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1st International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity

November 26–27, 2014 | Levi, Finland

It is not long since 4G was introduced to market and now the international initiatives have started debating the rationalities, requirements and technologies for 5G with wide consensus of being deployed in market by 2020 and possible standardisation process starting as early as 2016.

Some people even suggest with 5G, there will not be any need for 6G for at least in the forecastable future.

The panel members are experts from international companies representing vendors, network operators and service providers and will present their personal and companies' views on justifications, requirements and challenges for 5G. There will be plenty of opportunities for all participants to challenge the panel members' views in all aspects relating to 5G.

Panelists:

Ylva Jading, Ericsson

Bio

Dr. Ylva Jading joined Ericsson in 1999 and has since then built up a broad experience in R&D ranging from 2G to 5G system and spent eight years in research. She is currently master researcher for energy performance at Ericsson Research but has also been product manager at Strategy & Portfolio Management with responsibility for energy efficiency for the full network product portfolio. During her years at Ericsson Research she has worked with HSPA, LTE concepts and standardization, and she was the technical manager of the EARTH project for RAN energy efficiency (2010-2011). She holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Mainz, Germany and an M.Sc. in engineering physics from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. She has published a number of scientific papers and holds some 20 patents.

Title: From always on to always available to always optimized

Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia

Bio

Antonio Manzalini received the M. Sc. Degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico of Turin. In 1990 he joined CSELT, which then became Telecom Italia Lab. He started his activities on research and development of technologies and architectures for future optical networks. In this RTD avenue, he was actively involved in leading positions in several EURESCOM and EC funded Project (e.g. MWTN, LION, NOBEL). He chaired (during two consecutive Study Periods) two ITU-T Questions on transport networks. He is author of a book on Network Synchronization (for SDH) and his RTD results are published in about one hundred of papers. He has 5 patents on network and systems. In 2003 he was appointed as member of the Scientific Committee of Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya. In 2006 he led the CASCADAS project dealing with autonomic computing and networking. In 2008 he has been awarded with the International Certification of Project Manager by PMI. He was member of technical and program committee of several IEEE Conferences. He was the leader the activity “Smart Networks at the Edge” funded by the European Institute of Technology (EIT). He is currently joining the Innovation Dept. of Telecom Italia (Future Centre) addressing mainly RTD activities concerning future Telco-ICT networks and services technologies (e.g., 5G, Software Defined Networks, Network Function Virtualization, Autonomic/Cognitive, self-* networks). Further updated information at: https://it.linkedin.com/pub/antonio-manzalini/5/90b/b6

Title: Cognition as a Service for 5G Controlled Robots

Abstract

The number of devices, terminals, machines connected to the Network is growing at an exponential rate. Even if today, still a distinction is kept between the “network” and what connects to it, the “terminals”, in the future this border will blur, as more and more network functionalities will be executed part in the network and/or part in the end-Users terminals/devices. This will favorite the development of new services paradigms such as “Anything as a Service”, where devices, machines, smart things or robots will become like “tools” to produce and to use applications, services and data. These new services paradigms will require a sort of decentralized Operating System of spanning from the Terminals, to the Network to the Cloud, allocating and orchestrating functions execution among terminals, network nodes and the Cloud. This OS is a priority for 5G (i.e., 5G OS). A key requirement of the 5G OS will be allowing QoS with very limited values of “latency” (e.g. in the order of 1 ms). This will be a key factor of success and an enabler to create and develop new ecosystems, e.g., based on self-driving cars, self-acting machines, smart machines and things, robot-as-a-services. In this direction, “Cognition as a Service” (CaaS) will be about introducing cognitive capabilities in the 5G OS, so that cognitive apps can be easily developed by means of APIs, rather than requiring Developers to reinvent “cognitive functions” anytime. These cognitive capabilities will be based on a variety of methods and control techniques, including (nonlinear) dynamic systems, computational intelligence, intelligent control (adaptive control, learning models, neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary and genetic algorithms), and artificial intelligence. The talk will elaborate the technological challenges and the business opportunities for a scenario “Cognition as a Service for 5G Controlled Robots”.

Paul Ceely, EE Ltd

Bio

Paul has worked in network strategy and IP networking for over 16 years and has held a number of influential roles for market-leading fixed and mobile telecommunication providers. He is currently Head of Network Strategy for EE, the UK’s biggest and fastest mobile network operator which operates the EE, Orange and T-Mobile brands servicing over 30 million mobile users in the UK. Paul joined T-Mobile in 2005 in the UK network transport team, and has been working on LTE since 2008 where he developed the end-to-end transport architecture as part of the Deutsche Telekom Group programme. Prior to that he worked for BT and a variety of network consultancy startups after graduating in Physics from Cambridge University. Paul has been responsible for developing, driving and communicating the medium to long-term Network Strategy for EE since its formation in 2010 from the merger of T-Mobile UK and Orange UK and was instrumental in the strategy and planning that underpinned EE’s highly successful 4G launch in 2012, almost a year before its nearest competitor. Since the launch of 4G, Paul has continued to drive EE’s competitive advantage on network coverage and technology.

Title: User Requirements

Karabet Krikorian, Huawei Technologies

Bio

Karabet holds a degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering with emphasis on telecommunications. Before joining Huawei (in April 2012) he has worked as Sr. Solution consultant in Thailand for France Telecom responsible for VAS & IN solutions.

Previous to this (from Jun 2009 to Jul 2011), as Sr. consultant he worked in projects both in Bahrain and UAE responsible for all VAS, IN and GPRS E2E solutions and services. From Aug 2000 till Jun 2009 he has occupied different positions within different countries starting from BTS field engineer in the Netherlands to HLD engineer designing GPRS network for both O2 Netherlands and Base in Belgium to Sr. Solution Consultant in Bahrain, UAE, Saudi and Qatar in different areas and projects mostly in VAS , IN, Roaming , GGSN & SGSN for both 2G & 3G, and billing with converge charging for more than 20 Million subscribers.

Title: On the Advanced 5G Infrastructure for Full Immersive Experience and Anything as a Service.

Abstract

The advanced 5G infrastructure, defined as the ubiquitous ultra-broadband network supporting the Future Internet (FI), is not only an evolution of current network generations, but, more significantly, a revolution in the ICT field. It will enable efficiently new ultra reliable, dependable, secure, privacy preserving and delay critical services to everyone and everything, such as cognitive objects and cyber physical systems. “Full Immersive Experience”, enriched by “Context Information”, and “Anything as a Service” will be the main drivers for a massive adoption of the new technology components and market uptake, beyond the current “Client-Server” model, where the network has been reduced to a mere pipe of bits. The keynote gives some insights into the new design principles toward IMT for the 2020 and beyond (5G) with the broad aim of providing delay-critical and ultra-reliable, secure, and dependable services to billions of smart objects and cyber physical systems and to new mobile terminals, in alignment current and future stakeholders’ needs. This calls for a profound re-thinking of architectures, interfaces, functions, access and non-access protocols and related procedures, and advanced algorithms, e.g. for identity management, establishment, maintenance and reconfiguration of ICT services and any type resource among cyber and physical entities. A large exploitation and adoption of cloud computing, software networks and network functions and services virtualization will make the 5G infrastructure feasible and business viable.