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 | Speaker: Nigel Jefferies, Chairman of WWRF |
09:20 – 09:50 | 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 | Speaker: Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu, Finland |
10:50 – 11:20 | Speaker: Doohwan Lee, NTT, Japan |
11:20-11:50 | 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 | Speaker: Doru Calin, Head of MediaTek, USA |
15:40 – 16:10 | 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 | 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 |
0900-1030 | Plenary Session 4 – Title: Non-Terrestrial Networks Chair: Bharat Bhatia, ITU-APT, India |
09:00-09:30 | Speaker: Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA |
09:30 – 10:00 | Speaker: Junhwan Lee, ETRI, South Korea |
10:00 – 10:30 | 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 | Speaker: John M. Cioffi, Stanford University, USA |
11:30-12:00 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Speaker: M. Arslan Usman, Kingston University London |
16:00 – 16:30 | 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 | 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 | Speaker: Mirielle Torgersen, Østfold University College | 17:10 – 17:30 | Speaker: Kumud Altmayer, University of Arkansas Little Rock, USA |
17:30 – 17:50 | 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 | Speaker: Rafay Iqbal Ansari, Northumbria University Newcastle |
19:00-22:00 | Dinner |
0900-1000 | Plenary Session 8 – Title: Spectrum and deployment Chair: Vinod Kumar, WWRF |
09:00 – 09:30 | Speaker: Renato Lombardi, Head of Huawei, Italy |
09:30 – 10:00 | 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 | 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 | Speaker: Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada |
14:40 – 15:00 | Speaker: Abhishek Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India |
15:00 – 15:20 | Speaker: Sayon Karmakar, Intel, India |
15:20 – 15:40 | Speaker: Yaser Awadh Bakhuraisa, Multimedia University, Malacca, Malaysia |
15:40 – 16:00 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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