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 Prof. Sofiène Affes The Wireless Lab, EMT Centre, INRS, Canada |
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| Title: Enabling Schemes for Pervasive Radio Interface Technologies (ESPRIT): Recent Progress Made Under 5G and New Directions Paving the Way Towards 6G | |
| Abstract: In this keynote lecture, we will report on the significant progress made under the 5G label in the development of both 5G and B5G or 6G wireless access technologies in the framework of the major NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) CRD (Collaborative R&D) Project with Huawei Canada on 5G-WAVES (wireless access virtualization enabling strategies for 5G). Among the numerous research themes and challenges successfully tackled within this pioneering initiative, we discuss 1) optimized progressive “grey-field” wireless access virtualization (WAV) deployment strategies; 2) new user-centric base-station (BS) WAV schemes; 3) novel QoS-based user equipment (UE) WAV approaches; and 4) efficient time and frequency synchronization for distributed MIMO-relay beamforming techniques. We will also discuss future directions paving the way towards 6G on i) advanced sub-TeraHertz-to-TeraHertz and free-space-optical (FSO) wireless transceivers and networks; and ii) intelligent and autonomous embedded systems with integration of sensing, mechatronics, connectivity, and control. | |
| Biography: SOFIÈNE AFFES (S’95-SM’05) was born in Tunisia on 19 September 1969. He received the Diplôme d’Ingénieur in telecommunications and the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in signal processing from Télécom ParisTech (ENST), Paris, France, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He was a Research Associate with INRS, Montreal, QC, Canada, until 1997, an Assistant Professor until 2000, and an Associate Professor until 2009. He is currently Full Professor and Director of PERWADE, a unique M$4 million research-training program on wireless in Canada involving 27 partners from 8 universities and 10 industrial organizations. He has been twice a recipient of a Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award from NSERC, from 2008 to 2011 and from 2013 to 2016. From 2003 to 2013, he was Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communications. Since October 2017, he holds a Cyrille-Duquet Research Chair in Telecommunications. In 2006, 2015, and 2017, he served as General Co-Chair or Chair of IEEE VTC’2006-Fall, IEEE ICUWB’2015, IEEE PIMRC’2017 and co-located IEEE 5G Summit, respectively, all held in Montreal, QC, Canada. In 2008 and 2015, he received the IEEE VTC Chair Recognition Award from IEEE VTS and the IEEE ICUWB Chair Recognition Certificate from IEEE MTT-S for exemplary contributions to the success of both events, respectively. He previously served as Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PRO-CESSING, the Hindawi Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. He currently serves as member of the Editorial Board of the MDPI Sensors Journal and the Advisory Board of the MDPI Multidisciplinary Journal Sci. He has been member of the Canadian Evaluation Group (CEG) and the Canadian National Organization (CNO) since 2009 and 2017, respectively, involved from Canada in the Working Party 5D (WP 5D) activities for the ITU on IMT-Advanced and IMT-2020. | |
