Category Archives: Conferences

ICCS Conference 2015: Designing the city of the future

Last week I had the opportunity to attend to “International Conference on City Sciences: New architectures, infrastructures and services for future cities”, which took place during June 4th and 5th in College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University in Shanghai. The … Continue reading

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5 = 14 +

That was the ending slide from Pedro Riao (Ericsson, Germany) during the ICC 2015 panel on 5G Challenges and Opportunities. The message makes sense: 5G will be for 14+ different industries. We are mid-conference but this year’s mantras are already … Continue reading

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TVWS, the Un-abandoned Child

My first attendance of an international (IEEE) conference took place last week, in the 81st IEEE VTC conference in Glasgow, Scotland. As expected, the conference was fully tagged with 5G technologies, mmWave, massive MIMO and etc. However, an exhibition held by … Continue reading

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All eyes on latency?

Last week I attended the 81st IEEE VTC conference in Glasgow, Scotland, to present my co-authored paper titled “On the Feasibility of Blind Dynamic TDD in Ultra-Dense Wireless Networks”. As always, key trends and enabling technologies for the 5G ecosystem were on full … Continue reading

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When will you be able to get a 5G subscription?

About the conference: The Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) is a semiannual international academic conference on wireless communications. It is organized by the IEEE’s Vehicular Technology Society. Recent VTCs have been attended by about 600-700 people. The conference focuses mainly on … Continue reading

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What is the uptake of IoT services today?

Two years ago Mischa Dohler made the comment at the Johannesberg Summit 2013 that the uptake of IoT services is still slow and lot of “design” has still to be made to reach the 50 billion devices that possibly could … Continue reading

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5G – “Mädchen für Alles?”

Listening to Sara Mazur (head of Ericsson Research) at last years Johannesberg Summit really puts the spotligth on the main dilemma in 5G: I should do this, and that, and also this etc, in an almost endless “wishlist”. Other constraints … Continue reading

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Sharing of Military Spectrum – does it make “sense” ?

I just attended a workshop organized by the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and the Office of Naval Research(Global) on the possibility of using military spectrum for civilian purposes.  The workshop was held at Maynooth University, in Kildare, just outside Dublin, Ireland. The … Continue reading

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Is LSA relevant in the developing countries?

Last November, I had the opportunity to attend and be part of the 7th CMI Conference. The conference theme was “Mobile Communications in Developing Countries” and the discussions were quite broad. Quoting the event’s site the conference covered “Issues bordering … Continue reading

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Reflections from RNDM 2014

About RNDM 6th International Workshop on Reliable Network Design and Modeling (RNDM) was held in Barcelona this year on 17-19 November. It is a single track workshop covering reliability in both wireless and fixed networks, sponsored by IEEE Communications Society. … Continue reading

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