The GLOBECOM 2024 Organizing Committee is excited to announce the following keynote speakers:
- Dr. Chih-Lin I, CMCC Chief Scientist of Wireless Technologies, China Mobile Research Institutie
- Professor Gerhard Fettweis, Vodafone Endowed Professor for Mobile Communication Systems at TU Dresden, US NAE member and IEEE Fellow
- Professor Ted Rappaport, Endowed chair professorship at NYU, US NAE member and IEEE Fellow
- Professor Aylin Yener, Roy and Lois Chope Chair Professor in Engineering at the Ohio State University, and IEEE Fellow
KEYNOTE: TED RAPPAPORT
Title: Sustainability and the Impending Communications Power Consumption Tidal Wave: What to know and how to improve Energy Efficiency for the ITC industry
Abstract: Today, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry consumes about 5% of the world’s energy resources. Yet, with the explosion in channel bandwidths, network densification/buildout, and power-hungry Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications for 5G and tomorrow’s 6G wireless networks, our industry will soon consume about 1/5 of the planet’s energy resources. This keynote demonstrates the evolution of energy consumption across the globe, and illustrates how the industrial and information revolutions have caused different parts of the globe to manage their energy production and resources in highly localized, disparate manners. Remarkably, however, all wireless deployments tend to follow similar energy demand patterns, and our industry has created standards for energy efficiency (EE) to allow operators and manufacturers to deploy and provision networks for sustainability. This talk illustrates the difficulty and complexity of trying to quantify the energy consumption of a mobile radio network, and reveals how all of the existing energy efficiency (EE) standards have significant flaws in capturing true energy efficiency. These flaws have likely slowed the adoption and utilization of 5G while clouding the understanding of power consumption in networks today. Fortunately, a new theory, called the Waste Factor theory, lays bare all of the energy consumption aspects of any communication or computer network, and offers the ability for the ICT industry to accurately design, compare, and optimize energy efficiency in any multi-user network that has a source and a sink (or sinks) of information. This talk demonstrates how Waste Factor was inspired by the popular Noise Factor theory developed at Bell Labs 80 years ago, and shows how to use the Waste Factor theory for determining energy consumption in a real world radio access network (RAN) or even a data center. The talk concludes by comparing Waste Factor with the global standards being used today in the ICT industry, highlighting the generality and utility of the Waste Factor to quantify and expose energy consumption sources that are currently being missed in today’s standards, allowing better network provisioning, optimization and substantially more energy efficient designs which are vital for our industry and planet.
Bio: Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport (tsr@nyu.edu) is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University (NYU), and is a professor in the NYU Courant Computer Science Dept. and the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He founded the NYU WIRELESS research center in 2012 and the wireless research centers at the University of Texas Austin (WNCG) and Virginia Tech (MPRG) earlier in his career. He has authored or co-authored widely used textbooks on wireless communications, millimeter wave communications, smart antennas, and simulation. He has provided fundamental knowledge for wireless system design and radio propagation channels used to create the IEEE 802.11Wi-Fi standard, the first U.S. digital TDMA and CDMA standards, the first public Wi-Fi hotspots, and has led the world to adopt millimeter wave and sub-Terahertz frequencies for 5G, 6G, and beyond. His work influenced the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to open up the world’s first mobile telephone spectrum in the millimeter wave bands in 2014-2016 as part of the FCC Spectrum Frontiers ruling, and he again led the FCC to open up spectrum in the sub-Terahertz bands above 95 GHz with the FCC Spectrum Horizons ruling in 2018-2019. He founded two businesses that were sold to publicly traded companies — TSR Technologies, Inc. which pioneered software defined radios for cellphone/paging over-the-air intercept and the first Emergency-911 (E911) cellphone position location system, and Wireless Valley Communications, Inc., a leader in site-specific wireless deployment, and was an advisor to Straight Path Communications which sold 5G millimeter wave spectrum to Verizon. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and is in the Wireless Hall of Fame, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, recipient of IEEE’s Eric Sumner Award, and a life member of the American Radio Relay League. His ham radio call sign is N9NB.
KEYNOTE: AYLIN YENER
Title: Connecting with Purpose: The Next Wireless Revolution
Abstract:
6G and beyond systems will continue to rely heavily on ubiquitous wireless connectivity. Different than the generations that came before, next generation systems will need to cater to applications that demand more than just faster rates. The increasingly capable wireless edge consisting of multifunctional devices will aid in the paradigm shift where networked communication occurs to realize, support or improve a functionality other than (or in addition to) reliably communicating digital messages. Catalyzed by the AI revolution, the next wireless revolution thus promises to bring to life integrated designs fueled by the edge.
This talk will delve into the new paradigm of connecting with purpose, where the wireless edge devices communicate (collectively) to support a goal such as designing a learning model, realizing a learning system, computing, and sensing. The talk will provide a summary of our recent contributions in this paradigm in several directions. The talk will demonstrate, with relevant theory and applications to use cases, the design of semantic networks and task-oriented communications, joint communication and sensing systems, and wireless edge networks that improve distributed AI. We will conclude with future directions.
Bio: Aylin Yener is the Roy and Lois Chope Chair Professor at The Ohio State University at the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Integrated Systems Engineering since 2020. Prior to her present post, she was a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean’s Fellow at Penn State where she started as an assistant professor in 2002. Her expertise is in wireless communications, information theory and learning, with recent focus on various pillars of 6G including new advances in physical layer designs, edge learning/computing, system design for confluence of sensing, communications, computing and learning, energy conscious networked systems, and security and privacy. Having worked on wireless communications research extensively, Yener received several technical recognitions including the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Achievement Award, and a IEEE Marconi Paper Award. She is a fellow of AAAS, the IEEE, AAIA, and is an elected member of The Science Academy of Turkey.
Yener is presently on the IEEE board of directors as the director of Division IX. She previously served as the president of the IEEE Information Theory Society. She is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.
