Keynotes

Abstract: With sales expected to reach over 8 billion units over the next five years, smartphones are not only ubiquitous, they are a major source of technology innovation worldwide. The scale and pace of this innovation is impacting many other industries - including consumer electronics, automotive, health care, robotics, and smart cities - as companies look for ways to leverage the mobile ecosystem and its technology to create intelligently connected products and services. During his presentation, Qualcomm Executive Chairman Dr. Paul Jacobs will share his unique perspectives on what the future holds for mobile devices, networks and services, and how they will transform experiences and entire industries.

Abstract: Smart energy networks are key elements of smart cities. A notable aspect of smart energy networks is smart grid, which involves the imposition of an advanced cyber layer atop the physical layer of the electricity grid in order to improve the efficiency and lower the cost of power use and distribution, and to allow for the effective integration of renewable energy sources and distributed storage into the grid. This cyber-physical setting motivates the application of many techniques from the information sciences to problems arising in the electricity grid, and considerable research effort has been devoted to such application in recent years. This talk will illustrate this role through examples arising in demand-side management, sensing & metering, communications, and related problems.

Abstract: The emerging 5G wireless will have a huge impact on the transformation of vertical industries. These represent a significant challenge to the 5G wireless technology, especially, the high reliability for the mission critical vertical industries, the ultra-low latency for the machine control such as autonomous driving car industries and massive links for the sensing data from everything. A set of new 5G radio access capabilities have to be created to meet diverse requirements from different applications, on the other hand, the radio access network and core network architecture will evolve to adapt to different requirement, in this case, the network virtualization and slicing is the critical foundation to enable a single and unified virtualizes network architecture.

Abstract: Wireless over fibre (WoF) systems have found an increasing role in coverage solutions for large buildings, driven by the increased data rates in mobile systems. Optical fibre transmission has enabled greatly increased transmission rates for fixed devices, with 10Gb/s common in local area networks. End users find wireless access highly convenient, however limited spectrum availability at microwave frequencies results in per-user transmission rates which are limited to much lower values. Extending the high data-rate capacity of optical fibre transmission to wireless devices requires greatly increased carrier frequencies. This keynote will present the technologies for WoF systems and discuss how photonic techniques can enable ultra-high capacity wireless data transmission using signals at millimetre-wave and TeraHertz (THz) frequencies.

Abstract: CTOs are currently experiencing significant data traffic volume in their mobile networks. Capacity is becoming one of the major challenges. Mobile Networks as they are today will not be able to maintain a high Quality of Service in the future. Consequently, CTOs must evolve their networks to offer higher capacity and more reliable data services. In this Forum, five CTOs from EE, O2, Three, Qualcomm and Huawei will address the question - What is next for mobile networks?

Abstract: In the past decade, mobile communications industry in China has developed very rapidly. China has the largest number of mobile subscribers (over one billion) in the world. The investment by Chinese government in the R&D for 5G mobile communication technologies has been increased significantly in recent years. This keynote will introduce the national strategy in 5G mobile communications in China and present its latest R&D work, especially key enabling techniques for 5G radio transmission and networking. An open architecture testbed based on the massive cooperative cloud radio will be briefly presented.

Abstract: Commencing with a brief historical recital of the four wireless generations, the most potent enabling techniques are critically appraised by considering a range of radical techniques of increasing the achievable throughput. We live in an era, when the tele-traffic demand outstrips the available capacity, as tele-presence with its joy and wonder gradually becomes a commercial reality. Specifically, the pros and cons of coherent versus non-coherent large-scale MIMO systems are considered and the benefits as well as disadvantages of their multi-functional antenna array based and spatial modulation aided manifestations are touched upon.

Abstract: The understanding of 5G use cases and requirements are becoming clearer. 5G technology demonstrations show that many technologies that were more on idea level just a year ago can be built. Nokia as an industry leading company is helping the public 5G research to switch gears- the research will develop 5G building blocks further and organize them to an integrated 5G systems embracing also LTE-Advanced evolution, WiFi and fixed. In this keynote, Nokia 5G Business Program Head Dr. Jürgen Schindler will share his view of top 5 key technology components of 5G and explain Nokia's holistic systems research, prototyping & development.