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Technology & Business Panels
 
Monday 08 April 2013 11:00 –12:30, Century Hall

Monday 08 April 2013 14:00 – 15:30, Century Hall

Monday 08 April 2013 16:00 – 17:30 Century Hall


Monday 08 April 2013 18:00 –19:30, Century Hall

Tuesday 09 April 2013 11:00 – 12:30, 5D+5E


Monday 08 April 2013  11:00 –12:30,  Century Hall


P1. Mobile Broadband Communications R&D in China
 
Organizer:
Professor Xiaohu You, Southeast University, China
 
Bio: Xiaohu You is currently a Professor and the Director of National Mobile Communications Laboratory at Southeast University. His research interests include mobile communication systems, signal processing and its applications. From 1999 to 2002, he was the Principal Expert of the C3G Project, responsible for organizing China’s 3G Mobile Communications R&D Activities. From 2001-2006, he was the Principal Expert of the national 863 beyond 3G FuTURE Project. He has contributed over 40 IEEE journal papers and 2 books in the areas of adaptive signal processing, neural networks and their applications to communication systems. Professor Xiaohu You is an IEEE Fellow, chair of IEEE Nanjing Section, and General Chair of WCNC’2013.
 
Panelists:
Dr. Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, China Mobile, China
Prof. Xiaohu You, Southeast University, China
Prof. Jing Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Dr. Yi Wang, China Academy of Telecommunication Research, China
Mr. Ganghua Yang, Huawei, China
 
Abstract:
In the past decade, the mobile communications industry in China has developed rapidly with strong growth in mobile subscribers. China has the largest number of mobile subscribers (over 950 million in October 2012) in the world. In 2012, mobile industry revenue in China is expected to be over US$200 billion and accounts for about 75% of revenue of China's telecommunication sector as a whole. There is a huge demand for high data rate mobile services in China. On the other hand, the investment by China government and industry in the research and development for future mobile communication technologies has been increased significantly in recent years. For example, the five-year research budget in so-called “National Key Integrated Project in Future Broadband Mobile Communications” is over US$10 billion.

This Panel will bring together five prestigious speakers who will present their views as to what challenges and technologies in R&D are and how they are to be solved.
  • TD-LTE technologies and services (by Dr. Chil-Lin I, China Mobile)
  • 5G mobile technologies (by Professor Xiaohu You, Southeast University)
  • Distributed wireless communications (by Professor Jing Wang, Tsinghua University)
  • Heterogeneous networks and small cells (by Dr. Yi Wang, CATR) Massive MIMO technologies (by Mr. Ganghua Yang, Huawei)

Monday 08 April 2013  14:00 – 15:30, Century Hall

P2.  C-RAN: Today and Tomorrow
 
Organizer:
Dr. Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, China Mobile Research Institute, China
 
Bio: Dr. Chih-Lin I graduated from Stanford University and majored in Electrical Engineering. Her research focus has been on the leading techniques of wireless communication system. Now she is the Chief Scientist of Wireless Technologies, China Mobile Research Institute. She is leading research on new Wireless Internet and Green Communication Technologies. Dr. I joined China Mobile Research Institute as a recipient of CCCP “National Thousand Talent Program”. She has established the Green Communications Research Center of China Mobile, currently spearheading major initiatives including high energy efficiency system architecture, technologies, and devices; advanced R&D for 5G; green energy, power and carbon reduction.
 
Panelists:
Dr. Nathan J. Gomes, University of Kent, England
Dr. Yi Wang, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. China
Mr. Sunny Zhang, Intel Labs China.
Assaf Touboul, Vice President of Technology, Qualcomm, USA
Mr. Liang Xiong, Alcatel-Lucent, China
 
Abstract:
In the past few years, C-RAN has been generating increasing heated interest from both industry and academia. Featuring Centralized processing, Cooperative radio, Cloud computing and Clean RAN system, C-RAN claims such advantages as fast network deployment, reduction of TCO cost and improved network performance and efficiency. While the success has been quite phenomenal up to date, the new paradigm still faces a plethora of challenges to be solved before it can be deployed in large scale, which requires exploiting the synergy from industry and academia.
With the contribution of key luminaries, the specific C-RAN panel aims to provide a unique platform to share the latest progress, to exchange their viewpoints on technology innovation, future application and so forth in the C-RAN paradigm. The topics of interest to be discussed include but are not limited to:
  • Flexible, scalable and reliable large-scale BBU pool design
  • Efficient fronthaul solutions
  • Integration of virtualization with C-RAN
  • Cloud computing technology in C-RAN
  • Large-scale cooperative communication

Monday 08 April 2013  16:00 – 17:30 Century Hall

P3.  Small Cell and HetNet
 
Organizer:
Dr. Hidetoshi KAYAMA (President and CEO of DOCOMO Beijing Labs)
 
Bio: Hidetoshi Kayama received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Kyoto University in 1987, 1989 and 2004, respectively.  He has been with NTT Radio Systems Laboratories since 1989, working on research of packet radio access protocols for cellular and wireless LAN.  Since 1998, he was with NTT DoCoMo, Inc., where he engaged in the development of the PHS 64kbps data communication and research for QoS and MAC protocol for 4G mobile communications.  Since 2004, he was a director of Lab in DOCOMO Beijing Labs.  From 2010 to 2012, he was a leader of a research project of cognitive radio organized by MIA, Japan.  Now he is the President and CEO of DOCOMO Beijing Communications Laboratories Co., Ltd., in China.  He received the Scholarship Encouragement Award in 1995 from IEICE, and Best Paper Award of ICT2002, APCC2008 and 2012, ICCTA2009 respectively.  
 
Panelists:
Dr. Peter Butovitsch, Director of wireless and system tech. Ericsson China, China
Mr. Takehiro NAKAMURA, Director of the Radio Access Network Department of NTT DoCoMo, Japan
Dr. Lei Wan, Senior Standard Expert, Huawei, China
Dr. Ning Zou, Senior manager of technical policy and standards dept. Intel China, China
Ms. Lixiang Xu, Principle Engineer, Samsung China, China
 
Abstract:
The provision of smartphones and tablets caused paradigm shift on user experiences.  Simultaneously, it is driving the drastic growth of mobile data traffic. It is predicted that there will be 500 times amount of mobile traffic by the year of 2020. Facing the challenge of big gap between increasing traffic growth and saturation of user’s charge (operator revenue), WiFi offloading is widely used by operators now.  Recently, 3GPP starts the discussion of Relese12, and small cell and heterogeneous network are expected as a potential solution to achieve both capacity increase and cost reduction. In this industry panel, we invited experts from operators, NW and terminal vendors to discuss the current status and necessary technologies towards WiFi enhancement, future small cell and heterogeneous networks.
  • Necessity and development scenario of small cell/hetnet ( Ericsson China, Dr. Peter Butovitsch, Director of wireless and system tech.)
  • 3GPP standardization trend of small cell/hetnet ( DOCOMO, Takehiro NAKAMURA, Director of the Radio Access Network Development Department of NTT DOCOMO, 3GPP RAN Chairman)
  • Key technologies on small cell/hetnet  ( Huawei, Dr. Lei WAN, Senior Standard Expert, 3GPP RAN Prime)
  • Enhancement of WiFi in IEEE  (Intel, Dr. Ning Zou, Senior manager of technical policy and standards dept. )Trend and status of LTE/WiFi interworking  (Samsung, Ms. Lixiang Xu, Principle Engineer, lead of 3GPP higher layer standardization team)

Monday 08 April 2013  18:00 – 19:30, Century Hall

P4. Wireless Futures
 
Organizer:
Professor Lajos Hanzo, ECS, University of Southampton, England
 
Bio: Lajos Hanzo (http://wwwmobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk) FREng, FIEEE, FIET, Fellow of EURASIP, DSc received his degree in electronics in 1976 and his doctorate in 1983. In 2009 he was awarded the honorary doctorate “Doctor Honoris Causa” by the Technical University of Budapest. During his 35-year career in telecommunications he has held various research and academic posts in Hungary, Germany and the UK. Since 1986 he has been with the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, where he holds the chair in telecommunications. He has successfully supervised 80 PhD students, co-authored 20 John Wiley/IEEE Press books on mobile radio communications totalling in excess of 10 000 pages, published 1300 research entries at IEEE Xplore, acted both as TPC and General Chair of IEEE conferences, presented keynote lectures and has been awarded a number of distinctions. Currently he is directing a 100-strong academic research team, working on a range of research projects in the field of wireless multimedia communications sponsored by industry, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) UK, the Euro-pean IST Programme and the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE), UK. He is an enthusiastic supporter of industrial and academic liaison and he offers a range of industrial courses. He is also a Governor of the IEEE VTS. During 2008 – 2012 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Press and a Chaired Professor also at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His research is also funded by the European Research Council’s Senior Research Fellow Grant. For further information on research in progress and associated publications please refer to http://wwwmobile.ecs.soton.ac.uk
 
Panelists:
Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi, Tohoku University, Japan
Dr. Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, China Mobile, China
Prof. Victor O.K. Li, The University of Hong Kong, China
Dr. Wen Tong, Wireless CTO, Huawei, China
Prof. P. R. Kumar, Texas A&M University, USA
 
Abstract:
In recent years the rapidly growing smart-phone and tablet-computer population resulted in substantial tele-traffic growth. It is anticipated that this trend will continue throughout this decade until 2020, since wireless data-communications has become the fabric of wealth-creation. Its fiscal value is estimated by economists on the basis of predicting, how much the economy as a whole would stand to lose in the absence for mobile communications. Given the current level of growth, the data-traffic carried by the mobile network in 2020 might be 1000 times higher than that in 2010. As a further challenge, the bandwidth-efficiency can only be improved at the
cost of reduced power-efficiency and vice versa...
Casting our eyes back by three decades, since the conception of the second-generation Pan-European GSM system known as the Global System of Mobile Communications in excess of three orders of magnitude bit rate improvements were achieved. This impressive development corresponds to more than an order of magnitude throughput improvement for each of the past three decades, because GSM had a data rate of 9.6 Kbps, while the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) system is capable of communicating at 13.7 Mbps.Without the dramatic advances in both signal processing and the achievable signal processing speed this dramatic performance improvement would have been impossible to achieve. It is important to note however that if the energy required for the transmission of a single bit is assumed to be fixed, then the above-mentioned throughput improvement would require a 1000-fold transmit power increase, which is clearly unrealistic.
Thanks to the advances of science and technology, fortunately the bit-energy required for high integrity communications has been substantially reduced, but clearly not by a factor of 1000. In
other words, the possible transmit power reductions remained more limited, even when using the most advanced multi-stage iterative receivers - the required received signal power has not been reduced by as much as a factor of 1000 or 30 dB.
This plausible observation motivates the further research of advanced wireless access.


Tuesday 09 April 2013  11:00 – 12:30,  5D+5E

P5.  Green Cellular Networks

 
Organizer:
Prof. Teng Joon Lim, Dept. of ECE, National University of Singapore
 
Bio: Teng Joon Lim grew up in Singapore, obtained the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering with first-class honours from the National University of Singapore in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge in 1996. From September 1995 to November 2000, he was a researcher at the Centre for Wireless Communications in Singapore, one of the predecessors of the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R). From December 2000 to May 2011, he was a faculty member at the University of Toronto’s Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since June 2011, he has been a Professor at the National University of Singapore’s ECE Department, and currently serves as the director of the Communications and Networks group. His research interests span many topics within wireless communications, including multi-carrier modulation, MIMO, cooperative diversity, energy-efficient communications, cognitive radio, and random networks, and he has published widely in these areas. He has served/is serving on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He serves regularly on the technical program committees of major international conferences such as ICC and Globecom, and is the founding chair of the Special Interest Group on Green Cellular Networks within IEEE Comsoc’s Technical Sub-Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TSCGCC).
 
Panelists:
Dr. Jinsong Wu, Bell Labs China, China
Dr. Sumei Sun, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Prof. Marco Di Renzo, Supelec
Prof. Vinod Sharma, Indian Institute of Science, India
Dr. Shunqing Zhang, Huawei, China
Dr. Junyi Li, Vice President of Qualcomm, USA
 
Abstract:
 
Traffic in cellular communications systems is expected to increase by some 3 orders of magnitude within the next decade, due mainly to the rapidly growing penetration of devices with high-resolution displays and built-in cameras, such as smartphones and tablets. These tempt users to access graphics-heavy content on the Internet, and also to upload graphics-heavy content to the Internet. Growth at this rate cannot be sustained using the cellular architecture that we have depended on to date, in which geographical areas are carved up into non-overlapping cells, each served by only one base station that is connected to the backbone network through high-speed radio or optical backhaul links. Ideas for new network architectures that may provide the necessary higher data throughput have been raised recently – these include cloud RAN (radio access network), small cells such as femto-cells and pico-cells, and cooperative multi-point (CoMP) transmission.
While traffic growth drives the search for new ideas to support the increased throughput anticipated, it is equally clear that any new system architecture must be more energy efficient than current systems. After all, increasing the energy consumption of a cellular system by 3 orders of magnitude would create an unacceptable increase in energy consumption by wireless service providers, leading to higher user charges and reduced profit margins, besides being out of step with the heightened environmental awareness of the 21st century.
IEEE WCNC is the premier international forum for wireless communication researchers, and is therefore the ideal venue for a discussion of the key technical challenges facing cellular networks of the future. This proposed panel is organized by the newly created Special Interest Group on Green Cellular Networks (SIGGCN), which has attracted members from all around the globe (see https://sites.google.com/site/greencellularnetworks/). Questions to be examined will include:
  • How important is energy efficiency relative to bandwidth efficiency?
  • Does the freeing up of TV bands provide sufficient capacity to satisfy most future needs?
  • How should renewable energy be incorporated into cellular networks?
  • Is it more “green” to perform joint processing in the cloud i.e. cloud-RAN, or distributed processing at base stations?
  • Do small cells in a heterogeneous network operate at a higher energy efficiency than micro-cells in a flat network architecture? 
Given the open nature of these questions, we can look forward to the most interesting debate that will make a positive and deep impression on the audience.

 
 

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