IEEE Winnipeg Waves Chapter (APS/MTTS/VTS) is pleased to present:
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Seminar Title: LTE on Unlicensed Band
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Speaker: Prof. Geoffrey Ye Li
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer—Vehicular Technology Society (VTS)
Professor, ECE Department, Georgia Tech.
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Date: Wednesday, Feb 22, 2017 at 11.15 AM
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Location: EITC E1-270 (Fort Garry Campus; Engineering Building)
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Abstract of the Presentation: Future 5G cellular networks are facing the challenging task on increasing their capacity dramatically. Despite some cutting-edge capacity-approaching techniques, the limited licensed spectrum is still a major bottleneck for capacity improvement. To tackle this issue, a new standard has been developed within 3GPP for LTE systems, currently on the licensed bands, to operate on the unlicensed bands, which is called LTE on unlicensed bands (LTE-U). LTE has many advanced techniques, which can be exploited in the unlicensed bands to achieve a high spectral efficiency. However, the unlicensed bands are currently occupied by the widely-deployed WiFi networks. The major challenge on LTE-U is how to design fair and efficient coexistence mechanisms between LTE and WiFi networks. In this talk, we will first discuss traditional traffic offloading, resource sharing, and hybrid of the both for LTE users to optimally exploit unlicensed bands while guaranteeing of the QoS of the existing WiFi users. To improve both the LTE and WiFi users simultaneously and achieve a win-win situation, we then provide a novel traffic offloading strategy, which is just opposite to the traditional one and offloads some WiFi users to the LTE networks and at the same time relinquishes some unlicensed bands to LTE-U. Since the unlicensed bands are usually operated less energy-efficiently than the licensed ones due to the higher carrier frequency of the unlicensed bands and larger pass-loss, we also present a framework for energy-efficiency (EE) optimization in LTE-U. We establish a criterion to determine whether the EE of the LTE system can be improved with the help of the unlicensed bands. Based on the criterion, we then develop a joint licensed and unlicensed resource allocation algorithm to maximize the EE of each LTE small cell base station.
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Biography of the Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey Li is a Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also holding a Cheung Kong Scholar title at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China since 2006. He was with AT&T Labs – Research for five years before joining Georgia Tech in 2000. His general research interests include wireless communications and statistical signal processing. In these areas, he has published over 300 referred journal and conference papers in addition to 26 granted patents. His publications have been cited by over 24,000 times and he has been listed as the World’s Most Influential Scientific Mind, also known as a Highly-Cited Researcher, by Thomson Reuters. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 2006. He received the Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award in 2010 and the WTC Wireless Recognition Award in 2013 from the IEEE Communications Society and the James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2013 and the Jack Neubauer Memorial Award in 2014 from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. Recently, he won 2015 Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech.
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