5G-PPP

FANTASTIC-5G workshop on 5G new air interface @VTC Spring 2016
2016-05-15 07:00 - 11:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Unnamed Venue, Nanjing, China
FANTASTIC-5G is organising its 2nd annual VTC Sprint workshop on 5G new air interface on May 15, 2016 in Nanjing (China) during VTC Sprint 2016 (May 15-18).
The next generation (5G) cellular technology is expected to arrive in 2020. There are four trends indicating the need for a new generation of cellular technology including new air interface:
– The demand for wireless data is predicted to increase significantly, resulting in 1000x higher mobile data volumes and 10-100x higher end user data rates
– The number of connected devices is predicted to increase by a factor of 10-100, which means that up to 300,000 devices need to be served per access point
– Wireless connectivity will be applied to new use cases that require very reliable connections and mission-critical communication, such as vehicle-to-vehicle coordination, critical control of the power grid, etc.
– Remote presence and tactile Internet that impose stringent latency constraints on the overall connection, including the wireless part of it. Forecasts imply that the latency should be decreased for a factor of 5 in order to enable such services
The air interfaces for 2G, 3G, and 4G were all designed for specific use cases (limited only to to voice and data communications) with a certain number of limited KPIs in mind (throughput, capacity, dropped/blocked call rates etc.). However, as outlined above, 5G requires the support of a much broader class of services and consequently a very diverse family of devices and traffic characteristics.
The scope of the workshop is to contribute to the design of a new 5G air interface taking specifically the above application constraints into account. An important subject of the workshop is the feasibility of a single Golden Air Interface able to support these requirements in a highly flexible manner. New Air Interface solutions on PHY/MAC layer with respect to the following topics shall be addressed (but not limited to):
– Unified frame structure concepts
– Gigabit wireless connectivity
– Enabling scalable MTC for massive machine-type traffic
– Ensuring reliability in mission-critical communication and V2V coordination
– Transmission with very low delay
– Advanced waveform design such as UFMC, FBMC or any other competing approach including MIMO
– Advanced signal processing solutions such as compressed sensing for scalable MTC
– Low-complex massive MIMO solutions (TDD/FDD, pilot contamination, antenna correlations etc)
– Control signaling architecture for support of small cell architecture
– Interference management and co-channel interference mitigation
– Control signaling architecture for support of heterogeneous networks
– Advances in synchronization and channel estimation & equalization for multicarrier waveforms and wideband single-carrier transmission
– Peak to average power ratio (PAPR) reduction techniques, efficient techniques for out-of-band radiation reduction
– Relaying and range extension techniques
– New coding solutions for small resource blocks
– Cross-layer aspects such as coded random access for contention-based access vs scheduled access
– Regulatory and standardization aspects
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission : January 10th, 2016
Author Notification : February 10h, 2016
Final paper submission : March 10th, 2016
Workshop co-chairs
Frank Schaich (Alcatel-Lucent, Germany)
Berna Sayrac (Orange, France)
Martin Schubert (Huawei, Germany)
Gerhard Wunder (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany)
Hao Lin (Orange, France)
Klaus Pederson (Nokia Networks, Denmark)
Musbah Shaat (CTTC, Spain)
Speakers to be confirmed
Nuno Pratas (Aalborg University)
Andreas Georgakopoulos (Wings)
Stephan Saur (Alcatel-Lucent)
Stephan.Pfletschinger (DLR)
Saeed Afrasiabi Gorgani (TU Berlin)
Caretti Marco (Telecom Italia)
Prof. Armin Dekorsy (University Bremen)
Malte Schellmann (Huawei)
Gennaro Boggia (Poliba)
Belkacem Mouhouche (Samsung)
Thorsten Wild (Alcatel-Lucent)
Catherine Douillard (Telecom Bretagne)
Dimitri KTENAS (CEA LETI)
Honglei Miao (Intel)
Mohammed Al-Imari (Samsung)
Juha Karjalainen (Nokia)
Leonardo Gomes Baltar (Intel)

Website
http://workshop2016.fantastic5g.com/
URLs: http://www.fantastic5g.eu
Related Twitter channels / hashtags: https://twitter.com/fantastic5g; #5gppp, #5G

ETSI Workshop “From Research To Standardization
2016-05-10 - 2016-05-11 | ETSI Headquarters, 650 Route des Lucioles, Sophia Antipolis cedex, 06921 , France
On 10-11 May 2016 in its Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, ETSI will organize a Workshop on the subject “From Research To Standardization” in the context of the H2020 program of the European Commission.

In the ICT domain, a massive research effort is currently ongoing in the context of the H2020 program of the European Commission. Numerous national funding efforts are under way in laboratories, at universities and in the industry across Europe and worldwide. These activities create a plethora of knowledge and know-how which can enable a whole new generation of technology and will pave the way for many years to come!
Standards activities can help bridging the gap between research and industrial development of products and services by facilitating the commercialization of research results. Depending on the maturity of a technology, there are various options – even though not always known to the research community – to transform ideas into an industrial consensus driving product development. The industrial and standards community, on the other hand, may be unaware of the wide range of technological advances and alternative solutions. Often, the link to the research community is lacking and the information flow on novel and promising technological trends is not as good as it could.
Objectives of the workshop
The workshop offers a great opportunity for both stakeholder communities to come together, to discuss and to identify common interest areas.

Industrial representatives will have first-hand access to state-of-the-art knowledge and get aware of future trends in an early stage.
Researchers will be able to present latest research results to industry, to jointly identify the components which are best suitable for standardization and product development activities and to agree on specific next steps.

The workshop will support researchers to disseminate and exploit their results through standardization. It serves as a platform for research consortia to inform about standardization plans and to address a wider community to find supporters and allies.

Researchers will get firsthand information from keynote speakers about the overall policy context and the relationships between research, standardization and innovation. A case study will be presented to serve as a model case.
Researchers will have the opportunity to make the standardization community aware of current technology trends and solutions. The ETSI community will help to drive the innovation work towards standards and broad industrial acceptance.
Academic research will receive feed-back and learn about industrial needs by direct interaction with experts form major industrial players. The researchers will learn about ongoing standardization work and pre-normative/co-normative research topics from the ETSI community point of view.
Industrial representatives and technology experts in general will have the opportunity to access first-hand information on upcoming technological trends. The work format will ensure enough time for personal interactions with the researchers.
The workshop will facilitate to identify next steps in order to drive technology innovation to standardization. Eventually, this may lead to contributions to ongoing ETSI work or the set-up of new standardization activities.

Who should attend?
This event is of particular interest to:

Researchers and standardizers
Research Institutes & Universities
Organisations and stakeholders involved in FP7 and H2020 related projects
SMEs and Start-Ups driving technology innovation
Chipset Manufacturers
Device and CPE Manufacturers
M2M/IoT Communication Component Manufacturers
Network Infrastructure Manufacturers
Network Operators
Service Providers

Progamme Committee
Chair: Markus Mueck, Senior Manager Standardisation, Intel, DE

Jorge Bonifacio, PT Portugal, PT
Hermann Brand, Director Innovation, ETSI, FR
Francisco Da Silva. Huawei, SE
Keith Dickerson, Climate Associates Limited, UK
Jahmshid Khun-Jush, Qualcomm, UK
Magnus Madfors, Ericsson, SE
Sebastiano Toffaletti, SBS, BE
Christoph Woeste, Federal Network Agency, DE

5G PPP projects @ETSI workshop on 5G: "5G, From Myth to Reality", April 21st, 2016
2016-04-21 08:00 - 17:45 | ETSI Headquarters, 650 Route des Lucioles, Sophia Antipolis cedex, 06921 , France
ETSI organises a workshop on 5G in ETSI headquarters in Sophia Antipolis (France) on April 21st, 2016. The summit will have a poster session on invited topics (e.g. R&D initiatives, SONATA, 5G NORMA, CogNET, mmMAGIC, 5G-ENSURE, SELFNET, 5G-Crosshaul, 5G-Ex, METIS-II, VirtuWind, FANTASTIC-5G will share objectives and vision), to trigger an exchange of views on aspects of 5G that are not covered in the summit sessions.
This event will review the potential of these classes of use cases from a socio economic and technological perspective. It covers issues such as:
• Motivations and business models behind the use cases?
• Potential socio-economic consequences of 5G?
• Real requirements and expectations of the stakeholders and how can they influence the discussion?
• How the 5G roadmap departs from planned LTE roadmaps?
• Do we have a harmonized view, across different regions, or at least in Europe?
• Why is 2020 important? What can realistically be achieved by that date?
This event is subdivided into different sessions. Each session will start with a few presentations introducing the topic. At the end of each session, a panel of experts will discuss key aspects covered, together with the summit participants.
The event is free of charge and open to non-members.
Programme Committee:
Bernard Barani -European Commission
Simon Hicks – ETSI GA Chair (& Chairman of the Summit)
Dirk Weiler – ETSI Board Chair
Nick Sampson – Board 5GCom Chair
Markus Dominik Mueck – Board 5GCom Chair
Jamshid Khun-Jush – Board 5GCom Chair
Erik Guttman – 3GPP TSG SA Chair
Luis Jorge Romero – ETSI Director General
Adrian Scrase – ETSI CTO
Kevin Flynn – 3GPP Marketing & Communications Professional (COM)
Joern Krause – Technical Officer 3GPP (MCC)

5G PPP projects present at NetFutures 2016: Driving Growth in the #DigitalSingleMarket
2016-04-20 - 2016-04-21 | The Egg, 175 Rue Bara, Brussels, Belgium
Cloud, 5G, and the Internet of Things are the backbone of the digital economy. The 2016 NetFuture edition will explore how future internet topics can best serve and benefit from the Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy.
“Digital as a Driver for Growth” is crucial. It will be exciting to discover together how standards and interoperability, cloud computing, 5G, the Internet of Things, open service platforms, FIRE facilities and FIWARE technology can push the digital economy to maximum growth.
Innovative minds from Europe and beyond will be invited to speak at the conference and encourage participants into fruitful discussions and exchanges.
Further information can be found with the link.

Networld2020 Annual Event
2016-04-19 | Bedford Hotel & Congress Centre, Rue du Midi, 135, Brussels, Belgium
The Networld2020 Annual Event will take place in Brussels on 19 April 2016. All members are cordially invited to attend.
Many of the activities of NetWorld2020 in the recent years have been towards supporting and proposing research directions of ICT topics in Horizon 2020 and in particular of the 5G PPP, e.g. by the preparation of a Strategic Research Agenda and several Whitepapers.
In 2015 a first set of 5G PPP projects started and the cooperation between projects is developing well. In this year another Call for projects – for 5G PPP Phase 2 – will be opened and is planned to close in November this year. Global standardization will start already beginning of the year. The preparation of a Global 5G Event to take place in Europe in autumn 2016 has started.
There will also be changes ahead regarding the Governance Structure and the link between NetWorld2020 and the 5G Infrastructure Association, resulting from the experience in the last 2 years, which should further optimise the effectiveness and efficiency of operations and improve on the opportunity for organisations and stakeholders to get involved in the activities.
The NetWorld2020 event on 19 April 2016 will report about the activities, but will also explain future plans and the rationale behind, and as always be a good place for meeting and networking. Therefore, a strong participation from the NetWorld2020 membership is important. Please save the date in your calendar. We will inform you when the registration portal has opened.
All participants have to register in advance here, using the registration form.

1st 5G Architecture Workshop
2016-04-06 08:30 - 17:00 | Centre Borschette, Rue Froissart 36, , Bruxelles, 1040 , Belgium
The purpose of this workshop is to share views on 5G architectures being currently captured within the 5G-PPP initiative and to solicit the views of other relevant initiatives and projects whose work may also have an impact on 5G architecture design. Non 5G PPP projects and initiatives are welcome to contribute to the debate. To add substance to the discussion, the participating initiatives are invited to submit proposals for a technical presentation on their consolidated architecture results.
To register please click here: https://5g-ppp.eu/architecture-workshop/

5G-PPP @ "5G: expected impact" conference organised by Telenor
2016-04-05 - 2016-04-06 | Telenor Expo – Telenor headquarters, Snarøyveien 31, Fornebu, 1331 , Norway
Telenor Research invites to a 2-day conference to discuss 5G network opportunities and challenges in Fornebu (Norway) on 5-6 April 2016. David Kennedy (Euro-5G) and Werner Mohr (5G IA) will be there as speakers.
The programme is still under development but confirmed speakers also include:
-Mr. Sigve Brekke, President and CEO of Telenor Group
-Mr. Magnus Frodigh, Research Area Director, Wireless Access Networks, Ericsson Research
-Mrs. Berit Svendsen, EVP Telenor Group and CEO of Telenor Norway
-Mr. Bjørn Taale Sandberg, SVP and Head of Telenor Research
-Mr. Petar Popovski, Professor at Aalborg University
-Mr. Hans Einsiedler, Head of the Seamless Network Control team, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Deutsche Telekom AG
-Mr. Paul Scanlan, President Business & Network Consulting, Huawei
-Mr. Yang Chaobin, Chief Marketing Officer, Wireless Network Product Line, Huawei
-Dr. Fang Min, Director of 5G Research and Collaboration in the Wireless Division of ZTE Corporation
Click here to register online.

2nd 5G-PPP Phase 2 Stakeholders and Information day
2016-03-17 09:00 - 16:30 | Univ. De Bologna, Laboratorio delle Arti, Auditorium room,, Via Azzo Gardino 65/a, , Bologna, Italy
The Purpose of this work shop is to share the context of the 5G-PPP call 2 with all interested parties. It is important highlight the ambition of the 5G-PPP is that each successive phase of the PPP should make iterative progress based on the achievements of the preceding phase(s). Therefore it is important that potential proposers and participants for phase 2 are aware of phase 1 work and the context in which phase 2 will start. The workshop also allows that organisations may present project or technological ideas and seek potential collaborators.
The registration page is here: Registration for 5G-PPP info day March 17, Bologna

5G-Ensure and B-COM @ETSI standardisation workshop
2016-03-10 | Unnamed Venue, 1219 Avenue des Champs Blancs, Cesson-Sévigné, 35510, France
B-COM a 5G-Ensure Partner is hosting a workshop on standardisation, endorsed by ETSI on 10th March 2016 in Rennes, France.
This one-day event will address the Radio Virtual Machine concepts that can be considered an extension to the well-known Software Defined Radio (SDR) approach. So, specific improvements or entire several Physical layers can be embedded within a platform in a secure and controlled environment (virtual machine) combining software development with hardware accelerators for more powerful processing.
This principle can be viewed as a flexible and reconfigurable multi-RAT (Radio Access Technologies) system. Since all kinds of systems can be addressed, security aspects are very sensitive to this approach that needs advanced and robust strategies to prevent all malicious acts.
This workshop will investigate innovative solutions related to future 5G network and more specifically the domain of multi-RAT reconfigurable systems addressed in Scalable Radio Virtual Machine and Security point of view. The innovative solutions to be addressed may include the topics of:

Multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs)
Flexibility and scalability solutions for multi-RAT communications
Scalability radio virtual machine architecture
Security in multi-RAT environment
Security in data and control planes management

The workshop will include presentations by invited speakers as well as a specific session dedicated to exhibitions with HW & SW platforms. Jean-Philippe Wary, Orange, presents: How 5G-Ensure may address and manage software define Radio.

5G PPP "5G empowering verticals" @ MWC 2016 in Barcelona
2016-02-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Fira Gran Via, Av. Joan Carles I, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 64 08908, Spain
The 5G PPP participation at the Mobile World Congress 2016 will include a Media and Analyst briefing on the launch of the 5G PPP White paper “5G empowering verticals” to be held on Monday 22, 2016 afternoon in the Media Village.
5G network infrastructures will be a key asset to support the digitalization of economic and societal processes, leading to the fourth industrial revolution impacting multiple sectors. This White Paper depicts innovative digital use cases from most important vertical sectors and how requirements from verticals impact 5G design. It also presents how 5G will open the field to new business value propositions by cementing strong relationships between vendors, operators and verticals. Deploying 5G for vertical markets in Europe by 2020 (the earliest date currently contemplated by the industry) should be a common framing objective.
During the event, Mr. Günther H. Oettinger, European Commissioner, Digital Economy and Society, and executives from global top technology companies will discuss the impact of 5G on digital society and digital economy, as well as requirements from vertical industries, business models, architectures and standardization aspects of 5G.
Location: Press Conference Room 1, Media Village – Fira Gran Via, Barcelona in zone CC4
Timing: Monday, February 22, 2016, 14:00 to around 15:00
List of Participating Executives:

-Moderator Mr Philippe Defraigne, Cullen International
-Mr Günther H. Oettinger, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
-Mr Ulf Ewaldsson, Chief Technology Officer, Ericsson
-Mr Hermann Meyer, Chief Executive Officer, ERTICO – ITS Europe
-Mr Wen Tong, Wireless Chief Technology Officer, Huawei
-Mr Hossein Moiin, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia Mobile Networks, Nokia
-Mr Alain Maloberti, Senior Vice President, Orange Labs Networks, Orange
-Mr Karim Michel Sabbagh, Chief Executive Officer, SES
-Mr Bjørn Taale Sandberg, Senior Vice President, Telenor Research leader, Telenor
Registration is free and can be found here.

5G PPP special sessions @ MWC 2016
2016-02-22 - 2016-02-25 | Fira Gran Via, Av. Joan Carles I, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 64 08908, Spain
5G PPP will present an overview of the PPP and its activities three times during the week at the EC booth in the Mobile World Congress 2016.
The sessions for the 5G PPP overview are planned to be held on the EC stand on:
-Monday, February 22, 2016 @ 11:00-11:30
-Tuesday, February 23, 2016 @ 9:30-10:00
-Thursday, February 25, 2016 @ 11:30-12:00
Come along early, (as places are limited) to get an idea of :
– European actions on 5G today
– All about the EU 5G vision
– What is the 5G PPP and its role
– Next steps, events and publications.

ETSI Workshop on Future Network Technologies, Jan. 27-28 2016, Sophia Antipolis
2016-01-27 - 2016-01-28 | ETSI Headquarters, 650 Route des Lucioles, Sophia Antipolis cedex, 06921 , France
Spectrum scarcity has become a major issue for commercial, public safety and other wireless communication systems. Consequently, future air interfaces (waveforms) and modulation types are about to meet a dramatic shift in design requirements.
Recent innovations indeed feed hope for new designs which allow for a substantial increase in spectrum efficiency, a dramatic reduction of out-of-band radiation reducing the “pollution” of neighbouring systems augmenting the user experience by improving the system reliability and maximizing the bit rate as a function of the available spectrum.
A new approach to the air interfaces, modulations and the TX/RX chains in general is likely to be a building block of future wireless systems and may impact the overall network architecture as well as the radio device architecture.
Objectives of the workshop
This workshop will investigate innovative solutions related to future network air interfaces as well as their impact on the overall system architecture. Innovative solutions to be addressed may include the usage of:
• a single air interface for multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs)
• advanced solutions for multi-RAT communication
• cognitive/adaptive air interfaces and related modulation types
• adaptive pre/post-processing & coding
• multi air interface (cognitive) management and control
Programme Commitee
Chair: Markus Mueck, Senior Manager Standardisation, Intel, DE
Andrea Lorelli, Senior Research Officer, ETSI, FR
Fun Hu, Professor of Wireless Communications, University of Bradford, UK
Frank Schaich, Research Engineer, Alcatel-Lucent, DE
Gerhard Wunder, Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute, DE
Paulo Marques, Senior Research Engineer, Instituto de Telecomunicações – PT
Paul Bander, Senior Advisor New Technologies, BnetzA, DE
Seungwon Choi, Professor, University of Hanyang, KR
Vladimir Ivanov, Principal Engineer at LG Electronics, KR
Related Twitter channels / hashtags
https://twitter.com/fantastic5g; #5gppp, #5G

5G PPP Phase 2 stakeholders' meeting took place on January 21st, 2016
2016-01-21 | Unnamed Venue, Avenue d'Auderghem 45, BREYDEL building, Auditorium 4th floor, Brussels, Belgium
The 5G PPP Phase 2 stakeholders’ event took place in Brussels on January 21st, 2016.
The infoday agenda is available here.
Speakers’ slides are available and can be downloaded (click on the speaker’s name):

Mr. Bernard Barani
Mr. Jean-Sébastien Bedo
Mr. Didier Bourse
Mr. Thibaut Kleiner
Mr. Werner Mohr

FIRE Forum 2015: European Experimental Infrastructure Driving Innovation
2015-12-09 09:00 - 17:00 | European Commission DG Connect, (VIP Room), Avenue de Beaulieu 5, Brussels, Belgium
Are you an innovative player in the European Future Internet arena? Do you want to discover how the FIRE initiative can help boost your R&D efforts, discover novel networking approaches, reduce time to market and create broader innovation/commercial impact for your products and services?
Don’t miss the FIRE Forum 2015 as a great opportunity to learn about existing testing infrastructures (facilities) for experimentally driven technology innovation in areas such as advanced networking, IoT and cloud, and their use within a wide range of application areas including smart city, education, emergency management and land / air / underwater communication.
The diversity of FIRE testbeds and applications and the evolving federation of facilities create an exciting and unique opportunity to explore converged infrastructures and research challenges associated with resource management, interoperability, and Experimentation-as-a-Service concepts and, more generally, the emerging technology trends of the Future Internet.
At the FIRE Forum 2015 you will meet representatives of the FIRE projects, the European Commission and other relevant stakeholders and initiatives to discuss the further development of experimental facilities, research and innovation, and how a federated European experimental infrastructure will drive innovation.
New funding opportunities are opening up within the context of the Information and Communication Technologies Call, H2020-ICT-2016-2017, and via the Open Calls that several ongoing FIRE projects will issue between December 2015 and January 2016. Discover these opportunities by coming to Brussels and actively participating to the FIRE Forum 2015!
Registration is FREE of charge, but places are limited! So hurry up, register and reserve your spot now!

IEEE Globecom 2015
2015-12-06 - 2015-12-10 | Hilton San Diego Bayfront, 1 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
IEEE GLOBECOM is one of two flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), together with IEEE ICC. Each year the conference attracts about 3000 submitted scientific papers and dozens of proposals for industry events. A technical program committee of more than 1,500 experts provides more than 10,000 reviews, and from this a small fraction of the submitted papers are accepted for publication and presentation at the conference. The conference meets once a year in North America and attracts roughly 2000 leading scientists, researchers and industry practitioners from all around the world. IEEE GLOBECOM is therefore one of the most significant scientific events of the networking and communications community, a must-attend event for scientists, researchers and networking practitioners from industry and academia.
IEEE GLOBECOM is a five-day event. Two days are dedicated to tutorials and workshops, while the remaiing three days are dedicated to the IF&E program and the technical symposia. The program of the technical symposia includes oral or poster presentations of about 1000 scientific papers, grouped into 12 thematic symposia, and more than 15 parallel sessions. In addition to the technical program, IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 will feature an industry forum and exhibition (IF&E) program, including industry-focused workshops, tutorials, keynote talks from industrial leaders, panel discussions, a large exposition, and business and industrial forums.

2nd EAI International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity
2015-11-25 - 2015-11-27 | 5G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey in Guildford, Guildford, United Kingdom
Scope:
In order to meet the huge demand for increasing capacity in wireless networks several major leaps in technology development need to made. Several research initiatives around the world on 5th generation mobile cellular systems have been launched recently. Also frequency regulation and standardization activities will be launched very soon targeting at the next generation standard. This conference targets at bringing together researchers and developers as well as regulators and policy makers in presenting their latest views on 5G: potential disruptive technologies enabling 5G, spectrum policies for 5G, future business models, and of course, latest finding in key research activities on 5G.
Highlights:

The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT
Accepted papers will be published in the 5GU Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library, which is one of the largest digital libraries online and covers a variety of scientific disciplines.
The proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as ICST’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

5G PPP projects present at the Tweether Workshop on November 20th, 2015
2015-11-20 | School of Telecomunications Engineering, Avenida de los Naranjos, Access N (UPV Entrance) , Valencia, Spain
5G PPP projects, especially mmMAGIC, 5G-Xhaul and METIS-II were at the Tweether Workshop in Valencia on November 20th, 2015.
Dr. Mehrdad Shariat from Samsung Electronics will deal with Millimetre-Wave Based Mobile Radio Access Network for Fifth Generation Integrated Communications.
Mr. Josep Mangues (CTTC) will be presenting an overview of the 5G-Crosshaul project with a deep-dive on the role of mmWave in the project, specifically for backhaul and fronthaul, and its integration with other wireless (microwave), optical and copper technologies, under common SDN-based control.
Mr. José Monserrat, from University of Valencia, will be presenting the METIS-II project and some activities related to spectrum for 5G and to massive MIMO performed in the project. Mr. Mauro Boldi’s (Telecom Italia) presentation be in the context of the panel that will conclude the day at the workshop. His talk will be more dedicated to the exploitation of millimeter waves for 5G, with some reference to beamforming activities in METIS-II.

About 5G-XHaul Project:
5G-XHaul proposes a converged optical and wireless network solution able to flexibly connect Small Cells to the core network. Exploiting user mobility, our solution allows the dynamic allocation of network resources to predicted and actual hotspots. To support these novel concepts, we will develop:
1) Dynamically programmable, high capacity, low latency, point-to-multipoint (P2MP) mm-Wave transceivers, cooperating with Sub-6 GHz systems;
2) A Time Shared Optical Network (TSON) offering elastic and fine granular bandwidth allocation, cooperating with advanced passive optical networks;
3) A software-defined cognitive control plane, able to forecast traffic demand in time and space, and the ability to reconfigure network components.
Contact: https://5g-ppp.eu/5g-xhaul/

About mmMAGIC:
The mmMAGIC (Millimetre-Wave Based Mobile Radio Access Network for Fifth Generation Integrated Communications) project will develop and design new concepts for mobile radio access technology (RAT) for mm-wave band deployment. This is envisaged as a key component in the 5G multi-RAT ecosystem and will be used as a foundation for global standardization. The project will thus enable ultrafast mobile broadband services for mobile users, supporting UHD/3D streaming, immersive applications and ultra-responsive cloud services.
Contact: https://5g-ppp.eu/mmmagic/

About METIS-II:
Key objectives of METIS-II are to develop the overall 5G radio access network design and to provide the technical enablers needed for an efficient integration and use of the various 5G technologies and components currently developed. The innovation pillars that will allow METIS-II to achieve this goal are

a holistic spectrum management architecture addressing the spectrum crunch,
an air interface harmonisation framework enabling an efficient integration of new and legacy air interfaces,
an agile Resource Management (RM) framework providing the dynamics required to efficiently adapt the integrated 5G air interfaces and radio concepts to the varying traffic demand and service requirements,
a cross-layer and cross-air-interface system access and mobility framework ensuring an ubiquitous access continuum,
and a common control and user plane framework providing the means for an efficient support of the broad versatility of services expected for 5G as well as a future-proof and cost-efficient implementation of the 5G integration.

Contact: https://metis-ii.5g-ppp.eu

DigiWorld Summit 2015
2015-11-17 - 2015-11-19 | Le Corum, Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, Montpellier, 34000, France
DigiWorld Summit: ‘Digital First’
17th-19th November 2015, The Corum – Montpellier (France)
IDATE, think tank pioneers of digital economy, is organising its 37th edition of the DigiWorld Summit conference, debating digital innovation which, with increasingly less restraint in ICT sectors, is now thoroughly transforming all vertical field of activity. This international conference roughly welcomes more than 1200 professionals and 120 speakers from over 25 different nationalities taught through plenary sessions and topical forums: Connected Things, Future Networks, Smart City, TV & Video, VideoGame…
Mr. Terje TJELTA, Board Member of 5G Infrastructure Association will take part in the DigiWorld Summit forum devoted to “Future networks: welcome to the gigabit era?” to be held on Wednesday November the 18th.
In addition, this year there is: the second edition of the DigiWorld Week, for one week dedicated to digitization, and the DigiWorld Awards, which rewards French talents around the world!
http://www.digiworldsummit.com/

CHARISMA and 5G-XHaul at the COMBO workshop on CTTE 2015
2015-11-10 | Munchen, Germany
The CHARISMA and 5G-Xhaul 5G PPP projects will be present at the COMBO workshop on CTTE 2015.

Mr. Theodoros Rokkas will present the case of CHARISMA in terms of converged architecture. CHARISMA brings together 10G-wireless (via mm-wave/60-GHz & free-space optics, FSO) access and 100G fixed optical (OFDM-PON) solutions through an intelligent cloud radio-access-network (C-RAN) and intelligent radio remote head (RRH) platform with IPv6 Trust Node routing featuring very low-latency for the traffic management. Low-cost Ethernet is used across front- and backhaul, and end-user equipment (vCPE), and intelligence distributed across the back-, front-hauls, and perimetric data transports. Ad-hoc mobile device interconnectivities (D2D, D2I, C2C etc.), content delivery network (CDN) and mobile distributed caching (MDC) offer an energy-efficient (better than x20 improvement possible) information-centric networking (ICN) architecture. Furthermore, caching will provide efficient utilization of scarce resources by early aggregating data or/and by executing communication locally.

Mr. Egon Schultz will present views on access/aggregation convergence using heterogeneous (optical/wireless) network segments from the 5G-XHaul project. 5G-XHaul aims at building up an ambitious converged optical and wireless network solution that relies on a flexible infrastructure able to support of the backhaul and fronthaul networks required to tackle the current and future challenges that the Radio Access Network (RAN) imposes. 5G-XHaul will provide an efficient, reconfigurable, modular and highly scalable platform to support RAN processing, depending on different architectural solutions, network elements and devices.

Contacts:
CHARISMA: Mr. Theodoros Rokkas, INCITES Consulting, trokkas@incites.eu
5G-XHaul: Mr. Egon Schultz, ERC, egon.schulz@huawei.com, Mr. Jesús Gutiérrez, Terán, IHP, teran@ihp-microelectronics.com
Related Twitter channels / hashtags:
Tweets by 5G_XHaul
https://twitter.com/@charisma5G
About the COMBO project:
COMBO (COnvergence of fixed and Mobile BrOadband access/aggregation networks) is a European Union FP7 ICT Integrated Project, undertaken by 16 partners over a period of three and a half years, starting January 1st, 2013, with over 9 million Euros in funding, of which almost 6 million Euros are funded by the EU. COMBO will propose and investigate new integrated approaches for Fixed / Mobile Converged (FMC) broadband access / aggregation networks for different scenarios (dense urban, urban, rural). The COMBO project and research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) in the ICT area, under grant agreement n° 317762.

METIS-II presentation at the MiWEBA workshop on 2-3 November 2015
2015-11-02 - 2015-11-03 | Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
At the next MiWEBA workshop held in Tokyo on 2-3 November 2015, Mr. Ingolf Karls, Intel Mobile Communications will present the METIS-II project.
About METIS-II: METIS-II (Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for Twenty-twenty (2020) Information Society-II)
METIS-II is a project with 23 partners co-funded in the European H2020 research programme with a budget of 8 M€. Ericsson is the project coordinator and Nokia Networks is the technical coordinator. Further partners are Alcatel Lucent, Deutsche Telekom, Huawei, IDATE, Intel, ITRI, Janmedia Interactive, KTH, NTT DOCOMO, NYU, Orange, Samsung, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, University of Kaiserslautern, Universitat Politècnica de València and WINLAB.
Contact for METIS-II
Dr. Olav Queseth, Ericsson
Mr. Ingolf Karls, Intel Mobile Communications
E-mail: contact@metis2020.com
Web: https://metis-ii.5g-ppp.eu
About MiWEBA: MiWEBA (Millimetre-Wave Evolution for Backhaul and Access) is a Japan-Europe ICT international Joint R&D research programme focusing on millimeter waves. It started within the framework of the FP7 in 2013. Partners are The Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Panasonic Mobile Communications for the Japanese side, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (Germany), INTEL Mobile Communications (Germany), Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies renouvelables (France), Orange Labs Networks (France), Politecnico di Milano (Italy) for the European side.

EC-TW workshop on the 5G Targeted opening
2015-10-21 14:00 - 17:00
This workshop is jointly organised by the European Commission and ITRI Taiwan, with assistance from the 5G PPP, to present the themes and opportunities of the targeted opening the commission will have with Taiwan in the next 5G PPP call. The workshop will give insight to the 5G-related activities in Taiwan and present their specific interests in relation to the call. The primary focus points for the joint call will be access convergence and integration.
Agenda
1- Welcome Remarks (EU + TW )
2- Presentation of national R&D programmes and conditions in Taiwan (TW: 20 min))
• Focus areas
• 5G-related
3- Taiwan ICT Industry Overview (ITRI: 10 min)
4- 5G-PPP (EU: 15 min)
• International dimension
5- Status & Planning of EU-TW Targeted Opening (EU + TW: 15 min.)
6- Presentations from European companies (EU: 30 min)
7- Presentations of Taiwan Proposal Areas:
• 5G Channel Model Generator & Simulator (10 min.)
• 5G Edge Network (10 min.)
• UDN (10 min.)
• M2M (10 min.)
• V2V (10 min.)
8- Wrap-up Discussion (30 min.)
Registration:
This workshop is open to everyone who wants to know more about the targeted opening in the call and/or are interested in participating in the call. The maximum attendance is 100 on a first come first served basis.
We would appreciate an early registration to facilitate catering.
Click on this link to register: https://5g-ppp.eu/registration-for-ec-itri-workshop/
Venue:
Macau meeting room in the Museu do Oriente Conference Center (20 min. from the ICT conference centre)
References:
European Commisson, DG CONNECT: https://ec.europa.eu/dgs/connect/en/content/dg-connect
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan: https://www.itri.org.tw/eng/

Towards a 5G Connected World: A Security Insight, ICT2015 Networking session, Lisbon, 20/10/2015, Room 12, 16:50-17:35
2015-10-20 17:50 - 18:35 | Unnamed Venue, lisbon, Portugal
A session covering the security aspects of 5G will be organized as part of the Networking Sessions of ICT 2015. The session goes under the title: “Towards a 5G Connected World: A Security Insight” and will take place in Room 12 on Tuesday 20/20/2015 from 16:50 to 17:35.
The session aims to provide an open forum for discussion about how security should be considered with upcoming 5G systems, networks and components. The ubiquity of 5G network thrives the need for secured environments that will provide users a safe, fast and reliable connectivity underpinning the future generation of application and services.
The session will pave the way towards open security considerations in the initial core 5G design such as multi-operator isolation, privacy preservation between virtual tenants, trust requirements and management in heterogeneous environments and low-latency security constraints at the physical level in 5G systems.
Expected outcome:

Identification of the major security requirements and concerns around future 5G systems from different perspectives.
Open discussion about the security challenges and aspects of future 5G networks.
Security as a driver towards the future 5G-connected digital society

Format/Participants:
The session is divided into three major blocks:

Five lighting talks (5 minutes each) will be carried out by five different experts:
Dr. Ioannis Neokosmidis (INCITES Consulting, Luxemburg)
Dr. Dimitris Kanakidis (Exus, Greece)
Dr. Haitham S. Cruickshank, (Institute for Communication Systems – ICS, University of Surrey, UK)
Jordi Ferrer Riera (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)
Dr. Emmanouil Kafetzakis (Orion Innovations, Greece)
Open panel discussion between experts in the panel, the public and interactive participant who can join the discussion using the hashtags #5GSecurity #ict2015 (15 min).
Conclusion and closure from Eduard Escalona (i2CAT, Spain) project manager of the CHARISMA project (5min).

Related Twitter channels / hashtags: #5gppp; #5GSecurity; #ict2015.

ICT2015 5G PPP Booth 5G NORMA demo
2015-10-20 11:00 - 2015-10-22 16:30 | Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
ICT2015 (Innovate, Connect, Transform) is an event organized by European Commission together with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) that will comprise a number of parallel activities: a policy conference presenting the new Commission’s policies and initiatives on Research & Innovation in ICT (Horizon 2020 Programme); an interactive exhibition showcasing the best results and impact of most recent EU ICT Research & Innovation; many networking opportunities to enhance quality partnerships, help participants find partners, connect Research and Innovation and trigger collaboration; Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 thematic sessions, offering detailed information on the funding opportunities in ICT sector; the Startup Europe Forum, offering a set of activities profiling EU policy actions for startups and SMEs, innovators, private and public investors.
Key purpose
5G-NORMA will be present at the 5G PPP booth alongside METIS II, XHAUL and FANTASTIC5G. 5G NORMA develops a novel, adaptable and future-proof 5G mobile network architecture. This architecture will be validated by demos showing (1) its capability to support natively multiple services on a shared network and (2) Software Defined Mobile network Control (SDMC) which applies the SDN principles to mobile network specific functions. At ICT 2015, a preliminary version of the demo concept will be presented, which will consist on network emulations with 3D visualizations, real-world prototypes for 5G-base stations and emulation of the cloud infrastructure that will support the 5G network deployment.
Related Twitter channels / hashtags:
https://twitter.com/5G_NORMA

ICT2015 5G PPP Booth METIS-II demo
2015-10-20 11:00 - 2015-10-22 16:30 | Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
ICT2015 (Innovate, Connect, Transform) is an event organized by European Commission together with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) that will comprise a number of parallel activities: a policy conference presenting the new Commission’s policies and initiatives on Research & Innovation in ICT (Horizon 2020 Programme); an interactive exhibition showcasing the best results and impact of most recent EU ICT Research & Innovation; many networking opportunities to enhance quality partnerships, help participants find partners, connect Research and Innovation and trigger collaboration; Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 thematic sessions, offering detailed information on the funding opportunities in ICT sector; the Startup Europe Forum, offering a set of activities profiling EU policy actions for startups and SMEs, innovators, private and public investors.
Key purpose
METIS-II will be at the 5G PPP booth together with projects 5G NORMA, FANTASTIC-5G and XHAUL and will show a preliminary version of the METIS-II Visualization platform that will be used throughout the project to illustrate important concepts and solutions as well as provide an open environment for other projects to collaborate on 5G simulations.
Related Twitter channels / hashtags / Facebook:
https://twitter.com/metis2020; #5gppp; #ICT2015; @DigitalAgenda.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/701253670004327/

ICT2015 5GPPP Booth XHAUL demo
2015-10-20 11:00 - 2015-10-22 16:30 | Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
ICT2015 (Innovate, Connect, Transform) is an event organized by European Commission together with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) that will comprise a number of parallel activities: a policy conference presenting the new Commission’s policies and initiatives on Research & Innovation in ICT (Horizon 2020 Programme); an interactive exhibition showcasing the best results and impact of most recent EU ICT Research & Innovation; many networking opportunities to enhance quality partnerships, help participants find partners, connect Research and Innovation and trigger collaboration; Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 thematic sessions, offering detailed information on the funding opportunities in ICT sector; the Startup Europe Forum, offering a set of activities profiling EU policy actions for startups and SMEs, innovators, private and public investors.
Détails on Event :
XHAUL project will be present at the 5G PPP booth alongside METIS II, 5G-NORMA and FANTASTIC5G, to show a demo on the control plane for 5G transport networks. In the demo, a multi-domain multi-technology (optical and wireless) infrastructure will be emulated. However, the control of this infrastructure will be through an actual/real control plane software. So, you can see the message flows for setting up end-to-end paths in a simple way through the underlying multi-domain multi-technology infrastructure.
Related Twitter channels / hashtags / LinkledIn:
https://twitter.com/Xhaul_eu; #5gppp; #ICT2015;
https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=8344554

ICT 2015 Innovate, Connect, Transform
2015-10-20 - 2015-10-22 | Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
The European Commission and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia will organise: ICT 2015 – Innovate, Connect, Transform

5G-NORMA talk and panel "5G NORMA: A NOvel Radio Multiservice adaptive network Architecture for the 5G era based on Network Slicing" in NGMN Forum, Innovation Session, Montreal (CA) on Oct.13/14
2015-10-13 - 2015-10-15 | Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 1228 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1H6, Canada
The NGMN 5G White Paper is demanding 5G to improve the performance of mobile networks as well as to provide greater flexibility and better support to new business and partnership models. Efficient support of new business models requires this flexibility along the whole end-to-end communication path. As key technology to achieve this high flexibility, the NGMN 5G White Paper promotes Network Slicing: Network slices are mutually isolated, dedicated networks providing customer-specific functionality. 5G NORMA is going to propose an E2E Architecture based on network slicing. It will develop a highly flexible network architecture that adapts the use of the network resources to service requirements and network topology. The presentation will explain 5G NORMA’s innovative functionalities and the key enablers behind that.
Venue details
This meeting is open for NGMN Partners only.
The NGMN Forum takes place at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Montreal (1228 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1H6, Canada)
The presentation will be given by Klaus Martiny on Oct. 14th from 10:00-10:15am; the panel discussion will be from 10:30-10:50am.
Related Twitter channels / hashtags:
https://twitter.com/fantastic5g; #5gppp, #5G

FANTASTIC-5G TALK and PANEL "5G Multi-Service Air Interface (
2015-10-13 - 2015-10-15 | Bell Mobility, Montreal, Canada
5G is mainly about two ambitions: To find a response to the strong growth of requested data rates (evolutionary effect) and to enhance the business model of operators by widening the pool of services (revolutionary target). Therefore, main objective of FANTASTIC-5G is to develop a flexible and scalable multi-service air interface (ambition 2) with ubiquitous coverage and high capacity (ambition 1) where and when needed. The new air interface is targeted to be highly efficient in terms of energy and resource consumption as well as to be future proof, allowing sustainable delivery of wireless services far beyond 2020.
Venue détails
This meeting is open for NGMN Partners only.
The NGMN Forum meeting is hosted by Bell Mobility, Montreal („Gold Room“)
The Fantastic-5G talk is scheduled for the first slot 9-9:15am on Oct. 14th
Related Twitter channels / hashtags:
https://twitter.com/fantastic5g; #5gppp, #5G

WWRF 5G Huddle
2015-10-13 - 2015-10-14 | Confederation of Danish Industry, H. C. Andersens Blvd., Copenhagen , 1550, Denmark
Theme of the Huddle 2015 : Delivering a Sustainable 5G EcosystemS

Workshop on 5G Channel Measurement and Modeling
WWRF, China Mobile and BUPT are jointly organizing a “Workshop on 5G Channel Measurement and Modeling” which will be in conjunction with IEEE PIMRC 2015, August 30th, 2015, Hong Kong, China. This workshop will focus on 5G channel measurement and modeling, including framework of 5G channel model, channel measurement campaign, channel parameter extracting and modeling, measurement data application, and measurement equipment development, etc. This workshop is organized to provide a platform to share and present the latest views and development on 5G channel measurement and modeling issues across the world.

Spectrum crunch below 6GHz? 5G research trends in Europe
2015-10-01 11:30 - 12:30 | Clarion Hotel Stockholm, Ringvägen 98 , Stockholm, 10460 , Sweden
Spectrum crunch below 6GHz? 5G trends
Moderator: Dr. Dominique Noguet, CEA-LETI, France
5G is expected to address a 1000x capacity compared to today’s networks, whereas available spectrum resource will, by far, not grow in the same proportion, enabling only a few new portions or frequency bands. In particular, spectrum below 6GHz will be under pressure as the most demanded one. New technologies will have to be researched and tested in order to exploit this scarce and already crowded spectrum. Solutions range from radio and network technologies to new regulation policies or regimes. Besides, the convergence of cellular systems with the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine communications will require a new technology bundle in order to enable a flexible service delivery over flexible networks to optimize spectrum usage and power consumption. The European 5G Public Private Partnership (5GPPP) projects will tackle these challenges from various angles. In this panel, key experts from recently approved 5GPPP projects will present and debate their approaches.
The panel will be composed as follows: Oscar Carrasco (SISTELBANDA), representing SPEED-5G Marja Matimikko (VTT), representing COHERET Gerhard Wunder (FhG), representing FANTASTIC-5G Du Ho Kang (ERICSSON), representing METIS II

— Priv.-Doz. Dr.-Ing. habil. Gerhard Wunder, Privatdozent TU Berlin
Coordinator 5GNOW (www.5gnow.eu, EU 5G – ‘Beyond LTE-A’ Project)
Coordinator PROPHYLAXE (www.ict-prophylaxe.de, BMBF Security Project) PMT FANTASTIC-5G (www.fantastic5g.eu, ‘The’ European 5G New Air Interface Project)
Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institut Einsteinufer 37, D-10587 Berlin/Germany Mobile: +49 151 61530882, Office: +49 30 31002 872
Web: https://www.commit.tu-berlin.de/menue/mitarbeiter/pd_dr-ing_habil_gerhard_wunder/
