Tuesday, 12 June

10:00 - 10:30 - Pentek Inc.    
Title: Advantages of using a COTS based SDR System for your 5G Development Platform
Speaker: Bob Muro
Description: Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Software defined radio (SDR) products have been traditionally used for Military RADAR and electronic warfare (EW) applications because of their high performance, and design flexibility.  The latest SDR products offer solutions with integrated I/O and large FPGA’s that include IP for accessing, routing, and processing A/D & D/A data. combining these attributes with superior signal integrity, phase-coherent sampling, and multi-channel transceivers a COTS SDR system is an ideal choice for your 5G development platform. This presentation is designed to familiarize a new user about Software Defined Radio and a multi-purpose COTS platform.  

10:45 - 11:15 - Milliwave Silicon Solutions
Title: MilliBox Introduction
Speaker: Jeanmarc Laurent
Description: MilliBox™ is the first affordable and personal Over The Air radiation pattern measurement tool designed specifically for mmWave phase array designs. This tool is essential for 5G NR (mmW), 60GHz and 77Ghz applications. It is used for antenna, RF, and beam forming algorithm development and verification. MilliBox™ is composed of a compact lab bench size chamber and a 3D gimbal system which can do 360° in H and V at 1° step resolution. The control software is open source for ease of integration in any existing tool suite.

11:30 - 12:00 - SiTime
Title:Overcoming 5G Time Synchronization Challenges
Speaker: Nazar Tshchynskyy
Description: 5G networks impose extremely stringent time synchronization requirements in harsh outdoor environments. IEEE 1588/PTP based time synchronization systems depend on a local precision oscillator for clock recovery and time holdover. Learn about over-temperature stability in this presentation, and more important, the impact of the oscillator frequency-over-temperature slope (ΔF/ΔT) performance, which plays a critical role in time accuracy during clock recovery. An IEEE 1588 implementation will be presented using various types of oscillators to assess the impact of ΔF/ΔT on the system. Test results compare PTP time and phase accuracy, particularly under environmental stressors such as air flow and rapid temperature change.

13:30 - 14:00 - Epner Technology Inc.
Title: Development and Application of an Ultra High Q Electrodeposited Silver Coating and it’s Applications on injection molded Ultem Plastic Filters as well as Aluminum and Beryllium alloy substrates 
Speaker: David Epner
Description: A process for creating a High-Q-Silver deposit that has been developed from work that NASA sponsored for a hard, pure electrodeposited gold. All attendees to this talk will receive a free sample of Laser Gold, the process that led to the development of High-Q-Silver. 

14:15 - 14:45 - Speedlink
Title: Extreme Mobile Broadband Technology
Speakers: C.C. Kuo, Rob Hill, T.Y. Chi
Description: 5G full-band millimeter wave transceiver active array.

Wednesday, 13 June

10:00 - 10:30 - Keysight Technologies
Title:Millimeter-wave Measurement Insights
Speaker: Michel Gagne
Description: 5th generation wireless systems will be deployed in sub 6 GHz and millimeter wave bands, including 26, 28, 38, 60 GHz and beyond. Working in the millimeter wave bands brings many new test challenges including different transmission media, wider signal bandwidths, higher path loss, frequency response, broadband noise, and even spatial positioning. This brief presentation gives an overview of the transmission mediums used in the millimeter frequency range, challenges of measuring broadband signals, and solutions for over-the-air (OTA) testing.

10:45 - 11:15 - Speedlink
Title: Extreme Mobile Broadband Technology
Speakers: C.C. Kuo, Rob Hill, T.Y. Chi
Description: 5G full-band millimeter wave transceiver active array.

11:30 - 12:00 - Milliwave Silicon Solutions
Title: MilliBox Introduction
Speaker: Jeanmarc Laurent
Description: MilliBox™ is the first affordable and personal Over The Air radiation pattern measurement tool designed specifically for mmWave phase array designs. This tool is essential for 5G NR (mmW), 60GHz and 77Ghz applications. It is used for antenna, RF, and beam forming algorithm development and verification. MilliBox™ is composed of a compact lab bench size chamber and a 3D gimbal system which can do 360° in H and V at 1° step resolution. The control software is open source for ease of integration in any existing tool suite.

12:15 - 12:45 - Pentek Inc.    
Title: Advantages of using a COTS based SDR System for your 5G Development Platform
Speaker: Bob Muro
Description: Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Software defined radio (SDR) products have been traditionally used for Military RADAR and electronic warfare (EW) applications because of their high performance, and design flexibility.  The latest SDR products offer solutions with integrated I/O and large FPGA’s that include IP for accessing, routing, and processing A/D & D/A data. combining these attributes with superior signal integrity, phase-coherent sampling, and multi-channel transceivers a COTS SDR system is an ideal choice for your 5G development platform. This presentation is designed to familiarize a new user about Software Defined Radio and a multi-purpose COTS platform.  

13:30 - 14:30 - Microwave Theory & Techniques Society
Title: Advanced Multiband All-Digital Transmitter
Speaker: Dr. Rui Ma
Description: All-digital transmitter (ADT) is envisioned as a key enabling technology for software defined radio. Multi-mode multi-band signals can be transmitted simultaneously by a single flexible radio unit. Compared with analog transmitter, most of the signal processing (up to power amplifier input) is taking place in digital domain. Hence, ADT offers the unparalleled re-configurability and agility to cope with ever-increasing radio complexity. We will show an FPGA based real-time ADT demonstrator of concurrent triple-band radio transmitter supporting both contiguous and non-contiguous transmission scenarios up to 2.5 GHz, in which RF carrier frequency can be changed through simple software update.

14:30 - 15:30 - Microwave Theory & Techniques Society
Title: Millimeter-Wave to Microwave MIMO Relays (M4R) for 5G Building Penetration Communications
Speakers: Rui Zhu, Y. Ethan Wang
Description: In 5G communication, Millimeter wave (mmWave) is considered to be the key enabling high-speed link due to its broad bandwidth. However, the high propagation loss and poor penetration through obstacles of the mmWave makes it difficult for outdoor-to-indoor communication. In this demo, we show a method called mmWave to microwave MIMO relay (M4R) which combines the broad bandwidth of mmWave and the better penetration and the abundant spatial channels of sub 6GHz band to form a high-speed link in the building penetration scenario.

16:00 - 17:00 - Communications Society
Title: Distributed Multi-User MIMO Network with Multi-antenna Devices using SDRs
Speakers: Neelakantan Nurani Krishnan, Bhargav Gokalgandhi, Ivan Seskar
Description: his demonstration shows the working of a distributed MU-MIMO (D-MIMO) based Wi-Fi (802.11ac compliant) network using SDRs (USRP B210s and X310s). D-MIMO synchronizes and coordinates the transmissions from spatially separate Wi-Fi access points (APs) to facilitate multiple simultaneous transmissions in the downlink. Four USRP B210s, located in four corners of the testbed, are used as Wi-Fi APs, which are synchronized using an external octo-clock. Wi-Fi users are distributed throughout the testbed. Novel algorithms for user selection in the downlink are proposed and implemented. Experiments describe the merits of using D-MIMO compared to state-of-the-art configuration and the associated implementation challenges.

17:00 -18:00 - Communications Society
Title: Uplink Packet Detection and Demodulation of OFDM frames for a Massive MIMO System using CPU and GPU
Speakers: Bhargav Gokalgandhi, Ivan Seskar
Description: This demonstration shows the demodulation of the OFDM symbols for a Massive MIMO system using GPU at the back-end. The demo contains users (B210s), which are situated on all 4 corners of the testbed, sending OFDM frames to the Massive MIMO system (16 antennas, 8 X310s), which acts as a Base Station (BS) situated in the corner of the testbed. The back-end of the BS consists of CPU and GPU. The performance of CPU and GPU for channel estimation and demodulation of OFDM symbols is compared with variation in parameters such as FFT length and number of channels.

Thursday, 14 June

10:00 - 10:30 - SiTime
Title:Overcoming 5G Time Synchronization Challenges
Speaker: Nazar Tshchynskyy
Description: 5G networks impose extremely stringent time synchronization requirements in harsh outdoor environments. IEEE 1588/PTP based time synchronization systems depend on a local precision oscillator for clock recovery and time holdover. Learn about over-temperature stability in this presentation, and more important, the impact of the oscillator frequency-over-temperature slope (ΔF/ΔT) performance, which plays a critical role in time accuracy during clock recovery. An IEEE 1588 implementation will be presented using various types of oscillators to assess the impact of ΔF/ΔT on the system. Test results compare PTP time and phase accuracy, particularly under environmental stressors such as air flow and rapid temperature change.

10:45 - 11:15 Keysight Technologies
Title:Not Your Father's Antenna
Speaker: Roger Nichols
Description: The casual observer of the mobile telecommunications antennas now on towers, buildings, and disguised as trees and flag-poles pictures a simple monopole antenna much like we saw in the early days of 1G. But those who have to design, validate, install, and maintain these for a modern 4G network know the complexity of what hides within and around those simple-looking radomes. Dual polarization, local amplifiers, combiners to manage multiple bands and operators in the same radome, weather-proofing, lighting proofing, and the added complexities of diversity and the more complex low-order MIMO all implemented within stringent weight and wind-loading constraints have combined to make these innocuous poles into marvels of modern technology. The relentless pace of these technical changes is now adding even more dimensions to antennas for the sake of 5G. The addition of millimeter-wave frequency bands to mobile broadband communications now means high-gain antennas to maintain a link-budget. But this now means the resulting beam must be managed by electrical control, and since this control is part of media access, the antenna is now part of the MAC layer of the air-interface protocol stack. The same can be said of evolution of MIMO to what the industry calls “Massive”. So-called “massive MIMO” systems also have modes that manage the beams and MIMO management has always been an integral part of the air-interface protocol stack. This resulting tight integration of the antenna, the radio, and the protocol subsystem in two very diverse applications drives a complex set of issues related to measurement and validation. This talk will briefly cover some examples of these, the latest moves in the 3GPP to standardize the approach, and related practical test and measurement issues.

11:30 - 12:00 - Epner Technology Inc.
Title: Development and Application of an Ultra High Q Electrodeposited Silver Coating and it’s Applications on injection molded Ultem Plastic Filters as well as Aluminum and Beryllium alloy substrates 
Speaker: David Epner
Description: A process for creating a High-Q-Silver deposit that has been developed from work that NASA sponsored for a hard, pure electrodeposited gold. All attendees to this talk will receive a free sample of Laser Gold, the process that led to the development of High-Q-Silver. 

12:45 - 13:45 - Electromagnetics Compatibility (EMC) Society
Title: Test and Measurement Challenges for the 5G New Radio
Speaker: Dr. Michael Foegelle
Description: In the search for more data bandwidth, the 5G New Radio will push into new frequency ranges traditionally reserved for satellite and defense applications.  The use of beamforming and massive MIMO arrays will have a dramatic impact on the testing of the associated radios.  Because the resulting performance is a function of the beam produced, even the most basic radio performance or functional metric must be performed in an over-the-air test environment.  This impacts not only radio design testing but also production line and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing, where the adaptive nature of these antennas must be taken into account. 

13:45 -14:45 - Antennas and Propagation Society
Title: Challenges in 5G Antenna Design, Radio Coverage & Channel Analysis
Speaker: C.J. Reddy
Description: This demonstration will show how computational electromagnetic tools can be used to meet the challenges for the 5G antenna design, analysis of radio coverage and channel statistics including the antenna effect. This allows the requirements to be derived for the 5G antennas, as well as strategies for the 5G network deployment, including the 3.5 GHz frequency bands for area-wide high data rate services and the 26-28 GHz bands for capacity hotspots. Demonstration will include design of antenna arrays for mobile device and the base station at 26GHz as well as radio propagation analysis for network coverage for 5G.