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Overview
Fourth International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing and their Applications
DUE TO INCREASED GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES AND TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS, ICCSPA WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY ON MARCH 16–18, 2021. REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS WILL BE RECEIVING THE LINKS FOR ACCESSING THE CONFERENCE SESSIONS.
For any further information please contact us at [email protected].
The International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing and their Applications (ICCSPA) brings together academicians, engineers, scientists, researchers and students from around the world to share their recent findings related to all aspects of communications and signal processing. Previous editions of the conference were held at AUS in 2013, 2015 and 2019. All past ICCSPA conferences have been technically sponsored by the IEEE UAE Section and presented papers have been included in the IEEE Xplore database, which is also indexed by SCOPUS.
The conference is managed by an experienced steering committee, which established an international advisory committee composed of renowned experts in the areas of communications and signal processing. The conference activities include keynote speakers, industry sessions, technical sessions, tutorials and student poster competitions.
Below is a list of keynote speakers at previous ICCSPA conferences:
ICCSPA 2013 Keynote Speakers
- Dr. Abdelhak M. Zoubir
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Dr. Abdelhak M. Zoubir is a Fellow of the IEEE and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (Class 2010- 2011). He received his Dr.-Ing. from Ruhr- Universität Bochum, Germany in 1992. He was with Queensland University of Technology, Australia from 1992-1998 where he was Associate Professor. In 1999, he joined Curtin University of Technology, Australia as a Professor of Telecommunications and was Interim Head of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering from 2001 until 2003. In 2003, he moved to Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany as Professor of Signal Processing and Head of the Signal Processing Group. His research interest lies in statistical methods for signal processing with emphasis on bootstrap techniques, robust detection and estimation and array processing applied to telecommunications, radar, sonar, car engine monitoring and biomedicine. He published over 300 journal and conference papers on these areas.
- Dr. Fadhel Ghannouchi
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Dr. Fadhel Ghannouchi is currently a professor, Alberta Innovates/Canada Research Chair and Director of the iRadio Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary, Alberta. He was with Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal until 2005, where he taught microwave theory and techniques and RF communications systems since 1984. His research interests are in the areas of RF and wireless communications, nonlinear modeling of microwave devices and communications systems, design of power- and spectrum-efficient microwave amplification systems and design of SDR systems for wireless and satellite communications applications. His research has led to over 500 refereed publications and 14 US patents (6 pending) and 3 books and 3 spun-off companies. He is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE-MTT-S Emeritus Distinguish Microwave Lecturer.
- Dr. Nasir Memon
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Dr. Nasir Memon is a professor in the computer science department at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, New York. He is the Director of the Information Systems and Internet Security (ISIS) lab at NYU-Poly and the founding director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Security and Privacy (CRISSP), a collaborative initiative of multiple schools within NYU including NYU-Steinhardt, NYU-Wagner, NYU-Stern and NYU-Courant. Profesor Memon's research interests include digital forensics, data compression, computer and network security, biometrics, and multimedia computing and security. He has published more than 250 articles in journals and conference proceedings and holds more than a dozen patents in image compression and security. He has won the NSF CAREER award and the Jacobs Excellence in Education award. His research has been featured in NBC Nightly News, New York Times, Bloomberg TV, MIT Review, Wired.Com, New Science Magazine, among others.
ICCSPA 2015 Keynote Speakers
- Dr. Marwan Krunz
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Dr. Marwan Krunz is a professor of ECE and CS at the University of Arizona. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University in 1995. He has published more than 215 journal articles and peer-reviewed conference papers, and is a co-inventor on five US patents. Dr. Krunz is an IEEE Fellow, an Arizona Engineering Faculty Fellow (2011–2014), and an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2013 and 2014). He was the recipient of the 2012 IEEE TCCC Outstanding Service Award. He received the NSF CAREER award in 1998. He currently serves on the editorial board for the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
- Professor Fred Harris
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Professor Fred Harris holds the Signal Processing Chair of the Communication Systems and Signal Processing Institute at San Diego State University. He holds 24 patents and lectures throughout the world on DSP applications. He consults for organizations requiring high-performance, cost-effective DSP solutions. He has written over 240 journal and conference papers. He is the author of the textbook Multirate Signal Processing for Communication Systems and has contributed to a number of other DSP and communication textbooks. Dr. Harris became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003, cited for contributions of DSP to communications systems. In 2006, he received the Software Defined Radio Forum's Industry Achievement Award.
ICCSPA 2019 Keynote Speakers
- Dr. Hossam Hassanein
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Dr. Hossam Hassanein is a leading authority in the areas of broadband, wireless and mobile networks architecture, protocols, control and performance evaluation. His record spans more than 500 publications in journals, conferences and book chapters, in addition to numerous keynotes and plenary talks in flagship venues. Dr. Hassanein has received several recognition and best paper awards at top international conferences. He is the founder and director of the Telecommunications Research Lab (TRL) at Queen's University School of Computing, Canada, with extensive international academic and industrial collaborations. He is a fellow of the IEEE, and is a former chair of the IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (TC AHSN). Dr. Hassanein is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Speaker (Distinguished Lecturer 2008-2010).
- Dr. K. Thomas Wong
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Dr. K. Thomas Wong earned his BSE from UCLA and PhD from Purdue University, both in the USA. He was a Manufacturing Engineer in the General Motors Technical Center, and a Senior Professional Staff Member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Between 1998 and 2018, he was a regular member of the faculty at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Waterloo (Canada), and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is currently a Professor at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He serves/served on the editorial board of 10 journals in the Science Citation Index, including the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (as Technical Editor), the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and IET Signal Processing (as Deputy Editor-in-Chief). He is a fellow of the UK's Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Technical Sponsor:
The Fourth International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA’20) will provide a forum for scientists and academics engaged in research and development to convene and present their latest scholarly work in communications and signal processing. The event will feature a number of diverse activities including keynote speeches by distinguished speakers, talks by industry professionals, tutorials by experts, and student poster sessions. Furthermore, the program will include a number of social events. Papers are solicited in all areas of communications and signal processing including (but not limited to) the following areas:
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Prospective authors are invited to submit their full papers (4-6 pages) using the EDAS online submission system. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Similar to the previous events, accepted and presented papers in ICCSPA’20 will be submitted for indexing in IEEE Xplore.
The organizing committee welcomes proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with ICCSPA’20. Please send your tutorial proposals by email to [email protected]. Templates can be found in the IEEE templates page.
Technical Sponsor:
The student poster competition is one of the important activities of the International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications. This event encourages the culture of innovation among students, helping them to exchange ideas with peers from other universities.
Students are invited to submit their research or project work in the area of communications and signal processing. Please submit a summary (maximum two-pages in A4 IEEE format; please refer to https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) in PDF format to Dr. Mahmoud Ibrahim ([email protected]) by February 1, 2020.
At least one student must attend to present the accepted poster on April 12, 2010, using an A1-size poster. An evaluation committee will select the top three posters. Submissions will be evaluated on originality, creativity, poster quality and oral discussion. The top three posters will be recognized at the conference banquet dinner. Conference registration fees for the students with accepted posters will be waived.
Important Dates
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January 20, 2021 |
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Important: The poster should not be submitted as a regular paper to the conference.
Technical Sponsor:
Call for papers
Workshop Description
The visible light communications (VLC) technology or LiFi emerges as a novel optical wireless communication (OWC) technology that leverages ubiquitous light sources, i.e., light-emitting diode (LED) ceiling lights or displays, to transmit data wirelessly. Operating on the visible light spectrum holds great potential to mitigate the bandwidth shortage and interference problems of the more established radio frequency (RF) based systems such as cellular, WiFi and Bluetooth. More recently we have seen growing research activities in VLC/LiFi as a complementary wireless communications technology to the more established RF-based systems. Research has already brought the technology close to commercialization and standardization, however, several challenges remain unsolved, especially when it comes to practical systems and identifying killer applications that can attract a wide adoption. The objective of this workshop is to explore light enabled networks and applications.
The Light Enabled Networks and Applications 2020 (LENA 2020) workshop will bring together a diverse community to present and brainstorm on a broad set of OWC-related topics. The workshop cordially invites researchers to share the latest research and innovations in VLC/LiFi technologies, as well as their applications, including theory and practice in system design. We are seeking papers and demos on topics that include, but are not limited to:
- indoor and outdoor channels and deployments
- modulation and coding techniques
- coexistence with RF wireless technologies
- medium access control issues including mobility management, interference mitigation, multi-user access, resource allocation and duplexing techniques
- network topology, modeling, routing, multi-hop, relay, load balancing and backhaul
- security and privacy
- localizations and sensing
- optical camera communication
- backscatter communications
- quantum communications
- energy efficiency, privacy and security
- information theory
- quality of service and experience
- signal processing techniques
- devices and hardware integration, experimental testbeds and characterizations
- applications including WLAN, IoT, vehicular, underwater, medical, industrial, robotics, human-computer interaction (HCI) designs and more
Submission Information
LENA 2020 only accepts original and unpublished papers that are no longer than six pages. The manuscripts should be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double column, 10pt font) and be submitted as PDF files (formatted for 8.5-inch x 11-inch paper). Prospective authors should submit their papers though EDAS. Please make sure that the paper title and the list of authors included in the submitted PDF file are the same as those included in the EDAS paper registration page.
All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by the program committee members. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE ICCSPA 20 workshop proceedings and will appear in IEEE Xplore. To be published in the ICCSPA 20 Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore, at least one author of the accepted paper should register for the conference at the full registration rate and present the paper in the workshop. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to two papers.
Workshop Chairs
Paul Haigh, University College London, UK
Grzegorz Stepniak, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Mohamed Hassan, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Hany Elgala, State University of New York at Albany, United States
Important Dates
- Submission Date: October 30, 2020
- Author Notification: November 30, 2020
- Camera-ready Due: January 07, 2021
- Workshop Day: March 16, 2020
The deadline for paper submission has been extended to September 1, 2020.
per submission: Using EDAS |
October 30, 2020 (4–6 pages using templates available at the IEEE templates page) |
Poster submission for presentation only (not included in IEEE Xplore) Using EDAS |
October 30, 2020 (2 pages using templates available at the IEEE templates page) |
Light Enabled Networks and Applications (LENA 2020) Workshop Using EDAS |
October 30, 2020 (6 pages using templates available at the IEEE templates page) |
Tutorial proposals send to [email protected] |
January 10, 2021 |
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November 30, 2020 |
Author and Registration and Camera-ready paper submission |
January 7, 2021 |
Conference days |
March 16–18, 2021 |
Technical Sponsor:
Dr. Khaled B. Letaief, IEEE Fellow
President, IEEE Communications Society, New York, USA
New Bright Professor of Engineering Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Keynote Title: From Connected Things to Connected Intelligence for 6G Wireless Systems
Abstract:
We are witnessing an exciting time for future wireless networks with the emergence of 5G. In contrast to 3G and 4G, which were mainly a continuation of their predecessors, 5G will represent a revolutionary leap and will have a huge impact on the transformation of wireless communications industries as well as vertical industries. In this talk, we will describe some of the important technologies and innovations ranging from air technologies and network design to services that are needed to meet the demands of the next-generation wireless networks and guarantee broadband ubiquitous communications of all things, including human-to-machine and machine-to-machine, for a connected living. Of particular interest is the wireless evolution to 6th Generation or 6G mobile systems along with the use of machine learning, a powerful artificial intelligence approach, for supporting intelligent networks and optimizing resource allocation problems in wireless networks.
Biography:
Dr. Letaief is the New Bright Professor of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is an internationally recognized leader in wireless communications and networks with research interest in artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data analytics systems, tactile internet, and 5G systems and beyond. In these areas, he has over 600 journal and conference papers and has given keynote talks as well as courses all over the world. He also has 15 patents, including 11 US inventions, and has served as a consultant for organizations such as Huawei, ASTRI, ZTE, Nortel, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Motorola.
Dr. Letaief has served in many leadership positions, including Dean of Engineering at HKUST, Provost at HBKU, Director of the Hong Kong Telecom Institute of Information Technology, Vice-President of IEEE Communications Society, and Founding Editor-in-Chief of the well-regarded IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He is currently the President of the IEEE Communications Society, the world's leading organization for communications professionals with headquarters in New York City and members in 162 countries.
As an esteemed scholar, Dr. Letaief is recognized by Thomson Reuters as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher, which puts him among the preeminent individual researchers that are most highly cited. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the IEEE Marconi Prize Award in Wireless Communications, IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, IEEE Harold Sobol Award, IEEE Joseph LoCicero Publications Exemplary Award, and the Purdue University Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award. He has also received many distinguished awards in the field of teaching excellence, including the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching (highest university-wide teaching award at HKUST).
Dr. Letaief is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of HKIE. He holds BS with Distinction, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, USA.
Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini, IEEE Fellow
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Keynote Title: 6G Hyper-Connecting the Connected and Connecting the Unconnected
Abstract:
The role of Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) in bringing about a revolution in almost all aspects of human life needs no introduction. It is indeed a well-known fact that the transmission of the information at a rapid pace has transformed all spheres of human life such as economy, education and health, to name a few. In this context, and as the standardization of the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication systems (WCSs) has been completed, and 5G networks are in their early stage of deployment, the research visioning and planning of the sixth generation (6G) of WCSs are being initiated. 6G is expected to be the next focus in wireless communication and networking and aims to provide new superior communication services to meet the future hyper-connectivity demands in the 2030s. In addition, keeping in mind that urbanized populations have been the major beneficiary of the advances offered by the previous generations of WCSs and motivated by the recently adopted United Nations Sustainability Development Goals intended to be achieved by the year 2030, 6G networks are anticipated to democratize the benefits of ICT. Indeed these advantages are still not experienced by almost 4 billion people in the world who are still “unconnected or under-connected” and who suffer as such from the “digital divide,” a term coined in order to emphasize the lack of ICT infrastructure in many parts of the world. Given this background, this talk aims to (i) provide an envisioned picture of 6G; (ii) serve as a research guideline in the beyond 5G era; and (iii) go over the recently proposed solutions to provide high-speed connectivity in under-covered areas to serve and contribute to the development of far-flung regions.
Biography:
Dr. Alouini was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA, in 1998. He served as a faculty member in the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, then at Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, before joining King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2009.
Professor Alouini’s current research interests include design and performance analysis of diversity combining techniques, MIMO techniques, multi-hop/cooperative communications systems, optical wireless communication systems, cognitive radio systems, and multi-resolution, hierarchical and adaptive modulation schemes, as well as high-speed underwater wireless communication systems.
He has published several papers on the above subjects and he is co-author of the textbook Digital Communication over Fading Channels published by Wiley Interscience. He has also won several awards in his career. For instance, he was honored in 2017 with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Science and Technology (S&T) Achievement Award in Engineering Science at the First OIC Summit on Science and Technology, Astana, Kazakhstan. Prior to this, he received the 2016 Recognition Award of the IEEE Communication Society Wireless Technical Committee and the 2016 Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers in Engineering Sciences. Other recognitions include his selection as Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the African Academy of Science (AAS), the European Academy of Science and Arts (EASA) and the Academia Europaea (AE); IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society; member for several times in the annual Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge list of Highly Cited Researchers as well as the Shanghai Ranking/Elsevier list of Most Cited Researchers; and a co-recipient of best paper awards in eleven IEEE conferences (including ICC, GLOBECOM, VTC, PIMRC, ISWCS and DySPAN).
Professor Soumaya Cherkaoui, IEEE Senior Member
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, Canada
Keynote Title: New Frontiers for Vehicular Communications in 6G and Beyond
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Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) have opened the door for a plethora of interesting services, both for safety and entertainment, to thrive. Standards for V2V and V2I communications have been proposed in recent years. However, as mobility scenarios evolve towards autonomous vehicles, the need for ultra-reliable and ultra-low latency communications in very dense environments becomes even more severe, and shortcomings of current standards become accentuated. Recent advances in 5G promise to support vehicular communications and V2X services, and pave the way for a new unified communication fabric for the vehicles of the future. Nevertheless, looking at the current roadmap of 5G, the need to move beyond 5G (B5G) with new technologies and architectures is already apparent. In this talk, we discuss recent advances in 5G to support vehicular communications and V2X services. As well, while a vision of the sixth generation (6G) networks and the underlying enabling technologies is gradually taking momentum, we identify some gaps that motivate the need to move to 6G networks and beyond, to fully realize the vision of the autonomous vehicles of the future.
Biography:
Dr. Soumaya Cherkaoui is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, which she joined in 1999. Since 2005, she has been the Director of INTERLAB, a research Laboratory that conducts research funded both by government and industry. Before joining the Université de Sherbrooke, she worked for industry as a project leader on projects targeted at the Aerospace Industry. Dr. Cherkaoui has held invited positions at leading institutions including the University of California at Berkeley, Bell Laboratories, Monash University and the University of Toronto, as well as an adjunct position at Lulea University, in Sweden. She served in several research-related organizations, including as a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Network of Centers of Excellence Auto21, Canada in 2011, a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of Precarn, Canada in 2010 and a member of the Mitacs Research Council in 2017.
Dr. Cherkaoui avails of a long research experience in wireless networking. Her current research interests include multi-access edge computing, vehicular communications, machine-to-machine communications, and Internet-of-Things in next generation networks. Her work resulted in technology transfer to companies and to patented technology. Dr. Cherkaoui has published over 200 research papers in reputed journals and conferences. She co-edited seven books and collective works, and has been an associate editor and guest editor of several IEEE, Wiley and Elsevier Journals. Her work was awarded with recognitions and best paper awards including a best paper award at the IEEE ICC conference in 2017. She has chaired prestigious conferences such as IEEE LCN 2019, and has served as a symposium co-chair for flagship conferences including IEEE ICC 2018, IEEE Globecom 2018, Globecom 2015, IEEE ICC 2014, and IEEE PIMRC 2011. She is a Professional Engineer in Canada, a senior IEEE Member, and has served as the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Communications Society AHSN Technical Committee since 2017.
Technical Sponsor:
- Tutorial # 1: Building on Convergent IoT: Novel Directions in the Tactile Internet
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Speaker: Dr. Sharief Oteafy, DePaul University, USA
Abstract
Recent developments in the Internet of Things (IoT) are ever more islandic, pushing the envelope in a myriad of silos. While the research community has produced significant milestones in improving the energy footprint, processing capacity, and overall resilience of IoT systems, today’s practitioner is faced with significant challenges in adopting an IoT platform/framework/standard. In this tutorial we will elaborate on the chronological and topological evolution of IoT frameworks, targeting a common understanding of the underlying reference models. We will present and contrast leading standards from industry (e.g., SymphonyLink, Thread, LoRaWAN), academia and research communities (e.g., IEEE P2413 and ETSI), as well as growing alliances that span multiple stakeholders (e.g., AllSeen and Open Interconnect Consortium). We will present the ensuing challenge of Big Sensed Data (BSD), and the critical challenges facing IoT proliferation. This tutorial will elaborate on the role of Convergent IoT in building the next-generation of the Tactile Internet, and delve into the architectural basis of this nascent technology, and the multiplicity of factors that impact Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) in a global deployment of the Tactile Internet. We will emphasize recent developments in the IEEE P1918.1 Tactile Internet standard, as the presenter is a key player in the development of the architecture, and secretary of the standard working group.Biography
Dr. Sharief Oteafy is Assistant Professor at the School of Computing, DePaul University, USA. He received his PhD in 2013 from Queen’s University, Canada, focusing on adaptive resource management in Next Generation Sensing Networks. His current research focuses on dynamic architectures for interoperability in the Internet of Things, Information Centric Networks, and managing the proliferation of Big Sensed Data (BSD). He is currently a key player in the design of the Tactile Internet Architecture, under the development of the IEEE P1918.1 Standard Working Group, where he is now the secretary of the WG. He is actively engaged in the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). Dr. Oteafy co-authored the book Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks (Wiley), presented 50+ publications and delivered multiple IEEE tutorials on IoT and BSD. He co-chaired a number of IEEE symposia and workshops in conjunction with IEEE ICC and IEEE LCN, and served on the technical program committee of numerous IEEE and ACM symposia, recently co-chairing the AHSN track in IEEE Globecom 2018. He is currently an Associate Editor with IEEE Access, and on the editorial board of Wiley’s Internet Technology Letters. Dr. Oteafy is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a professional member of the ACM. He also holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor position at Queen’s University. - Tutorial # 2: Build Your Own Internet of Things (IoT) Architecture
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Speaker: Dr. Ahmed Abdelgawad, Central Michigan University, USA
Abstract
Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects or “things” embedded with electronics, software, sensors and network connectivity. It enables the objects to collect, share and analyze data. The IoT has become an integral part of our daily lives through applications such as public safety, intelligent tracking in transportation, industrial wireless automation, personal health monitoring, and health care for the aged community. IoT is one of the latest technologies that will change our lifestyle in the coming years. Experts estimate that as of now, there are 23 billion connected devices, and by 2020 it would reach 30 billion devices. This tutorial aims to introduce the design and implementation of IoT systems. The foundations of IoT to build a project will be discussed throughout real applications and hands-on activities. Challenges and constraints for future research in IoT will be discussed. In addition, research opportunities and collaboration will be offered for the attendees.Biography
Dr. Ahmed Abdelgawad received his MS and PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2007 and 2011, and subsequently joined IBM as a Design Aids and Automation Engineering Professional at Semiconductor Research and Development Center. In Fall 2012, he joined Central Michigan University as a Computer Engineering Assistant Professor. In Fall 2017, Dr. Abdelgawad was early promoted as a Computer Engineering Associate Professor. He is a senior member of IEEE. His area of expertise is distributed computing for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Internet of Things (IoT), Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), data fusion techniques for WSN, low power embedded system, video processing, digital signal processing, robotics, RFID, localization, VLSI and FPGA design. He has published two books and more than 80 articles in related journals and conferences. Dr. Abdelgawad served as a reviewer for several conferences and journals, including IEEE WF-IoT, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE SAS, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Communications Magazine, Springer, Elsevier, IEEE Transactions on VLSI, and IEEE Transactions on I&M. He served on the technical committees of IEEE ISCAS 2007/8 and IEEE ICIP 2009 conferences. He served in the administration committee of IEEE SiPS 2011. He also served in the organizing committee of ICECS2013 and 2015. Dr. Abdelgawad was the publicity chair in North America of the IEEE WF-IoT 2016/18/19 conferences. He was the finance chair of the IEEE ICASSP 2017. He is the TPC Co-Chair of I3C'17, the TPC Co-Chair of GIoTS 2017, and the technical program chair of IEEE MWSCAS 2018. He is the technical program chair of IEEE WF-IoT 2020. He has delivered many tutorials in international conferences including IEEE SOCC, IEEE MWSCAS, IEEE SiPS, and APCCAS. In addition, he taught many short IoT courses in different countries. He has been the keynote speaker for many international conferences and conducted many webinars. He is currently the IEEE Northeast Michigan section chair and IEEE SPS Internet of Things (IoT) SIG Member. In addition, Dr. Abdelgawad served as a PI and Co-PI for several funded grants from NSF. - Tutorial # 3: The Future of Blockchains for the Management of Electronic Medical Records
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Speaker: Dr. Farhan Riaz, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Abstract
Blockchains are a growing list of electronic records that are linked using cryptography and are saved in a distributed way. The key features of blockchains include decentralization, data transparency and privacy. These key features make it possible to use blockchains in several domains, the management of electronic medical records (EMR) of patients being one of the most vital domains exhibiting a lot of potential for future work. Given this, in this tutorial we aim to cover the usage of the principles of blockchain technology in the management of EMR. In this context, a framework will be discussed that maintains patient’s medical records in a blockchain and make it accessible to the concerned parties i.e., patient and doctor. Meanwhile the problem of scalability will be highlighted since with the passage of time, the data is supposed to grow exponentially and scalability will eventually become an issue. Moreover, the security aspect of the framework will also be highlighted given the sensitivity of the information that is carried by the EMRs.Biography
Dr. Farhan Riaz received his BE degree with distinction from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), in Islamabad, Pakistan; his MS degree from the Technical University of Munich, Germany; and his PhD degree with distinction from the University of Porto, Portugal. Since 2012, he has been serving NUST as a faculty member. He has about 11 years of experience in the area of computer vision, pattern recognition and signal processing, specifically applied to the biomedical signal/imaging scenarios. He has 19 impact factor journal publications and about 40+ conference publications. His h-index is 11 and cumulative impact factor is 40+. In addition to his experience of working as a faculty member, he has also worked as a computer vision consultant with the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes in Porto, Portugal on various projects. During his master’s studies, he also worked part time with two multinational companies, Intel and NTT DoCoMo Euro labs where he worked in the RFID development team for supply chain management and design of wireless protocols, respectively. Dr. Riaz has earned research funding worth 9.1 Million PKR; a project worth 47 Million PKR is almost positively negotiated. He has obtained various awards; most notably, his team won a Silver Medal in the 2013 Asia Pacific ICT Awards, and one of his research papers published in IEEE Transaction on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering won third prize in the 2019 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Prize Paper Award. - Tutorial # 4: Deep Learning with Tensorflow 2.0
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Speaker: Dr. Usman Tariq, American University of Sharjah, UAE
Abstract
In this tutorial, participants will have hands-on experience on the newly released Tensorflow 2.0 library for deep learning applications. Deep learning has had a tangible impact on a number of fields in the recent years. Many libraries help people build deep architectures. Tensorflow is one of the most popular open source libraries out there. In this tutorial, we will go over the basics of Tensorflow 2.0. Then we will learn how to build a neural network, a deep convolutional neural network and long-short term memory networks in Tensorflow 2.0 with practical examples. If we have enough time left, in addition, we may develop a Generative Adversarial Networks as well. We will cover the structures of the different networks in brief; however, this will not be the focus of the tutorial. The focus will primarily be on the practical implementation. The participants are expected to have a working knowledge of Python and NumPy. In addition, the participants are expected to have working knowledge of machine learning and different architectures developed in the tutorial.Biography
Dr. Usman Tariq is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at American University of Sharjah, UAE. He has more than 10 years of experience in machine learning, image processing and computer vision. Before AUS, he worked as a Research Scientist in the Computer Vision group at the Xerox Research Center Europe, France. He earned his MS and PhD degrees from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), in 2009 and 2013, respectively. His research interests include computer vision, image processing and machine learning.
Technical Sponsor:
HONORARY CHAIR |
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Saleem Alblooshi, Chief Technology Officer, EITC (du), UAE |
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CONFERENCE CHAIRS |
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Mohamed El-Tarhuni |
UAE |
Aboelmagd Noureldin |
Canada |
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS |
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Mohamed Hassan |
UAE |
Hasan Mir |
UAE |
Mohammed Elmusrati |
Finland |
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD |
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Karim Abed-Meraim |
France |
Hamid Aghvami |
UK |
Mohamed Alouini |
Saudi Arabia |
Moeness Amin |
USA |
Eesa Bastaki |
UAE |
Moncef Gabbouj |
Finland |
John Hansen |
USA |
Fred Harris |
USA |
Marwan Krunz |
USA |
Khaled Ben Letaief |
Hong Kong |
Sanjit Mitra |
USA |
Andreas Spanias |
USA |
Asrar Sheikh |
Pakistan |
Hossam Hassanein |
Canada |
Abdelhak Zoubir |
Germany |
Aboelmagd Noureldin |
Canada |
Kainam Wong |
Hong Kong |
Halim Yanikomeroglu |
Canada |
Belouchrani Adel |
Algeria |
STEERING COMMITTEE |
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Khaled Assaleh |
UAE |
Mohamed El-Tarhuni |
UAE |
Mohamed Hassan |
UAE |
Hasan Mir |
UAE |
TUTORIALS |
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Usman Tariq |
UAE |
STUDENT ACTIVITIES |
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Mahmoud Ibrahim |
UAE |
PUBLICATION |
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Amer Zakaria |
UAE |
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS |
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Nasser Qaddoumi |
UAE |
WEB AND IT |
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Aniss Zakaria |
UAE |
Conference SeCretary |
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Salwa Mohamed |
UAE |
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Initial Paper Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers to ICCSPA20 that are not under review for any other conference at the same time.
All submission should be written in English with a length between 4 to 6 pages (font size 10, double column) following the standard IEEE conference templates that can be found at this link. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done through EDAS.
Important: Please make sure that the paper title and the list of authors included in the submitted PDF file is the same as those included in the EDAS paper registration page.
To be published in the ICCSPA20 Conference Proceedings and possible submission for IEEE Xplore, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full registration rate and must present the paper at the conference. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to two papers.
To submit your paper, please click here.
To submit a tutorial proposal, please send it to [email protected]
Technical Sponsor:
Author registration: (By January 7, 2021) for paper to be included in the program and submitted to IEEEE Xplore)
$550 |
IEEE member |
$650 |
Non IEEE member |
All papers must have a registration at full rate even if the presenter is a student. One registration covers for up to two papers presented by one author.
Participant (non-author) registration (until March 16, 2021).
$450 |
IEEE member |
$550 |
Non IEEE member |
$250 |
Student IEEE member (student authors must pay the regular author registration fee as per above table) |
$350 |
Student non IEEE member (student authors must pay the regular author registration fee as per above table) |
Technical Sponsor:
To be announced.
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The conference will be held online with the main events (opening ceremony, keynote speeches, 5G panel, IoT demo, tutorials and student posters) live on Zoom. Recordings of paper presentations will be available for viewing by participants at their convenience.
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