{"id":5245,"date":"2014-06-30T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T12:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/?p=5245"},"modified":"2014-06-30T14:34:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T12:34:28","slug":"the-icclab-at-the-european-conference-on-networks-eucnc-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/the-icclab-at-the-european-conference-on-networks-eucnc-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The ICCLab at the European Conference on Networks – EUCNC 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, the European Conference on Networks took place in Bologna Italy at the\u00a0Palazzo della Cultura e dei Congressi. The Conference was having a strong focus on 5G (5th generation wireless systems) technologies and how 5G will affect the technological foundation and as well the social aspects. The impact of 5G to the society was often mention and discussed in the various panels and talks. The explanations, what\u00a0impact 5G to social aspects and the society will have\u00a0in the future, were all more a rational to constitute the rise of the amount of the bandwidth that 5G will bring. The almost incredible amount of bandwidth and the extreme low latency will offer a new spectrum of mobile applications – especially in the area of real-time applications.<\/p>\n

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But not all people do share this vision 5G. Benoit Charbonnier from Orange Labs has the opinion, that the only way to reduce the energy consumption efficiently is by reducing the bit-rate. The FP7 project Fabulous FDMA PON is focusing on offering 1Gbit\/s internet connection to the home\u00a0by reducing the amount of energy by a factor of 40-50. In contrast to this, the European Commission is focusing on 10-20 Gbit\/s to the home that means, that the EC is more focusing on higher bit-rates then on lowering the energy consumption.\u00a0Takaharu Nakamura,\u00a0Sub-Leader of ARIB 2020 and Beyond AdHoc from Fujitsu was the only panelist who pointed out, that there are a lot of people in the world who cannot benefit from the impact of 5G to the society due to the lack of missing knowledge or infrastructure by the end-users.\u00a0Wen Tong, Wireless CTO from Huawei showed the company’s strategy along 5G technology enablement and showed on one slide, that SDN was the birth-bed for the 5G technology foundation. The flexibility and on-demand fashion promised by 5G is not possible without a programmable network and open standards he said in his keynote. The most important role of SDN within the 5G ecosystem is the implementation of NFV and Cloud Computing. In order to challenge the three important angels in 5G that are:<\/p>\n