Wireless networks are evolving to cater to emerging cyber-physical and mission-critical interactive systems, such as swarm robotics, self-driving cars, and the intelligent 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 talk, we will initially focus on the freshness and value of information, and then we will present some initial results and ongoing works on semantics-aware goal-oriented communication. Specifically, we will consider goal-oriented communication for real-time tracking in autonomous systems, fault detection in IoT, and goal-oriented communication for networked control systems.

Biography:

Nikolaos Pappas (IEEE Senior Member) is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. His research interest includes the field of wireless communication networks, with an emphasis on semantics-aware communications, age of information, and energy harvesting networks. He has served as the Symposium Co-Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2022 and the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference in 2022. He was a Guest Editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal on Information and Data Semantics for Sensing, Communication, and Control Co-Design in IoT and was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. Currently he is editor for the IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, the IEEE/KICS Journal of Communications and Networks, an Area Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, and an Expert Editor for invited papers of the IEEE Communications Letters. Nikolaos is the vice-chair for the IEEE Tactile Internet Technical Committee.