ORGANIZERS:
Stefan Dahlfort (Ericsson)
Philippe Chanclou (Orange)
Xiaodan Pang (KTH)

ABSTRACT:
Optics plays an increasingly critical role in enabling all the vital mobile broadband applications and services of our modern society. The 5th generation mobile systems (5G) first wave of global roll-out has surpassed all previous generations and continues in 2nd and 3rd waves. Being forward-looking towards the 6th generation (6G) mobile systems, ITU-R has released a new Recommendation ITU-R M.2160 on the “IMT-2030 Framework”. The industry is actively investigating optical solutions to enable this very advanced 6G vision. At the same time, the mobile optics industry is developing new solutions for open cloud RAN.
Mobile optics is characterized by the specific requirements for mobile networks, including high temperature, tight sync, long life spans, and small formfactors. All this must be achieved at very low cost not to impair global mobile systems roll-outs.
The workshop will include relevant results from industry efforts and standardization bodies including MOPA, ITU-T, IEEE, IOWN, ORAN and SNIA SFF.
The focus of the 2024 workshop will be talks from operators, academia, module and systems vendors on the new developments for mobile optics, especially regarding (but not limited to) new operator requirements towards 6G and open cloud RAN. Specific topics will include new findings specific to mobile optical deployment cases regarding 100G/200G optics for re-timed and half/full linear modes in SFP formfactors, coherent vs IM-DD, optical solutions for cloud RAN and advances in solutions for very tight sync/latency. Each of the workshop’s three parts, Operators, Vendors and Academia, will be concluded by panel Q&As with the speakers allowing the workshop participants to be part of open discussions of the most interesting and relevant topics.

The organization of this workshop is supported by the Mobile Optical Pluggable Alliance (https://mopa-alliance.org/).

AGENDA:
Session 1
Operators - Organizer Philippe Chanclou (Orange)
- Kenji Miyamoto (NTT), Optical-Wireless Cooperative Control with eCTI toward Beyond 5G and 6G
- Hongseok Shin (SK Telecom)
- Philippe Chanclou (Orange)
Operator Q&A panel
- Vendors - Organizer Stefan Dahlfort (Ericsson)
- Kenneth Jackson (Sumitomo Electric), 100G optics for 6G

Session 2
Vendors cont'd
- Antonio Tartaglia (Ericsson), Optical solutions for open cloud RAN,
- Francois Fredricx (Nokia), Implementation considerations for tight sync; caveats and solution paths
Academia - Organizer Xiaodan Pang (KTH)
- Armands Ostrovskis (Riga Technical University and Keysight Technologies), High symbol rate transmissions with SiP modulators
- David Plant (McGill University), SiP coherent modulators for energy-efficient metro/access networks
Vendor and Academia Q&A panel