Registration closes on 12 September 2022 at 5:00pm EDT

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CEU Credits: 0.6 CEUs

A Roadmap to 5G-Advanced & Beyond
If you would like to gain insights and get an introduction of concepts, technologies, architecture, standards, research, industry roadmap, and 5G technologies enabling the next 5-10 years, this course will be of interest to you.

Course Description

This updated course presents an end-to-end view and shares insights on each aspect of 5G and its roadmap, including architecture, functions and their role in end-to-end operation, multi-access, service-based and cloud-native 5G core, network disaggregation and openness, smart edge, energy efficiency, evolution in 5G-Advanced, and beyond, enabling trends and wide range of use cases. The course is designed to help participants understand the technology, industry, design, and research building blocks from an introductory-to-advanced level enabling the next 5-10 years, with concepts, context and insights (with placeholders for and pointers to technical and standards details). Insights on end-to-end pillars, technology, standardization, industry, service enablement, and ecosystem roadmap, challenges, and realities, along with what to expect, from research to smart societies and automated industries in the next several years and beyond will be shared.

Participants will study 5G systems, focusing on end-to-end cloud native and increasingly disaggregated and intelligent 5G system. Timelines and how the broad range of use cases with diverse requirements are enabled will be addressed. An explanation of the integration of 4G, Wi-Fi, fixed, and non-terrestrial communications, in the multi-access and converged future will be provided. 5G core and its key functions in separated control and user planes along with end-to-end service enablement, leveraging native telco cloud, and an increasingly open, disaggregated, and cloud-based RAN will be discussed. The attributes, usage scenarios, and technologies of 5G-Advanced will be outlined as the full vision of 5G roadmap is realized.

The instructor will explain the evolution of the next generation architecture, technologies and operation and how network slicing, cloud-native technologies, SDN, automation, orchestration, etc. are introduced from design and built and evolved. Technology enablers such as machine-learning as an essential aspect of automation, smart edge & hybrid cloud, etc. will also be discussed, from architecture and standards to deployments and service enablement, including how they migrate and evolve. Furthermore, the increasing merger of physical, virtual and digital worlds, immersive extended reality and the use of digital replicas are outlined.

The course will wrap-up with key important forward-looking paradigms: The evolution of digital transformation and automated industries with increasingly open, converged, autonomous and cognitive 5G / 5G-Advanced system, as well as its path to achieving energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, embedded intelligence, immersive experience, and digital / physical merger towards beyond-5G / 6G.

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for industry / enterprise professionals, public or private (from juniors to subject matter experts in various fields, range of industries impacted by digital transformation, 5G, Cloud, AI, Green, 5G Advanced, Beyond 5G / 6G), academia (profs/researchers/program developers), consultants and self-employed who would like to learn more about 5G evolution & its future in an end-to-end context setting.  If you would like to gain insights and get an introduction of concepts, technologies, architecture, standards, research, industry roadmap, and 5G technologies enabling the next 5-10 years, this course will be of interest to you.

Learning Objectives

Participants in this course will gain an understanding of

• 5G system, architecture, and functions
• 5G deployments, migration, and roadmap (incl real examples)
• Cloud native & cognitive autonomous nature of 5G system evolution & operation
• Multi-access nature of 5G core & service ubiquity through integration of fixed/mobile, local/wide, terrestrial/non-terrestrial
• Wide range of use cases, with case studies & many examples and how value/service is created and delivered to wide range of use cases with diverse requirements
• How the end-to-end works, how it connects to other Comsoc courses (e.g. 5G NR, Security, IoT, Cloud, etc.), and how to be empowered to go deeper on any component
• The work of standardization bodies, and the status of the ecosystem and industries
• Full 5G realization in coming years and its evolution path including 5G-Advanced 
• Energy efficiency, Green & sustainability
• Motivations for systems beyond 5G. Research and global initiatives on 6G and systems for 2030 and beyond.
• Context and insight, end-to-end picture in aspects and in its evolution in the next 5-10 years
• Broad range and key areas of research

Course Content

Course Materials

Each registered participant receives a copy of instructor slides and access to the recording of the course for 20 business days after the live lecture. Earn 0.6 IEEE Continuing Education Units for participating.

Upon registration, you will automatically be emailed the WebEx invitation for the course session, but you will also be sent a reminder message to join the WebEx session prior to the start of the course. Course materials will be emailed to you and will be available for download from the WebEx session page for this course, the day prior to the scheduled course date.

Course Cancellation and Refund Policy: Requests for online course cancellations must be received 3 business days prior to the course date for a full refund. Once course materials have been shared with a participant, a cancellation request cannot be accommodated.

Contact Us

For general inquiries and technical support, contact Tara McNally, Certification and Professional Education Manager.

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