Howard Thomas
Howard Thomas is a Principal Scientist in the Chief Technology Office of Viavi Solutions. He is a telecommunications consultant with more than 30 years’ experience in the mobile radio business, including contributions on mobile radio propagation, the creation, design and 3GPP standardisation of features and systems, research and design of self-organising-network algorithms, and collaborative research programs including Horizon 2020 and the Mobile VCE. He is currently editor of the O-RAN Alliance’s Front-haul Interface Inter-operability Test Specification. In parallel with this, he has been involved in the creation, management and enforcement of intellectual property rights, including authoring more than 60 patents and acting as an expert witness to the Chancery Division of the High Court in London.