Newsletter 15

Phase 3 launched

-21 new 5G PPP Phase 2 Projects were added in 2017: 5G Essence, 5GCAR, 5G City, 5G MEDIA, 5G MONARCH, 5G PHOS, 5G PICTURE, 5G tango, 5G TRANSFORMER, 5G-XCAST, BlueSPACE, IoRL, MATILDA, Metro XHaul, NG Paas, NRG5, ONE5G, SAT5G,   SLICENET, Global5G and To-Euro-5G.

-5G EVE, 5G-VINNI and 5Genesis are the three Part 1. 5G PPP Phase 3 infrastructure projects launched in July 2018: . 5G CroCo, 5G CARMEN and 5G MOBIX are the three Part 2. Phase 3 automotive projects which started in November 2018. The call for projects focusing Advanced 5G validation trials across multiple vertical industries under this Part 3. Phase 3 closed on 14 November 2018.

5G DRIVE is a complimentary project as 5G PPP Phase 3 Part 4.

Overall, 47 projets are part of the 5G PPP initiative. More to come.

5G PPP trials roadmaps

Two 5G PPP trials roadmaps were released in 2018 and two in 2017.  The Roadmap Version 3.0 was successfully presented at the 5th Global 5G Event in Austin (16-17 May, 2018). It addressed the latest up-dates of the Roadmap strategy, 5G Private Trials, 5G Vertical Pilots, 5G Pan-EU Flagship event 5G for UEFA EURO 2020 and 5G Trials Cities. The Roadmap Version 4.0 was released in November 2018. It highlights the key EU cities that are targeted for 5G early deployments, already engaged in 5G pre-commercial/commercial trials and pilots, engaged in 5G R&I trials and pilots and also making available 5G R&I platforms. A description of the major EU cities engaged in the 5G UEFA EURO 2020 Flagship event is also provided.

The comprehensive Trials Roadmap document version 2.0 was released before the 4th 5G Global Event organized on 22-24 November, 2017 in Seoul, South Korea. 

Key partnerships

In the field of verticals, 5G IA signed cooperation agreements with four organisations.

5G IA signed a cooperation agreement in May 2018 with Public Safety Communication Europe (PSCE), in view of ensuring that 5G wil bring the necessary developments to the security and safety communications for improving the activities of the PPDR community.

In October 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) and 5G IA signalled their intent to work together and signed a letter of Intent, to enable new and innovative 5G solutions and services in support of European industry and the 5G vertical markets and to further strengthen the ties between the space sector and the 5G IA, with its broad membership from the terrestrial and satellite industries, SMEs and Academia.

The European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) and 5G IA co-signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of enhancing future cooperation in the field of cyber security and 5G communication networks in December 2018. View the official Press Release here!

Also in December 2018, 5G IA and Alliance of Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) signed a ground-breaking memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the ICT-2018 conference in Vienna. The partnership will set the scene for exploring the opportunities for new combinations of IoT applications built on world-class digital infrastructures. View the official Press Release here!

5G Global Events & European 5G Annual Journal

-The fifth Global 5G Event, “5G New Horizons Wireless Symposium” organised by 5G Americas, was held in Austin, USA in May 2018. The 5G IA/5G PPP was strongly represented by nine speakers and moderators presenting at an extensive set of panels on topics such as spectrum and regulations, regional visions, trials and network architecture.

-The sixth Global 5G Event, “5G Technology Changing Paradigms of a New Society” was hosted by 5G Brasil in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in November 2018. For the first time, the Global 5G Event was held in Latin America. The presentations involved around 50 experts.

The Fourth edition of Global 5G Events, organised by the 5G Forum on “5G accelerating the 4th industrial Revolution” took place in Seoul, South Korea, in November 2017. It included an impressive set of demos at SKT and LGU+ and at the KT 5G 5G Field trial site in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018 avenue.

The Third issue of the European 5G Annual Journals was released in June 2018. You can download it here.

Europe is entering into a critical phase in the global race to 5G and so is the 5G PPP. In that respect, this third edition aims to present how 5G PPP Phase II master 5G technologies and look into their application with relevant users in particular  vertical industries.

The Second issue was released in September 2017. It can be downloaded here.  The aim of this second edition was to present an analysis of the 5G ecosystem evolution over the past year. It presented the achievements of 5G PPP phase 1 projects almost two years after their launch.

5G stories

In the USA, Verizon and AT&T launched limited service with two different paths to 5G. The Verizon 5G Fixed Wireless Access service was launched on October 1st, 2018 in limited areas of four US cities. It is charged at 50 USD for a Verizon customer and at 70 USD/month for a new customer. Verizon 5G service is not using 3GPP official standards but the 5G TF, a proprietary norm. Youtube is offered for free for the first three months. An Apple TV 4K HR or a Google Chromecast Ultra are free. There is no data caps. AT&T launched its mobile hotspot 5G service on December 21st, 2018. It is available only for “early adopters” in limited areas of twelve US cities. More cities will be covered in 2019. The service is free for the first three months and will be charged at 70 USD/month after. 15 GB of data is included.

In Europe, Elisa in Finland and Estonia, achieved a 5G phone call between Ministers in the two capital cities in June 2018. A speed of 2.2 Gbps was reached.

Outside the US and Europe, Ooredoo Qatar announced it launched a 5G Fixed Wireless service in May 2018…as it is wiating for 5G compatible devices, expected early 2019.

5G spectrum auctions

In Europe and all around the world 5G spectrum auctions are heating up. A number of mid-band frequency auctions were completed in 2018 (Italy, Finland, South Korea, Spain, UK) with discrepancies in prices. South Korea, Italy and the USA became the first countries to auction mmwave spectrum. Additional auctions are expected in 2019, including Austria, France, Germany and Belgium for 3.4-3.8 GHz frequencies and the USA for mmwave spectrum and spectrum above 35 GHz.

India EU Stakeholders’ workshop

Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI), The 5G Infrastructure Association (5G-IA), and Broadband India Forum (BIF) with support from the Delegation of the European Union to India and India-EU Cooperation Project on ICT-Related Standardisation, Policy and Legislation are jointly organising an “India EU Stakeholders’ Workshop on 5G Technology Landscape” on 5-6 February 2019 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi to bring together technology experts from the EU and India geographies to share their experiences and explore areas of mutual collaboration.

IoRL, 5GX-Cast, Sat5G, 5GMoNarch and NGPaaS will be present.

The workshop will cover topics from following areas:

• 5G Architecture and applications
• Status of standardization
• 5G Trials, Interoperability and Test Beds
• Rural 5G
• mmWave and VLC Building Network Architecture
• Cloud, Satellite and Broadcast viz. 5G

Register here.

5G Vertical User Workshop

This 5G Vertical Users Workshop aims to establish a collaborative event for strategic dialogue between industries and 3GPP by exchanging on future needs and upcoming standard developments. The workshop as a result, aims to produce a report shared directly to 3GPP Project Coordination Group (PCG) as a mean to stimulate and facilitate greater involvement of the 5G Vertical Users in the 3GPP process.

The workshop will be held in Brussels on 12th and 13th February, 2019 from 2pm to 4pm.

MWC’19

MWC19 carries “Intelligent Connectivity” as this year flagship topic. The 5G IA, together with selected 5G PPP projects, will be at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Results achieved by the projects and supporting the European efforts towards a successful deployment of 5G will be brought on stage. Please visit the 5G IA booth 7K17 in Hall 7.

CfP Workshop 5G Trials From 5G Experiments to Business Validation @IEEE ICC 2019

5G-DRIVE organises a workshop at IEEE ICC 2019 (Shanghai, China) on May 20-24, 2019.

This workshop aims at providing a venue for industry, operators, verticals and academics to disseminate new findings regarding 5G trials and new business developments.
The workshop accepts not only test results from trials, but also theoretical results based on realistic deployment schemes and new 5G business models. The workshop is organised by the 5G-DRIVE project.
The targeted topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: 5G trial development, 5G Spectrum, Verticals and new services, Measurement and evaluation, Network deployment and optimisation.

The targeted topics of the workshop are listed on the CfP page at https://icc-trial.5g-drive.eu/call-for-papers/. Read more here!

+++ Important dates +++
2 February 2019: Paper submission deadline
16 February 2019: Paper acceptance notification
16 March 2019: Camera ready submitted

CfP Workshops @IEEE WCNC – CLEEN 2019

WS on How cloudy and green will mobile network and services be?

5G-Transformer and 5G-Coral jointly organise the 7th workshop on Cloud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Networks@ CLEEN 2019 and call for papers.

This workshop explores novel concepts to allow for flexibly centralised radio access networks using cloud-processing based on open IT platforms, exploiting network virtualization and multi-access edge computing technologies that are recognized as key enablers for the definition of future 5G systems. This workshop will cover technologies across PHY, MAC, and network layers, technologies that extrapolate the cloud-paradigm to the radio access and backhaul network, and will analyse the network evolution from an energy efficiency perspective. It will study the requirements, constraints, and implications for mobile communication networks, and also potential relationship with the offered service, both from an academic and industrial point of view.

For more information on the Workshop read more here.

WS on Cloud Design

5G is expected to introduce disruptive use-cases thanks to its ultra-reliable, low-latency, high-speed connectivity such as remote healthcare, autonomous cars, advanced robotics, AR/VR, IoT… But this “golden digital age” will not become a reality with today’s bulky mobile networks Infrastructure-As-A-Service model and a more agile and powerful model directly inspired by web scale players “cloud-native” approach is required.

This model leverages Micro-Services Architecture (MSA) and is called the Platform-As-A-Service:

• Micro-service Architecture simplifies complex software systems by breaking them into sub-components distributed across computing servers. An application consists of independent services such as a 3GPP system made of Core, Access and Transport services combined to provide an end-to-end slice. MSA promises to make complex systems more easily operated and upgradable.
• Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) provides standardized “ancillary services” (scalability, high availability, state management, controllers, orchestrator…) to developers hiding all infrastructure. Freed developers can focus on their (VNF) applications and (VNS) services. PaaS promises to deliver VNF and VNS with better agility, performance and time-to-market.

An ideal 5G PaaS should not only facilitate building, shipping and running virtual network functions (VNF) with “telco-grade” quality, it should also combine those VNF with all sorts of third-party applications (from start-ups, FOSS, Verticals…) for creating new more versatile and powerful cloud objects breaking silos between connectivity and computing.

More information here.

WS on advanced 5G radio access network features and performance

5G-XCast and ONE 5G are co-organising a workshop on Advanced 5G radio access network features and performance at IEEE WCNC in Marrakech, Morocco (15-19 April 2019) and call for papers.

7th Global 5G Event/EuCNC 2019

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 (18-20 June 2019).

Contents will be added as the organization of the event progresses.