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CTTC Workshop

Program overview (Sala Talaia)

November 29, 2022

  • 9:00h - 9:10h Opening

  • 9:10h - 10:00h  Keynote 1: Berna Sayrac (Orange): "Orange’s vision on 6G: a societal and value-driven approach"

  • 10:00h - 11:00h Poster Session 1

  • 11:00h - 12:00h Poster Session 2

  • 12:00h - 12:40h Keynote 2: Valerio Pruneri (ICFO): "Quantum crypto in Barcelona"

  • 12:45h - 13:45h Poster Session 3

  • 13:50h - 14:20h CTTC success case: Josep Mangues (Head of Services as Networks Research Unit, CTTC)

  • 14:20h - 14:30h Final address by the Director

  •  Lunch

Keynote 1: Berna Sayrac (Invited Speaker, Orange)

  • Orange’s vision on 6G : a societal and value-driven approach 

    Research activities and discussions on the next generation of mobile communication technology, 6G, has started since a couple of years. Currently these activities can be considered as « preliminary » since studies have only recently started on new usage perspectives and emerging candidate techniques. Indeed, 6G commercial deployments are expected starting from 2030. With the ambition to prepare the future lanscape of mobile communications, Orange is contributing to the design of 6G, being actively involved in several 6G collaborative research projects and leading initiatives as a committed and trusted partner. Being aware of the importance and the impact of the role as one of the global leading mobile network operators, Orange has developed a vision that is driven by a societal and value-driven approach to 6G. This vision aims at giving everyone the keys to a responsible digital world, providing inspiration and vision, as well as an informed explanation about this future technology. This talk gives an overview of Orange’s vision for 6G, selected 6G use cases, candidate technological advances and solutions for 6G. 

  • Berna Sayrac is a senior research engineer and research program coordinator at Orange Innovation. She received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey, in 1990, 1992 and 1997, respectively. She worked as an Assistant Professor at METU between 2000 and 2001, and as a research scientist at Philips Research France between 2001 and 2002. Since 2002, she is working at Orange. Her research activities and interests are mainly focused on 5G/6G IoT network. She has taken responsibilities and been active in several European projects within the framework of FP7, 5G PPP and Celtic+. She also acted as the Orange representative of the 5G Alliance on Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) between 2018 and 2022 as well as the Orange technical coordinator in Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) alliance. Currently, she is within the Innovation for Radio and Environment department of Orange and acting as the coordinator of the research program on RAN Architecture and Machine Communications. She holds several patents and has authored more than fifty peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals and conferences. She also acts as expert evaluator for research projects, as well as reviewer, Technical Programme Committee member and guest editor for various conferences and journals. 

Keynote 2: Valerio Pruneri (invited speaker, ICFO)

  • Quantum crypto in Barcelona

    This talk will review some technology developments at ICFO, including quantum random number generation devices and continuous variable quantum key distribution systems, and the plan to deploy quantum-secure networks in Barcelona, Spain and Europe.

     

  • Valerio Pruneri is an ICREA Industrial Professor, Corning Inc. chair and group leader at ICFO. Previously, he worked in industry, (Avanex Corporation and Corning OTI). He has over 60 granted or pending patent families and 100 invited talks at major international conferences in the field of photonics, optical materials, and quantum technologies. His research at ICFO has so far contributed to three spin-offs (www.quside.com, www.sixsenso.com and www.luxquanta.com) and numerous industrial collaborations with Corporates. For his research and technology transfer effort, he received the Philip Morris Prize, the Pirelli Research Fellowship, the IBM Faculty Award, the Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award, the Duran Farell Prize and the Corning Inc. Chair. He has been the coordinator of Quantum Flagship Projects CIVIQ and QSNP.

CTTC success case (Josep Mangues, CTTC)

  • CTTC success story will focus on the automation of virtual services in 5G/6G/xG networks. We will illustrate the potential of automated network management (cloud, transport, edge) in serving the needs of different industries, such as healthcare, automotive, audiovisual, connected industry., as well as the opportunities it offers. Examples from several projects developed and deployed on CTTC’s experimental facilities will be presented. The CTTC labs and testbed infrastructures have been evolving over the last 20 years to combine the most advanced technologies for radio access network, wireless and optical transport, core mobile network and for edge to cloud compute continuum, including automated network management and decision-making.

  • Josep Mangues-Bafalluy received the PhD degree in Telecommunications in 2003 from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). He is Research Director and Head of Services as networkS research unit of the CTTC, where he also coordinated other groups since June 2003. He was assistant professor at various schools of UPC, researcher in the Dept. of Computer Architecture of UPC, and software developer in a SME. He has published 120+ journals/magazines and international conference papers through collaborations with multiple research groups. Since July 1997 he has participated in around 40 EU, Spanish, and industrial research projects in various roles (incl. PI). He was vice-chair of IEEE WCNC’18 and acted in various roles in other conferences. He was advisor of four defended theses and is supervising two PhD students. Current interests are: Cloud/Edge computing, SDN, NFV in mobile networks (incl. open RAN) and data science/engineering- and AIML-based service and network management automation and orchestration.

     

Poster Sessions

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    Poster Session 1

    [The numbering corresponds to the poster panels]

    1. Adrián Agustin de Dios, “Massive Access in Future Wireless Networks”.
    2. Dheeraj Raja Kumar, Carles Antón Haro , “Shallow Neural Networks for Channel Estimation in Multi-Antenna Systems”.
    3. Adriano Pastore, Mònica Navarro Rodero, “What is Quantum Key Distribution?”.
    4. Biljana Bojovic, Sandra Lagén Morancho, Aikaterini Koutlia, Joseanne Viana, “OpenSim and 5G-LENA extensions towards 5G-Advanced”.
    5. Engin Zeydan, Josep Mangues Bafalluy, “Data Engineering for Networking: AI/ML-based Automated Management and Orchestration Use Case”.
    6. Farhad Rezazadeh, Swastika Roy, Vaishnavi Kasuluru, “Long-Term Research in SaS”.
    7. Selva Via Labrada, Farhana Javed, Jordi Baranda Hortigüela, Miquel Payaró, “Inter-domain/cross-border in next-gen mobile networks: the Vehicular use case and functional management architectures”.
    8. Rasoul Nikbakht, Sergio Barrachina Muñoz, “5G Edge Infrastructure and Applications: Cloud-native Deployment and Orchestration”.
    9. Manuel Requena Esteso, Sarang Kahvazadeh, Fatemehsadat Tabatabaeimehr, Hamzeh Khalili, “Multi-domain multi-cloud federation for Vertical-oriented 5G platform-as-a-service”.
    10. Marc Martinez Gost, “FM for joint Communication and Computing”.
    11. Miguel Ángel Vázquez Oliver, Pol Henarejos Hernández, Musbah M.R Shaat, Luís Blanco Botana, Juan Antonio Bas Botella, “Data-enhanced terrestrial and non-terrestrial radio control”.
    12. Màrius Caus López, Musbah M.R Shaat, Pol Henarejos Hernández, “Towards 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks Evolved Connectivity Paradigms”.

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    Poster Session 2

    [The numbering corresponds to the poster panels]

    1. Qi Gao, “EO-AFRICA Project: Quantifying Soil Moisture from Space-based SAR and Ground-based Geophysical and Hydrological Measurements”.
    2. Fermín Elias Mira Pérez, “Design and Fabrication of planar Antennas”.
    3. Ignacio Llamas Garro, Jesús Salvador Velázquez González, Kelia Silva dos Santos, Zabdiel Brito Brito, “Interdisciplinary Sensors and Microwave Devices Laboratory (ISMD Lab)”.
    4. Zabdiel Brito Brito, Jesús Salvador Velázquez González, “Microwave and Optical Sensors”.
    5. Michela Svaluto Moreolo, Francisco Javier Vilchez Bermúdez, Josep Maria Fàbrega Sánchez, Laia Nadal Reixats, “Photonic and Quantum Communication Technologies Research Line (PONS-PhoQ)”.
    6. Ramon Casellas Regí, Carlos Agustín Manso Fernández-Argüelles, Carlos Efrén Hernández Chulde, Lluis Gifre Renom, Pol Alemany Prats, Ramon Casellas Regí, Raul Muñoz González, Ricardo Victor Martínez Rivera, “Control and Telemetry of Autonomous Packet/Optical Networks Research Line (PONS‐AutoNet)”.
    7. Ricard Vilalta Cañellas, Carlos Agustín Manso Fernández-Argüelles, Lluis Gifre Renom, Lucie Long, Pol Alemany Prats, Raul Muñoz González, Ricardo Victor Martínez Rivera, Luca Vettori, Carlos Efrén Hernández Chulde, “Zero-touch Management and Secured Network Service Orchestration (PONS-MgtSec)”.
    8. Raul Muñoz González, Carlos Agustín Manso Fernández-Argüelles, Francisco Javier Vilchez Bermúdez, Josep Maria Fàbrega Sánchez, Laia Nadal Reixats, Lluis Gifre Renom, Luca Vettori, Michela Svaluto Moreolo, Pol Alemany Prats, Ramon Casellas Regí, Ricard Vilalta Cañellas, Ricardo Victor Martínez Rivera, “ADRENALINE Testbed® - Experimental research testbed on high-performance and large-scale intelligent packet optical networks”.
    9. Chiara Lanza, Marco Miozzo, Paolo Dini, Eduard Angelats Company, “Urban Traffic Forecasting using Federated and Continual Learning”.
    10. Ebrahim Abu-Helalah, “Wireless link anomaly detection for jamming attack to the wireless link”.
    11. Roshan Sedar, Charalampos Kalalas, “Ensemble Learning for Misbehavior Detection in IoV Networks”.
    12. Elia Guerra, Paolo Dini, Marco Miozzo, “How Much Does It Cost to Train a Machine Learning Model over Distributed Data Sources?”.

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    Poster Session 3

    [The numbering corresponds to the poster panels]

    1. Nikolaos Bartzoudis, David López Bueno, José Rubio Fernández "ADAPT Research Unit"
    2. Guido Luzi, Riccardo Palama, “A low-cost Active Reflector designed to assist Interferometric Monitoring based on Sentinel-1 SAR imaging”.
    3. Eduard Angelats Company, “Monitoring of shorelines of the vulnerable Trabucador (Ebro Delta) barrier beach during pre- and post-storm events”.
    4. María Cuevas González, Riccardo Palama, Saeedeh Shahbazi, Seyedmohammad Mirmazloumi, José Antonio Navarro Esteban, Anna Barra, “Beyond the European Ground Motion Service (EGMS): (semi-) automatic identification and classification of areas affected by ground instability”.
    5. Danielly Garcia Santos, Maria Eulàlia Parés Calaf, “Hotspot detection of Transformation opportunities for both biodiversity and people in three schools neighborhoods in Barcelona”.
    6. Maria Eulàlia Parés Calaf, Ana Moragrega Estrany, Eduard Angelats Company, José Antonio Navarro Esteban, Pedro Espín López, “Seamless indoor-outdoor positioning technologies”.
    7. Jordi Escoda, “CTTC Cybersecurity Improvements to protect users”.
    8. Ana Gil, “Economic Management”.
    9. Beatriz González, “Legal and Purchases Unit“.
    10. Sara Rayo, “Coordinators of Competitive Calls”.
    11. Marian Ramirez, “Project Management Unit”.
    12. Carmen Ciruela, “Human Resource Department”.
    13. Margarida Hesselbach, Miquel Payaró, “Intellectual Property Rights”

     

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2022

Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya

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