Keynote
6G Networking – The Journey Towards a Novel
Vision of “Service of Services”
The architectures of
mobile networks have seen an unprecedented techno-economic
transformation, fusing the telco world within the cloud world,
adding the spices of Software Engineering to the overall system
design, and ultimately yielding the concept of Telco Cloud. This
has brought significant benefits in terms of reducing expenditure
and operational costs, flexibility in deployment, and faster time
to market. The key enablers are Network Function Virtualization,
Software-Defined Networking, and Edge/Cloud Computing. Artificial
Intelligence is also kicking in this arena. When all these
technologies are well integrated, the creation and lifecycle
management of fully programmable, flexible, service-tailored, and
automated end-to-end network slices/services become possible.
This will support diverse 5G and beyond 5G services, spanning
from Tactile IoT to Pervasive Robotics and Immersive Services.
This talk will show the journey that 6G will be likely taking
towards enabling a new breeze of cloud-native mobile networking;
whereby the old-fashioned concept of “network of networks” would
be simply replaced by a new vision of “service of services.”
Speaker Biography
Prof. Tarik Taleb is
currently a Professor at the Center of Wireless Communications,
The University of Oulu, Finland. He is the founder and director
of the MOSA!C Lab (www.mosaic-lab.org). Between Oct. 2014 and
Dec. 2021, he was a Professor at the School of Electrical
Engineering, Aalto University, Finland. Prior to that, he was
working as Senior Researcher and 3GPP Standards Expert at NEC
Europe Ltd, Heidelberg, Germany. Before joining NEC and till Mar.
2009, he worked as assistant professor at the Graduate School of
Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan, in a lab fully
funded by KDDI, the second largest mobile operator in Japan. From
Oct. 2005 till Mar. 2006, he worked as research fellow at the
Intelligent Cosmos Research Institute, Sendai, Japan. He received
his B. E degree in Information Engineering with distinction,
M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Information Sciences from Tohoku
Univ., in 2001, 2003, and 2005, respectively. Prof. Taleb’s
research interests lie in the field of telco cloud, network
softwarization & network slicing, AI-based software defined
security, immersive communications, mobile multimedia streaming,
& next generation mobile networking. Prof. Taleb has been also
directly engaged in the development and standardization of the
Evolved Packet System as a member of 3GPP’s System Architecture
working group 2. Prof. Taleb served on the IEEE Communications
Society Standardization Program Development Board. Prof. Taleb
served as the general chair of the 2019 edition of the IEEE
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’19) held
in Marrakech, Morocco. He was the guest editor in chief of the
IEEE JSAC Series on Network Softwarization & Enablers. He was on
the editorial board of different IEEE journals and magazines.
Till Dec. 2016, he served as chair of the Wireless Communications
Technical Committee, the largest in IEEE ComSoC. Prof. Taleb is
the recipient of the 2021 IEEE ComSoc Wireless Communications
Technical Committee Recognition Award (Dec. 2021), the 2017 IEEE
ComSoc Communications Software Technical Achievement Award (Dec.
2017) for his outstanding contributions to network
softwarization. He is also the (co-) recipient of the 2017 IEEE
Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize (May 2017), the
2009 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher award (Jun.
2009), the 2008 TELECOM System Technology Award from the
Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (Mar. 2008), the 2007
Funai Foundation Science Promotion Award (Apr. 2007), the 2006
IEEE Computer Society Japan Chapter Young Author Award (Dec.
2006), the Niwa Yasujirou Memorial Award (Feb. 2005), and the
Young Researcher's Encouragement Award from the Japan chapter of
the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) (Oct. 2003). Some of
Prof. Taleb’s research work have been also awarded best paper
awards at prestigious IEEE-flagged conferences.