Revolution is in the Air – Part 2: The Spectrum

6GSymposium Fall 2021

Revolution is in the Air – Part 2: The Spectrum

Start date: Tue, September 21st, 2021 3:00 PM EST

Part 2: The Spectrum. The expected growth in the number, demands data rate demands and diversity of wireless devices in the coming decades will create two key challenges for 6G. Firstly, how do we become much more efficient at using the spectrum that telecoms networks already have access to? And secondly, how can we access more spectrum in a way that makes it affordable and effective? A failure to solve either problem will either lead to networks being overwhelmed or an astronomical cost to deploy and maintain infrastructure. While no one solution will provide the answer, great steps are being made all the way from materials through the air interface to new models of spectrum management. Join experts at the leading edge of these separate, but related, questions as we explore the enablers and technologies that will take us from today to a credible, practical 6G.

Speakers:

• Aleksandar Damnjanovic

  RADIO WORKING GROUP CHAIR, MFA & PRINCIPAL ENGINEER AND MANAGER, QUALCOMM

  Aleksandar D. Damnjanovic received Doctor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the George Washington University in 2000. He joined Ericsson Wireless Communications Inc in San Diego in 2000, where he worked on cdma2000 base station controller development. In 2003, he joined Qualcomm Inc, San Diego, where he worked on 3G, 4G and 5G cellular standards, prototyping of 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) network where he led MAC system design efforts, and most recently 5G NR-U. His research interests include interference management, medium access, shared spectrum, network MIMO, and private and relay networks. He is currently working on dynamic and adaptive coordinated spectrum sharing techniques for more efficient spectrum use. He is a co-author of a book “The cdma2000 System for Mobile Communications”. He has more than 20 years of experience with 3GPP and 3GPP2 standardization and currently serves as MulteFire Alliance Radio Working Group Chair.

• Josep Jornet

  PROFESSOR, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

  Josep Miquel Jornet is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the director of the Ultrabroadband Nanonetworking (UN) Laboratory, and a member of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University. He received the Degree in Telecommunication Engineering and the Master of Science in Information and Communication Technologies from Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSETB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, in 2008. From September 2007 to December 2008, he was a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, under the MIT Sea Grant program. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, in August 2013. Between August 2013 and August 2019, he was in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

• Andrew Clegg

  SPECTRUM LEAD, GOOGLE

  Andrew Clegg is the Spectrum Engineering Lead for Google. He is presently focused primarily on identifying spectrum sharing opportunities for wireless broadband networks. Prior to joining Alphabet and Google, he served as the electromagnetic spectrum manager for the U.S. National Science Foundation. Prior to NSF, he was a Lead Member of Technical Staff at what is now AT&T Mobility, and senior engineer at Comsearch. Andy has over 25 years’ experience in national and international spectrum management for both government and commercial applications. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to two World Radiocommunication Conferences (2007 and 2012). He holds a PhD in radio astronomy and electrical engineering from Cornell University.

• Monisha Ghosh

  RESEARCH PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

  Monisha Ghosh will be joining the University of Notre Dame as a Professor in the Electrical Engineering department in January 2022. She is currently a Research Professor at the University of Chicago where she conducts research on wireless networks, with an emphasis on spectrum sharing and coexistence. She was on a leave of absence from January 2020 – June 2021, serving as the CTO of the FCC where she helped craft the rules for the 6 GHz unlicensed band and was instrumental in the design and execution of the broadband mapping pilot with the USPS, and from September 2017 – December 2019 at NSF where she helped manage the wireless research portfolio and create the joint NSF/Intel Machine Learning for Wireless Networks Program. Prior to joining academia in 2015, she spent 24 years in industry, at Philips Research, Bell Labs and Interdigital. She obtained her B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur and Ph.D. from USC. She is a Fellow of the IEEE.