This talk will present the Sony view on 5G use cases and the specific technology areas related to the use cases. In particular it will describe 5G mmWave new radio, massive MIMO, massive Machine Type Communication domains and Sony contributions to 5G standardisation. Highlights from prototyping concepts and demos shown at the latest Mobile World Congress will also be presented.
Peter Karlsson received his Ph.D. in applied Electronics at Lund Institute of Technology in 1995 with a thesis on indoor radio wave propagation. He joined Telia Research and had different research and management positions in the wireless and mobile communications systems area. In 2000 Peter had a one year post-doc and research fellow position in the Center for Communications Research at the University of Bristol. Peter joined Sony Ericsson corporate technology office 2007 and was leading the network Technology Lab in the new Sony Mobile organisation in 2012. He is now head of the Research and Standardisation department at Sony Mobile in Lund, focusing on 5G radio access, system architecture and AI research. Peter has written and co-authored some 75 conference and journal papers in the mobile and wireless communications area.