IEEE Future Networks Transmissions

We delve into the transformative power of cellular networks and their hidden cost on our connected world. While these networks have revolutionized access to information and bridged distances with instant communication, they come with a significant environmental footprint, consuming about 4% of our electric grid capacity. As we evolve from 4G to 5G, we strive to expand coverage. Listen to find out...

We use Wi-Fi at home because it offers speeds better than our LTE phones get. But if 5G will provide speeds 10 times better than LTE, will that mean we no longer need Wi-Fi at home? Will public Wi-Fi become as antiquated as internet cafes? IEEE's panel of experts will discuss and maybe debate the battle for last mile connectivity between 5G and Wi-Fi, as well as recent advances on how these two te...

From a public perception standpoint, 5G technology can't catch a break. Various internet theories have tied it to cancer, then the COVID-19 virus, and then the US Federal Aviation Administration claimed it could endanger airplanes while landing in low visibility. In a world of propaganda and misinformation, how are the public and policymakers supposed to make sense of any individual claim? In this...

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a major flaw in global infrastructure when it turned out that millions (if not billions) of people were unable to work or attend school from home due to lack of reliable connections to the internet. With the digital divide a concern even in "first world" countries, internet access has taken its place alongside roads, bridges and utilities as a new kind of infrastructu...

From the public's perspective, 5G has been hyped at a fever pitch for several years now, but the impact on everyday life has been limited. TV commercials drop terms like "ultra-wideband" or "extended range" and our phones sometimes show 5G where LTE used to be -- but has anyone noticed an impact? In this IEEE panel discussion, experts will discuss the challenges created by how the wireless carrier...

Following on from the podcast on The Edge Ecosystem From Now Through 2030, posted in March 2021, four edge subject matter experts now discuss Edge Automation Platform and Edge Service Platform frameworks. Edge Service includes the necessary Platform and Applications that are distributed and delivered to consumers and enterprises. So, this podcast includes envisioning use cases fertilized by curren...

Four subject matter experts on edge computing gathered to discuss the coming decade of expected developments for the edge ecosystem as enabled by current and future network generations. Contemporary and emerging use cases and evolving technologies are discussed as well as critical differentiators for Edge Platforms and Services. A key focal point today is the interface between hardware and softwar...

5G promises to usher in a new era of connectivity and productivity, but is it safe? Misconceptions about the health impacts of 5G abound, even some that imply the technology is associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Episode 4 of "The 5G Deployment Challenge" brings together a panel of industry and technology experts including David Witkowski of IEEE Future Networks, INGR, and William F. Hammett an...

Despite 5Gs potential and favorable economics, deployment of the technology is proving challenging for a variety of reasons. In this episode, David Witkowski, Co-Chair, Deployment Working Group INGR, leads a discussion with David Young, CIO for the City of Lincoln in Lancaster County, Nebraska and Brendan Carr, Commissioner of the FCC. They share their insights on 5G deployment challenges and offe...

Trusty old MIMO is becoming Massive MIMO and is expected to continue into the future two decades of networking, but it will have to rise to many challenges. Massive MIMO must evolve to interwork with thousands of antenna elements while managing power in Internet of Things applications, evolving hardware, ever lower latency, emerging technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence, a...

Applications and services are the exciting place where technology advances and envisioned use cases merge to reveal real world practices and impact. 5G and future networks have galvanized the imagination around a broad landscape of known and possible applications and services like no earlier network generation. But, what was missing was a way to organize and contextualize a sustainable infrastruct...

One of the key enablers for future innovation and deployment of 5G technology is the availability of wireless spectrum to support a wide range of new bandwidth-intensive services. The recent change in spectrum regulation for the 6 GHz frequency band in the US has become a potential game changer with respect to the future of 5G given the opportunities for new operations these frequencies can suppor...

Despite 5G’s potential and favorable economics, deployment of the technology is proving challenging for a variety of reasons. 5G, the fifth generation of wireless technology, promises improved performance of mobile broadband for consumer devices such as smartphones and other user devices, but also adding support for fixed broadband to homes and businesses, massive machine-type communications for t...

Despite 5G's potential and favorable economics, deployment of the technology is proving challenging for a variety of reasons. 5G, the fifth generation of wireless technology, promises improved performance of mobile broadband for consumer devices such as smartphones and other user devices, but also adding support for fixed broadband to homes and businesses, massive machine-type communications for t...

In this episode, we bring you Part I of a two-part podcast on 5G Security. In Part I, our experts discuss foundational security capabilities, and in Part II the focus is on use-cases, including device and application security.

As massive 5G networks are being deployed in full speed in 2020, there is a potentially fatal flaw lurking in the supporting infrastructure, the utility distribution network. The 5G Energy Gap describes the uncertain ability of the utility grid to meet load energy requirements of potentially billions of devices while maintaining grid reliability. The Internet of Things, Industrial Internet of Thin...

The International Network Generations Roadmap (INGR) is stimulating an industry-wide dialogue to address the many facets and challenges of the development and deployment of 5G in a well-coordinated and comprehensive manner, while also looking beyond 5G. Future network technologies (5G, 6G, etc.) are expected to enable fundamentally new applications that will transform the way humanity lives, works...

In this episode, Paul Tilghman, DARPA program manager, speaks to the three-year-long Spectrum Collaboration Challenge that attempts to answer the question, Do we still need the FCC? DARPA, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, gamified a system to handle Dynamic Spectrum Sharing through the creation of SDN radios using the power of artificial intelligence and collaborative a...

In this episode, James Irvine talks with Karina Maksimiuk and Greig Paul about their work with 5G RuralFirst, a UK government testbed and trial project, which describes itself as a ‘call to action’ to be sure the benefits of 5G go beyond the city.

In this installment of IEEE 5G Transmissions Podcast: Podcasts with the experts, Alex Wyglinksi speaks to how 5G can be used with cognitive radio and vehicular dynamic spectrum access to support large-scale wireless communications between autonomous vehicles. Alex is co-chair, IEEE 5G Community Development Working Group, president of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and a full Professor of El...

In this podcast installment Adam Drobot explores the question of whether it’s time to change how we think about telecommunications generations – do we still need discrete generations or are we in an era of continuous change? Adam is a featured speaker at the IEEE 5G World Forum, taking place this July 9th through 11th in Santa Clara, CA. Find out more about the IEEE 5G World Forum at ieee-wf-5g.or...

In this installment of the IEEE 5G Transmissions Podcast: Podcasts with the experts, we talk about the main transformative aspects of 5G with Dr. David Soldani. Dr. Soldani is an IEEE Senior Member and Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Network Magazine. He is the head of 5G technology, end-to-end and global for Nokia Germany and he is an industry professor at the University of Technology in Sydney...

This is the second installment of the IEEE 5G Transmissions: Podcasts with the Experts "The Future of Mobile Beyond 5G" with Mischa Dohler who is an IEEE Fellow and co-chair of the IEEE 5G Technology Roadmap Committee. He is a professor at King’s College London where he is directing the Centre for Telecommunications Research. Mischa’s vision is based on his experience helping design cellular syste...

In this installment of the IEEE 5G Transmissions Podcast: Podcasts with the experts, we talk about The Future of Mobile Beyond 5G with Mischa Dohler who is an IEEE Fellow and co-chair of the IEEE 5G Technology Roadmap Committee. He is a professor at King’s College London where he is directing the Centre for Telecommunications Research. Mischa’s vision is based on his experience helping design cell...

In this edition of IEEE 5G Transmissions: Podcasts with the Experts, subject matter experts from the IEEE 5G Initiative, the IEEE Green ICT Initiative, the IEEE SDN Initiative, and the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems offer their insights on the question: What is your boldest vision of what 5G can bring us?