Newsflash October 2019
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A lot of successful 5G PPP workshops!
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5G PPP workshop @ IEEE 5G World Forum |
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| The IEEE 5G World Forum took place between September 30th and October 2nd, 2019, in Dresden, Germany. 5G PPP projects, including 5G-Drive, 5G EVE, 5G-VINNI, 5GENESIS, and SLICENET, organized the “2ndWorkshop on 5G-Trials – From 5G Experiments to Business Validation”. It aimed at providing a forum for industry and academics to disseminate new findings on 5G trials and new business development.
The workshop was held successful: many people attended the sessions and organizers received very positive feedback.
The new 5G PPP Infrastructure – Trials and Pilots Brochure (detailed in the September 2019 Newsflash) was distributed to the participants. You can download it here.
5G-DRIVE opening speech, panel discussion and concluding remarks
In the afternoon, Uwe moderated a panel on results from 5G trials, verticals and business opportunities. The panellists included Dr. Michael Meyer from Ericsson, Dr. Mikko Uusitalo from Nokia, Prof. Panagiotis Demestichas from University of Piraeus, and Mr. Jean-Pierre Bienaime from IREST (see photo). The panellists discussed the main conclusions from recent 5G trials, which vertical sectors are the most challenging ones for introducing 5G technologies, and which verticals will be the first to adopt 5G services.
At the end of the workshop, Tao Chen from VTT / 5G-DRIVE summarised the workshop presentations and discussions and added some concluding remarks. More information is on the 5G-DRIVE web. 5G-EVE results were presented
Questions from the audience focused mostly on how to use the 5G-EVE platform for the execution of the experiments and which use cases are currently targeted. The more technical questions explored how 5G-EVE addresses issues related to the multi-site nature of the facility, and which steps of the experiment provisioning, execution and monitoring 5G-EVE automates. More information about 5G-EVE presentation can be found here.
5G-VINNI panel discussion
Overall, it was agreed that testbeds and trialling are an essential part of the innovation cycle and that in the near future there cannot be progress without testbeds. Cost is an important element that will always provide the boundary of what testbeds are capable of. More information about 5G-VINNI presentation here.
5GENESIS Paper presentation
Dr. Valerio Frascolla (INT) presented the paper “Handover optimality in heterogeneous networks” at the 5G and IoT track. |
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5G PPP stand at ICT Proposers Day |
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On 19-20th September, 2019, Finland hosted one of the largest ICT events in Europe – the ICT Proposer’s Day 2019. It was well attended by over 3,000 people interested to learn about the Digital Europe programme and the upcoming Horizon 2020 calls in Information and Communication Technologies, Future and Emerging Technologies and Societal Challenges areas.
The ICT Proposer’s Day 2019 also featured separate sessions for ICT topics and proposal writing. There were a number of dedicated sessions related to 5G & Next Generation Internet and the materials can be found at these locations:
The PPP session organized over two time slots included presentations from EC Officers (Pavlos Fournogerakis and Mario Scillia) and 5G-IA members (Colin Willcock, Nicola Ciulli and Didier Bourse). The PPP Phase 3.II Pre-Structuring Model (PSM) Version 2.0 was presented during the session. The 5G-PPP had a well-placed stand in the exhibition area and many visitors stopped by throughout the entire 2 day event, with keen interest in the activities of the 5G-PPP and the best ways to contribute to the Working Groups. The 5G-PPP stand was supported throughout the event by members of the FULL5G project, including David Kennedy (Eurescom), Colin Wilcock (5G IA), and James Clarke (Waterford Institute of Technology, in photo).
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European Research and Innovation Days |
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| On 24-26th September, 2019, the European Research and Innovation Days event was held in Brussels, which was the first annual policy event of the European Commission, bringing together stakeholders to debate and shape the future research and innovation landscape. This event will be central to finding research and innovation solutions for this great transition by working across polices, setting the direction, spurring innovation and triggering investment. It will be the moment for all stakeholders to meet and co-create the strategic priorities for the European Commission’s investment in research and innovation, especially in relation to the implementation of Horizon Europe, starting in 2021, which is the successor to the current research and innovation framework programme, Horizon 2020.
During the event, Dr. Colin Wilcock of 5G IA moderated a panel session entitled Internet of the future: preserving EU values while harnessing digital progress, Strategic planning co-design session (CD). The objective of the session was to discuss how research and innovation can shape the Next-Generation Internet and empower new connectivity-based ecosystems that embody our main values. Speakers
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5G PPP Technical Workshop 2019 |
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| The PPP Technical Workshop 2019 was successfully organized on 08-10.10.19 in Malaga, hosted by the University of Malaga colleagues (PPP Phase 3 5GENESIS project). The Workshop gathered 30+ PPP Phase 2 and Phase 3 (ICT-17 Platforms, ICT-18 Corridors and ICT-19 Verticals Plots) projects members and offered a great experience of team work / team building, with very active and engaged participation from projects representatives. Significant progress has been achieved in cross-projects synergies with a core focus on the ICT-19 / ICT-17 projects interactions/interworking and forthcoming Trials & Pilots to be developed on the PPP Platforms. A specific session was also focused on 5G / Edge Computing. The Workshop was a very great opportunity to synchronize in details for the first time with all ICT-19 projects and better understand projects objectives and plans. The Workshop also boosted a set of Technology Board (TB) / PPP programme and projects priorities and actions, including PPP Platforms Cartography, Verticals Cartography, Trials & Pilots, cross-projects synergies (incl. dissemination), Programme Golden Nuggets Version 3.0…
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5G-MEDIA Coding Event, Madrid |
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| On September 26th and 27th the EU H2020 5G-MEDIA project consortium organised a coding event at the Telecommunications school of Universitad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM). This event had a practical seminar format. Along the two days of the event, the participants learnt how to deploy a Network Service by using the 5G-MEDIA platform and the main features of it, such as the use of serverless computing paradigm, the optimisation of the network underneath and the unikernel format packaging.
More information about 5G-MEDIA event can be found here.
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5G CMM Expo |
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 The 5G CMM Expo took place on October 8th, 2019. Colin Willcock, Chairman of the Board 5G-IA made a keynote speech on ‘5G Research and Innovation in Europe: Past, Present and Future’.
The 5G PPP stand was visited by many people and fruitful contacts have been made. The Annual Journals 2018 and 2019 have been distributed. |
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Uwe Herzog from Eurescom and project 5G-DRIVE gave the opening speech at the 5G-Trials workshop at IEEE 5G World Forum in Dresden on 1 October 2019. Besides introducing the audience to the workshop he also gave an overview of 5G trialling activities in Europe and showed some statistics.
Giada Landi from Nextworks, presented the 5G-EVE paper on ‘The 5G EVE Multi-site Experimental Architecture and Experimentation Workflow’. In her presentation she explained 5G-EVE’s experimental approach for vertical service validation in customizable, end-to-end 5G infrastructures and variable operational conditions. Furthermore, she provided an overview on 5G-EVE’s pilots and use cases as well as details about the architecture of the 5G EVE platform, including its multi-site facility infrastructure and the related deployment roadmap.
Anastasius Gavras from Eurescom and project 5G-VINNI moderated a panel discussion among Prof. Riku Jäntti (Aalto University), Prof. Sławomir Kukliński (Orange), Dr. Ville Niemelä (University of Oulu) and Dr. Maria Guta (ESA). The topic of the panel was “Challenges for further trialling and beyond 5G research”. The panel was attended by about 40 participants that actively contributed to the discussion.
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FOKUS FUSECO 2019 |
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| Berlin, Germany- November 7-8, 2019
For further information, please visit: https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/ngni/events/fuseco_forum_2019. Additional details will be disclosed soon.
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2nd 5G City Hackathon |
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Lucca, Italy – November 21-22, 2019
5GCity Hackathon demonstrates, in operational conditions, a distributed cloud and radio platform for municipalities and infrastructure owners acting as 5G neutral hosts. The platform enables to turn a city infrastructure into a distributed and multi-tenant edge infrastructure by relying on the 5GCity orchestration platform, based on OSM, to manage and orchestrate (NFV + MEC) end-to-end services and creating programmable and on demand network slices. 5G PPP Projects members are all invited to participate by forming their hacking teams. The proposed challenges
Toolkits offered
Winners Announced: Nov 22 at 3:00pm CET
More info & Registrations at https://hackthe5gcity-lucca.devpost.com/ The event is co-located with the 8th ETSI OSM Hackfest, which will run in the same location at Real Collegio in Lucca (Italy). |
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Webinar: SONATA release 5.0 |
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Register here. The webinar link will be sent by e-mail two days before the webinar. AGENDA 11h – 11h15: Introduction, Industry status, SONATA relevance (J. Martrat, ATOS, Project Manager) 11h15 – 11h30: Benefits for stakeholders. SONATA components and architecture. Release 5.0. latest features (J. Bonnet, Altice Labs, Technical Manager) 11h30 – 11h40: SONATA SDK. How to prepare a NS and a test package. (M. Peuster, University of Paderborn) 11h40 – 11h50: SONATA Service Platform installation and operations (quick guide). (R. Vilalta, CTTC) 11h50 – 11h55: SONATA Validation & Verification installation and operations (quick guide). (R. Vilalta, CTTC) 11h55 – 12h00: Q&A |
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5G Techritory 2019 – One of the world’s leading 5G events |
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| Riga, Latvia – November 27-29, 2019
The Forum is an invitation-only event with up to 1000 industry senior-level participants, including more than 70 speakers from Europe, Asia, and the USA. It is organised by the Electronic Communication Office of Latvia and supported by a number of industry-leading organisations and companies, including 5G IA. In 2018, the Forum initiated a new and globally unique 5G platform for cross-border, cross-level, and cross-sectoral cooperation for the development of a sustainable 5G ecosystem in the vibrant ICT and innovation-rich Baltic Sea Region, made of 9 countries that together have more than 150 million inhabitants. Now this region is ready to stake its claim for 5G leadership and to set up the 5G agenda for 2020 and beyond. The main objective of the Forum is to team up for coordinated action to continue the development of the above-mentioned platform in order to establish the Baltic Sea Region as a role model for building the European Gigabit society. The main Forum will take place from November 28-29 with more than 5 value-adding official side events (the first-ever 5G policymakers’ hackathon, a 5G key stakeholders’ roundtable, the “Meet the 5G Technology” expo, etc.) involving some of the main global and regional 5G stakeholders. The Forum will include high-level business and political debates, and practical business case studies by top-level 5G policymakers, heads of major industry organisations, business leaders, and other high-value stakeholders on the latest progress in 5G global commercialization, its related innovative business models, and potential 5G cross-border projects. A focus will be placed on smart mobility, smart city, smart media and entertainment, and Industry 4.0 verticals. Watch the video here to get a flavor of what is in store for you at 5G Techritory.
Are you interested in participating? If you are interested in participating in the event, please register via this unique link here at your earliest convenience for complimentary access. Due to a limited number of seats, registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. It is possible to extend this invitation to your cooperation partners – the leading stakeholders within the 5G ecosystem. More details about the Forum, including the preliminary agenda, profiles of confirmed speakers, special prices on flights and accommodation are available on http://www.5gtechritory.com. |
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5G-DRIVE workshop on V2X |
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| Tampere, Finland – December 17, 2019
The half-day workshop takes the opportunity of and co-locates with ITS Factory 2nd Development Forum to meet and share ideas with key stakeholders that come from a nice mixture of industry and research background, with a focus on engaging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The workshop itself is composed of two major parts of interaction with our audience:
Register and get more information on the event page of the 5G-Drive website. |
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MWC Barcelona 2020 |
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| Barcelona, Spain – February 24-27, 2020
The event will bring major opportunities for 5G PPP projects. Additional information on 5G PPP presence will come soon |
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EuCNC 2020 |
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| Dubrovnik, Croatia – June 15-18, 2020
5G PPP projects will participate in the event which will bring significant opportunities. Additional information on 5G PPP presence will come soon. |
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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the series FOKUS FUSECO Forum. Tutorials, workshops, live demos, a conference, and discussions with leading operators, manufacturers, integrators as well as various industry verticals will make the most of 5G: 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.
The 2nd 5G City Hackathon will take place in Lucca, Italy on 21-22 November 2019.
The release 5.0 of SONATA NFV platform will be introduced in a webinar scheduled on November 22. The release is used in three exemplary 5G pilots in the sectors of smart manufacturing, immersive media, and real-time communications, showing the added value of SDN/NFV. At the webinar, novel features, as well as a hand-on quickstart guide, will be provided.
5G Techritory, the 2nd annual Baltic Sea Region 5G Ecosystem Forum
The next MWC Barcelona (formerly Mobile World Congress) is scheduled from February 24 to 27, 2020.The editor of the 5G PPP newsflash on behalf of the Full-5G Project is: Carole Manero, IDATE DigiWorld, CS94167 – 34092 Montpellier cedex 5, France. This document reflects only the views of its authors.
