Dear Colleague,
On behalf of the IEEE Sweden VT/COM/IT Chapter in collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology, we would like to invite you to the following IEEE Technical online seminar by Professor Elif Uysal, Middle East Technical University (METU), in Ankara, Turkey.
Title: Goal Oriented Communication for the Scale-up of MTC
Time: 14:00-15:00 CET Fri Nov 10, 2023
Online Zoom: https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/65896493373?pwd=aFdhakl6dS92elp0Tng0azF1cnFXZz09, password: 360613 (alternative connections below)
Local host: Prof. Henk Wymeersch, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, henkw@chalmers.se.
Abstract: One of the ways that 6G is envisioned to differ from previous generations of communication standards is its native and massive support for remote computations, intelligence and decision making. To achieve the scalable growth of such applications we need communication networks to send only the right pieces of information to the point of computation at the right time. This is within the concept that we define as Goal Oriented (GO) communication, also referred to loosely as “Semantic” communication in certain contexts, as it calls for a departure from classical communication theoretic problem formulations. Moreover, a GO approach calls for a departure from traditional layer functionalities. In particular, through removing the assumption on the exogeneous arrival of data, this approach couples classical application layer functionalities in the link layer operation. Toward practical algorithms that will feasibly place GO communication into products and standards that can revolutionize the network capacity in MTC, a first order yet effective approach has been optimization for data freshness metrics. In this talk will highlight a number of examples of using such metrics in recent research and implementations. We will show the effectiveness of designing for basic timeliness metrics such as the Age of Information (AoI), Query Age of Information (QAoI) at the physical, link, medium access, transport and application layers, and exhibit resulting innovations in scheduling, random access, and congestion control. We will close by highlighting recent work moving forward from freshness to more advanced GO performance metrics such as end-to-end inference error.
Biography: Elif Uysal is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Middle East Technical University (METU), in Ankara, Turkey. She received the Ph.D. degree in EE from Stanford University in 2003, the S.M. degree in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1999 and the B.S. degree from METU in 1997. From 2003-05 she was a lecturer at MIT, and from 2005-06 she was an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University (OSU). Since 2006, she has been with METU, and held visiting positions at OSU and MIT during 2014-2016. Her research interests are at the junction of communication and networking theories, with particular application to energy-efficient wireless networking. Dr. Uysal was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 2022 for “pioneering contributions to energy-efficient and low-latency communications”. She is a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, a recipient of the TUBITAK BIDEB National Pioneer Researcher Grant, 2014 Young Scientist Award from the Science Academy of Turkey, an IBM Faculty Award (2010), the Turkish National Science Foundation Career Award (2006), an NSF Foundations on Communication research grant (2006-2010), the MIT Vinton Hayes Fellowship, and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship. She has been serving as the Chair of the Executive Board and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the METU Parlar Foundation for Education and Research since 2022.
Welcome!
Best regards,
Tommy Svensson, IEEE VT/COM/IT Sweden Chapter
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