R & D ANNUAL REPORT 2016

The recent widespread use of smart devices, wireless Internet and cloud based mobile applications has led to the exponential growth of the mobile data traffic. The anticipated continuation of this trend and the growing unconventional use of wireless infrastructure for machine-to-machine communications (M2M) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) have become the main driving forces of the current intensive research and standardization activities on the fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks. 

The focus of this lecture is to analyze the main technical challenges of 5G, identify the essential key enabling technologies for efficient and cost-effective 5G communications, and present the emerging R&D opportunities. This lecture aims to share technical insight on the key enabling technologies of 5G and vertical industries to be supported by 5G.

The following aspects will covered in this lecture:

o    Highly spectral and energy efficient air-interface. In achieving the anticipated 1,000 times of capacity increase, highly efficient air interface is essential for 5G in enabling the new spatial transmission schemes with extremely high utilization rates of distributed radio resources. 3-D transmission techniques in frequency, time and space domain will be presented in fully utilizing the highly distributed and varying nature of 5G radio resources.

o    Highly cost-effective network deployment, operation and management. The success of efficiently operating complex 5G infrastructure in a dynamic environment lies in intelligent network adaptation with a high level of situation-awareness. Due to the varying load conditions, the network does not always need all of the available resources. Enabling technologies for highly efficient and cost-effective 5G communications, including massive MIMO, NOMA, and SDN enabled spectrum and energy management in heterogeneous networks will be presented.

o    Highly open networking architecture for inter-operability and backward compatibility. Cost-effective deployment and operation of 5G infrastructure will be discussed to support the related ICT applications and ecosystem to be created by 5G.

Speaker: Dr. Xianbin Wang (S'98-M'99-SM'06) is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at Western University, Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from National University of Singapore in 2001.

Prior to joining Western, he was with Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) as a Research Scientist/Senior Research Scientist between July 2002 and Dec. 2007. From Jan. 2001 to July 2002, he was a system designer at STMicroelectronics, where he was responsible for system design for DSL and Gigabit Ethernet chipsets.  His current research interests include 5G networks, adaptive wireless systems, communications security, and locationing technologies. Dr. Wang has over 250 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, in addition to 24 granted and pending patents and several standard contributions.

Dr. Wang is a Fellow of IEEE and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He has received many awards and recognition, including Canada Research Chair, CRC President's Excellence Award, Canadian Federal Government Public Service Award, Ontario Early Researcher Award and three IEEE Best Paper Awards. He currently serves as an Editor/Associate Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. He was also an editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications between 2007 and 2011. Dr. Wang was involved in a number of IEEE conferences including GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, PIMRC, WCNC and CWIT, in different roles such as symposium chair, tutorial instructor, track chair, session chair and TPC chair. Dr. Wang was also invited recently to give speeches at IEEE 5G Standardization Meeting and 5G Summit.

Main Sponsors and Organisers:

1. IEEE

2. IEEE Communications Society, Malaysia

3. IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Malaysia

4. UTAR

Speaker: Dr. Wong Peng Wen, Consultant for FilPal Pte Ltd

Description: Dr. Wong is sharing his industrial experiences on how to design microwave filters using the FilPal software.

Organisers:

1. Eila Speaker: Dr. Wong Peng Wen, Consultant for FilPal Pte Ltd Description: Dr. Wong is sharing his industrial experiences on how to design microwave filters using the FilPal software.

Organisers:

1. Eila Service and Support 2. UTAR Service and Support

In this talk, we will trace the discovery of the Milky way Galaxy by Karl Jansky using the radio waves and how the subject has now grown tremendously over the past 60 years along with growth in technology to produce many Nobel Prize winning discoveries. India has contributed very significantly to radio astronomy by way of building indigenously two very major radio telescopes, one of which is now used by scientists from more than 50 countries in the world. Some of the interesting astronomy highlights will be described.

 Speaker: Prof.S.Ananthakrishnan, University of Pune, India.