W8: IEEE VTC2023 NexGenRAN Workshop on 6G Technologies
Co-organizer: Neeraj Kumar (Nehra), Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India
Co-organizer: Sukhdeep Singh, Samsung R&D India-Bangalore, India
Co-organizer: Sachin Sharma, State Bank of India, India
Keynote Speaker: Brij Bhooshan Gupta, Asia University, Taiwan
Keynote Speaker: Sandeep Kumar Jaisawal, Samsung Research Institute, India
Abstract: 5G deployments have only recently started, and 3GPP releases beyond Release15 will continue to tap into the tremendous potential of 5G. However, as a new generation of cellular technology typically appears every 8-10 years, 6G can be expected around 2030. A few organizations, companies, universities and countries have already started the initial research of 6G. The FCC has taken the first steps of opening up terahertz wave spectrum (frequencies between 95 GHz and 3 THz), citing that it will “expedite the deployment of new services in the spectrum above 95 GHz”. In early 2018, the University of Oulu in Finland announced the funding of their 6G Flagship program to research materials, antennas, software, and more that could play a role in the launch of 6G. The idea is to explore use cases for which 5G may not be sufficient and then develop algorithms, protocols and hardware to enable such use cases. Shortly after China launched 5G in 2019, the Ministry of Science and Technology announced that they would be starting 6G research and development through the help of government departments, research institutes, universities, and enterprises. 6G research has begun from Virginia Tech and companies like Samsung and LG. 6G could offer high-fidelity holograms, multi-sensory communications, Tera Hertz (THz) communications, and pervasive artificial intelligence. The overarching aim of this workshop is to explore the evolution from 5G towards 6G from a service, air interface and network perspective, as well as to take a crystal ball perspective on what the future with 6G may look like.
This workshop will layout a vision for 6G and discuss key research directions towards sustainable development goals and societal challenges while creating true productivity through radically new technological enablers of 6G mobile wireless networks. This workshop will also discuss the emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, terahertz communications, optical wireless technology, free space optic network, blockchain, three dimensional networking, quantum communications, unmanned aerial vehicle, cell-free communications, integration of wireless information and energy transfer, integration of sensing and communication, integration of access-backhaul networks, dynamic network slicing, holographic beamforming, and big data analytics that can assist the 6G architecture development in guaranteeing the QoS. The state-of-the-art research results, methods and information on these emerging technologies will be of particular interest. How emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, can contribute to making the vision of zero-touch highly-secure network and service management a reality, is also an important aspect to be discussed in this workshop. Although there have been already a few related works published, this workshop will provide a more systematic view on these emerging technologies. In addition, this workshop will present the expected applications with the requirements and the possible technologies for 6G communications. This workshop will also outline the possible challenges and research directions to facilitate the future research and development of 6G mobile wireless networks.
This workshop on Next Generation 6G Mobile Wireless Networks will be the world’s first end to end workshop on 6G wireless in a IEEE conference. It will aim to cover key drivers, use cases, research requirements, challenges and open issues for 6G from researchers across the globe. Company representatives, academic researchers, decision-makers, and other builders and members of communication society will be invited to contribute.
Keynote bio:
Brij Bhooshan Gupta:
Prof Brij B. Gupta received the PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India (One of the oldest technical institutes in Asia). In more than 17 years of his professional experience, he published over 500 papers in journals/conferences including 30 books and 10 Patents with over 20,000 citations. He has received numerous national and international awards including Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (2009), Govt. of Canada, Visvesvaraya Faculty Research Fellowship Award (2017), MeitY, Govt of India, IEEE GCCE outstanding and WIE best paper awards and Best Faculty Award (2018 & 2019), NIT KKR, India respectively. Prof Gupta is also serving as Distinguished Research Scientist with LoginRadius Inc., USA which is one of leading cybersecurity companies in the world, especially in the field of customer identity and access management (CIAM). He is also selected in the 2021 and 2020 Stanford University’s ranking of the world’s top 2% scientists. He is also a visiting/adjunct professor with several universities (i.e. Temple University, Macquarie University, Yamaguchi University, University of Murcia, Deakin University, Staffordshire University, Swinburne University of Technology, etc) worldwide. He is also an IEEE Senior Member (2017) and also selected as 2021 Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE CTSoc. Dr Gupta is also serving as Member-in-Large, Board of Governors, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (2022-2024). Prof. Gupta is also leading IJSWIS, IJSSCI and IJCAC, IGI Global, as Editor-in-Chief. Moreover, he is also serving as lead-editor of Book Series with CRC, World Scientific and IET press. He also served as TPC members and organized/special session chairs in ICCE 2021, GCCE 2014-2021 and TPC Chair in 2018 INFOCOM: CCSNA Workshop, Publicity Co-chair in 2020 ICCCN, etc. Dr Gupta is also serving/served as Associate/Guest Editor of IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IoT, IEEE Big Data, ASOC, FGCS, etc. At present, Prof. Gupta is working as Director, International Centre for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations, and Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Asia University, Taiwan. His research interests include cyber security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, intrusion detection, blockchain technologies, cyber physical systems, social media and networking.
Sandeep Kumar Jaisawal:
Sandeep Jaisawal has 17 year of Industry experience in the field of Service Orchestration and Management. He holds bachelor’s degree in computer science from Pt. Ravishankar University, Chhattisgarh, Sun Certified Java developer, PG in AIML from Great Learnings, Python and Go language developer. He has created many network management software from scratch for organizations like Nortel network, Juniper Network, created many cloud platform such as Network Function Virtualization Director for Hewlett Packard Enterprise adhering to ETSI standards.
He is currently working with Samsung Research Institute Bangalore as Senior Chief Engineer, active contributor in Open RAN and NEPHIO project, submitted more than 10K likes of code in Open source designed and developed modules from scratch.
He received open-source leader title in Samsung in 2023, won Samsung Excellence award 2023, Winner of Samsung wide Ideation competition 2019, he has IEEE publication and number of patents to his name. Sandeep has been actively show casing the Open RAN AIML framework in events such as IEEE conference such as IEEE ComSoc 2022, IEEE ANTS 2022. His area of interest are Cloud Orchestration and Management technologies.
Co-organizer’s bios:
Neeraj Kumar (Nehra):
Dr. Neeraj Kumar received his Ph.D. in CSE from SMVD University, Katra (J & K), India, and was a postdoctoral research fellow in Coventry University, Coventry, UK. He is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala (Pb.), India since 2014. Dr. Neeraj is an internationally renowned researcher in the areas of VANET & CPS Smart Grid & IoT Mobile Cloud computing & Big Data and Cryptography. He has published more than 150 technical research papers in leading journals and conferences from IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, John Wiley, and Taylor and Francis. His paper has been published in some of the high impact factors journals such as-IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Networks Magazine etc. Apart from the journals conferences, he has also published papers in some of the core conferences of his area of specialization such as-IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE Greencom, IEEE CSCWD. He has guided many research scholars leading to Ph.D. and M.E./M.Tech. His research is supported by funding from TCS, CSIT, UGC and UGC in the area of Smart grid, energy management, VANETs, and Cloud computing. He is member of the Cyber-Physical Systems and Security (CPSS) research group. He has research funding from DST, CSIR, UGC, and TCS. He has total research funding from these agencies of more than 2 Crores under different schemes from the GOI. Recently, he has also got International research projects under DST-research initiative. He has h-index of 26 (according to Google scholar, March 2017) with 2500 citations to his credit. He is editorial board members of International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, Security and Communication, John Wiley, and Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, Elsevier. He has visited many countries mainly for the academic purposes. He is a visiting research fellow at Coventry University, Coventry, UK. He has many research collaborations with premier institutions in India and different universities across the globe. He has been engaged in different academic activities inside and outside the Institute. He has supervised 5 Ph.D. students and 5 are currently pursuing their thesis. He has also supervised more than 20 M.E./M.Tech. thesis. He is a member of IEEE.
Sukhdeep Singh:
Sukhdeep Singh received his Integrated Dual Degree (Bachelors and Masters degree) in Computer Science from GVU Jaipur India in 2013. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea in 2016 along with the ‘Superior Research Award’ for publishing the maximum number of SCI(E) research papers during Ph.D. in 2016 from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He also received the ‘SKKU bright student scholarship award’. He was part of Brain Korea (BK21) and National Research Foundation of Korea project during his Ph.D. He worked in diverse fields during his Ph.D., viz. eMBMS scheduling, video delivery architecture for 5G, integrating sociology with Next Generation Mobile Networks, D2D communications. Sukhdeep Singh is currently working with Samsung R&D India Bangalore in 5G RAN System design where he is responsible for research and design of O-RAN and Networks Slicing features for 5G Networks. Apart from this he is also heading the research task force of Access R&D group (with 200+ employees) of Network R&D team at Samsung R&D India-Bangalore. He received Samsung Best Paper Award conferred by CEO & President of Samsung Electronics and has also received Samsung Citizen Award (quarterly awards) for four times conferred by MD of Samsung R&D India-Bangalore. He has published more than 25 research articles in his career. He has served as Guest editor in Taylor and Francis IETE journal, General Chair in workshops hosted/will be hosted in IEEE WCNC 2020 and IEEE Globecom 2020. He also served as Technical Program Chair member for IEEE iNIS 2016, IEEE iNIS 2017, ISRO-ACM ICSE 2017, IEEE iSES 2018, IEEE iSES 2019, IEEE iSES 2020 and IEEE iSES 2021. He has been invited as a guest lecturer by University of Toronto, IITs, IIMs and IIITs and keynote speaker at Springers ICIMMI 2019 and IEEE Virtual Talk Series 2020. He edited the world’s first book on 6G.
Sachin Sharma:
Sachin Sharma has amassed over 15 years of extensive industrial experience working with Fortune 500 organizations, including International Business Machines (IBM), Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and State Bank of India (SBI). His expertise lies in the domains of Telecommunication Technology, Retail, Banking and Finance (BFSI), and various other Information Technology fields. In 2020, Sachin Sharma earned his Ph.D. Degree from Maharishi Markandeshwar University Mullana. His research and academic achievements have been recognized with the prestigious Research Fellowship in Banking Technology for 2021-22. This fellowship was awarded by the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance (IIBF), a government-owned company under the purview of the Reserve Bank of India, in collaboration with the Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), established by the Reserve Bank of India. His research areas primarily revolve around Data Analytics, Information Security, Networking, and Biometrics. His work aims to drive advancements and innovation in these domains, contributing to the development of cutting-edge solutions and practices.
Deadlines:
Paper submission deadline: August 28, 2023
Acceptance notification: September 03, 2023
Final paper submission deadline:September 09, 2023
To submit a paper, please visit: https://vtc2023f-rr-wks.trackchair.com/track/2210