Abstract
Holographic Type Communication (HTC) has been identified as an important service that will be supported by
6G wireless systems. It provides truly immersive experiences for a large number of novel applications, such as telepresence conferences and holographic healthcare, by displaying multi view high resolution 3D holograms of human beings or objects and creating multi sensory media (Mulsemedia), including audio, haptic, smell, and taste. HTC will play an important role in realizing Metaverse by connecting the physical and virtual world seamlessly. HTC faces great challenges in transmitting high volume data with high throughput and guaranteed end to end latency which cannot be addressed by existing communication technologies. In this talk, the basics and generic architecture of the HTC systems are introduced. The encoding and decoding of hologram and mulsemedia are discussed, and envisioned use cases and technical requirements are introduced. Furthermore, the limitations of existing wireless and wired networks in realizing HTC are explained and the promising 6G and beyond networking technologies are pointed out. Particularly, on the HTC source side, the point cloud encoding and mulsemedia synchronization solutions are introduced and explained. On the HTC networking side, many new directions and according challenges such as semantic communications, deterministic networks, time sensitive networks, federated networks, distributed encoding and decoding, and predictive networks are covered as they may help to satisfy the high data rate and guaranteed end to end latency requirements of the HTC. On the HTC destination side, the heterogeneity of HTC devices, synchronization, and user motion prediction are explored and according research challenges are highlighted.
Biography:
I.F. Akyildiz (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981, and 1984, respectively. He is also Founder and President of the Truva Inc., a consulting company based in Georgia, USA, since 1989. He is an Advisory Board member at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, since June 2020. He is the Founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the newly established of International Telecommunication Union Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET) since August 2020. He served as the Ken Byers Chair Professor in Telecommunications, the Past Chair of the Telecom Group at the ECE, and the Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, from 1985 to 2020.
He had many international affiliations during his career and established research centers in Spain, South Africa, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Russia, India and Cyprus. Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE Fellow since 1996, and ACM Fellow since 1997. He received numerous awards from IEEE, ACM, and other professional organizations, including Humboldt Award from Germany and Tubitak Award from Turkey. In June 2022, according to Google Scholar his h-index is 133 and the total number of citations to his articles is more than 134+K. His current research interests include Networking 2030, Hologram and Extended Reality Communication, 6G/7G wireless systems, Terahertz Communication, Underwater Communication.
