Message from the TPC Chairs

LANMAN 2020 features a central theme chosen to illustrate some of the key challenges facing networks today. This year’s theme of “Ultra-Broadband Wireless Networks: 5G and Beyond” emphasizes emerging communication technologies such as mmWave and THz communications, that offer a tremendous opportunity for unprecedented data rates and low latency. At the same time, they raise numerous challenges–such as positioning, localization, intermittency–that impact networking, communication, and hardware design, often requiring cross-layer approaches to solve them. We have selected a program that broadly reflects this theme, its key challenges, and broader topics in networking.