ICSA Colloquium Talk - 26/09/19

Talk Title: Towards an Open Mobile Network Ecosystem

Abstract: Deciding the make-up of mobile network systems have traditionally been the purview of a fairly closed ecosystem of equipment vendors and operators, and deployed systems till date are largely a composition of proprietary blackbox appliances. But as we head to 5G, mobile networks are undergoing a transformation driven my several factors. In this talk, I'll give my perspective on what is causing this transformation and highlight our key research contributions to this end, in particular our recent work focusing on the two important use cases of indoor and universal mobile access. I'll also briefly outline other strands of my research from the recent past.