FUTURE UBIQUITOUS NETWORKS (FUN) 2019-FALL

• Date: 28 Nov 2019
• Time: 02:30 PM to 05:30 PM
• Location: ECS660, University of Victoria

Future Ubiquitous Networks (FUN) 2019-Fall workshop hosts poster presentations related to future ubiquitous networks, ranging from connected vehicles, clouding computing, software defined networks, to applying networking solutions and analytical tools to other industry, agriculture, and financial sectors.

Session 1, 2:30-3:50pm

1. 1. Card Shuffling Analysis, by Suraj Ryali
   2. Sensor network reliability analysis, by Connor Balogh, Calen Mclean
   3. Forecasting Student Graduation Rates by Faculty at UVic, by Jack Beckett, Gabriel Green and Jessica Jiang
   4. Internet Subscription Sharing, by Robert Kern, Gillian Worley
   5. How Many Users can Share a WiFi Router, by Grant Skeels, Micheal Brautigan
   6. Queuing Theory Applied to Banks for Customer Satisfaction, by Meghashree TA, Sahil, Sargun Walia
   7. Student Number Forecasting using Markov Chains, by Denzel Cheung, Peter Ogilvie, Brandon Zhou-Charles
   8. Performance analysis of IEEE802.15.7,VLC, by Somayeh Roshandel
   9. How many roommates can share an Internet subscription using an IEEE802.11a/b/g/n router, by Grant Skeels, Micheal Brautigan
   10. Predicting the number of graduating students to some departments of Faculty of Engineering / University of Victoria using Markov Chain, by Malek Elgadi
   11. Vehicle to Vehicle Safety Messaging in DSRC, by Erfan Khorram, Ehsan Ghasaei
   12. Reliable and energy-efficient multi-hop LEACH-based clustering protocol for wireless sensor networks, by Somayeh Abniki, Behnaz Saropourian, Mahdi Jafar Rangchi
   13. Predicting the number of graduating students to some departments of Faculty of Engineering / University of Victoria using Markov Chain, by Malek Elgadi, Moneer Fakroon
   14. A Markov Model of Baseball, by Isaac Streight
   15. The Krustal Count, by Callum Brown
   16. Vehicle-to-Vehicle safety messaging in DSRC, by Ehsan Ghasaei, Erfan Khorram
   17. UVIC Student Enrollment Forecasting, by Pengjun Duan, Baojun Hu, Xin Li
   18. Elastic Cloud Resource Scaling Systems: An Overview of PRESS, CloudScale, and AGILE, by Alex Spurgeon
   19. Using Model with Markov Chain Monte Carlo method, by Chang Bi
   20. Server Status Predictions using discrete-time Markov Chain model, by Gerrit van Rensburg, Grant Hames-Morgan, James Leahy

Session 2, 4:00pm-5:20pm 

1. 1. Error Analysis using Markov chains for 5G networks, by Bharath Rao Madela, Aditya Naren Yerramilli, Devang Manoj Sharma
   2. Predict the number of graduates from faculty of engineering at university of Victoria using Markov absorbent chain, by Moneer Fakroon, Malek Elgadi
   3. The Kruskal Count, by Kael Kristjanson
   4. HR planning with using of Budgeting Model and its extensive use, by Alan Wu, Amitkumar Bansel, Jian Wang
   5. Markov chains and Queuing Analysis for Motor Applications, by Enrique Garcia, Gurdeep Sihota, Andrey Frol
   6. V2V/V2I communication, by Anisha Kumar, Sruthi Ramesh
   7. Card shuffling analysis, by Tony Massoud, Daksh Sharma, Anjali
   8. Predictive Marketing using Content-Based Filtering, by Dallas Brooks, Nic Richardson
   9. Implementation of Multi-Hop Dissemination based on AODV and IEEE 802.11p in VANET, by Wenjun Yang
   10. V2V Safety messaging, by Shruthi Udhayakumar Devishree, Shashi Kiran Billa, Ridhi
   11. Markov chain application on Nordic countries clothing reuse study, by Linfeng Xu, Zhilun Liu, Shiming Zhang
   12. Use of Queuing Analysis to Minimize Cost and Improve Customer Experience, by Lachlan Pringle, Dylan Degroot, Nadia Bernard
   13. Investment Strategy using the Kelly Criterion, by Daniel Rhodes, Jason Poon, Xiyu Chen
   14. Performance Analysis of Airport Departure Queue, by Idongesit John, UnyimeUkpeh, Jean Louise Vallester
   15. Viability of Cloud Gaming, by Takuma Pimlott
   16. How to get a random card, by Ziyi Feng, Yifeng Bie, Yan Zhang
   17. PageRank using Markov Analysis, by Krunal Sachdev, Dhruvil Sachdev, Shubham Peri
   18. Markov queuing analysis on traffic intersections, by Mark Ballon
   19. A Survey: Spectrum Occupancy Prediction Using Machine Learning Techniques, by Xiangyu Ren

MM-WAVE PROPAGATION CHANNELS AND THEIR IMPACT ON 5G SYSTEM DESIGN

• Date: 17 Oct 2019
• Time: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
• Location: EOW430, University of Victoria

Title: MM-wave propagation channels and their impact on 5G system design

by: Andreas F. Molisch, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer

Abstract: Communication in the mm-wave band is an essential part of 5G, allowing to reach the ambitious data rate and throughput goals of IMT-2020. In order to design systems that will work in practice, a thorough understanding – which must be based on measurements in real-world channels – of mm-wave propagation channels is required. This talk provides an overview of such research. After a brief introduction of suitable channel sounders, the talk will concentrate on (i) requirement for street-by-street pathloss models, (ii) dynamics of angular statistics (iii) outdoor-to-indoor propagation in mm-wave bands, and (iv) spatial consistency and the change of second-order channel statistics. The impact of all those channel effects on system design and deployment planning will be elaborated.

ARCBLOCK FORGE: A FRAMEWORK TO BUILD REUSABLE INTERCONNECTED BLOCKCHAINS AND DECENTRALIZED APPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH AND PROOF OF CONCEPTS

STUDENTS CAREER PANEL: WHAT’S BEYOND THE ISLAND?

• Date: 23 Aug 2019
• Time: 11:00 AM to 02:00 PM
• Location: ECS660, University of Victoria

“What do I hope to be told while I was still in school?”

“What do I hope to be told when I started my career in (academia, government, industry, etc)?”

“What have I found from my experience, observation and mentoring of students, colleagues, etc?”

“(your questions here…)?”

A group of distinguished panelists around the world this week at UVic, alphabetically:

Professor Fumiyuki Adachi (Professor of Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)

Professor Dingyi Fang (UVic Visiting Professor and Professor at Northwest University, Xi’an, China)

Professor Jianping He (Formerly UVic Postdoc and now Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Professor Rose Hu (Associate Dean Research and Professor at Utah State University, USA)

Professor Ming Ling (Formerly UVic Visiting Professor and Professor at Southeast University, Nanjing, China)

Mr Matt McKinney (Marketing and Business Development Director of ArcBlock, USA)

Dr Humphrey Rutagemwa (Research Scientist at Communications Research Center, Canada)

IEEE ComSoc/VTS Night, Victoria

To celebrate the anniversary of IEEE Joint VTS/ComSoc Chapter in Victoria Section, we host a Pizza Night event, 6-8:30pm,  Nov. 22 (Thursday), 2018, in ECS660, University of Victoria.

The event is featured by an invited talk and a poster session, which will bring Academia and Industry together for a technical presentation and social related to our chapters focus, Communications and Vehicular technologies, including but not limited to IoT, 5G, clean and intelligent ground/air/water/space transportation, autonomous driving, AI, e-health, cyber-physical systems, information security and privacy, smart cities.

Schedule:

6:00pm: Opening
6:10pm: Poster session with pizza served
7:00pm: Invited talk
8:00pm: Closing with best poster award announcement

IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecture