SmartCom 2016 - Workshop on 5G channel modelling activities and next steps in both Europe and Japan

5G communication networks will bring enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services to users and vertical markets
supporting very wide range requirements from context-dependent applications. This will lead to support extremely large
bandwidth, ultra dense deployment of radio access points, aggregation of diverse access technologies, exploitation of new
(and unlicensed) spectrum. In recent years, mmWave bands above 6GHz have been emerging as strong candidate spectra
for both backhaul and access of 5G systems, owing to the ultra-wide available bandwidth as well as the maturity of related
technologies including antenna/beamforming technology (which can compensate path loss attenuation at higher frequency)
and integrated circuits. On the other hand, investigation on the propagation characteristics of a channel is crucially important
seen from the system design’s perspective. For this purpose, this workshop, which includes all invited papers, will highlight
recent research progresses of this evolving area by providing a platform to showcase research works and new findings on
mmWave propagation. By collaborating between Japan-initiative SmartCom2016 and European-found EW2016, the
workshop is also aiming at encouraging further collaboration within the researchers of both Europe and Japan working on
these close research paradigm of 5G communications. This workshop is also supported by 5GPPP mmMAGIC project
and EU/JP MiWEBA project.