WORKSHOP 5a

Operators' Workshop on Optical-Wireless Integration

  • Monday, 27 June 2016, 09:00-12:30, Room Kleoniki B
  • Organiser:

    • Jorge Pereira (European Commission, DG CONNECT, Belgium)

     

    Motivation and Background

    Wireless and optical network research problems are often treated in isolation of each other by two distinct communities. Current wireless trends such as cell densification, coordinated communication, massive MIMO and millimetre-wave, pose a new set of challenges that require the joint consideration of optical and wireless network architectures. These problems are of direct impact to mobile operators, in fact to operators in general.

    On the wireless side, the proliferation of small cells increases frequency reuse and is responsible for a major proportion of the gains in mobile network capacity. Moreover, new spectrum access modalities such as Licensed Shared Access (LSA) will soon open new bands for mobile broadband. This raises the need for smarter use of existing infrastructure and for smarter investment strategies based upon resource sharing, at least with Broadband access. On the optical side, network function virtualization and the concept of software-defined networks are revolutionizing the way that network resources are managed. We view virtualization on the optical side and densification and capacity increase on the wireless access as major game changers in future networks that should be co-designed on top of shared infrastructure. The aspect of joint experimentation is that more critical.

    This workshop will bring together researchers from industry and academia, with focus on participation by mobile operators, to discuss trends, challenges and opportunities for research and development at the wireless/optical network boundary.

    This Workshop is proposed by the H2020 project FUTEBOL (Federated Union of Telecommunications Research Facilities for an EU-Brasil Open Laboratory) together with the FP7 projects ACCORDANCE (Converged Copper-Optical-Radio OFDMA-based access Network with high Capacity and Flexibility), COMBO (Convergence of fixed and Mobile Broadband access/aggregation networks) and iJoin (Interworking and Joint Design of an Open Access and Backhaul Network Architecture for Small Cells based on Cloud Networks). A follow-up Operators Workshop will be organized in Brazil in 2017 by FUTEBOL.

     

    Structure

     

    • Introduction and Motivation (30')
    • Operators' Perspectives (20' each)
      • Deutsch Telekom, DE
      • Orange, FR
      • OTE, EL
      • Portugal Telecom, PT
      • Telecom Italia, IT
      • Telefónica, ES
      • Telia, SE
    • Q&A
    • Lunch Break

    • Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
      • short presentations from the projects (30' each)
        • ACCORDANCE -
        • COMBO -
        • iJOIN -
        • FUTEBOL -
    • Q&A
    • Panel Discussion with the Operators
      • Deployment Strategies
      • Infrastructure Sharing
      • New business models