5G-PPP

SONATA@XXIst Edition of FIC - Cape Verde International Fair
2017-11-15 10:00 - 2017-11-19 19:00 (Europe/Berlin)
SONATA will participate in the XXIst Edition of FIC – Cape Verde International Fair, this year under the slogan “Cape Verde, the Hub for Western Africa”.
To be held in the City of Mindelo – São Vicente Island, from November 15 to 19, the FIC 2017 is the reference event for all sectors in Cape Verde. During 5 days, the country brings together the Exporters, importers, resellers, distributors and service providers from and to Cape Verde with the purpose of promoting business, knowledge transfer and business partnerships, making of this event the greatest brand, which is to continue to be the business platform par excellence in Cape Verde, and a window of opportunity for West Africa.
In addition to the B2B meetings, the fair will have simultaneously technical presentations, lectures, and debates alluding to the theme, with particular emphasis on the internationalization of companies for our sub-region (ECOWAS), financial instruments to support business initiatives, as well as transport´s logistics, bringing together and around this edition, all the players that can facilitate the affirmation of Cape Verde as a natural Hub for West Africa.
SONATA will be very well represented there by our partner member Altice Labs. The Altice labs team there will make several presentations about SONATA and its results, as well as some live demonstrations.
More information soon!

The European Big Data Value Forum 2017 (EBDFV 2017)
2017-11-21 09:00 - 2017-11-23 16:30 | The Palais des Congrès,, 10 Rue de la Chancellerie, Versailles, 78000, France
The registration for The European Big Data Value Forum 2017 (EBDFV 2017) is now open!
EBDVF 2017, jointly organised by the European Commission, the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) and EDF (European Data Forum), will take place in Versailles on 21-23 November and will be a key European event for industry professionals, business developers, researchers, and policy makers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the European data economy and data-driven innovation in Europe.
The central topic of the event is “Trusted AI in Smart Industry”.
Since it is a great opportunity for engaging and boosting your business around big data and data driven domains, I would like to invite to register for your participation here.
Registration to the European Big Data Value Forum is FREE.
You can find further information on the event website: http://www.european-big-data-value-forum.eu/

4th Global 5G Event, Seoul, November 22-24, 2017
2017-11-22 08:30 - 2017-11-24 18:00 | Marriot Seoul, 176 Sinbanpo-ro, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea, Republic Of
The 4th Global 5G Event will be held in Seoul, Korea on the 22-23 November 2017. A PyeongChang 5G tour is scheduled for the last day on November 24th, 2017.
The event theme is: “5G accelerating the 4th Industrial Revolution”
The venue is: JW Marriott Seoul Hotel, 5F Grand BallRoom, 176 Sinbanpo-ro, Seocho-gu, Seoul
The link to the event site and registration is now available: https://www.4th-g5ge.org.
The program is the following:

5G-XCast @Forecast'17
2017-11-23 08:30 - 2017-11-24 16:00
5G-XCast will make many presentations at the Forecast’17 seminar that will take place on 23-24 November in Geneva (Switzerland).
Forecast is an annual EBU event dedicated to distribution of audiovisual media services. IT covers not only technical aspects but also regulatory and operational issues, with a focus on large-scale distribution of Public Service Media (PSM) content and services. Additional information and a preliminary programme are available here.
David Gomez-Barquero (UPV), 5G-XCast Project Manager, will deliver a presentation on the whole phase 2 project. Several other experts that are involved in 5G-XCast will speak at the event, including Steve Appleby (BT, Unified service delivery on fixed and mobile networks 11:45 am session 1, 23 November), Javier Morgade (IRT, Next generation of DTT technologies, where are we going? 9:45 am session 1, 23 November), Roland Beutler (SWR, Business Arrangements for distribution of broadcast content, 10:00 am session 4, 24 November), and Matt Stagg (BT/EE Scaling mobile networks to support the rise in live and linear viewing 11:00 am session 4, 24 November).
If you wish to attend register online here.
If you need more information, please contact Darko Ratkaj, EBU (European Broadcasting Union), ratkaj@ebu.ch

2nd edition of the European Cyberweek 2017: cybersecurity of IoT
2017-11-27 08:30 - 17:00
This hight-level event, will feature a week-long agenda brought to you by French and European key stakeholders. The programme for the whole week is here.
On December 1st, 2017, the cybersecurity of Internet of Things conference will therefore examine the specificities of the Internet of things and propose ways to build a response adapted to justify trust in the future connected objects. You can register online here.
The Internet of things (IoT) uses advanced technologies in systems architectures, communications networks, protocols, data processing and storage. Its economic stakes are considerable and its development interests all sectors of activities: consumer markets, industry, services and utilities (energy, water treatment or transport). However, in all these areas, cybersecurity is a fundamental concern. The IoT, because of its connection to the IP world, its geographical scope and its scalability, presents specific vulnerabilities. By 2016, the attack has progressed faster than defense and new threats have emerged, facilitated by the proliferation and diversity of connected objects. The conference SEE 2017 will therefore examine the specificities of the Internet of things and propose ways to build a response adapted to justify trust in the future connected objects.
Recommendations based on the SEE IoT’18 Survey will be disclosed. The abstract of this Survey (in French only) can be downloaded here.

5G-MEDIA @NEM Summit 2017
2017-11-29 09:00 - 2017-11-30 17:00 | NEM, Edificio Nouvel, Auditorio 400 and Auitorio 200. Museo Reina Sofía, Entrance by Ronda de Atocha s/n, Madrid, Spain
5G-MEDIA Project will officially participate in the NEM Summit 2017, which will be held in Madrid on 29-30 November 2017. The NEM Summit is an international conference and exhibition, open to co-located events and organised every year since 2008 by the NEM Initiative for all those interested in broad area of Media, Content, and Creativity. For its 10th edition, 5G-MEDIA is contributing with a technical paper entitled “Media industry meets 5G: the 5G-MEDIA project in 5G PPP phase 2”.
Over the years, the NEM Summit has grown to become an annual not-to-be-missed event, providing attendees with a key opportunity to meet and network with prominent stakeholders, access up-to-date information, discover latest technology and market trends, identify research and business opportunities, and find partners for upcoming EU-funded calls for projects.
The 5G-MEDIA paper has been accepted by the NEM Summit Program Committee and it will be presented during the “Opening Plenary Session of the NEM Summit 2017” on November 29th. With this paper, the project will take part in discussions on the latest development in European media, content, and creativity, by explaining its objectives, concept and technical approach, as well as its Use Cases.

Stay tuned on the 5G-MEDIA website and Twitter account for more information!

CHARISMA 5G Open Event, November 29, 2017
2017-11-29 14:00 - 17:30
CHARISMA and Telecom Slovenije are organising a 5G Open Event on Wednesday 29/11/2017.
The event will take place at Telecom Slovenije premises in Ljubljana (Cigaletova 15, 1000 Ljubljana) and will include short presentations and a live demonstration highlighting the achievements made in the CHARISMA project.

Feel free to join us!
The program of the 5G Open Event is the following:

Time
Presenter
Title

14:00-14:15
Konstantinos Chartsias (Intracom Telecom)
“SDN/NFV-based End to End Network Slicing for 5G Multi-Tenant Networks”

14:15-14:30
Theodoros Rokkas (inCITES)
“Techno-economic modelling of 5G networks”

14:30-14:45
Jean-Charles Point (JCPC)
Pending

14:45-15:00
Kai Habel (HHI)
“An introduction to OFDM-PON for converged optical access”

15:00-15:10
Coffee Break

15:10-15:25
Marian Ulbricht (Innoroute)
“TrustNode, a versatile research platform for 5G networks”

15:25-15:40
Kostas Filis (COSMOTE)
“5G CHARISMA architecture towards future connected and autonomous vehicles”.

15:40-15:55
Takis Hadjifotiou
“Future High Capacity Fibre Optical Communications”

15:55-16:10
Haitham Cruickshank
“Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs); are they safe and secure”

16:10-16:40
Late Lunch Break

16:40-17:30
Demos and tour lab

CHARISMA 3rd Summer School
2017-11-30 08:30 - 14:30
CHARISMA is organizing the 3rd summer school on “Fixed-Mobile Convergence in 5G Networking” in Ljubljana, Slovenia on November 30th, 2017.
5G is foreseen as the key enabling technology that will provide high data rate communication services with low latency and will boost the development for new applications for all vertical industries. By supporting virtualization and multi-tenancy, 5G will enable the creation of new business models leading to a new ecosystem that will extend beyond the traditional telecommunication actors and stakeholders. In order for 5G to meet these ambitions a number of challenges must be resolved.
The summer school is hosted at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at University of Ljubljana. It will provide a series of lectures that cover thematic areas that are related to 5G networking.
Topics include:
-Technologies and architectures for 5G
-New use cases for 5G networks
-New platforms and devices for 5G solutions
-Design of NFV and SDN solutions
-Techn0-economic modeling in 5G
Participants will have the opportunity to interact with researchers and academics from several European Universities, Research Institutes and Industry.

More detailed information(program, speakers….) here.

Fantastic-5G @IEEE Global Communications Conference
2017-12-03 - 2017-12-08 | Hotel Marina Bay Sands, 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore, Singapore
The 2017 IEEE GLOBECOM will be held at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore, December 4-8, 2017.
All papers for technical symposia (including Selected Areas in Communications) should be submitted before April, 1st, 2017 including the Signal Processing for Communications Symposium organised by Fantastic-5G.
The issues covered in the Signal Processing for Communications Symposium are broad, spanning from traditional transceiver design to state-of-the-art signal processing methodologies in contemporary and emerging communication systems, and the application to new frontiers including cognitive radios and smart grids. Intention is to provide comprehensive coverage of signal processing methodologies, theories and practices in prevalent and next-generation communication systems and networks.
Topics of interest to the Signal Processing for Communications symposium include but are not limited to:

Signal processing techniques in 5G
Spatial transmission and distributed transmission techniques
Multi-antenna (SIMO, MISO, MIMO, Massive MIMO), multi-user, centralised/distrributed multi-mode systems
Signal processing techniques for full-duplex communications
Interference cancellation techniques in communications systems including NOMA
Decentralised and cooperative signal processing in networked systems
Signal processing for single-carrier, OFDM/OFDMA, multicarrier systems including new waveforms
Signal processing fro green communications, energy harvesting and wireless power transmission
Signal processing for security enhancement particularly physical layer security
Channel estilation, detection and synchronisation
Spectrum sensing, shaping, and management techniques
Novel architectures for signal demodulation and decoding
Compressive sensing algorithms
Signal processing techniques for commercial/standardises and emerging systems
Signal processing for sensor networks and IoT applications
Signal processing for software defined and cognitive radio
Adaptive antennas and beamforming
Signal processing for optical communications
Signal processing for millimeter and Tera-Hz communications systems
Signal processing for smart grid and powerline communications
Localisation, positioning and tracking techniques
Signal processing for data analytics and machine learning

All papers for technical symposia (including Selected Areas in Communications) should be submitted via EDAS.
Paper submission deadline for technical symposia is April 1st, 2017.
Contact: Gerhard Wunder, HHI Fraunhofer Institute & Fantastic-5G

5G-TANGO @ 2nd ETSI NFV Plugtests
2018-01-15 09:00 - 2018-01-19 17:00 | ETSI Headquarters, 650 Route des Lucioles, Sophia Antipolis cedex, 06921 , France
ETSI’s Centre for Testing and Interoperability is organising the second NFV PlugtestsTM event on 15-19 January 2018. The event will be hosted in ETSI’s headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France.

5G-TANGO is promoting and actively testing interoperability of SONATA Service Platform 3.1. Interoperability results will be incorporated in SONATA 4.0 powered by 5GTANGO.

More information on the event here.

Towards TeraHertz Communications workshop
2018-03-07 | European Commission, Avenue de Beaulieu 25, Brussels, 1160, Belgium
In the context of the exploratory preparation for the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, the European Commission hosst an open workshop on TeraHertz communications on 7th March 2018.
This workshop aims at bringing together key actors currently working on, or having interest, in THz communications in order to explore future R&I plans for the period beyond 2020. The main goal of the workshop will be to have an overview of the current state of the art of the research in this area, to discuss the main challenges still to be explored, to highlight key research directions for future R&I actions and to share opinions on the foreseen frequency bands which could be good candidate to be supported by the EU in the global allocation exercise.
For more information and online registration please visit the dedicated page on the EC website. Online registration will close on Friday 2nd March 2018.

SPEED-5G Workshop on Advanced spectrum management in 5G+ networks
2018-03-07 11:00 - 18:00
SPEED-5G is organising a public workshop on Advanced spectrum management in 5G+ networks – in London on 7th March 2018. It will be hosted at the BT centre.
The workshop reports interesting novel results of international research projects on some selected aspects of 5G and beyond networks with main focus on dynamic spectrum access techniques.
Attendees will have the opportunity to listen to technical presentations in the lecture room, as well as to witness live demonstrations of some key results, in dedicated adjacent small rooms.
The event in the lecture room has the following agenda:
11:00 – 11:45 Welcome + Keynote speech (VP from BT)
11:45 – 12:00 SPEED-5G project presentation
12:00 – 12:20 Demos short presentations
12:20 – 12:40 Technical presentation (from the 5G-MiEdge project)
12:40 – 13:40 Lunch buffet offered by BT
13:40 – 14:40 3x technical presentations (from the SPEED-5G and 5GMonarch projects)
14:40 – 14:50 Coffee break
14:50 – 15:50 3x technical presentations (from the SPEED-5G and XCAST projects)
15:50 – 16:00 wrap-up and close
From 10:00 till 17:00 in dedicated rooms live demonstrations will be available for interested participants, running in parallel to the presentations held in the lecture room.
Attendance is open to the public, but is subject to a previous free registration via the Registration Form. Due to the limited room capacity, acceptance is based on a first come-first served base.
Latest updates to the workshop programme will be posted on the Workshop Page.
In case of questions please do not hesitate to contact SPEED-5G.

5GCity@IoThings
2018-04-10 08:00 - 2018-04-11 17:00 | Palazzo del Ghiaccio, Via Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 14,, Milano, 20137, Italy
5GCity will be a Networking Partner in the next IoThings in Milan on 10 & 11 April 2018.

5GCity will particularly contribute to the Italia5G panel scheduled on April 11, 2018 from 11:15am to 1:30 pm.

CfP ends on 12 Nov. for One5G & 5G-XCast @Workshop on cm-wave and mm-wave (CmMm5G)
2018-04-15
One5G and 5G-Xcast are co-organizing a joint workshop on cm-wave and mm-wave based communications for 5G Networks (CmMmW5G) at the IEEE WCNC 2018 conference in Barcelona, Spain on April 15, 2018.

Both projects call for papers.
The CmMmW5G workshop is an evolution from the two successful previous editions of the mmW5G workshop held in conjunction with WCNC 2016 and 2017. This will cover the innovative RAN technologies currently being developed for cm-wave and mm-wave spectrum, for both the 5G radio access and 5G broadcast domains. The focus will be on 5G eMBB applications as covered by the currently developed 3GPP NR standards, as well as on URLLC (Ultra Reliable and Low Latency Communications) and mMTC (massive Machine Type Communications) including verticals like Automotive, Smart cities, Healthcare and Industry 4.0. In addition, Broadcast/Multicast applications are considered where different verticals can be supported efficiently.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: 12 November 2017 (extended), use this link
Notification of Acceptance: 15 December, 2017
Camera-Ready Submission: 12 January, 2018
TOPICS of INTEREST
-5G channel modelling and measurements
-Novel channel estimation techniques
-5G antenna design and prototyping
-Multiple antenna techniques, incl. MIMO, Massive MIMO and Beamforming
-Control and implementation aspects for Massive MIMO and Beamforming
-Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) schemes, code design.
-Efficient Transceiver architectures and design
-5G air interface/ waveform design and optimizations
-Advanced radio link management, incl. efficient signalling and control
-Hardware impairments – modelling and impact analysis
-5G co-ordinated cells incl. NR-CoMP
-Heterogeneous networks
-Advanced Channel coding, waveform and Non-Uniform modulation
-Layered-Division Multiplexing
-Next generation of broadcasting systems
-Convergence of broadcasting and broadband wireless
-5G system prototyping, PoC efforts
More on ONE5G!
More on 5G-XCast!

5G-CORAL 1st International Workshop on Edge and Fog Systems for 5G & Beyond @IEEE WCNC'18 - CfP ends on 12 November
2018-04-15 08:00 - 17:00
5G-CORAL is organising the 1st International Worlshop on Edge and Fog Systems for 5G & Beyond (IWEF) (April 15, 2018, Barcelona, Spain).

The First International Workshop on Edge and Fog Systems for 5G & Beyond (IWEF) will be held inBarcelona, Spain on April 15, 2018 in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2018.
In addition to Clouds, the Edge and Fog are emerging as defining locations in 5G where much of the network intelligence and service innovation could also be envisioned. The move to the Edge was originally driven by the desire of operators and cloud providers to deliver low latency services and avert inevitable network congestion by keeping locally a huge amount of local traffic. The list of usages and opportunities brought by the Edge and Fog could only grow quickly especially when imagined with network softwarization tools of SDN and NFV. The move to the Edge has also helped the rediscovery of a wealth of dormant assets in the local access network. These dormant assets are essentially contextual information collected from the users, devices, and nodes. Putting this data on offer to application and service providers keen on optimizing and customizing their service delivery to the end customers proved compelling for all stakeholders.
The rich Edge and Fog ecosystem and bigger value one can deliver by interconnecting these with the cloud led to the launch of industry initiatives recently such as ETSI MEC and Open Fog Consortium. This workshop provides a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of delivering an integrated virtualized edge and fog system. Several challenges lie ahead such as: (1) Identifying which context information and what functions from each access network may be of value to host at the Edge either to improve own access network services or other services from other access networks separately or jointly; (2) Defining mechanisms to collect and deliver this context information where and when it is needed, as well as the placement and chaining of access network functions throughout the Edge; (3) Exploring which access network entities (including terminal devices) could offer their resources and capabilities to dynamically scale the integrated edge; (4) Designing automated and secure mechanisms to discover and federate all the edge resources which may be volatile/mobile, heterogeneous, not directly interconnected, and may belong to multiple owners; and (5) Defining all the interactions that need to be supported between the edge and non-edge domains such as the transport network, core network, and distant clouds.
This workshop will offer a keynote and solicit papers that address any of the abovementioned challenges.
Workshop Chairs
–Prof. Ying-Dar Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
–Dr. Arturo Azcorra, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain
–Dr. Alain Mourad, InterDigital Europe Ltd, UK
Call for Papers
This workshop seeks original papers that address any of the abovementioned aspects. Technical papers should describe original research that is unpublished and not under review by any other conference/journal. Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following topics:
-5G-EFS/MEC architecture and system framework
-5G-EFS/MEC use cases, deployment scenarios, and requirements
-5G-EFS/MEC experiments, testbeds and demonstrations
-Business models involving all stakeholders of the 5G-EFS/MEC value chain
-Cloud federation in 5G-EFS/MEC
-Integration and interaction between EFS/MEC and central clouds
-EFS/MEC applications and service provisioning
-EFS/MEC function provisioning
-Orchestration and control algorithms for EFS/MEC functions
-Resource management and allocations for EFS/MEC
-Network function virtualization (NFV) at EFS/MEC
-Network slicing and multi-tenancy of EFS/MEC
-EFS/SDN/NFV integration
-Virtualization of radio access network functions in EFS/MEC
-Multi-RAT convergence and network offloading
-Software defined networking (SDN) for EFS/MEC
-Switching designs to support 5G-EFS/MEC architectures
-QoS and traffic engineering in EFS/MEC
-Service mobility under the EFS/MEC framework
-Security and privacy issues in EFS/MEC
-Authentication, authorization and billing issues in EFS/MEC
-Performance analysis and evaluation of EFS/MEC system
Submitted papers must be tailored to the problems of Edge and Fog Systems. Only originally unpublished contributions and invited articles will be considered for the workshop. Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE WCNC 2018 guidelines. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete paper via EDAS according to the timetable below:
–Submission deadline: 23 October 2017 12 November 2017
–Author Notification: 15 December 2017
–Final Manuscript: 12 January 2018

5G-T @Workshop on Control and management of network slices, CfP deadline Nov. 12th
2018-04-15 08:00 - 2018-04-18 17:00
5G-Transformer organises a workshop on Control Management of network slices @ IEEE WCNC’18 (15-18 April 2018, Barcelona, Spain) and calls for papers

TOPICS OF INTEREST
-Architectures/Protocols/API specifications to allocate verticals/networks on top of single and/or multi-domain mobile transport networks
-Business mechanisms and economic framework for network slicing
-Scalable and secure MANO-based deployments models
-Multi-domain service and resource federation
-Network/Vertical service descriptors
-Virtualization in multi-domain environments
-Integration of network and IT resources
-Vertical/network slice isolation (security threats and performance isolation)
-Inter-slice communication (security threats and control mechanisms)
-Virtualization/containerization of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Monitoring of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Flexible control/data plane splits and fronthaul splits
-Runtime allocation of resources to vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Runtime placement of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Enforcement of orchestration policies for the interaction between services/microservices within a slice
-Local breakout/MEC/fog/cloudlets
-Experimentation and lessons learnt with orchestration frameworks CORD, ONAP, Open-O, OSM, Cloudify, OpenBaton, Istio in mobile transport networks
-Experimental mobile transport testbeds including network and IT resources
-Experimental Network/Vertical slice measurements
-Coexistence and migration of legacy operational networks towards slice substrates.
-Standardization efforts on network slicing (ETSI, IETF, 3GPP, BBF, ONF, etc.)

IMPORTANT DATES
-Paper Submission Deadline: November 12th, 2017
-Notification of Acceptance: December 15th, 2017
-Camera-ready version: January 12, 2018

Workshop on Economics and Adoption of Millimeter Wave Technology in Future Networks @WCNC'18 - CfP deadline on Nov. 2nd
2018-04-15 08:00 - 2018-04-18 17:00
The 5G-Miedge, TWEETHER and ULTRAWAVE projects organise a Special Session Workshop on “Economics and Adoption of Millimeter Wave Technology in Future Networks” @WCNC’18 in Barcelona on 15-18 April. Contributions from 5G PPP projects are vey welcome.
View the full CfP here.

TOPICS OF INTERESTS
– Socio-cultural hurdles for a broad adoption of mmWave links
– Return on Investment of mmWave deployment for backhaul and access networks
– New technologies that can synergize and facilitate the adoption of mmWave technology
– Business innovation needed for a new technology adoption
– Breakthrough innovation in the mmWave areas
– Wigig, WiFi and cellular mmWave access: synergies and differences
– Standardization status of mmWave technologies
– Regulatory aspects of mmWave technologies
– EMF for mmWave devices
– New business cases for mmWave adoptions

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: November 2nd, 2017
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2017
Camera-ready version of accepted papers: January 12th, 2018

5G-CORAL @1st Workshop on Edge and Fog Systems for 5G & Beyond (IWEF)
2018-04-15 09:00 - 17:00
5G-CORAL co-organises the First International Workshop on Edge and Fog Systems for 5G & Beyond (IWEF). It will be held in Barcelona, Spain on April 15, 2018 in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2018.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Prof. Ying-Dar Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Prof. Ying-Dar Lin is a distinguished professor of Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan. He is an IEEE Fellow, an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2014~2017), and a research associate of ONF. He has been the editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials since 2017 and is currently on the editorial boards of many IEEE journals. He has co-chaired symposia at IEEE Globecom’13 and IEEE ICC’15.
Dr. Arturo Azcorra, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain
Dr. Arturo Azcorra is currently full professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and is also an IEEE Senior Member and an ACM SIGCOMM Member. He has served as a TPC member in many international conferences, including several editions of IEEE PROMS, IDMS, QofIS, ACM CoNEXT and IEEE INFOCOM.
Dr. Alain Mourad, InterDigital Europe Ltd, UK
Dr. Alain Mourad is currently leading the research and development of Next-Generation RAN at InterDigital Europe Ltd. Prior to joining InterDigital, Alain was a Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics R&D (UK) and previously a Senior Engineer at Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe (France). Throughout his career, he has been active in the research and standardization of recent wireless communication and broadcasting systems (3GPP-LTE, WiMAX 16m, DVB-T2/NGH, ATSC 3.0). Alain has several inventions and authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications. He received the Inventor of the Year Award from Samsung Electronics R&D UK twice in 2012 and 2013, and in 2016 InterDigital Non-Patent Innovation Award for the “idea, creation and execution of InterDigital Europe”.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 2 November 2017
Author Notification: 15 December 2017
Final Manuscript: 12 January 2018
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following topics:
-5G-EFS/MEC architecture and system framework
-5G-EFS/MEC use cases, deployment scenarios, and requirements
-5G-EFS/MEC experiments, testbeds and demonstrations
-Business models involving all stakeholders of the 5G-EFS/MEC value chain
-Cloud federation in 5G-EFS/MEC
-Integration and interaction between EFS/MEC and central clouds
-EFS/MEC applications and service provisioning
-EFS/MEC function provisioning
-Orchestration and control algorithms for EFS/MEC functions
-Resource management and allocations for EFS/MEC
-Network function virtualization (NFV) at EFS/MEC
-Network slicing and multi-tenancy of EFS/MEC
-EFS/SDN/NFV integration
-Virtualization of radio access network functions in EFS/MEC
-Multi-RAT convergence and network offloading
-Software defined networking (SDN) for EFS/MEC
-Switching designs to support 5G-EFS/MEC architectures
-QoS and traffic engineering in EFS/MEC
-Service mobility under the EFS/MEC framework
-Security and privacy issues in EFS/MEC
-Authentication, authorization and billing issues in EFS/MEC
-Performance analysis and evaluation of EFS/MEC system
For more information on the Workshop click here.
For more information on 5G-CORAL click here.

5G-TRANSFORMER @1st Workshop of COntrol and Management of network slices for VERTicals (COMVERT)
2018-04-15 09:00 - 2018-04-18 17:00
5G-TRANSFORMER co-organises the First Workshop of COntrol and Management of network slices for VERTicals (COMVERT) in conjunction with the IEEE WCNC. The IEEE WCNC is the only IEEE conference focused exclusively on wireless research, technology, and applications. The 2018 edition of this conference will be held in Barcelona on April 15-18, 2018 at the Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB) and will be organized by the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
The Phase 2 5G PPP project calls for papers.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: November 2, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2017
Camera-ready version: January 12, 2018
TOPICS OF INTEREST
-Architectures/Protocols/API specifications to allocate Verticals/networks on top of single and/or multi-domain mobile Transport networks
-Business mechanisms and economic framework for network slicing
-Scalable and secure MANO-based deployments models
-Multi-domain service and resource federation
-Network/Vertical service descriptors
-Virtualization in multi-domain environments
-Integration of network and IT resources
-Vertical/network slice isolation (security threats and performance isolation)
-Inter-slice communication (security threats and control mechanisms)
-Virtualization/containerization of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Monitoring of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Flexible control/data plane splits and fronthaul splits
-Runtime allocation of resources to vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Runtime placement of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Enforcement of orchestration policies for the interaction between services/microservices within a slice
-Local breakout/MEC/fog/cloudlets
-Experimentation and lessons learnt with orchestration frameworks (CORD, ONAP, Open-O, OSM, Cloudify, OpenBaton, Istio) in mobile transport networks
-Experimental mobile transport testbeds including network and IT resources
-Experimental Network/Vertical slice measurements
-Coexistence and migration of legacy operational networks towards slice substrates
-Standardization efforts on network slicing (ETSI, IETF, 3GPP, BBF, ONF, etc.)
For more information on the Workshop click here.
For more information on 5G-TRANSFORMER click here.

5G PPP "How can 5G help resolve global water challenges?" Industry panel @WCNC'18
2018-04-18 11:00 - 12:30 | Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB), Plaça de Willy Brandt, 11-14, Barcelona, 08019, Spain
IEEE WCNC is the world premier wireless event that brings together industry professionals, academics, and individuals from government agencies and other institutions to exchange information and ideas on the advancement of wireless communications and networking technology.
The conference will feature a comprehensive technical program offering numerous technical sessions with papers showcasing the latest technologies, applications and services. In addition, the conference program includes workshops, tutorials, keynote talks from industrial leaders and renowned academics, panel discussions, a large exhibition, business and industrial forums.
Six Panels are organised. Miquel Payaró, 5G-IA Board Member, co-organises together with key members of WWRF, the P5 industry panel “How can 5G resolve global water challenge?” on April 18th, 11:00am-12:30am.
More information here.

Multi-Access Edge Computing Seminar at UC3M
2018-05-09 08:00 - 2018-05-10 17:00 | University Carlos III of Madrid, Avenida de Aragon, No 400, Madrid, 28022, Spain
5G Transformer Project in cooperation with 5G Coral Project have organized a Seminar dedicated to “Multi-Access Edge Computing” at UC3M facilities, from 8-10 May.
Dario Sabella, from Telecom Italia Spa (TIM) is the speaker of this session who is much experienced in this field. Check here his publications and patents in a short bio of him.
Seminar agenda:
Day 1 – Tuesday May 8th, 2018
11.00 – 13.00 Overview on Edge Computing, Fog computing, Cloud computing
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.45 MEC Framework and Reference Architecture
15.45 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.30 General principles for Mobile Edge Service APIs;
Day 2 – Wednesday May 9th, 2018
9.00 – 10.45 Mobile Edge Management, Mobile Edge Platform
Application Enablement
10.45 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 13.00 MEC Mobility aspects
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.45 MEC in 5G, MEC in NFV
15.45 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – 17.30 Metrics Best Practices and Guidelines, MEC PoCs (case study: RAVEN PoC)
Day 3 – Thursday May 10th, 2018
9.00 – 10.45 MEC APIs (RNI, Location, UE identity, V2X, …)
10.45 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 13.00 MEC support for V2X use cases
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break

5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium: 5th Global 5G Event
2018-05-16 14:30 - 2018-05-18 01:00 | Austin Convention Center, 500 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78701, United States
5G Americas is organising the 5th Global 5G Event also known as 5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium. Registration is open. Thre Symposium will be focusing on worldwide progress of the 5th Generation of wireless technologies. The event is co-located with both 5G North America and BCE at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas from May 16-17, 2018 and have limited capacity.

The symposium will host about 50 expert panelists and speakers including business leaders, inventors, engineers, professors, technical experts and policymakers from around the world representing the leading 5G organizations. The sessions are mindfully curated to stimulate the continued progress on 5G technology worldwide and focus on government policies, promotions, services, trial projects and other industrial convergence opportunities.
The Global 5G Event series was developed in the interest of efficiency and building global consensus on 5G, and was announced in October 2015 by the following parties of a Memorandum of Understanding: 5G Americas, (Americas), the Fifth Generation Mobile Communications Promotion Forum (5GMF) (Japan), 5G Forum (Republic of Korea), IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group (China) and the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G IA) (Europe). In May 2017, Brazil (Telebrasil/Projecto ‘5G Brasil’) joined the partners on the Global 5G Event to support multi-lateral collaboration on 5G systems across continents and countries.
Registration offers an early-bird discount or package pricing with the co-located events. Media and operators will have free access with pre-registration. Confirmed speakers and panelists will be announced in February.

About the Gobal 5G Event: the Global 5G Event is an event where the world’s leading 5G organisations discuss the latest research and development achievements and views on 5G technologies, spectrum, standardisation, field trials, applications, the future roadmap and global collaboration. The series of evengts is based on a Multi-lateral MoU to cooperatate on building global consensus on 5G with the worls’s 5G promotion origanisations. The Fifth Generation Mobile Communications Forum (5GMF, Japan), 5G Forum ( Republic of Korea), 5G Americas (Americas), IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group (China), 5G Infrastructure Association (5G-IA, Europe) and Telebrasil – Projecto 5G Brasil (Brasil). The event is held twice a year in rotation.

2nd 5GEx Industrial Workshop
2018-05-22 09:00 - 2018-05-24 17:40 | Marriot Madrid Auditorium, Avenida de Aragon, No 400, Madrid, 28022, Spain
5GEx, a H2020 5G-PPP phase 1 project, is pleased to announce its second 5GEx Industrial Workshop. The workshop is part of the 6th Annual Network Virtualization Europe conference (May 22-24, Madrid) organized by KNect365 TMT, an Informa business. Informa is a leading international business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and events group. . The conference focuses on bridging between NFV operators, function developers and suppliers of the emerging NFV infrastructures. The workshop is held as a session about MANO on the first conference day, directly following the opening and keynote speakers. Details on the conference and agenda can be found here.
The workshop focuses on the current and future perspectives of MANO, the management and orchestration functional layer for the NFV-enabled telecommunication infrastructure. A prominent focus will be on the interworking of NFV-enabled service providers in the forthcoming 5G networking landscape, both from a business and technical viewpoint. Håkon Lønsethagen (Telenor) will present the latest analysis and results on business aspects like community models, community creation and operation, quality of service definitions and quality-enabled services. Carlos J. Bernardos (University Carlos III of Madrid) will present roaming in an NFV-enabled multi-operator context, focusing on technical aspects and latest MANO reference implementations in various open source frameworks, including the results of the 5GEx project. Finally, Diego Lopez (Telefonica) will lead a 5GEx organized panel, which will conclude the session and discuss the state, missing pieces and next steps for MANO including the multi-domain 5GExchange vision.
Beside the workshop, 5GEx will be present with demonstrations, whitepapers and personal presence to foster the exchange of vision and results with all the interested conference participants. The 5GEx team will be there to discuss the 5GEx vision as well as share ideas to transform the 5GEx concept into concrete innovation and growth.

5G-MoNArch WS on 5G Architecture @ICC'18
2018-05-24 08:30 - 17:45
5G-MoNArch organises a Workshop on 5G Architecture at the IEEE International Conference on Communications 2018 (ICC’18), Room Empire B, from 8:30 to 17:45 on May 24.

With 5G, it is essential to introduce a programmable, software-driven 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.
The program can be found here.

Organising Committee
General Chairs
-Dr. David M Gutierrez Estevez, Samsung Electronics, UK
-Dr. Diomidis Michalopoulos, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany
TPC Chair
-Prof. Vincent Wong, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Publicity Co-Chairs
-Dr. Markus Breitbach, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
-Prof. Hans Schotten, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
-Prof. Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus, Greece

SELFNET Industry Workshop - Effective Network Management in 5G
2018-05-24 10:30 - 15:30 | Print Media Academy, Kurfürsten-Anlage 60, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany
EFFECTIVE NETWORK MANAGEMENT IN 5G
SELFNET INDUSTRY WORKSHOP (HEIDELBERG, GERMANY | 24 MAY 2018)
Registration deadline: 30 April 2018

Why you cannot afford to miss this workshop
If you are involved in network management – either on the operator side, the vendor side, or as an academic partner via the 5G-PPP – this workshop is for you.
There are three main reasons why you cannot afford to miss this workshop:

You will get first-hand information on the innovative network management framework developed by 5G-PPP project SELFNET,
which has the potential to help you manage your 5G network more effectively while reducing operational expenditure.
You will have a chance to influence the offerings of SELFNET-based network management solutions,
which will be commercially developed by SELFNET consortium partners.
You will have a unique opportunity to discuss with the developers of the network management framework and
your peers the challenges and solutions for effectively managing your network in a way that reduces both security risks and costs (opex and capex).

What you will see – The SELFNET network management framework
The SELFNET network management framework, which we will present at the workshop, provides three major benefits for 5G networks:

The SELFNET framework helps operators build a resilient network infrastructure for 5G, which makes the most effective use of the network technologies they already have.
The SELFNET framework enables service providers to significantly reduce the time for service creation, depending on the conditions down to about 10 minutes.
The SELFNET framework can help network operators significantly reduce the total cost of ownership for their network infrastructures.

Agenda
10:30-11:00 On-site registration and networking
11:00-11:10 Welcome and programme overview – Milon Gupta, Eurescom
11:10-11:40 How SELFNET results contribute to autonomous networking in 5G – Rui Calé, Altice Labs
11:40-12:15 The commercial potential of SELFNET results

Commercial exploitation approaches of SELFNET – Giacomo Bernini, Nextworks (tbc)

Brief introductions to SELFNET use case results:

Self-healing (use case 1) – Gonçalo Gaspar, AlticeLabs (tbc)
Self-protection (use case 2) – Gregorio Martinez Pérez, University of Murcia
Self-optimisation (use case 3) – Andreas Foglar, InnoRoute

12:15-14:15 Networking lunch and demonstration of selected results
SELFNET use case results explained at demo tables:

Self-healing (use case 1)
Self-protection (use case 2)
Self-optimisation (use case 3)

14:15-15:15 Panel discussion
Autonomous network management in 5G – Vision, results, and next steps
The SELFNET results mark an important step on the way to autonomous 5G network management based on artificial intelligence. The key question now is: what next?
Leading European network management experts will share their insights on what has been and what should be done on the road to autonomous and automated 5G networks.
Further questions to be discussed by the panel participants include:

How will autonomic management technologies help achieve full automation of networks?
What is the status of standardisation on autonomous and automated network management?
How will autonomous and automated network management change the business of telcos and vendors?

Panel participants: to be announced soon
Moderator: David Kennedy, Eurescom
15:15-15:30 Outlook on future research in the area of autonomous network management
– Maria Barros Weiss and Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom, SELFNET coordinators

Who will attend – Meet your peers from the telecoms industry
Our industry workshop is aiming to attract particularly representatives from telecoms network operators, vendors and solution providers.
We would like to ensure that we have a good number of business-oriented representatives from the telecoms industry in the room to enable productive peer-to-peer talks.
This includes:

Senior managers from innovation and operations departments at network operators and service providers
Senior managers from innovation and product development at telecoms vendors
Representatives of relevant bodies like the 5G Infrastructure Association and standards organisations like ETSI.

Where and when – Venue, date and time

Venue: Print Media Academy, Heidelberg, Germany
Date: Thursday, 24 May 2018
Time: 10.30 – 15:30

Free registration – deadline: 30 April

To secure your seat, please register for free via the Registration Page. Registrations will be on a first come, first serve basis. The number of participants is limited to 50.
The registration deadline is 30 April 2018. In exceptional cases, we reserve the right to reject a registration, if it does not fit our target audience profile as described above.
Click to go to the Registration Page
SELFNET is supported by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreement number H2020-ICT-2014-2/671672

5G-IA/5G PPP @5G Huddle and Wireless World Research Forum meeting (WWRF40)
2018-05-29 08:00 - 2018-05-30 16:00
The 5th Annual 5G Huddle will take place in Durban, South Africa on 29 & 30 May 2018. Hosted by The Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) with the support of The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), this will be the first time a 5G conference of this scale has taken place in the Southern Hemisphere – a very exciting move for the event and for everyone associated with it.
The theme for the 5G Huddle is “5G for All” and it will feature a keynote presentation from the 5G-IA Secretary General Jean-Pierre Bienaimé.
The theme for the research Forum meeting is: 5G and Broadband Connectivity for All.
The deadline of the Call for Extended Abstracts is March 9th , 2018.
The world is now less than 2 years away from the first commercial deployment of 5G, and the reality of this new dawn is fast approaching. Against this backdrop, the focus of the 5G Huddle this year will be on ‘5G For All’ and on delivering a 5G infrastructure that meets the needs of all use cases and is fully inclusive including needs of developing countries.
Day 1 will look at things horizontally, focussing on the countdown to commercial rollout of 5G and at what needs to be done from a policy and business approach to meet the objective of delivering a 5G infrastructure that is ubiquitous and all inclusive.
Day 2 will then look in detail at 5G in various vertical markets and contrasting environments. It will discuss what 5G is actually going to mean in practice for different sectors and industries, as well as focussing on 5G in both cities and rural areas and at the difference that it can make in developing regions.
For more information, visit the WWRF webpage.

One5G & 5G Champion @CLEEN'18
2018-06-03 08:00 - 2018-06-06 17:00 | Porto Palacio Congress Hotel, AV. BOAVISTA, 1269, PORTO, 4100-130, Portugal
ONE5G and 5G CHAMPION are organising a CLEEN 2018 workshop and this edition will be co-located with IEEE VTC2018-spring (Porto, 3-6 June 2018).
This CLEEN international workshop series is about “Cloud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Networks” and during all these years obtained a great interest from both research and industry.
Every year the CLEEN workshops collaborated with EU projects and provided a great opportunity for researchers and industry practitioners to share their state-of-the-art research and development results in areas of particular interest.
In this 2018 edition, a particular emphasis to edge cloud, MEC and vertical segments will be given, due to the growing interest of these topics toward 5G networks.
Download here the call-for-papers!
See also here for additional details

5G PPP projects @IEEE BSMB'18
2018-06-06 - 2018-06-08
The IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2018 will feature a wide technical and industry program covering the latest research and innovation in multimedia systems and broadcasting.
The conference will include several workshops focusing on 5G. A main 5G workshop approaching the last innovations and research activities in 5G PPP is organised. Moreover, the conference will hold specific workshops organized by one Phase 1 project and several 5G PPP Phase 2 projects: 5G-Ex (Phase 1), 5G-Xcast, IoRL, 5G-Transformer, 5G-CORAL, 5G-Ex, Bluespace, NGPaaS and 5G-MEDIA (Phase 2 projects).
5G PPP Main Workshop. Phase 2 in 5G PPP: from Theoretical Studies to Proof-of-Concepts and Technology Demonstrators. The workshop includes the following topics:
• 5G New Radio: novel techniques in modulation, coding and waveform.
• Beamforming and massive MIMO.
• 5G Radio Access Network design.
• 5G Core Network design.
• Network Slicing for dynamically adaptable 5G networks.
• Proof-of-concepts, prototypes and demonstrations for 5G.
• Technology advancements for specific verticals such as M&E, IoT or automotive.
Workshop S1. on “Point-to-Multipoint as Key Technology Element for 5G Systems” is organised by 5G-XCast. The workshop will accept papers related to PTM for next generation 5G networks. More particularly:
• 5G Radio Access Network design for point to multipoint transmissions. • 5G Core Network Design for broadcast technologies. • Seamless convergence of fixed, mobile and broadcast networks.
• Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) and 5G New Radio.
• Novel techniques in modulation, coding and waveform.
• Technology prototypes and demonstrations for broadcast in 5G.
• Advanced techniques for other digital terrestrial systems: DVB, DVB-WIB or ATSC 3.0.

Workshop S2 on ” A Scalable and License Free 5G Internet of Radio Light Architecture for Services in Homes and Businesses” is proposed by IoRL. The main topics in this workshop are: • Broadband communication solutions for buildings. • Integration of IoRL technologies. • The broadband capacities of mmWave. • VLC technologies and the flexibility of SDN/NFV. • Design of radio-light solutions • Proof-of-concept and demonstration on radio-light.

Workshop S3 on “Control and Management of Vertical Slicing including the Edge and Fog Systems” is provided by 5G-Transformer (Phase 2), 5G-Ex (Phase 1) and 5G-CORAL (collaborative project).
The workshop will gather the following list of topics:
• Mobile and fixed Transport Network Architecture
• Multi-domain service and resource orchestration.
• Business mechanisms and economic framework for network slicing.
• Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC).
• Protocol and API developments for network slicing.
• Security threats and control mechanisms in network slicing.
• Policy enforcement on sliced infrastructures.
• Migration from existing operational networks towards sliced environments
• Novel designs for Edge, Fog and Cloud integrated systems including orchestration and control.

Workshop S4 on “5G Infrastructure: Requirements and Enablers from Broadcasting and Multimedia Applications” is organised by Bluespace and focuses on:
• 5G infrastructure
• Requirements and Enablers from Broadcast/Multicast.
• Spatial Division Multiplexing in the RAN.
• Compact and reconfigurable infrastructures.
• Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigms.
• Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC).
• Passive Optical Networks (PONs).
Workshop S5 on “Accelerating Microservices: Design and Development” is proposed by NGPaaS. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
• Cloud-native microservice architectures including RAN, CORE, xHaul, Applications.
• Hardware acceleration and abstraction.
• Re-programmable infrastructures.
• Automation and verification.
• Resource orchestration.
• High performance development and operational environments with simplified and accelerated production.
Workshop S6 on “Media delivery innovations using flexible network models in 5G” is organised by 5G-MEDIA. The workshop seeks previously unpublished technical papers on the topics:
• Architectures for SDN/NFV to enhance media delivery towards 5G.
• Applications using flexible networks in the media domain.
• New media applications using flexible/ virtualized networks towards 5G.
• New mechanism for media delivery in 5G which can benefit from flexible network models.
• QoE / QoS approach in flexible network models.
• Improved CDN models.
• Infrastructures proposal to run media experiments on 5G.

The 5G-XCast Phase 2 project will also organise a one day tutorial on Tuesday, June 5. The registration to the tutorial is already open and it is not required to attend the BMSB conference. The places are limited, so in case you are interested to attend please register as soon as possible here.

Important dates:
-Submission Extended Abstract: December 22, 2017
-Notification of Acceptance: March 9, 2018
-Submission Camera-Ready Papers: April 23, 2018
-Tutorial 5G-Xcast: June 5, 2018
-Symposium BMSB 2018: June 6-8, 2018

IREST-5G PPP conference
2018-06-07 18:00 - 20:00 | IREST, 10 rue de Vanves, Issy Les Moulineaux, 92130, France
5G PPP is organising a conference on “5G in France and in Europe: challenges and perspectives” in cooperation with IREST (Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales sur les Télécommunications) and ISEP (Ecole d’ingénieurs du numérique). The conference will take place near Paris in ISEP offices (10 rue de Vanves, Issy-les-Moulineaux) on Thursday 7 June, 2018 at 6:00 pm.
Jean-Pierre Bienaimé, President of IREST and Secretary General of 5G-IA will provide details on 5G PPP projects and initiatives. Peter Stuckmann, head of Future Connectivity Systems Unit will represent EC. Orange and Nokia will also intervene. Automobiles Peugeot will present the automotive vertical, and the Phase 2 Project IoRL will be included in the panel.
Sebastien Soriano, chairman of ARCEP, the French Regulator, will comment on the nine 5G pilot cities in France, whereas the ministry of Economy will comment on the results of the public consultation they launched in France last February on the future 5G strategy for the whole country.

5GCAR Summer School
2018-06-11 10:00 - 2018-06-12 17:00 | King’s College London, Bush House, 30 Aldwych,, London,, WC2B 4BG, United Kingdom
5GCAR is hosting a Two-Day Sumer School on various aspects of 5G V2X Communications, as pertained to connect autonomous driving.
The Summer school is free of charge, but registration is required. Please register ASAP here!

Day 1 will cover fundamental subjects in 5G V2X communications and include:
-Principles of Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications
-Machine Learning for Wireless Communications
-Principles of V2X radio Interface Design
-Virtual Network Functions placement and optimization
-Fundementals of mmWave Communications for V2X
-Principals of localisation and Positioning in 5G
Day 2 will provide industry research vision in enabling connected autonomous driving, and include:
-Fog Computing in the delivery of ultra-low latency communications
-Multi-RAT, Multi-Link, Multi-operator Communications
-V2X Wireless Channel Modelling for Connected Cars
-Enhancing Reliability in 5G V2X Communiactions
-The role of 5G in Automotive Industry, techno-economic analysis
Confirmed academic speakers :
-Prof Petar Popovski, Aalborg University
-Prof Tommy Svensson, Chalmers Univ. of Technology
-Prof Osvaldo Simeone, King’s College London
-Prof Stefano Buzzi, Univ. of Cassino
-Dr Ricard Vilalta, CTTC
-Dr Vasilis Friderikos, King’s College London
Confirmed industry speakers:
-Dr Mikael Fallgren, Ericsson Research
-Dr Taimoor Abbas, Volvo car corporation
-Dr Konstantinos Manolakis, Huawei Research Europe
-Dr Efstathios Katranaras, Sequans
-Dr Apostolos Kousaridas, Huawei Research Europe
-TBD, Nokia Bell-Labs
