Title : Modeling Service Mixes in Access Links

Speaker : Marco Ajmone Marsan, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain

Access links, both wired and wireless, carry the traffic generated by a mix of services, such as video, voice, web, gaming, etc. Some services generate traffic with constant or almost constant data rate (for example a voice conversation or the live streaming of a sport event) while other services can adapt their data rate to the available network resources (for example a file transfer or a web page download).

The prediction of the performance that can be obtained in presence of mixes of traffic of different nature is important for the definition of access control and scheduling algorithms, and has ben tackled by several researchers, mostly resorting to approximations, because exact solutions are not available.

This talk shows that a simple quasi-optimal admission control scheme allows the simple derivation of exact results that highlight interesting unexpected behaviours.

Speaker Bio 

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Marco Ajmone Marsan is a part-time research professor at the IMDEA Networks Institute in Spain. From 1974 to 2021 he was at the Politecnico di Torino, in the different roles of an academic career, with an interruption from 1987 to 1990, when he was a full professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Milan. He obtained degrees in EE from the Politecnico di Torino and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

He served in the editorial board of several international journals, and chaired the steering committee of the ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking. He was the General Co-chair of Infocom 2013, and will be the General Co-chair of ICC 2023. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the Academia Europaea and of the Academy of Sciences of Torino. He is qualified as “ISI Highly Cited  researcher” in computer science. He received a honorary degree in Telecommunication Networks from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He was named Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy by the President of Italy. He was the Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer at the Politecnico di Torino, and the Director of IEIIT-CNR. He was the Italian delegate in the ICT and IDEAS committees of FP7.

 

 

Title : Joint Communication and Radar Sensing in mmWave Band for Automotive Applications and Beyond

Speaker : Eylem Ekici, The Ohio State University, Columbus

The need for communication for advanced transportation systems was first recognized almost three decades ago. Although a multitude of communication solutions were proposed, standardized, and spectrum allocation done, the deployment of these solutions proved to be much slower than anticipated. In the meantime, while more advanced automotive applications requiring higher communication rates were developed, some of the sub-6GHz bands were deallocated. Although CV2X solutions partially addresses the looming spectrum crunch for automotive applications, the raw bandwidth is insufficient to meet the needs of these emerging applications at the expected scale.

On the other hand, the 76-81GHz range has already been allocated for automotive radar operation. This range is highly underutilized and presents an opportunity to host high data rate communication among vehicles. However, there are a number of challenges to overcome, ranging from implications of mobility to signal processing and resource optimization. In this talk, we will discuss theoretical foundations that allow the radar-communication coexistence in the same band, challenges to be overcome to enable this coexistence, and a number of solutions that lead to practical implementations. These solutions are also expected to have far-reaching implications for other frequency bands to relieve the spectrum crunch that is being felt in the sub-6GHz range.

Speaker Bio 

Dr. Eekici_sm.jpgylem Ekici received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in 2002. Currently, he is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering of The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and the Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs. Dr. Ekici's current research interests include 5G+ wireless systems, millimeter wave communication, and vehicular communication systems, with a focus on algorithm design, medium access control protocols, resource management, and analysis of network architectures and protocols. He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and a former associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier). He served as the general co-chair of ACM MobiCom 2012. He was also the TPC Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2017. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of ACM.

 

 

 

Title : Data security and privacy in emerging scenarios

Speaker : Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

The rapid advancements in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been greatly changing our society, with clear societal and economic benefits. Mobile technology, Cloud, Big Data, Internet of things, services and technologies that are becoming more and more pervasive and conveniently accessible, towards the realization of a smart society. At the heart of this evolution is the ability to collect, analyze, process and share an ever-increasing amount of data, to extract knowledge for offering personalized and advanced services. A major concern, and potential obstacle, towards the full realization of such evolution is represented by security and privacy issues. I will illustrate some security and privacy issues arising in emerging scenarios, focusing on the problem of managing data while guaranteeing protection of data stored or processed by external providers.

Speaker Bio
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Pierangela Samarati is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Her main research interests are on data and applications security and privacy, especially in emerging scenarios. She has participated in several projects involving different aspects of information protection. On these topics, she has published more than 280 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. She has been Computer Scientist at SRI, CA (USA) and visiting researcher at Stanford University, CA (USA), and at George Mason University, VA (USA). She is the chair of the IEEE Systems Council Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in Complex Information Systems (TCSPCIS), of the ERCIM Security and Trust Management Working Group (STM), and of the ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES). She has received the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award (2018), the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2016), the IFIP WG 11.3 Outstanding Research Contributions Award (2012), and the IFIP TC11 Kristian Beckman Award (2008). She is Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and IFIP.
http://www.di.unimi.it/samarati/