Title: 5G for remote control of train

Summary: Development and implementation of a train-to-ground radio link based on cognitive radio and 5G features applied to the case of the remote-driving of trains

Duration: 18 months

Requested skills: Wireless communications, 3G/4G and 5G technologies, signal processing, Matlab simulations, fluent English, experience in writing journal papers, knowledge of Railway domain will be a plus

Host institution: Railenium (Villeneuve d’Ascq, France)

How to apply: send a CV + motivation letter to marion.berbineau@ifsttar.fr and emilie.masson@railenium.eu and iyad.dayoub@uphf.fr

Context

As a test and applied research centre for the railway sector, the IRT Railenium (http://railenium.eu/fr/) aims to develop, through collaborative innovation, the competitiveness of companies as engines of growth and employment.

Railenium is involved in the “TC-Rail” project: a 42-month project with a goal of achieving the possibility of safely driving a locomotive from a remote site, without a driver in the train cabin, with a safety level equivalent to that obtained in the presence of a driver in the cabin.

The consortium is composed of: SNCF, Thales Communication & Security, Actia Telecom and CNES.

This post-doctoral research position is offered in the context of the TC-Rail project which is a project that aims to develop two on site demonstrators for remote driving of a driverless train. Remote driving based on wireless link between the train and a control centre is a technological brick mandatory for the development of fully automatic driverless trains in a near future. This 18 months position is part of the TC-Rail project and will be held by Railenium for a work with Ifsttar/Cosys/Leost laboratory, IEMN/DOAE laboratory of the University of Valenciennes, Thales and SNCF.

Missions

The work will consist in the development of an uplink wireless solution based on emerging 5G technology to carry high quality video. A state of the art on different topics will be performed in the literature and different Eu projects: chosen 5G wave forms and the ones suitable for critical communications, MIMO and precoding techniques that can operate with these waveforms, railway radio channels and the associated impairments. Some suitable techniques will be chosen. Thanks to simulations with Matlab, some of these techniques will be evaluated and compared in the context of railway and identification of the most promising ones will be identified. Solutions for the optimization in the specific use case of remote driving will be proposed. These solutions will be implemented on SDR boards for on-site trials.

Protection of Environment and Systems.

Personal Protection.

Integrity of Objects and Data-Communication.

Emergency Management.

Efficient Data Management.

The First Edition of the SIEM Academy will be held during the 2018 Italian National ElectroMagnetics Conference (RiNEM) in Cagliari, Sardinia.  SIEM Academy represents a new cross-thematic training format aimed at informing, stimulating, and above all inspiring PhD students, scholars and engineers on emerging and not yet consolidated topics that are therefore particularly fertile to start new research activities or to expand existing studies.

SIEM Academy will help promote a virtuous contamination of the electromagnetic background with that of neighbouring or even traditionally distant communities.

Each edition of the SIEM Academy will focus on a different main theme: the 2018 theme is “Electromagnetic Security”. Several tutorials will summarize the state of the art and will outline the open issues and the possible research challenges. The tutorials will be taught by both SIEM faculty and recognized experts from other disciplines and organizations that will offer a different point of view on the topic, thus fostering new long-term synergies.

The scientific program will be completed by the stories of colleagues who have won important European grants (ERC and H2020 projects) and will therefore share their experience on how to write a successful proposal. There will be also room for companies and startups to introduce themselves and their activity. The synthesis of the School will be the Research Contest wherein participants, organized in groups, will challenge themselves in the drafting of multi-disciplinary research proposals based on the School’s topics, to be evaluated by the organizing committee who will then issue a SIEM Academy certificate useful for the recognition of training ECTS credits. SIEM will grant a prize for the best proposals, and a financial aid for the most deserving participants.

TOPICS

Organizing Committee

1. Marrocco, L. Tarricone, A. Costanzo, C. Lucianaz, D. Riccio, V. Degli Esposti, M. Midrio, G. Montisci

Info: http://sites.unica.it/rinem2018/,   gaetano.marrocco@uniroma2.it

Job information and how to apply  HERE.

Title: Antenna selection techniques in massive MIMO for increasing the robustness of 5G communications to interferences.

Post-doctorate duration of 12 months: Preferably starting September 2018.

Requested skills: Signal processing – Digital communications.

Host laboratory: IEMN (TELICE team), Villeneuve d’Ascq, France.

Supervising team: Eric Simon (MCF at IEMN) – Joumana Farah (professor at the Lebanese University).

Contact: Eric Simon, eric.simon@univ-lille.fr

Keywords: 5G – Channel sounding – Massive MIMO – Antenna selection – Power allocation.

Mission: The candidate will first study antenna selection strategies in massive MIMO to combat different types of interferences. The candidate will then develop techniques for detecting the sources of interference in the network, based on channel sounding techniques that will be tested using the MIMOSA sounder. The next step will consist in combining antenna selection techniques with appropriate power allocation methods in such a way to minimize the influence of interference sources on the transmission quality.

The originality of this subject is that it encompasses both theoretical aspects, with the development of new antenna selection and power allocation algorithms, and practical aspects, with the exploitation of the MIMOSA channel sounder. In addition, the candidate will rely on the group’s strong expertise in the field of channel measurement, as well as on the latest research works realized by the supervising team on the impact of interferences on wireless communications and on power allocation [2-5].

References:

802. Deniau, C. Gransart, G. L. Romero, E. P. Simon, J. Farah, “IEEE 802.11n Communications in the Presence of Frequency-Sweeping Interference Signals”, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 2017.
803. Dermoune, E. P. Simon “Analysis of the maximum likelihood channel estimator for OFDM systems in the presence of unknown interference”, EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process., 2017
804. Farah, E. Sfeir, C. Abdel Nour, C. Douillard, “New Resource Allocation Techniques for Base Station Power Reduction in Orthogonal and Non-Orthogonal Multiplexing Systems”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2017), May 2017, Paris, France.

http://it.murdoch.edu.au/wowmom2018/

The 19th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), one of the premier conferences in the field of wireless networking, will take place June 12-15 2018 in Chania, Crete, Greece.

The two-track technical program includes the latest research in wireless network virtualization, connected vehicles, device-to-device communication, mobile edge computing, radio resource management, millimeter and UWB communication, mobility, location-based services, wireless routing, the Internet of Things, and cooperative communication.

This year’s program includes two keynote talks by Kay Roemer from the Graz University of Technology, Austria, and Albert Banchs from the University Carlos III of Madrid and IMDEA.

Demo, work-in-Progress, PhD, and hot-topic panel sessions complete this year’s technical program.

IEEE WoWMoM 2018 also features three workshops that will be held on June 12: The Internet of Things: Smart Objects and Services (IoT­SoS), Smart Vehicles, and User-Centric Service Provisioning Over 5G Networks.

The conference also provides a high quality social events program, including a welcome reception and a gala dinner.

This year WoWMoM will take place at the Minoa Palace Resort and Spa, in the city of Chania, one of the most beautiful cities in Greece. Chania is the second largest city in Crete, which was recently voted as the #5 tourist destination in the world by TripAdvisor.

Early Registration Deadline: May 7, 2018.

Registration: http://it.murdoch.edu.au/wowmom2018/registration.html

We look forward to seeing you in Chania!

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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GENERAL CHAIR

Polychronis Koutsakis, Murdoch University, Australia

TPC CHAIRS

Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia

Vasilios Siris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

STEERING COMMITTEE

Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy

Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

WORKSHOPS CHAIRS

Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal, Germany

Petros Spachos, University of Guelph, Canada

PUBLICATION CHAIRS

Victoria Manfredi, Wesleyan University, USA

Rita Tse, Macao Polytechnic Institute, China

DEMONSTRATION CHAIRS

Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy

Stefanos Papadakis, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Ana Aguiar, University of Porto, Portugal

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University of Buffalo, USA

Corinna Schmitt, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Suranga Seneviratne, University of Sydney, Australia

PANEL CHAIRS

Yue Gao, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Mario Papadopouli, University of Crete, Greece

PHD FORUM CHAIRS

Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Angelos Marnerides, Lancaster University, UK

FINANCE & REGISTRATION CHAIR

Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIRS

Spyros Psychis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

Marios Kastrinakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece

WEB CHAIR

David Murray, Murdoch University, Australia

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Workshop co-organized by IRACON.

CALL FOR PAPERS

MoTION 2018 – The 1st International Workshop on Mathematical Tools for IoT Networks 

Organized in conjunction with IEEE PIMRC 2018

http://pimrc2018.ieee-pimrc.org/files/2018/04/PIMRC2018_W9_Call_for_Papers.pdf
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***** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 18, 2018  *****

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IoT, myth or reality, is in an intensive development phase on a technical but also commercial and marketing point of views as well. Existing technical solutions, such as the ones developed by Sigfox but also those supported by LoRa alliance or 3GPP, lie on proprietary solutions whose effectiveness seems difficult to evaluate or are based on techniques devoted to wireless broadband networks in a first place. From a theoretical point of view, IoT networks lie on a paradigm shift with respect to usual broadband cellular networks; the main issue is no longer to achieve the highest possible data rate but rather an ultra-high reliability and very low latency in order to transmit few information bytes without protocols, or at least with the minimal overhead. The main features of IoT networks could be summarized as: i) short packet communications, ii) bursty interference, iii) high number of nodes and iv) connectionless communications. The first feature invalidates the use of the classical Shannon Theory as a unique mathematical tool to assess the performance of IoT systems. The second feature is due to the small packet sizes, the different sources are random and generate bursty interference which is not Gaussian distributed. The large number of nodes advocates for the use of the stochastic geometry that should be adapted to i) and ii). Finally, due to the high number of nodes, perfect scheduling is not possible and only light coordination mechanisms should be used. This workshop aims at identifying the approaches allowing to handle correctly the radio access interface optimized for IoT. Specific contributions are expected on

• Non-asymptotic information theory, estimation theory
• Stochastic geometry and associated tools for dense wireless networks
• Non-Gaussian interference and rare events dependency modeling
• Low overhead protocol for radio access
• Signal processing and coding techniques for non-Gaussian interference.

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PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

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Prospective authors are invited to submit technical papers of their previously unpublished work. Accepted workshop papers will be part of the Conference Proceedings and will be uploaded to IEEE Xplore.

All submissions must be made electronically via EDAS using this link:

http://edas.info/N24922

Papers should follow the same Author guidelines of the general symposium, which are available at http://pimrc2018.ieee-pimrc.org/authors/submission-guidelines/.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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• Manuscript submission deadline: May 18, 2018
• Manuscript acceptance notification: June 15, 2018
• Camera-ready paper submission: June 29, 2018
• Conference dates: September 9, 2018

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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General Chairs

• Philippe Mary, Univ. Rennes, INSA Rennes, IETR, France
• Jean-Marie Gorce, Univ. Lyon, INSA Lyon, CITI-Lab, France
• Laurent Clavier, IMT Lille-Douai, France

Technical Program Committee

• Jean-Yves Baudais, CNRS, IETR, France
• Alister Burr, University of York, UK
• Marco Chiani, University of Bologna, Italy
• Malcolm Egan, Univ. Lyon, INSA Lyon, CITI, France
• Inaki Esnaola, University of Sheffield, UK
• Victor Manuel Quintero Florez, Universidad de Cauca, Colombia
• Claire Goursaud, Univ. Lyon, INSA Lyon, CITI, France
• Kimmo Kansanen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Tobias Koch, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain
• Ingmar Land, Huawei Technologies, France
• Ido Nevat, TUM CREATE, Singapore
• Anne Savard, IMT Lille-Douai, IRCICA, France
• Jan Sykora, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
• Michele Wigger, Telecom ParisTech, France
• Shihao Yan, Macquarie University Research
• Jie Zhang, University of Sheffield, UK

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                           EuCNC 2018

    Ljubljana (Slovenia), June 18-21, 2018

            REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN!

         Early bird deadline: May 4 2018

                http://www.eucnc.eu/

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REGISTRATIONS TO EuCNC 2018 ARE NOW OPEN!

Come join us in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from June 18 until June 21 2018.

Early bird deadline is available until May 4 2018.

All information about registrations is available here: https://www.eucnc.eu/registration/

Follow us on Twitter (@EuCNC), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7457059) or Facebook (www.facebook.com/eucnc) account for exciting updates about the programme, exhibition, workshops and tutorials, social events and more.

About the EuCNC 2018 conference

EuCNC 2018 is the 27th edition of a successful series of technical conferences in the field of telecommunications, sponsored by IEEE ComSoc and EURASIP, and financially supported by the European Commission. This year’s motto is “5G and beyond”, and it will focus on various aspects of 5G communications systems and networks, including cloud and virtualisation solutions, management technologies, and vertical application areas, among others. It targets to bring together researchers from all over the world to present their latest research results, being one of the main venues for showcasing, demonstrating and trialing the results of research projects, especially from successive European R&D programmes. It will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 18th to 21st June 2018.

The conference will include:

• regular sessions with papers from the open call;
• workshops;
• special sessions;
• poster sessions;
• tutorials;
• panels;
• keynote talks;
• demos and exhibitions;
• technical pitches at coffee breaks by exhibitors.

Best regards,

Mihael Mohorcic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Department of Communication Systems, Slovenia

Mojca Volk, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Slovenia

Technical Program CoChairs, EuCNC 201

Dear Colleagues,

Applications are invited for a Research Associate/Postdoc position in the EEE Department, Imperial College London.

The project will focus on the prototyping of an entire closed-loop wireless power transfer architecture based on off-the-shelf components, and will complement the existing theoretical activities held in the group on communications and signals design for WPT.

The successful applicant will hold a PhD (or equivalent) in Wireless Communications and should demonstrate extensive knowledge and experience in the design, measurement, prototyping and experimentation of RF communication systems (ideally using off-the-shelf components), including multi-antenna processing, channel estimation and phased array radio frontend. You also should be familiar with Labview and National Instruments equipment. Good written and oral communication skills in English are essential.

More details here http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BIZ200/research-associate-in-prototyping-of-wireless-communications-and-wireless-power-transfer

Best regards

Bruno Clerckx

Date: Sunday, September 9.

Time: 14.00 – 17.30 h Workshop

Organiser(s)

Chair: Dr. Concepcion Garcia-Pardo, iTEAM Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València.

Vice-Chair: Prof. Narcis Cardona, iTEAM Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València.

Motivation and Background
The introduction of wireless communications in medical devices has grown up substantially in the last years. This has allowed medical devices to monitor important physiological parameters of the human body and send these data to a remote node to be post-processed for health purposes. However, although a vast variety of body devices have been proposed so far, they can be classified in two main groups: wearable devices for control some important parameters such us blood pressure or heart rate (typically known as on-body devices); or implanted devices for inspection or measuring parameters from the inner organs (known as in-body devices). In both scenarios, the human body plays an essential role due to their particular electromagnetic properties. Such properties impact on different aspects of wireless communications: antenna designs, radio channel modelling, standardization and so on. This workshop aims at surveying recent advances in wireless communications in the framework of wireless communications at the human body (on-body and in-body) covering aspects such us: simulation, testing, frequency bands, channel model, propagation or the electromagnetic emulation of the human body and others. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Antennas for body area applications: wearables & implants

• Channel modelling & propagation studies in the environment of the body: in-body/on-body/out-of-the-body

• Experimental & theoretical propagation analysis for body applications

• Implanted devices • Electromagnetic characterization of the human body

• Wireless sensor networks • Wireless Capsule endoscopy

• SAR evaluation & measurements

• Localization and tracking at body area networks: in-body or on-body devices

• Interferences between medical devices & others

• Standardization for body area networks

• Internet of Things (IoT) for healthcare applications

More information can be found at: https://www.mcg.upv.es/en/wibcomm/

Submission Guidelines
Prospective authors are invited to submit technical papers of their previously unpublished work. Accepted workshop papers will be part of the Conference Proceedings and will be uploaded to IEEE Xplore. Papers should be submitted via EDAS; the links are available at http://pimrc2018.ieee-pimrc.org under “Authors”. Papers should follow the same Author guidelines of the general symposium, which are available at http://pimrc2018.ieee-pimrc.org/authors/submission-guidelines/.

Key Dates Paper submission: May 18, 2018

Acceptance notification: June 15, 2018

Final paper due: June 29, 2018

Steering/Technical Committee
Prof. Narcis Cardona, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain; Dr. Kamran Sayrafian, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA; Prof. Ilangko Balasingham, Oslo University Hospital, Norway; Dr. Slawomir Jerzy Ambroziak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland; Prof. Joseph Wout, Ghent University, Belgium; Dr. Katsuyuki Haneda, Aalto University, Finland; Dr. Qiong Wang, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany; Dr. Ali Khaleghi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; Dr. Mladen Veletic, Intervention Center, Oslo University Hospital, Norway; Dr. Günter Vermeeren, Ghent University, Belgium; Dr. Younghak Sin, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

Project: Optical MIMO Communications: Propagation Channel Analysis and Communication Chain Performance

POSTDOC – 12 months

Start – as soon as possible

Place – IRCICA, USR 3380, Univ Lille – Lille, France

Required Skills: Either Signal Processing and Digital Communications, Matlab. MIMO techniques. Either Optics / Experimental Photonics

To apply send your CV, a letter of motivation and references to  laurent.clavier@imt-lille-douai.fr 

Context

The evolution of telecoms makes it crucial to increase the maximum data transfer rates that can be transported by optical or wireless means. In the first case, the need is related to the announced saturation of the capacity of current monomode fibers [1].

IRCICA has a set of equipment dedicated to the generation and analysis of optical signals modulated in phase or amplitude. This Telecom chain is now operational for any single-mode fiber transmission project; a 2×2 MIMO processing that compensates for the interference of the two states of polarization is available. This configuration is also suitable for transmission tests on a special class of low multimode fiber, where all modes are non-degenerate, i.e., they do not exchange energy between them. Transmission tests on the active versions of such fibers (amplifying fibers) are in progress [2].

Recently, the bench has been completed to allow the generation and detection of two wavelengths simultaneously (512 Gbit / s or 2×256 Gbit / s). The chain is now able to generate and detect two completely independent signals, which will allow transmission tests to be extended to any class of low multimode fibers. The exchange of energy within each group means that to find the original information, 4×4 MIMO processing is necessary. Although MIMO processing is very widely used in wireless communication, it is not directly transferable to fiber communication and adaptation to the optical channel is essential [3].

Description of the project

The objective of the project is to develop a 4×4 MIMO processing for optical communications on low multimode fiber and to integrate this one with the Telecom channel. Two approaches can be envisaged according to the profile of the candidate: i) a “signal processing” approach using Matlab to do the MIMO processing in post-processing or ii) an “optical” approach using photonic components to make the MIMO treatment physical. This will characterize and model the transmission channel and optimize the signal processing to minimize the bit error rate. Extension to THz wireless communications may be considered, if time permits, the instruments used being the same. The tasks are:

1. Characterization and modeling of the channel: in order to develop the right algorithms for retrieving information, it is necessary to characterize the properties of the multimode channel. If the optical properties of propagation are well controlled, the impact on baseband signals still needs to be studied, in particular nonlinearities and intermodal dispersion.
   1. Establishment of a channel characterization protocol.
   2. Measurements and analyzes.

2. Transmission aspects: development of a 4×4 MIMO processing:
   1. Matlab development of MIMO 4×4
   2. Optimization of the execution time of the code (exploration of the most efficient / the most adapted estimation algorithms).
   3. Implementation for transmission on LP11a and LP11b modes of a circular core multimode fiber; or modes OAM + and OAM- of a multimode fiber with an annular core.

3. Extend the study to 2×2 MIMO communications in pulsed THz with a target frequency of 300 GHz for very high speed broadband indoor applications.

• Richardson et al., Nat. Photon. 7, 354 (2013).
• Trinel et al., Opt. Fiber Technol., 35, 56-63, 2017.
• Winzer et al., Opt. Express, 19, 16680 (2011).
• Melati et al., Opt. Lett. 42(2) 342-345 (2017).

Ploschner et al. Nature Comm., 9, 529-535 (2015).