Towards 5G
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Towards 5G
Fri, 10/07/2015 - 10:00 to 10:45
Location:
Speaker:
Prof Angel Lozano
Affiliation:
UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona
Synopsis:
With the 4th generation of wireless systems still being rolled out, challenges keep mounting: traffic demand doubles yearly and user needs and expectations keep growing at a very fast pace. Against this backdrop, the debate is open as to what shall come next in the evolution of wireless systems, what is loosely referred to as the 5th generation. This talk intends to contribute to this discussion, not from the perspective of a manufacturer, operator, or user, but from the perspective of a researcher. With this goal in mind, the presentation is organized around five reflections touching on aspects that relate to 5G but that also have broader conceptual implications for research.
Biography:
Angel Lozano is a Professor of Information and Communication Technologies at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) in Barcelona, Spain, where he teaches and conducts research on wireless communications as head of the WiCom (Wireless Communications) Group. He is also UPF's Vice-Rector for Research. Born in Manresa, Spain, Prof. Lozano received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from UPC, Spain, in 1992 and the Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA, in 1994 and 1998, respectively. Contemporarily, between 1996 and 1998, he also worked for Rockwell Semiconductor Systems (now Conexant Systems) in San Diego, USA. In 1999, he joined Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies, now Alcatel-Lucent) in Holmdel, USA, where he was a member of the Wireless Communications Research Department until 2008. Between 2005 and 2008 he was also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, NY, USA. Prof. Lozano is a Fellow of the IEEE since 2014. He has further participated in standardization activities for 3GPP, 3GPP2, IEEE 802.20 and the IETF. He has further participated in standardization activities for 3GPP, 3GPP2, IEEE 802.20 and the IETF. Prof. Lozano has published extensively, holds 15 patents, and has contributed to several books. His papers have received two awards: the best paper at the 2006 IEEE Int’l Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques & Applications, and the Stephen O. Rice prize to the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2008. He also received the Bell Labs President’s Gold Award in 2002 and the ICREA Academia Award from the Catalan Government in 2011.