MWC’18 preparations on full swing! With the Winter Olympic Games finally there, and their announced large-scale 5G trials, the World Mobile Industry, including 5G PPP projects and the 5G-IA, is gathering in Barcelona, from Feb. 25th to March 1st, 2018.
The booth will be the control room where our officials will welcome high-level EC representatives and other 5G stakeholders to network, share informative resources, and showcase projects through videos and one-to-one presentations.
5G PPP demos
5G-IA / 5G PPP at the Mobile World Capital stand (Congress Square, CS40)
Thanks to close collaboration between 5G-IA / 5G PPP and Mobile World Capital Barcelona, advanced results from selected 5G-PPP verticals’ projects will be showcased in the event’s prestigious Congress Square.
Come and visit our demos and presentations to see 5G-PPP projects in action. These include:
We will also distribute brochures on the projects’ demos (5GCAR, 5GMoNArch, 5GXHaul, and ONE5G) at the Mobile World Capital stand and the 5G-IA booth.
Printed copies of the European 5G Annual Journal 2017 will be available. Have a look at the e-version here.
Follow us on Twitter @5GPPP where we’ll be Tweeting all the latest news live from Mobile World Congress.
You can also join our LinkedIN Group and stay tuned with the international 5G Community.
5G PPP talks
IoT and 5G uses cases (Hall 4, Auditorium 4)
Under the theme of “IoT and 5G…brought to life”, some of the most exciting IoT demos in automotive, manufacturing or connectivity will be presented by leading players, disruptors and newcomers. During the main conference session, at 11.30 on Thursday (1-March), the following 5G-PPP representatives will speak about technologies that will have a direct impact on 5G and IoT applications:
Jean-Pierre Bienaimé, 5G-IA Secretary General will be among the keynote speakers, presenting an overview of the 5G PPP Projects and expected impact on 5G & IoT applications
Panagiotis Demestichas and Dr. Evangelos Kosmatos of WINGS ICT Solutions will present a demo from the ONE5G project. ONE5G consortium partner “WINGS ICT Solutions” will present demo on “Serving underserved areas through 5G (IoT and big data) technologies: A critical infrastructure and agricultural use case”
New 5G Architecture WG white paper
Revised version of 5G PPP Architecture Working Group view on 5G Architecture
The 5G PPP Architecture Working Group published its revised view on 5G Architecture at the end of December 2017. The first version was released after one year research mainly from 16 projects. The revised version highlights the key 5G architecture design recommendations from 5G PPP Phase 1 and provides a baseline architecture for Phases 2 and 3.
The 5G Architecture Working Group as part of the 5G PPP Initiative is looking at capturing novel trends and key technological enablers for the realization of the 5G architecture. It also targets at presenting in a harmonized way the architectural concepts developed in various projects and initiatives (not limited to 5G PPP projects only) so as to provide a consolidated view on the technical directions for the architecture design in the 5G era. The first version of the white paper was released in July 2016, which captured novel trends and key technological enablers for the realization of the 5G architecture vision along with harmonized architectural concepts from 5GPPP Phase 1 projects and initiatives. Capitalizing on the architectural vision and framework set by the first version of the white paper, this Version 2.0 of the white paper presents the latest findings and analyses with a particular focus on the concept evaluations, and accordingly it presents the consolidated overall architecture design.
SELFNET will present in this workshop its network management framework, which provides three major benefits for 5G networks:
The SELFNET framework helps operators build a resilient network infrastructure for 5G, which makes the most effective use of the network technologies they already have.
The SELFNET framework enables service providers to significantly reduce the time for service creation, depending on the conditions down to about 10 minutes. The SELFNET framework can help network operators significantly reduce the total cost of ownership for their network infrastructures.
MWC’18
Barcelona, Spain- February 26th- March 1st
The next MWC will be again a major promotion opportunity for 5G PPP projects. 5G-IA and 5G PPP participation are on going. A stand has been booked in Hall 7. Videos from 5G PPP projects will be displayed; paper brochures will also be available there.
Four 5G PPP Projects will have demos/videos : 5GCAR, 5GXHaul, 5GMoNarch and ONE5G, respectively at the MWCapital booth and at the Conference session on « 5G & IoT use cases ».
More information disclosed later as the organisation progresses. If you are a 5G PPP project wishing to participate/help, do not hesitate to contact Jacques Magen (To-Euro-5G/InterInnov), jmagen@interinnov.eu. or Alessandro Bedeschi (5G-IA), alessandro.bedeschi@5g-ppp.eu.
5G PPP @WCNC’18
Barcelona, Spain – April 15-18, 2018
The 2018 edition of this conference will be held in Barcelona on April 15-18, 2018 at the Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB) and will be organized by the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC).
WCNC’18 is seen as a major dissemination opportunity for 5G-IA/5G PPP phase 2 projects.
Three phase 2 projects will be present @WCNC’18.
ONE-5G, 5G-XCast and 5G-Transformer.
One5G and 5G-Xcast are co-organizing a joint workshop on cm-wave and mm-wave based communications for 5G Networks (CmMmW5G). 5G-TRANSFORMER co-organises the First Workshop of COntrol and Management of network slices for VERTicals (COMVERT). 5G-CORAL as complementary 5G project will also be there. It co-organises the First International Workshop on Edge and Fog Systems for 5G & Beyond (IWEF). At last, the 5G-Miedge, TWEETHER and ULTRAWAVE projects organise a Special Session Workshop on “Economics and Adoption of Millimeter Wave Technology in Future Networks”.
In addition, Miquel Payaro, 5G-IA Board Member, co-organises together with key members of WWRF, the P5 industry panel “How can 5G resolve global water challenge?” on April 18th, 11:00am-12:30am.
5th Global 5G Event
Austin, TX USA- May 16th-17th
As stated by Chris Pearson, President of 5G Americas in Seoul late November 2017 (4th Global 5G Event), the next Global 5G Event will be organised by 5G Americas in Austin, TX, on May 16th and 17th. The 5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium is co-located with both 5G North America and BCE at the Austin Convention Center.
See here for additional information on the Symposium. Organisation on the 5G-IA 5G PPP side will be disclosed later.
5G-MoNArch @ICC’18
Kansas City, USA – May 20-24
“Communications for Connecting Humanity”
5G-MoNArch organises a Workshop on 5G Architecture on May 24th, 2018. View the CfP here. Paper submission deadline is January 3rd, 2018.
CLEEN’18 / VTC’18 Spring
Porto, Portugal – June 3rd
6th International Workshop in conjunction with VTC’18 Spring
“Cloud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Networks”
In this 2018 edition, a particular emphasis to edge cloud, MEC and vertical segments will be given, due to the growing interest of these topics toward 5G networks.
The ONE5G project focuses on boosting the capacity of mobile networks, improving their energy efficiency and enabling a variety of new vertical use cases in dense urban areas as well as in rural environments. ONE5G has received eight million Euros in funding from the European Commission under the EU’s “Horizon 2020” initiative to drive research that enables a swift move towards 5G NR and advance digitization.
The 5G CHAMPION “5G Communication with a Heterogeneous, Agile Mobile network in the PyeongChang Winter Olympic competition” Project develops key enabling technologies for a proof-of-concept environment to be showcased at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea. This will allow maximum visibility for the available technology two years ahead of 2020, i.e. the official launch of 5G. 5G-CHAMPION is led by CEA-LETI on the EU side and by ETRI on the South Korean side.
Several workshops focusing on 5G. Several 5G PPP projects involved.
A main 5G workshop approaching the last innovations and research activities in 5G PPP is organised:
Phase 2 in 5G PPP: from Theoretical Studies to Proof-of-Concepts and Technology Demonstrators. The workshop includes the following topics:
• 5G New Radio: novel techniques in modulation, coding and waveform.
• Beamforming and massive MIMO.
• 5G Radio Access Network design.
• 5G Core Network design.
• Network Slicing for dynamically adaptable 5G networks.
• Proof-of-concepts, prototypes and demonstrations for 5G.
• Technology advancements for specific verticals such as M&E, IoT or automotive.
Moreover, the conference will hold specific workshops organized by one Phase 1 project (5G-Ex) and several 5G PPP Phase 2 projects: 5G-Ex (“Control and Management of Vertical Slicing including the Edge and Fog Systems” ), 5G-Xcast (“Point-to-Multipoint as Key Technology Element for 5G Systems”), IoRL (“A Scalable and License Free 5G Internet of Radio Light Architecture for Services in Homes and Businesses”) 5G-Transformer (“Control and Management of Vertical Slicing including the Edge and Fog Systems” with 5G-CORAL and 5G-Ex), Bluespace (“5G Infrastructure: Requirements and Enablers from Broadcasting and Multimedia Applications”), NGPaaS (“Accelerating Microservices: Design and Development” ) and 5G-MEDIA (“Media delivery innovations using flexible network models in 5G”).
IEEE 5G World Forum
Santa Clara CA, USA- July 9-11
Special session during the IEEE 5G World Forum on “Disrupting Media and Entertainment in the 5G Era” organised and co-sponsored by 5G-XCast.
SPEED-5G Workshop
London, UK- March 7
SPEED-5G project sponsors a workshop on Advanced Spectrum Management in 5G+ Networks. Addressed to both industry and academia, it reports interesting novel results of international research projects on some selected aspects of 5G and beyond networks with main focus on dynamic spectrum access techniques. Attendees will have the opportunity to listen to technical presentations in the lecture room, as well as to witness live demonstrations of some key results, in dedicated adjacent small rooms.
From 10:00 till 17:00 in dedicated rooms live demonstrations will be available for interested participants, running in parallel to the presentations held in the lecture room. Attendance is open to the public, but is subject to a previous free registration via the Registration Form. Due to the limited room capacity, acceptance is based on a first come-first served base.
EuCNC 2018 is the 27th edition of a successful series of technical conferences in the field of telecommunications, sponsored by IEEE ComSoc and EURASIP, and financially supported by the European Commission, focusing on communication networks and systems, and reaching services and applications. It targets to bring together researchers from all over the world to present their latest research results, being one of the main venues for showcasing, demonstrating and trialling the results of research projects, especially from successive European R&D programmes.
Information on 5G PPP projects contribution and workshops organisation coming soon.
5G Huddle
Durban, South Africa- May 29-30
The 5G Huddle and Wireless World Research Forum meeting (WWRF40) in Durban, South Africa, May 29-30 2018. The meeting will be hosted by the Meraka Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
The theme for the 5G Huddle is “5G for All” and it will feature a keynote presentation from the 5G-IA Secretary General Jean-Pierre Bienaimé.
The theme for the research Forum meeting is: 5G and Broadband Connectivity for All.
The deadline of the Call for Extended Abstracts is March 9th , 2018.
5G-IA / 5G PPP at the Mobile World Capital stand (Congress Square, CS40)
The 5G PPP Architecture Working Group published its revised view on 5G Architecture at the end of December 2017. The first version was released after one year research mainly from 16 projects. The revised version highlights the key 5G architecture design recommendations from 5G PPP Phase 1 and provides a baseline architecture for Phases 2 and 3.
Download the white paper 
The next MWC will be again a major promotion opportunity for 5G PPP projects. 5G-IA and 5G PPP participation are on going. A stand has been booked in Hall 7. Videos from 5G PPP projects will be displayed; paper brochures will also be available there.
As stated by Chris Pearson, President of 5G Americas in Seoul late November 2017 (4th Global 5G Event), the next Global 5G Event will be organised by 5G Americas in Austin, TX, on May 16th and 17th. The 5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium is co-located with both 5G North America and BCE at the Austin Convention Center.
The 5G Huddle and Wireless World Research Forum meeting (WWRF40) in Durban, South Africa, May 29-30 2018. The meeting will be hosted by the Meraka Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
