January 7, 2024 - 08:30 - 09:30
Room: Twilight
Keynote 1 - Keynote from Academia: Scaling Up Antenna Arrays, Carrier Frequency and Bandwidth for Low Latency Communications and Massive Connectivity Beyond 5G
Speaker: Dr. Danijela Cabric, UCLA
Abstract: Future generations of cellular and IoT networks will operate in the upper millimeter wave (mmW) frequency band where ≥ 10 GHz bandwidth can be used to meet the ever-increasing demands. While these abundant spectrum resources have been leveraged to increase data rates in 5G cellular, the next goal is to further diversify 5G performance for applications requiring low latency, high reliability, and massive connectivity. These new requirements demand fundamental rethinking of radio architectures, signal processing, and networking protocols to address challenges of extremely wide bandwidths, large antenna array sizes, and high cell density at mmW frequencies.
In this talk, we will discuss latency and connectivity bottlenecks from a physical layer and network layer perspective in the context of mmW propagation where the beamformed initial access, beam training and tracking are critical for reliability and coverage. While increasing the antenna array size and bandwidth in principle provide benefits of improved SNR and capacity, at the same time the hardware complexity and radio impairments require careful design of the signal processing algorithms. We will introduce a novel analog True-Time-Delay (TTD) antenna array as a truly ultra-wideband scalable antenna array architecture and demonstrate its unique frequency-dependent beamforming modalities for fast beam training and channel estimation, massive IoT connectivity and flexible beam to sub-band assignment for cellular OFDMA transmission.
Biography
Danijela Cabric
Danijela Cabric is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received M.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2001 and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 2007, both in Electrical Engineering. In 2008, she joined UCLA as an Assistant Professor, where she heads Cognitive Reconfigurable Embedded Systems lab. Her current research projects include novel radio architectures, signal processing, communications, machine learning and networking techniques for spectrum sharing, 5G millimeter-wave, massive MIMO and IoT systems. She is a principal investigator in the three large cross-disciplinary multi-university centers including SRC/JUMP ComSenTer and CONIX, and NSF SpectrumX. Prof. Cabric was a recipient of the Samueli Fellowship in 2008, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant in 2009, Hellman Fellowship in 2012, the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2012, and Qualcomm Faculty Awards in 2020 and 2021. Prof. Cabric is an IEEE Fellow.
January 8, 2024 - 08:30 - 09:30
Room: Twilight
Keynote 2 - Keynote from Industry: Designed to Perform
Speaker: Dr. Charles Schroeder, NI
Abstract: Measurements, and the science behind them, are key to the design of modern electromechanical systems. And while the devices we’re designing are evolving rapidly, the instruments making these key measurements of performance have been slower to evolve. With an increasing pressure for profitability in wireless companies and increasing complexity in future standards like 6G, it’s time for a re-thinking of how instrumentation hardware and software is designed and how instrumentation is used as a part of the design process.
Biography
Charles Schroeder
As an NI Fellow, Charles Schroeder works across the company on key business and technology-driven initiatives. He consults with executive leaders and department heads, including those from marketing, sales, and R&D, to drive the company’s strategic direction, development, and future growth. With a focus on long-term innovation best practices and processes, he currently leads NI’s efforts to find ground-breaking solutions to the test challenges introduced by the adoption of 6G and next-generation wireless technologies.
Since joining NI in 1995, Charles Schroeder has held various positions, including vice president of product marketing for RF and wireless communications and leadership roles across the RF, modular instruments, DAQ, and IMAQ Vision product lines. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University.
