Newsflash May 2020

5G – enabling Europe’s digital and green transformation

5G is for sure one of the key levers. Peter Stuckmann provided details on actions taken to address Covid-19 issues. He presented the state of the art of 5G in Europe in terms of trials, spectrum assignments and commercial launches. He also emphasized the Pan-EU 5G Corridors for Connected and Automated Mobility” initiative.

To conclude, Peter Stuckmann detailed what is next on Horizon Europe 2021-2027 and gave an overview on beyond 5G and towards 6G topics.

Download the slides here.

5GCity White Paper on 5G Neutral Hosts: 5GCity Architecture and Business Model

Download the White Paper here.

The 5GCity project essentially turns a city into a distributed, third party, multi-tenant edge infrastructure, capable to extend the cloud model all the way to the edge for dynamic, fast, and interoperable provisioning of 5G-based services.

Details on architecture design, platform implementation and validation results from live trials in the cities of Barcelona (ES), Bristol (UK) and Lucca (IT) are available in 5GCity project deliverables [10]-[15] available for download at the 5GCity website.

5GENESIS call for contributions to SENSORS Special Issue on “5G Mission-Critical Applications”

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2020

Dear Colleagues,

With the advent of 5G, agile machine-type communications (MTC) may finally become a reality. The three pillars of technological improvements: higher throughput, significantly increased number of connected devices, and especially lower latency are seen as major enabling factors in the wider deployment of mission-critical applications (MCAs). These applications range from autonomous vehicles and drones, haptic communications over 5G, electrical grid, and industrial automation to smart cities and medical applications, and are typically characterized by the need for extremely reliable transport in addition to low latency and potentially high bandwidth. One of the main challenges for supporting MCA-type services lies in the creation of overall network architectures that adapt to fluctuating traffic patterns and enable overall high adaptability that spans not only the radio access layer and core network services but also extends to edge and core computing that are essential in supporting MCAs.

The objective of this Special Issue is to bring together state-of-the-art contributions related to 5G-based mission-critical applications and services covering topics such as the development and operation of MCA/M2M applications using the 5G service stack, the role of NFV and network slicing in mission-critical communications, exposing the network to the application (programmable RAN, core network interfaces, transport network configuration with SDN, etc.), over-the-top approaches to MCAs, transport protocols and APIs for MCAs, testbeds to validate 5G MCAs, lessons from trials with MCAs, the impact of multiple operators and roaming in 5G applications, challenges from MCA regulation and governance, as well as security and privacy issues related to MCAs.

This Special Issue is connected to the activities in the European project 5GENESIS (under the umbrella of 5G PPP) and the US project COSMOS (under the umbrella of PAWR). An email to the Guest Editors with the tentative title and abstract is expected before submission.

Prof. Pedro Merino-Gómez
Mr. Ivan Seskar

For full information please click this link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/5G_mission

The 2020 edition of the European 5G Annual Journal is out!

The Fifth issue of the European 5G Annual Journal was released at the end of May 2020. It can be downloaded here.

Although we have faced a number of unique challenges over the past year such as the cancellation of the MWC2020 and other events, the 5G PPP has made good overall progress with a strong set of projects creating significant results and being involved in many vertical industries such as transport, manufacturing, energy, health care and media.

The projects of the third phase of the 5G PPP show the way for these new use cases and deliver on Europe’s 5G trial strategy.

Last SliceNet webinar from the webinar series on 5G Integrated Multi Domain Slicing Friendly Infrastructure

The presentation described the design and prototyping of 5G integrated multi-domain SliceNet infrastructure based on opensource software platforms.

Navid Nikaein, Professor in Communication System Department at Eurecom, presented information on radio access networks (RAN), Core Network (CN), multi-access edge computing (MEC), and xhaul domains that are customized to experimentally validate different use cases considered in SliceNet (e.g. e-health). He highlighted how SliceNet addresses end-to-end (E2E) network slices from the network operator, infrastructure provider and service provider point of view. The technical achievements and innovation focusing on the system integration and demonstration were presented.

This webinar aimed at developers and designers both in vertical industries and research, interested in 5G system integration and frameworks.

5G!Drones presentation at AERCOMM workshop, IEEE WCNC

Due to COVID-19 worldwide impact and following the advice and guidelines from healthcare officials and local authorities, the IEEE WCNC 2020 was held virtually on May 25th to May 28th. Accepted papers for the IEEE WCNC 2020 will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore Digital Library after they are presented at the virtual conference.

Similarly, the Aerial Communications in 5G and Beyond Networks (AERCOMM) workshop co-organized by 5G!Drones and EU-Korea PriMO-5G project, colocated with IEEE WCNC 2020, was virtual. In specific, AERCOMM workshop was held on Monday, May 25th, from 07:00 to 11:00 CEST, where 5G!Drones partners presented.

IEEE ICC 2020 Workshop on Intelligent 5G Network Slicing – Co-organized by SliceNet & 5G-VINNI

The workshop will take place virtually, on the 11th June 2020, from 9.00 to 12.30 CEST.

Visit the workshop website here.

Or the event webpage here.

Registration to IEEE ICC 2020 workshops is 40 euro for non-authors and 20 euro for students, via the ICC website.

5G PPP Technology Board Workshop

The first day started with a session related to the collaboration among infrastructure and vertical validation trials 5G PPP projects. Among other topics, it was discussed a potential harmonization of the northbound interface from the network infrastructure towards the vertical services. Then, a session related to the three 5G PPP automotive projects was dedicated to present their current status and key achievements. Moreover, a session organized by the Test, Measurement and KPIs Validation WG, discussed the latest activities related to the mapping of verticals application & services KPIs to networking KPIs. The first day completed its activities discussing the latest status of three white papers, under preparation by the Technology Board, that analyze Edge Computing solutions, the impact of 5G to vertical industries and the use of 5G in indoor environments,

During the second day, several solutions related to the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning were presented followed by a discussion about their potential impact on 5G networks. The next working session was dedicated to the methodology of capturing and analyzing the latest key achievements of 5G PPP Phase II and Phase III projects. Finally, the workshop concluded through a session related to business validation aspects. During the following years, such validation activities will be of growing importance as the full digitization of vertical industries is expected to take place.