5G Evolution and 6G

Research on beyond 5G/6G has started in the world. NTT DOCOMO published the white paper on 5G evolution and 6G in January, 2020 and updated in July, 2020. In this presentation, use cases, requirements and technologies of 5G evolution and 6G , described in the white paper, will be explained.

Takehiro Nakamura

SVP and General Manager of 5G Labs, NTT DOCOMO

Mr. Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990. He is now SVP and General Manager of the 6G Laboratories in NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

Mr. Nakamura has been engaged in R&D and the standardization activities for the W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE/LTE-Advanced and 5G at ARIB in Japan since 1997. He has been the Acting Chairman of Strategy & Planning Committee of 5G Mobile Communications Promotion Forum(5GMF) in Japan since October 2014.

Mr. Nakamura has also been contributing to standardization activities in 3GPP since 1999, including as a contributor to 3GPP TSG-RAN as chairman from April 2009 to March 2013.

He is also very active in standardization of C-V2X/Connected Car in ARIB and ITS Info-communications Forum in Japan. He is now a leader of Cellular System Task Group of ITS Info-communications Forum.

Tzi-Cker Chiueh

Vice President  & General Director of ICL, ITRI

Dr. Tzi-cker Chiueh is currently the General Director of Information and Communications Labs at ITRI, and Research Professor in the Computer Science Department of Stony Brook University and National Tsing Hua University. 

Before joining ITRI, Dr. Chiueh served as the director of Core Research in Symantec Research Labs.He received his BSEE from National Taiwan University, MSCS from Stanford University, and Ph.D. in CS from University of California at Berkeley in 1984, 1988, and 1992, respectively. 

He received an NSF CAREER award, numerous best paper awards including 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE),  2013 ACM Systems and Storage (SYSTOR) conference,2015 ACM Virtual Execution Environment (VEE) Conference, 2016 IEEE Infocom Test of Time Paper Award, and 2016 ACM CGO Test of Time Paper Award.

Dr. Chiueh has published over 250 technical papers in referred conferences and journals. His current research interest is large-scale systems software, including those related to data/energy storage systems, data center networking, and software security.

Jung-kuei Chen 
Vice President of Telecommuication Laboratories, Chunghwa Telecom Co.Ltd.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Chen was Deputy Principal Engineer of International Business Group in Chunghwa Telecom. Dr. Chen has joined Chunghwa Telecom for 31 years since July 1988 and has complete research and management experience. He has been the researcher of TL in many different laboratories, such as Applied Technology Lab., Advance Technology Lab. and Multimedia Application Lab. Then, he has become the management position including the managing director of Enterprise Service Lab., Corporate Planning Department in TL, and the managing director of Corporate Planning Department in International Business Group.

He received M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1988 and also Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1995.     His research interests include artificial intelligence, big data analysis, Internet of things, AR/VR and 5G applications.