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5GCAR final event

After two years of concept work, the 5GCAR project’s final demonstration took place in UTAC-CERAM test track in Linas, France where new cooperative and connected V2X applications are made possible using 5G Cellular-Vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communication technologies.

These applications are expected to shape the future of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and automated driving towards safer and more efficient driving.

To guarantee safe and efficient driving, while providing data rate demanding infotainment services, stringent requirements are posed on the wireless communication system. The 5GCAR research and innovation initiative addressed these demanding performance requirements by bringing the fields of telecommunication and automotive closer together and investigating the benefit of 5G for demanding automotive use cases. The demonstrations included three representative use cases that define the problem space, selected to represent various needs arising from connected and automated driving after a detailed analysis of concrete communication and automotive requirements and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). In more detail, the use cases demonstrated were:

• Lane merge coordination use case for cooperative manoeuvres focused on merging a vehicle onto a highway in a safe and efficient manner. This is enabled by vehicles sharing status information, such as position, speed and heading, with a central logic that determines a collaborative manoeuvre and recommends corresponding actions to these vehicles. The procedure is assisted by roadside cameras that provide information on unconnected vehicles and feed this information into the manoeuvre planning algorithm.
• See-through & long range sensor sharing use case for cooperative perception focused on extending the vehicle sensing range beyond line-of-sight by combining local and shared sensor data. In the see-through variant, a vehicle gets support by a leading vehicle during an overtaking manoeuvre. Using video-based localization, the front scene representing the occluded region is captured and transmitted to the following vehicle. In the long range sensor sharing variant, in-vehicle sensors are used to provide information on unconnected vehicles for a collision prediction and warning algorithm.
• Vulnerable road user protection use case for cooperative safety focused on network-based positioning and collision prediction to prevent accidents with pedestrians or cyclists that are hard to avoid using only in-vehicle sensors. For that purpose, time difference-of-arrival measurements are performed to localize and track road users. Their movement patterns are then utilized to estimate the likelihood of a collision.
  In order to realize these demonstrations, a communication system has been created that represents an overall 5G architecture for automotive use cases. At the core of this system are 5G-NR side link communication, 5G-NR positioning, and cellular communication using 5G deployment models such as Network Slicing and Edge Computing.

The demonstrations were executed on the test track while the audience is able to experience them from within the cars and has the opportunity to discuss implementation details with the corresponding experts. For the implementation of the respective demonstrations, the diversity of the consortium was of instrumental importance with the involvement of parties from the telecommunication and the automotive industry, as well as academia and Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs).

The 5GCAR project investigated and proved the benefit of 5G for connected cars, studying the domain from multiple perspectives, including business models, spectrum matters, and contributing to the conception of innovative solution for the radio access network, the system architecture, and the security and privacy framework. Multiple cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) use cases, which benefit from 5G features, are demonstrated today in Linas. Moreover, the scientific work within the project impacted standardization by means of project partner contributions.

TMV WG White Paper

The involvement of vertical customers in the ongoing deployment of 5G networks increases the need for performing tests and measurements, considering the stringent requirements of the vertical applications and the introduction of new business models. The exploitation of network and computing resource virtualization and sharing, such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) and the different technology domains employed at the infrastructure substrate (i.e. radio, cloud, transport) are making the 5G network increasingly complex to manage, monitor and test. In case a vertical customer determines a Service Level Agreement (SLA) breach, the process of troubleshooting and conflict resolution includes cross-layer coordination of testing and monitoring. These are the main causes for a very broad and heterogeneous scenario. It includes:
• Roles and expectation of the vertical customers
• Definition of testing and monitoring approaches and testing levels (from access network to service)
• The need for, and role of Test as a Service (TaaS) within the Zero-touch philosophy
• The need of clearly defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to support the validation of the 5G technology
• The need of a clearly defined KPI Testing and Validation methodology, including KPI monitoring, analysis, verification, and performance diagnosis.
• The need for a common formalization process for standardizing tests representing different levels of the 5G network.

This White Paper tries to be a first step into providing a more clear and homogeneous view over these topics, that will be briefly introduced and clarified. The idea is to establish a unified vision on the Test and Measurement topics for 5G, allowing for common procedures and terminology on how to solve some of these challenging problems. This is considered to be beneficial not only the 5G PPP infrastructure owners, but also the entire 5G ecosystem. The technical direction is mainly the most predominant one, providing best practices, methodologies and applied solutions, focusing primarily on the actual testing and evaluation of 5G technologies. Nevertheless, the vision is providing substantiated answers to more high-level relevant questions such as “does slicing help fulfilling vertical requirements?”.

The full document can be downloaded from the 5G PPP White Papers page.

5G Architecture WG White Paper V3.0

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 5G PPP Phase 1 projects and initiatives. Capitalizing on the architectural vision and framework set by the first version of the white paper, the Version 2.0 of the white paper was released in January 2018 and presented the latest findings and analyses of 5G PPP Phase I projects along with the concept evaluations.

The work has continued with the 5G PPP Phase II and Phase III projects with special focus on understanding the requirements from vertical industries involved in the projects and then driving the required enhancements of the 5G Architecture able to meet their requirements. The results of the Working Group are now captured in this Version 3.0, which presents the consolidated European view on the architecture design.

You can download the paper here: 5G PPP 5G Architecture White Paper Revision 3.0

CONSULTATION:

You are now invited to contribute constructive comments on 5G-PPP Architecture WG approach to the 5G Architecture by sending your opinions on version 3.0 to the White paper editors by clicking here.

Comments are welcome until the end of July 2019 and, depending on the nature of the comments, either version 3 will be updated or new topics will be considered for a Version 4.

EC Work Programme 2020 Information and Technologies now online

(European Commission Decision C(2019)4575 of 2 July 2019)

5G PPP @5GWF’19

The 2019 IEEE 2^nd 5G World Forum (5GWF’19) 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.

5G-DRIVE, 5G EVE, 5G-VINNI, 5GENESIS, and SLICENET are organising the “2nd Workshop on 5G-Trials – From 5G Experiments to Business Validation” and calling for papers. The workshop aims at providing a forum for industry and academics to disseminate new findings on 5G trials and new business development. The workshop calls for papers presenting test results from trials as well as theoretical results based on realistic deployment schemes and new 5G business models.

More information here or there.

Important Dates

Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2019
Camera-Ready Submission: August 15, 2019

EC R&I Days

AIOTI Event “IoT Through the Looking Glass”

The Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) organises a workshop on “IoT Through the Looking Glass” on October 8, 2019 in Brussels.

In the morning cross-vertical challenges and opportunities in research, emerging ecosystems, and societal trends will be explored. The impact and importance of pursuing a collaborative approach and look at future topics and technologies that will affect intelligent connectivity and IoT in Horizon Europe will also be highlighted.

Join the debate on cutting-edge technologies with Europe’s leading Internet of Things organization. Hear about our vision for future European IoT Network with leading IoT players in Europe.

Register online here.

The programme and conference website will follow shortly. Stay tuned for more news!

European Big Data Value Forum

The European Big Data Value Forum is the flagship event of the European Big Data Value community. EBDVF 2019 is jointly organised by the Big Data Value Association, the European Commission and VTT and it will take place from 14 to 16 of October in Helsinki (Finland).

The theme of this year’s edition is “Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Transforming Business and Society”, and it is aimed to attract more than 600 participants, including relevant European industry players, policy makers and research community. Do not miss it!

Early bird registration is available until 22^nd August. Don’t miss this opportunity to book your tickets. You can check the entry fees and get your tickets here.

Some sponsorship packages are available. Get your projects or company’s visibility on key European event around Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Check the different options available here.

Register now and book your seat at an event that will contribute to shape the Big Data and AI landscape in Europe.

FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2019

This year marks the 10th anniversary of our successful and most influential event series FOKUS FUSECO Forum with tutorials, workshops, live demos, a conference, and discussions with leading operators, manufacturers, integrators as well as various industry verticals around the most recent 5G hot topics: state of technology development in terms of standards, products and first solutions derived from international technology and application trials; potential business models in different vertical domains, particularly private networking options and operator network slicing approaches; operator 5G rollout plans, including migration and interworking with 4G, Wi-Fi and satellite networks; relevant 5G testbeds and trials around the globe.

For further information, please visit: https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/ngni/events/fuseco_forum_2019.

Additional details will be disclosed soon.

5G Techritory 2019

Baltic Sea region 5G Ecosystem Forum “5G Techritory”, organized by the Electronic Communications Office of Latvia, has become a huge success already in its first year. In 2018 one of the leading 5G technology events worldwide gathered 700 participants, more than 70 senior speakers from Europe, Asia and the USA, leading industry organizations and global ICT companies as the organizational partners and main supporters. More details can be found on www.5gtechritory.com.

5G Techritory has initiated a new open platform for cross-border, cross-level and cross-sectoral cooperation for the development of a sustainable 5G ecosystem in the Baltic Sea region in line with the European Commission’s Strategy for the Digital Single Market and the Nordic-Baltic digital cross-border cooperation policy and its 5G Action Plan for 2018-2020. The Forum has helped to facilitate establishing new partnerships between global and regional ICT companies, governments, municipalities, business support organizations, universities and other key stakeholders in the region and in the wider European context.

During 3 days of intensive and comprehensive up-to-date program on November 27-29, the Forum will highlight:
– Plenary Sessions and parallel Working Sessions, which will be widely covered with the use of such formats as keynote presentations / featured panel presentations / panel discussions / case studies “start hard, turn smart” / expert insights / fireside chats
– Inspirational Talks with global business leaders and world-renowned futurists
– Meeting of the Nordic-Baltic high-level digitalization group
– Exclusive Breakfast Sessions with global business leaders
– Expo “Meet the 5G Technology”
– B2B Speed Networking Event
– Hackathon for meeting the leading 5G technology start-ups.

Additional details will be disclosed soon.

ICT Proposers’ Days  2019

The ICT Proposers Days will be held in Helsinki on September 19-20, 2019. Details will follow soon on this big ICT research and innovation event.

See details here.