IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems
17–20 December 2023 // MNIT Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Ubiquitous networking for seamless connectivity

Workshops

Workshop Schedule

 

WS1: Workshop on Optical Wireless communication Systems (WOWS)

  • Rishu Raj, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  • Anand Singh, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India
  • Anand Srivastava, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India

WS2: FogPlat: 2nd Workshop on Fog Computing based Security Frameworks for IoT Botnet Attack Prevention and Detection

WS3: Workshop on Ensuring Security, Trust, and Privacy in Industrial IoT Systems

WS4: Workshop on Standards Driven Research

WS5: Next-generation Networking: Exploring the Convergence of Metaverse and 6G

WS6: 8th International Workshop on 5G and Future Wireless Technology (5GFWT 2023)

  • Navin Kumar, Amrita University & School of Engineering, India
  • Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs (JHU/APL), USA

WS7: Selected Topics in 6G Wireless Communications

WORKSHOP CHAIR/CO-CHAIRS

Subhankar Dhar, San Jose State University, USA
Mithun Mukherjee, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

WS1: Workshop on Optical Wireless Communication Systems (WOWS)

Date and Time: DATE AND TIME: SUNDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2023, 14:30 – 16:00 AND 16:30 – 18:00 // IST

Accepted Papers

  • Experimental Implementation of FSO System using Low-cost Optical Transmitter, Akhilesh Kumar Savita, Rishabh Patial, Ragini Verma and Anshul Jaiswal (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
  • Performance Analysis of DCO-OFDM based UWOC System under Varying Underwater Channel Conditions, K Jeyapiriya (Sri Sai Ram Engineering College Chennai, India); Priyanka Singh (IIIT Delhi, India); Anand Singh (Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India); Anand Srivastava (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India)
  • Simulator of Coded Optical Communication System, Antrix Gupta (IIT DELHI, India); Sonali Garg (HFCL Limited, India); Abhishek Dixit (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi & IBBT, India)

Invited Speakers

  • Hany Elagla, The University at Albany, USA
  • Moussa Ayyash, Chicago State University, USA
  • Haythem Bany Salameh, Al Ain University, UAE

Session Outline

  Time duration Event

Session I (14:30 – 16:00)

Session Chair: Dr. Rishu Raj

 6 minutes Workshop inauguration
28 minutes

Technical Paper Presentation – 1 (23 minutes + 5 minutes QnA) 1570962576: Experimental Implementation of FSO System using Low-cost Optical Transmitter
28 minutes Technical Paper Presentation – 2 (23 minutes + 5 minutes QnA) 1570962784: Performance Analysis of DCO-OFDM based UWOC System under Varying Underwater Channel Conditions
28 minutes Technical Paper Presentation – 3 (23 minutes + 5 minutes QnA) 1570952277: Simulator of Coded Optical Communication System
  30 minutes Break

Session II (16:30 – 18:00)

Session Chair: Prof. Anand Srivastava

 6 minutes

Welcome note by Prof. Anand Srivastava
60 minutes

Invited Speakers (Virtual, approx. 20 minutes each)

  1. Prof. Hany Elagla (The University at Albany, USA)
  2. Prof. Moussa Ayyash (Chicago State University, USA)
  3. Prof. Haythem Bany Salameh (Al Ain University, UAE)
20 minutes

Discussion and QnA
4 minutes Closing remarks

 

Short Bio of Invited Speakers

Hany ElgalaHany Elgala is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Engineering at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and the Director of the Signals and Networks (SINE) Lab. Before joining UAlbany, he was a Research Professor at Boston University (BU). There, he was the co-leader of the Multimedia Communications Lab (MCL) and the Communications Testbed leader at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (ERC). From 2010-12, he was the co-leader of the Cellular and Wireless Communications (CWC) Lab at Jacobs University in Germany. There, he coordinated two industrial projects with Airbus Germany and the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) to realize high-speed optical wireless networks in airplane cabins. He is the author or co-author of approximately 50 publications or patents in the area of optical wireless systems. Dr. Elgala works in the area of telecommunications, digital signal processing and embedded systems. He is particularly interested in visible light communications (VLC) technology and LiFi networks, coexistence in wireless heterogeneous networks (HetNets), localization, Internet-of-Things (IoT) security, backscatter communication, and artificial intelligence in wireless communications.

 

Moussa AyyashMoussa Ayyash received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Mu’tah University, and the University of Jordan, respectively. He obtained the Ph.D. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Information Studies, Chicago State University, Chicago. He is also the Director of the Center of Information and National Security Education and Research (CINSER). His current research interests span digital and data communication areas, wireless networking, visible light communications, network security, Internet of Things, and interference mitigation. His research and educational activities are funded by the National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, and Department of Defense. In 2018, Dr. Ayyash received a Fulbright Specialist Award to collaborate with Reykjavik University in Iceland. Dr. Ayyash is a Senior IEEE, a member of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is a recipient of the 2018 Best Survey Paper Award from IEEE Communications Society.

 

Haythem A. Bany SalamehHaythem A. Bany Salameh (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, in 2009. In summer 2008, he was a member of the Research and Development Long-Term Evolution Development Group, Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. In summer 2015, he was a Visiting Research Professor with the Telecommunications Systems and Networks Laboratory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is currently a professor of wireless networking engineering with Al Ain University, United Arab Emirates, and Yarmouk University (YU), Irbid, Jordan. He is also the Dean of scientific research and graduate studies with Al Ain University. He also holds the position of Visiting Professor with the Faculty of Computing, Staffordshire University, U.K. Recently, he has been involved in projects related to securing IoT communications; cognitive radios/SDRs; distributed resource management in full-duplex wireless networks; drone networking with AI support; and communication protocols, with an emphasis on spectrum access, cross-layer design, and channel/power assignment. His research interests include wireless communications technology, artificial intelligence (AI)-based networking, the Internet of Things (IoT) networking, and security protocols for delay-sensitive IoT applications, with an emphasis on resource allocation, adaptive control, and distributed protocol design. He was a recipient of the Jordan Science Research Support Foundation Prestigious Award for Distinguished Research in the ICT sector, in 2015, the Best Researcher Award for Scientific Colleges in YU for the academic year 2015/2016, and the Jordan Science Research Support Fund Award for Creativity and Technological Scientific Innovation, in 2017. He served as an Organizing Chair for the Seventh and the Eighth International Conferences on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS 2020 and 2021) and as a Steering Committee Member of the 7th and 8th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems Management, Security-(IoTSMS 2020 and 2021).

WS2: FogPlat: 2nd Workshop on Fog Computing based Security Frameworks for IoT Botnet Attack Prevention and Detection

Date and Time: SUNDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2023, 9:30 – 11:00 AND 11:30 – 13:00 // IST

Accepted Papers

  • Machine Learning Approach to Detect Fake News, Rajesh Kumar Shrivastava (Bennett University, India); Sakshi Khare (GL Bajaj Institute of Technology, India); Pushpa Singh (KIET Group of Institutions, Delhi-NCR, Ghaziabad, India); Pankaj Kumar (G. L. Bajaj Institute of Technology & Management, Greater Noida)
  • The Green Revolution from Space: A Survey of Satellite-Based Agricultural Monitoring Systems, Debjani Ghosh (Bennett University Greater Noida India, India); Jatin Swarnkar, Gunesh Gupta and Priyanka Rawat (Bennett University, India)
  • A Hybrid Computing Framework Enabled by AI and Blockchain in Fiber-Wireless Networks, Sandeep Kumar Singh (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India)
  • Energy-efficient THz NOMA-enabled Small Cells underlaying Macrocell using Reinforcement Learning, Rajat Chaudhary and Varun Kumar (Bennett University, India); Ishan Budhiraja (Bennett University, Greater Noida, India); Akansha Singh (Bennett University, India); Srinivas Aluvala (SR University, India)
  • Optimized Tree-based Ensembles for Intrusion Detection in Internet of Things, T Anitha Kumari (VIT-AP University, India); Sanket Mishra (VITAP University, India)
  • Efficient MLOps Pipeline for Transfer Learning and Reuse of Pre-Trained ML Models, Vimal Kumar (Bennett University, Greater Noida, India); Debjani Ghosh and Shivom Srivastava (Bennett University Greater Noida India, India)

Invited Speaker

  • Sudhir Sharma, LNMIIT, India

Session Outline

SESSION I: SUNDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2023, 9:30 – 11:00 // IST

  • Workshop Inauguration and Welcome
  • Invited Speakers
  • Paper Presentation
  • Discussion and Q&A

SESSION II: SUNDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2023, 11:30 – 13:00 // IST

  • Paper Presentation
  • Closing remarks

SHORT BIO OF INVITED SPEAKER

Sudheer Kumar Sharma is currently working as an Assistant Professor at LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur. He has completed his PhD in Computer Science and Technology from School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has done his M. Tech. from School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and B.Tech. from Uttar Pradesh Technical University Lucknow. He had worked as an Assistant Professor at NIIT University, Neemrana Rajasthan, Galgotias University Greater Noida and ITM University Gurgaon, Haryana. He has more than 10 years of Teaching and Research experience in the area of Computer Science and Engineering. He has been working in the area of Computational Modelling and Simulation of stochastic systems. His work has been published in reputed international Journals and Conferences. His current research interest lies in the study of Non-Homogenous Queueing Systems, Computational Neuroscience, Information Theory, Data Science, and Machine Learning. He delivered invited lectures in various FDPs and Workshops.    

 

WS3: Workshop on Ensuring Security, Trust, and Privacy in Industrial IoT Systems

Date and Time: MONDAY, 18 DECEMBER 2023, 14:30 – 16:00 // IST

Accepted Papers

  • ML-Augmented Network Packet Broker based Anomaly Detection at IIoT-Edge Egress Port, Sasirekha Gvk (Electronics City & IIIT Bangalore, India); Annapoorna Gh (IIIT Bangalore, India); Madhav Rao (International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, India); Jyotsna Bapat (International Institute of Information Technology, India); Debabrata Das (International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, India)
  • Ensemble Learning-based Sybil Attacks Detection in Smart Meter Network, Anakhi Hazarika (BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India); Abhinav Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
  • Device Identification using Network Traces in a Smart Home IoT Network, Rakesh Matam and Jwngfu Brahma (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India); Nikumani Choudhury (BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India)
  • rankIMPACT: A Study of Rank Attacks impact over RPL based Internet of Things Networks, P Subhash (VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology, India)

Invited Speakers

Dr. Ashok Singh SairamDr. Ashok Singh Sairam
Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Associate faculty, Mehta Family School of Data Science and AI,
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

 

 

Title – Inference Privacy In Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)

Abstract: The talk introduces Multi-Agent systems(MAS), and the requirements and necessity of privacy in MAS. More specifically, the talk will focus on inference privacy. It will reflect on two techniques that can be used to achieve inference privacy: compression and noise addition mechanism. The talk will demonstrate on how differential privacy can be used as a compression or noise addition mechanism to achieve inference privacy. The concept of differential privacy will be explained with examples. The talk will conclude with a brief on our research direction and the research gaps.

Bio: Dr. Ashok Singh Sairam received his M.Tech and Ph.D degree from Indian Institute Technology Guwahati. He is a Professor in the department of Mathematics at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He is also an associate faculty with the School of Mehta Family of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Prior to this, he was working as an associate professor in the department of CSE, IIT Patna.

His research interests include security and privacy, next-generation wireless networks and vehicular networks .He has published close to 70 research papers in international journals and conferences. He has executed several high value projects with co Investigators both from India and abroad.

Session Outline

Time

The Events

Speaker

14:30- 15:30

Welcome address and Invited Talk

Topic: Inference Privacy In Multi-Agent systems(MAS)

Prof. Ashok Singh Sairam

Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Guwahati

15:30-15:45

Paper Presentation:

  1. ML-Augmented Network Packet Broker based Anomaly Detection at IIoT-Edge Egress Port,

Sasirekha Gvk, Annapoorna Gh , Madhav Rao, Jyotsna Bapat, Debabrata Das.

15:45- 16:00
  1. Ensemble Learning-based Sybil Attacks Detection in Smart Meter Network

Anakhi Hazarika, Abhinav Kumar

16:00-16:15
  1. Device Identification using Network Traces in a Smart Home IoT Network

Jwngfu Brahma, Rakesh Matam, Nikumani Choudhury

16:15- 16:30
  1. rankIMPACT: A Study of Rank Attacks impact over RPL based Internet of Things Networks

Subhash

WS4: Workshop on Standards Driven Research

Date and Time: MONDAY, 18 DECEMBER 2023, 16:30 – 18:00 // IST

Accepted Papers

  • Improving Vehicular Handover time using Make Before Break Mechanism, Pradeepthi Kolla (Central Research Laboratory, Bharat Electronics Limited, India); Sailaja Ungati (Bharat Electronics ltd, India)
  • A Flexible Architecture for Broadcast Broadband Convergence in Beyond 5G, Rashmi Yadav (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India); Rashmi Kamran (IIT Bombay, India); Pranav Jha (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Abhay Karandikar (Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India)
  • Digital Twin Modelling of Cascaded Amplifiers in the COSMOS Testbed, Rishu Raj (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Shuang Xie (TCD, Ireland); Zehao Wang (Duke, USA); Tingjun Chen (Duke University, USA); Daniel Kilper (Trinity College Dublin & CONNECT Centre, Ireland)

Invited Speakers

TBD

Session Outline

  • Workshop Inauguration and Welcome
  • Invited Speakers
  • Paper Presentation
  • Discussion and Q&A

WS5: Next-generation Networking: Exploring the Convergence of Metaverse and 6G

Date and Time: SUNDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2023, 9:30 – 11:00, 11:30 – 13:00, 14:30 – 16:00, AND 16:30 – 18:00 // IST

Accepted Papers

  • Revolutionizing Human-Machine Interaction through Hand Gesture Recognition in 6G-Enabled Metaverse E, Brij B. Gupta (Asia University, Taiwan); Akshat Gaurav (Ronin Institute, USA); John Chui Kwok Tai (Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU), Hong Kong); Varsha Arya (Insights2Techinfo, Taiwan)
  • Personalized Federated Learning based Intrusion Detection Approach for Metaverse, Gurpreeet Singh (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India); Rajalakshmi P (IIT Hyderabad, India); Yong Xiang (Deakin University, Australia)
  • Parallel Tempering (PT) Empowers Cell Tower Clustering: Advancing K-Medoids Optimization, Shivatmica Murgai and Sharv Murgai (India)
  • SecGes: A Secure Biometric-Driven Hand Gesture Recognition System for Smart Wheelchair Movement, Gurleen Kaur (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology Patiala, Punjab, India); Bakul Gupta (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology Patiala, India); Devanshi Saini, Kashika Mohindru and Anushka Nehra (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology Patiala Punjab India, India)
  • Uncovering Network Vulnerabilities and Conducting Digital Forensics Analysis for IoT Device Security, Ishan Budhiraja (Bennett University, Greater Noida, India); Haneef Khan (Jazan University, Saudi Arabia); Shams Tabrez Siddiqui (Jazan University, India); Shahid Kamal, Khalid Qidwai, Imran Alam and Malik Zaib Alam (Jazan University, Saudi Arabia); Sandeep Chintham (SR University, India)
  • Investigation of Cloud Forensic Incidents in Cloud Architecture for 6G Networks, Ishan Budhiraja (Bennett University, Greater Noida, India); Haneef Khan, Malik Zaib Alam, Adeeb Ahmed, Asif Ali Khan and Mohammad Rafeek Khan (Jazan University, Saudi Arabia)
  • Deep CNN Based Anomaly Detection in Centralized Metaverse Environment, Brij B. Gupta (Asia University, Taiwan); Akshat Gaurav (Ronin Institute, USA); John Chui Kwok Tai (Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU), Hong Kong)
  • Comparative Analysis of Multi Objective Node Placement Strategies in Wireless Sensor Networks, Amritesh Kumar Ojha (National Institute of Technology Patna Bihar, India); Bharat Gupta (National Institute of Technology Patna, India)

Invited Speakers

  • Brij B. Gupta, Asia University, Taiwan

Session Outline

SESSION I: SUNDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2023, 9:30 – 11:00// IST

  • Workshop Inauguration and Welcome
  • Invited Speakers
  • Paper Presentation
  • Discussion and Q&A

SESSION II: SUNDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2023, 11:30 – 13:00 // IST

  • Paper Presentation
  • Discussion and Q&A
  • Closing remarks

SHORT BIO OF INVITED SPEAKER

Brij B. Gupta received the PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India. In more than 18 years of his professional experience, he published over 500 papers in journals/conferences including 38 books and 12 Patents with over 24,000 citations. He has received numerous national and international awards including Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (2009), Govt. of Canada, Visvesvaraya Faculty Research Fellowship Award (2017), MeitY, Govt of India, IEEE GCCE outstanding and WIE best paper awards and Best Faculty Award (2018 & 2019), NIT KKR, India, 2022 Asia University Best researcher award, 2022 Research.com Computer Science in India Leader Award, 2023 Clarivate India Research Excellence Citation Awards Winner (Research Excellence in Engineering and Technology category)  respectively. Prof Gupta is also serving as Distinguished Research Scientist with LoginRadius Inc., USA which is one of leading cybersecurity companies in the world, especially in the field of customer identity and access management (CIAM). He is also selected in the 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 Stanford University’s ranking of the world’s top 2% scientists. He is also a visiting/adjunct professor with several universities (i.e. Temple University, Macquarie University, Yamaguchi University, University of Murcia, Deakin University, Staffordshire University, Swinburne University of Technology, Birkbeck, University of London, etc) worldwide. He is also an IEEE Senior Member (2017) and also selected as 2021 Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE CTSoc. Dr Gupta is also serving as Member-in-Large, Board of Governors, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (2022-2024). Prof. Gupta is also leading IJSWIS (IF: 3.2), IJSSCI (IF: 2.9) and IJCAC (Scopus Citescore: 6.1), IGI Global, as Editor-in-Chief. Moreover, he is also serving as lead-editor of Book Series with CRC, World Scientific and IET press. He also served as TPC members and organized/special session chairs in ICCE 2023, ICCE 2021, IEEE GCCE 2014-2023 and TPC Chair in 2018 INFOCOM:CCSNA Workshop, Publicity Co-chair in 2020 ICCCN, etc. Dr Gupta is also serving/served as Associate/Guest Editor of IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IoT, IEEE Big Data, ASOC, FGCS, etc. At present, Prof. Gupta is working as Director, International Center for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations, and Distinguished Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Asia University, Taiwan. His research interests include cyber security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, intrusion detection, blockchain technologies, cyber physical systems, social media, and networking.

WS6: 8th International Workshop on 5G and Future Wireless Technology (5GFWT 2023)

Date and Time: TUESDAY, 19 DECEMBER 2023, 14:00 – 19:00 // IST

Workshop Organizers

  • Navin Kumar, PhD, C.Eng, FIE, FEAI, SMIEEE (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Bangalore INDIA

  • Ashutosh Dutta, PhD, IEEE Fellow, FIE (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA)

Accepted Papers

  • Federated Learning-based Base Selection on 3D LiDAR Data for Beyond 5G Communications, Thushan Sivalingam (University of Oulu, Finland); Anupma Sharma and Vimal Bhatia (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India); Nandana Rajatheva (University of Oulu, Finland); Sanjeev Sharma (IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India); Kuntal Deka (IIT Guwahati, India)
  • Delay Tolerant Feedback Based MISO Communication System, Ruchi Antil (Netaji Subhash University of Technology, India); Ankit Garg and Tarun Kumar Rawat (Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India)
  • Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces-Assisted Ambient Backscattering Communication for Cognitive Radios, Vivek Baluwale (NIE Mysore, India); Chandankumar H (The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, India); Tayi Charan Kumar (The National Institute of Engineering, India); Manjunath K (The National Institute of Engineering Mysore, India); Suhas S M (The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore, India); Rajalekshmi Kishore (National Institute of Engineering (NIE), India); Sanjeev Gurugopinath (PES University, India)
  • Determination of Impact of Imperfect Feedback Over Distributed Wireless Relay Selection, Ruchi Antil (Netaji Subhash University of Technology, India); Ankit Garg (Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India); Rajat Sharma (Netaji Subhash University of Technology, India); Tarun Kumar Rawat (Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India)

Invited Speakers

Dr. Navin KumarDr. Navin Kumar
Professor and Chairman
ECE Dept. Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore

Title – 5G-6G Innovation Platform

Abstract – The presentation highlights very briefly about capabilities and architecture of 5G Mobile Communication to provide basic information and knowledge on the subject. Then, it will highlight the development of one of the testbeds and its capabilities. This would motivate the audience to attempt to build up their own and carry out plenty of research. At the same time awareness to make use such infrastructure.

Profile: Dr Navin is currently Professor and Chairperson of ECE Dept. at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bangalore campus. He has over 26 years of working experience in Govt., Industry and Academia including 10 yrs of overseas in R&D. He has over 110 peer review published work and a couple of patents filed. He has written and edited books as well. Navin has been awarded Fraunhofer challenge award for his best PhD thesis work, Gowri Memorial award for the best journal paper, Secured grant from Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT-Govt. of Portugal, Europe) towards his PhD work. His research area is in 5G, 6G, ITS, Vehicular Network and Technology. He is active IEEE volunteer and currently serves as Vice Chair Membership activity IEEE Bangalore, Chair VTS Banglaore and many others.

Subodh GajareSubodh Gajare
Senior Principal Architect – Cisco
R&D Bangalore

Title – Architecture and Deployment strategies for Private 5G (a Practitioner’s lens)

Abstract – Private 5G (P5G) connectivity enables enterprises in many industry verticals to unlock business outcomes that were not possible until now. With the ability to connect more devices wirelessly with Private 5G, enterprises are now able to accelerate their digital transformation journeys and enable new business solutions. P5G is becoming prevalent among enterprise customers with applications that demand highly reliable, secure, and trusted wireless connectivity. These same customers frequently have existing Wi-Fi and wired networks and want to leverage common operational paradigms across all their access technologies. Further, there is often a need to support device movement between P5G and Wi-Fi networks. Many enterprises are finding valid use cases for P5G in their existing networks. This increases the urgency of integrating the P5G solution into the enterprise domain with end-to-end security. This session will detail on the trends driving P5G across industry verticals with practical use cases. It will demystify how P5G is securely deployed with Edge Computing principles. These customized P5G solutions are now creating massive acceleration for IoT deployments – from Health care to Retail, from Logistics to Transportation, from Service Providers to Enterprises.

Subodh Gajare Profile

  • Subodh is responsible for innovating across architectures in delivering solutions to meet the customer outcomes. Subodh designs Cloud, Industrial IoT, Enterprises, Data Center & Security solutions. He is laser focused on Automation and Simplification models for customer deployments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Designing and implementing programmable networks for global customers of Cisco Core domains SDN/NFV, IoT, Mobility (3G to 5G transformation), Zero Trust Security, Virtualization, DC automation, Cloud and ML frameworks.

Projects

  • He has implemented secure solutions spanning diverse architectures for clients (to name a few) – ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon, Rakuten, Jio, VodaIdea, Airtel, PLDT, Walmart, Amazon, Exxon, Shell, Aramco, JPMC, Citibank, HSBC, HDFC, IAF, NSE, SBI, Toyota, L&T, Wipro, Infosys.
  • Subodh is passionate on creating intellectual capital that can be scaled and leveraged across internal team inside Cisco and externally for customers. He has authored 6 patents in areas of 5G, SDN, optical systems, Security & ML approaches.
  • Subodh is currently focussed on designing incubating Cisco AI, 5G and IoT industry solutions – in Digital Manufacturing, Smart Cities, Health care, Education, Energy and Transportation. He works as mentor for grooming future Technical leaders & Software Architects in Cisco. He contributes to incubating 5 start-ups every year within and outside Cisco. He represents Cisco at multiple industry summits like Cisco Live, Cisco Connect, Partner Summit - in Asia, Europe & US. He has been recognized as the DevNet champion for building the developer ecosystem inside Cisco.

Industry & Standards Contribution

  • He is a regular contributor to MPLS/SDN/NFV Congress, IoT SWF, Mobile World Congress, Google Cloud Next, KubeCon & Cloud NativeCon. He is engaged with SDO bodies (IEEE, IETF, TSDSI, Smart City Council, Ethernet Alliance & NANOG). He contributes actively to IEEE (ComSoc & CS ) as a Distinguished engineer to evangelise emerging trends with industry use cases. He was part of numerous test beds for IEEE and NassCom in areas of Security, Mobility and AIML.
  • He contributes to Nasscom community events to nurture India’s techno-innovation for impactful & mass scale outcomes. Subodh has been awarded over 22 industry certifications – from Cisco, Google, AWS, Juniper, Oracle & SAP

Ratnakar RaoRatnakar Rao
Senior Director, Engineering 
Samsung R&D Institute in Bangalore

Title – 5G - Lessons Learnt so far, Opportunities for 5G-Advanced and 6G

Abstract – An overview of the 5G progress so far and captures the success stories as well as lessons learned based on the global deployments in both FR1 and FR2 bands. Subsequently, the opportunities that await the ecosystem to apply the lessons learned, both in the radio and core, will be presented. This will lead to a summary of research tracks that need to be pursued as we head towards 5G-Advanced and 6G.

Profile:

  • Ratnakar Rao is Senior Director, Engineering at Samsung R&D Institute in Bangalore, where he leads the Beyond 5G Communication R&D. He has over 20 years of experience in telecommunications industry.
  • He specializes in Wireless protocols and played a key role in the launch of Samsung's 5G devices in world-wide markets. He is a Senior Member, IEEE and has 30+ International patent grants.
  • His current areas of interest include AI-in-Wireless and Next generation communication systems. Ratnakar holds a Master's degree in Telecommunication Systems Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur.
  • He is a TEDx speaker and has delivered several invited talks and podcasts on technological advances. His profile is available at www.linkedin.com/in/ratnakar-rayavarapu

Dr Sudhir DixitDr. Sudhir Dixit
Senior Fellow and Evangelist of Basic Internet,
Basic Internet Foundation in Norway
Head - San Francisco office

Title – Towards the Internet of Senses: Integrating Human Mind, Body and 6G!

Abstract – This talk focuses on the convergence of technologies to combine human body and mind in a holistic way as the next generation Internet evolves to the Internet of senses. The key technologies enabling this transformation are: 6G, web, wearables, access to the Internet, AI, and crowd sourcing of the knowledge. At the same time, there are many business models in the play that present vast opportunities to the "would be entrepreneurs" and disrupt the current market. We present the drivers for these opportunities, what needs to happen, and what technologies would dominate its enablement. We believe the technologies affecting the human body and mind in a positive way would potentially dominate the social movement 10 years from now or sooner.

Profile:

  • Sudhir Dixit is currently a Senior Fellow and Evangelist of Basic Internet at the Basic Internet Foundation in Norway and heads its San Francisco office. He has over 30 years of experience in computer networking and telecommunications, and related fields. From 2015 to 2017 he was the CEO and Co-Founder of a start-up, Skydoot, Inc, in the cloud-based and collaboration space. From December 2013 to April 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 prior to this he was the Director of Hewlett-Packard Labs India from September 2009. Prior to joining HP Labs Palo Alto, Dixit held a joint appointment with the Centre for Internet Excellence (CiE) and the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) at the University of Oulu, Finland. From 1996 to 2008, he held various positions with leading companies, such as with BlackBerry as Senior Director, with Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks in the United States as Senior Research Manager, Nokia Research Fellow, Head of Nokia Research Centre (Boston), and Head of Network Technology (USA). From 1987 to 1996, he was at NYNEX Science and Technology and GTE Laboratories (both now Verizon Communications) as a Staff Director and Principal Research Scientist.
  • Dixit has 21 patents granted by the US PTO and has published over 200 papers and edited, co-edited, or authored eight books published by Wiley, Artech House and Springer. He is presently on the editorial boards of IEEE Spectrum Magazine, Cambridge University Press Wireless Series and Springer’s Wireless Personal Communications Journal and Central European Journal of Computer Science (CEJS). He is Chairman of the Working Group C on new directions in networking and communications at the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), where he is also a Board Member. 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 of Broadband Mobile Communications for Emerging Economies at the University of Oulu, Finland.
  • A Life Fellow of the IEEE, IET, and IETE, Dixit received a Ph.D. degree in electronic science and telecommunications from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. and an M.B.A. from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida.

Dr. Abhay Kumar SahDr. Abhay Kumar Sah
Assistant Professor, 
IIT Roorkee

 

Title – Random Access in Massively Connected Wireless Networks

Profile: Abhay Kumar Sah received the B.Tech degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Jaypee Institute of Engineering & Technology, Guna, in 2010 and the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, in 2017. After Ph.D., Abhay has worked at Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore as a senior lead engineer where he primarily worked for 3GPP Rel.14 feature developments. Later, he worked at Radisys India Pvt. Limited, Bangalore as a lead software architect and was involved in the PUSCH algorithm development for 5G base stations. Currently, he serves as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering, IIT Roorkee. He is also a senior member of IEEE and the vice-chair of the IEEE Communication Society, UP Section Chapter.

His research interests are in realizing Massive MIMO systems for next-generation wireless technologies and in the applications of deep learning for wireless communication systems. In the related domain, He has published 25+ research articles and have 15+ global and Indian patents so far. He is a recipient of the MathWorks Research Award for 6G use, SERB Startup Research Grant, DST-Inspire Faculty Program, TCS Research Fellowship, and the Vice-Chancellors Gold Medal for outstanding performance in his bachelor's degree. He also received the Samsung Citizen Award for his contribution to 3GPP Rel. 14 features.

Subhas C MondalSubhas C Mondal
SVP & Head Of Research And Development - 5G Products
HFCL Limited

Title – Challenges in developing a 3GPP compliant 5G radio. (Online)

Abstract – This talk will provide an overview of challenges in designing a 5G radio base station in compliance with 3GPP specifications. While 3GPP normative standards provide the compliance requirement, the technology know-how is left to the product implementation. This talk provides a teaser to some of the technical insights that are essential for product realization.

Profile:

Subhas leads the R&D efforts for 5G product development at HFCL as a senior vice president. In this role, Subhas works with academia, standards development organisations, open source and technology partners. The portfolio of products include O-RAN based Macro RU, indoor small cell, medium range outdoor small cell, and Transport Products for interconnecting disagregated RAN nodes.

Prior to joining HFCL, Subhas served as the Chief Architect of Wipro's organization-wide 5G initiative from 2018 to 2021. He was recognized as a Wipro Fellow for his technical contributions. He has over 30 years of engineering experience in Telecom Research & Development. He is responsible for driving standards contribution, academic collaboration, innovation partnership with technology partners, open source contribution and solution building in 5G. He is a passionate technologist and has developed a variety of solutions & frameworks in emerging technology areas such as 5G, SDN/NFV, Li-Fi, Cyber Security and AI for Network Automation. Subhas holds an engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering.

 

Session Outline

Time The Events Speaker
14:00 - 14:20

Welcome address

Brief talk on: 5G-6G Innovation Platform and Opportunity

Dr Navin Kumar,

Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore
14:20-15:00 Architecture and Deployment Strategies for Private 5G (a Practisioner’s Lens)

Subodh Gajare

Senior Principal Architect – Cisco R&D Bangalore
15:00 -15:40 5G - Lessons Learnt so far, Opportunities for 5G-Advanced and 6G

Ratnakar Rao

Senior Director, Engineering 
Samsung R&D Institute in Bangalore
15:40 - 16:20 Towards the Internet of Senses: Integrating Human Mind, Body and 6G!

Dr Sudhir Dixit

Senior Fellow and Evangelist of Basic Internet,

Basic Internet Foundation in Norway

Head - San Francisco office
16:20 - 16:30 Tea/Coffee Break  
16:30 - 17:10

Random Access in Massively Connected Wireless Networks

 Dr Abhay Kumar Sah
Assistant Professor,
IIT Roorkee
17:10 - 17:50 Challenges in developing a 3GPP compliant 5G Radio Subhas C Mondal
SVP & Head Of Research And Development - 5G Products
HFCL Limited
17:50 -19:00

Paper Presentation:

1)Federated Learning-based Base Selection on 3D LiDAR Data for Beyond 5G Communications

2)Delay Tolerant Feedback Based MISO Communication System

3)Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces-Assisted Ambient Backscattering Communication for Cognitive Radios

4) Determination of Impact of Imperfect Feedback Over Distributed Wireless Relay Selection		 Authors
  End of the workshop with vote of thanks Dr Navin Kumar

Note – All paper presenters (authors) should join physically (in person) before the start of the workshop and remain until the end. No exceptions, please. If not present, we will not consider your paper.

 

WS7: Selected Topics in 6G Wireless Communications

Date and Time: WEDNESDAY, 20 DECEMBER 2023, 14:30 – 16:00 // IST

Accepted Papers

  • Channel Estimation and Hybrid Precoding Design for Joint Radar Communication, Vidya Bhasker Shukla (IIT Indore, India); Aryan Kaushik (University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Vimal Bhatia (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
  • Enhanced Physical Layer Security for Wireless Systems with Non-Diagonal IRS, Amit Agarwal (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
  • DRL-Based Transmission Design for Distributed STAR-RIS-aided Communications, Riya Yadav and Sravani Kurma (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Sandeep Kumar Singh (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India); Chih-Peng Li (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Mayur R. Parate (Indian Institute of Information Technology Nagpur, India)
  • ML-Assisted Resource Allocation Outage Probability: Simple, Closed-Form Approximations, Rashika Raina and Nidhi Simmons (Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); David E Simmons (Co-founder Dhali Holdings Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Michel Daoud Yacoub (State University of Campinas, Brazil)

Invited Speakers

Prof. Aryan KaushikProf. Aryan Kaushik
Assistant Professor, 
University of Sussex, UK

 

Title – Key Enabling Technologies for 6G: Are We on Right Track of Next G Evolution?

Bio:Prof. Aryan Kaushik is with the University of Sussex, UK, since 2021. Previously he has been associated with University College London, UK, University of Edinburgh, UK, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, and has held visiting professor/researcher appointments at Imperial College London, UK, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Athena RC, Greece, and Beihang University, China. He has been External PhD Examiner internationally such as at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 2023. He has been an Invited Panel Member at the UK EPSRC ICT Prioritisation Panel in 2023 plus an invited Proposal Reviewer for the EPSRC, and has led several collaborative projects forging industry and academic collaborations on topics of strategic importance. Prof. Kaushik is also a member of the One6G Association, a consortium of global industry and academic working groups on 6G. He has been Editor of two upcoming books on ISAC and 6G NTN by Elsevier, and several journals such as IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (Best Editor Award 2023), IEEE Communications Letters (Exemplary Editor 2023), IEEE Communications Technology News (initiated IEEE CTN Podcasts Series) and several IEEE ComSoc journal/magazine special issues. He has been an invited/keynote/panel speaker for over 45 academic/industry events and conferences globally. He has been chairing in Organizing and Technical Program Committees of over 6 flagship IEEE conferences such as IEEE ICC 2024-26, IEEE WCNC 2023-24, IEEE ICMLCN 2024 and IEEE WF-PST 2024. He has been actively organizing workshops (as General Chair of over 15 workshops) for IEEE ComSoc conferences globally such as at IEEE ICC 2024, IEEE Globecom 2023, IEEE WCNC 2023-24, IEEE PIMRC 2022-23, and several others. His research interests are focused around 6G wireless, integrated sensing and communications, signal processing, green communications and networking, reconfigurable intelligent and holographic surfaces, non terrestrial networks, millimeter wave massive MIMO and AI/machine learning for communications.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aryankaushik.

Session Outline

Time

Session

The Events

14:30 - 14.35

Welcome

Workshop Introduction

14:35-15:00

Invited Talk

Prof. Aryan Kaushik

Key Enabling Technologies for 6G: Are We on Right Track of Next G Evolution?

15:00 -15:15

Technical presentations

Channel Estimation and Hybrid Precoding Design for Joint Radar Communication, Vidya Bhasker Shukla (IIT Indore, India); Aryan Kaushik (University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Vimal Bhatia (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)

15:15 - 15:30

Enhanced Physical Layer Security for Wireless Systems with Non-Diagonal IRS, Amit Agarwal (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India); Keshav Singh (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)

15:30 - 15:45

DRL-Based Transmission Design for Distributed STAR-RIS-aided Communications, Riya Yadav and Sravani Kurma (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Sandeep Kumar Singh (Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India); Chih-Peng Li (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan); Mayur R. Parate (Indian Institute of Information Technology Nagpur, India)

15:45 - 16:00

ML-Assisted Resource Allocation Outage Probability: Simple, Closed-Form Approximations, Rashika Raina and Nidhi Simmons (Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); David E Simmons (Co-founder Dhali Holdings Ltd., United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Michel Daoud Yacoub (State University of Campinas, Brazil)

Patrons