Updated January 30, 2012.
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LTE Advanced - Workshop
Hosted by
Ericsson
Plano (Dallas), Texas
Wednesday, February 1, 2012.
Chair: Peter Rysavy, Rysavy Research
CONTENTS
Background
Workshop Agenda
Meeting Location
Hotel and Travel Information
Registration
Information for Presenters
LTE is poised to be the most
significant communications technology of all time. LTE
is being deployed globally and over the course of this
decade it will become the mobile broadband solution for
billions of people. For billions of others, it will be
their only broadband connection, rapidly displacing
wireline approaches. Nearly all major cellular operators
have committed to adopting LTE. LTE is not a one-time
technology but rather it is a platform for continual
innovation. The purpose of this workshop meeting is to
understand the ways that LTE will evolve through
LTE-Advanced and the implications on networks, spectrum,
applications, and broadband in general.
This workshop will examine the opportunities, issues,
and evolving architectures. Items under consideration
for this meeting include:
- Expected performance under different deployment configurations.
- Spectrum bands to be used.
- Multi-mode considerations (LTE/HSPA/GSM, LTE/CDMA2000).
- Wi-Fi coexistence (e.g. LTE at 2.6 GHz with Wi-Fi at 2.4 GHz)
- Peer-to-peer communications including mobile-terminated traffic.
- IPv6 and strategies for internetworking.
- M2M opportunities and issues.
- Carrier aggregation including expected typical configurations.
- HetNet expected gains and issues.
- Coordinated Multipoint Transmission (CoMP) gains and timeframe.
- IP Flow Mobility and Seamless Offload for smart offload.
- Relays including usage scenarios.
- QoS opportunities and challenges.
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 Meeting. Wednesday, February 1, 2012.
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. Continental breakfast available.
8:30 to 8:45
Peter Rysavy, Executive Director, PCCA.
Introductions. PCCA
Meeting Schedule and Association Update.
8:45 to 9:30
Ericsson Host Presentation. Vish Nandlall, Ericsson
VP Strategy and Technology, and Soren Elsborg
Ericsson, VP Mobile Broadband. Key Questions Regarding
LTE-Advanced.
9:30 to
10:15 Presentation. Ian Bloomfield, Principal
Solutions Manager, Ericsson. LTE-Advanced Networks:
Capabilities, Benefits, Challenges, Approaches,
Time Frame. Details on LTE-Advanced HetNets.
10:15 to
10:30 Break
10:30 to
11:15 Presentation. David Wolter, Executive Director
- Radio Technology, AT&T. LTE-Advanced: A
Carrier's Perspective.
11:15 to
12:00 Presentation. Amitabha Ghosh, Head Wireless
Broadband Innovation, CTO Office, Nokia Siemens
Networks. Downlink
and Uplink Coordinated Multipoint Transmission
(CoMP) in LTE Rel-11: Overview and Performance.
12:00 to
1:00 Lunch provided. Demonstrations available at the Ericsson
Experience Center. Details below.
1:00 to 1:45
Presentation. Jim Panian, Principal Engineer,
Qualcomm. LTE-WiFi-Bluetooth
Coexistence Issues.
1:45 to
2:45 Panel Discussion.
Kaushik Gohel, Lead RAN Fundamental Planning,
AT&T;
Neerav Dalal, Director 4G Business Practice, Award
Solutions;
Fred Koopmans, Director of Product Management,
Bytemobile;
Hossam H’mimy, PhD.,
Head of Broadband Network and Technology Strategy,
Ericsson;
Jeff Foerster, Principal Engineer, Intel.
Video and Voice over LTE: Considerations,
Architectures, Management.
2:45 to 3:00
Break
3:00 to
4:00 Panel Discussion.
Amanda Perez, Mobile Broadband Technical Solutions
Manager, Ericsson;
Ted Olawuyi, Vice President of Wireless Research and
Development, Huawei USA;
Emil Sturniolo, Architect, InStep Group;
Amitabha Ghosh, Head Wireless Broadband Innovation,
CTO Office, Nokia Siemens Networks;
Dave Williams, CTO, Stoke.
Making Mobile Broadband Profitable: Leveraging LTE
QoS, Data-Usage Management, Service Plan
Approaches.
4:00 to 5:00. Demonstrations
available at the Ericsson Experience Center.
1. Mobile
Newscaster
LTE Video Upstream enabled broadcast cameras will
demonstrate LTE's low latency and high bandwidth
features to ensure broadcast quality live video.
2. Connected
Healthcare
In a Networked Society, we will see that when
everything is connected the world will change.
Envision how this will evolve by seeing an example
of how an industry like healthcare providers will be
able to use the existing networks to provide live
interactive video between a visiting nurse and a
doctor who can use voice, video and file transfer
solutions to improve the care for a patient.
Today the communications networks have incredible
power, and the service development capability is at
hand to take advantage of these systems by
developers. Focusing on the new core infrastructure
of modern Broadband and 4G networks, many new and
previously unavailable capabilities are now easily
within reach. Our demonstration will show how these
services can be used focusing on Ericssons solution
integration capabilities.
3. ECW -
Ericsson Converged Workspace
Ericsson enterprise office in a box telephony
solutions supported by LTE and 3G Solutions.
4. Streaming
video delivery of 6 Streams to one device/tablet
over LTE.
5. VoLTE
- to demonstrate QoS within the network.
Note: agenda is subject
to change.
Austin Auditorium
Ericsson
6300 Legacy Drive
Plano, TX 75024
Nearby hotels include:
Dallas/Plano Marriott at Legacy Town
Center
7121 Bishop Road, Plano, Texas 75024
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dalpt-dallas-plano-marriott-at-legacy-town-center/
(972) 473-6444
Courtyard Dallas Plano in Legacy Park
6840 North Dallas Parkway, Plano, Texas 75024
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/dallp-courtyard-dallas-plano-in-legacy-park/
(972) 403-0802
Aloft Plano (Starwood Hotels)
6853 North Dallas Pkwy, Plano, Texas 75024
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/alofthotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3155
(214) 474-2520
Hilton Garden Inn Frisco
7550 Gaylord Pkwy, Frisco, TX 75034
(469) 362-8485
http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=DFWFRGI
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 $495 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.
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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. NOTE: FOR THE LTE-ADVANCED WORKSHOP, WE
WILL BE PRELOADING THE PRESENTATIONS ON A SEPARATE
COMPUTER.
- Since PCCA workshops are considered public meetings, please do not include any confidential or proprietary information.