5G Cellular Networks
From 9AM to noon over 6 days: May 31, June 2, June 6 - 9, 2022
Instructors: Jon Peha, Tom Power, Chris Boyer, Charla Rath, Ken Budka, Jeff Reed, Nishith Tripathi, Travis Russell, Hongwei Zhang
This course will provide an overview of emerging 5G technologies and standards, the emerging ecosystem of equipment and service providers, and what all of this could mean for policymakers. It includes how 5G differs from previous generations, and the types of applications and uses that this new generation of technology will enable, and the implications for various sectors of the economy and society, such as agriculture, manufacturing, electric power grids, health care and public safety. It includes the business models for 5G operators, and the new industry structure that may result. It includes implications for spectrum policy, including the roles of low-band, mid-band and emerging high-band spectrum, and the roles of spectrum that is licensed exclusively and spectrum that is shared. It includes the challenges of deploying towers, small cells and backhaul, and issues faced by policymakers who regulate that deployment. It includes the security issues of 5G, and how they compare with previous generations. It includes a discussion of Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN), and the implications for competition among equipment vendors, security, integration, and price.
- This course is intended for people involved in the public policy and business issues of the next generation of cellular technology, including spectrum policy, trade policy, competition policy and cybersecurity policy.
- Upon completing the course, participants will have a greater understanding of a wide variety of opportunities and challenges associated with 5G, and its implications for policymakers.
- It is likely that most participants will come with some knowledge of the technical, business or regulatory issues of previous generations of cellular technology. However, because of the interdisciplinary nature of the material, it is not assumed that any individual participant will have detailed prior knowledge of cellular technology, business or policy.
Instructors
Chris Boyer is Vice President of Global Security and Technology Policy at AT&T Services, Inc., where he is responsible for the company's global policy positions related to cybersecurity, national security and technology policy. He is also Chair of the Open RAN Policy Coalition. Mr. Boyer has also served as AT&T’s point of contact to a security-focused advisory committee to the President of the U.S. called the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), as Chair of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, as chair of the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCSA), and currently on the Executive Committee of the Communications Sector Coordinating Council (CSCC) which conducts planning activities with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Dr. Ken Budka is the Lead of Bell Labs Consulting's Verticals, Enterprise & New Business Models Practice, connecting deep technology insights to the critical financial decisions faced by public safety agencies, governments, energy utilities, enterprises, and transportation authorities; helping public and private sector clients expand market reach and impact through the adoption of the latest technologies, strategic alignment with technology trends. He holds a Ph.D in Engineering Science from Harvard.
Dr. Jon Peha has served at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission as the Chief Technologist, in the White House as Assistant Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, in industry as Chief Technical Officer of three high-tech companies, in the U.S. Congress, and at USAID where he helped launch and then led a U.S. Government interagency program to assist developing countries with information infrastructure. He is now Head of Carnegie Mellon University's Executive Education Program in technology policy, and a Professor in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. He has received the FCC’s “Excellence in Engineering Award” for contributions to the U.S. National Broadband Plan, the IEEE ComSoc’s TCCN Publication Award for career contributions to spectrum management, and the Brown Engineering Medal. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the AAAS.
Tom Power is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Mr. Power previously served as the U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Telecommunications in the White House Office of Science and Technology, as Chief of Staff for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, United States Department of Commerce, and as General Counsel for Fiberlink Communications. From 1994 until 2000, Mr. Power served at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in several supervisory roles until named Senior Legal Adviser to FCC Chairman William Kennard, where he advised the chairman on broadband, common carrier and mass media matters. Prior to joining the FCC, Mr. Power was a telecommunications and litigation partner at Winston & Strawn.
Charla Rath is co-chair of the U.S. Department of Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC), and former Verizon Vice President for Wireless Policy Development. At Verizon, she was responsible for developing and managing the company’s public policy initiatives related to spectrum management, particularly focusing on alternative spectrum auction mechanisms and sources of spectrum for next generation wireless networks, including 5G. Prior to joining Verizon Wireless, she was Vice President of Strategic Affiliations for NextWave Telecom Inc. and Vice President of Freedom Technologies, Inc., a Washington, DC-based telecommunications consulting firm. She has also served as advisor to U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Alfred C. Sikes on common carrier and spectrum policy issues and as a primary specialist in spectrum and internet policy at the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Dr. Jeff Reed is the Willis G. Worcester Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech, and chief technical officer of the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Cyber Initiative. He is the founding director of Wireless@Virginia Tech, one of the largest and most comprehensive university wireless research groups in the U.S. In 2010, he founded Virginia Tech’s Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and Technology and served as its interim director. Dr. Reed has co-founded several companies, including Federated Wireless. He has served on the technical advisory boards for six companies and as an informal advisor on national policy regarding wireless issues, most notably serving on the President’s Council of Advisors in Science and Technology (PCAST) Working Group on how to transition federal spectrum for commercial economic benefits. In 2014, he was selected to be a member of CSMAC, the advisory group on spectrum issues for the U.S. Department of Commerce. Co-author of textbook on 5G.
Travis Russell is the Director of Cybersecurity for Oracle. He is the chair for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s Communications Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) working group 3, which is focused on security, and participates in a number of standards bodies and trade associations, including the GSMA, IETF, CTIA, ATIS. He has authored several technical books, and holds several patents and patents pending focusing on cyber security and fraud solutions.
Dr. Nishith Tripathi is a Research Associate Professor at Virginia Tech. He co-authored the cellular industry’s first-ever multimedia eBook on 5G with Jeff Reed, as well as a textbook on Cellular Communications that is used at leading universities worldwide. He served as the 5G Technical Lead at Award Solutions, where he led 5G initiatives on content development and content delivery. At Award Solutions, Dr. Tripathi developed content on 3G, 4G, and 5G cellular technologies and trained thousands of engineers and executives in the areas such as 5G, LTE-Advanced Pro (LTE-M/Cat-M, NB-IoT, LAA, and D2D/ProSe), LTE-Advanced, LTE, Radio and Core Networks, IMS, and RF Engineering.
Dr. Hongwei Zhang is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University where he leads the Dependable Networking and Computing research group. He also leads a project that has established a national testbed for long-term research known as ARA: the Wireless Living Lab for Smart and Connected Communities, which was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.