IEEE 2018 Emerging Technologies Reliability Roundtable May 14, 2018 The Univ. of Texas Austin, Texas ETR-RT

2018 ETR-RT Speakers ETR-RT Chi-Ming Chen – AT&T Labs (In Alphabetical Order) James Dollar, Founder and VP – Products for Uplogix USA Pasi Hurri, Chief Executive Officer, BaseN Corporation, Finland Chih-Lin I, Chief Scientist, Wireless Technologies, China Mobile Research Institute, China James Kimery, Director of Marketing for  SDR and Wireless Research Initiatives, National Instruments, USA Dehan Li, Technical Expert of RAS Design, Huawei Technologies, China Jose de Francisco Lopez, Design Director, Nokia Software, USA David Lu, Vice President, D2 Platform and Systems Development, Technology Development, AT&T Services, Inc. USA Kathy Meier-Hellstern, Assistant Vice President, AT&T, USA Josh Miner, Vice President & GM, Land Mobile Business Unit, Iridium Communications , USA Imtiaz Shaikh, Verizon Wireless, USA Timothy Talty, GM Global Research & Development, USA ETR-RT Chair: Spilios Makris, Director, Palindrome Technologies, USA ETR-RT Advisor: Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T Labs, USA ETR-RT Moderator: Ray Bonelli, USA ETR-RT Chi-Ming Chen – AT&T Labs

2018 ETR-RT Agenda 8:30 am – 8:45 am Welcome and Introduction by Chair 8:45 am – 10:45 am Talks and Q&A David Lu, Chih-Lin I, Imtiaz Shaikh, James Kimery 10:45 am – 11:00 am Coffee Break 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Talks and Q&A Dehan Li, Bin Xie , Timothy Talty, James Dollar 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Talks & Discussion Kathy Meier-Hellstern, Pasi Hurri, Jose de Francisco Lopez 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm Coffee Break 3:45 pm – 4:55 pm Roundtable Discussion: Identify potential directions for resolving identified issues and propose possible solutions (All) 4:55 pm – 5:00 pm Wrap–up (Chair) EVENING EVENT (All are invited) 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm “ETR Thank You & CQR Welcome” Reception at the Hotel 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm “ETR Thank You & CQR Welcome” Dinner at the Hotel ETR-RT

Topics – Session 1 (Morning) (In Presentation Order ) David Lu – Perfect storm for software reliability Chih-Lin I – The ultra reliability of 5G Imtiaz Shaikh – 5G Network: Very flexible but complex James Kimery – Evolving 5G and the challenges ahead ETR-RT

Topics – Session 2 (Morning) (In Presentation Order ) Dehan Li – New challenges of ultra-reliability in 5G Bin Xie – L2 Wireless: Enabling low-latency high-reliability wireless for industry communication systems Timothy Talty– Automotive challenges for 5G, V2X and future telecom technologies James Dollar – Going beyond out-of-band ETR-RT

Topics – Session 3 (Afternoon) (In Presentation Order ) Kathy Meier-Hellstern – The carrier challenge – Achieving 5-9s on 3-9s cloud infrastructure Pasi Hurri – The Network is content Jose de Francisco Lopez –  A programmatic approach for an artificial code of conduct ETR-RT

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