Dr.
Nan Yang
Senior Lecturer and the Associate Dean
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia
Dr. Nan Yang is a Senior Lecturer
and the Associate Dean (High Degree Research) of the College of
Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University
(ANU), Canberra, Australia. He received his Ph.D. degree from
Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2011 and joined the
ANU in 2014. He received the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific
Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2014. Also, he is the
co-recipient of Best Paper Awards at the IEEE GlobeCOM 2016 and
the IEEE VTC Spring 2013. He is currently serving on the
editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications, IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and
Multi-Scale Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology, and Wiley’s Transactions on Emerging
Telecommunications Technologies. His research interests include
ultra-reliable and low-latency communications, millimetre wave
and terahertz communications, cyber-physical security, massive
multiple-antenna systems, and molecular communications..
Topic: Empowering 5G and Beyond
Era with Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications
Abstract: The fifth generation (5G) and beyond networks are
expected to shape the way we live, work, and communicate with
each other. As one of the three pillars for the 5G and beyond
era, ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) will
play a pivotal role since it aims to enable support the mission
critical services which have strict requirements in terms of
latency (a few milliseconds end-to-end latency) and reliability
(99.999%). Undoubtedly, such requirements pose new research
challenges in the design of air interface, resource allocation,
network protocol, core networks and the integration with
existing wireless/wired communication systems. Against this
background, this keynote speech will describe the role of URLLC
in the 5G and beyond era, summarise various sources of
end-to-end delay in current wireless systems, and introduce
promising URLLC techniques, especially from a physical layer
perspective. The keynote speech will provide some valuable
insights for wireless engineers to design and implement mission
critical communications networks in the near future for
supporting unprecedented applications, e.g. Internet of Vehicles
and Smart Wireless Factory.
Prof.
Xiaodong Liu,
SMIEEE, FHEA,Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Prof Xiaodong Liu has been very
active in the research in software engineering, focusing on
pervasive systems (Internet of Things), service-oriented
architecture, evolution of cloud services, and
intelligence-driven sustainable smart systems. He has won 12
external grants and successfully led or leading these externally
funded projects with the role of principal investigator.
Currently Prof Liu leads the Intelligence-Driven Software
Engineering Research Group. He is the founder a spin out
company, FlexiCAGE Ltd. He has published 135 papers in refereed
international journals and conferences and 5 book chapters. He
is the inventor of 1 patent in Generative Component Adaptation
registered in UK, USA and at International Level (PCT). He has
been the chair, co-chair or PC member of a number of IEEE and
IASTED International Conferences. He is the associate editor of
2 international journals and the editorial board member of 3
international journals. He is the chief editor of 3 IGI Global
Research Handbooks. He is the regular reviewer of other 6
international journals. He is a senior member of IEEE Computer
Society, and a member of British Computer Society.
Speech Title: Context-Active
Resilience in Cyber Physical Systems (CAR)
Abstract: Cyber-physical systems (CPS) refer to novel hardware
and software compositions creating smart, autonomously acting
devices, enabling efficient end-to-end workflows and new forms
of user-machine interaction. A resilient CPS system is one that
maintains state awareness and an accepted level of operational
normalcy in response to disturbances, including threats of an
unexpected and malicious nature. Due to its interdisciplinary
and sophisticated nature, although resilience is critically
desired in CPS, existing approaches and tools are only able to
support limited resilience in a non-dynamic manner, i.e., fail
to consider and respond to a comprehensive profile of the
current states and needs of the devices and human users, which
are always dynamically changing during the running of a CPS. We
define such a profile as the context of a CPS, and advocate that
a CPS should adapt itself actively and even proactively for the
optimal functions and Quality of Services (QoS) according to
this dynamic context. This is a new level of resilience, which
has not been aimed at by previous work, and we define it as
“Context-Active Resilience (CAR)”. We aim to develop a novel
approach to context-active resilience in CPS, which ensures the
best matching and optimal functions and QoS of the CPS in
real-time during the running of the CPS.