IEEE Global Communications Conference
9-13 December 2018 // Abu Dhabi, UAE
Gateway to a Connected World

Program

Sunday, December 9

08:30 - 10:00 — Opening and Keynote

Dr. HUSEYIN ARSLAN, Flexible and Cognitive RAT for 5G and Beyond

10:30 - 12:00 — Сloud-based Architectures 

Session Chair: Dr. Stefan Schwarz (TU Wien, Austria)

  1. 5G Multi-Connectivity with Non-Ideal Backhaul: Distributed vs Cloud-Based Architecture 
    Diomidis S. Michalopoulos (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Andreas Maeder (Nokia Networks, Germany); Niko Kolehmainen (Magister Solutions Ltd., Finland)

  2. Take Your Cell a Walk for Ultra-Low e2eDelay in Software Defined Vehicular Networks 
    Müge Erel Özçevik and Berk Canberk (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

  3. Delay Constrained Hybrid CRAN: A Functional Split Optimization Framework 
    Abdulrahman Alabbasi (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Miguel Berg (Ericsson AB, Sweden); Cicek Cavdar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

  4. Novel M-CORD based Multi-functional Split Enabled Virtualized Cloud RAN Testbed with Ideal Fronthaul 
    Rony Kumer Saha, Yu Tsukamoto and Shinobu Nanba (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan); Kosuke Nishimura (KDDI Research, Inc. & Optical Access Network Laboratory, Japan); Kosuke Yamazaki (KDDI Research Inc., Japan)

13:30 - 15:00 5G Cloud Application and Services

Session Chair: Dr. Diomidis S. Michalopoulos (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)

  1. xStream: A New Platform Enabling Communication between Applications and the 5G Network 
    Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Evgeny Khorov and Anton Kiryanov (IITP RAS, Russia); Dmitry Kovkov (Huawei Technologies, Russia); Artem Krasilov and Mikhail Liubogoshchev (IITP RAS, Russia); Dmitri Shmelkin. (Huawei Technologies, Russia); Suwen Tang (Huawei Shanghai Research Institute, P.R. China)

  2. Intent-Based Real-Time 5G Cloud Service Provisioning 
    Fred Aklamanu (Telecom SudParis & Nokia Bell Labs, France); Sabine Randriamasy (NOKIA Bell Labs, France); Imran Latif (Nokia Bell Labs - Paris Saclay, France); Eric Renault (Institut Mines-Telecom - Telecom SudParis & Samovar UMR CNRS 5157, France); Abdelkrim Hebbar (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

  3. Performance Evaluation of SDN-based Internet of Space Things 
    Ahan Kak (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Eray Guven (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey); Utku Ergin (Bogazici University, Turkey); Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

  4. Tailoring NB-IoT for Mass Market Applications: A Mobile Operator's Perspective 
    Pavel Masek (Brno University of Technology & Member of WISLAB group, Czech Republic); Martin Stusek, Kryštof Zeman and Jiri Hosek (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic); Konstantin Mikhaylov (University of Oulu, Finland); Sergey Andreev and Yevgeni Koucheryavy (Tampere University of Technology, Finland); Otto Zeman, Jakub Votapek and Martin Roubicek (Vodafone Czech Republic, Czech Republic)

15:30 - 17:00 Massive Antenna Systems in a Cloud Architecture

Session Chair: Dr. Jiri Hosek (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)

  1. Firefly Ultra Dense Networks with mmWave Fronthaul Links 
    Katharina Ackermann (Universität Erlangen Nürnberg FAU & Institute for Digital Communications, Germany); Vahid Jamali (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Wolfgang Gerstacker (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany); Fredrik Wartenberg (Huawei Technologies Sweden, Sweden); Jocelyn Y. K. Aulin (Huawei Technologies Sweden AB, Sweden); Rajet Krishnan (5G Wireless Researcher, Huawei R&D Sweden, Cofounder, CommSig AB, Sweden); Robert Schober (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)

  2. Dynamic Distributed Antenna Systems: A Transitional Solution for CRAN Implementation 
    Stefan Schwarz (TU Wien, Austria)

  3. Clustered Cell-Free Massive MIMO 
    Felip Riera-Palou and Guillem Femenias (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain); Ana Garcia Armada (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Ana Pérez-Neira (CTTC, Spain)

  4. Offloading in Edge Computing-Enabled Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems 
    Sudarshan Mukherjee (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), Korea); Jemin Lee (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea)

  5. Aspects of resource scaling in 5G-MEC: technologies and opportunities 
    Liljana Gavrilovska (Ss Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of); Valentin Rakovic and Daniel Denkovski (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of)

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