Workshop on Standards-driven Research

All workshops will be conducted in a hybrid mode. However, we strongly encourage physical attendance (including delegates/authors/speakers/chairs and OC members) for the workshops, especially if you are in India. There will be travel grant opportunities for authors traveling from within India.

Schedule

Keynote Speakers

Devaki Chandramouli

Nokia, USA

Aloknath De

Samsung, India

Gerhard Fettweis

TU, Dresden, Germany

Accepted Papers

1. Multi-cluster Dynamic Load Balancing in vSDN-enabled 5G Heterogeneous Network for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems
   Deborsi Basu; Abhishek Jain; Addanki Sankara Rao; Uttam Ghosh; Raja Datta
   
   
2. A Survey on Rural Internet Connectivity in India
   Shruthi Koratagere Anantha Kumar; Vigneswara Ihita Gangavarapu; Sachin Chaudhari; Paventhan Arumugam
   
   
3. Standardization aspects of Tactile applications on Multi-access Edge Computing
   Ashish Singh Patel; Pimmy Gandotra; Rajesh Kumar; Arzad Kherani; Brejesh Lall; Sudipto Mukherjee
   
   
4. Performance Analysis of Channel-Dependent Rate Adaptation for OFDMA transmission in IEEE 802.11ax WLANs
   Sheela C S; Joy Kuri; Nadeem Akhtar
   
   
5. Prediction of Maximum Expected Delay using Enhanced Link Adaptation for 5G mm-Wave Network
   Ashutosh Ranjan Dwivedi; Ankur Chauhan
   
   
6. Evaluation of the IMT-2020 candidate radio interface technology DECT-2020 NR
   Konstantinos Maliatsos; Antonis G Gotsis; Angeliki Alexiou
   
   
7. Tracking Resurgence of Ultra-Wideband - A Standards and Certification Perspective
   Karthik Srinivasa Gopalan; Ankur Bansal; Aniruddh Rao Kabbinale
   
   
8. Transformation from 5G for Verticals towards a 6G-enabled Internet of Verticals
   Maziar Nekovee
   
   

Background

Standards are considered as enablers and facilitators for research, and standardization remains a technology transfer channel for the research to get into limelight. Despite the widespread use of standards, they often remain hidden when we discuss research. The rationale seems to be to keep the researcher free from the constraints of limiting the scope of innovation. While this helps, it also leads to several of these innovations not finding the light of the day. And it is for that reason, institutions across the world are now motivating researchers to focus on innovations that can be practiced. This is very critical for smaller entities to participate in global scale projects. As these projects get modularized, standards driven research allows individual entities to focus or leverage their skill sets, while simultaneously allowing interoperability with another entity’s solutions. Our goal in this workshop is not only to foster a better understanding of the advantages that standards, but to focus on those aspects of interoperability which asks for the standardization need in the first place. It also lays emphasis on the role of evaluation methodologies and models used in the standardization process, that becomes the framework to compare performance across different proposals and how it can be leveraged by researchers while investigating new techniques and algorithms.

Rationale

There is a continuous effort put into the evolution of networks and systems to remain in pace with the need. Every few years, there are transformative research happening in these fields, which find their way into commercial systems in a few years further. A continuous effort is also put into the development of internationally harmonized standards development, so that such innovation become useful. International Standards mean that consumers can have confidence that their products are safe, reliable and of good quality. Regulators and governments count on standards bodies like the ISO, ITU, 3GPP, IEEE, ETSI, etc. to help develop better regulation, knowing they have a sound basis thanks to the involvement of globally established experts.

There are many contradictory views about importance of standards in research and innovation. Research & innovation motivates standardization, and standardization of solutions require further research & innovation, thereby keeping this vicious cycle active. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together innovative minds researching in networking and communication systems to connect and exchange ideas on topics that involve standardized solutions.

Topics of interest include, but are not strictly limited to:

• The role of machine learning and artificial intelligence in intelligent network solutions
• Need for standardized solutions to exploit the true benefits of signal processing
• Next generation communication system design
• Evaluation methodologies and models for validating new use cases
• Technical assessment to the pros and cons of open interfaces in communication system design.

Submission Guidelines

• Standards-driven Research workshop invites submission of original work not previously published, or under review at another conference or journal.
• Submissions (including title, author list, abstract, all figures, tables, and references) must be no greater than 6 pages in length.
• Reviews will be single-blind: authors names and affiliations 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.
• All papers must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the SDR Workshop submission site on EDAS.
• All workshop papers will appear in conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore

Important Deadlines

Workshop Co-Chairs

Jean-Pierre Bienaimé

TSDSI, India & Ubiquity Consulting, France.

Puneet Jain

Intel, USA

Vinosh Babu James

Qualcomm, India

Arzad Alam Kherani

IIT Bhilai, India