Networks Dependability for Road Transportation

The road transportation industry is in the middle of a paradigm shift in which vehicles become increasingly software-based, leverage smarter safety solutions and enable new services. Because of the crucial role that connectivity plays in this transformation, networks dependability has become a business-critical and potentially even safety-critical property. In this seminar, Stefano Sorrentino reviewed the relation between automotive use cases and networks dependability, and identified network innovations that may benefit a broad range of road transportation services in the late 5G and 6G timeframes.

Link to video: ​​​​​​​https://play.kth.se/media/ITRL+Breakfast+SeminarsA+Stefano+Sorrentino/0_wowbx8u8 ​​​​​​​

About the Speaker: Stefano Sorrentino is Principal researcher at Ericsson Research in Stockholm (Sweden), coordinating research activities on networks reliability, after having led Automotive, Transportation and Public Safety research for some years. He has previously worked at Politecnico di Milano and Nokia-Siemens Networks (formerly Siemens).

Stefano has several years of experience as Ericsson’s 3GPP RAN1 delegate and has contributed to the creation of new standards for Public Safety and for Automotive, including acting as Chairman for ad-hoc sessions in RAN1. He holds numerous patents in the area of wireless communications and is author of IEEE conference and journal papers. He received the Inventor of the Year award in 2018. 

Stefano has also served as Ericsson Board Member for the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) and was elected Chairman for the 5GAA System Architecture group.