Wen Tong (Huawei Technologies, CTO, Canada) Presentation Available

Abstract

The speech will present the Huawei view on the main challenges and opportunities in supplying and deploying the future 5G network infrastructures, in alignment with real needs of a renewed industrial landscape. As a part of this framework, the talk will touch upon the new technical challenges of the advanced 5G infrastructure in meeting the fundamental requirements, such as: 1) 1000x capacity increase; 2) Capabilities of interconnecting trillions of devices, giving a global market opportunity on telecom infrastructures of 1 billion of hyper-connected nodes; 3) Utilization and exploitation of all spectra below visible light, flexibly. Special focus will be placed on the new technology enablers for delay-critical, ultra reliable, secure, privacy preserving, and dependable connectivity services to cognitive objects, such as cars, robots, drones and cyber physical systems, with and without network assistance.

CV

Dr. Wen Tong is the CTO of Huawei Wireless, and Vice President of Huawei Canada R&D Center. Prior to joining Huawei in March 2009, Dr. Wen Tong was the Nortel Fellow and global Head of the Network Technology Labs at Nortel. He received the M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and 1993 and joined the Wireless Technology Labs at Bell Northern Research in 1995. He has pioneered fundamental technologies in wireless with 160 granted US patents and more than 200 patents filings. Dr. Tong has conducted the advanced research work spanning from 1G to 4G wireless at Nortel. From 1997 to 1999, he was the industry leader to create the 3G/4G foundational technologies and the framework for 3G/4G standards. From 1998 to 2006, he had been a driving force in developing foundational technologies for all the 4G wireless networks–OFDM-MIMO. At Nortel, Dr. Tong had been the director of Wireless Technology Labs from 2005 to 2007. He was twice-winner of Nortel Technology Excellent Award (highest R&D award). Since 2007, Dr. Tong was the head of Network Technology Labs, responsible for Nortel’s global strategic technologies research and development in wireless RAN, advanced RF and antenna technologies, high performance IP routing, and enterprise networking. He was member of Nortel Executive Edge team. In 2007, Dr. Tong was inducted as Nortel Fellow, a lifetime honor bestowed to selected 5 individuals in Nortel’s R&D community in Nortel’s 114 years history. Dr. Tong was Nortel’s Most Prolific Inventor and the creator of Nortel LTE patent portfolio which is valued at 4.5 Billion USD in an unprecedented IPR auction history. Since 2009, Dr. Tong is the vice president of Huawei wireless research; he is responsible to build the global research capability centers (5 China sites, 3 US sites, 1 Canada site, 1 Sweden site, 1 Russia site) with 1,200 research experts. He is accountable for advanced algorithms development, network planning and performance optimizations, DSP/ASIC chip development and 3GPP/IEEE/IETF standards, leading the largest wireless research organization in the industry. Since 2011, Dr. Tong is appointed the Head of Communications Technologies Labs of Huawei, a corporative centralized next generation research initiatives, which covers cloud computing based mobile broadband, all-photonic switching networking, E-band microwave, SDN/NFV networking, next generation base-station technologies, data-center networking, DSP/CPU core development, wireless and packet processor development. He also has the accountability to lead Huawei’s 5G wireless development for the next decade. In 2011, Dr. Tong was elected as Huawei Fellow (Huawei has 6 Technical Fellows in its 24 years history) and the chair of the Huawei wireless technology investment/review committee. Dr. Tong serves as Board of Director of WiFi Alliance and Board of Director of Green Touch Consortium. During 2008-2011, Dr. Tong served at Canadian NSERC Discovery Grant Committee. In February 2009, Dr. Tong created Huawei Canada R&D Center at Ottawa (with 150 world leading experts). Currently, Dr. Tong is based in Ottawa.