Biography: Prof. Fabrizio Granelli Dr. Granelli is
guest-editor of ACM Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications, special issues
on “WLAN Optimization at the MAC and Network Levels”, “Ultra-Wide Band for
Sensor Networks” and “Recent Advances in IEEE 802.11 WLANs: Protocols,
Solutions and Future Directions”, guest-editor of ACM TOMACS special issue on
“Modeling and Simulation of Cross-layer Interactions in Communication
Networks”, of Hindawi Journal of Computer Systems,
Networks and Communications special issue on “Lightweight Mobile and Wireless
Systems: Technologies, Architectures and Services”. He was Co-Chair of 10th and 13th IEEE
Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Communication
Links and Networks (CAMAD’04 and CAMAD’08). Dr. Granelli is Founder and General Vice-Chair of the First International Conference on
Wireless Internet (WICON’05) and General Chair of the 11th and 15th IEEE
Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Communication
Links and Networks (CAMAD’06 and CAMAD’10). He is TPC Co-Chair of GLOBECOM
2007-2009 and 2012 Symposia on “Communications QoS,
Reliability and Performance Modeling”. He was voting member of IEEE SCC41 for
standards IEEE P1900.1 and IEEE P1900.2, and he’s currently voting member of
the IEEE ComSoc Education Board. He was officer
(Secretary 2005-2006, Vice-Chair 2007-2008, Chair 2009-2010) of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communication Systems
Integration and Modeling (CSIM), and Associate Editor of IEEE Communications
Letters (2007-2011) and Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking
(2008-2011). He is Senior Member of IEEE and Associate Editor of IEEE
Communications Surveys and Tutorials and Wiley International Journal on
Communication Systems.
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Biography: Prof.
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Biography: Prof. Mounir Ghogho
Mounir Ghogho received the MSc
degree in 1993 and the PhD degree in 1997 from the National Polytechnic
Institute of Toulouse, France. He was an EPSRC Research Fellow with the
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (Scotland), from September 1997 to November
2001. Since December 2001, he has been a faculty member with the school of
Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Leeds (UK), where he currently holds a Chair in Signal Processing and
Communications. Since 2010, he has also been affiliated with the International
University of Rabat where he is currently Research Director and Scientific
Adviser to the President. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE
Signal Processing magazine. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing from 2005 to 2008, the IEEE Signal Processing
Letters from 2001 to 2004, and the Elsevier Digital Signal Processing journal
from 2011 to 2012. He is currently a member of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society SAM Technical Committee. He served as a member of the IEEE SPCOM
Technical Committee from 2005 to 2010 and a member of IEEE SPTM Technical
Committee from 2006 to 2011. He was the General Chair of the eleventh IEEE
workshop on Signal Processing for Advanced Wireless Communications (SPAWC’2010),
General Chair of the 21st edition of the European Signal Processing Conference
(EUSIPCO 2013), and the Technical co-Chair of the MIMO symposium of IWCMC 2007
and IWCMC 2008. He is also a General Chair of IEEE WCNC 2019. His research
interests are in the areas of signal processing and communication networks, in
which he has published over 240 journal and conference papers, and supervised
more than 25 PhD students. He held invited scientist/professor positions at
many institutions including the US Army Research Lab (USA), Télécom Paris-Tech (France), National Institute of Informatics (Japan), the University
Carlos Third of Madrid (Spain), ENSICA (France), Technical University of
Darmstadt (Germany), the University of Minnesota (USA), and Beijing University
of Posts and Telecommunication (China). He is the EURASIP Liaison in Morocco.
He was awarded the UK Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship in
September 2000. He is a recipient of the 2013 IBM Faculty award.
Keynote speakers
University of Trento Trento, Italy
Fabrizio Granelli is IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for 2014-15
(renewed from 2012-13), and Associate Professor at the Dept. of Information
Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of the University of Trento (Italy). In
2008-14, he was deputy head of the academic council in Information Engineering.
From October 2015 is Dean of Education at DISI. He received the «Laurea» (M.Sc.) degree in Electronic Engineering from the
University of Genoa, Italy, in 1997, with a thesis on
video coding, awarded with the TELECOM Italy prize, and the Ph.D. in
Telecommunications from the same university, in 2001. Since 2000 he is carrying
on his research and didactical activities (currently Associate Professor in
Telecommunications) at the Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer
Science – University of Trento (Italy). He was coordinator of the Networking
Laboratory in 2006-2010. Between 2004 and 2015, he was visiting professor at
the State University of Campinas (Brasil) for a total
of six months.He is author or co-author of more than
150 papers published in international journals, books and conferences. His main
research activities are in the field of networking, with particular reference
to performance modeling, cross-layering, wireless networks, cognitive radios
and networks, green networking and smart grid communications.
One third of the Internet
population accesses online resources using wireless technologies. On the other
hand, the Internet is accounted for around 2% of carbon emissions in the
atmosphere. As a consequence, a clear need emerges towards design of green
solutions for wireless access and networking, to optimize power usage. This
requires the development of proper solutions to increase energy efficiency in
wireless communications, including physical, resource allocation and networking
aspects. The keynote will introduce the challenges related to limited energy
efficiency in today's wireless networks and present some novel approaches to
address the main issues. The presented solutions will provide a brief yet
significant overview of the potential methodologies to apply at the physical,
MAC and network levels.
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
This talk will focus on exploring and
elucidating all facets of the next generation of 5G “Mobile Wireless Internet
of Everything” technology, business and societal gaps and challenges between
the current 3G-4G-LTE access-only Internet models and the proper vision of 5G,
evolutionary or revolutionary, to go beyond just access by embracing and
facilitating the upfront integration of all new technologies (IOT, SDN/NFV,
Cloud Computing, ..) to be user-transparent, app-oriented, service-ready,
ubiquitous and lowest cost. As Internet usages are proliferating,
communications networks are faced with new shortcomings. Future networks will
have to support in 2020 mobile traffic volumes 1000 times larger than today and
a spectrum crunch is anticipated. Wireless access rates are today significantly
lower than those of fixed access, which prevents the emergence of ubiquitous
low cost integrated access continuum with context independent operational
characteristics. Communication networks energy consumption is growing rapidly,
especially in the radio part of mobile networks. The proliferation of connected
devices makes it very difficult to maintain similar performance characteristics
over an ever larger portfolio of technologies and requirements (i.e.Ultra High Definition TV vs. M2M, IoT).
Heterogeneity of access technologies entails unsustainable cost with increasing
difficulties to integrate an ever larger set of resources with reduced OPEX.
Network infrastructure openness is still limited. It prevents the emergence of
integrated OTT (cloud)-network integration with predictable end to end performance
characteristics, and limits the possibility for networks to become programmable
infrastructures for innovation with functionalities exposed to developers'
communities.
This talk will be devoted to analyze the
transformative impact of IPv6 on IoT and 5G and its
advanced features, presenting the challenges and solutions being considered in
the context of several deployment scenarios or pre-standardization around the
world.
Title: On the Road
to 5G Networks
University of Leeds, UK & UIR, Morocco
Abstract:
To meet the exponentially growing demand for
mobile data traffic, future mobile networks should be designed to: i) bring the network closer to the user, mainly through
network densification, ii) bring the content closer to the users, through
caching popular content at the edge of the network, iii) have a fluid/elastic
architecture, through virtualization and cloudification,
and iv) exploit higher frequency bands (both licensed and unlicensed). The
potential and challenges associated with each of the above technological trends
will be discussed. Stochastic geometry is used to evaluate the network
performance in terms of spectral and energy efficiencies. Green networks
leveraging energy harvesting will also be discussed.
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