5G-PPP

2nd 5G City Hackathon
2019-11-21 09:00 - 2019-11-22 12:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Real Collegio, Piazza del Collegio, 13,, Lucca, 55100y, Italy
The 2nd 5G City Hackathon will take place in Lucca, Italy on 21-22 November 2019. A pre-event webinar is scheduled on November 13th, 2019.
5GCity Hackathon demonstrates, in operational conditions, a distributed cloud and radio platform for municipalities and infrastructure owners acting as 5G neutral hosts. The platform enables to turn a city infrastructure into a distributed and multi-tenant edge infrastructure by relying on the 5GCity orchestration platform, based on OSM, to manage and orchestrate (NFV + MEC) end-to-end services and creating programmable and on demand network slices.
5G PPP Projects members are all invited to participate by forming their hacking teams.
The proposed challenges

Virtual Reality applications for Digital Tourism (e.g. in Museums, Theatres, Monuments Sightseeing)
Prevent vandalism and graffiti on city monuments
Participatory and Collaborative Media Journalism
eHealth for reduced pollution, eco-routing, etc.

Toolkits offered

5GCity Platform and SDK to implement some of the challenges /new use cases
Unikraft to prepare unikernels for some of your use cases

Winners Announced: Nov 22 at 3:00pm CET

More info & Registrations at https://hackthe5gcity-lucca.devpost.com/
The event is co-located with the 8th ETSI OSM Hackfest, which will run in the same location at Real Collegio in Lucca (Italy).

Join the pre-event webinar on November 13th, 2019 at 3:00 pm CET.
Click here to get additional info on the event.
Agenda of pre-event:

Introduction to the 5GCity project
NFV basics
The 5GCity platform: architecture, components and dashboard
Service design with the 5GCity SDK
Unikraft: toolkit for crafting unikernels

How to join the pre-event webinar:
https://i2cat.webex.com/i2cat/j.php?MTID=md0dbc8145d300cfed106a43cb874c6ff
Meeting number (access code): 800 537 343
Connection via Webex application is highly recommended. The session will be recorded to allow future use of the tutorial for training purposes. Please explicitly state if you intend not to be mentioned and/or be visible in the recording.

FOKUS FUSECO Forum'19
2019-11-07 08:00 - 2019-11-11 17:00
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the FOKUS FUSECO Forum.
Tutorials, workshops, live demos, a conference, and discussions with leading operators, manufacturers, integrators as well as various industry verticals will make the most of 5G: state of technology development in terms of standards, products and first solutions derived from international technology and application trials; potential business models in different vertical domains, particularly private networking options and operator network slicing approaches; operator 5G rollout plans, including migration and interworking with 4G, Wi-Fi and satellite networks; relevant 5G testbeds and trials around the globe.

5G PPP projects will be there.
Additional information will be released soon.

IoT Solutions World Congress Barcelona
2019-10-29 - 2019-10-31 | Fira Gran Via, Av. Joan Carles I, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 64 08908
The IoT Solutions World Congress is dedicated to joining IoT providers with industry in order to help the latter increase productivity. Since it’s first edition back in 2015, the event has grown to become the global reference for industrial IoT, and the annual meeting for industry stakeholders to establish new partnerships. It is a 3-day program with 400 speakers.
Experts, key players and technology solution providers from the industry, will be presenting use cases on key topics, and illustrating how solutions are impacting today’s and tomorrow’s industries.
The world’s leading IT companies, software platforms, hardware manufacturers, telecommunications professionals filled the halls with discussion centered around digital transformation in varying industries including connected transport, manufacturing, healthcare, energy & utilities, buildings & infrastructure, open industry, cross-sectional IoT technologies, blockchain, and artificial intelligence.
More information here.

European Big Data Value Forum
2019-10-13 - 2019-10-16 | Scandic Marina Congress Center, Katajanokanlaituri 6, Helsinki, 00160, Finland
The European Big Data Value Forum is the flagship event of the European Big Data Value community. EBDVF 2019 is jointly organised by the Big Data Value Association, the European Commission and VTT and it will take place from 14 to 16 of October in Helsinki (Finland).
The theme of this year’s edition is “Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Transforming Business and Society”, and it is aimed to attract more than 600 participants, including relevant European industry players, policy makers and research community. You cannot miss it!
You can benefit from the Early bird registration that has been extended until 22nd August. Don’t miss this opportunity to book your tickets. You can check the entry fees and get your tickets here.
There are still some sponsorship packages available! Get your projects or company’s visibility on key European event around Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Check the different options available here.
Register now and book your seat at an event that will contribute to shape the Big Data and AI landscape in Europe.

5G CMM Expo (Connected Mobile Machines, Vehicles and Devices)
2019-10-08 09:45 - 2019-10-10 18:00 | Convention Center & Außenbereich, Hannover, Messegelände, Hanover, 30521, Germany
5G broadband technology will sustainably change the value chains in several industry verticals and bring forth new products and applications. For several months now, Deutsche Messe AG, Hannover, has been working intensively on equipping the world’s largest trade fair center with a 5G infrastructure, and is dedicating a new conference, the 5G CMM Expo (Connected Mobile Machines, Vehicles and Devices) from 8th to 10th. October.
Renowned speakers from various institutions and companies provide insights on their views of the future of work and public life. The conference will be supplemented by live demonstrations, an accompanying exhibition, a start up area and a hackathon.
For more information, visit www.5GCMM.com .

AIOTI signature event "IoT Through the Looking Glass"
2019-10-08 08:00 - 17:00 | Area 42, Rue des Palais 46, Brussels, 1030, Belgium
The Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) organises a workshop on “IoT Through the Looking Glass” on October 8, 2019 in Brussels.
In the morning cross-vertical challenges and opportunities in research, emerging ecosystems, and societal trends will be explored. The impact and importance of pursuing a collaborative approach and look at future topics and technologies that will affect intelligent connectivity and IoT in Horizon Europe will also be highlighted.
Join the debate on cutting-edge technologies with Europe’s leading Internet of Things organization. Hear about the AIOTI’s vision for future European IoT Network with leading IoT players in Europe.
Register online here.
The programme and conference website will follow shortly. Stay tuned for more news!

5GCAR webinars
2019-10-01 11:00 - 15:00
On October 1st, 2019, 5GCAR is organising two webinars as the first 5G PPP phase 2 showcase supported by the 5G IA Verticals Engagement Task Force.

Part 1 – 5GCAR Demonstrations:
Tue, Oct 1, 2019 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CEST
Mikael Fallgren and Bastian Cellarius, Ericsson Research
Registration is open here.

Part 2 – 5GCAR Use Cases, Business, Spectrum, Radio Interface and Architecture:
Tue, Oct 1, 2019 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CEST
Mikael Fallgren and Massimo Condoluci, Ericsson Research; Antonio Barciela, PSA Groupe and Zexian Li, Nokia Bell Labs
Registration is open here.

More details are published here and there.

2nd 5GSatCom Seminar
2019-09-30 09:00 - 2019-10-01 17:00 | The NH Hotel, Pr. Margrietplantsoen 100,, The Hague, 2595 BR, Netherlands
Following a first successful edition, the second edition of the 5GSatCom seminar on 30 September/ 1 October 2019 presents again a valuable program of international expert speakers providing high level knowledge and expertise on this topic.
The program for the seminar includes presentations from the EC, ESA, 3GPP, and ESOA, satellite industry, cellular industry and many different users of 5G and Satellite communication. The seminar also gives you the opportunity to learn about EU and ESA projects with trials on 5G and Satellite and is an excellent opportunity to discuss standardization of 5G and Satellite integration in light of the upcoming Release 17 prioritization in 3GPP.
More information on the program is available here.
Details
Date: September 30 – October 1, 2019
Website: https://www.5gsatcom.nl/
Venue
5GSatCom seminar is held at The NH Hotel in The Hague.
Register online by clicking on the link and plan your visit.

5G PPP @IEEE 5G World Forum
2019-09-30 08:00 - 2019-10-02 17:00 | International Congress Center Dresden, Devrientstr. 10 - 12 / Ostra-Ufer 2, Dresden, 01067, Germany
The 2019 IEEE 2nd 5G World Forum (5GWF’19) aims to bring experts from industry, academia and research to exchange their vision as well as their achieved advances towards 5G, and encourage innovative cross-domain studies, research, early deployment and large-scale pilot showcases that address the challenges of 5G.
5G-DRIVE, 5G EVE, 5G-VINNI, 5GENESIS, and SLICENET are organising the “2ndWorkshop on 5G-Trials – From 5G Experiments to Business Validation” and calling for papers. The workshop aims at providing a forum for industry and academics to disseminate new findings on 5G trials and new business development. The workshop calls for papers presenting test results from trials as well as theoretical results based on realistic deployment schemes and new 5G business models.
The target topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

Spectrum

-5G spectrum evaluation
-Spectrum sharing

5G trial development

-5G trial cases and results
-5G testbed implementation
-New test technologies

Verticals and new services

-C-V2X
-Applications of mMTC
-Applications of URLLC
-New/innovative services enabled by 5G

Measurement and evaluation

-5G new radioRadio access network
-Core network
-Backhaul
-Fronthaul
-NFV/SDN implementation
-Network slicing
-D2D communications
-Mobile edge computing
-Test result analysis

Network deployment and optimization

-5G network planning
-Network deployment optimization
-End-to-end performance optimization

Security and privacy aspects
5G business model evaluation
5G standards and implementation

Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission: May 31, 2019
Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2019
Camera-Ready Submission: August 15, 2019
Submissions accepted through this EDAS link.
Workshop Chairs
Uwe Herzog, EURESCOM
Tao Chen, VTT
Latif Ladid, University of Luxemburg
Mauro Boldi, TIM
Kashif Mahmood, Telenor Norway
Qi Wang, University of the West of Scotland
Harilaos Koumaras, NCSR Demokritos

5G-MEDIA Coding Event
2019-09-26 09:00 - 2019-09-27 18:00 | Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 30 Avenida Complutense Building A Hall, Madrid, 28040, Spain
The 5G-MEDIA consortium is organising a Coding Event on September 26th and 27th in Madrid.
This event aims at presenting the functionalities and allowing the participants to play with the platform with some guided exercises.

The participants will learn about some concepts like FaaS (Function as a Service) paradigm, intelligent and automatic network management, unikernel packaging and virtual environment, through some exercises related to the SDK and the platform proposed by 5G-MEDIA project.

NGI Forum 2019
2019-09-25 08:00 - 20:00 | Wanha Satama, Pikku Satamakatu 3-5, Helsinki, 00160, Finland
The NGI Forum 2019 will take place on September 25th, 2019 in Helsinki, Finland.
The NGI Forum is the flagship annual event that gathers together prominent researchers, innovators and policy makers at work on several fronts to restructure the Internet to be fit for the future we want, while we continue using it to help run our societies and economies.
The event will include a mix of policy and specialist talks, open discussions and interactive working groups. The emphasis is on stimulating discussion and the free exchange of ideas between policy makers, researchers, SMEs and Startups, industry players, and civil society. Some of the main topics covered at NGI Forum 2019 include:

Data governance and portability
Privacy and trust enhancing technologies
Discovery technologies and online identification
Collective intelligence – from citizens science to open innovation
Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies

Registration is free but mandatory. Sales end on 23 September, 2019.
Find additional details including the agenda on the event’s website here.

European Research and Innovation Days 2019
2019-09-24 08:00 - 2019-09-26 17:00 | KANAL, Quai des Péniches / Akenkaai, Brussels, Belgium
European Research and Innovation Days is the first annual policy event of the European Commission, bringing together stakeholders to debate and shape the future research and innovation landscape. They are scheduled for September 24-25-26, 2019 in Brussels.
The event will be central to finding research and innovation solutions for this great transition by working across polices, setting the direction, spurring innovation and triggering investment. It will be the moment for all stakeholders to meet and co-create the strategic priorities for the European Commission’s investment in research and innovation.
Speakers will include ministers, commissioners, members of European Parliament, researchers, as well as surprise guests each day. Details of speakers will be updated in the coming months as the programme takes shape.
Engaging stakeholders to co-create and build the strategic priorities for the first 4 years of Horizon Europe, will be at the heart of the 2019 European Research and Innovation Days.
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The EU’s main funding instruments for research and innovation in Europe are the successive multiannual framework programmes. The current framework programme Horizon 2020 will be succeeded by Horizon Europe (2021-2027). The success of these programmes has grown over the years. Every euro invested by Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe can potentially generate a return of up to €11 of GDP.

ICT Proposers Days
2019-09-19 07:00 - 2019-09-20 16:00
The ICT Proposers Days will be held in Helsinki on September 19-20, 2019. Details will follow soon on this big ICT research and innovation event.

Soft City
2019-08-28 08:00 - 2019-08-29 17:00 | ISEN Yncréa Méditerranée, Place Georges Pompidou, Toulon, 83000, France
Soft City: design of future city services exploiting data market places starting from urban everyday life
Academic and industrial partners are invited to take part at the Soft City track to imagine together how to get the “hard” – technology – components to serve the “soft” part of the city – people, processes and lifestyles…
The industry track will be organized around 3 half-a-day sessions – 2 panel discussions and 1 co-creation workshop. Expert panel speakers and professional facilitators will guide you through the journey.
The first panel session “Envisioning a Soft Urban Future”​ will be articulated around questions such as:

What urban future do citizens want ?
What urban future is currently imagined and offered by technology providers ?
What is overlooked by technological solution providers ?

The second panel session “Enacting the soft urban future” will discuss existing approaches, methods and tools enabling creation of future cities. Participants will be invited to share their experience and express their needs.
The last session will be organised as a co-creation workshop “Co-creating Soft City services” and driven by professional facilitators.
At the end of the track journey, a vision of “Soft City”, outlined methods, approaches and tools for Soft city design and defined future “soft” city services that will make use of data marketplaces and future digital infrastructures, including 5G networks will be produced.

Online Registration is open here.

1st 5GCity Hackathon in Bristol: hack the 5G City: new smart apps in 5GCity slices
2019-07-11 - 2019-07-13 | M Shed, Princes Wharf, Wapping Rd, Bristol, BS1 4RN, United Kingdom
The 5GCity project, in its last year of execution, focuses on live demonstration of 5G services in three cities already going through digital transformation: Bristol, Barcelona, Lucca. 5GCity consortium will be involved in the organization and implementation of the 5GCity Hackathon.
Through the 5G management and orchestration platform and a powerful Service Development Kit (SDK) 5GCity offers access to a rich set of primitive functions for network and vertical application services which can be used to programme connectivity with QoS, media acquisition and transcoding, traffic monitoring in the new NFV infrastructures for 5G.
The first 5GCity Hackathon will take place in Bristol on July 11-12, 2019 , 9-19.
Click here for additional information and registration!

2nd Vertical Workshop
2019-07-09 09:00 - 2019-07-10 17:00
Following the first session held in Brussels on February 12-13, 2019, a second Workshop will be organised on Roma on July 9-10. The Workshop will be collocated with 3GPP SA6 meeting.

the full details of the event and the latest agenda can be found here: 2nd Vertical User Workshop

5G PPP Workshop on "Photonic Technologies for 5G and Beyond" @EuCNC2019
2019-06-18 08:30 - 13:00 | Valencia Conference Center, Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas, 60,, Valencia, 46015, Spain
blueSPACE, in collaboration with IoRL, 5G-PHOS, Metro-Haul, PASSION, 5GCAR, SPOTLIGHT, 5GSTEPFWD, organizes the EuCNC Workshop for Photonic Technologies for 5G and Beyond.
The workshop will be held on Tuesday, 18th of June, 2019 at 8:30 -13:00 in room R1, Valencia Conference Center.
blueSPACE shares additional information here.

EuCNC 2019
2019-06-18 08:00 - 2019-06-21 17:00 | Valencia Conference Center, Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas, 60,, Valencia, 46015, Spain
EuCNC 2019 is the 28th edition of a successful series of a conference in the field of telecommunications, sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and the European Association for Signal Processing, and supported by the European Commission. This conference is one of the most prominent communications and networking conferences in Europe, which efficiently brings together cutting-edge research and world-renown industries and businesses. EuCNC attracts more than 600 delegates each year and an exhibition space of more than 1,500 m2. The conference focuses on various aspects of 5G communications systems and networks, including cloud and virtualisation solutions, management technologies, and vertical application areas. It targets to bring together researchers from all over the world to present the latest research results, and it is one of the main venues for demonstrating the results of research projects, especially from successive European R&D programmes co-financed by the European Commission.
EuCNC 2019 will be co-located with the Global 5G Event, which brings together the world 5G industrial associations: 5G-IA, IMT-2020, 5G-Forum, 5G-MF, 5G-Brasil and 5G-Americas.
Presence of 5G PPP projects will be detailed soon and updated regularly. Videos are already available. Have a look on YouTube and stay up to date on Instagram and Facebook.
Feel free to register online here (Early bird rates before May 7th, 2019).

7th Global 5G Event "Creating the digital Future"
2019-06-17 08:00 - 2019-06-18 17:00 | Valencia Conference Center, Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas, 60,, Valencia, 46015, Spain
The 7th Global 5G Event “Creating the digital Future” will take place in Valencia, Spain on June 17-18, 2019. The event is organised by 5G IA/5G PPP and the European Commission.
Come to the one event that will give you a truly global view of 5G with the key representatives from Europe, China, Japan, Korea, Brazil and the Americas. Understand the global picture of where 5G is and where it is going! Listen to the state of the art in terms of global 5G research and trials activities, see this state of the art live with 5G demonstrations from around the world.
The 7th Global 5G Event is a unique opportunity for 5G PPP projects and European organizations involved in 5G to be exposed to 5G stakeholders from outside Europe. The next G5GE event is likely not to happen in Europe before 3 or 4 years.
The 7th Global 5G Event will be co-located with EuCNC 2019 (June 18-21, 2019).
The preliminary agenda is ready with top class presenters from around the world. The event will host 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 designed to give insight into the continued progress on 5G technology worldwide with focus on government policies, promotions, services, trial projects and other industrial convergence opportunities. On Monday 17 June afternoon, a session on 5G regional trends will be held. On Tuesday 18 June, sessions on 5G for Business the future of 5G and the upcoming 8th Global 5G Event will be organised. On Tuesday 18 June afternoon, technical sessions on cross-regional projects and 5G KPI measurement are scheduled.
Information on 5G PPP presence will be detailed soon and updated regularly. Videos are already available. Have a look on YouTube and stay up to date on Instagram and Facebook.
Feel free to register online here (Early bird rates before May 7th, 2019).
The event will host 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 designed to give insight into the continued progress on 5G technology worldwide with focus on government policies, promotions, services, trial projects and other industrial convergence opportunities.

5GCity – Transforming Cities into 5G Neutral Hosts 5G Live Broadcasting announced
2019-06-06 08:00 - 2019-06-07 17:00 | Royal College of Lucca, p.zza del Collegio, 13, Lucca, 55100, Italy
The 16th edition of European Digital Forum – 6 and 7 June, Lucca (IT), is ready to set the scene in the evocative Real Collegio of Lucca. This 2019 edition renews a further leap forward for themes, speakers and new scenarios, including 5G, UHD/4K, STREAMING, GLOBAL MEDIA, VR / AR.
The 5GCity Consortium will be participating also this year at the event with a bold series of activities: panel discussions with the 5G and Media communities convened in Lucca, showcasing of new demos and a new live outdoor trial based on the 5GCity infrastructure deployed in Lucca. These activities aim to strengthen 5GCity collaboration with Media Verticals and the 5G business ecosystem, setting Lucca at the forefront of 5G activities in Italy.
The 5GCity project is developing a distributed cloud and radio platform for municipalities and infrastructure owners acting as 5G Neutral Hosts. It is a completely de-centralised 3-tier architecture where compute, storage and networking are allocated between core and edge segments of the 5G network infrastructure. On top of this distributed infrastructure, we provide unified control and orchestration of all the radio-edge-core resources, through powerful APIs and serviced design toolkits for innovative vertical application services, e.g. to program connectivity with QoS, implement flexible media acquisition, transcoding, etc. Our 5G Network Slicing and Service Orchestration technologies are used in live city pilots in the cities of Barcelona (ES), Bristol (UK) and Lucca (IT) to run trials of Media Verticals use cases which will assess how a Neutral Host operator can offer mobile connectivity solutions on demand to implement dedicated network slices for different media services in areas with a high concentration of users.
5GCity’s activities at the European Digital Forum are illustrated in the following Agenda:
EXHIBITION BOOTH
Thursday 6 and Friday 7 June 2019
In this exhibition booth we plan to showcase how easy is to transform city infrastructures in 5G Neutral Hosts and how powerful and flexible the 5G service design and lifecycle management is with 5GCity platform. We plan to show to the international audience and broadcasters the 1st complete release of 5GCity platform, integrated and in support of a few relevant media use cases in a near real-life scenario. Furthermore, we will also present its 5G Neutral Host business modelling approach at the exhibition booth.
At the Booth it will be possible to test our demos (detailed next), discuss achievements with our technical team and collect information about our latest activities in particular for Lucca pilots.
DEMOS-TESTS
5GCity demonstrations at the European Digital Forum will consist of outdoor and indoor activities around the conference centre, distributed between the 5GCity exhibition booth and two main city locations: Torre Guinigi and Puccini’s Museum.
The 5GCity team will show different media use cases running on heterogeneous slices on the shared infrastructure managed by the 5GCity platform.
INDOOR ACTIVITIES
5GCity will present three demos at the booth:

5GCity Neutral Host Platform: This demo shows how the 5GCity neutral host platform enables an ICT infrastructure owner to slice and lease its infrastructure to 3rd parties (e.g. MVNO).
Video Acquisition & Production: This demo includes acquisition of live high-quality multiple videos from the event and streaming through 5GCity platform. Such services also can support the engagement of public in the media production for big events.
Augmented Reality service: This demo offers immersive experiences with distribution of UHD contents for city services. The demo leverages on 5G orchestration to offer immersive experience to end-user (e.g., tourists) who can see a reconstruction of antique city buildings and monuments in real-time with enriched context information superimposed via holographic models.

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Interesting activities will be organized by 5GCity in two outdoor settings on June 6th and 7th:

Torre Guinigi, the tallest tower and iconic symbol of Lucca with its oak trees growing on roof top. Comune di Lucca, Nextworks, Cellnex, Comunicare Digitale will use the 5GCity platform deployed in Lucca and the availability of small cells to connect Torre Guinigi with Real Collegio, to implement a 5GCity LIVE BROADCASTING TRANSMISSION to European Digital Forum Conference Establishing a LIVE CONNECTION with interviews, comments and 5G project presentation, to demonstrate the 5G opportunities for broadcasters, media company, producers, digital and creative industry.

Puccini’s Birth Home and Museum, the heart of a unique Museum complex of the great composer, where Italtel and RAI have design and implemented the applications used in Immersive Video Services, including real time 360° video distribution, Augmented and Virtual Reality and 4K video distribution in crowded events.

Through this 5GCity-powered outdoor broadcasting events we will demonstrate the high portability of our 5GCity Neutral Host solution along with showcasing one key media use case for 5G in the city.
CONFERENCE PLENARY SESSIONS

5G INDEX EUROPE
Thursday, June 6 16:40 – 17:00 (Plenary)

With Ioannis NEOKOSMIDIS (Incites, Luxembourg)

5G BROADCASTING & 5G MEDIA VERTICAL
Thursday, June 6 17:15 – 17:45 (Plenary)

With Alberto MORELLO (Rai CRITS, Italy)

During the European Digital Forum important announcements will be made in relation to 5GCity project; an important and fundamental step in Lucca to transform city infrastructures in 5G Neutral Hosts and demonstrate how powerful and flexible the 5G management can be within the 5GCity platform.
The Forum Lucca 2019 complete Agenda

More info:
www.5gcity.eu @5gcity info@5gcity.com
Shuaib Siddiqui
shuaib.siddiqui@i2cat.net
+34 638 687 554
Gino Carrozzo
g.carrozzo@nextworks.it
Carla Bressan
bressan@comunicaredigitale.it
+34 606 516 106

5G-MoNArch Testbed in Hamburg on June 5th, 2019
2019-06-05 10:30 - 15:30 | Dialoghaus, Alter Wandrahm 4, Hamburg, 20457, Germany
With the completion of most of conceptual work, and the successful implementation of a testbed in Hamburg, 5G-MoNArch organises a project dissemination event at Dialoghaus in Hamburg! 5G-MoNArch will provide a live experience of the implemented industrial applications for improved sea port operations.
The event takes place on June 5th, 2019, from 10:30 to 15:30 at Dialoghaus in Hamburg.
The control systems used by the HPA up to date are already the most progressive in the world and the interplay between their sensor technology, analysis, forecasting and information systems delivers significant efficiency improvements. The Smart Sea Port testbed represents the next step in creating a digital port – and in shaping Hamburg’s future. The overall goal of the testbed is to provide a wireless infrastructure that can handle a large number of the use cases of the port’s day-to-day work. As all these use cases have rather different requirements in terms of the reliability (guaranteed network connection), resilience (guaranteed availability, even in the case of failures), and the support for service diversity, but a dedicated communication infrastructure for each of them would be rather inefficient, a 5G mobile network that supports network slicing is the appropriate solution. Within the scope of 5G-MoNArch, the Hamburg Smart Sea Port testbed focuses on three selected use cases that share a common mobile network infrastructure. The 5G radio base station is installed on the television tower close to the Hamburg trade fair and congress centre (extensive coverage).
Agenda and registration are available online here. Registration closes on May 29th, 2019.

5G-MoNArch Testbed in Turin on May 24th, 2019
2019-05-24 10:30 - 14:30 | Palazzo Madama, Piazza Castello, Turin, 10122, Italy
With the completion of most of conceptual work, and the successful implementation of a testbed in Turin, 5G-MoNArch organises a project dissemination event at Palazzo Madama in Turin, including presentations or the core research and innovation results and a live demonstration of the Touristic City testbed and its implemented applications. The event takes place on May 24th, 2019, from 10:30 to 14:30 at the Palazzo Madama, Piazza Castello.
The event will start with a workshop providing the tperspective of key takeholders related to smart citydigital tourism services on the opportunities that 5Gwill bring in such contexts. TheTouristic City testbed will then be open to event attendees for a live Virtual Reality experience of the Madama Reale chamber ,accompanied by a detailed insight into the5G-MoNArch implemented technical solutions and innovations.
The event is co-organised with the essential collaboration of the Municipality of Turin and Fondazione Torino Musei.
Agenda and registration are available online here. Registration closes on May 17th, 2019.

5G-DRIVE @IEEE ICC 2019 workshop: 5G-Trials – From 5G Experiments to Business Validation
2019-05-19 - 2019-05-20 | Oriental Riverside Hotel, 727 Binjiang Avenue, Shanghai, China
5G-DRIVE organises a workshop at IEEE ICC 2019 (Shanghai, China) on May 20, 2019.
This workshop aims at providing a snapshot of the status and progress of 5G trials, and will discuss the first results and the new insights and findings from the range of ongoing 5G trials. The workshop will cover key topics related to 5G trials, including, but not limited to, the

evaluation of 5G spectrum,
evaluation of the performance of 5G NR implementations,
system architecture, e.g. separation of DU/CU, and UP/CP,
verification and performance test of 5G key enabling technologies, e.g., massive MIMO, multi-connectivity, network slicing.
5G network planning, and
network deployment optimization.

The workshop accepts not only test results from trials, but also theoretical results based on realistic deployment schemes and new 5G business models. The workshop is organised by the 5G-DRIVE project.
Read more here!

5G-EVE webinar: The 5G EVE End-To-End Facility For Vertical Industry Trials
2019-05-09 14:30 - 15:30
In this one-hour webinar, 5G-EVE will provide a detailed overview on how the 5G EVE end-to-end facility can be used for vertical industry trials. The webinar is aimed at organisations planning to perform trials and experimentation on 5G applications and services by vertical industries. The webinar will be particularly useful for project participants from Horizon 2020 calls ICT-19 and ICT-22.
More specifically, 5G-EVE will:

review why end-to-end 5G validation platforms like the 5G EVE facility are instrumental for growing the 5G ecosystem and establishing a productive collaboration with verticals.
explain the basic 5G EVE services to be made accessible to verticals and how they are based on core 5G technologies and 5G EVE innovations utilising them.
share how our current technical collaboration model with verticals within the 5G EVE project works, and how we plan to extend it to collaborations with verticals outside of 5G EVE, including those from ICT-19 and ICT-22 projects.

More information is available here.
Participation is free of charge. Registration is required via the Registration Form by 6th May 2019.
Registered participants will receive an access link one day before the webinar.

5G-XCast and ONE 5G WS on advanced 5G radio access network features and performance @ IEEE WCNC
2019-04-15 08:00 - 2019-04-19 17:00
5G-XCast and ONE 5G are co-organising a workshop on Advanced 5G radio access network features and performance at IEEE WCNC in Marrakech, Morocco (15-19 April 2019) and call for papers.
Organized by two flagship 5GPPP European projects, this workshop will bring together the leading names in industry, academia and research institutes to discuss and debate the latest developments in this area. It offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this field to disseminate their results in all radio related aspects of 5G communications to a diverse audience. The workshop invites authors to submit original and previously un-published research papers in the following and related topics. They could cover traditional mobile broadband or any other new 5G vertical applications.

Featured Topics

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

Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: 10 January, 2019
Paper Acceptance Notification : 15 February, 2019
Camera-Ready: 1 March, 2019
Papers should follow the standard IEEE Conference Template and be submitted through EDAS: https://edas.info/N25115

SaT5G and 5GENESIS "Satellite-terrestrial interworking: a pillar of forthcoming 5G systems" WS @IEEE WCNC
2019-04-15 08:00 - 17:00
SaT5G and 5GENESIS are co-organising the Workshop “Satellite-terrestrial interworking: a pillar of forthcoming 5G systems”, with 5GALLSTAR to be held at the IEEE WCNC conference on April the 15th 2019, in Marrakech, Morocco. They now call for papers.
Motivation and scope: Right after the finalization of the 3GPP 5G Phase I specifications and at the verge of the first commercial launches of 5G systems, seamless integration between the satellite- and the cellular system is not yet finalized. The definition of 3GPP 5G Phase II features has just started under the 3GPP Release 16, but it seems that the remaining open points cannot be effectively addressed by the planned new features set, thus shifting to future releases a real satellite-terrestrial integration. Therefore, in order to stress the importance of such integration for the society as well as its business potential, it is key to call the wireless community to prompt action and therefore to organize workshops that can help in sorting out how the satellite and the wireless community can come to a common understanding of how to deliver jointly new interesting services and also add value to existing ones. We claim that without such integration the charter of 5G networks to finally deliver a unique, homogeneous and ubiquitous communication system, capable of satisfying several verticals and different industries, will not be fulfilled.
This workshop aims at discussing recent technology developments, at highlighting still open issues, and at identifying related business opportunities and the market perspectives of a smooth satellite-terrestrial networks integration. Recent theoretical and experimental results, coming out mainly but not only from a few key international research projects, as well as standardization efforts and regulatory bodies matters in the direction of satellite-terrestrial interworking will be discussed and clarified.
Topics: The topics covered by this workshop include, but are not limited to:

Key 5G enhancements of satellite networks
Integration of satellite and terrestrial networks
Verticals benefitting from satellite-terrestrial integration
Use cases and scenarios for satellite-terrestrial integration
Standardization of satellite-terrestrial networks: status and next steps
Regulation of spectrum bands for the joint usage of satellite and terrestrial networks
Testbeds and trials involving satellite-terrestrial integration
Business cases and business models for satellite-terrestrial integration
3GPP and ETSI status of interoperability features among different access technologies

Important dates:

January 10, 2019 Submission of papers
February 15, 2019 Notification of acceptance
March 1, 2019 Camera-ready version of accepted papers

NGPaaS CfP @2nd Cloud-native Design
2019-04-15 - 2019-04-18
NGPaaS is organising the 2nd Cloud-native Design Workshop in conjunction with IEEE WCNC conference (Apri 15-18, 2019) to be held on April 15th, 2019 in Marrakech, Morocco and calls for papers:

5G is expected to introduce disruptive use-cases thanks to its ultra-reliable, low-latency, high-speed connectivity such as remote healthcare, autonomous cars, advanced robotics, AR/VR, IoT… But this “golden digital age” will not become a reality with today’s bulky mobile networks Infrastructure-As-A-Service model and a more agile and powerful model directly inspired by web scale players “cloud-native” approach is required. This model leverages Micro-Services Architecture (MSA) and is called the Platform-As-A-Service:

Micro-service Architecture simplifies complex software systems by breaking them into sub-components distributed across computing servers. An application consists of independent services such as a 3GPP system made of Core, Access and Transport services combined to provide an end-to-end slice. MSA promises to make complex systems more easily operated and upgradable.
Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) provides standardized “ancillary services” (scalability, high availability, state management, controllers, orchestrator…) to developers hiding all infrastructure. Freed developers can focus on their (VNF) applications and (VNS) services. PaaS promises to deliver VNF and VNS with better agility, performance and 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 cloud, the term “cloud-native 5G” collects the essential technology transformation, making 5G essentially a platform. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

Next Generation RAN Architecture: ORAN, RIC
Microservice/Service based architectures for: CORE, RAN, MEC, etc
Virtualization technologies
Intent based programming
Hybrid private/public clouds: security, deployment, cost, management
Automation and Zero touch service management
Open-source software and tools in cloud-native 5G
Security in microservice architecture
5G testbed implementation and deployment
URLLC/IoT/eMBB enablers
Cloud Platforms and Serverless
Software defined hardware accelerators (e.g. FPGA)
Platform performance and abstraction: CORD, mobile CORD, Kubernetes, etc
Multi-service, multi-tenancy and network slicing
High availability (resiliency, self-healing, redundancy)
Analytics based policy
Technology enablers – Open source and standards (ONAP, OPNFV, ONOS, CORD, Linux Foundation/TMF/ETSI/MEF)

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline on EDAS: 30 January 2019
Paper Acceptance Notification: 15 February 2019
Camera-Ready papers submitted: 1 March 2019

Read more here.

CfP @CLEEN'19 WS
2019-04-15 | Marrakech, Morocco
5G PPP projects will be present at this major event as it was the case in previous editions. 5G-Coral and 5G-Transformer are organising a workshop on CLoud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Networks @CLEEN 2019.

Scope and objectives:
This workshop explores novel concepts to allow for flexibly centralised radio access networks using cloud-processing based on open IT platforms, exploiting network virtualization and multi-access edge computing technologies that are recognized as key enablers for the definition of future 5G systems. The aim is to allow for a guaranteed high quality of experience for mobile access via efficient management of cloud resources and services, and to allow for a future network evolution focused on energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness. In fact, all future innovative network solutions will be conceived and deployed with a long term perspective of sustainability, both in terms of energy consumption of the mobile network, its related interoperability with terminals and the cost efficiency of the different deployment and management options. This requires new concepts for the design, operation, and optimization of radio access networks, backhaul networks, operation and management algorithms, and architectural elements, tightly integrating mobile networks and cloud-processing. The emerging paradigm of distributed cloud environment is also a key topic. This workshop will cover technologies across PHY, MAC, and network layers, technologies which extrapolate the cloud-paradigm to the radio access and backhaul network, and will analyse the network evolution from an energy efficiency perspective. It will study the requirements, constraints, and implications for mobile communication networks, and also potential relationship with the offered service, both from an academic and industrial point of view.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: 10/01/2019
Acceptance Notification: 15/02/2019
Camera-Ready: 1/03/2019
Workshop: April 15, 2019
This edition, CLEEN2019 workshop will be organized with a more creative format, conceived with the particular aim to generate lively interactions and foster new ideas. In particular, current shape of the programme agenda is including the Open Forum “Distributed Computing beyond 5G”, that will provide an interactive discussion platform for all stakeholders (from practitioners to experienced researchers and industry leaders), with the aim to encourage collaboration and stimulate a lively interaction, to identify open challenges and research gaps toward new systems (even beyond 5G).
More on this Workshop here.

Smart Future Cities
2019-04-10 09:00 - 2019-04-11 18:00 | ILEC Conference Centre, 47 Lillie Rd, Fulham, London, SW6 1UD, United Kingdom
Smart to Future Cities & Urban IoT returns to London in 2019 for its 8th edition; the only European centric Smart Cities event to really focus on practical, scalable applications of smart city initiatives to improve infrastructure and quality of life.
Key issues of funding, security, scalability, & citizen engagement will be addressed through case studies, discussion groups and interactive panels in a program which drills down into the real needs of smart city leaders.
2019 brings an added emphasis on engaging enterprises from within Smart City environments including energy, utilities, transportation, construction healthcare alongside cities, governments, local governments and authorities to deliver the full smart city value chain.
Enter 5GIA20 as a VIP code and get 20% off.

5G Realised Summit
2019-04-10 09:00 - 2019-04-11 18:00 | Congress Center, 28 Great Russell Street, London,, WC2B 4BG, United Kingdom
The 5G Realised Summit will build upon the 5G infrastructure core and will then feature 7 workshops led by industry experts from the respective verticals to further investigate and demonstrate the use cases in each vertical.
“This event is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate some of this leading work to the world and bring Government and industry together with the aim of unlocking the revolutionary benefits of 5G across the economy and wider society.” – Margot James, Minister for Digital, UK
The 5G Realised Summit is endorsed by 5G IA.
