Reinaldo Valenzuela
Director, Nokia Bell Labs
Nov. 17th, 2017, 9:15am-10:20pm, MDEA
Title:
5G New Deployment Scenarios: Opportunities and Challenges
Abstract:
The insatiable demand for media rich content and the increasing
availability of advanced devices such as smart phones, tablets, etc.,
has forced the mobile communications eco system to start in earnest to
consider the next generation solutions to address these needs. Some of
the options being mentioned as ingredients for such 5th Generation
mobile radio systems include Small Cells, HetNets, Carrier
Aggregation, Machine-to-Machine, Internet-of-Things, Relays,
Device-to-Device and operation in the millimeter wave spectrum range,
among others. In this talk, I will review some of the background
trends driving the evolution of broadband wireless access that will
impact the technology choices beyond 2020. Then, I will consider in
some detail some of the most intriguing options service providers may
consider.
Speaker Bio:
Reinaldo Valenzuela received the B.Sc. degree from the University of
Chile, and the Ph.D. degree from the Imperial College of Science and
Technology, University of London, U.K. At Bell Laboratories, he
studied indoor microwave propagation and modeling, packet reservation
multiple access for wireless systems, and optical WDM networks. He
became the Manager of the Voice Research Department with Motorola
Codex, where he was involved in the implementation integrated voice
and data packet systems. On returning to Bell Laboratories, he led a
multi-disciplinary team to create a software tool for wireless system
engineering, now in widespread use with Lucent Technologies. He
received the Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff Award and is
the Director of the Wireless Communications Research Department. He
has published over 80 papers and holds 12 patents. He is interested in
microwave propagation measurements and models, intelligent antennas,
fifth generation wireless system, and space time systems achieving
high capacities using transmit and receive antenna arrays. He is an
IEEE Fellow, Bell Labs Fellow, recipient of the IEEE Eric E. Sumner
award, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.