Talk of Prof. Petar Popovski



Petar Popovski



Time and Space in Wireless Connectivity towards 6G

Abstract

Wireless connectivity augments human capabilities beyond their natural domain, enabling operation and interaction with objects and subjects placed within an extended space-time domain. This talk will highlight aspects of time and space as these two basic physical notions get intertwined with the digital wireless communication systems beyond-5G/6G. In terms of time, the talk will present the general concept of timing in wireless communication systems and networks and its relation to effective information generation, processing, transmission, and reconstruction at the senders and receivers. Starting from the focus on latency, a specific instance of timing being in the focus of 5G, the talk will present a statistical framework of timing requirements in wireless systems. The timing framework subsumes both latency and Age of Information (AoI) and applied to various communication models, such as consensus or distributed learning/inference. In terms of space, wireless environments evolve towards becoming intelligent and reconfigurable. The talk will discuss the communication modeling aspects of reconfigurable wireless environments. Finally, leveraging the ambiguity of the term “space”, the talk will provide a perspective on non-terrestrial/satellite networks and their role in future wireless connectivity.




Biography

Petar Popovski is a Professor at Aalborg University, where he heads the section on Connectivity and a Visiting Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen. He received his Dipl.-Ing and M. Sc. degrees in communication engineering from the University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and the Ph.D. degree from Aalborg University in 2005. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015), the Danish Elite Researcher award (2016), IEEE Fred W. Ellersick prize (2016), IEEE Stephen O. Rice prize (2018), Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications (2019), the Danish Telecommunication Prize (2020) and Villum Investigator Grant (2021). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS. Prof. Popovski was the General Chair for IEEE SmartGridComm 2018 and IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2019. His research interests are in communication theory and wireless connectivity. He authored the book ``Wireless Connectivity: An Intuitive and Fundamental Guide'', published by Wiley in 2020.