Title:

From Information Freshness to Semantics of Information and Goal-oriented Communications

Time: Thursday, May 4th 2023, 11:20 – 12:00

 

Abstract:

Wireless networks are evolving to cater to emerging cyber-physical and mission-critical interactive systems, such as swarm robotics, self-driving cars, and the smart Internet of Things. A fundamental shift in thinking is necessary to satisfy the requirements for real-time communication, autonomous decision-making, and efficient distributed processing. In this tutorial, we will focus on the freshness and value of information by providing the required background, and we will present some initial results and ongoing works toward semantics-aware goal-oriented communication.

 

Bio:

Nikolaos Pappas (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. His main research interests include the field of wireless communication networks with an emphasis on semantics-aware communications, energy harvesting networks, network-level cooperation, age of information, and stochastic geometry. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Crete, Greece in 2012. During his Ph.D. studies, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Institute of Systems Research, University of Maryland at College Park, USA. From 2012 to 2014, he was a postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Telecommunications, CentraleSupélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Dr. Pappas has served as the Symposium Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2022 and the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference in 2022. He is an Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, the IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, the IEEE/KICS JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS, the Area Editor of the IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY, and an Expert Editor for invited papers of the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS. He is a guest editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine and the IEEE Network.