1. (Mar. 2016) Prof. Koksal (ER) from Ohio State University gave a talk on Massive MIMO Security at Imperial College London on 16.03.2016 attended by 25 people including ESRs and ERs http://talks.ee.ic.ac.uk/talk/index/833
The talk incorporated in part ongoing research by Prof Koksal and Prof Gunduz. The ongoing work investigates the risks and benefits of using massive MIMO technology in ultra-dense communications networks. Prof Koksal gave his views on the subject based on several ongoing research activities in his group. Brief summary of his talk is given as follows:
Massive MIMO is one of the highlights of the envisioned 5G communication systems. In the massive MIMO paradigm, the base station is equipped with a number of antennas, typically much larger than the number of users served. While many issues behind the design of multicellular massive MIMO systems have been studied extensively, security of massive MIMO has not been addressed in most part. In this talk, we provide a brief introduction to physical layer security and massive MIMO before we discuss major vulnerabilities of massive MIMO as well as potential defense strategies.
2. (Apr. 2016) Prof. Ercetin (ER) from Sabanci University made a presentation titled “Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks with Correlated Energy Sources,” (a joint work with Prof. Gunduz (Fellow ID: 8, ER) from Imperial College London) on 04.04.2016 attended by 30 people of ESRs and ERs at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 3-6.04.2016 in Doha, Qatar. This work received the Best Paper Award (MAC Track) at the conference. (The TACTILENet project is acknowledged)
http://wcnc2016.ieee-wcnc.org
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7564846/
http://tactilenet.sabanciuniv.edu/sites/tactilenet.sabanciuniv.edu/files/energy_harvesting_wireless_networks_with_correlated.pdf
3. (15-18.05.2016) Prof. Popovski (Fellow ID: 13, ER) arranged a session on "Low-Latency and Short-Packet Communication" at IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 15-18.05.2016 in Napflio, Greece attended by approximately 20 people of ESRs and ERs.
The session featured talks from the leading scientists in the field of 5G communications networks and helped promote the future activities envisioned in Tactilenet project. The research activities presented in each of the talks are not supported by Tactilenet but by other independent projects. The list of talks in the session are: Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers University, Sweden), "Latency-Reliability Tradeoff in Short-Packet Communications," Joaquim Sachs (Ericsson, Sweden), "5G Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications for Critical Machine-Type Communication," Andreas Mueller (Bosch, Germany), "Missing Pieces for High Performance Wireless Communication for Industrial Applications," Navid Nikaein (EURECOM, France), "Optimizing Radio Access and Core Networks for Small Packet Transmission." The website for the workshop and the session is http://ctw2016.ieee-ctw.org/program.html
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.06526.pdf
4. (Jun. 2016) Prof. Simeone (ER) from New Jersey Institute of Technology presented a work related to the project on fog networking at Aalborg University on 08.06.2016 attended by 20 people including ESRs and ERs.
This talk discusses a cloud and cache-aided wireless network architecture in which edge-nodes (ENs), such as base stations, are connected to a cloud processor via dedicated fronthaul links, while also being endowed with caches. Cloud processing enables the centralized implementation of cooperative transmission strategies at the ENs, albeit at the cost of an increased latency due to fronthaul transfer. In contrast, the proactive caching of popular content at the ENs allows for the low-latency delivery of the cached files, but with generally limited opportunities for cooperative transmission among the ENs. The interplay between cloud processing and edge caching is addressed from an information-theoretic viewpoint by investigating the fundamental limits of a high Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (SNR) metric, termed normalized delivery time (NDT), which captures the worst-case latency for delivering any requested content to the users.
5. (Jun. 2016) Prof. Gunduz (ER) form Imperial College London gave an invited talk at the 5G Core Network Summit in Ankara, Turkey on 15.06.2016 attended by over 100 people from the government, academia, and industry. The website for the information for the summit is https://www.btk.gov.tr/en-US/National-Activity/5G-CORE-NETWORK-SUMMIT-WAS-HELD
This event was organized by the leading Turkish industry players in wireless communications, HAVELSAN, NETAS and ASELSAN, with the goal of identifying 5G research directions and collaboration opportunities with international partners. Prof. Gunduz presented the 5G-related research activities in his lab, including the collaborative ongoing work carried out within TactileNet. His presentation was an overview of the research activities envisaged by Tactilenet along with his vision of 5G technologies. Henceforth, he promoted the activities of Tactilenet to industry and general public.
6. (Jun. 2016) Prof. ElBatt (ER) from Nile University has given a presentation to the EC Research Office and Delegation in Cairo, Egypt on 16.06.2016, attended by approximately 50 people as part of a dinner and event, recognizing TactileNET as one of 22 Horizon 2020 projects that have been awarded to teams with partners from Egypt.
7. (Nov. 2016) Mr. Mohammadi-Amiri (Fellow no: 7, ESR) gave a presentation titled “Decentralized coded caching with distinct cache capacities” in 2016 50th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. It was attended by approximately 20 people. (http://www.asilomarsscconf.org/webpage/asil16/Asilomar%202016%20BoA%20v001.pdf)
8. (Dec. 2016) Prof. Ercetin (Fellow ID: 2, ER) from Sabanci University made a presentation titled “RF Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks with HARQ,” (a joint work with M. Zohdy (Fellow ID: 1, ESR), Prof. Elbatt and Prof. Nafie from (Fellow ID: 26, ER) Nile University) on 08.12.2016 at IEEE Workshop on Wireless Energy Harvesting Communications Networks co-located with IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 04-08.12.2016 in Washington, DC, USA. (The TACTILENet project is acknowledged)
http://globecom2016.ieee-globecom.org
http://tactilenet.sabanciuniv.edu/sites/tactilenet.sabanciuniv.edu/files/rf_energy_harvesting_in_wireless_networks.pdf
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7849031/
9. (16.12.2016) (M11) Prof. Gunduz (Fellow ID: 8, ER) gave an invited keynote speech on wireless content distribution at the 3rd AUST symposium on Innovations in Computer & Communications Engineering (SICCE 2016), Lebanon, Beirut, Dec. 2016. It was attended by approximately 100 people.(The TACTILENet project is acknowledged) (https://www.facebook.com/events/1829457597272701/)
10. (20-23.11. 2016) (M10) Prof. Gunduz (Fellow ID: 8, ER) gave an invited talk on "Energy and Information Networks” at the Royal Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering for Development Symposium, Cambridge, UK, Nov.2016. It was attended by approximately 50 people. (https://www.raeng.org.uk/policy/international-policy-and-development/gcr...(1)/symposium-1)
11. (5.04.2017) Prof. Gunduz (Fellow ID: 8, ER) gave an invited talk on content distribution in 5G networks at EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France, Apr. 2017. It was attended by approximately 40 people. The TACTILENet project is acknowledged
Link: http://tactilenet.sabanciuniv.edu/sites/tactilenet.sabanciuniv.edu/files/presentation_eurecom17_v1.pdf
12. (Jan. 2017) Prof. Gunduz (ER) form Imperial College London gave talk on “Proactive Wireless Content Caching'', CommNet2 Workshop on Communications and Signal Processing for 5G++, Durham, UK, Jan. 2018.
13. (Apr. 2017) Prof. Gunduz (ER) form Imperial College London gave talk on “Contents on the Move: Content Caching and Delivery at the Wireless Network Edge,'' EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France, Apr. 2017.
14. (25-30.06.2017) Prof. Nafie (Fellow no: 19, ER) gave a talk “Decentralized coded caching in wireless networks: Trade-off between storage and latency” in IEEE ISIT 2017 to an audience of approximately 20 people. (https://isit2017.org/technical-program.html)
15. (28.09.2017) Mr. M. HeydarAbad (Fellow 19, ESR) gave a talk on “Communication over a time correlated channel with an energy harvesting transmitter” in IEEE ISWCS 2017 in Bologna, IT to an audience of 10 people. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8095275)
16. (25.09.2017) Prof. Ercetin (Fellow no: 2, ER) gave a talk “Cache-Aided Heterogeneous Networks: Coverage and Delay Analysis” in IEEE VTC Fall 2017 to an audience of 15 people. (http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2017fall/)
17. (29.05-1.06 2017) (M17) Prof. Popovski (Fellow ID: 13, ER) was part of the team that arranged and taught at the 2017 Joint IEEE SPS and EURASIP Summer School on Signal Processing for 5G Wireless Access at Gothenburg, Sweden in May-June 2017. His lecture at the school was related to massive Machine-Type Communication and contains course material relevant for TactileNet. The school was attended by approximately 100 people. (http://5g.ellintech.se)
18. (11-14.06.2017) (M17) Prof. Popovski (Fellow ID: 13, ER) participated at the IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 11-14.06.2017 in Fiji where he gave a talk “Design Tradeoffs for Communication with Short Packets in Internet-of-Things Applications” and arranged a panel session on IoT communication that featured high-profiled participants from academia and industry. The workshop was attended by 60 people. (http://www.ieee-ctw.org/)
19. (20.06.2017) (M17) Prof. Gunduz (Fellow ID: 8, ER) organised a workshop on “Content Caching and Distributed Storage for Future Communication Networks” in London, UK, Jun. 2017. It was attended by approximately 100 people. (https://www.commnet.ac.uk/event/joint-icore-commnet2-workshop-content-ca...)
20. (14.07.2017) (M18) Prof. Gunduz (Fellow ID: 8, ER) taught a practical workshop on Internet of Things to high school students at Imperial College London in Jul. 2017. It was attended by approximately 7 people.
21. (2-7.07.2017) Prof. Gunduz (Fellow ID: 8, ER) participated in the Dagstuhl seminar on Foundations of Wireless Networking in Jul 2017. It was attended by approximately 30 people. (https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=17271)
22. (26.05.2017) Dr. Gunduz (Fellow no: 8, ER) ``Contents on the Move: Content Caching and Delivery at the Wireless Network Edge,'’ University of Bologna, Italy, (M16). (It was attended by ~15)
23. (2.11.2017) Dr. Gunduz (Fellow no: 8, ER) ``Contents on the Move: Content Caching and Delivery at the Wireless Network Edge,'', KAUST, Saudi Arabia (M22). https://cemse.kaust.edu.sa/events/Pages/EE-Seminar-Deniz-Gunduz.aspx (It was attended by ~40).
24. (4.11.2017) Mr. Mohammadi-Amiri (Fellow no: 7, ESR) from Imperial College London gave a presentation titled “Fundamental Limits of Coded Caching” at Stanford University (M22). It was attended by approximately 20 people.
25. (21.11. 2017) Mr. Mohammadi-Amiri (Fellow no: 7, ESR) from Imperial College London gave a presentation titled “Fundamental Limits of Coded Caching” at Ohio State University (M22). It was attended by approximately 30 people.
26. (22.11.2017) Prof. Ercetin (Fellow no: 2, ER) “Intelligent Channel Sensing and Scheduling in Future Wireless Networks,” Universite de Montreal et Quebec, Montreal, Canada, (M22). http://www.latece.uqam.ca/en/ai1ec_event/seminaire-ozgur-ercetin-intelli... (It was attended by ~50)
27. (11.12.2017) Prof. Ercetin (Fellow no: 2, ER) “Powering the Internet of Things,” Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, (M23). https://carleton.ca/sce/2017/seminar-dec-11-powering-the-internet-of-thi... (It was attended by ~15)
28. (11.01.2018) Dr. Gunduz (Fellow no: 8, ER) ``Proactive Wireless Content Caching'', CommNet2 Workshop on Communications and Signal Processing for 5G++, Durham, UK, (M24). https://commnet.ac.uk/csp-for-5g/ (It was attended by ~80)
29. (03.01.2018) A. Farajzadeh (Fellow no: 22, ESR) gave a seminar on “Carrier Sensing Threshold Optimization in CSMA Based Energy Harvesting Wireless Relay Nodes,” during Carleton Wireless Series to an audience of 20 people (M24) in Ottawa, CA.
30. (16.05.2018) A. Farajzadeh (Fellow no: 22, ESR) gave a seminar on “Optimal Altitude for UAV Data Collection over NOMA Backscatter Networks,” during Carleton Wireless Series to an audience of 20 people (M28) in Ottawa, CA. (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/172964)
31. (10.10.2018) Dr. Deniz Gunduz (Fellow no: 8, ER) has given seminar on “Learn to Communicate - Communicate to Learn” in University of Padova, Padova, Italy. (participation: 50)
32. (11.10.2018) Dr. Deniz Gunduz (Fellow no: 8, ER) has given seminar on “Learn to Communicate - Communicate to Learn” in University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), Modena, Italy. (participation: 150)
33. (30.10.2018) Mr. David Burth Kurka from Imperial College gave a talk on “Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding for Wireless Image Transmission,” ,” in Workshop Communication in Energy Grids in the Era of Tactile Internet co-located with IEEE SmartGridComm 2018 Aalborg, Denmark to an audience of 10 people.
34. (30.10.2018) M. HeydarAbad (Fellow 19, ESR) gave a talk on “On the Trade-off Between Age of Cache Content and Energy Efficiency in Heterogeneous Networks,” in Workshop Communication in Energy Grids in the Era of Tactile Internet co-located with IEEE SmartGridComm 2018 Aalborg, Denmark to an audience of 10 people.
35. (30.10.2018) Anders E. Kalør (Fellow no:20, ESR) from Aalborg University gave a talk on “Random Access Schemes in Wireless Systems with Correlated User Activity" in Workshop Communication in Energy Grids in the Era of Tactile Internet co-located with IEEE SmartGridComm 2018 Aalborg, Denmark to an audience of 10 people.
36. (14.12.2018) Dr. Deniz Gunduz (Fellow no: 8, ER) has given seminar on “Learn to Communicate - Communicate to Learn” in University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, (participation: 15)
37. (15-18.05.2018) Prof. Nafie (Fellow no: 19, ER) gave a talk “Wireless Energy and Information Transfer in Networks with Hybrid ARQ,” in the 2nd Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Remotely Powered Communications for Sustainable Future Networks and IoT, organized as part of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) in Barcelona, Spain (M28). It was attended by 15 people. (https://wcnc2018.ieee-wcnc.org/content/final-program#S1569551449)
38. (25-28.06.2018) Anders Kalor (Fellow no:20, ESR) from Aalborg University gave a talk on "Random Access Schemes in Wireless Systems with Correlated User Activity," in 2018 IEEE 19th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) in Kalamata, Greece. It was attended by approximately 100 people. (http://spawc2018.org/files/SPAWC_PROGRAM_KALAMATA_SITE.pdf)
39. (9-12.09.2018) Dr. Deniz Gunduz (Fellow no: 8, ER) has given a talk on “Delay-Aware Coded Caching for Mobile Users,” in 2018 IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)” in Bologna, IT. It was attended by approximately 30 people. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8580764)
40. (09.12.2018) Mr. M. HeydarAbad (Fellow 19, ESR) gave a talk on “Finite Horizon Throughput Maximization for a Wirelessly Powered Device over a Time Varying Channel” in IEEE Globecom 2018 Workshops in Abu Dhabi, UAE to an audience of 10 people.
41. (23.01.2018) M. HeydarAbad (Fellow 19, ESR) gave a talk on “Dynamic Content Updates in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks,” in IEEE/IFIP 15 th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference in Wengen, Switzerland. It was attended by 25 people. (http://2019.wons-conference.org)
42. (30.07-3.08.2018) Dr. Gunduz (Fellow no: 8, ER) was the Technical Program Co-Chair of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom-2018), Halifax, Canada (M30). (http://cse.stfx.ca/~GreenCom2018/)
43. (15.05 2018) Dr. Gunduz (Fellow no: 8, ER) co-chaired the 2nd Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Remotely Powered Communications for Sustainable Future Networks and IoT, organized as part of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) in Barcelona, Spain, (M28). (https://icc2018.ieee-icc.org/workshop/promises-and-challenges-machine-le...)
44. (15-18.05 2018) Dr. Gunduz (Fellow no: 8, ER) was the Tutorials Co-chair of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Barcelona, Spain (M28). (https://wcnc2018.ieee-wcnc.org)
45. (24.05.2018) Dr. Gunduz (Fellow no: 8, ER) is co-chairing the Workshop on the Promises and Challenges of Machine Learning in Communication Networks, organized as part of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications that will be held in Kansas City, MO, (M28). This full-day workshop attracted an impressive number of 47 submissions from experts on the topic worldwide, and featured a keynote talk by Prof. Nikos Sidiropoulos from University of Virginia.
46. (30.10.2018) All beneficiaries jointly organized a half-day workshop on Communication in Energy Grids in the Era of Tactile Internet co-located with IEEE SmartGridComm 2018 Aalborg, Denmark. It was attended by approximately 15 people. (https://sgc2018.ieee-smartgridcomm.org/communication-energy-grids-era-ta...).