PARIS, June 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Bell Labs, the
industrial research arm of Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU), has become a research partner of the Technische Universität
Dresden's 5G Lab Germany.
Under the research collaboration agreement, the two
organizations will develop and test technologies that will help to
define the capability of 5G mobile networks in meeting the massive
connectivity demands of the future, with the high-performance
required by end-users.
Opened in September 2014, the 5G
Lab Germany brings together 20 professors from the Technische
Universität Dresden, one of the leading universities in
Europe, with more than 500
scientists. The 5G Lab Germany is a recognized technology
consortium and industry leader in the collaborative effort required
to develop and deliver 5G networks. It comprises four separate
tracks which allow members to focus on areas of interest, while
providing a holistic view of 5G networks. As a new member of the 5G
Lab Germany, Alcatel-Lucent will initially focus its research
efforts on the Wireless & Networks track of the
program.
The Alcatel-Lucent collaboration with 5G Lab Germany will
initially focus
on:
- Use of multiple
device-to-radio connections to enhance reliability for
mission-critical communications
Studies will investigate how
network capacity and reliability could be enhanced by connecting a
device like a smartphone to multiple radios simultaneously. It will
focus on how multiple 5G radio links or a combination of 5G and 4G
LTE radio links could enhance reliability for mission-critical
communications, where disruption to the network will cause a
failure in operations, such as for transportation workers and
emergency first responders.
- Definition of a 5G air
interface
The organizations will jointly analyze new air
interface - or radio frequency link - proposals for 5G
concept/prototype networks and will be proposing them in the
upcoming 5G standardization process. The newly-developed Bell Labs
Universal Filtered-Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing
(UF-OFDM) waveform for 5G networks is a leading contender for
standardization and will enable enhanced performance and new
services, while dramatically increasing the number of users (both
human and machine) as well as reduce the complexity of 5G
networks.
Key Facts:
- Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs and
TU Dresden, via its 5G Lab Germany, are collaborating to develop
key technologies that will define the future of 5G networks.
- Of the four research tracks at the 5G Lab Germany – Wireless
and Networks, Tactile Internet Applications, Silicon Systems and
Mobile Edge Cloud - Alcatel-Lucent will initially focus effort on
the Wireless & Networks track.
- Alcatel-Lucent's research cooperation will focus in two areas:
Definition of a new air interface, and the use of multiple
device-to-radio connections.
- As a research partner, Bell Labs
will fund the joint research and will then incorporate findings
into its ongoing Network 2020 development work.
Quotes:
Prof. Gerhard Fettweis, Vodafone
Chair for Mobile Communications Systems at TU Dresden, running the
university's 5G Lab Germany, said: "With Alcatel Lucent's system
insights and know-how we can address the most relevant challenges
in designing and operating highly reliable and resilient mobile
networks. We investigate a theoretical framework that allows us to
analyze waveforms, find performance bounds and find low-complexity
designs for implementation. The second project targets on new
access technologies as an enhancement of the dual-connectivity
transmission approach and joint coordination among multiple radio
access technologies to meet various service requirements."
Tod Sizer, head of wireless
research in Bell Labs, added:
"Bell Labs is an industry leader in
wireless innovation and research, and is working closely with
customers, key government funded projects in Europe and with leading universities like TU
Dresden to collectively define what 5G should and will be. Our
history with TU Dresden goes even beyond the very early definition
of 5G and now we are innovating together to enable low latency
applications, higher capacity solutions, as well as support for
both Massive MIMO and Massive numbers of connected machine
devices."
Background
Alcatel-Lucent demonstrated its research on UF-OFDM at Mobile
World Congress 2014 and 2015 and at the NGMN 2015 conference. The
digital multi-carrier modulation method used in today's 4G LTE
networks – OFDM – was optimized for smartphone traffic only.
As the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine communications
brings a more diverse range of traffic, a new digital radio
waveform is required that is more resilient to these types of
connections, to maintain network performance and service quality in
a 5G network. UF-OFDM is optimized for a combination of
smartphone and the large volume of sensor-type traffic that will
occur in 5G networks.
Under its Network 2020 vision, Bell
Labs is committed to working with other industry-leaders to
develop technologies that will define the future of 5G
communications. The company has signed collaboration agreements
with companies such as NTT Docomo, KT, Freescale, and more.
Links
- White paper - 5G is coming – Are you prepared?
- Alcatel-Lucent and Korea's KT sign collaboration agreement to
deliver 5G mobile networks of the future
- 5G can deliver a 'truly networked' society with Europe in the
driving seat
- Alcatel-Lucent introduces LTE radio access network portfolio to
transition operators smoothly to next-generation technologies
About TU Dresden
Founded in 1828, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) is a
full-scale university with 14 faculties, covering a wide range of
fields in science and engineering, humanities, social sciences and
medicine. TUD has about 36,000 students and 4,400 permanent
employees with 419 professors among them. TUD prides itself for its
international flavour and has partnerships with more than 70
universities worldwide. Since 2012 TUD is one of eleven German
universities that were identified as an "excellence university" by
the Federal Government. TUD's emphasis on applications in both
teaching and research has been honoured by leading industrial
companies with currently fourteen endowed chairs.
www.tu-dresden.de
About 5G Lab Germany
Within the 5G Lab Germany, 20 professors from TU Dresden
collaborate in an interdisciplinary team with more than 500
scientists to advance research on the key technologies for the 5th
generation of mobile communications (5G) and its applications. A
key feature of 5G will be a short latency that will enable Tactile
Internet applications, e.g. automated driving, robotic-aided
tele-surgery, as well as new learning and trainings methods with
special tactile-to-visual feedback. To achieve this goal, the
researchers in the 5G Lab Germany are addressing the whole value
chain: from the semiconductor chips across wireless data
transmission, networking and mobile edge clouds to Tactile Internet
applications.
www.5glab.de
About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU)
Alcatel-Lucent is the leading IP networking,
ultra-broadband access and cloud technology specialist. We are
dedicated to making global communications more innovative,
sustainable and accessible for people, businesses and governments
worldwide. Our mission is to invent and deliver trusted networks to
help our customers unleash their value. Every success has its
network.
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