Monday, 7 December 2015
14:15-16:00
- IF1: 5G mmWave Communications: Myth or Reality
- IF6: Optical Access Network Status and Directions
- IF7.1: Terahertz-band Communication Networks: Opportunities and Challenges in the Next Frontier for Wireless Communications
- IF22: 5G Cellular-IoT Challenges and Opportunities
16:30-18:15
- IF2: Massive MIMO vs FD-MIMO: Defining the next generation of MIMO in 5G
- IF4: Joint SDOs/Fora Industry Harmonization for Unified Standards on AMC (Autonomic Management & Control), SDN, NFV, Software-oriented Enablers for 5G
- IF7.2: Business, technology and spectrum challenges beyond 20GHz towards THz communications
- IF21: 5G, LTE and WLAN: Waveform Generation, Prototyping and Over-the-air testing of signals with MATLAB (Free tutorial seminar)
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
14:00-15:45
16:15-18:00
- IF5: SDN and Virtualization for Cable Industry Access Technologies and Wi-Fi Challenges
- IF9: Clearing a Path to Wide-scale Transport SDN Deployment
- IF14: Wearables: Our Experiences and Thoughts for the Future
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
10:30-12:00
- IF3.1: 5G Radio Access Network Technologies: from Concept to Reality
- IF8: Service Enablement at a Small-Cell Based Mobile Edge
- IF10: The Future Evolution of LTE
- IF13: Reaching the Unreached - Providing Internet Services Where Wireless or Wired Access Can’t Reach
13:30-15:00
- IF3.2: 5G Theory to Practice: Experimental Testbeds and Prototyping of Next-generation Wireless Networks
- IF11: Critical Communication – A Panel Discussion
- IF12: Intellectual Property Panel - Recent developments in patent laws and policies relevant to our industry
- IF15: 5GPPP Architecture panel
15:30-17:00
- IF16: Emerging technologies in IEEE 802.11 WLAN (Wi-Fi)
- IF17: Big Data for Information and Communications Technologies
- IF18: Education and Training for the Next Generation of Communications Engineers
- IF19: Technical Strategies for Migrating to a New Broadband Network
IF1: 5G mmWave Communications: Myth or Reality
Monday, 7 December 2015 • 14:15-16:00 • Sapphire KLOrganizers
- Takao Inoue, National Instruments, United States of America
- Ahsan Aziz, National Instruments, United States of America
- Wes McCoy, National Instruments, United States of America
- Yi Wang, Huawei, China
- Mark Cudak, Principal Research Specialist, Radio Systems Research, Technology and Innovation Office, Nokia
- Takehiro Nakamura, Senior Executive Research Engineer, Managing Director of 5G Laboratory, Research Laboratories, NTT Docomo, Japan
- Dr. Sibel Tombaz, Experienced Researcher, Ericsson Research, Sweden
- Rao Yallapragada, Director, Advanced Technologies, Intel Communications and Devices Group, Intel Corporation
- Dr. Yi Wang, Principal Engineer, Huawei Technologies, China
- Charlie Zhang, VP, Samsung Dallas Lab
This panel brings together the leading experts working on various areas of mm-wave technology in 5G to discuss current and future trends touching on key technologies in channel measurements and modeling, radio access technologies, prototypes and testbeds, and progress on standardization.
IF2: Massive MIMO vs FD-MIMO: Defining the next generation of MIMO in 5G
Monday, 7 December 2015 • 16:30-18:15 • Sapphire KLOrganizers
- Dr Nikhil Kundargi, National Instruments
- Dr Karl Nieman, National Instruments
- Dr Thomas Marzetta, Group Leader of Large Scale Antenna Systems at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent: “Introduction to Massive MIMO”
- Dr Erik G. Larsson, Professor, Electrical Engineering Dept., Linköping University, Sweden: "The origins and theoretical benefits of Massive MIMO"
- Dr Ove Edfors, Professor, Lund University, Sweden: "How Massive MIMO translates into practice"
- Dr Eko Onggosanusi, Director, Standards at Samsung Research America: "FD-MIMO: from Concept to Spec"
- Dr Jilei Hou, Head of Qualcomm Research China: “Large scale MIMO for 5G"
- Dr Ian Wong, Senior Group Manager, Advanced Wireless Research Team, National Instruments: "Practical challenges in prototyping large antenna systems"
On the other hand 3GPP has recently introduced the highly promising Full Dimension MIMO Study Item in Release 13. The Study Item description summarizes FD-MIMO as follows. “Leveraging the work on 3D channel modeling completed in Release 12, 3GPP RAN will now study the necessary changes to enable elevation beamforming and high- order MIMO systems. Beamforming and MIMO have been identified as key technologies to address the future capacity demand. But so far 3GPP specified support for these features mostly considers one-dimensional antenna arrays that exploit the azimuth dimension. So, to further improve LTE spectral efficiency it is quite natural to now study two-dimensional antenna arrays that can also exploit the vertical dimension.
Also, while the standard currently supports MIMO systems with up to 8 antenna ports, the new study will look into high-order MIMO systems with up to 64 antenna ports at the eNB, to become more relevant with the use of higher frequencies in the future.”
With these two closely related but distinct technologies, this panel will cover related topics.
IF3.1: 5G Radio Access Network Technologies: from Concept to Reality
Wednesday, 9 December 2015 • 10:30-12:00 • Aqua Salon DOrganizers
- Peiying Zhu, Huawei
- Wonil Roh, Samsung
- Dr. Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Senior Research Engineer, 5G Laboratory, NTT DOCOMO
- Dr. Stefan Parkvall, Principal researcher, Radio Access Technologies, Ericsson Research
- Dr. Mark Cudak, Principal Research Specialist, North America Radio Systems Research, Technology and Innovation Office, Nokia
- Dr. Jianglei Ma, Distinguished Engineer, Wireless Technology Lab, Huawei Canada
- Dr. John Smee, Sr. Director, Engineering, Qualcomm Incorporated
- Dr. Ji-Yun Seol, Director, Communications Research Team, Mobile Communications Business, Samsung Electronics Corp.
Even though various potential technologies will and have been discussed; however, it is far from consensus what the 5G key enabling potential technologies are and whether the proposed technologies can meet the 5G requirements. On the other hand, the censuses are forming regarding the key requirements and usage scenarios. It is generally agreed that 5G needs to support enhanced mobile broadband, massive machine type of communications and ultra-reliable and low latency communications. Globecom 2015 offers a good platform to exchange ideas between academics and industries with a great timing.
IF3.2: 5G Theory to Practice: Experimental Testbeds and Prototyping of Next-generation Wireless Networks
Wednesday, 9 December 2015 • 13:30-15:00 • Aqua Salon DOrganizers
- Ian Wong, National Instruments
- Vincent Kotzsch, National Instruments
- Mark Cudak, Principal Research Specialist, Nokia Networks
- Gary Xu, Director, Samsung Research America
- Fredrik Tufvesson, Professor, Lund University
- John Wong, Director of Advanced Performance and Technology, Intel
- Emilio Calvanese Strinati, CEA-LETI, France
As learned from the past LTE and WiFi standardization, before bringing a new idea into standards prototyping and test of promising new technologies is required to ensure that theoretical gains translate into practice. In the panel we want to discuss what are the specific requirements for experimental testbeds in future 5G systems and what use cases and scenarios future prototyping platforms need to cover to be able to assess the practical relevance of new technology components. A specific focus of the discussions should be on hardware / software abstraction of the different network architectures and the need for over the air tests and prototyping as well as the general scalability of the available platforms.
The goal of this panel is to separate the hype from reality by looking at early experimental results on 5G through real-time prototypes and testbeds. A panel of experts from both academia and industry will share their experimental setups, early results, and ideas for future experiments to take us a step closer to a truly revolutionary next-generation wireless network.
IF4: Joint SDOs/Fora Industry Harmonization for Unified Standards on AMC (Autonomic Management & Control), SDN, NFV, Software-oriented Enablers for 5G
Monday, 7 December 2015 • 16:30-18:15 • Sapphire OPOrganizer
- Ranganai Chaparadza, IPv6 Forum Research Fellow & representative in ETSI NTECH AFI WG on Autonomic Future Internet, Germany
- Tayeb Ben Meriem, Orange, ETSI/NTECH/ AFI, TMF, NGMN, France
- John Strassner, Huawei, TMF ZOOM, United States of America
- George Dobrowski, Broadband Forum (BBF), United States of America
- Michael McBride, Open Networking Foundation (ONF), United States of America
- Raheleh Dilmaghani, SSC-PAC, United States of America
- Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum (BBF), United States of America
IF5: SDN and Virtualization for Cable Industry Access Technologies and Wi-Fi Challenges
Tuesday, 8 December 2015 • 16:15-18:00 • Sapphire GHOrganizer
- Mehmet Toy, Distinguished Engineer, Comcast, USA
- Mehmet Toy: "Virtualized and Cloud-based Networks"
- Karthik Sundaresan, Principal Architect, CableLabs, Denver, CO, USA: "SDN for Access Networks"
- Hesham ElBakoury, Principal Architect, Futurwei: "Virtual Home Networks"
- Vikas Sarawat, Director, CableLabs, USA: "Carrier Wi-Fi deployments"
Cloud Services Architectures, benefits of SDN in access networks, an SDN architecture for Cable Access Networks and its application to a CCAP/CMTS, DOCSIS access network elements, EPoN, and Wireless networks are described. In addition, virtualization of Metro Ethernet Services are described.
Virtual home network allows virtualization of functions that run in home network devices by running them in virtual machines or containers in the cloud, access network or the home gateway. A scalable and secure architecture for virtual home network which may have more than one VLAN is presented. Different protocols to tunnel user traffic to where it needs to be handled by the chain of virtual functions, and different protocols to control home devices using SDN controller are examined.
Unique opportunities and challenges associated with carrier Wi-Fi deployments are described.
IF6: Optical Access Network Status and Directions
Monday, 7 December 2015 • 14:15-16:00 • Sapphire OPOrganizers
- Dr. Yuanqiu Luo, Huawei R&D, USA
- Dr. Frank Chang, Inphi Corp, USA
- Rajesh Yadav, Verizon: “Evolution of the PON based Access Network”
- Kota Asaka, NTT: “Access Networks in Japan, Current Status and Future”
- Curtis Knittle, Cable Labs: “Multi-Gigabit Services in Cable Access Networks”
- Xiang Liu, Huawei R&D USA: “Emerging Access Network Technologies for Future 5G Wireless”
- Mark Shostak, Ericsson
Panelists from telecommunication operators focus on optical access network technologies for residential and business customers. Key technologies are passive optical networks (PONs), high-speed Ethernet over point-to-point fiber connections, and G.fast. Panelists from wireless industry brief trends of the next generation wireless technologies and the impact on wireless access. Critical issues such as time synchronization and delay budget are explored. Panelists from cable areas review the latest progress of DOCSIS standards and next generation system design.
This panel also explores research directions of each key technology to achieve higher efficiency. Impact of SDN on access networks is discussed to enhance the future access networks with more flexibility. Impact of 5G on backhaul and fronthaul access is reviewed and possible solutions are explored.
IF7.1: Joint IF&E/TPC Panel - Part 1 - Terahertz-band Communication Networks: Opportunities and Challenges in the Next Frontier for Wireless Communications
Monday, 7 December 2015 • 14:15-16:00 • Cobalt 520Organizers
- Josep Miquel Jornet (University at Buffalo, USA)
- Eduard Alarcon (UPC, Spain)
- William Deal (Northrop Grumman, USA)
- Ali Niknejad (UC Berkeley, USA)
- Ian F. Akyildiz (Georgia Tech, USA)
- Iwao Hosako (NICT, Japan)
- Ngwe Thawdar (AFRL/RI, USA)
- H. J. Song (NTT, Japan)
Despite major recent advancements in the field, the implementation of practical THz-band communication systems still presents many challenges, spanning multiple layers, which require a major joint effort from all the agents involved in the development of this field.
The two-fold mission of this panel is, first, to present the state of the art and ongoing research activities in THz-band communication networks, including device technology development, network architecture and protocol design, regulation, standardization and application implementation; and, second, to reach a consensus in the next steps towards the development of this novel networking paradigm. The ultimate goal will be the development of a position paper by the participants in the panel.
IF7.2: Joint IF&E/TPC Panel - Part 2 - Business, technology and spectrum challenges beyond 20GHz towards THz communications
Monday, 7 December 2015 • 16:30-18:15 • Cobalt 520Organizer
- Michael Marcus, Marcus Spectrum Solutions LLC, United States of America
- Upkar Dhaliwal, Future Wireless Technologies, San Diego CA
- Prakash Moorut, NOKIA, United States of America
- Michael Ha, FCC, United States of America
- Jerry Pi, Straight Path Communication, United States of America
- Ali Sadri, Intel, United States of America
- Mohammad Shakouri, WIMAX Forum, United States of America
- John W. Kuzin, Qualcomm Incorporated, United States of America
Until a few years ago conventional wisdom was that such spectrum was unsuitable for mobile applications due to propagation issues. However MIMO research has shown that short range outdoor links with gigabit bandwidth are possible and may be commercially viable in urban environments. Further, such mmWave could be used for backhaul either in a different band than mobile links or possibly in the same band by keeping mobile and fixed antennas separated and using antenna beam separation. Non-communications use of mmWaves will also be mentioned also with pending national and internation regulatory issues.
IF8: Service Enablement at a Small-Cell Based Mobile Edge
Wednesday, 9 December 2015 • 10:30-12:00 • Sapphire KLOrganizer
- Alex Reznik, InterDigital, United States of America
- Art King, Director of Enterprise Services & Technologies, SpiderCloud Wireless, Board Member of Small Cell Forum
- Caroline Chan, Director of Wireless Access Strategy and Technology at Intel Network Platform Group (NPG)
- Narayan Menon, CTO/EVP Engineering & Founder, XCellAir
- Patrice Hédé, Standard Expert, Wireless Department, Huawei Technologies, Paris, France
- Randy Cook, VP Sales and Business Development, Saguna Networks
- Meir Cohen, Head of Business Development at Nokia
The benefits of Mobile Edge Computing stem from the unique characteristics of the Mobile Edge that differentiate it from a typical cloud application hosting platform. These include extreme proximity to the user (typically just one or two network hops away); context associated with the radio access network; access to radio network information and integration with operator’s core network services. These can be leveraged by mobile network operators, vendors as well as application service providers to both improve existing services and deploy new ones and thus realize significant complementary value-add to their respective business models. ETSI’s recent launch Industry Specification Group (ISG) to define a standardized open environment for deployment of applications across multi-vendor MEC environments highlights an emerging industry consensus that MEC’s time has come.
In many ways, Small Cells and networks of Small Cells may provide the strongest case for MEC. They often possess the strongest context – associated with a particular enterprise, business (e.g. a coffee shop) or a venue (a stadium), thus allowing application providers to target their deployments to such specific contextual references. In many cases, most notably for enterprise applications, they are often highly integrated with the networks of potential application providers. In fact, the Small Cells Forum has recognized the Small Cells’ usefulness as service hosting points and published several white papers on the topic.
Nonetheless, positioning small cells as a generic compute and storage node poses some challenges associated with the capabilities of such devices (both computing capability and storage may be more limited at small cells then at larger RAN nodes), access to core network information (mobile operators consider many small cell nodes less than fully secure and limit exposure of certain information), limitations of backhaul that connect small cells both to the Mobile Network Core and the public Internet, etc.
Consequently, the purpose of this panel is to explore both the business benefits and the technical challenges associated with positioning Small Cells as a generic service hosting platform. The panelists represent several important industry players in the Small Cell and MEC spaces as well as key organizations such as Small Cells Forum and ETSI MEC ISG.
IF9: Clearing a Path to Wide-scale Transport SDN Deployment
Tuesday, 8 December 2015 • 16:15-18:00 • Sapphire KLOrganizer
- Dave Brown, OIF VP of Marketing; Alcatel-Lucent
- Dave Brown, OIF VP of Marketing; Alcatel-Lucent: "Transport SDN Drivers, Needs, Challenges"
- Jonathan Sadler, OIF Technical Committee Vice Chair; Coriant: "Global Transport SDN Prototype Demo"
- Lyndon Ong, OIF Market Awareness and Education Committee Co-Chair; Ciena: "SDN Framework and APIs"
- Vishnu Shukla, OIF Carrier Working Group Chair; Verizon: "Virtual Transport Network Service"
In this session, OIF panelists will review findings from its Global Transport SDN Prototype Demo and outline components of a tool kit aimed at clearing a path to wide-scale transport SDN deployment.
IF10: The Future Evolution of LTE
Wednesday, 9 December 2015 • 10:30-12:00 • Sapphire GHOrganizer
- Sabine Roessel, Intel, Germany
- Lisa Englund, Ericsson, Sweden
- Lei Wan, Huawei, China
- Amitava Ghosh, Nokia, United States of America
- Takehiro Nakamura, NTT DOCOMO, Japan
- Jin Yang, Verizon, United States of America
Representatives of network infrastructure vendors and service providers, leaders of Radio Access Network business and R&D units as well as 3GPP leaders, have been invited.
IF11: Critical Communication – A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 9 December 2015 • 13:30-15:00 • Sapphire KLOrganizer
- Farrokh Khatibi, Qualcomm Technology Inc., United States of America
- Nada Goldie, Chief of Wireless Networks Division in the Communications Technology Laboratory, NIST
- Sameer Vuyyuru, VP/GM, Location Based Services and Platforms business, TCS
- Rao Yallapragada, Director of Advanced Technologies, Intel Corporation
- Farrokh Khatibi, Qualcomm Technology Inc., United States of America
The Global Public Safety market using LTE is projected to reach $10 Billion by 2018. In 2012, the U.S. Congress established the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), a government owned authority. FirstNet was given the entire Band Class 14 at 700 MHz. Also, $7B in auction proceeds is budgeted to fund FirstNet to construction & operation of a nationwide LTE-based network. Worldwide, UK Home Office and other governmental entities around the world are also actively pursuing Public Safety.
A panel of experts will discuss the technical aspects of Critical Communication and its four pillars. There will also be discussion on the ongoing standardization effort of the various aspects of the Critical Communication, as well as the deployment status.
IF12: Intellectual Property Panel - Recent developments in patent laws and policies relevant to our industry
Wednesday, 9 December 2015 • 13:30-15:00 • Sapphire GHOrganizer
- Ron Katznelson, Bi-Level Technologies, United States of America
- Keith Grzelak, Chair, IEEE-USA IP Professionals
- Francesco Zaccà (Director in ICT - Telecommunications, European Patent Office)
- Caroline Dennison (Deputy Director, Office of Patent Legal Administration, US Patent and Trademark Office)
- Rob Sterne (Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C)
- Latonia Gordon (Microsoft Corp.)
- James Harlan (InterDigital Corp.)
- Yan Hui (Co-Founder, CEO, AirHop Communications)
- Standard-Essential Patents, FRAND licensing and the 2015 IEEE-SA Patent Policy.
- The moving target of patent-eligible subject matter and computer-implemented inventions in view of the US Supreme Court Alice decision.
- Post grant administrative patent invalidation proceedings at the US Patent Office - the implications to patent owners and users.
- Shifts in trade-offs and incentives for legal protection of inventions – patents v. trade-secrets and open-source strategies.
IF13: Reaching the Unreached - Providing Internet Services Where Wireless or Wired Access Can’t Reach
Wednesday, 9 December 2015 • 10:30-12:00 • Sapphire OPOrganizers
- Michael Lubin, ViaSat, United States of America
- Upkar Dhaliwal, Future Wireless Technologies, San Diego CA
- Peter Atwal, Incode, United States of America
- Steve Gardner, ViaSat, United States of America
- Jj Shaw, O3B Networks, United States of America
- Michael Bergen, Avascent, United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Hamid Hemmati, Facebook, United States of America
Against this backdrop, incumbents in and new entrants to internet technology and service are investing in a variety of technologies to reached the large population of unreached. A combination of coverage and economic efficacy is required. The wireless industry is making advances in 5G, femto-cells, WiFi, use of unlicensed spectrum to address both congestion issues in dense metro areas as well as provision of lower cost hotspot-type services. Sub $10 wireless ARPUs are already a reality in India and sub-Saharan Africa. Advances are being made in high capacity GEO, LEO and potentially MEO satellite constellations. Demonstrations and pilot projects utilizing balloons have occurred with operations imminent in certain countries. Drone technology is being advanced. Each such technology has its own metrics for assessing success: speed provided, latency, IRR versus various ramp up and penetration rates, cost of providing a GB of internet data, etc.
Today’s panel members represent a cross section of incumbents and new entrants investing in reaching the unreached through the various abovementioned technologies. Each will discuss the problem they are trying to address, the technologies being advanced and progress to date, and the metrics by which they will judge success. It is hoped that presenters will discuss one metric by which all can be judged for economic efficacy—cost per internet GB delivered—since cost of access is a key obstacle for so many of the unreached.
IF14: Wearables: Our Experiences and Thoughts for the Future
Tuesday, 8 December 2015 • 16:15-18:00 • Sapphire CDOrganizers
- Nikhil Jain, Qualcomm Technology Inc., United States of America
- Upkar Dhaliwal, Future Wireless Technologies, San Diego CA
- Patricia Robb, Intel Corp, United States of America
- Klaus Doppler, NOKIA, United States of America
- Peter Atwal, Incode Consulting, United States of America
- Mohit Bhushan, Mediatek, United States of America
- Antony Rix, TTP, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Joseph Paradiso, MIT Media Labs, USA
- Ryan Barnett, Google, USA
The second part of the panel would be a discussion of what needs to happen to make wearables the must have product for the consumers. Challenges that lie ahead and the opportunities to solve these key problems. Panelists will be well known folks that have actually either built hardware or have developed key building blocks to build hardware.
IF15: 5GPPP Architecture panel
Wednesday, 9 December 2015 • 13:30-15:00 • Sapphire OPOrganizers
- Simone Redana, NOKIA, Germany
- Bernard Barani, EC, Belgium
- Chris Pearson, 4G Americas, United States of America
- Takashi Shimizu, 5GMF Network Architecture Committee
- Huang Hua, IMT-2020 Promotion Group, China
- Jungshin Park, 5G Forum, Korea, The Republic of
A fundamental piece to address this challenge is the design of a novel mobile network architecture that provides the necessary flexibility to offer new services in an efficient way and inherently can share or distribute infrastructure resources dynamically, such that operators can increase their revenue through the new services, while leveraging the efficiency of the architecture to do so in a cost-effective way.
Current mobile networks are not well suited to address the above challenge. In 4G mobile networks, large effort was made in making the air interface fully adaptive to changing radio conditions, but lack similar functionality to optimize the network side. Eventually, while current architectures have been very successful in the last few years, they do not provide the required flexibility to cope with the service and traffic diversity required by 5G mobile networks as well as the current trends in terms of topologies.
Such trends (in terms of traffic and topologies) make networks increasingly heterogeneous and require tailored solutions to adapt to each specific scenario and service in an efficient way. The central goal of this panel is to discuss about future mobile network architectures that can flexibly adapt its operation to the specific characteristics and requirements of a given service and scenario. Invited panelists from China, Europe, Japan, Korea and US will present and discuss the recent results from those regions.
IF16: Emerging technologies in IEEE 802.11 WLAN (Wi-Fi)
Wednesday, 9 December 2015 • 15:30-17:00 • Sapphire CDOrganizer
- Amal Ekbal, National Instruments, United States of America
- Ron Porat, Senior Principal Engineer, Broadcom
- Monisha Ghosh, Professor, University of Chicago
- Rakesh Taori, Senior Director, Samsung Research America
- Chittabrata Ghosh, Research Scientist, Intel
- Simone Merlin, Qualcomm
Notwithstanding the phenomenal progress made in the past years, the IEEE 802.11 recently (mid 2014) launched a new task group called 802.11ax, also known as high-efficiency WLAN (HEW), to discuss the next generation of the standard after 802.11ac. It is clear now that the days when the Wi-Fi network was considered a mere convenience is behind us. It has become a critical part of our home, enterprise and, even, cellular operator access networks. This ever increasing popularity is leading to dense and overlapping deployments of Wi-Fi in both indoor and outdoor scenarios. The current protocols were not designed with these use cases in mind and network performance can suffer. The group is considering technologies that could lead to better performance under such dense deployments to increase per-user and per-unit-area throughput, improve interference sensitivity and robustness and provide better support for outdoor use cases. The panelists will discuss the physical layer (PHY) and medium access control layer (MAC) technologies being considered by 802.11ax such as orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA), uplink MU-MIMO, dynamic sensitivity control, dynamic clear channel assessment, etc., and share latest results on the expected performance improvement provided by these changes. The panelists will also discuss the challenges they see in the future regarding high performance usage of 2.4GHz and 5GHz unlicensed bands by 802.11ax and beyond.
While 802.11a/b/g/n/ac standards are the most well-known and deployed 802.11 standards, there are a number of other important standardization efforts of note within the umbrella of the IEEE 802.11 working group. One of them is 802.11ad (popularly known as “WiGig”), which pioneered the use of millimeter wave bands for wireless communication. This standard delivers up to 6.7Gbps using 2.16GHz of bandwidth in the 60GHz unlicensed band to address use cases such as ultra-high-speed short-range data transfer, wireless docking, interactive gaming, augmented reality, virtual reality etc. The market penetration trend of this standard was slow due to challenges in efficient and low-power chip designs in millimeter wave bands, especially for mobile devices, but is expected to pick up significantly over the next couple of years as some of those challenges are being overcome. A new task group called 802.11ay has been formed to look into the next generation of 60GHz technologies. The goal is to reach at least 20Gbps by taking advantage of MIMO and channel bonding. The panelists will review the lessons learned from 802.11ad, protocol and implementation related challenges faced by 802.11ay and the future of millimeter wave and higher frequency bands for wireless communications.
IF17: Big Data for Information and Communications Technologies
Wednesday, 9 December 2015 • 15:30-17:00 • Sapphire KLOrganizers
- Jinsong Wu, Universidad de Chile, Chile
- Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
- Kwang-Cheng Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Larry Smarr, University of California, San Diego, USA
- Yang Yang, ShanghaiTech University, China
- Richard Yang, Yale University, USA
- Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Jinsong Wu,Universidad de Chile, Chile
IF18: Education and Training for the Next Generation of Communications Engineers
Wednesday, 9 December 2015 • 15:30-17:00 • Sapphire GHOrganizers
- Fabrizio Granelli, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
- Michael Devetsikiotis, NC State University, United States of America
- Michele Zorzi, IEEE ComSoc’s Director of Education and Training: "Preparing the Next Generation of Communications Designers with Education and Training"
- Tarek El-Bawab: "The Vision Behind Telecommunications Engineering’s New Recognition as a Unique Discipline"
- Fabrizio Granelli: "The First ComSoc Summer School: Experiences and Best Practices"
- Michael Devetsikiotis: "Remote learning, MOOCs and classroom flipping: recent experiences"
- Erik Luther, National Instruments: "Hands-on Education for Communication Engineers and Industry Perspectives"
- Norman Shaw, Director New Opportunities IEEE Standards Association, USA
IF19: Technical Strategies for Migrating to a New Broadband Network
Wednesday, 9 December 2015 • 15:30-17:00 • Sapphire OPOrganizer
- Robin Mersh, Broadband Forum, United States of America
- Mark Fishburn, Broadband Forum, United States of America
- George Dobrowski, Huawei / Broadband Forum, United States of America
- Michael Fargano, CenturyLink, United States of America
- David Allan, Ericsson, United States of America
IF20: Insatiable Explosive use of wireless connectivity in crowded Sub 6GHz bands
Tuesday, 8 December 2015 • 14:00-15:45 • Sapphire KLOrganizers
- Reza Arefi, Intel Corp, United States of America
- Peter Atwal, Incode Consulting, United States of America
- Michael Ha, FCC, United States of America
- Prakash Moorut, NOKIA, United States of America
- Masoud Olfat, Federated Wireless, United States of America
- Antony Rix, TTP, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Etienne Chaponniere, Qualcomm Incorporated, United States of America
- Preston Marshal, Google
- Peter Atwal, Incode Consulting, United States of America
For this growth to continue and flourish even more, there is need for not only technological advancements and breakthroughs, but also spectrum as the main vehicle for wireless connectivity. Since not all spectrum is equal as far as propagation of radio waves are concerned, since early days there has been an initial focus on lower bands to provide range and coverage to help drive the economics of mobile broadband. Even though the need to support applications requiring higher peak throughput values such as streaming video has pushed operating frequencies into higher bands, and even though some of 5G applications and use cases are envisaged to operate in ultra-wide channels of several hundred MHz in the upper cm- and mm-wave bands, there is still an ever-growing need for spectrum below 6 GHz where traditionally cellular and Wi-Fi systems have been operating.
This panel, consisting of an interesting mix of industry and regulators, considers the short- and long-term needs for spectrum for mobile broadband in bands below 6 GHz. Specifically, by considering current usage, incumbents, and future trends in use of spectrum below 6 GHz, the panel discusses best ways of expanding mobile broadband applications in such frequencies as industry and regulators around the world prepare for expansion of existing 4G and emergence of 5G applications.
IF21: 5G, LTE and WLAN: Waveform Generation, Prototyping and Over-the-air testing of signals with MATLAB (Free tutorial seminar)
Monday, 7 December 2015 • 16:30-18:15 • Aqua 307Organizer
- Houman Zarrinkoub, Mathworks
IF22: 5G Cellular-IoT Challenges and Opportunities
Monday, 7 December 2015 • 14:15-16:00 • Sapphire 400Organizer
- Rath Vannithamby, Director - 5G Internet of Things research, Intel Labs
- Stefan Parkvall, Ericsson: C-IoT access network
- Amitava Gosh, Nokia: 5G IoT, and comparison of LTE-M, C-IoT clean-slate and proprietary solutions like SigFox
- Anthony Soong, Huawei: IoT access and core network Scalability issues
- Wanshi Chen, Qualcomm: LTE evolutions for IoT Cat-0, Cat-M
- Jin Yang, Fellow at Verizon: One access network to support varieties of IoT devices and services