15-18 April 2019, Marrakech, Morocco

Monday, April 15, 2019   

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9:00 ‑ 9:30    Invited Keynote 1

9:30 ‑ 10:30   S1: Technical Papers

10:30 ‑ 10:45 Networking Break

10:45 ‑ 11:10   Invited Keynote 2

11:10 ‑ 11:55    S2: Technical Papers

11:55 ‑ 12:15 S5: Best Paper Award and Presentation of Shields to the Invited Keynote Speakers

 

Monday, April 15 9:00 - 9:30

Chairs: Muhammad Ali Jamshed (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Masood Ur Rehman (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

 

Invited Keynote 1: Proactive Cellular Systems for Energy Efficient Operation

[Prof. Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Glasgow, UK]

Room: SHELLAH

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Abstract: The cellular network have long been configured and optimised reactively by identifying events and triggers and readjusting the operation of the cellular system. Our research is paving the way to make a step change by introducing proactive techniques to pre-emptively trigger actions that will save the energy while maintaining a high level of quality of experience for end users. With the advent of ultra-dense deployment of networks, we need to use such mechanisms to schedule multi-level sleep modes of cells, mobility management as well as joint RAN-backhaul optimisation from energy efficiency perspective. We will cover the fundamental framework for the evaluation of energy efficiency and the state of the art as well as futuristic approaches and ideas to achieve energy efficient network management.

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Monday, April 15 9:30 - 10:30

Chairs: Muhammad Ali Jamshed (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Masood Ur Rehman (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

S1: Technical Papers

Room: SHELLAH

 

9:30 Handover management in dense networks with coverage prediction from sparse networks

Michael Mollel (The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology and Glasgow University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Metin Ozturk (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Shubi F Kaijage (Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania); Michael Kisangiri (Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology, Tanzania); Oluwakayode Onireti, Muhammad Ali Imran and Qammer H Abbasi (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

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9:45 EMF-reduction Uplink Resource Allocation Scheme for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Systems

Muhammad Ali Jamshed (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Osama Amjad (Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada); Fabien Héliot and Tim Brown (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

 

10:00 Multi-Antenna Based Selective DF Cooperative Relaying Scheme over TWDP Fading

Rahul Makkar (The LNM Institute of Information Technology & Rupa Ki Nangal, Post-Sumel, Via-Jamdoli, India); Divyang Rawal (LNMIIT, India); Nikhil Sharma (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India); Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody (National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia)

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10:15 Point Controlled Energy Efficient Medium Access in WLANs for Low Latency Communications

Ghazanfar A. Safdar (University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Masood Ur Rehman (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

 

Monday, April 15 10:30 - 10:45

Networking Break/Coffee Break

 

Monday, April 15 10:45 - 11:10

Chairs: Masood Ur Rehman (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Muhammad Ali Jamshed (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

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Invited Keynote 2: Virtual Radios, Real Services: End-to-end Resource Orchestration for Network Slicing

[Prof. Luiz Da Silva, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland]

Room: SHELLAH

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Abstract: The diverse and demanding requirements for the next generation of mobile networks necessitate a shift away from the rigid networks of previous generations, towards greater versatility and adaptability. Essential enablers for this versatility include: new, more flexible radio access technologies; the ability to share network infrastructure and spectrum; and dynamic management of resources across the wireless access and the optical backbone and core networks. In this talk, we will present our recent results on the virtualisation of the radio access network and how they affect planning for future network deployments. We will also discuss how our vision of broad resource sharing aligns with trends in 5G including softwarization, virtualization, and network slicing.

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Monday, April 15 11:10 - 11:55

Chair: Masood Ur Rehman (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

S2: Technical Papers

Room: SHELLAH

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11:10 Low-Complexity Detection of M-ary PSK Faster-than-Nyquist Signaling

Ebrahim Bedeer (Ulster University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada); Mohamed Hossam Ahmed (Memorial University, Canada)

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11:25 Optimizing Energy Consumption for NOMA-MEC Offloading: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

Lixin Li and Shaomin Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Wei Liang (Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China); Jia Shi (Xidian University, P.R. China); Zhiguo Ding (University of Manchester, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Presented by:  Che Hui, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, xmuch@163.com

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11:40 Dynamic Radio Frame Configuration by Exploiting Uplink Control Channel for URLLC

Navuday Sharma (Tallin University of Technology, Estonia); Muhammad Mahtab Alam (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia); Yannick Le Moullec (TTU, Estonia); Hassan Malik (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland); Sven Pärand (Telia Estonia Ltd, Estonia)

Presented by:  Muhammad Ali Jamshed, University of Surrey, UK, m.jamshed@surrey.ac.uk 

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Monday, April 15 11:55 - 12:15

S5: Best Paper Award and Presentation of Shields to the Invited Keynote Speakers

Room: SHELLAH

Chairs: Masood Ur Rehman (University of Essex, United Kingdom (Great Britain)), Muhammad Ali Jamshed (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)),