IEEE Talk: Toward the Vision of 5G and Beyond 5G Enabled Super Smart City & Smart Grid Ecosystem of The Future

#5G #smart #grid #HAPS

Abstract:

The wireless community has been occupied by the 5G related developments for the last many years.
As 5G moves from the standardization phase to the deployment phase, a new brainstorming
endeavour has started for the subsequent generation (6G) wireless networks. The roots of today’s (4G
& 5G) wireless access architecture (the terrestrial cellular network) go back to 1940s. The access
architecture has evolved substantially over the decades. However, rapid developments in a number of
domains outside telecommunications, including those in aerial and satellite industries, will likely result
in a disruptive transformation in the wireless access architecture possibly in the 6G era and afterwards.
In this talk, I will first present an ultra-agile, dynamic, and distributed vertical heterogeneous network
(VHetNet) architecture with satellites, high-altitude platform stations (HAPS), and drone base stations
(BSs) for almost-ubiquitous super connectivity in the future smart city paradigm. In particular, a novel
vision will be presented for HAPS as a super macro base station to support connectivity and
computation in a plethora of application domains. I will then present my recent contributions in the
context of smart grid ecosystem. 5G promises to provide connectivity for a broad range of use-cases
in a variety of vertical industries and smart grid is one of the important one. Smart grid has the potential
to reshape the way we think about the traditional power grid which necessitates the deployment of a
robust communication network within the power grid. In this talk, I will present my works on the
design and performance analysis of robust wireless sensor network for smart grid communication
systems. I will demonstrate the development of different detection and estimation techniques
considering various smart grid environments.

Bio:

Dr. Md Sahabul Alam is currently working as an Assistant Professor in
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at California State
University, Northridge (CSUN), California, USA. Before that, he worked
as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Systems and Computer Engineering
Department at Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada with prestigious
Canadian Government FRQNT Fellowship. He received his Ph.D.
degree in Electrical Engineering from the École de Technologie
Supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, QC, Canada. Prior to PhD, Dr. Alam
obtained his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from
INRS-EMT, Montreal, QC, Canada, and B.Sc. degree in Electrical and

Electronic Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Khulna,
Bangladesh where he also served as a Lecturer for more than three years. In Ph.D., Dr. Alam awarded
the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal which is the highest distinction in graduate level. His
current research interests include non-terrestrial communications with more focus on high altitude
platform station (HAPS) based communications, integration of terrestrial and non-terrestrial
communication networks to provide an ultra-agile wireless access architecture, smart grid
communications, cooperative communications, reliable wireless communications in non-Gaussian
noise environments, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and massive multiple-input multipleoutput
(MIMO) for terrestrial and aerial communications. He has published more than 32 technical
papers in referred journals and international conferences in his field of interests.