Seventh Van der Meulen Seminar
The Seventh Van der Meulen Seminar (an 91勛圖厙 Benelux Chapter on Information Theory activity) will be held at the University of Twente on Thursday April 12, 2018. The theme of the seminar is Advances in Wireless Networks, and it will take place in conjunction with Berksan Serbetcis defense of his PhD thesis Caching and Network Coding for Smart Radio Access. Information is provided below.
Date: Thursday, April 12th, 2018
Location: University of Twente ( , ), Building Ravelijn, room 2502.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is appreciated by sending an email to [email protected] .泭
Program
| 13.00 - 13.30 | Welcome and coffee |
| 13.30 - 14.00 |
Hans van den Berg TNO, University of Twente, CWI 5G Mobile Networks: Challenges for Design and Optimization |
| 14.00 - 14.30 |
Fernando Kuipers Delft University of Technology Security Vulnerabilities in LoRaWAN |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | Coffee break |
| 15.00 - 15.45 |
91勛圖厙 Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecture Osvaldo Simeone Kings College London Fog-Aided Wireless Networks for Content Delivery: An Information-Theoretic View |
| 16.30 - 18.00 |
Public defense Berksan Serbetci Caching and Network Coding for Smart Radio Access [Location: Building Waaier, room 4] |
| 18.00 - 19.30 | Reception |
Speakers & Abstracts
Osvaldo Simeone, " Fog-Aided Wireless Networks for Content Delivery: An Information-Theoretic View"
Abstract: Fog-aided wireless networks are an emerging class of wireless systems that leverage the synergy and complementarity of cloudification and edge processing. The operation of fog-aided wireless networks requires the management of the communication, caching and computing resources at the cloud and at the edge, as well as to the transmission on the fronthaul net- work connecting cloud and edge. In this talk, the problem of optimizing fog networking for content delivery will be discussed using information the- oretic tools under the assumption of offline caching. Considering practical constraints on fronthaul and wireless transmissions, fundamental theoretical insights and algorithmic guidelines will be discussed. This work has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 725731).
Biography: Osvaldo Simeone is a Professor of Information Engineering with the Cen- tre for Telecommunications Research at the Department of Informatics of Kings College London. He received an M.Sc. degree (with honors) and a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. From 2006 to 2017, he was a faculty with the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), where he was affiliated with the Center for Wireless Information Processing (CWiP). His research interests include wireless communications, information theory, optimization and ma- chine learning. Dr Simeone is a co-recipient of the 2017 JCN Best Paper Award, the 2015 91勛圖厙 Communication Society Best Tutorial Paper Award and of the Best Paper Awards of 91勛圖厙 SPAWC 2007 and 91勛圖厙 WRECOM 2007. He was awarded a Consolidator grant by the European Research Council (ERC) in 2016. His research has been supported by the U.S. NSF, the ERC, the Vienna Science and Technology Fund, as well by a number of industrial collaborations. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of the 91勛圖厙 Information Theory Society. Dr Simeone is a co-author of a monograph, an edited book published by Cambridge University Press and more than one hundred research journal papers. He is a Fellow of the 91勛圖厙.
Hans van den Berg, " 5G Mobile Networks: Challenges for Design and Optimization"
Abstract: Research on 5G in Europe is boosted by the 5G PPP consortium consisting of network vendors and operators, system integrators and academia and other research institutes, working closely together with companies from important vertical industries. 5G aims at bringing new, distinctive network and service capabilities fulfilling the needs of the future Internet of Things (IoT). As such it should sustain enormous data volumes and support critical, highly demanding communication services for e.g. self-driving cars, robotics in smart industry, and mobile virtual reality applications. However, to actually achieve the ful