Jong-Moon Chung (Yonsei University, Korea)
Yuji Nomura (Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan)
Yu-Huang Chu (CHT, Taiwan)

Prof. Li-Chun Wang

National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Abstract

A significant change in wireless networks recently is that much more data are collected from various sources, including channels, locations, radio access options, social networks, network state and management. The availability of this large amount and various types of data can potentially help a traditional knowledge-driven mobile network be transformed into a more powerful data-driven cognitive network (D2CN) with the help of machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence, and statistical reasoning. Hence, from the holistic aspects of signal processing, network planning, and user customization, the performance of D2CN can be significantly improved.

In this talk, we first introduce what data science (or data-driven research) is. Next, we take power control issues of ultra-dense small cells (UDSC) as an example to illustrate how a data-driven approach can empower self-organizing network (SON) to enhance the throughput and energy efficiency of UDSC, and provide application-aware flow QoS control. Last, we highlight some important data-driven wireless network research directions in the future.
 

Bio.

Dr. Li-Chun Wang (M'96 -- SM'06 -- F'11) received Ph. D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1996. From 1996 to 2000, he was with AT&T Laboratories, where he was a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Wireless Communications Research Department. Since August 2000, he has joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and is the current Chairman of the same department. Dr. Wang won the Distinguished Research Award of National Science Council, Taiwan in 2012, and was elected to the IEEE Fellow grade in 2011 for his contributions to cellular architectures and radio resource management in wireless networks. He was the co-recipient of 2015 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Board Best Award. He also won the 2013 Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Paper Award, and was the co-recipient of the 1997 IEEE Jack Neubauer Best Paper Award.

 His current research interests are in the areas of radio resource management and cross-layer optimization techniques for wireless systems, heterogeneous wireless network design, and cloud computing for mobile applications. He is holding 10 US patents and editing a book, “Emerging Technologies for 5G Wireless Systems,” with Cambridge University Press.

Mr. Satoru Matsushima

Softbank Corp., Japan

Abstract

Bio.

Satoru Matsushima is a Deputy Director in SoftBank's Network Division of Technology Unit. He has experience in the telecommunication industry in design, planning and deploying networks and services.  His expertise in IP based technologies, such as MPLS, IPv6, SDN and other related protocols. He participates regularly in IETF standardization meetings, and co-authors Request For Comment (RFC) documents and Internet Drafts to standardize protocols.
He is currently working to develop new mobile network architecture and solutions with software defined infrastructures and virtualization technology. The goal of his work is to simplify current networks and is able to provide programmability for 5G applications.

Dr. Jian Li,

Ambassador, Open Networking Foundation (ONF), SDN&NFV

Abstract

The presentation of Dr. Jian Li will cover the following contents.

1. New ONF

- Open Innovation Pipelines to Build Integrated Solutions

- Software Defined Standards

2. Open Source vs. Standardization

- ONF Open Innovation Pipeline

- New ONF’s Scope

- New ONF – Restructuring for the Open Source Era

- Linux Foundation’s View

3. Why Open Source for Orchestrator?

Bio.

Jian Li is a member of Ambassador Steering Team of Open Networking Foundation (ONF), mainly in charge of governing ONF Ambassador program. Jian Li is also currently serving as a chair of ONOS/CORD Working Group under SDN/NFV forum in Korea. He participates several ONOS brigade’s activities including performance and security brigade, SDN teaching brigade and localization brigade; and leads gRPC northbound interface brigade. Jian Li is a SDN/NFV enthusiast, mainly focuses on promoting open source SDN/NFV project (e.g., ONO and CORD) to Korea open networking academia and industry. He received his Ph.D degree from POSTECH in 2016. His research is in the area of Software-Defined Networks (SDN), mainly focuses on control plane management and Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) design and implementation. Jian is an active ONOS developer, contributed code in various areas including Control Plane Manager (CPMan), northbound interfaces (e.g., REST, gRPC), and southbound interfaces (e.g., OpenFlow, LISP).