Keynote Speakers
The Quantum Internet: Recent Advances and Challenges
Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Abstract
Quantum information processing is at the cusp of having significant impact on technology and society in the form of providing unbreakable security, ultra-high-precision distributed sensing with applications to metrology and science discovery (e.g., LIGO), and polynomial speed-ups on search with implications to big data. Most of these applications are enabled by high-rate distributed shared entanglement between pairs and groups of users. A critical missing component that prevents crossing this threshold is a distributed infrastructure in the form of a world-wide “Quantum Internet”. This motivates our study of quantum networks, namely what is the right architecture and how should it operate, i.e., route multiple quantum information flows, and dynamically allocate resources fairly. In this talk I will review a specific class of quantum networks - those that generate and distribute entangled quantum states to pairs or groups of users. Drawing on my work, I will present opportunities and challenges related to resource sharing in such networks focusing on similarities to, and differences from classical networks. I will also present challenges for controlling and analyzing such networks. I will end the talk with a list of open problems.
Biography
Don Towsley is currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in the College of Information & Computer Sciences. He has held visiting positions at numerous universities and research labs. His research interests include performance modeling and analysis, and quantum networking.
He was co-founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS), and has served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and on numerous editorial boards.
He is a corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and has received several achievement awards including the 2007 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award. He has received numerous paper awards including the 2012 ACM SIGMETRICS Test-of-Time Award, a 2008 SIGCOMM Test-of-Time Paper Award, and a 2018 SIGMOBILE Test-of-time Award. He also received the 1998 IEEE Communications Society William Bennett Best Paper Award. He is Fellow of the ACM and IEEE.
6G towards "The Next Hyper-Connected Experience for All"
Sunghyun Choi, Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics
Abstract
Since the first commercial launch in 2019, 5G has grown to be the core infrastructure for a wide range of industries. It is used to support everything from high-quality communication to smart factories, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and a whole raft of other new services.
Future communication networks will require not only more powerful network equipment with vast amounts of information processing but also softwarization of communication technologies to make equipment flexible with lower costs.
To overcome current technical challenges, strengthening the function of software and developing AI will be top priority, and furthermore research activities are essential to build 6G, the next-generation communication system, in both academia and industry.
In this talk, I will discuss various aspects such as mega trends, services, requirements, candidate technologies towards 6G as a next-generation communication system along with the current developments status within Samsung.
Biography
Sunghyun Choi is an Executive Vice President and Head of the Advanced Communications Research Center at Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics, Seoul, Korea.
He was a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea from Sept. 2002 to Aug. 2019, and served as a Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering during the last two years at SNU.
He received his B.S. (summa cum laude) and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and received Ph.D. at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1999. He is currently heading researches and standardization for 6G, 5G-Advanced, and IoT connectivity at Samsung Research.
He co-authored over 250 technical papers and holds over 160 patents, and numerous patents pending. He has served as a Program Committee Co-Chair of IEEE WCNC 2020, IEEE DySPAN 2018, ACM Multimedia 2007, and IEEE WoWMoM 2007. He has served as an editor of numerous publications including IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. He was named IEEE fellow in 2014.
