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5G and Mobile Private Networks are enabling the digital transformation of manufacturing and the factories of the future. It is essential that network operators build the 5G right so we deliver all key enablers for Private networks in Industry 4.0. This talk reviews the key characteristics of Mobile Private Networks and present real use cases of how companies are now adopting 5G technology to reduce manual processes and enable highly efficient, connected, and flexible factories of the future.
Spain’s 5G players - government, operators, industry — are investing heavily in pilot projects covering virtually every use case. This session will give an overview and highlights of Spain’s first years of 5G consumer deployment and business use cases. We will provide an inside look at pilot case experimentation, exposing lessons learned and comparing deployment in Spain and in other countries in an effort to identify the key ingredients for 5G’s economical and societal success.
3GPP is finalizing Release 17 and starting to work on the second phase of 5G, which is officially named as 5G Advanced. The goal of 5G Advanced is to extend the 5G framework to support more scenarios and use cases, in particular for IoTs and vertical applications. Communications for automation and intelligence in vertical domains come with demanding and diverse requirements with respect to latency, data rates, availability, reliability, and in some cases, high-accuracy positioning. The vertical industries that will reap the benefits of this new level of automation will range from railways, buildings, manufacturing, healthcare, smart cities, electrical power supply and special events. Integrated with AI, Big Data, IoT, and other key technologies, 5G Advanced will empower traditional industries one step further than 5G. The talk will demonstrate the latest status of 5G empowered vertical applications and provide insight on how 5G Advanced will digitalize and modernize traditional industries to raise the efficiency. AI, industrial IoT, ubiquitous networks, blockchains, edge computing and network slicing are the key technologies which will be elaborated in this talk. In the conclusion of this talk, evolving trends of 5G Advanced to better boost a smart society and better support verticals will also be outlined.
Until now, optical access networks have used basic intensity modulation direct detection transmission methods, using elementary signal recovery techniques (clock and data recovery). Now that baud rates are increasing, this simple approach is no longer viable if the system is to maintain the sizable loss budget (30 dB) that is required. At the same time, the cost of high-speed digital signal processing (DSP) has declined enough that it can be applied to an optical access system. The ITU-T has been developing the “High Speed Passive Optical Network” (HS-PON) since 2018, and that work has now culminated with the consent of the first complete set of recommendations that describe a 50 Gb/s (over a single wavelength) PON. In addition, several prototype systems have been developed and demonstrated in laboratory trials with several operators. It is expected that significant deployment of 50 Gb/s PON will begin in 2024.1 At present, there are many groups dedicated to DSP research, but most of these are targeted to wireless technologies or to coherent optical transmission. This means that the optical access field is presently underserved by the DSP community, and is fertile ground for research. Our presentation will provide the necessary technical background to understand the fiber access network, and then present the various ways in which DSP can be applied to solve the major issues that come from increasing the speed of those networks. One issue we will address is the use of bandwidth limited components to enable lower cost systems, where DSP can enable a doubling of baud rate with only 2dB worse optical sensitivity. We will also describe the problem of resolution in burst mode transmission, the classical challenge of passive optical networks. We show that DSP can do far better than the traditional analog techniques, both in terms of sophistication of signal recovery algorithms and in adaptability of reception parameters. Most engineers with optical access experience lack an in-depth knowledge of DSP technologies. Conversely, most DSP engineers lack the knowledge of the idiosyncrasies that arise from burst mode transmission at very high baud rate. The goal of this presentation is to bridge the gap between the PON and DSP engineers, planting a seen from which some new applications of existing techniques can be found.
In the last few years a variety of players have entered the quantum race, ranging from tech giants - such as IBM and Google – to several small start-up companies, as well as states and governments, with massive public funds to be distributed over the next years. Standardization efforts are already ongoing, such as the one within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The IEEE has become involved in this effort. Within the context of a real quantum revolution, the vision is to build a quantum network infrastructure, also known as the Quantum Internet, to interconnect remote quantum devices so that quantum communications among them are enabled. We will give an overview about the main challenges and open problems arising in the design of a distributed quantum computing architecture. Quantum computing is on the verge of sparking a paradigm shift. Software reliant on this nascent technology, one rooted in the physical laws of nature, could soon revolutionize computing forever. We will focus on the current quantum computer technology from the hardware and software point of view, providing a detailed roadmap for next years. In this context, specific integration of classical and quantum computing that represents a huge step in accelerating the execution of quantum circuits, or sequences of quantum operations, on real Quantum systems will be described.
Satellite communication (SatCom) offers the prospect of service continuity over uncovered and under-covered areas, service ubiquity, and service scalability. In addition, the integration of SatCom, aerial networks, and terrestrial communications into a single wireless network, called space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN), is deemed from now on crucial. However, several challenges must first be addressed to realize these benefits, as the resource management, network control, network security, spectrum management, and energy usage of satellite networks are more challenging than that of terrestrial networks. This panel will offer a general overview of emerging and future trends in SatCom. More specifically, the potential of SatCom and then the challenges facing diverse aspects of these systems will be discussed. The panel will also be a forum to debate the various proposed solutions.
Lifted by the network automation mega-trend, a third wave of autonomous computing and networking technologies development rises across the ICT industry. Multiple initiatives from Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), large open source projects, preeminent industry actors and renowned academic research teams have been launched in recent years and continue to emerge. This phenomenon deserves careful consideration if one wants to avoid facing the same disillusion as previous attempts at making autonomous networks a reality. While the theoretical and applied research corpus has been extensively contributed, the real world and large-scale adoption of autonomous networks has been, in contrast, relatively limited and disappointing. Since autonomous networks continue to fascinate research and engineers as a technological area full of potential and promise, the goal of this panel is to make a reality check on where we stand on the level of maturity of autonomous networks technologies and what challenges should the industry collectively address to ensure that the promises are met.
PRIME’s Broadband Powerline (BPL) solution caters to the higher bandwidth and shortened latency requirements for a more active network. It allows for a reliable communications network, enabling ownership and management of communications over the low voltage/medium voltage grid. As with other PRIME technologies and solutions, PRIME BPL offers an open, interoperable solution to address the needs of utilities and their customers by providing high-speed connectivity extending the capabilities that can be obtained with NBPLC.
6G becomes the hotspot for the wireless research community, whilst the journey to 6G is still many years ahead. The road to 6G entails a process for the fundamental research for 6G technologies, the development of the 6G enabling technologies and standardization of 6G technologies. In this Executive Forum, we will focus on the discussion and debate of the 6G times-line, and route to global standardization on 6G.
As 5G takes to the airwaves, we now turn our imagination to the next generation of wireless technology. The promise of this technology has created an international race to innovate, with significant investment by government as well as industry. And much innovation is needed as 6G aspires to not only support significantly higher data rates than 5G, up to 100 Gbps, but also improved reliability along with excellent coverage indoors and out, including for underserved areas. New architectures including edge computing must be designed to drastically enhance efficient resource allocation while also reducing latency for real-time control. Breakthrough energy-efficiency architectures, algorithms and hardware will be needed so that wireless devices can be powered by tiny batteries, energy-harvesting, or over-the-air power transfer. There are many technical challenges that must be overcome in order to make this vision a reality. This talk will describe what the wireless future might look like along with some of the innovations and breakthroughs required to realize this vision.
Suppose we are familiar with the economic structure of the European Union. In that case, we know that industry is one of the essential pillars. According to the latest data, the manufacturing sector accounts for around 2 million companies, 33 million jobs, and about 60% of productivity growth. But digitisation in Europe has three significant problems: Competition with other regions is very high; SMEs do not have many resources to digitise and are falling behind; finally, there are significant disparities within the regions of the European Union itself. This is where the commitment and value of the European Digital Innovation Hubs come in, as they can solve two of the significant problems of digitisation in Europe, unifying procedures not only with companies and entities but also between regions and countries, giving them all the same opportunities; in addition to supporting companies, especially SMEs, in their digital transformation, not only advising but also comprehensively accompanying users, facilitating the entire process. According to recent studies, it has been estimated that the digitisation of products and services can add more than 110 billion euros of annual revenue to the European economy in the next five years. Therefore, this panel will provide all the relevant information regarding the European Union's commitment to developing European Digital Innovation Hubs to digitise industry and territorial development.
Edge computing as an evolution of cloud computing brings application hosting from centralized data centers down to the network edge, closer to consumers and the data generated by applications. It is acknowledged as one of the key pillars for meeting the demanding 5G Key Performance Indicators, especially as far as low latency and bandwidth efficiency are concerned. Moreover edge computing also plays an essential role in the transformation of the telecommunications business, where telecommunications networks are turning into versatile service platforms for industry and other specific customer segments. ETSI ISG MEC is the home of technical standards for edge computing. The group has already published a set of specifications and reports to offer fully standardized solutions to support IoT applications in distributed cloud. The emphasis of this talk is the MEC features in support of IoT use cases and requirements, as well as the MEC integration with 5G system and the MEC expansion to edge federation.
How to efficiently and accurately predict the channel impulse response (CIR) is crucial to wireless communications. In this talk, we first briefly discuss the prevailing learning-based approaches and the key problems involved. Then we introduce our work on the CIR representation and prediction with only the user's position information and a set of channel instances obtained within a certain wireless communication environment. Specifically, we resort to a novel physics-inspired generative approach to design the learning network, which makes use of the physical model of EM-wave reflections along each path and the excellent properties of the Gaussian Radial Basis Function network (GRBF) and sinusoidal representation network (SIREN) in predicting the path amplitude and phase respectively. We also discuss how to extend to the resultant learning architecture to the MIMO case and how to apply it to mobile channel prediction.
New applications envisioned for networks in 5G and beyond place emphasis on ultra-reliable and low-latency communications. To simultaneously support the seemingly contradictory requirements placed on the error-correcting systems in future networks, near-maximum likelihood decoding of short block-length codes has become a focus of recent research. In this talk we will present recent results on several different near-maximum likelihood decoding techniques for short block-length codes, including techniques for decoding short Reed-Muller and Polar Codes, AI-assisted decoding, and GRAND decoding. An emphasis will be placed on reducing the complexity of near-ML decoding algorithms towards practical hardware implementations.
Today's mobile phones are far from mere communication devices they were just fifteen years ago. Equipped with sophisticated sensors and advanced computing hardware, phones can be used to infer users' location, activity, social setting and more. As devices become increasingly intelligent, their capabilities evolve beyond inferring context to predicting it, and then reasoning and acting upon the predicted context. Information about users’ behaviour can also be gathered by means of wearables and IoT devices as well as by sensors embedded in the fabric of our cities. Inference is not only limited to physical context and activities, but in the recent years mobile phones have been increasingly used to infer users' emotional states. The applications of these techniques are several, from positive behavioural intervention to more natural and effective human-mobile device interaction. In this talk, I will discuss the work of my lab in the area of mobile sensing for modelling and predicting human behaviour for social good. I will also discuss our research directions in the broader area of modelling human behaviour and social systems, outlining the open challenges and opportunities.