Monthly Archives: May 2015

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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Avoiding the “Valley of Death” – and the obsession with coverage

Gerhard Fettweis gave an interesting talk at the Johannesberg Summit, where he argued that we should abandon the 20-100 GHz range and move into even higher spectrum, above 100 GHz. The reason is mainly cost, above 100 GHz radios and rather … 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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