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The IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, other IEEE Societies, and additional IEEE resources offer a wealth of information on 5G communications (and its alter ego, the Internet of Things). In addition to more than 3,200 technical papers indexed under “5G mobile communications” on IEEEXplore, the trove includes webinars and videos aimed at bringing members up to speed. Here are some of the relevant offerings…beginning, of course, with the MTT-S’s own webinar series, now just over a year old.
IEEE MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES SOCIETY WEBINARS
MICROWAVE AND MILLIMETER WAVE POWER AMPLIFIERS: TECHNOLOGY, APPLICATIONS, AND FUTURE TRENDS (2/9/2016)
James Komiak, IEEE Fellow and past MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer.
Solid State Transistor Device Technology is ubiquitous in communications, radar, electronic warfare, and instrumentation applications. This presentation covers Si LDMOS, PHEMT, InP HEMT/MHEMT and GaN HEMT. Content includes principles of operation, structures, characteristics, classes of operation, and state-of-the-art device benchmarks. The art of power amplifier design is approached from a historical perspective. Power amplifiers utilizing these device technologies covering UHF through sub-millimeter wave are described including state-of-the-art amplifier benchmarks. Future trends are highlighted and summarized.
ADVANCES IN LINEARIZATION OF WIDEBAND (GAN) POWER AMPLIFIERS (6/14/2016)
Allen Katz, The College of New Jersey and Linearizer Technology
This presentation discusses the state of the art in achieving wideband (> 1 GHz) linearization of power amplifiers. Multi-octave bandwidth linearization has been achieved at frequencies from L through millimeter-wave bands. Basic linearization concepts are reviewed. Emphasis is placed on the use of predistortion linearization and particularly on its application with amplifiers employing GaN FET power devices. The trades between using a single predistortion linearizer and multi-band linearizers are discussed. The effect of harmonics (both even and odd order distortion products) and their correction for applications that cover more than an octave are considered.
WHAT’S NEW IN DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION? (7/12/2016)
John Wood, Obsidian Microwave
In cellular wireless communications systems, the RF power amplifier (PA) in the transmitter must be as efficient as possible, to minimize energy costs, prolong battery life, and address “green” considerations. Modern spectrally efficient, digitally modulated signals such as LTE and UMTS present a challenge for efficient RF PA design, and the PA architectures that are adopted to achieve this goal are generally very nonlinear, requiring some form of linearization technique. This webinar shows how digital pre-distortion (DPD) linearization of PAs can address the challenges of higher spectral efficiency digital communication signals, wider bandwidth and multi-protocol signals, higher frequency radio operation, more rapid convergence in adaptive DPD (so-called “real-time” DPD), greater linearization accuracy, and the ability to accommodate memory effects. Some techniques for meeting these challenges, and ideas for new directions for DPD are offered.
SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (SICS) – A PARADIGM FOR MHZ-TO-THZ (MTT) ELECTRONIC AND PHOTONIC SYSTEMS (10/11/2016)
Ke Wu, Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, and past president, MTT-S
Widespread applications and commercial success of GHz and THz electronic and photonic devices and systems—including RF, microwaves, and millimeter-waves—are closely related to their manufacturing cost and antenna-circuit integration. Our proposed integration technology of planar and non-planar structures as well as related new progress indicate that the emerging substrate integrated circuits (SICs) are able to provide unprecedented advantages for developing low-cost GHz/THz components, antennas, circuits and systems as well as wireless photonic applications. This webinar reviews state-of-the-art and underlying features of the proposed integration platforms for designing the next generation RF/millimeter-wave/THz ICs and systems. Challenges, R&D opportunities, potential problems, and possible solutions are presented.
MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS: DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR FIRST-TIME SUCCESS (11/8/2016)
Ali Darwish, Johns Hopkins University
The ever-expanding need for higher data rates is accelerating the development of 5G cellular systems, millimeter-wave backhaul microwave links, and ultrawide-band highly integrated circuits. Concurrently, commercial and military applications are seeking the replacement of discrete hybrid solutions with MMICs to increase performance and reduce size, weight, power, and cost (so called “SWaP-C”). The development cycle of MMICs in III-V semiconductors (e.g., GaAs, GaN, and InP) is costly and time consuming. However, a successful design can dramatically reduce the cost per unit, increase performance, and extend the reliability of the entire system. This webinar reviews the cost drivers in the MMIC development cycle, the expected cost per unit, critical active/passive modeling techniques, estimation of MMIC life-time, and instability suppression.
APPLICATION OF FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGIES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (12/13/2016)
Dalma Novak, Pharad
This webinar presents an overview of the optical-fiber-based solutions for next-generation wireless networks. The associated system architectures and signal transport technologies that enable the implementation if integrated optical wireless networks are discussed. The successful application of fiber-optic technologies in next-generation wireless systems such as 5G and 60-GHz networks is also reviewed.
IEEE SPECTRUM TECH INSIDER WEBINARS
PERSPECTIVES ON 5G SERIES
STANDARDS FOR 5G (PART 3 OF 3) (12/14/2016)
Sundeep Rangan, NYU Wireless
Standards will make or break the evolution and roll-out of 5G. Discussion of 5G standards so far has focused on performance targets. Specifications for communication protocols, frequencies, and hardware design appear to be fluid. This webinar helps clarify how far 5G standards have actually progressed.
DEVICE-CENTRIC ARCHITECTURES (PART 2 OF 3) (9/28/2016)
Geng Wu, Intel
In current wireless systems, data and control flow through the base station. That may change in the shift to 5G. To reduce demand on base-stations, take advantage of new (perhaps short-range) spectrum, streamline device-to-device communication, new 5G strategies may do end-runs around the base station and leaving routing, protocol, and frequency decisions to the end device. This will require new architectures, more flexible communication protocols, and (possibly) new hardware approaches to allow smart devices select the best communications options for speed, signal quality, optimizing spectrum use, and minimizing energy consumption.
PERSPECTIVES ON 5G: BEAMFORMING, MIMO, AND MORE (PART 1 OF 3) (7/14/2016)
Nuria González Prelcic, University of Vigo, & Robert W. Heath, Jr., University of Texas at Austin.
5G cannot be built on increasing high-frequency spectrum alone. To reach data-rate and user-density targets, communications strategies are moving away from the base station and migrating to the edge, creating multiple channels in single frequencies and learning how to home in on a single device in a crowded cityscape. In this session, two innovators will discuss the range of increasingly sophisticated signal processing strategies for expanding spectrum efficiency, moving from basic concepts to massive MIMO (multiple input/multiple output), mmWave MIMO, compressed channel estimation, and beamforming design.
IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY
THREE KEY CHALLENGES FOR 5G SERIES
UNDERSTANDING 5G’S SIGNAL-PROCESSING DEMANDS: DEVICE CENTRIC NETWORK COOPERATION FOR 5G AND BEYOND: THEORY AND ALGORITHMS (PART 3 OF 3) (12/15/2016)
David Gesbert & Paul de Kerret, EureCom
Developers of 5G are proposing increasingly sophisticated strategies for boosting the carrying capacity of every part of the spectrum. Approaches like beamforming, MIMO (multiple input/multiple output), and allowing devices to choose spectrum and communication protocols will put additional demands on signal processing and traffic routing at the device level. This session will outline the dimensions of the challenge and help attendees understand requirements for hardware and software performance to keep up with the information flow.
5G’S ROLE IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS (PART 2 OF 3) (11/17/2016)
Amitava Ghosh, Nokia Networks
The Internet of Things is expected to be the main driver of demand for the higher information rates and lower latencies of 5G, and it will be a different world. This webinar addresses how high-bit-rate, short-range communications in ranges above 6GHz can bypass the base-station take on the local device-to-device load. Proposed allocations of the spectrum are addressed, along with strategies for coordinating IoT networks.
PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR 5G ANTENNAS (PART 1 OF 3) (10/31/16)
Alenka Zajic, Georgia Institute of Technology
5G designers will have to devise antennas that are compact enough to fit into handheld devices or compact base-stations, flexible enough to respond to a much wider variety of frequencies over short and long distances, and smart enough to accommodate both low-data-rate spatial multiplexing (MIMO) and antenna arrays that can shape signals to deliver high data rates to a single receiver in a crowd.
OTHER COMSOC 5G WEBINARS
CREATE IT – MAKE IT UBIQUITOUS WITH 5G STANDARDIZATION
Michael Thelander, Signals Research Group; Adrian Neal, Vodafone and Editor of 3GPP’s SMARTER; Diana Pani, InterDigital and 3GPP RAN WG2 Vice-Chair; Matthew Baker, Nokia and 3GPP RAN WG1 Vice-Chair
A panel of industry experts in 5G standardization discuss their views on how 5G standards will unfold and what new technologies will likely be introduced. Specific topics include 5G service requirements and their impacts on 5G networks, potential 5G Radio Access Network architectures and protocols, as well as 5G Physical-Layer/Air Interface design.
DEFINING 5G ARCHITECTURE AS THE FUTURE COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE OF IOT
Roberto Minerva, Chair, IEEE IoT Initiative, and Telecom Italia Lab
5G will position the network as a powerful enabler for many industries and at the center stage of many future business and technological transformation. The 5G network aims at providing a considerable and diversified capacity and intelligent functions to a large set of classes of applications. This webcast focuses on how the different requirements of IoT could help in defining a slice of the forthcoming architecture of the 5G of mobile systems.
SPONSOR PROGRAMS
REAL-TIME PROTOTYPING OF 5G SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS (3/23/2017)
Douglas Kim & Nichola Michailow, National Instruments
In this webinar, attendees learn about the National Instruments MAC/PHY prototyping system which includes a flexible hardware and software reference architecture complete with a real-time and fully modifiable upper layer stack and PHY layer that enables wireless researchers to rapidly prototype SDNs that communicate over real-world wireless channels.
5G RADIO INTERFACE TECHNOLOGIES: COLLABORATION, CO-EXISTENCE OR COMPETITION (10/27/2016)
Jim Miller, InterDigital; Sergio Buonomo, ITU; Adrian Stephens, Chair, IEEE 802.11 Working Group, and Intel
This webinar brings together a panel of industry experts in 5G radio access design to discuss their views on how candidate 5G radio technologies can either collaborate, co-exist or even compete against each other in forming 5G networks of the future.
MASSIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR MASSIVE MIMO: CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED (10/18/2016)
Karl Nieman & Kyle Teegarden, National Instruments; Frederik Tufvesson, Lund University
In this webinar, recounts the creation of the world’s first real-time Massive MIMO system at Lund University, Sweden. This successful deployment produced a host of field trial results, but also revealed new challenges in Massive MIMO development. The session covers lessons learned from the Lund system while also diving deep into the signal processing used, including reciprocity calibration, MIMO precoding, and MIMO decoding. Finally, the presenters discuss the future of Massive MIMO research and standardization.
MMWAVE: NEXT-GENERATION WIRELESS PROTOTYPING (5/2/2016)
Wes McCoy, Sarah Yost, & Ahsan Aziz, National Instruments
This webinar covers some of the leading technologies and research results from cutting-edge mmWave prototypes. Real time over-the-air demonstrations have resulted in successfully achieving data rates above 14 Gbps, which is laying the ground work for further field trials.
IEEE 5G INITIATIVE ORGANIZATION
These resources are drawn from the IEEE 5G Initiative Organization. In addition to the videos below, listen to their podcast (“What is your boldest vision of what 5G can bring us?”) and read the new IEEE 5G Tech Focus.
VIDEOS
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT 5G (VIDEO)
Millimeter waves, massive MIMO, full duplex, beamforming, and small cells are just a few of the technologies that could enable ultrafast 5G networks.
WHERE IS 5G LEADING US?
Videos with various experts speaking on “Where is 5G Leading Us” are available on the Vehicular Technology Society Resource Center.
THE BROOKLYN 5G SUMMIT
The 2016 Brooklyn 5G Summit brings together wireless/mobile industry R&D leaders in business, government, and academia to explore the future of 5G wireless. Jointly organized by Nokia Networks and the NYU WIRELESS research center at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, the third Brooklyn 5G Summit will build on the achievements of the past two years and chart the next steps for making 5G a commercial reality. This year’s summit will focus on overall 5G system design across the entire spectrum range, progress in 5G channel modeling and 5G regulatory aspects. In addition, we will look into concrete use cases for 5G in the evolving Internet of Things (IoT) space.
5G CELLULAR: IT WILL WORK!
NYU professor Ted Rappaport, an IEEE Access author, talks about the future of 5G wireless traffic, the potential of his research into millimeter wave wireless communications technology, and the benefits of sharing that work with researchers around the world through open access, fast-turn publishing in a gold-standard IEEE journal: IEEE Access
5G: ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES AND EMERGING RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES (7/28/2016)
Dr. Xianbin Wang, Processor and Canada Research Chair, Western University, Canada
5G – IMPACT AND CHALLENGES FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS (5/7/2016)
Dr. Gerhard P. Fettweis, Vodafone Chair Professor, TU Dresden, Germany
5G WIRELESS NETWORKS AND BEYOND (6/16/2015)
Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
IEEE GLOBECOM 2016: PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE FUTURE OF WIRELESS
This wide-ranging discussion on the future of wireless technology includes GLOBECOM General Chair Bijan Jabbari; Chih-Lin I of China Mobile; Julius Knapp of the FCC; the Department of Homeland Security’s Jalal Mapar; Thyaga Nandagopal of the NSF; Joseph Paradiso of the MIT Media Lab; CTIA’s Thomas Sawanobori; Qualcomm SVP of Engineering Ed Tiedemann; and Ted Rappaport of NYU Wireless.
THE INSTITUTE
In the recent “These IEEE Resources Can Bring You Up to Speed on 5G” (3/8/2017), Monica Rozenfeld rounds up more videos, technical communities, and publications.