Title: Driving Advanced Wireless Technology Evolution towards 6G
Abstract: 6G is being designed to bring technical innovations enabling new user experiences that range from immersive communications to mobile Augmented Reality and smarter AI-enabled applications. With a focus on ubiquitous connectivity, 6G innovation will be driven by key technology vectors such as AI-native wireless end-end design and the continued digital-physical convergence. The transition to 6G offers a unique opportunity across network architecture and radio access for improved efficiency, scalability, and agility in delivering services. A primary design goal of 6G is to enhance spectrum efficiency in existing FDD and TDD bands while ensuring new deployments in the upper mid-bands will deliver coverage and capacity for both uplink and downlink. Novel physical layer techniques such as probabilistic amplitude shaping have been considered to further close the gap to Shannon capacity. Please join this keynote to learn more about our vision and the key enabling technologies for 6G.
Biography: Dr. Xu is the Vice President of Engineering, Head of Qualcomm Research China and IEEE Fellow. Since 2003, he has been working at Qualcomm R&D, where he has led many research and standardization projects from 3G to 5G. His current research focus is 6G, AI and robotics. Prior to Qualcomm, he worked at Bell Lab’s Wireless Communication Research Lab. In 2003, he received the Bell-Labs President Gold Metal Award for his contributions to MIMO technology, including the early near field MIMO research.
Dr. Xu has 870+ US issued patents, numerous journal publications and over 22000 citations. In 2018, he received the Top Ten 5G Leading Figures Awards in China. He also won numerous industry awards for various 5G trials. He is currently the Director of IEEE Communications Society Standards Development Board, and serves on Award Technical Committee, Industry Advisory Board, Emerging Technology Board, and Industry Communities Board. He is also on the technical advisory board for HKUST ECE department.
Dr. Xu received his B.S and M.S. from Moscow Power Engineering Institute and Technical University, Russia, in 1994 and 1996. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2000. During his Ph.D., he pioneered the millimeter-wave propagation research at 38 GHz and 60 GHz with Dr. Rappaport. In 1999, he received the IEEE Communications Society Steve Rice Award.