PANEL 1

5G requirements - From Technology to Verticals

  • Tuesday, 30 June, 14:30-16:00, Room Berlioz

 

Motivation and Background:

5G will not only be an evolution of mobile broadband networks. It will bring new unique network and service capabilities. Firstly, it will ensure user experience continuity in challenging situations such as high mobility (e.g. in trains), very dense or sparsely populated areas, and journeys covered by heterogeneous technologies. In addition, 5G will be a key enabler for the Internet of Things by providing a platform to connect a massive number of sensors, rendering devices and actuators with stringent energy and transmission constraints. Furthermore, mission critical services requiring very high reliability, global coverage and/or very low latency, which are up to now handled by specific networks, typically public safety, will become natively supported by the 5G infrastructure. From that perspective, 5G is expected to support digitization of vertical industries, understand the consumer's needs and develop a technological network that connects people, things and services like never before.

5G infrastructures will provide network solutions and involve vertical markets such as automotive, energy, food and agriculture, city management, government, healthcare, manufacturing, public transportation, and so forth. The challenge is to eliminate the current and anticipated limitations of network infrastructures, by making them capable of supporting a much wider array of requirements and with the capability of flexibly adapting to different "vertical" application requirements. 5G cannot be fully deployed if the regulations applying to the various sectors are not made compatible.

This panel aims at fostering the interactions between the more traditional ICT sectors and the potential users, to further identify the specific requirements of the vertical industries. The goal is to establish links between the various communities towards a common understanding of the set of requirements of the various sectors and how these translate into design, architecture, technology and performance requirements. These requirements vary in terms of data rate, latency, mobility, coverage, device density, reliability, cost, energy and a refined analysis needs to be further carried out. The intention is therefore to fuel 5G design debates and correctly steer the 5G evolution, including also domains like standardization and regulation.

 

Questions:

  1. What are the technical requirements for future 5G systems supporting the vertical industries and what are the missing technologies?
  2. How to foster collaboration between the telecom sectors and verticals, to make sure that 5G specifications are set with the right requirements?
  3. What are the regulatory and standardization challenges to consider?
  4. What testbed and demonstration strategies should be considered in future research programmes?
  5. As a broader set of 5G requirements to encompass vertical market needs would be of essence, how do the panellists see ways to engage key vertical market players' contributions?
  6. Are there any foreseen/anticipated paradigm shifts in terms of new business models and stakeholders' roles and impact?

 

Participants

The panel is composed of:

  • Chair: Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
  • Luke Ibbetson (Head of Research and Development, Vodafone Group, United Kingdom)
  • Markus Dillinger (Director for Industry Communications in Smart Grid, Huawei, Germany)
  • Jean-Sébastien Bedo (Orange Innovation, Marketing and Technologies)
  • Hamid Aghvami (Professor, Centre for Telecommunications Research, King’s College London, UK)
  • Takehiro Nakamura (VP and Managing Director of 5G Laboratory in NTT DOCOMO, Japan)

 

Presentations Available!

 

Angeliki Alexiou is an associate professor at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece. She received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1994 and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London in 2000. Since May 2009 she is faculty member at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, where she conducts research and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the area of Broadband Communications and Advanced Wireless Technologies. Prior to this appointment she was with Bell Laboratories, Wireless Research, Lucent Technologies, now Alcatel-Lucent, in Swindon, UK, first as a member of technical staff (January 1999-February 2006) and later as a Technical Manager (March 2006-April 2009).

Dr Alexiou is a co-recipient of Bell Labs President’s Gold Award in 2002 for contributions to Bell Labs Layered Space-Time (BLAST) project and the Central Bell Labs Teamwork Award in 2004 for role model teamwork and technical achievements in the IST FITNESS project. Dr Alexiou is the elected Chair of the Working Group on Radio Communication Technologies of the Wireless World Research Forum.  She is elected member of the EURACON Delegates Assembly and elected member of the Corallia mi-cluster Executive Board. She is a member of the IEEE and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Her current research interests include radio interface and MIMO technologies, cooperation and coordination techniques and efficient radio resource management for Ultra Dense wireless networks and machine-to-machine communications.

 

 

  

Luke Ibbetson has been with Vodafone since 1996 and is currently leading the Vodafone Group Research and Development organisation. Luke is responsible for all aspects of network / IT research including Vodafone’s participation in international standards, definition of the architectural blueprint for future networks, trials of emerging / disruptive technologies and concepts, the evolution of telecoms security and long term spectrum matters. Luke led Vodafone's exploration of alternative access solutions “beyond 3G” and is now heading Vodafone's 5G strategy. Luke has a passion for fresh thinking and has successfully championed the introduction of many new technology start-up companies within Vodafone.

Prior to this, Luke worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds for over six years, undertaking contract research for companies including BT Laboratories and Cellnet (now Telefonica O2). Luke holds Chartered Engineer status with the Institute of Engineering Technology.

 

 

  
Markus Dillinger received his Diplom-Ing. degree in telecommunications in 1990 from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. In 1991 he joined the Mobile Network Division at Siemens for development of GSM base stations. From 1995 on, he was working on the definition of the third mobile radio generation in the European research projects. From 2000 he led Software Defined Radio research activities within the Siemens network division. He was leading several EU research programmes. From 2005 onwards he was director for mobile broadband solutions and later for enterprise solutions. In 2010 he joined Huawei Germany and was director for enterprise solutions for smart grid. In 2013 he has joined Huawei European Research Centre as Head of Wireless Internet Technologies where he runs private and public research programmes for e.g. car-to-car and automation
   

Jean-Sébastien Bedo (M) graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Télécom ParisTech in 2004. He is currently the Head of Networks Foresight and Strategy for Orange Labs Research. He is a member of the Board of Directors of 5G Infrastructure Association and of the Steering Board of NetWorld2020 ETP. Since 2009, he has been working for Orange Innovation, Marketing and Technologies department in various functions ranging from product marketing to strategic studies, network transformation programs and research. He co-advised six Ph.D. and post-doctoral students. He was also involved in several collaborative European research projects and published journal and conference articles on smart grid economics, Internet networks, and traffic forecasting.

 

 

  

Hamid Aghvami joined the academic staff at King’s College London in 1984. In 1989 he was promoted to Reader, and in 1993 was promoted Professor in Telecommunications Engineering. He is the founder of the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King’s. He was the Director of the Centre from 1994 to 2014.

Professor Aghvami carries out consulting work on Digital Radio Communications Systems for British and International companies; he has published over 550 technical journal and conference papers, and given invited talks and courses the world over on various aspects of Personal and Mobile Radio Communications. He was Visiting Professor at NTT Radio Communication Systems Laboratories in 1990, Senior Research Fellow at BT Laboratories in 1998-1999, and was an Executive Advisor to Wireless Facilities Inc., USA, in 1996-2002. He is the Chairman of Advanced Wireless Technology Group Ltd. He is also the Managing Director of Wireless Multimedia Communications Ltd, his own consultancy company.

Professor Aghvami leads an active research team working on numerous mobile and personal communications projects for Fourth and fifth generation networks; these projects are supported both by government and industry. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society in 2001-2003, was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society in 2004-2007, and has been member, Chairman, and Vice-Chairman of the technical programme and organising committees of a large number of international conferences. He is also founder of the International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), a major yearly conference attracting some 1,000 attendees.

Professor Aghvami was awarded the IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications (TCPC) Recognition Award in 2005 for his outstanding technical contributions to the communications field, and for his service to the scientific and engineering communities. Professor Aghvami is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IET, Fellow of the IEEE, and in 2009 was awarded a Fellowship of the Wireless World Research Forum in recognition of his personal contributions to the wireless world, and for his research achievements as Director at the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King’s.
   

Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990.  He is now VP and Managing Director of 5G Laboratory in NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

Mr. Nakamura has been working for research and development of the W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE/LTE-Advanced and 5G technologies.

He has been engaged in the standardization activities for the W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE/LTE-Advanced and 5G at ARIB in Japan since 1997. He is currently the leader of 2020 and Beyond Ad Hoc(20B AH) in ARIB and Acting Chairman of the Strategy & Planning Committee in 5G Mobile Communication Promotion Forum(5GMF) in Japan.

He has been contributing to standardization activities in 3GPP since1999.　He had contributed to 3GPP TSG-RAN as a vice chairman during March 2005 to March 2009 and as a chairman during April 2009 to March 2013.