COLLOQUIUM Antonios Argyriou Abstract The next generation of cellular wireless communication systems (WCS) aspire to become a paradigm shift and not just an incremental version of existing systems. These systems will come along with several technical and conceptual advances resulting in an ecosystem that aims to deliver orders of magnitude higher performance (throughput, delay, energy). These systems will essentially serve as conduits among service/content providers and users, and are expected to support a significantly enlarged and diversified bouquet of applications. In this talk we will first introduce the audience to the fundamental concepts of WCS that brought us to this day. Subsequently, we will identify the application trends that drive specific design choices of future WCS. Then, we will present a new idea for designing and optimizing future WCS that puts the specific application at the focus of our choices. The discussion will be based on two key application categories namely wireless monitoring, and video delivery. In the last part of this talk we will discuss how this paradigm, that elevates the role of the applications, opens up new directions for understanding, operating, and designing future WCS.. Dr. Antonios Argyriou received the Diploma in electrical and computer engineering from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering as a Fulbright scholar from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the department of electrical and computer engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. From 2007 until 2010 he was a Senior Research Scientist at Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands where he led the research efforts on wireless body area networks. From 2004 until 2005, he was a Senior Engineer at Soft.Networks, Atlanta, GA. Dr. Argyriou currently serves in the editorial board of the Journal of Communications. He has also served as guest editor for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design, and he was also a lead guest editor for the Journal of Communications, Special Issue on Network Coding and Applications. Dr. Argyriou serves in the TPC of several international conferences and workshops in the area of wireless communications, networking, and signal processing. His current research interests are in the areas of wireless communications, cross-layer wireless system design (with applications in video delivery, sensing, vehicular systems), statistical signal processing theory and applications, optimization, and machine learning. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. Date: Mar. 12, 2018 Time: 10:15-11:15 am Place: Innovation Center, Room 2277