7-In-1 Symposium Proceedings

Proceedings

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 7 - IN- 1 “Chitt-Kaya Nivesh Sthaan (CNS)/Abode for Mind and Body” Date: June 21-22, 2021 Venue

Room 209, CGC, AU, Birk Centerpark 40 7400, Herning, Denmark

The Overall Objective of the Symposium 7 -In- 1 is to open discussions on innovation and its commercialization through a strong partnership between industries and academia as well as on modern practices and methodologies in cross-/multi-/inter-disciplinary areas such as social science, technology, Business Canvas and so on. The novel, innovative solutions for the inherited and current problems will be examined to have a discrete system of work to be followed. The symposium will create an atmosphere for socialization among participants and on the popular happenings in the Digital World. It will also provide a platform for different sectors to look for new initiatives for defining project proposals.

• 17th CTIF Global Capsule (CGC) Annual Workshop • 5th BIT (Bisra Institute of Technology) SINDRI ASSOCIATION (BITSA) International World Connect • 37th GISFI Standardization Series Meeting (GSSM) • 2nd International Conference of Capacity building and ExchaNge towards attaining Technological Research and modernizing Academic Learning (CENTRAL) • 2nd GreenBizz Workshop • Twinning action for enhancing capacity and research excellence in holographic telepresence systems as a catalyst of digitalization (HOLOTWIN) • Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF)

CGC (CTIF Global Capsule) started its journey in 2004 as the Centre for TeleInfrastructure (CTIF) which now stands as Core TeleInFrastructure. Since 2015, this legacy was gradually embraced to transform the sturdy network into an Internationally non-profit association. Today, CGC has been gaining the internationally acclaimed recognition for its activities. Officially, it has been inaugurated at Villa Mondragone, Rome, Italy on October 28, 2015, and legally registered in March 2016. CGC has several Divisions all over the world supporting the Global Network activities. CGC provides an international platform for the purpose to strengthen international and cross-/multi-/inter-disciplinary research and business development. The Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) sector has been the main focus for CGC since its inauguration in 2004. As ICT technologies rapidly evolve and security concerns continuously change, the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to research, education and business model innovation of CGC have enabled it to keep pace with emerging issues. Currently, a strong emphasis is given to aspects such as security, eHealth, Green ICT, cybercrime, Multi Business Model Innovation (MBMI) and Digitalization, etc.

BIT Sindri is the premier Engineering College of Jharkhand state in India. BIT Sindri is a public Institute controlled and managed by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India. The institute was established in the year 1949 and is affiliated to Vinoba Bhave University (VBU). The alumni of BIT Sindri organizes an international event each year since 2016. The first event was held in Delhi, the second one in Dubai, the third event in Goa, the fourth event in Herning, Denmark and the fifth event will also be in Herning as hybrid (virtual physical)

The Global ICT Standardization Forum for India (GISFI) is an Indian standardization body active in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and related application areas, such as energy, telemedicine, wireless robotics, biotechnology. GISFI is an effort to create a new coherence and strengthen the role of India in the world standardization process by mapping the achievements in ICT in India to the global standardization trends. Further, GISFI is focused on strengthening the ties among leading and emerging scholars and institutions in India and the world; to develop and cultivate a research and development agenda for the field.

CENTRAL Project aims at developing and implementing academic educational curricula with an international orientation in content and form, aimed at preparing students for performing (professionally/socially) in a global and multicultural context and designed for domestic and/or foreign (international) students. CENTRAL is aimed at enabling employability, internationalization and interdisciplinary engagement of students and graduates, as well as research staff. The goal is to modernize existing infrastructure in Asian universities by developing and implementing appropriate support software tools and to create new curricula in the fields of ICT, which are expected to grow exponentially in the next years and train and educated with skilled personnel.

The GreenBizz project aims to increase business potentials and competences by developing the workforce of the companies to boost growth and employment around the green economy. The purpose of the GreenBizz project, through digitization, is to maintain, streamline and make better use of its material created through innovation in start-ups and SMEs as well as the processes and environments associated with them that focus on green business models

HOLOTWIN project is a University twinning action for enhancing capacity and research excellence in holographic telepresence systems as a catalyst of digitalization. The twinning will activate a process of knowledge transfer towards the Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria), which leverages the academic and research excellence at Aarhus University (Denmark), University of Surrey (UK) and Hellenic American University/Hellenic American College (Greece) in this area of research. The plan of activities includes staff exchanges, brainstorming meetings, research and entrepreneurship workshops, the start of new EU- and nationally funded joint research projects for doctoral students, cross-functional mentoring, training and summer schools.

The Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) is the place where the global wireless research community meets to explore and develop the research challenges that confront us as we look beyond current 5G deployments. The ongoing effort to roll out 5G technologies, and the ongoing debate on how to meet the requirements of the various vertical industries that will make use of 5G are also being studied, with WWRF members closely involved in all these discussions, and publications such as our Outlook series are a good guide to them. But the mission of WWRF is to look beyond current technology and businesses to identify the key research trends that will impact our world in the next 5-10 years. With over 50 members from across 4 continents, WWRF brings together a wide range of industry and academic players, and has a particular focus on the contribution of newly emerging market sectors and developing regions.

Welcome Message

I hope you will have many takeaways from this symposium

Ramjee Prasad

CTIF Global Capsule,

Aarhus University, Denmark

Final Program Monday, June 21, 2021 (Joint Program 7 -IN- 1)

• 17th CGC Annual Workshop • 5th BIT (Bisra Institute of Technology) SINDRI ASSOCIATION (BITSA) International World Connect • 37th GISFI GSSM • 2nd International Conference of CENTRAL • 2nd GreenBizz Workshop • Holotwin • Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF)

09:00-11:10 Session: 1 Opening and Introduction 09:00-09:10 Welcome and Introduction to CGC: Ramjee Prasad, CGC, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark 09:10-09:20 Introduction to BITSA: Dharmendra Kumar Singh, BIT Sindri, India 09:20-09:30 Introduction to GISFI: Sandeep Inamdar, Vishwaniketan, India 09:30-09:40 Introduction to CENTRAL: Albena Mihovska, CGC, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark 09:40-09:50 Introduction to GREENBIZZ: Peter Lindgren, CGC, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark 09:50-10:00 Introduction to HOLOTWIN: Vladimir Poulkov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria 10:00-10:10 Introduction to WWRF: Nigel Jefferies, Chair WWRF 10:10-10:25 Guest of Honour: Pooja Kapur, Indian Ambassador to Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark (TBC) 10:25-10:40 Guest of Honour: Freddy Svane, Danish Ambassador to India, New Delhi, India 10:40-11:00 Chief Guest: Krishna Pal Singh, Holtec International, USA 11:00-11:10 Vote of Thanks: Anders Frederiksen, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark 11:10-11:25 Coffee Break 11:25-12:40 Session 2: Keynote Session Session Chair: Meqhele Dlodlo, NUST, Zimbabwe Speakers: 11:25-11:40 “Health Research for Vital Signs Monitoring” Walter Weigel, Huawei, Belgium 11:40-11:55 “Back-to-Future: Part 2” Anand R. Prasad, Wenovator, Japan 11:55-12:10 “Energetic improvement of buildings is good for the economy and climate” Walter Konhäuser, Oktett64 GmbH, Germany 12:10-12:25 “Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) Challenges and Opportunities” Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium 12:25-12:40 “The role of context-aware Edge computing on supporting large-scale people-centric IoT environments” Rute Sofia, fortiss - Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany 12:40-13:40 Session 3: HOLOTWIN Project Session Chair: Vladimir Poulkov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria Speakers:

12:40-12:55 “Next Generation Applications and Services Enabled over 6G Connectivity Network” Albena Mihovska, CGC, Aarhus University, Denmark 12:55-13:10 “Semantic knowledge extraction based on deep architectures for context-aware holographic communication” Agata Manolova, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria 13:10-13:25 “Fostering entrepreneurial and innovation skills in a lifelong learning perspective and increasing HEIs innovation capacity” Didoe Prevedourou, HAEC, Greece 13:25-13:40 “Networking for Real-Time Holographic Teleportation Applications” Ning Wang, University of Surrey, UK 13:40-14:05 Lunch Break 14:05-15:35 Session 4: CENTRAL Session Chair: Sandeep Inamdar, Vishwaniketan, India Speakers: 14:05-14:20 “Online PBL Model and Blended Learning: New Strategy for Disruptive Era of Education Punnarumol Temdee, MFU, Chiang Rai, Thailand 14:20-14:35 “Effectiveness of Participants interest in “New Product Design and Development” Bhawani Chowdhry, MUET, Pakistan 14:35-14:50 “Human Centric Design approach: A tool for creating sustainable start-ups” Vikas Shinde, Vishwaniketan, India 14:50-15:05 “Title of Presentation: Building capacity of Institutes through Teacher education and Academic partnerships” Mahesh Chavan, KIT, India 15:05-15:20 “Framework for Integrating Graduate Attributes (GAs) of Washington Accord with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” Muhammad Aamir, SSUET, Pakistan, 15:20-15:35 “GIVING A GIFT OF 5 MINUTES FOR MINDFUL RELAXATION TO ACHIEVE PEACE OF MIND & WELLNESS OF BODY” Bhawani Chowdhry, MUET, Pakistan 15:35-15:50 Coffee Break 15:50-17:35 Session 5: WWRF Session on Privacy & Security Challenges in emerging environments Session Chair: Knud Eric Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark Speakers: 15:50-16:05 “Privacy, security and economics in WWRF” Knud Eric Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark 16:05-16:20 “Privacy activities at the Danish Society of Engineers (IDA)” Grit Munk,Danish Society of Engineers, Denmark 16:20-16:35 “DPO as a service for SMEs” Anne Lykke Lundholm-Andersen, Lundholm & Co 16:35-16:50 “Privacy issues in the Baltic States – DINNOCAP project” Idongesit Williams, Aalborg University, Denmark 16:50-17:05 “Introduction to Working Group Cybersecurity and Cybersecurity challenges in 5G Verticals” Samant Khajuria, Terma A/S, Denmark 17:05-17:20 “Role of CNS in Standardization Circular economy to achieve harmony with nature and the role of Privacy” Aaloka Anant, SAP Ireland 17:20-17:35 “Security in a mobile world” Jens Myrup, Aalborg University, Denmark 17:35-19:05 Session 6: CGC Session Chair: Shingo Ohmori, YRP, Japan Speakers: 17:35-17:50 “Digital workflow in dentistry” Yasser Haddadi, The Institute of Dentistry and Oral Health, Denmark 17:50-18:05 “My Smart World: Life (after..) beyond lockdown” Neeli Prasad, Smart Avatar, Delft, The Netherlands 18:05-18:20 “Barriers & opportunities in the Healthcare industry and the Covid-19 catalyst” Sofoklis Kyriazakos, CGC, BTECH AU, Denmark 18:20-18:35 “Use Cases and Emerging Technologies for 6G Networks” Mahasweta Sarkar, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA 18:35-18:50 “5G for Emergency Services - Challenges and Risks” Geir M Køien, USN, Norway 18:50-19:05 “6G for Digital Inclusion and SDGs: Road to Rural and Remote Connectivity” Sudhir Dixit, WWRF, USA Tuesday, June 22, 2021 09:00-11:45 Session 7: GISFI Session Chair: Tilak Raj Dua, GISFI, India Speakers: 09:00-09:15 “Human Body Wireless Communications” T. Rama Rao, SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai, India 09:15-09:30 “C5 (Creativity, Contentment, Confidence, Calmness & Concentration) Concept: A Holistic Approach for Evaluation of Human Wellbeing” Smita Chandra, CGC, Denmark 09:30-09:45 “AI Driven 6G: A New Frontier for Multisensory Communication” Vandana Rohokale, SIT, India 09:45-10:00 “Smart Body Area Network – Standardization” Dinesh Chand Sharma, Director – Standards & Public Policy, EU Project SESEI 10:00-10:15 “5G: Challenges and Enabling Technologies” Preetam Kumar, IIT PATNA INDIA 10:15-10:30 “The Energy of Mind” Sudhanshu Shekhar Jamuar & Chandrika Prasad, BITSA, India 10:30-10:45 “Data-driven Business Model Innovation for 5G & Beyond" Sriganesh Rao, Calligo Technologies, India 10:45-11:00 “Effect of EM Radiation from Radio Frequency Sources on Chitta-Kaya” Ashok Chandra, GISFI, India 11:00-11:15 “Sensors for Internet of Every Things (IoE)” Dnyaneshwar Mantri, SIT, India 11:15-11:30 “Relevance of India standard 5Gi based on LMLC (Low Mobility Large Cell)” Satya N Gupta, GISFI, India 11:30-11:45 “Societal aspects of ICT Developments” Pawan Garg, GISFI, India 11:45-12:20 Lunch Break 12.20-14.05 Session 8: GreenBizz Session Chair: Peter Lindgren, CGC, Denmark Speakers: 12:20-12:35 “The Era of Industry 5.0 –Technologies from No Recognizable H-M Interface to HeartyTouch Personal Products” Kapil Dev, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 12:35-12:50 “6G Networks for Next Generation of Digital TV beyond 2030” Paulo Sergio Rufino Henrique, Spideo, France 12:50-13:05 “Virtualized, Open and Intelligent: The Evolution of the Radio Access Network” Vladimir Poulkov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria 13:05-13:20 “Taking VLC technology from the lab to the market” Ana Garcia Armada, University Carlos III Madrid, Madrid, Spain 13:20-13:35 “5G antenna optimization” Pavlos Lazaridis, University of Huddersfield, UK 13:35-13:50 “Radios as Sensors for Smart Life” Ernestina Cianca, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy 13:50-14:05 “CGC: An Inclusive Knowledge Home Nurturing Innovation for and with Society” Didoe Prevedourou, HAEC, Greece

14:05-14:20 Coffee Break 14.-20-15:50 Session 9: BITSA Session Chair: Ramesh Yadava, BITSA, USA Speakers: 14:20.14:35 "Standardization for harmony via CKNS" Vishwanath Sinha, BISTA, India & Ramjee Prasad, CGC, Aarhus University, Denmark 14:35-14:50 “AI/ML-Enabled Connected Vehicles” Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA 14:50-15:05 “Innovations & Commercialization of Green Hydrogen Revolution in the world and arriving to the standardization for that future” Prafull Kumar, BISTA, USA 15:05-15:20 “Volume analysis for Dynamic Environments” Chandan Kumar, lowa State University, USA 15:20-15:35 “Implementation of Networked Technologies and Smart Manufacturing during COVID-19 Pandemic” Prakash Kumar, BISTA, India 15:35-15:50 “MACHINE LEARNING – WHOSE TIME HAS COME” Uma S. Jha, L3Harris Technologies, USA 15:50-17:50 Session 10: Sustainable Green Technology Session Chair: Torben Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark Speakers: 15:50-16:05 “Towards 6G wireless communication networks: vision, enabling technologies, and new paradigm shifts” H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, Princeton, USA 16:05-16:20 “What time is it? Who Cares? Why?” fred harris, University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA 16:20-16:35 "Evolution of Modulation and Coding for Current Wireless Systems" Sandip Sarkar, SesoVera, USA 16:35-16:50 “Title: Minimal-Latency Green Communication for 6G” Kwang-Cheng Chen, University of South Florida, USA 16:50-17:05 “Integrated Sensing and Communication in 6G: Applications and Technology Challenges”. Vinod Kumar, WWRF, France 17:05-17:20 “Printed Electronics Technology: promising next-generation devices” Shweta Agarwala, Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8200, Denmark 17:20-17:35 “Key research issues towards investigations on multiple access scheme for 5G and beyond communication systems” Sanjay Kumar, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, India 17:35-17:50 “Security in SDN/NFV and 5G Networks – Opportunities and Challenges” Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Day 1 Tuesday June 21

Session 1: Opening and Introduction

Welcome and Introduction

Ramjee Prasad

President, CTIF Global Capsule, Professor, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark

He has been honored by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy as a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine on March 15, 2016. He is Honorary Professor of University of Cape Town, South Africa, and University of KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa.

He has received Ridderkorset af Dannebrogordenen (Knight of the Dannebrog) in 2010 from the Danish Queen for the internationalization of top-class telecommunication research and education.

He has received several international awards such as: IEEE Communications Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2003 for making contribution in the field of “Personal, Wireless and Mobile Systems and Networks”, Telenor's Research Award in 2005 for impressive merits, both academic and organizational within the field of wireless and personal communication, 2014 IEEE AESS Outstanding Organizational Leadership Award for: “Organizational Leadership in developing and globalizing the CTIF (Center for TeleInFrastruktur) Research Network”, and so on.

He has been Project Coordinator of several EC projects namely, MAGNET, MAGNET Beyond, eWALL and so on.

He has published more than 30 books, 1000 plus journal and conference publications, more than 15 patents, over 100 PhD Graduates and larger number of Masters (over 250). Several of his students are today worldwide telecommunication leaders themselves.

Introduction to BITSA

Dharmendra Kumar Singh

BIT Sindri, India

Dr. Dharmendra Singh is presently working as Director, BIT Sindri since Jan 2017. Before joining the present position, he was Professor at Department of electronics and Communication engineering NIT Patna from Aug.2011 to Jan.2017. He worked Head of Departments ECE, CSE & IT at NIT Patna. He was also made Dean (Research and Consultancy) from April 2014-March 2016 at NIT Patna. Prior to joining NIT Patna, he was Head of Electronics % Comm Engg and Information Technology, BIT Sindri, since 2002-11. He stated his career as Asstt. Professor at BIT Sindri in year 1992. He is instrumental in starting the curriculum on information technology at BIT sindri and other institutes of Bihar and Jharkhand.

Introduction to GISFI

Sandeep Inamdar

Vishwaniketan, India

Dr. Sandeep S. Inamdar is bachelor in Electrical Engineering and completed Master’s degree in control systems. He completed his Doctoral programme from National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) in Electrical Distribution System Efficiency Improvement.

He is currently Trustee and Vice-President of Vishwaniketan, (www.vishwaniketan.edu.in), an institute created by him and his friends from industry and academia for giving world class learning experience to Indian Students. Vishwaniketan has initiated a campus on 18 Acres of land close to Navi Mumbai on Mumbai – Pune Expressway, where “Centre of Excellence” has been developed for Project Based Learning, with focus on product development-based research, entrepreneurship and start-ups. Vishwaniketan runs an Engineering College, Architecture College affiliated to Mumbai University

He has total 33 years of experience in education, out of which 20+ years he has been leading different academic campuses in the capacity of Director / Principal & has worked with more than 40,000 students. He was Senate Member of University of Pune, member of board of management, board of Research of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. He was expert member of Department of Science & Technology Committee of Government of India for the scheme of ‘Rajat Jayanti Vigyan Sancharak Fellowship’. He has participated in four European Union Projects under Erasmus Mundus programs, which provided 42 fellowships to Indian scholars at the level of Masters, Ph. D., Post doctorate levels. He is trustee of the first Indian Standardization Body of India titled ‘Global ICT Standardization Forum for India “GISFI” (www.gisfi.org.in). He has worked as Director CTIFIndia for 8 years. More than 50 teachers in India have completed their PhD studies abroad under the CGC – VISHWANIKETAN network which also has created 900 + fellowships for under Graduate students for PBL training in Universities in Europe, USA & Russia.

He has organized more than 30 International Workshops and conferences including Kadiloscope, an International Telecom Union event. He has worked on number of Industry collaborations successfully like IBM Centre of excellence, Reliance man power development programme etc. and the internal revenue generation has reached more than Rs.200 million. He has travelled extensively in more than 22 / + countries and delivered talks in Universities abroad. He has deeply studied education systems of developed countries and is very strongly convinced that Indian education has to be transformed from theoretical (question answer-marks cycle) to problem & project-based learning. He has given counselling’s to more than 20,000 students for career guidance all across India. His counselling’s give students insight on long term career planning, focus, willingness to work, ethics and Technical/Life skill development. In personal capacity, He is developing “Ayurveda-gram” to practice and promote Indian ancient well-being practices like yoga, Ayurveda, Meditation and performing arts.

Introduction to CENTRAL Project

Albena Mihovska

CGC, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark

Dr. Albena Mihovska is a Senior Research Academic professional. She obtained her Ph.D. in the area of mobile communications from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark in 2009. She is currently an Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Department of Business Development and Technologies (since 2017), where she is with the CTIF Global Capsule (CGC) research group. Her main current activities related to research in the area of 6G enabling technologies and related applications; smart dense connectivity, digitalisation through use of artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies in various sectors, such as healthcare, manufacturing, etc.

In addition to her research, Albena Mihovska has active teaching and supervision activities of Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. students. She is a Steering Committee Member of IEEE BlackSeaCom and INFORMS Telecommunication Cluster (Vice-President). She has been Workshop Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 and Tutorial Co-Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2019. Associate editor of Int. J. of Mobile Network Design and Innovation (IJMDNI), and Springer International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications. A Member of IEEE (the leading international association for electronic and electrical engineers, www.ieee.org) and INFORMS (the leading international association for Operations Research & Analytics professionals, www.informs.org.)

Albena Mihovska has authored and co-authored more than 170 publications, including peer- reviewed international books, journal and conference publications. She has also co-edited four books on Mobile and Wireless Communications, published by Artech House.

Introduction to GreenBizz

Peter Lindgren

Vice-President, CGC, Multi -Business model and Technology Innovation, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark

Professor Peter Lindgren holds a full Professorship in Multi-business model and Technology innovation at Aarhus University – Business development and technology innovation and has researched and worked with network-based high-speed innovation since 2000.

He is an author of several articles and books about business model innovation in networks and Emerging Business Models. He has been a researcher at Politecnico di Milano in Italy (2002/03) and Stanford University, USA (2010/11). In 2007 – 2010 been the founder and Center Manager of the International Center for Innovation www.ici.aau.dk at Aalborg University. He works today as a researcher in many different multi-business model and technology innovations projects and knowledge networks among others E100 - http://www.entovation.com/kleadmap/, Stanford University project Peace Innovation Lab http://captology.stanford.edu/projects/peace- innovation.html, The Nordic Women in the business project - www.womeninbusiness.dk/, The Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF) at Aalborg University www.ctif.aau.dk, EU FP7 project about ”multi-business model innovation in the clouds” - www.Neffics.eu. He is co-author of several books. He has an entrepreneurial and interdisciplinary approach to research and has initiated several

Danish and international research programs. His research interests are the multi-business model and technology innovation in networks, multi-business model typologies, and new global business models.

Introduction to HOLOTWI

Vladimir Poulkov

Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Professor Vladimir Poulkov has received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Technical University of Sofia (TUS), Sofia, Bulgaria. He has more than 30 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience in the field of telecommunications. He has successfully managed numerous industrial, engineering, R&D and educational projects. He has been Dean of the Faculty of the Telecommunications at TUS and Vice Chairman of the General Assembly of the European Telecommunications Standardization Institute (ETSI). Currently the Head of the Tele infrastructure R&D Laboratory at TUS and Chairman of the Cluster for Digital Transformation and Innovation, Bulgaria. He is Fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation; Senior IEEE Member. He has authored many scientific publications and is tutoring BSc, MSc, and PhD courses in the field of Information Transmission Theory and Wireless Access Networks.

Introduction to WWRF

Nigel Jefferies

Chair WWRF

Nigel Jefferies is the Chairman of the Wireless World Research Forum, a global partnership between industry and academia to develop a research agenda for mobile communications. Previously he was Standards Development Manager at Huawei Technologies, Head of Academic Relationships for Vodafone Group Research & Development and a Principal Mathematician at Racal Research Ltd. He has led a number of research projects including the European-funded IST project SHAMAN, which studied the security of future mobile systems, and ran the Secure Applications Steering Group for Mobile VCE. Other collaborative research projects on various aspects of security for mobile communications include 3GS3 in the UK-funded LINK programme, and ASPeCT and USECA in the European ACTS programme. His research interests include cryptography, security of systems and applications of mathematics to telecommunications. He was a member of the UK government’s 5G advisory committee. He received a PhD in functional analysis from Goldsmith's College, London, and an MA in mathematics from the Queen's College, Oxford. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the

Guest of Honour Pooja Kapur

Ambassador of India to Denmark

Ms. Pooja Kapur assumed charge as Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Denmark on 19 March 2021. She has previously served as Ambassador of India to the Republic of Bulgaria and the Republic of North Macedonia from 2017 - 2021.

Ms. Kapur joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1996 and has worked in various capacities at Indian Embassies / High Commissions in Paris, London, Kuala Lumpur and Brussels. At the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, she has held charges pertaining to India’s relationship with Western Europe, South East Asia, the United Nations and the Commonwealth, including heading the ASEAN Multilateral Division. She has wide-ranging expertise in European and Indo-Pacific affairs, alongside experience in multilateral matters. MS. Kapur is a published author and a frequent speaker at international conferences and events. She was the chief coordinator of the Delhi Dialogue from 2014 – 2017.

Ms. Kapur was a Chevening scholar at the University of Oxford and has a Masters in Public Administration from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris, along with a B.A. (Honours) and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Delhi. She is a university topper and recipient of several academic scholarships and awards. Ms. Kapur speaks Hindi, English and French. She is married to Mr. Ashwani Kumar Aggarwal, a Chartered Accountant, and they have a teenage son

Guest of Honour Freddy Svane

Danish Ambassador to India, New Delhi, India

Professional Career: 1982 Entered the Danish Foreign Service 1988-1991 Secretary of Embassy, Permanent Mission to the EC, Brussels 1991-1993 Head of section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1993-1997 Counsellor (Economic Affairs) Paris 1997-1999 Head of North Group's 3rd department 1999-2000 Head of North's Group's 1st department 2000-2003 General manager, A.P. Møller 2004 Under-Secretary of the Trade Council, Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Trade Policy and Globalization) 2005-2008 Ambassador to Japan 2008-2010 CEO of the Danish Agricultural Council 2010 Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (EU/EPA)

2010-2015 Ambassador to India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives 2015 2015-2019 Ambassador to Japan. Currently Ambassador to India, Bhutan, Sri lanka, Maldives and Nepal Education: Graduated with History Degree, University of Copenhagen (1981). Born on July 31st 1957. Married to Lise Frederiksen (Graduated in Law, University of Copenhagen) with four children

Chief Guest Krishna Pal Singh

Holtec International, USA

Dr. Kris Singh is the Founder, President and CEO of Holtec International, headquartered in Jupiter, Florida which he established in 1986 and nurtured its steady rise into a multi-national company with its business footprint in 18 countries on five continents. He is also a Professor at the University of South Florida’s Institute for Advanced Discovery and Innovation where he collaborates with the USF faculty in applied energy technology research. Dr. Singh received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1972), a Master of Science in Engineering Mechanics also from Penn (1969), and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from BIT Sindri (Ranchi University), India (1967). Dr. Singh was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for his seminal impact in the energy sector of mechanical engineering. He received Edison Foundation’s “Thomas Alva Edison Award” in 2015 for his ecologically and environmentally impactful inventions. Rutgers University named him “South Jerseyan of the year – 2016” for his significant beneficial impact on the South Jersey region. In 2015, he received the George Washington medal from the Engineer’s Club of Philadelphia. In 2017, the National Academy of Inventers elected him a Fellow and the University City Science Center (Philadelphia) inducted him into its “Walk of Fame.” The Pan American Academy of Engineering, the Americas’ institution of leading engineering thought leaders, elected Dr. Singh to its Academy in 2020. In 2019, he was elected to the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida.

He was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1987 for his numerous contributions to heat exchange technologies. He is an overseer at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania and Michigan and a member of the American Nuclear Society. A widely published author in scientific journals (some 70 technical papers, one textbook and numerous symposia volumes) and a prolific inventor (135 patents granted, many pending), Dr. Singh has led Holtec International since the company’s inception, building it into a technological powerhouse globally respected for its engineered goods and services with nine major operations centers on five continents.

Over 120 nuclear plants around the world employ Holtec’s systems and equipment, many based on Dr. Singh’s patents. Thanks to the steady stream of design innovations, Holtec is widely held to be pre-eminent in management of used nuclear fuel. Several national and international codes and standards on pressure vessels and heat exchangers bear the imprint of his applied research. In recent years, Dr. Singh has been leading Holtec in the global race to develop a “walk away safe” small modular reactor to make nuclear energy a cost-competitive clean energy solution for a world struggling with rising carbon emissions.

An intrepid entrepreneur and a socially conscious industrialist, Dr. Singh built a $310 million Technology Campus on the Delaware River in Camden, NJ in 2017 to create much needed employment in one of America’s poorest cities. Dr. Singh is currently an Emeritus member of the University of Pennsylvania’s Board of Trustees, where he served from 2009-2017, and an active member of the Penn’s Board of Overseers for the School of Engineering and Applied Science. In addition, he serves on the Board of the Nuclear Energy Institute (1998-present), the Atlantic Council, a Washington, DC based think tank, the “National Investment Council” of Ukraine and the Cooper Health System, Camden, NJ. He chairs the KPS Foundation, a charitable Singh family foundation whose signature contribution to the advancement of science is the completion of the “Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology” at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 2013. The KPS Foundation is also active in improving child literacy and public health in developing countries.

Vote of Thanks Anders Frederiksen

Head of the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark.

Current positions 2012 - Professor in Econometrics and Business Economics 2015 - Head of Department 2013 - Director and Chairman, Center for Corporate Performance (CCP)

Academic qualifications 2005 - PhD, Aarhus University

2003 – 2004 Visiting graduate student, Industrial Relations Section (IRS), Princeton University

2001 - Visiting graduate student, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Bonn Graduate School of Economics 2001MSc in Economics and Econometrics, University of Southampton 2000 - BA in Economics, University of Aarhus

Professional experience 2015 EU expert (Evaluator), FP7 & Horizon2020 2013 EU expert (Rapporteur), FP7-PEOPLE- 2013-IEF-IIF- IOF 2009 - 2012 Associate Professor in Business Performance Management (tenured) 2011 EU expert (Rapporteur), FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF-IIF-IOF 2006 – 2009 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, Aarhus and Stanford University 2002 – 2005 Graduate Student, Aarhus University.

Teaching experience Statistics/Econometrics, Undergraduate/Master’s Program HR analytics, Master’s Program Personnel Economics, Master’s Program Human Resource Management, Master’s Program Leadership, Master’s Program Labour Economics, Undergraduate/Master’s Program Applied Economic Consulting, Master’s Program Supervision: Phd, Master’s and Bachelor’s levels

Awards 2008 Tietgenprisen 2005 – 2007 W. Glen Campbell & Rita Ricardo Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 2003 – 2004 Leschly Fellowship, Princeton University 2001 Tuborgprisen

Coffee Break

Session 2: Keynote Session

Session Chair

Meqhele Dlodlo

NUST, Zimbabwe

Mqhele Enock-Hershal Dlodlo (FZweIE, MIEEE, Pr.Eng. (ECZ), FZAS) is the Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST). He is the Honorary Director, CGC, NUST Division, which was founded in 2019 as part of the global CGC network.

At the University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa, he is an Emeritus Associate Professor in telecommunications in the Electrical Engineering Department. His research interests are in wireless communication systems and applications.

An emeritus member of the Communications Research Group (CRG) in the Telkom Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Broadband Networks and Applications he continues to co-supervise PhD students. The research has led to over a hundred international refereed publications, eight PhD theses, numerous master's dissertations and international IP registration. In the time at UCT, Prof. Dlodlo served as Assistant Dean for Internationalization and Programme Convener for the Master of Engineering (Telecommunications) degree programme. He has also designed curricula, taught, consulted, researched, headed departments and faculties at NUST as well as the Bulawayo Polytechnic over twenty-one years. In 2003 he became a Fulbright Senior African Scholar at Virginia Tech in America, studying Learning and Information Technology Initiatives for academic leadership in research, learning, and fundraising. Home page: The Vice-Chancellor Prof M E Dlodlo (nust.ac.zw); Emeritus Associate Professor Mqhele Dlodlo | Department of Electrical Engineering (uct.ac.za)

Speaker Dr. Walter Weigel

Huawei European Research Institute, Belgium

Dr. Walter Weigel graduated from the Technische Universität München, Germany, with the Diplom-Degree in electrical engineering in 1984 and with the Ph. D. degree (thesis about pattern recognition applied to speech recognition) in 1990. From 1984 to 1991 he was assistant at the Lehrstuhl für Datenverarbeitung (Institute for Data Processing) at the Technische Universität München. Dr. Weigel is since 1st April 2015 VP and CSO of the European Research Institute of Huawei in Leuven, Belgium. He was from September 2006 to July 2011 the Director General of the European Telecommunication Standards Institute ETSI. Between February 1991 and February 2015, he held several positions within Siemens AG, including VP of External Cooperations and Head of Standardization in Corporate Technology, VP of the Research & Concepts-department of the Mobile Networks business unit as well as Head of the business segment Video Processing for the semiconductor business unit (today Infineon).

He is a member of the Innovations Dialog of the German Government, of the BDVA (Big Data Value Association) Board of Directors, of the Senate of Acatech (German academy of technical sciences), of the Board of 5GAA (5G Automotive Association), of the IEEE-SA Board of Governors, of the Digital Manufacturing Executive Council of Digital Europe and of the Advisory Committee of CTIF Global Capsule (CGC) of Aarhus University. He is also lecturer and honorary professor at Technische Universität München.

Title: Title: Health Research for Vital Signs Monitoring

Abstract: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has enormous potential to improve the access to healthcare services. Huawei’s healthcare solutions aim to provide more effective care with secured sharing, processing, and usage of health data. As a part of this direction the presentation will concentrate on our health research for vital signs monitoring. Moreover, there will be some explanations given about examples where we use the results in solutions such as sleep apnea research, wearable devices and AI-assisted diagnosis.

Speaker Anand R. Prasad

Wenovator, Japan

Dr. Anand R. Prasad is a global executive for information- and cyber-security who has delivered security solutions for 5G, 4G, network function virtualization, SOC, WiFi, mobile devices, enterprise and GRC processes from scratch for secure connectivity towards a safer society. Anand has globally propagated the concept of security as the business driver with security being holistic as well as inherent to a system while considering business and architectural implications.

Anand is Founder and CEO of Wenovator LLC, a global provider of cybersecurity services and consulting with top-tier clients right across the telecommunications industry. He is also a Senior Security Advisor of NTT DOCOMO, providing advice on all aspects of cybersecurity for the company, Advisor to CTIF and Advisor to GuardRails. Prior to which Anand was Chief Information Security Officer, Board Member, of Rakuten Mobile, the world's leading MNO with the very first cloud-native 4G & 5G network implementation. As CISO of Rakuten Mobile Anand led all aspects of enterprise and mobile network security from design, deployment to operations. With over 20 years of experience, Anand has also held key roles in NEC, Genista, Lucent Technologies and Uniden. He is an innovator with over 50 patents, a recognized keynote speaker (RSA, GWS, MWC, ICT etc.) and a prolific writer with 6 books and over 50 peer reviewed publications. Anand was the Chairman of 3GPP SA3 where, among others, he led the standardisation of 5G security. He was governing council member of TSDSI, is governing body member of GISFI, Fellow of IET, Fellow of IETE and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Anand is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of ICT Standardization and Co-Founder as well as Co-Editor of the Cybersecurity Magazine. He did his ir (MScEE) and PhD from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Title: Back-to-Future: Part 2

Abstract: “Limits” have always been set and broken by us human beings. Connectivity of our senses being a key part of the next limit means challenges coming in the world associated to “us” becoming connected beings. Based on this, in this talk we will look at the future technology potentials and challenges breaking the limits once again.

Speaker Walter Konhäuser

Oktett64 GmbH, Germany

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Habil. Walter Konhäuser was born in Ruhpolding, South Germany.He studied electrical engineering at the Technical University in Berlin and finalized with PhD. In 2007 he was appointed Professor for Mobile Communication Systems at Technical University Berlin. Since joining Siemens in 1982 he has been involved in a variety of assignments. For eighteen years he has worked in the mobile networks business and was CTO within the mobile infrastructure business of Siemens. In 2004 he became President for the WLAN business with worldwide business responsibility. Since 2010 he has worked as an independent professional as Executive Consultant with ITCcon GmbH, Potsdam and as Senior Consultant at Xiopia GmbH, Unterföhring. In 2013 he became Partner at Hoseit-Unternehmensberatung and 2017 associate Partner at Management Consultant Kastner GmbH & Co.KG. Since 2019 he is co- founder and General Manager of Oktett64 GmbH. The company is working on a decentralized energy management concept for digitalization in different industries based on vendor independent turnkey solutions, on standards and Open-Source frameworks including security and operation concepts. Prof. Dr. Konhäuser was PCC chairman of the European ACTS FRAMES Project and Board Member of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). He is a member of the VDE, the German Association of Electrical Engineers and is Spokesman of the regional VDE organization in Berlin and Brandenburg.

Title: Energetic improvement of buildings is good for the economy and climate

Abstract: The building sector accounts for around a quarter of Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions. Since 1990, more than 40 percent of CO2 reductions have been achieved in the building sector, but in the next ten years until 2030 another 40 percent CO2 emission from buildings will have to be saved compared today. The improvement of the energy efficiency in buildings is good for the climate and good for the economy, especially in times of Corona. The energy transition initiated by the politics and the increasing impact of energy consumption in real estate require an additional effective concept of local energy production and energy consumption. Balancing energy consumption between energy production and purchase of energy can only be achieved by an efficient, reliable, and cost-effective energy management system. The deployment of decentralized energy production e.g., PV-Systems on the roof or CHP’s in the cellar is an important step to energy turnaround. Another important point is to deploy smart communication network coverage for long-range, low-rate, low-power, low-cost managed services and highspeed links for home office opportunities and entertainment services. Enhanced digital networks to making progress by developing new applications like AI- and Blockchain-Technology is desirable. In addition, many other tasks in a modern property must be able to be solved cost-effectively with the help of digital components.

Speaker Jorge Pereira

Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Between 1983 and 1988, he taught in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of IST as Full Lecturer in the areas of Electrotechnics and Electrical Measurements, Applied Electronics and Telecommunication Systems, and became Assistant Professor in 1994. From 1988 to 1990, he worked at LinCom Corp., Los Angeles, in a NASA project on space-to- space communications, and on synchronization issues. From 1991 to 1993, he worked for Caltrans (California Department of Transportation) and PATH (Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology) on Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems (IVHS)/Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). From 1993 to 1996, at GTE Laboratories Inc., Waltham, MA, he was responsible for Communication Analysis and Simulation in the Federal Highway Administration National IVHS Architecture study; represented GTE at the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) IVHS Section, and in the High-Speed Data Systems workgroup of the CDMA Development Group (CDG).

He has been with the European Commission since September 1996, initially as Scientific Officer, becoming Principal Scientific Officer in 2005. He has been dealing with ICT, covering a broad variety of areas, with a focus on networking, devices, applications and services, testing and validation, as well as deployment. In 2016, he moved to the area of Future Connectivity Systems, focusing on 5G and beyond, where he is responsible for the areas of Advanced Spectrum Management; optical-wireless convergence; Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM); and Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR). He has been responsible for International Cooperation, namely with US, Japan, China, India and Brazil; for leading and animating important areas of research; for Conference and Exhibition organization at the Commission as well as for organizing Special Sessions and Workshop at major IEEE and other Conferences. Professional Activities He is a member of the Advisory Board of John Wiley's Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, and of the Editorial Board of Kluwer Academic Publishers' Wireless Personal Communications Journal. He is a Member of the IEEE, where he is Associate Editor for Mobile Radio, including Vehicular Communications, for the IEEE VTS Magazine, and a member of the IEEE 5G Summit Steering Committee of the IEEE Communications Society. He also served as Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer in Portugal. Awards He received the Industry Achievement Award of the Software-Defined Radio (SDR) Forum in 2003, in recognition of his “outstanding contributions, research and development in the field of SDR”, and was inducted as life-member of the Wireless Innovation Forum. He was inducted in the IPv6 Hall of Fame, at the IPv6 Forum Summit in Nanjing, China, in October 2019

Title: Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) Challenges and Opportunities

Abstract: The impact of Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) on jobs and growth, as well as on global competitiveness and on the European Single Digital Market, drove the considerable effort and funding put into large-scale testing and validation, and even pre-deployment, of 5G for CAM in Horizon 2020. The objective is now, in the context of the new framework programme 2021-27, and concretely of Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) 2- Digital, to move towards large-scale deployment across the Continent. In order to maximize impact, a comprehensive ecosystem around infrastructure, equipment and services, on top of 5G advanced connectivity, mutualizing the huge investments in mobile and fixed broadband, needs to be nurtured.

Speaker Rute C. Sofia fortiss - Research Institute of the Free State of Bavaria, associated with the Technical University of Munich

Rute C. Sofia (PhD 2004) is the Industrial IoT Head at fortiss - research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software intensive services and systems in Munich, Germany. She is also an Invited Associate Professor of University Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, and an Associate Researcher at ISTAR, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Rute's research background has been developed on industrial and on academic context, and she has co-founded COPELABS (2012-2019, Lisbon, Portugal), research unit which she also steered between 2013-2017. and where she was a Senior Researcher until 2019. She has co-founded Senception Lda (2013), a startup focused on personal communication platforms. Her current research interests are: network architectures and protocols; IoT; edge computing; in-network computation; network mining. Rute holds over 60 peer-reviewed publications in her fields of expertise, and 9 patents. She is an ACM Senior member and an IEEE Senior Member. She is also an N2Women Awards Co-chair.

Before COPELABS/ULHT, she was a senior researcher at INESC TEC (07-10, Porto, Portugal), where she steered the "Internet Architectures and Networking" area of UTM, team dedicated to wireless/cellular networking architectures and to user-centric networking paradigms. She was (04-07, Munich, Germany) a senior research scientist in Siemens AG and Nokia-Siemens Networks GmbH, focusing on aspects such as: fixed-mobile convergence; carrier-grade Ethernet; QoS; IPv6 interoperability. Rute holds a BEng in Informatics Engineering by Universidade de Coimbra (1995); M.Sc.(1999) and Ph.D. (2004) in Informatics by Universidade de Lisboa. During her PhD studies, she was a visiting scholar (2000-2003) at Northwestern University (ICAIR) and at University of Pennsylvania. The PhD degree has been awarded by University of Lisbon, “Summa cum Laude”. The PhD studies took place (Visiting scholar) at ICAIR, Northwestern University (2000) and University of Pennsylvania (2000- 2003).

Title: The role of context-aware Edge computing on supporting large-scale people-centric IoT environments

Abstract: Large-scale IoT environments have been growing fast via the advancement of 5G, 6G, advanced wireless standards, associated with advancements in virtualization technologies. These environments, composed of sensors, actuators, and mobile personal smartphones, will be the basis to assist societal needs and aspects such as well-being, as can already be envisioned via the learnings derived from the current COVID-19 epidemic. There is therefore a natural need and a tendency to bring computation and networking functions closer to the end- user, supported by Edge/Fog architectures, to be able to support services that are based on large-scale IoT, decentralized environments. Central to this vision are aspects such as self- organisation, automation, and intelligence derived from behaviour learning and context- awareness (of devices, of the user, of the situation), aspects which this talk aims at focusing on, advocating the need to integrate context-awareness derived from social behavior of users, in addition to device usage and behavior

Session 3: HOLOTWIN

Session Chair Vladimir Poulkov

Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Speaker: Albena Mihovska

CGC, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark

Title: Next Generation Applications and Services Enabled over 6G Connectivity Networks

Abstract: The talk will focus on advanced applications and services, such as augmented and extended reality (AR, XR); high-fidelity and real time mobile hologram; and digital twins, the need of 6G connectivity to enable these and their societal impact.

Speaker Agata Manolova

Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Agata Manolova is associate professor with the Faculty of Telecommunications at the Technical University of Sofia (TU-Sofia), Bulgaria and the head of the research laboratory “Electronic systems for visual information” and Vice-Dean Education of the Faculty. Her domains of interest are machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, image and video processing, biometrics, neural networks, augmented and virtual reality. She has received her PhD from Universite de Grenoble, France. She is laureate of Fulbright scholarship and an IEEE member.

Title: Semantic knowledge extraction based on deep architectures for context- aware holographic communication

Abstract: In ten years from now, the current ways of remote interaction between humans will become obsolete, as new forms of interaction will arise leading to a true immersion into a distant environment. Five dimensions (5D) communications and services, integrating all human sense information (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste) are expected to arise, together with holographic communications (HC), thus providing a truly immersive experience. HC is a complete human-computer-machine interface combining AR and VR experience. It opens the door to new heights of interpersonal communication but it also presents a lot of challenges in terms of digital data gathering and transmission. Truly immersive technology requires a collaborative design that incorporates not only engineering (wireless, computer, storage) requirements, but also human perceptions related to high-level semantic knowledge. This requires the invention of an intelligent way of presenting the data so that ordinary channels of information can be used and the design of a holographic communication architecture to maintain the sense of reality and naturalness of the face-to-face interaction can be developed. There is an urgent need to extend the classical communication model to characterize not only the sequences of bits but also the meaning behind these bits. To this end, we consider "semantic information" in context- dependent holographic communication. By extending Shannon's channel coding theorem, we can obtain the semantic capacity of the communication channel. What we want to achieve is the correct transmission of human activity to the body and face, including voice data, based not only on their syntactic notions, but also on their meaning in a given context. The goal of the talk is to present recently developed inference algorithms for semantic knowledge extraction based on deep architectures for context-aware HC including 3D human body model acquisition, multimodal biometrics; semantic knowledge extraction with deep neural networks to predict human behaviour, methods for context-aware optimization of network resource allocation for the purpose of creating a multi-party from-capturing-to- rendering HC framework.

Speaker Didoe Prevedourou

HAEC, Greece

Didoe Prevedourou has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University, USA, and 30 years of professional experience in R&D and management positions. Has served for six years as the Managing Director of a private, non-profit, scientific research organization and for twelve years as its Research Director, being mainly responsible for the administration and organization of the research activity, fund-raising, research collaborations and partnership formulations, as well as for the protection, dissemination and commercialization of intellectual capital. Has participated in numerous research and development projects, in several occasions with leading roles. Has accumulated long experience and strong ability to attract and implement R&D grants and has established a strong network of trusted partners and extensive experience on civic community building and engagement, crowd-sourcing, technology enabled co- creation, knowledge and technology transfer, innovation management and entrepreneurship.

Title: Fostering entrepreneurial and innovation skills in a lifelong learning perspective and increasing HEIs innovation capacity

Abstract: The talk is about innovation and entrepreneurial training programs and mentoring schemes for staff and students about how research excellence can be translated into marketable products and services, and about actions that strengthen HEIs integration with local and regional innovation

Speaker Ning Wang

University of Surrey, UK

Ning Wang obtained his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from the Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR), University of Surrey in 2004. He is currently a full professor at the 5G/6G Innovation Centre (5GIC/6GIC) hosted at Institute for Communication Systems (ICS) at University of Surrey. He has been leading and involved in nearly 20 research projects funded by EU and UK funding bodies as well as industry. Since 2013 he has been leading a research team working on high performance networking and service delivery in 5G. Till now he has published over 150 research papers in the areas of future networks, 5G, Internet of Things, and network and service management. Professor Wang's research interests include future media delivery, 5G networking, edge computing, Quality of Services and network management and control.

Title: Networking for Real-Time Holographic Teleportation Applications

Abstract: Live holographic teleportation has been widely deemed as a next-generation communication application enabled by cutting-edge extended reality (XR) technologies. It is expected that such type of media application will see its wider deployment across the whole Internet, allowing users to communicate with immersive experiences between any geographical locations around the global world. This talk first provides an overview of the holographic teleportation application, followed by the elaboration on its user Quality of Experiences (QoE) aspects. New network requirements and technical challenges in supporting holographic teleportation applications will also be discussed.

Lunch Break

Session 4: CENTRAL Project

Session chair

Sandeep Inamdar

Vishwaniketan, India

Speaker

Punnarumol Temdee

Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Punnarumol Temdee received B.Eng. in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, M. Eng. in Electrical Engineering, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi. She is currently Associate. Professor in Computer and Communication Engineering for Capacity Building Research Center, School of Information Technology, Mae Fah Luang University. Her research interests are social network analysis, artificial intelligence, software agent, context-aware computing, and ubiquitous computing.

Title: Online PBL Model and Blended Learning: New Strategy for Disruptive Era of Education

Abstract: Once an education has been disrupted by the COVID 19 pandemic, adaptation is required for all actors including educational institutes, teachers, and learners. Modern technology and proactive strategy are essentially required for promoting a disruptive form of education that not only compensates the traditional learning environment but also puts teaching and learning in a new light. Blended learning has a majority role to compensate the traditional atmosphere of teaching and learning. At the same time, Problem (Project) based learning (PBL) is widely known as the active learning model which can deliver curious, flexible, and proactive learners. Implementing the PBL model in blended learning particularly for online learning mode is challenging because many important circumstances can distract effective learning such as lacking face-to-face interaction, time and space synchronization, etc. This talk will share the best practices of the development of the online PBL model and blended learning at Mae Fah Laung University to promote effective teaching and learning during the important disruptive era of education as the COVID19 pandemic situation

Speaker

Bhawani S. Chowdhry

Mehran University of Engineering & Technology JAMSHORO - PAKISTAN

PROF EMERITUS DR BHAWANI SHANKAR CHOWDHRY is Distinguished National Professor and the former Dean Faculty of Electrical Electronics and Computer Engineering at Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan. He did his PhD from the renowned School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK in 1990. He is having teaching, research and administration experience of more than 35 years. He has the honour of being one of the editors of several books Wireless Networks, Information Processing and Systems", CCIS 20, Emerging Trends and Applications in Information Communication Technologies", CCIS 281, Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries", CCIS 366, Communication Technologies, Information Security and Sustainable Development", CCIS 414, published by Springer Verlag, Germany. He has also been serving as a Guest Editor for special issue \Wireless Personal Communications" Springer International Journal. He has produced more than 13 PhDs and supervised more than 50 MPhil/Master’s Thesis in the area of ICT. His list of research publication crosses to over 60 in national and international journals, IEEE and ACM proceedings. Also, he has Chaired Technical Sessions in USA, UK, China, UAE, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Pakistan, Denmark, Spain, and Belgium. He is member of various professional bodies including: Chairman IEEE Karachi Section, Region10 Asia/Pacific, Fellow IEP, Fellow IEEEP, Senior Member, IEEE Inc. (USA), SM ACM Inc. (USA). He is a Lead person for four European Commission Erasmus Mundus exchange programs \Mobility for Life", \STRoNG-TiES" (Strengthening Training and Research through Networking and Globalisation of Teaching In Engineering Studies), INTACT (It's Time for CollaboratioNTowArds Close CooperaTion), LEADERS (Leading mobility between Europe and Asia in Developing Engineering educations and ReSearch), and Steering Committee Member CENTRAL (Capacity building and ExchaNge towards attaining Technological Research and modernizing Academic Learning.

Title: Effectiveness of Participants interest in “New Product Design and Development

ABSTRACT: Mehran University of Engineering and Technology conducted a two-day International Workshop on “New Product Design and Development”, under the umbrella of EU-Plus project CENTRAL “Capacity Building and ExchaNge towards attaining Technological Research and modernizing Academic Learning”. The two days international workshop, titled “International Workshop on New Product Design and Development for DTBT Curriculum” had speakers from a global variety from USA, Denmark, and Pakistan. It comprised of theories, models, tools, and techniques desired to learn about new product design and development along with some real success stories. The presentations shared by speakers taught the theoretical concepts to the participants through the startup experience of existing ventures. This presentation covers the outcome of participants interest belonging to different geographical area, gender, age group, qualification, interactions, feedback.

Speaker

Vikas Shinde

CGC Vishwaniketan, India

Dr. Vikas Vithal Shinde is working as Professor in Mechanical engineering Department and Director, Centre of excellence in Project Based Learning (PBL) at Vishwaniketan iMEET, Khalapur, Mumbai University. He is the first Indian Ph.D in PBL from Aalborg University, Denmark awarded by the UNESCO chair in PBL. He received prestigious “Erasmus Mundus Mobility for Life” scholarship from European Union. He works as Erasmus + project coordinator and Steering committee member for project having international consortium. He has 18+ years of teaching and administrative experience. He has published 07 text books, one international e-thesis, published 43 journal papers and two patents. He has acted as reviewer of international Journals and conferences. He has trained more than 3600 teachers through 110 national and international workshops on PBL and various teaching-learning methods. His research areas include PBL Model designs, Human Centric Design and Hydrogen Energy.

Title: Human Centric Design approach: A tool for creating sustainable start-ups

Abstract: Often, in engineering education students work on projects, with tangible outcomes as prototypes, blueprints or software. There is a greater tendency in young engineering graduates to register a start up around their capstone projects. However, it has been found that only 10% start-ups survive for the next five years. This talk essentially introspects into this issue of the sustainability of the start-ups. It is realised that in most of the undergraduate project’s students do the project work in isolation without considering user requirements into the project. Due to this, the project work done by students fails to get converted into the useful product which can withstand market competition. Naturally, start-ups are more vulnerable and have high probability of failure. Thus, user requirement analysis becomes critical component to be added into academic projects to convert them into useful products. Human centric design process considers user at centre; process in which user requirements are collected, categorised and analysed to incorporate into the product design stage. The products made considering HCD process are most likely to meet user requirements and likely to succeed in the consumer market. Thus, implementation of HCD in academia will promote entrepreneurship and sustainable start-ups. Thus, use of Human Centric Design must be promoted in academia for promotion of entrepreneurship and start-up. The purpose of this talk is to share a framework of HCD which has been evolved through our shared experience. The talk will throw light on various stages in the HCD with greater emphasis on user requirement analysis of one case

Speaker

Mahesh Chawan

Kolhapur Institute of Technology, Kolhapur, India

Prof Mahesh Chavan is a Professor of Electronics Engineering at Kolhapur Institute of Technology Kolhapur, India. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Electronics Engineering in 1991 from Shivaji University, India. He received his Master’s Degree in Electrical Control Systems from Walchand college of Engineering Sangli, India. Prof Mahesh received his Ph.D. in Electronics and Communication from the Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra, India in 2009 under the joint supervision of the late Professor Ramawatar Agarawala from National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra India and Professor M.D.uplane Department of Electronics Shivaji University Kolhapur. He has worked for his Post-Doctoral Research with Prof Nikos Mastorakis from Technical University of Sophia Bulgaria and published good research papers. He was appointed in the beginning of his career as teacher at the Department of Electronics Engineering at PVPIT Budhgaon in 1991 as a Lecturer. He was promoted to Senior lecturer in 1998. He was appointed as fulltime Professor in 2011 at Kolhapur Institute of Technology Kolhapur India. Prof Mahesh has made over 150 scholarly contributions, including nearly 125 peer-reviewed research papers (h-index = 15; i10-index = 19; with citations 701, April 2021). He has received best research paper award in 2000 by IETE India. He has worked as reviewer in reputed peered reviewed journals and conferences. He has worked as technical Committee member in various reputed international Conferences. About 6 students have successfully completed their PhD under his supervision. He has guided more than 30 students for their Masters in Electronics Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Currently he is guiding about 4 students for their PhD and 3 students for their Masters. He has published about 3 patents along with his research students. He is member of various professional Bodies like IETE, BIA, IEEE, WSEAS etc. Currently he is working as Steering Committee Member of Project CENTRAL funded by EU under Erasmus+. He has organized various international Workshops and Conference. He has worked as Member of Board of studies in Engineering of Shivaji University, Kolhapur India and Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune India. He has visited countries like Thailand, Turkey for attending conferences and Important meetings; workshops.

For the last 7 years he is working as Dean Academics at KIT and involved in various academic activities. He is fully active in implementing Academic Autonomy at KIT. He ha initiated the process of implementing Curriculum through Project based Learning. His current research Interest is Signal Processing, Signal Behavior Study, and Biomedical Signal Processing.

Title: Building capacity of Institutes through Teacher education and Academic partnerships

Abstract: Higher Educational Institutions now a day’s progressively responding to digital, changing economics and societal Needs. The blood of the higher educational Institution is the teacher as they keep track on ever changing requirements of the society and maintains the enthusiasm of the system around. There is a need of regular training, inspiration as well as regular mental, emotional and spiritual renovation for the teacher in order to extract their energy in fullest efficiency for capacity building of the institute. The educational systems worldwide recognized by the importance of the teacher and are many times palpable by the resources spent on teacher capacity building. The paper deals with a study of Academic and specifically educational Initiatives, for the years taken by Kolhapur institute of Technology India by focusing on building teacher capacity through student and teacher assessments, training workshops and teacher observation programmes and academic partnerships with higher educational Institutes abroad specifically through the Project CENTRAL funded by EU.

Speaker

Muhammad Aamir

SSUET, Pakistan

Dr. Muhammad Aamir was born in Karachi Pakistan, on July 3, 1976. He received MS degree in Electronic Engineering (with specialization in Telecommunication) in 2002 and BS in Electronic Engineering in 1998. He accomplished his PhD in Electronic Engineering from Mehran University of Engineering & Technology. During his PhD studies, he accomplished his research work at the University of Malaga under Erasmus Mundus Scholarship. He has authored and co-authored around 50 research papers and book chapters published in various journals, books and conferences of international repute. He is a life member of Pakistan Engineering Council and professional member of IEEE for last 12 Years. He was awarded with a grant by the Ministry of Education Spain to teach at the University of Malaga which he successfully availed in May 2012. He is also Member of two separate National Curriculum Revision Committees constituted by Higher Education Commission (HEC) for revision of Electronic Engineering Curriculum and Telecommunication Engineering Curriculum at the National Level. He was served as guest editor for special issue of Springer’s Journal with title “Wireless Personal Communication” which had published in November 2016. He is also HEC approved supervisor for PhD candidates in Pakistan. He is currently associated with Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology as Professor and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Additionally, he is also Editor-in-Chief of Sir Syed University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology which is a HEC-Recognized Research Journal published bi- annually.

Title: Framework for Integrating Graduate Attributes (GAs) of Washington Accord with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Abstract: In this talk, a framework is introduced for integrating Graduate Attributes (GAs) of Washington Accord with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The proposed framework is focused on Quality Education (SDG 4) which is well aligned with major goal of CENTRAL Project. The major goal of CENTRAL Project is to modernize existing infrastructure in Asian universities by developing and implementing appropriate support software tools and to create new curricula in the fields of ICT, which are expected to grow exponentially in the next years and train and educated with skilled personnel. The SDG plan includes an extensive range of interconnected challenges which are mostly related to social, economic, and environmental factors. Therefore, the unique functions and expertise of universities are significant avenue for integrating Graduate Attributes (GAs) of Washington Accord with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Perhaps the SDGs will not be achieved without the education sector. The talk will also highlight the mapping of SDGs into newly developed curriculum of MS Program in Digital Technologies for Business Transformation which is the major outcome of CENTRAL project.

Speaker

Bhawani S. Chowdhry

Mehran University of Engineering & Technology JAMSHORO - PAKISTAN

Title: GIVING A GIFT OF 5 MINUTES FOR MINDFUL RELAXATION TO ACHIEVE PEACE OF MIND & WELLNESS OF BODY

Abstract Exercise and relaxation techniques are natural way to combat life’s stresses, enhance sense of well-being, and allow to enjoy life to full. This reality is based on my 40 years of experience. I grew up in a small remote area of Thar desert of Pakistan having no electricity, potable water, road, etc. later after my graduation, got the opportunity to study in England for Ph.D. in Electronics and Computer Science. During my stay in England over a period of 5 years, I learned relaxation techniques to get the real benefit of control over emotions and deepening concentration. Also, I come over homesick as well. I felt that it helped me to increase my creativity and ability to fight disease. You will feel energized, relaxed with an improved immune system. Do not get depressed due to Coronavirus. Get real control of your emotions. Increase focus and creativity. I am confident that sparing 5 minutes for mindful relaxation will help in ensuring healthy lives and promoting well- being which is vital to achieve sustainable development goal 3.

Coffee Break

Session 5: Special Session WWRF

Session chair Knud Erik Skouby

Aalborg University, Denmark

Knud Erik Skouby is professor and were founding director of center for Communication, Media and Information technologies, Aalborg University-Copenhagen (2007-17) - a center providing a focal point for multi-disciplinary research and training in applications of CMI. Has a career as a university teacher and within consultancy since 1972; focus on ICT since 1987. Working areas: Techno-economic Analyses; Development of mobile/ wireless applications and services: Regulation of telecommunications. Project manager and partner in a number of international, European and Danish research projects. Served on a number of public committees within telecom, IT and broadcasting where ethical issues has been a focus area incl. e.g. EUs ECOSOC; a sub-committee in the Danish ‘Building Stronger Universities’ initiative; the Danish Council of Independent Research and the Danish Media Committee. Further served as a member of boards of professional societies; as a member of organizing boards, evaluation committees and as invited speaker on international conferences; published a number of Danish and international articles, books and conference proceedings. Editor in chief of Nordic and Baltic Journal of Information and Communication Technologies (NBICT); Chair of WGA in Wireless World Research Forum; Past dep. chair IEEE Denmark.

Speaker Knud Erik Skouby

Aalborg University, Denmark

Title: Privacy, security and economics in WWRF

Abstract Privacy and security are emerging as ever more decisive for the development of new wireless technology and associated services as these issues shape the user acceptance and take-up. In WWRF we are discussing and analyzing trends, contribute to the understanding of drivers and barriers & the relation to viable business models.

Speaker Grit Munk

Danish Society of Engineers, Denmark

Job: Senior Advisor at Danish Society of Engineers Former jobs: Danish Consumer Council Education: Political Science from University of Copenhagen Focus on It: AI, privacy, cybersecurity and public digitization Manager of SIRI-Kommission (AI think tank) New technologies: Space, defence, welfare tech Ethics in tech

Member of: Advisory Board, Dataethics Seal ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 42 on AI and CEN-CENELEC AI Focus Group Business Forum for Cybersecurity, Danish Business Authority Advisor to DataEthics.eu Etc.

Title: Privacy activities at the Danish Society of Engineers (IDA

Abstract: The Danish Societies of Engineers (IDA in Danish) have engaged in discussions of and visions for the social potentials and challenges in relation to the development of IT. The talk will focus on the activities related to privacy.

Speaker Anne Lykke Lundholm-Andersen

Lundholm & Co

Anna Lykke Lundholm-Andersen is a data protection professional and has worked primarily, but not solely with SME’s since 2017. She plaids for a present, ethical and balanced approach to data protection and the GDPR and deploys this strategy in her consulting. She has led several ISAE3000 audits and is ISO27001-certified from Danish Standard

Title: DPO as a service for SMEs

Abstract: The talk will touch upon the common challenges of implementing solid data protection in an organization and provide some hacks to how to change a non-protective culture with help from technology. A main concern at the moment is data transfers to third countries, and she will discuss the implications of this topic as well

Speaker Idongesit Williams

Aalborg University, Denmark

Idongesit Williams is an Assistant Professor at Aalborg University Copenhagen. He holds a Bachelor in Physics, a Master degree in Information and Communications Technologies and a Ph.D. He has since 2010 researched into socio-economic, socio-technical related to Information and Communications Technologies. His research areas include the facilitation of telecom and ICT infrastructure using Public Private Partnerships, the development and the sustenance of Community-Based Networks, e-government implementation, Science and Technology Studies, gender adoption of ICTs, Organizational adoption of ICTs, User experience with ICTs and Organizational Learning. He has been involved in different EU projects. His current project affiliation includes the EU Interreg funded project, DINNOCAP. The focus of the project is on the Digital transformation of SMEs.

Title: Privacy issues in the Baltic States – DINNOCAP project

Abstract: The DINNOCAP project is an EU Interreg funded project. In the project, a cross-border eCMR infrastructure is being prototyped. The eCMR are electronic waybills. The prototype is coming at an opportune time as different EU member states prepare to implement the EFTI regulation. Hence, the success of the prototype will provide an insight into the data exchange procedures of the electronic waybill.nThe development of this infrastructure has revealed privacy issues. This is especially so as the data of legal and natural persons are exchanged across border. This presentation will provide an insight into the proposed infrastructure and the identified privacy issues that arise. It will also provide an insight on how such privacy challenges can be addressed.

Speaker Samant Khajuria

Terma A/S, Denmark

Dr. Samant Khajuria is Senior cyber security specialist at TERMA A/S with the responsibility of product security and strategy. His role deploys information security information security expert knowledge across the organization to provide agile, responsive information security support to meet those customer needs. Additionally, the role is an anchor point of bringing knowledge across a wide area of projects, in various stages of the project lifecycle from proposal to maintenance, e.g. security engineering, security architecting, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, incident response, authorization and accreditation, embedded cybersecurity. His current research focuses on applied cryptography, system integrity, Cyber-resilience - Supply Chain, IoT and wireless communication in defense sector. Samant received his Ph.D. degree in Cryptology and Wireless Communication from Aalborg University in 2013. Between 2013 - 2018, he worked first as assistant and afterwards associate professor at the Center for Communication, Media, and Information Technologies, Aalborg University Copenhagen Denmark. During his academic career, he was involved in various EU research projects, and published books and papers in International Journals and Conferences in the field of Cryptography, Access Control and Privacy.

Title: Introduction to Working Group Cybersecurity and Cybersecurity challenges in 5G Verticals.

Abstract: In the presentation, I like to introduce the mission and the vision of the newly formed WG-Cybersecurity. The mission of the WG-Cybersecurity is to promote a trusted and cyber secure environment for the current and future wireless technologies through the identification of key research challenges and technology trends.

Speaker

Aaloka Anant

CGC and SAP Ireland

Aaloka is an innovation pioneer. He represents the millennial generation, who do not take things as they are and believe in bringing the change. Aaloka has over 16 years of experience in Business Process Consulting and software development in roles as Development lead, Enterprise Architect, Principal Consultant, Program Manager, Project manager and Senior Business Analyst. His passion is to enable companies on making their journey to ethically adopt new technology and make their business Run Better. IIM Bangalore – Post Graduate in Enterprise Management 2010. Title: Role of CNS in Standardization Circular economy to achieve harmony with nature and the role of Privacy Abstract: Everybody is born and everybody dies. In the same way, everything is created, and everything is destroyed. The elements which help us get further in life, we create lots of them and consume lots of them. When body and mind are in harmony, we feel good, there is no confusion. When body and mind are in harmony with nature, we even feel better. In recent days, you must have heard of the renewed interest on recycling and the steps, which can advance every economy around the world to be a circular economy. Circular economy where humanity lives in coherence with nature. Where everything created can be returned back to nature, recycled or composted to leave zero carbon footprint. Circular economy is where everything which is created can be re-used or 100% re-cycled to create something else. Such an economy is possible only when we know what we are consuming; is produced with what carbon footprint. Once we know, we can act upon and help in promoting products, which have low carbon footprint or in fact, zero carbon footprint. This knowledge would come only when every element in economy can share data. And data sharing is possible only when it can be anonymized to the right level, that it can be shared. I currently work on the topic of privacy preservation for Enterprise Data. With my current work, we can achieve this state, where everyone in the economy would be comfortable to share data on the products they create and products they consume. Every detail on every step in a production process, every step on consumption of raw materials and the carbon footprint of each raw material can be published. One of the utilities of privacy protected data sharing can be for competitive bidding. All the data can be seen by all the bidders, without knowing whose data they are seeing, but they would be able to see the best bids. With anonymized data, it would be possible for different bidders to adjust their supply chain based on the carbon footprint of their suppliers and present a bid, which has the lowest carbon footprint. Other application can be in the field of publication of data for research purposes. Researchers across different organizations face the difficulty in collaboration due to confidentiality and privacy of information contained in the data sets collected as a part of research. With a technology to anonymize data appropriately, it can be possible for them to share data. Data which is considered as a fuel for research in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. A technology to preserve privacy of data, while sharing in a limited capacity, can help such researchers to collaborate. I would like to conclude with a note that circular economy is not just a term coined for environmental preservation. It’s_ _a_ _concept to help us all to return to the basics of human existence. It reminds us to integrate our work to nature. Bring our body and mind in harmony with nature.

Speaker Jens Myrup

Aalborg University, Denmark

Jens Myrup Pedersen is professor in cyber security at Aalborg University, and head coach for the Danish national cyber security team. His research is mainly in network security, with a particular focus on traffic analysis, DNS and deception technologies. He is heading and participating in both Danish and European research projects, and board member of several societies e.g. the Council for Digital Security and IDA Connect (part of the Danish Engineering Association).

Title: Security in a mobile world

Abstract: We live in the mobile world, where we work and play across devices, networks and services all the time. This is great, because it provides us with flexibility and comfort, and by reducing the need for physical transport it supports a more sustainable living. But it also opens up for new attack surfaces, and the cyber criminals are more than ready to take advantage of these opportunities. In this talk, we look at the threat picture in the mobile world and discuss how we can better protect ourself - as citizens, companies and societies.

Session 6: CGC

Session Chair

Shingo Ohmori

YRP, Japan

He received the B.E., M.E., and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tohoku, Japan, in 1973, 1975, and 1978, respectively. Since 1978, he has been with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) (former Communications Research Laboratory (CRL)), Japan, and has been engaged in research on mobile satellite communications, especially on antenna and propagation. During 1983-1984, he was a visiting research associate at the Electro Science Laboratory, the Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio. In 2009, he retired from the position of a Vice President of NICT. He is now a President of YRP International Alliance Institute, and also an advisor of YRP R&D Promotion Committee. Ohmori is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and also a Life Fellow of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in Japan. He was awarded the Excellent Research Prize from the Minister of Science and Technology Agency of Japan in 1985, and the Excellent Research Achievements Prize of the IEICE in 1993. He is an author of “Mobile Satellite Communications” (Artech House, 1998) and a co-author of “Mobile Antenna Systems Handbook” (Artech House, 1994).

Speaker

Yasser Haddadi

The Institute of Dentistry and Oral Health, Denmark

Yasser finished his dental training at The Institute of Dentistry and Oral Health, Aarhus, Denmark in 2004. In 2013 he finished his MSc in restorative dentistry at Eastman, London while working in private practice in London and Bruxelles. The topic of his MSc thesis was intraoral scanning. In 2019 Yasser successfully defended his PhD with the title “Intra-oral scanning in fixed prosthodontics. Laboratory and clinical comparative studies”. Currently Yasser works part-time as a Post. Doc. at the Section for Prosthodontics, Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, Aarhus University and part time as practice owner in Aarhus, Denmark.

Title: Digital workflow in dentistry

Abstract: Digital technologies are changing dentistry. Technological advances can improve diagnosis, patient understanding of treatment, and the quality of the treatment itself. In this short talk I will touch on the different way’s patients benefit from a digital workflow compared to the conventional way dentistry is performed today, and present some of the latest scientific research on the topic.

Speaker

Neeli Prasad

Smart Avatar, Delft, The Netherlands

Dr. Ir. Neeli R. Prasad, CTO of SmartAvatar B.V. Netherlands and VehicleAvatar Inc. USA, IEEE VTS Board of Governor Elected Member & VP Membership. She is also full Professor at Professor at Department of Business Development and Technology (BTech), Aarhus University. Neeli is a cybersecurity, networking and IoT strategist. She has throughout her career been driving business and technology innovation, from incubation to prototyping to validation and is currently an entrepreneur and consultant in Silicon Valley. She has made her way up the “waves of secure communication technology by contributing to the most groundbreaking and commercial inventions. She has general management, leadership and technology skills, having worked for service providers and technology companies in various key leadership roles. She is the advisory board member for the European Commission H2020 projects. She is also a vice chair and patronage chair of IEEE Communication Society Globecom/ICC Management & Strategy Committee (COMSOC GIMS) and Chair of the Marketing, Strategy and IEEE Staff Liaison Group.

Dr. Prasad has led global teams of researchers across multiple technical areas and projects in Japan, India, throughout Europe and USA. She has been involved in numerous research and development projects. She also led multiple EU projects such as CRUISE, LIFE 2.0, ASPIRE, etc. as project coordinator and PI. She has played key roles from concept to implementation to standardization. Her strong commitment to operational excellence, innovative approach to business and technological problems and aptitude for partnering cross-functionally across the industry have reshaped and elevated her role as project coordinator making her a preferred partner in multinational and European Commission project consortiums. bShe has 4 books on IoT and WiFi, many book chapters, peer-reviewed international journal papers and over 200 international conference papers. Dr. Prasad received her Master’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Netherland’s renowned Delft University of Technology, with a focus on personal mobile and radar communications. She was awarded her Ph.D. degree from Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy, on Adaptive Security for Wireless Heterogeneous Networks.

Title: My Smart World: Life (after.) beyond lockdown

Abstract: Awaken to the energetic connections between you and your home. When you make conscious changes to your living space, you can transform your life ……, Mind, Body, Home presents your home as an integral component for holistic living, correlating with its physical, mental, or emotional counterpart in you. From foundation to roof, it holds the power to enhance your health, improve your life, etc. Connecting the outside world to home: online shopping, education, fitness, etc. This talk will cover the topics and present ideas to build my smart world beyond lockdown and Covid-19.

Speaker

Sofoklis Kyriazakos

CGC, BTECH AU, Denmark

Dr. Sofoklis Kyriazakos graduated Athens College in 1993 and obtained his Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications in RWTH Aachen, Germany in 1999. Then he moved to the National Technical University of Athens, where he obtained his Ph.D. in ICT systems in 2003 and an MBA degree in Techno-economic systems. Sofoklis holds the position of Associate Professor in the University of Aarhus in Denmark, where his activities are focused around Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship in the eHealth domain. He has managed, both as technical manager and coordinator, a large number of multi-million ICT projects, both at R&D and industrial level. Sofoklis has published more than 100 publications in international conferences, journals, books and standardization bodies and has more than 400 citations. In 2006 Sofoklis founded Converge SA, an ICT startup with specialization in software integration. In 2016, after having steered successfully the company from the position of Managing Director, he resigned to co-found Innovation Sprint Sprl, a company in the eClinical sector, where he is currently the CEO. Sofoklis has served as member of Board of Directors in several companies in 3 countries and has also been a member of the BoD of Athens Information Technology, a Center of Excellence for Research and Education.

Title: Barriers & opportunities in the Healthcare industry and the Covid-19 catalyst”.

Abstract: The presentation touches upon barriers and opportunities in the healthcare industry and how Covid-19 has been a catalyst in the digital transformation. The presentation analyses the startup life-cycle to underline key differentiations for this challenging sector and identifying MedTech and Digital Therapeutics opportunities in patient empowerment, wellness and personalized health. Legendary theories and processes, like the Innovator’s Dilemma and drew from the Lean Startup Methodology are explained under the scope of the healthcare industry.

Speaker

Mahasweta Sarkar

San Diego State University, San Diego, USA

Dr. Mahasweta Sarkar is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at San Diego State University (SDSU). She received her doctorate degree in January 2006 from University of California, San Diego. After a brief stint as a senior scientist in SPAWAR Lab, Point Loma, Dr. Sarkar joined SDSU as a tenure-track faculty member in August 2006. Her research interest lies in the area of wireless networks and its various applications. She has published over 95 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. Her research work has been primarily funded by National Science Foundation (NSF). She is the Director of the NSF funded Wireless Networks Research Group at SDSU where she leads a team of Ph.D. and Masters students along with post-doctoral scholars, visiting faculty and PhD students from various countries. She is the recipient of the President’s Leadership award at SDSU in 2010 for her excellence in research and the Outstanding Faculty Award in 2014 for her excellence in teaching. In her role as the CoDirector of Education in the NSF funded Engineering Research Center (Center for Neurotechnology), she conducts extensive outreach programs in building the next generation of women scientists and those from underrepresented communities. She is currently the Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee in the College of Engineering at SDSU.

Title: Use Cases and Emerging Technologies for 6G Networks

Abstract: While the 5th generation (5G) of telecom is in the process of being globally deployed, societal needs (especially during the pandemic) have evolved, calling for network support that can promise ubiquitous connectivity to enable novel and trending applications and services. By 2030, the International Telecommunications union (ITU) has predicted that the mobile traffic will bypass 5 ZettaByte (or 1021 bytes) per month. Serious questions are being raised, globally about the limitations of 5G to accommodate the newly emerging applications and especially the need for ubiquitous connectivity with stringent delay requirements (microseconds) and extremely high data rates (Tbps) for realizing a fully connected world with autonomous and intelligent systems and services. The need is here and the need is now! The technology to connect the unconnected and cater to emerging societal user-needs will demand terabytes-per-second order of network speed, microsecond-level of latency, out- of-the-box antenna designs that can facilitate cell-free ultra-massive multiple-input multiple-output antenna technologies and terahertz band communication, power- efficient backscatter communication systems, artificial intelligence backed smart systems and services, power-efficient circuit designs that can last for years if not decades without the need for re-charging, miniaturization of not just hand-held devices and computing facilities but of satellites too (CubeSats with form factors of 103 cubic-cm dimensions for providing connectivity in the most rural parts of America with minimum to no infrastructure). This talk discusses some of the potential enabling technologies to deliver those key features of the next generation of networks. The talk will also discuss the emerging applications and use cases such as a tactile internet, precision agriculture, remote and artificial intelligent induced precision medicine and electronic healthcare.

Speaker

Geir M Køien

USN, Norway

Prof. Køien has previously worked for LM Ericsson Norway, for Telenor R&D and within academia. He has held adjunct postions with the Norwegian Communications Authority (Nkom), the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), and was the Telenor delegate to the 3GPP SA3 (Security) workgroup for many years. He is currently a professor in Cybersecurity at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN)."

Title: 5G for Emergency Services - Challenges and Risks

Abstract: "Currently, TETRA is used for emergency services in many European countries. The public safety services have unique needs, and while TETRA have adressed many of those needs, it has effectively reached its end-of-life. In this paper we discuss the challenges and risks posed when hosting the emergency services in public 5G networks.Specifically, we investigate what can be done to ensure that the 5G system provides sufficient reliability, availability, confidentiality/privacy and integrity for the emergency services."

Speaker

Sudhir Dixit

Skydoot, Inc, USA

Dr. Sudhir Dixit is a Co-Founder, Senior Fellow and Evangelist at the Basic Internet Foundation in Oslo, Norway, and heads its US operations. He is also associated with the Academy of Finland Flagship Programme, 6Genesis, led by the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland and the CTIF Global Capsule at Aarhus University, Denmark. From 2015 to 2017 he was the CEO and Co-Founder of a start-up, Skydoot, Inc. From 2009 to 2015, he was a Distinguished Chief Technologist and CTO of the Communications and Media Services for the Americas Region of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services in Palo Alto, CA, and the Director of Hewlett-Packard Labs India in Palo Alto and Bangalore. Before joining HP, he held various leadership positions at BlackBerry, Nokia, NSN and Verizon Communications.

He has been a technical editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, and is presently a Board Member, Working Group Chair and Vice Chair for America at the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF). He was on the editorial board of IEEE Spectrum Magazine, and is presently on the editorial board of Springer's Wireless Personal Communications Journal. He is a Co- Chair of the Industry Engagement Committee of the IEEE Future Network Initiative and is on its Industry Outreach Board (IOB).

Dr. Dixit has published eight books, holds 21 U.S. patents and published extensively in numerous peer-reviewed journals and conferences. In 2018, he was appointed a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Communications Society. From 2010 to 2012, he was an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, and, since 2010, he has been a Docent at the University of Oulu, Finland. A Life Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of IET and IETE, Dixit holds a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. and an M.B.A. from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida.

Title: 6G for Digital Inclusion and SDGs: Road to Rural and Remote Connectivity

Abstract: This talk highlights the need to consider the unconnected or under-connected requirements in 5G and B5G networks in the standardization process, in the development of the use cases, and affordable solutions. The talk will go into a number of technology gaps that should be addressed, such that the access is affordable and content and services are actually consumed by the target set of users. Technology aside, need to develop innovative business models is a must to be commercially sustainable in the long-term. Finally, the talk aims to summarize the state-of-the art today and its evolution in the next 10 years.

End of Day 1

Day 2 Tuesday June 22

Session 7: GISFI

Session Chair

Tilak R. Dua

GISFI, India

An engineering graduate of 1967 batch from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh with diploma in Business Management and export Marketing. Have an experience of over 45 years in the telecom sector. Experience includes all facets of telecom be it Product Development, Business Development, Telecom Licensing, Regulatory issues, infrastructure sharing, Spectrum Related Issues, Efficient Utilization and Spectrum reframing, etc. Have also been involved very closely with number of Joint Ventures / Technical Collaborations. Have many first to my credit like finalization of joint ventures, technical collaboration, introduction of new product, launch of cellular services in India and finalization of license agreements / interconnect agreements. Work very closely with institutions like ITU (UN Body)/APT/WWRF/GISFI with regards to the spectrum matters. Very actively involved with various professional institutions / associations to promote the interest of telecom sector and published many papers in telecom. Presently holding the position Vice Chairman – GISFI. In Feb 2020 was awarded “Amity National Leadership Award” For Industry Commitment Towards Green Technology. In 2010 was awarded the “Evangelist Mobile Infrastructure Award” by Hon’ble Minister of Telecommunication. Published various papers on Important aspects of Telecom sector including infrastructure. Multidisciplinary understanding of the needs of the Telecom sector in the fields live: Technology Selection, Technology Absorption, Technology Up gradation, Resolution of Regulatory issues, Telecom Licensing, Compatibility issues understanding between various technologies.

Speaker

T. Rama Rao

SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai, India

Prof. Dr. T. Rama Rao is a Professor of Telecommunication Engineering at SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai, India, and has long-standing research experience in Radio Communications. Received PhD degree on “Radio Wave Propagation studies of Fixed and Mobile Communications over Southern India” from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India.Earlier, he worked at Aalborg University, Denmark as a Research Professor, at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, and at the University of Sydney, Australia, as a Visiting Professor. Prof. Rama Rao received significant funding from the DST, Government of India, to develop high performance millimeter-wave antennas at 60 GHz and associated transceiver circuit for gigabit wireless applications for Defence Research Development Organization (DRDO). He is also working on inter-satellite radio link investigations at millimeter-waves with funding from the Indian Space Research Organization and developing wearable antennas for wearable device applications for DRDO. Recently received funding from DST, GoI under FIST programme to develop Photonic Wireless Communications. He is a member of IEEE, WWRF, IET, ACM, and a Fellow of IETE. So far, he has supervised 12 PhD students and has authored 80+ papers in reputed journals and 100+ in various conferences. His research interests include Antennas & its Applications; Broadband Radio Communication Networks and RF Photonic Communications.

Title: Human Body Wireless Communications Abstract: This talk on Human Body Wireless Communications (HBWC) will discuss communications technology involved with inter and intra body communications; the interconnection and networking of wearable computing components, sensors and exchange of data between the electronic devices via wireless body area networks (WBAN) with needed frequency bands. HBWC provides human body centric wireless communications with low interference and reliable radio link for healthcare applications

Speaker

Smita Chandra

CGC, Denmark

As a passionate researcher with vast experience on various research projects, currently she is working on project Chitt-Kaya Nivesh Sthaan (Mind-Body Investment Abode), at CTIF Global Capsule, to find out several measures to reduce mental trauma and anxiety among individuals through C5 (Creativity, Contentment, Confidence, Calmness & Concentration) concept.

Also, she has a wide experience on editorial support for scientific journals. Previously, she worked as an Assistant Professor at Chhattisgarh Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya (CGKV university) in the department of Fisheries Resource Management (FRM). Besides these, she was involved in conducting research on “Wastewater Treatment” technology, at IFU (Internationale Frauenuniversität), Suderburg, Germany, followed by research on “Germplasm Inventory Evaluation & Gene Banking of Freshwater Fishes” at National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, India for 5 years. During her postgraduation (M.F.Sc.) at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, India, worked on thesis topic “Effect of Carbamate Pesticide on First Gonadal Maturity of Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio”. During undergraduate program (B.F.Sc.) at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, India, she was awarded Vice Chancellor Gold medal for her academic excellence with OGPA of 5.000/5.000 and DAAD scholarship for conducting research in IFU, Germany. She was also involved working in food related private businesses with quality control, supply chain monitoring and documentations. Hence, her diverse experiences gave the great opportunity to understand the mindsets of people working in different fields more closely, that in turn helps to understand the C5 concept quite thoroughly and help to pursue the research career in stress management.

Title:C5 (Creativity, Contentment, Confidence, Calmness & Concentration) Concept: A Holistic Approach for Evaluation of Human Wellbeing

Abstract: A healthy mind resides in a healthy body. The healthy interaction of body, brain and mind is very significant for smooth running of human machinery. A body is a framework of physical and mental activities working in a balance way to keep an individual healthy and if any one of them fluctuates, it may lead to several chronic or acute physical and mental ailments. Today in the busy technological world undoubtedly, our efficiency has increased several folds but giving rise to problems of stress and anxiety, which in turn can lead to serious mental disorders of depression and amnesia. Our body functioning can be well compared with the bicycle that if we put equal pressure on both paddles, the cycle runs in a balance and constant manner, but if at any point we lose our balance, we are sure to fall. Same applies to the health of our body and mind, even if any one of them swings the whole health arrangement can be ruined. To keep it well balanced and avoid any malfunction, C5 concept plays a vital role in the wellbeing and mind relaxation of an individual, that can be used as a strong tool for remote healing treatments and diagnosis both physically and mentally.

Speaker Vandana Rohokale

SIT, India

Dr. Vandana Baste Rohokale received her B.E. degree in Electronics Engineering in 1997 from Pune University, Maharashtra, India. She received her Master’s degree in Electronics in 2007 from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. She received her PhD degree in Wireless Communication in 2013 from CTIF, Aalborg University, Denmark. She is pursuing her postdoctoral study under the guidance of Prof. Ramjee Prasad under Aarhus University, Denmark. She is presently working as Professor, in Sinhgad Institute of Technology and Science, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Her teaching experience is around 23 years. She has published four books of international publication. She has published 50+ papers in various international journals and conferences. Her research interests include Cooperative Wireless Communications, AdHoc and Cognitive Networks, Physical Layer Security, Digital Signal Processing, Information Theoretic security and its Applications, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, etc.

Title: AI Driven 6G: A New Frontier for Multisensory Communication Abstract: Artificial Intelligence has touched almost all aspects of human life. Extended Reality in 6G promises to provide immersive remote experiences which can drive multisensory communication through Internet. 6G is an ultimate platform for the implementation of Human Bond Communication that can use all five senses including vision, touch, smell, taste and hearing capacity. Wireless brain computer interface (BCI) has already shown its importance in physically challenged users. Haptic communication with AI and robotics sensors is proving to be a blessing for the disabled users. Humans use five senses to experience the world around them. AI driven 6G will use the sensory integration with neurological processes to transfer the data through multisensory communication. The five human senses are proposed to be digitized and transmitted through wireless communication services for immersive experience

Speaker

Dinesh Chand Sharma

Director – Standards & Public Policy, EU Project SESEI

Since 2012, Mr. Dinesh Chand Sharma is associated with EUROPEAN STANDARDISATION PROJECT SESEI as Director – Standards and Public Policy. In this role and as Seconded European Standardization Expert in India, Mr. Sharma acts as the focal point in India representing European Standards Organizations (ETSI, CEN,CENELEC), European Commission (EC) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The activity of the Project SESEI is focused around sectors covering Smart City, ICT, Automotive and Electrical Equipment including Consumer Electronics. Prior to this, Mr. Sharma worked with Ericsson for 15 years, having last working profile as “Director – Regulatory Affairs & Industry Relation”. Mr. Sharma began his career in Technical Customer Support back in 1992 and has over 26 years of industry experience covering various profiles such as Head of Regulatory Affairs, Head of Accounts & Commercial Management, Service Delivery and Customer Support Management both in India and abroad. Mr Sharma also hold various Industry position such as Chairman Advisory Committee for M2M+IoT Forum India, Chairman - Standards & Policy Working Group of IET IoT Panel, and active membership at Telecommunication Engineering Centre, Department of Telecom, Bureau of Indian Standards etc. Mr. Sharma holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics, highest honors in Business Management from Stratford Institute, USA and a SUN Solaris certification.

Title: “Smart Body Area Network – Standardization” Abstract: The talk is covering updates on ETSI work on Standards, Specifications, Reports, Guides and other deliverables to support the development and implementation of all Smart Body Area Network technologies (Wireless BAN, Personal BAN, Personal Networks etc.) in the application areas: health, wellness, leisure, sport and other relevant domains.

Speaker

Preetam Kumar

IIT PATNA, India

Preetam Kumar is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Patna. He did his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur in the area of Wireless Cellular Communications. He has around 20 years of teaching, research and industry experience. Physical (PHY) Layer Issues in Wireless Communications, 5G Network, Error Control Coding and Digital Communication Systems are his areas of research interest. He has published over 100 research papers in various refereed IEEE Journals, other peer reviewed journals and conferences. He is a regular reviewer of premier journals and TPC member of various conferences He was the organizing chair of First IEEE Symposium on 5G in Asia at IIT Patna. He has supervised 7 doctoral theses, and more than 30 MTech projects. He has also successfully executed high value sponsored projects from Government of India as well as consultancy projects from industry. Apart from his teaching and research activities, he is also part of many administrative/governing committees at IIT Patna and other premier institutes. He is also serving as the Editor of Springer Wireless Networks and Wireless Personal Communication journals.

Title: 5G: Challenges and Enabling Technologies

Abstract: There is an exponential growth in the number of users and the data traffic in the past few years. To meet these requirements, advancement of 4G as well as revolutionary techniques are required. The talk is based on such challenges and enabling technologies to meet the present requirements of cellular, device to device communications as well as new applications like self driving car and tectile internet

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Sudhanshu Shekhar Jamuar BITSA, India

Sudhanshu S. Jamuar received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1977. From 1968 to 2017, he served in India (IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi, HAL Lucknow and IIT(ISM) Dhanbad) and in Malaysia (UPM, UM and UNIMAP). He is presently Visiting Faculty at IIIT Delhi. In 1996, he visited Nigeria as UNESCO 174 C. Prasad and S. S. Jamuar consultant. He has been teaching and conducting research in the areas of Electronic Circuit Design, Instrumentation and Communication Systems. He is Fellow of IET (UK), Senior member of IEEE and Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (India) and IET International Professional Registration Advisor. He was DLP speaker forIEEE CAS during 2008–2009. He is on the Editorial Board of Wireless Personnel Communication Journal. He was the Chapter Chair for IEEE CAS in Delhi Section and Malaysia Section from 1999 to 2007. He has published 75 papers in the International Journals and has presented more than 70 papers in International Conferences. He was General Chai for IEEE APCCS 2010 (Malaysia). He has 3 patents and is recipient of IETE Meghnad Saha Memorial 1976, Distinguished Alumni Award from BIT Sindri in 1999, Best paper award in IETE Journal of Education 2004.

Title: The Energy of Mind

Abstract: God created man & women and gifted them with mind to think and freedom to act. Positive thoughts create, positive vibration in life and body. Associate with best people and learn life from them. Remember the earth under a rose tree also gives fragrance of rose petal. There is no end of success in life., Wherever you reach on the ladder, you will find somebody ahead of you. So, value what you have. Life is beautiful like seven colours of rainbow. Appreciate all its splendours ie. own and share happiness in your work, family, friends, music, games, reading. Be kind and ‘Dance through life with Joy ‘

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Chandrika Prasad BITSA, India

Chandrika Prasad is Managing Director of PNCS Rail & Metro Consultancy. He was Additional Member Signal of Indian Railway Board and was responsible for introducing state of art Signaling & Telecom technologies and creating islands of Signaling excellence over Indian Railways. He was Principal Consultant Delhi Metro and Member of UIC Paris ETCS Task Force. He has provided/is providing consultancy for various Railway Projects in India viz. Mumbai – Ahmadabad High Speed, DFCC, RRTS and rail projects in UK, Middle East, Africa, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Shri Lanka etc. He has been Member of several High-Level Committee for Railways. Over 32 of his papers have been published/presented in International & National Journals/conferences. For his outstanding contribution to Railway Signaling, he has been conferred with “Honorary Fellow” by Institution of Railway Signal Engineers London and ‘Life Time Achievement Award’ by Institution of Rly Signal & Telecom Engineers India.

Title: The Energy of Mind

Speaker

Sriganesh Rao

Calligo Technologies, India

Dr Sriganesh Rao is an ICT Professional with more than 3.5 decades of global experience in leading complex technology projects with rich background in Engineering, Business development, QA & Program Management in Telecom, Government & Defence verticals across Embedded, Engineering Services, Testing and Manufacturing horizontals. His experience spans across leading IT organizations like Tata Consultancy Services & IBM, Telecom Service Providers like OPTUS (Australia) & TATA Teleservices, Telecom OEMs like Bharat Electronics, United Telecoms & ERG (Australia) and Telecom OSS/ BSS Providers like Alopa Networks. Currently, he heads Calligo Technologies, a Data Science and Product company at Bangalore, India. He received his M. Tech (Electronics) degree from NITK Surathkal, MBA (Technology Management with focus on International Telecommunication Management) from Deakin University (Australia). He obtained his PhD in the area of Business Development and Technology related to 5G technologies from Aarhus University, Denmark. Sriganesh’s current interests include 5G, M2M, IoT, Smart Cities, Industries 4.0, Business Model Innovation and Big Data Analytics. He has served as the Chairman of ‘M2M Gateway & Architecture’ Workgroup setup by DoT (TEC). He is Member of the National Working Group of DoT (TEC) for IoT and its application in Smart Cities. He was also the Vice Chair of the Consultative Committee for the adoption of 0neM2M Standards by TEC as National Standards. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Senior Member and Certified Professional of Australian Computer Society, Life Member of Computer Society of India. He is also the President of Australian Alumni Association and Ambassador of Deakin University Alumni at Bangalore. Title: Data-driven Business Model Innovation for 5G & Beyond Abstract: Futuristic disruptive technologies beyond 5G, could further transform the way we live and work, beyond what was enabled by 5G. The expected features could enable massive high-speed and low-latency connectivity across diverse devices giving rise to new applications enabling instant availability of data related to Smart Cities, Industries 4.0, Intelligent Transport Systems, Utilities, Healthcare, Security, Media & Entertainment etc. They will further make it possible to scale current real-time data collection strategies, adding more devices without the need for wired connections or fear of interference. Data is considered as the new oil due to tremendous possibilities it can bring in the business world through predictive and prescriptive analytics. This gives rise to the importance of data- driven business model innovation to provide actionable insights to the business owners, helping them to develop sustainable business models. Organizations using big data and analytics within their innovation process are more likely to remain competitive and sustainable. The talk discusses the: Importance of harnessing ‘Real-time Data” to create value. Challenges in harnessing value from data, especially ‘dark data’. Role of “Data-driven Business Model Innovation” in creating sustainable business. Intelligent Transport System Data-driven Business Model Innovation as an example. Speaker

Ashok Chandra

GISFI, India

Dr. Ashok Chandra, is Ph.D. in Electronics and Doctorate of Science (D.Sc.) in Radio Mobile Communications. He joined the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India in 1977. He has worked as Guest Scientist on DAAD Fellowship at the Institute of High Frequency Technology, Technical University (RWTH), Aachen, Germany and at Bremen University, Bremen (Germany), where he undertook a series of research studies in the area of radio mobile communications. Dr. Ashok Chandra has Technical Experience of over 35 years in the field of Radio Communications/Radio Spectrum Management including about 7 years of experience dealing with Institutes of Higher Learning in Technical Education. He has contributions of over 30 research papers at various International Conferences/Journals in the areas of EMI, Radio Propagation etc. He had played a key role in the establishment of new Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institute of Management and Indian Institutes of Information Technology. Dr. Chandra was instrumental in the implementation of Government of India’s “Technology Development Mission” scheme. Dr. Chandra is registered with ITU as an Expert on “Radio Spectrum Management”. Dr. Chandra superannuated from the post of Wireless Adviser to the Government of India. In his responsibility as Wireless Adviser, he was associated with spectrum management activities, including in spectrum planning and engineering, frequency assignment, frequency coordination, spectrum monitoring, policy regarding regulatory affairs for new technologies and related research & development activities, etc. He was Project Director of a prestigious World Bank Project on “National Radio Spectrum Management and Monitoring System (NRSMMS)”. He served as a Vice-Chairman, Study Group 5 of International Telecommunications Union (ITU)-Radio Sector. He has represented India to a large number of ITU meetings including World Radio Conferences (WRC). He served as Councillor from Indian Administration in the ITU Council.

Title: Effect of EM Radiation from Radio Frequency Sources on Chitta-Kaya Abstract: Chitt-Kaya is a unique and desired combination of peaceful and healthy body in an ideal surrounding environment. In a modern society, today, the environment is highly polluted due to different pollutants may outside or inside. These pollutants are organic, inorganic and electromagnetic radiations. In this talk, the impact of EM radiations emitting from radio sources, on peaceful mind and healthy body will be discussed. Radio frequency spectrum (RFS), is a finite, natural, scarce but renewable resource. The RFS caters to the requirements of 41 radiocommunication services viz., aeronautical, maritime, radio navigation, radiolocation, radio astronomy, meteorological, broadcasting, satellite broadcasting, fixed, fixed-satellite, mobile, mobile-satellite, and space services, etc. It may be mentioned that the commercial public telecommunication applications are provided under the ‘Mobile service’. The applications began from 2nd Generation mobile communications and subsequently 3rd , 4th and 5th Generations of mobile communications. Research on next generation mobile communication system is underway. The radio broadcasting also deploys RFS. Radio spectrum is an essential element for mobile telecom service. These radio systems use radio spectrum in VHF, UHF, Microwave (MW) and mm bands. The current technologies have become source of omnipresent electromagnetic radiation. The radio systems pollute the surroundings including indoors. and likely to affect the human body. This pollution impacting humans is still a question.

Speaker

Dr. Dnyaneshwar Mantri

SIT, Lonavala, India

Dr. Dnyaneshwar S. Mantri is graduated in Electronics Engineering from Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur (MS) India in 1992 and received Masters from Shivaji University in 2006. He has awarded PhD. in Wireless Communication at Center for TeleInFrastruktur CTIF), Aalborg University, Denmark in March 2017. He has teaching experience of 25years. From 1993 to 2006 he was working as a lecturer in different institutes [MCE Nilanga, MGM Nanded, and STB College of Engg. Tuljapur (MS) India]. Since 2006 he is associated with Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Lonavala, Pune and presently working as a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Life Member of ISTE, and IETE. He has written three books, published 15 Journal papers in indexed and reputed Journals (Springer, Elsevier, and IEEE, etc.), and 23 papers in IEEE conferences. He is a reviewer of international journals (Wireless Personal Communication, Springer, Elsevier, IEEE Transaction, Communication society, MDPI, etc.) and conferences organized by IEEE. He is a working editorial board member in STM Journals. An active member in GISFI. He worked as a TPC member for various IEEE conferences and also organized IEEE conferences GCWCN2014 and GCWCN2018. He worked on various committees at University and College. His research interests are in Adhoc Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Communications, VANET, Embedded Security with a specific focus on energy and bandwidth.

Title: Sensors for Internet of Every Things (IoE) Abstract: In the growing technological world with an exponential increase in the number of applications, peoples are connected with things. It enhances the power of serving demand of customer with satisfaction and interconnectivity. This is possible only by use of variety of sensors connected in the ubiquitous networks supporting the mass media communications over the internet. The number of machines and devices connected to the Internet has increased and communication between them happens with involvement and integration of Hi-Tech and advanced technologies such as Internet of Every Thing, CONASENSE and Human Bond Communications. After all it’s a mind control game which changes according to the requirements of Data, Speed, Cooperation, Content and Cost. The smart communication between things, People to People (P2P), Machine to Machine (M2M), Device to Device (D2D), Device to Machine (D2M) and People to Machine (P2M) over internet adds value with concept of virtualization. At the same time machine learning algorithms are useful to analyze the data and take correct decisions. In future generation networks the speed and data rates along with latency in connected things are utmost important and purpose could be served by 6G (5G+IoT+Cloud Computing). Also, the sensors are heart of smart devices involved in IoE with four pillars: People, Things, Data and Process. IoE makes things easier to evaluate, exchange and enhance the rich experience in different applications as Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, retail, Transport and so on, to the world around them and the people in it. The IoE technology perspective covers a number of problems in software and hardware, Mobility, scalability, heterogeneity, privacy, trust and security. The significant themes that will help in the evolution of Internet of Everything are - Intelligence, IoT, 5G, Cloud and Sensor Network

Speaker

Satya N. Gupta

BLUETOWN, India

An International expert in NGN technologies, Regulation, Interconnection and Broadband with 40 years’ experience in all aspects of Telecom, including 25 years with Govt. and Regulator, Satya N. Gupta is publicly recognized as an Analyst, Author, Advocate and Advisor on ICT related Policies, Projects and Business. After his post-graduation from IISc. In Bangalore, he joined the Ministry of Communication in 1981 and the Ministry of Railways in 1983. He is recipient of the Minister of Railways award for outstanding performance for the digitalisation project. A triple master in Electronics Design Technology, IT Management and Telecom Policy and Regulation, he is globally known as “NGNguru” he is a trainer and coach for telecommunication technologies, policy and regulation and a Regulatory advocate. Author of "Everything over IP-All you want to know about NGN". He also authored a concept called “Job Factory- Converting Unemployment into Entrepreneurship”. His recent research- based work, “Long Tail - Walking the Extra Mile on Rural Broadband Business”, brings out the innovative business models for rural broadband connectivity. He has also established and mentoring a consulting startup named SAAM CorpAdvisors providing Govt. Affairs as Managed Service. He is Honorary Secretary General of ITU-APT Foundation of India. Additionally, he is Vice-President and Trustee of PTCIF and Co-chairs BIF committee on Rural Digital Infrastructure. He founded NGN Forum in India to spread awareness and capacity building in the field of emerging technologies. As a member of the Expert panel of Commonwealth Telecom Organisation, he conducts training programs in the areas of NGN Technologies, Broadband Policy and Regulation, Interconnection Costing in NGN Era, Spectrum Management, IPV6, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Blue-Ocean Strategy. He is the first Indian recipient of IPv6 Hall of Fame – 2019 by Global IPv6 Forum and also the Chairman of India IPv6 Council. Presently, he is working as Chairman, BLUETOWN, India & BIMSTEC, S. Asia to forge newer partnerships and “Making It Happen” its Vision of “Connecting the Unconnected people living in Rural areas of World”.

Title: Relevance of India standard 5Gi based on LMLC (Low Mobility Large Cell)

Abstract In this I will cover the basic philosophy based on the ground reality of Rural ecosystem in India to solve the current connectivity problems of rural masses for their empowerment and well-being.

Speaker

Pawan Garg

GISFI, India

Mr. Pawan Garg has more than 50 years of experience in RF spectrum management and wireless communications – terrestrial as well as satellites. He was with India’s national spectrum management organization for almost 37 years and was heading the Organisation for more than 6 years. During his period as head of the organisation, Indian cellular network underwent exponential growth of subscribers – from 1 Million to 250 Million. He has been participating in various fora of ITU, Geneva for more than 40 years and was Indian Councillor on ITU’s Governing body for 6 years. He was internationally elected Member of the prestigious Radio Regulations Board of ITU for 8 years and was elected its Chairman for 2013. These have provided him extensive insight in all types of wireless services

Title: Societal aspects of ICT Developments Abstract: Developments in various fields of ICT (Information & Communication Technology) and different Apps. riding on the ICTs, are taking place at a fast pace. These technologies are interconnected. With the all-pervasive internet, everything is interconnected globally. All these developments bring about many societal benefits. However, at the same time, these appear to be creating different kind of societal challenges, e.g. widening of the gap between the rich and poor, between different regions, regarding availability of modern ICTs, increase in frauds for general public who may not be fully familiar with the intricacies of applications based on these new technologies, increasing cyber-attacks on private as well as public services. Many developments, especially in the field of wireless communications, have created an apprehension in the minds of public that these have harmful effects on human beings and birds, etc. Hence, various developments should be in sync with the nature and sustainable. Earlier, various aspects of such developments were tested in detail before being launched. Of late, there is a rush to launch new technologies or newer versions / updates of the earlier ones. However, it is advisable and would be beneficial for all if these developments are thoroughly tested for compatibility with society and nature, before their launch.

Lunch break

Section 8: GreenBizz

Session Chair

Peter Lindgren

Vice-President, CGC, Multi -Business model and Technology Innovation, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark

Speaker

Kapil Dev

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Dr Kapal Dev is Senior Researcher at Munster Technological University, Ireland. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the CONNECT Centre, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin (TCD). He worked as 5G Junior Consultant and Engineer at Altran Italia S.p.A, Milan, Italy on 5G use cases. He is also working for OCEANS Network as Head of Projects funded by European Commission. He was awarded the PhD degree by Politecnico di Milano, Italy under the prestigious fellowship of Erasmus Mundus funded by European Commission. His research interests include Blockchain, 6G Networks and Artificial Intelligence. He is very active in leading (as Principle Investigator) Erasmus + International Credit Mobility (ICM), Capacity Building for Higher Education, and H2020 Cofund projects. He is also serving as Associate Editor in Springer Wireless Networks, Elsevier Physical Communication, IET Quantum Communication, IET Networks, Topic Editor in MDPI Network, and Review Editor in Frontiers in Communications and Networks. He is also served(ing) as Guest Editor (GE) in several Q1 journals; IEEE TII, Elsevier COMCOM and COMNET, and Tech press CMC. He served as Lead chair in one of CCNC 2021 workshops, TPC member of IEEE BCA 2020 in conjunction with AICCSA 2020, ICBC 2021, SSCt 2021, DICG Co- located with Middleware 2020 and FTNCT 2020.

Title: The Era of Industry 5.0 –Technologies from No Recognizable H-M Interface to Hearty Touch Personal Products

Abstract The industrial revolutions can be traced back to the 1780s which was based on the generation of power through fossil fuels, steam, and water using mechanical devices. Starting from the 1870s, electrical energy revolutionized the manufacturing process through mass production and assembly lines in its second iteration. The third iteration in the 1970s introduced the concept of automation by integrating the information technologies in electronic devices. The fourth iteration focused on the provision of real-time interface between physical and virtual phenomena while leveraging the cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) concept, hence the name cyber-physical systems. While the fourth iteration has not been exploited to its full potential, the technology leaders and pioneers have urged for the emergence of the fifth iteration of the industrial revolution. The fifth iteration of the industrial revolution will pave the way for a synergy between autonomous machines and humans. It is believed that pairing machines with humans will increase the process efficiency and provide an opportunity to harness human’s creativity and brain power within the process workflows.

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Paulo Sergio Rufino Henrique

Spideo, France

Paulo S. Rufino Henrique holds more than 20 years of experience working in telecommunications. His career began as a field engineer at UNISYS in Brazil, where he was born. There, Paulo worked for almost nine years in the Service Operations, repairing and installing corporative servers and networks before joining British Telecom (BT) Brazil. Paulo worked five years at BT Brazil managing MPLS networks, satellites (V-SAT), IP-Telephony for Tier 1 network operations. During that period, he became the Global Service Operations Manager overseeing BT operations in EMEA, Americas, India, South Korea, South African, and China. After a successful career in Brazil, Paulo got transferred to the BT headquarters in London, where he worked for six and a half years as a service manager for Consumers Broadband in the UK and IPTV Ops manager for BT TV Sports channel. Additionally, during his tenure as IPTV Ops manager for BT, Paulo also participated in the BT project of launching the first UHD (4K) TV channel in the UK. He then joined Vodafone UK as a Quality Manager for Consumers Broadband Services and OTT platforms, and he worked in that capacity for almost two years. During his stay in London, Paulo completed a Post-graduation Degree at Brunel London University. His thesis was entitled ‘TV Everywhere and the Streaming of UHD TV over 5G Networks & Performance Analysis’. Presently, Paulo Henrique holds the Head of Delivery and Operations position at Spideo, Paris, France. At Spideo, Paulo Henrique oversees Spideo Semantic Recommendation Systems’ integration process into the client’s IPTV or OTT platform. Paulo is also a Ph.D. student under Professor Ramjee Prasad’s supervision at Global CTIF Capsule, Department of Business at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research field is 6G Networks - Performance Analysis for Mobile Multimedia Services for the Future Wireless Technologies.

Title: 6G Networks for Next Generation of Digital TV beyond 2030.

Abstract: During the last 20 years, the way society used to watch and consume TV and films has changed radically. The creation of the Over The Top (OTT) content platforms based on Cloud Services followed by its commercial model of video consumption, offering flexibility for subscribers such as n Video on Demand (VoD). Besides the new business model created, the network infrastructure and wireless technologies also permitted the streaming of high-quality TV and film formats such as High Definition (HDTV), followed by the latest widespread TV standardization Ultra-High-Definition(UHD) TV. Mobile Broadband services onset the possibility for consumers to watch TV or Video content anywhere at any time. This new concept was coined as TV Everywhere. TV Everywhere concept is a clear statement of mutual gain built by the network architecture offered by the Mobile Broadband and Fixed Broadband. However, the network infrastructure needs continuous improvement, primarily when crises, like the coronavirus disease (COVID- 19) and the worldwide pandemic, creates immense network traffic congestions. More powerful video applications are commencing to test the networks' resilience and future roadmap of 5G and Beyond 5G (B5G). For this, 6G architecture planning must focus on offering the ultimate quality of service (QoS) for the Next Generation of TV beyond 2030. Speaker

Vladimir Poulkov

Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

Title: Virtualized, Open and Intelligent: The Evolution of the Radio Access Network

Abstract: Like any radio, the cellular Base Stations (BSs) have a Radio Frequency (RF) and a Baseband (BB) part. For many years the RF part and the BB part of these major components of the Radio Access Networks (RANs) infrastructure have been tightly integrated. At these times connecting the RRUs of one vendor to the BBU of another vendor usually could not be possible due to the propriety of the solutions. In the last few decades, RANs have significantly evolved from analog to digital signal processing units, where hardware components are being replaced with flexible and reusable software- defined functions allowing the RRU and BBU of cellular BSs to be independent the implementation of advanced access architectures. Following these driving forces, the BS architecture has evolved considerably over the last few years towards the so-called “Open RAN”. The main behind opening the RAN is to disaggregate the elements of the BS and to develop open standards for the interfaces and interaction procedures between them. Currently service providers worldwide are driving adoption of “Open RAN for 5G”. This talk presents an overview of the evolution of RAN technologies and the latest trends towards virtualized, open and intelligent Next Generation RAN (NG-RAN

Speaker Ana Garcia Armada

University Carlos III Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Ana Garcia Armada is a Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. She has published more than 150 referred papers and she holds four patents. She serves on the editorial board of IEEE Trans. on Communications and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. She is Member at Large of the Board of Governors and Director of Online Content of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). She has received awards from University Carlos III of Madrid, third place Bell Labs Prize 2014 and outstanding service award from the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Communications Electronics technical committee and the IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering standing committee

Title: Taking VLC technology from the lab to the market

Abstract: Visible Light Communications (VLC) have the potential to offer broad bandwidths with un-expensive and low-energy devices. They are an ideal complement to classical radio-frequency wireless communications for traffic offloading in hot-spots and to facilitate communications in places where wireless propagation is difficult or not advisable. Due to their low-range and reduce energy consumption they can be an important driver of Green ICT. In this talk we will share the experience carried out at University Carlos III de Madrid to commercialize the existing knowhow regarding VLC technology. We will relate the first steps, current status and future perspective within a program developed to identify potentially disruptive technologies and accompany researchers while they take their ideas to the market.

Speaker

Pavlos Lazaridis

University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK

Dr. Pavlos Lazaridis is a Professor in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He received the Electrical Engineering degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1990, the MSc. degree in Electronics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, France, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and telecommunications from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) and Paris 6, Paris, in 1996. From 1991 to 1996, he was involved with research on semiconductor lasers, wave propagation, and nonlinear phenomena in optical fibers for the Centre National d’Etudes des Télécommunications (CNET) and teaching at the ENST. In 1997, he became the Head of the Antennas and Propagation Laboratory, TDF-C2R Metz (Télédiffusion de France/France Télécom Research Center), where he was involved with research on antennas and radio coverage for cellular mobile systems (GSM), Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), and Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T). From 1998 to 2002, he was with the European Patent Office, Rijswijk, The Netherlands, as a Senior Examiner in the field of Electronics and Telecommunications. From 2002 to 2014, he was involved with teaching and research at the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece, and Brunel University, West London. He is leading the EU Horizon 2020 projects ITN-MOTOR5G and RISE-RECOMBINE for the University of Huddersfield. He is a member of the IET, senior member of the IEEE, and senior member of URSI. He is representing the UK in URSI Commission F.Xx Title: 5G antenna optimization

Abstract: Results of several antenna optimizations will be presented using evolutionary algorithms: particle swarm optimization (PSO), invasive weed optimization (IWO), and differential evolution (DE) and Nvidia GPUs. 5G base and mobile terminal antenna examples will be briefly presented and the efficiency of algorithms will be assessed. Talking points: -Evolutionary optimization algorithms -5G base and mobile antennas - GPU computing

Speaker

Ernestina Cianca

University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Ernestina Cianca is Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Electronic Engineering of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where she teaches Digital Communications and ICT Infrastructure and Applications (WSN, Smart Grid, ITS etc.). She is the Director of the II Level Master in Engineering and International Space Law in Satellite systems for Communication, Navigation and Sensing. She is vice-director of the interdepartmental Center CTIF-Italy. She has worked on wireless access technologies (CDMA, OFDM) and in particular in the waveforms design, optimization and performance analysis of radio interfaces both for terrestrial and satellite communications. An important part of her research has focused on the use of EHF bands (Q/V band, W band) for satellite communications and on the integration of satellite/terrestrial/HAP (High altitude Platforms) systems. Currently her main research interests are in the use of radio-frequency signals (opportunistic signals such as WiFi or specifically designed signals) for sensing purposes, and in particular. Device-free RF-based activity recognition/crowd counting/density estimation and localization; UWB radar imaging (i.e., stroke detection). She has been the coordinator of the activities of the Interdepartmental Center CTIF for the Italian Space Agency project "Sviluppo Terminale EGNSS multifunzionale e riconfigurabile (TESEI)", on the development of a GNSS multifunctional terminal. She has been principal investigator of the ASI project WAVE- A2, phase 2 study for two demonstrators and two pre-operative missions for satellite communications in W band. Responsible for the University of Rome Tor Vergata activities for the several ASI-ESA projects. She is Associate Editor for the journal Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (Hindawi). She is author of more than 150 papers published on international journal and conference proceedings.

Title: Radios as Sensors for Smart Life

Abstract Radio receivers, besides acting as wireless network nodes participating to the IoT communication task, may act as opportunistic sensors participating to the IoT sensing task. The idea is that the presence of people in an environment changes the propagation channel of any RF signal that propagates through it and there is a correlation between the activities/behaviour, localization or the number of people and some metrics calculated on the received signal. The changes of the propagation channel could be measured through signal power indicators or frequency-domain transfer function, i.e. Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI), Channel Impulse Response (CIR) or Channel State Information (CSI). Then, the estimation step involves a classification process requiring a training phase. The receiver becomes a kind of “eye” able to see the multipath, which can serve as hundreds of virtual antennas . The availability of more and more bandwidth in the next generation of wireless applications will increase the capability of “detecting” such multipaths, and will open the way to more smart applications/services unimaginable today. Such a technology could be applied to applied to home/office monitoring/security, radio human biometrics, vital signs detection, wireless charging, and 5G communications. The talk will provide the state- of-the-art, current challenges and future perspective of this promising future technology, both in a 5G and 6G framework.

Speaker Didoe Prevedourou

HAEC, Greece

Didoe Prevedourou has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University, USA, and 30 years of professional experience in R&D and management positions. Has served for six years as the Managing Director of a private, non-profit, scientific research organization and for twelve years as its Research Director, being mainly responsible for the administration and organization of the research activity, fund-raising, research collaborations and partnership formulations, as well as for the protection, dissemination and commercialization of intellectual capital. Has participated in numerous research and development projects, in several occasions with leading roles. Has accumulated long experience and strong ability to attract and implement R&D grants and has established a strong network of trusted partners and extensive experience on civic community building and engagement, crowd-sourcing, technology enabled co-creation, knowledge and technology transfer, innovation management and entrepreneurship.

Title CGC: An Inclusive Knowledge Home Nurturing Innovation for and with Society

Abstract Reflections and ideas on a thread of CGC activities aiming to both study and advance a participatory approach to societal change through co-creation of democratized, ethical innovations, inclusive education, and lifelong learning.

Coffee break

Session 9: BISTA

Session chair

Ramesh Yadava

BITSA, USA

Mr Yadava is President of PRO NET an EED, CA program under “Experience Unlimited” in Fremont, California. He manges various skill development classes for EDD’s cliants. He is Associate Vice President CGC (CTIF Global Capsule Arhus Univ. Denmark). He is Executive Director at Foundation for Excellence “FFE” which rewards over 7500 scholarships per year to brilliant but economically challenged students in India, pursuing their education to become Engineers and Medical Doctors and become a catalyst to help their family rise economically. This year at BIT Sindri about 50 studens are getting FFE Scholarship. As Chief Operating Officer of Cradle Technologies, Mr. Ramesh Yadava managed all manufacturing operations including supply chain functions, manufacturing engineering and customer support for Cradle. At Fidelica Microsystems, a biometric security company where he was Vice President of Strategic Relationships with customers and vendors since 2000. Fidelica has been acquired by Lenovo in 2013. Mr Yadava co-founded Comport Corporation, and was Vicw President. Comport designed and manufactured 3.5" hard disk drives which was acquired by Samsung in 1990. He was founder and President of Omek Flexible Disk Drive, which was acquired by Satya Electronics in India.in 1986. He has also held management positions at Quantum, Read-Rite and Iomega. Mr Yadava is an entrepreneur with expertise in disk drive and semiconductor industry. Currently he is sharing his entrepreneurhip experience with students at BIT Sindri and IIT Bombay. Mr. Yadava received his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (71 EE) from the Bihar Institute of Technology Sindri, and holds a Master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Santa Clara.

Positions Held: · Co-Chairperson Tie~Stanford India Economic Policy Reform. · Board member and Chair Finance TiE (The Indus Entrepreneur) · President of Indian Community Service Center in Silicon Valley California · Board member and President, YMCA Fremont, Newark, Union City · President BIT Sindri Alumni Association of North America · President PRO NET Fremont California · Associate Vice President CGC (CTIF Global Capsule Arhus Univ. Denmark)

Founding Member · American Organization for Development of Bihar. · India Resource Center catering to the need of high school students.

Speaker

Vishwanath Sinha BISTA, India

Professor Vishwanath Sinha has spent his entire professional career (1963- ) in academia except for a year’s time as a Researcher at the Brazilian Space Research Institute. During these close to six decades of academic journey, in which technology expanded exponentially in almost all domains of human activities, he witnessed vacuum tube technology being replaced by discrete semiconductor components and then by ICs and again by VLSI chips; analog circuit switching like in strawger telephony to various generations of mobile communication; IBM 1401/1620 to 7044 or similar to cloud; desk tops to laptops, just to cite a few examples where each one of the areas are still evolving. He contributed in this fascinating march of technology by spending three decades at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in various capacities, subsequently established the first Indian public-private-university in Jaipur and is now the Honorary Academic Chair of E&ICT Academy at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur after spending few years as Emeritus Professor there.

Title: Standardization for harmony via CKNS"

Abstract: Following various studies, we reiterate that it is the mind that governs actions of the body, the actions which are primarily responsible for various conflicts. It is, therefore, argued that mind must be trained following universal standards (to be evolved) which will bring harmony and happiness to citizens of our global village. The role of Chitt (mind), Kaya (body), Nivesh (invest), and Sthaan (abode) is explored.

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Ramjee Prasad

President, CTIF Global Capsule, Professor, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark

Dr. Ramjee Prasad is a Professor of Future Technologies for Business Ecosystem Innovation in the Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the Founder President of the CTIF Global Capsule (CGC). He is also the Founder Chairman of the Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India, established in 2009. GISFI has the purpose of increasing of the collaboration between European, Indian, Japanese, North-American and other worldwide standardization activities in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related application areas. He has been honored by the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy as a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine on March 15, 2016. He is Honorary Professor of University of Cape Town, South Africa, and University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has received Ridderkorset af Dannebrogordenen (Knight of the Dannebrog) in 2010 from the Danish Queen for the internationalization of top-class telecommunication research and education. He has received several international awards such as: IEEE Communications Society Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2003 for making contribution in the field of “Personal, Wireless and Mobile Systems and Networks”, Telenor's Research Award in 2005 for impressive merits, both academic and organizational within the field of wireless and personal communication, 2014 IEEE AESS Outstanding Organizational Leadership Award for: “Organizational Leadership in developing and globalizing the CTIF (Center for TeleInFrastruktur) Research Network”, and so on. He has been Project Coordinator of several EC projects namely, MAGNET, MAGNET Beyond, eWALL and so on. He has published more than 30 books, 1000 plus journal and conference publications, more than 15 patents, over 100 PhD Graduates and larger number of Masters (over 250). Several of his students are today worldwide telecommunication leaders themselves.

Title: Standardization for harmony via CKNS"

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Seshadri Mohan

University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

Dr. Seshadri Mohan is currently a professor in Systems Engineering Department at University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where, from August 2004 to June 2013, he served as the Chair of the Department of Systems Engineering. Prior to the current position he served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Acting CEO of IP SerVoniX, where he consulted for several telecommunication firms and venture firms and served as the CTO of Telsima (formerly known as Kinera). Besides these positions, his industry experience spans a decade at New Jersey-based Telcordia (formerly Bellcore) and Bell Laboratories. Prior to joining Telcordia, he was an associate professor at Clarkson and Wayne State Universities. Dr. Mohan has authored/coauthored over 125 publications in the form of books, patents, and papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings with citations to his publications in excess of 6150. He has co-authored the textbook Source and Channel Coding: An Algorithmic Approach. He has contributed to several books, including Mobile Communications Handbook and The Communications Handbook (both CRC Press). He holds fourteen patents in the area of wireless location management and authentication strategies as well as in the area of enhanced services for wireless. He is the recipient of the SAIC Publication Prize for Information and Communications Technology. He has served or is serving on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Personal Communications, IEEE Surveys, IEEE Communications Magazine, Journal of Mobility and Cyber Security and International Journal on Wireless Personal Communications (Springer) and has chaired sessions in many international conferences and workshops. He has also served as a Guest Editor for several Special issues of IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Magazine, and ACM MONET. He served as a co-guest editor of the Feature Topic “Human Bond Communications,” that appeared in the February 2019 issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. He served as a guest editor of 2015 October IEEE Communications Feature Topic titled “Social Networks Meet Next Generation Mobile Multimedia Internet,” March 2012 IEEE Communications Feature Topic titled “Convergence of Applications Services in Next Generation Networks” as well as the June 2012 Feature Topic titled “Social Networks Meet Wireless Networks.” In April 2011, he was awarded 2010 IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. He received the best paper award for the paper “A Multi-Path Routing Scheme for GMPLS-Controlled WDM Networks,” presented at the 4th IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems conference. Dr. Mohan is a co-founder of the startup IntelliNexus, LLC, the objective of which are the development of innovative adhoc vehicular networking to advance the notion of connected cars and the development of IoT and IoV applications to improve traffic safety and reduce accidents and congestion. Dr. Mohan holds a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from McMaster University, Canada, the Master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and the Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of Madras, India.

Title: AI/ML-Enabled Connected Vehicles

Abstract: The field of connected vehicles stands at the confluence of three evolving disciplines – the Internet of Things (IoT), emerging standards for connectivity of vehicles, and AI/machine learning. The number of connected IoT devices is expected to grow from 9.5 billion devices in 2019 to 22.5 billion devices in 2025. More optimistic estimates project the number of IoT devices in 2025 to be 55 billion connected devices. Consequently, applications of IoT devices have rapidly expanded to integrate intelligent sensing and processing along with smart applications of the technology into various fields such as smart homes, smart appliances, enterprises, smart transportation including connected vehicles, smart cities, agriculture, energy, security, healthcare, shopping, location-based services including tracking and other similar fields. The exponential growth of IoT is transforming the quality of living of human beings around the globe. Fueling the growth in the evolution of vehicles towards total automation is the development of novel sensors, 3D cameras, lidars and radars and their ability to connect to the Internet, upload the data to a cloud. The sensors of an autonomous vehicle collect anywhere from 1.4 TB to 19 TB of data per hour. Whether or not the vehicles are autonomous, one of the key features of connected vehicles is that they are able to share data between themselves in real-time. For example, the scene of an accident or road work encountered by a vehicle can be immediately shared with vehicles it is connected to. Thus, vehicles may learn about accidents or road work well in advance so as to enable them to make smart decisions and establish alternate routes to their destinations. The workshop will help in understanding the role of these sensors with use cases. The vast amount of raw data collected must by mined for it to become useful in ensuring traffic safety by means such as intelligent rerouting of traffic or distribution of information on roadwork activities or accidents. Machine learning is a mechanism that has become extremely powerful in extracting meaningful data. A number of machine learning algorithms exist and can be broadly classified under unsupervised, supervised, and reinforcement learning algorithms. A number of algorithms exist under each category. This talk will address the impact of machine learning and their applications to connected vehicles with several use cases.

Speaker

Prafull Kumar BITSA, USA

More than 40yrs experience in Coaching, Mentoring, Project Management, Team Building, Troubleshooting, Coaching in different parts of world (USA, India, Japan, China & Europe), Leading projects with various scopes such as BED, FEED, EPC with Revamp & grassroots Refinery, Petrochemicals, LNG, Ammonia, Urea, Polymers, Coal Gasification & Bio-Energy plant design and execution experience in USA, Europe, Japan, Saudi Arabia, China & India mainly managing projects from Engineering and Project Management side at different companies as outlined below: Approx. 30 yrs as Principal Project Manager in KBR, Inc., at Houston headquarters, which provides professional services and technologies across the asset and program lifecycle within the government services and hydrocarbons industries worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Government Solutions, Technology Solutions, and Energy Solutions. Providing knowledge-based services for refining, petrochemicals, inorganic and specialty chemicals as well as gasification, syngas, ammonia, nitric acid, and fertilizers. The Energy Solutions segment offers engineering services, front-end consulting and feasibility studies, sustaining capital construction, and maintenance services for onshore oil and gas; liquefied natural gas/gas to liquids; oil refining; petrochemicals; chemicals; fertilizers; offshore oil and gas; and floating solutions. KBR, Inc. was founded in 1901 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. Worked 3 yrs in ThyssenKrupp Uhde, Mumbai. This Company designs and constructs chemical, refining, and other industrial plants. ThyssenKrupp Uhde offers maintenance of production plants, , plant optimization, and consulting services for plant safety and quality management. ThyssenKrupp Uhde operates worldwide. Approx. 7 yrs in Projects & Development India Ltd., Sindri which is a premier design engineering and consultancy organization, committed towards technological excellence and self-reliance in the growth of the fertilizer and allied chemical industries with associated off site and utility facilities, Oil & Gas Sector viz. Product pipelines, LPG Terminals, Oil terminals, LPG Bottling Plants, LPG mounded Storages, Methanol Plants, Hydrogen Plants and various acid Plants. Qualifications MSChE, HBTI Kanpur University - 1979 BSChE, BIT Sindri – 1977

Title: innovations & Commercialization of Green Hydrogen Revolution in the world and arriving to the standardization for that future

Abstract: Starting from Kaya and then moving to Chitt and finally fully dedicated to the BIT Sindri. Their welfare is my goal and this life towards that goal is my journey. This started by joining this dreamland in 1972 then growing through the intellect, mind and the body to reach a stage where I was called Graduate of Chemical Engineering and that became the base of my entire life in last 40+ yrs. Currently working with students and faculty to guide the Engineering Graduates in achieving their dream of Life

Speaker

Chandan Kumar lowa State University, USA

I am currently a PhD student at Iowa State University. I primarily work on Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Robotics and Edge Computing. I graduated with a Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from BIT Sindri. Prior to joining Iowa State University, I worked briefly at EXL Services, Gurugram, India.

Title: Volume analysis for Dynamic Environments Abstract: The utility of edge devices has increased in volume estimation of uneven terrains.Existing techniques utilize several geo-tagged images of the landscape, captured in-flight by an edge device mounted over a UAV, to generate 3D models and perform offline volume estimation through manual boundary marking.These methods, although accurate, require significant time, human effort and are heavily dependent on GPS. We present a deep learning framework that detects the object of interest and automatically determines the volume (independent of GPS) of the detected object on-the-fly.Our method employs a stereo camera for depth sensing of the object and overlays a unit mesh grid over the object's boundary to perform volume estimation. We explore the accuracy vs computational complexity trade-off on variations of our technique. Experiments indicate that our method reduces the time for volume estimation by several orders of magnitude in contrast to existing methods and is independent of GPS as well. This also marks it as the first and only method capable of volume estimation for dynamic environments.

Speaker

Prakash Kumar

BIT SINDRI

Dr. Prakash Kumar has over two decades of experience in Technical education and is currently serving as a Professor and Head, Department of Production Engineering, BIT Sindri, Dhanbad. He began his career in Tata Motors Ancillary industry and later moved on to Jojobera Power Plant and BIT Mesra. His fields of interest are Maintenance Technology, Productivity Improvement through Lean Manufacturing, Expert System, Technology & Change Management and Industrial Management. He has 54 research papers in National and International Workshops/ Conferences to his credit and 30 research papers in International Journals. He is associated with three research projects under Collaborative Research Scheme and one research project under TEQIP-III. He is an Executive member of Production Engineering Division, Dhanbad Local Centre of Institutions of Engineers India. He holds diverse roles in his Institute as Prof. in Charge of Innovation, Startup and Incubation cell and heading the IP Cell as well. He is also a nominated member of National Innovation and Startup Policy. He is President of IIC (3.0). Also contributing significantly as an Expert Representative for Centre of Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE) of IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. He is also a member of various Professional bodies such as- Institution of Engineers (India), Academic Council of Government Tool Room & Training Centre (GTRTC), Dumka, Indian Society for Technical Education (I.S.T.E.) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Title: Implementation of Networked Technologies and Smart Manufacturing during COVID-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 epidemic has turned into a global health disaster, and the world is attempting to recover from this dangerous sickness. This epidemic has sparked a huge demand for smart medical devices, quarantine facilities, surveillance systems, and other digital technologies. Manufacturing and educational institutions are clamoring for technology that allows workers to work from home. Smart Manufacturing offers a lot of potential for meeting these customized needs during and after the COVID-19 crisis. The goal of this study is to familiarize people with the many digital/networked technologies and smart manufacturing approaches that will be used during the Pandemic. Search engines such as Google Scholar, Scopus, IEEE Xplore databases, Research Gate, and the government's online portal have been used to identify the adoption of various digital technologies and Industry 4.0 reported till October 2020. The information has been analyzed and discovered. 3D printing, Artificial Intelligence, cloud repository for infected patients, Autonomous Robot, Biosensor, Telemedicine service, Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT), Virtual reality and holography for online education, Work from Home (WFH) environment using cloud computing are widely used to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in health and education. This paper reviews these digital technologies and Industry 4.0 techniques and tools, and highlights their usefulness, most recent development, and implementation in fighting COVID-19 Pandemic around the world

Speaker

Uma S. Jha

L3Harris Technologies, USA

Dr. Uma S. Jha is a Senior Fellow at L3Harris Technologies. Prior to L3Hais he served as an Engineering Fellow at Raytheon, Technical Fellow at Boeing, Director at Qualcomm and many other fortune5 00 companies , as well as high profile start- ups in various executive roles. As a Director of Product Management at Qualcomm, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in wireless SOC development, he managed multi-billion dollar chip business spanning tier-1 OEM accounts globally. At Morhics, a startup in Silicon Valley, he led the development of waveform agnostic signal processing core, a key technology enabler for multimode/multiband smartphone for cellular industry. The company got acquired by Infineon and the IP developed by Dr. Jha’s team was used in 1st Apple iPhone, which changed the cellular landscape forever. Dr. Jha has 20+ (15 already granted) patents in consumer electronics domain and actively participates at industry consortia, standards fora, and academia as a keynote speaker, panelist, and advisor. He has published more than 30 papers and coauthored a book on next generation broadband communication systems. He is a Sr. Member of IEEE and serves as Technical Program Committee (TPC) on many IEEE and International conferences. He has organized an international conference, WPMC 2006, as the General Chair where more than 600 people participated form 43 countries. Dr. Jha received a joint Ph.D. from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, a MSEE from California State University, and BSEE from BIT Sindri. Additionally he received an Engineering Management certification from California Institute of Technology, USA

Title: MACHINE LEARNING – WHOSE TIME HAS COME

Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) has become the key tool for the trend analysis and pattern recognition in engineering, financial, industrial automation, medical diagnostics and Social Media applications. ML has been in the purview of practitioners for a long time, but it is just recently being widely utilized due to the advancements in the semiconductor (especially CPU Horsepower, Memory and Storage) and connectivity (Gigabit Ethernet) offerings. Machine learning algorithms find natural patterns in data that generate insight and helps to make better decisions and predictions. They are used every day to make critical decisions in medical diagnosis, stock trading, energy load forecasting, and more. Social Media companies rely on machine learning to sift through millions of choices to give you your personalized likes/dislikes. Traders/Retailers use it to gain insight into customers’ purchasing behavior. Machine learning trains machines what human beings do it naturally: learn from experience. Machine learning algorithms use computational methods to “learn” information directly from data without relying on a predetermined equation as a model. The algorithms adaptively improve their performance as the number of samples available for learning increases. The talk would cover the key aspects of supervised and unsupervised learnings. This supervised learning consists of a target/outcome variable (or dependent variable) which is to be predicted from a given set of predictors (independent variables). Using these set of variables, we generate a function that map inputs to desired outputs. The training process continues until the model achieves a desired level of accuracy on the training data. In unsupervised learning, one does not have any target or outcome variable to predict/estimate. It is used for clustering population in different groups, which is widely used for segmenting customers in different groups for specific intervention. Wide adoption of Neural Network methods in the industry would be covered in detail as well.

Session 10: Sustainable Green technology

Session Chair Torben Andersen

Aarhus University, Denmark

Education 1982 General Certificate. Mathematics and social science. Schneekloth State Highschool 1985 Bachelor's degree (B.Sc.). Copenhagen Business School 1989 22nd Essex Summer School, UK 1989 Master of Science degree (M.Sc.) Copenhagen Business School 1995 Ph.D. - degree, on the dissertation: "Organisational Change in Danish Banking - the Development of New Employment Relations". Copenhagen Business School.

Positions 1989 Ph.D.-student – Copenhagen Business School. 1992 EU Research Fellowship (Human Capital Mobility Programme), at University of Warwick, Industrial Relations Research Unit. UK. (12 months). 1993-1994 Research fellow Copenhagen Business School and University of Aalborg (Denmark). 1995 Assistant professor, Department of Organization & Management, The Aarhus School of Business (ASB) 1999-03 Associate professor, Department of Organization & Management, ASB. 2003-06 Associate professor, Department of Organization & Management, University of Southern Denmark, Campus Odense 2006-09 Director, Center for Technology, Economics and Management, Technical University of Denmark 2009-17 Head of Campus and Department, Department of Leadership and Corporate Strategy, University of Southern Denmark, Campus Slagelse 2017-> Associate professor, Aarhus University Department of Business Development and Technology 2007-> Advisory Board Member, Department of International Business, San Francisco State University. 2008 Representing Technical University of Denmark in national committee on establishing metrics for scientific publishing standards, The Danish Ministry of Science.

Foreign assignments 1993 EU Human Capital Mobility Fellow, University of Warwick, (12 months) 2001Visiting Ass. Professor, San Francisco State University (6 months) 2002 Visiting Ass. Professor, University of Auckland (7 months) 2005-> Shorter stays at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and Auckland University of Technology (AUT). 2016 Johann von Spix visting professor, Otto-Friedrich-Universität BambergLehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre (6 months).

Speaker

H. Vincent Poor

Princeton University, Princeton, USA

Harold Vincent Poor FRS FREng is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he is also the Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a specialist in wireless telecommunications, signal processing and information theory. He has received many honorary degrees and election to national academies. He was also President of IEEE Information Theory Society (1990). He is on the Board of Directors of the Poor received a BSEE degree from Auburn University in 1972, and a MSEE from there in 1974. In 1977, he received his PhD from Princeton University. From 1977 - 1990, he was a faculty member of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. From 1990, he joined Princeton University as a professor. His research interests lie in the areas of stochastic analysis, statistical signal processing and information theory, and their applications in a number of fields including wireless networks, social networks, and smart grid. This research work has attracted over 10,000 citations.[7] He has published a book on Signal Detection and Estimation This book is considered the definitive reference in the subject. He was reported to have made a particular impact in the field of wireless communications.

Title: Towards 6G wireless communication networks: vision, enabling technologies, and new paradigm shifts

Abstract:The fifth generation (5G) wireless communication networks are being deployed worldwide from 2020 and more capabilities are in the process of being standardized, such as mass connectivity, ultra-reliability, and guaranteed low latency. However, 5G will not meet all requirements of the future in 2030 and beyond, and sixth generation (6G) wireless communication networks are expected to provide global coverage, enhanced spectral/energy/cost efficiency, better intelligence level and security, etc. To meet these requirements, 6G networks will rely on new enabling technologies, i.e., air interface and transmission technologies and novel network architecture, such as waveform design, multiple access, channel coding schemes, multi-antenna technologies, network slicing, cell-free architecture, and cloud/fog/edge computing. Our vision on 6G is that it will have four new paradigm shifts. First, to satisfy the requirement of global coverage, 6G will not be limited to terrestrial communication networks, which will need to be complemented with non-terrestrial networks such as satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks, thus achieving a space-airground- sea integrated communication network. Second, all spectra will be fully explored to further increase data rates and connection density, including the sub-6 GHz, millimeter wave (mmWave), terahertz (THz), and optical frequency bands. Third, facing the big datasets generated by the use of extremely heterogeneous networks, diverse communication scenarios, large numbers of antennas, wide bandwidths, and new service requirements, 6G networks will enable a new range of smart applications with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data technologies. Fourth, network security will have to be strengthened when developing 6G networks. This article provides a comprehensive survey of recent advances and future trends in these four aspects. Clearly, 6G with additional technical requirements beyond those of 5G will enable faster and further communications to the extent that the boundary between physical and cyber worlds disappears.

Speaker

fred harris

University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA

fred harris is a professor of Electrical engineering and CUBIC signal processing chair at San Diego State University and an internationally renowned expert on DSP and Communication Systems. He is also the co-inventor of the Blackman-Harris Filter. He also has extensively published many technical papers, the most famous being the seminal 1978 paper "On the use of Windows for Harmonic Analysis with the Discrete Fourier Transform." He is also the author of the textbook Multi-rate Signal Processing for Communication Systems and the Source Coding chapter in Bernard Sklar's textbook on Digital Communications. He holds 17 patents on DSP and digital radio receiver technology. Harris received his B.S. from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, his M.S. from San Diego State University, his PhD from Aalborg University, and did PhD course work at the University of California, San Diego. He is an IEEE Fellow[4] and co-editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Digital Signal Processing. In early 2010 the "Fred Harris Endowed Chair in Digital Signal Processing" fund was established by Eric Johnson and Qualcomm executive Peggy Johnson. The fund is described to encourage and enable future students to pursue careers in the communications speciality of electrical engineering and to honor Fred Harris' legacy.

Title: What time is it? Who Cares? Why?

Abstract: An interesting experiment helps explain why we measure time. After seeing someone glancing at their watch, you can ask them if they know what time it is, and will be surprised to learn they don’t know and will have to look again at their timepiece to respond to the question. But you know they had just looked at it, why didn’t it register? It is interesting to note that we don’t look at our watch to know what the current time is, we look to learn how much time remains till an upcoming event; perhaps end of a lecture, or to a make a scheduled call. What we learn is time intervals are more important than time itself. We partition time into convenient intervals, such as second, minutes, days, weeks, months, years, and so on. The intervals allow us to schedule and coordinate activities. Christiaan Huygens invented the pendulum clock in 1656 which reduced clock errors from 15 minutes per day to 15 seconds per day. A ship’s navigator could determine Latitude (north of equator) by measuring altitude of the North Star. They were not similarly able to determine their longitude. In old maps Latitudes of coastlines are accurate, but the Longitudes are off by hundreds of miles. Pendulum clocks cannot operate on board a ship and thus a navigator, without access to accurate time, could not determine Longitude. In 1707, due to a poor estimate of longitude during a severe storm off the Isles of Scilly, the British Navy lost four ships, 1600 sailors, and an Admiral. This is considered the greatest maritime disaster in British history. In response to this loss, in 1714, Parliament offered a 20,000 Pound Sterling ($4.4 million today) prize to anyone who could find a way to determine a ship’s longitude within 0.5 degrees (30 nautical miles). Navigation is why we care “What is the Tim

Speaker

Sandip Sarkar

SesoVera, USA

Sandip Sarkar graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India with a bachelor’s degree in technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, and is currently the CTO of Sesovera, an Edge Based Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning platform company, having pioneered the award winning HearZ platform - giving a voice interface to all gadgets and productsBefore that Sandip was a Sr Director at Qualcomm the worldwide lead for 5G/LTE and the technical lead for the Qualcomm Engineering Simulation Tool (QUEST™), a robust tool that analyzes live network data, helping operators more precisely track network performance and identify bottlenecks. Sarkar was initially hired by Qualcomm as a senior engineer and worked on Globalstar modem design and Condor encryption algorithm design. Later, he became the cdma2000 reverse link systems lead, and subsequently served as the editor for the cdma2000 physical layer and band class specifications.Then, he served as the MIMO lead for 3GPP, the UMB and LTE standards delegate for Qualcomm, and the editor for UMB physical layer specifications as well.Dedicated to the highest degree of EE professionalism, Sarkar is a member of ComSoc. He has served as a chairman of the physical layer text group as well as an editor for 3GPP2 specifications. Sarkar was elected as a senior member of IEEE in 2003. He holds more that 300+ worldwide patents. He has authored and published more than 30 technical papers in various IEEE and other technical journals and his name has appeared in “Marquis Who’s Who in America” since 2006.

Title: Evolution of Modulation and Coding for Current Wireless Systems".

Abstract: The talk will focus on the evolution of modulation and coding to suit the needs of wireless communications. It will start off with the mechanism to support circuit switched voice over wireless networks, and then its evolution to support packet switched data. As data became the dominant traffic, MIMO started finding use. The arrival of 5G and its various use cases have made latency a premium as well. We will talk how LDPC and polar codes with distributed CRC helps achieve this goal, along with the use of higher order modulations, and dual codeword MIMO.

Speaker

Kwang-Cheng Chen

University of South Florida, USA

Kwang-Cheng Chen has been a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, since 2016. From 1987 to 2016, Dr. Chen worked with SSE, Communications Satellite Corp., IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, National Tsing Hua University, HP Labs., and National Taiwan University in mobile communications and networks. He visited TU Delft (1998), Aalborg University (2008), Sungkyunkwan University (2013), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012-2013, 2015-2016). He founded a wireless IC design company in 2001, which was acquired by MediaTek Inc. in 2004. He has been actively involving in the organization of various IEEE conferences and serving editorships with a few IEEE journals, together with various IEEE volunteer services to the IEEE, Communications Society, Vehicular Technology Society, and Signal Processing Society, such as founding the Technical Committee on Social Networks in the IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Chen also has contributed essential technology to various international standards, namely IEEE 802 wireless LANs, Bluetooth, LTE and LTE-A, 5G-NR, and ITU-T FG ML5G. He has authored and co-authored over 300 IEEE publications, 4 books published by Wiley and River (most recently, Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Robotics, 2020), and more than 24 granted US patents. Dr. Chen is an IEEE Fellow and has received a number of awards including 2011 IEEE COMSOC WTC Recognition Award, 2014 IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, 2014 IEEE COMSOC AP Outstanding Paper Award. Dr. Chen’s current research interests include wireless networks, artificial intelligence and machine learning, IoT/CPS, social networks and data analytics, quantum photonic computing and communications, and cybersecurity.

Title: Minimal-Latency Green Communication for 6G

Abstract: Communications for artificial intelligence, particularly autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, services robots, smart factories and communities, emerges as a new technological frontier of 6G mobile communications and demands ultra-low latency communication. We propose open-loop communication in the small virtual cell network architecture that enhances energy efficiency. Machine learning enabling anticipatory mobility management and multi-user detection have been proposed so that minimal latency can be reliably achieved. A disruptive wireless communication technology is therefore suggested to 6G mobile communications.

Speaker

Vinod Kumar

WWRF, France

Dr Vinod Kumar has 35+ years of R&D experience in mobile communications. During his 27year tenure in Alcatel-Lucent he initiated and contributed to research projects in 2G-5G technologies - GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSPA, LTE, LTE A, IoT. He was also involved in standardisation, marketing support and in Patent Management related to above technologies. He contributed to multiple international projects (EC FP6, FP7), acted as Evaluator in EC H2020, ANR and Technical Auditor for CELTIC. He holds Secretary and Treasurer positions in Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF).

Dr Kumar has been Visiting Professor for 25 years for graduate courses in mobile communications in ENST (IMT Paris-Tech), CENTRALESUPELEC, ISEP, EURECOM in France and in MNIT in India. He was Associate Professor at the Université de Marne la Vallée in France for six years. He acted as member of Industrial Advisory Board of CTIF Denmark, of Conseil Technique of SUPELEC- France and of the joint INRIA-Bell Labs research lab. He has widely lectured on 5G and IoT at IEEE and WWRF events, has been guest editor, referee for IEEE publications and PhD guide and examiner with CentraleSupelec and INRIA. He has 80 technical publications and 33 patents.

Title: Integrated Sensing and Communication in 6G Applications Advantages and Technology Challenges

Abstract: Availability of real time connectivity between the digital, physical and biological/human worlds forms an integral part of the 6G vision. The future mobile network will interconnect a very large number of intelligent nodes capable of sensing their location and surroundings, of performing computing functions and of mutually communicating their observations and computed results. The advent of “connected intelligence” will enhance multiple applications including remote health care, automated vehicle tracking in industrial control (Robots) and in autonomous driving set-ups. Typical communication services like multi-party virtual meetings and virtual and augmented reality-based video gaming will also be benefitted. Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is a means for resource efficient implementation of this “connected intelligence”. The proposed article will outline the relative advantages and challenges associated with underlying techniques for ISAC namely - shared radio spectrum usage, possible hardware infra-structure sharing, deployment of passive and active Radar sensing, antenna array and beamforming design for dual functional radar-communication systems, cross- system and self-interference cancellation, sensing assisted communications, sensing parameter estimation and signal waveform design for joint optimization of sensing and communication.

Speaker

Shweta Agarwala

Aarhus University, Aarhus, 8200, Denmark

Shweta is tenure-track Assistant professor at Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark and head ‘Printed Electronics Technology’ laboratory. Her research focuses on using printed technology route to enable flexible and bioelectronics. Through her research, she is trying to understand interaction of electronic inks on unconventional substrates like paper, textiles, polymers, medical plasters and biomaterials. She obtained her Master's at the prestigious Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and later defended PhD at National University of Singapore (Singapore). She was a postdoc at the Energy Research Institute in Singapore, and later went to Singapore Centre for 3D Printing to pursue research in printed electronics before travelling to Denmark. Shweta is author of more than 40 peer-reviewed papers published in internationally renowned journals, books and conferences. She serves as the chair of IEEE Women in engineering Denmark section.

Title: Printed Electronics Technology: promising next-generation devices

Abstract: As the field of electronics is advancing, the rigid devices are being replaced by flexible systems; which in turn are opening new application areas. Printed electronics is the new emerging fabrication technique that allows electronic components, circuits and devices to be put on a desired surface using nanoparticle inks. This talk will focus on the role and research of printed electronics for applications of flexible sensors, wearables, smart packaging and bioelectronics.

Speaker

Sanjay Kumar

Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, India

Dr. Sanjay Kumar is an Associate Professor and presently working as the in-charge of the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Deoghar Campus. During Aug 2003 to Dec 2019 he worked in the department of Electronics and Communications Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi. During 2006 to 2009 he was a Guest Researcher at Aalborg University, Denmark, where he worked in close association with Nokia Siemens Networks towards his PhD work. During 2007 to 2008 he worked as Part-time Lecturer in department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Before joining teaching and research he served the Indian Air Force from 1985 to 2000 in various technical capacities. He has nearly 36 years of teaching, research and work experience in the field of Wireless Communication. He received MBA from Pune University in 1994, M. Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana in 2000, and PhD in Wireless Communication from Aalborg University, Denmark in 2009.

His teaching and research interests lie in the field of Wireless Communication Technology. He has contributed above 90 research papers in various National and International journals and conferences in the field of Wireless Communication. He has been closely associated with organizing and contributing to several conferences and workshops. He has reviewed a large number of research papers for various Journals and Conferences. He is an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal, “Wireless Personal Communications” published by Springer. He has delivered a large number of key note speeches and expert talks in various National and International workshops. His book ‘Wireless Communication: The Fundamental & Advanced Concepts’ has been published from Denmark in 2015. He has contributed a chapter in the book “New Directions in Wireless Communications Research”, published by Springer, USA, in 2009. He has also contributed a chapter in “Encyclopedia of Polymer Applications”, published by Taylor and Francis, in 2018. He is a Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, a Senior Member of the Institution of Communication Engineers and Information Technologists, a Member of the Institution of Engineers, India, a Life member of Indian Society for Technical Education, and a Life member of GENCO Alumni Association, Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, India. A member of Global ICT Standardization Forum for India (GISFI).

Title: Key research issues towards investigations on multiple access scheme for 5G and beyond communication systems

Abstract: 5G will support an extremely large number of users and variety of services. Non orthogonal Multiple Access scheme (NOMA) has received huge attention in place of Orthogonal Multiple Access scheme (OMA). NOMA offers a significant increase in system capacity and throughput performance. NOMA ensures massive connectivity, low latency, high spectral efficiency, and high energy efficiency, which are the prime requirements of 5G. In fact, NOMA has inspired a new wave or research. It allows the mutual interference to exist, and applies interference cancellation techniques, such as Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) or Multi Users Diversity Gain (MUD) to mitigate the interference.

The deployment of 5G has already been started. Even though 5G will offer significant improvements over the existing systems but will not be able to fulfill the emerging future demands. In future, there will be use cases requiring extreme performance since the wireless communication application is expanding from connecting humans to connecting machines. This is leading towards 6G, which will satisfy unprecedented requirements and expectations that 5G cannot meet. NOMA needs to improve. There are several challenges faced by NOMA such as imperfect SIC cancellation, availability of imperfect channel state information, design of spreading sequences, high receiver complexity and dealing with heterogeneous networks. Addressing these issues will improve NOMA performance to harness its maximum potential benefits towards meeting 6G requirements. This paper discusses various key research issues to be addressed to improve NOMA performance.

Speaker

Ashutosh Dutta,

Johns Hopkins University, USA

Ashutosh Dutta is currently senior scientist and 5G Chief Strategist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL). He is also a JHU/APL Sabbatical Fellow and adjunct faculty at The Johns Hopkins University. Ashutosh also serves as the chair for Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Engineering for Professional Program at Johns Hopkins University. His career, spanning more than 30 years, includes Director of Technology Security and Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, CTO of Wireless for NIKSUN, Inc., Senior Scientist and Project Manager in Telcordia Research, Director of the Central Research Facility at Columbia University, adjunct faculty at NJIT, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. He has more than 100 conference, journal publications, and standards specifications, three book chapters, and 31 issued patents. Ashutosh is co-author of the book, titled, “Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimization: Design, Evaluation and Application” published by IEEE and John & Wiley.

As a Technical Leader in 5G and security, Ashutosh has been serving as the founding Co-Chair for the IEEE Future Networks Initiative that focuses on 5G standardization, education, publications, testbed, and roadmap activities. Ashutosh serves as IEEE Communications Society's Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2020 and as an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2020-2022) Ashutosh has served as the general Co-Chair for the premier IEEE 5G World Forums and has organized 73 5G World Summits around the world. Ashutosh served as the chair for IEEE Princeton / Central Jersey Section, Industry Relation Chair for Region 1 and MGA, Pre-University Coordinator for IEEE MGA and vice chair of Education Society Chapter of PCJS. He co-founded the IEEE STEM conference (ISEC) and helped to implement EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) projects in several high schools. Ashutosh has served as the general Co-Chair for the IEEE STEM conference for the last 10 years. Ashutosh served as the Director of Industry Outreach for IEEE Communications Society from 2014-2019. He was recipient of the prestigious 2009 IEEE MGA Leadership award and 2010 IEEE-USA professional leadership award. Ashutosh currently serves as Member-At-Large for IEEE Communications Society for 2020-2022.

Ashutosh is a Distinguished Alumnus and obtained BS in Electrical Engineering from NIT Rourkela; MS in Computer Science from NJIT; and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne. Ashutosh is a Fellow of IEEE and senior member of ACM.

Title: Security in SDN/NFV and 5G Networks – Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract: Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are the key pillars of future networks, including 5G and beyond that promise to support emerging applications such as enhanced mobile broadband, ultra-low latency, massive sensing type applications while providing the resiliency in the network. Service providers and other vertical industries (e.g., Connected Cars, IOT, eHealth) can leverage SDN/NFV to provide flexible and cost- effective service without compromising the end user quality of service (QoS). While NFV and SDN open up the door for flexible networks and rapid service creation, these also offer both security opportunities while also introducing additional challenges and complexities, in some cases. With the rapid proliferation of 4G and 5G networks, operators have now started the trial deployment of network function virtualization, especially with the introduction of various virtualized network elements in the access and core networks. While several standardization bodies (e.g., ETSI, 3GPP, NGMN, ATIS, IEEE) have started looking into the many security issues introduced by SDN/NFV, additional work is needed with larger security community including vendors, operators, universities, and regulators. This talk will address evolution of cellular technologies towards 5G but will largely focus on various security challenges and opportunities introduced by SDN/NFV and 5G networks such as Hypervisor, Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), SDN controller, orchestrator, network slicing, cloud RAN, edge cloud, and security function virtualization. This talk will introduce a threat taxonomy for 5G security from an end-to-end system perspective, potential threats introduced by these enablers, and associated mitigation techniques. At the same time, some of the opportunities introduced by these pillars will also be discussed. This talk will also highlight some of the ongoing activities within various standards communities and will illustrate a few deployment use case scenarios for security including threat taxonomy for both operator and enterprise networks.

Guest Participants

Krishna Sirohi

i2TB Research Foundation, India

Krishna is having 32 years of experience of Research & Development in the field of Telecommunication & Defense communication products design. He has established i2TB Research foundation, a Non-for-Profit Indian Company, which is involved in Innovation enabling, Standardization, Research, and high technology competency development. I2TB Research Foundation is nurturing few Technology Startup initiatives in India in the field of ICT emerging technologies and services. As strategic advisor for product definition, engineering, development methodology and business collaborations, he is contributing to some high-technology development organizations in the field of Wireless Technology (5G/4G-LTE Access & Network), Millimeter Wave Technology based product for strategic communication and commercial network applications, Network Security and IOT based systems and solution. His prior contribution to indigenous R&D projects includes: India’s first indigenous Large Capacity Digital Switch at Indian Telephone Industries Limited (ITI); India’s first indigenous Command, Control, Communication & Intelligence for Indian Navy Warfare Ship at Bharat Electronics Limited; Established and headed Mobile Technology development division in CDOT; Established (as CTO, VNL) India’s first Mobile telecom R&D & Successful Manufacture; Guided complex product development initiatives in the field of network monitoring and cyber security. He is currently active in deep technical issues related to Telecom, Industry- Academia collaboration for Innovation- Research- Standardization, Issues related to high technology Startups & indigenous R&D initiatives, and associated policy interventions. Krishna has an Engineering Master’s degree from IISc and B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics from Delhi University.

Kishore Kumar Thakur

GISFI, India

Kishore Kumar Thakur, FIETE is Hon. Director (Admin.), IETE University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India and also the Chairman, IETE Ranchi Centre. He recently retired as the Chief General Manager Telecom, Jharkhand Circle in February 2020. He obtained his B. Tech. (Electronics and Communications Engg.) from BIT Sindri in 1983 and MBA (Marketing) from BR Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad in 2009. Currently pursuing PhD under the supervision of Ramjee Prasad, Professor, Future Technologies for Business Ecosystem Innovation, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark. Possesses 37 years of work experience. Served as Assistant Computer Engineer in TISCO Jamshedpur. Worked in Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, Department of Telecommunications for last 33 Years, mostly in Hyderabad Telephones. Worked with all technologies, namely manual exchanges, strowger, cross-bar, E10B (Local/ Tax), C-DOT, System-X, EWSD, OCB, 5ESS, LG (CDMA) and GSM. Associated with development works during the periods of major technological changes. Worked for one year as DGM in Nagaland in2002-2003. Served as GMTD, at Cuddapah and Warangal, districts and as GM (Marketing), AP Circle Hyderabad in-charge of sales and distribution, franchisee management, marketing and PR activities. Also worked as GM (Mobile), J&K Circle for 2 years and as GM (Projects) Hyderabad for two years. Attended workshops, seminars and training on switching, transmission, mobile and management courses. Also attended comprehensive Lucent Technology training in the USA on 5ESS switch. Leading a balanced life with Sahaj Yoga Meditation and advise others also the same.

Kiritkumar Lathia

GISFI, Belgium

From 1992 to 2008, as Siemens/Nokia, Italy VP – Product Strategy, Standards and Regulations as well as Telecommunications Advisor of Italian Government, led Italian Government positions concerning the ETSI IPR Policy with special focus on SMEs having access to ETSI Essential IPRs. At European level, Mr. Lathia as Chairman of ICT Standards Board assisted the European Commission to formulate its official positions for RFID, Privacy and Data Protection Principles. At international level, have participated at all management levels of ITU-T and was an active member of ETSI delegation in creation of 3GPP which is now a de-facto standards body for mobile communications. In India, I have been participating in GISFI since its formulation as advisor to Prof. Ramjee Prasad.

Shashank Shekhar Garuyar

BITSA, India

"Within the seed of our dreams, lies the tree of our future…..as a small boy, Shashank was a daydreamer. Dreams which he would script for himself. Dreams which he would play and replay in his mind. As he grew, these got forgotten in the regular demands of his life. And then suddenly in 1996, they re-emerged! As if out of a trance, he started his journey – as a Flag bearer of BITSAA/BITSindri - to live his dreams of forming three dozen Chapters of BITSAA across country – evolving and growing as a better human and enabling others grow in their journey of self-discovery and evolution – as a person and as a professional.

Shashank is a motivational speaker, an influencer and a relationship management cum behavioural sciences trainer. He believes “Training is one of the core pillars of our success”. Shashank is a B.Tech ECE of BIT Sindri with MBA Marketing from IGNOU and possesses over three decades of experience in Critical Infrastructure, Industry and Smart City.

One of his unique qualities is he is an excellent storyteller which helps him to personally connect the participants which brings immense confidence & belief in them. He is full of real-life examples and practical approach which keeps them completely engaged and highly motivated.

He has a natural sense of humour and his multidimensional outlook makes his appeal to participants’ joyful and fantastic experience and appealing too. His trademark is “Small step can redefine your life".

After spending nearly three decades working with teams in corporate world, he chose to pursue his passion for writing, speaking, and helping other people unleash the leader within.

Shashank is married to Renu a postgraduate in Botany who manages him and his family of two daughters Shruti Swapnil (an Engineer) and Vastuti a student at CSUN, LA, USA. "

Raj Kumar Dubey BISTA, USA

EDUCATION : B. COM., LL.B., ACS

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Bar Association (ABA) Commonwealth Lawyers Associations (CLA) The World Jurist Association (WJA) Inter-Lawyer (IL) The Indo-US Entrepreneurs (TiE) Society of Asian Lawyers (SAL) Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) Indo German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC) Patent & Trademark Agent Founding Member of Corporate Law Society

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE: India, U.S.A, U.K, Ukraine, UAE, Germany RELEVANT EXPERIENCE As mentioned below. SELECTED TRANSACTIONS : Assisted US based Fortune 500 Company in Takeover of a listed Indian Company; assisted US based Companies in setting up their business operations in India, as Wholly Owned Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures.

He has a lot of experiences but we mentioned here very few just to maintain the flow of the proceeding.

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