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CHARISMA Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM) @ACM SIGCOMM
2017-08-21 17:00 - 2017-08-26 02:00 (Europe/Berlin) | UCLA Meyer & Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
CHARISMA project is co-organizing the first workshop on Mobile Edge Communications (MECOMM), to be held in conjunction with the ACM SIGCOMM Conference on UCLA campus in Los Angeles, CA, USA on August 21-25, 2017.
The workshop focuses on mobile edge communications and in particular the challenges and opportunities arising by the introduction of virtualization at the edge of the network, in accordance to the emerging Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) paradigms.
The workshop is organized in collaboration with the H2020 POINT Project.
For more info use the link.
Call For Papers
Future mobile networks aim to support low latency, context-related service offering, personalised service delivery and highly flexible and efficient resource management. One attractive approach to these goals introduces virtualized storage and compute resources at the edge of the network, having closer proximity to mobile subscribers as a way of reducing end-to-end latency and time-to-response, while increasing the flexibility and agility of allocating resources. The Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) paradigm takes this approach facilitating computation and storage capabilities at the edge, with a particular focus on their interaction with applications and services. In a similar fashion, Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) brings advantages related to the flexible instantiation and management of network functionality on top of virtualized compute, storage and network resources.
The workshop focuses on the interplay between NFV and MEC domains; stimulating research efforts that marry the requirements of virtual computing with the requirements of virtual networking in a number of aspects, including: enabling application- and/or service-awareness in network functions (e.g., service-aware routing), distributing and networking compute resources, high-speed data planes, programmable control and management planes, resiliency and security of mobile edge clouds and networks. The outcomes of the workshop should levitate communication frameworks that have the ability to accommodate the expanding range of business models, applications and services, within future mobile networks.
The workshop solicits papers that address aspects of the above areas; particularly, encouraging papers that address cross-layer research issues in any combination of these areas, bridging the gaps between network softwarization, virtualization and cloud/edge computing.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
-Inter-network resource management in future mobile networks
-Function and service allocation in mobile edge networks
-Compute and process distribution models in mobile edge networks
-Content Distribution Models in Mobile Edge Computing
-Application- and service-aware cloud models for mobile edge networks
-Algorithms and protocols to support the allocation of virtual resources
-Security challenges in Mobile Edge Computing
-Service abstraction and orchestration
-QoS and Traffic Engineering in Mobile Edge Networks networks
-Prototype platforms and trial deployment experience
-Data storage and networking in application- and/or service-aware cloud
-Network Function Virtualization in Mobile Edge Networks
-Management and orchestration across compute, storage and network resources in future mobile edge networks
-Service function chaining in mobile edge computing
-Content, function and result caching and replication in mobile edge networks
-Edge Analytics
-QoE in Mobile Edge Networks
-Access models for mobile edge networks
-Theoretical and experimental evaluations of mobile edge computing
-Self-organisation in mobile edge networks
-Edge computing for constrained mobile networks
-Slicing and multi-tenancy of Mobile Edge Networks
-Inter-service communications in mobile edge networks
-Switching designs for the mobile network core to support new mobile edge architectures
Submission Instructions
Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM SIGCOMM conference proceedings. Workshop organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop if the paper is not presented at the conference. Submitted papers should contain original material that have not be previously published, nor currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. All submissions should be written in English, with a maximum length limit of 6 printed pages, including all the figures, references and appendices. The ACM SIGCOMM LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at the ACM SIG Proceedings website.
For formatting and submission instructions, please refer to the workshop’s website.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 23, 2017
Acceptance notification: April 29, 2017
Camera ready deadline: May 29, 2017
Authors Take Note
The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to TWO WEEKS prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
Committees
Workshop Co-Chairs
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
George Pavlou, University College London, UK
George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University, US
Organizing Committee
Mays AL-Naday, University of Essex, UK
Konstantinos V. Katsaros, Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece
Martin J Reed, University of Essex, UK
TPC Chairs
Ioannis Psaras, University College London, UK
Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK
Technical Program Committee
Mohammed AL-Khalidi, University of Essex, UK
Mays AL-Naday, University of Essex, UK
Carolina Canales, Ericsson Espana S.A., ES
Eduard Escalona, Fundacio Privada I2CAT, Internet Innovacio Digital A Catalunya, ES
Hamed Haddadi, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Toru Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan
Konstantinos V. Katsaros, Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece
Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Chathura Magurawalage, University of Essex, UK
Christos Papadopoulos, Colorado State University, US
Andrea Pasarella, IIT – CNR, Italy
Ioannis Psaras, University College London, UK
K.K. Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside, US
Janne Riihijarvi, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Martin Reed, University of Essex, UK
Sakir Sezer, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland
Stefan Schmid, Aalborg University, Denmark
Nikos Thomos, University of Essex, UK
Dirk Trossen, InterDigital Europe
Gareth Tyson, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Ning Wang, University of Surrey, UK
Ke XU, Tsinghua University, China
George Xylomenos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

SONATA @ NetSoft'17
2017-07-03 09:00 - 2017-07-07 18:30 | University of Bologna, the School of Engineering and Architecture, Viale del Risorgimento 2, Bologna, 40136, Italy
The 3rd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (IEEE NetSoft 2017) will be held on 3-7 July 2017 at the School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Bologna, Italy.
SONATA will be giving two demos, one on the vCDN pilot and another one on the SDK.
-“DevOps based service orchestration in 5G virtualized Networks”. SONATA defines three pilots for demonstration and validation.
These pilots are: i)Content Delivery Network (CDN) – targeted to Service Providers that want to deploy a vCDN (virtual CDN) for their end-users ii)Personal Security Application (PSA) – targeted to end users that would like a personalised security service. iii)Hierarchical Service Providers (HSP) – targeted to highlight recursive operation between two instances of SONATA platform. The proposed demo will be based on the vCDN Pilot, that will be deployed over the SONATA demonstration infrastructure that spans across two testbeds, one located in Athens and the other in Aveiro. The testbeds are interconnected via VPN links over the internet.
To know more about this demo, check the Demo proposal or visit the conference website.
-For the last demos, have a look at the poster: A Flexible Multi-PoP Infrastructure Emulator for Carrier-grade MANO Systems.

5G-ENSURE & CHARISMA @2nd International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SNS 2017)
2017-07-03 09:00 - 17:00 | University of Bologna, the School of Engineering and Architecture, Viale del Risorgimento 2, Bologna, 40136, Italy
The 2nd edition of the International Workshop on Security in NFV-SDN (SNS2017) takes place on 3 July in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE Conference on Network Softwarisation (IEEE NetSoft 2017), 3-7 July at the School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Bologna, Italy.
Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) and Software Defined Network (SDN) technologies are radically changing telecommunication networks. NFV virtualises network services to reduce the dependency on underlying hardware which aids resource management, provides faster service enablement and lowers OPEX and CAPEX. SDN separates the control functions from the underlying physical network by decoupling the control and data planes thereby offering improved programmability, ease of deployment, management, reduced costs, better scalability, availability, flexibility and fine‐grain control of traffic. But how does this widespread adoption of NVF‐SDN impact on network security, especially with an increased attack surface implied by virtualisation?

This workshop invites high‐quality submissions in the areas of NFV and SDN security and related areas. Submitted papers should highlight methods and approaches that can be used to analyse the security risks, requirements and techniques related to NFV and SDN and to provide methods and approaches to assure security and mitigate threats in NFV and SDN.
The workshop is co-chaired by 5G-ENSURE and CHARISMA projects.

Topics of interest (not limited to)
-Security threats and vulnerabilities introduced by NFV and SDN technologies
-Management and orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security
-Security, reliability and privacy through SDN and NFV in 5G networks
-Threat detection and mitigation through SDN and NFV
-Security policy specification and management in SDN and NFV systems
-Security related monitoring and analytics in SDN and NFV solutions
-5G security architecture, trust and confidence
-Authentication, Authorization and Accounting in SDN
-Security of applying SDN to wireless and mobile network
-Security of applying NFV and SDN to IoT
-Security of applying NFV and SDN to cloud computing
-Risk and compliance issues in SDN
-Security architectures for SDN
-Security standards for SDN
-Security of SDN data plane
-Security of SDN control plane
-Security of SDN application plane
-Security of routing in SDN
-Security as a service for SDN

Workshop Co-Chairs
-Dr. Shao Ying Zhu, University of Derby, UK
-Linas Maknavicius, Nokia Bell Labs, France
-Eleni Trouva, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
-Dr. Colin Allison, University of St Andrews, UK
-Dr. George Gardikis, Space Hellas, Greece

Technical Program Committee
-Michail-Alexandros Kourtis – NCSR Demokritos, Greece
-Gergely Biczók – Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary
-Roberto Bifulco – NEC Labs Europe, Germany
-Carolina Canales – Ericsson, Spain
-Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna
-Augusto Ciuffoletti – University of Pisa, Italy
-Miguel Angel Garcia – Ericsson, Spain
-Ludovic Jacquin – Hewlett Packard Labs, UK
-Harilaos Koumaras – NCSR Demokritos, Greece
-Jianxin Li-Beihang University, China
-Antonios Litke – Infili Information Intelligence Ltd, Greece
-Diego Lopez, Telefonica, Spain
-Alan Miller – University of St Andrews, UK
-Nikolaos Papadakis – Infili Information Intelligence Ltd, Greece
-Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany
-Sandra Scott-Hayward – Queen’s University Belfast, UK
-Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui – i2CAT, Spain
-George Xilouris – NCSR Demokritos, Greece
-Yacine Rebahi, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS, Germany
Call for Papers for SNS2017 and important dates
The Call for Papers is for topics of interest, including but not limited to:
-Security threats and vulnerabilities introduced by NFV and SDN technologies
-Management and orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security
-Security, reliability and privacy through SDN and NFV in 5G networks
-5G security architecture, trust and confidence
-Security related monitoring and analytics in SDN and NFV solutions
Deadline for paper submission: 27 March 2017
Notification of acceptance: 18 April 2017
Early Bird Registration: 30 May 2017
Contacts
Shao Ying Zhu s.y.zhu@derby.ac.uk
Eleni Trouva trouva@iit.demokritos.gr

5GEx workshop on MPVNS @ MPVNS' 17 and NetSoft 2017
2017-07-03 08:00 - 2017-07-07 17:00
The IEEE International Workshop on Multi-Provider Network Slicing and Virtualization (MPNSV’17) will be held on July 3-7, 2017 in Bologna, Italy along with the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2017). Network Service Providers today are limited in maximizing usage efficiency of their resources and limited in revenue generation capability from rigid service offerings which often take up to 90 days to provision. Market fragmentation has resulted in a multitude of network operators each focused on different countries and regions. This makes it difficult to create infrastructure services spanning multiple countries, such as virtual connectivity or compute resources, as no single operator has a footprint everywhere.
The Network “Softwarization” through Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) aims at providing a framework for contracting, invoking and settling for the wholesale consumption of resources and virtual network services which can be provisioned in less than 90 minutes and rapidly invoked. This will enable network operators, applications providers and other stakeholders in the 5G supply chain to deliver new service value for 5G customers and at the same creating and enhancing revenue-generating potential for 5G providers, third party verticals and others in the supply chain while extending their footprint through cooperation and co-competition with other providers. This will allow end-to-end network and service elements to be jointly orchestrated in multi-vendor, heterogeneous technology and resource environments.

Workshop Information on “Multi-Provider Network Slicing and Virtualization”
-Call for Papers (PDF)
-Website here
-Submission here
Important dates
-Paper Submission:March 10, 2017
-Notification of Acceptance:April 18, 2017
-Camera Ready Papers:May 3, 2017

NetFutures 2017
2017-06-28 - 2017-06-29 | The Egg, 175 Rue Bara, Brussels, Belgium
We are going through a technological revolution that will fundamentally change the way we live, work, and relate to one another. This transformation led by Internet, its scale, scope, and complexity, will be unlike anything humans have experienced before. We do not know where exactly this ‘internetisation’ will lead us to: What will our society look like in 2027?
However one thing we know: People simply expect a lot more from the Internet, in terms of quality and reach, in terms of security and privacy, an Internet that is inclusive and supports openness, diversity and responds to the needs of the individuals.
We feel that not all European policy actors share this sense of urgency for action. However it is imperative to address these challenges or Europe’s voice on the future of the Internet will disappear.
The NET FUTURES edition in 2017 will serve as a wake-up call for policy makers and technologist alike, for civil society and the young whose future we will influence. It will be the place for deep-dive conversations and learnings right at a time when Europe is at the brink of entering the next industrial revolution: The Net.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Internet, the economy and society in 2027” and it will focus on future policies to address emerging issues and trends, from the perspective of citizens, users and businesses.
With the mid-term review of the Digital Single Market strategy due to be published shortly, it is an excellent opportunity to reflect upon and sharpen the goals to be addressed by Europe.
The conference will offer diverse topics for debate and insight, and the occasion to reflect on current issues such as:

the industrial internet
the need for a free flow of data within Europe
legal ethical and social issues emerging within a software-defined world
the requirements of a Next Generation Internet
data protection issues in a world with huge amounts of data
mobile connectivity

Net Futures 2017 is a dynamic forum for cutting edge conversation. Registration will open soon.
The discussion at Net Futures 2017 on Next Generation Internet will follow shortly after the Next Generation Internet Summit to be held in the European Parliament on 6–7 July. More details will follow on this event, for which a public consultation will be launched on 18 April (see http://www.eismd.eu/reisearch/initiative-on-next-generation-internet/ ).
Stay tuned by following us on @netfuturesEU #netfutures17

3rd EU-Taiwan 5G Workshop
2017-06-27 09:00 - 17:30
EU and Taiwan hold their 3rd seminar on 5G. The 1st EU-Taiwan joint 5G Workshop was held at European Commission (EC) on October 24, 2014 and the 2nd joint workshop took place in Taiwan on June 3, 2016.
The event follows previous contacts between EU and Taiwanese administration. It takes place in the context of preparing the execution of the current phase and preparatory consultation of the next phase of implementation of the H2020 (Horizon 2020) program. .
The objectives of this workshop are consequently:

To exchange information on state of global 5G development including key technologies, standards setting, and innovative applications in vertical industries, especially in IoT.
To share results of the existing H2020 projects in which Taiwan participate and discuss execution of the projects for EU-TW Targeted Opening Call (TOC) in the 2nd phase of H2020 5G program.

In the mid-term, to prepare for the Targeted Opening Call in the 3rd phase of H2020 5G program as well as promote EU and Taiwan collaboration beyond Targeted Opening Calls and contributions to international standards organizations.
The ceremony will jointly be opened by Mr. Antti Peltomäki, Deputy Director-General, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, DG GROW for the EU and by Mr. Chih-Kung Lee, Minister of Economic Affairs for Taiwan. On the 5G-IA/5G PPP side, Jean-Pierre Bienaimé will present the “State of global 5G development”.
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Agenda:
9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 10:00 Joint Opening Ceremony – EC & Taiwan

EU: Antti Peltomäki, Deputy Director-General, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, DG GROW
TW Mr. Chih-Kung Lee, Minister, Ministry of Economic Affairs

10:00 – 11:30 5G Collaboration – EC & Taiwan —Section 1
Co-Moderator: DG CONNECT Bernard Barani, Future Connectivity Systems, DG CNECT
Co-Moderator: Dr. Li-Fung Chang, Chief Architect, 5G Program Office, MOEA
EU Speakers:
[1] “State of global 5G development”, Jean-Pierre Bienaimé, 5G-PPP
[2] “Technology development in EU”, Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Smart Devices & Telecommunications Strategy Program Director, CEA-LETI
Taiwan Speakers:
[1] “Update of Taiwan’s 5G Program”, Dr. Li-Fung Chang, Chief Architect, 5G Program, MOEA
[2] “Small cell development in Taiwan – From Perspective of TAICS”, Pang-An Ting, Vice Chairman, Advanced Mobile Communication Technical Committee, TAICS
11:30 – 13:00 5G Core Network & Testbed —Section 2
Co-Moderator: DG CONNECT Pertti Jauhiainen, Future Connectivity Systems, DG CNECT
Co-Moderator: Dr. Jason Yi-Bing Lin, Vice Chancellor &Chair Professor, National Chiao Tung University
EU Speakers:
[1] “mmW trials”, Thomas Haustein, Fraunhofer HHI
[2] “5G Crosshaul architecture”, Antonio de la Oliva, Assistant Professor, Telematics Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Taiwan Speakers:
[1] “EPC towards 5G core networks”, Chih-Hsin Lin, Section Manager, III
[2] “5G Trial System”, Howard Tsao, Technical Director, ITRI

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch, Networking

14:00 – 15:00 5G Radio Access Network –Section 3
Co-Moderator: DG CONNECT Pertti Jauhiainen, Future Connectivity Systems, DG CNECT
Co-Moderator: Sheng-Lin Chou, Secretary General, Taiwan Association of Information and Communication Standards (TAICS)
EU Speakers:
[1] “New Air Interfaces and Network Evolution”, Klaus Moessner, EU 5GIC, University of Surrey
[2] “Future distribution systems”, Darko Ratkaj, Research Manager, EBU
Taiwan Speakers:
[1] “5G Network MIMO Technology”, Steven Hsu, Manager, ITRI.
[2] “Highly Coordinated Ultra Dense Network”, Shawkang Wu, Technical Director, ITRI

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30 Vertical 5G IoT General –Section 4
Co-Moderator: Prof. Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)
Co-Moderator: Alliance for IoT Innovation (AIOTI)
EU speakers:
[1] “IPv6-based 5G & IoT”, Dr. Latif Ladid, President of the IPv6 Forum, Chair of the IEEE ComSocIoT and Chair of the IEEE ComSoc 5G Committee, Ericsson
[2] “IoT Economy Opportunities and their impact in EU”, Kees van der Klauw, Philips
[3] “5G!Pagoda and its study on 5G-IoT integrated business challenges and opportunities”, Dr. Eunsook Eunah Kim, Device Gateway
Taiwan speakers:
[1] “IoT Economy Opportunities and their impact on Taiwan’s Smart City Development”, Dr. Ming-Whei Feng, SNSI, III
15:30 – 16:30 Vertical 5G IoT General –Section 4
Co-Moderator: Prof. Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)
Co-Moderator: Alliance for IoT Innovation (AIOTI)
EU speakers:
[1] “IPv6-based 5G & IoT”, Dr. Latif Ladid, President of the IPv6 Forum, Chair of the IEEE ComSocIoT and Chair of the IEEE ComSoc 5G Committee, Ericsson
[2] “IoT Economy Opportunities and their impact in EU”, Kees van der Klauw, Philips
[3] “5G!Pagoda and its study on 5G-IoT integrated business challenges and opportunities”, Dr. Eunsook Eunah Kim, Device Gateway
Taiwan speakers:
[1] “IoT Economy Opportunities and their impact on Taiwan’s Smart City Development”, Dr. Ming-Whei Feng, SNSI, III

Flex5Gware @CLEEN 2017
2017-06-22 08:00 - 17:00
Flex5Gware is organising the fifth International Workshop on Cloud technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communications Networks “How cloudy and green will mobile network and services be?” @CLEEN 2017 on 22 June 2017 in Turin, Italy.
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 functions virtualization technologies and Mobile 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.
Flex5Gware solicits original submissions in the following areas:

Centralized / decentralized PHY and MAC processing
Flexible assignment of functionality in mobile networks
Joint operation and optimization of radio access and backhaul networks for cloud-based mobile networks
Integration of cloud-services into green heterogeneous wireless networks
Management of cloud-based/cloud-operated heterogeneous networks providing access to cloud-services
Energy efficiency vs. QoS vs cost-efficiency trade-offs
Architectural evolution of mobile networks
Mobile Edge Computing and related enablers (e.g. new interfaces, protocols, node-to-node communication, D2D communication, …)
Cost effective deployment strategies for evolved heterogeneous wireless network
Service and energy management aspects of cloud-based mobile networks
Storage and computation capability of small cells
Resource allocation techniques; interference analysis, avoidance, and mitigation for heterogeneous networks
Testbeds and performance evaluation for cloud-based mobile communication networks

Important dates

Paper Submission: April 14th, 2017
Acceptance Notification: May 12, 2017
Camera-Ready: June 1, 2017
Workshop: June 22, 2017

General chairs
Dario Sabella (TIM, Telecom Italia group, Italy)
Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA LETI, France)
TPC co-chairs
Miquel Payaró (CTTC, Spain)
Sergio Barbarossa (Univ. La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
Publicity chair
Valerio Palestini (TIM, Telecom Italia group, Italy)
Steering Committee
Michael Faerber (Intel Deutschland, Germany)
Maurizio Mayer (AICT, Italy)
Chuan Heng Foh (University of Surrey, IEEE ComSoc TCGCC, UK)
Antonio Manzalini (TIM, Telecom Italia group, Italy, IEEE SDN chair)
Jinsong Wu (Universidad de Chile, IEEE ComSoc TCGCC, Chile)
Technical Program Committee
Fredrik Tillman (Ericsson)
Dieter Ferling (Nokia)
Sylvie Mayrargue (CEA)
Tapio Rautio (VTT)
Pablo Serrano (UC3M)
Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom)
Fabio Giust (NEC Eurolabs)
Giovanni Stea (University of Pisa)
Konstantinos Samdanis (Huawei)
Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino)
Lynda Mokdad (Uiversity of Paris)
Hacene Fouchal (Université de Reims)
Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad (EWI, TU Delft)
Zdenek Becvar (CTU)
Franco Vatalaro (AICT, Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
Navid Nikaein (Eurecom)
Loreto Pescosolido (La Sapienza University)
Matthieu De Mari (Singapore University of Technology and Design – SUTD)
Submission Guidelines
Accepted papers will be submitted for publication. A full version of each paper has to be submitted through the EDAS system under the workshop track. Guidelines for submission can be found in the CLEEN2017 website: www.flex5gware.eu/cleen2017/submission

Flex5Gware final event in Turin in June 2017 @ CLEEN 2017
2017-06-21 - 2017-06-22 | Turin, Italy
Flex5Gware will organise its final event in June 2017 in Turin (Italy). There will also be two public events:

June 21st, 2017:

A full day event, with FREE registration, with key note speeches, few presentations from all organizing projects and EU representatives, and final panel discussion; demos will be available all the 2 days (especially during the breaks and the networking lunch)

June 22nd, 2017:

Half-day workshop, with research papers, key note presentations and final panel discussion. Presented papers will be published in IEEExplore thanks to technical co-sponsorship of IEEE ComSoc and collaboration with AEIT.

During all the 2-days, TIM is hosting a 5G POC ZONE, with all the demonstrations and some posters presentations from CLEEN2017 workshop.
Last but not the least, we organized also an official Banquet/Gala dinner in a prestigious location!!
Read more information at http://www.flex5gware.eu/finalevent/social-event and register online here by 5th June.
In case of attending only the first day (FREE registration), interested people can simply send an email to cleen2017@aeit.it.
Please consider that the number of places in TIM premises is limited, so registrations will be acquired on a first-come first-served basis!
Please feel free as well to forward this invitation to your contacts!

Introduction of 5G PPP Phase 2 @ EuCNC 2017, Session 2
2017-06-15 08:00 - 09:30 | Radisson Blu Oulu, Hallituskatu 1, , Oulu, 90100, Finland
Information on new 5G PPP Phase 2 projects ran over two separate sessions.
Session 2 was on June 15th at 9:00 am in Room Ainola in the Radisson Blu Hotel.
Please find the agenda and all presentations.

Introduction of 5G PPP Phase 2 @EuCNC 2017, Session 1
2017-06-14 15:00 - 16:30 | Radisson Blu Oulu, Hallituskatu 1, , Oulu, 90100, Finland
Information on new 5G PPP Phase 2 projects ran over two separate sessions.
Session 1 was on June 14th at 4:00 pm (4:00-5:30, room Ainola in the Radisson Blu Hotel).
Please find the agenda and all presentations.

5G World Summit 2017 "Inspiring the Connected World through Next-Gen Networks"
2017-06-13 11:50 - 2017-06-15 17:45 | Excel London Convention Center, London, United Kingdom
5G World is part of London Tech week’s new festival of technology, TechXLR8.
Join in June for a unique event focused on shaping and defining the future of mobile networks. Hear from over 150 thought-provoking speakers on hot topics including: 5G in practice, 5G ready networks, Network slicing, Next-gen services and IoT. Enjoy the new enhanced demo zone, networking hub and network security focus day.
Find out more here!
If you are a 5G IA member, 5G World offers a 15% discount on tickets. Please get in touch with 5G IA Head of Office.

CHARISMA demos @EuCNC'17
2017-06-12 08:00 - 2017-06-15 16:00 | Oulu City Theatre, Kaarlenväylä 2, Oulu, Finland
CHARISMA’s objective is the development of an open access, converged 5G network, via virtualised slicing of network resources to different service providers (SPs), with network intelligence distributed out towards end-users over a self-similar hierarchical architecture. Such an approach offers a means to achieve important 5G key performance indicators (KPIs) related to low latency, high and scalable bandwidths, energy efficiency and virtualised security (v-security). CHARISMA integrates such diverse technologies into a single architecture with SDN and NFV advancements.

At EuCNC’17, CHARISMA will showcase major achievements:

OFDM demo: It is planned to demonstrate the 100G real-time OFDM-PON that is being built within CHARISMA. It will show the OLT and the ONU nodes. Its main characteristics are shown in a live demonstration
Low latency demo: The M2M use case shows the impact of the E2E-delay on M2M or CAR2CAR communication. The E2E-delay has a high impact of the system stability if it is included into the servo loop between sensor and actor. The demo simulates a scenario where a sensor and actor is placed on a moving vehicle (CAL0) and data processing is done in the cloud (CAL3).
CHARISMA Control, Management, and Orchestration (CMO) Platform Demo. The main highlights of this demo include:

E2E Slice Creation for multiple-tenants
Rapid On-boarding of network services
Dynamic provisioning of network services in the assigned slice of the tenant
Security policy configuration per tenant
CHARISMA Caching solution (optional)

Come and find them at Oulu from 13 to 15 of June at booth 19!

2nd Workshop on Network Management, Quality of Service and Security for 5G Networks @EuCNC'17, June 12th
2017-06-12 08:00 - 11:30 | Oulu City Theatre, Kaarlenväylä 2, Oulu, Finland
CogNet and SELFNET are co-organising the 2nd workshop on “Network Management, Quality of Service and Security for 5G Networks” @EuCNC’17 on June 12th, 2017, 9:00 am-12:30 pm
Please feel free to attend!
The reason for the workshop is to show case the work of the Network Management, Quality of Service and Security Working Group of the EU 5G PPP and also to present the newly developed whitepaper on these same topics as developed the projects involved in the Working Group. The workshop program will feature a keynote talk from Dr. Diego R. Lopez of Telefonica entitled “On the Dialectics of Intent – And how it applies to next-generation network management” as well as the presentation of the whitepaper “Cognitive Network Management for 5G” and 5 accepted paper presentations.
The workshop will bring together the various contributing projects within the 5G PPP that are involved in this working group and also interested parties (projects and/or organisations) which have a common interest in the development and progression of the identified topics below.
Network Management:

Integration of Networking Technologies
Integrated & Cognitive Network Management
Virtual Network Platforms
Multi Domain Software Networks
Service Program and Orchestration
Network Softwarisation

Security of network management:

Management of Network Security, Protection and Resilience
Secure Management of Network Slicing
Management of Network Integrity and Privacy

Quality of Services:

Metrics, Algorithms and Techniques for QoS and QoE of the Network & Services

SDN and NFV technology

Network Management in the vertical industries:

Transportation
Energy
Health
Industry 4.0

COHERENT demo @EuCNC 2017
2017-06-12 07:00 - 2017-06-15 16:00 | Oulu City Theatre, Kaarlenväylä 2, Oulu, Finland
The COHERENT demo will show several important aspects developed from the COHERENT project, including the RAN slicing and flexible radio resource management in heterogeneous radio access networks. The COHERENT project aims to develop a unified control and coordination framework for 5G heterogeneous radio access networks (RANs), with the emphasis on software defined networking (SDN) for RAN programmability, in particular efficient radio resource modelling and management, and flexible spectrum management.
The objective of the demo is to show the novel concept of the Heterogeneous RAN slicing developed in the COHERENT project. The RAN slicing concept will be based on the OpenAirInterface platform developed by the partner EURECOM, and the 5G-EmPOWER platform developed by the partner CREATE-NET. RAN slicing is an important concept in 5G to support multi-tenancy. The demo will showcase a solution provided by a newly introduced coordination framework, new RAN control components, and the combination of SDN and network function virtualization (NFV) to enable flexible and programmable network slicing in RAN.
The demo will show how to slice a cloudified radio access network that consists of a fronthaul segment between the remote radio unit (RRU) and radio cloud center (RCC) and a backhaul segment between the RCC/eNB and the RAN controller. Through the separation of the RAN control and data plane coupled with the virtualized control functions and control delegation features, real-time control and coordination applications can be implemented in support of fine-grain RAN programmability. This allows different levels of coordination among RAN infrastructure elements by dynamic placement of virtual control functions following SDN and NFV principles for adapting control over time and for easing network evolution to the future. The setup of the demo by the OpenAirInterface platform is shown below:

Similarly, for the Wi-Fi segment the demo based on the 5G-EmPOWER platform will show how custom resource allocation schemes can be deployed with a slice. This is done starting from a slice template containing the slice definition and the associated resource allocation policy. The underlying system enforces strict performance isolation between mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) and ensures efficient resource utilization across the network in spite of the nondeterministic nature of the wireless medium. The Setup of the demo is depicted in the figure below:

2nd WS on 5G PHY/MAC layers Design and Hardware Aspects @EuCNC 2017
2017-06-12 07:00 - 16:00 | Oulu City Theatre, Kaarlenväylä 2, Oulu, Finland
FANTASTIC5G, Speed5G, Flex5GWare are organising the 2nd edition of the 5G PPP workshop on 5G PHY/MAC Layers Design and Hardware Aspects Below and Above 6 GHz on June 12th at 1:30 pm, in Oulu, Finland @EuCNC.
The air interfaces for 2G, 3G, and 4G were all designed for specific use cases (limited only to voice and data communications) with a certain number of limited KPIs in mind (throughput, capacity, dropped/blocked call rates, etc.). However, 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 this workshop is to find the major conclusions and results of the FANTASTIC-5G, SPEED-5G and Flex5GWare projects on the design of the new 5G air interface below 6 GHz account that supports all such application constraints. This will specifically include the specific findings regarding 5G new waveforms, flexible air interface for the 5G vertical market, coexistence issues, flexible and adaptive novel MAC design, and a much more dynamic management of the available spectrum resources and advanced sensing techniques. In addition, the workshop will present enabling technology solutions for massive machine-type communication, ultra-reliable communications as well as interference mitigation with FDD and TDD providing 7-10x higher spectral efficiency over LTE 4×4 outcome. Eventually, the workshop will highlight implementation issues of the new 5G air interface for bands below and above 6 GHz, which will pose stringent requirements on the hardware platforms. For this reason, an important topic in this workshop is related to new concepts and solutions for highly performant, energy efficient and flexible hardware (both analogue and digital) in 5G networks.
The agenda is as follows:
-Keynote on “New PHY/MAC directions in 5GPPP”, Harish Viswanathan, Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill (USA)
-Talk 1: “FANTASTIC-5G Achievements & Next Steps”, Frank Schaich, Nokia Bell Labs, Stuttgart (Germany)
-Talk 2: “FANTASTIC-5G Massive MTC solutions”, Gerhard Wunder, FU Berlin (Germany)
-Keynote on “The SPEED-5G Vision on a flexible and effective 5G access stratum”, Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, Surrey (UK)
Coffee Break
-Talk 3: “Advanced flexible MAC for 5G and beyond”, Valerio Frascolla, Intel (Germany)
-Talk 4: “Interfaces towards upper layers: the RRM for 5G”, Keith Briggs, BT (UK)
-Keynote on “Why Will Computing Power Need Particular Attention in Future Wireless Devices?”, Aarne Mämmelä, VTT, (Finland)
-Talk 5: “Flexible solution for 5G baseband processing”, Tapio Rautio, VTT (Finland)
-Talk 6: “Enabling energy-awareness via function partitioning and bandwidth adaptation in 5G”, Miquel Payaró, CTTC (Spain)

Organising committee:
Frank Schaich, Alcatel-Lucent, frank.schaich@alcatel-lucent.com
Salah Eddine Elayoubi, Orange, salaheddine.elayoubi@orange.com
Gerhard Wunder, Heinrich Hertz Institute, gerhard.wunder@hhi.fraunhofer.de
Michael Färber, Intel Deutschland, michael.faerber@intel.com
Tapio Rautio, VTT, tapio.rautio@vtt.fi
Miquel Payaró, CTTC, miquel.payaro@cttc.es
Valerio Frascolla, Intel Deutschland, Valerio.frascolla@intel.com

5G: "European roadmap, Global Impact" @EuCNC 2017
2017-06-12 - 2017-06-15 | Oulu City Theatre, Kaarlenväylä 2, Oulu, Finland
EuCNC 2017 is the 26th edition of a successful series of a technical and scientific conference open to the world research community, sponsored by the European Commission, in the area of Telecommunications, focusing on communication networks and systems, and reaching services and applications. It aims at showcasing the results of the consecutive programmes on R&D and projects co-financed by European programmes, as well as presenting the latest developments in this area. The conference will have regular oral and poster sessions, and well as panels, tutorials, workshops, keynotes, and demos.

Fantastic-5G, Flex5Gware and Speed-5G will jointly organise the “2nd 5G PPP Workshop on 5G Physical Layer Design and Hardware Aspects Below and Above 6 GHz”.
SONATA will participate in a workshop organised under the umbrella of the Software Network Working Group of the 5G PPP. There will be a SME booth with 8 SMEs. Euro-5G will present phase 2 projects.
Cognet and SELFNET are organising the 2nd Network Management, Quality of Service and Security for 5G Networks, where the work of the 5G PPP Working Group on Network Management, Quality of Service and Security will be presented (more info on the workshop site).
CHARISMA, SESAME, COHERENT, VirtuWind, 5G-NORMA, 5GEx, SPEED-5G,SELFNET and mmMAGIC projects are co-organising the “Workshop on Business Models and techno-economic analysis for 5G networks” on June 12th.
5G-CROSSHAUL and 5G-XHAUL are co-organising (with iCIRRUS) a Workshop on “New XHaul solutions for the 5G transport challenge” on June 12th. The Software Network Working Group (SONATA, 5GEx, 5G-CROSSHAUL, SUPERFLUIDITY, CHARISMA, SESAME, SELFNET, VIRTUWIND, COHERENT) is organising a Workshop on “Software Networks and 5G: from network programmability to SDN/NFV combination for effective network slicing” on June 12th.
SESAME, COHERENT, 5G-XHAUL and CHARISMA are preparing a Special Session on ”Development of a Cloud-enabled “Small Cell as a Service” concept, for Multi-Tenancy and Edge Services in the 5G Framework.”
FLEX5GWare and mmMAGIC, with 5G-Champion, 5G-MiEdge are working on a Workshop on “Prototyping the 5th Generation Cellular Wireless Technology”.
mmMAGIC is organising a Workshop on “Millimetre-wave technology for 5G access, fronthaul and backhaul”.
5G-ENSURE organises a workshop on 5G Security on June 12th with the Security WG.
Euro-5G will present phase 2 projects.

Other details will be added when validated.
Papers
Call for papers: Submission deadline: February 24, 2017. Papers for regular sessions (to be uploaded to IEEE Xplore) are invited in the following Tracks (a full list of topics is available here):

PHY – Physical Layer and Fundamentals
RAT – Radio Access Technologies towards 5G
WON – Wireless and Optical Networks
NET – Networking
APS – Applications & Services
TER – Testbeds & Experimental Research

Key dates for papers

February 24, 2017 – Workshop proposals submission deadline
March 17, 2017 – Notification of acceptance
April 21, 2017 – Workshop papers submission
April 21, 2017 – Authors registration deadline

Workshops
Call for workshops: Submission deadline: February 24, 2017. Proposals for Workshops are invited in all Tracks (a full list of topics is available here):

PHY – Physical Layer and Fundamentals
RAT – Radio Access Technologies towards 5G
WON – Wireless and Optical Networks
NET – Networking
APS – Applications & Services
TER – Testbeds & Experimental Research

Workshops may address one or more Tracks, but they should be organised under a unified theme. Workshops are intended to allow projects or any other group of authors to present their own work. Workshops may include invited speakers, papers, and panels. The structure of workshops is not fixed, and proposers may design it as they think best. Proposers are responsible for defining the full contents of the Workshop, namely the authors and presenters. It is not expected that open calls for papers are launched for Workshops, in order to attract authors or presenters. Workshop papers can be either Presentations, Extended Abstracts (2 pages) or Full Papers (5 pages), and should be reviewed by the Workshop Technical Programme Committee. These papers will be part of the Conference Proceedings (if the authors wish to do so), but they will not be submitted to IEEE Xplore.
Key dates for workshops

February 24, 2017 – Workshop proposals submission deadline
March 17, 2017 – Notification of acceptance
April 21, 2017 – Workshop papers submission
April 21, 2017 – Authors registration deadline

Special sessions
Call for special sessions: Submission deadline: February 24, 2017. Proposals for Special Sessions are invited in all Tracks (a full list of topics is available here):

PHY – Physical Layer and Fundamentals
RAT – Radio Access Technologies towards 5G
WON – Wireless and Optical Networks
NET – Networking
APS – Applications & Services
TER – Testbeds & Experimental Research

Special Sessions may address one or more Tracks, but they should be organised under a unified theme. Special Sessions are intended to allow projects or any other group of authors to present their own work. Special Sessions may include one invited speaker, besides papers. Proposers are responsible for defining the full contents of the Special Session, namely the authors and presenters. It is not expected that open calls for papers are launched for Special Sessions, in order to attract authors or presenters. Special Sessions papers can be either Extended Abstracts (2 pages) or Full Papers (5 pages), and should be reviewed by the Special Sessions organisers. These papers will be part of the Conference Proceedings, but they will not be submitted to IEEE Xplore.
Key Dates for special sessions

February 24, 2017 – Workshop proposals submission deadline
March 17, 2017 – Notification of acceptance
April 21, 2017 – Workshop papers submission
April 21, 2017 – Authors registration deadline

Posters
Call for posters: Submission deadline: March 20, 2017. Extended Abstracts for Poster Sessions are invited in the following Tracks (a full list of topics is available here):

PHY – Physical Layer and Fundamentals
RAT – Radio Access Technologies towards 5G
WON – Wireless and Optical Networks
NET – Networking
APS – Applications & Services
TER – Testbeds & Experimental Research

Extended Abstracts for Poster Sessions are intended for the presentation of initial results worthwhile showing to the community. Poster Sessions will be held during the normal conference days, with dedicated time-slots, i.e., there will not be any parallel sessions to them.
Key Dates for posters

March 20, 2017 – Extended Abstracts submission deadline
April 10, 2017 – Notification of acceptance
April 21, 2017 – Extended Abstracts final version submission
April 21, 2017 – Authors registration deadline

This year’s conference motto is “5G: European Roadmap, Global Impact”.
The conference is sponsored by IEEE ComSoc (Communications Society) and EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing).
The conference is organised by the Coordination and Support Action EuConNeCts 2, Project H2020-ICT-2014-1-645 028.
Stay tuned here!

5G PPP projects @EuCNC 2017 “5G: European Roadmap, Global Impact”
2017-06-11 - 2017-06-15
5G PPP projects will actively be promoting their activities at EuCNC 2017 in Oulu, Finland (June 12-15, 2017).
-FANTASTIC-5G, FLEX5GWARE and SPEED-5G will jointly organise the “2nd 5G PPP Workshop on 5G Physical Layer Design and Hardware Aspects Below and Above 6 GHz” on June 12th. The scope of this workshop is to find the major conclusions and results of the FANTASTIC-5G, SPEED-5G and Flex5GWare projects on the design of the new 5G air interface below 6 GHz account that supports all such application constraints. This will specifically include the specific findings regarding 5G new waveforms, flexible air interface for the 5G vertical market, coexistence issues, flexible and adaptive novel MAC design, and a much more dynamic management of the available spectrum resources and advanced sensing techniques. In addition, the workshop will present enabling technology solutions for massive machine-type communication, ultra-reliable communications as well as interference mitigation with FDD and TDD providing 7-10x higher spectral efficiency over LTE 4×4 outcome. Eventually, the workshop will highlight implementation issues of the new 5G air interface for bands below and above 6 GHz, which will pose stringent requirements on the hardware platforms. For this reason, an important topic in this workshop is related to new concepts and solutions for highly performant, energy efficient and flexible hardware (both analogue and digital) in 5G networks.
-CHARISMA, SESAME, COHERENT, VIRTUWIND, 5G-NORMA, 5GEx, SPEED-5G,SELFNET and mmMAGIC projects are co-organising the “Workshop on Business Models and techno-economic analysis for 5G networks” on June 12th. The workshop will focus on relevant business- and techno-economic-aspects of future 5G networks. It will provide insight on the business impacts and opportunities from the deployment of 5G networks for all actors in the telecommunications ecosystem such as verticals, incumbent and new operators, service providers, application developers, content providers, regulators, equipment manufacturers etc. The potential for new roles such as brokers, aggregators and marketplaces, will also be discussed.
-SONATA will participate in a workshop organised under the umbrella of the Software Network Working Group of the 5G PPP. The name of this full-day workshop is Software Networks and 5G: from network programmability to SDN/NFV combination for effective network slicing, and will take place on Monday, June 12th. The Software Networks Working Group workshop will consist of a series of short and dynamic presentations with concrete technical outcomes of phase 1 5G PPP projects. The objective is to enable the liaison between projects and at the same time externalising the results of these projects to the research community for constructive feedback and interaction. The participants will have the opportunity to exchange ideas, share hands-on experience and solutions and discuss research results.
-5G-CROSSHAUL and 5G-XHAUL are co-organising (with iCIRRUS) a Workshop on “New XHaul solutions for the 5G transport challenge” on June 12th.
-The Software Network Working Group (SONATA, 5GEx, 5G-CROSSHAUL,SUPERFLUIDITY, CHARISMA, SESAME, SELFNET, VIRTUWIND, COHERENT) is organising a Workshop on “Software Networks and 5G: from network programmability to SDN/NFV combination for effective network slicing” on June 12th.
-SESAME, COHERENT, 5G-XHAUL and CHARISMA are preparing a Special Session on ”Development of a Cloud-enabled “Small Cell as a Service” concept, for Multi-Tenancy and Edge Services in the 5G Framework.”
-FLEX5GWare and mmMAGIC, with 5G-Champion, 5G-MiEdge are working on a Workshop on “Prototyping the 5th Generation Cellular Wireless Technology”.
-mmMAGIC is organising a Workshop on “Millimetre-wave technology for 5G access, fronthaul and backhaul”.
-EURO-5G will give information on phase 2 projects.
-5G-ENSURE organises a workshop on 5G Security on June 12th with the Security WG.
-COGNET and SELFNET are organising the “2nd Network Management, Quality of Service and Security for 5G Networks” where the work of the 5G PPP Working Group on Network Management, Quality of Service and Security will be presented. The reason for the workshop is to show case the work of the Network Management, Quality of Service and Security Working Group of the EU 5GPPP and also to present the newly developed whitepaper on these same topics as developed the projects involved in the Working Group. The workshop will bring together the various contributing projects within the 5GPPP that are involved in this working group and also interested parties (projects and/or organisations) which have a common interest in the development and progression of Network Management, Security of Network Management, Quality of Service, NFV/SDN, Network Management in the vertical industries.
There willl be a SME booth with 8 SMEs. Most of projects will also have a demo booth. For instance, SELFNET will present a framework for self-organized 5G network management through virtualized and software-defined networks. This is achieved by continuous monitoring and automated deployment of network management tools and functions. Thereby it will help to lower operational costs, improve the Quality of Experience and reduce service creation and deployment time. These functionalities will be showcased in three use-cases. SELF-PROTECTION detect and mitigate effects of cyber-attacks with virtualized deep packet inspection tools and personalized honey nets. SELF-HEALING detect and predict common failures / malfunctioning in 5G network infrastructure and will be able to apply, based on Health of Network metrics, reactive or preventive recovery actions. SELF-OPTIMIZATON automatically respond to degradation of QoE level coupled with proactive end-to-end energy management for optimized resource deployment across the 5G network.

Save the date!
EuCNC’2017 is the 26th edition of a successful series of a technical conference in the field of telecommunications, sponsored by the European Commission. The event will be organized in Oulu, Finland. It targets to bring together researchers from all over the world to present the latest research results, and it is one of the main venues for showcasing (demonstrating, trialling) the results of research projects, especially, from successive European R&D programmes cofinanced by the European Commission.
The conference program will include:
-Keynotes,
-Panels,
-Regular oral sessions, with papers from the open call (to be submitted for uploading to IEEE Xplore),
-Special sessions, with papers on specific topics,
-Workshops, with papers and presentations on specific topics,
-Poster sessions, with papers from the open call addressing latest results,
-Tutorials,
-Demos and exhibitions.
Key dates:
Submission of Papers, proposals for Workshops, tutorials and Special Sessions: February 24th, 2017
Notification of acceptance of workshops, Special Sessions and Tutorials: March 17th, 2017
Registration of authors (Papers in Regular Sessions, Special Sessions, Poster Sessions, and Workshops): April 21st, 2017
Stay tuned here!
@5GPPP

Workshop "Spectrum for 5G"
2017-06-07 10:00 - 16:30 | Avenue de Beaulieu 25, Avenue de Beaulieu 25, Auderghem, Brussels, Belgium
Spectrum for 5G Workshop,
This workshop presented and discussed recent research results covering the need for 5G spectrum and the suitability of the frequency bands under consideration (sub-GHz to millimetre) for 5G to provide ambitious services and adequate coverage, especially leveraging the 5G PPP projects advancements. Special attention will be given to the vertical industry requirements.
As no wireless 5G service can be provided without satisfactory access to radio spectrum – regulatory spectrum availability for enabling timely trials and commercial roll-outs of 5G technology and service provision will be discussed. The availability and selection of the right 5G frequencies is of crucial importance to the current on-going international standardisation, to the European industry stakeholders 5G Manifesto and to the EC’s 5G Action Plan, as also pointed out in the RSPG opinion on 5G spectrum.
The workshop was attended but over 80 experts and their presentations and discussions are presented on the program page.

5GEx Workshop on "Multi-Provider NFV: Towards Coopetive Service Ecosystem - The 5G Exchange Approach" @Network Virtualisation Europe
2017-05-31 14:40 - 17:00 | Melia Avenida America, Calle de Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, 36, Madrid, 28027, Spain
The 5GEx project is organizing a half-day workshop on “Multi-Provider NFV: Towards Coopetive Service Ecosystem – The 5G Exchange Approach”, in collaboration and co-located with the Network Virtualization Europe 2017 event (Meliá Avenida América, Madrid, Spain – May 31st, 2017)
The workshop aims to present the advances towards the orchestration of NFV-based services for multi-provider environments. The proposed picture will come from operators and industrial actors, sharing experiences, faced challenges and forward-looking visions, including the progress of the 5GEx project. The workshop will be structured in three main blocks, covering (1) needs and motivation, (2) technologies and solutions, and (3) evolution towards the new ecosystem. The presentations will be complemented by some demonstrations of prototypes for multi-domain orchestration.
The full agenda of the event is available at https://tmt.knect365.com/virtualization-sdn-europe/agenda/3.
Participation to the workshop is free. Nevertheless we kindly encourage all interested people to register for the workshop, by sending an email to 5GEx-Contact@5g-ppp.eu.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to your contacts. Looking forward to see you in Madrid.

5G NORMA @4th International Workshop on 5G Architecture, Paris, 25 May 2017
2017-05-25 08:00 - 17:00 | Palais des Congrès – Porte Maillot, 2 Place de la Porte Maillot, Paris, 75017, France
5G NORMA is organising the 4th International Workshop on 5G Architecture to be held in Paris on 25 May 2017 alongside with the IEEE ICC 2017.
It is essential to introduce a 5G End-to-End Architecture that allows for a cost- and time-efficient introduction of 5G, that integrates a variety of novel technologies rolled out in various stages, and that is sufficiently flexible to accommodate applications and services that are yet to be envisioned. For example, to allow 5G to support low latency, it is not sufficient to design a low latency RAN, since latency is an end-to-end factor and hence requires the joint design of RAN, Core and Transport Networks. Hence, the new E2E Architecture will have to be programmable, software driven and managed holistically to enable a diverse services in a profitable way. This requires novel ways of designing the mobile network architecture (radio access, core and transport network), operating the network, and offering interfaces. A number of topics will be considered and should be the center focus of a paper:

Flexible RAN architectures and C-RAN
Functional split and function placement
Multi-service architectures
5G wireless technologies
Cloud-based 5G mobile architectures
Network Function Virtualization
Multi-tenancy architectures
Joint computation/communication architecture/algorithms
Applications to vertical industries, e.g., Industrial IOT, V2X
Resilience and Security
Convergence of RAN and Core Network
SDN for radio access
Novel mobility management
Edge computing
Network Slicing, in particular RAN Slicing
Multi-Connectivity/RAT

Organising committee:
General Chair: Dr Peter Rost, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany
Program chairs: Dr. Albert Banchs, IMDEA Networks Spain – Prof. Alexandros Kaloxylos, Huawei, Germany – Prof. Matthew C. Valenti, West Virginia University, USA
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: initially 18 November 2016, extended to 18 December 2016
Notification Date: 17 February 2017
Final Paper: 10 March 2017

3rd International 5G RAN design workshop @ICC 2017 (25 May 2017, Paris)
2017-05-25 | Palais des Congrès – Porte Maillot, 2 Place de la Porte Maillot, Paris, 75017, France
While 5G research has already started some years ago, with large collaboration projects such as METIS initially paving the ground by aligning views on key use cases and requirements, and by identifying and researching key technology components for 5G, there is still a long way to go before the successful roll-out of commercial 5G deployments. In particular, there is still the need to find consensus on key design aspects in 5G, as for instance how tightly novel air interfaces variants in 5G will be integrated with each other and with legacy technology, and to which extent functionality on different protocol stack layers can be harmonized for all bands, services and cell types. The 5G PPP projects METIS-II, FANTASTIC-5G, mmMAGIC, 5G-CROSSHAUL and Flex5Gware all have the aim to take the 5G design one step further in level of detail, find consensus on key design aspects such as mentioned above, and prepare a smooth start of 3GPP study items in 2016 and work items in 2017.
The workshop, which is jointly organized by METIS-II, FANTASTIC-5G, mmMAGIC, 5G-CROSSHAUL and Flex5GWare, will build upon its successful predecessors, focus on the 5G RAN design and provide the opportunity to share and discuss final results from the mentioned projects or other 5G research activities. The workshop is col-located with IEEE ICC 2017 (21-25 May 2017). The workshop organizers solicit original, unpublished technical papers in particular in the following fields:

5G physical layer and hardware implementation concepts, e.g.

waveforms, synchronization, numerology, unified frame structure concepts
effect of hardware impairments on the PHY design, means for ultra low-latency and ultra high-reliability, native support of D2D V2X and multi-cast
low-complexity massive MIMO solutions and enablers, solutions for contention-based acces (TDD/FDD, pilot contamination, antenna correlations etc)

MAC, RLC, PDCP and RRC concepts, in particular related to a an efficient integration of multiple novel 5G air interfaces among each other, and with evolved legacy technology. Examples:

Novel resource management concepts for a wider range of service and QoS requirements and novel communication forms such as D2D, or spectrum sharing (LSA, ASA
Novel initial access and mobility concepts, in particular in the context of the integration and co-location of multiple novel and legacy air interface in 5G
Novel multi-connectivity approaches and related enablers

Backhaul/fronthaul design and capabilities for multi-tier ultradense heterogeneous small cell networks

Joint design and optimization of radio access and backhaul/fronthaul networks
Optimized backhaul/ fronthaul integration (wireline or wireless) and control
Backhauling and fronthauling options for a split control and data plane

RAN Architecture concepts associated to the overall control plane and user plane design such as:

E2E Network slicing, in particular its impact to the RAN
Novel 5G RAN Interfaces, CN/RAN interface, functional placement
Concepts associated to the impact of SDN/NFV to the 5G RAN design

Energy efficiency assessment of the 5G RAN
Business models and techno-economic assessment

Important dates:
Paper Submission: 2 December 2016
Notification Date: 17 February 2017
Final Paper: 10 March 2017
Organising Committee
General Chair: Dr. Patrick Marsch, Nokia Bell Labs Poland, patrick.marsch@nokia.com
Program chairs:
Dr. Olav Queseth, Ericsson, olav.queseth@ericsson.com
Dr. Frank Schaich, Nokia Bell Labs, frank.schaich@nokia.com
Dr. Gerhard Wunder, Heinrich Hertz Institute, gerhard.wunder@hhi.fraunhofer.de
TkL. Miurel Tercero, Ericsson, miurel.i.tercero@ericsson.com
Mr. Krystian Safjan, Nokia Bell Labs, krystian.safjan@nokia.com
Dr. Xavier Costa Perez, NEC Labs Europe, xavier.costa@neclab.eu
Dr. Fabio Cavaliere, Ericsson, fabio.cavaliere@ericsson.com
Michael Färber, Intel Deutschland, michael.faerber@intel.com
Dr. Miquel Payaró, CTTC, miquel.payaro@cttc.es
About IEEE ICC 2017
IEEE ICC 2017 will exhibit an exciting technical program, complete with 13 Symposia highlighting recent progress in all major areas of communications. IEEE ICC 2017 will also feature high-quality Tutorials and Workshops, Industry Panels and Exhibitions, as well as Keynotes from prominent research and industry leaders.

Third Global 5G Event on 24-25 May 2017, Tokyo (Japan)
2017-05-24 09:00 - 2017-05-26 15:00 | Hilton Tokyo Odaiba Hotel, 1 Chome-9-1 Daiba, Tokyo, 135-8625, Japan
The Third Global 5G Event, hosted by the 5G Mobile Forum!

After the successful events of 2016, held in China (Beijing) and in Europe (Rome), the series of high level events on the 5G ecosystem continues this year in Japan (Tokyo), on May 24-25. The 3rd Global 5G Event will offer participants lively debates around 5G spectrum, standards and deployment as well as exciting showcases of the latest 5G developments from industrial players.
5GMF is also organising an exhibition, which will be held in the Tokyo Big Site, co-located with the Wireless Technology Park (WTP) 2017, a major event which in 2016 attracted more than 47,000 visitors. Please see the Call for Exhibitors here!
Schedule and Venue:

Workshop: 24-25 May 2017
Venue: Conference room at Hilton Tokyo Odaiba Hotel
1 Chome-9-1 Daiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Exhibition: 24-26 May 2017
Venue: Tokyo International Exhibition Center at Tokyo Big Sight
3 Chome-11-1 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo
5G Field Trial Technical Tour for Foreign Visitors : 09:30-15:00, 26 May 2017

Draft Agenda
Day 1- 09:00-18:00 May 24, 2017

Time Schedule
Speakers

09:00-09:10 (10min)
Welcome address
Japanese government (TBD)

09:10-09:20 (10min)
Keynote speech
Prof. Emeritus S. Yoshida
Kyoto University, Chairman of 5GMF

09:20-10:50 (90min)
Opening session 1
Designing the policy for 5G promotion
MIC Japan (Moderator)
Mr. Pearse O’Donohue
Acting Director for Future Networks, DG Connect, European Commission
Mr. Julius Knapp
Chief of the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
Mr. Ce Zhao
Deputy Director, Division of High-Tech Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology P.R.C.
Mr. JuSeop SHIM
Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning

10:50-11:10 (20min)
Coffee Break

11:10-12:40 (90min)
Opening session 2
New trends of industrial interest towards 5G era
Prof. Hiroyuki Morikawa (Moderator)
University of Tokyo, Chairman of Strategy & Planning Committee in 5GMFMr. Jean-Pierre Bienaimé
5G-IA Secretary General
Mr. Chris Pearson
President of 5G Americas
Ms. Zhiqin WANG
Vice Chair of IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group
Prof. DongKu Kim
Yonsei Univ., Chairman of Executive Committee 5G Forum

12:40-13:40 (60min)
Lunch

13:40-15:10 (90min)
Session 1
Global harmonization on 5G Spectrum collaboration
Prof. HyeonWoo LEE (Moderator)
DanKook Univ., 5G ForumMr. Colin Langtry
Chief, Study Group Department, ITU-R
Mr. Yoshio Honda
Ericsson Japan, Frequency Working Leader,
Technical Committee in 5GMF
Mr. Arnaud Vamparys
VP Radio Access Networks and Microwaves at Orange Group
Mr. Julius Knapp
Chief of the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology, U.S. Federal Communications Commission
Prof. EenKee HONG
Kyung Hee Univ., 5G Forum

15:10-15:30 (20min)
Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 (90min)
Session 2
5G deployment plans towards 5G implementation
Mr. Chris Pearson (Moderator)
President of 5G AmericasMr. Akira Matsunaga
KDDI, Acting Chairman of Technical Committee in 5GMF
Mr. Arnaud Vamparys
VP Radio Access Networks and Microwaves at Orange Group
Dr. Rao Yallapragada
Director of Advanced Technologies, Intel
Dr. Chih-Lin I
Chief Scientist, China Mobile Research Institute
Dr. JongSik LEE
Vice President, 5G TF, Institute of Convergence, KT

17:00-18:00 (60min)
Special Session
Security in 5G
Prof. Sylvain Guilley (Moderator)
TELECOM-ParisTechDr. Anand R. Prasad
NEC Corporation, Chairman 3GPP SA3 (Security)
Mr. Koji Nakao
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

18:30-20:30
Welcome Reception
Host: MIC Japan (invited guests only)

Day 2-May 25, 2017
Registration desk opens at 08:30

Time Schedule
Speakers

09:00-10:30 (90min)
Session 3
Potential collaboration on 5G trial plans

Ms. Tao ZHOU (Moderator)
Deputy Director of China Telecom Shanghai Research Institute
Dr. Yukihiko Okumura
NTT DOCOMO, Leader of 5G Trial Promotion Group in 5GMF
Dr. Didier Bourse
Director, European R&I Programs at Nokia
Dr. Wanshi Chen
Qualcomm
Dr. Lei WAN
Expert of IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group, Director of Wireless Standard Department
Mr. Masao Akata
VP, Leader of SEJ-Technology Team, Samsung Electronics

10:30-10:50 (20min)
Coffee Break

10:50-12:20 (90min)
Session 4
Building collaborative relationship with Verticals

Mr. Bernard Barani (Moderator)
EC, Acting Head of Unit Future Connectivity Systems, DG CONNECT
Mr. Junya Inoue
Senior Director of ICT Solutions, The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Mr. Takashi Sueki
General Manager, ITS Planning Dept., ITS Planning Div., Connected Company, TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION
Dr. Shaohui Sun
Chair of 3GPP Standard WG of IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group, Chief Expert of Datang Telecomm Group
Mr. ChangSoon CHOI
Senior Manager, Corporate R&D Center 5G Tech Lsb, SK Telecom

12:20-13:20 (60min)
Lunch

13:20-14:20 (60min)
Wrap up panel
5G roadmap for global platform towards 2020 realization

Mr. Takehiro Nakamura (Moderator)
NTT DOCOMO, Acting Chairman of Strategy & Planning Committee in 5GMF
Prof. Seiichi Sampei
Osaka University, Chairman of Technical Committee in 5GMF
Prof. Akihiro Nakao
University of Tokyo, Chairman of Network Committee in 5GMF
Dr. Colin Willcock
Chairman of the Board, 5G Infrastructure Association
Mr. Chris Pearson
President of 5G Americas
Mr. Xinhui WANG
Vice Chair of International Cooperation of IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group, Director of Wireless Standardization and Industrial Relationship of ZTE
Dr. HyunKyu CHUNG
Vice President, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, South Korea

14:20-14:30 (10min)
Closing remarks

Prof. DongKu KIM
Yonsei Univ., Chairman of Executive Committee 5G Forum

14:30-14:40 (10min)
Closing address

Dr. Kohei Satoh
Secretary General of 5GMF

15:00-17:00 (120min)
Exhibition Tour for foreign visitors

WTP Exhibition Tour in Tokyo Big Signt
Shuttle Bus will depart from Hotel.

18:00-20:00
TPC and Executive Dinner

Host: MIC Japan (invited guests only)

Day 3 May 26, 2017 (invited guests only)
5G Technical Tour to visit the place on 5G Trial: 09:30-15:00
Shuttle Bus will depart from Hotel.

The 3rd Global 5G Event Organizing Committee (5GMF)
Yoshinori OHMURA (y-ohmura@arib.or.jp)
Kazuhisa FUJIMOTO (k-fujimoto@arib.or.jp)

Registration and Practical Information
Exhibition and practical information (registration, hotel accommodation, passport and visas, transportation) is available on the 3rd Global 5G Event website.

5G-CROSSHAUL @IEEE Com Soc Webinar: NFV/SDN, Time for Real Innovations
2017-05-23 11:00 - 12:00
SDN and NFV are currently moving from the phase of standardization to that of early proliferation and adoption as common 5G base technologies. First innovations that truly exploit the capabilities enabled by SDN and NFV are also emerging in the form of novel architectures and technologies that improve on flexibility, dynamicity and overall performance. On the other hand, there is also a remaining belief that SDN and NFV have not pushed the boat out where it is needed for 5G and beyond. This webinar sheds light on these aspects of adoption, innovation, and the new frontiers with the help of invited esteemed experts in this space who will outline their position and debate their views.

Speakers:

Josep Matrat , Telecom and Media Market Manager, Atos R&D Spain
Artur Hecker, Director of Future Network Technologies, European Research Center of Huawei Technologies
Antonio de la Oliva, Associate Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Dirk Trossen, Senior Principal Engineer, InterDigital Europe

Online registration is open, please click here.

SONATA @ SOFTNETWORKING 2017
2017-04-23 08:00 - 2017-04-27 17:00 | NOVOTEL VENEZIA MESTRE CASTELLANA, Via Ceccherini 21, VENEZIA MESTRE, 30174
SONATA will participate in the next International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization, SOFTNETWORKING 2017, that will take place in Venice (Italy) on April 23-27th.
The Symposium is dedicated to the advances and challenges in SDN&NFV technologies and their applications. Some of the SDN&NFV-related topics will be:
– Software Defined Networking (SDN): concepts, challenges and architectures
– Control and Management in SDN; Network Operating Systems (NOS, ONOS) and virtualization in SDNs
– Network Function Virtualization concepts, challenges and architectures (NFV, OPNFV)
– SDN and NFV cooperation
– SDN and NFV standardization
– OpenDaylight (goals, platforms, interfaces and applications), OpenStack and SDN
– SDN Controllers design and implementation
– SDN Forwarding Elements design and implementation
– OpenFlow and Southbound Protocols
– Application programming interfaces for SDN
– Forwarding plane abstractions, programmability, languages
– Verification techniques and tools for SDN and NFV
– Performance evaluation, optimization and isolation of the Data and Control Planes
– SDN applications and use cases
– NFV applications and use cases
– Reliability, resiliency and fault management in SDN and NFV
– Security and privacy and in SDN and NFV
– Data and Control Plane scalability, inter-operability
– Autonomic (self) management technologies in SDN and NFV
– SDN/NFV architecture versus Content delivery and oriented networks, Information Centric Networking
– Operators and Service Providers business and deployment perspective on SDN and NFV
– Planning and Deployment of SDN/NFV technologies and applications in operational networks
SONATA participation will be structured in three blocks:
– Introduction to SONATA
– SOMA: NFV Service Development and Operations for the SONATA MANO Platform
– DEMO: SONATA NFV SDK and MANO Service Platform hands-on
For more information, please visit the link here.
About SONATA
SONATA is developing a NFV framework that provides a programming model and development toolchain for virtualized services, fully integrated with a DevOps-enabled service platform and orchestration system. SONATA initial results include:

SONATA’s Network Service SDK: Facilitates network service development for third-party developers
SONATA’s Service platform: Thanks to the modular design of its MANO framework, the platform offers high customization opportunities for both, Communication Service Providers and Service Developers.
SONATA NFV DevOps Workflow: The SONATA system is designed for agile development and operation of network services. It enables a DevOps workflow between the SDK tools and the service platform, which allows developers and operators to closely collaborate.

The project results will be release through its 30 month workplan. SONATA first prototype was delivered at the end of the first year of the project, in June 2016. A qualified version will be delivered early in 2017. The final release of the SONATA platform will be public in the summer of 2017.
The project is committed to maintain a publicly available source code repository through the entire development process. SONATA outcomes are published in a public GitHub repository under Apache v2.0 license, a permissive license that guarantees full rights for adoption, modification and distribution.
www.linkedin.com/in/sonata-nfv
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mmMAGIC, METIS-II, 5G-Crosshaul, 5G NORMA @5G PPP Workshop on RAN Architecture and integration
2017-03-30 10:30 - 2017-03-31 17:00 | Samsung European Leadership center, Sherwood House, Eastworth Rd , Chertsey, KT16 8SH, United Kingdom
mmMAGIC, METIS-II, 5G-Crosshaul and 5G NORMA are organising a workshop on RAN architecture and integration on March 30-31, 2017 in London.
Day 1 will focus on 5G-PPP work and Day 2 expand the discussion to all aspects of 5G: from Theory to Practice.
The workshop is open to all on both days .
The Workshop home page, with latest info on the agenda and logistics, can be found here.
Along with many others, the following topics will be debated:

Multi-connectivity, multi-RAT & multi-service aspects
Network slicing, virtualization and flexible RAN design
System integration and deployment considerations

Registration is has officially closed but if you contact David Gutierrez Estevez, Samsung Electronics, d.estevez(at)samsung.com and/or Mehrdad Shariat, Samsung Electronics, m.shariat(at)samsung.com they can assist you if any places remain available.

mmMAGIC @2nd International Workshop on mmW5G (March 19, 2017)
2017-03-19 16:00 - 2017-03-20 01:00 | Hyatt Regency, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA, 94111, United States
mmMAGIC is organising the 2nd International Workshop on Millimeter Wave-Based Integrated Moible Communications for 5G Networks (mmW5G) on March 19, 2017 in San Francisco (USA). The workshop is co-located with IEEE WCNC 2017 (19-22 March 2017).
Millimeter wave communication has generally been acknowledged as one of the enablers to meet the requirements of future communication systems, in particular to provide the high bandwidth necessary to achieve the expected high data rates for extreme broadband. However, to overcome the adverse propagation conditions at higher frequencies, high gain beamforming at transmitter and receiver ends on multi-node co-ordination solutions are actively pursued now. This kind of directional, coordinated communication leads to a new design paradigm for future systems which is much more complex than their counterparts operating at lower frequencies. There are multiple challenges in properly understanding the mm-wave radio channel, designing radio systems with multiple RF chains at these higher frequencies, channel estimation and beam tracking under mobility, co-ordination and interference management in ultra-dense networks etc. However there have been significant advancements in the mm-wave technologies over the past few years, leading to prototype systems now being developed.
This workshop will bring together the leading names in industry, academia and research institutes to discuss and debate the latest developments in this area. It offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this field to disseminate their results in all areas of mm-wave communications to a diverse audience. The workshop invites authors to submit original and previously un-published research papers in the following and related topics:

Mm-wave channel sounding and modeling
Antenna design and characterization
Advanced multiple antenna systems (including massive MIMO)
Mm-wave beamforming techniques (Hybrid, Analog and Digital)
Efficient transceiver architectures and design
Advanced transceiver schemes for access, backhaul and self-backhaul
Novel channel estimation techniques considering the channel sparsity
Robust transceiver design taking into account hardware impairments and CSI imperfections
Multi-node/multi-beam coordination and cooperation at mm-wave frequencies
Coverage analysis of ultra-dense mm-wave networks
Mobility handling schemes in mm-wave networks
Mm-wave channel modelling and measurements
Mm-wave air interface and waveform candidates
Mm-wave prototyping efforts
Network architecture aspects (stand-alone, non-stand-alone) for mm-wave systems

Important dates
Paper submission: 7 November 2016 (to be submitted to this link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22926&track=82119)
Notification of Acceptance: 15 December 2016
Camera-Ready Submission: 12 January 2017
Organizing Committee
General Chairs
Mythri Hunukumbure (Samsung Electronics UK), mythri.h@samsung.com
Maziar Nekovee (Samsung Electronics UK), m.nekovee@samsung.com
Miurel Tercero (Ericsson), miurel.i.tercero@ericsson.com
TPC Chairs
Raffaele D’Errico (CEA-LETI), raffaele.derrico@cea.fr
Mario Castaneda (Huawei), Mario.Castaneda@huawei.com
Tommy Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology), tommy.svensson@chalmers.se
Publicity Chairs
Tommy Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology, for Europe), tommy.svensson@chalmers.se
Mehrdad Shariat (Samsung Electronics UK, from mmMAGIC), m.shariat@samsung.com
Megumi Kaneko (National Inst. of Informatics, Japan, for APAC), megkaneko@nii.ac.jp
Ismail Guvenc (North Carolina State University, for US), iguvenc@ncsu.edu
About mmMAGIC
The main objective of this 5G PPP project is to develop and design new concepts for mobile radio access technology (RAT) for deployment in the 6-100 GHz range. This is envisaged as a key component in the 5G multi-RAT ecosystem and will be used as a foundation for global standardization.
About IEEE WCNC
IEEE WCNC is focused exclusively on wireless research, technology, and applications. The conference program includes workshops, tutorials, and panel discussions on today’s state-of-the-art as well as what the wireless future will look like. An expanded industry program, including a large exhibition hall showcasing the latest wireless technology, will provide opportunities for industry professionals to share and learn about the latest ideas, trends, and product innovations in the wireless industry.

SONATA @The Cloud Expo Europe London 2017
2017-03-15 10:30 - 2017-03-16 18:00 | Excel London Convention Center, London, United Kingdom
Come and listen to Diego’s talk at Cloud Expo Europe London at ExceL on 15th and 16th March 2017!
Mr. Diego R. López, Telefónica I+D’s Head of Technology Exploration & Standards (GCTO Unit), outlines his forthcoming talk at Cloud Expo Europe London to John Bensalhia…
Agile (and secure) network service prototyping and DevOps will be on the menu for the talk given by Diego R. López, Telefónica I+D’s Head of Technology Exploration & Standards (GCTO Unit).
“The talk will introduce some of our activities regarding network virtualisation at Telefónica I+D ” says Diego. “Our research is providing a new environment and new functions. We are bridging the gap between cloud applications and networking environments. The use of cloud-native applications can boost performance and reliability.”
To provide a picture of these principles, Diego will be using the SONATA project which is a network service management framework designed to address the needs of 5G future services, and discussing its contribution to the OSM (Open Source MANO, http://osm.etsi.org/) project, hosted by ETSI with the participation of more than 60 key players in the networking industry. “The introduction to the SONATA project will highlight the elements developed within the project and the use cases considered.”
More about Diego:
Diego (also an Iberian ham, wine and cheese fan and comic book aficionado) will introduce the key architectural and functional elements needed for applying the DevOps principles to network service management. He will explore what’s needed in relation to supporting collaboration, achieving agility, and addressing security.
Having joined Telefonica I+D (the R&D branch of Telefonica) in 2011 as a Senior Technology Expert on network middleware and services, Diego is now in charge of the company’s Technology Exploration activities. “Telefonica is a global communication services provider that offers services in 23 countries including the UK and Germany (our headquarters base is in Spain),” says Diego. “We also have presence in many other countries such as the US and China.”
He currently concentrates on identifying and evaluating the latest opportunities in technologies applicable to network infrastructures, and the co-ordination of national and international collaboration activities. Prior to this, Diego was involved in academic research on network service abstractions and the development of APIs based on them. He was also made a member of the High-Level Expert Group on Scientific Data Infrastructures by the European Commission.
More about SONATA:
The SONATA project has three principle aims. The first of these is the reduction of time-to-market of networked services. What SONATA does is to streamline development by using abstract programming models, a Software Development Kit (SDK) and a DevOps model that brings together operators, manufacturers and third-party developers. The next aim is to optimise resources and lower the costs of operation and service deployment. What SONATA does is to orchestrate complex services to connectivity, computing and storage resources, while automatically re-configuring running services. Finally, SONATA aims to hasten industry adoption of software networks. It supports the complete service life-cycle including development, testing, orchestration, deployment, management and operations.

EU-China conference on IoT and 5G Research @EXCITING Project
2017-03-09 00:30 - 11:00
The H2020 project EXCITING (EU-China Study on IoT and 5G) is organizing its first conference that will be held on March 9th, 2017 in Beijing, China with support from Huawei, one of the partners of the project consortium.

The one-day event aims to present and showcase some of the latest developments of 5G and IoT in both the EU and China, from perspectives of policy-making, research and industry and identify potential ways forward towards better cooperation between both sides in these two fields.
Registration is free. Click here to register online.
Sessions

Policy Perspectives
Technology Perspectives
Application
Final Panel on Joint Future Actions

Expected Outcomes
The conference will serve as the first key project event where the project partners and its Advisory Board members interact directly with and get the first-hand information on IoT and 5G development in both the EU and China from its target stakeholder groups (research community, industry, policy makers, media, general audience, etc.). It will raise awareness of the importance of joint actions and collaboration, collect useful inputs for project activities in terms of standardisation, testbeds and LSP specifications and best practices, as well as valuable opinions on how the project can move forwards to best support and facilitate concrete collaboration in the near future.
The conference will be followed immediately on the next day with a non-public, intensive Round Tablediscussion between the invited speakers/experts and the project partners on concrete ideas to move forward on bilateral cooperation in the fields of IoT and 5G.
Details of the venue will be announced shortly.
Contact
Kai Zhang, kai.zhang@martel-innovate.com

5G-PPP @ Mobile World Congress 2017
2017-02-28 14:00 - 15:30 | Fira Gran Via, Av. Joan Carles I, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 64 08908
5G-Infrastructure Association (5G-IA)
Media & Analyst Event @ Mobile World Congress 2017, Barcelona:
“5G Action Plan: from Research to Trials”

The members of the 5G Infrastructure Association have the pleasure to invite media and ICT industry analysts to a briefing on the evolution of European 5G initiatives from Research to Trials at Mobile World Congress 2017. The event will be held on the 28th of Feb from 14:00 to 15:30 in the Press Conference Room 1, in the Media Village at the MWC in Barcelona.
Click here to go to the Event Page

5G-Crosshaul - the fusion of Fronthaul and Backhaul in 5G! @MWC 2017
2017-02-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Fira Gran Via, Av. Joan Carles I, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 64 08908, Spain
5G-Crosshaul is organising a panel at MWC 2017 on Tuesday 28 February, 2017 from 11:00 to 12:00 Hall 7 Stand 7C61.
Looking at various research and standardisation forums leading the development of 5G, such as 5G PPP, NGMN, 3GPPP, IEEE, ITU, IETF, ETSI, etc., all seem to align on the vision that the fronthaul and backhaul will converge or fuse in 5G into what is now popularly refreed to as Crosshaul or Xhaul. So what requirements are driving quch a fusion in 5G? Which enabling technologies could make it happen? Where are ther remaining gaps and what is the industry doing to make ot happen? And when are we going to see it?
Featuring leading experts in the industry, this panel aims at discussing the Crosshaul (Xhaul) topic from the various angles of requirements, architecture, enabling tehcnologies, standardization, and market development.
The panel will be moderated by Alan Carlton, Vice-President of International Labs at InterDigital (UK). Panelists include: Antonella Sanguineti (Ericsson), Arturo Azcorra (5TONIC), Diego Lopez (Telefonica), Li Fung Chang (Taiwan’s 5G-Office), and Theodore Sizer (Nokia).
Read more here or there.
Feel free to attend!

If you want to know more about Crosshaul, there are additional opportunities:
-5G-Crosshaul will also demonstrate its solution over InterDigital’s EDGELINKTM platform, featuring demanding low-latency traffic from a remote surgery application at the InterDigital stand (Hall 7 Stand 7C61) from Monday 27 Feb. to Thursday 2 March.
-CTTC will show a SDN- based management of a heterogeneous wireless Crosshaul, featuring automated technology and link selection over 802.11ac/ad links at CTTC stand (Hall 8.1 stand 8.1A63) from Monday 27 Feb. to Thursday 2 March.
-Alan Carlton (InterDigital) and Diego LOpez (Telefonica) will be keynote speakers at the “NFV: A Re-examination” session, hall 4 Auditorium 3 on Tuesday 28 Feb. 2017 from 15:30 to 16:40 featuring 5G-Crosshaul project as an exemplary use case.
-Bob Gazda (InterDigital) will be keynote speaker at the “5G Impact” session, hall 4 Auditorium 5 on Thursday 2 March 2017, from 11:30 to 13:00 featuring video demonstration of 5G-Crosshaul solution with a remote surgery application.

Contact: Alain Mourad, InterDigital, Alain.Mourad@InterDigital.com.
