Professor and Director, School of Computing
Queen’s University, Canada
Dr. Hossam Hassanein (Queen’s University, Canada) will be leading a discussion panel on 5G networks – Technology, Challenges and future applications.
Biography:
Dr. Hossam Hassanein is a leading authority in the areas of broadband, wireless and mobile networks architecture, protocols, control and performance evaluation. His record spans more than 500 publications in journals, conferences and book chapters, in addition to numerous keynotes and plenary talks in flagship venues. Dr. Hassanein has received several recognition and best papers awards at top international conferences. He is the founder and director of the Telecommunications Research Lab (TRL) at Queen’s University School of Computing, with extensive international academic and industrial collaborations. Dr. Hassanein is a Fellow of the IEEE, and is a former chair of the IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (TC AHSN). He is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker (Distinguished Lecturer 2008-2010).
Panelist:
Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini, IEEE Fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Professor Soumaya Cherkaoui, IEEE Senior Member, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
Mr. Saleem Alblooshi, Chief Technology Officer, EITC (DU), UAE
Program
The Opportunities around 5G Wireless Communication –
Hype vs Reality
5G, the next generation mobile network, is anticipated to bring about a technological transformation in modern societies by providing an ultra-reliable high-speed communications infrastructure that will serve billions of devices, machines and vehicles. These devices will contribute massive amounts of data that will need to be pipelined over future 5G networks under the umbrella of future smart cities, connected autonomous cars, and IoT applications. The complexity of 5G networks will hence be unprecedented, due to the very diverse applications, ultra-low latency requirements for critical vehicle communication, growing demand for high positioning accuracy for location-based services, and dense, heterogeneous architectures.
This panel addresses a number of challenges around 5G deployment.
– Why is it taking too long? What are the main challenges – Cost? Complexity? Device support? Security issues? Other?
– What is the schedule for 5G deployment around the world? What technologies/services will roll in first? Will users feel better QoS/QoE? In what aspects?
– Is the complexity of 5G rendering traditional radio resource management (RRM) techniques ineffective? Is the future of RRM in artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics?
– How does edge computing benefit 5G and vice versa? Are they inseparable?