Solid State Circuits Society

January 18, 2007

Our speaker was   Dr. Willie Lu (Executive Director of USCWC), and the topic of his presentation was ” Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) – Defining 4G mobile phone technologies. “

Abstract

The wireless industry is rapidly transitioning from proprietary architecture to more flexible, cost effective open wireless architecture (OWA) systems. This transition is creating interesting challenges for developers, manufacturers, integrators, operators and end-users as they wrestle with complexities of open wireless systems. Fourth Generation (4G) Mobile Communications should not focus only on the data-rate increase and new air interface. 4G Mobile should instead converge the advanced wireless mobile communications and high-speed wireless access systems into an Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) platform which becomes the core of this emerging next generation mobile technology. Based on this OWA model, 4G mobile will deliver the best business cases to the wireless and mobile industries, i.e. cdma2000/ WLAN/ GPRS 3-in-1 product, TD-SCDMA/WIMAX/WLAN 3-in-1 product, etc. Any single-architecture wireless system, including single 3G, HSDPA, WiMax, etc., is a transitional solution only, and will be replaced by open wireless architecture (OWA) system very soon where various different wireless standards can be integrated and converged on this open platform. OWA defines the open interfaces in wireless networks and systems, including base-band signal processing parts, RF parts, networking parts, and OS and application parts, so that the system can support different industrial standards and integrate the various wireless networks into an open broadband platform. For comparison, Software Defined Radio (SDR) is only a radio in which the preset operating parameters including inter alia frequency range, modulation type, and/or output power limitations can be re-set or altered by software. Therefore, SDR is just one of the implemental modules of the OWA system. In this talk, Prof. Lu will discuss his invested OWA technology and strategy for the global 4G mobile industry focusing on China market and US market.
BiographyProf. Willie W. Lu is a chairman of Fourth Generation Mobile Forum® (4GMF®), a director of U.S. Center for Wireless Communications (USCWC®), and a special advisor on emerging technologies and strategies in several China information and communications authorities. Prof. Lu was member of Technological Advisory Council of U.S. Federal Communications Commission (US FCC-TAC), and a principal architect and vice president of Infineon Technologies (Siemens Semiconduct). He is also an internationally very well recognized and accredited senior expert in emerging wireless technologies and has been a senior technical advisor for 22 wireless communication authorities in more than 10 countries. He is an independent technical examiner for lots of high-tech venture capitals in the United States, Europe, Asia, and other places, and is listed in major Who’s Whos in the world. He has guest edited around 50 special issues on emerging wireless communications in IEEE, IEICE, ACM and other major publications, and has had over 150 papers published in major professional publications. Prof. Lu is member of the editorial board of IEEE Spectrum, the flag of IEEE. He has been technical program chairman of numerous primary IEEE conferences including GLOBECOM’03, WCNC’02, VTC’03, and WWC’00-06, and wireless feature editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (former J-SAC Wireless), and others. He is a frequent keynote and featured speaker at lots of global technical fora, and a prominent wireless pioneer on the worldwide basis. He is a senior member of IEEE, ACM, IEICE, CIC, CIE and Sigma Xi, and an adjunct professor at many world-class universities in the world. Willie is also the founding chairman of the prestigious World Wireless Congress ® in USA and Global Mobile Congress ® in China, and has been a very distinguished and notable Chinese wireless expert overseas by various Chinese authorities since 1996. More information on Prof. Lu is available at: http://people.itu.int/~wlu

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