IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
12–15 September 2022 // Virtual Conference

Panel 04: Promising technologies for Beyond5G/6G

Wednesday 14 September, 15:30-17:00 (UTC +9)

Abstract

The Beyond5G/6G Vision/Concept has been discussed in the world, and many white papers have been published. As the next step, it is important to discuss what kind of technologies are needed to realize the Beyond5G/6G. In this panel, the participants will introduce the technologies to realize Beyond5G/6G. Then, the participants will discuss from many points what technologies are necessary to realize Beyond5G/6G. One points are differences of user’s usage and technologies between 5G and Beyond5G/6G. The others are a key KPI, how to harmonize in the world and how to provide the highest throughput like as 100Gbps.

Questions

  1. What is a main difference of user’s usage between 5G system and Beyond5G/6G system?
  2. What is a main difference of technology between 5G and Beyond5G/6G?
  3. What is a key KPI in Beyond5G/6G?
  4. How to harmonize for realizing Beyond5G/6G technologies in the world, such as a research and a standardization?
  5. How to provide the highest throughput (like as 100Gbps) in Beyond 5G/6G system, such as a utilization of high frequency band (mmWave or terahertz) and something promising technologies?

Moderator

Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Information and Computer Science/Keio University, Japan)

List of Panelists

Koji Ishibashi (University of Electro-communications, Japan)

Marja Matinmikko-Blue (University of Oulu, Finland)

Stefan Parkvall (Senior Expert, Ericsson, Sweden)

Kosuke Yamazaki (Wireless technology division/KDDI Research, Inc., Japan)

Biographies

Tomoaki Otsuki (moderator) received the B.E., M.E., and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan in 1990, 1992, and 1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1995 he was a Post Doctoral Fellow and a Visiting Researcher in Electrical Engineering at Keio University. From 1993 to 1995 he was a Special Researcher of Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Japanese Junior Scientists. From 1995 to 2005 he was with Science University of Tokyo. In 2005 he joined Keio University. He is now a Professor at Keio University. From 1998 to 1999 he was with the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences, University of California, Berkeley. He is engaged in research on wireless communications, optical communications, signal processing, and information theory. Dr. Ohtsuki is a recipient of the 1997 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientist, the 1997 Hiroshi Ando Memorial Young Engineering Award, Ericsson Young Scientist Award 2000, 2002 Funai Information and Science Award for Young Scientist, IEEE the 1st Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award 2001, the 5th International Communication Foundation (ICF) Research Award, 2011 IEEE SPCE Outstanding Service Award, the 27th TELECOM System Technology Award, ETRI Journal’s 2012 Best Reviewer Award, 9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China 2014 (CHINACOM ’14) Best Paper Award, 2020 Yagami Award, 2020 Yagami Award, and The 26th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC2021) Best Paper Award. He has published more than 235 journal papers and 460 international conference papers.
He served as a Chair of IEEE Communications Society, Signal Processing for Communications and Electronics Technical Committee. He served as a technical editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and an editor of Elsevier Physical Communications. He is now serving as an Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and an editor of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He is also serving as the IEEE Communications Society, Asia Pacific Board Director. He has served as general-co chair, symposium co-chair, and TPC co-chair of many conferences, including IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, SPC, IEEE ICC 2011, CTS, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, SPC, IEEE ICC 2020, SPC, IEEE APWCS, IEEE SPAWC, and IEEE VTC. He gave tutorials and keynote speeches at many international conferences including IEEE VTC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE WCNC, and so on. He was Vice President and President of the Communications Society of the IEICE. He is a senior member and a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE, a fellow of the IEICE, and a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan.

Koji Ishibashi (panelist) received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in engineering from The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, in 2007. From 2007 to 2012, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan. Since April 2012, he has been with the Advanced Wireless and Communication Research Center (AWCC), The University of Electro-Communications, where he is
currently a Professor. From 2010 to 2012, he was a visiting scholar at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. His current research interests include grant-free access, cell-free architecture, millimeter-wave communications, energy harvesting communications, wireless power transfer, channel codes, signal processing, and information theory.

Marja Matinmikko-Blue (panelist) is Research Director at Infotech Oulu Institute and Director of Sustainability and Regulation at 6G Flagship at University of Oulu. She also holds Adjunct Professor position in Spectrum Management. She holds a Dr.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering on cognitive radio systems and a Ph.D degree in management sciences on stakeholder analysis from University of Oulu in 2012 and 2018. She conducts interdisciplinary research on future mobile communication networks from business, technology and regulatory perspectives in close collaboration between academia, industry and regulators. She received the Young Scientist of the Year Award in Finland in 2013 for this collaboration. She has led several research project consortia that have demonstrated world’s first Licensed Shared Access (LSA) trials and introduced a new local 5G micro operator concept with local licensing. She has published 170+ scientific publications and prepared 150+ contributions to regulatory bodies in national, European and international levels. She led the development of White Paper on 6G and the UN SDGs that developed a connection between future wireless networks and the UN SDGs. Her research interests are wireless communications, spectrum management, sustainable development, regulation, 5G, 6G and local operators.

Stefan Parkvall (panelist) joined Ericsson in 1999 and is a Senior Expert working with 6G and future radio access. He is one of the key persons in the development of HSPA, LTE and NR radio access and has been deeply involved in 3GPP standardization for many years. Dr Parkvall is a fellow of the IEEE and is co-author of several popular books such as “4G – LTE/LTE-Advanced for Mobile Broadband” and “5G NR – The Next Generation Wireless Access”. Dr. Parkvall has numerous patents in the area of mobile communication and holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Kosuke Yamazaki (panelist) received the M.E. and Ph.D degrees in information science and technology from Tokyo University, Japan in 2003 and 2005, respectively. He joined KDDI Corporation in 2005. Since 2005, he has been with KDDI Laboratories (currently KDDI Research Inc.) and engaged in the research on Software Defined Radio, Cognitive Radio and heterogeneous networks, antenna, radio propagation, radio signal processing. He is currently an Expert with the Wireless Technology division, KDDI Research Inc, and a senior member of the IEICE.