Mérouane Debbah - iCore Inaugural Workshop Speaker
Mérouane Debbah entered the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France)
in 1996 where he received his M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees respectively. He worked for Motorola Labs (Saclay,
France) from 1999-2002 and the Vienna Research Center for Telecommunications (Vienna, Austria) until 2003.
From 2003 to 2007, he joined the Mobile Communications department of the Institut Eurecom (Sophia Antipolis,
France) as an Assistant Professor. Since 2007, he is a Full Professor at Supelec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France).
From 2007 to 2014, he was director of the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio. Since 2014, he is Vice-President
of the Huawei France R&D center and director of the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab. His research
interests are in information theory, signal processing and wireless communications. He is an Associate Editor
in Chief of the journal Random Matrix: Theory and Applications and was an associate and senior area editor for
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing respectively in 2011-2013 and 2013-2014. Mérouane Debbah is a recipient
of the ERC grant MORE (Advanced Mathematical Tools for Complex Network Engineering). He is a IEEE Fellow, a WWRF
Fellow and a member of the academic senate of Paris-Saclay. He is the recipient of the Mario Boella award in
2005, the 2007 IEEE GLOBECOM best paper award, the Wi-Opt 2009 best paper award, the 2010 Newcom++ best paper
award, the WUN CogCom Best Paper 2012 and 2013 Award, the 2014 WCNC best paper award as well as the Valuetools
2007, Valuetools 2008, CrownCom2009 , Valuetools 2012 and SAM 2014 best student paper awards. In 2011, he received
the IEEE Glavieux Prize Award and in 2012, the Qualcomm Innovation Prize Award. He is the co-founder of Ximinds.
Talk Title: "Mathematical Scientific Challenges of 5G"
Abstract:The evolution of cellular networks is driven by the dream of ubiquitous wireless connectivity: Any data service is instantly accessible everywhere. With each generation of cellular networks, we have moved closer to this wireless dream; first by delivering wireless access to voice communications, then by providing wireless data services, and recently by delivering a WiFi-like experience with wide-area coverage and user mobility management. The support for high data rates has been the main objective in recent years, as seen from the academic focus on sum-rate optimization and the efforts from standardization bodies to meet the peak rate requirements specified in IMT-Advanced. In contrast, a variety of metrics/objectives are put forward in the technological preparations for 5G networks: higher peak rates, improved coverage with uniform user experience, higher reliability and lower latency, better energy efficiency, lower-cost user devices and services, better scalability with number of devices, etc. These multiple objectives are coupled, often in a conflicting manner such that improvements in one objective lead to degradation in the other objectives. Hence, the design of future networks calls for new optimization tools that properly handle the existence and tradeoffs between multiple objectives.