5G Wireless Summit

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10:30am – 5G Summit Opening Keynote – Ballroom F

(TS8246) Keynote: New Opportunities and Challenges for 5G (60 min)

     Dr. Tolis Papathanassiou, Intel Corporation

5G foresees a connected world of numerous devices in diverse platforms and a variety of scenarios, such as mobile broadband connected to energy-efficient Internet of Things (IoT) communications, which are connected to remote mission-critical services and applications. To meet the performance requirements for the extreme disparities in user data rates ranging from a few kilobits per second to several gigabits per second, latencies ranging from 1 ms to several hours, and power requirements ranging from a few days to 10 years, 5G aims to include new technologies such as advanced MIMO and beamforming, new overlay and underlay network architectures, and new access and multiplexing schemes and protocols for IoT. It also will enable using spectra from below 6 GHz to millimeter wavelength (mmWave) radio frequencies up to 90 GHz. Linking new devices to 5G mobile networks will revolutionize the industry, but it will require innovations in antenna, algorithm, transceiver, and network designs to efficiently use such a wide range of technologies and bandwidths. At this session, examine the key requirements and Intel’s vision for 5G, explore important technologies and trends across the wide range of applications and frequencies including mmWave communications, and learn how Intel uses NI platforms to accelerate its wireless R&D activities.

11:30am – Onsite Lunch and 5G Pavilion Demos Expo Hall (90 min)

1:00pm – Full Dimension and Massive MIMO Systems – Ballroom F

(TS8243) FD-MIMO and 3D Beamforming in the Next-Generation Base Station (30 min)

Gary Xu, Samsung Research America
Advances in full-dimension MIMO (FD-MIMO) and 3D beamforming technologies, which are being evaluated in the 3GPP LTE-Advanced standard, promise significant capacity improvement using a 2D active array by exploiting elevation as an additional dimension inherent in the MIMO wireless system. By combining a commercial base station prototype and NI software defined radio-based user equipment, azimuth and elevation beamforming is being demonstrated in a working real-time prototype to prove the advantages of high-order multiuser MIMO. These prototypes are shaping our vision for the era of 5G and the Internet of Things with FD-MIMO enabling support for a large amount of user equipment using the same time and frequency resource simultaneously.

(TS8244) MIMO Goes Massive – Prototyping the Ultimate MU-MIMO Real-Time 5G Testbed (30 min)
Dr. Fredrik Tufvesson, Lund University, Sweden
Massive MIMO is an exciting candidate technology for 5G. It promises improved capacity and energy efficiency by increasing the number of antennas at the base station. With a significant increase in antennas, Massive MIMO takes advantage of more degrees of freedom to address capacity and efficiency by implementing novel concepts such as conjugate beamforming, increasing spatial resolution, and creating automatic 3D beamforming. At this session, researchers from Lund University discuss how you can use spatial dimension, or the location of mobile terminals in space, to efficiently prototype a real-time testbed to investigate mobile systems going massive.

2:00pm – Networking Break (15 min)

2:15pm – Physical Layer Prototyping and Full Duplex Radio – Ballroom F

(TS8245) Next-Generation 5G Prototyping with Software Defined Radio (30 min)

Erik Luther, National Instruments

With the technology evolution of FPGAs, which have become more powerful and capable with each generation, software defined radios have never been more effective in advanced wireless prototyping. The concept of a software-configurable radio holds much promise, but a key driver to its widespread use in wireless applications lies with the advancement of software tools. At this session, explore NI hardware platforms and NI software technology advancements including the LabVIEW Communications System Design Suite and the LTE and 802.11 application frameworks designed to accelerate the deployment cycle and shorten time to results.

(TS8237)  Prototyping Real-Time Full-Duplex Radios (30 min)

1. Dr. Chan-Byoung Chae, Yonsei University, Korea

Full-duplex radios can open new possibilities in high-traffic-demand situations with limited radio resources. Full-duplex radios transmit and receive on the same frequency at the same time. In real wireless environments, canceling interference is a critical barrier to implementing full-duplex radios. At this session, explore the challenges of interference and how researchers at Yonsei prototyped a real-time full-duplex system that achieves a staggering 1.9 times higher throughput than traditional half-duplex systems.

3:15pm – Networking Break (15 min)

3:30pm – PHY, MAC, and Heterogeneous Networking – Ballroom F

(TS8459) The Future of Cooperative Heterogeneous Wireless Networks in 5G (30 min)

1. Dr. Preben Mogensen Aalborg University / Nokia, Denmark

Ultra-dense small cells present new opportunities for boosting capacity data rates and reducing latency by shrinking cell sizes. This new level of densification leads to a harsh interference environment, which could either result in poor network performance or the need for complex interference coordination. In less dense scenarios, coverage is key. In 5G, we have the opportunity to design a scalable and flexible radio interface for native multi-interference handling to improve the overall network capacity and user experience. At this session, explore the requirements and scalable design for the future of 5G heterogeneous wireless.

(TS8002) Prototyping Dense 5G Networks at the PHY, MAC, and Higher Layers (30 min)

1. Dr.  Sundeep Rangan, New York University Polytechnic

Next-generation wireless networks will connect significantly more wireless nodes through the Internet of Things and increase data traffic due to cloud-based applications and wireless entertainment. Future network architectures will need to optimize the interaction between broad geographic cellular coverage and localized high-speed Wi-Fi connectivity. At this session, explore the progression from simulating PHY, MAC, and higher layer research to prototyping over-the-air systems to validate algorithms for next-generation systems. This approach uses NI technologies to build a cross-layer PHY/MAC test for advanced software-defined networking research as a solution for the increasingly dense deployments of wireless networks.

4:30pm – Networking Break (15 min)

4:45pm – 5G Summit Panel – Ballroom F

(TS8521) Panel:  5G - Transforming Traditional Wireless Paradigms  (60 min)

Moderator: James Kimery, National Instruments

Panelists:

• Dr. Robert Heath, University of Texas at Austin
• Dr. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford University
• Dr. Farooq Khan, Samsung Electronics
• Dr. Amitava Ghosh, Nokia

Join leading wireless researchers from around the world to discuss the transformative impact of the technologies being investigated for tomorrow’s 5G networks. They will consider both the effect on the broad base of wireless users and new applications enabled by mmWave and Massive MIMO as well as new waveforms and new network topologies such as CRAN and SDN. Also learn about the broader impact of 5G on typical cellular, mobile broadband, and Wi-Fi applications while exploring new areas such as vehicle-to-vehicle communication and the Internet of Things.