – 17:40
Title: White Paper Discussions and Closing Remarks
Speaker: Costas Danas, WWRF
17:30 – 17:40
Wrap up
Speaker: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark
17:40 - 17:50
Closing Ceremony
The 48th Wireless World Research Forum 2022 will be held in person in Abu Dhabi, UAE.