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ComTech 2017 keynote title: “ Big Data Empowered Self Organizing
Networks, the game changing paradigm for enabling 5G”
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About Keynote speaker:
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Dr. Ali Imran is founding director of Big Data Enabled
Self-Organizing Networks Research Lab (www.bsonlab.com ) and assistant professor in the School of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, at The University of Oklahoma. His research
interests include Artificial Intelligence Enabled Wireless Networks; IoT and
Aerial platforms based affordable connectivity. He has been and is currently
leading several multinational projects in these areas such as QSON (www.qson.org),
for which he has secured research grants of over $2 million in last five years
as lead principal investigator.
Dr. Imran has published over 60 refereed journal and
conference papers on said topics. He has given tutorials on these topics at
several international conferences including IEEE ICC, WF-IoT, WCNC, CAMAD and
European Wireless and CrownCom. He has been an invited speaker and served as a
panellist and chair on many international industrial fora. Dr. Imran’s research
tackles real world problems faced by wireless industry and he is routinely
consulted by several major telecom vendors and operators to solve challenging
problems faced by the wireless industry. Currently, he is working on the
development of next generation SON for 5G, which he refers to BSON/AISON. His
seminal paper presenting the first complete BSON framework as a key enabler for
5G titled “Challenges in 5G: How to Empower SON with Big Data for Enabling 5G”,
was selected to feature in TECH FOCUS on 5G in Sep 2015. He is an
Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), UK; Chapter Chair of IEEE
ComSoc Tulsa; board member of Special Technical Community on Big Data at IEEE
Computer Society; board member of ITERA, and Associate Editor of IEEE Access
special section on heterogeneous networks for 5G. For full portfolio of Dr. Imran,
visit www.ali-imran.org.
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Workshop title: LEAP for IoT - Lean, Elastic, Agile and
Proactive (LEAP) SON Enabled 5G Wireless Networks
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Workshop
outline/Abstract:
The objective of this workshop is to
interactively share with the conference audience very timely answers to
following questions: 1) What are the key requirements of IoT that call for a
paradigm shift from conventional cellular architecture and design?; 2) How do
the plethora of diverse
requirements emerging from a motley of IoT applications, can be essentially
boiled down to four fundamental
requirements, and what
are these requirements?; 3) What characteristics these fundamental requirements
induce in design space of an IoT supporting
wireless network, e.g., 5G? ; 4) What are Control Data Separation
Architecture (CDSA) and Big Data Enabled SON
(BSON), how a cellular system design based on CDSA and
BSON can support a range of IoT applications?;
5) What is dark data and how it can leveraged to implement
CDSA and BSON in future cellular networks to
support IoT?; 6) How do a ‘CDSA and BSON based system
design fare in terms of different KPIs against
a conventional design such as HetNet for supporting IoT? Leveraging recent work
done in multinational projects led by the presenters in the Cellular and IoT
realm, the
tutorial is aimed to
not only provide the audience a comprehensive overview of CDSA and BSON as
enablers
for IoT, but is more importantly designed to
trigger the much-needed research in this cross-disciplinary area.
The theoretical discussion will be followed by
selected case studies that put the theory into practice and
demonstrate how BSON and CDSA can introduce
leanness, elasticity, agility and proactivity in cellular
networks, needed to support a range of IoT
applications and services. The tutorial will be concluded with an
interactive discussion of open research
opportunities in CDSA and BSON for enabling IoT.
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IMPORTANT DATES |
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE
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PAPER ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION
**Decisions are almost ready but some
last cross check is under Process new notofication date:24th March, 2017 |
ComTech-2017 Schedule
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AUTHOR REGISTRATION DEADLINE
10th
April, 2017 |
CONFERENCE DATESS
19-21 April, 2017
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