2. Challenges and Opportunities in 5G Deployments
Prepared for IEEE ComSoc SCV, March 13th 2019
David Witkowski, Executive Director, Wireless Communications Initiative

3. My Bio
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering UC Davis, focus on wireless & RF)
CEO & Founder, Oku Solutions LLC
Joint Venture Silicon Valley
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NIST GCTC Wireless (Co-Chair)
CA Emerging Tech Fund (Advisor)
Sr. Member: IEEE, RCA

4. Mobile Data Data in North Amer. Usage per Phone 1.3 EB/month in 2015
3.7 GB/month in 2015
22 GB/month in 2021
(Per Cisco VNI, Ericsson Mobility Report, Mobile Experts LLC, etc.)

5. Wireless-Only CDC Wireless Substitution (Bi-annual, June 2018)
48 million children live in wireless-only households.
Renters: 74.4%
Poverty: 67.1%
Hispanic: 69.1%
Ages 25-34: 77.3%
Ages 35-44: 65.7%

6. Wireless-Only NTIA Census Analysis Wireless by Income
McHenry, 2016
Wireless by Income
< $25k : 29%
$25k - < $50k : 24%
Smartphone-only Users
14% in CA (per Field Poll, 2016)
< $22k : 25%

7. Not a Luxury or Toy

8. Basic Requirements of 21st Century Life

9. Data Coverage

10. Data Speeds

11. The Promise of 5G

12. The Challenges of Deployment

13. The Challenges of Deployment

14. Muni Challenges Realize a “market rate” for use of public property.
Need to protect aesthetics & respond to resident concerns.
Lack of technical expertise on staff.

15. Telecom Challenges
Increasingly resistant and well-organized resident groups.
Non-standardized negotiation profiles and rates.
What is “market rate”?

16. Spectrum-nomics To increase information: Add more spectrum ($$)
𝐼𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛=
𝑅𝐹 𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑚 ∗ log 𝑛 𝑆𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑁𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑒
Shannon-Hartley Information Theorem
To increase information:
Add more spectrum ($$)
Reduce noise (hard to impossible given physics)
Improve/increase signal
Reduce users/area

17. Moving Forward Counter the EMF pseudoscience.
Human tissue does not demodulate. (Davis, UM)
Free-space path loss.
Counter the real estate myth.
Appraiser’s Journal survey vs. JVSV 2012 MLS study.

18. Moving Forward Carriers need better aesthetics.
Sizing (smaller = better)
Cooling (fans = bad)
Resiliency (emergency power)
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