School Organization

The school will cover some selected hot topics in the evolution of telecommunications networks. All speakers have worldwide recognition of being at the top in their fields so as the event is projected to be of a very high level. 

Every speaker is assigned a ‘slot’ with three slots/day plus one fourth slot left for students presentations. Students are invited to propose their own presentations which will be possibly grouped according with the topic of the day to maximize interaction with the speakers.

We will have a half day on Monday afternoon with introductory topics and trends at large. The remaining three and a half days will be centered respectively on

  • Semantic and goal-oriented communications: this novel paradigm tends to move beyond the traditional agnostic representation and transport of information, mimicking the process of human cognition and communication.
  • Distributed and edge-intelligence: as in a biological nervous system, decentralized reasoning brings reaction close to the network periphery. This model not only reduces latency but paves the way to a new paradigm where not only intelligence aids network management, but the network itself enables new forms of reasoning.
  • Novel access techniques: this more ‘traditional’ networking approach covers several advances in materials, technology, and architecture. Topics covered under this stream will be massive and holographic MIMO, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, joint localization and sensing, integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, and the exploitation of very high (THz) frequencies.

Slots will be reserved for attendees willing to discuss their research activity.

A certificate of attendance will be provided to all attendees.

On Friday afternoon an exam will be organized for all those who will need it for credits recognition

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