IEEE Distinguished Lecture Tour by Prof. Osvaldo Simeone

On behalf of the IEEE joint VT/COM/IT Sweden Chapter Board, We are delighted to invite you to an IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecture Tour (DLT) by Prof. Osvaldo Simeone, King’s College, London, U.K.

Title: Fog-Aided Wireless Networks: An Information-Theoretic View

Abstract:
Fog-aided wireless networks are an emerging class of wireless systems that leverage the synergy and complementarity of cloudification and edge processing, two key technologies in the evolution towards 5G systems and beyond. The operation of fog-aided wireless networks poses novel fundamental research problems pertaining to the optimal management of the communication, caching and computing resources at the cloud and at the edge, as well as to the transmission on the fronthaul network connecting cloud and edge. In this talk, it will be argued via specific examples concerning the problem of content delivery that network information theory provides a principled framework to develop fundamental theoretical insights and algorithmic guidelines on the optimal design of fog-aided networks. This work has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 725731).

Seminar#1 – Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden
Date and time: Aug 31, 2017, 14:00-15:30.
Location: Room EL43, floor 4, EDIT building, Hörsalsvägen 11, Campus Johanneberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Local host: Giuseppe Durisi, durisi@chalmers.se

Seminar#2 – Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Date and time: Sep 6, 2017, 10:15-11:45.
Location: Room Systemet, floor 2, B building, Campus Valla, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
Local host: Danyo Danev, danyo.danev@liu.se.

Seminar#3 – Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Date and time: Sep 7, 2017, 13:30-15:00.
Location: Room E:2517, floor 2, E-building, John Ericssons vaguely 4, Lund University, 223 63 Lund, Sweden
Local host: Michael Lentmaier, michael.lentmaier@lth.se.

Seminar#4 – KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Date and time: Sep 8, 2017, 14:00-15:30 (TBC).
Location: Room Q22, Osquldas väg 6B, KTH Main Campus, Stockholm, Sweden
Local host: Lars Kildehøj Rasmussen, lkra@kth.se.

For any further questions related to a specific seminar, please contact the respective local host.

Biography:
Osvaldo Simeone is a Professor of Information Engineering with the Centre for Telecommunications Research at the Department of Informatics of King’s College London. He received an M.Sc. degree (with honors) and a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He was previously a Professor with the Center for Wireless Information Processing (CWiP) at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research interests include wireless communications, information theory, optimization and machine learning. Dr Simeone is a co-recipient of the 2017 JCN Best Paper Award, the 2015 IEEE Communication Society Best Tutorial Paper Award and of the Best Paper Awards of IEEE SPAWC 2007 and IEEE WRECOM 2007. He was awarded a Consolidator grant by the European Research Council (ERC) in 2016. His research has been supported by the U.S. NSF, the ERC, the Vienna Science and Technology Fund, as well by a number of industrial collaborations. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society. Dr Simeone is a co-author of a monograph, an edited book published by Cambridge University Press and more than one hundred research journal papers. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.