W6: International Workshop on 6th Network Softwarization Techniques for IoT Application, NetSoftIoT
Co-chair: Haotong Cao, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Co-chair: Agbotiname Lucky Imoize, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Co-chair: Sahil Garg, Universit ́e du Qu ́eb, Canada
Co-chair: Neeraj Kumar, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India
Abstract: The softwarization of networks is enabled by the SDN (Software Defined Networking), NV (Network Virtualization), and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) paradigms, and offers many advantages and convenience for network operators, service providers and datacenter providers. By adopting network softwarization techniques, more and more novel network services and novel applications can be operated and deployed. Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a revolution for the development of futuristic network services and applications, especially in current 5G and future 6G networks. It is one of the hottest trends in technology. IoT is transforming our future by interconnecting everything: humans, vehicles, appliances, utilities, infrastructures, street lights and anything through an intelligent connection. The evolution of IoT has been progressively adopted by various organizations and industrial communities. In IoT environment, the huge amount of data and resources requested by various smart devices and humans can be collected and investigated in an intelligent manner in order to improvise the decision making. Hence, there exists a great need of managing these data and resources in an efficient manner.
Co-chair Bios:
Haotong Cao
Bio: Haotong Cao (Member, IEEE, Senior Member, CIC) received the B.S. Degree in Communication Engineering from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT) in 2015. He received the Ph.D. Degree from NJUPT, China, in 2020. He was a visiting scholar of Loughborough University, U.K. in 2017. He was the PostDoc in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, from 2020 to 2023. He is currently with Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. He has served as the TPC member of multiple IEEE conferences, such as IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom. He has published multiple technical papers since 2016, such as IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IEEE IoT-J, IEEE TVT, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TNSE, IEEE NETWORK, IEEE CL, IEEE WCL, (Elsevier) Computer Networks, (Elsevier) Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC and IEEE Globecom. His research interests include 6G networks, SDN, NFV, network virtualization, convex optimization, physical layer security, UAV.
Agbotiname Lucky Imoize
Bio: Agbotiname Lucky Imoize (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He is a Research Scholar at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, under the Nigerian Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) through the Nigerian-German Postgraduate Program. He was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship as a visiting research scholar at the Wireless@VT Lab, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech., USA, from 2017 to 2018. He was formerly a Lecturer at Bells University of Technology, Nigeria. He worked as a core network products manager at ZTE Corporation and Network Switching Subsystem Engineer at Globacom, Nigeria. His research interests cover 6G wireless communication, wireless security systems, and Artificial Intelligence. He has co-edited 5 books and co-authored over 150 papers in peer review journals and conferences. He is the Vice Chair of the IEEE Communication Society, Nigeria chapter, a COREN Registered Engineer, and a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.
Sahil Garg
Bio: Sahil Garg (Member, IEEE) is currently working as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering, École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montreal, Canada. His research interests include machine learning, big data analytics, knowledge discovery, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, software defined networking, and vehicular ad-hoc networks. Some of his research findings are published in top-tier journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, FGCS (Elsevier), Information Sciences (Elsevier), and various international conferences of repute, such as IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE VTC, IEEE INFOCOM Workshops, ACM MobiCom Workshops, ACM MobiHoc Workshops, etc. He was a recipient of the prestigious Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Fellowship from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the Government of India (2016–2018). For his research, he also received the IEEE ICC Best Paper Award in 2018 at Kansas City, USA. He serves as the Managing Editor for Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences (Springer) and an Associate Editor for IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Systems Journal, Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), FGCS, and International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley). He also serves as the Workshops and Symposia Officer for the IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technology Initiative on Aerial Communications.
Neeraj Kumar
Bio: Neeraj Kumar (SMIEEE) (2019, 2020, 2021 highly-cited researcher from WoS) is working as a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed to be University), Patiala (Pb.), India. He is also adjunct professor at King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Newcatle University, UK. He has published more than 500 technical research papers in top-cited journals and conferences which are cited more than 36000 times from well-known researchers across the globe with current h-index of 106. He has guided many research scholars leading to Ph.D. and M.E./M.Tech. His research is supported by funding from various competitive agencies across the globe. His broad research areas are Green computing and Network management, IoT, Big Data Analytics, Deep learning and cyber-security. He has also edited/authored 10 books with International/National Publishers like IET, Springer, Elsevier, CRC. He has secured research funding of around 1 Million Euro from Govt of India, and Industries in the area of smart grid, blockchain, Cyber-Security and network management. He is consultant in various industry and govt. sponsored projects in China, Saudi Arabia and Europe. He has executed various international projects in Austria, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Europe and China. He has supervised more than 15 Ph.D. and 25 M.E./M.Tech. students. He is serving as editors of ACM Computing Survey, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE TNSM, IEEE ITS, Elsevier Computer Communication, Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems. Also, he has organized various special issues of journals of repute from IEEE, Elsevier, Springer. He has been a workshop chair at IEEE Globecom 2018, IEEE Infocom 2020 and IEEE ICC 2020 and track chair of Security and privacy of IEEE MSN 2020. He is also TPC Chair and member for various International conferences such as IEEE MASS 2020, IEEE MSN2020. He has won the best papers award from IEEE Systems Journal in 2018, in 2020, and IEEE ICC 2018, Kansas-city in 2018. He has also won best paper award from Elsevier JNCA in 2021 and IEEE Comsoc IWCMC 2021. He has won the outstanding leadership award from IEEE Trsutcom in 2021.
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