2nd International QMUL-BUPT Joint Workshop on Smart Communications and Intelligent Signal Processing for 5G and IoT Networks研讨会OS-RAN

### Overall Aim
This workshop aims to provide discussions on the state-of-the-art research/implementations on 5G networks and beyond both in academia and industry, with addressing the theoretical advances, major challenges, and opportunities, which will bridge the gap among theoretical concepts, industry practice and user applications.
### Workshop Info
Wednesday June 27th 2018   09:00 -17:00
Multi-function hall on the second floor in BUPT Hotel, No. 10, Xitucheng Road, Beijing, China
北京海淀区西土城路10号北邮科技大厦二层多功能厅
### Workshop Program
08 : 30 – 09 : 00: Registration
09 : 00 – 09 : 10: - Welcome, Introductions and Ceremony (Prof. Xiangming Wen, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
09 : 10 - 09 : 20: Opening Speech (Donald Hu，Head of Education Partnerships, British Council China)
09 : 20 - 09 : 30: Opening Ceremony of Smart Communications Joint lab
09 : 30 – 10 : 00 Statistical Forward Planning in Artificial Intelligence (Prof. Simon Lucas, Queen Mary University of London)
10 : 00-10 : 30: The Future Reality with 5G (Prof. Seah Hock Soon, Nanyang Technological University)
10 : 30-11 : 00: Coffee Break
11 : 00-11 : 30: Massive Internet of Things (mIoT): Opportunities and Challenges (Prof. Nallanathan, Queen Mary University of London)
11 : 30-12 : 00: Exploiting Spatial Modulation into Vehicular Communications (Prof. Li Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
12 : 00 – 13 : 00: Lunch
13 : 00-13 : 30:  Spatial Wideband Effect: What We Have Ignored in Massive MIMO (Prof. Feifei Gao, Tsinghua University)
13 : 30 – 14 : 00: Scatterer Modeling for Wireless Channel @ mmWave Band. (Prof. Bo Ai, Beijing Jiaotong University)
14 : 00-14 : 30:  Physical Motion Sensing with WiFi Radiation (Prof. Zhaoming Lu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
14 : 30- 15 : 00: Coffee Break
15 : 00- 15 : 30: Rate Maximization in Wireless Powered Mobile-edge Computing Networks: from Integer Optimization to Online Deep Learning Approaches (Prof. Suzhi Bi, Shenzhen University)
15 : 30 -16 : 00: Network-based Driving Assistance for Autonomous Vehicles (Dr. Luhan Wang, BUPT)
16 : 00 -16 : 30: Signal Processing Advances for NOMA in Next Generation Wireless Networks (Dr. Yuanwei Liu, Queen Mary University of London)
16 : 30 -16 : 45: Summary, evaluation and close (Prof. Yue Chen, Queen Mary University of London)
### Bios of Speakers
Simon Lucas is a professor of Artificial Intelligence and Head of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London where he also heads the Game AI Research Group. He holds a PhD degree (1991) in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Southampton. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games and co-founded the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games. His research involves developing and applying computational intelligence techniques to build better game AI, use AI to design better games, provide deep insights into the nature of intelligence and work towards Artificial General Intelligence.
Hock Soon Seah received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, in 1983, the M.S. degree in computing science from the University of London, London, U.K., in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in computer graphics from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2000. He is currently a Professor with the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is also Director of the Multi-platform Game Innovation Centre (MAGIC), NTU, which is supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation. Prof. Seah is a Fellow of the Singapore Academy of Engineering.
Arumugam Nallanathan is Professor of Wireless Communications and Head of the Communication Systems Research (CSR) group in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London since September 2017. He was with the Department of Informatics at King’s College London from December 2007 to August 2017, where he was Professor of Wireless Communications from April 2013 to August 2017 and a Visiting Professor from September 2017. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore from August 2000 to December 2007. His research interests include 5G Wireless Networks, Internet of Things (IoT) and Molecular Communications. He published nearly 400 technical papers in scientific journals and international conferences. He is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Awards presented at the IEEE Global Communications Conference 2017 (GLOBECOM’2017) and IEEE International Conference on Communications 2016 (ICC’2016). He is an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications. He was an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2006-2011), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2006-2017), IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He served as the Chair for the Signal Processing and Communication Electronics Technical Committee of IEEE Communications Society and Technical Program Chair and member of Technical Program Committees in numerous IEEE conferences. He received the IEEE Communications Society SPCE outstanding service award 2012 and IEEE Communications Society RCC outstanding service award 2014. He has been selected as a Web of Science (ISI) Highly Cited Researcher in 2016. He is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
Li Wang received the Ph.D. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in 2009. She is currently a Full Professor with the School of Electronic Engineering, BUPT, where she is the Head of the High Performance Computing and Networking Lab. She held visiting professor positions at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA, from 2013 to 2015, and the Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2015. She has published two books in the Springer for device-to-device communications and physical layer security. Her current research interests include wireless communications, secure communications, cooperative networking, and distributed networking and storage. She is the Symposium Chair of the IEEE ICC 2019 on Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium, and the Chair of the Special Interest Group on Social Behavior Driven Cognitive Radio Networks for the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks. She has been serving as an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY and an Associate Editor for the IEEE ACCESS since 2016. She also served as a Technical Program Committee Member of multiple IEEE conferences, including the IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, WCNC, and VTC over the years. She received the 2013 Beijing Young Elite Faculty for Higher Education Award, the Best Paper Award at ICCTA 2011, the Best Paper Runner Up from WASA 2015, and the Best Paper Award from the IEEE ICCC 2017. She has also been selected by the Beijing Nova Program in 2018.
Feifei Gao is an Associate Professor in Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research areas include communication theory, signal processing for communications, array signal processing, and convex optimizations, with particular interests in MIMO techniques, multi-carrier communications, cooperative communication, and cognitive radio networks. He has authored/ coauthored more than 120 refereed IEEE journal papers and more than 120 IEEE conference proceeding papers, which have been cited more than 5000 times in Google Scholar.  Prof. Gao has served as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, International Journal on Antennas and Propagations, and China Communications. He has also serves as the symposium co-chair for 2018 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC), 2015 IEEE Conference on Communications (ICC), 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2014 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC), as well as Technical Committee Members for many other IEEE conferences.
Bo Ai received his Master degree and Ph. D. degree from Xidian University in China. He graduated from Tsinghua University with the honor of Excellent Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tsinghua University in 2007. He was a visiting professor at EE Department, Stanford University in 2015. He is now working at Beijing Jiaotong University as a full professor and Ph. D. candidate advisor. He is the Deputy Director of State Key Lab of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, and the Deputy Director of International Joint Research Center. He is one of the main responsible people for Beijing “Urban rail operation control system” International Science and Technology Cooperation Base, and the backbone member of the Innovative Engineering Based jointly granted by Chinese Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. He has authored/co-authored 8 books and published over 300 academic research papers in his research area. He has hold 26 invention patents. He has been the research team leader for 26 national projects and has won some important scientific research prizes. Five papers have been the ESI highly-cited paper. He has been notified by Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) that, based on Scopus database, Prof. Bo Ai has been listed as one of the Top 1% authors in his field all over the world. Prof. Bo Ai has also been Feature Interviewed by IET Electronics Letters. His interests include the research and applications of channel measurement and channel modeling, dedicated mobile communications for rail traffic systems.
Zhaoming Lu is now an associate professor and master's supervisor at the School of Information and Communication Engineering in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). He received the Ph.D in BUPT in 2012. His research includes Open Source 5G, Network connected automatic driving, WiFi based sensing, Energy of Internet and so on.
Suzhi Bi received the B. Eng. degree in communications engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 2009 and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2013. From 2013 to 2015, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the ECE Department of National University of Singapore, Singapore. Since 2015, he has been with the College of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests mainly involve in the optimization techniques applied to wireless information and power transfer, wireless medium access control, and smart power grid communications. Dr. Bi has authored and co-authored over 50 journal papers and conference proceedings, including several ESI highly-cited/hot papers. He received the Best Paper Award of IEEE SmartGridComm 2013 and Shenzhen University Outstanding Young Faculty Award in 2015.<br>
Luhan Wang received the B.S. degree from Shandong University in 2011, and PhD degree from BUPT in 2017 July. Currently, he works in BUPT and also in Joint BUPT-EURECOM Open5G Lab. His research interests include software defined networks/wireless networks, open source communications systems and network function virtualization. Now he is doing developing/testing around OAI project, and leading openair5g-cn develop in BUPT. He has participated in many projects funded by national 863 high-tech and national natural science foundation of China. His publications include more than 20 papers in international journals and conferences, 4 authorized patent, and 1 book.
Yuanwei Liu is an assistant professor in School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) , London. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at King's College London (KCL) , London, U.K. (Sep. 2016- Aug. 2017). He received the Ph.D. degree from QMUL in 2016.  His research interests include  NOMA, millimetre wave  communications, resource allocation in 5G networks, stochastic geometry and matching theory. He has published more than 60 Journal and Conference papers in these areas with 1200+ citations. He received the received the Exemplary Reviewer Certificate of the IEEE wireless communication letters in 2015, the IEEE transactions on communications in 2016 and 2017. Currently, He is in the editorial board of serves as an Editor of the IEEE communication letters and the IEEE access. He also serves as a guest editor for IEEE JSTSP special issue on "Signal Processing Advances for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in Next Generation Wireless Networks ". He serves as the TPC Member for many IEEE conferences, such as GLOBECOM and ICC.