W1: Next Generation Backhaul/Fronthaul Networks (IEEE BackNets 2017)

Organized by Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Muhammad Ali Imran, David J. Love, and Syed Ali Raza Zaidi

24 Sep 2017
Time: 9:00 – 17:30
Room: York

Final Program

Abstract: Heterogeneous small-cell networks (HetNets) are considered as one of the key architectural enablers to the challenging demands such as high spectral and energy efficiency of 5G mobile networks. Although the small-cell concept has been articulated and studied for many years within the 4G LTE framework, the concept has never found widespread application mainly due to the cost of deployment. In the conventional wireless networks, the cost of the macro-BS has been a dominant factor. The cost of a small-cell BS, on the other hand, is much lower in comparison to that of a macro-BS; but efficient and satisfactory operation of all these densely deployed small cells hinges on a smart, economical and ubiquitous backhaul/fronthaul networks provisioning ultra-low latency (time to reaction over wireless links), high data rate and high reliability. Such backhaul and fronthaul networks will guarantee the global information and communication requirements in future smart and resilient cities and solve the ubiquitous connectivity. Hence, there are considerable market interests on the development of innovative and smart wireless backhaul/fronthaul solutions for ultra-dense small cells deployed in HetNets.

The workshop will provide an opportunity for exchanging ideas and creating new space for innovative game-changing backhaul/fronthaul solutions to the challenging problems of designing smart backhauling/fronthauling for ultra-dense small cell deployment in HetNet. Proceedings of BackNets 2017 will be a collection of outstanding technical research/position and industrial papers covering novel backhaul/fronthaul solutions and recent research results with wide range of technologies within the 5G frameworks. The workshop keynote speakers and panelists will examine the technical challenges, review the economic feasibility, and discuss possible paths to research and regulatory solutions for future generation of backhaul/fronthaul communications and networking.

Topics

• Requirements and limitations for backhaul and fronthaul communications, networking and signal processing (data rate, scalability, latency, cost effectiveness, etc.)
• Emerging technologies for smart Backhaul/fronthaul solutions (networked flying platforms, Massive MIMO, SDN, Green solution, etc.)
• Spectrum management for Backhaul/fronthaul communications and networking (FSO, mm-wave, unlicensed spectrum, etc.)
• Backhaul/fronthaul deployment and spectrum policy issues (standards, backhaul as a service (BaaS), legacy networks, etc.)

Workshop home: https://sites.google.com/site/backnets2017/

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W2: Research Advancements in Future Internet Architectures (RAFNET)

Organized by Syed Hassan Ahmed, Danda B. Rawat, and Waleed Ejaz

24 Sep 2017
Time: 14:00 – 17:30
Room: Simcoe

Final Program

Abstract: Recently, a lot of research efforts have been made from both academia and industry side to promote various new and emerging network paradigms. The reason is that during the past decade, it has been realized that the current internet architecture was originally designed for end-to-end host centric communications, however, the actual focal of communications is the content itself. Hence, we have witnessed new architectures such as an Information Centric Network (ICN) with various extensions like Content-Centric Network (CCN), Named Data Network (NDN), Data-Oriented Network Architecture, and so on. On the other hand, enormous efforts in cellular networks have been made for improving the user experience and as a result of today, we are able to use LTE-A and other networks. In this context, the upcoming 5G networking architectures, whose ongoing research is focused on the networking mechanisms in regards to the massive increase in the number of connected devices, bandwidth requirements, reduced latency, and the deployment of supporting operational mechanisms such as network virtualization, cloud-based deployments, mobile edge computing, and storage and new utilization scenarios. Moreover, these new technologies are being applied in other networking domains as well, including VANETs, Smart Grid, Smart Cities, Internet of Things, Big Data, etc.

RAFNET aims to bring together researchers working on selected areas of future internet architectures along with 5G implications, applications, such as smart cities, smart communities, smart automotive driving, etc. The authors are expected to share their new ideas, latest findings and results.

Topics

• Information-Centric Networking (ICN) in Internet of Things
• Networking Layer and Forwarding Strategies in ICN
• Interest/Data Forwarding in Content Centric Networks
• Interest/Data Forwarding in Named Data Networks
• ICN Application Layer operations and Models for Testing/Evaluation
• Future Internet and 5G architectural designs
• Analysis of Content-Centric Networking in current network paradigms
• Analysis of Named Data Networking in current network paradigms
• Congestion Control Protocols in ICN for both Ad-hoc and wired networks
• Business perspective of applying ICN in Real World Environment
• Future Internet in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
• Future Internet in Big Data
• Transport layer issues in Future Internet architectures
• Multimedia Applications and Feasibility with Future Internet architectures
• Future Internet in Smart Cities

Workshop home: http://rafnetworkshop.wixsite.com/2017vtcfall

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W3: Vehicular Information Services for the Internet of Things

Organized by Sherin Abdelhamid and Khalid Elgazzar

24 Sep 2017
Time: 14:00 – 17:30
Room: Tom Thompson

Final Program

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently gained great attention from both academia and industry. Connecting billions of devices for communication and service provisioning shapes the main target of the IoT. Among the key enablers of IoT, smart vehicles have been promising solutions for providing on-road communication and ubiquitous information services. Equipped with high sensing, computing, and storage capabilities, along with diversified communication modules, smart vehicles have been enabled to become mobile resource providers. The real value of vehicular resources is much realized when translated into information services that put these resources into action. Expanding the smart vehicle-based services/applications beyond the intelligent transportation services requires research and development efforts to explore new service scopes, create innovative system architectures, and design enabling technologies. The VISIT workshop is intended to create a platform for researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry in the areas of IoT and vehicular technologies, service provisioning, and ubiquitous computing to share and discuss their ideas, experiences, challenges, and practical implementations. We encourage high quality submissions addressing current challenges and proposing novel research directions. We invite technical research papers, industrial papers, position papers, and tool demonstration papers.

Topics

• Emerging vehicular applications and services
• Intelligent transportation systems
• Pervasive sensing and computing in vehicular environments
• Vehicular platform, prototype, and middleware design and evaluation
• Context management in ubiquitous scenarios and mobile services
• Vehicular cloud applications and architectures
• Data aggregation, storage, and management architectures
• Sensor fusion in vehicle and IoT levels
• Service and resource discovery
• Participant selection and recruitment
• Data delivery and routing
• Inter and intra-vehicle communication
• Incentive and pricing models
• Mobility prediction and management
• IoT heterogeneity/interoperability issues
• Vehicular information-centric networks
• Vehicular localization mechanisms and algorithms
• Privacy and security mechanisms
• Quality of information and reputation assessment
• Software architecture and design for vehicle-enabled IoT
• Reliability, availability, and scalability in ubiquitous vehicular services

Workshop home: http://visit17.weebly.com/

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W4: Survivability Strategies for Emerging Wireless Networks

Organized by Ahmed Kamal and Muhammad Imran

Abstract: Recent developments in mobile and wireless networks have paved the way for them to become fabric of society and economy. The ever-increasing penetration rate of mobile telephony and wireless broadband data access, and the ubiquity of WiFi are just a few examples of the phenomenon. While multi-hop wireless networks (e.g., LTE/LTE-A, WiMax and mesh networks) offer many advantages such as enhanced capacity, extended communication range, deployment and operational flexibility, however, they usually lack provisioning for network robustness. For example, outdoor deployments of wireless network devices (e.g., base stations, relay nodes, mesh routers, antennas) especially in harsh and inhospitable environment, are susceptible to physical damage or component malfunction caused by either natural disruptions (e.g., earthquakes, floods, tornadoes), technical (e.g., power outage, battery depletion, misconfigurations), human errors (e.g., damage to fiber lines in back/front-haul networks, damage to communications components) or intentional and malicious sabotage by humans. Moreover, the wireless communication medium itself is prone to various types of interference and impairments that may cause intermittent disconnection and transient errors. These failures may cause drastic effects on network performance and hinders network operation. The capability of a network to deliver data successfully in a timely manner and continue its services despite the presence of failures and attacks is referred to as survivability and is an important characteristic which must be provisioned.

Topics

• Survivability schemes for vehicular communications and networks
• Survivability strategies for 5G, LTE/LTE-A, WiFi and wireless mesh networks
• Fault-tolerant architectures, algorithms, and protocols
• Survivability techniques for IoT/M2M
• Green and energy efficient survivability techniques
• Survivability mechanisms for multi-hop wireless networks
• Failure prevention, detection and diagnosis mechanisms
• Fault tolerant network pre-planning and deployment
• Fault tolerant resource allocation and scheduling
• Topology management techniques for tolerating node and link failures
• Autonomous recovery and self-healing mechanisms
• Movement control coverage and connectivity restoration
• Centralized and distributed monitoring and recovery algorithms
• Localized and globalized failure handling mechanisms
• Handling single, multi, and simultaneous node and link failures
• Optimization strategies for agile and efficient recovery
• Testbeds and experimental studies of survivability strategies
• Network coding-based survivability

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W5: 5G Millimeter-Wave Channel Measurement, Models, and Systems

Organized by David G. Michelson, Akbar M. Sayeed, and David W Matolak

24 Sep 2017
Time: 9:00 – 17:30
Room: Jackson

Final Program

Abstract: Organized in collaboration with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)s 5G mmWave Channel Model Alliance and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)s Research Coordination Network on mmWave Wireless, this workshop builds upon our first effort at IEEE VTC 2016 Fall and expands the scope beyond channel measurement and modeling techniques to include system-level analysis of mmWave capabilities, challenges, and opportunities. Topics of interest include descriptions of prototype channel sounders, channel measurements and models, mmWave testbeds, mmWave antenna design, and mmWave system and network-level research.

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W6: Networked Vehicles for Intelligent Transportation and Smart Grids (NetV)

Organized by Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, Phone Lin, Lin Cai, Lian Zhao, Kuang-Hao Liu, and Shun-Ren Yang

24 Sep 2017
Time: 9:00 – 17:30
Room: Carmichael

Final Program

Abstract: Safety, mobility and environment challenges call for a new round of revolution on modern transportation. Thanks to the rapid advances in wireless communication technologies, in the future, vehicles can quickly and reliably exchange information and thus connected to each other and to infrastructure, so vehicles, users and transportation system operators can make smart and green decisions to enhance safety, reduce travel delay and congestion, and save energy. Furthermore, networking solutions can be applied to well address the range and fueling/charging problems, providing a much-needed boost to the rollout of electric vehicles (EVs), a key for future clean and green transportation.

At the same time, utilities around the globe are racing to make their power grids more intelligent by adopting ICT technologies, and networked EVs and charging stations can further provide demand response services to power grids. The nexus of the Internet, vehicles (including self-driving ones), fueling/charging stations, and power grids constitutes a perfect storm of opportunities for future Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Smart Grids (SG). The new paradigm of networked vehicles will not only revolutionize how things and people are transported, but also likely how information and energy are exchanged and delivered.

Many relevant industry standards and consortia are being created to prepare for the coming new paradigm of networked vehicles. NetV 2017 is to bring together the latest innovations and advances around the world on the modeling, design, implementation, and evaluation of networked vehicles architecture, protocols, control, applications and services.

Topics

• V2V and V2I communications
• V2X communication and applications, including V2G, V2P, V2C, V2S
• Intra-vehicle communication systems
• Vehicular network architecture, algorithms, and protocols
• Communication and charging infrastructure deployment and management
• Security and privacy
• Reliability and dependability
• Social applications for people on the road
• Cooperative and collaborative vehicles
• Vehicle charging and ranging management and control
• EV charging for demand response
• Modeling and analysis
• Simulation, testbed, and field test
• Web technologies, applications, and services

Workshop home: https://sites.google.com/site/netv2017/

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W7: Second International Workshop on Vehicular Security (V-SEC 2017)

Organized by Joe Chapman, Perry Engle, Rich Pietravalle, and Alex Wyglinski

24 Sep 2017
Time: 14:00 – 17:30
Room: Casson

Final Program

Abstract: The Second International Workshop on Vehicular Security (V-SEC 2017) will bring together members of the vehicular security community (industry, government, academia) at the 86th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. At this second installment of this workshop series, the latest research findings in this emerging area will be shared and new research opportunities will be identified through the exchange of ideas among the IEEE attendees. The half day V-SEC 2017 workshop will include a tutorial presentation of this emerging area and a series of technical presentations concluding with a panel discussion.

Topics

• Secure vehicular communications
• Vehicular networking security
• Vehicular hardware security
• Privacy and data protection issues in vehicular settings
• Security of open vehicle application platforms
• Vehicle cyber intrusion detection systems and incident response
• Vehicular sensor security
• Spectrum sensing data falsification and countermeasures
• Vehicular privacy

Workshop home: http://ecewp.ece.wpi.edu/wordpress/wireless/events/vsec-2017/

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W8: Resource Allocation and Spectrum Management in Internet of Things (IoT) Heterogeneous Networks

Organized by Fatima Hussain, Syed Ali Hassan, and Javaid Talib

24 Sep 2017
Time: 14:00 – 17:30
Room: Osgoode West

Final Program

Abstract: This workshop aims to comprehend thorough, and unified vision of the resource allocation issue in complex multi-user, multi-machine and multi-operator IoT heterogeneous networks. It aims to bring together researchers, academics, individuals working on selected areas of resource allocation and spectrum management in IoT networks, and share their new ideas, latest findings, and results.

Topics

• Resource and network management in IoT networks
• Cooperative resource allocation and management
• Distributed scheduling and resource allocation
• Quality of Service (QoS) support for various IoT devices/networks
• Scheduling on heterogeneous nodes
• Scheduling data intensive jobs
• Integration and co-existence of classical resource allocation techniques for IoT networks
• Load sharing and load balancing techniques
• Virtualization of resources
• IoT HetNets for smart cities
• Quality of Information (QoI) requirements in IoT HetNets
• Energy efficient protocols and algorithms for scheduling various IoT application
• Performance metrics to compare scheduling techniques

Workshop home: https://rasmiot.wixsite.com/vtcfall2017workshop

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W9: Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Techniques for 5G Radio Access Networks

Organized by General Chairs: Peiying Zhu, Huawei Technologies Yoshihisa Kishiyama, NTT DoCoMo Wei Yu, University of Toronto; Executive Committee: Pingzhi Fan, Southwest Jiaotong University Zhaoyang Zhang, Zhejiang University Yan Chen, Huawei Technologies Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Glasgow

24 Sep 2017
Time: 9:00 – 17:30
Room: Varley

Final Program

Abstract: The 5G air interface is targeted to have higher transmission rates, faster access, support of larger user density, and better user experience for enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services. Meanwhile, it connects to new vertical industries and new devices, creating new application scenarios such as massive machine-type communications (mMTC) and ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) services by supporting massive number of devices and enabling mission critical transmissions with ultra-high reliability and ultra-low latency requirement, respectively. In the study towards 5G air interface standardization, non-orthogonal multiple access (NoMA) is one of the most popular topics with 15 different schemes proposed already. Generally, NoMA can efficiently support higher capacity with greater flexibility and robustness, as well as adaptability towards large number of connections. These properties contribute towards a better user experience for variant kinds of services.

This workshop aims to provide a platform for the leading researchers in this area, both from academia and industry, to share their views and the most recent ideas, progress in algorithm and procedure design, as well as prototype implementation in lab or field on NoMA related techniques for 5G radio access networks. The workshop also aims to stimulate enthusiastic discussions among all experts on how the NoMA can best fit in the whole system design and help to meet the diverse requirements of 5G radio networks for eMBB, mMTC, as well as URLLC services.

Topics

• Transmitter side signal processing design for NoMA, i.e., the best configuration of the following components:
  -- Advanced channel coding and modulation, new constellation mapping, etc.
  -- Symbol level processing, including different kinds of spreading, repetition, interleaving, new constellation mapping, etc.
  -- Coded bit level processing, including interleaving, scrambling, etc.
  -- Symbols to resource elements mapping, sparse or not, etc.
• Advanced multi-user receiver for performance enhancement and complexity reduction
• Signal processing and procedures for NoMA based uplink grant-free data transmissions
  -- Blind UE detection
  -- HARQ, link adaptation, power control, and resource optimization
  -- Tailored design for eMBB, mMTC, URLLC services and potential multiplexing
• Joint design and optimization of NoMA scheme with other air interface technologies
  -- Uplink and downlink (massive) MIMO with NoMA
  -- Closed-loop and open-loop CoMP with NoMA
  -- Flexible duplex/full duplex with NoMA
  -- UE/relay cooperation with NoMA
  -- Device-to-device communications with NoMA
• Link/system level performance evaluation and comparison of different NoMA schemes
• Prototype verification and/or field trial of NoMA scheme implementations

Workshop home: https://noma5g.org

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W10: Innovations in Sustainable Spectrum Management for 5G and Beyond

Organized by Shalini Periyalwar

25 Sep 2017
Time: 11:00 – 17:30
Room: Varley

Final Program

Abstract: Sustainable spectrum management is an emerging multi-disciplinary field of research with a long-term vision towards agile spectrum assignment and real-time monetization, assisted by the use of spectrum intelligence. Organized by the Communications Research Centre (CRC), Government of Canada, the objective of this one-day workshop is to share and discuss different views on how technology innovations to support agile spectrum assignment could impact and evolve the regulatory vision towards sustainable spectrum management, and how regulatory changes may drive technology innovations in this domain. Comprising a series of keynote talks and a panel, this workshop will bring together prominent leaders who are influencing the direction of future spectrum management, to examine and debate the way forward, as we move into 5G and beyond.
 
For researchers attending VTC2017-Fall, this workshop will provide forward looking views of the wireless ecosystem stakeholders towards the realization of agile spectrum assignment, with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary research in spectrum monitoring, data science and spectrum monetization. For all participants, this workshop additionally provides a unique forum to obtain the broad perspective of wireless ecosystem stakeholders with respect to the future of spectrum management.

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W11: From 4G to Beyond 5G (B5G) Systems: Expectations, Realities and Disruptions

Organized by Sudhir Dixit, Vinod Kumar, Angela Alexiou, and Vino Vinodrai

26 Sep 2017
Time: 14:00 – 17:30
Room: Varley

Final Program

Abstract: Original and scholarly papers are invited for publication and presentation at the workshop on the theme “From 4G to Beyond 5G (B5G) Systems: expectations, realities and disruptions.” This is a special workshop designed to provide a single platform to bring together industry, regulators and academia to deliberate the near-term commercial realities and the potential to make a revolutionary impact through advance research and innovation.

The workshop is organized to address the following topics concerning the gap between the near-term commercial deployments of LTE-A, LTE-A Pro and the longer-term vision of 5G and Beyond systems.

In short, this workshop invites papers to critically examine where the wireless and mobile technologies have been, where they are, and what needs to happen to match the expectations with realities and where are the gaps to fulfill those promises as we develop successive generations of wireless standards.

Workshop home: http://wwrf.ch/files/wwrf/content/files/events/related%20events/CFP%20-%20VTC%20workshop.pdf

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W12: IEEE 5G and Beyond Testbed Workshop

Organized by IEEE 5G Initiative Testbed Working Group

24 Sep 2017
Time: 9:00 – 17:30
Room: Governor General

Abstract: Following the successful IEEE 5G Roadmap Workshop at ICC, the IEEE 5G and Beyond Initiative will be holding a Testbed Workshop focusing on experimental testbeds on 5G and Beyond. This workshop will take place, as part of the 2017 VTC, on Sunday September, 24th 2017 in Toronto. The objective of this workshop is to bring together developers, practitioners, technical experts and researchers to share experiences and advance the state of the art in all aspects of 5G systems prototyping, evaluation and testing. The workshop also aims to solicit contributions and promote discussion on the novel methodological studies and experimental paradigms for future 5G testbeds and co-development and co-deployment of experimental platforms. Of particular interest are ideas on extending publicly available testbeds with 5G related technologies as they become available and how they can be used to address common technological and scientific problems that are related to advanced wireless systems.

Topics

• 5G testbed implementation and deployment including real-world lessons learnt
• Large scale experiment design and deployment
• Testbed design for repeatability and reproducibility
• Tools and services for testbed users and operators (including prototyping)
• Experiments on federated testbeds
• Experimentation with future wireless platforms including: Full duplex, Massive and distributed MIMO, cmWave and mmWave, D2D, V2V, V2I
• Experimentation with integrated Cloud/MEC/Fog computing
• Integrated Fronthaul/Backhaul with multi-tenancy and federation
• Support for infrastructure slicing and isolation
• Role of common and open source software tools
• 5G Security
• Network Slicing
• Cloud RAN
• SDN/NFV

Workshop home: https://5g.ieee.org/conferences/testbed-workshop-vtc

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