LTE World summit - Featuring NGMN Global forum 2008

A chance to get to know your peers before the start of the conference and set a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

• Recent developments and future roadmap
• Existing challenges and potential solutions
• How the IPR policy has been improved
• What are the latest timescales for LTE?
• How many releases will occur and over what timeframe?

• Examining how the market evolution is not necessarily on the same evolution line of technology
• How 'always on' connectivity using narrowband could bring more economic value in the long term
• Understanding the social community based on cell phones
• How femtocells can vastly increase the density of bandwidth, even more important than increasing peak bandwidth
• Future outlook: Focusing on the potential of seamless roaming on a variety ofwireless access mediums

• What are the limitations on service delivery imposed by the present core network?
• What is the appropriate role of network policy regarding service control in SAE?
• Potential solutions leading to an optimised system that supports multiple RATS

• Technology and market trends
• Wireless broadband in Japan
• Technologies behind LTE
• Evolution towards LTE SW and HW
• Operators' expectations from LTE and beyond
• Challenges for a successful LTE deployment
• Migration paths towards LTE and beyond

• Which frequency should be used and how can it be integrated into the existing network?
• Flexibility of LTE: Potential of using existing spectrum allocations
• Maintaining site locations
• Ensuring that the spectrum does not become fragmented
• Evaluating the barriers for spectrum allocation

• Motivation for moving towards flexible solutions
• Solving the flexibility versus power/cost challenge
• Using flexibility for better user experience

• How will the new handsets support the legacy system?
• How will new handsets support multiple standards?
• Which standard for which device type?
• Ensuring the cost and power consumption is acceptable

Coffee and Refreshments

• What does it bring to end-users? Benefits and challenges; usages, implications and business impact
• Which technology for which usage?
• What are users looking for?
• Challenges for the PC manufacturers and telco operators
• A technical perspective
• An offering/channel perspective

• Relationship between the LTE interface and the evolution of the core network
• How to ensure the interworking of multiple access networks under the same packet switched core network
• Overcoming the challenges of upgrading the entire system and ensuring the radio and core networks are interoperable
• What are the potential deployment scenarios?

• Understanding 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Service Architecture Evolution (SAE)
• How to generate revenue with LTE towards LTE services
• Understanding IMS as an overlay service platform
• IMS and access and core network interworking
• IMS provisioning over LTE
• Prototyping LTE core concepts within Fraunhofer FOKUS IMS playground

• Key drivers to develop the existing networks
• Lessons learnt from the current deployment of mobile broadband services
• Strategies to increase service provisioning and potential revenue models
• Why LTE could be a potential technology
• Why LTE and not WiMax?

• Developing a network infrastructure to support advanced wireless broadband services for all devices
• Enabling users to access enterprise and consumer services easily and cost effectively
• Results of trials and pilots
• How the network will improve the performance and operational costs of the 3G network

• Spectrum’s high impact on network costs
• Technologies improving use of spectrum
• LTE spectrum flexibility and efficiency advantages

• What are the challenges of creating an interoperable network?
• Examining the scope for compatibility with earlier releases
• Technical challenges of interworking different architectures
• Minimising the impact of LTE on existing networks

• Comparing the next generation mobile networks
• The race to market who will cross the line first?
• Faster speeds, more capacity, but what about the battery?
• What are the main hurdles?
• Spectrum
• Terminals
• Voice, the killer app
• Mobility
• Whatever you do make sure the business case works

• Will LTE have an increased drive on FMC?
• How to ensure the whole value chain benefits from LTE
• Is it possible to interwork different business models for LTE?
• Examining the impact of broadband on the wireless network

• Examining the growth in cellular data rates and capacities from GSM through LTE and beyond
• How has spectral efficiency been improving compared to data rates?
• Impact of spectrally efficient technology on system cost, complexity and deployment scenarios
• TX and RX diversity, interference cancellation, MIMO etc.
• Is adding more spectrum the answer?
• Can cellular keep pace with the growth in broadband wireless driven by the internet?
• Is there a practical limit to macro-cellular performance?
• Contrasting the attributes of macro-cellular and Hotspot environments
• Cellular and hotspot integration - a cost-effective and high-performance future?

• Examining the major challenges of LTE
• Multiple network operation
• Operation of a multi-standard NodeB
• Tracing
• Performance evaluation
• Reducing operational effort through self organising networks

• Technical challenges in LTE BS/UE development
• Testing first LTE implementations
• How to ease implementation of new radio access schemes, MIMO, LTE protocol stack, multimode functionality
• 3GPP test requirements

• What is the economic sense of investing in a new air interface?
• Benefits of a flat packet-based IP network
• What is the customer demand for new data services?
• What are the advantages over existing networks?

• What are the benefits of LTE for the end user?
• Enabling seamless connectivity
• How LTE could enable mobile broadband to be affordable for the mass market
• Ensuring the key requirements of customers are met:
• Always on
• Instant connection everywhere
• Multi-megabit throughput

• What is the expected return on CAPEX?
• How can OPEX be reduced?
• The role of architecture in delivering LTE performance
• How will LTE affect the current investments in HSDPA?

• What is the potential role for software defined radio?
• What are the implications for new processing requirements?
• How can integration and scalability be maximized?
• Strategies for reducing cost and TTM
• How to benefit from multi-core, reducing geometries, economies of scale?

• What will the backhaul network look like?
• What are the potential bottlenecks and how to overcome them
• Solutions for sharing the backhaul with many users
• Ensuring backhaul consolidation in the core network
• Optimisation techniques for backhaul protocols
• Integrating LTE with GSM and UMTS backhauls
• Creating a flexible transport network to ensure operators can manage QoS

• Utilising MIMO to increase throughput and coverage
• Understanding the complexity of MIMO for LTE and how it differs for W-LAN
• Benefits of MIMO based femto/pico-cell solutions
• Challenges of MIMO handsets for LTE