Virtual participation: Zoom details available here
Speaker: Professor Wael Jaafar, University of Quebec
Title: "Aerial and RIS-assisted Edge Computing for Vehicular Tasks Offloading"
Abstract: The emergence of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has driven the deployment of connected and autonomous vehicles that support computation-intensive and delay-sensitive applications. This development has highlighted the challenges posed by the limited resources of user devices in vehicular networks. To address these challenges, innovative solutions are needed, particularly in the context of 6G, enabled by aerial platforms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and High-Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS), and by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). In this context, we will formulate the task offloading problems of vehicular networks when supported by aerial platforms equipped or not with RIS, then we will discuss different solutions that can be adopted to enhance the tasks succes rate while preserving energy. Our proposed methods represent a significant advancement in managing ITS services through cooperative UAV-HAPS-RIS frameworks.
Biography: Wael Jaafar (S’08, M’14, SM’20) is an Associate Professor at the Software and IT Engineering Department of École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada since September 2022. He holds Master’s and PhD degrees from Polytechnique Montreal, Canada. Between 2019 and 2022, Dr. Jaafar was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow with the Systems and Computer Engineering Department of Carleton University. From 2014 to 2018, he pursued a career in the telecommunications industry where he has been involved in designing telecommunication solutions for projects across Canada and abroad. During his career, Dr. Jaafar was a visiting researcher at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2019, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan in 2013, and UQAM, Montreal, Canada in 2007. He received several prestigious grants including the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alexander-Graham Bell scholarship, the Fonds de recherche du Québec–Nature et technologies (FRQNT) scholarship, and best paper awards at IEEE ICC 2021, ISCC 2023, and CIoT 2024. His research interests include wireless communications, integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, resource allocation, edge caching and computing, machine learning for communication and networks, and cybersecurity.