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Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi" - DEI

Seminar: 5G Transport Networks

The seminar will be given by Dr. Matteo Fiorani, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, as part of the course "Trends in Communications".

  • Date: 06 November 2015 from 14:00 to 17:00

  • Event location: Room 5.6, School of Engineering and Architecture, viale Risorgimento 2, Bologna

Matteo Fiorani

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About the speaker

Matteo Fiorani received a Master of Science in Telecommunications (2010) and a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies (2014) from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). During his Ph.D. studies, he spent 1 year as a visiting researcher at Vienna University of Technology (Austria) in the framework of the European Network of Excellence BONE. He joined KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) in January 2014 where he is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher. In August/September 2015 he was visiting researcher at University of California Davis (USA).

Dr. Fiorani is involved in several European and Swedish research projects related to 5G transport networks, such as the H2020 5GEx project and the K5 project, where he is working in tight collaboration with Ericsson Research and he is leading a working package related to 5G transport architectures. In addition, he is involved in Swedish research projects related to optical interconnects for data centers. Dr. Fiorani co-authored more than 25 research papers published in leading international journals and conference proceedings and he is serving in the technical program committee of several international conferences in the field of optical networking.

 

Abstract

Future 5G systems will pave the way to a new societal paradigm where access to information will be available anywhere, anytime, and to anyone, anything. Most of the ongoing research and debate around 5G systems are focusing on the radio network segment (e.g., how to offer high peak-rates per subscriber, and how to handle a very large number of simultaneously connected devices without compromising on coverage, outage probability, and latency). On the other hand, understanding the impact that 5G systems will have on the transport network (i.e., the segment in charge of the backhaul of radio base stations and/or the fronthaul of remote radio units) is also very important. This seminar provides an analysis of the key architectural challenges for the design of a flexible 5G transport infrastructure able to adapt in a cost efficient way to the plethora of requirements coming from the large number of envisioned future 5G services.