The first Sino-Europe 5G Technical Workshop co-organized by 5G NORMA and METIS-II took place on November 5th, 2015

The 1st Sino-Europe 5G Technical Workshop took place on November 5th, 2015 in Beijing, hosted by the FuTURE FORUM 5G SIG and co-organized by 5G NORMA and METIS-II. The event has attracted a large number of participants. 5G NORMA innovations, reference architecture and scenarios definition for the validation of the architecture design have been presented and discussed. METIS-II has presented recent results on the RAN design and on the performance evaluation scenarios and models. Xhaul has also presented the definition of the fronthaul/backhaul integrated architecture. The 5G PPP session has been closed with a panel. The FuTURE FORUM 5G SIG has contributed to the discussion with recent results on ultra dense network, full duplex, mMIMO and high frequency; as well as the 5G activities in the Chinese nationally funded projects.

The event continued on November 6th and 7th with the 2015 Future 5G ICT Summit where the version 2.0 of the White Paper from the FuTURE FORUM 5G SIG has been launched and where METIS II and 5G NORMA projects have been presenting the ongoing research work.

Contacts:

Simone Redana, 5G NORMA, Nokia, simone.redana@nokia.com

Markus Breitbach, 5G NORMA, Deutsche Telekom, m.breitbach@telekom.de

Olav Queseth, METIS-II, Ericsson, olav.queseth@Ericsson.com

Patrick Marsch, METIS-II, Nokia, patrick.marsch@nokia.com

Links:

5G PPP: https://5g-ppp.eu/

5G-NORMA: https://5gnorma.5g-ppp.eu/

METIS-II: https://metis-ii.5g-ppp.eu