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Conference Agenda - Day 1 – March 26th, 2012
9:00 Opening Remarks - Small Cell Forum Chair
9:10 Official welcome from Dr.Teng Tien-lai, Director General of the Department of Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry of Transportation and Communications
9:25 HOST OPERATORS: Official Welcome and market overview from Chunghwa Telecom and Taiwan MobileMr. Mu Piao Shih, CTO & SVP, Chunghwa Telecom
Mr. Steve HS Wang, Acting CTO, Taiwan Mobile
9:40 Building on femtocell success: the future is smallSimon Saunders, Chairman, Small Cell Forum
10:05 HOST OPERATOR: How to intelligently offload mobile trafficTom Koh, VP of CTO Office, Taiwan Mobile
10:25 Coffee Break
10:45 Delivering tomorrow’s femtocell todayManish Singh, CTO, Radisys
11:05 The future of small cells – China Unicom’s perspective- Analysis of the requirements and scenarios for small cell deployment
- How to evolve from femtocell deployment to small cell
- Small cell prospects in LTE era
11.30 The answer is small cells - what's the question?
- Handling complexity in multi-layer, multi-standard HetNets
- IRAT mobility
- Managing the bottlenecks (data offload)
- Inter-layer IOT
- The fully flexible small cell architecture
11:50 Positioning femtocells as more than a plain coverage solution: technical considerations
- How to position femtocells as more than a pure vanilla coverage solution and create extra value for consumer when deploying
- Technical challenges associating Value Added Service/Apps with femtos
- Main technical considerations
12:15 NEC’s vision for small cellsKeita Ito, Programme Director, Wireless Broadband Business Development Office, NEC Corporation
12:35 Networking Lunch kindly sponsored by:
1:45 Deploying small cells at China Telecom- Why we need heterogeneous networks
- Overview of China Telecom’s heterogeneous network
- What China Telecom has accomplished so far
2:10 Meeting the demands of regional operators through converged femtocell services - 3G femto deployment experience and overcoming common technical issues
- Harmonisation of new small cells with the pre-existing macro-cell layer
- Mitigating QoS challenges in voice service through the development of software functions
2:35 Setting the direction for small cell regulation in Thailand
Jesada Sivaraks, Secretary to the Vice-Chairman (Telecoms sector), The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission of Thailand
2:55 PANEL: Operator strategies in mitigating the technical challenges encountered in small cell deployments- Review of successful case studies in femto- and picocell deployment
- Building a network apt for multiple technologies and settings
- Harmonisation and synchronisation strategies for different cells within a network
Confirmed Panelists include:
Mr. Timo Hyppola, Head of 3G Femto Product Management, Nokia Siemens Networks
Bill Chang, Chief Corporate Planning Officer, U Mobile Malaysia
3.30 Coffee Break
3:55 Market Outlook: Femtocells, Small Cells & WiFi - Market forecast: femtocell market
- Segment forecast: consumer, enterprise, public femto
- Market interaction with small cells and WiFi
- Highlights from recent operator surveys
4:15 Small cells as an extension of the networkYoshihito Shimazaki, Deputy Division Head, Softbank Corporation
4:40 Meeting the challenges of a mobile broadband age- Update on the mobile market in Taiwan
- Development of mobile broadband in Chunghwa Telecom
- Opportunities and challenges ahead
5:10 End of Conference Day 1
6.00pm Small Cells Asia Drinks Reception & Gala Dinner
Conference Agenda - Day 2 – March 27th, 2012
9:00 Development of Mobile Network in DOCOMO Hiroyuki Hosono - Radio Network Systems Group - Radio Access Network Development Department - NTT Docomo
9:25 New business opportunities with TD femtocells
Yihong Gu, Vice President, Suzhou Mobile
9:50 Carrier Grade -Test and integration challenges for small cells
- Different stacks, different partners
- Testing is key- Integration, network element and E2E
- Quality requirements grow with capacity
- OAM flexibility
10:10 Coffee Break
10:50 U Mobile’s progress towards small cell and femtocell commercial deployments- Femtocell field trial and pilot tests – process and evaluation metrics
- Learnings and conclusions from the pilot
- Next steps towards commercial and market launch in Malaysia
11:15 How to Rise above the data storm - delivering fastest and furthest reaching high capacity network- Data growth and OTT “squeezes” mobile operators
- Network Challenge
- Extending convergence and capacity
Alcatel-Lucent
11:35 Trialling Femtocells in 850MHz – True Mobile Thailand case study- Deployment strategies and solutions for key femtocell deployment challenges
- In-building coverage and providing services to remote areas as the main drivers for deployment
- Overcoming and mitigating handover and interference issues in Normal UTRAN Node B
12:00 Networking Lunch
1:00 Can advanced signal processing in Femto Access Point help increase system throughput?Jungtao Liu, CEO, Ablaze Wireless
1:20 Small cell deployment over broadband satellite: A solution for rural expansion, USO and disaster management - Address the Telco’s concerns on HTS technology for Small cell
- Business opportunity for satellite small cell solutions
- Deployment case studies in Japan, Thailand, China and India
Taksin Uppalakom, Director of Marketing, Thaicom
1:45 Growing the developer ecosystem for femtocells- Latest developments from the Femto Forum in definite APIs and specifications
- Use studies enabled by the Femto Services APIs
- Taking the next step: plans to roll out the APIs to the broader developer community
2:05 Update on small cell deployment – 2012Xin Jiang, Research and Development Officer, China Mobile
2:30 Coffee Break
3:00 Telkom Indonesia’s experience in femto development
- 3G market status and technical considerations
- Trial results and conclusions
- Looking ahead: femtocells for LTE and next generation networks
3:25 How intelligent small cells are transforming mobile networks and extending the cloud closer to mobile users- Driving down the cost and multiplying the capacity of mobile networks
- Adding comms-tuned computing power at the edge of the network
- Enabling new network and cloud application opportunities for operators
3:45 Interference mitigation for small cells- Handling interference, site pollution and handover challenges
- Ensuring QoS
- Dealing with interference in a densely populated area
4:10 PANEL: Small cells as part of an integrated operator’s network portfolio- Where does the network intelligence lie in traffic distribution?
- Prioritising data traffic through femtocells, pico, DAS or WiFi
- Optimisation of the network through different technologies
Richard Webb, Directing Analyst, Microwave and Small Cells, Infonetics
Confirmed panelists:
Anto Sihombing, Service Creation in Multimedia, Telkom Indonesia
Tom Koh, VP of CTO Office, Taiwan Mobile
Dong Wu, CTO, Bravo Tech Inc.
16:45 End of the 4th Annual Small Cells Asia Conference
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