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We live in exciting times, where the pace of innovation and change is increasing rapidly and can make or break a company’s future in months.  Mobility continues to be a driving force in our economy, as well as our everyday lives.  5G is expected to contribute greater than $100B to the economy within the next ten years; yet there is too little understanding of what it is, what it can do, how it will be used, and what comes next. The objective of the IEEE Future Networks Webinar Series is to expand this understanding and to be the first point of learning for all things related to 5G and beyond. These webinars will be offered around the globe to both IEEE members and non-members.

We are currently looking for knowledgeable subject matter experts to develop and deliver one or more individual webinars.  Our scope includes the business of 5G, 5G enabling technologies and standards, 5G spectrum and regulation, and topics which cover the fundamentals for moving beyond 5G. Please click here to learn more.  

 


Upcoming Webinars:

Finger on the Pulse: Updating the Roadmap to 5G & Beyond (5G&B)

20 September 2023 || 11:00 am ET US

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About the Webinar

Come hear the latest and greatest in the world of 5G & Beyond from an expert panel of IEEE International Networks Generations Roadmap (INGR). The 2023 Edition will be published soon, get a sneak peek at what is included in the current update!

Presenters

  • Brian Zahnstecher, PowerRox LLC - Moderator
  • Baw Chng, BAWMAN LLC, INGR AI/ML Co-chair - Panelist
  • Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, INGR Satellite Co-chair - Panelist
  • Paolo Gargini, INGR Leadership Team - Panelist

 

Webinars on Demand: 

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About the Webinar

5G, the fifth generation of mobile connectivity, entered the scene in 2019 with much fanfare. Intended to be more than just a speed increase over 4G, it promised a raft of features to serve the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine use cases. Four years later, we've moved down the road towards 5G but many of the advanced features remain undeployed. Theories abound as to the nature of these bumps in the road, many are speculative and some are based in truth. Our panel of industry experts will convene to discuss what's delaying our trip down the road, and provide their thoughts on what happens next.

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David Witkowski is Founder & CEO of Oku Solutions LLC

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This talk will explore major paradigm shifts expected towards defining the next generation of wireless networks and devices. The paradigm shifts will be in keeping with the expected evolution of AI-enabled applications that future wireless networks will need to support, with the associated significant changes in types of data communication and computation needed. Central to future wireless will be a new data layer and ML-based multi-layer optimization functions integrated into the stack, enabling autonomous, self-configuring AI-centric networks and devices that can effectively support the new AI-enabled applications and their multi-modal data and fusion models. The talk will describe the above paradigm shifts, preliminary results obtained showing promising outcomes, and associated challenges and opportunities to support the paradigm shifts towards developing the future AI-centric wireless networks.

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Sujit Dey, University of California San Diego - Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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This webinar provides an overview of ongoing work on the IEEE 802.11 standard, including the P802.11be amendment (Wi-Fi 7)and 6GHz support. New work areas and recently completed amendments including the IEEE 802.11az-2023 Next Generation Positioning and P802.11bc Enhanced Broadcast Services amendments are discussed. These 2 amendments enable new applications and capabilities in Wireless Local Area Networks.

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Dorothy Stanley, Aruba, A Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company - HPE Fellow / Head of Standards Strateg

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Silicon-based Terahertz systems is a field that is only about a decade old. In this time, we have seen a phenomenal growth of silicon systems operating at THz frequencies for a wide range of applications in sensing, imaging and communication. It can be argued that both the ‘THz gap’ and the ‘technology and applications gap’ is closing in meaningful ways in the THz range. Technologies beyond 100 GHz focusing on sensing, imaging and wireless back-haul links are getting attractive as we enter into a new area of highly dense network of autonomous systems requiring ultra-high speed and reliable links.

This talk, will highlight approaches that cut across electromagnetics, circuits, systems and signal processing to enable THz beamforming arrays, CMOS sensors reconfigurable across the three field properties of spectrum (100 GHz-1000 GHz), beam pattern and polarization (Nature Comm’19), programmable THz metasurfaces with CMOS tiling (Nature Elec’20), and enabling dynamic spectrum shaping (ISSCC’21, JSSC’21) and physically secure sub-THz links (ISSCC’20, Nature Elec’21). Including comments on what could be the major directions for the field in the coming decade.

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Kaushik Sengupta, Princeton University - Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering

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5G is not only evolutionary, providing higher bandwidth and lower latency than current-generation technology; more importantly, 5G is revolutionary, in that it is expected to enable fundamentally new applications with much more stringent requirements in latency and bandwidth.

The talk will address Semiconductors and Advanced Packaging technical trades and needs for improvements in devices, materials, processes and substrates technologies to support the goal of low-cost high performance 5G New Radio (NR) hardware at 5G and emerging 6G bands.

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Timothy Lee, Boeing Technical Fellow - Vice-Chair of IEEE Future Networks Technical Committee

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In October, the 2022 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF’22) convened in Montreal to re-establish what was formerly called the 5G World Forum as an in-person/hybrid event. In this webinar, select conference organizers will provide insights on the outcome of the event from a technical perspective.

This panel of conference organizers will briefly cover different insights and outcomes from the event, and then engage in an open discussion about lessons learned and plans for 2023’s event.

Presenters

Ashutosh Dutta (JHU/APL) - Keynote sessions and highlights

Ajay Rajkumar (AT&T) – Industry sessions and presence

Eman Hammad – Technical Program

Bernard Duval and Benoit Pelletier – Special Sessions of FNWF’22

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Looking to 2030, the future data- and communication-centric paradigms of 6G, Super-IoT (Internet of Things), and Tactile Internet (TI) will require leaps forth at technology and, notably, at a conceptual level. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be a cornerstone both on the service and network operation plane, leveraging self-sustenance and self-evolution of the infrastructure. Within such a context, the currently-in-use design methods for hardware-software (HW-SW) systems are regarded as increasingly less suitable to meet the challenge fully. This webinar will focus on low-complexity HW components, like sensors, actuators, and transducers, gathering attention around Micro/Nano (MEMS/NEMS) technologies. Reinforcement of the HW versus SW separation and symmetry is proposed, overcoming the so-called HW-SW divide. Partial reformulation of the HW concept is proposed, leveraging the parallelism of HW/SW with classical elements in nature. The resulting frame of reference is named WEAF Mnecosystem (Water, Earth, Air, and Fire Micro/Nanotechnologies Ecosystem). It embodies solutions based on Micro/Nanotechnologies, regarded as pivotal in the transition to 6G/TI. Then, the WEAF Mnecosystem landscape is populated by reporting state-of-the-art research activities based on Micro/Nanotechnologies, identified as key enablers of the future paradigms at stake.

Presenters

Jacopo Iannacci, FBK

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The IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge (https://ctu.ieee.org/) is an annual, global competition that solicits solutions from start-ups, grassroots organizations, universities, or individuals with projects or ideas to bridge the digital divide in innovative ways. Organized by the IEEE Future Networks Initiative and other partners, the competition seeks applications from early-stage projects that offer unique ways to increase Internet access and usage for unconnected populations/geographies.

In this Webinar, we invite a panel of 2021 CTU winners to share their first-hand experiences on how their ideas and projects help close the digital divide, as well as lessons learned from participating in the CTU contest and latest updates on their projects from the past year. Please join our Webinar to learn more about the IEEE CTU challenge and hear directly from past CTU winners.

Presenters

Eric Nitschke,Wakoma

Rahma Utami,Suarise

Filippo Malandra,University at Buffalo

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This Webinar will highlight current technologies and future evolution of in-building networks that handle most Internet traffic nowadays. Buildings today are networked via copper (e.g. Ethernet, Powerline Communications, PLC) and radio (e.g. Wi-Fi, ZigBee). In the next decade, machines and devices will communicate wireless and support e.g. reliable real-time video. For the future Internet of Things, dense in-building networks will be deployed which complement copper and radio by optical technologies, both over fixed (fiber-to-the-room, FTTR) and wireless links (light fidelity, LiFi). We highlight unique features of light as a fixed and wireless medium in buildings and present recent technology trends to enable new features for high performance, integrated sensing, low cost and enhanced sustainability.

Presenter

Volker Jungnickel

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Continued strong demand for high band mobile broadband services and emergence of ultra-low latency use cases demand new architectures in wireless access networks. These new architectures break the wireless access into backhaul, midhaul and fronthaul networks. Fronthaul networks are associated with some of the most stringent requirements in terms of latency, packet throughput and time/frequency error limits.

Meeting these ever increasing requirements demand new optical, transport and synchronization architectures and solutions. The webinar will start by summarizing the xhaul requirements, and provides approaches for new optical networks based on enhancements to WDM and PON networks. It continues by reviewing new approaches to packet-based transport technologies, and closes with a description of enhanced synchronization architectures and solutions that meet more stringent 5G time alignment error limits.

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Reza Vaez-Ghaemi

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Continued strong demand for high band mobile broadband services and emergence of ultra-low latency use cases demand new architectures in wireless access networks. These new architectures break the wireless access into backhaul, midhaul and fronthaul networks. Fronthaul networks are associated with some of the most stringent requirements in terms of latency, packet throughput and time/frequency error limits.

Meeting these ever increasing requirements demand new optical, transport and synchronization architectures and solutions. The webinar will start by summarizing the xhaul requirements, and provides approaches for new optical networks based on enhancements to WDM and PON networks. It continues by reviewing new approaches to packet-based transport technologies, and closes with a description of enhanced synchronization architectures and solutions that meet more stringent 5G time alignment error limits.

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Reza Vaez-Ghaemi

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2022 and the next two years will be a time of heavy 5G deployment, transformation at the edge, and increased interworking of network technologies and systems. But what can we expect in five or even or ten years from now? The 2022 Edition of the IEEE INGR (International Network Generations Roadmap) points to current and forward-looking trends, challenges, and solutions in the mobile network landscape. The inaugural INGR was released in 2020 with a focus on the evolution of 5G networks, and the 2021 edition took an end-to-end perspective that established a transdisciplinary framework and a predictive model for mobile networks. The 2022 INGR broadens applications of the transdisciplinary framework while progressing the technology and system challenges and opportunities across each of INGR’s 14 Working Groups.

In this IEEE Future Networks webinar, leaders from four of those Working Groups — Applications and Services, Deployment, Energy Efficiency, and Massive MIMO — get together to present some of the latest insights form their group before joining a panel discussion to explore the convergences between them all.

Presenters

Francesco Carobolante, IoTissimo
Harish Kumar Sahoo, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology
Narendra Mangra, Globenet LLC
David Witkowski, Oku Solutions

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Systems Optimization for future networks and network services will be a challenge due to the variance across services, traffic types and control architectures needed to support 5G/6G. Future networks will need greater local automation and intelligence for optimization of resources to keep costs controlled, but at the same time need to incorporate higher level, end-to-end optimization and policies for the operator. This webinar will review the work of the IEEE Future Networks Systems Optimization Working Group, explore some of the important use cases for systems optimization such as Open RAN, and highlight the challenges for systems optimization for future networks over the next 10 years.

Presenters

Baw Chng, BAWMAN LLC

Dilip Krishnaswamy, Sterlite Access Solutions

Lyndon Ong, Ciena Corporation

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It goes without saying that we suffer from severe gaps in global internet connectivity. We tend indeed to forget that we still have about 3 billion people who are unconnected or under-connected. And it is expected that 5G (in its current initial deployment stages) will further accentuate this connectivity divide. Actually, the Covid 19 pandemic also showed that the connectivity divide is in a way becoming one of the modern faces of inequality, deepening the economic and social unbalances between the ‘Haves’ and ‘Have Nots’ in a digital context. To achieve digital inclusiveness, we need to develop and deploy new technological solutions that help connecting the unconnected/under-connected in a reliable and affordable fashion. In this context, many of the regions suffering from this connectivity divide are regions where reliable power grids are insufficient and/or infeasible to deploy. In this case, renewable energy (RE)-powered base stations (BSs) are being considered as an alternative power source for wireless networks. In this talk, we provide an overview of RE-enabled wireless networks, detailing their analysis, classification, and related works. We also present some of our recent work showing the use of wind-turbine-mounted BSs as a cost-effective solution for regions with high wind energy potential, since it could replace or even outperform current solutions requiring additional cell towers, satellites, or aerial BSs.

Presenter

Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST

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In the world of mobile communications, we are seeing more and more wireless network operators embracing the concept of an open ecosystem. Two primary goals of Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) are to stimulate innovation and reduce costs in telecommunications by introducing competition, interoperability, and intelligence in an open ecosystem. Since initial trials and deployments, the Open RAN community has also come to the view that harmonization among different standards and specifications is crucial to realize the new paradigm's full potential. What is Open RAN’s “killer app” and what is driving Open RAN research and deployment? In this webinar panel, we will discuss the challenges and opportunities as well as future directions for an open ecosystem of wireless networks.

Presenters

Michele Polese, Northeastern University

Brian Daly, AT&T

Ashutosh Dutta, JHU/APL

Manish Singh, Meta

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The 5G World Forum has only been in existence for four years, but the 2021 edition of this global conference brought together so many exciting and forward-looking presentations that an upgrade and name change is already underway. Tune in to this webinar to hear from four of the expert technologists behind the 5G World Forum, learn about some of the most popular, insightful and provocative content presented at the 2021 event, and hear their predictions and expectations for 2022 when the conference is re-introduced as the Future Networks World Forum.

Presenters

Ashutosh Dutta, JHU/APL

Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg

Benoit Pelletier, VMware

Aloizio Silva, CCI

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The COVID-19 pandemic and related sustained systemic shocks has fundamentally impacted business ecosystems and underlying global supply chains. These sustained systemic shocks along with technology developments, consumer usage trends, geopolitical, and macro-economic triggers may reshape industry structures or ecosystem stages. Furthermore, we are also grappling with critical changes needed to address access and inclusion to basic human services, social vulnerabilities, quality of life improvements in urban and rural communities, and long-term environmental changes. We are already witnessing fundamental changes related to climate-induced public safety needs, flexible working trends, telehealth, tourism, education, connected vehicles, urban planning, rural development, and much more. Technology innovations promise to help deliver solutions across ecosystems with maximum benefits delivered through appropriate governance.

It is imperative to explore new approaches to delivering applications and services. These approaches or frameworks should be sustainable, structured, flexible, adaptable, and scalable to better address complex issues and the local needs of diverse stakeholder groups, priorities, capabilities, and constraints in diverse communities. This webinar will describe the transdisciplinary framework with several scenarios provided in the latest IEEE FNI INGR Applications and Services Chapter. The transdisciplinary framework comprises of interconnected ecosystems, converged networks, and governance functions. Scenarios will include public safety and the event lifecycle, telehealth and the continuum of care, public health and pandemic response planning, transportation and urban land repurposing, comprehensive plans across the globe, smart cities, and rural development initiatives.

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Narendra Mangra, GlobeNet, LLC

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Future 5G/6G mobile communication systems are expected to integrate various radio access technologies, including the satellite component. In this framework, terrestrial services can be augmented with the development of novel satellite systems (namely, UHTS GEO and mega-LEO constellations) to meet service needs in those areas that terrestrial 5G systems cannot cover. This webinar will survey the main outcomes achieved within the INGR Satellite working group. In particular, the following topics will be addressed in this webinar: survey of current most advanced satellite systems and architectures with particular attention to mega-LEO systems, possible use of mmWaves, Mobile Edge Computing, artificial intelligence, QoS/QoE requirements, and standardization aspects referring to the recent work by ITU, 3GPP, and ETSI. This webinar will be a good opportunity to present challenges and possible solutions for these key sectors towards future satellite systems.

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Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is a perfect match for 5G. While 5G offers capabilities to support low latency and very high speeds (e.g., eMBB), massive number of devices (e.g., mMTC), heterogeneous mix of traffic types from a diverse and demanding suite of applications (e.g., URLLC), AI/ML complements by learning from complex patterns to provide scope for autonomous operation, transforming 5G into a scalable real-time network that is data-driven.

In this webinar, we will the cover role of AI/ML to address various 5G operation challenges and use cases, interplay of AI/ML with edge computing, how AI/ML is being leveraged for Open RAN and AI/ML based applications at the intersection of Telco and Hyperscaler offerings. We will share progress being made in the IEEE FNI AI/ML working group and the roadmap items being considered.

Presenter

Deepak Kataria, Ericsson

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Connecting the Unconnected or under-connected (CTU) is the holy grail of transforming the lives of over 3 billion people around the globe with wireless Internet who are yet to experience its value in multiple ways. B5G leading to 6G is being discussed for societal impact to benefit all. IEEE Future Networks CTU Working Group endeavors to highlight the need to consider the CTU requirements in 5G and B5G networks in the standardization process, in the development of the use cases, and affordable solutions. In its Vision 2030 SDG (Sustainability Development Goals) the United Nations has proclaimed access to Internet as a basic human right and has said that these goals cannot be achieved without affordable access to Internet by everyone on this planet. While there are numerous projects and initiatives ongoing around the world, these are fragmented and lack the critical mass and coordination to be able to impact the future standards, product development, and cost of deployment otherwise achievable by volume.

This webinar presents the scope of the CTU WG, provides a brief overview of the relevant stakeholders and linkages between them, and then goes into the current status of the CTU landscape and where we want to reach to accomplish the vision of connecting everybody, especially those living in rural and remote areas. We present the various standards and industry fora and how they are interlinked. While technologies are available today, they need to be customized and optimized at the systems level to bring down the cost of the network to be affordable. In addition, the content needs to be relevant, in local languages, and user interface simple and intuitive.

Presenters

Ashutosh Dutta, JHU/APL

Sudhir Dixit, JBasic Internet Foundation

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As the expectations for 5G’s benefits are high, the situation on the ground is quite different: power requirements at the system level were often neglected, and the deployment faces significant hurdles in maintaining the promises of 5G and supporting all the new features (bandwidth, response time and ubiquitous intelligence). Energy infrastructure limitations are at risk to severely curtail the achievable performance, thus affecting ROI and the business case for the proposed applications.

Each generation of cellular technology has been successful in relation to its ability to provide increased services at a lower cost, leveraging both Moore’s Law and increases in channel capacity utilization, but with 5G both levers are limited in their ability to deliver overall energy utilization improvements. Higher energy usage is now required to enable a lot of the benefits, but its cost has become a dominant factor in both CAPEX and OPEX. Eliminating the “5G Energy Gap” requires a comprehensive focus on energy efficiency to address the bottlenecks and maximize the viability of the technology across the different use cases. Such effort may not only deliver on the promises, but also lead to a more sustainable and equitable distribution of the services.

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Francesco Carobolante, IoTissimo

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One of the objectives of the IEEE Future Networks Initiative (FNI) Testbed working group is to collaborate with the vendor and research communities and thus expand upon the existing testbeds towards federated development of testbeds for next/future generation networks. This presentation will highlight identified challenges towards the evolutions of testbeds for future networks over 3-, 5- and 10-year horizons. The Testbed working group is also curating a directory of available 5G and beyond networking testbeds for use by both academic and industry research groups. The currently collected data suggests that there is a need to develop testbed federations and respective APIs. This presentation will show the aspect of identified diversity requirements and the challenges towards the development of scalable testbed facilities for future networks.

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Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University, WINLAB

Mohammad Patwary, University of Wolverhampton

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The radio access network (RAN) is moving towards open interfaces that offer wireless applications rich opportunities for customization and optimization. In 5G and beyond, the use of a large number of antenna elements, referred to as Massive MIMO, is envisioned to be the key physical layer enabling technology to transform wireless access into a high-throughput, low-latency multi-user medium where interference can be mitigated based on beamforming techniques. When the control of these large number of antenna elements are exposed via open interfaces, the RAN becomes a platform for the next-generation learning-based intelligent algorithms to deliver self-optimizing network access and connectivity.

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Dr. Chris Ng, Blue Daube Systems

Dr. Haijian Sun, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

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The acceleration of Digital Transformation due to pandemic has led to rapid standardization of Edge platforms to work in tandem with the Cloud and focus on services they can deliver to consumers and enterprises all working remotely. The Edge Services working group will discuss the vision of Edge Service platforms, the emerging use cases, functional and non-functional aspects of Edge to Cloud continuum, and challenges to overcome—including standards for serverless platform, edge native services, latency, throughputs, ID management, security, and service mesh that drive the path to Edge Service as a utility of future network generation.

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Prakash Ramchandran, Emerging Open Tech Foundation

Sujata Tibrewala, Intel

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The digital transformation brought by 5G is redefining current models of end-to-end (E2E) connectivity and service reliability to include security-by-design principles. These principles highlight the importance of embedding security capabilities from the very beginning while 5G architecture is being defined and standardized. Achieving 5G trustworthiness through such approaches is necessary to enable 5G to achieve its promise. Security requirements need to overlay and permeate through the physical, network, transport, and application layers of 5G systems, as well as different parts of an E2E 5G architecture, within a risk management framework that takes into account the evolving security threats landscape. The IEEE Future Networks Initiative (FNI) security Working Group’s Roadmap follows a taxonomic structure, differentiating 5G security functional pillars compared to previous generations, and corresponding cybersecurity risks. In this webinar we expand on 5G security challenges and opportunities, focus on two specific security domains to highlight the risks, and finally provide a summary of the FNI Security working group activities.

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Ashutosh Dutta, JHU/APL

Eman Hammad, Texas A&M University - RELLIS

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FMedia coverage and marketing of 5G has led to some inaccurate expectations and confusion about the technology. What is 5G, really? Why is it necessary or desirable? How will it be deployed, and when? This webinar will overview the technical aspects of 5G, discuss the socio-economics of wireless telecommunications and its impact on life in the 21st century, and outline the methods and expected timelines for deployment as 5G initially co-exists with, and eventually replaces, existing 3G/4G networks.

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David Witkowski, Oku Solutions

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For more than twenty years, 802.11 or Wi-Fi has been the undisputed champion of enterprise and home networks. Even as fast cellular data networks have become widely available, Wi-Fi still carries the lion's share of data and has relegated other WLAN or short-range wireless standards to niche roles. But the cellular and Wi-Fi worlds have been converging, slowly, at all layers. Both cellular and Wi-Fi now have commonalities at the physical, network, access control (DIAMETER) and application layers (e.g., web and VoIP) and there's strong interest in using 5G systems for some high-end applications. In planning for 6G, what lessons can we learn from this parallel existence and the historical developments of these networks? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such a hypothetical convergence? We argue that the main difference is not radio technology, but rather the implicit understanding about the operational model, in particular authentication and authorization.

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Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University

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The next-generation communications and radar systems envisage a rapid increase in connected devices and users. The resulting dire challenges in utilizing a limited frequency spectrum has led researchers to seek novel solutions in designing both systems to jointly access the spectrum without interfering in each other’s operations and performance. As the wireless community moves closer to finalizing the 5G standard and the advent of radars for high-bandwidth applications such as autonomous driving, physiological sensors, and short-range weather monitoring, the millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) band is the new frontier for spectral coexistence research. The multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna arrays are critical in enabling the mm-Wave communications and radar. A joint MIMO-radar-MIMO-communications (MRMC) spectrum sharing is considerably more complex with several variables to optimize. At mm-Wave, automotive applications are key drivers of developing MRMC solutions. This talk will introduce the audience to recent advances in MRMC in the context of mm-Wave automotive systems and 5G networks.

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Dr. Kumar Vijay Mishra, National Academies Diamond Research Distinguished Fellow, United States Army Research Laboratory (ARL)

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Earl McCune was a rare mix of visionary, contrarian and reality check in the engineering world. Some may recall him standing up during Q&A at a conference and prefacing his commentary with the zinger “Unless you intend on breaking Ohm’s Law…” followed by a reasoned plea to consider just how power-hungry the envisioned future applications of 5G will be. We tragically lost Earl on 27 May 2020, and as a tribute, we will replay a presentation he gave to this webinar series in 2018, and talk about how relevant it is in 2020 and beyond.

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Brian Zahnstecher, Principal, PowerRox; Rick Booth, Eridan Communications; and Doug Kirkpatrick, Eridan Communications

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Trust is arguably the most crucial challenge for critical services, both in deployment and when accessed over a network. These systems are exposed to a wide diversity of threats, ranging from bugs to exploits, active attacks, rogue operators, careless administrators or untrusted infrastructure providers. This webinar presents a powerful and generic approach to trust management using Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). Our platform, SCONE, can operate as a managed service deployed in an untrusted environment. SCONE enables the delegation of operations to an untrusted provider while guaranteeing data confidentiality and integrity and safety even if the operator or the infrastructure is untrusted. We argue that one can execute even critical applications in edge clouds built from COTS hardware and software.

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Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden, Professor, and Scontain, SIListra, and Cloud&Heat, Co-founder

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The fifth generation of cellular network technology is now a reality and promises higher peak rates and better service quality than previous generations. However, these gains are not achievable everywhere. The cellular architecture is characterized by a sparse deployment of high-power access points, which are surrounded by users at different distances. Some are close and get good service, and some are far away and get bad service. Despite all the improvements that have been made from 1G to 5G, this fundamental weakness remains. But there is a potential solution: replacing the conventional cellular architecture with a cell-free architecture, characterized by a dense deployment of low-power access points that jointly serve the users in their vicinity. This webinar covers the motivation and background of cell-free networks and then gives an overview of recent progress on how to practically implement such networks using Massive MIMO processing, dynamic cooperation clusters, and radio stripes.

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Emil Björnson, Linköping University, Sweden

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Future network technologies (5G, 6G, etc.) are expected to enable fundamentally new applications that will transform the way humanity lives, works, and engages with its environment. The IEEE Future Networks International Network Generations Roadmap (INGR) is created to stimulate an industry-wide dialogue to address the many facets and challenges of the development and deployment of 5G in a well-coordinated and comprehensive manner, while also looking beyond 5G. The INGR is designed to help guide operators, regulators, manufacturers, researchers, and other interested parties involved in developing these new communication technology ecosystems by laying out a technology roadmap with 3-year, 5-year, and 10-year horizons.

Development of the INGR has produced a technical community that fosters the exchange of ideas, sharing of research, setting of standards, and identification, development, and maturation of system drivers, system specifications, use cases, and supported applications. The focus of this IEEE technology roadmap is to identify key technology needs, challenges, potential solutions, and areas of innovation. This webinar will address the highlights from the First Edition of the INGR that was recently completed in Dec 2019. The INGR working groups include Applications and Services, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML), Connecting the Unconnected, Deployment, Edge Automation Platform (EAP), Energy Efficiency, Hardware, Massive MIMO, Millimeter Wave and Signal Processing, Optics, Satellite, Security, Standardization Building Blocks, Systems Optimization, and Testbed. New experts are encouraged to participate as work continues with the Second Edition of the INGR.

Access the INGR at https://futurenetworks.ieee.org/roadmap.

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Narendra Mangra, GlobeNet, LLC

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The Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) is a recent DARPA grand challenge that aims to spur the development of next-generation AI-enabled wireless networks, through a series of tournament events, to overcome scarcity in the radio frequency spectrum. Team GatorWings from the University of Florida won the overall top prize of $2 million at the SC2 Championship Event held on October 23, 2019. In this webinar, we share our experiences as well as our radio design strategies leading Team GatorWings to win the SC2 in hopes of shedding some light on further research and development directions in the area of autonomous spectrum sharing.

Presenters

John M. Shea and Tan F. Wong, Professors of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Unversity of Florida

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The past few years have witnessed the design, standardization and initial deployments of new generations of wireless systems, both cellular (5G) , Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi 6) and others (e.g. LoRa). A natural question to ask is: what's next? In this webinar, we will describe some new initiatives underway in the National Science Foundation (NSF) focused on deploying experimental infrastructure that will enable academia, industry and federal agencies to design and test at scale novel wireless systems that span the entire ecosystem from devices to protocols and architecture. We will describe three funded platforms through the PAWR program: POWDER, COSMOS and AERPAW and discuss the Round III Request for Proposals (RFP) that focuses on rural broadband connectivity.

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Dr. Monisha Ghosh, Program Director, National Science Foundation, Division of Computer and Network Systems

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5G networks are being pointed out as the next revolution in mobile communications. Different from the evolution observed from 2G to 4G networks, 5G will not only increase the user throughput, but it will also introduce a large set of new services and applications. Of course, more data rate is expected to be provided by the enhanced mobile broadband, but other interesting services will make 5G unique. The support for massive machine type communication will boost the Internet of Things and it will provide more inputs for Big Data analytics. Ultra-reliable low latency communications will change the way we interact with mobile devices and it will support the Industry 4.0. Therefore, 5G is not an evolution, but it is an innovative and revolutionary mobile network. Although 5G is changing the mobile communications game, there is one gap that need to be surpassed, which is the connectivity in remote areas. This application scenario has important social and economic impacts and 5G should be able to address its requirements in the near future. Billions of people live in uncovered or underserved areas, unable to enjoy the benefits of the Digital Era. A reliable and cost accessible 5G for Remote Areas Network would offer the opportunity for these people to be included in the digital world, opening new markets for operators and new opportunities for vendors. Also, agribusiness is demanding higher efficiency from the fields and the ability to collect data and remotely control the machinery and systems (such as watering) is essential for improving productivity in farms. The aim of this webinar is to discuss the possibilities for 5G to support and address the remote area networks requirements and to present the major technologies that can help in this challenging task. The topics covered in this webinar are:
  • Brief history of the mobile network evolution
  • Main aspects and scenarios for 5G networks
  • What is missing for a universal Internet access?
  • Motivations and applications for Remote Areas Networks
  • Enablers technologies for remote area operation
  • 5G and satellite networks integration: solution for backhaul and remote areas access networks
  • Main projects developing the 5G network for remote areas

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Luciano Leonel Mendes, Professor, Inatel, Brazil

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5G, the next generation cellular standard will cover different usage scenarios covering enhanced mobile broadband (EMBB), ultra-reliable, low latency communication (URLLC) and low power massive machine-to-machine communication (mMTC). Radio interface of mmWave 5G EMBB may have different hardware architecture options both for User Equipments (UE) and infrastructure (like small cell, wireless backhaul). Current talk will focus on key figures of merits for 5G mmWave radio, different hardware architecture and chip partitioning options and how different silicon technologies like partially and fully depleted SOI, Silicon-Germanium BiCMOS can address the requirements for different mmWave 5G radio architectures.

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Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Director, RF Strategic Applications & Business Development, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, USA

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5G is a new communications standard to serve both new and existing markets. As such, 5G comes with high expectations from both mobile operators and consumers. The existing market of mobile phones is no exception. 5G marketing hype is high and pressure to deliver on the billions of dollars spent on 5G spectrum is even higher. Realizing a successful 5G handset deployment comes with significant challenges. We are seeing an unprecedented impact on RF architectures, components, and technologies. Our aim is to first outline some of the complexities derived from the latest 3GPP 5G communications standards. Then, by analyzing macro level handset RF architectures as well as front end module functional blocks, we will describe the resulting RF impacts.  

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Ben Thomas, Director of Mobiule 5G Business Development at Qorvo

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Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are the key pillars of future networks, including 5G and Beyond that promise to support emerging applications such as enhanced mobile broadband, ultra low latency, massive sensing type applications while providing the resiliency in the network. Service providers and other verticals (e.g., Connected Cars, IOT, eHealth) can leverage SDN/NFV to provide flexible and cost-effective service without compromising the end user quality of service (QoS). While NFV and SDN open up the door for flexible networks and rapid service creation, these offer both security opportunities while also introducing additional challenges and complexities, in some cases. With the rapid proliferation of 4G and 5G networks, operators have now started the trial deployment of network function virtualization, especially with the introduction of various virtualized network elements in the access and core networks. These include elements such as virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC), virtualized IP Multimedia Services (vIMS), Virtualized Residential Gateway, and Virtualized Next Generation Firewalls. However, very little attention has been given to the security aspects of virtualization. While several standardization bodies (e.g., ETSI, 3GPP, NGMN, ATIS, TIA) have started looking into the many security issues introduced by SDN/NFV, additional work is needed with larger security community involvement including vendors, operators, universities, and regulators. This tutorial will address evolution of cellular technologies towards 5G but will largely focus on various security challenges and opportunities introduced by SDN/NFV and 5G networks such as Hypervisor, Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), SDN Controller, Orchestrator, Network slicing, Cloud RAN, and security function virtualization. This tutorial will also highlight some of the ongoing activities within various standards communities and will illustrate a few deployment use case scenarios for security including threat taxonomy for both operator and enterprise networks. In addition, I will also describe some of the ongoing activities within IEEE Future Network initiative including roadmap efforts and various ways one can get involved and contribute to this initiative. 

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Ashutosh Dutta, Senior Wireless Communication Systems Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs (JHU/APL)

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Internet technology and cellular communications technology have transformed many aspects of how we communicate, and caused us to consider and do things in ways not previously possible or for many even imaginable. 5G and other technology will take us further down this path. Every device that communicates by definition consumes electricity. As we advance communications technologies with new concepts and capabilities, it makes sense to do the same for electricity.

Local Power Distribution (LPD) is a “network model of power”, organized from the bottom-up into nanogrids that can be networked to each other, local generation, and a utility grid. A nanogrid controller contains a battery and provides power to attached end-use devices. The controller establishes a local price that influences device operation, management of internal storage, and exchanges of power with other controllers, sources, and the grid. All power connections are digitally managed and plug-and-play. LPD is intended for all application contexts, whether a utility grid is present always, never, or intermittently.

Future communications devices will exist in a variety of power contexts, from those that are stand-alone but grid-connected, stand-alone without a grid connection, or internal to a building with power available from that building. Many of these may be connected to local renewable generation, and for reliability and other purposes, all will include at least some amount of energy storage. In some countries, grid power is routinely unreliable. A generic technology solution which allows for base stations to automatically adapt to any and changing power contexts can reduce costs, increase efficiencies, improve performance, and enable more use of renewables and storage. It can also enable more graceful system degradation when power is in short supply.

As with Internet technology, we not only want new electrical technology to operate in different ways internally, we want users to think about electricity differently with new capabilities.

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Bruce Nordman, Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Communication at mmWave frequencies will play a key role in next generation 5G cellular networks. However, mobile scenarios are the most challenging for mmWave cellular systems, due to the high propagation loss, the relatively small coverage area of individual cells, and rapid channel dynamics caused by blockage events. In this talk, Michele Polese will describe some MAC and network level solutions that can provide a consistent and reliable user experience in mmWave mobile networks. The first part of the talk will focus on beam management and multi connectivity for 3GPP NR. Then, deployment issues will be discussed, with the recent 3GPP Study Item on Integrated Access and Backhaul in the spotlight. Finally, the last part will present a selection of results on the performance of TCP on mmWave links, and of possible algorithms and architectures to improve the end-to-end performance in these networks.

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Michele Polese, PhD in Information Engineering

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As we see 5G unfold, expectations on the economic and societal impact are very high. Many new opportunities shall emerge for new business opportunities, with new vertical entering the market to embrace cellular technology to advance to a new stage of innovation. The Tactile Internet being the most highlighted promise of 5G besides the expectation of increased data rates. The most popularly discussed vertical application areas for the Tactile Internet are the mobility sector and manufacturing (industry 4.0). However, maybe agriculture and construction are closer to see an impact? We shall review economic opportunities, and their derive some basic technical requirements. Analyzing this and mapping it onto the verticals can give us some interesting insights. It also helps build an understanding of detecting missing pieces.

1G was a great step towards ubiquitous voice telephony, but 2G fixed the problems (like international roaming). 3G was a great step towards ubiquitous cellular data, but we needed 4G to fix the challenges. 5G will be an infliction point in bringing cellular to new applications. However, do we again use the 5G generation to understand what is really needed and have to wait for 6G as a fix? Is this fix needed to make the Tactile Internet a reality?

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Prof. Gerhard P. Fettweis, PhD, Vodafone Chair Professor at Dresden University of Technology and Co-Chair of the Future Networks Initiative 

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3GPP has defined 5G-NR with a modulation that inherently reduces energy efficiency of linear transmitters. This causes thermal problems from the dissipated power, which is a particular difficulty for massive-MIMO arrays. Temperature rise from transmitter power dissipation limits the array size that can be safely built. Achieving the multiple business objectives for 5G installations requires solving this problem, and using Sampling technologies is showing great promise to meeting this goal. This presentation presents the physical basis of this thermal problem, and shows how the sampling operation of the switch-mode mixer modulator (SM3) solves not only the thermal problem but also how, using the SM3, signal bandwidth efficiency is increased to 14 bits per symbol (16,384-QAM) with modulation within 0.5% of ideal.

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Dr. Earl McCune, CTO, Eridan Communications

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5G is a unifying connectivity fabric that will connect virtually everything around us, expanding the reach of mobile to new services, applications, deployments, and spectrum types. Today, we are preparing for the first commercial launches of 5G NR, which is based on Release 15 of the 3GPP global standard, and it will usher in many new and enhanced mobile experiences starting in 2019. In parallel, we are also evolving 5G NR to expand into new industries, such as automotive and industrial IoT. Join this webinar to:

  • See where we are on the path to make 5G NR a commercial reality
  • Understand what is at the foundation of 5G NR Release 15 for enabling new and improved applications
  • Learn what’s coming in Release 16 and beyond that will expand 5G into new industries

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Dr. John Smee, Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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Utilizing novel forms of spectrum is a key enabler for meeting the needs of 5G. Examples include shared spectrum as in the CBRS framework and and tighter integration of unlicensed and licensed spectrum. These approach will impact not only the technical performance of networks but the economic incentives of service providers as they make decisions about what technologies to deploy and how they compete. This talk will examine several of these issues and discuss network economic models that can be used to gain insight into them.

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Randall Berry, Lorraine Morton Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University

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In this tutorial, we review the 4G small cell use cases, technology concept, deployment aspects and lessons learnt in the field, paying special attention to inter-cell interference issues and more. Moreover, we discuss the technology evolution of small cells towards 5G, and introduce the concept of ultra-dense networks. We carefully explain how ultra-dense networks are different from those sparse or less dense ones in 4G, and depict their main benefits and challenges. Theoretical and system-level simulation based results are used to shed new light in all these concepts.

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Dr. David Lopez-Perez, Senior Research Engineer, Nokia Bell Laboratories and Michael Kinnavy, Head of Small Cell R&D, Nokia Bell Laboratories

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5G technologies will make it possible to interconnect with billions of devices and sensors globally, further fueling the growth of large scale dynamic decentralized/distributed data processing business models. These dynamic models will generate significant business opportunities as well as potential liabilities from failure to comply with centralized data protection requirements like those under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR, which goes into effect on May 25, 2018, includes fines as high as 4% of annual global gross revenues for data controllers and processors who fail to satisfy its requirements. Learn how new dynamic data protection requirements under the GDPR can help to resolve these conflicts and help to facilitate adoption of 5G capabilities.

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Dr. Alison Knight PhD, - University of Southampton (UK) Senior Legal Adviser and Gary LaFever, Anonos - CEO & Co-Founder

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As the Internet of Things moves closer and closer to mainstream, and the potential impact on our organizations becomes clearer, the challenges uncovered through numerous pilots and early production systems are becoming clear as well. In his presentation, Don will explore these challenges that often have less to do with technology, and more to do with people, organizations, architecture, and somewhat nuanced but no less critical considerations of security, privacy, and data ownership. The challenges in moving from early stages of the Internet of Things into mainstream production can demand a broad level of understanding and thoughtful leadership in order to truly leverage IoT’s value in a resilient manner.

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Don DeLoach, Co-Chair, Midwest IoT Council

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The 5G network promises massive bandwidths and low latencies, but none will come to fruition without major paradigm shifts in network power architecture/distribution/utilization.  5G is a unique case study because it brings together many cutting-edge aspects of today’s cloud-focused world.  It is dependent on cohesion from the edge to the core network with the latest in data center technology (i.e. – Software-defined/virtualized everything).  In between, there are heterogeneous networks of small cells operating in licensed/unlicensed spectrum via massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) arrays of antennas required to enable millimeter wave transmission for billions of users.

Power is the absolute gatekeeper for enabling 5G whether it be precise management of smartphone battery usage/charging, envelope tracking signals to optimize efficiency for the power amplifier (PA) at either ends, or intelligent power management in the data center to allow for unprecedented volumes of data processing/transmission to occur in footprints practical enough to sit around neighborhoods.

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Brian Zahnstecher, Principal, PowerRox

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5G, the next generation of wireless networks, needs to accommodate massive data traffic, large user numbers, high reliability, and yet provide great energy efficiency. When talking about 5G-enabling technologies, there is much fuss about millimeter wave communications, which is the ideal approach for delivering high data rates over short distances. However, the mmWave operation is inherently unreliable and unsuitable for wide-area coverage. To satisfy all the 5G requirements, we also need to make major improvements in the network operation at conventional cellular frequency bands, below 6 GHz.

Massive MIMO is the name of multiantenna technologies that use access points with hundreds of antenna elements. Massive MIMO was conceived as the way to deliver very high spectral efficiency in bands below 6 GHz, using spatial multiplexing of tens of users per cell. In recent years, Massive MIMO has gone from being a mind-blowing theoretical concept to one of the most promising 5G-enabling technologies; several world records in spectral efficiency have been set by Massive MIMO testbeds. The use of arrays with many antennas creates the phenomenon of channel hardening, which means that the rapid fading variations that normally haunt wireless links are averaged out, leading to high link reliability. Furthermore, the array gain provided by the directive transmissions allow for reduced transmit powers, which is an enabler for low-power nodes.

In this talk, I will explain the basics of Massive MIMO and the importance of implementing it in the right way in order to reap all the benefits that the technology can deliver. I will exemplify how to achieve high spectral efficiency, great link reliability, and low-power operation.

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Emil Björnson, Associate Professor, Linköping University

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The 5G community has set out a beguiling vision of a communications network that is faster, higher capacity, lower latency and able to manage a wide diversity of traffic. But achieving this will require massive investment in small cells, backhaul, new core networks, mobile edge computing and much more. This comes at a time when mobile operators are mostly seeing revenue fall and profitability reduce and are cutting back on investment as a result. 5G proponents are looking to enterprise for new revenue streams, but is this feasible and are there alternatives such as dense Wi-Fi and standalone IoT solutions that could deliver more cost-effectively? This webinar will look at the economics behind 5G and show that there are funding gaps to bridge in many areas.

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Professor William Webb, CEO Webb Search

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A 40 minute webinar on 5G and satellite spectrum and standards reviewing existing WRC 2019 bands identified for 5G and their compatibility/coexistence with GSO, LEO and MEO Ku, K and Ka band satellite spectrum, summary of NEW LEO constellation capabilities including OneWeb and Space X and LEOSAT, spectrum sharing and frequency reuse opportunities implicit in progressive pitch angular power separation and the potential implications for 5G co sharing of satellite K band spectrum, pass bands and channel bandwidth compatibility and physical layer coexistence, present tension points between the NEWLEO entities and incumbent LEO and MEO and GSO operators, the link budget and long distance latency benefits of nearly always nearly overhead (NANO) connectivity when integrated with inter satellite switching, how this could help meet specific 5G vertical market throughput and latency requirements, satellite IOT, present and future technical and commercial trends and standards issues and related 5G and satellite regulatory challenges and opportunities, longer term V and W band co sharing opportunities.

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Geoff Varrall, Director RTT Programmes

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The first phase of standardization of 5G cellular systems is currently underway covering bands up to 52.6 GHz while the next phase will cover bands up to 100 GHz. Due to the availability of large bandwidths at mmWave frequencies (20 GHz-100 GHz) the 5G requirements of greater than 10 Gbps of peak rate and edge rates greater than 100 Mbps for extreme mobile broadband (eMBB) applications can be met using a simple air-interface design and high dimension phased arrays. The mmWave systems also face inherent challenges, such as a high penetration loss, a higher sensitivity to blockage and diminished diffraction, which the system must overcome.

In this talk, a comprehensive view of mmWave technology will be discussed. Firstly, mmWave challenges and propagation characteristics will be presented with some compelling use cases. Next, the availability of spectrum at mmWave frequencies will be discussed followed by comprehensive description of 5G new radio (NR) interface. Massive MIMO is one of the key features since at mmWave frequencies coverage enhancing solutions are essential to compensate for the higher path-loss. Massive MIMO technology @ mmWave will be discussed along with system performance results. The system performance will cover early use case for pre-5G commercial systems, namely, providing high speed fixed access wireless data service to residential customers in suburban neighborhoods. The effect of foliage, power, ISD, SU/MU MIMO on system performance will also be presented. Finally, some field results on early Proof-of-Concept (PoC) mmWave systems will be presented.

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Amitabha (Amitava) Ghosh, Nokia Fellow and Head, Small Cell Research at Nokia Bell Labs

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Ecosystem is everything when it comes to mobile. Without a robust ecosystem wireless standards rarely have commercial success. This webinar examines some of the key players in the ecosystem working to make 5G a success. Ecosystem review will include operator deployment plans, standards development and the groups behind those developments, and key vendor activity.

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Daryl Schoolar, Practice Leader Next Generation Infrastructure, Ovum

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Cellular systems are growing into their fifth generation (5G). Trials of 5G technologies are already underway and extensive deployments of 5G are expected in the coming years. In this webinar, I explain several new revolutionary applications of cellular communication, which place new requirements on the design of 5G. These applications involve vehicular- and aerial-to-everything communications for mobile robots, or ultra-reliable low rate communications in the context of IoT. Then I describe different technical elements of 5G enabling these new applications. Some examples of these technologies are massive MIMO, millimeter wave communication, or network slicing. Finally, I categorize these technologies based on how much they disrupt 4G thinking.

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Robert W. Heath Jr., Ph.D., P.E., IEEE Fellow and Cullen Trust Endowed Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

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