Keynote Presentation
From 5G to 6G: Applications and Resource Allocation
Yiran Chen
John Cocke Distinguished Professor of ECE Department
Duke University
Abstract:
In this talk, we will first review the 5G three usage cases (capacity enhancement, massive connectivity, and ultra-high reliability & low latency), and then envision three new 6G usage cases (ubiquitous connectivity, integrated sensing & communication, and integrated AI & communication). We will show the key concepts, challenges and opportunities, as well as some prototypes demos. Next, we explain the importance of resource allocation for such networks, and focus on the distributed management through the lens of game theory. Game theory provides a formal framework with a set of mathematical tools to study the complex interactions among interdependent rational players. Recently., there has been a surge in research activities that employ game theoretical model and analyze wireless communication systems. We will introduce new distributed optimization frameworks and provide several examples to identify the key research issues related to 5G, 6G and beyond.
Biography:
Yiran Chen received B.S. (1998) and M.S. (2001) from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. (2005) from Purdue University. After five years in the industry, he joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2010 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2014, holding Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow. He is now the John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University and serving as the director of the NSF AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging the Next-generation Networks (Athena), the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) for Alternative Sustainable and Intelligent Computing (ASIC), and the co-director of Duke Center for Computational Evolutionary Intelligence (DCEI). His group focuses on the research of new memory and storage systems, machine learning and neuromorphic computing, and mobile computing systems. Dr. Chen has published 1 book and about 600 technical publications and has been granted 96 US patents. He has served as the associate editor of more than a dozen international academic periodicals and served on the technical and organization committees of about 70 international conferences. He is now serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine. He received 9 best paper awards, 1 best poster award, and 15 best paper nominations from international conferences and workshops. He received numerous awards for his technical contributions and professional services such as the IEEE CASS Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award, the IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, etc. He has been the distinguished lecturer of IEEE CEDA and CAS. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE, and now serves as the chair of ACM SIGDA.