Mobile Device
Radio Performance

Connecting Design, Certification,
and Quality of Customer Experience

Hosted by:

U.S. Cellular

Tour of a RF Test Facility


When

September 16-18, 2014

Where

Hyatt Regency Schaumburg

Schaumburg, IL USA

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Limited to 100 seats

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Attendance open to Mobile & Portable Thrust or Full IWPC Members


Introduction

As smartphones become more complex and features such as Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE), MIMO and Carrier Aggregation (CA) begin to evolve into multi-band devices, the delivery of a quality user experience remains extremely important on the service providers list of priorities. The performance demands of the industry must be met. Network operators seek to ensure that LTE devices meet user functionality and experience expectations not only during testing and certification, but throughout the remaining lifecycle of mass produced devices.

Workshop Goals

  • Explore how the industry can ensure radio performance quality throughout the end-to-end lifecycle of mobile devices
  • Understand radio performance impacts of functionality and ways to test such impacts as devices proliferate with Carrier Aggregation, VoLTE, and other evolutionary technologies
  • How to protect the customer experience by defining appropriate radio requirements and certification/production processes translating to a preferred Quality-of-Experience
  • Identifying/resolving issues in the live network

Agenda

DAY 1
September 16

Tuesday

7:00 PM

 

Social and Networking

Registration and Reception

 

Hotel

DAY 2
September 17

Wednesday

7:00 AM

Networking Breakfast and Continued Registration

Hotel

 

8:00 AM

Opening Remarks and Self-Introductions

Each person will be asked to introduce him/herself and show how they can contribute to this process.

IWPC

 

9:00 AM

Host Keynote Opening Remarks and Presentation

  • Certification - How do cellular operator, OEM and industry requirements for devices relate to real world experience and use cases?
  • How can 3rd Party certification labs help generate test cases validating evolving operators' device functional requirements?

Device Radio Performance Impacts: An Operator's Technical View

Member Technical Staff

U.S. Cellular

 

10:00 AM

Networking Break

 

10:40 AM

Carrier Perspectives

  • Considering the impacts of technology evolution, such as carrier aggregation and MIMO on device radio performance
  • How to Align carrier, OEM and industry device radio performance requirements?
  • Sharing field device radio performance issue/resolution during device lifecycle
  • Considering field performance vs. standard requirements and verification - TIS, TRP, receive sensitivities, etc.

A Look Ahead at 2016+ Device Performance Expectations

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

 

Sprint

 

11:20 AM

OEM/Platform Perspectives

Platform Considerations for Tunable RF

Principal RF Systems Engineer

intel

12:00 PM

Networking Lunch

 

1:00 PM

OEM/Platform Perspectives

  • What challenges does VoLTE introduce?
  • How can the RF front end community Support Increased Bands and Exceptional User Experience?
  • How does manufacturing impact device radio performance
    • Certification, Testing, Performance Tolerances
    • Inserting Quality Control (QC) during production
  • What realistic variability can/should be expected in mass production?
  • Combining Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum Aggregation across 3GPP techologies

Closed Loop Antenna Tuning: Advantages for Carriers

Director

 

Carrier Aggregation (CA) Quantifying Front End Loss

VP Engineering

skyworks

 

 

2:20 PM

Cellular & WiFi Performance

Considering Licensed and Unlicensed Device Performance.

Senior Director Engineering

 

skyworks

3:00 PM

Networking Break

 
3:40 PM

VoLTE Validation

RAN Testing Best Practices

VP, Business Development

prisma

 

4:10 PM

Panel Session

 

 

 

Host and Invited Carriers, OEMs and Platform Vendors

U.S. Cellular Sprint
tmobile blackberry
intel huawei

 

5:00 PM

Adjourn for Day

 

6:30 PM

Bus Leaves for Dinner - Harry Caray's Steakhouse

Bus Transportation provided to and from hotel.

DAY 3
September 18

Thursday

7:00 AM

Networking Breakfast

Hotel

 

8:00 AM

Test Equipment Perspectives

  • What new Tools and test procedures are Available to validate emerging smartphone technologies? (Validating 3GPP Rel-10 and Rel-11 Features)
  • Assessing 4G and beyond Radio Performance for evolving User Applications - Video, Voice over IP, RCS, etc.
  • How does MIMO and Carrier Aggregation Impact Test and Validation?
    • Design and Development
    • Production
    • Lab and Interoperability Testing
  • Real World case studies relating to device radio performance testing

Release 10/11 Testing

Product Manager for Development Toolset and IOT Product Groups

anite

Carrier Aggregation Measurement Methods

Technical Marketing Manager

bluetest

OTA Product Specialist

rohdeschwarz

 

Testing Data Performance: What is Enough?

Senior Business Development Manager

anritsu

 

Big Data - Analysis of Smartphones Device Performance

Business Development Manager

p3

 

10:00 AM

Networking Break

 

10:40 AM

Test and Validation

 

Device-Network Analytics - A New Methodology for Benchmarking Performance

Director & Head, Analytics Business Unit

azimuth

 

 

Measure What Matters - Ensuring the User Experience for Global Device Launches

Director, Service Experience

spirent

 

Challenges Achieving Repeatable Over-The-Air Performance for Multimode, Multiband Smartphones

Research Manager

 

pulse

 

 

12:10 PM

Networking Lunch

 

1:10 PM

Technology Enablers

  • How will device radio Design and Performance Requirements Change?
  • Assessing MIMO and Multiband Advances in relation to device radio performance
  • Radio Configurations - LTE Voice vs. LTE Data - What is Really Required to Meet Minimum Voice Characteristics?
  • Considering SAR and HAC Issues Now that Voice is a Part of LTE
  • Carrier Aggregation emergence in relation to device radio performance
  • MIMO - How are Antennas Being Developed to Support 2x2 and Higher Number Combinations?
    • How Will Radios Support LTE 4x2MIMO Downlink from RAN?
    • Can Radios Support LTE 4x4MIMO Downlink from RAN?
    • How Can Radios Support MU-MIMO in Wi-Fi Downlink?
    • How Can Radios Support 2x2MIMO in Wi-Fi Uplink?
    • How Can Radios Support LTE in 3CA Downlink from RAN?
  • How can Tunable Components and Systems improve device field performance?
  • How can the Industry Prepare for the Device Lifecycle Changes to Support an Evolution to 5G±?
  • Combining Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum Aggregation across 3GPP technologies (2.4GHz, 5.8GHz, 3.5GHz)? Will It Be Necessary?

Mobile Handset PA Performance ET vs. APT and GaAs HBT vs. SOI/CMOS

VP Engineering

skyworks

 

Programmable Wideband Power Amplifier with Efficiency Enhancement

Senior RF Applications Engineer

sony

 

2:30 PM

Networking Break

 

3:00 PM

Tunable Working Group Report

  • Review Phase II White Paper progress
  • Considering wideband tunable elements for MMMB PA /LNA/VCO
  • Exploring adjustment of antenna impedance using variable capacitance
  • Multiband-multi-feed antenna architectures to support more than 10 LTE bands
  • Mitigation of self-interference between WiFi-LTE-GPS-NFC & etc
  • Architecture ideas for tunable frontend vs. availability/timing of the technical blocks
  • Business and technology drivers vs. roadblocks to move to tunable frontends

Tunable Working Group Leadership:

U.S. Cellular Sprint
U.S. Cellular Sprint
U.S. Cellular Sprint
U.S. Cellular
3:40 PM

Takeaways and Closing Remarks

Host and Invited Carriers, OEMs

U.S. Cellular Sprint
tmobile blackberry
intel
4:40 PM

Tunable Working Group Session

  • Next steps and go forward plans

 

IWPC Working Group and Interested Members

5:30 PM

Adjourn

 

7:00 PM

Dinner (Dutch*)
* = in this context, Dutch is a term which means that each person will be responsible for their own dinner costs.

For those who desire to join us, we get together to enjoy good friends, good food, good wine, and (really) bad jokes.

DAY 4
September 19

Friday

8:30 AM

Electronic Engineering Lab Tour

 

EMC Testing, Compliance Testing, Antenna Panel Mapping Testing

 

Transportation provided to and from tour

 

elite

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  3. Who are the attendees?
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  5. Hotel information?
  6. What are the travel options from the airport to the hotel?
  7. Are there any audiovisual requirements?
  8. Will business cards be collected?
  9. What is the dress code?
  10. How will handout materials be provided?
  1. What is the deadline for presentation/handout materials?

    Deadline for electronic version of presentation/handout materials: Friday, September 5, 2014.

  2. What can I do to prepare for speaking an at IWPC workshop?

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  3. Who are the attendees?
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    • We do not permit Analysts.
    • We do not permit Consultants.
    • We do not permit 3rd party sales reps.
    • We only permit "first hand knowledge experts" in business and technology issues, prepared to contribute to the discussion.
  4. What are the costs/registrations fees?

    ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to cover out-of-pocket workshop costs such as conference room costs, food (Social Reception plus First Day breakfast/lunch/dinner plus Second Day breakfast/lunch plus Breaks), audio/visual costs, etc.

    These costs will be $945 (USD) per person. (For IWPC Members only.)

    ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to pay this fee in advance with either Visa, MasterCard, American Express, cash, personal check or business check. Make checks payable to IWPC.

  5. Hotel information?

    Hyatt Regency Schaumburg
    1800 East Golf Road
    Schaumburg, IL USA 60173
    Phone: +1 847-605-1234
    Hotel Website

    You may call hotel reservations at +1 888-421-1442; please mention 'IWPC' when you do so. The IWPC room block rate is $149.00. There is also a web link to register online.

    The cut-off date for reservations is Friday, September 5, 2014. After that date, rooms cannot be guaranteed at the IWPC rate.

  6. What are the travel options from the airport to the hotel?

    Directions and transportation options will be posted as soon as possible.

  7. Are there any audiovisual requirements?

    A Computer Projector will be available for the speakers.

    In addition, we audiotape all presentations and the interactive discussions. Post workshop, presentations are made available to IWPC Members on the IWPC WEB site, along with “recordings” of all presentations and panel sessions.

  8. Will business cards be collected?

    Business cards will be collected at the door from all attendees. We will make copies of these cards, which will be available to all who provided a business card.

  9. What is the dress code?

    Business casual suggested. No ties, please!

  10. How will handout materials be provided?

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