The Future of Wireless Access Workshop Programme 31st of October & 1st of November 2011 University of Southampton Organised

by Alister Burr, Holger Claussen and Lajos Hanzo http://www.commnet.ac.uk/node/39 Sponsored by the IEEE VTS United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Chapter

Monday 31 Oct. 2011 14:00-14:50 1. Optical wireless as part of the future wireless landscape by Prof. Dominic OBrien, University of Oxford The optical spectrum offers hundreds of TeraHerz of available, unlicensed spectrum. There has been good progress in system development in the eld of infrared and visible light communications in recent years, yet there are still many challenges to be overcome for optical radio to be widely used. In this talk we will introduce the area, show some recent developments, and outline areas where this technology can play a part in the future wireless landscape.

Monday 31 Oct. 2011 14:50-15:40 2. On the Performance of 3G and 4G Wireless Systems by Prof. Markus Rupp, Technical University of Vienna

This contribution provides insight into the performance of the currently deployed 3G cellular systems HSDPA and WiMAX. In extensive measurement campaigns we measured the physical layer throughput of these 3G systems in different environments (alpine and urban) and compare the results rigorously to their upper bounds derived from the well known Shannon capacity. By separating the observed losses into a channel state information loss, a design loss, and an Dominic OBrien is a Professor of Engineering implementation loss, we gain more insight into Science at the University of Oxford, and leads the performance of the different standards which the optical wireless communications group. He in turn allows us to compare them better and to gained MA(1991) and PhD (1993) Degrees from localize their shortcomings. In general, we nd the Department of Engineering at the University that implementations of the current standards still of Cambridge. From 1993-1995 he was a NATO operate about 10 dB away from the Shannon fellow at the Optoelectronic Computing Systems bound. We nally consider 4G LTE systems with Center at the University of Colorado. His current up to eight antennas and nd that they are not research is in the eld of optical wireless systems. considerably better with respect to bandwidth He is the author or co-author of approximately 150 efcieny. publications or patents in the area of optics and Prof. Markus Rupp received his Dipl.-Ing. optoelectronics. degree in 1988 at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany and his Dr.-Ing. degree in 1993 at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany. From November 1993 until July 1995, he had a postdoctoral position at the University of Santa Southampton, 31 Oct. - 1 Nov., 2011 1 1 of 7

Barbara, California. From October 1995 until August 2001 he was a member of Technical Staff in the Wireless Technology Research Department of Bell-Labs at Crawford Hill, NJ. Since October 2001 he is a full professor for Digital Signal Processing in Mobile Communications at the Technical University of Vienna. He served as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, is currently associate editor of JASP EURASIP Journal of Advances in Signal Processing, and JES EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and elected AdCom member of EURASIP since 2004 and serving as president of EURASIP from 2009-2010. He authored and co-authored more than 350 papers including 15 patents. (E-mail:mrupp@nt.tuwien.ac.at)

Monday 31 Oct. 2011 15:40-16:30 3. Physical Layer Network Coding for Next Generation Wireless Broadband by Prof. Alister Burr, University of York The talk will discuss the challenges arising from providing full rate Internet access to mobile broadband users, a problem currently causing considerable difculties to wireless network operators, especially in providing a sufcient capacity density. We argue that the most promising approach to achieve the required increase in capacity density is to use wireless backhaul, or equivalently to use infrastructure relaying, and introduce the concept of the hierarchical wireless network, as a way of describing both approaches. However, such a network may exacerbate the problem of spectrum availability, and so we propose the use of physical layer network coding to signicantly improve overall spectrum efciency, and show that this can also provide some of the diversity benets of network MIMO, further increasing the capacity of the access network. Prof. Alister Burr received the BSc degree from Southampton University in 1979, and PhD from Bristol in 1984. Since 1985 he has been with Dept of Electronics, University of York, since 2000 as Professor of Communications. His research interests are in wireless communication networks, especially coding and modulation, MIMO techniques, cooperative relaying, and wireless network coding. He has been involved in a number of European research projects, including BuNGee, on Beyond Next Generation Mobile Broadband, and was working group chair of COST Action 2100, on Pervasive Mobile and Ambient Wireless Communications.

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Monday 31 Oct. 2011 16:30-17:00 4. Cooperative, Massive, or Messy? by Prof. Angel Lozano, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

involved in committees and conference organization tasks for the IEEE. In particular, he is the vice-chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee since 2010 and was elected to the The widespread adoption of smartphones is Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications causing a surge in wireless trafc demand. This Society for the term 2012-2014. He has further surge is straining the capacity of current cellular participated in standardization activities for 3GPP, networks, threatening to overow the supply. At the IEEE 802.20 and the IETF. Prof. Lozano has current pace, order-of-magnitude increases in both published extensively, holds 15 patents, and capacity and bit rates will be needed over the next has contributed to several books. His papers few years. MIMO communication emerged with have received two awards: the best paper at the force in the late 1990s and, in record time, made its 2006 IEEE Internationall Symposium on Spread way into a central feature of commercial wireless Spectrum Techniques & Applications, and the systems. Its adoption has provided some relief for Stephen O. Rice prize to the best paper published the mounting pressure to increase capacity and by the IEEE Transactions on Communications in bit rates, but, even with MIMO, the performance 2008. He also received the Bell Labs Presidents of current cellular systems is severely limited by Gold Award in 2002. intercell interference. Several competing approaches are being discussed to overcome the limitations imposed by intercell interference, including (i) various forms of cooperation, and (ii) massive MIMO. We will examine and contrast these various approaches and discuss whether they can provide the performance boost that, as argued earlier, will be needed. In light of this, we will subsequently question whether macrocells (historically the bedrock of the wireless revolution) can continue playing the primary role they have played to date. Angel Lozano is a Professor of Information and Communication Technologies at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) in Barcelona, Spain, where he heads the WiCom (Wireless Communications) Group. He is also UPFs Vice-Rector for Research. Prof. Lozano received the Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA, in 1998. In 1999, he joined Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies, now Alcatel-Lucent) in Holmdel, USA, where he was a member of the Wireless Communications Research Department until 2008. Between 2005 and 2008 he was also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, NY, USA. Prof. Lozano is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (since 2011) and the Journal of Communications & Networks (since 2010), a former editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications (1999-2009), and is actively Southampton, 31 Oct. - 1 Nov., 2011 3 3 of 7

Monday 31 Oct. 2011 17:00-17:30 5. Challenges in Mobile Communications and Some Potential Answers by Dr. Ralf Irmer, Vodafone Group R&D

Tuesday 1 Nov. 2011 9:30-10:20 6. The Future Evolution of Small Cell Networks by Dr. Holger Claussen

The concept of small cells has recently attracted This talk focuses on radio network challenges much interest in the wireless industry since they from a mobile operator perspective. The rst can improve the network capacity by orders of topic is Quality of user Experience, i.e. what magnitude within the same available spectrum, is expected from a radio interface from modern reduce network costs, and improve environmental devices such as table computer, smart phones etc. sustainability of networks. However the deployment and how do network KPIS such as throughput of small cells poses several challenges such as or latency relate to Quality of user Experience. the need to move away from the traditionally The second challenge is network capacity, how manual cell planning and deployment approach, trafc is growing and pointing out that trafc required architecture changes to enable scalability, growth is very localized. Some potential answers and availability of backhaul connections. Many to these challenges are techniques improving cell of these have been addressed over the last years edge performance such as COMP, heterogeneous and today we can observe the rst successful mass networks unifying multiple air interface standards deployment of small cells in form of femtocells that and operating on different network hierarchy are deployed by the end-user in a plug-and-play layers such as femto, pico and macro cells. The manner and using the end-users internet connection essential enablers for such a hierarchical network as backhaul. This presentation will focus on how heterogeneous networks with small cells will evolve are discussed as well. in the future and on research in key enabling areas. Dr. Ralf Irmer is leading the Wireless Access This includes different frequency deployment Area in Vodafone Group R&D. Here is responsible options to improve spectral efciency and their for dening the long term strategy or wireless feasibility, improving energy efciency, Future and is leading a couple of research projects and network deployment models, Self-optimizing and technology trials. The main focus areas are LTE- autonomous networks, and virtualization to reduce Advanced, WiFi evolution and new deployment cost and increase exibility in networks. concepts. Ralf was in the steering board of a couple Dr. Holger Claussen is head of the Autonomous of research projects, such as the EU WINNER project, and the German projects WIGWAM and Networks and Systems Research Department EASY-C, which developed system concepts and at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent in Ireland. His veried them in trials for advanced WiFi and work in the area small cell networks has been LTE-Advanced, respectively. Before working for commercialized as Alcatel-Lucents BSR-Femto Vodafone, Ralf did a PhD and a PostDoc at TU product. Dr. Claussen is author of more than Dresden, Germany. Ralf has published more than 40 publications and 70 led patent applications. 40 papers and has led more than 10 patents, and He is senior member of the IEEE, member of the IET, and the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy. is a senior member of the IEEE. Monday 30 Oct. 2011 17:30-18:00 Panel Discussion Moderated by Lajos Hanzo

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worth over 17 million GBP by the Engineering Tuesday 1 Nov. 2011 10:20-11:10 7. Femto/Small Cell Deployments in Future and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), the European Commission (EC) FP6/FP7 and the Radio Access Networks industry etc. He was one of the two Investigators by Prof. Jie Zhang, Shefeld University of the rst EPSRC-funded project on femtocell, With rapidly-growing smartphones and tablets, also the rst research council funded project on mobile operators have experienced tremendous data femtocell in the world. He was the initiator and a trafc increase since 2004. It is predicted that this Scientist-in-Charge of EC FP7 iPLAN project, the trend will continue at least until 2020 with a CAGR rst-funded project related to femtocells in FP7. of 1.8 to 2.0. Hence, the trafc (mostly data) carried He is one of the key initiators of FP7 WiFEEB by a mobile operators network in 2020 could be over (Wireless Friendly and Energy Efcient Buildings) 1000 times of that in 2010. This exponential trafc project, the rst funded research project in the growth presents a huge challenge to the mobile world that investigates both wireless and energy industry. On top of meeting this trafc increase, op- efciency of buildings. He is a lead author of the rst technical book on erators have obligations to cut energy consumptions, which normally compromise spectrum efciency in femtocell Femtocells: Technologies and Deployment (Wiley, Jan. 2010). He and his colleagues macrocell scenarios. In this talk, Professor Jie Zhang will rst examine published the rst two papers on OFDMA femtothe possible contributions from increased spectrum cell, one of the most widely cited femtocell papers efciency, spectrum bandwidth expansion, trafc (currently ranked at No. 3 of all femto papers) and ofoading and device to device communications, some early work in femtocell self-organisation. He is a founder of RANPLAN Wireless Network and then he will focus on dense small cell deployments, one of the most promising ways to Design Ltd. (www.ranplan.co.uk) that produces meet the exponential trafc growth, in outdoor and the world leading in-building network design indoor scenarios with some simulation results on and optimisation tool iBuildNet, which is well interference, outage probability, network capacity suited to study femto/small cell deployment, etc. Next, he will discuss why the dense small heterogeneous networks, smart meter, connected cell deployment calls for the re-designing of home, the integration of buildings (structure and traditionally macrocell-oriented algorithms (e.g., radio properties) with wireless networks, and interference co-ordination, user detection, MM any other in-building network deployment and and RRM), the network architecture change and optimisation. the integration of wireless networks with their operating environments that could be designed to have desirable radio properties. The talk will conclude that the integration of bre and wireless networks (both cellular and WiFi) is the best way to meet the challenge, and over 90% of 4G/B4G cells will take the form of FTTx + radio head. JIE ZHANG is a Chair in Wireless Systems at the Communications Group (www.shef.ac.uk/eee/research/cr), the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Shefeld, UK. His research interests are focused on radio propagation, indoor-outdoor radio network planning and optimisation, femtocell and selforganising network (SON). Since 2003, he has been an Investigator of over 20 research projects Southampton, 31 Oct. - 1 Nov., 2011 5 5 of 7

Tuesday 1 Nov. 2011 11:10-12:00 8. Visible Light Communications by Prof. Harald Haas, University of Edinburgh In recent years, interest in visible light communication (VLC) as a promising technology for wireless communications has gained considerable momentum. This is fuelled by signicant deployments in solid state lighting technology on the one hand, and an unprecedented demand for wireless broadband access caused by the tremendous success of smartphones, and the consequential shortages of radio frequency spectrum, on the other hand. High brightness light emitting diodes (LEDs) are at the heart of the new generation of energy efcient light bulbs. In the future, these light bulbs will not only provide illumination, but will also enable broadband wireless access. This presentation aims at reviewing recent advancements in visible light communications. We will present a full link-level, real-time VLC system capable of transmitting 124 Mbps. We will discuss potential applications and outline existing challenges. Prof. Harald Haas holds the personal Chair of Mobile Communications in the Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM) at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests are in the areas of wireless system design and analysis as well as digital signal processing, with a particular focus on interference coordination in wireless networks, spatial modulation and optical wireless communication. Prof Haas holds 18 patents. He has published more than 45 journal papers including a Science Article and more than 130 peer-reviewed conference papers. Nine of his papers are invited papers. Prof Haas has co-authored a book entitled Next Generation Mobile Access Technologies: Implementing TDD with Cambridge University Press. Since 2007 Prof. Haas has been a Regular High Level Visiting Scientist supported by the Chinese 111 program at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). He was an invited speaker at the TED Global conference 2011. He has been shortlisted for the World Technology Award for communications technology (individual) 2011.

Tuesday 1 Nov. 2011 12:00-12:50 9. Wireless Cooperation for Energy Efcient Communications by Prof. John Thompson, University of Edinburgh Energy Efciency is becoming a key topic to ensure the sustainability of future wireless networks. The Mobile VCE Green Radio research programme has been addressing this requirement in detail and one major strand of the research has considered relays and cooperative communications. Allowing wireless devices to exhange information will allow more efcient data transmission and detection techniques, which can yield energy savings. Dividing a single wireless link into multiple short hops also has the potential to reduce both radio transmit powers and the overall power consumption of the network. This talk will present key research ndings from the Green Radio programme and discuss potential future developments in this area. Prof. John S. Thompson was appointed as a lecturer at what is now the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh in 1999. He was recently promoted to a personal chair in Signal Processing and Communications. His research interests currently include energy efcient communications systems, antenna array techniques and multihop wireless communications. He has published over 200 papers to date including a number of invited papers, book chapters and tutorial talks, as well as co-authoring an undergraduate textbook on digital signal processing. Since 2007, he has been editor-in-chief of the IET Signal Processing journal and is currently an editorial board member of the IEEE Communications, Surveys and Tutorials journal. He was a joint organiser of the 2007 IET Seminar on Smart Antennas and Cooperative Communications, held in London, UK. He was technical programme co-chair for the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2007 in Glasgow, UK and served in the same role for the IEEE Globecom Conference in Miami in 2010. He served as a wireless communications track chair for the IEEE Chinacom Conference in Beijing in 2010. He was also the workshop chairman for the Greenet workshop, colocated with the IEEE VTC Spring 2011 Conference in Budapest, Hungary.

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Tuesday 1 Nov. 2011 14:00-14:40 11. Green Radio for Energy Efcient Wireless Communications by Prof. Tim OFarrell, Shefeld University

Tuesday 1 Nov. 2011 14:40-15:20 12. Spatiotemporal Wireless Communications Prof. Thanassis Manikas, Imperial College London

In this talk the utilisation and applications of This presentation will discuss energy efciency antenna arrays in wireles communications will issues in current cellular systems operation, be discussed. Going beyond MIMO, the concept particularly targetting more energy efcient base- of array response vector will be introduced and station and access points. Communications and then extended to incorporate additional system and computing technology currently represents one wireless channel parameters, such as spreading of the fastest growing sources of carbon dioxide and scrambling codes (CDMA), the lack of emissions in the world. The talk will start by synchronization, Doppler effects, polarization discussing energy efciency issues in current parameters, subcarriers (OFDM, MC), etc. The wireless networks and pinpoint the reasons for gain in system capacity will be discussed and reducing the energy per communicated bit for future few representative applications, such as mobile networks. The talk will address both techniques to localisation using an array of base stations (or reduce energy consumption within individual base wireless nodes), will be presented. stations, as well as more energy efcient cellular Professor A. Manikas holds the Chair of networks. The talk will also present research ndings on energy savings from the UK Mobile Communications & Array Processing in the Virtual Centre of Excellence (MVCE) Green Radio Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, project, a major industry-UK government funded Imperial College London and he is the Technical research programme currently addressing these Lead of the University Defence Research Centre (UDRC) in Signal Processing (DSTL/EPSRC) issues. which is supported by Ministry of Defence (UK). Prof. Tim OFarrell holds a Chair in Wireless He has published an extensive set of journal Communication. His research activities encompass and conference papers in the area of digital resource management as well as physical layer communications and array signal processing and techniques for wireless communication systems has held a number of research consultancies for the focused on cellular mobile (WCDMA, HSPA, EU, industry and government organisations. Also, Femtocells, LTE, LTE-Advanced, 4G), wireless he has had various technical chairs at international LAN (802.11a/g/n/ad) and wireless optical systems conferences and has served as an Expert Witness in (IR, visible light). He has led over 18 major the High Court of Justice (UK). His current work research projects as PI, supervised to completion is supported by MoD. 17 PG theses and published over 230 research outputs, including 8 granted patents. He has Tuesday 1 Nov. 2011 15:20-16:00 participated in standards, consultancies and expert Panel Discussion witness activities in the wireless sector. Currently, Moderated by Lajos Hanzo Professor OFarrell is the Academic Coordinator of the Green Radio project jointly funded by MobileVCE and EPSRC.

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