Newsflash May 2019

Last mile for the Global 5G Event

5G IA is hosting the 7^th Global 5G Event – ‘Creating the Smart Digital Future’ on 17-18 June in Valencia, Spain in co-operation with the leading 5G visionary organizations from Brazil, China, Japan, the Americas and the Republic of Korea.

The agenda features top class international presenters including business leaders, engineers, professors, technical experts and policymakers. The sessions will cover key aspects of 5G technology like global 5G spectrum harmonization and regulatory issues, 5G from the verticals perspective, 5G trials and pre-commercial launches, key challenges to 5G roll out across the globe, and some thoughts on developments beyond 5G. In addition, two technical sessions will focus on cross regional 5G project ambitions and real world 5G performance KPI measurement.

In addition to the conference presentations, the 7^th Global 5G Event will also showcase state of the art 5G demonstrations by over 50 research and innovation projects.

Registration is open. The Global 5G Event is co-located with EuCNC 2019 – European Conference on Networks and Communications – at the Valencia Conference Centre, which has been awarded as the World’s Best Convention Center in 2018. The  Registration also offers a substantial discount if you register for both the Global 5G Event and  EuCNC 2019.

New SME web pages

The share of SMEs in the 5G PPP is so far below the 20% initial objective, and it is critical that more SMEs are involved in upcoming projects.Do not hesitate to come and visit the NetWorld2020 SME WG booth at the 7th Global 5G Event and EuCNC2019 that will be held in Valencia, Spain on June 17-21, 2019. The new brochure entitled “European SME Expertise in 5G and Beyond” will be made available for the first time in Valencia.

5G PPP Platform Cartography

5G Infrastructure PPP Phase 3 platforms projects (2018-2021) started in July 2018 and provide a pan-EU large-scale end-to-end 5G validation network infrastructure, covering about 20 EU sites and nodes on a pan-EU basis. This infrastructure will provide the adequate level of openness to make it possible for vertical industries to test their innovative 5G business cases using ad-hoc network resource control.

Have a look at the key platforms and cities of the PPP Phase 3 platforms projects on the dedicated 5G PPP platform cartography webpage here. The Platforms Cartography is currently under further development, to include summary perspectives related to Platforms / Verticals and Platforms / KPIs. The Platforms Cartography is also targeted to include ICT-19 Verticals Pilots information as soon as officially available

5G ESSENCE Newsletter #2

This new edition details the 5G ESSENCE system which presents a high degree of dynamicity, due to the constantly changing behaviour of services and workloads to be supported by the radio and cloud infrastructure. From this perspective, a proper monitoring system able to adapt to the different supported scenarios is required. The paper depicts the architecture of the 5G ESSENCE telemetry, analytics and orchestration framework. It also gives an overview of past 5G ESSENCE events.

Read more here.

The seven new 5G PPP projects

5G SMART: will explore 5G for smart manufacturing. The project trials will test the most advanced 5G-integrated manufacturing applications, such as industrial robotics and machine vision-based remote operations, and will fully characterise spectrum use and electromagnetic compatibility issues for 5G in factory environments.

5GDrones: plans to trial several Unmanned Aerial Vehicle use-cases covering enhanced Mobile Broadband, Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications, and massive Machine Type Communications, notably for public safety monitoring and disaster relief operations.

5G-HEART: will focus on vertical use-cases of healthcare, transport and aquaculture. For example, it will validate pillcams for automatic detection in screening of colon cancer; it will also validate a broad range of automotive services such as assisted driving and platooning.

5GROWTH: aims to empower vertical industries such as Industry 4.0, Transportation, and Energy with Artificial Intelligence-driven automated 5G end-to-end solutions.

5G-SOLUTIONS: aims to validate 5G provision of prominent industry verticals with ubiquitous access to a wide range of services. This will be achieved through field trials across five domains: Factories of the Future, Smart Energy, Smart Cities, Smart Ports, and Media & Entertainment.

5G-TOURS: will provide close-to-commercial services for tourists, citizens and patients in three different cities. The fundamental feature of the project concept is the dynamic use of the network to seamlessly provide different types of services, such as augmented reality assisted surgery and smart-mobility enabled navigation, each adapted to the specific needs of individual use cases.

5G-VICTORI: will conduct large-scale trials for advanced vertical use-case verification, focusing on Transportation, Energy, Media and Factories of the Future and cross-vertical use-cases. For example, provisioning of mission critical services for railway systems and of energy metering services for high-voltage and low voltage distributions grids.

European 5G Observatory Workshop: Is Europe ready for 5G?

IDATE Digiworld, who is conducting the European 5G Observatory for the Commission, first presented the main findings of its first phase and stakeholders were able to react and discuss.

The workshop offered then the opportunity to reflect on how the Observatory can move from “readiness” reporting to “deployment” reporting. What are the key parameters to measure: fibre backhaul, use of pioneer bands, service capabilities, coverage and quality mapping…?

Finally, the last session explored how regulators can facilitate 5G roll-out looking at the implementation and application of the legal frameworks such as the EECC, the cost reduction Directive, and the Net Neutrality rules. Further measures necessary to facilitate the deployment targets were also identified.

About the European 5G Observatory

The European 5G Observatory was launched in 2018 to monitor market developments and preparatory actions taken by industry stakeholders and Member States in the context of 5G roll-out in Europe and beyond. It enables the Commission to assess the progress of Europe’s 5G Action Plan and take action to fully implement it.

The 5G Observatory online platform provides the latest news and key trends in 5G deployment in Europe and world-wide, and its quarterly reports provide snapshots, including scoreboards, of 5G progress, as well as an assessment in view of the objectives of the 5G Action Plan.

5G IA Special 5G Report

The report has been released on May 23, 2019.

5G IA has contributed to various sections of the report and, in particular, the article written by Colin at pg. 15.

Have a look at it here.

Key take-aways from the 5G-DRIVE Workshop “From 5G experiments to business validation”

A large number of 5G trials are currently being organised around the globe. In the current phase of 5G evolution, where the design phase has been successfully completed and the first set of standards has been released, the focus is now on trialling. The goal of the workshop was to take a snapshot and get feedback from some of the ongoing 5G trialling activities, and also to discuss potential market opportunities for 5G.

 The organisers of the workshop, 5G PPP project 5G-DRIVE and China Mobile Research Centre, are running a joint project on 5G trialling between the EU and China. As they are well connected in the 5G community, they were successful in distributing the call for papers for this workshop. With 30 paper submissions received, this workshop was ranked number 2 among all 29 workshops. In line with IEEE rules that require a 50% rejection rate, 15 papers were retained. The paper presentations together with three invited keynote speeches and two panel discussions filled a long and interesting day for the about 40 workshop attendees.

 In the welcome talk the author of this article gave an overview of 5G trialling activities in Europe and showed some statistics e.g. in terms of trials per country, spectrum usage, the participation by vertical sectors in 5G trialling activities and the size of larger trials and first 5G roll-outs around the globe.

 In the first keynote speech, Chih-Lin I from China Mobile Research Institute gave her view on “The Twists and Turns of the 5G Journey”, which gave a glimpse on the 5G activities of China Mobile and a comprehensive tapping into various aspects of 5G down to more recent topics as e.g. O-RAN which is aims at open interoperable interfaces and RAN virtualisation.

 In the second keynote, Matti Kutila from VTT shared his insights on activities “Towards Connected and Highly Automated Driving”, which are being addressed in 5G-DRIVE and national projects in Finland.

 In the first session, five papers on “Recent 5G Trial Activities and Trial Results” were presented. This included a paper about ‘5G Trial Cooperation between EU and China’, an overview of the 5G EVE end-to-end 5G facility for extensive trials, presented by Maurizio Cecchi, and presentations on recent trials of G.metro-based passive WDM fronthaul and database supported flexible spectrum access.

 The second session addressed aspects related to the 5G architecture and enabling technologies. Results from a number of interesting areas were presented, including the deployment of a 5G architecture for crowd events, an indoor positioning platform to support 5G location based services, and the application and experiments of 5G technology-powered industrial Internet. The third paper session, finally, addressed aspects related to the performance analysis of 5G technologies.

Panellists of the first panel session on the potential of 5G for verticals (from left): Matti Kutila, VTT; Maurizio Cecchi, Associazione PIIU; Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum, University of Luxembourg; Chih-Lin I, China Mobile Research Institute; and Uwe Herzog, Eurescom

Two interesting panel discussions were organised: one on the potential of 5G for verticals, and the other on challenges in 5G trials. In the panel ‘Potential of 5G for Verticals’, which was moderated by Wei Deng from China Mobile Research Institute, an interesting debate took place about what revenue operators can assume to actually generate from providing 5G services for vertical sector companies.

 There was no doubt among the panellists that there seems to be large potential for operators in this area. At the same time the increasing interest from vertical sectors to get individual frequency spectrum allocated, which would allow verticals to build their own 5G network, seems to contradict this. It indicates a certain doubt, at least among some of the verticals, whether they are happy to let operators provide the network for them. A study from a consulting firm was quoted which estimates that about 80 – 90% of 5G revenue will come from eMBB type services, which would leave only 10-20 % for other services – including those for verticals. The panel concluded that keeping the view open into all directions for future 5G revenue is probably a good approach in this early phase of 5G commercialisation.

5GENESIS co-organises with ASTRID, SPEAR, CYBER-TRUST, REAC and SHIELD projects the “1st International Workshop on Cyber-Security Threats, Trust and Privacy Management in Software-defined and Virtualized
Infrastructures (SecSoft)” at 5th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2019).

Read more here on call for papers.

EuCNC 2019

The 5G PPP initiative will be strongly represented at EuCNC 2019 with many sessions, workshops, technical papers and booths where you can get the latest news and see the achievements of the 5G PPP projects.

At the 5G PPP office booth at the EuCNC, we will be delighted to share and discuss the latest 5G PPP results, the 5GIA international activities, and the leading demos developed by the 5G PPP SMEs.

Eight Workshops will be organised (WS1: Empowering Transatlantic Platforms for Advance Wireless Research, WS2: From cloud ready to cloud native transformation, WS3: Photonic Technologies in 5G and Beyond,, WS4 2nd5G in the Era of Connected Cars, WS5: Emerging 5G Business Models: Opportunities for SMEs and large companies-lesson from 5G PPP (5G-EBM), WS6: European and Taiwanese Cooperation on 5G, WS7: Artificial Intelligence for 5G Networks, WS8: 5GArch 2019: International Workshop on 5G Architecture).

Three Special Sessions are scheduled on 19 and 20 June 2019 (SS1    Validating and Demonstrating the Satellite Integration into 5G organised by SaT5G, 5G-VINNI, 5GENESIS and ESA ARTES projects, SS3   5G trials for vertical industries organised by NRG5, 5G ESSENCE,  5GCity, 5G-MEDIA and 5G-DRIVE, NGPaaS, SS4   5GPPP ONE5G: Moving 5G towards 5G-advanced) and one panel(Beyond 5G and Artifical Intelligence).

Technical Papers will also be presented (5G ESSENCE, 5G-MoNarch, 5G TRANSFORMER, 5G TANGO, NG-PaaS, Sat5G, 5G PICTURE, SLiceNet, ONE5G, blueSPACE, NRG5, 5GCroco, MATILDA, 5G-EVE, 5G-VINNI, Clear5G, 5G-DRIVE, IoRL, 5G City, 5G-PHOS, 5GENESIS)

Come and visit 5G PPP booths (5G PPP/5G IA, 5G PPP SME, MATILDA, SliceNet, 5G-MoNArch, 5G-Transformer/5G-Coral, 5G-TANGO, 5G ESSENCE, IoRL, Sat5G, 5G-XCast, ONE5G, NRG5, 5G-MEDIA 5GCroco/5G-CARMEN/5G-MOBIX, Metro-Haul, Clear5G, 5G EVE, 5G-PHOS, blueSPACE/5G-PHOS, 5G-PICTURE, NGPaaS, 5G-VINNI, 5G-City, 5G-DRIVE, 5GENESIS).

Full detailed activities are available here.

7th Global 5G Event

The 7th Global 5G Event “Creating the digital Future” will take place in Valencia, Spain in June 2019. The event will be co-located with EuCNC 2019 (18-21 June 2019) and organised by 5G IA/5G PPP in cooperation with the leading 5G visionary organizations from Brazil, China, Japan, the Americas and the Republic of Korea.

The 7th Global 5G Event is a unique opportunity for 5G PPP projects and European organizations involved in 5G to be exposed to 5G stakeholders from outside Europe. The next G5GE event is likely not to happen in Europe before 3 or 4 years.

The agenda features top class international presenters including business leaders, engineers, professors, technical experts and policymakers. The sessions will cover key aspects of 5G technology like global 5G spectrum harmonization and regulatory issues, 5G from the verticals perspective, 5G trials and pre-commercial launches, key challenges to 5G roll out across the globe, and some thoughts on developments beyond 5G. In addition, two technical sessions will focus on cross regional 5G project ambitions and real world 5G performance KPI measurement.

In addition to the conference presentations, the 7^th Global 5G Event will also showcase state of the art 5G demonstrations by over 50 research and innovation projects.

Registration is now open. The Global 5G Event is co-located with EuCNC 2019 – European Conference on Networks and Communications – at the Valencia Conference Centre, which has been awarded as the World’s Best Convention Center in 2018. The Registration also offers a substantial discount if you register for both the Global 5G Event and  EuCNC 2019.

Information on 5G PPP presence will be detailed soon and updated regularly. Videos are already available. Have a look on YouTube and stay up to date on Instagram and Facebook.

5G PPP @IEEE 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 “2ndWorkshop 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

Deadline for paper submission: May 31, 2019
Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2019
Camera-Ready Submission: July 31, 2019

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.

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.

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!

5G-MoNArch Testbed in Hamburg

With the completion of most of conceptual work, and the successful implementation of a testbed in Hamburg, 5G-MoNArch organises a project dissemination event at Dialoghaus in Hamburg! 5G-MoNArch will provide a live experience of the implemented industrial applications for improved sea port operations.

The event takes place on June 5th, 2019, from 10:30 to 15:30 at Dialoghaus in Hamburg.

The control systems used by the HPA up to date are already the most progressive in the world and the interplay between their sensor technology, analysis, forecasting and information systems delivers significant efficiency improvements. The Smart Sea Port testbed represents the next step in creating a digital port – and in shaping Hamburg’s future. The overall goal of the testbed is to provide a wireless infrastructure that can handle a large number of the use cases of the port’s day-to-day work. As all these use cases have rather different requirements in terms of the reliability (guaranteed network connection), resilience (guaranteed availability, even in the case of failures), and the support for service diversity, but a dedicated communication infrastructure for each of them would be rather inefficient, a 5G mobile network that supports network slicing is the appropriate solution. Within the scope of 5G-MoNArch, the Hamburg Smart Sea Port testbed focuses on three selected use cases that share a common mobile network infrastructure. The 5G radio base station is installed on the television tower close to the Hamburg trade fair and congress centre (extensive coverage).

Agenda and registration are available online here. Registration closes on May 29th, 2019.