Date: Thursday 27th February 2025, Time: 10:00 – 15:30
Location: Room C214, College Building, London Digital Twin Research Centre, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London, NW4 4BT
This half-day event brings leading international researchers in model driven DT engineering and 5G/6G to showcase research challenges, current research and applications of Quantum Computing (QC), QC-based Digital Twins, O-RAN, security in O-RAN, and other topics in 5G/6G. The event is jointly sponsored by EPSRC funding through our UKI-FNI EPSRC pilot project “Q-DTRAN: Feasibility Study of Quantum-based Digital Twin Concept for Security Enhancement in OpenRAN” and the British Council ISPF project “QuanDT: Quantum Computing-Assisted Digital Twinning for Enhanced Open RAN Towards 6G”.
The workshop will feature talks followed by a plenary discussion. While there has been significant research progress and focus on security in O-RAN, this workshop will aim to progress our understanding and designing of quantum-based digital twins that tackles the challenges in O-RAN. The sessions will be particularly suited to those seeking a broader understanding of digital twins, applied quantum computing/mechanics, and O-RAN.
Register for the workshop: Link.
Downloadable version of the programme: Programme
For an overview of digital twins, current state of the art and research challenges, potential attendees are encouraged to do some pre-reading of Digital twins: A survey on enabling technologies, challenges, trends and future prospects and Digital Twin for O-RAN Towards 6G written by members of the LDTRC and available here and here.
Workshop Schedule:
| 10:00 | Arrivals: Coffee / Tea | |
| 10:15 | Opening Workshop: Introduction to relevant project works | Prof. Huan Nguyen, Director or the LDTRC, Middlesex University |
| 10:30 | Review of Quantum technologies for 5G/6G and O-RAN | LDTRC team (Dr Tuan Le) |
| 10:50 | Security in 5G/6G communication networks | Prof. Lei Zhang, University of Glasgow |
| 11:15 | Quantum Information Theory | Prof. Vinod Sharma, Shiv Nadar Uni, India |
| 11:40 | Open RAN From an Industrial Point of View: Digital Twin, Quantum or a Dead End? | Dr. Duc To and Dr Kexuan Sun, Rakuten Symphony UK |
| 12:05 | Temporary Aerial Network Using Millimeter-Wave Drone Base Stations Facilitating Digital Twin Constructions | Dr Gia Khanh Tran, Institute of Science Tokyo School of Engineering, Japan |
| 12:30 | Lunch and PhD students’ posters | |
| 13:30 | O-RAN Research at University of Glasgow | Dr. Ruiyu Wang, Uni of Glasgow |
| 13:50 | Digital Twin and TransIT project | Dr. Mohammad Alquraan, Uni of Glasgow |
| 14:10 | Colloidal Quantum Dots for Short Wave Infrared Image Sensors | Dr. Cong-Duan Vo, CTO, Quantum Science Ltd |
| 14:40 | O-RAN – Enterprise 5G use cases | Ramesh Sriraman, HCL Technologies |
| 15:00 | Plenary Discussion and Q&A Session | |
| 15:30 | Close |