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Wireless systems beyond 5G evolve towards embracing both sensing and communication, resulting in increased convergence of the digital and the physical world. The existence of fused digital-physical realms raises critical questions regarding temporal ordering, causality, and synchronization of events that cannot be addressed solely by imposing ultra-low latency requirements. This talk presented the general concept of timing in wireless communication systems and its relation to effective information generation, processing, transmission, and reconstruction at the senders and receivers. With the increasing importance of sensing and Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), wireless systems evolve towards becoming perceptive wireless networks. Inspired by multisensory perception in humans, the talk will introduce Temporal Windows of Integration (TWI) for wireless systems that combine sensing and communication and show their role in determining causality and simultaneity in perceptive wireless networks. One of the takeaways is that the future Base Stations and Access Points will have a timestamping functionality that determines the chronology of the events, simultaneity, and causality and in that way ensure trustworthiness in the physical-world events that are mapped to the digital infrastructure.
WISDOM CORNER: LIVE LIFE LESSONS
Participants had the chance to hear from Prof. Popovski about his impactful life lessons over the years as well as his advice to young researchers in the field of information and communication technologies.
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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 (1997) and M. Sc. (2000) degrees in communication engineering from the University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and the Ph.D. degree (2005) from Aalborg University. 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 an editor-in-chief of IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS and chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee. He was a member at large at the Board of Governors in IEEE Communication Society, as well as the general chair for IEEE SmartGridComm 2018 and IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2019. His research interests are in the area of wireless communication and communication theory. He authored the book "Wireless Connectivity: An Intuitive and Fundamental Guide'', published by Wiley in 2020.
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MODERATOR: Ian F. Akyildiz, ITU J-FET Editor-in-Chief and Truva Inc., USA
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