The Core Network for 5G Advanced

About Catherine MulliganLars FridMagnus OlssonPeter HedmanShabnam SultanaStefan Rommer

Stefan Rommer is a Senior Specialist at Ericsson in Gothenburg Sweden. Since joining Ericsson in 2001 he has worked with different areas of telecommunications primarily with packet core network standardization and development. He has been involved in 5G standardization from the start and participated actively in 3GPP for several years. Stefan holds an M.Sc. in engineering physics and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics both from Chalmers University of Technology Sweden. Dr Cathy Mulligan is a Visiting Researcher at Imperial College and was a founding Co-Director of the ICL Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering. She is also a Senior Research Associate at University College where she is Chief Technology Officer of the GovTech Lab and DataNet which focuses on the potential and application of blockchain AI and advanced communications technologies as a foundational part of the worlds economy. Cathy is an expert and fellow of the World Economic Forums Blockchain council and has recently become a member of the United Nations Secretary Generals High Level Panel on Digital Co-Operation. She holds a PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge and is the author of several books on telecommunications including EPC and IoT. Peter Hedman joined Ericsson in 2000 after previously working for the company for five years as a consultant within different areas such as Intelligent Networks and GSM/NMT Gateway development. Since joining Ericsson he has been attending 3GPP SA WG2 contributing to the standardization of e.g. GPRS EPS IMS WiFi-3GPP access interactions M2M/IoT and 5GS. His current focus is 5G standardization and he is rapporteur for the 5G System procedures specification specified by 3GPP SA WG2. He received his Master's in Computer Science from Lund Institute of Technology.” Magnus Olsson is an expert in system architecture and standardization at Ericsson. He has worked with the overall mobile network architecture since joining Ericsson in 1995 and has over 10 years of experience in the standardization of mobile systems. He served as the chairman of 3GPP TSG SA WG2 (Architecture Working Group) for four years and has contributed to numerous specifications within this forum. He has been involved in driving the System Architecture Evolution (SAE) work item since its inception within 3GPP. He holds an MSc in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Linköping Institute of Technology. Lars Frid is a Director of Strategic Product Management of 5G Core Networks at Ericsson currently based in Stockholm Sweden. He has over 25 years of experience of working with wireless data communications in Sweden and in Silicon Valley California US. His area of work has covered global standards and technologies for 2G 3G and 4G mobile data communications as well as IP routing satellite systems and dedicated mobile data systems for industries and enterprises.His current priorities is to drive product strategies for 5G systems with a specific focus on business modelling and business development in relation to 5G network architectures and capabilities.Lars holds several patents in mobile communications and is the co-author of two books. He has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from studies at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg Sweden and Imperial College of Science Technology & Medicine in London UK. Shabnam Sultana is an expert in standardization architecture at Ericsson. She has worked with the overall mobile network architecture since joining Ericsson in 1993 and has over 15 years of experience in the standardization of mobile systems. She has worked in the areas of North American Systems and associated Standards prior to joining 3GPP. She has been involved in driving the IP Multimedia System (IMS) and System Architecture Evolution (SAE) work since their inception within 3GPP. She holds an Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University Montreal Canada.