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TSDSI-IIT Delhi workshop on ML in Future Networks and Role of Standardisation with support from India EU Cooperation on ICT Related Standardisation, Policy and Legislation(November 29, 2019: New Delhi)
November 29, 2019 @ 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
*Registrations are closed
Telecommunication Standards Development Society, India and IIT Delhi jointly hosted a workshop on “ML in Future Networks and Role of Standardization” on 29th November, 2019 in IIT Delhi, with support from India EU Cooperation on ICT Related Standardisation, Policy and Legislation.
This workshop was intended to kick start India’s contribution to next set of standards.
Regulators, Operators, service providers, OEMs of telecom networks will be closely working together to use ML such that network operators handle everything from policy setting and network control to security, intelligently & for the OEMs to design more efficient products. Intelligent services which harness the full potential of 5G can be enabled through ML. Standards for introducing ML in future networks are needed to ensure interoperability of the solutions.
As the development of a 5G testbed is in progress, this workshop having expert views from test bed participants & researchers will also enable the way forward on plans to extend ML on the test bed in the different domains of IoT, Massive MIMO, energy harvesting, Mobile Edge Computing, security for standardization purpose.
The workshop broadly covered following topics:
Future of ML in communications including 5G
- Industry partners adopting ML
- Ongoing development work in Academia & Industry
- Projections for scope of ML
Bridging the standardization gap – The India story
- Identifying gaps in skillset & how to train formally with help from community: TSDSI, Industry, Academia.
- Developing the Indian workforce skills & capability in Standardization
Cues on how to navigate the standards development process in order to reach their standardization objectives.
Proposal for a new technical activity in TSDSI is expected to be drafted based on deliberations at the workshop.
The workshop was held in IIT Delhi Campus, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, Delhi 110016
Date: 29 November 2019, 9:30 – 17:30
View photos from the workshop here.
View the ML workshop Report here .
Program Agenda
Presentations made at the workshop can be downloaded from links below.
| Start Time | End Time | Session Details | |
| Registration | 9:30 | 10:00 | Registration |
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Inaugural Session
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10:00 to 11:15 | Inaugural Session | |
| 10:00 | 10:05 | Lighting of Lamp | |
| 10:05 | 10:20 | Welcome Remarks by Prof Monika Aggarwal, Centre for Applied Research in Electronics (CARE), IIT Delhi | |
| 10:20 | 10:35 | Special Address by Mr Dinesh Chand Sharma, Project SESEI, ETSI | |
| 10:35 | 10:50 | Special Address by Mr Sachin Gaur, India-EU Cooperation on ICT Related Standardisation, Policy and Legislation Project | |
| 10:50 | 11:05 | Inaugural Address by Ms Pamela Kumar, Director General, TSDSI | |
| 11:05 | 11:15 | Vote of thanks by Prof Brejesh Lall, Professor, Bharti School of Telecom Technology & Management, IIT Delhi | |
| Networking Break (11:15 to 11:30) | |||
| Future of ML in Communications beyond 5G | 11:30 | 11:45 | Mr Satish Jamadagni, Reliance JIO |
| Projections on Scope of ML in communications/ standardisations adoption | 11:45 | 12:00 | Prof Brejesh Lall, Professor, Bharti School of Telecom Technology & Management, IIT Delhi |
| Convergence of Compute and Communication | 12:00 | 12:15 | Mr Shailesh Kumar, Interra Systems |
| Evolution of ML Chipsets | 12:15 | 12:30 | Mr Piyush Kaul, Cadence Design Systems |
| Ongoing ML development work in Industry | 12:30 | 12:45 | Mr Harihara Natarajan, WIPRO |
| ML/AI Based applications-driving demand | 12:45 | 13:00 | Dr. Manish Sharma, SAMSUNG |
| Standards-101: ML and 5G | 13:00 | 13:15 | Mr Vishnu Ram, ITU-T |
| Lunch Break (13:15 to 14:15) | |||
| ML Technology-Maturity in communication
(Panel Discussion)
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14:15 | 15:00 | Mr Vipin Tyagi, Executive Director, CDOT – Session Chair
Mr Ankur Chauhan, AIRTEL Mr Chetan Kabu, TRUMINDS Mr Rahul Dhatariya, Tata Communications Ltd. Mr Chitwan Arora, Hughes Systique Corporation Ms Deepa Tyagi, DDG (FN), TEC |
| Bridging the Skill and Standardisation gap
(Panel Discussion)
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15:00 | 15:45 | Mr Vishnu Ram, ITU-T – Session Chair
Mr Pranav Jha, IIT Bombay Mr Piyush Sharma, Executive-in-Residence at Anderson School of Management, UCLA and at ISB Mr Sushil Kumar, DDG IOT,TEC |
| Networking Break (15:45 to 16:00) | |||
| Concluding Session | |||
| ML in Communication- An Opportunity or Threat for India? (Panel Discussion) | 16:00 | 16:40 | Mr Vikas Bhatnagar, AIRTEL – Session Chair
Mr Kaushik Saha, SAMSUNG Mr Deepak Soni, ERICSSON Mr Karun Jain, National Instruments |
| Take aways and Next steps
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16:40 | 17:00 | Prof Brejesh Lall, Professor, Bharti School of Telecom Technology & Management, IIT Delhi
Mr Satish Jamadagni, Vice Chairman, TSDSI Ms Pamela Kumar, DG, TSDSI |