Prof. Yonghui Li
IEEE Fellow
The University of Sydney, Australia
Yonghui Li is now a Professor and Director of Wireless
Engineering Laboratory in School of Electrical and Information
Engineering, University of Sydney. He is the recipient of the
Australian Research Council (ARC)Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship
in 2008 andARC Future Fellowship in 2012. He is an IEEE Fellow.
His current research interests are in the area of wireless
communications, with a particular focus on IoT, machine to
machine communicaitons, MIMO, millimeter wave communications,
channel coding techniques, game theory, machine learning and
signal processing. Professor Li was an editor for IEEE
transactions on communications, IEEE transactions on vehicular
technology and guest editors for several special issues of IEEE
journals, such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE IoT Journals, IEEE
Communications Magazine. He received several best paper awards
from IEEE conferences. He has published one book, more than 260
papers in premier IEEE journals and more than 150 papers in
premier IEEE conferences. His publications have been cited more
than 18000 times. He has participated in $500 Millions Australia
national demonstration project “Smart Grid Smart City” and
designed last mile access networks.
Speech Title: Beyond 5G towards a Super-connected World
Abstract: Connected smart objects, platforms and
environments have been identified as the next big technology
development, enabling significant society changes and economic
growth. The entire physical world will be connected to the
Internet, referred to as Internet of Things (IoT). The
intelligent IoT network for automatic interaction and processing
between objects and environments will become an inherent part of
areas such as electricity, transportation, industrial control,
utilities management, healthcare, water resources management and
mining. Wireless networks are one of the key enabling
technologies of the IoT. They are likely to be universally used
for last mile connectivity due to their flexibility, scalability
and cost effectiveness. The attributes and traffic models of IoT
networks are essentially different from those of conventional
communication systems, which are designed to transmit voice,
data and multimedia. IoT access networks face many unique
challenges that cannot be addressed by existing network
protocols; these include support for a truly massive number of
devices, the transmission of huge volumes of data burst in
large-scale networks over limited bandwidth, and the ability to
accommodate diverse traffic patterns and quality of service
(QoS) requirements. Some IoT applications have much stringent
latency and reliability requirements which cannot be
accommodated by existing wireless networks. Addressing these
challenges requires the development of new wireless access
technologies, underlying network protocols, signal processing
techniques and security protocols. In this talk, I will present
the IoT network development, architecture, key challenges,
requirements, potential solutions and recent research progress
in this area, particularly in 5G and beyond 5G.
Prof.
Zhisheng Niu
IEEE Fellow
Tsinghua University, China
Zhisheng Niu graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University,
China, in 1985, and got his M.E. and D.E. degrees from Toyohashi
University of Technology, Japan, in 1989 and 1992, respectively.
During 1992-1994, he worked for Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.,
Japan, and in 1994 joined with Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China, where he is now a professor at the Department of
Electronic Engineering. During 1997-1998, he visited Hitachi
Central Research Laboratory as a HIVIPS senior researcher. His
major research interests include queueing theory and traffic
engineering, wireless communications and mobile Internet,
vehicular communications and smart networking, and green
communication and networks.
Dr. Niu has been serving IEEE Communications Society since 2000,
first as Chair of Beijing Chapter and then as Director of
Asia-Pacific Board, Director for Conference Publications, Chair
of Emerging Technologies Committee, and Director for Online
Contents. He has also served as editor of IEEE Wireless
Communication, associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CIC joint
publication China Communications, and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE
Trans. Green Commun. & Networks. He received the Outstanding
Young Researcher Award from Natural Science Foundation of China
in 2009, Best Paper Awards from IEEE Communication Society
Asia-Pacific Board in 2013 and from Journal of Communications
and Information Networks (JCIN) in 2019, Distinguished Technical
Achievement Recognition Award from IEEE Communications Society
Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee in 2018,
and Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings &
Conferences from IEEE Communication Society in 2019. He was
selected as a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Communication
Society as well as IEEE Vehicular Technologies Society. He is a
fellow of both IEEE and IEICE.
Speech Title: A Wait-and-See Two-Threshold Optimal Sleeping
Policy for a Single Server Queue with Bursty Traffic
Abstract: Making idle servers sleep is considered to be a
key approach to reduce energy consumption of various information
and communication systems. Optimal sleeping policies for a
single server has been derived only for non-bursty traffic in
prior work. In this talk, for the first time, we study the
optimal sleeping policy for a single server queue with bursty
traffic. Key factors including switch-over energy consumption as
well as delay performance are considered. We formulate the
problem as a POMDP (partially observable Markov decision
process), and show that it can be solved by observing the time
elapsed since the last arrival (TESLA). The optimal sleeping
policy is shown to be a wait-and-see two-threshold policy and
the simulation results show the effectiveness of the policy.
Numerical results also show that traffic burstiness can help to
enhance the system performance in terms of weighted sum of the
energy-efficiency and delay.
Prof.
Ryuji Kohno
IEEE Life Fellow
Yokohama National University, Japan
Ryuji Kohno received the Ph.D. degree from the University of
Tokyo in 1984. He was a Professor and the Director of Centre on
Medical Information and Communication Technology, in Yokohama
National University (YNU) in Japan for 1998-2021 and then
Professor Emeritus of YNU teaching in Toyo University. In his
currier he played a part-time role of a director of Advanced
Telecommunications Laboratory of SONY CSL during 1998-2002,
directors of UWB Technology and medical ICT institutes of NICT
during 2002-2012. For 2012-2020 he was CEO of University of Oulu
Research Institute Japan – CWC-Nippon Co. and since 2020
Vice-President of YRP International Alliance Institute. The
meanwhile for 2007-2020 a distinguished professor in University
of Oulu in Finland and since 2006 a member of the Science
Council of Japan. In IEEE he was a member of the Board of
Governors of Information Theory Society in 2000-2009, and
editors of Transactions on Communications, Information Theory,
ITS, IEEE802.15 standardization TG6ma Chair, and IEEE Life
Fellow. In IEICE he was a vice-president of Engineering Sciences
Society of IEICE during 2004-2005, Editor-in chief of the IEICE
Trans. Fundamentals during 2003-2005, and IEICE Fellow. He is a
founder and a chair of steering committee of international
symposia of medical information and communication technologies
(ISMICT) since 2006. He has played a role of member in radio
regulatory committee of the Ministry of Internal affairs and
Communications (MIC) Japan and ITU-R.
Speech Title: Comprehensive Research and Business of
Universal Platform with BAN/Cloud/AI for Medical Healthcare and
Other SDGs
Abstract: Many people have been heavily working in research,
development, standard, regulation, business, and social services
for sustainable success for medical healthcare, wellness,
wellbeing, and other services in academia, industry, and
government, respectively. Most of research projects in academia
are used to disappear after the projects over while many
business promotion are also not so successful due to mismatch
with practical fields, lack of markets and unique technologies,
too long time for regulatory compliance etc. This talk focuses
on comprehensive research, development, standard, regulation,
field trials, business, and social services of universal
platform with advanced information communication technology
(ICT) and AI data science to achieve sustainable medical
healthcare and other SDGs. 5G and Beyond 5G(6G) infrastructure
networks could be applied with sophisticated wireless body area
network (BAN) and machine-learning with data mining for medical
social platform using advanced ICT and data science. To manage
make comprehensive design and operation of such a universal
platform is not so easy but a key for sustainable success. This
speech addresses latest business promotion with clinical trials,
international standard of wireless BAN with enhanced
dependability such as IEEE802.15.6ma, ETSI SmartBAN, and
regulation update with regulatory scientific approach, and
bigger market of the universal platform in automotive industry,
social infrastructure maintenance, etc. Moreover, education of
such a balanced expert for multidisciplinary fields could be
covered.