Alain Maloberti (Senior Vice President Networks, Orange Labs Networks, France)

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Abstract

5G will not only provide a tremendous improvement of wireless networks capacity. It should first help to enhance the experience of our customers where and when it matters. This keynote will start from covering the need to have a consistent experience in daily life situations such as being at the border of a cell or in a high environmental quality building stopping radio waves, switching between different wireless technologies, or travelling in a high speed train. It will also give an overview of the specificities of connected objects user experience, especially the issues around energy management. Then, it will rapidly go through new emerging trends around personalization and adaptation of network performance to end user services. This vision will only be possible if we consider end-to-end system aspects beyond radio. We will conclude by a discussion on such system aspects like Network Function Virtualization and the related operational challenges.

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Alain Maloberti graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, 1977) and from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Télécom Paris, 1979). He joined France Telecom in 1979, and has been involved since 1983 on studies and development of digital cellular networks, notably as chairman of the technical committee SMG2 of ETSI (definition of the radio aspects of the GSM system) from 1985 to 1995. He was Director of the Technical Development of the France Telecom mobile network in France from 1994 to 2003, when he became, at the corporate level of the Orange Group (mobile subsidiary of the France Telecom Group), in charge of the development of networks. In 2006, mobile and fixed operations of the FT Group where merged both at national and corporate level, and Alain Maloberti is currently Senior VP, Orange Labs Networks, for fixed, broadband and mobile networks of Orange Group.