| | Monday, 7th November 2022 | |
| 0900-0950 | Plenary Session 1 – Opening of WWRF 48 | |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Opening Speech | Speaker: Mérouane Debbah, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE |
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| 09:10-09:20 | Welcoming Speech | Speaker: Nigel Jefferies, Chairman of WWRF |
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| 09:20 – 09:50 | Opening Keynote | Speaker: Ray O. Johnson, CEO, TII |
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| 10:20 - 11:50 | Plenary Session 2 – Title: Next Generation Radio Technologies | Chair: Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece |
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| 10:20 – 10:50 | Title: VisionX: Semantic Communication Meets System2 ML | Speaker: Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu, Finland |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 13:10 - 14:10 | WWRF General Assembly (members only) | Nigel Jefferies, Chairman of WWRF |
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| 14:10 – 16:40 | Plenary Session 3 – 6G: Visions and Technologies | Chair: Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation |
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| 14:10 – 14:40 | Title: Update of the Gearbox PHY for 6G | Speaker: Gerhard P. Fettweis, TU, Dresden |
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| 14:40 – 15:10 | Title: The Progress of 6G: A Check Point | Speaker: Wen Tong, CTO, Huawei |
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| 15:10 – 15:40 | Title: Mobile Technology Evolution Towards 6G | Speaker: Doru Calin, Head of MediaTek, USA |
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| 15:40 – 16:10 | Title: Open Radio Access Network Design for 6G | Speaker: Tony Q. S. Quek, SUTD, Singapore |
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| 16:10 – 16:40 | Title: Update from European 6G Flagship Hexa-X | Speaker: Mikko Uusitalo, Head of Nokia Bell Labs, Finland |
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| 17:00 - 18:20 | WG C & 6G Session | Chair: Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation |
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| 17:00 – 17:20 | Title: WG C - White Paper Update and Overview | Speaker: Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation |
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| 17:20 – 17:40 | Title: Semantic-Native Communication: A Simplicial Complex Perspective | Speaker: Qiyang Zhao, TII, UAE |
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| 17:40 – 18:00 | Title: Virtual Reality and Multimedia Towards the Internet of Senses | Speaker: Nassim Sehad, Aalto University |
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| 18:00 – 18:20 | Title: 6G White Paper Update and Overview | Speaker: Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation |
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| | Tuesday, 8th November 2023 | |
| 0900-1030 | Plenary Session 4 – Title: Non-Terrestrial Networks | Chair: Bharat Bhatia, ITU-APT, India |
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| 09:00-09:30 | Title: Learning and Communications for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) | Speaker: Walid Saad, Virginia Tech, USA |
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| 09:30 – 10:00 | Title: ETRI 6G R&D Activities | Speaker: Junhwan Lee, ETRI, South Korea |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Title: Deep Reinforcement Learning for MEC Enabled Non-Terrestrial Networks: Models, Applications and Challenges | Speaker: Paresh Saxena, BITS-Pilani, India |
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| 11:00-12:00 | Plenary Session 5 – Title: Connected Intelligence | Chair: Ebtesam Almazrouei, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Title: (AIR) Artificially Intelligent Regulation of Spectra and Space | Speaker: John M. Cioffi, Stanford University, USA |
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| 11:30-12:00 | Title: Semantic and Pragmatic Communications in the Age of AI | Speaker: Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London, UK |
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| 13:30 - 15:00 | Plenary Session 6 – Regional Activities and Initiatives | Chair: Hendrik Berndt, Vice-Chair, WWRF |
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| 13:30 - 14:00 | Title: How Disruptive Technologies Are Reshaping The Future Of The UAE | Speaker: Saeed Aldhaheri, Director, University of Dubai, UAE |
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| 14:00 – 14:30 | Title: Khalifa University System on Chip is Fusion of Technologies for Efficient ICT | Speaker: Baker Mohammad, Khalifa University, UAE |
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| 14:30 – 15:00 | Title: IoT & AI Technologies to Achieve Sustainable Goals & Reduce Non-Revenue Water | Speaker: Abdullah Albadi, NEC, Oman |
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| 15:30-16:30 | Plenary Session 7 – 5G Technologies: Evaluation and Application | Chair: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Title: WWRF Independent Evaluation Group on proposed IMT-2020 technology EUHT-5G | Speaker: M. Arslan Usman, Kingston University London |
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| 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 |
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| | WGD/HF Session | Chair: Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece |
| | Room: Studio 3 + 4 | |
| | Title: Interference Mitigation via Beamforming in Coexisting Satellites and Cloud-Enabled Networks | Speaker: Sirine Ben Ati, Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, Tunisia |
| 16:30 – 16:50 | | |
| 16:50 – 17:10 | Tite: On the performance of the mmWave communications with adaptive modulation | Speaker: Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus, Greece |
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| 17:10 – 17:30 | Title: Laplace integral using Short Blocklength for 5G and Beyond | Speaker: Kumud Altmayer, University of Arkansas Little Rock, USA |
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| 17:30 – 17:50 | Title: Bayesian Learning based Link adaptation in IEEE 802.11ax WLANs. | Speaker: Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India |
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| 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 |
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| | WGBM Session | Chair: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark |
| | Room: Studio 1 + 2 | |
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| 16:30 – 16:50 | Title: Future Business Models supported and enabled by 5G and Beyond wireless technologies | Speaker: Paulo Sergio Rufino Henrique, Spideo |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 17:30 – 17:50 | Title: Coining Green Business Model in Licensed Shared Access regime | Speaker: Anita Priyadarshini Durai Pandian, Aarhus University |
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| 17:50 – 18:10 | Title: Wrap-up | Moderator: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark |
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| | Wednesday, 9th November 2023 | |
| 0900-1000 | Plenary Session 8 – Title: Spectrum and deployment | Chair: Vinod Kumar, WWRF |
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| 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 |
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| 09:30 – 10:00 | Title: Expectation of WRC-23 | Speaker: Tariq Al Awadhi, Executive Director, TDRA, UAE |
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| 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 |
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| 11:30-12:30 | Plenary Session 9 – Title: Towards 6G (Panel Session) | Chair: Mérouane Debbah, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE |
| | Panelists: Peiying Zhu, Senior VP, Huawei; Erdal Arikan, Bilkent University, Turkey, Mikko Uusitalo, Head of Nokia Bell Labs, Finland; Petar Popovski, Aalborg University |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | | |
| 13:50 – 14:20 | Title: One6G’s 6G vision & MOU Signature | Speaker: Prof. Nancy Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece |
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| 14:20-16:00 | WG CV Session | Chair: Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA |
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| 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 |
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| 14:40 – 15:00 | Title: A Hybrid Lane Detection Model for Wild Road Conditions | Speaker: Abhishek Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India |
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| 15:00 – 15:20 | Title: Optimal Control in Connected and Automated Vehicles: A review | Speaker: Sayon Karmakar, Intel, India |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| | WG VIP Cybersecurity Session | Chair: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark |
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| 16:30 – 16:50 | Title: Cybersecurity of IoTs: Challenges, Attacks, and Mitigations | Speaker: Bassem Ouni, TII, UAE |
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| 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 |
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| | Title: Data-driven Security for 5G | Speaker: Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University, UAE |
| 17:10 – 17:30 | | |
| 17:30 – 17:40 | Wrap up | |
| | Speaker: Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark |
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| | WG EMW Session | Chair: Costas Danas, WWRF |
| 16:30 – 16:40 | Title: Opening and Welcome | Speaker: Costas Danas, WWRF |
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| 16:40– 17:00 | Title: 5G Use Cases and Challenges | Speaker: Arslan Usman, Kingston University, London |
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| 17:00 – 17:20 | Title: Title: IoT and Wearables: 5G Challenges and 6G Opportunities | Speaker: Panos Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece |
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| 17:20 – 17:40 | Title: White Paper Discussions and Closing Remarks | Speaker: Costas Danas, WWRF |
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| 17:40 - 17:50 | Closing Ceremony | Nigel Jefferies |
