5G Seminar: Path to 5G & Celluar IoT

Morning Session: Path to 5G

Synopsis:

This seminar session introduces 5G concepts and principles based on the design goals and visions from standards organizations, regulatory bodies and leading vendors. The course presents various service provision mechanisms required to enable new and varied use cases and verticals, (such as Cellular IoT, Mission Critical Control, Automotive, Entertainment and Media), and details the physical and logical architecture options that are currently being specified to support these. Virtualization, dynamic resource optimization and performance management are all discussed, including Cloud RAN, Core and Edge options. The course also presents the evolution of radio techniques and waveforms, including developments in multiple access, multi-RAT, TDD and MIMO technologies.

Seminar Content Includes:

1. Introduction to 5G

• Requirements and objectives
• Key principles
• Use case overview
• 5G Status update

2. Service expansion examples

• Enhanced Mobile Broadband
• Mission Critical Control
• Automotive
• Entertainment and media

3. Architecture domains

• Mobile / Wireless RAN
• Fixed networking
• Computing and storage
• Security

4. Service provisioning and delivery 

• Policy based
• Slicing principles
• QoS / QoE mechanisms
• Virtualisation ( Core / Edge / RAN)

5. Radio access evolution

• Spectrum usage
• TDD optimisation
• Waveform evolution
• Multi-RAT principles 
• Massive MIMO

Afternoon Session: The Cellular Internet of Things (C-IoT) Evolution

Synopsis:

This presentation is designed to provide a semi-technical introduction and overview of IoT concepts, principles and methods of working. Case studies and architecture options are used to give insight into the use cases that are currently defined by various standards bodies, and mechanisms to support these use cases are presented.

Seminar Content Includes:

1. Introduction to Cellular IoT

• What, where, when, how!
• Fundamental concepts and principles
• Cellular IoT
• Industry 4.0

2. The Cellular IoT environment

• M2M / MTC
• Machine to Infrastructure
• Soft sensors
• IoT and Cloud working
• The IoT ecosystem

3. Connectivity

• Wireless / Cellular / Fixed
• Multi-RAT access
• Protocols and procedures
• Architecture independence

4. Data in the Cellular IoT space

• Real data
• Metadata
• Data analytics
• Managing data