PROGRAM
TA1 - TA5: Sunday Morning, 3 April 2016, 09:00 – 12:30
TA1: Emerging Concepts and Technologies towards 5G+ Wireless Networks
Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, CanadaClick here for details >>
TA2: Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Muhammad Ismail, Texas A and M University, QatarMuhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Carleton University, Canada
Erchin Serpedin, Texas A and M University, College Station, US
Khalid A. Qaraqe, Texas A and M University, Qatar
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TA3: MIMO for 5G Networks: Algorithmic Cross-layer Design and Performance Analysis
Mérouane Debbah, Huawei, France and CentraleSupélec, FranceMohamad Assaad, CentraleSupélec, France
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TA4: Socially Enabled Wireless Networks
Kwang-Cheng Chen, National Taiwan University, TaiwanClick here for details >>
TA5: Title Visible Light Communications and Networking
Hany Elgala, State University of New York at Albany, USClick here for details >>
TP1 - TP5: Sunday Afternoon, 3 April 2016, 14:00 – 17:30
TP1: Designing 5G Networks: an Energy Efficient Perspective
Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, CanadaMarco Di Renzo, CNRS – SUPELEC – Univ. Paris-Sud, France
Christos Verikoukis, Telecommunications Technological Centre of Catalonia, Spain
Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia
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TP2: The Road to 5G: Small Cells, Context-Awareness, and Ultra Dense Networks
Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu, FinlandClick here for details >>
TP3: Greening the Last‐hop Access
Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USClick here for details >>
TP4: Towards the Vehicular Cloud: From Connected Cars to Smart Cities
Falko Dressler, University of Paderborn, GermanyClick here for details >>
TP5: Internet of Things: Enablers, Trends, and Challenges
Fethi Filali, Qatar Mobility Innovations Center, QatarClick here for details >>
TUTORIALS
TA1: Emerging Concepts and Technologies towards 5G+ Wireless Networks
Abstract:Since the development of 4G LTE standards around 2010, the research communities both in academia and industry have been brainstorming to predict the use cases and scenarios around 2020, to determine the corresponding technical requirements, and to develop the enabling technologies, protocols, and network architectures towards the next-generation (5G) wireless standardization.
This exploratory phase is winding down as the 5G standardization phase approaches. The first wave of 5G standards are expected to be developed during the 2017-18 timeframe, to be approved by ITU during the 2019-2020 timeframe, and to become operational in the early 2020s. As such, it is time to reinitiate a similar brainstorming endeavour towards the beyond-5G wireless networks; we refer to such networks as 5G+ in order to include the evolution of the 5G standards in 2020s and to perform the groundwork for those to be developed towards 2030.
The overall goal of the tutorial is to identify
- the emerging concepts and technologies, and
- the necessary analytical tools to study them (such as optimization, game theory, dynamic feedback control, and artificial intelligence).
In the first part of this tutorial (1.5 hours), the following topics will be covered:
- Fundamental dynamics of cellular and wireless communications
- 3GPP operation
- Key technologies in LTE-Advanced (R10)
- Highlights of 3GPP Releases 11, 12, 13, and 14
- Challenges and opportunities as we move forward
- Revisiting the theoretical basics: What we know and what we don’t know
- Enabling technologies in layer-1 and layer-2 as well in the network architecture
- Bottleneck problems in the beyond-2020 wireless networks
- Cognitive radio & spectrum usage
- Advances in PHY
- Noncoherent communications
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HetHetNets (heterogeneous traffic in heterogeneous networks)
- 5G+ traffic models
- Intercell load coordination (ICLC)
- Layer 8: User-in-the-Loop (demand shaping in space and time)
- Drone-BSs
- New frontiers in resource allocation
- Interdisciplinary approaches in decision making
- Robust algorithms and protocols
Presenter:
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During 1993–1994, he was with the R&D Group of Marconi Kominikasyon A.S., Ankara, Turkey. Since 1998 he has been with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where he is now a Full Professor. His research interests cover many aspects of wireless technologies with a special emphasis on cellular networks. He coauthored about 80 IEEE journal papers, and has given a high number of tutorials and invited talks on wireless technologies in the leading international conferences. In recent years, his research has been funded by Huawei, Blackberry, Samsung, Telus, Allen Vanguard, DragonWave, Communications Research Centre of Canada (CRC), and Nortel. This collaborative research resulted in about 25 patents (granted and applied). Dr. Yanikomeroglu has been involved in the organization of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) from its inception, including serving as Steering Committee Member as well as the Technical Program Chair or Co-Chair of WCNC 2004 (Atlanta), WCNC 2008 (Las Vegas), and WCNC 2014 (Istanbul). He was the General Co-Chair of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall 2010 held in Ottawa. He has served in the editorial boards of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, and IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS & TUTORIALS. He was the Chair of the IEEE’s Technical Committee on Personal Communications (now called Wireless Technical Committee). He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications Society as well as the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.
Dr. Yanikomeroglu is a recipient of the IEEE Ottawa Section Outstanding Educator Award in 2014, Carleton University Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award in 2010, the Carleton University Graduate Students Association Excellence Award in Graduate Teaching in 2010, and the Carleton University Research Achievement Award in 2009. Dr. Yanikomeroglu spent the 2011–2012 academic year at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey, as a Visiting Professor. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada.
TA2: Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Abstract:This tutorial focuses on the emerging research topic “green (energy efficient) wireless networks” that has drawn huge attention recently from both academia and industry. This topic is highly motivated due to important environmental, financial, and quality-of-experience (QoE) considerations. In this tutorial, we mainly focus on energy efficient techniques in base stations (BSs) and mobile terminals (MTs) as they constitute the major sources of energy consumption in wireless access networks, from the operator and user perspectives. Furthermore, this tutorial targets the heterogeneous nature of the wireless communication medium, and therefore, the tutorial is entitled “Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”. The wireless communication medium has become a heterogeneous environment with overlapped coverages due to the co-existence of different cells (macro, micro, pico, and femto), networks (cellular networks, wireless local areas networks, wireless metropolitan area networks), and technologies (radio frequency, device-to-device (D2D), and visible light communications (VLC)). In such a networking environment, MTs are equipped with multiple radio interfaces and enjoy a multi-homing capability. This tutorial mainly focuses on promoting energy efficiency in wireless networks through multi-homing resource allocation, exploiting network cooperation, integrating different and new network technologies (radio frequency and VLC), and integrating new device centric communication paradigms such as Ds2D communications. This tutorial is part of the authors most recent research on green heterogeneous networks including two research monographs and numerous IEEE journal and conference publications.
The table of contents of this tutorial is structured as follows:
Part I: Introduction - Green Networks (30 minutes)
(1.1) Introduction - The Need for Green Communications
(1.2) Modeling of Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks
(1.3) Traffic Modeling and Performance Metrics
(1.4) Green Solutions at Low and/or Bursty Call Traffic Load
(1.5) Green Solutions at High and/or Continuous Call Traffic Load Part II: Green Multi-homing Resource Allocation (75 minutes)
(2.1) Introduction - The Heterogeneous Wireless Medium
(2.2) Green Multi-homing Resource Allocation
(2.3) Challenging Issues
(2.4) Incentives for Green Downlink Multi-homing
(2.5) VLC-Femto Cell Multi-homing Solution
(2.6) Fairness in Green Uplink Multi-homing Part III: Network Management Solutions (75 minutes)
(3.1) Dynamic Planning with Balanced Energy Efficiency: Two-timescale Decision Strategy
(3.2) Greening the Edges: Energy Efficient Cell-on-Edge Deployment
(3.3) D2D Communications for Green Networks: Energy Consumption Analysis of Hierarchical HetNet
(3.4) Energy Efficient Content Access Approaches - Green Terminals: Devices-to-device (Ds2D) communications Conclusions and Future Research
(4.1) Concluding Remarks
(4.2) The Road Ahead
Presenters:
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TA3: MIMO for 5G Networks: Algorithmic Cross-layer Design and Performance Analysis
Abstract:Wireless communications are fast evolving in order to meet the rapid growth in Internet and multimedia services, as well as the emergence of new domains in the market of the wireless communications, such as social behavior, digital television and cognitive sciences. The next generation of cellular networks (5G) is expected to support 1000-fold increases in traffic demand. MIMO is one of the key techniques of the 5G emerging technology to accommodate such a demand. Most of the prior research work on MIMO is based solely on the physical layer considerations and tend to ignore the time varying and bursty nature of the multimedia traffic. This results clearly in an underutilization of the resources of the network since the physical resources may be allocated to a user having small number of bits in the buffer. The design of advanced MIMO schemes taking into account the traffic patterns is hence gaining interest in order to support the large amount of traffic demand. The aforementioned design is challenging since it asks for interdisciplinary approach, which lies at the intersection of networking, communication and information theory.
This tutorial introduces the main fundamental tools required to design traffic-aware MIMO schemes, as well as recent theoretical results in this area. We will provide the mathematical tools and the methodology to optimize the MIMO precoding while taking into account the queueing constraints of the users. Intuitive understanding of recent research results and identification of some open problems will be also presented. Furthermore, we will provide fundamental insights on the asymptotic performance limits of the network under bursty traffic, as well as on the interplay between design parameters.
Presenters:
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TA4: Socially Enabled Wireless Networks
Abstract:Emerging online social networks significantly change the way of content distribution and information dissemination, while the traffic of social networks dominates Internet traffic in the mobile communication networks. Therefore, it is vital to design future wireless networks and 5G mobile communications by properly leveraging the properties of social networks. Socially-aware techniques have been widely applied to design mobile social networks and D2D communication mechanisms. After the introduction of the interplay between social networks and technological networks in 2013, we shall further look into the fundamentals of network science and subsequent social network analysis, and the abstract ways to utilize the nature of social networks to design wireless networks, supplying with successful engineering examples. Various aspects from analysis and system applications will be presented in this tutorial. It shall open a new scenario and subsequently paradigm shift in the technology development of more efficient wireless networks and wireless communications to better meet the expectation from users.
Presenter:
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TA5: Title Visible Light Communications and Networking
Abstract:The radio spectrum is a finite resource and existing RF wireless technologies suffer from the spectrum scarcity. However, focusing on spectrum alone to grow capacity is limited and unlikely to solve the expected network congestion. Approaches to add capacity including spectrally efficient modulation, multiple antennas and heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are considered. The visible light communications (VLC) or LiFi is an emerging technology that uses the existing lighting infrastructure to allow data communication combined with illumination. VLC has the potential for being an attractive complementary to realize indoor gigabit wireless access and to off-load data from existing cellular and WiFi networks.
This tutorial will be tailored to an audience coming from radio or optical background to comprehensively explore the VLC technology. It explains how VLC has evolved from being a point-to-point wireless transmission technology to a gigabit wireless access and networking technology. After a VLC introduction covering the applications, link configurations, different optical components and their effect on the link budget, we focus on the design and performance of state-of-the-art optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation formats and associated challenges under illumination constraints. The tutorial will also cover a range of optical multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) aspects. Novel techniques such as illumination-compatible modulation, polar transmitters and spatial modulation that have the potential to significantly enhance the spectral and power efficiency of VLC systems are going to be reviewed. The tutorial also demonstrates how a hybrid WiFi/LiFi system enables multiuser access, full duplex communication and handover. The tutorial also introduces such hybrid proof-of-concept setup.
Presenter:
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TP1: Designing 5G Networks: an Energy Efficient Perspective
Abstract:The tutorial is aimed at providing an energy efficient perspective on the design of 5G networks, by first introducing the 5G scenario and providing an overview of power consumption in cellular networks, aimed at identifying the major sources of power consumption and to understand the basic tradeoffs in energy efficient design of 5G networks. In particular, it will cover the following topics: (1) energy efficient physical layer design via optimized coding and modulation schemes, (2) energy-neutral network design, by integrating wireless powered communications, (3) 5G networks planning, including extremely dense deployments and multi-owner infrastructure, (4) 5G networks operation and energy efficient virtualization schemes, and (5) advanced wireless networking paradigms (i.e. cognitive radio in 5G sytems). All major solutions will be analyzed and compared by offering the unique vision provided by the combined experience of the speakers, encompassing theoretical and industrial research, advanced research concepts and relevant testbed experiments.
Presenters:
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TP2: The Road to 5G: Small Cells, Context-Awareness, and Ultra Dense Networks
Abstract:Small cell networks (SCNs) are seen as a promising solution for boosting network capacity, while efficiently offloading data and expanding coverage in a cost-effective manner. In this tutorial, we provide a brief overview on SCNs while highlighting key challenges, associated techniques, and future landscape towards 5G. First, we delve into the details of advanced interference management techniques tailored for the unique features of SCNs. In particular, we introduce key concepts such as cell range expansion (CRE), cell association, and intercell and interference coordination (ICIC) that lie at the heart of 4G networks. Then, we discuss in detail the concept of self-organizing networks (SONs) and its key role in self-configuring and self-optimizing small cell deployment. Here, we focus on novel game-theoretic and learning techniques that are seen as an enabler for deploying self-optimizing and self-configuring heterogeneous and small cell networks. Besides, we will present the latest trends in small cell research such as cellular-WiFi integration (2015 COMSOC Fred Ellersick Prize), dual/multi connectivity, dynamic TDD and decoupled uplink-downlink, full duplexing, co-primary operator spectrum sharing (CoPSS), backhaul-aware resource management, etc.
This tutorial builds on its successful predecessors given at IEEE PIMRC 2012, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, IEEE DySPAN 2014, IEEE WCNC 2014, IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, IEEE ICC 2015, and IEEE DySPAN 2015. This will be carried out by presenting the latest state-of-the-art developments of SCNs leading to the much anticipated 5G, with key insights on ultra-dense networks (UDN), edge caching, Massive MIMO, self- backhauling and its interplay with millimeter wave communication. Finally, the paradigm of anticipatory/proactive networks leveraging context-awareness and storage at the network edge, seen as key enablers for 5G networks, will be presented.
Presenter:
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TP3: Greening the Last‐hop Access
Abstract:A variety of bandwidth‐hungry applications and services such as high‐definition television, video streaming, and social networking are being deployed rapidly, thus leading to a continuous surge in bandwidth demand across networking infrastructure, notably the access portion (last‐hop access). Therefore, both wireline and wireless telecommunications operators are driven to upgrade their access networks to provide broader bandwidth for their subscribers. Upgrading the provisioning capacity of access networks leads to a dramatic increase of energy consumption. The network energy consumption contributes to part of its operational expenditure, and high power consumption exerts high requirements on performances of the backup battery at network terminal devices. Moreover, owing to the direct impact of greenhouse gases on the earth environment and the climate change, the energy consumption is becoming an environmental and thus social and economic issue. Therefore, it is important to design and build energy efficient high capacity access networks. This tutorial will discuss the roadmap in designing energy efficient access networks, cover the state of the art on greening wire and wireless access networks, present the research challenges on achieving energy efficient high capacity access networks, and provide a discussion alluding to the 5G development as well as mobile edge computing.
Presenter:
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TP4: Towards the Vehicular Cloud: From Connected Cars to Smart Cities
Abstract:Cities around the world are currently under quick transition towards a low carbon environment, high quality of living, and resource efficient economy. Urban performance depends not only on the city's endowment of hard infrastructure, but also on the availability and quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure. There is a growing importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), social and environmental capital in profiling the competitiveness of cities. Looking back at the last decade, one can observe enormous progress in the domain of vehicular networking. In this growing community, many ongoing activities focus on the design of communication protocols to support safety applications, intelligent navigation, multi-player gaming and others. We are now entering an era that might change the game in road traffic management. We will primarily discuss the challenges and opportunities of the connected cars vision in relation to some of the most needed components in modern smart cities: improved road traffic safety combined with reduced travel times and emissions. Using selected application examples including the use of virtual traffic lights, intelligent intersection management, and platooning, we assess the needs on the underlying system components with a particular focus on inter-vehicle communication. We also shed light on the potentials of a vehicular cloud based on parked vehicles as a spatio-temporal network and storage infrastructure. The tutorial is supported by a textbook on “Vehicular Networking” authored by Falko Dressler that will be published just ahead of the tutorial lecture by Cambridge Press.
Presenter:
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TP5: Internet of Things: Enablers, Trends, and Challenges
Abstract:According to many analysts, connecting things to things is by far the next big thing that Internet is expected to embrace after being the tube for people to people connections! By 2020, tens of billions of devices (things) will be connected to the Internet and generating massive amount of data approaching 40% of the data transmitted on the Internet. The IoT potential economic impact is estimated to reach more than ten trillion dollars a year by 2025. The proliferation of IoT applications is expected to happen in verticals which are primary impacting the society and the economic development such as energy and water management, logistics and transportation, medical and healthcare systems, building and home automation, manufacturing and agriculture, environment monitoring, public safety and land security, media, etc.
The intent of this tutorial is not to get deeper into a very specific technical/research topic or focusing on outdated technology enablers. It is rather a top-down overview of the emerging technology enablers and trends in terms of hardware, communication, computing, big data storage and mining, standards, platforms, privacy and security, etc. Technical and non-technical challenges that may slow down, if not sorted out, the development and the adoption of IoT solutions and services will be identified and discussed.
The tutorial will identify (hot) research issues that could interest researchers willing to contribute in different areas of IoT such as devices/gateways design and communication, data collection/aggregation/fusion, (real-time) data analysis/retrieval, and privacy and security. The ultimate aim is to make the audience aware of the recent technological trends as well as the challenges which can help them identifying interesting research topics and initial ideas about possible ways to address.
The intended audience is both young researchers like graduate students and post-doctoral as well as (senior) faculty members and practitioners willing to start working on research topics related to IoT and/or get an up-to-date overview about the recent development and the global trends.
Attendees will have the opportunity to experience a live demonstration of an IoT platform (branded as LabeebTM) developed by QMIC (http://www.labeeb-iot.com) The Labeeb IoT open platform is the result of three years if R&D work at QMIC. The first release that will be open to the public will be released in December 2015 which is made available for researchers and entrepreneurs to speed up their prototyping, experiments, and analysis.
The content of the tutorial will cover the following topics:
- From connecting people to connecting things: IoT enablers
- IoT applications
- Global players and market overview
- IoT lifecycle
- IoT devices and gateways: sensing, communication, power consumption, and integration
- Addressing and naming in IoT
- Integration of existing standards in IoT (CoAP, MQTT, etc.)
- Network architecture and system design in IoT
- IoT platforms
- Data management and analytics in IoT
- Privacy, security and trust for IoT
- IoT and Big Data: the big brothers!
- IoT and cloud computing
- IoT modelling, large-scale simulation, and testbeds
- Labeeb IoT: a live demo!
Presenter:
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Prior to joining QMIC in January 2010, Dr. Filali was with the Mobile Communications department of EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France, as Assistant then Associate Professor for 7 years. During this period, he was the PI of more than twelve French and European research projects. In the context of some of them, he led the design and development an open architecture for the support of heterogeneous radio access technologies which was integrated lately in EURECOM’s OpenAirInterfaceTM software-radio platform. His current research interests include the design, development, and performance evaluation of communication protocols and algorithms for areas such as Internet of Things, Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems, and mobile crowdsourcing/crowdsensing.
Dr. Filali received his MSc in Computer Science from the National School of Computer Science,Tunisia, in 1999 and a PhD in Computer Sciences (Distributed Systems and Networking) from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, in 2012, with an outstanding dissertation award. In April 2008, he was awarded the Habilitation degree from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis for his extensive research on wireless networking and communications.
He was the Ph.D. Supervisor of more than ten Ph.D. students in the area of wireless sensor and mesh networks, vehicular communications, big data analytics, and mobility management. Dr. Filali co-authored more than 120 research papers in international peer-reviewed conferences and journals and he is the (co-)inventor for more than 10 patents.