KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Remco Litjens

Senior Scientist, TNO (Nederlandse organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek)

Associate Professor, Delft University of Technology

The Netherlands

Biography—Remco Litjens received an MSc degree (with honours) in econometrics from Tilburg University, The Netherlands, in 1994, and an MSc degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California at Berkeley, USA, in 1996. While employed as a technical scientific researcher at KPN Research, The Netherlands, he started his part-time doctorate research at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, obtaining his PhD degree in applied mathematics in 2003. As of 2003, he is employed as a senior scientist at TNO, The Netherlands, while since 2014 also holding a part-time associate professorship at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. 

Title: Resource Management Challenges for 6G Networks

Abstract: With networks projected to be first deployed around 2030, 6G technology development is driven by application-inspired use cases (e.g. cyber-physical-human fusion, industrial automation and robotics, immersive XR and ubiquitous surveillance), the support of sustainable development goals and objectives on spectrum/cost-efficient provisioning of high-capacity and broadband connectivity. The derived requirements related to e.g. spectral/energy/cost efficiency, area capacity, attainable throughputs, reliability, latency and object detection/positioning accuracy are to be enabled by a range of technological solutions. These technologies include solutions for ultra-dense cell-free networking, the use of FR3 spectrum, ultra-massive D-MIMO, integrated sensing and communications, reflective intelligent surfaces and AI/NDT-based network optimisation. In this talk, we will address key resource management challenges associated with the optimised exploitation of a range of candidate 6G technological solutions.