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Owing to the 5G age, the mm-Wave technologies and applications are getting more and more important and popular. Obviously, radiations of mm-Wave are quite crucial to the mm-Wave wireless communication performance. However, the mm-Wave radiation technologies and solutions are significantly different from those for the conventional FR1 (non-mm-Wave) cellular bands. Therefore, this industry panel will mainly focus on the 5G mm-Wave radiation technologies and solutions, including antenna designs, beamforming-system designs, and OTA (over-the-air) chamber designs, to discuss, share and complement the technological understanding of and information updates on the latest studies, emerging development, and commercialized progress from the industry perspectives. Through this industry panel, the new inspiration and scope expansion for the researchers and designers from the Comm. and related communities hence can be achieved to facilitate and benefit their future studies or the product developments. Thus, all interested audience are cordially welcome to enjoy this industry panel.
One of the main reasons attributed to the digital divide is the business cost and return on investment (RoI). In poorer or lower population density regions, the cost of deployment of optical fiber in the backbone network and related infrastructure, in particular a reliable electrical power grid, becomes prohibitively large, whereas the RoI remains marginal at best. In this scenario, a viable solution to cut down on the cost factor is to deploy satellites in the backbone network in order to provide connectivity to far-flung or less populated areas, to passengers in airplanes, ships, and trains, or to disconnected people in areas affected by natural disasters. More specifically, a constellation of satellites can provide worldwide coverage if a sufficient number of those are utilized. For instance, in recent years, different constellations of satellites have been proposed to provide global broadband access to Internet which includes the Starlink supported by SpaceX with 12000 LEO satellites, Amazon’s Project Kuiper with 3236 LEO satellites , and Telesat LEO with 300 to 500 satellites. Such a large number of satellites has allowed mass production of components, thereby resulting in a significant reduction in satellite manufacturing costs. Alternatively, if a large footprint on the remote location is not required, a high altitude platform (HAP) or a swarm/cascade of HAP’s or balloons/helikites can be used in the backbone network in the sky. The service model envisaged in this regard comprises of two configurations. In the first arrangement, a single HAP functions in a “tower-in-the-air” configuration whereby it relays data obtained from the ground station (uplink) to various service delivery stations (such as base stations) in the downlink. In the second configuration, a swarm/cascade of HAP’s is used as both relay nodes and service delivery devices for the local users. The same configuration can also be used in conjunction with LEO or MEO satellites if the area to be covered is significantly large. In this context, this panel aims to go over the recently proposed integrated space-air-terrestrial network solutions to provide high-speed connectivity not only in under-covered/remote/rural areas but also to moving cells in the air (airplanes) and the sea (cruises/ships).
Massive MIMO is seen as a key enabling technology for 5G in terms of capacity improvement and coverage enhancement. Major advances have been made by 3GPP and mobile vendors in order to bring Massive MIMO to reality. At the same time, further Massive MIMO technology evolution is also being continued to satisfy higher network requirements such as extremely high data rates for emerging high-definition videos and AR/VR services, friendly and consistent mobile UE experience, ultra-low latency and super dense connectivity. In this panel, we will bring leading experts to discuss the potential evolution directions of the Massive MIMO technology towards the future. As such, the following topics shall be covered by the panel: High-efficiency CSI acquisition for numerous scenarios, such as low-overhead for multi-user multiplexing, robustness for high-speed mobility, and unified FDD/TDD by virtue of channel reciprocity. User centric no cell (UCNC) deployment, such as powerful interference suppression precoding and intelligent coordinated transmission scheme. Agile beam management for mmWave and mobility, such as blockage prediction and fast intra-cell and inter-cell beam switching. AI and ML, expected to be the foundation for intelligent air interface design of massive MIMO transceivers. Novel antenna system architectures, such as extremely large aperture arrays (ELAA) and smart surfaces (e.g., reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and large intelligent surface (LIS)), and corresponding communication system design.
RAN (Radio Access Networks) become increasingly complex with the advent of 5G by flexible network architecture, discrete frequencies, densification and richer demanding applications. To tame this complexity, traditional human designed ways of deploying, optimizing and operating a network lead to pretty high TCO (Total Cost Of Owners) and gets very low ROI (Return of Investment). The fast development of AI/ML technologies obviously influenced and changed the world (including traditional telecom industry) a lot in the recent years, leveraging AI/ML based technologies to build self-driving networks to reduce OPEX and increase network gains becomes possible and essentially the expanded eco-system may bring to new business model as well. The expanded RAN eco-system with AI/ML, IT (Information Technology), CT (Communication Technology) and DT (Data Technology) industry players have worked closely to leverage emerging deep learning techniques to enable intelligence in every layer of the RAN architecture. In this Industry forum, we will bring industry leaders and experts who are driving and leading the RAN intelligence development to share their key findings, challenges and future directions with the Globecom 2020 audience, these experts’ companies play diverse roles in the RAN intelligence eco-system thus we expect they will share lots of useful information to form an overall technical picture of RAN intelligence. It is also expected to leverage this interactive communication chance to gather feedback from Globecom 2020 audience and also broaden the RAN intelligence eco-system.
This panel aims at discussing the key drivers and technology trends being envisaged for future wireless networks (2030). The European Union and United States of America have both started their own research programmes with the objective to lead the evolution towards next generation wireless networks. Although the objective is the same, the European and USA approaches seem to differ significantly in inception and execution.Members of this panel include an industrial thought leader (Alain Mourad) from Interdigital, who is involved in both USA and European wireless research programmes and knows from first-hand the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Serge Fdida, coordinator of the EMPOWER project has a long experience on the management of shared experimental platforms, especially as coordinator of the federated OneLab facility, the FIT French research infrastructure or the PlanetLab Europe testbed. Finally, Abhimanyu Gosain, as technical programme director of the PAWR office is the key person regarding the North American advanced wireless research platforms. This panel aims at discussing a mix of market and technology questions such as: What are the key drivers; technical and societal, influencing research programmes towards 6G? What are the key technology trends in the wireless system and in the network? How are different countries, noticeably in EU and USA approaching the research towards 6G? Is the role of experimental research becoming more or less important? What makes the case to strengthen cooperation on the research platforms? How the costs of such platforms should be shared between public and private organizations? Do we see the need for a different governance model of these research platforms than what we are used to? How should non-traditional partner requirements (e.g. from Vertical Industries) be incorporated in future experimental wireless research platforms? What needs to be done to ensure large participation and use of these research platforms? How do we ensure reproducibility of the experiments? What models for experimental data sharing and governance need to be considered?