5G-PPP

Joint FANTASTIC-5G, mmMAGIC, Flex5Gware Workshop @EuCNC 2016
2016-06-26 - 2016-06-27 | DIVANI APOLLON PALACE & THALASSO HOTEL, AGIOU NIKOLAOU 10, , Athens , VOULIAGMENI, 166 71, Greece
FANTASTIC-5G, mmMAGIC and Flex5Gware are co-organising a workshop on 5G Physical Layer Design and Hardware Aspects Below and Above 6 GHz at EuCMC 2016 in Athens.
The program is as follows:
-9h00-10h30 Key notes
Taro Eichler (Rohde&Schwarz), Heinz.Westenberger (Rohde&Schwarz), Konstantinos.Chronopoulos (Rohde&Schwarz)
Title: “mm-Wave Channel Sounding for 5G: Fundamentals, Measurement Techniques and Experimental Data Analysis”
Abstract: Successful design and standardization of 5G millimeter-wave communication systems will rely on the profound knowledge of the mobile radio channel. The characterization of the temporal and spatial properties of the radio channel at millimeter-wave frequencies is still very challenging. The aim of channel sounding is to characterize the radio channel by decomposing the radio propagation channel into its individual multipath components. In this talk we will give an overview of advanced measurement and modeling methods and present results from recent measurement campaigns in the 17 GHz and 82 GHz band using state-of-the-art test & measurement instruments. Furthermore, different concepts enabling high-precision time synchronization will be highlighted.
Since 5G communication systems will rely on multi-antenna techniques like beamforming and massive MIMO, the measurement and modeling of spatial channel information is necessary. We will give an outlook on methods to perform spatial channel measurements such as the switched and virtual array method.
Prof. Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey)
Title: Latest advances in 5G technologies
Abstract: The talk will cover possible candidate technologies that are being currently developed and trialled in addressing the three challenging use cases defined by 3GPP. These use cases are; Ultra Broadband Mobile, Massive Connectivity and ultra-low latency and reliability. The solutions range; new radio technologies, Radio Access Architectures and Core Network technologies It will also identifies where more research and innovation efforts is required to enable 5G deployment by 2020.

-11h-12h30: FANTASTIC-5G Session
Speaker: Frank Schaich (Nokia), Salaheddine Elayoubi (Orange), Martin Schubert (Huawei)
Title: FANTASTIC-5G – An Overview
Abstract: In this talk we present the project FANTASTIC-5G in an overview manner providing a status update after 1 year of project duration. We quickly highlight the key ideas and main technical components being partly detailed in subsequent talks. The considered scenarios are described and put into relation towards 3GPP and NGMN. The talk also includes the impact of the project towards e.g. 3GPP.
Speaker: Hao Lin (Orange), Malte Schellman (Huawei), Xitao Gong (Huawei)
Title: FANTASTIC-5G Waveforms
Abstract: This talk provides an overview on the waveform candidates proposed for novel air interface for 5G in lower frequency bands, which are motivated by the scenarios envisaged for mobile radio communication systems beyond 2020, addressing a multitude of services being provided simultaneously to users and mobile devices accessing a common spectrum band. As the requirements for those services may substantially differ, air interface design should provide more flexibility to appropriately respond to those while ensuring an efficient usage of available system and spectrum resources. This talk elaborates on OFDM-based waveforms with filtering as a key enabler for a flexible air interface, addressing many of the challenges posed for the 5G radio system. Two promising waveform categories, namely subcarrier-wise filtering and subband-wise filtering, are described with respect to their individual characteristics as well as their potential benefits.
Speaker: Klaus Pedersen (Nokia)
Title: Agile 5G Radio Resource Management Design and Related Enablers
Abstract: In this talk we present proposals for an agile 5G multi-service air interface design for operation below 6GHz as studied in the FANTASTIC-5G project. The main focus is on radio resource management (RRM), as well as related enablers such as network-based interference coordination, advanced receivers, and system level integration of massive MIMO. The proposed user-centric RRM framework include support for service-aware scheduling with different transmission time intervals (TTIs) in coherence with the users radio conditions and QoS requirements, as well as non-scheduled access for enabling massive machine connectivity. Support for various connectivity options are addressed as well.
Speaker: Musbah Shaat (CTTC), Thomas Wirth (Fraunhofer HHI)
FANTASTIC-5G Proof-of-Concept: technical components and planned demonstrations
Abstract: The proof-of-concept (PoC) targets to implement key technical components developed within FANTASTIC-5G. A wide range of developed techniques in the project will be demonstrated and compared with the state of the art to illustrate the unique features of FANTASTIC-5G solutions and to validate the feasibility and the superiority of the different components of the foreseen 5G air interface. Post-OFDM waveforms are foreseen as key enablers to several 5G scenarios as it enhances system robustness to different types of impairments, the post-OFDM prototyping PoC is considered in FANTASTIC-5G to implement the algorithms evolved in FANTASTIC-5G for the different waveforms to tackle the open issues like synchronization, channel estimation, equalization, efficient MIMO support and pulse shape adaptation. To that end, development of several post-OFDM based transceivers is intended from algorithm simplification and optimization to on-board validation and demonstration. Additionally, the different post-OFDM waveforms will be evaluated jointly and compared using hardware-in-the-loop approaches and/or transmissions over wireless channel emulator in different scenarios.
Broadcast and multicast transmissions are expected to have high importance in 5G networks as it reduces drastically the network load by delivering the same content to a group of end users. The developed techniques in the project to enable multicast transmissions to different multicast groups by the use of MIMO techniques but, at the same time, provide a common broadcast layer to all users will be demonstrated using a software defined radio platform.
This talk aims at presenting the planned demonstrations in FANTASTIC-5G and describing the basic technical components of the different PoCs. It is worth mentioning that several FANTASTIC-5G PoCs are presented in the FANTASTIC-5G booth.

-14h00-15h30: mmMagic Session
Speaker: Wilhelm Keusgen (Fraunhofer HHI)
Title: 6–100 GHz Channel Modeling for 5G: Outcomes and Perspective of mmMAGIC
Abstract: Standardization of 5G has been kicked off by the work of channel modeling for the frequency spectrum above 6 GHz. One of the key ambitions of mmMAGIC is to develop a unified statistical channel model for link- and system-level simulations that is valid over the entire frequency range from 6 to 100 GHz. It will build on the outcomes of the 3GPP modeling activities, but aims to go beyond. In this context, extensive radio channel measurement campaigns at several locations in Europe have been performed in multiple frequency bands in order to provide a reliable basis for model extension and parameterization. This talk presents recent measurement results and key aspects of the model development.
Speaker: Ali Zaidi (Ericsson, EAB)
Title: Waveforms, channel codes, and retransmission schemes for above 6 GHz communication
Abstract: mmMAGIC aims to develop radio interface for above 6 GHz communication. Communication above 6 GHz (especially, mm-wave) is characterized by large bandwidths, massive MIMO, harsh propagation conditions, severe RF impairments, and extreme data rate requirements. In this talk, we provide an overview of waveform and channel coding candidates, as well as novel retransmission schemes that are being investigated in mmMAGIC. The candidate waveforms and channel codes are assessed for relevant performance measures and their applications are discussed in different scenarios. To ensure fast and reliable retransmissions, novel HARQ protocols and methods for retransmissions with partial decoding are considered
Speaker: Yinan Qi and Maziar Nekovee (Samsung R&D Institute UK)
Title: Coordinated Initial Access in Millimetre Wave Standalone Networks
Abstract: In this paper, the main challenges and requirements of initial access (IA) in millimetre wave networks are identified and the latest solutions are reviewed. Moreover, a novel coordinated IA scheme for clustered millimeter wave small cells (mmSCs) is proposed for the fifth generation mobile communication networks (5G). This solution is a method for efficient and fast initial access for ultra-dense millimeter wave standalone networks without presence of overlaid legacy networks operating on lower frequency. In contrast to the current full beam sweep scheme, where time consuming exhaustive searching is employed, the mmSCs within one cluster will perform the IA procedure in a coordinated manner based on the power delay profile (PDP) measurement reports shared with each other via the backhaul links and thereby avoiding the full beam sweep. The proposed scheme significantly reduces the initial access time, enhances the access robustness and reduces the cost and complexity of the mobile terminals.
Speaker: Yaning Zou (Dresden University of Technology)
Title: Flexible hybrid beamforming design for communication above 6GHz with large antenna arrays
Abstract: One critical aspect for the envisioned air interface design in mmMagic project is to develop beamforming techniques that can combat unfavourable mmwave channel propagation conditions with reasonable implementation complexity and cost. In this presentation, TU Dresden shows some recent results on developing a flexible hybrid beamforming design architecture that can be applied in various transmission scenarios. The target is then to provide tailored design with given KPIs and meanwhile robust against sudden change in the propagation environment, e.g., signal blockage. As multiple RF chains will be needed in hybrid beamforming, RF impairments should also be taken into account for cost and energy efficient implementations.

-16h00-17h30: Flex5Gware Session
Speaker: Miquel Payaró (CTTC)
Title: Flex5Gware’s initial results on 5G hardware platforms
Abstract: In very broad and generic terms, the Flex5Gware vision for 5G HW platforms is that they will undergo a process towards i) improving their energy and spectrum efficiency (the latter includes the increase of the operated radio frequency bandwidth via mmWave-band usage and aggregation of spectrum at frequencies below 6 GHz) and ii) improving their modularity and flexibility (which implies increased reconfigurability and scalability). In this talk, we present an overview of the different results that have been obtained in the Flex5Gware project towards achieving this vision. In particular, the following technology areas will be considered: RF front-ends and antennas, mixed-signal technologies, digital front-ends and HW/SW function split. To endow this workshop with more detailed technical insight, four in-depth presentations will follow on the progress achieved in each one of these areas.
Speaker: Dieter Ferling (Nokia)
Title: Multiband base station transceivers up to 6 GHz
Abstract: The request for more powerful mobile systems, enabling high mobile data rate and throughput in areas of different size and user density, is addressed by concepts for base station transceivers promoting concurrent multiband operation in radio bands below 6 GHz. Solutions to reduce the hardware complexity are elaborated for broadband or multiband capability by including data and frequency conversion, amplification and filtering. Digital to analogue converters providing RF sampling will allow soon for direct RF signal generation of multiple signal carriers up to 6 GHz and obviate the need for additional frequency conversion. Analogue to digital converters show a more restricted performance, currently up to around 4 GHz. A multiband power amplifier is a further essential component in a multiband RF chain. Supporting radio bands around 2.6, 2.8 and 3.5 GHz, it allows for a three band transmitter design. Filters showing two resonator frequencies per cavity enable components with reduced number of cavities, leading to significant volume reduction for dual band filters. These components allow for multiband transceiver design operating between 2.5 and 3.6 GHz.
Speaker: Sylvie Mayrargue (CEA)
Title: Flexible In-band Full-Duplex transceivers based on a modified MIMO RF architecture
Abstract: In-band full-duplex transceivers are considered for future generations of cellular network systems. We propose to evaluate the performance of in-band full-duplex transceivers using a modified architecture based on hardware available for multiple-input multiple-output transceivers. A hybrid self-interference cancellation technique using an auxiliary transmitter is therefore introduced. Performance is evaluated using simulation models and is confirmed by hardware experimentation. The main limiting factors of the proposed architecture are analyzed and improvements to the architecture are then suggested.
Speaker: Vassilis Foteinos (Wings ICT Solutions)
Title: Dynamic reconfiguration of future 5G HW/SW systems
Abstract: The advanced 5G network infrastructure needs to be highly flexible in order to meet identified but dynamic, as well as unforeseen diverse requirements imposed by new cutting-edge applications (augmented reality, connected cars, tactile Internet, etc.). Dynamic reconfiguration of future 5G HW/SW systems could be an answer to this challenge, as it allows system’s adaptation to the very demanding and changing contexts of operation, guaranteeing Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE). This presentation deals with this issue and describes a solution that is based on a context-aware, cognitive and dynamic HW/SW partitioning mechanism for 5G network elements and devices. The mechanism exploits knowledge (e.g. prediction of a hotspot) derived by network and sensor measurements and decides upon the HW or SW execution of functions (e.g. LTE, 3GPP based PHY/MAC functions) in order to fulfill and maintain the application goals. This solution leads to high flexibility, configurability, performance and energy efficiency.
Speaker: Nikolaos Bartzoudis (CTTC)
Title: Partitioning and distributing communication stack functions of 5G wireless hotspots
Abstract: Following the topic of the previous talk, in this case we present a flexible 5G networking architecture, where the HW accelerated (HWA) and SW communication stack functions can be reconfigured to optimize a certain utility function relevant in wireless hotspots like, e.g., reducing its energy footprint. Observe that a similar partitioning of the eNB protocol stack, either at stack-level or algorithm-level has also been proposed by the small cell forum. The network flexibility is achieved i) by switching from a given network configuration to another featuring a different partitioning of its underlying SW and HWA communication stack functions and ii) by modifying specific wireless communication parameters or a functional set of physical-layer blocks.

5G NORMA & KCL Summer School, 20-22 June 2016
2016-06-20 - 2016-06-23 | King’s College London, Strand, London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
5G NORMA and the King’s College of London are co-organising a 3-day Summer School from 20 to 22 June 2016.
The Summer School is tailored towards engineers and researchers active or interested in virtualized and programmable future mobile networks. The first day is tailored more towards attendees from industry, whereas the last two days are more suitable for Post Doctoral researchers, PhD and Master students. All together, the event is deemed highly suitable for participants from the mobile industry and other organizations (verticals) interested in the area of 5G networks and how this emerging technology can shape their business.
The registration information to the 2016 5G NORMA Summer School is available here. Registration is free of charge.

About 5G NORMA
The 5G NORMA project is one of the 5G PPP projects Under the Horizon 2020 Framework. It aims to develop a novel mobile network architecture that provides the necessary adatability in a resource efficien way able to handle fluctuations in traffic demand resulting from heterogeneous and dynamicall changing service portfolios and to changing local context. The developed “multi-service and context-aware adaptation of network functions” will allow for a resource-efficient support of these varying scenarios and help to increase energy-efficiciency by always selecting the most energy efficient option.
About the King’s College London
The King’s College of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It initiated a programme of cooperation with other universities on 5G and will set up a 5G Internet lab to test the technology. The Centre for Télécommunications Research (CTR) concentrates primarily on radio access, networks and mobile systems and on Intelligent Information Processing.

SONATA @ the KuVS Summer School 2016 on SDN/NFV from 20 to 23 June 2016
2016-06-20 - 2016-06-23 | Deutsche Hochseesportverband HANSA, Philosophenweg 1, Glücksburg , 24960, Germany
Each year, the KuVS group organizes a Summer School on a hot topic of networking and distributed systems. The main target audience are first-year PhD students as well as people from industry.
The topic for the 2016 edition is Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization, taking place in the sailing school of Deutsche Hochseesportverband HANSA (DHH) the week of June 20th. The goal of this summer school to provide a comprehensive survey of the key skills necessary to successfully undertake independent research in SDN or NFV, covering both theoretical backgrounds as well as practical aspects.
To this end, a program was created that rests on three main pillars:
– Presentations from leading experts with discussions and Q&A
– Hands-on work with actual frameworks
– Presentations by participants on their incipient or ongoing research work, along with feedbacks from other participants and experts.
The program will also encompass a one-day team building event to foster networking among the participants. Registration is now open, and details can be found at the University of Paderborn’s website here.
About SONATA 5G PPP project
Virtualisation and software networks are a major disruptive technology for communications networks, enabling services to be deployed as software functions running directly in the network on commodity hardware. However, deploying the more complex user-facing applications and services envisioned for 5G networks presents significant technological challenges for development and deployment. SONATA addresses both issues
For service development, SONATA provides service patterns and description techniques for composed services. A customised SDK is developed to boost the efficiency of developers of network functions and composed services, by integrating catalogue access, editing, debugging, and monitoring analysis tools with service packaging for shipment to an operator. For deployment, SONATA provides a novel service platform to manage service execution. The platform complements the SDK with functionality to validate service packages. Moreover, it improves on existing platforms by providing a flexible and extensible orchestration framework based on a plugin architecture. Thanks to SONATA’s platform service developers can provide custom algorithms to steer the orchestration of their services: for continuous placement, scaling, life-cycle management and contextualization of services. These algorithms are overseen by executives in the service platform, ensuring trust and resolving any conflict between services.
About KuVS (Kommunikation und Verteile Systeme)
KuVS or Communication and Distributed Systems is a technical committee of the German Society for Computer Science (Gesellschaft für Informatik) and the VDE’s Information Society (Informationstechnischen Gesellschaft des VDE). It gathers interest in communication and distributed systems from both industry and academia and provides services to the community as well as represents these topics towards the general public.

5G-ENSURE organises 1st workshop on 5G Security Standardisation, 16 June 2016
2016-06-16 | ETSI Headquarters, 650 Route des Lucioles, Sophia Antipolis cedex, 06921 , France
5G-ENSURE organises its 1st International Workshop on 5G Security Standardisation on 16 June in Sophia-Antipolis (France) in conjunction with the ETSI Security week (13-17 June).
This one-day workshop discusses and shares technical insights into the security of 5G emerging from preliminary findings from 5G-ENSURE. The workshop will present the results of an initial public consultation on 5G security, offering an opportunity to exchange European perspectives on security work within 5G-ENSURE. Discussions will chart a course for coordinated work on 5G security with the involvement of 5G PPP projects, standards groups and international initiatives. As a result, it will foster the drive towards the future 5G-connected digital society based on a secure-by-design approach, where security is an integral component of the architecture design.
An impressive line-up of speakers and panelists includes:
–Pavlos Fournogerakis, Programme Officer – EU Policies, Network Technologies, DG CONNECT, EC, Keynote in session 1
–Adrian Belmonte, ENISA and Jovan Golic, TIM IT & EIT Digital, Keynotes in session 2
-And for session 3: Dr Zarrar Yousaf, NEC Laboratories Europe, Alf Zugenmaier, Munich University of Applied Sciences & Vice-Chairman 3GPP SA3, Luca Pesando, TIM, Davide Pratone, chairman ETSI Project Smart Card Platform (TC SCP) Requirements Working Group (TC SCP REQ), TIM, Hugo Tullberg, Ericsson, chair of the 5G PPP Work Group Pre-standardisation.
The workshop takes place at Orange labs in Sophia Antipolis. Amphitheatre in conjunction with the ETSI Security Week. It runs from 10:00 to 16:30. Registration is open from 9:00 to 10:00 with a welcome coffee. Networking coffee breaks and a lunch are offered as part of the workshop. There is no charge for attending the workshop but registration is required.
About 5G-ENSURE
@5GEnsure
5G-ENSURE, one of the projects funded under Horizon 2020 phase 1 of the 5G PPP, drives the vision for a viable 5G network that is secure and trustworthy. 5G-ENSURE will deliver a 5G security architecture to expand the mobile ecosystem and enable entirely new business opportunities. It will provide an initial set of security enablers for the core 5G Reference Architecture, a test bed to demonstrate the enablers, and make early contributions to relevant standards bodies.
About ETSI Security week
http://www.etsi.org
Now in its second year, the ETSI security week consists of an IoT Security Workshop running from Monday 13 to Wednesday 15 June 2016 followed by the ETSI Technical Committee CYBER plenary meeting taking place from 15 to 17 June 2016 and the hosted AIOTI Workshop on 16 June.

Superfluidity @ 22nd IEEE LANMAN, June 13-15, 2016 (Rome)
2016-06-13 - 2016-06-15 | Unnamed Venue, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
SUPERFLUIDITY is co-sponsoring the IEEE LANMAN 2016 in Rome, an event dedicated this year to software networks (Adaptive, agile and fluid networking, June 13-15, 2016, Rome).
IEEE LANMAN has an established tradition as a forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in local and metropolitan area networking. Cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and experimentation are solicited in all areas of networking. A further tradition of IEEE LANMAN 2016 consists in identifying, every year, a central theme that is of current interest in our field. This year, the symposium’s central theme is Adaptive, Agile and Fluid networking, a broad topic encompassing autonomic and reconfigurable networking, network function virtualization and software defined networking. This theme reflects recent disruptive innovations in data center networks, enterprise networks, and edge cloud networks. Internet-of-Things is another aspect of the theme to identify new technologies and architectures to support various requirements from different industry sectors, such as smart cities combined with data analytics.
The intimate single-track session format of the symposium encourages stimulating exchanges between researchers. The symposium is expected to be a forum for discussion of new and interdisciplinary ideas on architectures, algorithms, service models, pricing, and performance. Speculative and potentially transformative ideas are particularly encouraged, as are studies reporting measurements from real-life networks and test-beds. Papers are solicited on any LANMAN topic including, but not limited to, the following topics:
-Novel data center network architectures, technologies, and protocols
-Mobile Edge Computing and architecture innovation
-Software defined networking and network function virtualization in the network edge
-Name-to-name communications and name-based abstractions
-Energy-efficiency, reliability, resource allocation, and pricing in data centers
-Wireless access technologies (WiFi, LTE, etc) and their integration in (and extension for) 5G network
-Performance measurement and modeling
-Impact of Internet-of-Things and Machine-to-machine communications
-Access networks for densely located users
-Wired access technologies and architectures including Ethernet in the first mile, EPONs, FTTx, etc.
-Network management related to edge networks
-Local-area and metropolitan-area network security
-LAN-based and MAN-based applications (gaming, distributed computing, media distribution to and in the home, enterprise applications, ambient technology, wearable-computing)
Important dates
-Paper submission deadline: March 7, 2016
-Acceptance notification: April 19, 2016
-Camera-ready submission: May 2, 2016
-Early registration deadline: May 9, 2016
-Symposium dates: June 13-15, 2016
Submission instructions are reported here.

Workshop on Security in Virtualised Networks co-chaired by 5G-Ensure in June 2016
2016-06-09 - 2016-06-10 | Seoul, Seoul, Korea, Republic Of
The IEEE International Workshop on Security in Virtualized Networks (Sec-VirtNet 2016) will be held on June 10th, 2016 in Seoul (South Korea) along with the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2016). Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies fundamentally change the network architecture as well as the way networks (e.g., mobile or transport networks) will be deployed and operated. This new generation of virtualized and multi-tenant networks comes with various promises (e.g., CAPEX and OPEX optimization) but also raises several new security challenges, in particular because network functions will no longer be embedded and thus “protected” within network equipments. Besides, network virtualization also brings various opportunities for security such as the possibility to offer software-based security appliances or Security as a Service.
The Sec-VirtNet 2016 workshop focuses on novel research topics dealing with security in these virtualized networks. Submitted papers should provide theoretical or practical approaches to identify and address the critical security issues of such virtualized networks or, conversely, to exploit these promising virtualization and SDN technologies in order to offer innovative security services.
The workshop is co-chaired by Emmanuel Dotato (Thales France & member of the 5G PPP 5G-ENSURE project), to adverse more widely the invitation to submit papers to the Sec-VirtNet 2016 workshop in conjunction with the NetSoft conference.
About 5G-Ensure:
5G-ENSURE will define and deliver a 5G Security Architecture, shared and agreed by the various 5G stakeholders. It will specify, develop and release an initial set of useful and usable security enablers for 5G.
These enablers will be selected for their relevance in addressing some of the foremost security concerns in order to generate the trust and confidence necessary for 5G to be widely adopted and to deliver its promises through innovative business applications. The 5G-ENSURE project will also initiate a 5G Security testbed vision and initial set-up in which the security enablers will be made available. Moreover, the potential of the developed 5G Security enablers will be showcased and demonstrated in the context of carefully selected 5G security use cases (e.g. use cases related to cybersecurity and aerospace).
Coupled with this, 5G-ENSURE will be closely linked to the overall 5G PPP programme through active participation in common activities and fora. Specifically, 5G-ENSURE will be the project that creates and animates a dedicated 5G PPP Security Working Group to coordinate the various security-related activities.
5G-ENSURE is led by a strong consortium bringing together the appropriate and complementary skills, including standards involvement and deep telco understanding, along with an extensive network of interested parties, and have a proven track-record in coordination.
5G-ENSURE will avail itself of the support of a group of international opinion leaders.
Partners include: VTT Technical Research centre of Finland, THALES Services, Alenia Space & Communications & Security, ALCATEL-LUCENT BELL LABS France, B-COM, ERICSSON, University of Southampton, NEC Europe, NIXU, ORANGE, University of Oxford, SICS, Telecom Italia Information Technology, Trust-it services.
Link to project website / Twitter account:
5G-Ensure: www.5gensure.eu / #5GEnsure
IEEE VirtNet 2016: www.sec-virtnet.org/index.html, @ieee_netsoft #Sec-VirtNet #5gsecurity #SDN
5G PPP 5G-Ensure contact:
Mr. Emmanuel Dotaro, Thalès Group
5G-ENSURE-Contact@5g-ppp.eu

5G PPP projects and the automotive @ITS 2016
2016-06-06 - 2016-06-10 | Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC), Exhibition Way, Glasgow , Scotland, G3 8YW, United Kingdom
5G PPP projects have a information booth at the 11th European ITS Congress 2016 in Glasgow (Scotland, UK) from 6 to 9 June 2016.
This is an major activity for 5G PPP projects since the automotive seems to be the most motivated and mature vertical sector with regards to 5G. The Congress theme is “Delivering Future Cities Now” and is based on Glasgow’s pioneering work on Smart Cities which recently resulted in a GBP24M award and is based on the City’s and Scotland’s long history of innovation in Intelligent Traffic Control which started in 1967 with Europe’s first computerised traffic control system.
ERTICO ITS Europe organises either an ITS World Congress or an ITS European Congress every year. The ITS World Congress rotates between Europe, the Asia Pacific region and the Americas, returning to Europe every three years. The ITS European Congress is held in the years when there is not a World Congress taking place in Europe.

The 11th European ITS Congress 2016 is organised by ERTICO – ITS Europe in partnership with the European Commission, and hosted by Glasgow City Council and Transport Scotland. The Congress will take place from 6 to 9 June at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) which is just a short walk from the City Centre on the banks of the River Clyde.

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).
