Webinar: "5G and 6G mobile communications"
Mobile communications developed in the last decades from narrowband analog voice-oriented systems to very broadband digital systems for a wide range of services and applications. The first to the fourth generations of mobile communication systems were designed for communication purposes, mainly for human beings. The transmitted data volume via mobile communication systems has been growing exponentially for many years, while today the growth rate is declining.
5G systems provided a paradigm shift to support many vertical sectors in society and economy by additional communication purposes between machines and between humans and machines. This results in challenging requirements in terms of throughput, latency, capacity, reliability, connection density, energy efficiency, etc. Exemplary vertical application domains are factories, energy, health, automotive and media and entertainment. Autonomous driving is an important application domain. Studies predict a huge economic impact on the GDP by applying 5G in vertical sectors. 5G is integrating different communication systems, including non-terrestrial systems (satellite systems), to support full area coverage and the required high system capacity where needed. With respect to the challenging requirements, additional frequency spectrum, advanced antenna concepts and cloud technologies for the necessary computing power are applied.
Drivers for 6G are megatrends, including the digitalization of society and economy and advanced applications like the consumer, enterprise and industrial metaverse. Compared to 5G this requires even more challenging requirements, which are currently discussed and agreed at the global level in ITU-R (International Telecommunication Union – Radiocommunication Sector). It is bringing together the physical world (hardware systems), the digital world (software systems) and the human world. With increasing computing power in centralized and edge clouds and AI/ML (artificial intelligence / machine learning) algorithms the network intelligence is significantly increased for many new applications like digital twins and networks as a sensor. Terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks are integrated in the sense of three-dimensional networks including planes, drones, balloons, and satellite systems in different LEO (low earth), MEO (medium earth) and GEO (geostationary) orbits.
Research and development of these systems is supported in Europe by collaborative research programs for system concepts, the global regulatory process towards the identification of additional frequency spectrum in ITU WRCs (World Radiocommunication Conferences) and the global specification process in 3GPP. The first commercial deployment of 6G systems is expected around 2030.
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- Starts 25 February 2026 10:00 PM UTC
- Ends 25 March 2026 04:00 PM UTC
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Dr. Werner Mohr
Biography:
Werner Mohr graduated from the University of Hannover, Germany, with the Master's degree in electrical engineering in 1981 and with the Ph.D. degree in 1987.
Dr. Werner Mohr joined Siemens AG, Mobile Network Division in Munich, Germany in 1991. He was involved in several EU-funded projects and ETSI standardization groups on UMTS and systems beyond 3G. Werner Mohr coordinated several EU and Eureka-Celtic-funded projects on 3G (FRAMES project), LTE and IMT-Advanced radio interface (WINNER I, II and WINNER+ projects), which developed the basic concepts for future radio standards. Since April 2007, he was with Nokia Solutions and Networks (now Nokia) in Munich, Germany, where he was Head of Research Alliances. In addition, he was chairperson of the NetWorld2020 European Technology Platform until December 2016. Werner Mohr was Chair of the Board of the 5G Infrastructure Association in 5G PPP of the EU Commission from its launch until December 2016. He was chair of the "Wireless World Research Forum – WWRF" from its launch in August 2001 up to December 2003. He was a member of the board of ITG in VDE from 2006 to 2014. Werner Mohr is co-author of a book on "Third Generation Mobile Communication Systems", a book on "Radio Technologies and Concepts for IMT-Advanced" and a book “Mobile and Wireless Communications for IMT-Advanced and Beyond”. In December 2016, Werner Mohr received the IEEE Communications Society Award for Public Service in the Field of Telecommunications, and in November 2018, he received the VDE ITG Fellowship 2018. In May 2019, Werner Mohr received the WWRF Fellowship.
In March 2021, he retired from Nokia and is now active as a consultant (mainly for the 6G Infrastructure Association in the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking of the European Commission) and as a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
Currently, his research interests in the 6G context are on sub-Terahertz radio systems, radio propagation and RIS systems.