VTC2018-Fall Workshops provide invaluable opportunities for researchers and industry practitioners to share their state-of-the-art research and development results on specific areas or challenging topics. VTC attendees will be able to attend a workshop for a nominal additional fee. Registration packages for individual workshops without VTC will also be available.
All workshops will be held on 27 August 2018.
Early registration ends: 6 August 2018
W1: 5G Millimeter-Wave Channel Measurement, Models, and Systems
Organized by IEEE VTS Propagation Committee, NSF Research Coordination Network on mmWave Wireless and the NIST 5G mmWave Channel Model Alliance
Workshop Chairs are:
David G. Michelson (University of British Columbia), Akbar M. Sayeed (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and David W. Matolak (University of South Carolina)
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Abstract: Both industry and the research community urgently require accurate characterization of wireless channels in the bands above 6 GHz. In response to this need, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is coordinating a 5G mmWave Channel Model Alliance of companies, academia, and government organizations that is supporting the development of more accurate, consistent, and predictive channel models. This edition of the Alliance workshop will provide a unique opportunity for members of the Alliance and other members of the 5G and cmWave/mmWave channel modeling communities to share ideas and discuss progress in this important area. It expands the scope beyond measurement and modeling techniques to include a system-level analysis of mmWave capabilities, challenges, and opportunities.
Topics
- Measurement Methodology
- Channel Modeling Methodology
- Indoor Scenario Descriptions, Measurements and Models
- Outdoor Scenario Descriptions, Measurements and Models
- Emerging Scenario Descriptions, Measurements and Models
- mmWave prototype channel sounders and hardware
- mmWave signal processing techniques
- mmWave antenna design
- Network architecture optimized for mmWave
W2: 1st International Workshop on Dependable Wireless Communications (DEWCOM)
Organized by Joaquim Ferreira (University of Aveiro) and Muhammad Alam (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Suzhou)
Workshop Chairs are:
Jose Alberto Fonseca (University of Aveiro), Jaime Lloret (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia), and Paolo Pagano (CNIT - National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, Italy)
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Abstract: Over the past couple of decades, wireless communication technologies have become immensely adopted in various fields, appearing in a plethora of applications ranging from tracking victims, responders and equipment in disaster scenarios to machine health monitoring in networked manufacturing systems etc. Most of these applications demand strictly bounded timing response and are highly dependent on the performance of the underlying wireless communication technology. In most cases, these systems are required to have dependable timeliness requirements since data communication must be conducted within predefined temporal bounds along with fulfilling other requirements such as reliability, security etc. This is mainly because failure to address these requirements may compromise the expected behavior of the system and cause economic losses or endanger human lives. In addition, the broadcast nature of wireless communications in an open environment makes it more vulnerable to unwanted external entities compared to the wired communications. This makes the support of dependable wireless communications in open environments, where multiple devices are contending for the resources, a challenging task. Therefore, future wireless communications must tackle these challenging issues such as low communication reliability, real-time support, security, reachability and fault-tolerance.
Topics
- New paradigms for dependable wireless communication
- Dependable wireless communications technologies
- Dependable distributed architectures
- Dependable wireless communications in IoT
- Dependable delay tolerant networks
- Dependable Medium Access Protocols
- Dependable aspects of smart mobility and cooperative ITS
- Safe Wireless network virtualization
- Dependability evaluation of wireless communication systems
- Analytical and numerical methods, simulations, experimentation, benchmarking, verification field data analysis.
- Architecture, design, implementation and management of dependable applications supported by wireless communications
- Security threats in wireless communications
- Physical layer dependability
- Fault-tolerant techniques for wireless communications
- Harmonizing security and timeliness in wireless communications
- Industrial experiences and best practices relevant to the dependability of wireless communications
W3: Massive Full Dimension (FD)-MIMO in 5G Mobile Communications
Organized by Moon-il Lee (InterDigital Communications, Inc.), Lingjia Liu (Virginia Tech), Runhua Chen (China Academy of Telecommunications Technology), and Oghenekome Oteri (InterDigital, Inc.)
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Abstract: As the fourth generation (4G), namely LTE-Advanced, becomes great commercial success, the fifth generation (5G) mobile communication systems are attracting significant amount of interest from industry and academia. Unlike legacy systems which were designed for voice and data, 5G covers a wide range of use cases including enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliability low-latency communication (URLLC), and massive machine-type-communication (mMTC).
Massive Full Dimension (FD)-MIMO plays important role to meet the diverse requirements of 5G use cases. For eMBB with 1000x faster data-rate than 4G, massive FD-MIMO with hundreds of antennas is considered as a key enabler for overcoming challenging propagation conditions, especially in mmWave band. For mMTC with millions of connected devices, massive FD-MIMO enables extreme high-order MU- MIMO and new multiple-access schemes such as non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). For URLLC communications with very low latency and very high reliability (e.g., vehicular communications, automotive control), superior spatial diversity from massive antenna arrays is essential.
Recently, 3GPP 5G NR standards have finished its first design for 5G system which includes massive FD-MIMO technologies such as hybrid beamforming, reference signal and CSI feedback design for eMBB use case. However, massive MIMO technologies for the other 5G use cases have not been studied and developed. The goal of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers in both academia and industry to share their views on and to identify concepts and technologies for massive FD-MIMO for the other use cases (e.g., URLLC and mMTC) as well as potential enhancement of massive FD-MIMO technologies for eMBB use case for 5G.
Topics
- Massive FD-MIMO technologies for 5G use cases
- Enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB)
- Massive connectivity (mMTC)
- Ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC)
- Aerial vehicles (e.g., drones)
- Vehicular communications
- Massive FD-MIMO technologies as building blocks for 5G
- CSI framework and high dimension codebook design
- 3D beam management and beam recovery in mmWave bands
- High-order MU-MIMO
- Reference signal design for high-order massive FD-MIMO
- Prototyping and field test results for 5G
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W4: 5th International Workshop on Research Advancements in Future Networking Technologies (RAFNET)
Organized by Syed Hassan Ahmed (Georgia Southern University), Danda Rawat (Howard University), and Muhammad Alam (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
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Abstract: Recent extensive research efforts have been made from both academia and industry to promote various new and emerging network paradigms. 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. Additionally, enormous efforts in cellular networks have been made for improving the user experience and as a result, 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 regarding 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 modern 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 various implications and applications, such as smart cities, smart communities, smart automotive driving, and others.
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
- 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
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W5: Workshop on Vehicular Information Services for the Internet of Things (VISIT 2018)
Organized by Sherin Abdelhamid (Queens University) and Khalid Elgazzar (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
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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. In-vehicle sensors, diversified communication modules, and an on-board unit with high computing and storage capabilities enable the smart vehicle to become a mobile resource provider. 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. We argue that enabling pervasive and diversified vehicular service provisioning in the IoT era entails synergizing several related technologies such as distributed cloud and fog computing, networking infrastructures, crowdsourcing, public sensing, information-centric networking, privacy and security techniques. The main objective of the VISIT workshop is to highlight the ongoing efforts towards such service provisioning and technology blend. The workshop also addresses issues that arise when dealing with smart vehicles such as resource and service discovery, data communication and delivery, quality of information assessment, resource recruitment, and incentive modelling.
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
- Vehicular public/crowd sensing
- 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: https://visit18.weebly.com/
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W6: 3rd International Workshop of CorNer: Communication for Networked Smart Cities
Organized by Syed Ali Hassan (National University of Sciences and Technology), Dushantha Nalin K Jayakody (National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University), and Rui Dinis (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Workshop Chair: João Guerreiro (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa)
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Abstract: The demands for high data rates and ultra-reliable coverage become demanding issues due to increase in the number of device population in the world by 2020. The huge demand for high quality life makes local governments and administrators put careful planning in cities for the future. As a premier agent for stimulating a quality of life compatible with a resource efficient economy, the smart city phenomenon has recently seized the imagination of the academia and the industry significantly. As the Internet of things (IoT) and Tactile Internet are predicted to be a primary driving force for future cities, advanced communication methods will play a crucial role in assisting real-time data acquisition and utilization from distributed sensors. However, smart cities will also have to function within the limitations of the national economy and available resources. Consequently, the challenges in the realization of smart cities are many and varied.
In general, low energy consumption, constrained bandwidth, latency and budgetary limitations are predominating. To overcome these hurdles, it is essential that new ideas and theories for optimizing the network in terms of energy, spectral utilization, latency and monetary issues are presented to achieve a robust environment monitoring and sustainable transportation network, among other provisions. This led the researchers to pave the way for future wireless networks under the umbrella of 5G communications as well. This is an amalgamation of a multitude of technologies ranging from device level algorithms such as low power transmissions to system-level architectures such as software-defined networking (SDN), the challenges posed by each of these techniques are critical. The smart city idea is also known to work at the intersection of various techniques such as device-to-device (D2D) communications, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), millimeter wave (mmWave) communications, full-duplex transmissions and Internet of Things (IoT) to name a few.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together a group of experts with interest in emerging smart cities related areas. The recent advancement in smart cities has boosted the development of a new generation of highly-efficient mobile networks. This workshop will highlight the recent developments in this evolving area. It will provide a platform for exchanging new ideas and research collaboration.
Topics
- Enabling smart city verticals via 5G Big data and cloud computing in smart cities
- IoT and autonomous systems CR inspired radio solution for smart cities
- Smart network densification Energy harvesting technologies
- Communication and control for smart grid Green communications and computing
- Novel network architecture design Resource-efficient cross-layer optimization
- Cooperative communications mmWave and Massive MIMO Design
- Energy-efficiency and spectral-efficiency Antennas design and channel modeling
- Machine-to-machine communications Interference management in smart networks
- Safety, security, and privacy Smart transportation systems and infrastructure
- Applications, deployments, test-beds and experimental experience for communications in smart cities