IEEE International Conference on Communications
7-11 June 2020 // Virtual Conference
Communications Enabling Shared Understanding

Biographies

Workshop Chairs

Mark Roddy, Mind Myths Lda, Ireland

Maria Barros Weiss, Eurescom GmbH, Germany

Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom GmbH, Germany

Pal Gronsund, Telenor

Thuy Truong, DellEMC, Ireland.

Ishan Vaishnavi, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH

 

Keynotes

Keynote1 by SliceNet presented by Prof. Qi Wang, University of the West of Scotland, UK
Prof. Qi Wang is a Professor in Next-Generation Networks with the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) in UK. He is a Board Member of EU 5G-PPP Technology Board, Member of several 5G-PPP Working Groups, and Scotland’s Developing AI and AI Enabled Products and Services Working Group. He is the Co-Technical Manager for EU Horizon 2020 5G-PPP projects SELFNET and SliceNet, and Principal Investigator for numerous projects sponsored by various funding bodies such as UK EPSRC, Innovation Centre for Sensor and Imaging Systems etc. He has published more than 150 papers in these areas. He was a Best Paper Award Winner of IEEE ICCE 2014, IEEE ICCE2012, SOFTNETWORKING 2017, and SIGMAP  2014, and Award Winner of 2018 Scottish Knowledge Exchange Award, and 2020 Scotland CeeD Industry Awards – Innovation Award.

Keynote2 by 5G-VINNI presented by Dr. Pål Grønsund, Telenor, Oslo, Norway.
Pål Grønsund holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Oslo (Norway) on Cognitive Radio and has been a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. He joined Telenor ASA in 2007 now holding a senior research scientist position, mainly focusing on 5G and beyond, Cloud, NFV, SDN, Orchestration and implementation of advanced vertical industry use cases. Grønsund is currently the project coordinator of the EU funded project 5G-VINNI (Verticals INNovation Infrastructure). He is vice chair in the ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM) project and has standardization experience in ETSI NFV ISG and ETSI RRS.

 

Paper Presenters

Paper 1 - “Hardware-based Network Slicing for Supporting Smart Grids Self-healing over 5G Networks” presented by Ruben Ricart-Sanchez
Ruben Ricart-Sanchez is a PhD candidate and researcher at University of the West of Scotland (United Kingdom), where he is actively involved in the EU H2020 5G-PPP Phase II SliceNet project. His main research interests include reconfigurable hardware, programmable network control plane, configurable hardware management plane, mobile edge computing data plane, cognitive network management and 5G mobile networks, among others.


Paper 2 – “Scalable Software Switch Based Service Function Chaining for 5G Network Slicing” presented by Antonio Matencio Escolar
Antonio Matencio Escolar has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Murcia (Spain). Currently, He is a researcher and PhD candidate at the University of the West of Scotland in UK where he is actively involved in the H2020 5G-PPP Slicenet project.
His main research interests include network slicing, software datapath, SDN, 5G mobile networks and network control and  management, among others.


Paper 3 – “Modeling Network slice as a Service in a multi-vendor 5G experimentation ecosystem” presented by Dr. Christos Tranoris
Dr. Christos Tranoris is a Senior Researcher at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of University of Patras, Greece. He currently participates in several Horizon 2020 European projects related to 5G. He has significant experience in the development of experimentation infrastructures and services, and he leads the development of various open source and 5G-related operation support tools.


Paper 4 – “Provisioning Private 5G networks by means of Network Slicing: Architectures and Challenges” presented by Wint Yi Poe
Wint Yi Poe is currently a Senior Researcher with Huawei Technologies, Munich Research Center, Munich, Germany, where she is focusing on core network architecture, QoS and monitoring, SLA support mechanisms and NPN technologies. She has several years of experience with 5G System Architecture and Management and continues to focus on active contribution towards 5G system in the scope of SA2 and SA5. She has been involved with H2020 5GEx project and, currently the H2020 5G-VINNI project. She holds multiple patents in the area of wireless communications and has authored several conference and journal papers. She received the Ph.D degree in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 2013.


Paper 5 – “A workflow for onboarding Verticals on 5G/NFV experimental network facility” Dr. Christos Tranoris
Dr. Christos Tranoris is a Senior Researcher at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of University of Patras, Greece. He currently participates in several Horizon 2020 European projects related to 5G. He has significant experience in the development of experimentation infrastructures and services, and he leads the development of various open source and 5G-related operation support tools.


Paper 6 – “Multi-domain Orchestration of 5G Vertical Services and Network Slices” presented by Giacomo Bernini
Giacomo Bernini is R&D Technical Coordinator at Nextworks. Giacomo’s main research interests include 5G, NFV and MEC, with main focus on the aspects related to network slicing and 5G vertical services orchestration and automated operation. In the last ten years Giacomo has been deeply involved in FP6, FP7 and H2020 research programs, actively contributing to numerous projects bringing its expertise for the design, development and demonstration of network control, management and operation solutions tailored to specific telco and vertical requirements. Recently, he is also very active in standardization bodies, serving as leader and coordinator in various ETSI Specialist Task Forces (STFs) in the area of NFV API conformance test specifications and OpenAPI representations for NFV.


Paper 7 – “5G Service and Slice Implementation for a Military Use Case” presented by Dr. Pål Grønsund
Pål Grønsund holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Oslo (Norway) on Cognitive Radio and has been a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. He joined Telenor ASA in 2007 now holding a senior research scientist position, mainly focusing on 5G and beyond, Cloud, NFV, SDN, Orchestration and implementation of advanced vertical industry use cases. Grønsund is currently the project coordinator of the EU funded project 5G-VINNI (Verticals INNovation Infrastructure). He is vice chair in the ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM) project and has standardization experience in ETSI NFV ISG and ETSI RRS.

 

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