Workshopon5G:EnablingTechnologiesandApplications

Agenda,26thJune2018

Venue:MiddlesexUniversity,CollegeBuilding,C211

8:30 Registration

8:45-9:00 WelcomeandIntroduction

9:00–9:35 5G/D2DforDisasterandEmergencyManagementDr.HuanNguyen,MiddlesexUniversity

9:35–10:10 NextGenerationCommunicationSystems–ActivitiesatUniversityofGlasgowDr.FrancescoFioranelli,GlasgowUniversity

10:10–10:40 CoffeeBreak(CollegeBuilding,Mezzanine,2ndFloor)

10:40–11:15 Low-complexityApproachestomm-WaveBeamformingProf.JinhoChoi,GwangjuInstituteofScienceandTechnology,Korea

11:15–11:50 NetworkedLabsforTraininginSciencesandTechnologiesforInformationandCommunication-NEWTONProf.GeorgeGhinea,BrunelUniversity

11:50–12:30 360DegreesMulsemedia:EnablingHumanSensesover5GEnvironmentsDr.Ioan-SorinComsa,BrunelUniversity

12:30–13:30 Lunch(CollegeBuilding,Mezzanine,2ndFloor)&PosterPresentation

13:30–14:05 ModellingBasedforMassiveMIMOTestingDr.DucTo,VIAVISolutions

14:05–14:40 AScalableandLicenseFree5GInternetofRadioLightArchitectureforServicesinHomesandBusinessesProf.JohnCosmas,BrunelUniversity

14:40–15:15 5Gpositioning:anewopportunitytoachievesub-meteraccuracywithmobilenetworksDr.GiuseppeDestino,KingsCollegeLondon

15:15–15:45 CoffeeBreak(CollegeBuilding,Mezzanine,2ndFloor)

15:45–16:20 IssuesandPossibleSolutionsfordevelopingtheConnectedVehicleEnvironmentDr.GlenfordMapp,MiddlesexUniversity

16:20–17:00 AwardCeremony/FundingOpportunities/Closing&Remarks

PosterPresentations

12:30–13:30duringLunch

ReinforcementLearningEnabledUnmannedAerialVehiclesinPop-UpCellularNetworksPauloValenteKlaine,UniversityofGlasgow,

TheimpactofchannelcorrelationandCSImismatchonlow-resolutionquantizedmassiveMIMOsystemsMuratTemiz,TheUniversityofManchester

SecuritybasedVLCMIMOSystemOthmanYounus,UniversityofNorthumbria

LeveragingRetransmissionsinWirelessNetworkedControlSystemswithPacketizedPredictiveControlJoãoPedroBattistellaNadas,UniversityofGlasgow

PilotPowerControlforCell-freeMassiveMIMOTrangCongMai,Queen’sUniversityBelfast

Beyond5G:ApplicationsofTerahertzinFutureAgri-techSystemsAdnaanZahid,UniversityofGlasgow

IEEE802.11pVehicularNetworkDeployment,Coverage,andBackhaulIssuesVishnuParanthaman,MiddlesexUniversity

DronesmallcellbasedpublicsafetynetworksKamranAli,MiddlesexUniversity

ChannelModellingformmWaveAutomotiveApplications(V2X)inHendon(London)AreaAbimbolaCrown,MiddlesexUniversity,

Speakers’Biographies

DucTo(VIAVISolutions)receivedaPh.D.degreeinadvancedtelecommunicationsfromSwanseaUniversity,Swansea,U.K., in2011.FromMarch2011toFebruary2012,hewasaResearchAssistantatSwanseaUniversityandgainedexperiencesin modelling for energy efficient transmissions. He is now a Senior AlgorithmEngineer in theAlgorithmsGroup,Aeroflex Limited tradingasVIAVISolutions–Wireless,Stevenage,U.K..Atthere,hehasbeenworkingonsignalprocessingforcommunications taking into account practical aspects, algorithm design and

modelling.HegraspsverygoodunderstandingsofwirelesscommunicationsstandardsincludingWi-Fi,4GLTEandthelatestandunderdevelopment5GNewRadio.

Francesco Fioranelli (Glasgow University) graduated in TelecommunicationEngineering(summacumlaude)attheUniversitàPolitecnicadelleMarche,Ancona,Italy for Bachelor (2007) and Master (2010) degrees. He received his PhD onthrough-wallradarimagingatDurhamUniversity(UK)inJanuary2014,andworkedas aResearchAssociateonmultistatic radardevelopment andapplicationswithProfHughGriffithsatUniversityCollegeLondonbetweenFebruary2014andMarch

2016.HethenjoinedtheSchoolofEngineering,UniversityofGlasgowinApril2016asanAssistantProfessor (Lecturer) in the Glasgow College UESTC, between the University of Glasgow and theUniversityofElectronicScienceandTechnologyofChina(UESTC)inChengdu,forwhichheistheExamandAssessmentCoordinator,andcoursecoordinator forteachingCircuitsAnalysisandDesign.Hisresearchinterestscoverthemultipleaspectsofdeveloping,testingandusingbistaticandmultistaticradar systems for various applications, with particular focus in approaches for automatic targetclassification in various contexts. Francesco is amember of the IEEE and IET, Chartered Engineer(CEng),associatememberoftheEPSRCPeerReviewCollegesinceJuly2017,andareviewerforseveralacademic journals including IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace andElectronicSystemsandIEEESensors.Hepublishedover40journalandconferencepapersinvariousapplicationsandaspectsofradarsystems,aswellas2bookchapters.Heistheco-recipientofthebestpaperpublishedinIETRadarSonar&Navigationin2017,andthePrincipalInvestigatoroftheEPSRCprojectEP/R041679/1INSHEP,“IntelligentRFSensingforFallsandHealthPrediction”.

Gheorghita Ghinea (Brunel University) is a Professor in the Computer ScienceDepartmentatBrunelUniversity,UnitedKingdom.HereceivedtheB.Sc.andB.Sc.(Hons) degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, in 1993 and 1994,respectively,andtheM.Sc.degreeinComputerScience,in1996,fromtheUniversityoftheWitwatersrand,Johannesburg,SouthAfrica;hethenreceivedthePh.D.degreeinComputerSciencefromtheUniversityofReading,UnitedKingdom,in2000.Hisworkfocusesonbuildingadaptablecross-layerend-to-endcommunicationsystems

incorporatingusermultisensorialandperceptualrequirements.HeisamemberoftheIEEE.

Giuseppe Destino (Kings College London) received his Dr. Sc. degree at theUniversityofOuluin2012,M.Sc.(EE)degreessimultaneouslyfromthePolitecnicodiTorino,ItalyandUniversityofNice,Francein2005.Currently,heisworkingasAcademy of Finland postdoctoral research fellow aswell as projectmanager ofnationalandinternationalprojectsattheCentreforWirelessCommunicationsoftheUniversityofOulu,Finland. In2017,HeworkedattheNokiaBellLabs,Oulu,under the Nokia Bell Labs and University of Oulu Joint Centre for FutureConnectivity.Since2018,he isassociatedwithKing’sCollegeLondon,Centre for

TelecommunicationResearch(CTR),wherehecarriesonactivitiesonpositioningandmillimetre-wavetechnologies.Hisresearchinterestsincludewirelesscommunications,millimetrewaveradioaccess

technologies,especially,onalgorithmsforchannelestimation,hybridbeamformingandpositioning.HeservedasamemberofthetechnicalprogramcommitteeofIEEEconferences.

GlenfordMapp(MiddlesexUniversity)receivedhisBSc(FirstClassHonours)fromthe University of theWest Indies in 1982, aMEng (Distinction in Thesis) fromCarleton University in Ottawa, Canada in 1985 and a PhD from the ComputerLaboratory,UniversityofCambridgein1992.HethenworkedatAT&TCambridgeLaboratoriesfortenyearsbeforejoiningMiddlesexUniversityinLondonin2003,where he is currently an Associate Professor. He was also a Visiting Research

FellowattheComputerLaboratorybetween2003and2010whereheworkedonseveralprojects.Hisprimary expertise is in the development of new technologies formobile and distributed systems,vehicular networks and Smart City infrastructure. He has published over 100 papers in refereedjournalsandconferences.

Ioan-SorinComsa(BrunelUniversity)isaResearchScientistin5GradioresourceschedulingatBrunelUniversity,London,UK.HewasawardedtheB.Sc.andM.Sc.degrees in Telecommunications from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca,Romania in 2008and2010, respectively.He receivedhis Ph.D. degree from theInstituteforResearch inApplicableComputing,UniversityofBedfordshire,UK inJune2015.HewasalsoaPhDResearcherwiththeInstituteofComplexSystems,UniversityofAppliedSciencesofWesternSwitzerland,Switzerland.Since2015,heworked as a Research Engineer at CEA-LETI inGrenoble, France.He is themain

authorofapatentinmachinelearningdomainwithdirectapplicationin5Gradioresourcescheduling.His research interests include intelligent radio resource and QoS management, reinforcementlearning,distributedandparallelcomputing,adaptivemultimedia/mulsemediadelivery.

JinhoChoi(GwangjuInstituteofScienceandTechnology)wasborninSeoul,Korea.HereceivedB.E.(magnacumlaude)degreeinelectronicsengineeringin1989fromSogangUniversity,Seoul,andM.S.E.andPh.D.degreesinelectricalengineeringfromKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1991 and 1994,respectively. He is with Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) as aProfessor. Prior to joining GIST in 2013, he was with the College of Engineering,SwanseaUniversity,UnitedKingdom,asaProfessor/ChairinWireless.Hisresearch

interests includewirelesscommunicationsandarray/statistical signalprocessing.HeauthoredtwobookspublishedbyCambridgeUniversityPressin2006and2010.Prof.Choireceivedthe1999BestPaperAwardforSignalProcessingfromEURASIP,2009BestPaperAwardfromWPMC(Conference),and is SeniorMember of IEEE. Currently, he is an Editor of IEEE Trans. Communications and IEEEWirelessCommunicationsLettersandhadservedasanAssociateEditororEditorofother journalsincluding IEEE Communications Letters, Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), IEEETransactionsonVehicularTechnology,andETRIjournal.

John Cosmas (Brunel University) was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1956. Hereceived the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from Liverpool University in1978andthePh.D.degreefromImperialCollege,UniversityofLondonin1986.HeiscurrentlyaProfessorofMultimediaSystemswiththeCollegeofEngineering,DesignandPhysicalSciences,BrunelUniversityLondon.Heco-leadstheWirelessNetworksand Communications Research Centre, is the course director of M.Sc. AdvancedMultimedia Design and 3-D Technologies. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE

Transactions on Broadcasting. His research interests are concerned with the development ofmultimedia systems applied to future of broadcasting, cellular communications, 2-D/3-D digitalvideo/graphics media and the synergies between these technologies towards their application

towardsthebenefitoftheenvironment,healthandsocieties.HehasparticipatedinelevenEU-ISTand two EPSRC funded research projects since 1986 and he has led three of these (CISMUNDUS,PLUTO, and 3-D MURALE). His latest research is concerned with management of heterogeneouscellularnetworks, convergenceofcellularandad-hocnetworks,3-DMIMO,andefficientsoftwaredefinednetworksarchitectures.

YourHostsatMiddlesexUniversity

HuanX.Nguyen(MiddlesexUniversity)receivedtheB.Sc.degreefromtheHanoiUniversity of Science and Technology, Vietnam, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degreefrom theUniversity ofNewSouthWales,Australia, in 2007.HehasbeenwithseveraluniversitiesintheU.K.HewasaResearchOfficerwithSwanseaUniversity,U.K.,from2007to2008,andaLecturerwithGlasgowCaledonianUniversity,U.K.,from 2008 to 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor of communication

networkswiththeFacultyofScienceandTechnology,MiddlesexUniversity,London,U.K.Hehaspublishedover90researchpapers,mainlyinIEEEjournalsandconferences.Hisresearchinterestsinclude5Genablingtechnologies,PHYsecurity,energyharvesting,andcommunicationsystemsforcriticalapplications.HewasarecipientofagrantfromtheNewtonFund/BritishCouncilInstitutional Links Program for disaster communication and management systems using 5Gnetworks, from2016to 2018. HewastheCo-Chairofthe2017International Workshopon5GNetworksforPublicSafetyandDisasterManagement.HecurrentlyservesasanEditorfortheKSIITransactionsonInternetandInformationSystems.

Mohsin Raza (Middlesex University) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees inelectronic engineering from Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad,Pakistan.He receivedhis Ph.D. degree from theDepartment ofMathematics,Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, Newcastle uponTyne,U.K.HewasalsoaLecturerwiththeDepartmentofElectronicEngineering,Mohammad Ali Jinnah University from 2010 to 2015 and Hardware SupportEngineer with USS in 2009. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher withMiddlesexUniversity,DesignEngineeringandMathematics.

PuravShah(MiddlesexUniversity)isaSeniorLecturerintheDesignEngineeringandMathematicsDepartmentatMiddlesexUniversityLondon.Priortothat,hewasanAssociateResearchFellowattheUniversityofExeteronEU-FP6PROTEMprojectonscanningprobe-basedmemoriesfrom2008to2010.Hisworkincludedreadchanneldesign;noisemodellingandsignalprocessingforprobestorage.HereceivedhisPhDinCommunicationandElectronicsEngineeringfromUniversity

ofPlymouth,UK,in2008.HeisalsoaUKHEAFellow.HedidhisMScinPersonalandMobileRadioCommunicationsfromLancasterUniversity,UK,in2003andhisBEngdegreeinElectronicsEngineeringfromSardarPatelUniversity,Gujarat,India,in2002.

Quoc-TuanVien(MiddlesexUniversity)receivedhisBSc(Hons)degreefromHoChiMinhCityUniversityofTechnology,Vietnam, in2005;hisMScdegreefromKyungHeeUniversity,SouthKorea, in2009;andhisPhDdegree fromGlasgowCaledonianUniversity,UK,in2012,allintelecommunications.From2005to2007,hewaswithFujikuraFiberOpticsVietnamCompany,BinhDuong,Vietnam,asaProduction-SystemEngineer.From2010to2012,heworkedasaResearchand

Teaching Assistant with the School of Engineering and Built Environment, Glasgow Caledonian

University.InSpring2013,heworkedasPostdoctoralResearchAssistantwiththeSchoolofScienceandTechnology,NottinghamTrentUniversity,Nottingham,UK. In June2013,he joinedMiddlesexUniversity, London,UK,asa Lecturer inComputingandCommunicationsEngineering,wherehe iscurrentlyaSeniorLecturerwiththeFacultyofScienceandTechnology.

Ramona Trestian (Middlesex University) is a Senior Lecturerwith the DesignEngineeringandMathematicsDept.,MiddlesexUniv.,London,UK.ShereceivedherPh.D.degreefromDublinCityUniv.,Irelandin2012.ShewaswithDublinCityUniversityasanIBM/IRCSETExascalePostdoctoralResearcher.Shepublishedinprestigious international conferences and journals andhas threeeditedbooks.Her research interests include mobile and wireless communications, userperceived quality of experience,multimedia streaming, handover and network

selectionstrategies.SheisamemberofIEEEYoungProfessionals,IEEECommunicationsSocietyandIEEEBroadcastTechnologySociety.

TuanAnhLe(MiddlesexUniversity)receivedhisB.Eng.andM.Sc.degreesbothin electronics and telecommunications from Hanoi University of Technology,Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree intelecommunications research from King’s College London, The University ofLondon,UK, in2012.Hewas the recipientof theprestigiousPh.D. scholarshipjointly awarded by the Virtual Center of Excellence in Mobile & PersonalCommunications(MobileVCE)andtheUKGovernment’sEngineering&Physical

SciencesResearchCouncil(EPSRC).