Topics

6G

Outlook to the next standard in mobile communications, which will probably arrive by the end of the decade.

5G Advanced

Or 5.5G – evolutionary steps between 5G today and 6G tomorrow.

5GSA

5G Stand Alone – real 5G network cores with no ties to legacy architectures.

Sustainability

How to operate mobile networks with less energy consumption, despite growing transfer volumes.

Non-Terrestrial Networks

How satellites can augment terrestrial radio cells and thus bring mobile communications truly everywhere.

Network Slicing

Fuelling an important feature of 5G with life: Separate sub-networks for separate applications and customers.

Edge Computing

Bringing powerful cloud computing power closer to the end user devices and their applications.

New Spectrum

Growing above 6 GHz – millimeter waves and beyond.

Repurposing

Re-using legacy spectrum for new mobile communications standards.

Dynamic Infrastructures

Network architectures which “breathe” with their current workloads.

Fixed Wireless Access

Substituting fixed-line access with mobile communications.

GenAI

Generative AI – how ChatGPT and other AI models can contribute to solve current and future problems of the mobile communications industry.

Machine Learning

The basis of Artificial Intelligence – and related methods for more intelligent functions and services.

Cognitive Architectures

Intelligent agents and network brokers facilitating a new generation of network services.

Network as a Sensor

Scanning objects and people with the millimeter waves of future mobile technologies.

Post-Quantum

How to prepare encryption standards and security protocols to a world where quantum computing radically changes prerequisites assumed to be valid forever.

Post-Shannon

New encoding mechanisms substitute a paradigm shift to what generations of researchers and engineers thought to be the capacity limit of a transmission channel.