Plenary Speaker 1: Wireless spectrum challenges & opportunities: Maximizing assets for growth

Author

Ray, Nilanjan

Author_Institution

T-Mobile, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

2-4 June 2013

Firstpage

5

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In an industry needing to support phenomenal growth, spectrum is key. Networks and devices must support multiple technologies and frequency bands without sacrificing performance. The industry has to come together to provide innovative and cost-effective RFIC design that utilizes all available resources. Smarter utilization of industry assets is essential, for example building small cell solutions (HetNets) that include tighter integration and interworking between cellular and WiFi. Since unlicensed spectrum is a great augment to carriers´ licensed spectrum assets, it opens a myriad of opportunities for increasing network capacity. Better integration between WiFi and cellular would allow customers greater capacity and flexibility with data transmissions based on cost or desired quality level and network load. Therefore, RFIC innovation is necessary for future wireless systems.

Keywords

channel capacity; data communication; radiofrequency integrated circuits; wireless LAN; HetNets; RFIC design; WiFi; carriers licensed spectrum assets; data transmissions; industry assets; network capacity; small cell solutions; wireless spectrum;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6059-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2013.6569505

Filename

6569505