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Note: The presentation materials of the 4.5G panel (LTE-Advanced):
1.  CMCC   4.5G-boost the experience from user and operator perspective final (PDF Click >>)
2.  Nokia  IEEE_ICCC_presentation_LTE-Advanced_Toskala (PDF Click >>)
3.  Ericsson  Panel debate ICCC - Long-Term LTE Evolution (PDF Click >>)
4.  Huawei  4.5G everything over LTE ICCC14 (PDF Click >>)
5.  NTT DOCOMO ICCC2014 (PDF Click >>)
6.  QC   LTE Evolution for Rel-13 and Beyong (ICCCC) - YW (PDF Click >>)

 


1. Panel discussion on three-dimensional MIMO (3D-MIMO 2014)
2F/Ballroom A, 14:00-17:30,14th, Oct.
Aim of the panel discussion

With the development of wireless communication technology, rich applications of wireless networks lead to an explosive growth of wireless data services. This brings great challenges to wireless access networks and requires the communication systems to use spectral resources more efficiently. Multiple-antenna technology has been adopted in LTE/LTE-Advanced system due to its potential for significant performance improvement in terms of spectrum efficiency and interference suppression. In order to meet the ever-increasing user demands, three-dimensional MIMO (3D-MIMO) has been proposed to further boost the spectral efficiency. In 3D-MIMO, antennas are placed not only in the horizontal domain but also in the elevation domain, which provides an additional dimension to leverage compared with traditional two-dimensional MIMO. Multiple narrow elevation beams can be formed by the elevation antennas to increase the spatial resolution and bring huge improvements in throughput. 3D-MIMO can be used in many scenarios including traditional urban macro/micro cells (UMa/UMi) to improve the system performance. Besides the UMa and UMi scenarios, 3D-MIMO can also be adopted in high-rise scenario and indoor scenario to improve coverage and guarantee high throughput.
 
However, 3D-MIMO also faces many challenges. First challenge is the increased complexity of the hardware since fully flexible digital precoding requires the number of transceiver chains as many as the number of antenna elements. Second challenge is the complexity of the signal processing introduced by much more antennas. Third challenge is the complexity of designing reference signals for channel state estimation and demodulation. Larger overhead may be introduced in order to derive and feedback the downlink channel state information. One solution for TDD system is to make use of channel reciprocity. However, the complexity of antenna calibration is also increased with the increased number of antennas. Those challenges need to be properly addressed for a successful operation of 3D-MIMO.
 
The aim of the panel discussion is to bring together both the mobile communications industry (operators, telecom vendors, and consulting firms) and academia to present and discuss the benefits, challenges, and potential solutions in the fields of 3D-MIMO. Technical understanding developed via the panel discussion would help achieve technical advances in wireless communications that enable 3D-MIMO. Besides the technical insights, the panel discussion will provide a supportive environment for technical discussions between like-minded researchers and engineers.

Topics of panel discussion

Topics of interest relating to 3D-MIMO are (but not limited to):
  • Active antenna system
  • The hardware architecture of 3D-MIMO
  • Three-dimensional channel measurements and modeling
  • Deployment scenarios, modeling and performance evaluation and analysis
  • Capacity and fundamental aspects of 3D-MIMO systems
  • Channel state information (CSI) acquisition
  • Channel state information reference signal transmission
  • Multi-user MIMO enhancement
  • Demodulation reference signal design
  • 3D-MIMO detection and demodulation algorithms
  • Downlink precoding algorithms
  • Control channel coverage
  • High frequency application
  • Antenna calibration and TDD channel reciprocity
  • Resource allocation
  • The core RF and/or EMC requirements for the transmitter and receiver
  • Transmitter and receiver characteristics and their impact on system performance and co-existence
  • Hardware impairment, implementation and demos 

Organizers:

Dr. Guangyi Liu, CTO, Wireless department, China Mobile Research Institute. Email: liuguangyi@chinamobile.com;
Bio: Guangyi Liu [M] received his B.S. in physics from Chinese Ocean University in 1997. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in circuits and systems from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2000 and 2006, respectively. Since 2006, he has been working for the Research Institute of China Mobile Communication Corporations. Now he is chief technical officer of the Wireless Department of the same institute. His research interests include LTE/LTE-Advanced/5G standardization and trial, system performance modeling and evaluation, channel measurement and modeling, and flexible spectrum usage. He is a leading expert in the LTE/LTE-Advanced industrilization and globalization, and he is invovled actively in many acedemia activities and has authored and co-authorded tens of IEEE journal and conference papers.
 
Dr. Juho Lee, Master, head of 3GPP standardization, Samsung Electronics. Email: juho95.lee@samsung.com;
Bio: Juho Lee is currently a Master with Samsung Electronics and is the lead executive in charge of research on standardization of wireless communications. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 1993, 1995, and 2000, respectively. He joined Samsung Electronics in 2000 and has been working on standardization of mobile communications for 3G and 4G such as WCDMA, HSDPA, HUSPA, LTE, and LTE-Advanced and is also actively working on research and standardization for 5G. He was a vice chairman of TSG RAN WG1 during February 2003 through August 2009, chaired LTE/LTE-Advanced MIMO sessions, and served as the rapporteur for the 3GPP LTE-Advanced Rel-11 CoMP work item.

Agenda for panel discussion:

1. Invited speeches from the panelist (3 hours)

a) 3D MIMO: from theory to practice, Dr. Hui Tong, CMCC,Project manager.

b) Measuring and modeling of 3D MIMO channels, Prof. Andy , USC.
    Abstract: This talk will first review techniques for measuring 3D channels, which require innovative measurement setups and     parameter extraction methods. We then summarize results in the literature, describing elevation spreads at BS and MS             measured in the literature, as well as correlation of these values with other channel characteristics.

c) 3D MIMO channel model: necessarity and practice, Prof. Jianhua Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

d) 3D MIMO’s application in mmwave band, Dr. Juho Lee, Master, head of 3GPP standardization, Samsung

e) 3D MIMO key components and challenges, Dr. Hao Guan, Senior expert, Nokia
    Abstract: Via 3D space extension and large scale antenna array application, MIMO technology is embracing a new era. Multiple users, narrow beams and wideband transmission are the main characteristics of 3D-MIMO application in 5G. This speech will talk about application scenarios, promising potentials and  main technique barriers of 3D-MIMO. Meanwhile, when applying in high frequency band, new opportunity and challenge will also be mentioned.

f) Enabling 3D MIMO in LTE-Advanced – From The CSI Acquisition Perspective, Dr. Jilei Hou, Director, engineering, Qualcomm Research China.
  Abstract: It was recently discovered that significant gain of interference avoidance could potentially be achieved by dynamic beam steering in the vertical dimension.  Using a two-dimensional (2D) active-antenna array (AAA) with large antenna ports, substantial capacity improvement can be expected by exploiting the additional elevation dimension inherent in a MIMO wireless system. However, increasing the number of antenna ports is challenging for channel state information (CSI) acquisition at the eNB.  In FDD system, one needs to consider pilot overhead and channel estimation complexity. In TDD system, the gain of each antenna port decreases as the number of antenna ports increases.  This means CSI acquisition via reciprocity may suffer as a decrease of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in uplink.  Thus, the CSI obtained via uplink sounding may suffer from both antenna calibration and channel estimation errors. In this talk we focus on efficient CSI acquisition/precoding design for 3D MIMO w/ large number of antenna ports.  Based on the spatial correlation structure of the channel, we show that the MIMO channel with a median/large dimension can be approximately represented by its projection on its dominant transmit subspace with a lower dimension.  The higher dimensional MIMO channel can thus be “compressed” into a lower dimension.  Breaking down of CSI can be utilized in efficient CSI quantization and feedback.  Under the proposed framework, we will present the system-level performance benefits based on a few design options.
 
g) Massive MIMO: New Opportunities, Challenges and Innovations, Mr. Li Liang, Chief Technology Planner, Huawei WirelessAbstract: MBB requires seamless user experience, 3D-MIMO provides the feasibile solution to challenges forseen in many application scenarios, e.g. stadium, large plaza, deep coverage of high building. This talk introduces the challenges to manufracture the 3D-MIMO products with masssive antenna numbers, and presents the progress on the compact multiple RF channels, accurate RF channel calibration, advanced baseband algorithms and other engineering issues.
 
h) 3D MIMO: Channel Model and Transmission Schemes, Dr. Tao Yang, professional Senior engineer, head of MLT, Bell Labs, ALU

2. Panel discussion (1 hour)

Panelist (TBD):

Dr. Guangyi Liu (moderator), CTO, Wireless Department, China Mobile Research Institute
Dr. Juho Lee, Master, head of 3GPP standardization, Samsung
Prof. Andy Molish, USC
Dr. Guan Hao, Senior expert, Nokia
Prof. Jianhua Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Dr. Jilei Hou, Director, engineering, Qualcomm Research China.
Dr. Li Liang, Chief Technology Planner, Huawei
Dr. Tong Hui, project manager, China Mobile Research Institute

Dr. Tao Yang, professional Senior engineer, head of MLT, Bell Labs, ALU
 
2. Panel Discussion on LTE/LTE-Advanced Evolution (4.5G)
2F/Ballroom A,14:00-17:30, 15th Oct.
Aim of the panel discussion

Nowadays, most operators are upgrading their networks to LTE system and make the roadmap toward LTE-Advanced system, which were specified in 3GPP with fine-tuned air-interface wireless resource utilization and high spectrum efficiency. Such a unified industry roadmap promotes the maturity of LTE ecosystem, esp. the quantity of LTE chipsets and commercial terminals.
 
The standardization of LTE started in 2004 with the first release, i.e., Re-8 finalized in 2008, which achieves higher spectrum efficiency and provide the flexible spectrum utilization to both FDD and TDD bands with scalable bandwidth. 3GPP further standardized LTE-Advanced (i.e., Rel-10) to fulfill all the requirements of 4G, and was accepted as IMT-Advanced technology by ITU. Afterwards, all the 3GPP members put a lot of effort to continue to enhance LTE system for better system performance in the practical market in Rel-11 and Rel-12.
 
From technology evolution perspective, it is important to think about the next step of LTE-Advanced system. which targets the market requirements of 2017~2018. LTE Rel-13 is foreseen to be the main release of the next market step of LTE-Advanced further evolution, together with some key features studied and specified in Rel-12. Rel-13 is going to start soon, where some of the features are under discussions, such as operating LTE in unlicensed spectrum bands at 5GHz, 3D beamforming, etc.
 
This panel is to bring together the major telecommunication industry members as operators, network and chipset/terminal vendors to address the industry thinking of the further evolution of LTE and LTE-Advanced system. The industry opinions on LTE evolution in Rel-13 and onwards will reflect the trend of wireless communications in the coming years.
 
Topics of panel discussion
 
Topics of interest relating to LTE/LTE-Advanced Evolution are (but not limited to)
  • Schedule and scope of the next market milestone of LTE evolution
  • Key features of Rel-13
  • Operation LTE in unlicensed spectrum, regarding the regulation and coexistence analysis, performance evaluation and potential standard impact, etc. 

Organizers:

Dr. Wan Lei, Head of Wireless Standard, Huawei Tech. Co. Ltd.. Email: wan.lei@huawei.com
Dr. Wan Lei was leading the LTE-Advanced research and 3GPP RAN standardization work in Huawei since 2008. Before then she was principle engineer in Ericsson Research since 2001. Her main focus areas are network topology and air-interface evolution. She is known as the expert on network topology, the system-level evaluation methodology and FDD/TDD convergence in the industry, as the main driver of LTE TDD/FDD frame structure merging, CoMP, LTE-Hi (3GPP R12 small cell enhancement) and U-LTE (unlicensed LTE) research and standardization, and the inventor of the physical layer MI quality model that is widely used in the system level simulaion. Dr. Wan Lei has a long experience in the wireless communication industry, with the background of WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX, LTE and LTE-Advanced. Her research interests covers FDD and TDD harmonization, network topology evolution as CoMP and NetNet, traffic adaptive system design, interference coordination and the evaluation methodology.

Agenda for panel discussion:

Invited speeches from the panelist (3 hours)


Panel discussion (1 hour)Panelist:

Dr. Wan Lei (moderator), Director, Head of Wireless Standard, Huawei
 
Dr. Guangyi Liu, CTO, Wireless Department, China Mobile Research InstituteGuangyi Liu [M] received his B.S. in physics from Chinese Ocean University in 1997. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in circuits and systems from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2000 and 2006, respectively. Since 2006, he has been working for the Research Institute of China Mobile Communication Corporations. Now he is chief technical officer of the Wireless Department of the same institute. His research interests include LTE/LTE-Advanced/5G standardization and trial, system performance modeling and evaluation, channel measurement and modeling, and flexible spectrum usage. He is a leading expert in the LTE/LTE-Advanced industrilization and globalization, and he is invovled actively in many acedemia activities and has authored and co-authorded tens of IEEE journal and conference papers.
 
Mr. Satoshi Nagata, 3GPP RAN1 Chairman, Standard manager of NTT DOCOMOSatoshi Nagata received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2001 and 2003, respectively. In 2003, he joined NTT DOCOMO, INC. He worked for the research and development for wireless access technologies for LTE and LTE-Advanced. He had contributed to 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 as a vice chairman during November 2011 to August 2013. He is currently a chairman of 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 since August 2013.
 
Dr. Stefan Parkvall, principal researcher at Ericsson Research, 3GPP TS36.211 editorStefan Parkvall (senior member, IEEE) is currently working with research on future radio access. He is one of the key persons in the development of HSPA, LTE and LTE-Advanced radio access and has been deeply involved in 3GPP standardization for many years. Dr Parkvall is a senior member of the IEEE, served as an IEEE Distinguished lecturer 2011-2012, and is co-author of the popular books “3G Evolution – HSPA and LTE for Mobile Broadband” and “4G – LTE/LTE-Advanced for Mobile Broadband”. He has numerous patents in the area of mobile communication. In 2005, he received the Ericsson "Inventor of the Year" award, in 2009 the Swedish government’s Major Technical Award for his contributions to the success of HSPA, and in 2014 he and colleagues at Ericsson was nominated for the European Inventor Award, the most prestigious inventor award in Europe, for their contributions to LTE. Dr Parkvall received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1996. His previous positions include assistant professor in communication theory at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and a visiting researcher at University of California, San Diego, USA.
 
Mr. Antti Toskala, Head of Radio Standardization, Nokia NetworksAntti Toskala (M.Sc) joined the Nokia Research Center in 1994, where he undertook WCDMA system studies. In September 1995 he joined the ACTS FRAMES project, and in the later phase, worked as the team leader for the work package which defined the FMA2 WCDMA concept. During 1997, he worked as a Senior Research Engineer and CDMA Specialist participating in the ETSI SMG2 UMTS standardization work.
He chaired the UMTS physical layer expert group in ETSI SMG2 during 1998, and from 1999 (the start of the 3GPP activity) until 2003 he worked in 3GPP as chairman of the TSG RAN WG1, the group responsible for the physical layer of the WCDMA standard. His group was responsible for the standardization of WCDMA physical layer, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and for the start of uplink packet data evolution (HSUPA).
From 2003 to 2005 he worked as Senior Standardization Manager with System Technologies, at Nokia Networks and contributed to product development as the HSDPA Chief Architect for Nokia Networks
From 2005 to 2006 he worked with Nokia Networks as Senior Standardization Manager focusing on HSPA and LTE standardization. From 2007 onwards he was working with Nokia Siemens Networks as the Head of 3GPP Radio Standardization.
Currently he is with Nokia (Nokia Networks), in Espoo, Finland working as the Head of Radio Standardization, with technical focus on LTE Advanced evolution.
He has co-authored several books on HSPA and LTE (“WCDMA for UMTS”, “HSDPA/HSUPA for UMTS” ,“LTE for UMTS” and “HSPA+ evolution to Release 12”) and also further recent books on 4G “Voice Over LTE, VoLTE” and “LTE Advanced: 3GPP Solution for IMT-Advanced”, all published by Wiley. He regularly lectures on HSPA, LTE and LTE-Advanced technologies in various universities and institutions around the world and has a large number of patents and publications in the field.
As part of the 2010 LTE World Summit LTE Awards, he received the “Award for Individual Contribution for LTE Development” recognizing his contribution to both LTE standardization and LTE knowledge spreading in the industry.


Dr. Juho Lee, Master, head of 3GPP standardization, SamsungDr. Juho Lee, Master, head of 3GPP standardization, Samsung Electronics. Email: juho95.lee@samsung.com;
Bio: Juho Lee is currently a Master with Samsung Electronics and is the lead executive in charge of research on standardization of wireless communications. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 1993, 1995, and 2000, respectively. He joined Samsung Electronics in 2000 and has been working on standardization of mobile communications for 3G and 4G such as WCDMA, HSDPA, HUSPA, LTE, and LTE-Advanced and is also actively working on research and standardization for 5G. He was a vice chairman of TSG RAN WG1 during February 2003 through August 2009, chaired LTE/LTE-Advanced MIMO sessions, and served as the rapporteur for the 3GPP LTE-Advanced Rel-11 CoMP work item.
 
Dr. Yongbin Wei, Senior Director of Engineering, Qualcomm IncorporatedYongbin Wei is a Senior Director of Engineering with Qualcomm Incorporated, where he has been leading the research on LTE and LTE-advanced since 2006, including system design, standardization, and implementations. Prior to that, he has been working on the system design and international standardization of cdma2000 Rev. C and Rev. D., HRPD, and the product development.  He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from Univ. of Science and Technology of China, and Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, all in Electrical Engineering. He holds more than 90 US issued patents.
 
3. Panel discussion on 5G Key Enabling Technologies
2F/Ballroom A, 11:00-12:30, 15th, Oct.
Aim of the panel discussion

It’s almost become a conventional wisdom that 5G Mobile Communications will be enabled by both evolutional and disruptive revolutionary technologies. On the other hand, not only does it need significant improvements in wireless transmission, but it also makes the rethinking of networking necessary.

The research and development of these technologies have already begun in different continents, countries and organizations. Some of them have already made good headway, for example, China’s IMT-2020 Promotion Group has recently released their brand new whitepaper on 5G vision and requirements. Korea’s 5G Forum has also released their 5G vision and requirements.

China is already and will continue being the world’s largest mobile market for next decades and it has been building up its industrial competence at a dazzling speed. Korea is the world’s acclaimed country for its advanced ICT technologies and products. In order to reach consensus and develop a unified 5G international standard for our common future, it would be very necessary to sit down with the distinguished panelists from both China and Korea, from industry to academia, to talk about 5G enabling technologies, in the areas of wireless transmission technologies including ultra-dense network, massive MIMO, adv. coding & modulation, and high frequency communications.


Organizers:

Dr. Wonil Roh, Vice President, Head of Advanced Communications Lab., Communications Research Team, DMC R&D Center, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Email: wonil.roh@samsung.com

Dr. Wonil Roh is currently a Vice President and Head of Advanced Communications Lab at Samsung Electronics Corp in Korea, responsible for research of next generation mobile communications technologies. He started working at Samsung Electronics in 2003 in research and development of CDMA and Mobile WiMAX base-stations with the main focus on multi-antenna algorithms and system analysis. Then he led overall WiMAX standard activities and strategy in Samsung including IEEE, the WiMAX Forum and ITU-R, and served as Chair of Technical Working Group (TWG) of the WiMAX Forum from 2006 to 2011. Since 2011, he has been leading research efforts for the next generation cellular (Beyond 4G or 5G) technologies at DMC R&D Center with a focus on development of disruptive technologies and feasibility studies. Dr. Roh holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in USA.



Agenda for panel discussion:

2 hour moderated discussion sessions with 4-6 speakers

Panelist:

Dr. Guangyi Liu, CTO, Wireless Department, China Mobile Research Institute
Mr. Liang Gu, Senior Staff Design Engineer, Huawei Technology
Prof. Xiaohu You, Southeast University, 5G Expert Group of 863 Plan / IMT-2020 Promotion Group / FuTURE FORUM
Prof. Xiaofeng Tao, BUPT (Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications)
Prof. Youngnam Han, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Chair, Steering Committee, 5G Forum Korea
Prof. Chung G. Kang, Korea Univ., Chair, Steering Committee, Vice President, The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
Dr. Daegyun Kim, Director, Advanced Communications Lab., Communications Research Team, DMC R&D Center, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
 
4. Panel discussion on The software-defined network -  then, now, and in the future
2F/Ballroom A, 11:00-12:30, 14th,Oct.
Aim of the panel discussion

The virtualization and sharing of networking resources is a natural extension of cloud computing into the communications infrastructure.  The software-defined network separates the control plane from the switching and routing plane, and is being extended to include network management aspects as well.  There is a long history of movement toward these concepts in networking, and many questions about how it will proceed in the future, and in particular how willing network operators and equipment manufacturers will be to open their infrastructures to third party software.  This panel considers the direction of work on SDN as history, current practice, and future possibilities.

Organizers:

Stephen B. Weinstein, Chair, ComSoc History Committee
Past President (1996-97), IEEE Communications Society Member, ICCC 2014 Steering Committee Member

Format:

Presentations by each panelist followed by a vigorous discussion with the audience.
 
Panelists:
Steve Weinstein (IEEE Communications Society)
Chih-Lin I (China Mobile)
Prof. Dan Li (Tsinghua University)
Dr. Fusheng Zhu (Chief Engineer of ZTE)
Prof. Yun Rui (Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

 
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