IEEE Emerging Technologies Roundtable 2024 Portugal, Lisbon

The scope of the IEEE Emerging Technologies Reliability Roundtable (ETR-RT) is to:

• Discuss and identify the RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability) challenges,
  requirements, and methodologies in the emerging technology areas such as Cloud
  Computing, Wireless/Mobility (with focus on 5G technologies), NFV (Network
  Functions Virtualization), SDN (Software Defined Networking), or similar large-scale
  distributed and virtualization systems.
• Discuss the RAS requirements and technologies for mission-critical industries (e.g.,
  airborne systems, railway communication systems, industrial automation, the banking
  and financial communication systems, etc.), health care systems, and autonomous
  vehicles with the goal to promote the interindustry sharing of related ideas and
  experiences.
• Investigate the use of large language models (LLMs) to find new/increase coverage of
  failure models – including security defects, operational errors and other failures.
• Identify Serviceability and Reliability-impacted Security aspects under Resilience, which
  is considered an “umbrella” topic.
• Discuss the enormous impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with an emphasis on
  reliability/trustworthiness of AI solutions (Generative AI, Responsible AI, Sustainable
  AI2, and AI for Sustainability 3).
• Identify potential directions for resolving identified issues and propose possible solutions.

In 2024 the focus of the roundtable was on:

• IoT Reliability
  
  • Reliability and serviceability for IoT applications, and massively scaled
    infrastructure
  • Reliability and serviceability for Digital Energy
  • Autonomous Vehicles Safety
• AI Reliability and Responsibility
  • Reliability and serviceability of massively scaled infrastructure for AI Foundation Models
  • Responsible and trustworthy AI for mission critical applications
  • Emerging regulations

• Communications Heterogeneity Reliability
  • Reliability and serviceability of Heterogeneous networks (e.g., 5G/WiFi6) which
    support mission critical applications including, Emergency Responders,
    Telemedicine, AR/VR/XR, Manufacturing/Industry 4.0 among others.
  • Identify challenges (e.g., Security and QoS) that impact resiliency of
    Heterogeneous networks and discuss remediation approaches.
  
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