WORKSHOP 3

A Global Perspective on the Challenges and Emerging Technologies for Shaping the 5G Era

  • Monday, 23 June 2014, 09:00-17:50, Room Bologna 1
  • Organizers:
    • Christos Politis  (chair) (Kingston University London, UK)
    • Angeliki Alexiou (University of Pireaus, Greece)
    • Nigel Jefferies (Huawei, UK)
    • Panagiotis Demestichas (University of Piraeus, Greece)
    • Yao Jing (Huawei, Germany)

 

Workshop Description

The motivation is to encourage global research that will achieve unbounded communications to address key societal challenges for the future and provide an initial understanding of the future of mobile wireless networks beyond 2020. This workshop will attempt to identify the key enabling technologies of 5G networks that will help to mould the Wireless World in the era beyond 2020. The workshop should focus on discussions of innovation and regulation, social inclusion and infrastructural challenges. This will be achieved by creating a range of new technological capabilities from wide-area networks to short-range communications, machine-to-machine communications, vehicle-to-vehicle communications, sensor networks, wireless broadband access technologies and technologies in the license-exempt band. This will support a dependable future Internet of humans, knowledge and things and the development of a service universe. The following areas should be touched during the workshop:

  • Air Interfaces and enabling technologies
  • Mobility management in the 5G networks
  • Licensed-exempt carrier offloading technologies
  • Ubiquitous networks (WiFi Ad-hoc, D2D, V2V)
  • Intelligent  Regulations in world beyond 2020
  • Social, business and innovation challenges for the 5G
  • Multi-RAT (2G/3G/4G/WiFi) coexistence
  • 5G requirements (e.g., in terms of performance, regulation, spectrum)
  • Efficient resource management in ultra-dense, heterogeneous networks
  • Ultra flexible infrastructures by means of M2M/D2D
  • Optimal spectrum management in 5G networks
  • Carrier aggregation
  • The role of virtualization (SDN, NFV concepts)
  • New business opportunities
  • Enabling applications by means of 5G technologies

 

Structure

09.00-09:15 - Welcome and Intro, Christos Politis (Kingston University London, UK)
09:15-09:45 - WWRF Overview, Nigel Jefferies (Huawei, UK)
09:45-10:15 - 5G R&D activities and global collaborations in Korea, HyeonWoo LEE (Korean 5G Forum, Korea)
10:15-10:40 - 5G Standardisation in Asia, Zhixi Wang (Senior Manager, Huawei, China)

11:10-11:40 - SDN+NFV, the necessary virtualization equation in the 5G Era, Diego Lopez (Telefonica, Spain)
11:40-12:10 - 5G activities in the EU, Klaus Moessner (5GIC/ CCSR, University of Surrey, UK)
12:10-12:50 - Remarks for the morning session, Christos Politis (Kingston University London, UK)

14:00-14:30 - 5G Use Case: European Agriculture, George Kormentzas (Aegean University and GAIA Epicheirein, Greece)
14:30-15:00 - mmWave Small Cells is a Key Technology for Future 5G Wireless Communication Systems, Alexander Maltsev (Intel Corporation, USA)
15:00-15:40 - 5G Use Case: Healthcare, Kostantinos Danas (Kingston University London, UK)

16:10-17:40 - Panel “The WWRF Vision for the 5G”

Chair: Werner Mohr (NSN, Germany) 
Bernard Barani (Deputy Head of Network Technologies Unit, European Commission, Belgium)

Panelists: Knud Eric Skouby (WWRF WGA chair and Aalborg University, Denmark)
Panagiotis Demestichas (WWRF WGC chair and University of Piraeus, Greece)
Angeliki Alexiou (WWRF WGD chair and University of Piraeus, Greece)
James Irvine (Strathclyde University, UK), Yao Jing (Huawei Technologies, China)

17:40-17:50 – Closing Remarks, Christos Politis (Kingston University London, UK)