Nokia Bell Labs is on its way to the IEEE VTC in Porto, Portugal!

The bustling metropolis of Porto, Portugal is host this year to the IEEE’s 87th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2018) from June 3 – 6th and the Nokia Bell Labs team will be arriving in force to demonstrate its substantial mobile research prowess. The event brings together leading individuals from academia, government, and industry to discuss and exchange ideas in the fields of wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology.

Nokia Bell Labs has been invited to deliver keynotes, tutorials, workshops and paper presentations and will highlight progress in important research areas such as value creation in future 5G networks, 5G slicing, massive MIMO, AI-inspired autonomous networking and IoT business models.

The opening keynote on June 4th at 9:45am will be delivered by our own Reinaldo Valenzuela and will focus on 5G mmWave FWL Access: Challenges and Opportunities in Achieving High Bit Rates and Reliable Coverage. Valenzuela will describe the opportunities and challenges in this crucial topic with particular mention of the appropriate channel sounder design and the measurement campaigns that are needed. He will also review current data, corresponding models, and preliminary systems RF system designs that can achieve the goals.

Below is a complete look at the papers, workshops, talks and tutorials that Nokia Bell Labs will present at the IEEE VTC 2018. If you are in Porto, Portugal from June 3 – 6th, then please come and meet our team and sit in on one of our sessions.

Tutorials

• Sunday 3 June 2018 8.30–12.00 Sabor
  T5: Traffic Aware Interference Management for Flexible 5G Radio Access
  Antti Tölli, University of Oulu; Juha Karjalainen, Nokia Bell Labs
• Sunday 3 June 2018 13.30–17.00 Sabor
  T10: AI-inspired Autonomous Networks
  Haris Gacanin, Nokia Bell Labs

Keynotes

• Monday, 4 June 2018, 9:45–10:30 Porto Room
  5G mmWave FWL Access: Challenges and Opportunities in Achieving High Bit Rates and Reliable Coverage
  Reinaldo A. Valenzuela, Nokia Bell Labs
• Wednesday, 6 June 2018, 9:45am – 10:30am Porto Room
  New Value Creation by 5G Future X Network
  Simone Redana, Nokia Bell Labs

Panels

• Monday 4 June 2018, 11:00–12:30 Porto Room
  Panel: 5G Slicing
  Panelists: Cinzia Sartori, Nokia Bell Labs
• Wednesday, 6 June 2018, 11:00–12:30 Porto Room
  Panel: Smart City – Living Labs
  Moderator: Haris Gacanin Nokia Bell Labs
• Wednesday, 6 June 2018, 14:00–15:30 Porto Room
  Panel: IoT Technology and Business Models
  Panelists: Vikas Dhingra Senior Business Consultant, Bell Labs Consulting

Workshops

• Sunday, 3 June 2018 10.30-12.00 Lima
  Distributed Power Allocation for the Downlink of a Twocell MISO-NOMA Systems
  Panelists: Lou Salaun, Chung Shue Chen, Nokia Bell Labs
• Sunday, 3 June 2018 13:30-15:00 Douro Norte
  3: Signal Processing I Keynote: Making 5G Happen: from Concept to Reality
  Andreas Maeder, Nokia Bell Labs
• Sunday, 3 June 2018 15:30-17:00 Corgo
  Panel MEC and V2X: The Role of Edge Computing in Automotive Use Cases
  Panelists: Frank Schaich, One5G Project Coordinator, Nokia Bell Labs

Paper Presentations

• Monday, 4 June 2018, 11:00-12:30 Minho 1E: Wireless Connectivity I
  Modeling and Analysis of Intra-Frequency MultiConnectivity for High Availability in 5G Ahmad Awada, Nokia Bell Labs
• Monday, 4 June 2018, 11:00-12:30 Lima 1F: UAV Relaying
  Mobility Challenges for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Connected to Cellular LTE Networks
  Jedrzej Stanczak, Dawid Kozioł, Nokia; István Z. Kovács, Jeroen Wigard, Nokia Bell Labs
• Monday, 4 June 2018, 16:00-17:30 Douro Sul 3A: Resource Allocation I
  Resource Allocation for Uplink Grant-Free UltraReliable and Low Latency Communications
  Rapeepat Ratasuk, Nokia Bell Labs; Nitin Mangalvedhe, Amitava Ghosh, Nokia
• Monday, 4 June 2018, 14:00-15:30 Foyer-1 2P: Resource Allocation and Scheduling
  Preemptive Scheduling of Latency Critical Traffic and its Impact on Mobile Broadband Performance
  Klaus I. Pedersen, Guillermo Pocovi, Jens Steiner, Nokia Bell Labs
• Monday, 4 June 2018, 16:00-17:30 Minho 3E: PAPR Reduction                                                        
  Optimization of Impulsive Noise Mitigation Scheme for PAPR Reduced OFDM Signals Over Powerline Channels
  Haris Gacanin, Nokia Bell Labs
• Monday, 4 June 2018, 16:00-17:30 Foyer-1 3P: MIMO Systems II
  On the MIMO Capacity with Multiple Linear Transmit Covariance Constraints
  Holger Claussen, Nokia Bell Labs
• Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 11:00-12:30 Lima 4F: Energy Efficiency I
  Energy Efficiency of Massive MIMO: Cell-Free vs. Cellular Hong Yang, Bell Labs, Nokia; Thomas L. Marzetta, New York University
• Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 14:00-15:30 Cávado 5G: Wireless Services and Applications
  Fulfillment of Service Level Agreements via Slice-Aware Radio Resource Management in 5G Networks
  Ahmad Awada, Nokia Bell Labs
• Tuesday, 5 June 2018, 16:00-17:30 Tâmega 6C: Channel Coding II
  Exploiting Gaussian Approximation for Non-Orthogonal Coded Access
  Yejian Chen, Nokia Bell Labs
• Wednesday, 6 June 2018, 14:00-15:30 Minho 8E: Edge/Cloud Networking
  UBI 1 Cloudification and Autoscaling Orchestration for Container-based Mobile Network toward 5G: Experimentation, Challenges and Perspectives
  Duc-Hung Luong, Huu-Trung Thieu, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Nokia Bell-Labs France
• Wednesday, 6 June 2018, 14:00-15:30 Douro Sul 8A: Performance Evaluation and RF Design
  The Density of Millimeter Wave Access Points in Dense Urban Areas and its Effect on Link Availability in the Presence of Blocking
  Lutz Ewe, Hardy Halbauer, Nokia Bell Labs
• Wednesday, 6 June 2018, 14:00-15:30 Foyer-1 8P: Wireless Networks and Multiple Access
  A Blind Retransmission Scheme for Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications Klaus I. Pedersen, Nokia Bell Labs; Preben Mogensen, Aalborg University, Nokia Bell Labs
• Wednesday, 6 June 2018, 16:00-17:30 Corgo 9D: HetNets II
  Pilot Allocation for Interference Coordination in Two-tier Massive MIMO Heterogeneous Network
  Haris Gacanin, Nokia Bell Labs