09:30 - 10:00

Working Group C: New Directions in Communication Architectures and Technologies

Chair: Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation, USA 

Introduction by the Chair and White Paper review (White Paper: Internet of Senses in the B5G and 6G Era)

Smart Internet Lab’s Testbed as a Platform for Research & Innovation (Hamid Falaki, et al, Uni of Bristol)

Resilient and Energy-Efficient DU-CU Deployments for Service-Oriented Reliable 5G Metro Access Networks (Haiyuan Li, Uni of Bristol)

SBA-Native: Argumentation Towards a UnifiedEnd-to-End Service-Based Architecture for6G Access and Core Networks (Sebastian Robitzsch, InterDigital)

14:45 – 15:30

Working Group A/B: Business Modelling & Cybersecurity 

Chair: Prof. Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University 

Intro/ Knud Erik Skouby 

Peter Lindgren, Aarhus University, Presentation of a draft for a WP on Business Modelling (remote) 

Emma EK, Peter Lindgren, Aarhus University, Green Business Model Innovation In Green Symbiosis Business Value Networks: The Case Of Sotenäs Symbiosis Network And Greenlab Skive (remote)

Working Group A/B: Business Modelling & Cybersecurity

Chair: Prof Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University 

Green Business Model parameter sensing and monitoring with advanced wireless technologies in Nordic Start Ups and SMES; Peter Lindgren, Aarhus University (remote) 

Green Business Model Cloud: A new perspective with Internet of Things connected Green Business Models empowered with Artificial Intelligence; Per Valter, Høgskolen i Østfold, Norge (remote) 

Green Business Model for Advanced Life-threatening Cybernetics in 5G & Beyond Network; Anita Durai Pandian, Aarhus University (remote) 

Cookies: Problems and Benefits – From a Technical to an Economic Perspective on Cookies; K.E.Skouby, Lene Tolstrup Sørensen, Aalborg University, Samant Khajuria 

Presentation of a draft for a WP on Business Modelling, Peter Lindgren (remote)

Working Group: 6G

Chair: Sudhir Dixit, Basic Internet Foundation, USA 

Introduction by the Chair and potential White Paper discussion (Sudhir Dixit) 

Towards an intelligent 6G architecture: the case of jointly Optimised handover and Orchestration; Xenofon Vasilakos, Uni of Bristol (remote) 

High GF coding in Frequency Hopping for Direct-to-Space IoT System (Dengke Wang, et al, KAUST, Saudi Arabia) 

On the design of a native Zero-touch 6G architecture (Navdeep Uniyal, Uni of Bristol) 

Mr Samar Shailendra, (Title TBC)

08:30 - 09:00

Plenary Session 2: Spectrally Efficient Transmissions 

Chair: Prof. Jinhong Yuan, University New South Wales 

Professor Izzat Darwazeh, UCL 

Dr Tongyang Xu, UCL

Plenary Session 3: Smart Cities 

Chair: Prof Dimitra Simeonidou, UoB Smart Internet Lab 

Freyja Lockwood, West of England Combined Authority 

Marco Ruffini, TCD (remote)

Plenary Session 4: THz Networks 

Chair: Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus 

“Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)”, Werner Mohr, WWRF Fellow, Germany 

“Meteracom - Metrology for THz Communications”, Thomas Kleine-Ostmann, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany (remote) 

Carlos-Faouzi Bader, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE (remote)

Working Group - Connected Vehicles

Chair: Dr. Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas 

“Analysis of Millimeter-Wave Propagation Paths in Urban Environment for vehicle Localization”, Yaser Awadh Bakhuraisa, Faculty of Engineering and Technology (FET), Multimedia University, Malacca, Malaysia (remote) 

“ADAS for Indian Road Situations”, Abhishek Mukhopadhyay and Pradipta Biswas; IISc, Bangalore, India (remote) 

“Initial evaluation of cloud-based Vehicular Dynamic Spectrum Access” Adrian Kliks (remote - presenting), Łukasz Kułacz, Paweł Sroka, Paweł Kryszkiewicz, Michał Sybis; Institute of Radiocommunications and Poznan University (remote) 

“Real-time 3D Digital Twin for Autonomous Vehicle Safety Mahbubul Alam”, Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer, DIMAAG-AI, Inc. (remote)

Working Group D/HF - Radio Communication Technologies and High Frequencies Technologies

Chair: Prof Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus 

“On the Performance of Chirp-based Modulation Techniques for LEO Satellites”, Alex Luc and Ahmed Elzanaty, Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), University of Surrey, UK (remote) 

“User Scheduling in Integrated Satellite-HAPS-Ground Networks Using Ensembling Deep Neural Networks”, Shasha Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China; Hayssam Dahrouj (presenting in person), and Mohamed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia 

“Survey: Mobility Challenges Associated with the 6G Terahertz access Systems”,S.Madhekwana, A.Usman, C.Politis, School of Computer Science and Mathematics , Kingston University, UK 

“On the Minimization of Outage Probability the Fisher Information for Hybrid RF/FSO Angle-of-Arrival Tracking” Ming-Cheng Tsai, Muhammad Salman Bashir, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (remote)

Drinks Reception: Atrium, Bill Brown's Design Suite

08:30 - 09:00

Plenary Session 5: Mobile VCE 

Chair: Prof Tim O’Farrell, University of Sheffield / Simon Fletcher, Real-Wireless 

Professor Maziar Nekovee, (Head of Centre for Advanced Communications, Mobile Technology and IoT; University of Sussex (remote)  

Dr. David Lopez-Perez (Expert and Technical Leader at Huawei Paris Research Center, France (remote)  

Professor Jaafar Elmirghani (Director of the Institute of Communication and Power Networks, University of Leeds (remote)   

Yichao Jin (Bristol Research & Innovation Laboratory, Toshiba Europe Limited) 

Discussion

Plenary Session 6: Joint session with ETSI ISG RIS 

Chair: Arman Shojaeifard, R&I Senior Manager, InterDigital Europe 

Dr Mohsen Khalily, Senior Lecturer in Antennas and Propagation, 6GIC/University of Surrey 

Fraser Burton, Senior Manager, Network Physics, BT Applied Research (remote)

Prof. Marco Di Renzo, CNRS Research Director, L2S-CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University (remote) 

Dr. Dinh-Thuy PHAN HUY, Research Project Manager, Orange Innovation (remote) 

Dr. Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Principal Researcher, NEC Laboratories Europe (remote)

Working Group - Connected Vehicles

Chair: Dr. Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas 

“On the Performance of Optical-RIS Aided Vehicular Communication Systems” Tathagat Pal (remote & presenting), Gurinder Singh, Vivek Ashok Bohara, Anand Srivastava; Dept. Electrical Engineering, IIIT Delhi, India 

“Interference: The new frontier for autonomous driving?” Bhavani Shankar; Professor, University of Luxemborg (remote) 

“Adversarial Machine Learing-Enabled Anonymization of Open WiFi Data”, Samhita Kuili, Kareem Dabbour, Irtiza Hasan, Andrea Herscovich, Burak Kantarci; University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (remote) 

“Balancing act between 5G enabled in-vehicle and cloud computing power to prevent cybersecurity attacks”, Ravi Puvvala; Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Harman (remote)

Chair: Costas Danas 

Welcome Dr Costas Danas, EMW WG Chair 

Dr Nada Philip, Kingston University. “Mobile Healthcare Remote Monitoring Systems, Current Advances, Challenges and Future Directions” (remote) 

Dr Arslan Usman, Pangea. “Role of 5G and Beyond in the Context of Mobile Healthcare: Success Stories & Challenges”. 

Dr Rehan Usman, Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan. “Internet of Everything (IoE) Enabled Healthcare and 6G: Opportunities and Challenges”. 

Dr Rehan Usman, Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan. Paper Presentation; “6G and Beyond Enabled Paradigm Shift in e/m-Health Services: Hope and Hype”. 

Closing Remarks Dr Costas Danas

Closing Session & Invitation to 48^th Meeting

Chair: Nigel Jefferies, Chairman of WWRF (remote)

Prof. Merouane Debbah (remote) and Ebtesam Almazrouei (remote), TII