2. Background
• PIMRC is a Flagship IEEE Conference on Telecommunication
• It has a long history of showing the horizon for upcoming
telecommunications technologies
• Hosted by King’s College London
3. Main Players
• Operators were represented by Vodafone in the form of Steve
Pusey (Vodafone Group CTO), and Siavash Alamouti (Head of
Vodafone Group R&D)
• Vendors were represented by the heads of Huawei and nsn
Research Divisions.
• The regulatory bodies were represented by Ofcom UK.
• There were many academics from leading universities in the
telecommunication field.
4. Vision for the Future
• The Operators feel the need to have a consistent service in terms of
data speed across their whole network.
• There needs to be a way to evolve faster in response to the
complexity of cellular networks today.
• There needs to be some form of intelligent offload for
unpredictable user behaviour (when many people gather in one
place unexpectedly).
• There will be a day that the operators have to share each other's
spectrum the same way they share the infrastructure. Handling that
properly is very important.
5. The Vision for 5G
• No one has got much technical data on it yet.
• There is the talk of 1000 times capacity. Not sure if it is achievable
on scale.
• Probably there won’t be a new RAT, most probably the aim will be
on making all the existing technologies work seamlessly together
(FDD-LTE, LTEA, TDD-LTE, 3G, WiFi offload)
• Using a cloud structure for the network with all optical backbone.
7. 5G Vision
• The EU is very keen on PPP (Public Private Partnership) to drive
research.
• They envisage a zero perceived downtime for internet in 2020. (that
means a lot of redundancy as well as integration of all access
technologies).
11. What does the EU think and how much money are
they sinking into it? Their roadmap is called H2020.
12. How do they intend to spend that research money?
13. Food for Thought.
• What does this mean for us in NZ?
• How will our local providers cope with these changes?
• Do we have the infrastructure and the quality of service now to
deliver say 3Mbps consistently across our coverage domain
regardless of load?)
• How do we go ahead making sure that the main point of mobile
communication (Voice Communication) is not forgotten?
• Will LTE or future evolutions be dependant on 2G/3G fall back for
their voice?
