6G IA

5G Forum USA
2015-04-14 - 2015-04-15
The LTE World Series is delighted to launch their first solo 5G Forum USA, taking place 14-15th April 2015 in Palo Alto, which will bring together senior executives & key decision makers from the full 5G ecosystem to discuss the future of the 5G network.
The 5G PPP Chairman Dr Werner Mohr will participate and give a vision on 5G.

Celtic-Plus Event 2015
2015-04-27 - 2015-04-28
The Celtic-Plus Event 2015 will be organised on 27-28 April 2015 in Vienna. The event is co-located with the Software Days 2015 and will be hosted by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG together with the Austrian Chamber of Commerce and the Vienna Business Agency.
Use the opportunity to network with proposers and experts.
The event will include a comprehensive matchmaking possibility and facility, where you can meet other experts from the ICT community to discuss emerging R&D needs and proposals for related collaborative projects. The matchmaking part is an extraordinary opportunity for participants to present their companies and expertise, to offer project ideas for collaboration and to find partners. The meetings will be organized upfront, supervised and the meeting places will be provided. Celtic-Plus invites the participants to submit their proposals at the next upcoming Celtic-Plus Call.

2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference
2015-05-11 - 2015-05-14
The 2015 IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference will be held 11–14 May 2015 at the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow, Scotland. This semi-annual flagship conference of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society will bring together individuals from academia, government, and industry to discuss and exchange ideals in the fields of wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, and technical as well as application sessions.

International Microwave Symposium
2015-05-17 - 2015-05-22
The IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society’s 2015 International Microwave Symposium (IMS2015) will be held 17 – 22 May 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona as the centerpiece of Microwave Week 2015. IMS2015 offers technical sessions, interactive forums, plenary and panel sessions, workshops, short courses, industrial exhibits, application seminars, historical exhibits, and a wide variety of other technical and social activities including a guest program. As usual, the Microwave Week 2015 technical program also includes the RFIC symposium and the ARFTG conference. Unique to Microwave Week 2015, a High School Science and Engineering Invitational will be held this year.
Apostolos Georgiadis from CTTC is co-organizer of the focus session “Ambient RF energy harvesting and transfer”.

2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
2015-06-08 - 2015-06-12
The IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) will be held in London, UK from 8-12 June 2015. Themed “Smart City & Smart World,” with its proximity to London’s Tech City, the fastest growing technology cluster in Europe, this flagship conference of IEEE Communications Society will feature a comprehensive technical program including twelve Symposia and a number of Tutorials and Workshops. IEEE ICC 2015 will also include an exceptional Industry Forum & Exhibition program including business panels and keynote speakers. We invite you to submit your original technical papers, and industry forum, workshop, and tutorial proposals to this event. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE ICC 2015 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®.

EUCNC 2015
2015-06-29 - 2015-07-02
EuCNC’2015 is the 24th edition of a successful series of a technical and scientific conference open to the world research community, sponsored by the European Commission, in the area of Telecommunications, focusing on communication networks and systems, and reaching services and applications. It aims at showcasing the results of the consecutive programmes on R&D and projects co-financed by European programmes, as well as presenting the latest developments in this area. The conference has a not for profit organisation, hence, registration fees are as low as possible, and all surplus will be made available in grants. The conference will be indexed in the major databases. Best Paper Awards will be granted. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the EuCNC’2015 Conference Proceedings and submitted to other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

19th ITU Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) meeting
2015-07-15 - 2015-07-16
ITU will be hosting the 19th Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) meeting on 15-16 July 2015 at its Headquarters in Geneva.
On 14 July (late afternoon) there will be a preparation meeting for Heads of Delegation (HOD).​
GSC-19 will focus on the following strategic topics:

IoT (includes M2M, smart cities, smart cars)
IMT-2020/5G (covers spectrum topics and network architecture, also Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV))
Critical communications and public safety

WISTP 2015
2015-08-24 - 2015-08-25
Future ICT technologies, such as 5G networks, Cyber-physical Systems, and Internet of Things provide a vision of the Information Society in which: a) people and physical systems are surrounded with intelligent interactive interfaces and objects, and b) environments are capable of recognising and reacting to the presence of different individuals or events in a seamless, unobtrusive, and invisible manner. The success of future ICT technologies will depend on how secure these systems are and to what extent they protect the privacy of individuals.
In 2007, Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practice (WISTP) was created as a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners in related areas and to encourage interchange and cooperation between the research community and the industrial/consumer community. Based on the growing interest of the participants, 2015 edition is becoming a conference – The 9th WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice (WISTP’2015). WISTP 2015 is hosted by the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and technology-Hellas (FORTH-ICS), Greece, and it is sponsored by 5G-PPP VirtuWind project, Huawei and Intel.

TRUST 2015 - 8th International Conference on Trust & Trustworthy Computing
2015-08-24 - 2015-08-26
TRUST 2015 is an international conference on the technical and socio-economic aspects of trustworthy networking and computing infrastructures. It provides an excellent interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and decision makers to explore new ideas and discuss experiences in building, designing, using and understanding trustworthy networking and computing systems.
Building on the success of TRUST 2014 (held in Heraklion GR) TRUST 2013 (held in London, UK), TRUST 2012 (held in Vienna, Austria), TRUST 2011 (held in Pittsburgh, USA) and TRUST 2010 (held in Berlin, Germany) TRUST 2009 (held in Oxford, UK), this conference focuses on trusted and trustworthy computing, both from the technical and social perspectives. TRUST 2015 is hosted by the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and technology-Hellas (FORTH-ICS), Greece, and it is sponsored by 5G-PPP VirtuWind project, OPTET project, Intel, Huawei and Universta Delgi Studi Di Padova.

IEEE PIMRC 2015
2015-08-30 - 2015-09-02
IEEE 26th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, Mobile and Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2015

2015 IEEE 82nd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2015-Fall
2015-09-06 - 2015-09-09
The 2015 IEEE 82nd Vehicular Technology Conference will be held 6–9 September 2015 at the The Westin Boston Waterfront, in Boston, USA. This semi-annual flagship conference of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society will bring together individuals from academia, government, and industry to discuss and exchange ideals in the fields of wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, and technical as well as application sessions.

International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)
2015-09-07 - 2015-09-09
The International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) provides a forum for discussion of recent developments on analytical and simulation tools and techniques for the performance evaluation of communications systems. IEEE CAMAD 2015 will be held between 7-9 September, 2015, at University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK, including a general track and a series of special sessions.
We would like to invite prospective authors to submit papers to the Special Session on Duplexing Techniques for 5G Networks, which focuses on (but not limited to) the following topics: FD networks, performance analysis of FD networks, FD relaying, FD transceiver design, MIMO FD design, self-interference cancellation techniques, cognitive FD networks, FD MAC protocols, dynamic spectrum allocation, dynamic spectrum sharing, dynamic TDD.
Submitted papers should be of not more than five IEEE style pages. Papers should be submitted via EDAS. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings and IEEE digital library. The submission deadline is May 15th, 2015.

Session Chairs
Hirley Alves, Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, Finland.
Richard Demo Souza, Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil.

EU project METIS-II hosts workshop on 5G system with 5G PPP projects
2015-09-28 10:00 - 2015-09-29 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
METIS-II is arranging the 5G-PPP Cross-project Workshop on Scenarios, Requirements, Performance Evaluation, Spectrum and RAN Design Assumptions

Key purpose
Early alignment among 5G-PPP projects in the wireless strand on key assumptions and models related to the 5G RAN design, in particular focusing on

Scenarios, requirements, test cases
Spectrum assumptions
Common scenarios and models for performance evaluation of 5G RAN concepts
Basic RAN design considerations
Visualization of 5G RAN concepts

The workshop is pre-structured according to the particular needs of the METIS-II project, but the organizers are open to any proposals from the participating projects to adjust the structure, for instance to accommodate needs from other projects. In general, all participating projects are highly encouraged to share their viewpoints in the form of presentations on the topics above, or other topics of interest.
In advance to the workshop, the following reports will be shared by the METIS-II project:

R 1.1 “Preliminary refined scenarios and requirements, and consolidated test cases”
R 2.1 “RAN design guideline and methodology”
R 2.2 “Preliminary performance evaluation framework”
R 3.1 “Prel. spectrum scen. and justification for WRC Agenda Item for 5G bands above 6 GHz”
R 7.1 “Preliminary 5G visualisation considerations”

The discussion in the workshop will be used to refine and enhance these reports towards later public deliverables disseminated from METIS-II.
Who should join
Project leaders, technical managers and/or selected technical experts from projects in the 5G-PPP wireless strand. As a guidance, about 2 – max. 5 persons should join on behalf of each project. The workshop may make use of parallel tracks, depending on the need and number of delegates per project.

Registration
Please register here
Agenda and schedule
Preliminary schedule is available here: 5GPPP_WirelessStrandWorkshop

Spectrum crunch below 6GHz? 5G research trends in Europe
2015-10-01 11:30 - 12:30
Spectrum crunch below 6GHz? 5G trends
Moderator: Dr. Dominique Noguet, CEA-LETI, France
5G is expected to address a 1000x capacity compared to today’s networks, whereas available spectrum resource will, by far, not grow in the same proportion, enabling only a few new portions or frequency bands. In particular, spectrum below 6GHz will be under pressure as the most demanded one. New technologies will have to be researched and tested in order to exploit this scarce and already crowded spectrum. Solutions range from radio and network technologies to new regulation policies or regimes. Besides, the convergence of cellular systems with the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine communications will require a new technology bundle in order to enable a flexible service delivery over flexible networks to optimize spectrum usage and power consumption. The European 5G Public Private Partnership (5GPPP) projects will tackle these challenges from various angles. In this panel, key experts from recently approved 5GPPP projects will present and debate their approaches.
The panel will be composed as follows: Oscar Carrasco (SISTELBANDA), representing SPEED-5G Marja Matimikko (VTT), representing COHERET Gerhard Wunder (FhG), representing FANTASTIC-5G Du Ho Kang (ERICSSON), representing METIS II

— Priv.-Doz. Dr.-Ing. habil. Gerhard Wunder, Privatdozent TU Berlin
Coordinator 5GNOW (www.5gnow.eu, EU 5G – ‘Beyond LTE-A’ Project)
Coordinator PROPHYLAXE (www.ict-prophylaxe.de, BMBF Security Project) PMT FANTASTIC-5G (www.fantastic5g.eu, ‘The’ European 5G New Air Interface Project)
Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institut Einsteinufer 37, D-10587 Berlin/Germany Mobile: +49 151 61530882, Office: +49 30 31002 872
Web: https://www.commit.tu-berlin.de/menue/mitarbeiter/pd_dr-ing_habil_gerhard_wunder/

WWRF 5G Huddle
2015-10-13 - 2015-10-14
Theme of the Huddle 2015 : Delivering a Sustainable 5G EcosystemS

Workshop on 5G Channel Measurement and Modeling
WWRF, China Mobile and BUPT are jointly organizing a “Workshop on 5G Channel Measurement and Modeling” which will be in conjunction with IEEE PIMRC 2015, August 30th, 2015, Hong Kong, China. This workshop will focus on 5G channel measurement and modeling, including framework of 5G channel model, channel measurement campaign, channel parameter extracting and modeling, measurement data application, and measurement equipment development, etc. This workshop is organized to provide a platform to share and present the latest views and development on 5G channel measurement and modeling issues across the world.

FANTASTIC-5G TALK and PANEL "5G Multi-Service Air Interface (
2015-10-13 - 2015-10-15
5G is mainly about two ambitions: To find a response to the strong growth of requested data rates (evolutionary effect) and to enhance the business model of operators by widening the pool of services (revolutionary target). Therefore, main objective of FANTASTIC-5G is to develop a flexible and scalable multi-service air interface (ambition 2) with ubiquitous coverage and high capacity (ambition 1) where and when needed. The new air interface is targeted to be highly efficient in terms of energy and resource consumption as well as to be future proof, allowing sustainable delivery of wireless services far beyond 2020.
Venue détails
This meeting is open for NGMN Partners only.
The NGMN Forum meeting is hosted by Bell Mobility, Montreal („Gold Room“)
The Fantastic-5G talk is scheduled for the first slot 9-9:15am on Oct. 14th
Related Twitter channels / hashtags:
https://twitter.com/fantastic5g; #5gppp, #5G

5G-NORMA talk and panel "5G NORMA: A NOvel Radio Multiservice adaptive network Architecture for the 5G era based on Network Slicing" in NGMN Forum, Innovation Session, Montreal (CA) on Oct.13/14
2015-10-13 - 2015-10-15
The NGMN 5G White Paper is demanding 5G to improve the performance of mobile networks as well as to provide greater flexibility and better support to new business and partnership models. Efficient support of new business models requires this flexibility along the whole end-to-end communication path. As key technology to achieve this high flexibility, the NGMN 5G White Paper promotes Network Slicing: Network slices are mutually isolated, dedicated networks providing customer-specific functionality. 5G NORMA is going to propose an E2E Architecture based on network slicing. It will develop a highly flexible network architecture that adapts the use of the network resources to service requirements and network topology. The presentation will explain 5G NORMA’s innovative functionalities and the key enablers behind that.
Venue details
This meeting is open for NGMN Partners only.
The NGMN Forum takes place at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Montreal (1228 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1H6, Canada)
The presentation will be given by Klaus Martiny on Oct. 14th from 10:00-10:15am; the panel discussion will be from 10:30-10:50am.
Related Twitter channels / hashtags:
https://twitter.com/fantastic5g; #5gppp, #5G

ICT 2015 Innovate, Connect, Transform
2015-10-20 - 2015-10-22
The European Commission and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia will organise: ICT 2015 – Innovate, Connect, Transform

ICT2015 5GPPP Booth XHAUL demo
2015-10-20 11:00 - 2015-10-22 16:30
ICT2015 (Innovate, Connect, Transform) is an event organized by European Commission together with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) that will comprise a number of parallel activities: a policy conference presenting the new Commission’s policies and initiatives on Research & Innovation in ICT (Horizon 2020 Programme); an interactive exhibition showcasing the best results and impact of most recent EU ICT Research & Innovation; many networking opportunities to enhance quality partnerships, help participants find partners, connect Research and Innovation and trigger collaboration; Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 thematic sessions, offering detailed information on the funding opportunities in ICT sector; the Startup Europe Forum, offering a set of activities profiling EU policy actions for startups and SMEs, innovators, private and public investors.
Détails on Event :
XHAUL project will be present at the 5G PPP booth alongside METIS II, 5G-NORMA and FANTASTIC5G, to show a demo on the control plane for 5G transport networks. In the demo, a multi-domain multi-technology (optical and wireless) infrastructure will be emulated. However, the control of this infrastructure will be through an actual/real control plane software. So, you can see the message flows for setting up end-to-end paths in a simple way through the underlying multi-domain multi-technology infrastructure.
Related Twitter channels / hashtags / LinkledIn:
https://twitter.com/Xhaul_eu; #5gppp; #ICT2015;
https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=8344554

ICT2015 5G PPP Booth METIS-II demo
2015-10-20 11:00 - 2015-10-22 16:30
ICT2015 (Innovate, Connect, Transform) is an event organized by European Commission together with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) that will comprise a number of parallel activities: a policy conference presenting the new Commission’s policies and initiatives on Research & Innovation in ICT (Horizon 2020 Programme); an interactive exhibition showcasing the best results and impact of most recent EU ICT Research & Innovation; many networking opportunities to enhance quality partnerships, help participants find partners, connect Research and Innovation and trigger collaboration; Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 thematic sessions, offering detailed information on the funding opportunities in ICT sector; the Startup Europe Forum, offering a set of activities profiling EU policy actions for startups and SMEs, innovators, private and public investors.
Key purpose
METIS-II will be at the 5G PPP booth together with projects 5G NORMA, FANTASTIC-5G and XHAUL and will show a preliminary version of the METIS-II Visualization platform that will be used throughout the project to illustrate important concepts and solutions as well as provide an open environment for other projects to collaborate on 5G simulations.
Related Twitter channels / hashtags / Facebook:
https://twitter.com/metis2020; #5gppp; #ICT2015; @DigitalAgenda.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/701253670004327/

ICT2015 5G PPP Booth 5G NORMA demo
2015-10-20 11:00 - 2015-10-22 16:30
ICT2015 (Innovate, Connect, Transform) is an event organized by European Commission together with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal) that will comprise a number of parallel activities: a policy conference presenting the new Commission’s policies and initiatives on Research & Innovation in ICT (Horizon 2020 Programme); an interactive exhibition showcasing the best results and impact of most recent EU ICT Research & Innovation; many networking opportunities to enhance quality partnerships, help participants find partners, connect Research and Innovation and trigger collaboration; Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017 thematic sessions, offering detailed information on the funding opportunities in ICT sector; the Startup Europe Forum, offering a set of activities profiling EU policy actions for startups and SMEs, innovators, private and public investors.
Key purpose
5G-NORMA will be present at the 5G PPP booth alongside METIS II, XHAUL and FANTASTIC5G. 5G NORMA develops a novel, adaptable and future-proof 5G mobile network architecture. This architecture will be validated by demos showing (1) its capability to support natively multiple services on a shared network and (2) Software Defined Mobile network Control (SDMC) which applies the SDN principles to mobile network specific functions. At ICT 2015, a preliminary version of the demo concept will be presented, which will consist on network emulations with 3D visualizations, real-world prototypes for 5G-base stations and emulation of the cloud infrastructure that will support the 5G network deployment.
Related Twitter channels / hashtags:
https://twitter.com/5G_NORMA

Towards a 5G Connected World: A Security Insight, ICT2015 Networking session, Lisbon, 20/10/2015, Room 12, 16:50-17:35
2015-10-20 17:50 - 18:35
A session covering the security aspects of 5G will be organized as part of the Networking Sessions of ICT 2015. The session goes under the title: “Towards a 5G Connected World: A Security Insight” and will take place in Room 12 on Tuesday 20/20/2015 from 16:50 to 17:35.
The session aims to provide an open forum for discussion about how security should be considered with upcoming 5G systems, networks and components. The ubiquity of 5G network thrives the need for secured environments that will provide users a safe, fast and reliable connectivity underpinning the future generation of application and services.
The session will pave the way towards open security considerations in the initial core 5G design such as multi-operator isolation, privacy preservation between virtual tenants, trust requirements and management in heterogeneous environments and low-latency security constraints at the physical level in 5G systems.
Expected outcome:

Identification of the major security requirements and concerns around future 5G systems from different perspectives.
Open discussion about the security challenges and aspects of future 5G networks.
Security as a driver towards the future 5G-connected digital society

Format/Participants:
The session is divided into three major blocks:

Five lighting talks (5 minutes each) will be carried out by five different experts:
Dr. Ioannis Neokosmidis (INCITES Consulting, Luxemburg)
Dr. Dimitris Kanakidis (Exus, Greece)
Dr. Haitham S. Cruickshank, (Institute for Communication Systems – ICS, University of Surrey, UK)
Jordi Ferrer Riera (i2CAT Foundation, Spain)
Dr. Emmanouil Kafetzakis (Orion Innovations, Greece)
Open panel discussion between experts in the panel, the public and interactive participant who can join the discussion using the hashtags #5GSecurity #ict2015 (15 min).
Conclusion and closure from Eduard Escalona (i2CAT, Spain) project manager of the CHARISMA project (5min).

Related Twitter channels / hashtags: #5gppp; #5GSecurity; #ict2015.
