What Role Will mmWave Technologies Play in 5G?

When And How Will 5G Be Deployed? Will Extreme Mobile Broadband Compromise Massive Machine Type Connectivity? Exploring New and Emerging Use-Cases, Trials, Opportunities, Challenges and Technology Innovation.

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November 16-18, 2016

Where

Doubletree by Hilton

San Jose, CA USA

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Introduction

Spectrum is a finite resource, so if it can be exploited, mmWave offers much promise for future cellular networks. Until now, increasing performance has relied on increasing spectral efficiency by using OFDM, MIMO, efficient channel coding, and interference coordination, however, increased spectral efficiency is not enough to guarantee high per-user data rates, so Millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular systems, operating in the 10-300GHz band are being researched in order to deliver multiple gigabit-per-second data rates. Enabling mmWave cellular systems is not as simple in practice, as free-space path loss is much larger in mmWave due to the higher carrier frequency, scattering is less significant which reduce the available diversity, and non-line-of-sight paths are weaker making blockage and coverage holes more pronounced.

Workshop Goals

  • Evaluate the coverage and capacity limitations of mmWave systems
  • Understand which use-cases will effectively exploit mmWave technologies
  • Explore pre-standards proposals, trials and deployments
  • Assess routes and roadmaps to achieving global standards based systems
  • Understand the importance of mmWave in future 5G networks

Agenda

DAY 1
November 16

Wednesday

 

 
7:00 PM

Evening reception - Sponsored by 

Registration at hotel

DAY 2
November 17

Thursday

 

7:00 AM

Breakfast and Registration continues

Hotel

 

8:00 AM

Welcome and Introductions

 

 

8:30 AM

Host Keynote Opening Remarks and Presentation

  • What are the interference issues for mmWave
  • Considering RAN architecture for 5G

 

Verizon & 5G

 

Associate Fellow

 

10:00 AM

Networking Break

  

10:40 AM

Carrier Perspectives

  • How can carriers best utilize mmWave systems and technologies?
  • How important will LTE be when a carrier moves to 5G?
  • How can highly dense mmWave cells be cost-effectively deployed?
  • Considering fixed wireless and mobile opportunities for mmWave technologies
  • Will point to multipoint fixed 5G service be the first use-case to be deployed commercially?
  • How will carriers operate multiple frequency bands including mmWave technologies?
  • Can customers expect ubiquity of coverage in urban areas or remote rural locations?
  • How can carriers migrate to 5G and how will these next these next generation networks coexist with the existing 3G and 4G networks already in place?
  • Will 5G mmWave be a standalone network or sit on top of proven and evolving 4G LTE and 3G?
  • Can carriers mitigate interference issues in challenging urban environments and provide consistent performance to users who don't care what access technology they are connected to?
  • Which bands are likely to achieve regional/global traction?
  • Will the 28 GHz and 37-40 GHz bands be given priority for terrestrial use in North America?
  • What bands above 60GHz will offer opportunities?
  • Global opportunities and limitations?
  • Where is the primary opportunity for mmW deployment?

mmWave and 5G:
A Service Provider's Soliloquy

 

Senior Scientist

 

 

A Path to 5G

 

Distinguished Engineer

 

 

 

 

12:00 Noon

Networking Lunch

 

1:00 PM

Equipment Vendor Perspectives

  • Considering state-of-the-art technologies for mmWave and 5G systems
  • Although mmWave technologies show promise for 5G, can propagation, LTE interoperability challenges be overcome?
  • While propagation is an inevitable challenge with millimeter wave, can the benefits deliver effective solutions?
  • What coverage and capacity can be achieved with mmWave systems?
  • While higher band millimeter wave bands such as 28, 39 and 60 GHz bands offer higher bandwidth and throughput, will differences in topology affect how they perform, particularly in dense urban environments?
  • What is the route from todays pre-standards R&D towards globally agreed standards?
  • How will customers move between 3G, 4G and 5G domains?
  • Will mmWave improve and accelerate the realization of a new generation of mobile networks and devices?

The 5G mmWave Revolution

 

Head, NAM Radio Systems

 

 

 

5G at mmw: Features and Performance

Principal Solution Consultant

 

 

 

mmWave Success and Evolution

Head, Marketing

 

 

 

3:00 PM

Networking Break

  

3:40 PM

Equipment Vendor Perspectives, continued

Use Cases, Technical Challenges and Standards Progress of mmWave Communication

 

Sr. Director

 

 

 

Modeling what matters: Keeping a correct focus on 5G

 

Lead Technologist

 

5:00 PM

End of Day Panel

Host and invited Carriers

 

5:45 PM

Adjourn for Day

 

7:30 PM

Networking Dinner - Palacio Restaurant

bus to depart from hotel at 7:00 pm

DAY 3
November 18

Friday

7:00 AM

 

Networking Breakfast

  

8:00 AM

Technology Enablers

  • Drivers for higher speed broadband to 1 Gbps and beyond.
  • Wired DSL technologies such as G.Fast cannot meet broadband operator needs for reach, speed and cost
  • Fixed Wireless Access exploiting newly released millimetre wave bands
  • Considering mmWave as a gigabit delivery mechanism to end customers over several hundred meters
  • How will mmW FWA solutions evolve? Comparing and contrasting ‘telco licensed’ and/or ‘networking unlicensed’ solutions
  • RAN and UE Eco-system development
  • State-of-the-art RAN and UE hardware
    • RF Front End components
    • RFICs, Antennas, PAs, Filters, etc.
  • Maturity of technologies
  • Availability of components, including examples such as 24GHz, 28GHz, 38GHz, 39GHz, 60GHz, others?
  • Are there challenges for components at some frequencies
  • Which combinations offer opportunities for reduced interference and complexity
  • Considering fixed wireless and mobile opportunities for mmWave technologies
  • Can existing antenna and power amplifier technologies enable smaller, more energy efficient 5G equipment and devices?
  • The need for beamforming at mmWave frequencies
  • Designing hybrid analog/digital beamforming and precoding schemes for mmWave cellular systems
  • Considering practical constraints, investigating and developing adaptive algorithms for beam training in mmWave cellular systems
  • Techniques for beamforming: MIMO, Phased Array, Holographic
  • Holographic Beamforming (simulated and measured results)
  • How can systems achieve a high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) uniformly throughout a cell?
  • Can high-gain electronically steerable directional antennas be achieved without dramatically increasing complexity?
  • Can mmWave arrays provide enough gain to overcome path loss and ensure high SNR at the receiver?
  • Can beamforming and very focused beams help to reduce interference in the network and increase the performance?
  • What user equipment can we expect to see with embedded mmWave and when?

mmWave in 5G C-RAN:
Applications, Challenges and Benefits

 

VP Marketing

 

 

 

Holographic Beamforming Technology for Millimeter Wave 5G Applications

 

Chief Technical Officer

 

 

 

The Last (mile) will be First - Enabling Fixed Wireless and 5G Base Stations with Active Antenna Apertures for 2017 Deployment

 

CEO

 

 

 

10:00 AM

Networking Break

  

10:30 AM

Technology Enablers

  • Phased array beamsteering RFIC for 60GHz in 28nm CMOS
  • Architectural trade-offs, implementation and measurements
  • Antenna module
  • 60 GHz Modular Planar antenna array design and implementation
  • Corresponding 5G application examples (millimeter wave small cell backhaul
  • RAN and UE Eco-system development
  • State-of-the-art RAN and UE hardware
    • RF Front End components
    • RFICs, Antennas, PAs, Filters, etc.
  • Maturity of technologies
  • Availability of components, including examples such as 24GHz, 28GHz, 38GHz, 39GHz, 60GHz, others?
  • Are there challenges for components at some frequencies
  • Which combinations offer opportunities for reduced interference and complexity
  • Considering fixed wireless and mobile opportunities for mmWave technologies

mmWave CMOS Circuits for 5G Backhaul and Access

 

Program Manager - Wireless Technologies

 

 

 

Role of Silicon Technologies in mmWave 5G radio interface

 

Director, Strategic Applications

 

 

 

 

11:30 am

Technology Enablers - User Equipment Semiconductor Panel

Invited:

   

12:00 Noon

Networking Lunch

 

1:00 PM

Technology Enablers, continued

  • RAN testing requirements changes to support latest bands (3.5 GHz TDD for Asia/CBRS Alliance NA, 5GHz LTE-U and LTE-LAA) and cloud RAN/massive number of cells, IoT users, increased order CA
  • Testing for 5G, requirements to support pre 3GPP 5GTF specifications
  • New testing aspects to support 28/39 GHz
  • How to verify beamforming on mmW

 

Millimeter-Wave Technologies and Architectures for Reduced-Complexity Measurements

 

Technology Fellow Director

 

 

 

Bluetest on 5G

 

Director, Business Development

 

 

 

Deciphering the Complexity of Testing the RAN in 5G Era

 

Director, Business Development

 

 

 

 

5G Power Amplifier Characterization

 

Senior Application Engineer

 

 

3:00 PM

Networking Break

  

3:30 PM

Technology Enablers, continued

  • RAN testing requirements changes to support latest bands (3.5 GHz TDD for Asia/CBRS Alliance NA, 5GHz LTE-U and LTE-LAA) and cloud RAN/massive number of cells, IoT users, increased order CA
  • Testing for 5G, requirements to support pre 3GPP 5GTF specifications
  • New testing aspects to support 28/39 GHz
  • How to verify beamforming on mmW

On-Board and On-Chip mmWave Antennas

 

Professor

 

 

4:00 PM

Closing Panel

Host and invited Service Providers, OEMs and Technology Enablers

 

5:00 PM

Meeting Adjourn

 

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