Keynote 1: Latency is the new Bandwidth
Speaker:
Shivendra S. Panwar
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA
Abstract:
The data rates of both wired and wireline links have increased relentlessly over the last several decades. Wireless access rates used to trail those for wireline access rates, but of late have started catching up, so much so that they can be viewed as essentially equal. For most applications, including mobile applications, bandwidth availability is not viewed as a serious constraint anymore. 5G is delivering tens of megabits per second to users, and will soon provide more. The next driver of advances in networking is expected to be the need for reliable low latency connectivity, rather than bandwidth alone. These applications include XR (Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality), wirelessly controlled robots and haptic communications. The latency requirements for such applications vary from tens of milliseconds down to the sub-millisecond range. While the latency requirements for these applications can be met by carefully engineered wired and wireless communications, typically in controlled indoor environments, it is still a challenge to provide them over cellular networks. This talk will focus on the emerging challenge of providing reliable low latency broadband communications over cellular networks.
Biography:
SHIVENDRA S. PANWAR received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He is also the Director of the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications, the Co-Founder of the New York City Media Lab, and a member of NYU Wireless. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and a consultant to Bell Laboratories. His research interests include the performance analysis and design of networks. His current research focuses on cross-layer research issues in wireless networks, and multimedia transport over networks. He has coauthored a textbook, TCP/IP Essentials: A Lab-Based Approach (Cambridge University Press). He was a winner of the IEEE Communication Society’s Leonard Abraham Prize in the Field of Communication Systems for 2004, the ICC Best Paper Award in 2016, and the Sony Research Award. He was also co-awarded the 2011 Multimedia Communications Best Paper Award. He has served as the Secretary for the Technical Affairs Council of the IEEE Communications Society. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2022).
Keynote 2: A New CubeSat Design with Reconfigurable Multi-band Radios for Dynamic Spectrum Access in Internet of Space Things
Speaker:
Ian F. Akyildiz
Truva Inc., Alpharetta, GA 30022, USA
http://www.truvainc.com; ian@truvainc.com
Abstract:
Small satellites, or CubeSats, are envisioned as a promising solution for future satellite communication networks because of their low costs and short deployment cycle. Currently, CubeSats communicate at conventionally allocated satellite communication frequencies. However, with the increase in the number of CubeSats, CubeSat-enabled communication systems, and many new use cases, new spectrum bands and a more efficient spectrum usage are needed. In this talk, a novel CubeSat design with reconfigurable multi-band radios for communication in dynamic frequencies is proposed. The multi-band radio design is realized by two complementary approaches, namely, an electronics-based and a photonics-based approach. The multi-band communication covers a wide range from radio frequencies (2–30 GHz), millimeter wave (30–300 GHz), Terahertz band (up to 10 THz), and optical frequencies (with typical bands of 850 nm/350 THz, 1300 nm/230 THz, and 1550 nm/193 THz). A thorough link budget analysis is conducted to demonstrate the potential of the proposed multi-band architecture for space information networks. Key parameters in the satellite constellation design are investigated to explore the feasibility of deployment at different altitudes in the exosphere orbit (500 km and above). Furthermore, software-defined networking (SDN), and network function virtualization (NFV) have been incorporated to effectively separate the abstraction of functionalities from the hardware by decoupling the data forwarding plane from the control plane, such separation is of prime importance given the limited onboard processing on CubeSats. Additionally, key parameters in the constellation design including the coverage footprint and number of CubeSats as well as orbital planes, etc. are investigated for feasibility and deployment studies at different altitudes in the exosphere orbit.
Biography:
Ian F. Akyildiz received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively. Currently, he is the President and CTO of the Truva Inc. since March 1989. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates since June 1, 2020. He is the Ken Byers Chair Professor Emeritus in Telecommunications, Past Chair of the Telecom group at the ECE and the Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory between (1985-2020) at the at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Akyildiz had many international affiliations during his career. He established many research centers in Spain, South Africa, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Russia, India, Cyprus, etc. He is the Founder and Editor in Chief of the newly established of the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU-J FET) since August 2020, and is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier) (1999-2019), the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) (2003-2019), the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Physical Communication (PHYCOM) Journal (Elsevier) (2008-2017), and the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Nano Communication Networks (NANOCOMNET) Journal (Elsevier) (2010-2017). He is an IEEE Fellow (1996) and ACM Fellow (1997) and received numerous awards from IEEE and ACM and other professional organizations, including Humboldt Award from Germany. His current research interests are in Metaverse, Extended Reality, 6G/7G Wireless Systems, TeraHertz Communication, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, and Underwater Communication. According to Google Scholar as of November, his h-index is 134 and the total number of citations to his papers is 138+K.