Advanced Small Cell Deployments
and Cloud Technologies

How will advanced network architectures impact small cell design?

What role will European funded projects have in future global standards?

Hosted by:

Telecom Italia

Plus Tour: Telecom Italia Labs

When

November 12-14, 2013

Where

NH Ambasciatori Hotel

Turin, Italy

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Register

Limited to 100 seats

First Registered, First Served!

Attendance open to Infrastructure Thrust, mmWave Thrust or Full IWPC Members


Confirmed Carriers

Orange
Telecom Italia
T-Systems

Confirmed Speakers or Panel Members

Alcatel-Lucent
Avago Technologies
Blu Wireless
Cisco
CROWD
Ericsson
HARP
Huawei
iJoin
IMDEA
InterDigital
Kumu Networks
M/A-COM
MTI
NEC
PureWave Networks
TROPIC
University of Bremen
Vitesse Semiconductor

Workshop Goals

This workshop will bring together members of the global ecosystem to explore operational aspects of advanced small cell deployment, cloud technologies and how both will impact next generation mobile networks.

  • Bridge gap between research, technology, vendor and carriers
  • Identify synergies
  • Identify state of the art for the industry and prepare the way for network evolution
  • Deployment possibilities - from 3-5 years extending out to 2020

Agenda

DAY 1 November 12

Tuesday

2:00 PM

Tour Registration: Telecom Italia Labs

 

Limited to first 30 persons, some restrictions may apply.

First come, first served.

2:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tour: Telecom Italia Labs

 

Transportation provided from/to hotel.

7:00 PM

Social and Networking

Reception and Registration

 

Hotel

DAY 2 November 13

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 share what they hope to learn and contribute to the process.

IWPC

 

9:00 AM

Host Keynote Opening Remarks and Presentation

  • Objectives for the Workshop

Architectural Evolution and Operator Point of View for Increasing the Efficiency of Mobile Networks

Network Technology Researcher

 

Telecom Italia

 

10:00 AM

Networking Break

 

10:40 AM

Mobile Operator Perspectives

  • Use-Cases for Small Cells

    • i.e. Improve Indoor Quality of Experience, Outdoor Coverage, etc.

  • RAN/Infrastructure Sharing and Related Challenges

  • Cloud RAN and Operator Requirements

  • Wi-Fi Offload and Small Cell Integration

    • Roadmap and Perspectives

Vision of Small Cell Architecture and Backhaul Evolution

Senior Technical Expert

 

Orange

 

Examining RAN Architectures and Concepts of Fronthaul and Backhaul Realization to Scale Bandwidth

IP Network Management

 

T-Systems

 

12:00 PM

Networking Lunch

 

1:00 PM

IWPC Small Cell Working Group Reports

Hardware Optimization Committee Report

 

Working Group Leadership

 

3M

Alcatel-Lucent
Avago Technologies JDSU
M/A-COM Technology Solutions Purewave Networks

 

1:40 PM

OEM Perspectives

  • Comparison Between Small Cells and Traditional Architectures (BB + Co-Located RF)

  • Cloud Architecture (Centralized BB) in terms of Backhauling/Fronthauling (with Different Technologies)

    • Performances

    • Product Availability

    • Costs

    • Integration with Macro Network

  • Roadmap of Product Availability for Deployment Solutions in Ultra-Dense Areas

Small Cells, the Solution for a Greater Spatial Efficiency

Director, Product Evolution

 

Alcatel-Lucent

 

Cloud – Why You Need Small Cells

Director, Technology Solutions

 

Ericsson

 

3:00 PM

Networking Break

 

3:40 PM

OEM Perspectives (Continued)

Enabling a Scalable, Efficient and Elastic Small Cell Layer

Small Cell Strategy Manager

 

NEC

 

CPRI over Microwave Transmission

Senior Marketing Manager

 

Huawei

 

5:00 PM

Mobile Operator/OEM Panel Session

  • Exploring Multi-Vendor Macro and Small Cell Architectures

  • Considering Key Findings From the Day's Proceedings

Invited Operators and OEMs

 

Alcatel-Lucent

Ericsson
Huawei NEC
Orange Telecom Italia
T-Systems  

 

5:45 PM

Adjourn for Day

 

6:30 PM

Bus Leaves for Dinner - La Smarrita-Lo Studio di Cavour

Bus Transportation provided to and from hotel.

DAY 3 November 14

Thursday

7:00 AM

Networking Breakfast

Hotel

 

8:00 AM

OEM Perspectives (Continued)

  • Cloud Technologies: Merging IT and RAN Worlds

Trusted Wi-Fi and Small Cell Integration with the Packet Core

Principal Architect

 

Cisco

 

8:40 AM

Enabling Technologies

  • Technological Enablers for Small Cell Deployments

  • Advanced Radio Transceivers for Backhauling

  • Status of the WiGig/Wi-Fi Standard - Technology, Use Cases and Market Adoption

  • How 60 GHz RF and WiGig Baseband Technology Could Be Adopted to Meet the Needs of Low Cost Backhaul for LTE Metrocell Deployments

  • Performance Estimate - Radio Link Budget and Technical Analysis on Alternative Antenna Architectures

  • Standards and Regulatory Issues - US (FCC) vs. Europe (ETSI)

  • Advanced Materials, Components, Systems, etc. to Drive the Industry

Full Duplex Wireless

Co-Founder

 

Kumu Networks

 

Low Cost Backhaul Based on Emerging 60 GHz Wi-Fi Technologies

Chief Marketing Officer

 

Blu Wireless

 

10:00 AM

Networking Break

 

10:40 AM

Enabling Technologies (Continued)

Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Defined Services in Support of Single and Multi-Operator Small Cell Deployment

Senior Systems Architect

 

Vitesse Semiconductor

 

11:20 AM

Network Architecture for Small Cells Based on Cloud Networks

  • Architecture Options for Expanding Small Cell Capacities with mmWave Spectrum

  • How Mesh Solutions can be Used with Directional mmWave Links to Improve Small Cell Backhaul Capacity

  • What Backhaul Improvements are Needed to Enable New Cloud Architectures?

  • mmWave-based Joint Access and Backhaul

Millimeter Wave Hotspots

Principal Engineer, Systems

 

InterDigital

 

12:00 PM

Networking Lunch

 

1:00 PM

Research Sessions

  • iJoin: RAN as a Service (RANasaS) and Joint Access/Backhauling Design for Small Cells Advanced Deployments

  • Interworking and Joint Design of an Open Access and Backhaul Network Architecture for Small Cells based on Cloud Networks

  • TROPIC: Distributed Computing, Storage and Radio Resource Allocation over Cooperative Femtocells

  • Exploiting Advanced Multi-Point 2 Multi-Point (MP2MP) Communications Schemes

    • Innovative Virtualization Procedures

    • Cross-layer Approaches to the Allocation of Resources

    • Radio, Computational/Storage Capacity and Energy

  • Can the Internet and Mobile Cloud Networking (MCN) Drive the Convergence between the Mobile Communications and Cloud Computing Industry?

  • Services and Cloud Networking

Cloud Technologies to Improve the Performance and Efficiency of Mobile Networks

Senior Researcher

 

iJoin

 

Advanced Technologies for Extremely Dense and Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Staff Researcher

 

CROWD

 

Distributed Computing, Storage and Radio Resource Allocation over Cooperative Femtocells

Professor, Universität Politècnica de

Catalunya, Spain

 

TROPIC

 

High Capacity Network Architecture with Remote Radio Heads & Parasitic Antenna Arrays

Engineering Manager

 

HARP

 

3:00 PM

Research Session Panel

Moderated by Telecom Italia

 

Telecom Italia

 

3:20 PM

Networking Break

 

4:00 PM

Closing Discussion - Next Steps

  • Considering Key Findings from the Workshop and Next Steps

  • Small Cells Deployment Options

  • Network Evolution and Next Generation Networks

  • The Multi-Vendor Network Environment

Host, Operators and OEMs

 

Alcatel-Lucent

Cisco
Ericsson Huawei
NEC Orange
Telecom Italia T-Systems

 

4:40 PM

Takeaways and Closing Remarks

IWPC

5:10 PM

Adjourn

 

7:15 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.

FAQs

  1. What is the deadline for presentation/handout materials?
  2. What can I do to prepare for speaking an at IWPC workshop?
  3. Who are the attendees?
  4. What are the costs/registrations fees?
  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: Thursday, October 31st.

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

    Click on the link below for a short video guide regarding preparing for and improving your IWPC presentation:

    Video: IWPC Speaker Guidelines

  3. Who are the attendees?
    • We do not permit the Press.
    • 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 $997 (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?

    NH Ambasciatori Hotel
    C. so V. Emanuele, 104
    10121 Turin, Italy
    Phone: +39-011-57521
    http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotels/italy/turin/nh-ambasciatori.html

    A web-link is available to manage online reservations to the hotel:
    http://www.nh-hotels.com/events/en/event-detail/19041/iwpc.html.

    You may also contact the hotel directly by email at [email protected]. When making reservations, mention the IWPC room block rate of 80 Euros.  Cut-off date for reservations is Friday, October 18th. After that date rooms cannot be guaranteed at the IWPC rate.

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

    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?

    For ALL IWPC members:

    All IWPC members are invited to submit materials to be included in the online workshop folder in the IWPC Research Library. This should NOT BE SALES MATERIALS. Rather, we suggest it contain technical information about your technology as it relates to the workshop topics.

    For all companies who will be making a presentation at the Workshop:

    You are invited to submit an advance copy of your presentation, complete with graphics and illustrations.

    These materials will be included on the IWPC website Research Library.

    Please submit these materials either by email, as a Word for Windows file, Power Point files or PDF files.

    Please use this FREE FTP site to send electronic materials (any size file):

    IWPC FTP Transfer