6G IA

Flex5Gware final event in Turin in June 2017 @ CLEEN 2017
2017-06-21 - 2017-06-22
Flex5Gware will organise its final event in June 2017 in Turin (Italy). There will also be two public events:

June 21st, 2017:

A full day event, with FREE registration, with key note speeches, few presentations from all organizing projects and EU representatives, and final panel discussion; demos will be available all the 2 days (especially during the breaks and the networking lunch)

June 22nd, 2017:

Half-day workshop, with research papers, key note presentations and final panel discussion. Presented papers will be published in IEEExplore thanks to technical co-sponsorship of IEEE ComSoc and collaboration with AEIT.

During all the 2-days, TIM is hosting a 5G POC ZONE, with all the demonstrations and some posters presentations from CLEEN2017 workshop.
Last but not the least, we organized also an official Banquet/Gala dinner in a prestigious location!!
Read more information at http://www.flex5gware.eu/finalevent/social-event and register online here by 5th June.
In case of attending only the first day (FREE registration), interested people can simply send an email to cleen2017(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)aeit.it.
Please consider that the number of places in TIM premises is limited, so registrations will be acquired on a first-come first-served basis!
Please feel free as well to forward this invitation to your contacts!

Flex5Gware @CLEEN 2017
2017-06-22 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Flex5Gware is organising the fifth International Workshop on Cloud technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communications Networks “How cloudy and green will mobile network and services be?” @CLEEN 2017 on 22 June 2017 in Turin, Italy.
This workshop explores novel concepts to allow for flexibly centralised radio access networks using cloud-processing based on open IT platforms, in coordination with network functions virtualization technologies and Mobile Edge Computing, that are recognized as key enablers for the definition of future 5G systems. The aim is to allow for a guaranteed high quality of experience for mobile access to cloud-processing resources and services, and to allow a future network evolution focused on energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness. In fact, all future innovative network solutions will be conceived and deployed with a long term perspective of sustainability, both in terms of energy consumption of mobile network (and related interoperability with terminals) and cost efficiency of the different deployment and management options. This requires new concepts for the design, operation, and optimization of radio access networks, backhaul networks, operation and management algorithms, and architectural elements, tightly integrating mobile networks and cloud-processing. This workshop will cover technologies across PHY, MAC, and network layers, technologies which translate the cloud-paradigm to the radio access and backhaul network, and will analyse the network evolution from the 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 the academic and the industrial point of view.
Flex5Gware solicits original submissions in the following areas:

Centralized / decentralized PHY and MAC processing
Flexible assignment of functionality in mobile networks
Joint operation and optimization of radio access and backhaul networks for cloud-based mobile networks
Integration of cloud-services into green heterogeneous wireless networks
Management of cloud-based/cloud-operated heterogeneous networks providing access to cloud-services
Energy efficiency vs. QoS vs cost-efficiency trade-offs
Architectural evolution of mobile networks
Mobile Edge Computing and related enablers (e.g. new interfaces, protocols, node-to-node communication, D2D communication, …)
Cost effective deployment strategies for evolved heterogeneous wireless network
Service and energy management aspects of cloud-based mobile networks
Storage and computation capability of small cells
Resource allocation techniques; interference analysis, avoidance, and mitigation for heterogeneous networks
Testbeds and performance evaluation for cloud-based mobile communication networks

Important dates

Paper Submission: April 14th, 2017
Acceptance Notification: May 12, 2017
Camera-Ready: June 1, 2017
Workshop: June 22, 2017

General chairs
Dario Sabella (TIM, Telecom Italia group, Italy)
Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA LETI, France)
TPC co-chairs
Miquel Payaró (CTTC, Spain)
Sergio Barbarossa (Univ. La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
Publicity chair
Valerio Palestini (TIM, Telecom Italia group, Italy)
Steering Committee
Michael Faerber (Intel Deutschland, Germany)
Maurizio Mayer (AICT, Italy)
Chuan Heng Foh (University of Surrey, IEEE ComSoc TCGCC, UK)
Antonio Manzalini (TIM, Telecom Italia group, Italy, IEEE SDN chair)
Jinsong Wu (Universidad de Chile, IEEE ComSoc TCGCC, Chile)
Technical Program Committee
Fredrik Tillman (Ericsson)
Dieter Ferling (Nokia)
Sylvie Mayrargue (CEA)
Tapio Rautio (VTT)
Pablo Serrano (UC3M)
Adlen Ksentini (Eurecom)
Fabio Giust (NEC Eurolabs)
Giovanni Stea (University of Pisa)
Konstantinos Samdanis (Huawei)
Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino)
Lynda Mokdad (Uiversity of Paris)
Hacene Fouchal (Université de Reims)
Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad (EWI, TU Delft)
Zdenek Becvar (CTU)
Franco Vatalaro (AICT, Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
Navid Nikaein (Eurecom)
Loreto Pescosolido (La Sapienza University)
Matthieu De Mari (Singapore University of Technology and Design – SUTD)
Submission Guidelines
Accepted papers will be submitted for publication. A full version of each paper has to be submitted through the EDAS system under the workshop track. Guidelines for submission can be found in the CLEEN2017 website: www.flex5gware.eu/cleen2017/submission
