Updated January 31, 2011.
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Femtocell
Workshop
Hosted by Qualcomm
San
Diego,
CA
Wednesday,
February 2, 2011.
Chair: Peter Rysavy, Rysavy Research
CONTENTS
Background
Workshop Agenda
Meeting Location
Hotel and Travel Information
Registration
Information for Presenters
Femtocells are
emerging as a fundamental element in wireless networks. They provide
clear benefits such as improved indoor coverage and greater overall
network capacity. But they also introduce significant complications and
business models are unproven.
The workshop will consider questions such as:
- What are the different available architectures for integrating femtocells?
- How will interference be managed?
- Should femtocells operate on the same or different frequencies than the wide area network?
- What are the pros and cons relative to Wi-Fi approaches?
- How much capacity will networks actually gain?
- Should femtocells be deployed using 3G or 4G technologies?
- What represents the best opportunity: consumer or enterprise? How do requirements differ between these?
- What are application implications?
- What are the different business models?
- What regulatory issues (CALEA, 911,
etc.) must be addressed?
Note
that
presenters
and
many
of
the
attendees,
are
world
leading
technologists
on
the
subject
material.
We
allocate
sufficient
time
for
discussion
that
attendees
can
ask
questions
of
greatest
interest.
Moreover,
the
workshops
allow
informal
networking
during
breaks
where
attendees
can
exchange
important
information.
Workshop.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011.
8:00 AM to
4:00 PM.
Attendees
obtain
access
to
content
presented
and
detailed
minutes.
The preliminary proposed agenda is as follows:
- 8:00 to 8:30 Registration.
- 8:30 to 8:45 Peter Rysavy, Executive Director, PCCA. Introductions. PCCA meeting schedule and association update.
- 8:45
to
9:30 Peter Carson, Sr. Director, QCT Product Management,
Qualcomm. Host company presentation.
- 9:30
to
10:15 Presentation. Presentation. Andy Germano, Vice Chairman,
Femto Forum. Femto Forum activities, industry overview,
interoperability testing, enterprise vs. consumer, femto services
(e.g., location).
- 10:15 to 10:30 Break
- 10:30
to
11:15 Presentation.
Rao Yallapragada, Sr Dir, Technical Marketing, Qualcomm.
"Qualcomm
Self
Organizing
Network
(QSON)
features
for Small Cells in a
Heterogeneous Network."
- 11:15 to 12:00 Presentation. Pantelis Monogioudis, Director of LTE Strategy, Wireless CTO Organization, Alcatel-Lucent. Performance of LTE Heterogeneous Networks.
- 12:00
to
1:00 Lunch
- 1:00 to 1:45 Presentation. Tom McQuade, Picochip. Greater Femto. Femto/pico/micro architecture, self-provisioning, self-optimizing, automated operations/administration/maintenance.
- 1:45
to
2:30 Presentation. Nick Johnson, CTO. IP Access. “When Will we
see 4G Femtocells, and Will we Recognize them When They’re Here?”
- 2:30
to
2:45 Break
- 2:45 to 3:30 Presentation. Tom Hussey. Ubiquisys. Intelligence of femtocells & small cells in general for a variety of applications spanning residential, enterprise, metro & rural.
- 3:30 to 4:00 General
discussion.
Note:
agenda
is
subject
to
change.
The workshop will be held at:
Estancia La Jolla, Hotel & Spa
HOTEL AND TRAVEL INFORMATION
Estancia La
Jolla, Hotel & Spa
http://www.estancialajolla.com/
858-550-1000
For assistance with travel, the PCCA recommends Tom Smith Travel, 503-477-5341 or 877-604-3107.
The registration deadline is one week before the workshop.
Workshops
are
intended
primarily
for
PCCA
members.
However,
non-member
organizations
may
attend
for
a
fee
of
$375
per
person.
This
fee
can
be
applied
towards
future
membership.
Executive-level
members
may
send
five
people,
associate-level
members
may
send
two
people
and
affiliate-level
members
may
send
one
person
without
incurring
meeting charges.
There
is no attendance charge for members of the press.
If you intend to come, please register soon.
Click
here to register for the meeting using
our secure Web page.
Click here
to see a current list of members.
The following information is for people presenting at this PCCA workshop:
- Presentations are typically 30 minutes to 45 minutes long unless arranged otherwise.
- There is usually a 5 to 15 minute discussion following the presentation.
- Presenters
must
provide
their
presentations
(PDF
or
PPT)
at
least
one
week
prior
to
the
workshop
to
allow
for
copying
to
the
members
area
of
the
PCCA
Web
site,
as
well
as
to
allow
detailed
questions
for
discussion.
- This is a technical audience (e.g., engineering and program managers), so please make the presentations technical. Emphasis should be on industry and technology at large, versus selling your product (limit of 3 slides). Consider items such as compatibility, technical alternatives, standardization, deployment considerations, interoperability, certification and adoption.
- Generally, a dynamic and attentive audience of key industry stakeholders attend each workshop, representing a broad spectrum of the mobile computing industry, including operators, infrastructure vendors, device vendors, middleware providers and application developers.
- We will provide an LCD projector. Presenters
should
plan
on
presenting
from
their
own
computers.
Presenters
should
use
their
own
presentation
templates.
- Since PCCA workshops are considered public meetings, please
do
not include any confidential or proprietary information. Please do not
mark your presentations with any terminology indicating confidential or
proprietary information.