Prof. Raed Mesleh is currently the dean of the school of electrical engineering and information technology at German Jordanian University in Amman, Jordan. He received his PhD in 2007 from Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany. He was a visiting scholar at Boston University, The University of Edinburgh and Herriot– Watt University. He was with the Electrical Engineering Department at University of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia from 2010 to 2015. During that period, he holds the position of department chair and the director of research excellence and intellectual property units at the deanship of scientific research.
In December 2016, he was awarded the Arab Scientific Creativity award from Arab Thought Foundation. As well, in 2016 and 2019 he received the distinguished researcher award from German Jordanian University. He authored a book entitled “space modulation techniques” with Wiley in June 2018. His main research interests are in wireless communication and optical wireless communication. He is an inventor and co-inventor of nine patents and his overall citations exceed 11400.
Keynote Speech Title: Communication Environments For Beyond 5G Wireless Systems
Summary: Future wireless communication systems necessitate the need of multiple contradictory requirements. Essentially, extremely high data rate is mandatory with high quality of service and reliability. Diversely, simple devices with very low power consumption and implementation costs are needed to facilitate massive connectivity. 5G took shape after several years of R&D focused on beyond 4G (B4G) technologies. Currently, we are in a similar situation with sixth-generation (6G) wireless as leading organizations begin to focus on beyond 5G (B5G) market opportunities. Although the next G gossip is at a premature stage, this talk aims to provide an overview of the vision, challenges and key enabling technologies envisioned by the wireless community. Among the technologies to reach the goals of 6G, machine learning, dynamic spectrum allocation, wireless energy transfer, free-space optical communication, use of bands beyond 100 GHz, massive use of multiple antenna systems and intelligent surfaces, new access schemes allowing an increase in node density, cybersecurity for quantum attacks, high accuracy indoor localization, massive virtualization of network functionalities and novel software driven, network control architectures are envisioned