EVENTS

5g IT hub seminar: jean-marie gorce (INSA/INRIA Lyon)

Date: Thursday, 17th November 2022
Time: 14:00h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This seminar is a physical event!

Jean-Marie Gorce
Professor, INSA, Université de Lyon,
the Head for Science with INRIA Lyon,
Scientific coordinator for the Experimental Facility FIT-CorteXlab
https://team.inria.fr/maracas/team-members/jean-marie-gorce/

Title: Known limits, achievability and trends for M2M:
Towards massive, reliable and real-time communications

Abstract: In the ‘beyond 5G’ roadmap, the place taken by machine type communications (M2M) is constantly increasing, strengthening the mutation of the wireless access paradigm. Indeed critical KPIs for M2M communications are focused on reliability, latency (URLLC) and massive access. The latter is required to absorb the exponential increase of connected things, with in some cases strong reliability-latency requirements. From a general perspective, and under fixed resources and massive access, the reliability-latency duality is becoming more and more central. In this talk we review the key questions and we describe few of our recent contributions, allowing to determine fundamental limits with respect to these 3 KPIs. Our approaches exploit information theory, recent coding, decoding and decision strategies. The presentation will span recent results of the Maracas (Inria-Insa) research group,  from theoretical, algorithmic and experimental complementary perspectives.

Biography: Jean-Marie Gorce (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Lyon, France, in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He was a Co-Founder of the Centre for Innovation, Telecommunications and Integration of Services (CITI Lab), in 2001. He was a Visiting Scholar with Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, from 2013 to 2014. He has been the Principal Investigator of several French and European sponsored projects related to wireless networks. He is currently the Scientific Coordinator for the Experimental Facility FIT-CorteXlab. He is also a Professor with INSA, Université de Lyon and the Head for Science with INRIA Lyon. He has co-published more than 150 conference and journal articles. His research interests include wireless networking and communication theory, focusing on realistic modeling, wireless system optimization, and performance assessment considering both infrastructure-based and ad-hoc networks.

5g it hub seminar: Sandra lagen and Biljana Bojovic (CTTC)

Dates: Tuesday and Wednesday, 08th and 09th November 2022
Time: 09:30h – 12:30h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This seminar is a physical event!

Sandra Lagen and Biljana Bojovic
Senior Researcher (Head of Unit) and Researcher,
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
https://www.cttc.cat/

Title: 5G LENA System Level Simulator and Extensions for 5G NR V2X

Sandra Lagen

Sandra Lagén is currently a Senior Researcher and Head of the Open Simulations (OpenSim) research unit at Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain. She holds a Telecommunications Engineering degree (2011), Master’s degree (2013), and the Ph.D. degree (2016) from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. During her PhD, she contributed to 3GPP standardization; being UPC the first university world-wide contributing to 3GPP LTE-A. In CTTC, she has participated in outstanding collaborations with the industry, including InterDigital, NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Lab), Huawei-Sweden, and Meta-Facebook. Also, she has defined the OpenSim research unit strategy and research lines, contributing to the definition of CTTC’s strategic plan, contributed as an expert to the definition of the “Pla d’Impuls 6G” from la Generalitat de Catalunya which determines the guidelines and activities for the development of 6G, participated in various European/national research projects, and supervised MS/PhD students and Google summer of code projects. The major singularity of the OpenSim research unit that she leads is the involvement with ns-3, an open-source end-to-end network simulator, and particularly the design, development, and maintenance of the 5G-LENA module, for simulation of 5G NR networks. Since 2021, she represents CTTC in the executive board/consortium of ns-3. Her PhD thesis has received recognition awards by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (COIT) (2017) and the UPC (2019). Also, she is co-author of two best paper awards, by IEEE WCNC (2018) and WNS3 (2020), and she is co-inventor in two non-provisional patent applications granted and three provisional applications.

Biljana Bojovic

Biljana Bojović received her MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia in 2008, and her PhD degree in Networking Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain in 2022. She is the developer and maintainer of the LTE, NR, and NR-U modules of the ns-3 network simulator, and the principal author of LAA and LTE-U modules. She held LTE and NR module tutorials at the ns-3 workshops in 2016 and 2022, and at CONFTELE in 2021. She was a mentor of ns-3 GSoC on several occasions. In 2020 she received ACM SIGCOMM Networking System Award. She worked on many research projects for industrial clients, such as Wi-Fi Alliance, SpiderCloud, Interdigital, the US Department of Defense, NIST, Meta, etc. She is a co-author of one patent application (US20200314906A1). Her current research interests include XR traffic enhancements for 5G-Advanced, MIMO simulation models for ns-3, and unlicensed/shared spectrum.

3rd INCOMING special session @ EUSIPCO 2022

This special session is coorganised with H2020 Marie Curie Doctoral Network project WINDMILL

Special Session – Signal Processing and Machine Learning at the Edge for beyond 5G Radio Access Networks

Organizers and Chairs:

Xavier Mestre, CTTC, Spain
Dejan Vukobratovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Dates: Monday-Friday, 29 August -2nd September 2022

Link: https://2022.eusipco.org/?page_id=545

The Special Session organisers are participating in two relevant H2020 projects, WindMill (ITN Network) dedicated to integrating wireless communication engineering and machine learning disciplines and INCOMING (CSA) innovation and excellence in massive-scale communications and information processing. The expertise of both projects on addressing large system challenges under a machine learning perspective provides both a wide and breadth coverage of massive aspects of communications such as massive MIMO and new communication systems opportunities such as RF sensing, edge computing and federated learning. Having this special session dedicated to massive aspects of communications in the air interface can facilitate identifying challenges and fundamental joint signal processing and ML/AI tools to address them.

2nd INCOMING Project School

Date and Place: June 13th-17th, 2022, Gothenburg (Sweden).

The second project school of H2020 INCOMING project is the first project school held in physical mode (after COVID restrictions have been lifted or relaxed) and took place during June 13th until June 17th, 2022, at the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (Sweden). During five days, researcher training was provided by staff members from German Aerospace Centre (DLR) – Dr Balasz Matuz, University of Novi Sad (UNS) – Dr Milica Petkovic, Chalmers University of Technology (CHALMERS) – Dr Khac-Hoang Ngo and Prof. Lennart Svennson, Aalborg University (AAU) – Dr Hosaam Mohamed Farag and Prof. Petar Popovski, and Guest Lecturers: Prof. Olgica Milenkovic (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA) and Prof. Enrico Paolini (University of Bologna, Italy).

The final agenda for the 1nd project school is given here.

For the photos of this event, please check the Gallery page of this website.

5G IT HUB SEMINAR: NINO ADzibaba and MILAN ERDELJ (EASY AERIAL)

Date: Tuesday, 06th June 2022
Time: 12:00h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This lecture is a physical event!

Ninoslav Adzibaba and Milan Erdelj
Chief Software Architect and Director of Communication Technologies,
Easy Aerial, Belgrade
https://www.easyaerial.com/

Title: Easy Aerial – Experiences from a drone startup

Ninoslav Adzibaba

Chief Software Architect and Regional Manager @ Easy Aerial Inc

Passionate about immersive technologies, virtual and augmented reality, Nino inspires and leads Easy Aerial, pushing the limits of what is considered to be possible. His previous success stories include the co-founding of VR Habitat and closely working and learning from clients such as US DoD, IBM, NCR, Boeing Business Jets, Ralph Lauren Home, Mercedes F1, BBC.

Milan Erdelj, PhD

Director of Communication Technologies @ Easy Aerial Inc

By merging together extensive academic and industrial experiences from INRIA, UTC Sorbonne Universités, Scalian and Docotel, Milan and his team integrate the state of the art data transmission and analytics technologies onto the Easy Aerial autonomous UAV systems, making the EA systems go above and beyond the competition.

5G it Hub seminar: branko ristic (rmit)

Date: Tuesday, 31st May 2022
Time: 12:00h CET
Location: NTP-L01 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This lecture is a physical event!

Branko Ristić
Principal Research Fellow, School of Engineering,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/r/ristic-dr-branko

Title: Recent research activities in target tracking and machine reasoning by Branko Ristic and his group at RMIT University

Abstract: The talk will briefly review four research activities: (1) Detection and tracking of small objects on the sea surface using an airborne scanning radar; (2) Development of target tracking algorithms using possibility theory (instead of probability theory); (3) The search for intelligent reactive underwater targets using the game theory; (4) Development of a valuation network for reasoning under uncertainty in the framework of imprecise probability theory.

Branko Ristic was educated in Serbia (FTN, Novi Sad and ETF, Belgrade University) and Australia (PhD, 1995). Since 2015 he is a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Engineering of RMIT University.
Before that he spent almost 20 years in Defence Science and Technology (Australia). He published over 100 journal articles and two books. His research interests include statistical signal processing and artificial
intelligence.

5G IT HUB Seminar: Nenad Siroki & Aleksandar Pantovic (PANOS)

Date: Tuesday, 12th April 2022
Time: 14:30h CET
Location: NTP-001 (Science and Technology Park),
Naučno-Tehnološki Park, Fruškogorska 1, Novi Sad
This lecture is a physical event!

Full video lecture will be available soon!

Nenad Široki
CTO, PANOS

Aleksandar Pantović
Director of Software Development, PANOS

Implementation of In-building Cellular Systems and
Everyday Challenges of Telecommunication Engineers

Abstract:

This talk will give an overview of how industry of wireless telecommunications has developed in past 30 years and how work description of telecommunications engineer needed to adopt to follow latest trends in the industry. Furthermore, talk will address current trends in the industry of wireless telecommunications and will focus on in-building cellular systems. It will be explained what are active DAS systems and what are the biggest challenges for telecommunications engineers that work on design and implementation of those systems.