Newsflash April 2020
Latest 5G top news
Global expansion of COVID-19 is affecting people life and has major impact on overall individuals and organizations operation. Among many others issues, in direct connection to travels bans and overall restrictions/confinement measures… many conferences, events and meetings are either cancelled (e.g. MWC 2020), shifted to Fall 2020 (NGMN) or organized in remote/”virtual” mode (5GForum, EuCNC).
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Smart IoT London |
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| The Smart IoT 2020 is part of the largest tech event in the UK, co-located with Cloud Expo Europe, Big Data World, Blockchain World, Data Centre World and Cyber Security. The 2020 edition took place at ExCel London on March 12-13. Smart IoT signposts how connecting things drives business value from connecting people, process, data and things.
On Day Two of Smart IoT London, a panel discussion evaluated the state of the “5G Gold Rush”. The panel examined whether the potential of 5G has been oversold to businesses. The panel had an in-depth look at how 5G will impact verticals, and at applications and use cases where 5G will be the most helpful Dr. Colin Willcock, chairman of the 5G infrastructure Association participated in the panel and shared a presentation. He stressed the fact that the 5G PPP has been a clear success for Europe, including the UK, with thousands of researchers and developers across Europe successfully working on innovative solutions for the definition of 5G. He also mentioned that these efforts have had a significant effect on the current 5G standards, especially in the areas of system design, evaluation aspects, air interface innovations, network management, security innovation, virtualisation and service deployment innovations. He got very good feedback from the audience. |
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5Growth video |
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 The vision of the 5Growth project is to empower verticals industries such as Industry 4.0, Transportation, and Energy with an AI-driven Automated and Sharable 5G End-to-End Solution that will allow these industries to achieve simultaneously their respective key performance targets. Towards this vision, 5Growth will automate the process for supporting diverse industry verticals through (i) a vertical portal in charge of interfacing verticals with the 5G End-to-End platforms, receiving their service requests and building the respective network slices on top, (ii) closed-loop automation and SLA control for vertical services lifecycle management and (iii) AI-driven end-to-end network solutions to jointly optimize Access, Transport, Core and Cloud, Edge and Fog resources, across multiple technologies and domains.
The main objective of 5Growth is the technical and business validation of 5G technologies from the verticals’ points of view, following a field-trial-based approach on vertical sites (TRL 6-7). Multiple use cases of vertical industries (Comau, Efacec_S, Efacec_E, Innovalia) will be field-trialed on four vertical-owned sites in close collaboration with the vendors (Ericsson, Interdigital, NEC, Nokia) and the operators (Altice, Telecom Italia, Telefonica) in the project. 5Growth will leverage on the results of 5G-PPP Phase 2 projects where slicing, virtualization and multi-domain solutions for the creation and provisioning of vertical services are being developed and validated, e.g. 5G-TRANSFORMER and 5G-MONARCH. Two ICT-17-2018 5G End-to-End platforms, 5G EVE and 5G-VINNI, have been selected for the Trials to demonstrate the 5Growth specific vertical use cases. In addition to the impact on vertical-oriented standards (e.g., EN50126 (IEC62278) for railway signaling), the verticals in the consortium will be offered an opportunity to influence ongoing 5G standardization by leveraging the involvement of leading experts in the various relevant SDOs. The 5Growth project released a new overview video on YouTube. Have a look here. |
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SliceNet/Matilda video |
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 SliceNet released a new video created by Orange about the excellent collaborative work between two 5GPPP projects SliceNet and MATILDA.
The smart city lighting 5G cloud native application was implemented in Romania with Orange Romania leading the way in both projects. The video was taken during a collaborative workshop between the two projects, hosted by Orange in the CAMPUS Research Centre, Politehnica University of Bucharest, where the intelligent lighting application was demonstrated. Please check out the video on the SliceNet website here. |
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New 5G PPP stakeholders picture and glossary |
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 Thanks to the contribution of many 5G PPP Phase 2 and Phase 3 projects, as well as further analysis, the Full5G project is pleased to release the revised 5G PPP stakeholders picture, along with the accompanying glossary. The latest revision was from April 2016 and needed to be updated to consider Phase 2 and Phase 3 of the 5G PPP. This new picture and glossary are now in line with the current 5G PPP priority target stakeholders.
Click to download the picture and the glossary.
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Pre-Structuring Model Survey |
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| To assist participants in Calls for proposals of the 5G Infrastructure PPP, the Pre-Structuring Model (PSM) Working Group (WG which is currently a sub-group of the 5G-IA Vision WG) produced a Pre-Structuring Model (PSM) for each Phase of the PPP, suggesting how a coherent portfolio of projects could address the future calls. This intended as guidance for proposers.
As the latest PPP Calls are now almost over (latest Call for Proposals have deadline in June 2020, shifted from April due to COVID-19 impacts), a specific analysis is being conducted by the PSM WG (supported by the FULL5G CSA project) to analyze the key lessons learnt related to the PSM, including the analysis of the mapping between the projects portfolios in the different PPP Phases and the respective proposed PSMs, the added value for the community and the points for potential improvement and recommendations for forthcoming Horizon Europe (HEU) Partnerships. We are now asking for your inputs on some key questions that will help the WG to fully qualify and quantify the lessons learnt. Thanks in advance for taking 15-20 minutes to answer the following questions before Friday 08.05.20 @ 17:00 CEST. |
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5G-EVE, 5GENESIS, 5G-VINNI White Paper |
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 ICT-17 5G-EVE, 5GENESIS and 5G-VINNI joint White Paper “On Board Procedure to 5G PPP Infrastructure Projects” released on 31.03.20. This White Paper describes the basic procedures that must be followed when PPP Vertical sector-oriented projects plan to use the PPP ICT-17 infrastructure projects services.
For each of the infrastructure projects this White Paper informs, among others, about how to interact with the infrastructure, what information is needed for running experiments, what output and how is provided, as well as what are the future plans of each infrastructure project for the longer term support of vertical applications. Download the White Paper here. |
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5G IA General Assembly |
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 On 28th April 2020, 5G IA held its Informal Electronic General Assembly.
Agenda items included:
Many 5G IA Members participated and it was a good opportunity to provide information on the main 5G IA’s strategic activities and challenges in the near future. |
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Webinar “3GPP Progress so far – Industry Verticals and Releases 16 and 17” |
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In this webinar, 3GPP TSG (Technical Specification Group) chairs will guide participants through the status of Releases 16, 17 and 18, highlighting Rel-17 work related to verticals. They will offer a practical guide on how to join 3GPP and best impact on-going work. In the Q&A with the TSG Chairs, webinar participants will get the chance to ask their own questions about 3GPP processes, timelines and services supporting industry verticals, as well as how they can leverage the long-standing expertise of traditional 3GPP specialists from the telecom industry. In the second part, participants will get first-hand experiences from industry verticals representatives that have already contributed to 5G standardisation. These champions will be bouncing questions to the TSG chairs, such as removing barriers to entry, easing the tacking of technical and common requirements, performing gap analysis and forming interest groups to speed up the time to consensus. This Q&A session will also feature answers to any burning questions from the audience with live polls moderated by 5GAA CTO, Maxime Flament. Register with this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2cLXVVR5SzSeMdEFrgAMNQ This webinar is part of a series co-hosted by a sub-set of 3GPP MRPs, namely 5G-IA, 5GAA, 5G-ACIA and PSCE, who are committed to helping sector specialists contribute to 5G standardisation in a global context. This goal is achieved by driving standardisation efforts within their respective associations, understanding the needs of new verticals and finding ways to integrate them in 3GPP activities. Save the date for the 2nd webinar, co-hosted with the EU 5G Observatory, “Industry Vertical 5G Rollouts: Legal and Regulatory Aspects” on 26 May 2020 at 11: 00 am CEST |
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SliceNet webinars |
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Webinar series – May 5, May 19, 2020 – 11:00-12:00 CET
Please register on this page https://slicenet.eu/slicenet-webinar-series/ for the webinar link at least two days in advance of the webinar. |
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Training webinars for testing and experimentation in 5G-VINNI |
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Webinar series – May 19
5G-VINNI announces a series of training webinars for testing and experimentation in the 5G-VINNI infrastructure. In total five webinars will be held between 3. March and 19. May. The webinars will cover aspects ranging from how to design tests and experiments, to the set of testing and automation tools available in the 5G-VINNI “Test as a Service” infrastructure. More information on the content of the webinars and how to register is available on https://www.5g-vinni.eu/2020/02/04/training-session-webinars/ Webinar 5 – Effective design methodologies for Test Cases and Experiment definition and design – May 19th, 14:00-15:00 CET -How to design Experiments and Test Cases -How to execute integrated Experiments (phases) -Where to get the data (TaaS System architecture) |
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5G Forum 2020 |
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 The 5G Forum is one of the main Spanish events on 5G, where leaders meet. It is a “boutique” event, combining keynotes and demos with important networking, where BDMs and top managers of the main companies in the industry meet around 5G. The 5GFORUM will once again bring together experts on the 6th and 7th of May 2020 on virtual mode due to the Covid-19 outbreak. The event has the collaboration of large national and multinational companies such as Samsung, Nokia, Cisco, Huawei, Cellnex, Hispasat, Rohde&Schwarz, Axión, RTVE, Reintel, Lyntia, Keysight, Intracom Telecom,… the main operators in Spain: Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange, Más Móvil and important European projects as well as institutions such as the European Commission, the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Enterprise. |
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IEEE ICC 5G LTE-IC 2020 CfP |
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| Dublin, June 7-11, 2020
5G-DRIVE is organising a workshop on 5G Long Term Evolution and Intelligent Communication in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2020 and has published a CfP. (http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CCSR/IWSDN/) Workshop Scope: The next generation wireless networks, i.e., 5G and beyond, autonomous vehicle networks, will be extremely dynamic and complex due to the ultra-densely deployed wireless networks. These introduce many critical challenges for signal processing, network planning and operation, network management etc. Meanwhile, generation and consumption of wireless data are becoming increasingly distributed with ongoing paradigm shift from people-centric to machine-oriented communications, making the operation of future wireless networks even more complex. To mitigate the complexity of future wireless network operation, new approaches of intelligently utilizing distributed computational resources with improved context-awareness becomes extremely important. In this regard, the edge computing architecture aiming to distribute computing, storage, control, communication, and networking functions closer to end uses, have a great potential for enabling efficient operation of future wireless networks. Such promising architectures make the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) principles, which incorporate learning, reasoning and decision-making mechanism, as natural choices for designing a tightly integrated network. |
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5G PPP CfP @CLEEN 2020 |
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| Dublin, Ireland – June 11, 2020
This new edition CLEEN2020 workshop will be organized with a more creative format, conceived with the particular aim to generate lively interactions and foster new ideas. In particular, current shape of the programme agenda is including the Open Forum “Distributed Computing beyond 5G”, that will provide an interactive discussion platform for all stakeholders (from practitioners to experienced researchers and industry leaders), with the aim to encourage collaboration and stimulate a lively interaction, to identify open challenges and research gaps toward new systems (even beyond 5G). The workshop is planned to be a full-day event and has the following programme agenda:
Do not hesitate to visit us regularly. The detailed CfP can be downloaded here. The workshop programme will be updated here. |
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5G PPP @Virtual EuCNC 2020 |
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| Virtual – June 15-18, 2020
The EuCNC 2020, supported by the European Commission, should initially take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from June 15 to 18, 2020. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Steering Committee of EuCNC 2020 has decided to change the format of the conference to an on-line virtual one, instead of the usual face-to-face physical one. In this format, there will be no Workshops, Tutorials and Special Sessions. On the other hand, papers submitted to Regular Sessions taht are accepted (the review process is being finalised) will be invited to be presented in an on-line mode. They will be submitted to IEEE Xplore as usual; accepted posters will alos be presented on-line. The format of Keynotes and Panels is being finalised with the speakers. Further details will be provided as soon as possible. This edition is the 29th edition of a successful series of a conference in the field of telecommunications, sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and the European Association for Signal Processing, and supported by the European Commission. The conference focuses on various aspects of 5G communications systems and networks, including cloud and virtualisation solutions, management technologies, and vertical application areas. It targets to bring together researchers from all over the world to present the latest research results, and it is one of the main venues for demonstrating the results of research projects, especially from successive European R&D programmes co-financed by the European Commission.
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NGMN Industry Conference and Exhibition 2020 |
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| Paris, France – September 8-10, 2020
As with the previous NGMN Industry Conference & Exhibitions you can expect to:
Agenda items include:
View the full agenda here. See hands-on demonstrations on the latest technology and innovative products. Don’t miss out on being the first to learn about 5G network transformation towards fully automated, super resilient and self-driven networks. Be sure to register to ensure you don’t miss out on the opportunity to enhance your network and join the expert discussions. |
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Workshop on “5G Validation Trials Across Multiple Vertical Industries” @IEEE 5G World Forum 2020 |
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Bangalore, India – September 10-12, 2020
The 2020 IEEE 3rd 5G World Forum (5GWF’20) aims to bring experts from industry, academia and research to exchange their vision as well as their achieved advances towards 5G and encourage innovative cross-domain studies, research, early deployment and large-scale pilot showcases that address the challenges of 5G. The workshop aims at providing a forum for industry and academics to disseminate new findings on 5G trials in vertical industries, and new business development. The workshop will call for papers presenting test results from trials as well as theoretical results based on realistic deployment schemes and new 5G business models. Click here for additional details. Important dates for paper submissions
Submission via EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26958&track=101407 |
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5G Live |
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London, UK- September 23-24, 2020
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Webinar – May 5, 11:00-12:00 CEST
SliceNet are providing an interesting and stimulating series of webinars based around the work carried out in the project over the past few years in 5G network slicing, innovations, industry applications and project achievements and outcomes.
ICC WS-04: 5G LTE-IC 2020 
CLEEN 2020 calls for papers!
The 8th
The 5G-DRIVE workshop proposal “5G Validation Trials Across Multiple Vertical Industries” for IEEE 5G World Forum 2020 to be held in Bangalore, India from 10 to 12 September 2020, has been approved and the CfP is now open.
It’s clear – 5G will be the cornerstone of Industry 4.0. The technology is set to revolutionise the global economy across verticals including transport, manufacturing, finance, healthcare, energy and banking. 5GLIVE brings together this booming ecosystem to understand how 5G will enable new, agile business models; explore 5G-enabled products and services; and realise the innovation potential of 5G across the global economy. 5GLIVE explores key use cases for next generation mobile across the verticals where it will have the biggest impact. Explore the latest thinking on technology, business models and partnerships to truly understand 5G’s potential for your industry. Join us in London as we make #5GLIVE.The editor of the 5G PPP newsflash on behalf of the Full5G Project is Carole Manero, IDATE DigiWorld, CS94167 – 34092 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. This document reflects only the views of its authors.
