Title: Towards 5G Wireless Networks
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With the 5th generation of wireless networks in the horizon, work is underway to define what such networks should look like. Challenges in the wireless arena keep mounting as user expectations grow with competing demands for higher bit rates, vastly enlarged capacities, vanishing latencies, and uniform user experiences. This lecture considers 5G, not from the perspective of a manufacturer, operator, or user, but from the perspective of a researcher. With this perspective, the presentation is organized around various reflections touching on aspects that relate to 5G but that also have broader conceptual implications.
Biography:
Angel Lozano is a Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona. Prof. Lozano received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999. He subsequently joined Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies, now Nokia) in Holmdel, USA, where he was a member of the Wireless Research Department till 2008. Between 2005 and 2008 he was also Adj. Associate Professor at Columbia University. Prof. Lozano is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2011-2014) and the IEEE Transactions on Communications (1999-2009), and is now an Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He was Chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee (2013-2014) and an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society (2012-2014). Prof. Lozano has published extensively, holds 15 patents, and has contributed to several books. His papers have received several awards, including the 2009 Stephen O. Rice prize to the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the 2016 Fred W. Ellersick prize to the best paper published in the IEEE Communications Magazine, and the 2016 Communications Society & Information Theory Society joint paper award.

Title: Paving the Way for Context-Aware Holistic IoT Network
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In this talk, I will take you through a quick journey in the IoT domain. I will identify the unique quality of service (QoS) needs of emerging IoT applications and propose SADIQ, which is a software-defined network (SDN) system that addresses these needs. SADIQ provides location-aware, context driven QoS for IoT applications by allowing applications to express their requirements using a location-based abstraction and a high-level SQL-like policy language, and the network to support these requirements through recent advances in SDNs. SADIQ is implemented using commodity OpenFlow-enabled switches and an open-source SDN controller and evaluate its effectiveness using traces from two real IoT applications. SADIQ system source code is made publicly available for the research community.
Biography:
Basem is an associate and founding professor of computer science and electrical engineering in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering (CEMSE) Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Before joining KAUST in 2009, he was a visiting faculty at the Computer Science Department in Stanford University. His current research covers a range of topics in energy and resource allocation in wired and wireless communication networks, including wireless mesh, wireless sensor, multimedia, and optical networks. He is also interested in SDNs, IoT, and cloud computing. In 2012, he was elevated to the rank of Senior Member of IEEE

Title: Research and Standard Trends in Broadcast for Future 5G Cellular Systems
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5G systems have attracted a lot of focus recently. After the pre-standard period where the concepts of 5G and the impact on different verticals were clarified, 3GPP has started the specification of 5G. In December 2017, a first version of 3GPP Release 15 was published containing the first 5G standard. Release 15 focused on applications such enhanced broadband, ultra-reliable communication and massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC). 3GPP is now considering other applications such as Broadcast for next releases. Broadcast (Point to Multipoint ) is needed because of the huge traffic that media services generate. It is estimated that 60% of the traffic comes from video. This is particularly challenging for very popular live content (e.g. sports) or unpredictable events (e.g. breaking news) that tend to cause large traffic spikes. The increasing bit-rate demands of 4k UHDTV and, in the future 8k UHDTV, and the emerging new interactive services (e.g. augmented reality, virtual reality and 360º visual media) will further increase the demand on network capacity and performance. Furthermore, Point to Multipoint applications extends from media to other verticals such autonomous driving and IOT. None of the existing networks, whether fixed, mobile or broadcast, has the capability to support this type of future demand on their own due to limitations associated with capacity, delay and cost of deployment. In Order to prepare the point to multipoint standardization, a 5G-PPP project was launched recently, the 5G-Xcast, that will develop a solution targeting the aforementioned limitations and therefore addressing future demand, based on the key capabilities of 5G that by far exceed those of the legacy systems
Biography:
Dr. Belkacem Mouhouche is a Principal Standards Engineer at Samsung Research UK. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Signal Processing from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecoms (Telecom Paristech) in France. During his Ph.D. he worked on 3GPP third generation systems (UMTS). He later worked as a 3GPP standard Engineer following the development of HSDPA and LTE systems. He was also involved in FP7 European Project "End to End Efficiency" (E3) where he worked on cognitive radio in heterogeneous systems. His research interest are in the area of advanced techniques for the physical layer of future communication systems including MIMO, beamforming and coding applied to wireless systems. Dr. Mouhouche was also heavily involved in the development of the latest broadcast terrestrial standard ATSC3.0 and led the broadcast activity within the 5G-PPP project "Fantastic-5G". Recently, he was appointed as innovation, dissemination and standardization manager of the 5G-PPP project "5G-Xcast" focused on new point to multipoint techniques for 5G networks.

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Ridha Hamila received the Master of Science, Licentiate of Technology with distinction, and Doctor of Technology degrees from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere, Finland, in 1996, 1999, and 2002, respectively. Dr. Hamila is currently a Full Professor at the epartment of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar. From 1994 to 2002 he held various research and teaching positions at TUT within the Department of Information Technology, Finland. From 2002 to 2003 he was a System Specialist at Nokia research Center and Nokia Networks, Helsinki. From 2004 to 2009 he was with Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, UAE. Also, from 2004 to 2013 he was adjunct Professor at the Department of Communications Engineering, TUT. His current research interests include mobile and broadband wireless communication systems, Internet of Everything, and Machine Learning. In these areas, he has published over 150 journal and conference papers most of them in the peered reviewed IEEE publications, filed five US patents, and wrote numerous confidential industrial research reports. Dr. Hamila has been involved in several past and current industrial projects, Ooreedo, Qatar National Research Fund, Finnish Academy projects, EU research and education programs. He supervised a large number of under/graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. He organized many international workshops and conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.