10GHz 2015 - Workshop on Challenges of Millimeter Wave Spectrum (Above 10GHz) in Next Generation (5G) Wireless Networks

The Workshop on Challenges of Millimeter Wave Spectrum (Above 10GHz) in Next Generation (5G) Wireless Networks will be held in conjunction with the 15th edition of the IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband ICUWB’2015 in Montreal, Canada, from October 4th to 7th, 2015.
This workshop seeks technical papers describing challenges, measurements and modeling, system architecture, design & development, and recent results in the field of millimeter wave communications for cellular and Wi-Fi systems.
The demand for wireless data has been driving network capacity to double about every two years for at least the last 50 years and has come to be known as Cooper’s Law. This trend is expected to continue for at least the next decade and has even accelerated in recent years as a greater proportion of the population adopts wireless devices with ever-greater capabilities such as tablets supporting HD video. The cellular systems industry is struggling to keep up with year over year increase in data capacity demands and globally facing shortage of spectrum.
Millimeter wave (mmW) frequencies are considered to be indispensable for next generation wireless systems, both cellular and Wi-Fi, primarily due to the large amounts of spectrum available in these bands. It is interesting to note that the available spectrum at these frequencies can be 200 times greater than all cellular allocations today under 3 GHz. The huge bandwidths available and high directivity of antennas at millimeter wave frequencies offer the potential for greatly increasing network capacity without cell sizes becoming impractically small, but this spectrum also offers significant challenges for radio network planners and modem designers.
In spite of these challenges, mmW communication has emerged as a promising component of 5G cellular systems. It is second in the list of five disruptive technologies for 5G, one of the six vertical pillars in 5GPPP framework towards H2020 with significant interest from industry and academia. This interest is spurred by recent research and development efforts driven by new and encouraging mmW channel measurement results as well as encouraging progress in the antenna, silicon and system architecture domains. Moreover, recent supportive actions by the world leading regulatory bodies, e.g., FCC, ECC, and their Asian counterparts on allowing additional mmW frequency availability has further solidified the role of mmW in 5G systems.
The unique characteristics of mmW bands in terms of signal propagation and the hardware and antenna requirements require fundamentally novel and thorough engineering approaches which will need to span a wide range of concepts from RF design to new network architectures. In this workshop, we examine the role that mmW communication could play in next generation cellular and Wi-Fi networks. This workshop will bring together academic researchers and industrial professionals to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to mmW in enabling next generation wireless networks. Position papers, technology overviews, and case studies are also welcome.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
? mmW air-interface design (single carrier vs. multi-carrier, and RRM, interference mitigation techniques, beamforming, discovery and association, etc.)
? Mobility and reliability challenges in mmW communications (multiple mmW site connectivity, reduction of handover interruption time, etc.)
? Opportunities and challenges for mmW joint access and backhaul
? Massive MIMO in mmW spectrum
? Applicability of mmW spectrum to V2X, D2D, MTC, etc.
? Device related implementation aspects
? Millimeter wave propagation channel modeling and measurements (Indoor, outdoor, and outdoor to indoor channel characterization)
? Energy efficiency (energy efficient transmitter, RAN system design strategies for low power consumption, high gain antenna architectures, etc.)
? Test and measurements for millimeter-wave devices (measurement accuracy, test methodology for highly integrated antennas, etc.)
? Health issues (biological effects studies, regulatory exposure limits, etc.)