General report on two day workshop on

5G Network Technology

Date: 24-25/11/2019

Venue: Avicenna E-learning Center / SUE

This Two-day Workshop has been hold at Avicenna E-learning Center in cooperation with IT Unit of International Tshik University, from 24-25/11/2019, for the following Colleges at Salahaddin University (Science, Education, Basic Education, Agriculture and Economics and Administration). Over the past decade the use of computers and new technologies has become an important aspect of teaching and learning. They have enabled the teaching community to redefine some of the strategies and concepts of teaching and learning. This has been done in terms of enriching classroom activities, reorganizing course structures, and providing learners with more autonomous as well as more learner-centered opportunities for learning.

Abstract and Objectives

Technologies for 5G and future generations of connectivity, when deployed in the 2020s, will provide higher bandwidth and lower latency than current generation 4G technology. “5G and beyond” will enable bandwidth in excess of 100s of Megabits per second (Mb/s) with latency of less than 1 millisecond (MS), as well as provide connectivity to billions of devices. Most importantly, these technologies are expected to enable fundamentally new applications that will transform the way humanity lives, works and engages with its environment. The members and societies recognize the disruptive nature of technologies enabling the 5G and beyond vision, as well as the substantial technical barriers to its realization.

Introduction

A 5G network is a collection of microprocessors that rapidly send packets of data among themselves. At the “edge” of the network, devices including smartphones, cars, and robots will send and receive data over radio waves at 5G frequencies by connecting to a new generation of small-cell radio units that form the radio access network (RAN). The new technology “will move us closer to everything, everywhere and at all times, and enable inter-working of different technologies and networks.

Advantages

5G networks will support at least three different major functions. These are (1) enhanced mobile broadband, which will enable faster download speeds for consumers; (2) ultra-reliable low-latency communication, designed for autonomous vehicles and other applications requiring no gaps in communication; and (3) massive machine-to-machine communications, or the Internet of Things (IoT).

“Integration of satellites in 5G networks will allow for new applications in domains such as agriculture, health and emergency response for communities living in rural areas,” 

Disadvantages

On the other hand, some disadvantages can be summarized as follow:

1. A lack of personal contact, that is particularly true for language teaching,
2. Problems with technology, time-consuming and demanding for creation and preparation,  
3. Higher price for students accessing on-line courses from outside, sometimes inconclusiveness of feedback,  
4. Absence of emotions which need to be vented.

Risk and Safety

5G will promote cell phone use, and therefore human exposures from phones and base stations. The higher frequencies will concentrate the radiation in a smaller portion of the human body.

In 2011, WHO’S International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reviewed several studies that detailed the effects of a wide range of RF-EMF radiations (from 30 kilohertz to 300 gigahertz) on humans as well as rats, and concluded that the radiations are “possibly carcinogenic to humans”.

The Dangers of 5G 

Thousands of studies link low-level wireless radio frequency radiation exposures to a long list of adverse biological effects, including:

1. DNA single and double strand breaks
2. Oxidative damage
3. Disruption of cell metabolism
4. Increased blood brain barrier permeability
5. Melatonin reduction
6. Disruption to brain glucose metabolism
7. Generation of stress proteins

World-Wide Worry

To raise the concerns, on March 5, 230 health experts and scientists from 40 countries demanded the Nordic countries to put a hold on 5G till the “potential hazards of acute and long-time health effects of exposure to 5G have been fully investigated by industry-independent scientists”. Earlier in September 2017, as many as 180 researchers from 36 countries, including India, urged the EU to set up an independent task force to assess the impact of 5G on human health. In 2015, US scientists made an appeal to the UN secretary general, WHO and all UN member nations to deploy 5G only after assessing its health impacts.

Some scientists suggest designing networks based on less harmful fiber optic cables. “These can be 20,000,000 times faster than 5G,” 

In conclusion

 One can say that technology can improve the learning environment and enhance the learning process if students are perceived as unique individuals with their specific needs, interests and different learning styles. Then technology can open the door for self-paced, individualized instruction and student-centered learning. It might create opportunities to access worldwide information resources and develop knowledge within new contexts.  Technology can be a road to the world that can offer opportunity occur anywhere, at any time, or for anyone.

Recommendation

The following are our recommendation on the 5G Technology workshop, which has been hold at AVC e-learning Center for the period of two days from 24-25/11/2019, which can be summarized as follows:

To follow what’s new in technology in the field of technical information and communication in the 21^st century, to transfer this technology to all Colleges at Salahaddin University and other Universities in Kurdistan region

To urge doing scientific research together as a scientific team at parallel colleges on this technology

To follow up the effect of positive and negative 5G internet

To ask for and suggest from the Kurdistan Government for the necessity of the kind of technology and

Achieving different seminars and activities on this scientific technique in different colleges, after finishing this workshop at Avicenna E-learning Center

This workshop is going to be the first workshop, which has been hold at Avicenna E-learning Center, in cooperation with IT Unit at International Tshik University, which is going to be part of the sequence of the workshop specialized in the field of 5th generation internet along with its application

To inform the communication ministry in Kurdistan region and to encourage them, to open different workshops for their staff, in order to develop their skills and experience for this new technology and communication

To establish specialized research center for 5th generation and its application in the field of (tele communication, industry, health, economic, etc.) 

This Center, which is going to be established to serve Postgraduate students for the engineering, science and mathematics in our region

Opening different intensive training courses for the uses and application 5th generation internet, for the Kurdistan society

Cooperation with the telecommunication companies in Kurdistan region in Iraq (Korek telecom, Newroz telecom, Zain Iraq, Asia Cell, Iraq Cell and Fastlink), in order to make different workshop and training for transformation for the trainers

Dr. Ismail Musa Murad                Dr. Qaysar Salih Mehdi

AVC e-learning Center SUE         IT unit Tishik International University

 

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ناوى ماموستایانى به‌شداربوون له‌دوو ڕۆژ ۆرك شۆپ (5G Technology (24-25/11/2019

 

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Tentative Agenda 

Date &Time	Presentation Title	Speaker
Sunday ,Nov.24,2019  ………………………………                       11:00-11:15     11:15-12:00     12:00-12:15   12:15-13:00       Monday,Nov,25,2019   11:00-11:45   11:45-12:00   12:00-12:45	Registration Speech Welcome      An overview on 5 G technology Technology     Coffee Break     5G Wireless Technologies challenges    Challenges & innovations          5G Softwarization &Visualization   Coffee Break     5G  Environmental Science & Risk,advantages & Disadvantages	Assit.Prof.Dr. Ismail M.Murad   Prof.Dr.Qaysar Salh Mehdi     Assit.Prof.Dr. Ismail M.Murad         Assit.Prof.Dr. Ismail M.Murad           Prof.Dr.Qaysar Salh Mehdi       Assit.Prof.Dr. Ismail M.Murad