Design principles for wireless broadband access systems (Jens Zander)

In the seminar we discuss the design principles for current and future wireless access systems, with particular focus on how to continue to scale up the capacity. The target is 1000-times more capacity by 2020 - at the same cost as today. We investigate the fundamental relationships between power/energy,  spectrum and infrastructure cost and how the design principles look like that reach the capacity target can be met within the resource limits.  We identify the "divided world"  with wide-area mobile access on one hand, ruled by conventional wisdom derived from cellular systems, and the very dense high-capacity short-range world, that will carry the vast majority of the traffic, but is abiding to very different design rules.

Reading;

Zander, J, Mähönen, P: Riding the Data Tsunami in the Cloud: Myths and Challenges in Future Wireless Access, Communications Magazine, 2013

Lecture slides