5G-PPP

5G PPP 4th Workshop @EuCNC'18: ‘From cloud ready to cloud native transformation: What it means and Why it matters’
2018-06-18 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Cultural and Congress Centre Cankarjev Dom, Prešernova cesta 10, Ljubljana, SI-1000, Slovenia
The 5G PPP Working Group on Software Network will host its 4th Workshop @EuCNC’18 on Monday 18-June, 2018.
The Workshop will be the occasion to release the white paper under preparation by the WG on Cloud Native in Telco. Also it will bring together various contributing projects within the Software Network Working Group and as well as other interested projects and parties to stimulate the discussion and share views/results about Open Network, SDN & Virtualization towards Telco-Cloud, Service based architecture (SOA, microservices, SBA), Role of Cloud Native Architecture & Micro services in Stack Readiness for 5G Rollout, Assuring 5G Services, Co-Creation and Ecosystem Play of 5G in a Telco Cloud Environment, Challenges with deploying telecom workloads in a distributed cloud, Hybrid clouds (public cloud + network edge clouds) and workload migration, High availability (resiliency, self-healing, redundancy), lifecycle management in the cloud with appropriately redesigned OSS/BSS, etc.

In particular NGPaaS and SLICENET are leading this workshop, with support from 5G-TANGO, MATILDA, 5G-TRANSFORMER, 5G-CORAL, 5GEX, 5G-PICTURE and NRG5.
Workshop papers can be either Presentations, Extended Abstracts (2 pages) or Full Papers (5 pages) and will be reviewed by the Workshop Technical Program Committee. These papers will be part of the Conference Proceedings.
More information is available on NGPaaS website.

5G PPP Working Group 3rd WS on Network Management and QoS @EuCNC'18
2018-06-18 09:00 - 17:00 | Cultural and Congress Centre Cankarjev Dom, Prešernova cesta 10, Ljubljana, SI-1000, Slovenia
The 5G PPP Working Group hosts its 3rd Workshop on Network Management and QoS @EuCNC’18 on Monday, 18-June.
The workshop will bring together contributing projects within the 5G PPP as well as other interested parties (organisations and external projects) who wish to develop and progress topics such as network management, QoS, SDN and NFV, in addition to the vertical integration of network management.

In particular SLICENET, MATILDA and SELFNET are leading this workshop, with support from 5GCity, 5G-Essense, IoRL, 5G-Media, One5G, 5G-Phos, Sat-5G and 5G-Transformer.
We are inviting a number of different submissions and all details, including author guidelines and specific themes, can be found on the SliceNet website.
Important Dates
-Paper submission date: 23-April
-Notification of acceptance: 27-April
-Workshop date: 18-June

5GCAR @ EuCNC'18
2018-06-18 09:00 - 2018-06-21 17:00 | Cultural and Congress Centre Cankarjev Dom, Prešernova cesta 10, Ljubljana, SI-1000, Slovenia
5GCAR is organising a special session at EuCNC’18 on “Reality check for Connected Autonomous Driving”.

This special session will be dedicated to advances in 5G V2X communications and the vision of deploying such advances in connected and autonomous cars. With the development of ultra-low latency, extremely high reliability and massive device access in 5G, the ambitions for smart driving applications will soon become reality. Therefore, the session brings together experts from telecom and automotive industry to discuss:

What are the desired use cases in the connected and autonomous cars and when are we expecting them?
What are the challenges for telecommunication network, for device manufacturers as well as car manufacturers, and how each sector is addressing those?
What is the status of current standards and spectrum regulations in supporting those challenges?
What are the lessons learnt from experimentation?

Important dates
Submission deadline: April 27th, 2018

5G-XHaul final demonstration day
2018-06-27 09:00 - 18:00
The 5G PPP 5G-XHaul project holds its final demonstration on June 27th 2018.

The 5G-XHaul solution has been integrated in a real network in the city of Bristol, UK, consisting of a combination of novel wireless and optical technologies which are autonomously managed by a software defined control plane.
At the final demonstration day, 5G-XHaul will showcase the transport of backhaul and fronthaul services simultaneously throughout a single infrastructure, as well as the benefits of having an SDN control plane managing an heterogeneous backhaul network encompassing millimeter wave and Sub-6 hardware.

You can also watch the video.

5G-XCast @ IEEE 5G World Forum'18
2018-07-09 17:00 - 2018-07-12 02:00
5G-XCast is organising the Media and Entertainment Workshop “Disrupting Media and Entertainment in the 5G Era” at the IEEE 5G World Forum 2018 (Santa Clara, California, 9-11 July 2018).

Keynotes speakers:
-Mauricio Aracena, Ericsson
-Diego González Zúñiga, PhD (diekus), Samsung
-Jyri Huopaniemi, Nokia Technologies
Co-chairs:
Dr. Athul Prasad, NOKIA Bell Labs
-Dr. David Gomez Barquero, Universitat Politècnica de València
-Dr. Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu
-Dr. Belkacem Mouhouche, Samsung Research
Steering Committee:
-Edgar Auslander, Facebook
-Dr. Mikko A. Uusitalo, NOKIA Bell Labs
-Prof. Muriel Medard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-Dr. Andreas Kunz, Lenovo
-Darko Ratkaj, European Broadcasting Union
-Dr. Roland Beutler, SWR
-Dr. Amitav Mukherjee, Verizon Wireless
-Matthew Stagg, EE

About 5G-XCast
The 5G-Xcast project is focused on Broadcast and Multicast Communication Enablers for the 5G of Wireless Systems. The project will develop point-to-multipoint (PTM) communication capabilities for 5G. The technology solutions will primarily target the technical requirements of the Media & Entertainment (M&E) vertical. 5G-Xcast brings the M&E vertical into 5G-PPP, bringing together for the first time major and small and medium size players from mobile/fixed/broadcast industries.

CfP open for NGPaaS workshop on '5G Cloud Native Design'
2018-07-09 17:00 - 2018-07-12 02:00 | Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, 5101 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054
The NGPaaS Phase 2 project organises a Workshop on ‘5G Cloud Native Design’ within the framework of IEEE 5G WF 2018 Conference (9-11 July 2018, Santa Clara, CA USA). The workshop is also endorsed by the 5G PPP Software Network working group. The Call for Papers is open.

Scope and Motivation
While bare metal deployment of applications seems fraught with problems and risk, the virtualization revolution, i.e. a layer of abstraction on top of the hardware, is transforming 5G software in “everything is a service”, that leads the Telco industry to cloud-native architectures. Cloudification refers to Platform as a Service (PaaS) on top of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). PaaS is a platform that hides infrastructure details – typically IaaS details – from application development, build, ship, and deployment. PaaS promises to deliver network services and applications with higher agility and performance through “ancillary services” – scalability, high availability, state management, controllers, orchestrator… – provided once by the PaaS. Developers and service providers can therefore concentrate on their applications and businesses and improve time to market. An ideal 5G PaaS should not only facilitate building, shipping and running virtual network functions (VNF) with “telco-grade” quality, it should also combine those VNF with all sorts of third-party applications (from start-ups, FOSS, Verticals…) for creating new more versatile and powerful cloud objects breaking silos between connectivity and computing.
As 5G should be designed and implemented to run on public and/or private IaaS installations, the term “cloud-native 5G” describes the technology transformation that will essentially make 5G a platform. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
-Carrier-grade PaaS
-Intent based programming
-RAN microservices design
-Platform abstraction and API
-Open-source software and tools experimentation in cloud-native 5G
-Cloud-RAN Architecture, functional aspects, design issues and protocols
-Analysis, modelling and characterization of Cloud-RAN systems
-5G testbed implementation and deployment
-Virtualization technologies for cloud-native platforms
-Software defined hardware accelerators (FPGA, GPU)
-New DevOps models with performance and quality enhancements
-Distributed management system e.g. decentralized OSS
-Multi-service and multi-tenancy and network slicing
-High availability (resiliency, self-healing, redundancy)
-Design principles and best practices for 5G application development
-Analytics based policy
-Automation
Do not miss the keynote speech on Platform transformation by George Glass (BT, UK)!
Important dates
-Paper Submission Deadline: extended to 14 April 2018
-Notification of Acceptance: 30 April 2018
-Camera Ready Paper: 15 May 2018
Contact: Bessem Sayadi, bessem.sayadi@nokia-bell-labs.com
Additional information here.
Submit here.

5G PPP @Cloudscape Brazil
2018-07-25 14:00 - 22:00 | Centro de Convenções de Natal, Via Costeira Sen. Dinarte Medeiros Mariz, 6664-6704, Ponta Negra, Natal, RN, 59082-000, Brazil
Cooperation activities on 5G are heating up and Brazil for the CloudScape Brazil event to be held on 25 July 2018 in Natal, Brazil.
5G PPP will be there through:

EU-Brazil 5G initiative: ATMOSPHERE, 5GINFIRE features in the session entitled “Triggering new digital markets”. 5G-RANGE features in the session on “Excellence in ICT cooperation”.
5G PPP has also contributed to two position papers. The first one comes from the SME Working Group, the second one from Global5G.org on selected verticals.

CfP: First Workshop on Security in Softwarized Networks: Prospects and Challenges (SecSoN)
2018-08-20 08:00 - 2018-08-24 17:00
The First Workshop on Security in Softwarized Networks: Prospects and Challenges (SecSoN) will be held in conjunction with ACM SIGCOMM 2018 in Budapest, Hungary, on August 20-24, 2018.
Operators and enterprises in general are increasingly moving towards a softwarization of their networks. Former dedicated network elements are virtualized and placed on commercial-off-the-shelf hardware. Technologies for softwarization are Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). They allow for a more efficient management of the network. Whereas NFV replaces the tightly integrated middlebox appliances by flexible Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) running as software instances on standard servers, SDN enables a fine-granular and programmable selection and redirection of flows in the network. On one hand, this softwarization reduces the costs for network equipment. On the other hand, it broadens the attack surface as novel networking devices and protocols are deployed, which needs to be considered during the risk assessment. Especially due to their critical role within the softwarized management of the network, these devices and protocols are high ranked targets for potential attackers and thus, require extensive testing and hardening. In addition, the adaptation of these technologies in enterprise networks remains limited. This is due to the fact, that the integration of new technologies into an existing network infrastructure is a highly complex task, as the compatibility with systems such as network management and cloud management must be assured for production environments.
SecSoN 2018 will focus on the prospects and challenges of softwarized networking with particular attention to the following topics.
Papers can be submitted via https://sigcomm18secson.hotcrp.com/

List of Topics
-Securing softwarized network architectures and virtualized environments
-Security for 5G, particularly secure network slicing and isolation
-Integration of hardware security components in a softwarized world
-Cognitive and automated network security management
-Integration of programmable data planes and stateful data path solutions of security functions, e.g., firewalls, intrusion detection systems
-SDN/NFV interface hardening
-Pentesting and test automation in softwarized networks
-Security considerations for placement and orchestration
-Security monitoring of and with softwarized networks and threat analysis
-Trust relationships between softwarized entities
-Forensics, attack analysis and risk evaluation methods tailored to softwarized networks
-Security Events Processing and Configuration Verification and Validation
Workshop co-chairs
-Theophilus Benson, Brown USA
-Pascal Bisson, Thales France
-Rastin Pries, Nokia Germany
-Thomas Zinner, JMU Germany
Important dates
-Abstract submission deadline: March 18, 2018
-Paper submission deadline: March 25, 2018
-Acceptance notification: April 30, 2018
-Workshop: August 20 or 24, 2018

IoRL Workshop on 5G Network Security @ ARES 2018
2018-08-27 08:00 - 2018-08-30 17:00
IoRL (Internet of Radio Light) 5G PPP project phase 2 is organising a workshop on 5G Network Security. It is held in conjunction with the ARES Projects Symposium 2018, held at ARES 2018 on August 2018.
With the great success and development of 4G mobile networks it is expected that the 5th generation wireless systems (in short 5G) will be a continued effort toward rich ubiquitous communication infrastructure, promising wide range of high-quality services. It is envisioned that 5G communication will offer significantly greater data bandwidth and almost infinite capability of networking resulting in unfaltering user experiences for (among others): virtual/augmented reality, massive content streaming, telepresence, user-centric computing, crowded area services, smart personal networks, Internet of Things (IoT), smart buildings, smart cities, to name just a few.
The 5G communication is currently in the center of attention of industry, academia, and government worldwide. 5G drives many new requirements for different network capabilities. As 5G aims at utilizing many promising network technologies, such as Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Information Centric Network (ICN), Network Slicing, Cloud Computing, etc. and supporting a huge number of connected devices integrating above mentioned advanced technologies and innovating new techniques will surely bring tremendous challenges for security, privacy and trust. Therefore, secure network architectures, mechanisms, and protocols are required as the basis for 5G to address this problem and follow security-by-design rule. Finally, as in 5G networks even more user data and network traffic will be transferred, the big data security solutions should be sought in order to address the magnitude of the data volume and to ensure data security and privacy.
From this perspective, 5G-NS 2018 workshop aims at collecting the most relevant ongoing research efforts in 5G networks security field. It also serves as a forum for 5G PPP Phase 1 & Phase 2 projects in order to disseminate their security-related results and tighten & boost cooperation, and foster development of the 5G Security Community made of 5G security experts and practitioners who pro-actively discuss and share information to collectively progress and align on the field.

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

Security Architecture and Technologies for 5G
Security Management in Heterogeneous 5G Networks
Attacks & Threats Detection in 5G Networks
DDoS Detection & Mitigation in 5G Networks
Security Frameworks for Various 5G Applications & Scenarios
Access Control Security for 5G Networks
Security Protocols for 5G Networks
Security Management and Orchestration of NFV and SDN Elements
Trusted Computing with NFV and SDN
Physical Layer Security in 5G Networks
5G Wireless Communications Security
SDN/NFV Security in 5G Networks
5G Core Network Security

Terminal and Edge Computing Security in 5G Networks
Secure Network Slicing for 5G
Malware Attack Detection and Prevention Techniques in 5G
Information Sharing and Data Protection in 5G Networks
Big Data Security and Analytics in 5G Networks
Cloud Technologies Security in 5G Networks
Privacy preservation and enhancement in 5G
Intrusion detection and content access control in 5G
Trust management in heterogeneous 5G networks
5G identity management and its trustworthiness
Intelligent 5G security provision
Trust collaboration in 5G
IoT security and trust in 5G

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
-Pascal Bisson, Thales, France (5G-Ensure H2020 Project)
-Krzysztof Cabaj, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (IoRL H2020 Project)
-John Cosmas, Brunel University, UK (IoRL H2020 Project)
-Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (IoRL H2020 Project), w.mazurczyk@tele.pw.edu.pl

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline
April 25, 2018

Author Notification
June 10, 2018

Proceedings Version
June 29, 2018

ARES EU Symposium
August 27, 2018

Conference
August 27 – August 30, 2018

5G PPP @Workshop on 5G Networks Security (5G-NS 2018)
2018-08-27 08:00 - 2018-08-30 17:00 | Universität Hamburg, Mittelweg 177, Hamburg, 20148, Germany
5G PPP projects 5G-ENSURE and IoRL will co-chair the Workshop on 5G Networks Security (5G-NS 2018) held in Hamburg, Germany (August 27-30, 2018) in conjunction with the ARES Projects Symposium 2018 at 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security.
With the great success and development of 4G mobile networks it is expected that 5G will be a continued effort toward rich ubiquitous communication infrastructure, promising wide range of high-quality services. It is envisioned that 5G communication will offer significantly greater data bandwidth and almost infinite capability of networking resulting in unfaltering user experiences for (among others): virtual/augmented reality, massive content streaming, telepresence, user-centric computing, crowded area services, smart personal networks, Internet of Things (IoT), smart buildings, smart cities, to name just a few.
The 5G communication is currently in the center of attention of industry, academia, and government worldwide. 5G drives many new requirements for different network capabilities. As 5G aims at utilizing many promising network technologies, such as Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Information Centric Network (ICN), Network Slicing, Cloud Computing, etc. and supporting a huge number of connected devices integrating above mentioned advanced technologies and innovating new techniques will surely bring tremendous challenges for security, privacy and trust. Therefore, secure network architectures, mechanisms, and protocols are required as the basis for 5G to address this problem and follow security-by-design rule. Finally, as in 5G networks even more user data and network traffic will be transferred, the big data security solutions should be sought in order to address the magnitude of the data volume and to ensure data security and privacy.
From this perspective, 5G-NS 2018 workshop aims at collecting the most relevant ongoing research efforts in 5G networks security field. It also serves as a forum for 5G-PPP Phase 1 & Phase 2 projects in order to disseminate their security-related results and tighten & boost cooperation, and foster development of the 5G Security Community made of 5G security experts and practitioners who pro-actively discuss and share information to collectively progress and align on the field.

Please consider submitting papers to the Workshop on 5G Networks Security (5G-NS 2018) which will be held in conjunction with the ARES Projects Symposium 2018 at 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security – ARES 2018 – Hamburg, Germany – http://www.ares-conference.eu )
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Security Architecture and Technologies for 5G
• Security Management in Heterogeneous 5G Networks
• Attacks & Threats Detection in 5G Networks
• DDoS Detection & Mitigation in 5G Networks
• Security Frameworks for Various 5G Applications & Scenarios
• Access Control Security for 5G Networks
• Security Protocols for 5G Networks
• Security Management and Orchestration of NFV and SDN Elements
• Trusted Computing with NFV and SDN
• Physical Layer Security in 5G Networks
• 5G Wireless Communications Security
• SDN/NFV Security in 5G Networks
• 5G Core Network Security
• Terminal and Edge Computing Security in 5G Networks
• Secure Network Slicing for 5G
• Malware Attack Detection and Prevention Techniques in 5G
• Information Sharing and Data Protection in 5G Networks
• Big Data Security and Analytics in 5G Networks
• Cloud Technologies Security in 5G Networks
• Privacy preservation and enhancement in 5G
• Intrusion detection and content access control in 5G
• Trust management in heterogeneous 5G networks
• 5G identity management and its trustworthiness
• Intelligent 5G security provision
• Trust collaboration in 5G
• IoT security and trust in 5G

Workshop Co-Chairs
-Pascal Bisson – Thales, France (5G-ENSURE H2020 Project)
-Krzysztof Cabaj – Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (IoRL H2020 Project)
-John Cosmas – Brunel University, UK (IoRL H2020 Project)
-Wojciech Mazurczyk– Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (IoRL H2020 Project)

Important Dates

Submission Deadline
April 25, 2018

Author Notification
June 10, 2018

Proceedings Version
June 29, 2018

ARES EU Symposium
August 27, 2018

Conference
August 27 – August 30, 2018

Submission Guidelines
The submission guidelines valid for the workshop are the same as for the ARES conference. It is necessary that all papers submitted to EasyChair are anonymized (no names or affiliations of authors should be visible in the paper).
They can be found at https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/submission/.

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5G PPP ICT-19 Info Day
2018-09-14 09:00 - 17:00 | Conference center Borschette, Rue Froissart 36, Brussels, Belgium
The next big challenge for the 5G PPP community is to respond to the H2020 ICT-19 call for Advanced 5G validation trials across multiple vertical industries by 14th November 2018. To facilitate learning about the ICT-19 call, and the expected working relationships with the new ICT-17 projects, an information event is organised on 14th September 2018. The Info Day is hosted by the European Commission in Brussels (Albert Borschette Conference Center, how to reach Borschette center see here).
Registration is now open. You can register for the event here.

5G PPP @PSC2018
2018-09-17 08:00 - 2018-09-19 16:00 | Saint Raphael Resort, 502 Amathountos Avenue, Pyrgos 4520, Cyprus
BlueSPACE is organising a workshop together with 5G-PHOS, Metro-Haul and 5G-PICTURE @ the 2018 edition of Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC’18) in Limassol, Cyprus in September this year.
The International Conference on “Photonics in Switching and Computing – PSC” is the successor of the “Photonics in Switching – PS” conference running annually since 2001 and hosted by Europe, North America and Japan in turn.
The full program will be announced closer to the conference.

5G PPP @IEEE CAMAD'18
2018-09-17 08:00 - 2018-09-19 17:00 | Barcelona
5G-PHOS is co-organizing a Workshop on 5G Wireless and Optical Technologies for Mobile Communication Systems, in collaboration with the 5G PPP projects 5G-ESSENCE, 5G-PICTURE and 5G Bluespace.

This Workshop, co-located in IEEE CAMAD 2018, aims to offer an opportunity for academic and industrial researchers to discuss on feasible solutions including evolutional technologies and ecosystems for the realization of 5G and beyond. CAMAD is held in Barcelona, Spain, on 17-19 September 2018.

5G-PHOS, 5G-ESSENCE, 5G-PICTURE and 5G Bluespace are calling for papers.
Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work on research topics including the following:

Novel 5G radio access network (RAN) architectures.
Fiber/Wireless convergence for 5G Front/Back-hauling.
Analog/Digital Radio-over-Fiber solutions for 5G communications.
CoMP (coordinated multi-point) transmission and reception.
Access control for converged hybrid Optical/Wireless networks.
Distributed antenna systems.
Advanced relaying, user terminal relaying.
Small cell deployment, femtocells, picocells for dense/ultra-dense deployment.
Terminal intelligence, Context awareness.
Advanced radio resource management (RRM) techniques.
Interference management, interference awareness.
Inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC, eICIC).
Congestion management.
Emerging technologies in 5G physical layer.
Interference-robust air interface.
Higher-order massive MIMO, Active antenna systems (AAS).
Multiuser communications, Network information theory.
Novel modulation and coding schemes.
Enhanced voice and video, Telepresence
Point-to-point (P2P) / device-to-device (D2D) communications
mmWave 5G communications.
Channel characteristics and modelling.
Beamforming, beam tracking; Mobility solutions.
Energy efficiency and energy consumption models.
Joint RF-baseband optimization, end-to-end energy optimization.
Aggregation of intra and inter-band carriers for both FDD and TDD.
Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access.
Adaptive radio access techniques.
Prototyping and test-bed for emerging 5G technologies.

ORGANIZERS
-George Kalfas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
-Idelfonso Tafur Monroy (Technical University of Eindhoven)
-Ioannis Chochliouros (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A. (OTE)

5G Infrastructure Association - Annual meeting of the General Assembly
2018-09-18 14:00 - 18:00 | Thon Hotel Bristol Stephanie, Avenue Louise, 91-93, Brussels, 1050, Belgium
The General Assembly is reserved to the Members of the 5G IA only.

5G EVE Webinar for ICT-19 Proposers
2018-09-20 15:00 - 17:00
On Thursday, 20 September 2018, 3-5 pm, the 5G EVE project will hold a webinar to explain its end-to-end facility to ICT-19 proposers.
For ICT-19 proposers it is important to correctly understand how they can make use of the 5G end-to-end platforms. The webinar will give an overview on the 5G EVE platform and answer questions like: How does the platform support ICT-19 projects in realising the European 5G vision of “5G empowering vertical industries”? How does it support “technological and business validation of 5G end-to-end connectivity”?
In our webinar, we will provide specific answers to these questions for the 5G EVE end-to-end facility. The webinar will inform ICT-19 proposers and other interested participants about the 5G EVE facility and how to access and use it for the trials and validations of ICT-19 projects.
Further information, including the agenda, is available on the Webinar Page.
Anyone interested can register by 18 September via the Registration Page.

European 5G Roundtable
2018-09-25 09:30 - 16:30
The 5G Infrastructure Association will be present at the European 5G Roundtable organised in Brussels on September 25, 2018. Mr. Colin Willcock Chair 5G IA will share viewpoints from the European Parliament, the European Commission and the industry. Mr. Jacques Magen, 5G IA Verticals Engagement Task Force will also be there.

5G Techritory
2018-09-27 08:00 - 2018-09-28 19:00 | Radisson Blu Latvija Conference & Spa Hotel, Riga, Elizabetes iela 55, Centra rajons, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia
The leading 5G players from all over the world will meet in Latvia in September
Baltic Sea Region 5G Ecosystem Forum “5G Techritory” – one of the leading 5G events worldwide will be held on 27-28 September 2018 in Riga, Latvia. It is organized by the Electronic Communication Office of Latvia in a close cooperation with the Office of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia, the Nordic Council of Ministers, 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
5G Techritory will have a rather unique objective to create a platform for the development of a healthy 5G ecosystem which would serve as a role model for building the European Gigabit Society.
The Forum will highlight:

high level business and political discussions on 5G global deployment, including on how to turn visions into real business models as well as on the latest 5G progress in Europe;
such verticals as smart city, smart mobility, smart healthcare and Industry 4.0;
exclusive Inspirational Talks “Future of the Car” with Steve Mollenkop, CEO, Qualcomm;
the latest 5G technology presentations.

It is expected that in total 5G Techritory will bring together up to 1000 senior attendees and around 60 senior speakers from Europe, Asia and the USA, including global and regional business leaders, European leading policymakers and government officials, heads of international organizations, investors, business developers, industry experts, content providers, innovation promoters, start-ups, academic and media representatives.
As there will also be a close synergy between the latest digital agenda of the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Forum, the next high-level meeting of senior officials of the digital ministries of the Baltic-Nordic countries will be organized back to back with the Forum on 26 September in Riga.
Are you interested in participating?
There will be an excellent opportunity for you to meet many important players related to 5G agenda in Europe as it is well positioned for getting at the forefront of the introduction of 5G technology and to challenge Silicon Valley and Asia in this global competition.
It is still possible to register for 5G Techritory with an Early Bird fee by 26 August through the Forum website. There are also more details about the Forum, including special prices on flights and accommodation.

13th edition of the Telecom Paris Talks: "5G evolution or revolution?"
2018-10-10 19:00 - 21:30 | Telecom Paris, 46 rue Barrault, Paris 13, 75013, France
The French Ecole d’ingénieurs Telecom Paris Tech organises its 13th edition of the Telecom Paris Talks on “5G evolution or revolution?” on October 10th, 2018 (in French only).
5G standardisation is almost completed. The 5G ecosystem is building rapidly (telecom operators, service providers, industry players,…). Researchers and scientists imagine new usages, trials are flourishing and regulators are actively preparing spectrum auctions. However, what is 5G? Is it a new mobile generation with new services and new networks? Is it a brand news ecosystem with services that we find difficult to define?
Jean-Pierre Bienaimé, Secretary General 5G IA and Carole Manero, Wireless services practice leader IDATE DigiWorld/To-Euro-5G will be there to present their views.

5G-VINNI webinar for ICT-19 proposers
2018-10-15 15:00 - 17:00
5G-VINNI organizes a webinar for ICT-19 proposers that will take place on 15 October 2018, 15:00-17:00 CEST.
For ICT-19 proposers it is important to correctly understand how they can make use of the 5G-VINNI end-to-end facility. The webinar will give an overview on the facility and answer the questions that proposers have.
The target audience for this webinar are proposers for ICT-19 projects in the context of the 5G PPP initiative of the H2020 programme of the European Commission.
Further information, including the agenda, will be available on webinar’s event page.
You must register before 12 October 2018 to attend the webinar via the dedicated registration page.

Workshop on 3GPP submission towards IMT-2020
2018-10-24 13:00 - 2018-10-25 17:00 | Conference center Borschette, Rue Froissart 36, Brussels, Belgium
3GPP will hold a Workshop aimed at informing the ITU sanctioned Evaluation Groups, policy makers and interested experts on the progress of the 3GPP work to meet and exceed the performance requirements for IMT-2020 radio interface technologies. The Workshop will be hosted by The European Commission, in Brussels.
This event is in addition to the evaluation material being sent to the ITU, using the IMT-2020 ‘submission templates’ detailing the service, spectrum and technical performance results achieved by 3GPP Radio Interface Technologies (RITs) or Set of Radio Interface Technologies (SRITs).
The presentations at the Workshop will cover the detail of these formal submissions, breaking down their key elements to help the evaluation groups study the technical merits of the 3GPP proposal (encompassing NR and LTE) and its ability to meet the IMT-2020 objectives.
Find additional information here.

TU-Automotive Europe 2018
2018-10-30 - 2018-10-31 | Infinity Hotel & Conference Resort, Munich, Andreas-Danzer-Weg 1, Unterschleißheim, 85716, Germany
The 16th annual TU-Automotive Europe Conference & Exhibition – Europe’s largest event for the connected car – will discuss how to collaborate and integrate through partnerships, understand consumer needs and more. Speakers include Renault Group, Skoda, Renault Nissan Alliance, NIO and more.
At the conference, expert speakers will get to grips with the methods and technology enabling autonomy, debate developing partnerships to capitalise on new business models and provide insight on understanding consumers needs.
The show will have tracks on connected services, smart cities and mobility and ADAS & autonomous vehicles amongst other topics to allow you to create a bespoke agenda that tackles the challenges your business is facing. There will also be new features and formats such as startup content and roundtables.
Topics include:

When do we make money with mobility?
Mobility as a Service – Adapting to a new ecosystem
Connected Commerce in the Car – The New Consumer Marketplace
Investing in the Future of Mobility – Adding value to the customer journey
Customer Experience as one of the key new paradigm of the automobile
The Key to Securely Drive Current and Future OEM Business Models

5G PPP CfP @ IEEE NFV-SDN’18
2018-11-27 08:00 - 2018-11-29 17:00 | Roseo Hotel Leon d’Oro, Viale del Piave 5, Verona, 37135, Italy
The 4th IEEE Conference on Network Functions Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (IEEE NFV-SDN 2018) will be held this year in Verona, Italy on November 27-29, 2018.
In addition to the latest NFV and SDN concepts and mechanisms, the 2018 IEEE NFV-SDN conference will focus on first operational results related to virtualized networks functions (VNFs) as well as designing, describing, orchestrating, and managing new applications made of VNFs which smarten networks and their usage.

5G PPP projects MATILDA and 5GTANGO call for papers for the 5GNetApp Workshop on “5G-ready Network Applications and Services Development and Orchestration over Application-aware Network Slices”.

Description:
5G networks design and evolution is considered as a key to support the introduction of digital technologies in economic and societal processes, leading to the fourth industrial revolution, which is impacting multiple sectors. To fulfil the set of identified requirements and -in parallel- take into account the peculiarities associated with each vertical industry, 5G networks have to be operated by intelligent orchestration platforms able to support end-to-end applications and services provision over a programmable network, compute and storage infrastructure. By leveraging virtualization and softwarization technologies, developers and operators have to better match needs and capabilities, building application-aware networks and network-aware applications.
Towards this direction, the main technical focus of the 5GNetApp workshop regards the presentation of approaches tackling design, development and orchestration aspects of both network applications and network services, focusing on one hand on the interplay among intelligent orchestration mechanisms in both levels (applications and network services orchestration) and, on the other hand, on validation and verification mechanisms of the developed software. Edge computing synergy with NFV and SDN, Separation of concerns among Intelligent Application and Network Services Orchestration and Validation and Verification of Network Services and VNFs are within the core aspects tackled in the workshop.
Main Topics:

Intelligent NFV Orchestration Mechanisms;
Vertical Applications/Edge Computing Orchestration Mechanisms;
Interplay with OSS/Slice Management Systems of Telcos;
Edge computing synergy with NFV and SDN;
Profiling mechanisms for Network Services and Applications;
Validation and Verification of Network Services and VNFs;
Northbound slice management interfaces towards vertical application orchestration mechanisms;
5G Network Slice Management;
Network Slice Intent modelling and translation mechanisms;
Secure Network Services and NetApps Orchestration Mechanisms.

Workshop Paper Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit original workshop papers for publication in the IEEE NFV-SDN 2018 Conference Proceedings and for presentation in the technical sessions. We solicit submission of high-quality papers reporting original and novel research results on the workshop topics. Papers must be written in English, un-published and not submitted elsewhere. They must be formatted according to the standard IEEE double-column conference template. Workshop papers may be up to five (5) pages in length (10pt font); max. One additional page with overlength page charge of 100 USD if accepted.
Submission of papers is going to be realised via https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25030
Important Dates:

Workshop Paper Submission: August 28, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: September 20, 2018
Camera-ready Paper Submission: October 7, 2018

6th Global 5G Event: 5G Technology Changing Paradigms of a New Society
2018-11-28 - 2018-11-30 | Pestana Hotel, Av. Atlântica, 2964, Copacabana, RJ, RJ, 22070-000, Brazil
5G Brasil is hosting the 6th Global 5G Event – 5G Technology Changing Paradigms of a New Society – with other leading 5G organizations from China, European Union, Japan, Republic of Korea and United States of America on November 28-30, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro, RJ – 30 August 2018 – 5G Brasil will host five leading global organizations, committed to bringing 5G technology successfully to their country or region, by offering collaboration and cooperation in a public symposium hosted for the first time in Latin America. 5G Brasil announced today the 6th Global 5G Event – named 5G Technology: Changing Paradigms of a New Society. The event will occur from November 28-30, 2018, with limited capacity and the venue will be Pestana Hotel, at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro.
The Global 5G Event is an event where the world’s leading 5G organizations will discuss the latest research and development achievements and views on 5G. About 50 experts from around the world, including business leaders, researchers, engineers, professors, technical experts and policymakers, will present their views on 5G in eight panels and four keynote sessions. The following aspects on 5G will be addressed: government policies, challenges, opportunities, spectrum harmonization, regulatory issues, standardization process, research and technological trends, infrastructure, trials, precommercial launches, vertical markets and use cases.
The final programme of the event is available here. The eight European speakers will be:

Philippe Lefebvre (EC/DG CONNECT) will contribute to a panel
Colin Willcock (5G-IA) will contribute to 2 panels slots and to the 7th G5GE June 2019 introduction
Ari Pouttu (Oulu University) will contribute to a panel
Jean-Pierre Bienaimé (5G-IA) will be a panel moderator and contribute to two panels
Emmanuel Dotaro (5G-IA/Thales) will contribute to two panels
Giovanni Corazza (5G-IA) will be a panel moderator
Didier Bourse (5G PPP/Nokia) will contribute to a panel
Uwe Herzog (Eurescom) : will contribute to a panelp

Contact Information:
Vicki Livingston
5G Americas
Cell: +1 414 688 9000
vicki.livingston@5gamericas.org
Yoshinori Ohmura
5GMF
Phone: +81-3-5510-8594
y-ohmura@arib.or.jp
Jaewon HEO
5G Forum
jwheo@kani.or.kr
Alessandro Bedeschi
5G Infrastructure Association
alessandro.bedeschi@5g-ppp.eu
José Marcos C. Brito
5G Brasil
brito@inatel.br
Ying ZHU
IMT-2020 (5G) PG
zhuying@caict.ac.cn

DigiWorld Summit 2018: Phygital
2018-11-28 09:00 - 18:00 | Maison de la Mutualité, 24 Rue Saint-Victor, Paris 5, 75005, France
The DigiWorld Summit has become Europe’s key annual event for telecom, internet and media experts from around the globe. The 2018 edition is placed under the High Patronage of Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic.
Today, people and usages are at the heart of innovation, business models, and the economy. Digital is no longer an option: it is a requirement.
While “digital” is essentially composed of a set of services and innovative technologies, “physical” is a much wider and historical concept, from the human being to its environment. In our offices, farms, stores, homes, restaurants, infrastructures, cars, devices… Nowadays, digital and physical are interconnected everywhere at all time. The plenary sessions and thematic conferences will be an opportunity to study usages in our society today to understand better how the physical world we live in and the digital services we consume are interconnected, and finally foresee the resulting phygital value chain of tomorrow.
To-Euro-5G will be there.

To understand upcoming disruptions and their impact on Telecom-Internet-Media markets
To benefit from international benchmarks and open visions
To enjoy opportunities of stimulating debates and networking

Additional information is available here.

EC, 5G PPP & 5G IA @5G Italy
2018-12-04 - 2018-12-06 | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7, Roma, 00185, Italy
CNIT (National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications, www.cnit.it), a consortium of 37 Italian public universities, is organizing 5G Italy (https://www.5gitaly.eu/en/home2/), an event in Rome (4, 5 and 6 December) where politics, regulatory authorities, research, businesses, economy and public administrations meet, addressing the challenges and opportunities of the upcoming 5G network. It will be a three-day conference, focusing on Policy and Research and dealing with relevant vertical applications: Media and Tourism, Energy, Industry 4.0, eHealth, Transports, Mobility and Automotive, Public Administration, Defence and Security. Also, an update will be given on the 5G trials currently on going in Italy.
Representatives from the European Commission and 5G IA / 5G PPP will be among the speakers (https://www.5gitaly.eu/en/agenda-2/).
In the framework of 5G Italy, CNIT is also editing a white book (https://www.5gitaly.eu/white-book/), with the aim of documenting the Italian 5G ecosystem, presenting the work done up to now by significant research and industry players, including field trials, the most interesting applications and vertical exploitations and, last but not least, reporting on regulatory and market/business issues.
CNIT is also organizing an international PhD School (https://www.5gitaly.eu/phd-school/) on 5G issues, co-located with the main event, and giving to the students of the school the opportunity to attend selected talks of the main event.
Distinguished representatives of the EC and of the 5G IA will participate to the conference and contribute to the white book.

5G PPP @ICT-2018 Imagine Digital -Connect Europe
2018-12-04 08:00 - 2018-12-06 18:00 | Austria Center Vienna, Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1, Vienna, 1220, Austria
The European path towards next-generation smart networks will be presented, together with 5G PPP, at ICT 2018 in Vienna on 4-6 December.
ICT 2018 will take place in Vienna on 4-6 December 2018. This research and innovation event will focus on the European Union’s priorities in the digital transformation of society and industry. It will present an opportunity for the people involved in this transformation to share their experience and vision of Europe in the digital age.

5G PPP projects will be very active. There will be four 5G PPP related booths and networking sessions:

A 5G PPP ‘Information Kiosk’ where videos, brochures and flyers will be displayed
A 5G PPP ‘Demo booth’ where some projects will show their demos (e.g. SliceNet eHealth and Plug and Play scenarios for verticals +2 other videos @C28 in the General Exhibition Area, 5th December 2018, 13:05-17:35)
Two project booths: 5GCity and 5GCAR.

Networking sessions are also organised:

Session title: Stimulating innovation over next generation 5G network infrastructures
Date, Time, Venue: 6th December 2018, 10:00-10:45, Hall L7
URL: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/events/cf/ict2018/item-display.cfm?id=22032
Organiser: Milon Gupta, Eurescom on behalf of 5G EVE, 5G-VINNI, and 5GINFIRE
Session title: Artificial Intelligence – New Solutions for Real-time Service Delivery
Date, Time, Venue: 5th December 2018, 11:30-12:15, Hall L6/3
URL: https://slicenet.eu/networking-session-at-ict-2018-on-artificial-intelligence/ and at the event site: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/events/cf/ict2018/item-display.cfm?id=21598
Organiser: Milon Gupta, Eurescom on behalf of SliceNet
Session title: Network Slicing Room 2.95, 04/12/2018 (16:00-16:45)
Network slicing is one of the core features of the flexible and adaptive mobile network architecture being introduced with 5G. The EU project 5G-MoNArch enhances and completes the network architecture such that 5G becomes actually usable for many scenarios, and it develops features and innovations on network resilience, security and elasticity that support a wide range of industrial and media & entertainment use cases. 5G-MoNArch brings E2E network slicing into practice, with implementing and deploying two real-world testbeds, namely, the Hamburg Smart Sea Port and the Turin Touristic City. Organiser: Lars Christoph SCHMELZ (Nokia, Bell Labs Research, Germany)

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On the 5G road to Smart Mobility – Hall A, Level 2, 05/12/2018 (16:30-18:00)

Connected cars will change our lives and shape the future of road transport by making transport safer, more accessible and sustainable. Vehicle connectivity and progressing automation levels are now entering the consumer and professional markets. In the meantime, the Commission set out a strategic connectivity objective: the deployment of 5G infrastructure along the main transport paths in Europe by 2025. This objective is closely linked to the expectation that 5G connectivity will be a major enabler for connected and automated mobility, a key opportunity for Europe to lead in digital innovation. Read more

ICT-20-2019-2020 – 5G Long Term Evolution – Hall L2, 06/12/2018 (11:30-12:15)
Whilst 5G early introduction targets “local” network improvements (e.g. at radio access level), the longer term vision targets the realisation of pervasive mobile virtual services, through a network managing compute, storage and transport connectivity functions[1] in an integrated way. The challenge is to transform the network into a low energy distributed computer, where processes and applications are dynamically created, moved and suppressed, depending on the information flows, customer needs, and where new terminal types in cars, objects, appliances, and new interfaces based on gestures, facial expressions, sound and haptics may be the basis of the interaction between humans and the infosystems.Read more
ICT-23-2019 – EU-Taiwan 5G collaboration – Room N1, 06/12/2018 (09:00-09:45)

This activity, integrated end-to-end network for 5G trials, is to test 5G systems for specific applications and it follows up on the first targeted opening call with Taiwan in which 5G research and demonstration facilities offered by Taiwan towards collaborative 5G research with the EU. Read more
Explore the ICT-2018 Conference Programme here.

One5G and 5G-XCast WS on "5G Advanced : The Next Evolution Step of 5G New Radio"@IEEE Globecom 2018
2018-12-08 - 2018-12-13 | Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), Khaleej Al Arabi Street, P.O. Box 5546, United Arab Emirates
One5G and 5G-XCast will organise a Full Day workshop titled “5G Advanced : The Next Evolution Step of 5G New Radio”.
They also have a special session, “The Local Impact of 5G” to attract regional SMEs and Startups.
They are calling for papers.

India EU Stakeholders’ Workshop on 5G Technology Landscape
2019-02-04 - 2019-02-06 | India Habitat Center (TBC), Lodhi Road Near Airforce Bal Bharati School, Institutional Area, Lodi Colony, New Delhi, India
As the global community gears up to implement the first wave of 5G technologies, it is important to collaborate on the trials and pilots and share the experiences. At the same time, a shared vision for further development of technologies and deployment of futuristic technologies, is necessary to accelerate the delivery of benefits of this wave of telecom to the global community at large.
Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI) has been leading efforts to incorporate India specific requirements and solutions thereof from 5G in global forums. The 5G Infrastructure Association (5G-IA) is the voice of the European Industry for the development and evolution of 5G, and thus committed to build global consensus on 5G. Broadband India Forum (BIF), is championing efforts on leveraging 5G technologies for the propagation of broadband in India.
With the support of EU Delegation to India and India-EU Partnership Project on ICT Cooperation, TSDSI and BIF have joined hands with 5GIA to organize a workshop that will bring together technology experts from the EU and India geographies to share their experiences and explore areas of mutual collaboration.
IoRL, 5GX-Cast, Sat5G, 5GMoNarch and NGPaaS will be present.
The workshop will cover topics from following areas:

5G Architecture and applications
Status of standardization
5G Trials, Interoperability and Test Beds
Rural 5G
mmWave and VLC Building Network Architecture
Cloud, Satellite and Broadcast viz. 5G

Speakers at the workshop include Experts from EU and India, Mr Jean-Pierre Bienaime, Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Mr T V Ramachandran, Mr Satish Jamadagni, Mr Anindya Saha, Mr Belkacem Mouhouche, Mr Bessem Sayadi, Mr David Gutierez Estevez, Ms Georgia Poziopoulou, Mr John Cosmas, Prof. Kiran Kuchi, Dr R K Ganti, Mr R Prakash and others.

Participation: Participation is open to all on prior registration. Due to limited seats in the workshop, participants will be confirmed on first-cum-first serve basis.

VISA Facilitation Support: Speaker and participating delegates requiring invitation letters for Visa purposes may send an email request to outreach@tsdsi.in stating 5G-Workshop VISA request in the subject line.

5G Vertical User Workshop
2019-02-12 12:00 - 2019-02-13 13:00 | Marriot Brussels, Rue Auguste Orts 3-7, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
5G networks are intended to bring a new disrupting ecosystem, where actors such as the Vertical industries (automotive, industry 4.0, health, media, security & public safety, energy,…) will be involved alongside the telecom operators, manufacturers, SMEs and Research Institutes.
This 5G Vertical Users Workshop aimed at establishing a collaborative event for strategic dialogue between industries and 3GPP by exchanging on future needs and upcoming standard developments. The workshop as a result, aimed at producing a report shared directly to 3GPP Project Coordination Group (PCG) as a mean to stimulate and facilitate greater involvement of the 5G Vertical Users in the 3GPP process.
The workshop was held in Brussels on 12th and 13th February, 2019. Please see all presentations of the workshop!

MWC19 Barcelona
2019-02-25 - 2019-02-28 | Fira Gran Via, Av. Joan Carles I, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 64 08908, Spain
MWC Barcelona is the largest mobile event in the world, bringing together the latest innovations and leading-edge technology from more than 2,400 leading companies, with a highly-rated conference programme assembling today’s visionaries to explore the hottest topics influencing the industry.MWC Barcelona features extensive learning opportunities from dozens of partner-led programmes, GSMA seminars, summits and more. Everything you need to know about the industry, today and beyond, can be found here. With over 107,000 key decision-makers expected to attend, #MWC19 promises to expand your professional network and help you achieve your goals.
5 Reasons to Attend MWC19

Gain a World-class Education through dozens of conference sessions, partner programmes, seminars, and other opportunities led by today’s top industry influencers.
Experience an Outstanding Exhibition representing products and services from leading, global technology companies.
Reach your company objectives through Exceptional Networking with over 100k attendees from over 200 countries, including almost 60% senior-level executives.
Explore the Hottest innovation with a front row seat to new products, cutting-edge technology, and revolutionary ideas.
Experience the Widest Industry Reach at the one event that brings the international technology community to the same place at the same time.
