EVENTS

H2020 INCOMING FINAL EVENT – DAY 2

The second day of H2020 INCOMING project final event was dedicated to keynote talks on the Path towards 6G and has been organised as a continuation of 5G-IT-Hub 5G and Beyond 5G Seminar Series. Keynote presenters were renowned leading experts on the topic of 6G topic: Prof. Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark), Ivan Seskar (Rutgers University, USA), Prof. Haris Gacanin (RQTH Aachen University, Germany), Prof. David Gomez Barquero (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain), Konstantinos Chalkiotis (Deutsche Telekom, Germany), Prof. Robert Stewart (Strathclyde University, UK). Keynote presentations were followed by panel discussion on the development of next generation of communication systems, which gave an opportunity for interactive discussion on the 6G topic between keynotes and participants of the meeting.

Final meeting was attended by most of the ICONIC staff members as well as numerous representatives from 3 project partner institutions. Besides, the representatives from regional communication industry holders were present, as well as researchers from other Universities in Serbia. The final event gave an opportunity to promote research and innovation results of ICONIC centre, but also to spread excellence in local and regional domain and make an initial step for further collaboration between regional and international academic and industry attendees.

The Final Event agenda is presented in the table below.

h2020 INCOMING Final EVent Day 1

The final event of H2020 INCOMING project was organized on September 19-20 2023. During the final event, all participants had an opportunity to meet the details of H2020 INCOMING project, the results and established collaborations. The final outreach event of H2020 INCOMING project was divided into two main parts: 1) The first day of event: INCOMING Project, ICONIC Center and Future of ICONIC, held in Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad, Science and Technology Park, on the 19th September 2023, and 2) The second day of event: Keynote Talks on the Path towards 6G, held in Belgrade, Hotel Crowne Plaza Belgrade, on the 20th September 2023.

The first day of event proceeded with overview of ICONIC centre and its growth and benefits under INCOMING project. The session about next steps followed up, where scientists in charge from all three partner institutions and representatives of ICONIC centre provides current and future activities. Results are presented in the form of poster session, which involved both WP2 and WP3 research and development topics of the INCOMING project, as well as some active EU and national projects that involve INCONIC staff members.

BRAINSTORMING WEEK – AAU CAMPUS COPENHAGEN

The final Brainstorming Week was organized by AAU on August 23-25 2023. The event was held at the Aalborg University campus in Copenhagen, Denmark. During this event, besides discussing the current research activities and future project proposal, participants from all INCOMING project institution were devoted to looking beyond the project lifetime into the future collaboration opportunities. One part of the Brainstorming event was devoted to train ESRs for preparing applications for future EU Horizon Europe calls.

3rd INCOMING project school at DLR

We had an amazing week (12th to 16th of June 2023) at German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich enjoying the lectures and discussions during the third summer school of H2020-INCOMING project. We are immensely thankful to inspiring lecturers Lara Dolecek, PhD, Danijela Cabric, Beatriz Soret, Roy Yates, Jean-Francois Chamberland, Andrea Munari, Aleksandar Minja and Francisco Lazaro Blasco and fantastic event organisation by Estefanía Recayte, Federico Clazzer and Gianluigi Liva.

Report on the 2023 INCOMING DLR Summer School appeared in September issue of IEEE Information Theory Society newsletter. You can read the whole text at the link below. Thanks again to German Aerospace Center (DLR) team, especially Federico Clazzer and Estefanía Recayte, for neat organisation.

https://www.itsoc.org/newsletter/article/report-2023-incoming-dlr-phd-summer-school

School agenda is presented below:

On Monday and Wednesday afternoon INCOMING ESRs presented their research results as part of poster sessions:

Prof Branka VUcetic Lecture

Date: May, 21st June 2023
Time: 11:00h CET
Location: NTP-418 (FTN Science and Technology Park),
Faculty of Technical Sciences, Fruskogorska 1, Novi Sad
This seminar is a physical event!

Branka Vucetic
Professor, School of Electrical and Information Engineering,
University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
https://sydney.edu.au/engineering/people/branka.vucetic.php

Title: AI-Based Design of 6G Networks

Abstract: In this talk, a vision of use cases in future wireless 6G networks will be presented. 6G will provide distributed AI and a plug-and-play infrastructure for various IoT services. AI combined with domain knowledge will be used to design 6G, as conventional analytical methods will not be able to meet the stringent requirements of the future 6G services and deal with increasing network complexity. A framework for using AI in 6G design will be presented.  Some research results from the Sydney Centre for IoT and Telecommunications on AI-based designs of 6G physical, MAC and network layers will be demonstrated.

Biography: Prof Branka Vucetic currently works as a Laureate Professor and Director of the Centre for IoT and Telecommunications at the University of Sydney. During her career, she has held various research and academic positions in Serbia, Australia and UK. Her research interests include wireless communications, error control coding, and IoT applications in energy grids and industrial control.

Prof Vucetic co-authored four books and more than four hundred papers in telecommunications journals and conference proceedings. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and IEEE.

Prof. Ian Akyildiz Lecture

Date: May, 23rd March 2023
Time: 12:00h CET
Location: FTN-A1 (Faculty of Technical Sciences, main A1 amphiteatre),
Faculty of Technical Sciences, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 6, Novi Sad
This seminar is a physical event!

Ian Akyildiz
Founder, Truva Inc.
Professor in retirement, GeorgiaTech, Atlanta (USA)
https://ianakyildiz.com/

Title: NETWORKING 2030: Metaverse, Extended Reality, Hologram Type and Mulsemedia Communication Challenges for 6G/Beyond Wireless Systems

Abstract: The term “METAVERSE” (META= BEYOND) and (VERSE=UNIVERSE) can be regarded as the evolution of the Internet where there will be almost no separation between digital and physical. This will be made possible thanks to the convergence of key emerging technologies such as Extended Reality (XR) (the umbrella term for Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR)), Mulsemedia as well as Hologram Type Communication (HTC). In this talk, the XR, Mulsemedia, HTC technologies are explored and research challenges concerning wireless communications for the next decade are presented. XR, Mulsemedia and HTC provide truly immersive experiences for a plethora of use cases for the Networking 2030 and Beyond. They face great challenges in transmitting high volume data with high throughput and guaranteed end-to-end latency which cannot be addressed by existing/current communication technologies. In this talk, a roadmap towards wireless ultimate XR, Mulsemedia and HTC technologies is presented. The basics, existing products and use cases of these technologies are reviewed, and technical requirements and bottlenecks of realizing these technologies are identified.

Biography: I.F. Akyildiz (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981, and 1984, respectively. He served as the Ken Byers Chair Professor in Telecommunications, the Past Chair of the Telecom Group at the ECE, and the Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, from 1985 to 2020. He is the Founder and President of the Truva Inc, a consulting company) since 1989. He is also an Advisory Board member at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, since June 2020. He is the Founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the newly established of International Telecommunication Union Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET) since August 2020.  He had many international affiliations during his career and established research centers in Spain, South Africa, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Russia and India. Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE Fellow since 1996, and ACM Fellow since 1997. He received numerous awards from IEEE, ACM, and other professional organizations, including Humboldt Award from Germany and Tubitak Award from Turkey. In April 2023, according to Google Scholar his h-index is 136 and the total number of citations to his articles is more than 140+K. His current research interests include Networking 2030, Metaverse, Mulsemedia Communication, Hologram and Extended Reality Communication, 6G/7G wireless systems, TeraHertz Communication, Underwater Communication.

INCOMING TRAINING IN EU PROPOSAL PREPARATION

INCOMING project organised two-part seminar on writing successful EU proposal. This training is presented by extremely experienced team specialized in leading, providing support for dissemination and outreach, and managing of EU projects. Two experts, Spiros Fountas and Maja Radisic, presented the seminar to ICONIC audience comprised of ICONIC staff members. The training took place on 17th and 18th May 2023 at FTN-NTP building. ICONIC centre participants, in particular young researchers that are starting their ventures in proposal writing activities, enjoyed very much the intensive and informative training. They are looking forward to convert all the knowledge collected into future successful project bids!

5TH INCOMING EXPERT TRAINING BY DLR

Lecturer: Dr Balasz Matus and Dr Gianluigi Liva (DLR)

Title: Fundamentals and Applications of Coding for Erasure Channel

Dates: 19th – 20th April 2023.

The fifth expert training was provided in person by Dr Balasz Matus and Dr Gianluigi Liva (DLR). The topic was Fundamentals and applications of Coding for Erasure Channels covered important aspects of WP2 research, including design of short packet error correcting codes for massive IoT applications. Besides theoretical lectures, the training included practical problem solving sessions, related to the practical problems of FEC design for IoT applications in terrestrial and satellite IoT communications.

Expert training agenda is presented in the table below.

5g hub seminar: milenko tosic (vizlore)

Date: Thursday, 02nd March 2023
Time: 12:00h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This seminar is a physical event!

Milenko Tosic
Director for Innovation and Research Projects
VizLore Foundation
https://vizlore.com/

Title: Uspon i pad novosadskog tech startup-a (The rise and the fall of Novi Sad’s tech startup )

Abstract: Milenko ce prezentovati na temu tehnologija i spin-offova koje su razvijali u okvizu VizLore grupe, o mom startup-u i o jednom startupu koji je “izgoreo” u svom zaletu.

Biography: Milenko Tošić je direktor za inovacije i istraživačke projekte u fondaciji VizLore Labs kao i osnivač više tech startup-a. Bavi se istraživanjen i razvojem u domenu primene veštačke inteligencije, Interneta stvari i blokčejn tehnologija u raznim sektorima privrede. Milenko je doktorand na Departmanu za energetiku, elektroniku i telekomunikacije.

INCOMING Zugspitze workshop

On January 23-26 2023, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is organizing a workshop on communication theory, channel coding and other realated topics. The workshop will provide an informal atmosphere to discuss recent advances and open challenges in the field of communications engineering.

The workshop is organized in the context of the INCOMING project, funded by the European Union.

The workshop will be held at the Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus, located just below the summit of Zugspitze, Germany’s highest mountain.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Channel coding for wireless and free-space optical links
• Modern random access protocols
• Massive multiple access techniques
• Innovative techniques for 5G and IoT radio access networks
• Wireless access protocols for the IoT, M2M communications and large-scale wireless sensor networks
• Inference and message-passing algorithms
• Machine learning techniques for communications

Confirmed Participants

• Israel Leyva-Mayorga (Aalborg University)
• Khac-Hoang Ngo (Chalmers University)
• Dejan Vukobratovic, Milica Petkovic, Tijana Devaja, Vukan Ninkovic, Ognjen Kundacina, Srdjan Sobot (University of Novi Sad)
• Jean-Marie Gorce (INSA/INRIA Lyon)
• Leonardo Badia (University of Padua)
• Gianluigi Liva, Federico Clazzer, Francisco Lázaro, Balázs Matuz, Estefanía Recayte, Andrea Munari, Marcel Grec, Ayman Zahr, Alexander Sauter, Manuel Roth (DLR)

For more information, please check the workshop webpage: http://zugspitzeworkshop.com/