Agenda

ISART 2017: Spectrum Mining at Millimeter Waves • Digging for Capacity
August 15-17, 2017 •Broomfield, CO

As more spectrum users squeeze into the lower frequency bands, more are also exploring the higher frequencies to meet their capacity needs. Millimeter wave frequencies, approximately 20 GHz and above, are able to meet some needs. ISART 2017 explored millimeter waves, the technical challenges they present, and applications that use them. ISART 2017 approached this topic from five different perspectives: regulation, industry, standards, measurement and modeling, and systems.

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12:00 PM-
6:00 PM

Registration

Collocated Events

CSMAC Meeting 8:00-11:00
Information at https://www.ntia.doc.gov/meetings/CSMAC or contact David J. Reed, Designated Federal Officer, 202-482-5955, dreed@ntia.doc.gov

WSRD Meeting 11:15 a.m-1:45 p.m.
Information at https://www.nitrd.gov/nitrdgroups/index.php?title=Wireless_Spectrum_Research_and_Development or contact Wendy Wigen, Technical Coordinator, at wigen@nitrd.gov or Jackie Altamirano at altamirano@nitrd.gov
2:00 PM

Tutorial—Millimeter Waves from a Regulatory and Policy Perspective

The tutorial set the stage for the rest of the conference sessions by providing regulatory history, case studies, and background information on millimeter wave. Topics included jurisdictional, legal, technical, and rulemaking decisions that brought us to where we are today and identification of critical remaining issues in these areas.

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7:00 AM

Registration

 Technology Demos and Student Posters

8:00 AM

Welcoming Address

8:30 AM

Keynote: Millimeter Waves: What’s at Stake? A 3-Way Perspective: Mobile Broadband, Satellite, and Unlicensed

Tom Power, CTIA Senior Vice President and General Counsel
with Jennifer Manner of EchoStar
and Alan Norman of Facebook

9:30 AM

Break

10:00 AM

Panel—Millimeter Wave High-Speed Data Links: a Mobile Backhaul Perspective

Currently, millimeter wave frequencies have high-speed data applications, via backhaul. This panel focused on mobile examples of mmWave applications, technology, and engineering challenges beyond 5G of mobile backhaul implementations. It explored the current technologies and their corresponding challenges to determine what new approaches are required to expand capabilities within the millimeter wave community.

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM

Invited Talk: Policy Innovation for the Millimeter Wave Ecosystem
Rangam Subramanian, NTIA/OSM

2:00 PM

Invited Talk: Opening Parts of 95-450 GHz to Civil Use: Opportunities and Sharing Challenges
Michael Marcus, Marcus Spectrum Solutions LLC

2:45 PM

Break

3:15 PM

Panel—Millimeter Waves: a Standards Perspective

3GPP is the global initiative for mobile broadband standards. In this panel, 3GPP participants discussed the challenges—and benefits—of standardization of mmWave technologies. They discussed specific features like initial access, radio protocol architecture, channel coding, multicarrier issues, and connecting to legacy technologies. These features are different for each radio technology, adding to the standardization challenge.

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8:30 AM

Welcome

Technology Demos and Student Posters

8:45 AM

Invited Talk: Millimetre Waves: Modelling and Simulation to Engineer for Coverage
Philip Vigneron, Communications Research Centre Canada

9:30 AM

Break

10:00 AM

Panel—mmWave: Measurements and Modeling Perspective

A key aspect of fifth generation (5G) cellular communication lies with the millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum to meet the growing demand for greater capacity, denser networks, and lower latencies. Many challenges ahead meet the designer of this new 5G mmWave-spectrum cellular communication systems. One fundamental challenge is the quantification of the mmWave radio propagation in urban micro, outdoor-to-indoor building penetration, stadium, data backhaul, over-the-air testing and other emerging scenarios. Further, at mmWave frequencies and for wide modulation bandwidth of the signals, the hardware performance becomes increasingly non-ideal. Sampling circuits operating at the state-of-the-art speeds may introduce distortion including quantization noise, nonlinearity, and imbalance (if interleaved). Other components such as amplifiers or frequency converters may also distort a transmitter or receiver response. Researchers from industry, academia, and government discussed these challenges by exchanging ideas, methodologies, modeling and channel propagation measurements.

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM

Invited Talk: The Spectrum Collaboration Challenge
Paul Tilghman, DARPA

2:00 PM

Invited Talk: Measurements Challenges for 5G and Beyond
Kate Remley, NIST/CTL

2:30 PM

Break

3:00 PM

Panel—5G/mmWave Capacity Improvements: A Systems Perspective

Millimeter-waves, with their associated promise of massive bandwidths and potential for network densification, have been heralded as the solution for the exponentially growing hunger for high-speed data and greater system capacity. Despite nearly two decades of research and development, mmWave end user devices are still prohibitively expensive. Moreover, mmWave system design and planning have introduced new engineering challenges that are only just beginning to be addressed. This panel explored the system-level challenges associated with deploying a mmWave network, as well as techniques that could extend the usefulness of below 5 GHz systems, and the significant design challenges at mmWave frequencies.

Speaker biographies