Carleton University – Systems and Computer Engineering
Online Wireless Seminars
Time: Thursday, June 4, 2020, 3:30 pm ET (Ottawa time)
Link: https://meetingsamer.webex.com/meetingsamer/j.php?MTID=m12c70a5f9903e8ebe800bee1790abe62
Topic: Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN): The Next 20 Years
Speaker: Professor Halim Yanikomeroglu
Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University
Abstract: The roots of today’s wireless access architecture (the terrestrial 4G & 5G cellular networks) go back to 1940s. The access architecture has evolved substantially over the decades. However, rapid developments in a number of domains outside telecommunications, including those in satellite, aerospace, and automotive industries as well as in artificial intelligence, will likely result in a disruptive transformation in wireless access networks in the next 20 years.
In this talk, an ultra-agile, dynamic, distributed, and highly-autonomous vertical heterogeneous network (VHetNet) architecture with very low earth orbit satellites (VLEOs), high altitude platform stations (HAPS), and UAV base stations, tightly integrated with the ever-evolving terrestrial network, for almost-ubiquitous super-connectivity will be presented. In this disruptive setting, free-space optical (FSO) communications will play an important role in addition to the legacy radio communications.
In the absence of a clear technology roadmap, the talk has, to a certain extent, an exploratory view point to stimulate further thinking and creativity in ICT research and innovation.