This webinar will address issues related to 5G and beyond, allow our incredible Principal Investigators to share their personal scientific stories, and provide our audience with the opportunity to ask questions and directly connect with scientists involved in 5G.

Date: 19 November 2020

Time: 3:00 pm (CET)

Webinar ID: 984 1509 5815

Register for free here: https://sciforum.net/conference/electronics-2

Chair:

Prof. Dr. Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano

EBM of Section “Networks” of Electronics

Interests: network virtualization; IP mobility management; wireless experimentation; cloud computing and vehicular communications

Speaker 1

Dr. Ömer Bulakci (Nokia Bell Labs)

Topic: Role of 5GPPP Architecture WG toward B5G/6G System

Dr. Ömer Bulakci is currently a Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Bell Labs, Munich, Germany, and Vice-Chairman of the 5GPPP Architecture Working Group (WG). He has received B.Sc. (METU, Turkey, 2006), M.Sc. (TUM, Germany, 2008), and doctorate (Aalto University, Finland, 2013) degrees. He worked at Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany, on LTE-A relaying (2009–2012) in support of his doctorate studies. From 2012 to February 2020, he conducted research toward the 5G system, contributed to EU flagship projects METIS, METIS-II (leading a work package on RAN synchronous control plane design), and 5G-MoNArch (leading a work package on overall architecture and E2E network slicing), and contributed to 5G standardization (3GPP Releases 15, 16, and 17) at Huawei GRC, Germany. He is an author or co-author of 75+ technical publications (including 5G book chapters and editorship) and an inventor of 50+ patents/patent applications. His research interests comprise network slicing, industrial IoT, RRM, dynamic network topology, and system design and performance analysis of mobile networks.

Speaker 2

Dr. Alain Mourad (InterDigital Labs)

Topic: On the Path to 6G: Target Capabilities and Technology Trends

Alain Mourad has 18+ years of experience in wireless communications industrial R&D. He is currently a Director Engineering R&D at InterDigital Labs in London (UK), leading research and innovation for 5G and beyond radio access networks. Prior to joining InterDigital, from 2007 to 2014, Alain was a Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics R&D (London, UK), where he led research and standardization efforts with a focus on ATSC 3.0, DVB-T2 and DVB-NGH, and WiMAX IEEE 802.16m. From 2002 to 2007, he was a Senior Engineer at Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe (Rennes, France), where he contributed technology development toward HSPA+ and 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced (4G). Alain is a prolific inventor with over 50 issued patents and several additional pending applications. He is a thought leader who has participated in numerous talks, panels, and publications. Alain has received several awards, notably the Inventor of the Year Award from Samsung Electronics R&D in 2012 and 2013, InterDigital Innovation Awards in 2016 and 2018, and the 2018 Global Telecoms Awards “Highly Commended” in the category “Advancing the Road to 5G”.

Speaker 3

Dr. Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (CTTC)

Topic: Network Architectures for 5G and Beyond

Josep Mangues-Bafalluy has been a Senior Researcher and Head of the Communication Networks Division of the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalunya (CTTC) since 2013, a division that is currently composed of 30 researchers. He has a degree (1996) and a PhD (2003) in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Catalunya (UPC) and over 20 years of experience in the networks field (including mobile networks, application of machine learning to network optimization, testbed design and deployment, and network function virtualization). Josep has held various roles (including leadership) in several publicly funded and industrial research projects (e.g., 5GPPP 5Growth, 5G-Transformer, and Spanish 5G-REFINE), with a recent emphasis on adapting network infrastructures to the needs of vertical industries (e.g., automotive/transportation, industry 4.0, media, eHealth) and automated network management. He has published 120+ international journal articles and conference papers. He was Vice-Chair of IEEE WCNC 2018 (Barcelona). He was also a Researcher and Assistant Professor at UPC from 1996 to 2003.

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