Abhishek Kumar has followed the PhD Programme at Faculty of Engineering and Science, Specialisation in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), scientific field Mobile and Wireless Communications.
- Trial lecture starts at 10:15
- Public defence starts at 12:15
Title of trial lecture: "Embedding AI into the Radio Access Network in Beyond 5G: Architectures, Techniques, and Use Cases"
Disputation chair: Folke Haugland
Assessment committee:
- First opponent: Professor Oriol Sallent, UPC-TSC, Spain
- Second opponent: Associate Professor Katina Kralevska, IIK/NTNU, Norway
- Chair of assessment committee: Professor Vladimir Oleshchuk
Supervisors in the doctoral work:
- Main supervisor: Professor Frank Yong Li, UiA
- Co-supervisor: Professor Jorge Martinez-Bauset, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Summary of thesis
The proliferation of massive Internet of Things (IoT) devices in beyond-5G and 6G systems is placing unprecedented demands on cellular networks. Billions of energy-constrained, battery-powered devices are constantly competing for shared radio resources to send short, sporadic bursts of data to base stations.
Traditional cellular access methods scale poorly under this immense load. While newer techniques like Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) and Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) allow multiple devices to share the same frequency at the same time, they introduce heavy interference and high complexity.
To solve these challenges, Abhishek Kumar’s doctoral dissertation introduces a comprehensive set of mechanisms designed to make massive IoT networks scalable, low-latency, and highly energy-efficient.
The doctoral work was carried out at the Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder (UiA) under the supervision of Professor Frank Y. Li. The research was conducted within the SOLID-B5G project, funded by the EEA Norway Grants, and has resulted in four peer-reviewed IEEE journal and conference publications.
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