In this tutorial, we aim to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the recent advances in data engineering and blockchain frameworks and link the capabilities of these ecosystems to future telecommunication systems. Some special features of this tutorial are: a clear link between the data engineering (including data connection, data ingestion, data processing & analysis, data storage, data monitoring & visualization and data management & orchestration frameworks) ecosystem with telecommunication networks and role of blockchain for B5G, an overview of applications of DLT/blockchain enabled B5G system and how these can be related to data engineering frameworks, the relationship to data science frameworks, and related data engineering and blockchain use cases for telecommunications networks will be discussed. Two example demonstrations will also be demonstrated.
Madhusanka Liyanage
School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland
Engin Zeydan
Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
Madhusanka LIYANAGE received the Doctor of Technology degree in communication engineering from the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, in 2016. He is an Associate Professor/Ad Astra Fellow and the Director of the Graduate Research, School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. He is leading the Network Softwarization and Security Labs, UCD School of Computer Science which mainly focuses on the security and privacy of future mobile networks, including 5G and 6G. He is also acting as a Docent/Adjunct Professor with the Center for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu and a Honorary Adjunct Professor with the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, and the University of Sri Jayawardhanepura, Sri Lanka. His research interests are 5G/6G, blockchain, network security, AI, explainable AI, federated learning, network slicing, Internet of Things, and multiaccess edge computing.
Homepage: https://www.madhusanka.com/
ENGIN ZEYDAN received the PhD degree in February 2011 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA. Since November 2018, he has been with the Communication Networks Division of the CTTC working as a Senior Researcher. He was a part-time instructor at Electrical and Electronics Engineering department of Ozyegin University Istanbul, Turkey between January 2015 and June 2018. He is currently the Project Coordinator of the Horizon Europe UNITY-6G European Project (January 2025-December 2027). He was the Project Coordinator of the Horizon 2020 MonB5G European Project (November 2021-April 2023). He is co-author of over 150+ papers in international journals and conferences and 12 patents (11 granted in Turkish Patent Institute and 1 granted under European Patent Office). His research areas include data engineering/science for telecommunication networks.
Homepage: https://www.cttc.cat/people/engin-zeydan