Towards 5G Advanced and 6G – An International Conference @IMC 2022 organised by DoT & TSDSI

Program Schedule

Day 1 – 1 October 2022

Inaugural Session:

Schedule: 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM IST

Schedule (IST) Topic Speaker
2:30-2:35 pm Welcome to the Conference Prof. Abhay Karandikar

Chair, Organising Committee

2:35-2:40 pm About the Conference Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi

Chair, Technical Programme Committee

2:40-2:55 pm India’s Vision for 5G Advanced and 6G Shri K. Rajaraman

Secretary (T), Dept. of Telecommunications, Govt. of India

2:55-3:00 pm Vote of Thanks Shri R.K. Pathak

DDG (IC), Dept. of Telecommunications, Govt. of India

Keynote Address (K1)­:

Schedule: 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM IST

Session Chair: Abhay Karandikar, IIT Kanpur

Schedule (IST) Topic Speaker
3:15-3:45 pm 5G Advanced technology evolution Dr. Durga Malladi

Senior Vice President & General Manager, 5G, Mobile Broadband & Infrastructure

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

3:45-4:00 pm Q&A

Session – S1: PHY Layer Techniques For 5G+/6G Wireless Systems

Schedule: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM IST

Session Chair: Neelesh B Mehta, IISc Bangalore

Speakers:

Title Speaker
On 6G New Radio Evolution Kiran Kuchi,

IIT Hyderabad

Terahertz Communication: Physical Layer Challenges and Potential Solutions Toward 6G Communication Networks Vishakha Singh,

CEWiT

Multi-stage Precoding to Suppress Interference and Maximize the Desired Signal Power in Coexistence of Uu links and Sidelinks in 6G Shafivulla Sayyed,

CEWiT

Low-Complexity Linear Receiver Design for Practical Pulse-Shaped MIMO-OTFS Waveform Prem Singh,

IIIT Bangalore

Variable Bandwidth Multi-Carrier Communication Chandra R Murthy,

IISc Bangalore

Full Duplex Cellular Communication: Co-Channel Interference Management Askar Mandali Kundu,

IIT Bhilai

Streaming Codes: Packet-Level FEC Codes for Reliable, Low-Latency Communication Panganamala Vijay Kumar,

IISc Bangalore

Day 2 – 2 October 2022 

Keynote Address (K2):

Schedule: 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM IST

Session Chair: Bhaskar Ramamurthi, IIT Madras

Schedule (IST) Topic Speaker
10:00-10:30 am Leveraging 5G, beyond 5G towards 6G Dr. Magnus Ewerbring

Chief Technology Officer, Asia-Pacific Group Function Technology

Ericsson

10:30-10:45 am Q&A

Session – S2: RF Design And Applications For 5G+/6G Wireless Systems

Schedule: 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM IST

Session Chair: Rohit Budhiraja, IIT Kanpur

Speakers:

Title Speaker
Adapting Beam Coverage Based on Inputs from cameras attached to radio units Santhosh SB,

Nokia

An RF Transceiver at 142GHz for 6G Application Aritra Banerjee,

SAMEER

A Millimeter-Wave Lens Antenna for 6G Beam-Steering Applications Satyajit Chakrabarti,

SAMEER

Smart Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Ranjana Navalde,

Nokia

Waveguide cavity resonator Band pass filter at 142GHz for 6G transmission link Dhruba Das,

SAMEER

Session – S3: IRS And Massive MIMO Techniques For 5G+/6G Wireless Systems

Session Schedule: 2:00 PM – 4:15 PM IST

Session Chair: Brejesh Lall, IIT Delhi

Title Speaker
Methods and signalling for integrating intelligent reflective surfaces in 5G and beyond networks Priyanka Dey,

CEWiT

Efficacy of Type-II CSI Feedback with Delays in Time-Varying Channels Neelesh Mehta,

IISc Bangalore

Integrated Sensing and Communications with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri,

IISc Bangalore

IRS assisted non-LOS Wireless Communication: Towards 6G Deployment Amitesh Kumar,

SAMEER

Towards Extreme Massive MIMO Kiran Kuchi,

IIT Hyderabad

Fronthaul Compression for Uplink Massive MIMO using Matrix Decomposition Aswathylakshmi P,

IIT Madras

Design of Network-Controlled Repeaters For 5G and Beyond Wireless Systems Shyam Gadhai,

IIT Kanpur

Session – S4: Positioning, Imaging, and Security For 5G+/6G Wireless Systems

Session Schedule: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM IST

Session Chair: P H Rao, SAMEER

Speakers:

Title Speaker
Security aspects for ranging-based Smart Vehicle Key Sriram Vaitheswaran,

Nokia

Integrating Positioning in Sidelink for Unified Uu link Plus Sidelink Operation for 6G Abhijeet Abhimanyu Masal,

CEWiT

Carrier-phase-based Positioning For 5G and Beyond Systems Jyotirmay Saini,

IIT Kanpur

Unified representation of Wireless Network Data as Images and Videos Sivaramakrishnan Swaminathan,

Nokia Networks

QRCrypto Full Range Quantum-Resistant Protection, Classical and Post-Quantum, from 2G to 6G Stiepan Kovac,

QRCrypto

Day 3 – 3 October 2022 

Keynote Address (K3):

Schedule: 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM IST

Session Chair: Brejesh Lall, IIT Delhi

Schedule (IST) Topic Speaker
10:00-10:30 am 6G Vision, Megatrends, Technologies & Spectrum: Korea Perspective Mr Mohan Rao Goli

Corporate VP and CTO,

Samsung Research India

10:30-10:45 am Q&A

Session – S5: AI/ML For 5G+/6G Wireless Systems

Session Schedule: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM IST

Session Chair: Kiran Kuchi, IIT Hyderabad

Speakers:

Title Speaker
Shaping the Future of Air Travellers’ Experience using AR, AI and 6G Kumar S,

Waisl Ltd

Ray Integration with NS3 on a HPC system for Reinforcement Learning based Telecom Network Management Subrahmanya Prasad Narla,

IISc Bangalore

Connected Intelligence for Data Driven Fleet Management (DDFM) Prakash Ramchandran,

IIT Bombay

Digital-Twin and AI based Sustainable Healthcare Using 5G and IoT Shreshth Tuli,

Imperial College London

AI/ML Techniques for 6G Wireless Network Ebin Chacko,

CEWiT

Necessity of Edge AI/ML in Teleoperation of Robots Muneeb Ahmed,

IIT Delhi

Session – S6: Network Architecture, Simulation and Testing of 5G+/6G Wireless Systems

Session Schedule: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM IST

Session Chair: Radha Krishna Ganti, IIT Madras

Speakers:

Title Speaker
Considerations for 6G Network Architecture Satish Jamadagni,

Reliance Jio

Exploring the 6G Vision and its Key Test Challenges

 

Jobi George,

Keysight Technologies

Experiences with 5G Simulation Platform for Healthcare Applications Suresh V,

CDAC

A Service Driven Architecture for 6G Networks Pranav Jha,

IIT Bombay