This is the First Annual workshop, “Future of Communications”, organized by the research group on Connectivity at Aalborg University. The workshop is organized under the auspices of the Villum Investigator Grant “WATER”, aimed to investigate the communication techniques and systems beyond 5G and towards 6G. The scope of communication engineering is expanding towards close collaboration with other areas, such as computing, energy, machine learning, quantum computing or similar. Besides presenting a snapshot of the research done at the Connectivity group, the aim of the workshop is to gather presentations and insights from leading researchers in communications and related areas, such as computer science, energy, quantum science and robotics.

Program Overview

All presentation slides are available here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AP_OyfUVYUjn-xoITBz12lqno-XQdV_J?usp=share_link

8:30 AM Registration and coffee

Session I

9:00 AM Opening and Presentation of the Research Group (Petar Popovski)

9:15 AM Keynote: Osvaldo Simeone, King’s College London, UK

"Quantum machine learning: An introduction"

10:00 AM A.E. Kalør, AAU, Connectivity and The University of Hong Kong (Wireless@HKU)

"ARQ Protocols for Massive Random Access" (Virtual)

10:15 AM Israel Leyva-Mayorga, AAU, Connectivity

"Edge Computing at a Planetary Scale"

10:30 AM Emil Bjornson, KTH Royal, Sweden

"Intelligent mirror on the wall, what’s the best use case of them all? " (Virtual)

Coffee Break (15 min)

11:05 AM Matthias Christandl, QMATH, Copenhagen University

"Quantum Communication with Noisy Devices"

11:25 AM Shashi Raj Pandey, AAU, Connectivity

"Decentralized Learning and IoT Data Market"

11:40 AM Armin Dekorsy, University of Breman, Germany

"Relevance-based Information Processing" (Virtual)

Lunch Break (12:00 - 13:00 hrs)

Session II

1:00 PM Remus Teodorescu, AAU, Electric Power Systems and Microgrids

"Smart Battery. A new Battery Management Technology with Lifetime Extension"

1:30 PM Katja Hose, AAU, Computer Science Department

"Knowledge Engineering and Graph Data Management at Scale"

2:00 PM Lars Ramkilde Knudsen, AAU, Mathematics Department

"Quantum-safe cryptology and the NIST competition"

Coffee Break (15 min)

2:45 PM Ali Ramezani, AAU, Connectivity

"Randomization Improves Deep Learning Security"

3:00 PM Bho Matthiesen , Dept. Communication Engineering, Excellence Chair, University of Bremen, Germany

"Federated Learning in Satellite Constellations"

3:15 PM Fabio Saggese, AAU, Connectivity

"Let RIS-aided communications work: A system perspective" (Virtual)

3:30 PM Radoslaw Kotaba, AAU, Connectivity

"Unsourced Random Access With Authentication and Joint Downlink Acknowledgements"

3:45 PM René B. Christensen, AAU, Connectivity and Mathematics

"Entanglement-assisted private products"

Panel Session

4:00 PM Title: Communication Engineering and Interdisciplinary Research

Moderator: Petar Popovski

Panelists: Strahinja Došen, Katja Hose, Osvaldo Simeone, Čedomir Stefanović, and Remus Teodorescu

4: 45 PM End of the workshop

Registration Information

Registration can be done by filling out this form. Deadline: December 8th, 2022.

(Only open for virtual registration)

For any difficulties and queries, contact Martin Voigt Vejling. Email: mvv@es.aau.dk