IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer Program

Topic 2 : Current and Future Research Challenges

in Smart Grid Networks and the Internet of Things

Topic 1 : Wireless Communications Techniques

for Emergency and Disaster Situations

Our Speaker : Professor Abbas Jamalipour

Fellow of IEEE, IEICE, and Engineers Australia Professor of Ubiquitous Mobile Networking

University of Sydney, Australia

FREE ADMISSION Any inquiry please email fazirul@upm.edu.my or refer to www.comvt.org

Malaysia Chapter

Jointly organized by : IEEE Malaysia ComSoc/VTS Joint Chapter UiTM Shah Alam | MTFSB | MCMC Wireless Communication Center (WCC) UTM IEEE UTM Student Branch

Al-Haytham Seminar Room, Level 8, Tower 2, Eng. Complex, Fac. of Electrical Eng., UiTM Shah Alam

10.30am – 12.00pm

Auditorium, MCMC Old Building, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), 63000 Cyberjaya, Selangor (GPS: 2.9215471, 101.6637314)

9.00am – 12.20pm

New Venue: Tutorial Room 9, Level 5, Block P19a, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UTM Skudai, Johor (GPS: 1.558573, 103.640748)

10.30am – 12.00pm

EVENT 1 (Topic 1) Tuesday, April 11, 2017

EVENT 2 (Topic 1 & 2) Wednesday, April 12, 2017

EVENT 3 (Topic 2) Thursday, April 13, 2017

Natural and man-made disaster and

emergency situations are unfortunately

becoming part of our daily lives and in

recent years we see more frequent

occurrence of such events.

In this talk, we will discuss the recent advancements and

developments in the field of wireless communications for

emergency and disaster situations and some of our

research works carried out in this field.

Wireless Communications Techniques for Emergency and

Disaster Situations by Professor Abbas Jamalipour

With the advancement of technology and in particular,

the wireless communications technology, we expect to

see better prediction and post-disaster management

and control for such unfortunate events. The wireless

communications technology therefore is providing us

with not only better connectivity and knowledge

distribution, it can also save lives or make the disaster times a bit more bearable to the affected communities.

Malaysia Chapter

Integration of electrical power grid and

data communication in a smart grid

network introduces various advantages

such its greenness, two-way

communications between energy

suppliers and customers, real-time pricing,

load shedding and consumption

management. It also creates a wide area

of research for the telecommunications

and distributed computing researchers. As

a result, Smart Grid has very recently

become a critical interdisciplinary research

field among power, telecommunications

and computer engineer communities.

In this talk, the topic of Smart Grid Network will be

explained in a completely new way and after that some

of main challenging issues in such a network, including

the security and privacy of grid customers will be

described. Security and privacy are considered as the

decision-making issues on whether nations will adopt

the intelligent grid in near future or leave it open to a

distant future.

The talk will also include the new research and development direction towards the

Internet of Things where the network connectivity extends its boundary beyond the

usual digital devices to basically every device, appliance and “thing” around us. The

IoT would be also discussed as an umbrella of the Smart Grid Network.

Current and Future Research Challenges in Smart Grid Networks and the Internet of Things by Professor Abbas Jamalipour

Malaysia Chapter

Professor Abbas Jamalipour Fellow of IEEE, IEICE, and Engineers Australia Professor of Ubiquitous Mobile Networking University of Sydney, Australia

Abbas Jamalipour is the Professor of Ubiquitous Mobile Networking at the University of Sydney,

Australia, and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan. He is a Fellow of

the Institute of Electrical, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE) and the Institution of

Engineers Australia, an ACM Professional Member, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He has

authored six technical books, eleven book chapters, over 450 technical papers, and five patents, all in

the area of wireless communications. He is one of the most cited researchers in the field of mobile,

cellular, and satellite networks. He was the Editor-in-Chief IEEE Wireless Communications (2006-08),

Vice President-Conferences (2012-13) and a member of Board of Governors of the IEEE

Communications Society, and has been an editor for several journals. He has held positions of the

Chair of the Communication Switching and Routing and the Satellite and Space Communications

Technical Committees and Vice Director of the Asia Pacific Board, in ComSoc. He was a General

Chair or Technical Program Chair for a number of conferences, including IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM,

WCNC and PIMRC. Dr. Jamalipour is an elected member of the Board of Governors (2014-16, 2017-

19), the Editor-in-Chief of the Mobile World, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and Chair of the VTS

Fellow Evaluation Committee. He is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards such as the 2010

IEEE ComSoc Harold Sobol Award, the 2006 IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Contribution to Satellite

Communications Award, the 2006 IEEE ComSoc Best Tutorial Paper Award, and the 2016 IEEE

ComSoc Distinguished Technical Achievement Award in Communications Switching and Routing.