WWRF 48 – WWRF

Monday, 7th November 2022

08:30 – 09:00	Registration and Refreshments
0900-0950	Plenary Session 1 – Opening of WWRF 48 Mérouane Debbah, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE Nigel Jefferies, Chairman of WWRF
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
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
13:10 – 14:10	WWRF General Assembly (members only) Nigel Jefferies, Chairman of WWRF
14:10 – 16:40	Plenary Session 3 – 6G: Visions and Technologies 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
17:00 – 18:20	WG C & 6G Session Chair: 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

Tuesday, 8th November 2023

0900-1030	Plenary Session 4 – Title: Non-Terrestrial Networks 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
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
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
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

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	Tite: 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

Wednesday, 9th November 2023

0900-1000	Plenary Session 8 – Title: Spectrum and deployment 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
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
14:20-16:00	WG CV Session 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
Chair: Costas Danas, WWRF

WG VIP Cybersecurity Session

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

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