WWRF 41

Theme "Future Technologies for Business Ecosystem Innovation"

The theme not only encompasses technology, but also associates it to the relevant business domains, toegether defined as the Business Ecosystem. We therefore invite academics, researchers and industrial representatives to share their views and present technical results on future technologies, business models and ecosystems, to discuss critical business and regulatory aspects, and to present advanced technology findings that will impact the future socio-techno-economic systems.

 

PROGRAMME PLENARY SPEAKER

 

Meeting Presentations

 

DAY 1, 30TH OF OCTOBER

 
 
Opening Session

 

Opening Speech
Nigel Jefferies, Chair of WWRF

 

IMT Process & History
Colin Langtry, ITU (Retired), France

 

EU & 5G Development
Bernard Barani, European Commission, Belgium

 
Plenary Session 2 – IMT2020

 

Swisscom’s 5G Status and Future Directions
Marcus Brunner, Chief Researcher, Head of Standardization, Swisscom,Switzerland

 

IMT2020: 5GPPP Evaluation Group activities
Werner Mohr, Nokia, Germany

 
Special Session 1 – Key Innovations Beyond 5G

 

Molecular Communications
Yansha Deng, Kings College, University of London, UK

 

THz Communications: the new wireless frontier for systems B5G
Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece

 

Enabling Technologies for Large-scale Communication Systems
Constantinos Papadias, AIT, Greece

 

Freemium Model for Smart Network Access
Josef Noll, University of Oslo & Basic Internet Foundatio

 

Smart Networks with AI-enabled Spectrum Sharing
Dr. F. Mekuria, CSIR Meraka ICT Institute, South Africa

 

Introducing 6G-Enabled Wireless Smart Society & Ecosystem
Marcos Katz, Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu,Finland

 

DAY 2, 31ST OF OCTOBER

 
Plenary Session 3A – Vertical Industry

 

5G Applied to Vertical Industry Use Cases: Theory & Practice 
Walter Weigel, Huawei, Germany

 
Plenary Session 3B- 5G for Railway

 

Goal of the new VIP Rail Group, EU Matters and WRC 19 Agenda Item 1.11
Steffen Ring

 

Radio spectrum for future railway applications
Thomas Weilacher, Chairman of CEPT/ECC Working Group Frequency Management (WG FM), Germany

 
Plenary Session 4 – 5G for Water Industrie

 

Introduction, Goal of VIP Group, and water related activities at CTTC
Miquel Payaró,CTTC, Spain

 

IoT-based precision irrigation and water management pilots
Juha-Pekka Soininen, SWAMP Project, Finland

 

Emergent water technologies for enabling newer digital water services
Gabriel Anzaldi, Director, Smart Management Systems Unit at Eurecat, Spain

 

Cataract: A platform for the proactive management of water and utilities
Aimilia Bantouna, WINGS ICT-Solutions, Greece

 
WG VIP Rail

Ultra-Reliable Millimeter Wave Communication for Automatic Train Coupling
Mohammad Soliman, Paul Unterhuber, Stephan Sand, DLR, Germany

 
WGD

International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Recommendations and challenges for Future WirelessTechnologies in mm and THz Waves
Dr Ashok Chandra, Aarhus University, Denmark

 

DAY 3, 1ST OF NOVEMBER

 
Plenary Session 5 – International Perspective

 

Business Opportunities and Security with 5th Generation
Anand Prasad, NEC, Japan

 

Rules for interworking: Rules taker or maker?”
Kiritkumar Lathia, GISFI, India

 

Integrated Moving Networks – Mutual Opportunities for Connected Vehicles and Mobile Networks
Tommy Svensson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

 
Session VIP Connected Vehicles

 

An IoT-Based System with Machine Learning for Detecting Drowsiness of Drivers
Sayon Karmakar, Anush Nagesh, Sumit Gore, Hadi salman, Mariofanna Milanova, Seshadri Mohan

 

Artificial Intelligence and IoT Enabled Safe, Green and Smart Transportation System
Vandana Rohokale and Ramjee Prasad

 

Proposed Algorithm Based on Inertial Measurement for Localization
Shouyi Zhang, Neeli Prasad, May Huang

 

Blockchain-Based Internet of Vehicles (IoV): An Efficient Secure Ad Hoc Vehicular Networking Architecture
Sachin Sharma, Seshadri Mohan

 
Closing Plenary Session

 

Invitation to 42nd Meeting – Tokyo, Japan
Hendrik Berndt (ARIB) on behalf of Kohei Satoh, 5GMF, Japan

 

Update on 5G development in India
Satish Jamadagni (TSDSI)