Day 1 :
Keynote Forum
Norman Shaw
IEEE Standards Association, USA
Keynote: Location technologies in wireless networks
Time : 10:40-11:25
Biography:
Norman Shaw is a Director in the IEEE-Standards Association. He has worked in product development and standards at three (3) different wireless location technologyrncompanies and has over 20 years’ experience in the wireless industry. He has also served on advisory groups to the FCC on E-911 technologies and practices.
Abstract:
Background: Since the 1990’s, location technology has been a mandated feature of commercial wireless networks (in the US) asrna consequence of the FCC’s E-911 service requirements. Support for this mandate has been a challenge for all wireless servicernproviders, throughout the last decade. The challenges stem from a number of technical, environmental, and market realities. Thesernchallenges, as well as the technical development that has gone on to help address them, will be the focus of this presentation.rnSummary: There are a number of different technologies currently employed for wireless location. These technologies can bernbroadly grouped into categories of: “satellite” or “terrestrial”, “handset based” or “network based”, and “trilateration/triangulation”rnor “pattern matching”. Each technology group comes with benefits and challenges and each has performance that is largely dictatedrnby the local environment and morphologies (e.g. urban/rural, in -building/open-sky).This presentation will provide a technicalrnassessment of each of the technology groups and specific technologies and will relate their capabilities. The evaluation will includernoperation of the technologies independently, as well as in combination “hybrid” operation.
Keynote Forum
Magdy A Bayoumi
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Keynote: Cyber - Physical systems: Reality, dreams, and fantasy
Time : 11:45-12:30
Biography:
Magdy A Bayoumi is the Z.L. Loflin Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair Professor at The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette). He was the Director of CACS, 1997 – 2013 and Department Head of the Computer Science Department, 2000-11. He has guided about 65 PhD and 175 Master students. He has published over 500 papers in related journals and conferences. He edited, co-edited and co-authored 10 books in his research interests. He has been Guest Editor (or Co-Guest Editor) of 10 Special Issues in VLSI Signal Processing, Learning on Silicon, Multimedia Architecture, Digital and Computational Video, and Perception-on-a-Chip. He is an IEEE fellow. He is the recipient of the 2009 IEEE Circuits and Systems Meritorious Service Award. He was the Vice President for Conferences, Vice President for Technical Activities, and a member of the Board of Governors and Executive Committee of CAS Society. He received the French Government Fellowship, University of Paris Orsay, 2003-2005 and 2009 and the United Nation Fellowship, Egypt, 2002-2003. He was a Visiting Professor at King Saud University. He was on the Governor’s commission for developing a comprehensive energy policy for the State of Louisiana.
Abstract:
The integration of physical systems with networked sensing, computation networks and embedded control with actuation has led to the emergence of a new generation of engineered systems, the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Such systems emphasize the link between cyber space and physical environment (i.e., time, space, and energy). CPS represents the next generation of complex engineering systems. They are large scale dynamic systems that offer significant processing power while interacting across communication networks. CPS will help to solve the grand challenges of our society, such as, aging population, limited resources, sustainability, environment, mobility, security, health care, etc. Applications of CPS cover a wide band of economic, medical, and entertainment sectors. It includes Transportation: Automobiles, avionics, unmanned vehicles and smart roads; Large Scale Critical Infrastructure: bridges, mega buildings, power grid, defense systems; Health Care: Medical devices, health management networks, telemedicine; Consumer Electronics: Video games, audio/video processing, and mobile communication. Building Cyber-Physical Systems is not a trivial task. The difficulty arises from the existing gap in modeling and computing of the physical and cyber environments. The design process requires new theories, models, and algorithms that unify both environments in one framework. None of the current state-of-the art methods are able to overcome the challenges of developing the unified CPS design paradigm. Several of these issues will be discussed in this talk. Case studies of real world CPSs will be illustrated.
Keynote Forum
Devra Davis
Environmental Health Trust, USA
Keynote: Health risks of wireless communication: What do we know, what can we do now, and what should we find out?
Time : 12:30-13:15
Biography:
Devra Davis has completed PhD and MPH and is the President of Environmental Health Trust, Environmental Health Trust, a non-profit organization devoted to researching and controlling avoidable environmental health threats. She is the Author of The Secret History of the War on Cancer and other books, and Fellow in the American College of Epidemiology. She served as Founding Director of the Board on Environmental Studies of the US National Academy of Sciences. She is recognized internationally for her work on environmental health and disease prevention. A Presidential Appointee that received bi-partisan Senate confirmation, she was the Founding Director of the world’s first Center for Environmental Oncology.
Abstract:
A wide range of expert opinions exists concerning the health risks of mobile phones and other wireless transmitting devices. Recent epidemiologic studies find that those would be into you sell phones regularly before age 20 develop 4 to 8 times more brain cancer within a decade. The absence of a secular trend in brain cancer is to be expected in so far as 80% of our brain cancers occurred in people over the age of 60 who are unlikely to have been heavy cell phone users. Experimental studies have found that currently used wireless transmitting devices damage male and female reproductive health and impair the ability to repair cell damage. Some studies have also found that this communication can interfere with bee-hive production. Based on this work experts advising the governments of India, France and Israel have developed precautionary policies especially reducing exposures to infants toddlers and those who wish to have healthy children. We call for a major independent training and research program funded through modest user fees on Internet service providers, device manufacturers, and consumers in order to identify major data gaps, and carry out important research on ways to mitigate or eliminate adverse public health and environmental impacts of wireless technology.
- Day 1
Chair
Dr. Norman Shaw
Director Product & Business Development IEEE Standards Association
Session Introduction
Elizabeth Chang
The Universality of New South Wales (Australia Defence Force Academy), Australia
Title: Advances in internet of things and cyber physical systems and its application to smart ship
Time : 14:00-14:35
Biography:
Elizabeth Chang is a Professor in Logistics and a Canberra Fellow at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. She holds BSc, MSc and PhD in Computer Science and Software Engineering and has been CIO/CTO in Multinational Logistics and Transport Company in Hong Kong. She has delivered 41 keynote/plenary speeches largely at major IEEE Conferences and International Conferences. She has published over 500 refereed papers with an H-Index of 35 (Google Scholar). She is a Fellow of IEEE and the Chair for IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics (2014-2015).
Abstract:
The Internet of Things (IoT) also known as Cloud of Things refers to the inter-connection of uniquely identifiable embedded computing like devices within the existing Internet infrastructure. Example: Smart grid, heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders, automobiles with built-in sensors, or field operation devices. It is a network of functional tightly coupled system, using various technologies such as RFID, Zigbee, Bluetooth or 6LoWPAN. The Web of Things (WoT) is an evolution of the Internet of Things. A concept and plan to fully incorporate every-day physical objects into the World Wide Web, allowing us to build an application layer for physical objects. A Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is a globally connected WoT, bring embedded systems to the Web, i.e., aerospace, automotive, chemical processes, civil infrastructure, renewable energy, remote healthcare monitor, automated manufacturing, intelligent transportation, and consumer appliances. Several successful adaptation including collision avoidance; precision (e.g., robotic surgery and nano-level manufacturing); operation in dangerous or inaccessible environments (e.g., search and rescue, firefighting, and deep-sea exploration); coordination (e.g., air traffic control, war fighting). This talk presents new advances in science and engineering that has made improvement on the link between computational and physical elements, particularly in the area of autonomy, efficiency, functionality, reliability, safety, and usability of IoT and CPS. The talk will give a case study, namely a Smart Ship, moving away from manual operation to automated ship warehouse management.
János Levendovszky
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Title: Quality-of-service routing protocol for wireless sensor
Time : 14:35-15:10
Biography:
János Levendovszky received his MSc and PhD degree from the Budapest University of Tecyhnology and Economics. Presently, he is a Professor and head of the doctoral school at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the same university. His present research includes adaptive signal processing, neural networks, communication protocols and financial computations. He has served as a guest professor at several European, US and South Korean Universities.
Abstract:
In this paper, we develop novel algorithms to find the optimal, energy preserving, paths from Source Node (SN) to the Base Station (BS) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Optimality is defined in a constrained sense, in which the minimal energy route is sought (to maximize the lifespan of WSNs) under reliability constraint, meaning that each packet must reach the BS with a given probability. Energy efficiency is going to be achieved by selecting nodes for multi-hop packet forwarding under information, which yields the most evenly distributed energy state over the network after the packet has reached the BS. There are many efficient protocols which increase the lifetime of sensor network such as LEACH, PEGASIS, and PEDAP. But they failed to provide energy balancing under reliability constraints. Solving this problem, we propose a new algorithm under name High Quality of service Routing Algorithm (HQRA), which is able to find near-optimal paths in WSNs by minimizing the energy but guaranteeing a given level of reliability, as well. New High Quality of Service Routing Algorithm for WSNs, which finds the minimum energy path from the SN to the BS and achieves a predefined level of reliability. The proposed method can run in polynomial complexity, with respect to the number of nodes, by recursively using the Bellman-Ford algorithm. Furthermore, HQRA gave good results with any BS positioning in wireless sensor network. The simulation results will demonstrate that our algorithm is more efficient than the other routing protocols proposed before.
Zaid A Shafeeq
Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan
Title: A Wireless cognitive radio network with a synchronized cooperative relaying
Time : 15:10:15:45
Biography:
Zaid A. Shafeeq received his B.E. degree in Communications and Electronics Engineering from Isra University, Jordan in 2010, and his M.E. in Communications Engineering from Al Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan in 2015. His area of interest includes Fifth Generation of Mobile Communications, Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology, and Communications Networks.
Abstract:
This paper attempts to apply cooperative relay in an underlay wireless cognitive radio network, where all of the secondary user nodes draw their power from a primary user within a certain threshold level in order not to interfere with it. The network is divided into pairs, and each pair is assumed to have synchronized exchange-relay ability, i.e. performing data transmission and providing an alternative path to the direct link of the other pair. The simulation results prove that enabling relay technique gives significant enhancements to the system\\\'s performance through decreasing the outage probability. Furthermore, the efficiency has been improved by inviting all the nodes to participate in providing multiple paths to exchange data, which in turn gives a robust cognitive radio network.
Trung-Dinh Han
Samsung Electronics, Vietnam
Title: Device-To-Device (D2D) communication in 5G cellular networks
Time : 16:05-16:40
Biography:
Trung-Dinh Han is a Senior Manager/Principal Engineer of Samsung Vietnam Mobile R&D Center, Samsung Electronics. He is managing and developing B2B and Cloud Solutions. He has been developing a hundred commercialized smartphone projects for South Each Asia. For academic experience, he’d served as a Research Professor at University of Ulsan, South Korea since 2011.
Abstract:
According to eMarketer market research, smartphone users will be reached 2 billion in 2016, resulting in a lot of challenges for current cellular networks, such as bandwidth utilization, spectrum crisis and high energy consumption. Although the fourth generation (4G) networks are now becoming great success, it cannot accommodate the challenges. Device-To-Device (D2D) communication may be one of key solutions for the next generation (5G) networks to deal with these issues. D2D communication in cellular networks allows direct communication between two mobile users without assisted from Base Station (BS) or infrastructure based networks. With initial studies, the D2D communication exposes some advantages for improving spectrum efficiency, communication delay, as well as energy consumption; however, it still has some shortcomings, such as security issues, mobility management, and handoff. The research community is now actively contributing for the next generation networks by adopting the D2D communication. This presentation will focus on discussing about the challenges, designs, and future research directions of D2D communication in 5G cellular networks.
Waleed E Al-Hanafy
Menoufia University, Egypt
Title: Efficient power allocations for multicarrier systems
Time : 16:40-17:15
Biography:
Waleed E Al-Hanafy received BS and MS degrees from Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt, in 1996 and 2002, respectively, and PhD from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, in 2010, all in electronics engineering. He is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University. His research interests are mainly in the signal processing for communications. He is a Member of IEEE and EURASIP societies and a Reviewer of many conferences and journals.
Abstract:
In OFDM, multiplexing over MIMO channels or general trans-multiplexing techniques a number of independent sub-carriers or sub-channels arise for transmission, which differ in SNR. Maximizing the channel capacity or data throughput under the constraint of limited transmit power leads to the well-known and simple water-filling algorithm. However, the performance of water-filling algorithm is generally degraded by the bit-loading following it. Alternatively, incremental bit-loading can optimize the data rate if greedy power allocation is considered. The problem of the greedy algorithm is its associated computation complexity bottleneck which prevents its use in many recent wireless applications. The focus of this presentation will be the simplified state-of-the-art greedy-based power allocation techniques. This presentation will provide novel computationally efficient sub-optimal greedy-based power allocation algorithms to maximize data rate of multicarrier systems. Moreover, mean BER enhancement of the resulting bit-loading can be achieved by considering residual power redistributions which aim to relate rate maximization in conjunction with margin maximization design problems. The evaluation will include analysis, simulation, and discussions of the results.
Abu Asaduzzaman
Wichita State University, USA
Title: Microelectronic sensor for DNA analysis
Time : 17:15-17:50
Biography:
Abu Asaduzzaman is experienced in collaborative projects that involve research-oriented universities and leading high-tech industries in the U.S.A. Over 10 years of demonstrated teaching excellence in university education in the areas of computer architecture, parallel programing, embedded systems, and performance and power evaluation. Highly skilled in information technology (IT) with over a decade of experience in working with and working for major IT corporate clients (such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and ECI IP Incorporated) using cutting edge technology. Extraordinary knowledge and experience of successfully applying innovative techniques for diverse populations of learners into classroom and online teaching. Principle investigator (PI) of many grants including WSU URCP Award 2014-2015, Wiktronics-WSU Embedded Systems Project 2014, Kansas NSF EPSCoR First Award 2013-2014, NVIDIA-WSU CUDA Teaching Project 2013, and M2SYS-WSU Biometrics Project 2012. Reviewed many NSF programs including TUES, GRFP, and EPSCoR RSV Panel-2. Authored more than 80 peer-reviewed research articles. TPC/IPC member of various conferences including IEEE IPCCC/ICCIT. Member of IEEE, ASEE, PKP, TBP, etc.
Abstract:
Multicore architectures suffer from high core-to-core communication latency due to the traditional wire based network and power-hungry cache’s unpredictable behavior. As the number of cores increases, managing the requests from many cores and satisfying the large number of requests as quickly as possible becomes a critical challenge. Studies suggest that a directory with the information about Level-1 Cache (CL1) blocks can be helpful in order to reduce the communication latency. The recently introduced wireless router in network-on-a-chip shows promise by efficiently handling many requests, simultaneously, faster and cheaper (consuming less energy). Therefore, we introduce a Level-2 Cache Mediator (L2CM) and a hybrid network (with wired and wireless routers) into a multicore/many-core system to improve system scalability. The proposed L2CM should have enough memory to store information about CL1 cached blocks, CL1 victim blocks, etc., and a wireless router for low-power fast communication with Central Processing Unit (CPU) cores. According to the experimental results, (considering communication delay and power consumption) the proposed architecture is better than mesh multicasting for all cases and is better than or as good as wireless network-on-a-chip. Experimental results suggest that the proposed L2CM may decrease the communication delay by up to 63% and the total power consumption by up to 33%.
Biography:
S. S. Iyengar is a Distinguished Ryder Professor and Director of the School of Computing and Information Sciences at the Florida International University and is the founding Director of the FIU-Discovery Lab. Iyengar is a pioneer in the field of distributed sensor networks/sensor fusion. Iyengar has published over 500 research papers and has authored/co-authored/edited 20 books published by MIT Press, John Wiley & Sons, Prentice Hall, CRC Press, Springer Verlag, etc. These publications have been used in major universities all over the world. Iyengar is a ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, and NAI Fellow.
Abstract:
There is much dependency that is growing in this integrated world, both in the context of physical and virtual transfer of goods and information. More specifically, the Internet is basically a structure of networks that is connecting people around the world in a real time manner. The real issue of these networks is disruption by massive data flows, diverse traffic patterns, poor infrastructure, and political conflicts. This talk addresses challenges that exist both in the context of transportation and energy distribution networks.
Prof. Dr. János Levendovszky
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Title: Quality-of-Service Routing Protocol for wireless sensor networks
Biography:
Prof. Dr. J. Levendovszky received his MSc and PhD degree from the Budapest University of Tecyhnology and Economics. Presently he is a professor and head of the doctoral school at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the same university. His present research includes adaptive signal processing, neural networks, communication protocols and financial computations. He has served as a guest professor at several European, US and South Korean universities.
Abstract:
In this paper, we develop novel algorithms to find the optimal, energy preserving, paths from Source Node (SN) to the Base Station (BS) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Optimality is defined in a constrained sense, in which the minimal energy route is sought (to maximize the lifespan of WSNs) under reliability constraint, meaning that each packet must reach the BS with a given probability. Energy efficiency is going to be achieved by selecting nodes for multi-hop packet forwarding under information, which yields the most evenly distributed energy state over the network after the packet has reached the BS. There are many efficient protocols which increase the lifetime of sensor network such as LEACH, PEGASIS, and PEDAP. But they failed to provide energy balancing under reliability constraints. Solving this problem, we propose a new algorithm under name High Quality of service Routing Algorithm (HQRA), which is able to find near-optimal paths in WSNs by minimizing the energy but guaranteeing a given level of reliability, as well. New High Quality of Service Routing Algorithm for WSNs, which finds the minimum energy path from the SN to the BS and achieves a predefined level of reliability. The proposed method can run in polynomial complexity with respect to the number of nodes, by recursively using the Bellman-Ford algorithm. Furthermore, HQRA gave good results with any BS positioning in wireless sensor network. The simulation results will demonstrate that our algorithm is more efficient than the other routing protocols proposed before.
Biography:
Caner Özdemir received the BSEE degree in 1992 from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the MSE. and PhD degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995 and 1998, respectively. His research interests are radar signal processing, ground penetrating radar, th-the-wall imaging and antenna design. He has published more than 100 journal articles and conference/symposium papers on those fields. He is the author of the book titled “Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging with Matlab Algorithms”.
Abstract:
In this session, new and emerging antenna designs for various wireless applications will be covered. Any type of antennas from micro strip patches to Vivaldi antennas and from monopoles to conformal arrays that are used for emerging wireless technologies (WI-FI, WI-MAX, WI_LAN, LTE, cognitive radio networks, vehicular networks, security and privacy, car-to-car communication, mobile telecommunications, indoor/outdoor systems and experimental systems for future Internet research and many others) are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Sattar B. Sadkhan
Babylon University, IRAQ
Title: Multidisciplinary Role in Secure Wireless Communication and Networks
Biography:
Dr. Eng. Sattar B. Sadkhan has completed his PhD at the age of 30 years from VAAZ- Academy in Brno- Czech Republic.. He is the Chairman of IEEE Iraq Section, and Chairman of URSI Iraq committee, and Honorable Research Director of IRAQ for (BRCORP). He has published more than 150 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as Chef – in - Editor for 8 International Journals, and Associate Editor in 7 (others) International Journals.
Abstract:
A multidisciplinary research effort focusing on secure wireless communication networks, motivated by the fact that the solutions to next-generation communications networks lie in a multidisciplinary research approach formed by electromagnetics, micro systems, digital signal processing, error control coding, cryptography , physics and information theory, is presented. For example chaos theory was originally developed by mathematicians and physicists. The theory deals with the behaviors of nonlinear dynamic systems. Therefore, and based on chaos theory features, the security research community adopts chaos theory in modern secure wireless communication networks. However, there are challenges of using chaos theory with secure communication. Also the multidisciplinary nature of the research in the field of Quantum Key Distribution Networks (QKDNs). Such networks consist of a number of nodes that can perform security protocols protected by some basic laws of physics. The operation of QKDNs mainly requires the integration of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocols with the already-existing network security infrastructures.