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Invited Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Huseyin ARSLAN, Istanbul Medipol University
Professor, IEEE Fellow, Dean of Faculty of Engineering at Istanbul Medipol University, Member of Turkish Academy of Science

Biography

Dr. Hüseyin ARSLAN (IEEE Fellow, NAI Fellow, Member of Turkish Academy of Science) received his B.S. degree from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey in 1992, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, TX, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. From 1998 to 2002, he worked with the research group at Ericsson. Between 2002 and 2022, Dr. Arslan was a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of South Florida, where he served as a Professor. In 2013, he joined Istanbul Medipol University to establish the Engineering College and currently serves as the Dean of the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences. He has provided expert consulting for organizations such as Anritsu, Savronik, and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). Dr. Arslan was the founding Chairman of the Board of Directors of ULAK Communications, and served as a member of the TÜBİTAK Scientific Board. From 2021 to 2024, he was a member of the Board of Directors of Turkcell. His current research interests are on 6G and beyond radio access technologies, physical layer security, interference management, cognitive radio, multi-carrier wireless technologies, dynamic spectrum access, non-terrestrial communications, joint radar (sensing) and communication designs. He has collaborated extensively with global companies including InterDigital, NTT DoCoMo, Raytheon, Honeywell, ASELSAN, VESTEL, Turkcell, Anritsu, and Keysight Technologies. He also pioneered wireless education by developing innovative courses and the NSF-funded “Wireless Systems Laboratory.” He has served in numerous IEEE leadership roles and editorial boards.

Today's wireless services and systems have come a long way since the rollout of the conventional voice-centric cellular systems. The demand for wireless access in voice and multi-media applications has increased tremendously. In addition to these, new application classes like extreme mobile broadband communication, ultra reliable and low latency communications, massive machine type communications, and Internet of Things have gained significant interest recently for 5G. The trend on the variety and the number of mobile devices along with the mobile applications will certainly continue beyond 5G, creating a wide range of technical challenges such as cost, power efficiency, spectrum efficiency, extreme reliability, low latency, robustness against diverse channel conditions, cooperative networking capability and coexistence, dynamic and flexible utilization of wireless spectrum.

With the rapid evolution of wireless networks across a broad technological environment which includes virtualization, IoT and Industry 4.0, our lives are surrounded by electronic devices capable of wireless radio transmission and reception, not only for communication purposes but also for radar, wireless sensing, and radio environment monitoring and mapping. Emerging Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) applications aim to bring people, data, processes, and things together to fulfil our needs. With the emergence of software defined networks, adaptive services and applications are gaining more attention since they allow the automatic configuration of devices and their parameters, systems, and services to the user's context change. Granted, these devices, networks, and applications are huge commodities and improve our quality of life but they also present a major risk, not only because of the widely recognized security leaks in current wireless radio access technologies but also because of the enormous amounts of information over a medium which can be extracted by radio-based sensing.

More than anything, 5G and beyond has introduced a new vision and sets of challenges for wireless researchers in many layers of the protocol stacks, especially in the Physical and Medium Access Layers. In order to address these technical challenges, highly flexible and adaptive radio access technologies are needed. Hence, 5G and beyond is about flexibility and applications. 5G and beyond is expected to bring about a communication system (with a single standard) through very flexible and cognitive design to support wide variety of services. As a result, the wireless radio researchers are facing a new challenge, which is the design of a flexible communication system in every layer of the communication protocol stacks. In this talk, the flexibility and adaptability of 5G and beyond systems will be discussed with a major focus on PHY and MAC layers. The potential directions and research opportunities to address the challenges and requirements of the 5G and beyond vision will be discussed.