IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
13–16 September 2021 // Virtual Conference // By 6G Flagship

Panel 5: Evolution of 5G mmWave

Thursday 16 September, 16:00-18:00 (UTC/GMT +3)

The evolution of 5G New Radio (NR) has progressed swiftly since 3GPP standardized the first NR release, i.e., Release 15 in mid-2018. Release 16 was completed in early July 2020. Also in July 2020, 3GPP 5G spanning Release 15&16 was formally endorsed as ITU IMT-2020 5G standard. In addition to efficient utilization of sub 6GHz spectrum, Release 15&16 also provide the basic functionalities of supporting mmWave. Nowadays Release 17 has taken center stage. Technologies for enhanced mmWave are under discussion.

At the same time, 3GPP also starts to plan Release 18 and beyond. To enable large-scale mmWave network deployment, we still face lots of challenges, such as massive MIMO beamforming for outdoor and indoor coverage, cost-effective deployement solutions, seamless mobility with effective beam management, network and device energy efficiency, mobile device complexity and etc. In addtion to the existing challeges, there are lots of new emerging use cases for mmWave, such as uplink centric traffic, real time immsersive communications, positioning for IIOT, sensing. Therefore, it will be very timely to investigate how 5G mmWave evolves towards 2025 and beyond from technology points of view, taking into accounts the main use cases, key challenges and potential technology trends.

In this panel, we will bring together leading experts from the mobile industry. The panel can serve as a good opportunity to share the experts’ views about mmWave technology for 5G evolution and can provide a bridge between industry and academia.

Questions

  1. What are the challenges in the current 5G mmWave deployment worldwide?
  2. What are the emerging new use cases for mmWave toward 2025 and beyond?
  3. Considering those challenges and emerging new use cases, what are the top driving forces for 5G evolution on mmWave?
  4. What objectives and requirements for 5G evolution on mmWave?
  5. What are technologies for 5G evolution on mmWave to fulfill the above requirements?

Moderator

Mr. Zhenfei Tang, Huawei, China, zhenfei.tang@huawei.com

List of Participants

Dr. Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Senior Vice President, Qualcomm, US, etied@qti.qualcomm.com

Mr. Rui Sun, Senior Vice President of Huawei Wireless Research, China, sunrui@huawei.com

Dr. Stefan Parkvall, Senior Expert at Ericsson Research, Sweden, stefan.parkvall@ericsson.com

Dr. Fuchan Li, deputy director of wireless technology research department of China Unicom Research Institute, China, lifc50@chinaunicom.cn

Prof. Wolfgang Utschick, Dean of the ECE Department, TUM, Germany, utschick@tum.de

Biographies

Zhenfei Tang is the senior manager of the 5G evolution research in Huawei. He led 5G evolution research and managed a series of national projects from Huawei. He has been engaged in the research for 3G, 4G and 5G wireless communications systems and was the major representative of Huawei in 3GPP and in China IMT-Advanced since he joined Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd in 2005. Mr. Tang has more than 100 granted patents in the area of wireless communications and contributed more than 500 papers to international standards and conferences. He received his M.S. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2004.

Dr. Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr. is an IEEE Fellow, a Qualcomm Fellow, and a Senior Vice President of Engineering of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. He leads Qualcomm’s worldwide standardization and industry organization activities. Dr. Tiedemann was instrumental in the design and development of the TIA/EIA/IS-95 CDMA system, also called cdmaOne?. He led Qualcomm and much of the industry’s efforts in the design and development of the third-generation cdma2000? system. Dr. Tiedemann has almost 300 granted US patents and has participated in many papers, conference lectures, and industry panels. He is past Chairman of the Board of the Open Connectivity Foundation, and sits on the board of several other industry organizations. He is interested in multiple topics in communications including 5G and beyond, IoT, and V2x.

Prior to becoming involved with terrestrial wireless communications, Dr. Tiedemann was involved with numerous commercial and military satellite systems. From 1977 to 1988, Dr. Tiedemann was at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he worked on mmWave satellite communications systems.

Dr. Tiedemann holds the Ph.D. degree from MIT where he worked in the areas of queueing theory and communications networks. He holds the Master of Science degree from Purdue University and the Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Va Tech).

Dr. Tiedemann is past chairman of the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Va Tech). He currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) School of Engineering Advisory Committee. Dr. Tiedemann currently serves as the IEEE Communications Society as Director, Standards Development. He was General Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2015. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Peabody Essex Museum and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Concord Museum. He has received numerous recognitions, most recently the Robert M. Walp Industry Humanitarian Award from the IEEE Communications Society.

Mr. Rui Sun, Senior Vice President of Huawei Wireless Research, is currently leading the 5G and Beyond technologies research and development. He joined Huawei in 2000. For the past twenty years in Huawei, Mr. Sun has been served as Director of 2G/3G/4G R&D and business teams, and has been accumulated remarkable expertise in the fields of product development, basic research and industrial innovation. He has also made many outstanding achievements in each generation of mobile communications technology.

In 2017, Mr. Sun was appointed to direct the Wireless Network Research Department, which was in charge of 5G technology research and standardization. From since, he has been devoting himself to the development and commercialization of 5G and beyond. The concept and vision of 5.5G was first proposed by Mr. Sun and his team. His team is collaborating with global universities and research institutes on more than 100 projects. Their work aims to help overcome worldwide technological challenges in 5.5G, including theoretical breakthrough, structure design, and prototype implementation.

Dr. Stefan Parkvall is currently a Senior Expert at Ericsson Research working with research on 6G and future radio access. He is one of the key persons in the development of HSPA, LTE and NR radio access and has been deeply involved in 3GPP standardization for many years. Dr Parkvall is a fellow of the IEEE, served as an IEEE Distinguished lecturer 2011-2012, and is co-author of several popular books such as “3G Evolution – HSPA and LTE for Mobile Broadband”, “4G – LTE/LTE-Advanced for Mobile Broadband”, “4G, LTE Advanced Pro and the Road to 5G”, and “5G NR – The Next Generation Wireless Access”. He has more than 1500 patents in the area of mobile communication. In 2005, he received the Ericsson “Inventor of the Year” award, in 2009 the Swedish government’s Major Technical Award for his contributions to the success of HSPA, and in 2014 he and colleagues at Ericsson was one of three finalists for the European Inventor Award, the most prestigious inventor award in Europe, for their contributions to LTE.

Dr Parkvall received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1996. His previous positions include assistant professor in communication theory at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and a visiting researcher at University of California, San Diego, USA.

Dr. Fuchang Li (b. 1977), deputy director of wireless technology research department of China Unicom Research Institute. He is a senior engineer at professor level and the technology expert on patent examination in the state intellectual property office, enjoying special government allowances of the State Council. He has mainly engaged in standardization, test & verification and research in mobile telecommunications and integration of fixed-line and mobile networks. Meanwhile, he has hosted and participated in more than 100 research topics of Ministry of Industry and China Unicom, on key technologies and applications of 3G, 4G, 5G, 6G mobile telecommunication systems. He has published more than 60 academic papers in global and domestic journals and conferences. He has published one monograph and created 16 authorized national patents.

Prof. Wolfgang Utschick’s (b. 1964) research combines different areas of applied mathematics in various signal processing application domains as in the field of wireless communications, radar and automotive safety. Since his doctoral studies, he has also been working on machine learning topics. He holds several patents in the field of signal processing and has authored and co- authored a great many of technical articles in international journals and conference proceedings. For his contributions to signal processing algorithms for multi-antenna communications systems he has been evaluated to IEEE Fellow.

Prof. Utschick studied and did his doctorate at TUM after working in the industry. After a short postdoctoral period at TUM and ETH Zürich, he was appointed to the Professorship for Signal Processing Methods in 2002. Wolfgang Utschick has been principal investigator in multiple collaborative projects with the industry and in many research projects funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since 2011 he is member of the steering committee of the TUM Department for Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), first as the Dean for Study Affairs and since 2017 as the Dean of the department. He was elected to a second term as Dean in October 2020.