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Keynote Speaker

Zabih Ghassemlooy (Fary)
Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK


 

 

 

Visible Light Communications - The Emerging Green Technology for Illumination and Data Communications

We are witnessing a growing research interest at a global level in visible light communications. Solid state light emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic LEDs (OLED) as well as organic photodiodes are seen as the next generation of general illumination sources, set to replace existing fluorescent and incandescent lamps offering much higher efficiency, longer life span and much lower power consumption.

Commercial companies are already offering the first generation LED replacement lamps with standard fixings available in high-street stores. In addition to lighting applications, the visible light spectrum can be used for indoor as well as outdoor wireless data communications, i.e. visible light communications. Visible light LEDs and OLEDs can be switched at sub-micro-seconds rate, which is too fast for the human eye to react but not for a special sensor on our portable digital devices. Thus, opening the way for dual use of visible light sources for illumination and data communications in homes, offices, cars, airplane, trains, etc.

This talk will give an overview of this emerging technology highlighting technical challenges and solutions for the LED and OLED lighting and data communications techniques.


Professor Zabih Ghassemlooy, CEng, Fellow of IET, Senior Member of IEEE: Received his BSc (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Manchester Metropolitan University in 1981, and his MSc and PhD in Optical Communications from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), in 1984 and 1987, respectively with Scholarships from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, UK.

From 1986-87 he worked as a Demonstrator at UMIST and from 1987 to 1988 he was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the City University, London. In 1988 he joined Sheffield Hallam University as a Lecturer, becoming a Reader in 1995 and a Professor in Optical Communications in 1997. He was the Group Leader for Communication Engineering and Digital Signal Processing, and also head of Optical Communications Research Group until 2004.

In 2004 he moved to the University of Northumbria at Newcastle as an Associate Dean for Research in the School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences until 2012. In 2012 he became Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Engineering and Environment, at Northumbria University. He also heads the Northumbria Communications Research Laboratories within the Faculty. In 2001 he was a recipient of the Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship in Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore to work on the photonic technology. He is a visiting Professor at University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia (2013-15), and vice-chair of the FP7 EU Cost Action IC1101.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of British Journal of Applied Science & Technology (since 2013); International Journal of Optics and Applications - Scientific & Academic Publishing Co (since 2013), and The Mediterranean Journal of Electronics and Communications (since 2005). He currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards and Committees of IEEE Communications Letters, International Journal of Communication Systems, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and many more. He is the founder and the Chairman of the IEEE, IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Network and Digital Signal Processing. He was the Chairman of 16th NOC2011, and the session chair of a number special sessions as well as a member of technical committee of a number of international conferences. He is a College Member of the Engineering, and Physical Science Research Council, UK (2003-2009) and (2009-), and has served on a number of international Research and Advisory Committees including a Panel Member of the Romanian Research Assessment Exercise 2011. His researches interests are on photonics switching, optical wireless and wired communications, visible light communications and mobile communications. He has received a number of research grants from UK Research Councils, European Union, Industry and UK Government. He has supervised a large number of PhD students (more than 41) and has published over 456 papers (162 in journals + 11 book chapters) and has presented several keynote and invited talks at international conferences. He is a co-author of a CRC book on "Optical Wireless Communications – Systems and Channel Modelling with Matlab (2012); a co-editor of an IET book on "Analogue Optical Fibre Communications" (1995); a book on Optical Communication Systems (published by the Sheffield Hallam University, 1994); is the co-guest editor of a number of special issues of international journals. From 2004-06 he was the IEEE UK/IR Communications Chapter Secretary, the Vice-Chairman (2004-2008), the Chairman (2008-2011), and Chairman of the IET Northumbria Network (Oct 2011-).

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Nelson Fonseca
University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil


 

 

 

 

Network-as-a-Service: Network Virtualization and Programability

Recently, we have witnessed dramatic changes in computing and communication demands with the introduction of mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones as well as the new paradigm of cloud computing. It is expected that by 2016 there will be three networked devices and 15 gigabytes data per capita in comparison to one networked device and 4 gigabyte data per capita in 2011. Networking and communications will become an even more critical service than it is already today . Moreover, networking is supposed to become a functional component of this new technological scenario and accessible to users as an added-value service rather than an infrastructure composed of bit pipes. In this talk, the state of the art in network virtualization and programmability will be overviewed to offer perspectives in the deployment of the so called Network-as-a-Service. 


Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca received his Electrical Engineer (1984) and MSc in Computer Science (1987) degrees from The Pontificial Catholic University at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the MSc (1993) and Ph.D (1994) degrees in Computer Engineering from The University of Southern California.

He is a Full Professor at Institute of Computing of The University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. He has published 300+ papers and supervised 50+ graduate students. As Visiting Professor, he lectured at the University of Trento, the University of Pisa and the University of Basque Country.

Nelson is an active IEEE ComSoc Volunteer. Currently, He is ComSoc Vice President Member Relations. He served as: Member-at-Large in ComSoc Board of Governors, Director of Latin America Region, Director of on-line Services. He is past EiC of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, past EiC of ComSoc Electronic Newsletter and past Editor of the Global Communications Newsletter. He is Senior Editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and Senior Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine, a member of the editorial board of Computer Networks, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Journal of Internet Services and Applications and International Journal of Communication Systems.

He founded the IEEE Latin America Conference on Communications (LATINCOM) and the Latin America Conference on Cloud Computing and Communications (LATINCLOUD). He was technical chair of over 10 IEEE ComSoc conferences.

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Zhensheng Zhang
Cubic Corporation, USA


 

 

MANET formulation considered harmful and what is next?

Number of users/nodes in Internet has increased from 4 in 1969 to billions today. The number of cellular (2G, 3G and 4G) users also reached billions today, while only a 102 nodes of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) was demonstrated after a few decades of extensive research with millions papers appeared in the literature. What went wrong with MANET? Are large scale Mobile Ad-hoc Networks possible? Is the MANET formulated correctly? There are several theories that have been forwarded as to why MANETs do not scale.

Our view is that MANETs formulated the problem too narrowly. In this talk, we will review some of the fundamental limitations of MANET both from theory and practice, and discuss some of the reasons why the current MANET do not scale. We recommend orienting the tactical networks research agenda toward self-* heterogeneous information networks with globally large extent. Here the self-* includes self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, self-protection, among others. Some of the key enablers or future research topics to achieve the true self-* heterogeneous network s will be discussed.


 

Dr. Zhensheng Zhang received his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Zhang has over twenty five years’ experience in design and analysis of network architecture, protocols and control algorithms, with very strong backgrounds in performance analysis, modeling and simulation of the communication networks. He is currently with Cubic Corporation, Senior Principal Scientist, Networking Research. Before joining Cubic, he worked at SDRC/ArgonST/Boeing as Principal Scientist, served as Principal Investigator for several Depart of Defense (DOD) projects. He also worked at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, and Columbia University, respectively, focusing on research and development in wireless networks. His research interests include wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks. He has published over 100 technical papers in IEEE Journals and key IEEE conferences (one of papers was listed as the top 10 most reading articles from  IEEE Communications Society website).  He has given many invited talks and tutorials on wireless ad hoc networks at various conferences and universities. He received the IEEE Regional/Area Outstanding Engineer award in 2011.

Dr. Zhang severed as Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2002 to 2006. He served as the General Chair of Broadband Wireless Networking Symposium, October 2004. He was a Guest Editor for the IEEE JSAC special issue on Overlay Networks, 2003 and the Journal of Wireless Networks issue on multimedia wireless networks, August 1996. Dr. Zhang is the Chapter Chair of IEEE Communication Society, San Diego, 2004-2013.  Dr. Zhang was the IEEE Globecom 2012 TPC Chair, and is currently serving as the IEEE ICC 2015 TPC Vice Chair and IEEE Globecom 2015 Vice Executive Chair.

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Keynote Speaker

Sergio Torres
Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile


 

 

 

Twin Photons: Applications to Satellite Laser Ranging, and to Classical and Quantum Optical Communications

Twin photons, generated by spontaneous parametric downconversion, is a source of non-classical light with optical properties to transmit information in a classical and quantum form. The property that the twin photons travel with two difference optical frequencies has been proposed to quantify atmospheric refraction in Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) measurements. The Universidad de Concepcion is running one of the two SLR systems with Twin photons transmitter operating in the world. A quantitative analysis of measurement precision, range accuracy, and data production will be presented. The analysis presented provides valuable input for the design of future SLR systems as well as related topics as optical communication to satellites. The property that this Twin photons are perfectly synchronized in time and space has been used to propose a classical optical communication channel based in coincident photon pairs. An exact expression for the mean rate of coincidence registration, developed using techniques from renewal theory, will be presented. The theory is apply to an on-off keying communication system proposed by Mandel. It will be shown that the bit error rate (BER) predicted by the approximate coincidence-rate theory can be significantly lower than the actual BER obtained using the exact theory. The important property of twin photons for quantum communications is that they are correlated in time and energy, allowing the creation of entangled states with these photon pairs. Entanglement is a fundamental resource for quantum information. In the Universidad de Concepcion there is active experimental research into the long-distance distribution of entanglement over installed telecom optical fibers. Results will be shown of the successful transmission of genuine energy-time entanglement over 1 km optical fibers, and initial results of two-photon coincident measurements across 4 km installed fibers in the Universidad de Concepcion campus.


Dr. Sergio Torres received the Electrical Engineering degree from Universidad de Concepción, Concepcion, Chile in 1987 and the degrees of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Ph. D. in Engineering from The University of Dayton , Ohio , USA in 1997 and 2001 , respectively. He is currently at The Universidad de Concepcion as a professor of the Electrical Engineering Department, and as a researcher of the Center for Optics and Photonics.

Dr. Torres has been research assistant at The University of Dayton Electro-Optics Center, Dayton, Ohio, USA between 1995 and 1997 , and at the Electro - Optics Sensor Branch in The U.S. Airforce Research Lab, Wright -Patterson Airforce Base in Dayton, Ohio , USA between 1997 and 2001, researcher in the International collaborated project Cosmic Background Interferometer ( CALTECH - UdeC ) between 2003 and 2007 , and visiting researcher at the Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico , Albuquerque NM , USA in 2008.

Dr. Torres has supervised eight doctoral theses, and ten master theses in Engineering with a major in Electrical Engineering, and more than 45 undergraduate thesis in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. He has been principal investigator on research grants like Fondecyt, Fondef, Alma Conycyt , Innova Corfo, Basal Centers of Excellence, and Millennium Nucleus.

Dr. Torres has published 30 + papers in mainstream journals , 45 + papers in international conferences, has filed one patent , and 3 licenses. The research areas of Dr. Torres include Image Science and Technology, Optoelectronics , Optical sensors , Signal and Imaging processing, and Optical Communications.