This workshop explores novel concepts to allow for flexibly centralised radio access networks using cloud-processing based on open IT platforms, in coordination with network function virtualization technologies and MEC (Multi-Access Edge Computing), that are recognized as key enablers for the definition of future 5G systems. The aim is to allow for a guaranteed high quality of experience for mobile access to cloud-processing resources and services, and to allow a future network evolution focused on energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness. In fact, all future innovative network solutions will be conceived and deployed with a long term perspective of sustainability, both in terms of energy consumption of mobile network (and related interoperability with terminals) and cost efficiency of the different deployment and management options. This requires new concepts for the design, operation, and optimization of radio access networks, backhaul networks, operation and management algorithms, and architectural elements, tightly integrating mobile networks and cloud-processing. This workshop will cover technologies across PHY, MAC, and network layers, technologies which translate the cloud-paradigm to the radio access and backhaul network, and will analyse the network evolution from the energy efficiency perspective. It will study the requirements, constraints, and implications for mobile communication networks, and also potential relationship with the offered service, both from the academic and the industrial point of view.
We solicit original submissions in the following areas:
The workshop will be a full-day event and has the following programme agenda:
8:30 | Welcome and presentation by the workshop chair, Dario Sabella (Intel) |
9:00 | Keynote, Merging new cloud and air-interface capabilities to meet requirements of emerging use cases from verticals in 5G (Prof. Thomas Haustein, Head of Wireless Communications and Networks Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, HHI) |
9:30 | Paper #1: “Operating Systems for 5G services infrastructures“; A. Manzalini, TIM; F. Marino, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna |
10:00 | Coffee Break |
10:30 | Paper #2: “Energy-Efficient Beamforming and Time Allocation in Wireless Powered Communication Networks“; M. Fu, Shenzhen University; C. Guo, Shenzhen University; S. Zhang, Shenzhen University; D. Feng, Shenzhen University; G. Qian, Shenzhen University |
11:00 | Paper #3: “FFR Based Interference Coordination Scheme in the Next Generation WLAN“; P. Sun, Xidian University; R. Hou, Xidian University; X. Ma, Xidian University; H. Li, Xidian University |
11:30 | Paper #4: “Joint Transceiver Design in Full-Duplex MISO Wireless Powered Communication Networks with User Cooperation“; R. Cai, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT); L. Li, BUPT; Z. Wang, BUPT |
12:00 | Lunch Break |
13:00 | Keynote, MEC: Building a Bridge to 5G (Rui Frazao, CTO, Vasona Networks) |
13:30 | Paper #5: “Minimizing power consumption in virtualized cellular networks“; G. Nardini, University of Pisa; A. Virdis, University of Pisa; N. Iardella, University of Florence; A. Frangioni, University of Pisa; L. Galli, University of Pisa; G. Stea, University of Pisa |
14:00 | Paper #6: “A hierarchical MEC architecture: experimenting the RAVEN use case“; D. Sabella, Intel Deutschland GmbH; N. Nikaein, Eurecom; A. Huang, Eurecom; J. Xhembulla, Politecnico di Torino; G. Malnati, Politecnico di Torino; S. Scarpina, TIM. |
14:30 | Paper #7: “The ONE5G approach towards the challenges of multi-service operation in 5G systems“; F. Schaich, Nokia; M.-H. Hamon, Orange; M. Hunukumbure, Samsung Electronics UK; J. Lorca, Telefónica I+D; K. Pedersen, Nokia; M. Schubert, Huawei; E. Kosmatos, WINGS ICT solutions; G. Wunder, Freie Universitaet Berlin; K. Reaz, Freie Universitaet Berlin; |
15:00 | Coffee Break |
15:30 | Panel Discussion, MEC and V2X: the role of edge computing in Automotive use cases
Panelists: · Prof. Thomas Haustein, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, HHI · Rui Frazao, CTO, Vasona Networks · Leonardo Gomes Baltar, WG1 vice-chair in 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), Intel · Frank Schaich, One5G project coordinator, Nokia Bell Labs Moderator: Dario Sabella (Intel) |
16:30 | Wrap-Up & Closing by the Workshop Chair |
17:00 | End of the workshop |
Please download the Workshop Programme.
General Chairs
Dario Sabella (INTEL, Germany)
Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA LETI, France)
TPC co-chairs
Miquel Payaró (CTTC, Spain)
Sergio Barbarossa (Univ. La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
Panagiotis Demestichas (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Publicity co-chairs
Valerio Palestini (TIM, Telecom Italia Group)
Zdenek Becvar (CTU in Prague, Czech Republic)
Steering committee
Chuan Heng Foh (University of Surrey, IEEE ComSoc TCGCC, UK)
Antonio Manzalini (TIM, Telecom Italia group, Italy, GSMA MEC chair)
Jinsong Wu (Universidad de Chile, IEEE ComSoc TCGCC, Chile)
Alain Mourad, Interdigital, UK
Antonio De Domenico, CEA LETI, France
Antonio De La Oliva, UC3M, Spain
Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Carlos Donato, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Fabio Giust, NEC Eurolabs, Germany
Frank Schaich, Nokia, Germany
Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa, Italy
Hacene Fouchal, Université de Reims, France
Josep Vidal, UPC, Spain
Loreto Pescosolido, Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT-CNR), Italy
Marco Di Girolamo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Italy
Matthieu de Mari, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore
Miltiadis Filippou, INTEL, Germany
Muhammad Imran, University of Glasgow, UK
Nicola Di Pietro, CEA LETI, France
Panagiotis Vlacheas, WINGS ICT Solutions, Greece
Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, EWI, TUDelft, The Netherlands.
Tapio Rautio, VTT, Finland
Vincenzo Mancuso, IMDEA networks, Spain
Vincenzo Sciancalepore, NEC Eurolabs, Germany
Zdenek Becvar, CTU in Prague, Czech Republic
For more information on VTC18 please look here: www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2018spring/