5G-PPP

3GPP MRP webinar - Edge Computing: Industry vertical Viewpoints
2021-04-20 15:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online event
This webinar shares insights on edge computing from an industry vertical perspective, looking at trials, use cases and applications.
Insights come from the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), 5G Alliance for Connected Industry and Automation (5G-ACIA), Edge Gallery, Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC), Nokia and ETSI.
Interactive polls will reveal benefits and common requirements from the audience and across verticals.
Please register here.

5GCroCo Lunchtime Webinar Nr.3: April 19: Cross-border/-MNO Handover Architecture and Trial Results
2021-04-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Event, WEBINAR
Lunchtime Webinar Nr.3
Welcome to the second in a planned series of 5GCroco Lunchtime Webinars. These webinars will address different aspects of the technical work of the 5GCroco project in detail with some time for questions and discussions on the work presented.
AGENDA:
Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) will enrich assisted and automated driving by exchange of information among vehicles (V2V), as well as between vehicles and the network, commonly also called ”cloud” or ”backend”, (V2N). CCAM services should not be interrupted when crossing a country border and with that also switching between different Mobile Network Operators (MNOs).
This webinar will present the 3GPP-complient network architecture applied in the 5GCroCo project to achieve cross-border / MNO (Inter-PLMN) handover. Furthermore, first results and experience from trials will be presented and discussed.
The slides can be downloaded here.
SPEAKER:
Maciej Muehleisen received his PhD on “Voice over LTE” from RWTH Aachen University in 2015 and worked as a group leader for vehicular communication at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) from 2012 until 2016 focusing on highly reliable aircraft and maritime networks.
He is with Ericsson Research since 2017 and leads the architecture work package of the EU funded 5GCroCo projects on 5G for CCAM in cross-border environments. where he also serves as deputy Technical Coordinator. As “Industry Verticals Coordination” in the Research Area “Networks” he is furthermore supporting the technical coordination of Ericsson’s efforts in the Automotive Edge Computing Association (AECC) and 5G Automotive Association (5GAA).
His key research interest is in end-to-end design, evaluation, and approval of safety critical communication services.

5GCroCo Lunchtime Webinar Nr.2: April 12: Challenges and Solutions for V2X Interoperability
2021-04-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Event, WEBINAR
Lunchtime Webinar Nr.2
Welcome to the second in a planned series of 5GCroco Lunchtime Webinars. These webinars will address different aspects of the technical work of the 5GCroco project in detail with some time for questions and discussions on the work presented.
AGENDA:
Section 3.3.5 of the recently published 5GCroCo Deliverable D3.1 on “Final Application Architecture” explains the challenges and solutions for interoperability around the Anticipated Cooperative Collision Avoidance (ACCA) use case. This use case serves as example to uncover challenges if information, in this case hazard warnings, must be shared between different automotive OEMs and between OEMs and different Road Traffic Authorities (RTAs).
“Standardization” is often considered necessary in this context.
This presentation introduces the current and near-future eco-system of information sharing for connected vehicles. It describes how different solutions, beyond everyone just following the same standard, can be used to achieve service-level interoperability among different ITS systems and stakeholders. For each solution, involved stakeholders are identified and their respective effort to establish and maintain (evolve / upgrade) the interoperability solution.
The slides can be downloaded here.
SPEAKER:
Maciej Muehleisen received his PhD on “Voice over LTE” from RWTH Aachen University in 2015 and worked as a group leader for vehicular communication at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) from 2012 until 2016 focusing on highly reliable aircraft and maritime networks.
He is with Ericsson Research since 2017 and leads the architecture work package of the EU funded 5GCroCo projects on 5G for CCAM in cross-border environments. where he also serves as deputy Technical Coordinator. As “Industry Verticals Coordination” in the Research Area “Networks” he is furthermore supporting the technical coordination of Ericsson’s efforts in the Automotive Edge Computing Association (AECC) and 5G Automotive Association (5GAA).
His key research interest is in end-to-end design, evaluation, and approval of safety critical communication services.

Hannover Messe 2021
2021-04-12 - 2021-04-16 | Hanover Fairground, Messegelände D, Hannover, 30521, Germany
The next Hannover Messe is scheduled from April 12 to 16, 2021.
The 2020 lead theme was “Industrial Transformation”. But the 2020 edition could not take place due to the coronavirus pandemic.
5G-ACIA has prepared interesting insights which will be presented in the Conference Program (main program) and in seven different Exhibitor Livestreaming slots. The detailed 5G-ACIA program can be found here.
If you would like to participate in the program, please register on the Hannover Fair website.

2nd 5G EVE Learn and Drive
2021-04-08 10:30 - 12:30
A great chance for SMEs and startups to boost 5G applications
Overview
The 2nd 5G EVE Learn and Drive online event represents a valuable opportunity for SMEs and startups to get to know 5G EVE and to understand how to profit from testing and training opportunities as well as leverage 5G EVE’s physical resources and technical materials. The two-hour Learn and Drive event will show how to get exposure, virtually meet and get essential information to develop potential collaborations with some of the major industrial players in the 5G Ecosystem.
SMEs will get the chance to discuss potential use cases and future collaborations in direct contact with key European industry players after the event.
Target audience
The online event is addressing startups and SMEs from all vertical sectors who are willing to learn about 5G EVE functionalities and who are interested in proposing ideas for innovative applications or services using the 5G EVE infrastructure. In addition, the event is addressing also all other stakeholders interested in learning more about the 5G EVE project and about opportunities related to 5G deployment.
Agenda

Registration
Please register for the free online event via the Registration Page
Contact
Daniela Rao, IDC drao@idc.com
Alessandra Massaro, IDC amassaro@idc.com

5G Expo Virtual 2021
2021-03-30 | Online event
The 5G Expo Virtual, 30th March 2021 (GMT) is a FREE virtual event and conference consisting of top-level content and thought leadership discussions exploring the world of 5G. The 5G Expo Virtual will provide insight and strategies for technology decision makers seeking to explore and evaluate thought-leadership topics and valuable strategies to drive businesses forward.
The online conference is perfect for those technology professionals making investment and strategy decisions, or building and executing pioneering projects within their organisation. The event will consist of live and on-demand from over 40 speakers sharing their unparalleled industry knowledge and real-life experiences in the forms of solo presentations, expert panel discussions and in-depth fireside chats.

Attend the event to learn:
○ 5G Infrastructure & the Core Network
○ Edge Computing
○ 5G Capabilities
○ Deployment Modes
○ Network Evolution & Future Connectivity
○ Digital Transformation
○ IoT & Blockchain
○ Big Data & AI in 5G
○ Cyber Security for 5G Networks

Register for free here.

5GCroCo Lunchtime Webinar: Result Confidence Assessment and Trial Planning
2021-03-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Event, WEBINAR
Lunchtime Webinar Nr.1
Welcome to the first in a planned series of 5GCroco Lunchtime Webinars. These webinars will address different aspects of the technical work of the 5GCroco project in detail with some time for questions and discussions on the work presented.
AGENDA:
Result Confidence Assessment and Trial Planning

This webinar will cover the following topics based on experience from trials conducted in the 5GCroCo project and the analysis of obtained results:
*_ * How 5GCroCo plans trials to obtain the required number of result samples
* * How we tweak applications to allow faster trials still providing realistic KPIs
* * 5GCroCo results analysis with different methods to determine confidence for different kinds of statistics:
– – Sanity checking
– – Batch Means method for Student-t Confidence Intervals
– – Binomial Proportion Confidence Intervals for simple estimation of confidence of statistical distributions (e.g. latency CCDFs)
– – Limited Relative Error (LRE) Algorithm for statistical distribution confidence (e.g. latency CCDFs)
As preparation we suggest reading Section 3.1 of 5GCroCo Deliverable D4.2 on “First Phase Trial Execution Report and Analysis of 5GCroCo KPIs”
The slides from the meeting can be found at: https://5gcroco.eu/publications/material.html
SPEAKER:
Maciej Muehleisen received his PhD on “Voice over LTE” from RWTH Aachen University in 2015 and worked as a group leader for vehicular communication at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) from 2012 until 2016 focusing on highly reliable aircraft and maritime networks.
He is with Ericsson Research since 2017 and leads the architecture work package of the EU funded 5GCroCo projects on 5G for CCAM in cross-border environments. where he also serves as deputy Technical Coordinator. As “Industry Verticals Coordination” in the Research Area “Networks” he is furthermore supporting the technical coordination of Ericsson’s efforts in the Automotive Edge Computing Association (AECC) and 5G Automotive Association (5GAA).
His key research interest is in end-to-end design, evaluation, and approval of safety critical communication services.

5G-PPP Webinar: Europe accelerates towards 6G
2021-03-16 09:00 - 12:30 | Online Event, WEBINAR
INTRODUCTION:
This webinar gave the floor to the 9 new 5G-PPP Smart Connectivity beyond 5G projects. These projects mostly started in January 2021 and are already developing exciting advances beyond 5G towards 6G.
The webinar was held in two parts, where all projects presented their vision of 6G in the first part as the motivation for their projects and the technical challenges they are addressing to move towards 6G in the second part,
These projects were selected for funding under the H2020-ICT-52-2020: 5G-PPP Smart Connectivity beyond 5G Call.
AGENDA

Time (CET)
Session
Presenter

Opening Session Chairman: Colin Wilcock, 5G Infrastructure Association

Introduction from EC
Bernard Barani, EC

Links to Projects

Video of First Session – 6G Vision (Short statement per project)

Presented Slides:
Slides for Webinar Session 1

Panel discussion – the benefits of 6G

Video of Second Session – Technical enablers and envisioned challenges

Presented Slides:
Slides for Webinar Session 2

Panel discussion – Key Challenges

Wrap up & conclusions – Group Picture

REGISTRATIONS
Over 500 participants registered for this event and the on-line participation peaked at 310 participants.

5G PPP Webinar: 5G Innovations for Verticals
2021-03-05 09:00 - 12:15 | Online Event, WEBINAR
INTRODUCTION: The REGISTRATION FORM is at the bottom of this page.

This webinar presented the 9 new 5G Innovations for Verticals with Third Parties projects that joined the 5G-PPP in the second half of 2020 to accelerate the take up of 5G in the vertical sectors.
The webinar was held in two parts, where four projects presented in the first part and 5 in the second part, with a short introduction from the European Commission and the 5G IA to start. Over 120 participants attended the webinar.
These projects were selected for funding under the 5G-PPP ICT-41-2020 call: 5G-PPP 5G innovations for verticals with third party services.

Time (CET)
Session
Presenter

09:00 – 09:30
Opening Session

09:00 – 09:05
Opening
Chairman, Jacques Magen

09:05 – 09:15
Introduction from EC
Pertti Jauhiainen , EC

09:15 – 09:20
5G IA
Colin Wilcock, Chairman, 5G Infrastructure Association

09:20 – 09:30
Full5G_Presentation
David Kennedy, Eurescom

09:30 – 10:30
Video of First Session Chairman, Jacques Magen

09:30 – 09:45
5GASP
Diogo Gomes, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes

09:45 – 10:00
5G-EPICENTRE
Kostas Apostolakis, FORTH

10:00 – 10:15
5G-ERA
Rafa Lopez & Renxi Qiu, Robotnik Automation SLL

10:15 – 10:30
5G-IANA
Vasilis Sourlas, iSense-ICCS, NTUA

10:45 – 12:10
Video of Second Session Chairman, Jim Clarke

10:45 – 11:00
5G-INDUCE
Dimitris Klonidis, UBITECH

11:00 – 11:15
5GMediaHUB
Kostas Ramantas, IQUADRAT INFROMATICA SL

11:15 – 11:30
EVOLVED-5G
David Artuñedo, Telefonica

11:30 – 11:45
Smart5Grid
Daniele Porcu, ENEL

11:45 – 12:00
VITAL5G
Kostas Trichias, WINGS

12:00 – 12:10
Wrap up & conclusions – Group Picture

REGISTRATION
A total of 230 participants registered for this event.

5G-Tours 4 March 2021 eHealth webinars
2021-03-04 10:00 - 11:45
5G-Tours organises two morning webinars on 4 March 2021:

Webinar 1 scheduled at 10:00-10:45 CET is on “Remote health monitoring and emergency services powered by 5G”. Presenters are Vera Stavroulaki and Nelly Giannopoulou (Wings ICT Solutions, Greece).
The webinar will showcase solutions for remote health monitoring of people, especially when already diagnosed with a critical disease still compatible with home care (e.g. some form of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, etc.). The main features offered, utilising the Wings STARLIT platform, include: (a) real-time remote health monitoring services of main vital-signs, and (b) quick, reliable notifications to users, family members and health care professionals in case of a health incident or a health emergency prediction. The webinar will also shortly showcase how, when an emergency has been identified, optimal ambulance routing is triggered to navigate the ambulance through areas with 5G coverage to ensure the provision of medical help on the go as well as timely patient transfer.
Registration is available by clicking on the link : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/remote-health-monitoring-and-emergency-services-powered-by-5g-tickets-141972077305

Webinar 2 scheduled at 11:00-11:45 CET is on “Hospital powered by 5G”. Presenters are Mathieu Lagrange, Laurent Launay (b<>com, France), Guillaume Campion (AMA, France), and Nelly Besnard (University Hospital Center from Rennes, France).
From the standardisations topics related to both 5G and DICOM, the webinar will then go through the explanation of the UC8 architecture and features of 5G-Tours Project, showing also related KPI and metrics.
Registration is available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hospital-powered-by-5g-tickets-142019140071

24th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks
2021-03-01 - 2021-03-04 | Virtual event
5G rollout has started in many parts of the world and is imminent in others. At the same time, IoT services and applications in vertical areas like industry 4.0, smart grids, eHealth and smart cities which utilize the full capabilities of 5G networks are still emerging. Judging by this demand, massive IoT (mIoT) or massive machine-type communication (mMTC) has been identified as one of the three main communication scenarios for 5G. For enabling and accelerating the large-scale rollout of 5G-based IoT solutions in a wide range of vertical sectors, large-scale validation trials are an important step.
The workshop aims to gather the results of such validation trials for 5G-based IoT solutions in Europe and beyond. In addition to presenting the technological progress and insights gained from these validation trials, the workshop will also foster a multidisciplinary discussion between industry and academia, ICT providers and verticals as well as between the 5G and the IoT research communities. This productive exchange is expected to lead to an identification of existing R&D challenges and new insights on how to address them.
The workshop is organized in cooperation with the 5G EVE, 5G-VINNI, and 5GENESIS projects. The workshop specifically invites papers on relevant validation trials performed by verticals on the large-scale experimental platforms provided (i.e. 5G infrastructure projects of the 5G PPP or other projects or activities). Papers on validation trials for 5G-based IoT solutions performed in other experimental environments are equally welcome.
More information about this event here.

CELTIC Online Proposers Day
2021-02-23 09:00 - 16:00 | Online event
CELTIC-NEXT is pleased to announce this Online Proposers Day in February to foster new project ideas for the upcoming CELTIC-NEXT Spring Call. The next Call for Project Proposals is open until the 12th of April. The goal of this Call is to expand knowledge, boost visibility and promote cooperative efforts for innovative results.
The aim of this Proposers Day is to learn about CELTIC, to discuss project ideas with potential partners, and to find out about funding opportunities in your countries.
This Proposers Day is a discussion fora for organisations that are interested to participate in a research project and want to benefit from performing collaborative research through one of the EUREKA Clusters CELTIC-NEXT.
More information, the agenda, and registration are available on the event’s website.

Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2021
2021-02-23 08:00 - 2021-02-25 17:00
The next MWC is scheduled between February 23 and February 25, 2021.
5G PPP projects will participate in the event which will bring significant opportunities.
Additional information on 5G PPP presence will come soon.

The European 5G Conference 2021
2021-02-23 - 2021-02-25 | Online event
Taking place virtually, the 2021 edition of The European 5G Conference will be held on 23-25 February. Now in its 5th year, the European 5G Conference has an established reputation as Brussels’ leading meeting place for discussion on 5G policy.

With the European Commission currently consulting on a review of The 5G Action Plan, this year’s conference will focus on this and more. It will look at the role that 5G can play in digital recovery, and more broadly on the way forward to ensure that Europe’s 5G goals and objectives are fully achieved. For more information and to register your place, visit 5Gconference.eu.

5G PPP Webinar: New 5G Core Technologies Innovation Projects
2021-02-16 09:00 - 12:00 | Online Event, WEBINAR
INTRODUCTION:
This webinar presented the 8 new 5G Core Technologies projects joining the 5G-PPP to accelerate innovation in the development and take up of 5G. The projects started in the second half of 2020 and are already developing exciting advances in 5G.
The webinar was held in two parts, where four projects will present in each part, with a short introduction from the European Commission and the 5G IA to start.
These projects were selected for funding under the 5G-PPP ICT-42-2020 call: 5G-PPP 5G Core Technologies innovation.
AGENDA:

Time (CET)
Session
Presenter

09:00 – 09:30
Opening

Introduction from the EC
Mario Scillia, EC

Introduction from the 5G IA
Colin Wilcock, 5G-IA,

Presentation of 5G PPP Operations
David Kennedy, Eurescom, Full5G

09:30 – 10:30
Video of First Session

5G-LOGINNOV
Eusebiu Catana, ERTICO

5G-RECORDS 5G-RECORDS-Video
Irene Alepuz Benaches, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

Affordable5G
Dr. Panagiotis Trakadas, NKUA,

5GMETA
Oihana Otaegui, VICOMTECH

Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:55
Video of Second Session

COREnect
Gerhard Fettweis, TU Dresden,

DRAGON
Vladimir Ermolov, VTT

FUDGE-5G
David Gomez-Barquero, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

Int5Gent
Dr. Dimitrios Klonidis, Ubitech

REGISTRATION:
Over 300 people registered for this event and the participation peaked at 150 simultaneous participants.

5G-SMART Webinar on “5G TSN deployment model and time synchronization aspects”
2021-01-29 15:00 - 16:30
The 5G-SMART project is organizing a webinar entitled “5G TSN deployment model and time synchronization aspects” on 29 January, 2021 at 3 pm CET with 90 minutes duration.

Book your agenda for this event and register your anticipated participation here.
Details for the webinar link will be given on the 27th of January.

Abstract: 5G supports wireless ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) and has introduced new architectural options such as standalone non-public networks and public network integrated non-public network (PNI-NPN) to enable smart manufacturing use cases. 5G standardization has specified interworking of 5G with TSN so that 5G acts as virtual 5G TSN bridge in a TSN network. This allows to support TSN-based time-critical communication in an integrated 5G-TSN network, including time synchronization. This webinar presents how 5G can be deployed together with TSN for industrial automation, by looking into specific manufacturing use cases. These include advanced industrial robotics controlled from the cloud, communication between industrial controllers, the centralized control of an AGV fleet, and adaptive production based on real-time monitoring of the production process. Further, 5G time synchronization deployment aspects are presented.

Below are the webinar speakers:

Dr. Joachim Sachs (Ericsson) is a Senior Expert at Ericsson Research in Stockholm, and coordinates research activities on 5G for industrial Internet of Things solutions and cross-industry research collaborations. After studies in Germany, Norway, France and Scotland he received a diploma degree in electrical engineering from Aachen University (RWTH), Germany, and a PhD degree from the Technical University of Berlin. He joined Ericsson in 1997 and has worked on a variety of topics in the area of wireless communication systems, and has contributed to the standardization of 3G, 4G and 5G. Since 1995 he has been active in the IEEE and the German VDE Information Technology Society (ITG), where he is currently co-chair of the technical committee on communication networks. In 2009 he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, USA. Dr. Sachs was a recipient of the Ericsson Inventor of the Year award in 2006, and in 2010 he received the research award of the Vodafone foundation for scientific research.
Dr. Daniel Philip Venmani (Orange) is a senior research and standardization engineer at Orange Labs, Lannion. His primary research activities focus towards the development of future mobile transport networks, recently focusing on 5G end-to-end connectivity network architectures. He is very actively involved in Standardization activities – representing Orange at ITU‐T Study Group 15 – Question 13 (Network Synchronization and Time Distribution Performance group), Question 12 (Transport Network Architecture Group), IEEE1588, IEEE802.1, O-RAN WG9 etc. He has been involved in several EU funded research projects over the years and has published his research results in several renounced conferences and journals (IEEE ComMag., IEEE Globecom, ACM MobiCoM, etc)). He obtained his Ph.D from UPMC-Paris VI (France).

The vision of the 5G-SMART project (www.5gsmart.eu) is to empower Europe’s manufacturing sector with 5G solutions by integrating 5G in the manufacturing ecosystem, resulting in an accelerated digital transformation. This is done within the project by demonstrating and validating 5G in real-world factory setups, exploring the roles of mobile network operators and new business models as well as developing new 5G features targeting the manufacturing sector. 5G-SMART lead by Ericsson brings together a strong consortium of partners involved in every aspect of the manufacturing ecosystem.

Please feel free to further distribute this information to interested colleagues.
Thank you for your anticipated participation!
Link for the registration: https://forms.gle/dr6JETBqxbRwx1wK8

1st 5G EVE Learn and Drive
2021-01-26 10:30 - 12:30
A unique chance for SMEs and startups to boost 5G applications
Overview
The 5G EVE Learn and Drive represents a valuable opportunity for SMEs and startups to get to know 5G EVE and to understand how to profit from testing and training opportunities as well as leverage 5G EVE’s physical resources and technical materials. The two-hour Learn and Drive event will show how to get exposure, virtually meet and get essential information to develop potential collaborations with some of the major industrial players in the 5G Ecosystem.
SMEs will get the chance to discuss potential use cases and future collaborations in direct contact with key European industry players after the event.
Target audience
Start-ups and SMEs from all vertical sectors willing to learn about 5G EVE functionalities and proposing ideas for innovative applications or services which could use the 5G EVE infrastructure.
Agenda

Registration
Please register for the free online event via the Registration Page
Contact
Daniela Rao, IDC drao@idc.com
Alessandra Massaro, IDC amassaro@idc.com

PSCE Conference
2021-01-19 - 2021-01-21 | Online event
The upcoming PSCE Conference will take place virtually on 19-20 January 2021. The conference will be broken down into 4 thematic sessions lasting 2 hours each.
The conference programme will be available on PSCE’s event page very shortly.
Conference Themes

Useful, usable, trustworthy Artificial Intelligence systems for PPDR
5G, Cybersecurity, Resilience
Climate Emergency: What’s the scale of the challenge? How to mitigate climate change effects on PPDR organizations? How are PPDR organisations adapting?
New Space Applications: What Future Use Cases for PPDR?

Register here: https://www.psc-europe.eu/news-events/events/psce-virtualconference.html

PSCE signed a grant agreement with the European GNSS Agency (GSA https://www.gsa.europa.eu/) to coordinate the BroadGNSS Pre-Commercial Procurement programme on Friday 6th November 2020, . More information about this agreement here: https://5g-ppp.eu/broadgnss-agreement-signed-by-psce-and-gsa/

IEEE Global Communications Conference 2020
2020-12-07 - 2020-12-11 | Taipei, Taiwan
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS
SECTION I: Workshop Information
Workshop Number: WS-15
Workshop Title: Early deployments of 5G network features and performance.
Workshop Organizer(s):

Simon Fletcher (Realwireless, UK)
Belkacem Mouhouche (Samsung R&D Institute UK)
Roman Odarchenko (Bundleslab, Hungary)

Email Address of Organizer(s):
simon.fletcher@real-wireless.com
b.mouhouche@samsung.com
roman@bundleslab.com
Workshop Scope:
5G systems have been under study for about a decade with the intent of meeting stringent technical KPIs to the benefit of the wireless industry but also and importantly for a diverse set of use cases in the “verticals” or industry sectors. 3GPP has finalised the first release of 5G (Rel’15) and is actively working on Rel’16 targeting acceptance into the IMT-2020 framework. With the current state of the standardisation, the many trials around the world and the early network deployment, an initial assessment of the 5G solutions can be carried out. In particular, a useful comparison can now be done between the initial vision developed at the beginning of the decade and the emerging commercial solutions. Furthermore, the challenges that remain to be addressed can be discussed in several verticals both in unicast and multicast/broadcast contexts (VR, AR, IoT, Multimedia, Health).
Organized by one flagship 5GPPP European project, 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 unpublished research papers in the following and related topics. They could cover traditional mobile networks or any other new 5G vertical applications.

SECTION II: Topics of Interest

5G channel modelling and measurements
Novel channel estimation techniques
5G antenna design and prototyping
Multiple antenna techniques, incl. MIMO, Massive MIMO and Beamforming
Control and implementation aspects for Massive MIMO and Beamforming
Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) schemes, code design.
Efficient Transceiver architectures and design
5G air interface/ waveform design and optimizations
Advanced radio link management, incl. efficient signalling and control
Hardware impairments – modelling and impact analysis
5G co-ordinated cells incl. NR-CoMP
Heterogeneous networks
Advanced Channel coding, waveform and Non-Uniform modulation
Layered-Division Multiplexing
Next generation of broadcasting systems
Convergence of broadcasting and broadband wireless
5G system prototyping, PoC efforts
5G deployment results
5G security

SECTION III: Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission: 15 July 2020
Date for notification: 1 September 2020
Deadline for final paper submission: 1 October 2020

SECTION IV: List of Committee Members
TPC chairs:

Manuel Fuentes (Polytechnic University of Valencia, mafuemue@iteam.upv.es)
Panagiotis Demestichas (WINGS, pdemest@wings-ict-solutions.eu)

TPC Members:

Diego Gonzalez (Samsung R&D, UK)
David Gutierrez (Samsung R&D, UK)

Albert Banchs, (UC3M, Spain)
Yannis Gravezas(Samsung R&D, UK)

De Mi (University of Surrey, UK)
Manuel Fuentes (UPV, Spain)

Maxim Iavich (Caucasus University, Georgia)
Yousef Ibrahim Daradkeh (Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, KSA)

Jugoslav Achkoski (Military Academy “General Mihailo Apostolski”, North Macedonia)
Galini Tsoukaneri (Samsung R&D, UK)

Marek Aleksander (High State Vocational School, Nowy Sacz)
Jamil Al-Azzeh (Al-Balqa University, Jordan)

Jordi Joan Gimenez (IRT, Germany)
Nurgul Seilova (Satbayev University, Kazakhstan)

Roman Odarchenko (Bundleslab, Hungary)
Saulius Japertas (Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania)

Zhengbing Hu (Central China Normal University, PRC)
Yevgeniya Sulema (Bundleslab, Hungary)

Sergiy Gnatiuk (National aviation university, Ukraine)
Tetiana Okhrimenko (National aviation university, Ukraine)

Daniel Corujo (Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal)
Taras Maksymyuk (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine)

More information in the IEEE GLOBECOM site.

5G-HEART webinar series: Webinar #2 – Transport vertical trials
2020-12-04 10:00 - 11:15 | Online event
5G for Advanced Automotive Use Cases: benefits and early learnings
Date: 04 December 2020
Time: 10:00 – 11.15 GMT
Venue: Online

Draft programme:
10:00 – 10:10: Welcome and Introduction.
Faouzi Bouali, Research Fellow, 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom.

10:10 – 10:25: Benefits and experiences of ‘adding’ 5G to a Smart Junction.
Bastiaan Wissingh, Senior Scientist, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, the Netherlands.

10:25 – 10:40: Tele-operation Vehicle Support in 5G: Challenges & First Lessons from 5G-HEART.
Vasileios Karyotis, Research Associate, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece.

10:40 – 10:55: Enhancing road traffic safety with ubiquitous driver monitoring and connected vehicles: The Human Tachograph approach.
Jarno Pinola, Senior Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland.

10:55 – 11:15: Questions and Answers. Closing.

Register in this link by 1st Dec 2020.

5G-DRIVE 2nd webinar on roadmapping 5G technologies and services
2020-12-03 10:15 - 10:55
5G-DRIVE is organising its second webinar in 2020, taking place on December 3rd at 10h15 CET, through GotoWebinar.
In this webinar, participants will have the chance to better understand the current status of 5G technologies, in particular Radio Access and Transport Network technologies, as well as Network Slicing.
For more information on the speakers, full agenda and registration, kindly check the following link: https://5g-drive.eu/webinar/2020-12-03/

Tech Talk "5G & Verticals"
2020-12-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Online event
The Tech Talk “5G & Verticals” organised by Comunicare Digitale and DIME Comunicaciones will take place tomorrow, December 1st, 2020 from 12.00 to 1.00 pm.
Live will be available on the Forum Europeo Digitale website and on Comunicare Digitale social channels as YouTube.

Speakers:

Colin WILLCOCK 5G-IA
Jordi GIMENEZ 5G-MAG

Francesco SACCO Bocconi

Panagiotis DEMESTICHAS Wings ICT

Ioannis NEOKOSMIDIS InCITES

Full5G Webinar on 3GPP Release 18 - Opportunities for Industry Verticals
2020-11-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Online event
Monday 30 November 2020, 15:00-17:00 CET
This 2-hour webinar is for anyone interested in finding out more about what 5G means for industry verticals in the rapidly advancing digitisation of many sectors, with insights on automotive, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, media and broadcasting:

5G Automotive Association (5GAA) [https://5gaa.org/]
5G Alliance for Connected Industry and Automation (5G-ACIA) [https://www.5g-acia.org/]
European Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC) [https://eutc.org/]
5G Media Action Group (5G-MAG) [https://www.5g-mag.com/]
5G Health Association (5G HA) [https://5g-health.org/]; White Paper (July 2020) https://5g-health.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/5G-Health-Whitepaper-V1.pdf

It is a key opportunity to hear from top-level experts in 3GPP [https://www.3gpp.org/] with the Chairmen from SA (Service and System Aspects) and RAN (Radio Access Network) on hand as we delve into new requirements for Release 18, presenting opportunities and giving practical guidance on what’s involved.
The industry verticals present their viewpoints and requirements before taking part in an interactive discussion with the 3GPP Chairmen.

Panellists

Georg Mayer, 3GPP TSG SA Chairman
Balazs Bertenyi, 3GPP TSG RAN Chairman
Maxime Flament, 5GAA CTO and member insights
Michael Bahr, Siemens and 5G-ACIA
Julian Stafford, EUTC with Erik Guttman, Samsung
Jordi Gimenez, 5G-MAG
Prof Dr Med Christoph Thuemmler, Helios Park Klinikum Leipzig and 5G HA

Hosts: Stephanie Parker and John Favaro, Trust-IT and Full5G
Participants will find out how they can benefit from 5G standardisation, see the benefits of being part of 3GPP and/or an industry association, and joining forces on common requirements and priorities to help deliver on the promises of 5G.

The webinar builds on over two years of engagement between 3GPP and verticals, first through workshops and now through a webinar series co-organised by 5G-IA, 5G-ACIA, 5GAA and PSCE with a view to lowering barriers to 5G standardisation for any sector wishing to come on board.

COREnect Workshop - Building European technological sovereignty
2020-11-26 13:30 - 15:30 | Online event
The COREnect project is organising its 1st workshop, entitled “Building European technological sovereignty in 5G and beyond”, that will be held in co-location with the EFECS2020 conference, on November 26th, from 13.30 to 15.30 CET. This is an opportunity for the Key Digital Technologies (KDT) and the Smart Network and Services (SNS) communities to come together, and elaborate a joint technology roadmap for European microelectronics and telecommunications industries.
Components for the next generations of telecommunications systems and services need to be more and more performant, reliable, trustworthy, and environment-friendly.
COREnect is drafting a roadmap to consider how to create a European industrial ecosystem that will build core technologies for future connectivity systems in the next 5 to 10 years. Join high-level experts from industry and research, from the European Components and Systems and from the Networks and Services domains, to exchange your view on such an ambitious target, at strategic, technological, and societal levels.
Participants already confirmed include experts from Bosch, Infineon, NXP, ST, Ericsson, Nokia, CEA, IMEC, and TU Dresden.
Important note: registration in EFECS2020 is mandatory to attend the workshop. Under certain conditions, COREnect invites professionals from organisations that are members of 5G IA, NetWorld2020, AIOTI, CISPE.cloud, NESSI, Photonics21, BDVA, euRobotics, and EuroHPC to request a free EFECS registration at the dedicated COREnect EFECS workshop registration desk, Free tickets will be distributed on a first-come first-serve basis, with a deadline on November 8th, 17.00 CET.
Check free ticket eligibility.

ETSI Free Virtual Event: Boosting the Impact of Research and Innovation through Standardization – 24-25 November 2020
2020-11-24 09:45 - 2020-11-25 12:45
The ETSI virtual event, “Boosting the Impact of Research & Innovation through Standardization”, organized in partnership with TelecomTV regroups the most significant actors involved in this ICT framework and examines together what more can be done as we move beyond 5G deployments and begin researching new technologies and use cases for the 6G era.
The ETSI virtual event includes much online content, interviews, status presentations and also several possibilities for the audience to interact with the expert speakers and panellists. The event will run over 24 and 25 November 2020.
Chrystel Gaber (Orange and INSPIRE-5Gplus) will make a presentation on “How research projects impact security standards: the example of INSPIRE-5Gplus”. In the talk the INSPIRE-5Gplus approach aiming at a radical shift in security management by designing and implementing a fully automated end-to-end smart network and service management framework that empowers not only protection but also trustworthiness and liability in managing 5G network infrastructures across multi-domains will be presented. In addition, it will be presented how the project and its results can be exploited by contributing to the ETSI NFV-SEC standard.
The detailed Conference Programme and speakers’ biographies are available on the TelecomTV site.

“Beyond 5G Evolution” webinar co-organized by 5GROWTH, 5G-DIVE and EMPOWER
2020-11-19 15:00 - 18:00 | Online event
In this webinar, different topics relevant for beyond 5G/6G architectures will be descussed. While the standardization of 5G is still being finalized, there are already topics and features that are starting to be associated with the future generation of mobile networks. Three outstanding speakers, very knowledgeable in the field of 5G and beyond, will touch upon different angles of how future network architectures will look.
This webinar is co-organized by 5Growth, 5G-DIVE and EMPOWER EU H2020 projects.

Chair: Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano (UC3M). 5GROWTH project coordinator
Talks:
Role of 5GPPP Architecture WG toward B5G/6G System
Ömer Bulakci (Nokia Bell Labs)
On the path to 6G: Target Capabilities and Technology Trends
Alain Mourad (InterDigital Labs)
Network architectures for 5G and beyond
Josep Mangues (CTTC)

More details on the agenda and registration available at:
https://electronics-2.sciforum.net/

5G EVE Webinar – Italian Site Demo
2020-11-18 14:30 - 16:30
In this two-hour webinar we will present 5G EVE’s Italian site. It includes the “Innovation Mile” in Turin, which is served by the TIM commercial network and is connected to the indoor facilities on the premises of TIM and Politecnico di Torino/ CNIT – National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications. In the webinar we will demonstrate three vertical use cases deployed in the Italian site: Smart Transport, Smart City, and Smart Tourism.

Participation in the training webinar is free and requires registration. The registration deadline is 16th November 2020.

Further information and online registration are available via the 5G EVE Webinar Page:
https://www.5g-eve.eu/event/5g-eve-webinar-italian-site-demo/

5G Techritory - 3rd annual Baltic Sea Region 5G ecosystem forum
2020-11-11 - 2020-11-12 | Online Event, WEBINAR
The 5G Techritory platform is an initiative to bring together every aspect of 5G for a faster and more swift implementation and commercialization of 5G to increase the pace of economic development in the Baltic Sea Region.
The 5G Techritory Forum 2020 will be the third-annual event bringing together the leading minds in 5G deployment in the Baltic Sea Region. The 2020 Forum is projected to assemble 800+ of the leading decisionmakers in policy, business, and infrastructure to increase collaboration and reinforce commitment to joint development.
Go check the event website and the agenda here.
You can register here.

5G PPP Webinar: 5G for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM)
2020-11-06 10:00 - 12:45 | Online Event, WEBINAR
INTRODUCTION:
This webinar was run in two parts with a short introduction from the European commission to start – Over 170 people attended the webinar.
The first part showed the ongoing CCAM work and the white paper produced by the three H2020-ICT-18-2018 5G PPP corridor projects:
5G-MoBiX, 5G-CARMEN and 5GCroCo ;

The CCAM white paper introduces the scope, use cases, trial sites and particularities of each of the three H2020-ICT-18-2018 5G PPP corridor projects: 5GCroCo, 5G-CARMEN and 5G-MoBiX. These projects address a number of technical, organizational, business and administrative challenges that the provision of CCAM functionality over 5G connectivity poses in highway and national border (corridors) environments. The projects are performing 5G-enabled Autonomous Driving AD trials at national border conditions and are drawing useful insights regarding the challenges and opportunities of provisioning 5G-enabled CCAM services in cross-border conditions. This white paper, a joint effort by the three projects, presents their preliminary results, based on currently available technological enablers, with the capacity to mitigate and/or resolve the above mentioned challenges. It also identifies and elaborates on the main concerns and challenges arising from deploying advanced CCAM use cases at regional borders.
The second part introduced the new CAM related Projects under the 5G-PPP ICT-53-2020 call:
5GBlueprint, 5GMED, 5G-ROUTES and 5GRail.

The challenge for the ICT-53 projects is to qualify and characterise the latest version of 5G specifications as available from 3G PP release 16 early 2020 (5G NR-V2X and beyond) in the context of advanced use cases deployment in Europe of CAM that may also benefit from Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. It targets use cases beyond C-ITS safety applications in view of enabling use cases in the context of complete connectivity-enabled ecosystems around cars and vehicles. It supports the realisation of the strategic objective of having all major transport paths covered with 5G connectivity by 2025 through cross-border trials along major transport paths planned for CAM deployment (“5G corridors”) and paves the way towards operational deployment as envisaged with the Connecting Europe Facility proposal. The work is also relevant to cross border railway corridors in view of providing services to trains, including in the context of the planned Future Railways Mobile Communication Systems (FRMCS) planned to replace GSM-R around 2030.
AGENDA:

Part 1: ICT 18 & CCAM White Paper
CCAM Webinar Video Part 1

10:00 – 10:10
Introduction/Welcome
European Commission welcome: Jorge Pereira
Organiser intro: Kostas Trichias, WINGS ICT Solutions

10:10 – 10:30
5G-MOBIX
Kostas Trichias, WINGS ICT Solutions

10:30 – 10:50
5G-CARMEN 5G-CARMEN Video
Andreas Heider-Aviet, Deutsche Telekom

10:50 – 11:10
5GCroCo
Antonio Fernández Barciela, PSA

11:10 – 11:30
Q & A

Part 2: Introducing the ICT 53 Projects
CCAM Webinar Video Part 2

11:30 – 11:45
5G Blueprint
Johann Marquez-Barja, IMEC

11:45 – 12:00
5GMed
Raül González Prats, Cellnex Telecom

12:00 – 12:15
5G-ROUTES
Urmas Ruuto , Ericsson

12:15 – 12:30
5GRail 5GRail Video
Jean-Michel Evanghelou, UIC

12:30 – 12:45
Q & A

5G-VINNI/Telenor @3rd Nordic Conference on ICT: 5G for Industry & Society
2020-11-05 10:30 - 2020-11-06 16:30
NTNU, SINTEF, Telenor Research and 5G-VINNI invites to a 2-day virtual conference to discuss the changes, challenges, and opportunities the Telco Industry will face in their journey to commercialize 5G for industry and society. The event will be live-streamed.

The agenda is available here.
You can also register online here.
