Seminario: 5G Trends and Challenges

Contatto di riferimento: Prof. Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli

About the speaker

Lorenzo Casaccia has been at the forefront of wireless technology and innovation for 15 years. He joined Qualcomm in 2000 and has been with the company since then, covering a variety of roles related to wireless communication, including research and system design, government affairs, product management and technical standardization. He currently leads a team of engineers across three continents driving Qualcomm’s activities in 3GPP, the standards body designing technologies for 2G, 3G, 4G (and in the future 5G). He is based in Rome, and travels frequently to California, where he has lived for a number of years. Lorenzo holds university degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Turin Polytechnic, in Telecommunication from the Eurecom Institute, France, and in Philosophy from the Rome University. He is the author or co-author of over 40 approved patents.

Abstract

This session will focus on the technology standardization aspect of “5G” First, we will introduce at high level some of the technologies that are expected to be studied by the industry as 5G gets defined. Then, in order to provide a glimpse of how technology standardization works, we will discuss 3 different sets of views from 3 different set of corporations, as recently presented at the 3GPP Workshop on 5G.