Prof. Arumugam Nallanathan
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow
Affilitation: Professor of Wireless
Communications, Web of Science
Highly Cited Researcher
Founding Head of Communication
Systems Research (CSR) Group
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Speech Title: Massive
Ultra-Reliable Low Latency
Connectivity (mURLLC) in 6G
Abstract: Massive
Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency
Communications (mURLLC), which
integrates URLLC with massive
access, is emerging as a new and
important service class in the next
generation (6G) for time-sensitive
traffics and has recently received
tremendous research attention.
However, realizing efficient,
delay-bounded, and reliable
communications for a massive number
of user equipments (UEs) in mURLLC,
is extremely challenging as it needs
to simultaneously take into account
the latency, reliability, and
massive access requirements. To
support these requirements, the
third generation partnership project
(3GPP) has introduced enhanced
grant-free (GF) transmission in the
uplink (UL), with multiple active
configured-grants (CGs) for URLLC
UEs. With multiple CGs (MCG) for UL,
UE can choose any of these grants as
soon as the data arrives, while with
single CG (SCG), UE need to wait for
the CG period to transmit the
packet. In addition, non-orthogonal
multiple access (NOMA) has been
proposed to synergize with GF
transmission to mitigate the serious
transmission delay and network
congestion problems. However, in the
GF-NOMA scheme, the data is
transmitted along with the pilot
randomly, which is unknown at the BS
and can lead to new research
problems. In this talk, Machine
Learning (ML) approaches in mURLLC
systems will be presented. Promising
research directions and possible ML
solutions will also be discussed.
Biography: Arumugam
Nallanathan is Professor of Wireless
Communications and the founding head
of the Communication Systems
Research (CSR) group in the School
of Electronic Engineering and
Computer Science at Queen Mary
University of London since September
2017. He was with the Department of
Informatics at King’s College London
from December 2007 to August 2017,
where he was Professor of Wireless
Communications from April 2013 to
August 2017. He was an Assistant
Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
National University of Singapore
from August 2000 to December 2007.
His research interests include 6G
Wireless Networks, Internet of
Things (IoT) and Molecular
Communications. He published more
than 500 technical papers in
scientific journals and
international conferences. He is a
co-recipient of the Best Paper
Awards presented at the IEEE
International Conference on
Communications 2016 (ICC’2016), IEEE
Global Communications Conference
2017 (GLOBECOM’2017) and IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference 2017
(VTC’2017). He is a co-receipient of
IEEE Communications Society Leonard
G. Abraham Prize, 2022.
He is an Editor-at-Large for IEEE
Transactions on Communications and a
senior editor for IEEE Wireless
Communications Letters. He was an
Editor for IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications (2006-2011),
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology (2006-2017), IEEE Signal
Processing Letters and a Guest
Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected
Areas in Communications (JSAC). He
served as the Chair for the Signal
Processing and Computing for
Communications (SPCC-TC) of IEEE
Communications Society and Technical
Program Chair and member of
Technical Program Committees in
numerous IEEE conferences. He
received the IEEE Communications
Society SPCE outstanding service
award 2012 and IEEE Communications
Society RCC outstanding service
award 2014. He has been selected as
a Web of Science (ISI) Highly Cited
Researcher in 2016. He is an IEEE
Fellow and IEEE Distinguished
Lecturer.
Prof. Dapeng Oliver Wu
IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow
Affilitation: Department of
Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Florida, USA;
Chair Professor, Department of
Computer Science, City University of
Hong Kong
Biography: Dapeng Oliver
Wu received Ph.D. in Electrical and
Computer Engineering from Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA,
in 2003. He recently joined the
faculty of Department of Computer
Science, City University of Hong
Kong as chair professor.
Since 2003, he has been on the
faculty of Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department at University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL, where
he is currently Professor. His
research interests are in the areas
of networking, communications, video
coding, image processing, computer
vision, signal processing, and
machine learning.
He received University of Florida
Term Professorship Award in 2017,
University of Florida Research
Foundation Professorship Award in
2009, AFOSR Young Investigator
Program (YIP) Award in 2009, ONR
Young Investigator Program (YIP)
Award in 2008, NSF CAREER award in
2007, the IEEE Circuits and Systems
for Video Technology (CSVT)
Transactions Best Paper Award for
Year 2001, the Best Paper Award in
GLOBECOM 2011, and the Best Paper
Award in QShine 2006. He has served
as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE
Transactions on Network Science and
Engineering, and Associate Editor of
IEEE Transactions on Communications,
IEEE Transactions on Signal and
Information Processing over
Networks, and IEEE Signal Processing
Magazine. He was the founding
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of
Advances in Multimedia between 2006
and 2008, and an Associate Editor
for IEEE Transactions on Circuits
and Systems for Video Technology,
IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications and IEEE Transactions
on Vehicular Technology. He has
served as Technical Program
Committee (TPC) Chair for IEEE
INFOCOM 2012. He was elected as a
Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society in
2016. He is an IEEE Fellow.