Industry Track Panel Moderator – 5G Technologies and Standards

Summary—The first phase of 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) Rel-15 standardization has been completed and the commercial deployment of 5G system is already underway both at sub 6GHz and mmWave band. In this session we will cover the 5G NR Rel-15 features and what component technologies will be covered in Rel-16 and Rel-17 of 3GPP NR. Further, we will also address the first hand 5GNR deployment experience from a major operator. The session will comprise of two to three keynote talks followed by a short panel session.

Biography:

Amitabha (Amitava) Ghosh is a Nokia Fellow and Head, Radio Interface Group at Nokia Bell Labs. He joined Motorola in 1990 after receiving his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas. Since joining Motorola he worked on multiple wireless technologies starting from IS-95, cdma-2000, 1xEV-DV/1XTREME, 1xEV-DO, UMTS, HSPA, 802.16e/WiMAX and 3GPP LTE. He has 60 issued patents, has written multiple book chapters and has authored numerous external and internal technical papers. He is currently working on 3GPP LTE-Advanced and 5G technologies. His research interests are in the area of digital communications, signal processing and wireless communications. He is the recipient of 2016 IEEE Stephen O. Rice and 2017 Neal Shephard prize, member of IEEE Access editorial board and co-author of the book titled “Essentials of LTE and LTE-A”.