PANEL 2

5G Architecture

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 14:30-16:00, room Aristotelis

 

Motivation and Background:

 

The current exponentially growing demand on wireless data rates, the new requirements imposed by future services and the required level of flexibility and heterogeneity call for an investigation of novel aspects of the 5G network architecture (incl. RAN, Core Network, converged wireline and wireless network with both core and access network aspects, networked cloud, Transport Network and Services). In this context, it is not surprising that there are several research initiatives dealing with integration and unification of functional and non-functional requirements, deployable elements, wired and wireless interworking, control, management and operational architecture aspects or that are looking at fundamental pieces that have an impact on the overall 5G architecture or vice versa. Furthermore, in the standardization bodies like 3GPPP, ETSI, ITU-R, IETF and ONF the work on the definition of the architecture for the 5G era has been already started. As part of the 5GPPP Initiative large number of projects attempt to either completely redesign the 5G network architecture or some of its components. Those projects have joint the forces and launched a Working Group on 5G Architecture to serve as a common platform to facilitate the discussion between projects developing architectural concepts and components and foster the discussions on the basis of the KPI’s described in the 5GPPP contract. The WG has issued a White Paper end of May/beginning of June on 5G Architecture and would like to discuss it with panellists who has contributed to it and with panellists who can bring a different perspective.

 

Questions

  1. What are the architecture design principles and building blocks for the 5G era?
  2. What are the implementation aspects for the above principles and building blocks?
  3. What is the standardization roadmap?

 

Participants

The panel is composed of (see CVs below):

  • Chair: Simone Redana (Head of Mobile Network Architecture & Systems Research, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)
  • Alexandros Kaloxylos (Head of Radio Access Network Department, Huawei, Germany)
  • Icaro Leonardo Da Silva (Senior Researcher, Ericsson, Sweden)
  • Konstantinos Chalkiotis (Vice President, Mobile Access Group Technology, Deutsche Telekom, Germany)
  • Akihiro Nakao (University of Tokyo, Japan)

 

 

Presentations available!

 

 

Dr. Simone Redana currently leads the Mobile Network Architecture & Systems Research Group in Nokia Bell Labs as well as chairing the 5G Architecture Working Group as part of the 5GPPP Initiative. Simone received the MSc and Ph.D. degrees from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2002 and 2005 respectively. In 2006, he joined Siemens Communication in Milan where he worked as consultant during 2005. Since 2008 he has been with Nokia (previously Nokia Siemens Networks) in Munich, Germany.

Simone and contributed and leaded relay concept design in various EU research projects (WINNER II, WINNER+ and ARTIST4G). He contributed to the business case analysis of relay deployments and to the standardization of Relays for Long Term Evolution (LTE) Release 10. Simone has coordinated the 5G NORMA (Novel Architecture for the 5G era) project as part of the 5GPPP Initiative till January 2016. His current research interests are on novel architecture solutions for 5G era.

 
   

Dr. Alexandros Kaloxylos has participated in numerous EU projects and has published over 110 papers in the area of mobile communications since 1994. He is a senior member of IEEE, an editorial board member of several journals and a TPC member in numerous conferences. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Peloponnese in Greece. Since June 2014, he is a Principal Researcher at Huawei’s European Research Center in Munich where he is currently the head of Radio Access Network Department.

 

 

  

Icaro Leonardo Da Silva is a Senior Researcher working at Ericsson, Stockholm since 2010. He is currently working as a 3GPP delegate in RAN2 Working Group for 5G related topics. In the recent years Icaro has been driving both internal and external 5G architecture initiatives in R&D. He is the work package leader in the 5G-PPP project METIS-II responsible for the Overall Control Plane Design for the 5G architecture and he is an active contributor to the 5G Architecture Working Group in 5G-PPP. He is also a co-author of the chapter about the 5G architecture in the book “5G Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology” and authors of many conference/journal papers in various areas from mobile networks to signals processing and physical layer. He is also an active inventor in the area of mobile networks, architecture and network management with more than 100 patents. Icaro has concluded its Master of Science at the Universidade Federal of Ceará, Brazil in 2007 and since then he has been involved in R&D projects with Ericsson.

 
   

K. Chalkiotis has joined Deutsche Telekom Group Technology in 2013 as Vice President in Mobile Access. His primary function is to define the strategy, architecture, innovation and blueprints for Mobile Access Networks in Deutsche Telekom Group. As of the beginning of 2016 he is also responsible for the architecture of the fixed networks within Deutsche Telekom Group Technology. He is also running the activities for DT group concerning LTE-A, LTE – A Pro, NB-IoT and 5G technologies

He has sixteen years working experience in Telecommunications. He worked in Cosmote Greece as Project Leader for Pilot & Special Projects in the New Technologies Section, Radionetworks Quality Coordinator and Project Manager in 3G trial and initial deployment. Access & Transmission Networks Principal Engineer and Access Networks Parameters Manager.

He have 27 published articles in per reviewed scientific journals, 2 books published, participation in development of IEEE C95.1/2005 and 47 announcements in International Conferences. Also he hold a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Computing, he is member of International Committee on Electromagnetic Safety (ICES – IEEE).

 

 
   

Prof. Dr. Akihiro NAKAO received B.S. (1991) in Physics, M.E. (1994) in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo. He was at IBM Yamato Laboratory, Tokyo Research Laboratory, and IBM Texas Austin from 1994 till 2005. He received M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) in Computer Science from Princeton University. He has been teaching as an associate professor (2005-2014) and as a professor (2014-present) in Applied Computer Science, at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo. He has been appointed as a chairman of network architecture committee of the fifth generation mobile network promotion forum (5GMF) in Japan.