Jisc's Vision for 5G - Digital Catapult Future of 5G Summit

The Future of 5G: Jisc’sVisionDigital Catapult 5G Summit, November 2014

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Martin Hamilton [email protected]

Futurist @martin_hamilton

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1. About Jisc2. Glimpsing 5G 3. Applications4. Collaborations




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:: About Jisc :: What we do

» Registered charity championing the use of digital technologies in

research and education

» Range of shared services for UK Universities and Colleges, e.g.

- JANET, world leading research network

- Groundbreaking content deals with publishers

- Cloud brokerage with Amazon, Google, Microsoft

» Aiming to complement RCUK and Innovate UK / Catapults

- Open Educational Resources, Open Access and Open Data

- Just launched asset sharing initiative

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MissionTo enable people in higher education,

further education and skills in the UK

to perform at the forefront of

international practice by exploiting

fully the possibilities of modern digital

empowerment, content and

connectivity

Vision

To make the UK the most digitally advanced education and researchnation in the world

:: About Jisc :: Our vision for 2020

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:: About Jisc :: UK Education Market Sector

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:: About Jisc :: The Janet network

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:: Glimpsing 5G :: Aspirations

» From Samsung, China Mobile, Huawei etc:– 50Gbit/s peak– 1Gbit/s generally– Speeds up to 500km/hr– Millisecond latency

» Technology challenges:– mmWave based?– Massive MIMO arrays?

– Software defined networking / radios?– New generation of backplanes?

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:: Glimpsing 5G :: Aspirations

“METIS predicts that 5G networks will be at least 10 times faster, accessible in all conditions, efficient in handling very large numbers of devices, highly reliable and providing high levels of super real-time experience” – metis2020.com

metis2020.com

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:: Applications :: The three axes of 5G

» Bandwidth

– From streaming Despicable Me 5 in 8K

– …to smart sensors in street furniture

» Latency

– From Call of Duty 12 on HS2

– …to parcel tracking your next Amazon Drone delivery

» Massification

– From 90,000 FA Cup Vines

– …to a telepresence session with two V/C suites

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:: Applications :: Wearables?

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:: Applications :: Wearables?

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:: Applications :: Lifestyle?

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:: Applications:: Healthcare?

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:: Applications :: Conclusions

» A lot of the applications are known, but presently in the domain

of the research lab / early adopter / testbed

» Some don’t have critical mass yet

– e.g. wearables, connected home, sensor networks

» Many others are still at the R&D / prototype stage

– e.g. autonomous vehicles, white space networking

» Massification is the key

– Effect on bandwidth / throughput requirements

– Impact of latency on applications

– Regulatory regime, spectrum auction approach

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:: Collaborations :: Opportunities

» Leveraging public investment in the Janet network

– Connecting industry http://www.ja.net/janet-reach

– Where next - e.g. 10Gbit/s links to Science Parks?

– Testbeds for new technologies, e.g. UHD streaming from Tokyo

Olympics, Surrey 5G testbed, Catapult centres

» What should a one stop shop for equipment sharing between

academia and industry look like?

– Sample use case: model 1,000 antenna designs via HPC, then build first

physical prototype and wind tunnel test

– Standardised terms and conditions, trialling right now with HPC

brokerage. Equipment sharing database to aid matchmaking.

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:: Collaborations :: Asset sharing

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:: Collaborations :: Asset sharing

See http://www.jisc.ac.uk/research/projects/equipment-sharing

» Brokering industry access to £60m public investment in HPC

» Working with EPSRC to make details of 10,000 items of research

equipment available to industry


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