6G IA

3rd International 5G RAN design workshop @ICC 2017 (25 May 2017, Paris)
2017-05-25
While 5G research has already started some years ago, with large collaboration projects such as METIS initially paving the ground by aligning views on key use cases and requirements, and by identifying and researching key technology components for 5G, there is still a long way to go before the successful roll-out of commercial 5G deployments. In particular, there is still the need to find consensus on key design aspects in 5G, as for instance how tightly novel air interfaces variants in 5G will be integrated with each other and with legacy technology, and to which extent functionality on different protocol stack layers can be harmonized for all bands, services and cell types. The 5G PPP projects METIS-II, FANTASTIC-5G, mmMAGIC, 5G-CROSSHAUL and Flex5Gware all have the aim to take the 5G design one step further in level of detail, find consensus on key design aspects such as mentioned above, and prepare a smooth start of 3GPP study items in 2016 and work items in 2017.
The workshop, which is jointly organized by METIS-II, FANTASTIC-5G, mmMAGIC, 5G-CROSSHAUL and Flex5GWare, will build upon its successful predecessors, focus on the 5G RAN design and provide the opportunity to share and discuss final results from the mentioned projects or other 5G research activities. The workshop is col-located with IEEE ICC 2017 (21-25 May 2017). The workshop organizers solicit original, unpublished technical papers in particular in the following fields:

5G physical layer and hardware implementation concepts, e.g.

waveforms, synchronization, numerology, unified frame structure concepts
effect of hardware impairments on the PHY design, means for ultra low-latency and ultra high-reliability, native support of D2D V2X and multi-cast
low-complexity massive MIMO solutions and enablers, solutions for contention-based acces (TDD/FDD, pilot contamination, antenna correlations etc)

MAC, RLC, PDCP and RRC concepts, in particular related to a an efficient integration of multiple novel 5G air interfaces among each other, and with evolved legacy technology. Examples:

Novel resource management concepts for a wider range of service and QoS requirements and novel communication forms such as D2D, or spectrum sharing (LSA, ASA
Novel initial access and mobility concepts, in particular in the context of the integration and co-location of multiple novel and legacy air interface in 5G
Novel multi-connectivity approaches and related enablers

Backhaul/fronthaul design and capabilities for multi-tier ultradense heterogeneous small cell networks

Joint design and optimization of radio access and backhaul/fronthaul networks
Optimized backhaul/ fronthaul integration (wireline or wireless) and control
Backhauling and fronthauling options for a split control and data plane

RAN Architecture concepts associated to the overall control plane and user plane design such as:

E2E Network slicing, in particular its impact to the RAN
Novel 5G RAN Interfaces, CN/RAN interface, functional placement
Concepts associated to the impact of SDN/NFV to the 5G RAN design

Energy efficiency assessment of the 5G RAN
Business models and techno-economic assessment

Important dates:
Paper Submission: 2 December 2016
Notification Date: 17 February 2017
Final Paper: 10 March 2017
Organising Committee
General Chair: Dr. Patrick Marsch, Nokia Bell Labs Poland, patrick.marsch(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)nokia.com
Program chairs:
Dr. Olav Queseth, Ericsson, olav.queseth(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)ericsson.com
Dr. Frank Schaich, Nokia Bell Labs, frank.schaich(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)nokia.com
Dr. Gerhard Wunder, Heinrich Hertz Institute, gerhard.wunder(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)hhi.fraunhofer.de
TkL. Miurel Tercero, Ericsson, miurel.i.tercero(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)ericsson.com
Mr. Krystian Safjan, Nokia Bell Labs, krystian.safjan(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)nokia.com
Dr. Xavier Costa Perez, NEC Labs Europe, xavier.costa(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)neclab.eu
Dr. Fabio Cavaliere, Ericsson, fabio.cavaliere(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)ericsson.com
Michael Färber, Intel Deutschland, michael.faerber(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)intel.com
Dr. Miquel Payaró, CTTC, miquel.payaro(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)cttc.es
About IEEE ICC 2017
IEEE ICC 2017 will exhibit an exciting technical program, complete with 13 Symposia highlighting recent progress in all major areas of communications. IEEE ICC 2017 will also feature high-quality Tutorials and Workshops, Industry Panels and Exhibitions, as well as Keynotes from prominent research and industry leaders.

5G NORMA @4th International Workshop on 5G Architecture, Paris, 25 May 2017
2017-05-25 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
5G NORMA is organising the 4th International Workshop on 5G Architecture to be held in Paris on 25 May 2017 alongside with the IEEE ICC 2017.
It is essential to introduce a 5G End-to-End Architecture that allows for a cost- and time-efficient introduction of 5G, that integrates a variety of novel technologies rolled out in various stages, and that is sufficiently flexible to accommodate applications and services that are yet to be envisioned. For example, to allow 5G to support low latency, it is not sufficient to design a low latency RAN, since latency is an end-to-end factor and hence requires the joint design of RAN, Core and Transport Networks. Hence, the new E2E Architecture will have to be programmable, software driven and managed holistically to enable a diverse services in a profitable way. This requires novel ways of designing the mobile network architecture (radio access, core and transport network), operating the network, and offering interfaces. A number of topics will be considered and should be the center focus of a paper:

Flexible RAN architectures and C-RAN
Functional split and function placement
Multi-service architectures
5G wireless technologies
Cloud-based 5G mobile architectures
Network Function Virtualization
Multi-tenancy architectures
Joint computation/communication architecture/algorithms
Applications to vertical industries, e.g., Industrial IOT, V2X
Resilience and Security
Convergence of RAN and Core Network
SDN for radio access
Novel mobility management
Edge computing
Network Slicing, in particular RAN Slicing
Multi-Connectivity/RAT

Organising committee:
General Chair: Dr Peter Rost, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany
Program chairs: Dr. Albert Banchs, IMDEA Networks Spain – Prof. Alexandros Kaloxylos, Huawei, Germany – Prof. Matthew C. Valenti, West Virginia University, USA
Important Dates:
Paper Submission: initially 18 November 2016, extended to 18 December 2016
Notification Date: 17 February 2017
Final Paper: 10 March 2017

5GEx Workshop on "Multi-Provider NFV: Towards Coopetive Service Ecosystem - The 5G Exchange Approach" @Network Virtualisation Europe
2017-05-31 14:40 - 17:00
The 5GEx project is organizing a half-day workshop on “Multi-Provider NFV: Towards Coopetive Service Ecosystem – The 5G Exchange Approach”, in collaboration and co-located with the Network Virtualization Europe 2017 event (Meliá Avenida América, Madrid, Spain – May 31st, 2017)
The workshop aims to present the advances towards the orchestration of NFV-based services for multi-provider environments. The proposed picture will come from operators and industrial actors, sharing experiences, faced challenges and forward-looking visions, including the progress of the 5GEx project. The workshop will be structured in three main blocks, covering (1) needs and motivation, (2) technologies and solutions, and (3) evolution towards the new ecosystem. The presentations will be complemented by some demonstrations of prototypes for multi-domain orchestration.
The full agenda of the event is available at https://tmt.knect365.com/virtualization-sdn-europe/agenda/3.
Participation to the workshop is free. Nevertheless we kindly encourage all interested people to register for the workshop, by sending an email to 5GEx-Contact(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)5g-ppp.eu.
Please feel free to forward this invitation to your contacts. Looking forward to see you in Madrid.
