5G-PPP

EU-TW Joint 5G Workshop in Taiwan
2016-06-03 02:30 - 11:30 (Europe/Berlin) | MoTC GIS Conference Center, No.24, Sec. 1, Hangjhou S. Rd., Jhongjheng Dist., , Taipei City 100 , Taiwan
EU-Taiwan Workshop: Technology Evolution in Future Internet
Date: June 3, 2016 – Taiwan
Venue: MoTC GIS Conference Center
Registration links:
– Enterprise Europe Network (EEN): https://www.b2match.eu/eu-taiwan-2016
– ITRI’s registration link (in Chinese): https://wlsms.itri.org.tw/ForeSignUp/SignUpIndex.aspx?ActGUID=262D1CC3BD
Agenda (draft)

Context and Objectives:
This event follows previous contacts between the EU and Taiwanese administration. Both EU and Taiwan have launched ambitious 5G research and development initiatives and agreed on the targeted opening call in the future internet included in 2016-17 work programs.The event takes place in the context of 5G technology evolution and preparatory consultation for the EU-Taiwan Targeted opening call of the Horizon 2020 programme. The first EU-Taiwan joint 5G Workshop was held by European Commission on October 24, 2014 to explore mutual technical interests.The purpose of this workshop is consequently:
– in the short term, to share information on technology trends and work out joint proposal for EU-TW Targeted Opening Call and expedite the implementation of collaborative projects contributed by partners of the two sides.
– In the mid term, to promote Taiwan and EU collaboration on a regular basis and to contributions to international standards organizations such as ITU-R and 3GPP.

8:30 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 10:30 Opening Remarks – EC & Taiwan
– Representative from BoST, Taiwan
– Representative from EC
– Wei-Hsiang Fu, Director General, DoIT/MoEA, Taiwan (TBC)
– Representative from 5G-PPP, Werner Mohr

10:30 – 10: 50 Coffee Break

10: 50 – 12:10
– Status & Outlook of EU-TW 5G collaboration including Targeted Opening call and participation in international 5G standards (EU, 20 min.)
– Proposal ideas for EU-Taiwan Targeted Opening ICT-08-2017
§ Taiwan (Tzi-cker Chiueh/ITRI, 30 min)
· Highly Coordinated Ultra Dense Network
· Access Convergence for 5G MTC Applications
· 5G RRH Platform, OTA Measurements and Multi-RAT Deployment Tool
· Mobile Edge Computing
· Convergence of 5G/G5 for the SeaPort Of Things
· Real-time virtualization infrastructure for NFV applications
§ EU (30 min)

12:10 – 13:30 Lunch, Networking

13:30 – 15:30 5G Technology Development
– System Implementation (Ericsson/TBA, 30 min)
– Base Station Evolution (Wilhelm Heger/Foxconn, 30 min)
– Standards and Technology Trends (Vincent Wang/Nokia, 30 min)
– Access Technology (Gabriel Lin/MediaTek, 30 min) (TBC)

15:50 – 16:50
– EU: 5G Use cases and Technical Requirements (Laurent Herault/CEA-LETI, 30 min)
– Taiwan: 5G Applications (Mu-Piao Shih/CHT, 30 min)

16:50 – 17:30 Panel Discussion : Towards converged 5G mobile networks — Opportunities and Challenges
Chair: Tzi-cker Chiueh, ITRI
Panellists: Invited speakers

The First Global 5G Event: “Building 5G Technology Ecosystem”
2016-05-31 08:30 - 2016-06-01 17:30 | Friendship Palace, Beijing Friendship Hotel, No.1 Zhong Guan Cun South Street, Beijing , Haidian District, 100873, China
The First Global 5G Event will be held in Beijing, China on May 31 and June 1, 2016.
The theme for this event is “Building 5G Technology Ecosystem” and it will bring together experts from all corners of the globe to discuss that status and progress on 5G through a series of focused session:

Opening Session
Session 1: 5G System Design
Session 2: 5G Air Interface
Session 3: 5G Network & Operation
Session 4: Technologies for 5G Terminals
Session 5: Testing Technologies for 5G
Session 6: 5G and Vertical Industries

This event is organised jointly by the 5 regional organisations involved with the development of 5G.
For more information on the programme and the local Organisation please download the General information of the First Global 5G Event (Updated 17-05-16).
If you wish to register and attend the event please download the Registration Form of the First Global 5G Event here and send the completed form to the mail address on the form.

5G PPP @4th CLEEN workshop (30 May-1 June 2016): How cloudy and green will mobile networks and services be?
2016-05-30 - 2016-06-01 | CEA-LETI, 3 Parvis Louis Néel, 38054 Grenoble, France
The fourth edition of this workshop is a joint initiative organized by three 5G PPP projects funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020, and it covers common aspects of interest in order meet the need to study new technological trends in mobile communications. In particular, the collaborating projects are: Flex5Gware, 5G NORMA and Speed-5G. The CLEEN (Cloud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Networks) workshop is organised in conjunction with the 11th edition of CrownCom, the International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. It will take place in Grenoble (France) from 30th May to 1st June 2016.
This workshop explores novel concepts to allow for flexibly centralised radio access networks using cloud-processing based on open IT platforms, in coordination with network virtualization technologies (including Mobile Edge Computing) recognized as key enablers for the definition of future 5G systems. The aim is to allow for a guaranteed high quality of experience for mobile access to cloud-processing resources and services, and to allow a future network evolution focused on energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness. In fact, all future innovative network solutions will be conceived and deployed with a long term perspective of sustainability, both in terms of energy consumption of mobile network (and related interoperability with terminals) and cost efficiency of the different deployment and management options. This requires new concepts for the design, operation, and optimization of radio access networks, backhaul networks, operation and management algorithms, and architectural elements, tightly integrating mobile networks and cloud-processing. This workshop will cover technologies across PHY, MAC, and network layers, technologies which translate the cloud-paradigm to the radio access and backhaul network, and will analyse the network evolution from the energy efficiency perspective. It will study the requirements, constraints, and implications for mobile communication networks, and also potential relationship with the offered service, both from the academic and the industrial point of view.
Papers are welcome in the following areas:
Centralised/Decentralised PHY and MAC processing
-Flexible assignment of functionality in mobile networks
-Joint operation and optimisation of radio access and backhaul networks for cloud-based mobile networks
-Integration of cloud-services into green hetereogeneous wireless networks
-Management of cloud-based/cloud-operated heterogeneous networks providing access to cloud services
-Energy efficiency vs. QoS vs cost-efficiency trade-offs
-Architectual evolution of mobile networks
-Mobile Edge Computing and related enablers (e.g. new interfaces, protocols, node-to-node communication, D2D communication,…)
-Cost effective deployment stratégies for evolved heterogenous wireless network
-Service and energy management aspects of cloud-based mobile networks
-Storage and computation capability of small cells
-Resource allocation techniques; interference analysis, avoidance, and mitigation for heterogeneous networks
-Testbeds and performance evaluation for cloud-based mobile communication networks
Papers can be submitted online. Information is available here.
Note the following dates:

-Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2016
-Notifications of Acceptance: March 4, 2016
-Final paper (“camera-ready”): March 18, 2016
More information is available here.

Workshop jointly organised by multiple 5G PPP projects at the IEEE ICC 2016
2016-05-23 - 2016-05-27 | IEEE ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
This workshop on 5G RAN design is jointly organized by the 5th Generation Public Private Partnership (5G PPP) projects METIS-II, FANTASTIC-5G, mmMAGIC and 5G NORMA at the IEEE ICC 2016. It aims to foster the discussion and consensus building on key 5G RAN design aspects. The workshop will provide the opportunity to share and discuss results from the mentioned projects and other 5G research activities, and to elaborate on how the 5G RAN design shall be best taken forth in the standardization which is expected to start in this time frame.
Papers should be submitted before December 4th, 2015. Additional information on paper submission can be found below.
Area/Topics of interest:
The workshop chairs solicit original, unpublished technical papers in particular in the following fields:
– Physical layer concepts related to 5G, as for instance
– waveforms, synchronization, numerology, unified frame structure concepts
– means to obtain ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability
– native support of D2D, V2X, broadcast and multi-cast
– low-complexity massive MIMO solutions and related enablers
– solutions for contention-based access and back-/fronthauling aspects
– MAC, RLC, PDCP and RRC concepts, in particular related to a an efficient integration of multiple novel 5G air interfaces among each other, and with evolved legacy technology. Examples:
– novel resource management concepts, tailored to the support of a wider range of service and QoS requirements and novel communication forms such as D2D
– Novel initial access and mobility concepts, in particular in the context of the integration and co-location of multiple novel and legacy air interface in 5G
– Novel multi-connectivity approaches and related system enablers
– General considerations on the control and user plane design in 5G RAN
Workshop Chairs:
Dr. Patrick Marsch, Nokia Networks
Dr. Didier Bourse, Alcatel-Lucent
Technical Program Committee:
Markus Breitbach, Deutsche Telekom, Daniel Camps, i2CAT, Marco Caretti, Telecom Italia, Aleksandra Checko, Technical University of Denmark, Antonio De Domenico, CEA-LETI Minatec, Guido Dietl, University of Applied Sciences Landshut, Mark Doll, Bell Labs, Catherine Douillard, Institut Mines Telecom – Telecom Bretagne, Michael Einhaus, Panasonic R&D Center Germany, Andreas Georgakopoulos, WINGS ICT Solutions, Christian Ibars, Intel Corporation, Dimitri Ktenas, CEA, Erwu Liu, Tongji University, Nurul Mahmood, Aalborg University, Honglei Miao, Intel Mobile Communication GmbH, Jan Mietzner, Cassidian (EADS), Belkacem Mouhouche, Samsung Electronics Research and Development UK, Klaus Pedersen, Nokia Networks, Sofie Pollin, KU Leuven, Olav Queseth, Ericsson Research, Peter Rost, Nokia Networks, Krystian Safjan, Nokia Networks, Bessem Sayadi, Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs, Berna Sayrac, Orange Labs, Frank Schaich, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Mehrdad Shariat, Samsung R&D Institute UK, Osvaldo Simeone, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Salvatore Talarico, West Virginia University, Kostas Tsagkaris, WINGS ICT Solutions, Peter von Wrycza, Ericsson, Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks Institute, Dirk Wübben, University of Bremen, Gerhard Wunder, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Gerd Zimmermann, Deutsche Telekom
Additional Information:
http://www.5G-ran-design.org
Paper Submission:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21689
Related URLs / Twitter accounts / Hashtags :
https://5gnorma.5g-ppp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WS_CfP_5G-NORMA_rev3.pdf, https://5gnorma.5g-ppp.eu https://twitter.com/5G_NORMA
Important Dates:
– Extended paper submission deadline: December 18th, 2015
– Acceptance notification: February 21, 2016
– Camera-ready papers: March 13, 2016

5G NORMA, 3rd international workshop on 5G architecture @IEEE ICC 2016, Malaysia
2016-05-22 - 2016-05-27 | IEEE ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Today’s radio and core network architectures do not provide the required flexibility to cope with requirements from new 5G applications like low latency, high reliability, or deep indoor coverage. The ability to efficiently adapt to these extreme requirements locally is expected to be key for the success of 5G. To address these challenges calls for new end-to-end architectural designs (covering RAN, Core and Transport Networks) based on flexible allocations of functions, Network Function Virtualization and software-defined implementations. Novel End-to-End Network Architecture designs are gaining a lot of attention in 5G for the above reasons, and hence research work in ongoing both in industry and academia. 3GPP standardization starts working on 5G with the first study items on 5G radio and architecture started end of 2015 and early 2016.
This workshop is organized by EU funded project 5G NORMA as part of the 5G Infrastructure Public Private (5G PPP) initiative.
Area/Topics of interest
An unprecedented reengineering of the mobile networking architecture is required if the mobile industry to remain competitive. Mobile data traffic is predicted to increase globally 11-fold between 2013 and 2018, and grow three times faster than fixed IP traffic. The growth in mobile traffic will not be homogenous: busy hour Internet traffic is expected to grow more rapidly than average Internet traffic. The uptake of Machine Type Communication (MTC) services will, in addition, result in locally and over time varying characteristics of the mobile traffic. Thus, a future mobile infrastructure will not only have to support a fast growing overall mobile data volume and a significantly increased number of connected mobile devices at significantly improved energy- and cost efficiencies, but it also has to provide the capability to flexibly adapt to dynamically fluctuating traffic demands (over time, location and characteristics) and a broad range of potentially new service requirements of future service portfolios.
To satisfy the above trends, future 5G networks will have to meet a wide array of diverse and extreme requirements. There will be the need for super fast and reliable connectivity with virtually zero latency for use cases such as remote control of robots, and support for billions of sensors and things. 5G will provide consistent and high quality connectivity for people and things, creating the perception of infinite capacity. Furthermore, 5G networks will combine revolutionary technologies and existing mobile radio generations, as well as Wi-Fi, into a new system. Those technologies and layers will need to be managed as one.
So far, most interest of the research community has been drawn to novel physical layer technologies. However, it is of upmost importance to introduce a 5G End-to-End Architecture that allows for a cost- and time-efficient introduction of 5G, that integrates a variety of novel technologies with different timing regarding their introduction, and that is sufficiently flexible to accommodate applications and services that are yet to be envisioned. For example, to allow 5G to support low latency is not enough to design a low latency RAN, latency is an end-to-end factor and hence require the joint design of RAN, Core Network (CN) and Transport Network. Hence, the new End-to-End Architecture will have to be programmable, software driven and managed holistically to enable a diverse range of services in a profitable way. This requires novel ways of designing the mobile network architecture (radio access, core and transport network), operating the network, and offering interfaces.
This workshop explores, among others, the following novel concepts in the context of novel 5G End-to-End Architectures:
-Flexible RAN architectures and C-RAN
-Functional split and function placement
-Multi-service architectures
-5G wireless technologies
-Cloud-based 5G mobile architectures
-Network Function Virtualization
-Multi-tenancy architectures
-Convergence of CN and RAN
-SDN for wireless functionality
-Novel mobility management protocols
Workshop co-Chairs
Dr. Simone Redana, Nokia
Dr. Albert Banchs, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Dr. Markus Breitbach, Deutsche Telekom
Important Dates
-Paper submission deadline: December 4, 2015
-Notifications of Acceptance: February 21, 2016
-Final paper (“camera-ready”): March 13, 2016
More information about the 5G NORMA workshop here.
Connect to 5G NORMA
-Webpage: https://5gnorma.5g-ppp.eu/
-YouTube: 5G NORMA project @5G_NORMA
-Facebook: facebook.com/5GNORMA
-https://5g-ppp.eu/
Contact 5G NORMA
5G-NORMA-Contact@5g-ppp.eu

3rd 5G PPP Phase 2 Information day and Stakeholders event
2016-05-18 10:00 - 17:00 | Technical University of Warsaw, 75 , Koszykowa Street, , Warsaw, 00 - 662, Poland
The Purpose of this work shop is to share the context of the 5G-PPP call 2 with all interested parties. It is important highlight that the ambition of the 5G-PPP is: that each successive phase of the PPP should make iterative progress – based on the achievements of the preceding phase(s). Therefore it is important that potential proposers and participants for phase 2 are aware of phase 1 work and the context in which phase 2 will start. The workshop also allows that organisations may present project or technological ideas and seek potential collaborators.
Full Agenda and presentations are available here: Warsaw, 5g-ppp Phase 2 Infoday 18th May,

NetVis' 2016 co-organised by COHERENT (16-18 May 2016)
2016-05-15 - 2016-05-18 | Makedonia Palace, 2, Megalou Alexandrou Avenue, Thessaloniki, GR-54640, Greece
The NetVis’ 2016 workshop on Advances on Network Virtualization for 5G Systems will take place in Thessaloniki (Greece) in conjunction with ICT 2016 (16-18 May 2016).
The 5G PPP COHERENT project is co-organising the workshop.
Scope
5G networks will provide solutions to support a dynamic range of services from different industries, e.g. mobile, energy, automobile, health and manufactory industry. Due to the nature of different industries, the requirements defined by key performance indicators, like peak data rate, average user data rate, latency, energy consumption, service deployment time, are totally different. It is very complex to manage different services in 5G networks. To release to potential of 5G networks to the full support of vertical sectors, advanced technologies like software defined network (SDN), network virtualization, network function virtualization, network slicing and sharing need to be well addressed so as to reshape the network architecture and provide flexible enough network management for 5G networks. It is the purpose of the workshop to disseminate most recent results on these topics.
Moreover, the commoditization of key processing components coupled with virtualization of infrastructure functions will lead to a radical change in the economics of mobile networks. The latter will help network providers (e.g., MNO, MVNO) move from proprietary hardware and software platforms towards open and flexible cellular systems based on general-purpose cloud infrastructures. In this context, 5G systems will see a paradigm shift in three planes: the data-plane, control-plane, and management-plane, in support of higher performance, efficient signalling, flexible and intelligent control and coordination in heterogeneous networks.
Call for papers
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
-Mobile and wireless network architecture based on SDN, cloud computing, mobile edge computing and virtualization technologies
-Network virtualization technologies for RAN, backhaul and core networks
-Software defining and abstracting strategies for network function virtualization in mobile networks
-Network slicing in 5G networks
-Dynamic resource allocation based on wireless network virtualization
-Convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks based on SDN
-Network devices programmability and customizability
-Data center technologies for future wireless networks
-Future wireless network management
-Spectrum management and sharing issues for network virtualization
-Radio and spectrum virtualization
-Network evaluations and testbeds
-Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) & SDN applications and use cases
-Cloud-native radio access networks
-Micro-service architecture and NFV
-Multi-tenancy and RAN sharing
Submission deadline: February 20, 2016
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2016
Camera ready deadline: March 10, 2016
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track via EDAS using the direct link (for more information please go here). All accepted, registered and presented papers will be indexed in IEEE Xplore database.
About COHERENT
The COHERENT project is one of 5G PPP projects funded by the European Commission.
It aims to address these problems by researching, developing and validating a novel control framework for future mobile networks. The key innovation of COHERENT is to develop a unified programmable control framework to coordinate the underlying heterogeneous mobile networks as a whole.
Contacts:
-Adrian Kliks (akliks@put.poznan.pl)
-Tao Chen (tao.chen@vtt.fi)
-Navid Nikaein (navid.nikaein@eurecom.fr)
-Kostas Pentikousis (k.pentikousis@eict.de)

FANTASTIC-5G workshop on 5G new air interface @VTC Spring 2016
2016-05-15 07:00 - 11:30 | Unnamed Venue, Nanjing, China
FANTASTIC-5G is organising its 2nd annual VTC Sprint workshop on 5G new air interface on May 15, 2016 in Nanjing (China) during VTC Sprint 2016 (May 15-18).
The next generation (5G) cellular technology is expected to arrive in 2020. There are four trends indicating the need for a new generation of cellular technology including new air interface:
– The demand for wireless data is predicted to increase significantly, resulting in 1000x higher mobile data volumes and 10-100x higher end user data rates
– The number of connected devices is predicted to increase by a factor of 10-100, which means that up to 300,000 devices need to be served per access point
– Wireless connectivity will be applied to new use cases that require very reliable connections and mission-critical communication, such as vehicle-to-vehicle coordination, critical control of the power grid, etc.
– Remote presence and tactile Internet that impose stringent latency constraints on the overall connection, including the wireless part of it. Forecasts imply that the latency should be decreased for a factor of 5 in order to enable such services
The air interfaces for 2G, 3G, and 4G were all designed for specific use cases (limited only to to voice and data communications) with a certain number of limited KPIs in mind (throughput, capacity, dropped/blocked call rates etc.). However, as outlined above, 5G requires the support of a much broader class of services and consequently a very diverse family of devices and traffic characteristics.
The scope of the workshop is to contribute to the design of a new 5G air interface taking specifically the above application constraints into account. An important subject of the workshop is the feasibility of a single Golden Air Interface able to support these requirements in a highly flexible manner. New Air Interface solutions on PHY/MAC layer with respect to the following topics shall be addressed (but not limited to):
– Unified frame structure concepts
– Gigabit wireless connectivity
– Enabling scalable MTC for massive machine-type traffic
– Ensuring reliability in mission-critical communication and V2V coordination
– Transmission with very low delay
– Advanced waveform design such as UFMC, FBMC or any other competing approach including MIMO
– Advanced signal processing solutions such as compressed sensing for scalable MTC
– Low-complex massive MIMO solutions (TDD/FDD, pilot contamination, antenna correlations etc)
– Control signaling architecture for support of small cell architecture
– Interference management and co-channel interference mitigation
– Control signaling architecture for support of heterogeneous networks
– Advances in synchronization and channel estimation & equalization for multicarrier waveforms and wideband single-carrier transmission
– Peak to average power ratio (PAPR) reduction techniques, efficient techniques for out-of-band radiation reduction
– Relaying and range extension techniques
– New coding solutions for small resource blocks
– Cross-layer aspects such as coded random access for contention-based access vs scheduled access
– Regulatory and standardization aspects
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission : January 10th, 2016
Author Notification : February 10h, 2016
Final paper submission : March 10th, 2016
Workshop co-chairs
Frank Schaich (Alcatel-Lucent, Germany)
Berna Sayrac (Orange, France)
Martin Schubert (Huawei, Germany)
Gerhard Wunder (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany)
Hao Lin (Orange, France)
Klaus Pederson (Nokia Networks, Denmark)
Musbah Shaat (CTTC, Spain)
Speakers to be confirmed
Nuno Pratas (Aalborg University)
Andreas Georgakopoulos (Wings)
Stephan Saur (Alcatel-Lucent)
Stephan.Pfletschinger (DLR)
Saeed Afrasiabi Gorgani (TU Berlin)
Caretti Marco (Telecom Italia)
Prof. Armin Dekorsy (University Bremen)
Malte Schellmann (Huawei)
Gennaro Boggia (Poliba)
Belkacem Mouhouche (Samsung)
Thorsten Wild (Alcatel-Lucent)
Catherine Douillard (Telecom Bretagne)
Dimitri KTENAS (CEA LETI)
Honglei Miao (Intel)
Mohammed Al-Imari (Samsung)
Juha Karjalainen (Nokia)
Leonardo Gomes Baltar (Intel)

Website
http://workshop2016.fantastic5g.com/
URLs: http://www.fantastic5g.eu
Related Twitter channels / hashtags: https://twitter.com/fantastic5g; #5gppp, #5G

ETSI Workshop “From Research To Standardization
2016-05-10 - 2016-05-11 | ETSI Headquarters, 650 Route des Lucioles, Sophia Antipolis cedex, 06921 , France
On 10-11 May 2016 in its Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, ETSI will organize a Workshop on the subject “From Research To Standardization” in the context of the H2020 program of the European Commission.

In the ICT domain, a massive research effort is currently ongoing in the context of the H2020 program of the European Commission. Numerous national funding efforts are under way in laboratories, at universities and in the industry across Europe and worldwide. These activities create a plethora of knowledge and know-how which can enable a whole new generation of technology and will pave the way for many years to come!
Standards activities can help bridging the gap between research and industrial development of products and services by facilitating the commercialization of research results. Depending on the maturity of a technology, there are various options – even though not always known to the research community – to transform ideas into an industrial consensus driving product development. The industrial and standards community, on the other hand, may be unaware of the wide range of technological advances and alternative solutions. Often, the link to the research community is lacking and the information flow on novel and promising technological trends is not as good as it could.
Objectives of the workshop
The workshop offers a great opportunity for both stakeholder communities to come together, to discuss and to identify common interest areas.

Industrial representatives will have first-hand access to state-of-the-art knowledge and get aware of future trends in an early stage.
Researchers will be able to present latest research results to industry, to jointly identify the components which are best suitable for standardization and product development activities and to agree on specific next steps.

The workshop will support researchers to disseminate and exploit their results through standardization. It serves as a platform for research consortia to inform about standardization plans and to address a wider community to find supporters and allies.

Researchers will get firsthand information from keynote speakers about the overall policy context and the relationships between research, standardization and innovation. A case study will be presented to serve as a model case.
Researchers will have the opportunity to make the standardization community aware of current technology trends and solutions. The ETSI community will help to drive the innovation work towards standards and broad industrial acceptance.
Academic research will receive feed-back and learn about industrial needs by direct interaction with experts form major industrial players. The researchers will learn about ongoing standardization work and pre-normative/co-normative research topics from the ETSI community point of view.
Industrial representatives and technology experts in general will have the opportunity to access first-hand information on upcoming technological trends. The work format will ensure enough time for personal interactions with the researchers.
The workshop will facilitate to identify next steps in order to drive technology innovation to standardization. Eventually, this may lead to contributions to ongoing ETSI work or the set-up of new standardization activities.

Who should attend?
This event is of particular interest to:

Researchers and standardizers
Research Institutes & Universities
Organisations and stakeholders involved in FP7 and H2020 related projects
SMEs and Start-Ups driving technology innovation
Chipset Manufacturers
Device and CPE Manufacturers
M2M/IoT Communication Component Manufacturers
Network Infrastructure Manufacturers
Network Operators
Service Providers

Progamme Committee
Chair: Markus Mueck, Senior Manager Standardisation, Intel, DE

Jorge Bonifacio, PT Portugal, PT
Hermann Brand, Director Innovation, ETSI, FR
Francisco Da Silva. Huawei, SE
Keith Dickerson, Climate Associates Limited, UK
Jahmshid Khun-Jush, Qualcomm, UK
Magnus Madfors, Ericsson, SE
Sebastiano Toffaletti, SBS, BE
Christoph Woeste, Federal Network Agency, DE

5G PPP projects @ETSI workshop on 5G: "5G, From Myth to Reality", April 21st, 2016
2016-04-21 08:00 - 17:45 | ETSI Headquarters, 650 Route des Lucioles, Sophia Antipolis cedex, 06921 , France
ETSI organises a workshop on 5G in ETSI headquarters in Sophia Antipolis (France) on April 21st, 2016. The summit will have a poster session on invited topics (e.g. R&D initiatives, SONATA, 5G NORMA, CogNET, mmMAGIC, 5G-ENSURE, SELFNET, 5G-Crosshaul, 5G-Ex, METIS-II, VirtuWind, FANTASTIC-5G will share objectives and vision), to trigger an exchange of views on aspects of 5G that are not covered in the summit sessions.
This event will review the potential of these classes of use cases from a socio economic and technological perspective. It covers issues such as:
• Motivations and business models behind the use cases?
• Potential socio-economic consequences of 5G?
• Real requirements and expectations of the stakeholders and how can they influence the discussion?
• How the 5G roadmap departs from planned LTE roadmaps?
• Do we have a harmonized view, across different regions, or at least in Europe?
• Why is 2020 important? What can realistically be achieved by that date?
This event is subdivided into different sessions. Each session will start with a few presentations introducing the topic. At the end of each session, a panel of experts will discuss key aspects covered, together with the summit participants.
The event is free of charge and open to non-members.
Programme Committee:
Bernard Barani -European Commission
Simon Hicks – ETSI GA Chair (& Chairman of the Summit)
Dirk Weiler – ETSI Board Chair
Nick Sampson – Board 5GCom Chair
Markus Dominik Mueck – Board 5GCom Chair
Jamshid Khun-Jush – Board 5GCom Chair
Erik Guttman – 3GPP TSG SA Chair
Luis Jorge Romero – ETSI Director General
Adrian Scrase – ETSI CTO
Kevin Flynn – 3GPP Marketing & Communications Professional (COM)
Joern Krause – Technical Officer 3GPP (MCC)

5G PPP projects present at NetFutures 2016: Driving Growth in the #DigitalSingleMarket
2016-04-20 - 2016-04-21 | The Egg, 175 Rue Bara, Brussels, Belgium
Cloud, 5G, and the Internet of Things are the backbone of the digital economy. The 2016 NetFuture edition will explore how future internet topics can best serve and benefit from the Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy.
“Digital as a Driver for Growth” is crucial. It will be exciting to discover together how standards and interoperability, cloud computing, 5G, the Internet of Things, open service platforms, FIRE facilities and FIWARE technology can push the digital economy to maximum growth.
Innovative minds from Europe and beyond will be invited to speak at the conference and encourage participants into fruitful discussions and exchanges.
Further information can be found with the link.

Networld2020 Annual Event
2016-04-19 | Bedford Hotel & Congress Centre, Rue du Midi, 135, Brussels, Belgium
The Networld2020 Annual Event will take place in Brussels on 19 April 2016. All members are cordially invited to attend.
Many of the activities of NetWorld2020 in the recent years have been towards supporting and proposing research directions of ICT topics in Horizon 2020 and in particular of the 5G PPP, e.g. by the preparation of a Strategic Research Agenda and several Whitepapers.
In 2015 a first set of 5G PPP projects started and the cooperation between projects is developing well. In this year another Call for projects – for 5G PPP Phase 2 – will be opened and is planned to close in November this year. Global standardization will start already beginning of the year. The preparation of a Global 5G Event to take place in Europe in autumn 2016 has started.
There will also be changes ahead regarding the Governance Structure and the link between NetWorld2020 and the 5G Infrastructure Association, resulting from the experience in the last 2 years, which should further optimise the effectiveness and efficiency of operations and improve on the opportunity for organisations and stakeholders to get involved in the activities.
The NetWorld2020 event on 19 April 2016 will report about the activities, but will also explain future plans and the rationale behind, and as always be a good place for meeting and networking. Therefore, a strong participation from the NetWorld2020 membership is important. Please save the date in your calendar. We will inform you when the registration portal has opened.
All participants have to register in advance here, using the registration form.

1st 5G Architecture Workshop
2016-04-06 08:30 - 17:00 | Centre Borschette, Rue Froissart 36, , Bruxelles, 1040 , Belgium
The purpose of this workshop is to share views on 5G architectures being currently captured within the 5G-PPP initiative and to solicit the views of other relevant initiatives and projects whose work may also have an impact on 5G architecture design. Non 5G PPP projects and initiatives are welcome to contribute to the debate. To add substance to the discussion, the participating initiatives are invited to submit proposals for a technical presentation on their consolidated architecture results.
To register please click here: https://5g-ppp.eu/architecture-workshop/

5G-PPP @ "5G: expected impact" conference organised by Telenor
2016-04-05 - 2016-04-06 | Telenor Expo – Telenor headquarters, Snarøyveien 31, Fornebu, 1331 , Norway
Telenor Research invites to a 2-day conference to discuss 5G network opportunities and challenges in Fornebu (Norway) on 5-6 April 2016. David Kennedy (Euro-5G) and Werner Mohr (5G IA) will be there as speakers.
The programme is still under development but confirmed speakers also include:
-Mr. Sigve Brekke, President and CEO of Telenor Group
-Mr. Magnus Frodigh, Research Area Director, Wireless Access Networks, Ericsson Research
-Mrs. Berit Svendsen, EVP Telenor Group and CEO of Telenor Norway
-Mr. Bjørn Taale Sandberg, SVP and Head of Telenor Research
-Mr. Petar Popovski, Professor at Aalborg University
-Mr. Hans Einsiedler, Head of the Seamless Network Control team, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Deutsche Telekom AG
-Mr. Paul Scanlan, President Business & Network Consulting, Huawei
-Mr. Yang Chaobin, Chief Marketing Officer, Wireless Network Product Line, Huawei
-Dr. Fang Min, Director of 5G Research and Collaboration in the Wireless Division of ZTE Corporation
Click here to register online.

2nd 5G-PPP Phase 2 Stakeholders and Information day
2016-03-17 09:00 - 16:30 | Univ. De Bologna, Laboratorio delle Arti, Auditorium room,, Via Azzo Gardino 65/a, , Bologna, Italy
The Purpose of this work shop is to share the context of the 5G-PPP call 2 with all interested parties. It is important highlight the ambition of the 5G-PPP is that each successive phase of the PPP should make iterative progress based on the achievements of the preceding phase(s). Therefore it is important that potential proposers and participants for phase 2 are aware of phase 1 work and the context in which phase 2 will start. The workshop also allows that organisations may present project or technological ideas and seek potential collaborators.
The registration page is here: Registration for 5G-PPP info day March 17, Bologna

5G-Ensure and B-COM @ETSI standardisation workshop
2016-03-10 | Unnamed Venue, 1219 Avenue des Champs Blancs, Cesson-Sévigné, 35510, France
B-COM a 5G-Ensure Partner is hosting a workshop on standardisation, endorsed by ETSI on 10th March 2016 in Rennes, France.
This one-day event will address the Radio Virtual Machine concepts that can be considered an extension to the well-known Software Defined Radio (SDR) approach. So, specific improvements or entire several Physical layers can be embedded within a platform in a secure and controlled environment (virtual machine) combining software development with hardware accelerators for more powerful processing.
This principle can be viewed as a flexible and reconfigurable multi-RAT (Radio Access Technologies) system. Since all kinds of systems can be addressed, security aspects are very sensitive to this approach that needs advanced and robust strategies to prevent all malicious acts.
This workshop will investigate innovative solutions related to future 5G network and more specifically the domain of multi-RAT reconfigurable systems addressed in Scalable Radio Virtual Machine and Security point of view. The innovative solutions to be addressed may include the topics of:

Multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs)
Flexibility and scalability solutions for multi-RAT communications
Scalability radio virtual machine architecture
Security in multi-RAT environment
Security in data and control planes management

The workshop will include presentations by invited speakers as well as a specific session dedicated to exhibitions with HW & SW platforms. Jean-Philippe Wary, Orange, presents: How 5G-Ensure may address and manage software define Radio.

5G PPP "5G empowering verticals" @ MWC 2016 in Barcelona
2016-02-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Fira Gran Via, Av. Joan Carles I, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 64 08908, Spain
The 5G PPP participation at the Mobile World Congress 2016 will include a Media and Analyst briefing on the launch of the 5G PPP White paper “5G empowering verticals” to be held on Monday 22, 2016 afternoon in the Media Village.
5G network infrastructures will be a key asset to support the digitalization of economic and societal processes, leading to the fourth industrial revolution impacting multiple sectors. This White Paper depicts innovative digital use cases from most important vertical sectors and how requirements from verticals impact 5G design. It also presents how 5G will open the field to new business value propositions by cementing strong relationships between vendors, operators and verticals. Deploying 5G for vertical markets in Europe by 2020 (the earliest date currently contemplated by the industry) should be a common framing objective.
During the event, Mr. Günther H. Oettinger, European Commissioner, Digital Economy and Society, and executives from global top technology companies will discuss the impact of 5G on digital society and digital economy, as well as requirements from vertical industries, business models, architectures and standardization aspects of 5G.
Location: Press Conference Room 1, Media Village – Fira Gran Via, Barcelona in zone CC4
Timing: Monday, February 22, 2016, 14:00 to around 15:00
List of Participating Executives:

-Moderator Mr Philippe Defraigne, Cullen International
-Mr Günther H. Oettinger, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
-Mr Ulf Ewaldsson, Chief Technology Officer, Ericsson
-Mr Hermann Meyer, Chief Executive Officer, ERTICO – ITS Europe
-Mr Wen Tong, Wireless Chief Technology Officer, Huawei
-Mr Hossein Moiin, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia Mobile Networks, Nokia
-Mr Alain Maloberti, Senior Vice President, Orange Labs Networks, Orange
-Mr Karim Michel Sabbagh, Chief Executive Officer, SES
-Mr Bjørn Taale Sandberg, Senior Vice President, Telenor Research leader, Telenor
Registration is free and can be found here.

5G PPP special sessions @ MWC 2016
2016-02-22 - 2016-02-25 | Fira Gran Via, Av. Joan Carles I, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, 64 08908, Spain
5G PPP will present an overview of the PPP and its activities three times during the week at the EC booth in the Mobile World Congress 2016.
The sessions for the 5G PPP overview are planned to be held on the EC stand on:
-Monday, February 22, 2016 @ 11:00-11:30
-Tuesday, February 23, 2016 @ 9:30-10:00
-Thursday, February 25, 2016 @ 11:30-12:00
Come along early, (as places are limited) to get an idea of :
– European actions on 5G today
– All about the EU 5G vision
– What is the 5G PPP and its role
– Next steps, events and publications.

ETSI Workshop on Future Network Technologies, Jan. 27-28 2016, Sophia Antipolis
2016-01-27 - 2016-01-28 | ETSI Headquarters, 650 Route des Lucioles, Sophia Antipolis cedex, 06921 , France
Spectrum scarcity has become a major issue for commercial, public safety and other wireless communication systems. Consequently, future air interfaces (waveforms) and modulation types are about to meet a dramatic shift in design requirements.
Recent innovations indeed feed hope for new designs which allow for a substantial increase in spectrum efficiency, a dramatic reduction of out-of-band radiation reducing the “pollution” of neighbouring systems augmenting the user experience by improving the system reliability and maximizing the bit rate as a function of the available spectrum.
A new approach to the air interfaces, modulations and the TX/RX chains in general is likely to be a building block of future wireless systems and may impact the overall network architecture as well as the radio device architecture.
Objectives of the workshop
This workshop will investigate innovative solutions related to future network air interfaces as well as their impact on the overall system architecture. Innovative solutions to be addressed may include the usage of:
• a single air interface for multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs)
• advanced solutions for multi-RAT communication
• cognitive/adaptive air interfaces and related modulation types
• adaptive pre/post-processing & coding
• multi air interface (cognitive) management and control
Programme Commitee
Chair: Markus Mueck, Senior Manager Standardisation, Intel, DE
Andrea Lorelli, Senior Research Officer, ETSI, FR
Fun Hu, Professor of Wireless Communications, University of Bradford, UK
Frank Schaich, Research Engineer, Alcatel-Lucent, DE
Gerhard Wunder, Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute, DE
Paulo Marques, Senior Research Engineer, Instituto de Telecomunicações – PT
Paul Bander, Senior Advisor New Technologies, BnetzA, DE
Seungwon Choi, Professor, University of Hanyang, KR
Vladimir Ivanov, Principal Engineer at LG Electronics, KR
Related Twitter channels / hashtags
https://twitter.com/fantastic5g; #5gppp, #5G

5G PPP Phase 2 stakeholders' meeting took place on January 21st, 2016
2016-01-21 | Unnamed Venue, Avenue d'Auderghem 45, BREYDEL building, Auditorium 4th floor, Brussels, Belgium
The 5G PPP Phase 2 stakeholders’ event took place in Brussels on January 21st, 2016.
The infoday agenda is available here.
Speakers’ slides are available and can be downloaded (click on the speaker’s name):

Mr. Bernard Barani
Mr. Jean-Sébastien Bedo
Mr. Didier Bourse
Mr. Thibaut Kleiner
Mr. Werner Mohr

FIRE Forum 2015: European Experimental Infrastructure Driving Innovation
2015-12-09 09:00 - 17:00 | European Commission DG Connect, (VIP Room), Avenue de Beaulieu 5, Brussels, Belgium
Are you an innovative player in the European Future Internet arena? Do you want to discover how the FIRE initiative can help boost your R&D efforts, discover novel networking approaches, reduce time to market and create broader innovation/commercial impact for your products and services?
Don’t miss the FIRE Forum 2015 as a great opportunity to learn about existing testing infrastructures (facilities) for experimentally driven technology innovation in areas such as advanced networking, IoT and cloud, and their use within a wide range of application areas including smart city, education, emergency management and land / air / underwater communication.
The diversity of FIRE testbeds and applications and the evolving federation of facilities create an exciting and unique opportunity to explore converged infrastructures and research challenges associated with resource management, interoperability, and Experimentation-as-a-Service concepts and, more generally, the emerging technology trends of the Future Internet.
At the FIRE Forum 2015 you will meet representatives of the FIRE projects, the European Commission and other relevant stakeholders and initiatives to discuss the further development of experimental facilities, research and innovation, and how a federated European experimental infrastructure will drive innovation.
New funding opportunities are opening up within the context of the Information and Communication Technologies Call, H2020-ICT-2016-2017, and via the Open Calls that several ongoing FIRE projects will issue between December 2015 and January 2016. Discover these opportunities by coming to Brussels and actively participating to the FIRE Forum 2015!
Registration is FREE of charge, but places are limited! So hurry up, register and reserve your spot now!

IEEE Globecom 2015
2015-12-06 - 2015-12-10 | Hilton San Diego Bayfront, 1 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA, 92101, United States
IEEE GLOBECOM is one of two flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), together with IEEE ICC. Each year the conference attracts about 3000 submitted scientific papers and dozens of proposals for industry events. A technical program committee of more than 1,500 experts provides more than 10,000 reviews, and from this a small fraction of the submitted papers are accepted for publication and presentation at the conference. The conference meets once a year in North America and attracts roughly 2000 leading scientists, researchers and industry practitioners from all around the world. IEEE GLOBECOM is therefore one of the most significant scientific events of the networking and communications community, a must-attend event for scientists, researchers and networking practitioners from industry and academia.
IEEE GLOBECOM is a five-day event. Two days are dedicated to tutorials and workshops, while the remaiing three days are dedicated to the IF&E program and the technical symposia. The program of the technical symposia includes oral or poster presentations of about 1000 scientific papers, grouped into 12 thematic symposia, and more than 15 parallel sessions. In addition to the technical program, IEEE GLOBECOM 2015 will feature an industry forum and exhibition (IF&E) program, including industry-focused workshops, tutorials, keynote talks from industrial leaders, panel discussions, a large exposition, and business and industrial forums.

2nd EAI International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity
2015-11-25 - 2015-11-27 | 5G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey in Guildford, Guildford, United Kingdom
Scope:
In order to meet the huge demand for increasing capacity in wireless networks several major leaps in technology development need to made. Several research initiatives around the world on 5th generation mobile cellular systems have been launched recently. Also frequency regulation and standardization activities will be launched very soon targeting at the next generation standard. This conference targets at bringing together researchers and developers as well as regulators and policy makers in presenting their latest views on 5G: potential disruptive technologies enabling 5G, spectrum policies for 5G, future business models, and of course, latest finding in key research activities on 5G.
Highlights:

The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT
Accepted papers will be published in the 5GU Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library, which is one of the largest digital libraries online and covers a variety of scientific disciplines.
The proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as ICST’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

5G PPP projects present at the Tweether Workshop on November 20th, 2015
2015-11-20 | School of Telecomunications Engineering, Avenida de los Naranjos, Access N (UPV Entrance) , Valencia, Spain
5G PPP projects, especially mmMAGIC, 5G-Xhaul and METIS-II were at the Tweether Workshop in Valencia on November 20th, 2015.
Dr. Mehrdad Shariat from Samsung Electronics will deal with Millimetre-Wave Based Mobile Radio Access Network for Fifth Generation Integrated Communications.
Mr. Josep Mangues (CTTC) will be presenting an overview of the 5G-Crosshaul project with a deep-dive on the role of mmWave in the project, specifically for backhaul and fronthaul, and its integration with other wireless (microwave), optical and copper technologies, under common SDN-based control.
Mr. José Monserrat, from University of Valencia, will be presenting the METIS-II project and some activities related to spectrum for 5G and to massive MIMO performed in the project. Mr. Mauro Boldi’s (Telecom Italia) presentation be in the context of the panel that will conclude the day at the workshop. His talk will be more dedicated to the exploitation of millimeter waves for 5G, with some reference to beamforming activities in METIS-II.

About 5G-XHaul Project:
5G-XHaul proposes a converged optical and wireless network solution able to flexibly connect Small Cells to the core network. Exploiting user mobility, our solution allows the dynamic allocation of network resources to predicted and actual hotspots. To support these novel concepts, we will develop:
1) Dynamically programmable, high capacity, low latency, point-to-multipoint (P2MP) mm-Wave transceivers, cooperating with Sub-6 GHz systems;
2) A Time Shared Optical Network (TSON) offering elastic and fine granular bandwidth allocation, cooperating with advanced passive optical networks;
3) A software-defined cognitive control plane, able to forecast traffic demand in time and space, and the ability to reconfigure network components.
Contact: https://5g-ppp.eu/5g-xhaul/

About mmMAGIC:
The mmMAGIC (Millimetre-Wave Based Mobile Radio Access Network for Fifth Generation Integrated Communications) project will develop and design new concepts for mobile radio access technology (RAT) for mm-wave band deployment. This is envisaged as a key component in the 5G multi-RAT ecosystem and will be used as a foundation for global standardization. The project will thus enable ultrafast mobile broadband services for mobile users, supporting UHD/3D streaming, immersive applications and ultra-responsive cloud services.
Contact: https://5g-ppp.eu/mmmagic/

About METIS-II:
Key objectives of METIS-II are to develop the overall 5G radio access network design and to provide the technical enablers needed for an efficient integration and use of the various 5G technologies and components currently developed. The innovation pillars that will allow METIS-II to achieve this goal are

a holistic spectrum management architecture addressing the spectrum crunch,
an air interface harmonisation framework enabling an efficient integration of new and legacy air interfaces,
an agile Resource Management (RM) framework providing the dynamics required to efficiently adapt the integrated 5G air interfaces and radio concepts to the varying traffic demand and service requirements,
a cross-layer and cross-air-interface system access and mobility framework ensuring an ubiquitous access continuum,
and a common control and user plane framework providing the means for an efficient support of the broad versatility of services expected for 5G as well as a future-proof and cost-efficient implementation of the 5G integration.

Contact: https://metis-ii.5g-ppp.eu

DigiWorld Summit 2015
2015-11-17 - 2015-11-19 | Le Corum, Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, Montpellier, 34000, France
DigiWorld Summit: ‘Digital First’
17th-19th November 2015, The Corum – Montpellier (France)
IDATE, think tank pioneers of digital economy, is organising its 37th edition of the DigiWorld Summit conference, debating digital innovation which, with increasingly less restraint in ICT sectors, is now thoroughly transforming all vertical field of activity. This international conference roughly welcomes more than 1200 professionals and 120 speakers from over 25 different nationalities taught through plenary sessions and topical forums: Connected Things, Future Networks, Smart City, TV & Video, VideoGame…
Mr. Terje TJELTA, Board Member of 5G Infrastructure Association will take part in the DigiWorld Summit forum devoted to “Future networks: welcome to the gigabit era?” to be held on Wednesday November the 18th.
In addition, this year there is: the second edition of the DigiWorld Week, for one week dedicated to digitization, and the DigiWorld Awards, which rewards French talents around the world!
http://www.digiworldsummit.com/

CHARISMA and 5G-XHaul at the COMBO workshop on CTTE 2015
2015-11-10 | Munchen, Germany
The CHARISMA and 5G-Xhaul 5G PPP projects will be present at the COMBO workshop on CTTE 2015.

Mr. Theodoros Rokkas will present the case of CHARISMA in terms of converged architecture. CHARISMA brings together 10G-wireless (via mm-wave/60-GHz & free-space optics, FSO) access and 100G fixed optical (OFDM-PON) solutions through an intelligent cloud radio-access-network (C-RAN) and intelligent radio remote head (RRH) platform with IPv6 Trust Node routing featuring very low-latency for the traffic management. Low-cost Ethernet is used across front- and backhaul, and end-user equipment (vCPE), and intelligence distributed across the back-, front-hauls, and perimetric data transports. Ad-hoc mobile device interconnectivities (D2D, D2I, C2C etc.), content delivery network (CDN) and mobile distributed caching (MDC) offer an energy-efficient (better than x20 improvement possible) information-centric networking (ICN) architecture. Furthermore, caching will provide efficient utilization of scarce resources by early aggregating data or/and by executing communication locally.

Mr. Egon Schultz will present views on access/aggregation convergence using heterogeneous (optical/wireless) network segments from the 5G-XHaul project. 5G-XHaul aims at building up an ambitious converged optical and wireless network solution that relies on a flexible infrastructure able to support of the backhaul and fronthaul networks required to tackle the current and future challenges that the Radio Access Network (RAN) imposes. 5G-XHaul will provide an efficient, reconfigurable, modular and highly scalable platform to support RAN processing, depending on different architectural solutions, network elements and devices.

Contacts:
CHARISMA: Mr. Theodoros Rokkas, INCITES Consulting, trokkas@incites.eu
5G-XHaul: Mr. Egon Schultz, ERC, egon.schulz@huawei.com, Mr. Jesús Gutiérrez, Terán, IHP, teran@ihp-microelectronics.com
Related Twitter channels / hashtags:
Tweets by 5G_XHaul
https://twitter.com/@charisma5G
About the COMBO project:
COMBO (COnvergence of fixed and Mobile BrOadband access/aggregation networks) is a European Union FP7 ICT Integrated Project, undertaken by 16 partners over a period of three and a half years, starting January 1st, 2013, with over 9 million Euros in funding, of which almost 6 million Euros are funded by the EU. COMBO will propose and investigate new integrated approaches for Fixed / Mobile Converged (FMC) broadband access / aggregation networks for different scenarios (dense urban, urban, rural). The COMBO project and research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) in the ICT area, under grant agreement n° 317762.

METIS-II presentation at the MiWEBA workshop on 2-3 November 2015
2015-11-02 - 2015-11-03 | Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
At the next MiWEBA workshop held in Tokyo on 2-3 November 2015, Mr. Ingolf Karls, Intel Mobile Communications will present the METIS-II project.
About METIS-II: METIS-II (Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for Twenty-twenty (2020) Information Society-II)
METIS-II is a project with 23 partners co-funded in the European H2020 research programme with a budget of 8 M€. Ericsson is the project coordinator and Nokia Networks is the technical coordinator. Further partners are Alcatel Lucent, Deutsche Telekom, Huawei, IDATE, Intel, ITRI, Janmedia Interactive, KTH, NTT DOCOMO, NYU, Orange, Samsung, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, University of Kaiserslautern, Universitat Politècnica de València and WINLAB.
Contact for METIS-II
Dr. Olav Queseth, Ericsson
Mr. Ingolf Karls, Intel Mobile Communications
E-mail: contact@metis2020.com
Web: https://metis-ii.5g-ppp.eu
About MiWEBA: MiWEBA (Millimetre-Wave Evolution for Backhaul and Access) is a Japan-Europe ICT international Joint R&D research programme focusing on millimeter waves. It started within the framework of the FP7 in 2013. Partners are The Osaka University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Panasonic Mobile Communications for the Japanese side, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (Germany), INTEL Mobile Communications (Germany), Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies renouvelables (France), Orange Labs Networks (France), Politecnico di Milano (Italy) for the European side.

EC-TW workshop on the 5G Targeted opening
2015-10-21 14:00 - 17:00
This workshop is jointly organised by the European Commission and ITRI Taiwan, with assistance from the 5G PPP, to present the themes and opportunities of the targeted opening the commission will have with Taiwan in the next 5G PPP call. The workshop will give insight to the 5G-related activities in Taiwan and present their specific interests in relation to the call. The primary focus points for the joint call will be access convergence and integration.
Agenda
1- Welcome Remarks (EU + TW )
2- Presentation of national R&D programmes and conditions in Taiwan (TW: 20 min))
• Focus areas
• 5G-related
3- Taiwan ICT Industry Overview (ITRI: 10 min)
4- 5G-PPP (EU: 15 min)
• International dimension
5- Status & Planning of EU-TW Targeted Opening (EU + TW: 15 min.)
6- Presentations from European companies (EU: 30 min)
7- Presentations of Taiwan Proposal Areas:
• 5G Channel Model Generator & Simulator (10 min.)
• 5G Edge Network (10 min.)
• UDN (10 min.)
• M2M (10 min.)
• V2V (10 min.)
8- Wrap-up Discussion (30 min.)
Registration:
This workshop is open to everyone who wants to know more about the targeted opening in the call and/or are interested in participating in the call. The maximum attendance is 100 on a first come first served basis.
We would appreciate an early registration to facilitate catering.
Click on this link to register: https://5g-ppp.eu/registration-for-ec-itri-workshop/
Venue:
Macau meeting room in the Museu do Oriente Conference Center (20 min. from the ICT conference centre)
References:
European Commisson, DG CONNECT: https://ec.europa.eu/dgs/connect/en/content/dg-connect
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan: https://www.itri.org.tw/eng/

Towards a 5G Connected World: A Security Insight, ICT2015 Networking session, Lisbon, 20/10/2015, Room 12, 16:50-17:35
2015-10-20 17:50 - 18:35 | Unnamed Venue, lisbon, Portugal
A session covering the security aspects of 5G will be organized as part of the Networking Sessions of ICT 2015. The session goes under the title: “Towards a 5G Connected World: A Security Insight” and will take place in Room 12 on Tuesday 20/20/2015 from 16:50 to 17:35.
The session aims to provide an open forum for discussion about how security should be considered with upcoming 5G systems, networks and components. The ubiquity of 5G network thrives the need for secured environments that will provide users a safe, fast and reliable connectivity underpinning the future generation of application and services.
The session will pave the way towards open security considerations in the initial core 5G design such as multi-operator isolation, privacy preservation between virtual tenants, trust requirements and management in heterogeneous environments and low-latency security constraints at the physical level in 5G systems.
Expected outcome:

Identification of the major security requirements and concerns around future 5G systems from different perspectives.
Open discussion about the security challenges and aspects of future 5G networks.
Security as a driver towards the future 5G-connected digital society

Format/Participants:
The session is divided into three major blocks:

Five lighting talks (5 minutes each) will be carried out by five different experts:
Dr. Ioannis Neokosmidis (INCITES Consulting, Luxemburg)
Dr. Dimitris Kanakidis (Exus, Greece)
Dr. Haitham S. Cruickshank, (Institute for Communication Systems – ICS, University of Surrey, UK)
Jordi Ferrer Riera (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)
Dr. Emmanouil Kafetzakis (Orion Innovations, Greece)
Open panel discussion between experts in the panel, the public and interactive participant who can join the discussion using the hashtags #5GSecurity #ict2015 (15 min).
Conclusion and closure from Eduard Escalona (i2CAT, Spain) project manager of the CHARISMA project (5min).

Related Twitter channels / hashtags: #5gppp; #5GSecurity; #ict2015.

ICT2015 5G PPP Booth 5G NORMA demo
2015-10-20 11:00 - 2015-10-22 16:30 | Centro de Congressos de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
ICT2015 (Innovate, Connect, Transform) is an event organized by European Commission together with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) that will comprise a number of parallel activities: a policy conference presenting the new Commission’s policies and initiatives on Research & Innovation in ICT (Horizon 2020 Programme); an interactive exhibition showcasing the best results and impact of most recent EU ICT Research & Innovation; many networking opportunities to enhance quality partnerships, help participants find partners, connect Research and Innovation and trigger collaboration; Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 thematic sessions, offering detailed information on the funding opportunities in ICT sector; the Startup Europe Forum, offering a set of activities profiling EU policy actions for startups and SMEs, innovators, private and public investors.
Key purpose
5G-NORMA will be present at the 5G PPP booth alongside METIS II, XHAUL and FANTASTIC5G. 5G NORMA develops a novel, adaptable and future-proof 5G mobile network architecture. This architecture will be validated by demos showing (1) its capability to support natively multiple services on a shared network and (2) Software Defined Mobile network Control (SDMC) which applies the SDN principles to mobile network specific functions. At ICT 2015, a preliminary version of the demo concept will be presented, which will consist on network emulations with 3D visualizations, real-world prototypes for 5G-base stations and emulation of the cloud infrastructure that will support the 5G network deployment.
Related Twitter channels / hashtags:
https://twitter.com/5G_NORMA
