W2: 4th International Workshop on Mission Critical Communications

Co-Organizer: Hichan Moon, Hanyang University, South Korea
Co-Organizer: Carmela Cozzo, Samsung Electronics America, USA
Co-Organizer: Momiao Zhou, Hefei University of Technology, China

Abstract:  The advent of 5G and the prospect for 6G have paved the way for new applications in mission critical communications and navigation, including disaster monitoring, train/traffic controls, and public safety. Mission critical communication provides reliable communication even in extreme environments. High accuracy positioning for a vehicle or a mobile phone has extended its applications to unmanned vehicles/drones, emergency rescue, and navigation in GPS-denied areas like tunnels, underground motorways, and parking lots. Security in mission critical communications is highly required, since they are used for many businesses as well as public safety responders and organizations. It greatly increases the reliability of communications and navigation from disruption or attack.

The demand to support safety-critical systems increases the requirements for highly reliable, secure, and low latency communications. These requirements generate significant challenges in several areas in communications systems including network architecture, air protocol, security, and positioning and navigation systems. This Workshop focuses on several technologies related to mission critical communications and navigation to satisfy these challenges.

Co-Organizers Bios:

Hichan Moon

Hichan Moon is a professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from Seoul National University (Summa Cum Laude), Seoul, Korea and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. Before joining Hanyang University, he worked at Samsung Electronics Co., Korea. In Samsung, he designed mobile station modems for cdma2000, W-CDMA, and LTE. He also worked for 3GPP standardization. He is the project initiative of HELPS and a cofounder of Infoseize Systems. His research interests include accurate positioning, physical layer security, random access and next generation wireless systems. He is the chair of the Committee on Mission Critical Communications, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.

Carmela Cozzo

Carmela Cozzo is a standards expert with 20+ years of experience in standardization and research at major wireless companies. She has actively contributed to the 3GPP standardization of multiple
generations systems as RAN1 and RAN delegate. She holds a Ph.D. in EE from North Carolina State University, and a Laurea degree in EE from the University of Rome, Italy. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, served as editor of the IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technologies and as reviewer of major IEEE journals and conferences, and authored several IEEE papers. She is the IEEE VTS Liaison to Women in Engineering Committee, and Chair of the IEEE VTS Committee on Women in VTS and Diversity. She serves on some of the VTS technical committees.

Momiao Zhou

Prof. Momiao Zhou is an associate professor in School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China. He received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Communication Engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China. He is in charge of several important science foundations, such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory Open Project, etc. Meanwhile, he has published more than 40 academic papers in high-level journals and conferences such as IEEE TWC, TITS, TCOM, TVT, CL, WCL, VTC and won the Best Paper Award at CECNet 2023. He is currently a review editor for Frontiers in Computer Science, and a member of the IEEE VTS Committee on Mission Critical Communications.