Workshop on Standards-driven Research
Schedule
| Friday, 10th January 2025 | ||
| Venue: SIGMA 1 | ||
| Time | Title | Speaker/Authors |
| Session 1 | ||
| 09:00 | Welcome by Workshop Chairs | |
| 09:05 | Panel - WiFi as 6G Technology Abstract: This session will explore evolution of WiFi as small-cell technology and its potential role as part of a 6G soluton for specific emerging use-cases; and corresponding technology/market drivers and challenges. |
Moderator: Sumit Roy, University of Washington Invited Speaker: S. Srikanth, Nanocell Panelists: Nadeem Akhtar, HFCL Vijaya Chetlapalli, Arista Sai Dhiraj Amuru, Plume |
| 10.20 | Technical Session 1 | Session Chair: S. Srikanth, Nanocell (Presentation : 15 mins including Q&A) |
| 10:20 | Enhancing O-RAN's Intent-based Management Standards for Seamless Cross-Layer Mobility | Nanjangud C. Narendra (IISc Bangalore), Ronak Kanthaliya (IISc Bangalore), Venkatareddy Akumalla (IISc Bangalore) |
| 10:35 | Use of Channel Occupancy for Multi Link WiFi 7 Scheduler Design in ns-3 | Puneet Kumar (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi), Jagrati Kulshrestha (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi), Mukulika Maity (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi), Sumit Roy (University of Washington) |
| 10:50 | IEEE 802.11ba Frame Adaptations for Improving Power Efficiency in Semantic-Surveillance | Vaideeswaran A P (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad), Sai Pranav Komaragiri (IIT Hyderabad), Prof. Zafar Ali Khan (IIT Hyderabad) |
| 11:05 - 11:30 | Tea/Coffee | |
| Session 2 | ||
| 11:30 | Panel - Bharat 6G Abstract: This session will explore India-specific research on 6G (IMT-2030) and its potential contributions to global standards. Focusing on innovative technologies, this discussion aims to highlight research topics that could influence the development of international standards within organizations like 3GPP and ITU, shaping the future of global telecommunications. |
Moderator: Avninash Agarwal (DoT) Panelists: Prof. Chandra Murthy (IISc) Vinod Kumar (DoT) Vinosh Babu James (Qualcomm) Subhash Mandal (HFCL) |
| 12:30 | Technical Session 2 | Session Chair: Vishnu Ram (TSDSI) : (Presentation : 15 mins including Q&A) |
| 12:30 | A Review of Energy Information Collection and Exposure in 3GPP Mobile Networks | Rashmi Kamran (IIT Bombay, India), Pranav Jha (IIT Bombay, India), Shwetha Kiran (IIT Bombay, India), Pradnya Taksande (IIT Bombay, India), Prasanna Chaporkar (IIT Bombay, India), Abhay Karandikar (Department of Science & Technology, India), Manjesh Hanawal (IIT Bombay, India) |
| 12:45 | Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial-Network Architecture for Edge Caching and Coded Delivery in 3GPP System | Lalhruaizela Chhangte (NIT Mizoram), Ashish Singh Patel (NIT Mizoram) |
| 13:00 | Performance Enhancements of Control Channel in Non-Terrestrial Networks for 5G & Beyond | Santhoshkumar M (Center Of Excellence In Wireless Technology,IITM), Abhijeet Abhimanyu Masal (Center Of Excellence In Wireless Technology,IITM), Dony J. Muttath (Center Of Excellence In Wireless Technology,IITM), Klutto Milleth (Center Of Excellence In Wireless Technology,IITM) |
| 13:15-14:15 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 3 | ||
| 14:15 | Panel: Open RAN Abstract: O-RAN (including the original X-RAN) is nearing a decade of existence. This panel discussion will take a look back at O-RAN and the broader open RAN movement, its history, its role in the overall standard’s and industry landscape, its achievements and shortcomings. We also look forward in terms of lessons learned, and the prospects of O-RAN’s global adoption in late 5G, and any changes or new directions needed for 6G. |
Moderator: Balaji Raghothaman, Keysight Technologies Keynote Speaker: Sandeep Sharma, Tech Mahindra Panelists: Dilip Krishnaswamy, C-DOT Usha Padmini, IOS-MCN, IISc Sandeep Sharma, Tech Mahindra |
| 15.15 | Technical Session 3 | Session Chair: Ashwin Rao (University of Helsinki) : (Presentation : 15 mins including Q&A) |
| 15.15 | Enhancements for Developing a Comprehensive AI Fairness Assessment Standard | Avinash Agarwal (Telecommunications Engineering Centre, Dept. of Telecommunications), Mayashankar Kumar (Telecommunications Engineering Centre, Dept. of Telecommunications), Manisha J. Nene (Defence Institute of Advanced Technology) |
| 15.30 | Zero-Trust Security in 5G and Beyond Networks: An Overview | K Sowjanya (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Dhiman Saha (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai), Brejesh Lal (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) |
| 15.45 | Standardization aspects of Authentication Relay Attack using False Base Station | K Sowjanya, Soumen Jana, Vipin Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Dhiman Saha (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai), Brejesh Lal (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Tea Break | |
| Session 4 | ||
| 16.15-16.45 | Poster Session | |
| INDiSI Standard for SOM module Interface | Hemant Magadum (CDAC) , Lakshamaiah Alluri (CDAC) | |
| Requirements for the semantics of a Common User Profile used to personalize audiovisual media | Pradipta Biswas (Indian Institute of Science) | |
| On Demand Transmissions of Common Signals for Network Energy Saving | Deepak Agarwal (IIT Madras), Deepak PM (Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology), Sheetal Kalyani (Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, IIT Madras), Ramya TR (Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology), J. Klutto Milleth (Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology) | |
| Securing Legacy Interfaces of 5G Short Message Service Function (SMSF) | Rashmi Kamran (IIT Bombay, India), Pradnya Taksande (IIT Bombay, India), Pranav Jha (IIT Bombay, India), Manjesh Hanawal (IIT Bombay, India), Prasanna Chaporkar (IIT Bombay, India) | |
| Semantic Communication with Networked AI in 6G: Application Scenarios, Insights from Practical Experiments, Standardization Aspects | Abhijan Bhattacharyya (Tata Consultancy Services), Ashis Sau (Tata Consultancy Services), Suraj Mahato (Tata Consultancy Services) | |
| 16.45 | Workshop: Innovation Strategies for Patenting and Standardisation Abstract: As the various players of the Indian telecom ecosystem are gearing up to align with the National Priority of “India Emerging as a Leader in 6G”, the importance of building a strong portfolio of patents and Standards Essential Patents (SEPs) is well understood. This session will delve into the strategies being adopted to drive focus on patenting and SEPs. Specifically, the speakers will provide insights from the 5G journey and new strategies and processes being adopted by Government, Industry and Academia. |
Moderator:Pamela Kumar (FSID-IISc) |
| 16:45 | National Strategy for leap-frogging India in Telecom Patents | Vinod Kumar, DDG-SRI, DoT |
| 17:00 | Lessons in Patenting and Standardisation in Telecom | Jishnu Aravindakshan, Tejas Networks |
| 17:15 | Journey from Innovations to Standards Essential Patent - Academic perspective | Ramya TR, CEWIT |
| 17:30 | Recipe for scaling Patents and SEPs | YVS Lakshmi, CDOT |
| 17:45 | Organisational Strategies for Patents and Standardisation | SK Murthy, Patent Attorney |
| 18:00 | Closing Remarks | |
THEME: “Promoting Pre-Standards Collaborations and Harmonisation for 6G”
Call for Papers
Camera Ready Guidelines
Accepted Papers (Oral Presentation)
- A Review of Energy Information Collection and Exposure in 3GPP Mobile Networks
Rashmi Kamran (IIT Bombay, India), Pranav Jha (IIT Bombay, India), Shwetha Kiran (IIT Bombay, India), Pradnya Taksande (IIT Bombay, India), Prasanna Chaporkar (IIT Bombay, India), Abhay Karandikar (Department of Science & Technology, India), Manjesh Hanawal (IIT Bombay, India) - Enhancing O-RAN’s Intent-based Management Standards for Seamless Cross-Layer Mobility
Nanjangud C. Narendra (IISc Bangalore), Ronak Kanthaliya (IISc Bangalore), Venkatareddy Akumalla (IISc Bangalore) - [Invited Paper] Use of Channel Occupancy for Multi Link WiFi 7 Scheduler Design in ns-3
Puneet Kumar (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi), Jagrati Kulshrestha (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi), Mukulika Maity (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi), Sumit Roy (University of Washington) - Enhancements for Developing a Comprehensive AI Fairness Assessment Standard Avinash Agarwal (Telecommunications Engineering Centre, Dept. of Telecommunications), Mayashankar Kumar (Telecommunications Engineering Centre, Dept. of Telecommunications), Manisha J. Nene (Defence Institute of Advanced Technology)
Avinash Agarwal (Telecommunications Engineering Centre, Dept. of Telecommunications), Mayashankar Kumar (Telecommunications Engineering Centre, Dept. of Telecommunications), Manisha J. Nene (Defence Institute of Advanced Technology) - IEEE 802.11ba Frame Adaptations for Improving Power Efficiency in Semantic-Surveillance
Vaideeswaran A P (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad), Sai Pranav Komaragiri (IIT Hyderabad), Prof. Zafar Ali Khan (IIT Hyderabad) - Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial-Network Architecture for Edge Caching and Coded Delivery in 3GPP System
Lalhruaizela Chhangte (NIT Mizoram), Ashish Singh Patel (NIT Mizoram) - Zero-Trust Security in 5G and Beyond Networks: An Overview
K Sowjanya (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Dhiman Saha (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai), Brejesh Lal (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) - Performance Enhancements of Control Channel in Non-Terrestrial Networks for 5G & Beyond
Santhoshkumar M (Senior Research Engineer), Abhijeet Abhimanyu Masal (Lead Research Engineer), Dony J. Muttath (Senior Research Engineer), Klutto Milleth (Chief Technologist) - Standardization aspects of Authentication Relay Attack using False Base Station
K Sowjanya, Soumen Jana, Vipin Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Dhiman Saha (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai), Brejesh Lal (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Accepted Papers (Poster Presentation)
- INDiSI Standard for SOM module Interface
Hemant Magadum (CDAC) , Lakshamaiah Alluri (CDAC) - Requirements for the semantics of a Common User Profile used to personalize audiovisual media
Pradipta Biswas (Indian Institute of Science) - On Demand Transmissions of Common Signals for Network Energy Saving
Deepak Agarwal (Student IEEE member, CEWiT, IIT Madras), Deepak PM (Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology), Sheetal Kalyani (Member IEEE, IIT Madras), Ramya TR (Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology), J. Klutto Milleth (Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology) - Securing Legacy Interfaces of 5G Short Message Service Function (SMSF)
Rashmi Kamran (IIT Bombay, India), Pradnya Taksande (IIT Bombay, India), Pranav Jha (IIT Bombay, India), Manjesh Hanawal (IIT Bombay, India), Prasanna Chaporkar (IIT Bombay, India) - Semantic Communication with Networked AI in 6G: Application Scenarios, Insights from Practical Experiments, Standardization Aspects
Abhijan Bhattacharyya (Tata Consultancy Services), Ashis Sau (Tata Consultancy Services), Suraj Mahato (Tata Consultancy Services)
Important Dates
| Paper Submission deadline: |
| Notification of Acceptance: 3rd December 2024 |
| Camera-ready Submission: 10th December 2024 |
| Workshop Date:: 10th January 2025 |
Context & Rationale
SDR Workshop is structured as an annual event for a multi-faceted global community (academics, industry, government) organized around Telecom standards (nominally oriented to 6G). The workshop brings together members of this diverse community to deliberate and collaborate across the FULL life cycle of Standardisation – from Pre-Standardisation activities to Standards Development and Post-Standardisation. The ability to innovate in, contribute to and adopt leading-edge globally relevant Technical Specifications or Industry standards for Telecom and networking is of paramount significance to the nation’s industrial capacity and ultimate societal well-being.
This implies that workshop topics be linked in some manner to current global (e.g. ITU, 3GPP, IEEE, ISO/IEC) Standards Development Organisation’s (SDOs) Technology Working Group’s (WG) deliberations or to future (6G) standards development roadmaps (e.g 3GPP Rel-19 and beyond).. Further, contributions that summarize experiences and provide insights into strategic issues around the IP creation pipeline for various global/national SDO WGs are also welcome. Finally, the workshop particularly invites submissions that highlight aspects of telecom standardization relevant for India specific use cases and national research priorities, in view of Bharat 6G vision.
Summary: The SDR workshop seeks to act as a forum for
a) interaction among academic-industry-government participants as a platform for ideas on standards development aligned with national priorities and
b) for early consensus creation in preparation for contributions at Global SDOs, with the primary aim of:
- pro-active identification of futuristic research, development and prototyping needed for standards development for next generation telecom, networking and computing technologies
- identify pathways for 3-way (academic/national industry and government) collaboration on creation of pre- standards IP pipeline aligned with future technology and standards roadmaps,
- creating or supporting existing working groups (WG) to pro-actively, advise the government regarding technology policy (notably spectrum allocations) and strategies for R&D resource allocation to enhance the impact at Global SDOs, to align with National Priorities.
Call for Contributions
The Workshop invites submission of original work, not previously published or under review at another conference/journal. A primary criterion of evaluation will be demonstrated awareness of ongoing/emerging issues at any of various standardization bodies pertinent to telecom standards. Besides purely technology-centric submissions, commentary or position documents on any of emerging network architectures, telecom policy, market formation or technology-cum-business strategic aspects are particularly welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Pre Standards Topics:
- Market Design and Regulatory Aspects for Telecom
- Spectrum Allocations/Re-Allocation
- Role of Industry-Govt-Academic collaboration in IP creation
- Experiences – transitioning R&D to Standards IP
- Critique of IP creation/standardization process – Indian Perspective
- Bharat 6G: India-specific Use cases
- Emerging Technology Areas:
- Immersive Communication
- Massive Communication
- Hyper reliable and low latency Communication
- Ubiquitous Connectivity
- AI and Communication
- Integrated Sensing and Communication
- Sustainability
- Connecting the Unconnected
- Security and Resilience
- Ubiquitous Intelligence
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Post Standardisation Topics:
- Network Performance evaluation
- New capabilities - Interoperability, Composability, Positioning, Coverage,
- Open Radio Access Networking
- Open Source for 5G and 6G
- Results/Experiences from deploying test-beds or Field Trials
How is a Contribution different from a paper?
- A contribution can be results from early-stage research study that is linked to existing standards with the potential as a future contribution to a Standards Development Working or Study Group (3GPP, IEEE, IETF etc)
- A contribution can be vision papers, technical commentary and market research intended as potential contribution to a future-looking roadmap item identified by an SDO (e.g. ITU)
- A contribution can be studies compiling data and resulting insights into network operations from a test-bed or from the field
- A contribution can be an opinion piece or position paper based on a mix of technology, market and business strategic considerations.
Submission Guidelines
- Submissions (including title, author list, abstract, all figures, tables, and references) should not exceed 5 pages in length. A minimum number of 3 pages are required. The Abstract, Introduction & References should clearly indicate the relevant standards or feature(s) analyzed and include URLs to appropriate standards reports/documents or relevant industry sources.
- Reviews will be single-blind: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission
- Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on IEEE Website; and those that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on IEEE Website; page limit is 5 pages for technical content and references (including References and Appendix.), and those that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. We will follow a single-blind review policy.
- All papers must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted on HotCRP.
- All workshop papers (full papers - both regular and invited) will appear in conference proceedings and be submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
For any queries, please contact us at SDR Chairs:comsnets.sdr@gmail.com comsnets.workshop@gmail.com
Submission Link: https://comsnets25sdr.hotcrp.com/
Program Committee:
- Avinash Agarwal , Dept. of Telecommunications, GoI
- Arzad Alam Kherani , IIT Bhilai
- Brejesh Lall , IIT Delhi
- Giridhar Mandyam, Mediatek, USA
- Balaji Raghothaman , Keysight Technologies, USA
- Serge Fdida Sorbonne , Sorbonne Univ. France
Workshop Co-Chairs
Pamela Kumar
FSID-IISc
India
Ashwin Rao
University of Helsinki
Finland
Sumit Roy
University of Washington
Seattle, USA
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