Prof Sureswaran Ramadass of Malaysian University of Science and Technology

5G is the new fifth-generation cellular mobile communications technology. Generally, most earlier generations have technically been defined by their data transmission speeds. With 5G, this is extended to many other aspects as well. 5G especially brings three new aspects to the table:

• greater speed (to move more data).
• lower latency (to be more responsive).
• and the ability to connect a lot more devices simultaneously (for sensors and smart devices).

IPv6 support has been part of the 3GPP standards since the first release of the specifications. It extends to all radio access and packet-based system variants of the 3GPP architecture family, including 5G. With the ever-growing business and commercial incentives, wider adoption of IPv6, especially over technologies like LTE and 5G is taking place.

This talk will cover the technical aspects of 5G and how IPv6 is or can be adapted to work with these new 5G technologies. This includes the benefits of having a 5G IPv6 only network, how 5G base station will handle IPv6 and how IPv6 communications will take place with IPv4 servers outside of the ISPs environment.

Biography:

Professor Sureswaran Ramadass is a Professor at the Malaysian University of Science and Technology (MUST).

He is also the Chief Scientist at Crystalviewhd Sdn Bhd (formerly known as NLTVC Sdn Bhd), Crystalviewhd is a Next Generation Internet Communications research and development company and also the Managing Director of VHGlobal Sdn Bhd. VHGlobal is an advanced patient-centric global telehealth platform.

Prior to this, he was the founding Director and Professor at the National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence (NAV6), Universiti Sains Malaysia.

He obtained his BsEE/CE (Magna Cum Laude) and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Miami in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He graduated top student in the College of Engineering. He obtained his PhD from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2000 while serving as a full time faculty in the School of Computer Sciences.

Some of his recognitions include being awarded :

• The “Anugerah Tokoh Negara” (National Academic Leader) for Innovation and Commercialization in 2008 by the Minister of Higher Education. This award is given in recognition of contributions to Innovation and commercialisation in the area of science and technology.

• Malaysian Innovation Award by the Prime Minister in 2007 and again by the Minister of Science and Technology in 2009. These Awards were given in recognition for his contribution towards innovations in the areas of Multimedia Conferencing Systems and Real-Time Advanced Security Monitoring

• The Wireless World Research Forum Fellow in 2010. This fellowship award was presented in recognition to his contribution in the area of Next Generation Networks and IPv6.

• Emeritus Professor by Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST), 2017.

• Founding Chair, IPv6 Forum Education Programme.

In 1989, Prof Sureswaran joined MODCOMP, Florida as a senior technical team member. MODCOMP, a wholly owned subsidiary of AEG Daimler Benz, focused on real-time operating systems. Their customers included Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for their remote space vehicles.

His career as an entrepreneur begin as early as 1991, when he co-founded ICON Business System, Inc (Florida) in 1991. As Vice President of Engineering, he was responsible for the entire engineering and R&D divisions of ICON. In 1992, he sold his shares and returned to Malaysia to join USM as a lecturer.

Prof Sureswaran is currently Emeritus Chair of the IPv6 Forum Education Certification Program. He is also the Malaysian IPv6 Forum Chairman. Prof Sureswaran was the first Research Steering Committee Chair for MYREN (Malaysian Research and Education Network) and is still the IPv6 WG Chair. He was also the Chairman of the Asia Pacific IPv6 Task Force (APV6TF).

In 2014, he was nominated and elected as Chairman for APAN (Asia Pacific Advanced Networks. His recent active participation in the global IPv6 arena includes being a consultant to International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations Agency. His expertise was valuable in formulating a proposal on the expansionary approach to Global IPv6 Address Allocation. He continues to work closely with ITU to promote IPv6 to developing countries. He was Chair for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Global Centre for IPv6 and IoT (2018 – 2020).

He was also one of the 18 finalists for the ICANN at large Directorship in the year 2000. ICANN is the organisation that manages and maintains the global Internet. He is currently an affiliated Senior Member of the Echonet Consortium of Japan and the Chair of the Echonet Society of Malaysia. He was also appointed as an Advisor to the Japanese Government’s Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecomm (MPHPT) in the early 2000s.

In the world of Innovation and Commercialization, Prof Sureswaran founded and headed the team that successfully took Mlabs Systems Berhad, a high technology Internet based Video Conferencing company to a successful listing on the Malaysian Stock Exchange in 2005. Mlabs is the first university based company to be listed in Malaysia. He sits on the advisory boards of numerous technology companies.

Prof Sureswaran’s academic contributions are vast. He has published research papers in over 200 international and national level journals, research conferences and research presentations. He has filed over 12 patents (awarded currently 6 patents) and is often invited to present keynote addresses in the areas of Internet Security, IPv6 and The Future Internet. He has written or provided chapters for 9 books. He has chaired numerous international conferences and has received over RM21 million in research funding and grants from numerous organizations globally. He has also received over 40 International and National level awards for Innovation and has graduated 18 PhD students till date.

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