The challenge for the Cloud is to support 20 billion IOT devices by 2020. 5G is a revolutionary change that will allow the Internet of Everything to communicate at speed and with high data fidelity.  Autonomous Everything is upon us and 5G will be a key enabler; however, cloud limitations include insufficient bandwidth, latency, connections and security/privacy. The move to Edge Computing and Resource Saving Architecture will address these limits and simultaneously reduce costs, power consumption and e-waste.

5G System & Use-Case Trials

5G is expected to become an important infrastructure for super smart society and IT transformation. It is necessary to develop and deploy 5G system that emphasizes the viewpoints of how to utilize 5G for society and industry, and how to solve and improve various issues of society by use of 5G. To that end, in parallel with the 5 G system development, a number of 5 G use case trials are being implemented. This presentation will introduce the technical points of 5G, also refer to the task for realizing the new world of mobile communication aimed at 5G, and describe the expectation for the near future network society.

Fumio Watanabe

Chairman of KDDI Research Inc.

CTO of UQ Communications Inc. 

President of KDDI Foundation

Dr. Watanabe has 40 years of experience in research and development of satellite and mobile communication systems including IMT-2000, IMT-Advanced, WiMAX and 5G.  He has been active for a long time in international standardization of mobile communication systems in ITU-R. 

He joined KDD in 1980.  He was an Executive Director, General Manager of KDDI from 2006 responsible for mobile radio access networks and R&D activities. He is now the Chairman of KDDI Research Inc. He is also CTO of UQ Communications Inc. and the President of KDDI Foundation.

He received Piero Fanti International Prize in 1989, the R & D Awards of Radio Systems in 1991, the meritorious Awards on ITU activities in 2001, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education in 2010, and Maejima memorial Awards in 2013, respectively. He is the chairman of Broadband Wireless Access Committee in ARIB. He is a Fellow of IEIEC.

Topic: The Future Outlook Opened up by 5G

Mr. Takehiro Nakamura, General Manager of 5G Laboratory, NTT DOCOMO, INC.

In this presentation, DOCOMO's views on NW deployment scenarios, spectrum deployment for 5G commercial launch in 2020 and update of 5G trials will be provided.  Furthermore, DOCOMO’s considerations on enhancements of 5G technologies will be provided. Finally, updates on collaboration activities with vertical players to create 5G services will be presented.

Topic: 5G Ready:  Carrier, Government, Industry Cooperation - Case Study on AI/IoT

Mr. David Randolph Hoelscher, Director, CTO, Carrier Business Group, Huawei

For 5G Ready, Government, Carrier, and Industry stakeholders need a new degree of cooperation and team work.   Will go through several examples of how various parts of 5G network will rely on cooperation with government and other industries (such as utilities) to lower cost of infrastructure facilities and deployments.   Also will discuss how AI helps to enable optimized 5G network (Intent Driven Network, Security, etc) 

Prior to joining Huawei for IoT, Dave has extensive experience with Qualcomm, Ericsson, and OnRamp Wireless working on network product and solution development such as CDMA2000, LTE, eMBMS, LPWAN (802.15.4k).  eMBMS and LPWAN in particular are focused towards IoT connectivity.  Dave has worked on product development for smart metering, smart grid, and smart city, particularly with focus on distributed, low power sensor networks.

Dave holds Bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering and Chinese Language, Master Degree in Computer Communications from the University of Southern California, and an MBA from San Diego State University.

Topic: 5G NR Development and Validation Challenges

Mr. Roger Nichols, Director of 5G Programs, Keysight Technologies Inc.

By the time of the 2018 Taipei 5G Summit, the core of 3GPP Release 15 will be complete and most of this industry will be working furiously to design, implement, and validate the first commercial 5G products and systems. Some of the most important enabling technologies for 5G will be well into end-to-end trial-phases. With the most aggressive operators intending to start commercial services in late 2018 to mid-2019, this work is beset with challenges. The constraints of technology, policy, and business models are only part of the work. These must be combined with the requirements to meet the new 3GPP standard and for these new systems to co-exist with legacy technologies. This includes challenges for validating UE’s, <3GHz issues, <6GHz issues, and mmWave issues. And while plenty of attention is paid to the new frequency bands in the mmWave spectrum, some of the largest and earliest deployments will be focused at new, but much more familiar frequencies between 3GHz and 4GHz. This presentation will provide some examples of key design and validation challenges with devices, the 5G RAN, and the next-generation core. It will also cover some of what the 3GPP has done to address these, and some of the work that is yet to be done for consistent and reliable validation and conformance. And it will be addressed in the context of the policy and standards constraints typical of this industry. Finally, it will conclude with some of the most important areas upon which the industry needs to focus to ensure a timely and profitable rollout.

Roger Nichols

Director of 5G Programs, Keysight Technologies Inc.

Roger Nichols is has been directing Keysight’s 5G Programs for three years. His 32 years of engineering and management experience in wireless test and measurement at Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and Keysight spans roles in manufacturing, R&D, and marketing. He has worked in programs spanning the evolution from analog cellular radio to 4G and every standard in between.  He spent seven years as the Senior Marketing Director for Keysight’s (Agilent’s) Mobile Broadband Operation responsible for the wireless test-sets and systems that are used in all major design and certification labs as well as manufacturing facilities worldwide.

Rogers holds a BSEE from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Topic: Machine Learning in 5G RAN

Mr. Rajeev Agrawal, Algorithm Innovation Lead Mobile Networks Architecture, Technology and R&D Foundation, Nokia 

Machine Learning based algorithms can be applied to 5G RAN for different applications/use cases such as value-added services and RAN optimization. Exploiting ML for the RAN requires a holistic approach with suitable hardware acceleration, algorithms, toolkits, platforms/middleware and APIs. Successful use cases for ML in 5G RAN would be ones that provide performance and/or computational benefits and are likely to emerge from problem areas where there are no good known solutions or conventional solutions are too complex to implement. We are systematically studying different use cases to identify the ones which are most likely to bear fruit and designing best-in-class algorithms exploiting diverse ML techniques, simulations, real network data and proof-of-concepts. 

Rajeev Agrawal

Algorithm Innovation Lead, Mobile Networks Architecture, Technology and R&D Foundation, Nokia

Rajeev Agrawal leads Algorithm Innovation as part of Mobile Networks ATF in Nokia.

He is responsible for developing the algorithms, architecture & technology for differentiating Nokia Mobile Networks RAN product and solution offerings. Rajeev leads a global team spread across US, Europe and India.

Rajeev has 18+ years of industry experience and 11 years as a university faculty. Rajeev worked at Motorola Networks which was acquired by Nokia Siemens Networks which in turn was acquired by Nokia. Prior to joining industry, Rajeev was Professor of ECE at UW-Madison. He also spent a sabbatical year at IBM TJ Watson Research, British Telecom Labs, and INRIA-Sophia Antipolis.

Rajeev has published extensively in academic and industry journals and conferences and holds over 20 patents in the area of wireless networking. Rajeev was awarded the Dan Noble Fellow award at Motorola and is a Nokia Bell Labs Fellow.

5G and AI are converging. Due to the rise of open sources, new technologies are implemented far more faster then before. I’ll introduce some important AI, IT, and CT open sources that boost the industry and also the real-time AI inference system architecture that realize AI. I’ll show some demo to describe how 5G and AI are working to together to solve problems, (ex. Smart City, Smart Factory, … Etc).