Special Session

Special Session
Industrial Sessions
  • Date Jan. 24 (Thu), 2019, 13:10~14:10
  • Venue Yong Pyong Resort Tower Condominium, Crystal Room (1F)
Communication Standards and Interoperability for Large-scale IoT

An overview of standards and approaches for large scale, secure and interoperable IOT deployments.

Dr. Phil Beecher
President and CEO, Wi-SUN Alliance
Phil Beecher is the president of the Wi-SUN Alliance, an industry organization which promotes standards-based interoperable wireless communications products for Smart Utility Networks, Smart City and Internet of Things applications and implements a rigorous testing and certification program to achieve its aims.
Phil has extensive experience in wireless communications protocols, standards and testing. He was chairman of IEEE 802.15 TG4g, TG4u and TG4v(wireless standards for Smart Utility Networks for use globally), vice chairman of IEEE 802.15 TG4m (TV Whitespace), vice chairman of the WiFi Alliance Smart Grid Task Group, Chairman of OpenSG Edge Conformity Task Group, Contributing Editor to IEEE802.15.4-2006 and has held positions in the US Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) Test and Certification Committee, Telecom Industry Association and Bluetooth SIG.He has been an active contributor in the development of communications standards and the specification of test plans for a number of Smart Utility Network standards, including Advanced Metering Infrastructure and Home Energy Management Systems.
He is a graduate of the University of Sussex with a degree in Electronic Engineering and holds patents in communications and networking technology.
  • Date Jan. 24 (Thu), 2019, 14:20~16:20
  • Venue Yong Pyong Resort Tower Condominium, Crystal Room (1F)
Introduction to LoRaWAN Technology and Programming

Due to rapid development of electronics technology, 20 billion IoT devices are expected to be deployed by 2020. To connect such tremendous amounts of devices, several low power wide area (several Km range) networking technologies have been developed, one of them being LoRa radio and LoRaWAN network. The key advantages of this technology are as follows. (i) Its operating frequencies and network technology are open, and thus, anyone can deploy and use, which means that users do not have to rely on a specific vendor/provider. (ii) A gateway can cover a few kilometers radius and 10,000 of sensors. (iii) It offers more downlink options. (iv) It entails strong security methods.
In this session, we will cover and explain the followings: (i) basic LoRaWAN technology, (ii) LoRaWAN stack software packages, (iii) LoRa module programming, and (iv) various methods to connect to cloud services.

John J. Lee received his BS degree from Kyungpook National University, Korea. Between 1986 and 2000, he was a Senior Researcher for the Agency for Defense Development in Korea, where he was involved in the development of several guided missiles. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003 and in 2004, respectively. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in 2005. He has published 7 SCI-indexed and 9 SCIE-indexed journals among others. His research interests include Internet of Things (IoT), high-performance computing, novel hardware-oriented, FPGA-assisted, or GPU-based parallel acceleration of algorithms and applications.
English Tutorials
  • Date Jan. 23 (Wed), 2019, 14:20~15:50
  • Venue Yong Pyong Resort Tower Condominium, Crystal Room (1F)
Tutorial on 3GPP New Radio (NR) Technology for 5G

5G New Radio (NR) is a new part of unified radio air interface that has been developed for 5G mobile communications. 5G NR deals with modulation, waveforms, and access technologies that will enable the system to meet the requirements of peak data rate at 20Gbps with enhanced bandwidth efficiency, while supporting ultra-reliable low latency communication with 1ms radio latency. It works on the wide range of frequency band below 6GHz and above 6GHz. For the frequency range of the above 6GHz, e.g., 28GHz band, a beam-based air interface is essential for dealing with significantly higher path and penetration loss, while exploiting a large number of antenna elements to boost up the bandwidth efficiency. The main theme of this tutorial will present the 5G system overview and cover some physical layer aspects of NR specification. It is aimed at those who want to understand how 3GPP NR is different from LTE, but already have learned the basics of wireless and mobile communication systems, e.g., digital modulation and cellular system architecture.

Prof. Chung G. Kang
(School of Electrical Engineering Korea University)

  • 2005.01 – 2018.02: Chair, Mobile Communication Technical Society/President & Member of the Board of Directors, Korean Institute of Communications & Information Sciences
  • 2018.02: Chair, Wireless Technology Committee, 5G Forum
  • 2013.09: Chair/Vice Chair, IMT-WiBro/PG906 Project Group, TTA
  • Date Jan. 23 (Wed), 2019, 15:50~16:30
  • Venue Yong Pyong Resort Tower Condominium, Crystal Room (1F)
5G Vertical Services View

5G eMBB service will be launched soon. After eMBB, it will be followed by 5G vertical services. Explaining the views of 5G Vertical Services, we can review the various services of 5G.

Michael Park
Director, Technical Standards
QSIO Korea
1998 Ph.D., KAIST, Korea
1999 Communication Lab., Samsung Electronics, Korea
2005 Standard team, Qualcomm, Korea