Title: WI→FIve-G [Download slides]

 

Abstract: 5G networks emerge through leverage of unlicensed frequency spectra.  A stunning eighty percent of today’s internet data traffic is off-loaded to Wi-Fi, which in turn is largely backhauled by copper or fiber access technologies.  Fifth generation networks will be based on a convergence of mobile and fixed technologies through this Wi-Fi hybrid of mobile and fixed access.  This talk will examine these trends and explore technological evolutionary steps and challenges that may well define the true emergence of high-speed internet connectivity reliably to all future internet data consumers.

 

Title: 5G and Beyond [Download slides]

 

Abstract: Mobile communication systems have been evolved from the 1G analogue cellular systems launched in 1979 to today’s 4G LTE/LTE-Advanced. LTE has become the mainstream of mobile technologies and discussions on 5G have been active, targeting the launch in 2020.

We observe the difference in the status of 5G today from that of 4G in the same early stage of standardization. There was a concrete concept and technology for 4G in early 2000s, while no one liked to use the term ‘4G’. Today, there is no single technology representing 5G, while everyone talks about 5G. This comes from the difference in the balance between technologies and business models.

We also see some myth and misunderstanding about 5G; 5G requires new dedicated spectra, 5G is the millimeter wave technology, 5G is just a hot spot system for complementary use and the like. 

We have the challenge to realize wide coverage cellular systems even with higher frequency bands. Although there is no single representative 5G technology, there are several promising technology candidates, and their combinations will create new advanced features. With such combinations, things that are considered impossible today will be achieved in the 5G era and then everyone will come to understand that the cellular systems will provide cost-effective and flexible solutions with wide coverage even on higher frequency spectra with broader bandwidths.

In the talk, the current status of 4G is presented first. Next, the history of mobile system evolution is reviewed to discuss the future trends. Then, the 5G technologies, requirement analysis and experimental trials are described. And finally, the ambition and prediction for longer term trends of technology convergence or divergence after 5G and 6G are discussed.

 

Title: The Internet of Things and Other Challenges to the Internet as We Know It [Download slides]

 

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is often seen as the safe prediction for the next big Internet disruptor. What makes the Internet of Things unique from a networking and security perspective? What are the challenges in terms of data traffic, spectrum, naming and numbering? How can we avoid building an Internet of Things that seems to mainly solve "toy" problems? What kind of standards are needed to allow re-use of sensors and actuators beyond a single smartphone app? I will try to show that there is no single Internet of Things, but rather overlapping models that pose different challenges, with computing and storage moving back-and-forth between edge and core networks. IoT also exposes many of the long-running challenges for other Internet services and applications, such as automating configuration and management, ensuring reliability, and usable security.

 

Title: An Internet of Skills, where Robotics meets AI and the Tactile Internet [Download slides]

 

Abstract: Today’s fixed, mobile and things Internets allow us to transmit files, voice and video across the planet. With the emergence of an ultra-responsive & reliable Tactile Internet, advanced techniques in robotics and artificial intelligence, we predict the emergence of an Internet of Skills which allows the transmission of labor globally. It will invoke an important shift from content-delivery to skillset-delivery networks, where engineers would service cars or surgeons performing critical operations anywhere on the planet. For this to work however we require some fundamental laws of physics to be “reengineered”. This keynote is all about the disruptive technology approaches which will allow us to break through this next tech frontier. 

 

Abstract: In the new digital economy where every business is becoming digital business, the ever enriched human communication experiences have been much accelerating in recent years and represented by 4K HD video, VR/AR and IoT across both consumer and industry space.  Historically, telecom business has been largely limited to traditional voice services and simple data bandwidth consumption model which are no longer sustainable.  The digital economy is fundamentally about openness, collaboration and sharing through ecosystem. The main challenge in telecom industry today is the business transformation to create new value propositions in the rapidly emerging digital ecosystem. Architecturally, such business transformation requires carriers to become a platform player, i.e., building out cloud-based and big-data-driven infrastructure platforms, which are overlaid across new and existing CT and IT products in networks and data centers through the migration of abstraction, decoupling, programmability and software-defined. This talk will give a brief overview of how Huawei has been developing and committed to three open ecosystem partner programs for the purpose of embracing the carrier transformation from box-driven to platform-oriented.  Further, we will cover the five major platform initiatives, which has been mainly invested by Huawei in recent years, to directly address the core of carrier business transformation, i.e., cloud network, IoT, video, ICT infrastructure and digital operation.