Over the past two decades, wireless communications have fundamentally transformed our daily life and created an almost fully connected society, linking billions of people and devices to reap the benefits of today’s digital economy. Every sector of the world economy now relies on wireless technologies in fundamental ways, from banking and agriculture to transportation and healthcare. In addition, powerful cutting-edge technologies that rely on robust wireless communications networks – such as 5G, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and Industry 4.0 – hold great potential for improving lives at an unprecedented pace and scale.

However, the rapid development of advanced telecommunications networks, in response to the continuously growing global demand for data transmission and access to information, also entails a very large increase in the resources used. The telecommunications of the future must face new challenges, including a significant reduction in energy consumption while maintaining the same quality parameters, and ensuring sustainable development through the responsible use of available resources.

At the same time, the complexity of telecommunications systems is increasing so significantly that the processes of design, maintenance and development have to be considered holistically. There is a strong need for making the network not only resource sustainable, but also autonomous and automated.

There is also room for societal and technological improvements to address the digital divide that continues to exist in the world. Tackling uneven global distribution and ensuring a better world requires super-connecting the already connected and connecting the unconnected, while guaranteeing an impressive quality of experience worldwide. Future wireless communication systems must also effectively support a universal and ubiquitous cyber physical infrastructure.

The huge variety of intelligent applications envisaged for a wireless future will require a novel network structure, spectrum access schemes, and resource allocation solutions, while factoring in energy efficiency and security/privacy considerations. Thus, highly innovative wireless solutions with varied quality specifications when it comes to service requirements have become paramount in ensuring a greener world. Examples of some technological breakthroughs include intelligent surfaces, semantic communications, and digital twin technology, to name a few.

Under the theme “Towards sustainable and automated communications”, the 49th Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) will take place at Poznan University of Technology, Poland, from 28-30 March 2023. You are invited to be part of designing the wireless future by joining us for three days of insightful discussions, presentations, innovative brainstorming, and expert-level networking.

Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts aligned with the theme of the event, on one or more of the following topics, or on any relevant aspect of wireless innovation for a better world:

• Autonomous communications
• Towards automated wireless communications
• Resource sustainability in future communications
• Cutting Edge Solutions for Sustainable Communications
• Openness, Disaggregation, Modularity and Programmability
• Intelligent Applications for Vertical Industries
• Data Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning for Sustainability and Network Automation
• Software-Defined Infrastructure
• Advanced Radio Technologies
• Tactile Internet
• Green Communications and Networking
• THz Communications
• Bridging the Digital Divide Beyond 5G
• Beyond 5G Technologies
• Innovations in Business Models for Wireless Networks
• Cyber-Physical Systems and Networks
• Privacy and Security
• Connected Vehicles
• Holographic MIMO & Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
• Applications and impact of quantum-based technologies
• Semantic Communications
• Spectrum Issues and Regulatory Principles
• Social Network-Aware Wireless
• Internet of Things and Wearable Technologies

Authors are expected to be physically present in Poznan to present their contribution.

Why Attend WWRF 49?

WWRF is a unique forum which brings together the wireless community to tackle key research challenges. As an attendee, you will be able to: (i) define your future wireless strategies by leveraging the insights of industry leaders, (ii) ease future standardization by harmonizing research views at the research stage, (iii) identify new trends and ideas in wireless communications, and (iv) share insights on research directions and visions for the Wireless World.

Submission Instructions

Contributors should submit an extended abstract by 28th January 2023 to contributions@wwrf.ch for review. Extended abstracts should be preferably at least two pages in length, either in plain ASCII text, MS Word or Adobe PDF. A template for abstracts or papers is available at the link below. Full papers must be prepared using the WWRF template, which is also available below. The following list shows the different working groups (WGs) and Vertical Industry Platforms (VIPs) to one of which the contributions should be directed:

• Working Group,A/B - User Needs & Requirements, Services and Devices in a Wireless World
• Working Group C - New Directions in Communication Architectures and Technologies, including SDN, NFV and MEC
• Working Group D - Radio Communication Technologies: Air Interfaces for 6G, advance wireless access techniques, MIMO, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Radio Resource Management, SDR and Spectrum Sharing
• WG BM - Future Business Models supported and enabled by 5G and Beyond wireless technologies
• WG High-Frequency Technologies: mm Wave and THz Communications and Sensing
• VIP WG 5G e/m-Health and Wearables
• VIP WG Connected Vehicles
• VIP WG Track-to-Train communications
• WG Cybersecurity
• WG 6G

Publication

Selected papers will be published in the newly-launched WWRF journal or Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology.

Steering Committee

Nigel Jefferies

Chairman
Wireless World Research Forum

Vinod Kumar

Treasurer
Wireless World Research Forum

Hendrik Berndt

Vice-Chair EMEA
Wireless World Research Forum

Adrian Kliks

Professor
Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Programme Committee

Simon Fletcher

Associate Member
Real Wireless

Peter Lindgren

Professor
Aarhus University, Denmark

HyeonWoo Lee

Individual Member
Dankook University

Knud Erik Skouby

AURI Member
Aalborg University

Seshadri Mohan

Professor
University of Arkansas

Sudhir Dixit

Vice-Chair Americas
WWRF

Angeliki Alexiou

Professor
University of Piraeus

Costas Danas

Chair of e-Health and Wearables, WWRF

Organizing Committee

Adrian Kliks

Professor
Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Pawel Sroka

Assistant Professor
Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Pawel Kryszkiewicz

Assistant Professor
Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Krzysztof Cichon

Assistant Professor
Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Marcin Hoffmann

PhD student
Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Salim Janji

PhD student
Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Lukasz Kulacz

Assistant
Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Adam Samorzewski

PhD student
Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Malgorzata Wasilewska

Assistant
Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Tuesday – 28 March 2023

Wednesday – 29 March 2023

Thursday – 30 March 2023

We are happy to announce that this year there will be an opportunity to participate in the live discussion panel. It will streamed for free to every registered person - please book it in your calendar 29.03.2023 at 14.30 CET.

The panel will be led by Marcin Dryjański from Rimedo Labs. It is entitled "Openness and Programmability in RAN".

Interested in this event - please register for free!

Please meet our great panelists!

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Marcin Dryjanski

PH.D.
Rimedo Labs
Panel Moderator

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Michele Polese

Ph.D.
Northeastern University, Boston, MA

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Melike Erol-Kantarci

Ph.D.
University of Ottawa,
Canada

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Navid Nikaein

Professor
BubbleRAN/ EURECOM,
France

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Hamed Ahmadi

Associate Professor
University of York,
United Kingdom

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Alex Jinsung Choi

Ph.D.
Deutsche Telekom
Germany

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Lars Lindeberg

RAN architect
Tietoevry
 

We accept only online payment

For Authors:

• to participate in the WWRF49 event, at least one author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the FULL rate.
• One registration allows the author to upload up to two (2) her/his papers.

WWRF Cancellation Policy

Full refunds, excluding €50 processing fee per registrant, will be granted to cancellations received in writing or via email up to eight weeks before the meeting. Cancellations received up to four weeks before the meeting are subject to a €50 service charge and a 50% refund. Refunds will not be given if a cancellation is received less than four weeks before the meeting or if registrants do not attend without cancelling in advance (no shows).

In case the event is either cancelled completely or postponed by WWRF, participants will receive a full refund of the participation fee if they are not able to attend the rescheduled event. Under no circumstances will WWRF assume responsibility for non-refundable airline tickets or other travel costs. WWRF will make every effort to immediately notify registrants of a cancellation. WWRF reserves the right to cancel any single session that has insufficient enrolment.

The conference will take place at the Conference and Lecturing Center, which is a part of the Warta Campus of the Poznan University of Technology and is located close to the Warta River and Malta Lake. This is a touristically convenient location, as it is within walking distance to the strict city center (market square and town hall), the cathedral (where one can learn about the beginnings of Poland), and the above-mentioned natural objects.

WWRF'49 meeting will take place in room BT 123,
at the Conference and Lecturing Center
(pol. Centrum Wykładowo Konferencyjne)

Piotrowo 2, 60-965 Poznań

BE A MEMBER OF WWRF

Why join WWRF

• It's a great place to network and exchange ideas
• It has a diverse membership base, especially from emerging economies
• It operates in a pre-competitive phase, encouraging open innovation and collaboration
• It allows for the discussion of ideas, not just results
• It offers a unique mix of different domains of expertise
• What makes it distinct are the impartiality, the technology-neutral stance, and the caliber of technical discussions

Benefits for members

The forum is unique as it brings together industry leaders and academia from across the globe, with a strong focus on emerging economies. Members can discuss how new insights will affect network implementation, services, applications, and value chains in the future. The forum offers a high-impact networking opportunity, and we strongly urge you to become a part of it!

• Access to the website’s exclusive members areas, including meeting documents that are not yet published and working versions of forthcoming publications
• Early information on WWRF and related activities, including a regular newsletter
• Discounted registration at WWRF meetings
• Academic members get one free registration at each WWRF meeting
• Priority for student travel grants
• Opportunity to be elected for executive positions and to participate in the General Assembly
• Significant discounts on books published by WWRF
• Ability to nominate candidates as WWRF Fellow
• Have WWRF publish your book
• Ability to participate in the Vision Committee

Additional benefits for sponsor members

In addition to the above, sponsor members

• Have a seat on the WWRF Steering Board
• Are guaranteed prominent use of their brand at all WWRF meetings and in all publications
• Can showcase their brand and distribute promotional material in meeting bags at WWRF exhibition stands

Everybody can participate in meetings and make contributions.

Creating a smart Future

WWRF's goal is to encourage research that will achieve unbounded communications to address key societal challenges for the future. We are using the term "Wireless World" in this broad sense to address the support of innovation and business, the social inclusion and the infrastructural challenges This will be achieved by creating a range of new technological capabilities from wide-area networks to short-range communications, machine-to-machine communications, sensor networks, wireless broadband access technologies and optical networking, along with increasing intelligence and virtualization in networks This will support a dependable future Internet of people, knowledge and things and the development of a service universe.

A World-Leading Forum

WWRF is the unique forum where the wireless community can tackle the key research challenges. By searching out the issues, flagging them up to opinion leaders, and then working with our liaison partners, and you, to deal with them, we drive the development of the Wireless World.

JOINING IN

Our members, by joining WWRF, can play a leading role in this process

MEETING UP

WWRF organizes two major events each year combining inputs from industry and academic experts, the exchange of ideas and the evolution of the research agenda and technology roadmaps.

BEING VISIBLE

Our well received publication programme, working with partners such as IEEE and Wiley, makes the key messages and results available to the wireless research sector.

WORKING TOGETHER

To ease standardization, WWRF disseminates and harmonizes views, and together with our major liaison partners, we initiate collaborative research, and develop the global vision.

Always active!

MEETINGS

WWRF runs two 3-day meetings a year, hosted by a member organization and with an identified theme. Anybody can submit a contribution and attend. The programme is a mix of invited speakers on key topics and working group sessions. These are excellent opportunities to network, meet experts, and contribute to the white papers.

In addition to our main meetings, we run a series of workshops and other events on specific themes and topics, sometimes as part of other major events and conferences.

WORKING GROUPS

• Working Group A User Needs & Requirements; Services, and Devices, in a Wireless World
• Working Group C New Directions in Communication Architectures and Technologies: SDN, NFV, MEC
• Working Group D Radio Communication Technologies: Air Interface for 5G and 6G, advance wireless access techniques, MIMO, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Radio Resources Management, SDR and Spectrum Sharing
• Working Group 5G for smart water management
• WG BM Future Business Models supported and enabled by 5G and Beyond wireless technologies
• WG High-Frequency Technologies: mm Wave and THz Communications and Sensing
• VIP WG 5G e/m-Health and Wearables
• VIP WG Connected Vehicles
• VIP WG Track-to-Train communications
• WG Cybersecurity
• WG 6G

PUBLICATIONS

We have our own publication programme of white papers (WWRF Outlook) and meeting proceedings (WWRF Library). In addition, we publish a series of books with Wiley, and the best papers from each meeting are the highlight of a special issue of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine.

FELLOWS

Each year WWRF appoints some significant figures in the development of the Wireless World as Fellows.

REGIONAL ACTIVITIES

We promote the participation of all regions in our work, through a programme of technical and financial sponsorship of regional events.

LIAISON PARTNERS

To provide better networking opportunities for our members, we work with other organizations in relevant sectors.

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