December 2016 Vol. 14 No. 12122016

https://www.ntt-review.jp/archive/2016/201612.html

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Hiroyasu Asami, Senior Executive Vice President, NTT
DOCOMO

Feature Articles
2020 Showcase
2020 Showcase—Providing Japan and the Rest of theWorld with State-of-the-art Technology for 2020
2020 Airport/Station—Hospitality for Foreign Visitors at
Airports and Train Stations
2020 Town—Web Design Converter for Providing
Guidance Assistance to Individuals in Cities
2020 Town—Developing MACHINAKA Service, a Device
Integration Service that Utilizes Artificial Intelligence
Technology
2020 Public Viewing—Kirari! Immersive Telepresence
Technology
2020 Entertainment—A New Form of Hospitality
Achieved with Entertainment × ICT
2020 MICE—New Hospitality through Exhibitions × ICT
Promotion of Co-innovation through Collaboration withDifferent Business Sectors

Regular Articles
Milagro Multi-Factor Authentication
Path Loss Models for Wireless Access Network Systems Using High Frequency Bands

Global Standardization Activities
Report on Apache Big Data North America 2016 and Spark Summit 2016

Short Reports
Deployment of NTT’s Open Source Software GoBGP in INTERNET MULTIFEED’s JPNAP
Service Achieves Automation of Operation and Vast Improvement in Efficiency

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Hiroyasu Asami,Senior Executive Vice President, NTT DOCOMO▼Overview

Feature phones and smartphones have become an indispensable part of our lives.
How can NTT DOCOMO, a company that has a strong connection with its customers,
seize the opportunities to leap forward into the society of the future? We sat down with
Hiroyasu Asami, Senior Executive Vice President, to learn about the present role ofNTT DOCOMO and its strategies for business expansion, and to hear about a work
philosophy that is essential for making predictions about the future.

Feature Articles
2020 Showcase

2020 Showcase—Providing Japan and the Rest of the World
with State-of-the-art Technology for 2020

▼Abstract

The international sporting events that will be held in Tokyo in the year 2020
will be seen as a great opportunity to showcase our new innovations toJapan and the rest of the world. The Feature Articles in this issue focus on
the 2020 Showcase—a trial held by NTT Service Evolution Laboratories tointroduce the new technologies we are developing in preparation for 2020
and to accelerate the introduction of these technologies into society. We will
also introduce some of the business aspects of this initiative.

Regular Articles

Milagro Multi-Factor Authentication▼Abstract
Apache Milagro (incubating) is an open source project to establish open
source software (OSS) for cloud computing. A system designer can choose
the M-Pin Authentication Protocol (M-PIN) or the extended M-Pin
Authentication Protocol (e-M-PIN) in Milagro Multi-Factor Authentication(Milagro-MFA), which is an authentication system in Apache Milagro(incubating). Additionally, e-M-PIN is a non-interactive protocol and iscompatible with password-based Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
authentication methods such as Basic and Digest Access Authentication since password-based HTTP
authentication is also non-interactive. Thus, an authentication system that uses password-based HTTP
authentication can be easily migrated to e-M-PIN. We presented e-M-PIN at ApacheCon North America heldin May 2016 as a contribution for the OSS community.

Path Loss Models for Wireless Access Network Systems
Using High Frequency Bands▼Abstract
To design coverage areas for wireless communication systems and evaluate
the performance of the systems, it is necessary to develop a path loss modelthat can be used for the systems’ frequency bands. The fifth-generation
mobile communication system (5G) is expected to use high frequency bands
above 6 GHz. Therefore, developing a path loss model for wireless access
communication systems using high frequency bands has become a pressing
issue. NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories has developed
path loss models for the 20–40 GHz bands that are suitable for use scenarios of mobile phones and wireless
local area networks. This article introduces the developed models.