6G IA

NGMN Industry Conference and Exhibition 2016
2016-10-12 12:00 - 2016-10-13 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Don’t miss the 6th NGMN Industry Conference & Exhibition, taking place on 12th & 13th October 2016 in Frankfurt/Germany!
The event features the announcement of leading, international operators’ and vendors’ requirements for the future 5G technology platform. This will be complemented by an in-depth presentation of new 5G enabled business opportunities and use-cases introduced by executives and subject-matter experts.
The Industry Conference & Exhibition will bring together key players from the entire mobile ecosystem and offer a unique networking platform throughout the 2 days. With an impressive line-up of top-level speakers talking about high priority topics of our industry, you will be part of a global audience of operators, vendors, innovators, media and analysts.
On top of the NGMN Industry Conference & Exhibition, NGMN will celebrate with you its 10th Anniversary. You can expect an evening filled with entertainment, great food, excellent networking opportunities and special surprises.
For registration or further information on sponsoring, exhibition opportunities, hotel accommodation, pricing etc. please visit the event website (ice2016.ngmn.org) or contact office(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)ngmn.org?subject=IC&E%202016 directly.

Sonata@SDN &OpenFlow World Congress
2016-10-12
SONATA’s contribution to SDN & OpenFlow Congress is two-fold: it organises a workshop session and présents a paper on “Understand Your Chains: Towards Performance Profile-based Network Service Management”.
The workshop session at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress is scheduled on the October 12th at 3:35 pm pm (2 hours)
Objective is two-fold:

Introducing SONATA NFV-based development toolkit and service platform and announce the release of its first version.
Discussing with experts the tools and processes required to drive the software development in a DevOps approach, something that is at the very core of the SONATA development cycle.In addition, the “Understand Your Chains: Towards Performance Profile-based Network Service Management” paper was accepted for EWSDN’16 which was co-located with the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress 2016. The paper is presented on October 10th. It analyses and discusses the components needed to generate such performance behavior information within the NFV DevOps workflow. It also outlines research questions that identify open issues and missing pieces for a fully integrated NFV profiling solution. Further, it introduces a novel profiling mechanism that is able to profile virtualized network functions and entire network service chains under different resource constraints before they are deployed on production infrastructure. Indeed, allocating resources to virtualized network functions and services to meet service level agreements is a challenging task for NFV management and orchestration systems. This becomes even more challenging when agile development method- ologies, like DevOps, are applied. In such scenarios, management and orchestration systems are continuously facing new versions of functions and services which makes it hard to decide how much resources have to be allocated to them to provide the expected service performance. One solution for this problem is to support resource allocation decisions with performance behavior information obtained by profiling techniques applied to such network functions and services.About SONATA@sonataNFVSONATA is developing a NFV framework that provides a programming model and development toolchain for virtualized services, fully integrated with a DevOps-enabled service platform and orchestration system. SONATA initial results include:
Agile Service Development and Orchestration in 5G Virtualized Networks
http://www.sonata-nfv.eu/

The detailed agenda for the workshop is available here.

SONATA’s Network Service SDK: Facilitates network service development for third-party developers
SONATA’s Service platform: Thanks to the modular design of its MANO framework offers , the platform offers high customization opportunities for both, Communication Service Providers and Service Developers.
SONATA NFV DevOps Workflow: The SONATA system is designed for agile development and operation of network services. It enables a DevOps workflow between the SDK tools and the service platform, which allows developers and operators to closely collaborate. Launched in the spring of 2012, the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress showcases for the rapidly growing and massively influential, Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualisation industries.
Read more on SDN & OpenFlow World Congress website here.
About the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress (10-14 October, The Hague, Netherlands)
Contacts: Sonia Castro Carillo & Josep Martrat (Atos)

5th 5G PPP information day: Bratislava
2016-09-26 16:30 - 18:30
Information Session on 5G PPP
Date: 26/09/2016 (16:30-18:30)
5G PPP Research and validation of critical technologies and systems
This topic aims at research and innovation in the field of the fifth-generation (5G) of mobile telecommunications technologies by leveraging on the results of Phase 1 of the 5G PPP (Public Private Partnership) initiative. The goal is to validate research results in proof of concepts and demonstrators having use cases from sectors such as eHealth, automotive, video/TV broadcast, and energy. The topic covers wireless access and radio network architecture and technologies; high-capacity elastic optical networks; and software networks. The projects will be implemented as a programme and be expected to contribute with horizontal results to the programme integration process.
5G PPP Convergent Technologies
Innovating in new optical access network solutions based on integrated optical device prototypes; and developing flexible virtual network functions useful for operators, service providers, and third parties. These projects will be implemented as a programme and be expected to contribute with horizontal results to the programme integration process. Another objective is to research and innovate in access convergence using experimentation facilities from Taiwanese partners.
Agenda

Association

6G Health Association gGmbH

Digital for Planet

ERTICO

INFOBALT

OPENAIRINTERFACE SOFTWARE ALLIANCE

Public Safety Communications Europe (PSCE)

Smart City Innovation Cluster

The Digital Week 2016 is heading to Bratislava (26-29 September)
2016-09-26 - 2016-09-29
Two events will be organised by DG CNECT taking place during the Digital Week in Bratislava (Slovakia), during the Slovakian Presidency. The Digital Week includes ICT Proposer’s Day 2016 (on 26-27 September) and the Digital Assembly “Putting the Digital Single Market at the heart of Europe” (on 28-29 September).
5G-related topics will be presented, mainly the topic ICT-07-2017 that aims at research and innovation in the field of 5G by building up on the results of Phase 1 of the 5G PPP initiative as well as the topic ICT-08-2017 that aims at innovating in new optical access network solutions based on integrated optical device prototypes and developing flexible virtual network functions useful for operators, service providers and third parties. The Digital Assembly will also have a strong 5G component, especially on 28 September when the session on ‘Connectivity and Privacy Issues in the Electronic Communications Sector’ will be taking place.
The ICT Proposers’ Day is organised in the frame of the Digital Week and offers:

Presentations of the ICT-related topics by the EC for 2017
The very popular Face2Face match making meetings

It is definitely an excellent networking opportunity for your researchers, institutes and companies.

The agendas for both events are under preparation. More info is coming soon. Please follow @ICTproposerEU and @DigitalAgendaEU/#DigitalWeek for updates.

Workshop on Virtualised Coordinated Spectrum Access for 5G Communications Systems @13th ISWCS 2016
2016-09-20 - 2016-09-23
5GNORMA and COHERENT 5G PPP projects jointly organise a workshop on Virtualised Coordinated Spectrum Access for 5G Communications Systems at ISWCS 2016 (September 20-23, 2016, Poznan, Poland).
In its 5G White Paper, NGMN demands 5G to provide efficient support of new business models and partnership models across industries. This implies increasingly heterogeneous demands on spectrum resources, their availability and utilization. Greater flexibility is a common requirement to all network components, including spectrum management.
Network virtualization technology is playing a central role in 5G, as it promises to create customer-specific logical networks on a shared infrastructure and thereby increases the flexibility in network utilization and management.
This workshop aims to bring the concepts of dynamic allocation of spectrum to network services and virtualization together and explore if and how novel architectures and technologies based on virtualization can increase the efficiency in spectrum utilization.
CfP and additional information on the workshop here.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: June 17, 2016
Notification of acceptance of papers: July 8, 2016
Submission guidelines:
Papers should be written in English with a maximum length of 5 pages (two-column A4, 10-point font) following the standard IEEE manuscript template. The submission has to be performed electronically via EDAS.The accepted papers will be published on IEEE Xplore.
General Chairs:
Markus Breitbach (Deutsche Telekom, Germany)
Olav Tirkkonen (Aalto University, Aalto, Finland)
Tao Chen (VTT, Finland)
Peter Rost (Nokia, Germany)

5G-PPP Phase 3: Preparation Workshop on 5G for Healthcare
2016-09-15 13:30 - 15:50
in the Double Cone conference room in BMW World, Munich, as part of ieeehealthcom2016.com

The calls for 5G PPP Phase 3 projects will be announced in 2017. Between now and then stakeholder discussions can influence the call text with regards to highlighted topics, impacts required, aims and objectives.
This workshop will offer an opportunity to contribute to the content of this important future call. The workshop will focus on the 5G requirements of the health domain and the nature of projects and experimental activities that are needed to get Health established as one of the key vertical sectors to be supported by the new 5G infrastructure. The views collected at this workshop will be considered by 5G-PPP Vision Working Group by the end of September and key points will be included in future 5G-PPP vision documents
Invited Speakers:

Bernard Barrani, European Commission
David Soldani, Nokia
Halid Hrasnica, Eurescom
Sajida Zouarhi, Orange
Astrid Grottland, Norwegian Centre of eHealth Research
Altaf Sadique, GaneData, Leeds
Christoph Thuemmler, Edinburgh Napier University

Agenda:

13.30
Halid Hrasnica
Eurescom GmbH
Preparing 5G PPP Phase 3

13.40
David Soldani
Head of 5G Global, Nokia
5G Readiness

13.50
Christoph Thuemmler
Edinburgh Napier Univ.
Health 4.0

14.00
Sajida Zouarhi
Orange Labs
QoS approach for Critical Services

14.10
Bernard Barrani,
European Commission
5G PPP Overview and Phase 3 requirements

14.40
Break

15.00
Astrid Grottland
Chief Advisor, Norwegian Centre for eHealth Research
Use case requirements

15.15
Altaf Sadique
CEO GaneData, Leeds
Enterprise mobility and supply chain management

15.30
Halid Hrasnica
Christoph Thuemmler
(Chairs)
Eurescom GmbH
Edinburgh Napier University
Discussion / Wrap up

15.50
End

Workshop Chairpersons:
Dr. Ing. Halid Hrasnica, Eurescom GmbH
Prof. Christoph Thuemmler, Edinburgh Napier University
Jean-Sébastien Bedo , Orange

5G PPP projects @IEEE PIMRC 2016 (4-7 September - Valencia, Spain)
2016-09-04 - 2016-09-07
The 27th IEEE PIMRC will be held in Valencia (Spain) from 4th to 7th September 2016. It will cover wide range of topics in wireless communications, networks, services, and applications by hosting 3 Keynote Speakers and Main Technical sessions under 4 Tracks, 6 Tutorials and 8 Workshops. Details on the conference can be found there.
5G PPP projects will present first outputs. METIS-II is organising the panel 1 “What is relevant research for 5G Advanced?”. CHARISMA is organising the “5G strengthening business and social development: barriers and drivers” workshop on September 4th, 2016. mmMAGIC will present papers.
Panel 1 organiser: Dr. Olav Queseth (METIS-II/Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden)
Abstract: At the time of PIMRC the standardisation of 5G has been running for some time and the first deployments are only one and a half year into the future. What is clear though is that this first wave will be followed by a number of innovations and improvements. At this time it is important to start thinking about initiating research on topics that will be important in the future but at the moment may have taken a back seat to the standardisation efforts. The panel will provide the view of a number of industry and academic leaders on the topics that will shape the development of 5G advanced and make a guess at important emerging fields.
CHARISMA Workshop organiser: Ioannis Neokosmidis
Abstract: The CHARISMA project will showcase its work and discuss business and regulatory issues of 5G networking. The workshop has been endorsed by the IEEE 5G Mobile Wireless Internet Emerging Technologies Subcommittee (IEEE 5G TsC).
mmMAGIC will present two papers: “E-band Millimiter Wave Indoor Channel Characterization” and “On the Performance of Millimeter Wave-based RF-FSO Links with HARQ Feedback”.

About CHARISMA
CHARISMA proposes an intelligent hierarchical routing and paravirtualised architecture that unites two important concepts: devolved offload with shortest path nearest to end-users and an end-to-end security service chain via virtualized open access physical layer security (PLS). The CHARISMA architecture meets the goals of low-latency (<1ms) and security required for future converged wireless/wireline advanced 5G networking. This provides a cloud infrastructure platform with increased spectral and energy efficiency and enhanced performance targeting the identified needs for 1000-fold increased mobile data volume, 10-100 times higher data rates, 10-100 times more connected devices and 5x reduced latency. The CHARISMA approach will benefit user experiences with ground-breaking low-latency services, high-bandwidth, and mobile cloud resilient network security.
About METIS-II
Key objectives of METIS-II are to develop the overall 5G radio access network design and to provide the technical enablers needed for an efficient integration and use of the various 5G technologies and components currently developed. The innovation pillars that will allow METIS-II to achieve this goal are

a holistic spectrum management architecture addressing the spectrum crunch,
an air interface harmonisation framework enabling an efficient integration of new and legacy air interfaces,
an agile Resource Management (RM) framework providing the dynamics required to efficiently adapt the integrated 5G air interfaces and radio concepts to the varying traffic demand and service requirements,
a cross-layer and cross-air-interface system access and mobility framework ensuring an ubiquitous access continuum,
and a common control and user plane framework providing the means for an efficient support of the broad versatility of services expected for 5G as well as a future-proof and cost-efficient implementation of the 5G integration.

About mmMAGIC
The mmMAGIC (Millimetre-Wave Based Mobile Radio Access Network for Fifth Generation Integrated Communications) project will develop and design new concepts for mobile radio access technology (RAT) for mm-wave band deployment. This is envisaged as a key component in the 5G multi-RAT ecosystem and will be used as a foundation for global standardization. The project will thus enable ultrafast mobile broadband services for mobile users, supporting UHD/3D streaming, immersive applications and ultra-responsive cloud services.

CHARISMA @ IEEE PIMRC in Valencia (Spain) on September 4th, 2016
2016-09-04
The CHARISMA project is organizing the “5G strengthening business and social development: barriers and drivers” workshop on September 4th, 2016. The workshop is co-located with IEEE PIMRC 2016 (Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications) in Valencia, Spain.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
-Security, reliability and privacy in 5G network
-Management and Orchestration of NFV and SDN elements for security
-Secure design of NFV and SDN solution
-Intrusion detection and mitigation for emerging network
-Regulatory aspects
-New business challenges and opportunities related to 5G
-Socio economic drivers
The workshop also hopes to bring together other 5G projects as well as other interested parties which have a common interest in the development and progression of the identified topics.The CHARISMA project will showcase its work and discuss business and regulatory issues of 5G networking. The workshop has been endorsed by the IEEE 5G Mobile Wireless Internet Emerging Technologies Subcommittee (IEEE 5G TsC).
Authors are invited to submit their papers. The online platform is open to submit papers here.
Important dates
Paper submission deadline: 29 April 2016
Notification: 10 June 2016
Final Paper submission deadline: 1 July 2016
About CHARISMA
CHARISMA proposes an intelligent hierarchical routing and paravirtualised architecture that unites two important concepts: devolved offload with shortest path nearest to end-users and an end-to-end security service chain via virtualized open access physical layer security (PLS). The CHARISMA architecture meets the goals of low-latency (<1ms) and security required for future converged wireless/wireline advanced 5G networking. This provides a cloud infrastructure platform with increased spectral and energy efficiency and enhanced performance targeting the identified needs for 1000-fold increased mobile data volume, 10-100 times higher data rates, 10-100 times more connected devices and 5x reduced latency. The CHARISMA approach will benefit user experiences with ground-breaking low-latency services, high-bandwidth, and mobile cloud resilient network security.
About PIMRC
PIMRC is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of IEEE Communication Society’s flagship conferences in telecommunications. PIMRC’16 will include technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, and technology and business panels. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE’s highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities.

4th 5G PPP Phase 2 Information Day, Athens,
2016-06-30 14:00 - 17:30
The 4th 5G-PPP information day will be held alongside the EUCNC conference in Athens.
The Purpose of this work shop is to share the context of the 5G-PPP call 2 with all interested parties. It is important highlight that the ambition of the 5G-PPP is: that each successive phase of the PPP should make iterative progress – based on the achievements of the preceding phase(s). Therefore it is important that potential proposers and participants for phase 2 are aware of phase 1 work and the context in which phase 2 will start. The workshop also allows that organisations may present project or technological ideas and seek potential collaborators.
Draft Agenda and registration here: 4th 5G-PPP Information Day Athens

Key challenges for 5G Networks @CHARISMA & SESAME Summer School 2016
2016-06-29 - 2016-07-01
5G PPP CHARISMA project is co-organizing with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a summer school ”Key Challenges for 5G Networks”, that will be held on 30 June to 1 July 2016, at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the NKUA, Panepistimiopolis, Ilisia, Greece. The school is also supported by the 5G PPP SESAME project.
5G is foreseen as the key enabling technology that will provide high data rate communication services with low latency and will boost the development for new applications for all vertical industries. By supporting virtualization and multi-tenancy, 5G will enable the creation of new business models leading to a new ecosystem that will extend beyond the traditional telecommunication actors and stakeholders. In order for 5G to meet these ambitions a number of challenges must be resolved.
The event will gather official representatives from ENISA, National Authorities, academia as well as industry stakeholders, in order to present the challenges and new trends of 5G networking.
Topics include:
-Technologies and architectures for 5G
-Security, reliability and privacy in 5G network
-Design of NFV and SDN solutions
-Regulatory aspects of 5G
-New business challenges and opportunities related to 5G
-Socio economic drivers for 5G
Participants will have the opportunity to interact with researchers and academics from several European Universities, Research Institutes and Industry.
Information and registration form can be found here. Participation is free but registration is mandatory. A certificate of attendance will be given to all registered participants.

FANTASTIC-5G: Ultra-Reliable and Mission Critical Communication @EuCNC 2016
2016-06-29 15:30 - 17:00
The 5G PPP project FANTASTIC-5G is holding the special session 5 on Ultra-Reliable and Mission Critical Communication @ EUCNC 2016 at 16:30 on 29 June (Room Aphrodite C). This special session chaired by Frank Schaich (Alcatel-Lucent Germany) has the purpose to present some of the important use cases, as well as the central technical challenges towards achieving mission critical communications in 5G.
5G wireless connectivity will be applied to new use cases that require extremely reliable connections (typically 99.999% availability) and mission-critical communications (short MCC), such as vehicle-to-vehicle coordination, critical control of the power grid, etc [1]. MCC changes the paradigms of communications towards flexible allocation of resources, giving a higher level of protection to the MCC services, multi-mode connectivity (eg. both small and macro-cell), underlay operation (cognitive radio techniques). MCC can involve transmission of very short data packets, where the control data becomes comparable in size to the actual data. MCC needs rethinking of the packet structure and the associated exchange of signaling messages therеby putting requirements on MAC-layer protocols (reservation, random access, scheduled access) and link-layer protocols (HARQ, link initialization, sending ACKs to multiple devices, etc.).
The program is as follows:
-Invited presentation: Gerhard Wunder, FU Berlin
Title: “Security on a 5G setting”
Abstract: MCC requirements such as high reliability, low latency etc. affect also security (and safety) procedures. In this talk we highlight some challenges of MCC from a 5G security perspective and discuss physical layer security (PHYSEC) as a potential remedy. To counter both passive eavesdropper and active radio hacking systems, that operate at the radio interface of wireless networks, to enable efficient, scalable key pre-distribution and authentication, and to enable much faster key establishment / authentication / attack detection procedures, PHYSEC has emerged as a promising approach, in complement of classical ciphering. PHYSEC strengthens the security of wireless communications by catching and exploiting the intrinsic randomness of the radio propagation, which avoids the use of pre-shared keys and guarantees full secrecy independently of the adverse computing capabilities. In this context we discuss several interesting new “fast” security procedures on radio level such as secret key generation “on the fly”, secrecy coding, secure pairing, etc.
-Paper1: Osman Yilmaz, Ericsson
Title: “Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency 5G Communication”
Abstract: Machine-to-machine communication, M2M, will make up a large portion of the new types of services and use cases that the fifth generation (5G) systems will address. On the one hand, 5G will connect a large number of low-cost and low-energy devices in the context of the Internet of things; on the other hand it will enable critical machine type communication use cases, such as smart factory, automotive, energy, and e-health – which require communication with very high reliability and availability, as well as very low end-to-end latency. In this paper, we will discuss the requirements, enablers and challenges to support these emerging mission-critical 5G use cases.
-Paper2: Gianluigi Liva, DLR
Title: “Code Design for Short Blocks: A Survey”
Abstract: The design of block codes for short information blocks (e.g., a thousand or less information bits) is an open research problem which is gaining relevance thanks to emerging applications in wireless communication networks. In this work, we review some of the most recent code constructions targeting the short block regime, and we compare then with both finite length performance bounds and classical error correction coding schemes. We will see how it is possible to effectively approach the theoretical bounds, with different performance vs. decoding complexity trade-offs.
-Paper3: Alessandro Colazzo, AZCOM
Title: “Achieving low-latency communication in future wireless networks: the 5G NORMA approach”
Abstract: The end-to-end network latency is generally considered by the 5G community a key requirement for future wireless networks, enabling new applications by means of end-to-end figures up to a few ms, which is a target that cannot be achieved by the current 4G technology. 5G Novel Radio Multiservice adaptive network Architecture (5G NORMA) project aims at providing a new network architecture design able to cope with the diverse and stringent 5G KPIs, including network latency. This paper describes the low latency issue from a network architecture perspective, starting from the 3GPP state-of-the-art and then describing the 5G NORMA novelties.

Network Management, QoS and Security Workshop @EuCNC 2016
2016-06-27 08:00 - 12:00
CogNet is organising a workshop on Network Management, QoS and Security on June 27 at EuCNC2016. The projects CogNet, SelfNet, SONATA, 5G-ENSURE and 5G-NORMA all present papers at this workshop.
The tentative agenda is given below:
9.00 Introduction to the Network Management, QoS and Security Working Groups – Robert Mullins, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
9.05 Keynote : “Network and cloud optimization: it’s all about the model” – Professor Danny Raz, Technion University, Israel
9.45 Paper Presentation : An Energy Efficient Architecture for 5G Network Management – Kieran Sullivan, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
10.05 Paper Presentation : The SELFNET approach to Self Protection through Autonomic Network Management – Jose Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland
10.25 Coffee
10.35 Paper Presentation : NFV Reliability with Machine Learning – Marius Corici, Fraunhofer Fokus, Berlin
10.50 Paper Presentation : A New Radio Access Stratum Security Architecture Supporting Dynamic 5G Radio Access Networks – Peter Schneider, Nokia Bell Labs
11.10 Paper Presentation : Using Machine Learning to Detect Noisy Neighbours in 5G Networks – Bruno Ordozgoiti, Universitat Politècnica de Madrid
11.30 Paper Presentation : Towards Micro Segmentation in 5G Network Security – Olli Mammela, VTT Finland
11.50 Paper Presentation : Cooperative Caching in C-RAN using Bayesian Classification and Greedy Placement – Benat Azpiazu, VicomTech
12.05 Paper Presentation : A Monitoring Framework for Heterogeneous NFV/SDN Coud Environments – Theodore Zahariadis, Synelixis
12.25 Panel Discussion (20 minutes)
About CogNet
COGNET is targeting the 5G Network Management research area and particularly:
-Cognitive Network Management

-5G network Security and Integrity

-Virtual Network Platform and Software Networks
www.cognet.5g-ppp.eu

About SelfNet
The SELFNET project will design and implement an autonomic network management framework to achieve self-organizing capabilities in managing network infrastructures by automatically detecting and mitigating a range of common network problems that are currently still being manually addressed by network operators, thereby significantly reducing operational costs and improving user experience. SELFNET explores a smart integration of state-of-the-art technologies in Software-Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Self-Organizing Networks (SON), Cloud computing, Artificial intelligence, Quality of Experience (QoE) and Next-generation networking to provide a novel intelligent network management framework that is capable of assisting network operators in key management tasks: automated network monitoring by the automatic deployment of NFV applications to facilitate system-wide awareness of Health of Network metrics to have more direct and precise knowledge about the real status of the network; autonomic network maintenance by defining high-level tactical measures and enabling autonomic corrective and preventive actions against existing or potential network problems. SELFNET is driven by use cases designed to address major network management problems including Self-protection capabilities against distributed cyber-attacks, Self-healing capabilities against network failures, and Self-optimization to dynamically improve the performance of the network and the QoE of the users.
www.selfnet-5g.eu
About SONATA
Virtualisation and software networks are a major disruptive technology for communications networks, enabling services to be deployed as software functions running directly in the network on commodity hardware. However, deploying the more complex user-facing applications and services envisioned for 5G networks presents significant technological challenges for development and deployment. SONATA addresses both issues.
For service development, SONATA provides service patterns and description techniques for composed services. A customised SDK is developed to boost the efficiency of developers of network functions and composed services, by integrating catalogue access, editing, debugging, and monitoring analysis tools with service packaging for shipment to an operator.
For deployment, SONATA provides a novel service platform to manage service execution. The platform complements the SDK with functionality to validate service packages. Moreover, it improves on existing platforms by providing a flexible and extensible orchestration framework based on a plugin architecture. Thanks to SONATA’s platform service developers can provide custom algorithms to steer the orchestration of their services: for continuous placement, scaling, life-cycle management and contextualization of services. These algorithms are overseen by executives in the service platform, ensuring trust and resolving any conflict between services.
www.sonata-nfv.eu
About 5G-ENSURE
The 5G-ENSURE will:
-Deliver strategic impact across technology, business enablement & standardisation.
-Develop a set of non-intrusive security enablers (AAA, Privacy, Trust, Monitoring, Network Management and Virtualization Isolation) for the core of the 5G Reference Architecture.
-Define a 5G Security Architecture needed to expand the mobile ecosystem giving operators a platform for entirely new business opportunities.
-Initiate a 5G Security test bed vision and initial set-up in which the security enablers will be made available and demonstrated.
-5G-ENSURE will define a shared and agreed 5G Security Roadmap with various 5G stakeholders. The outcome will be a trustworthy 5G system offering reliable security services to customers with a “zero perceived” downtime for service provision.
www.5gensure.eu
About 5G-NORMA
5G NORMA aims to develop a novel mobile network architecture that provides the necessary adaptability in a resource efficient way able to handle fluctuations in traffic demand resulting from heterogeneous and dynamically changing service portfolios and to changing local context. The developed “multi-service and context-aware adaptation of network functions” will allow for a resource-efficient support of these varying scenarios and help to increase energy-efficiency by always selecting the most energy efficient option.
https://5gnorma.5g-ppp.eu/

Next Generation fronthaul/backhaul integrated transport networks @EuCNC 2016
2016-06-27 08:00 - 11:00
5G-Crosshaul is organising a Workshop on “Next Generation fronthaul/backhaul integrated transport networks” on 27 June at EuCNC (detailed programme here).
In addition to this workshop, the 5G-Crosshaul project is contributing to three invited talks to other workshops on 27 June and releases five papers in the main conference:
Talks
-“Fronthaul requirements of 5G mobile networks”, by Thomas Deiss (Nokia), at the workshop “Towards Converged X-Haul for 5G Networks”
-“Bit-Rate Bound Derivation for compressed time-domain fronthaul”, by Chenguan Lu (Ericsson), at the workshop “Towards Converged X-Haul for 5G Networks”
-“Ethernet OAM and SDN: a matching opportunity”, by Luca Cominardi (InterDigital), at the workshop “Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Programmable Software Networks”
Papers
-“Fronthaul Performance Demonstration in a WDM-PON-Based Convergent Network”, by Z. Tayq (Orange)
-“Packet Forwarding for Heterogeneous Technologies for Integrated Fronthaul/Backhaul”, by T. Deiss (Nokia)
-“Orchestration of Crosshaul Slices from Federated Administrative Domains”, by LM. Contreras (Telefonica)
-“5G-Crosshaul: Towards a Unified Data-Plane for 5G Transport Networks, by L. Cominardi (InterDigital)
-“Innovations Through 5G-Crosshaul Applications”, by X. Li (NEC)

About 5G-Crosshaul
The 5G-Crosshaul project aims at developing a 5G integrated backhaul and fronthaul transport network enabling a flexible and software-defined reconfiguration of all networking elements in a multi-tenant and service-oriented unified management environment. The 5G-Crosshaul transport network envisioned will consist of high-capacity switches and heterogeneous transmission links (e.g., fibre or wireless optics, high-capacity copper, mmWave) interconnecting Remote Radio Heads, 5GPoAs (e.g., macro and small cells), cloud-processing units (mini data centres), and points-of-presence of the core networks of one or multiple service providers. This transport network will flexibly interconnect distributed 5G radio access and core network functions, hosted on in-network cloud nodes, through the implementation of: (i) a control infrastructure using a unified, abstract network model for control plane integration (Crosshaul Control Infrastructure, XCI); (ii) a unified data plane encompassing innovative high-capacity transmission technologies and novel deterministic-latency switch architectures (Crosshaul Packet Forwarding Element, XFE).
5g-crosshaul.eu

5G PPP projects actively contribute to EuCNC 2016
2016-06-26 - 2016-06-30
EuCNC 2016 (European Conference on Networks and Communications) is the 25th edition of a successful series of technical/scientific conferences, open to the world research community, sponsored also by the European Commission, with a focus that ranges from the physical layer to all types of supported applications. Particular focus in this edition will be on 5G technologies. The 2016 edition will be co-organized by the University of Piraeus and the Institute of Communications and Computer Systems (ICCS).
Aspects of interest include but are not limited to:
Air interfaces (PHY, MAC, RRM, respective developments towards 5G).
Optical communications/networks (access/core technologies, signal processing, components, etc.).
Software defined infrastructures (SDN, NFV, orchestration, etc.).
Management technologies (physical/virtualized resource management, predictive technologies, resilience and security, learning and self-optimization, cognition, architectures and standards).
Converging concepts (IoT/M2M, CPS, embedded and nanoscale systems, cloud/edge/fog computing, OTT, etc.).
Business aspects, vertical sectors, applications/services.
Testbeds and experiments.
The conference will include:
Regular sessions with papers (to appear in IEEEXplore).
One of the largest, for scientific conferences, technology and demonstration exhibition, mainly centered around 5G technologies.
Workshops, special sessions, panels covering technology and business aspects.
Keynote talks from world renowned leaders.
Extended networking opportunities.
A number of 5G PPP projects will contribute to the success of the Conference through:
1.Dedicated workshops
–Joint FANTASTIC-5G, mmMAGIC, Flex5Gware Workshop @EuCNC 2016
–Next Generation fronthaul/backhaul integrated transport networks @EuCNC 2016
–Network Management, QoS and Security Workshop @EuCNC 2016
-METIS-II workshop : International workshop on 5G architecture
2.Oral sessions
-“Exploring the Use of RPAs as 5G Points of Presence”
-“Fronthaul requirements of 5G mobile networks”, by Thomas Deiss (Nokia), at the workshop “Towards Converged X-Haul for 5G Networks”.
-“Bit-Rate Bound Derivation for compressed time-domain fronthaul”, by Chenguan Lu (Ericsson), at the workshop “Towards Converged X-Haul for 5G Networks”
-“Ethernet OAM and SDN: a matching opportunity”, by Luca Cominardi (InterDigital), at the workshop “Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Programmable Software Networks”
-“Ultra-Reliable and Mission Critical Communication” (SS5 organised by Fantastic-5G and chaired by Frank Schaich) by Nuno Patras (Aalborg University), Petar Popovski, Berna Sayrac (Orange), Salaheddine Elayoubi (Orange)
3.Paper presentations in the main conference
-“Fronthaul Performance Demonstration in a WDM-PON-Based Convergent Network”, by Z. Tayq (Orange)
-“Packet Forwarding for Heterogeneous Technologies for Integrated Fronthaul/Backhaul”, by T. Deiss (Nokia)
-“Orchestration of Crosshaul Slices from Federated Administrative Domains”, by LM. Contreras (Telefonica)
-“5G-Crosshaul: Towards a Unified Data-Plane for 5G Transport Networks”, by L. Cominardi (InterDigital)
-“Innovations Through 5G-Crosshaul Applications”, by X. Li (NEC)
-“Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency 5G Communication”, by Osman Yilmaz (Ericsson)
-“Code Design for Short Blocks: A Survey”, by Gianlugi Liva (DLR)
-“Achieving low-latency communication in future wireless networks: the 5G NORMA approach”, by Alessandro Colazzo (AZCOM)
-C.Herranz, D. Martin-Sacristan, S. Inca, J. F. Monserrat, N.Cardona, “On the Use of Serious Game Engineering for 5G System Performance Evaluation” from the METIS-II point of view
-Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Haris Celik, Roberto Fantini, Ömer Bulakci, Luis M. Campoy, Ahmed M. Ibrahim, Javier Lorca, Mehrdad Shariat, Milos Tesanovic, Yang Yang “Agile Interference Management Framework for 5G” from the METIS-II point of view
4. Panels & Demos
METIS-II participates in panel 2 on 5G architecture.

Key dates:
-Paper submission deadline: 5 February 2016. Papers are due here.
-Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2016
-Final paper submission: 22 April 2016
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5G PPP project METIS-II @EuCNC 2016
2016-06-26 - 2016-06-29
5G PPP METIS-II project actively contributes to EuCNC 2016.
–METIS-II organises the special session 6 on “METIS-II views on 5G RAN design and architecture” on 29 June at 16:30. The session is chaired by Olav Queseth (Ericsson, Sweden).
Abstract: The main content of the session will be presentations of research papers highlighting some of the most recent results of the work in METIS-II. In addition there will be a short (~10 minutes) introduction to the papers explaining how they fit into and support the project objectives, which is to develop the 5G RAN design. The authors are selected participants of the METIS II project, each dealing with clearly defined topics in order to get a clear picture and offer a clear understanding of the main drivers in the activity performed after one year of work.
–METIS-II participates in workshop 1 on “International workshop on 5G architecture” on 27 June at 9:00. The workshop is chaired by Simone Redana (Nokia, Germany) and Alexandros Kaloxylos (Huawei, Germany).
Abstract: The current exponentially growing demand on wireless data rates, the new requirements imposed by future services and the required level of flexibility and heterogeneity call for an investigation of novel aspects of the 5G network architecture (incl. RAN, Core Network, converged wireline and wireless network with both core and access network aspects, networked cloud, Transport Network and Services). In this context, it is not surprising that there are several research initiatives dealing with integration and unification of functional and non-functional requirements, deployable elements, wired and wireless interworking, control, management and operational architecture aspects or that are looking at fundamental pieces that have an impact on the overall 5G architecture or vice versa. Furthermore, in the standardization bodies like 3GPPP, ETSI, ITU-R, IETF and ONF the work on the definition of the architecture for the 5G era has been already started. As part of the 5GPPP Initiative large number of projects attempt to either completely redesign the 5G network architecture or some of its components. Those projects have joint the forces and launched a Working Group on 5G Architecture to serve as a common platform to facilitate the discussion between projects developing architectural concepts and components and foster the discussions on the basis of the KPI’s described in the 5GPPP contract. The WG is proposing this workshop to involve also external research activities into the consensus building on the 5G Architecture.
–METIS-II is also participating in panel 2 on 5G Architecture on 29 June at 14:30. The panel is composed of:
Chair: Simone Redana (Head of Mobile Network Architecture & Systems Research, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)
Alexandros Kaloxylos (Head of Radio Access Network Department, Huawei, Germany
Icaro Leonardo Da Silva (Senior Researcher, Ericsson, Sweden
Konstantinos Chalkiotis (Vice President, Mobile Access Group Technology, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Akihiro Nakao (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Abstract: The current exponentially growing demand on wireless data rates, the new requirements imposed by future services and the required level of flexibility and heterogeneity call for an investigation of novel aspects of the 5G network architecture (incl. RAN, Core Network, converged wireline and wireless network with both core and access network aspects, networked cloud, Transport Network and Services). In this context, it is not surprising that there are several research initiatives dealing with integration and unification of functional and non-functional requirements, deployable elements, wired and wireless interworking, control, management and operational architecture aspects or that are looking at fundamental pieces that have an impact on the overall 5G architecture or vice versa. Furthermore, in the standardization bodies like 3GPPP, ETSI, ITU-R, IETF and ONF the work on the definition of the architecture for the 5G era has been already started. As part of the 5GPPP Initiative large number of projects attempt to either completely redesign the 5G network architecture or some of its components. Those projects have joint the forces and launched a Working Group on 5G Architecture to serve as a common platform to facilitate the discussion between projects developing architectural concepts and components and foster the discussions on the basis of the KPI’s described in the 5GPPP contract. The WG has issued a White Paper end of May/beginning of June on 5G Architecture and would like to discuss it with panellists who has contributed to it and with panellists who can bring a different perspective.
-Papers from METIS-II experts will be released:
C. Herranz, D. Martin-Sacristan, S. Inca, J. F. Monserrat, N.Cardona, “On the Use of Serious Game Engineering for 5G System Performance Evaluation”
Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Haris Celik, Roberto Fantini, Ömer Bulakci, Luis M. Campoy, Ahmed M. Ibrahim, Javier Lorca, Mehrdad Shariat, Milos Tesanovic, Yang Yang “Agile Interference Management Framework for 5G”.

Joint FANTASTIC-5G, mmMAGIC, Flex5Gware Workshop @EuCNC 2016
2016-06-26 - 2016-06-27
FANTASTIC-5G, mmMAGIC and Flex5Gware are co-organising a workshop on 5G Physical Layer Design and Hardware Aspects Below and Above 6 GHz at EuCMC 2016 in Athens.
The program is as follows:
-9h00-10h30 Key notes
Taro Eichler (Rohde&Schwarz), Heinz.Westenberger (Rohde&Schwarz), Konstantinos.Chronopoulos (Rohde&Schwarz)
Title: “mm-Wave Channel Sounding for 5G: Fundamentals, Measurement Techniques and Experimental Data Analysis”
Abstract: Successful design and standardization of 5G millimeter-wave communication systems will rely on the profound knowledge of the mobile radio channel. The characterization of the temporal and spatial properties of the radio channel at millimeter-wave frequencies is still very challenging. The aim of channel sounding is to characterize the radio channel by decomposing the radio propagation channel into its individual multipath components. In this talk we will give an overview of advanced measurement and modeling methods and present results from recent measurement campaigns in the 17 GHz and 82 GHz band using state-of-the-art test & measurement instruments. Furthermore, different concepts enabling high-precision time synchronization will be highlighted.
Since 5G communication systems will rely on multi-antenna techniques like beamforming and massive MIMO, the measurement and modeling of spatial channel information is necessary. We will give an outlook on methods to perform spatial channel measurements such as the switched and virtual array method.
Prof. Rahim Tafazolli (University of Surrey)
Title: Latest advances in 5G technologies
Abstract: The talk will cover possible candidate technologies that are being currently developed and trialled in addressing the three challenging use cases defined by 3GPP. These use cases are; Ultra Broadband Mobile, Massive Connectivity and ultra-low latency and reliability. The solutions range; new radio technologies, Radio Access Architectures and Core Network technologies It will also identifies where more research and innovation efforts is required to enable 5G deployment by 2020.

-11h-12h30: FANTASTIC-5G Session
Speaker: Frank Schaich (Nokia), Salaheddine Elayoubi (Orange), Martin Schubert (Huawei)
Title: FANTASTIC-5G – An Overview
Abstract: In this talk we present the project FANTASTIC-5G in an overview manner providing a status update after 1 year of project duration. We quickly highlight the key ideas and main technical components being partly detailed in subsequent talks. The considered scenarios are described and put into relation towards 3GPP and NGMN. The talk also includes the impact of the project towards e.g. 3GPP.
Speaker: Hao Lin (Orange), Malte Schellman (Huawei), Xitao Gong (Huawei)
Title: FANTASTIC-5G Waveforms
Abstract: This talk provides an overview on the waveform candidates proposed for novel air interface for 5G in lower frequency bands, which are motivated by the scenarios envisaged for mobile radio communication systems beyond 2020, addressing a multitude of services being provided simultaneously to users and mobile devices accessing a common spectrum band. As the requirements for those services may substantially differ, air interface design should provide more flexibility to appropriately respond to those while ensuring an efficient usage of available system and spectrum resources. This talk elaborates on OFDM-based waveforms with filtering as a key enabler for a flexible air interface, addressing many of the challenges posed for the 5G radio system. Two promising waveform categories, namely subcarrier-wise filtering and subband-wise filtering, are described with respect to their individual characteristics as well as their potential benefits.
Speaker: Klaus Pedersen (Nokia)
Title: Agile 5G Radio Resource Management Design and Related Enablers
Abstract: In this talk we present proposals for an agile 5G multi-service air interface design for operation below 6GHz as studied in the FANTASTIC-5G project. The main focus is on radio resource management (RRM), as well as related enablers such as network-based interference coordination, advanced receivers, and system level integration of massive MIMO. The proposed user-centric RRM framework include support for service-aware scheduling with different transmission time intervals (TTIs) in coherence with the users radio conditions and QoS requirements, as well as non-scheduled access for enabling massive machine connectivity. Support for various connectivity options are addressed as well.
Speaker: Musbah Shaat (CTTC), Thomas Wirth (Fraunhofer HHI)
FANTASTIC-5G Proof-of-Concept: technical components and planned demonstrations
Abstract: The proof-of-concept (PoC) targets to implement key technical components developed within FANTASTIC-5G. A wide range of developed techniques in the project will be demonstrated and compared with the state of the art to illustrate the unique features of FANTASTIC-5G solutions and to validate the feasibility and the superiority of the different components of the foreseen 5G air interface. Post-OFDM waveforms are foreseen as key enablers to several 5G scenarios as it enhances system robustness to different types of impairments, the post-OFDM prototyping PoC is considered in FANTASTIC-5G to implement the algorithms evolved in FANTASTIC-5G for the different waveforms to tackle the open issues like synchronization, channel estimation, equalization, efficient MIMO support and pulse shape adaptation. To that end, development of several post-OFDM based transceivers is intended from algorithm simplification and optimization to on-board validation and demonstration. Additionally, the different post-OFDM waveforms will be evaluated jointly and compared using hardware-in-the-loop approaches and/or transmissions over wireless channel emulator in different scenarios.
Broadcast and multicast transmissions are expected to have high importance in 5G networks as it reduces drastically the network load by delivering the same content to a group of end users. The developed techniques in the project to enable multicast transmissions to different multicast groups by the use of MIMO techniques but, at the same time, provide a common broadcast layer to all users will be demonstrated using a software defined radio platform.
This talk aims at presenting the planned demonstrations in FANTASTIC-5G and describing the basic technical components of the different PoCs. It is worth mentioning that several FANTASTIC-5G PoCs are presented in the FANTASTIC-5G booth.

-14h00-15h30: mmMagic Session
Speaker: Wilhelm Keusgen (Fraunhofer HHI)
Title: 6–100 GHz Channel Modeling for 5G: Outcomes and Perspective of mmMAGIC
Abstract: Standardization of 5G has been kicked off by the work of channel modeling for the frequency spectrum above 6 GHz. One of the key ambitions of mmMAGIC is to develop a unified statistical channel model for link- and system-level simulations that is valid over the entire frequency range from 6 to 100 GHz. It will build on the outcomes of the 3GPP modeling activities, but aims to go beyond. In this context, extensive radio channel measurement campaigns at several locations in Europe have been performed in multiple frequency bands in order to provide a reliable basis for model extension and parameterization. This talk presents recent measurement results and key aspects of the model development.
Speaker: Ali Zaidi (Ericsson, EAB)
Title: Waveforms, channel codes, and retransmission schemes for above 6 GHz communication
Abstract: mmMAGIC aims to develop radio interface for above 6 GHz communication. Communication above 6 GHz (especially, mm-wave) is characterized by large bandwidths, massive MIMO, harsh propagation conditions, severe RF impairments, and extreme data rate requirements. In this talk, we provide an overview of waveform and channel coding candidates, as well as novel retransmission schemes that are being investigated in mmMAGIC. The candidate waveforms and channel codes are assessed for relevant performance measures and their applications are discussed in different scenarios. To ensure fast and reliable retransmissions, novel HARQ protocols and methods for retransmissions with partial decoding are considered
Speaker: Yinan Qi and Maziar Nekovee (Samsung R&D Institute UK)
Title: Coordinated Initial Access in Millimetre Wave Standalone Networks
Abstract: In this paper, the main challenges and requirements of initial access (IA) in millimetre wave networks are identified and the latest solutions are reviewed. Moreover, a novel coordinated IA scheme for clustered millimeter wave small cells (mmSCs) is proposed for the fifth generation mobile communication networks (5G). This solution is a method for efficient and fast initial access for ultra-dense millimeter wave standalone networks without presence of overlaid legacy networks operating on lower frequency. In contrast to the current full beam sweep scheme, where time consuming exhaustive searching is employed, the mmSCs within one cluster will perform the IA procedure in a coordinated manner based on the power delay profile (PDP) measurement reports shared with each other via the backhaul links and thereby avoiding the full beam sweep. The proposed scheme significantly reduces the initial access time, enhances the access robustness and reduces the cost and complexity of the mobile terminals.
Speaker: Yaning Zou (Dresden University of Technology)
Title: Flexible hybrid beamforming design for communication above 6GHz with large antenna arrays
Abstract: One critical aspect for the envisioned air interface design in mmMagic project is to develop beamforming techniques that can combat unfavourable mmwave channel propagation conditions with reasonable implementation complexity and cost. In this presentation, TU Dresden shows some recent results on developing a flexible hybrid beamforming design architecture that can be applied in various transmission scenarios. The target is then to provide tailored design with given KPIs and meanwhile robust against sudden change in the propagation environment, e.g., signal blockage. As multiple RF chains will be needed in hybrid beamforming, RF impairments should also be taken into account for cost and energy efficient implementations.

-16h00-17h30: Flex5Gware Session
Speaker: Miquel Payaró (CTTC)
Title: Flex5Gware’s initial results on 5G hardware platforms
Abstract: In very broad and generic terms, the Flex5Gware vision for 5G HW platforms is that they will undergo a process towards i) improving their energy and spectrum efficiency (the latter includes the increase of the operated radio frequency bandwidth via mmWave-band usage and aggregation of spectrum at frequencies below 6 GHz) and ii) improving their modularity and flexibility (which implies increased reconfigurability and scalability). In this talk, we present an overview of the different results that have been obtained in the Flex5Gware project towards achieving this vision. In particular, the following technology areas will be considered: RF front-ends and antennas, mixed-signal technologies, digital front-ends and HW/SW function split. To endow this workshop with more detailed technical insight, four in-depth presentations will follow on the progress achieved in each one of these areas.
Speaker: Dieter Ferling (Nokia)
Title: Multiband base station transceivers up to 6 GHz
Abstract: The request for more powerful mobile systems, enabling high mobile data rate and throughput in areas of different size and user density, is addressed by concepts for base station transceivers promoting concurrent multiband operation in radio bands below 6 GHz. Solutions to reduce the hardware complexity are elaborated for broadband or multiband capability by including data and frequency conversion, amplification and filtering. Digital to analogue converters providing RF sampling will allow soon for direct RF signal generation of multiple signal carriers up to 6 GHz and obviate the need for additional frequency conversion. Analogue to digital converters show a more restricted performance, currently up to around 4 GHz. A multiband power amplifier is a further essential component in a multiband RF chain. Supporting radio bands around 2.6, 2.8 and 3.5 GHz, it allows for a three band transmitter design. Filters showing two resonator frequencies per cavity enable components with reduced number of cavities, leading to significant volume reduction for dual band filters. These components allow for multiband transceiver design operating between 2.5 and 3.6 GHz.
Speaker: Sylvie Mayrargue (CEA)
Title: Flexible In-band Full-Duplex transceivers based on a modified MIMO RF architecture
Abstract: In-band full-duplex transceivers are considered for future generations of cellular network systems. We propose to evaluate the performance of in-band full-duplex transceivers using a modified architecture based on hardware available for multiple-input multiple-output transceivers. A hybrid self-interference cancellation technique using an auxiliary transmitter is therefore introduced. Performance is evaluated using simulation models and is confirmed by hardware experimentation. The main limiting factors of the proposed architecture are analyzed and improvements to the architecture are then suggested.
Speaker: Vassilis Foteinos (Wings ICT Solutions)
Title: Dynamic reconfiguration of future 5G HW/SW systems
Abstract: The advanced 5G network infrastructure needs to be highly flexible in order to meet identified but dynamic, as well as unforeseen diverse requirements imposed by new cutting-edge applications (augmented reality, connected cars, tactile Internet, etc.). Dynamic reconfiguration of future 5G HW/SW systems could be an answer to this challenge, as it allows system’s adaptation to the very demanding and changing contexts of operation, guaranteeing Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE). This presentation deals with this issue and describes a solution that is based on a context-aware, cognitive and dynamic HW/SW partitioning mechanism for 5G network elements and devices. The mechanism exploits knowledge (e.g. prediction of a hotspot) derived by network and sensor measurements and decides upon the HW or SW execution of functions (e.g. LTE, 3GPP based PHY/MAC functions) in order to fulfill and maintain the application goals. This solution leads to high flexibility, configurability, performance and energy efficiency.
Speaker: Nikolaos Bartzoudis (CTTC)
Title: Partitioning and distributing communication stack functions of 5G wireless hotspots
Abstract: Following the topic of the previous talk, in this case we present a flexible 5G networking architecture, where the HW accelerated (HWA) and SW communication stack functions can be reconfigured to optimize a certain utility function relevant in wireless hotspots like, e.g., reducing its energy footprint. Observe that a similar partitioning of the eNB protocol stack, either at stack-level or algorithm-level has also been proposed by the small cell forum. The network flexibility is achieved i) by switching from a given network configuration to another featuring a different partitioning of its underlying SW and HWA communication stack functions and ii) by modifying specific wireless communication parameters or a functional set of physical-layer blocks.

5G NORMA & KCL Summer School, 20-22 June 2016
2016-06-20 - 2016-06-23
5G NORMA and the King’s College of London are co-organising a 3-day Summer School from 20 to 22 June 2016.
The Summer School is tailored towards engineers and researchers active or interested in virtualized and programmable future mobile networks. The first day is tailored more towards attendees from industry, whereas the last two days are more suitable for Post Doctoral researchers, PhD and Master students. All together, the event is deemed highly suitable for participants from the mobile industry and other organizations (verticals) interested in the area of 5G networks and how this emerging technology can shape their business.
The registration information to the 2016 5G NORMA Summer School is available here. Registration is free of charge.

About 5G NORMA
The 5G NORMA project is one of the 5G PPP projects Under the Horizon 2020 Framework. It aims to develop a novel mobile network architecture that provides the necessary adatability in a resource efficien way able to handle fluctuations in traffic demand resulting from heterogeneous and dynamicall changing service portfolios and to changing local context. The developed “multi-service and context-aware adaptation of network functions” will allow for a resource-efficient support of these varying scenarios and help to increase energy-efficiciency by always selecting the most energy efficient option.
About the King’s College London
The King’s College of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It initiated a programme of cooperation with other universities on 5G and will set up a 5G Internet lab to test the technology. The Centre for Télécommunications Research (CTR) concentrates primarily on radio access, networks and mobile systems and on Intelligent Information Processing.

SONATA @ the KuVS Summer School 2016 on SDN/NFV from 20 to 23 June 2016
2016-06-20 - 2016-06-23
Each year, the KuVS group organizes a Summer School on a hot topic of networking and distributed systems. The main target audience are first-year PhD students as well as people from industry.
The topic for the 2016 edition is Software-Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization, taking place in the sailing school of Deutsche Hochseesportverband HANSA (DHH) the week of June 20th. The goal of this summer school to provide a comprehensive survey of the key skills necessary to successfully undertake independent research in SDN or NFV, covering both theoretical backgrounds as well as practical aspects.
To this end, a program was created that rests on three main pillars:
– Presentations from leading experts with discussions and Q&A
– Hands-on work with actual frameworks
– Presentations by participants on their incipient or ongoing research work, along with feedbacks from other participants and experts.
The program will also encompass a one-day team building event to foster networking among the participants. Registration is now open, and details can be found at the University of Paderborn’s website here.
About SONATA 5G PPP project
Virtualisation and software networks are a major disruptive technology for communications networks, enabling services to be deployed as software functions running directly in the network on commodity hardware. However, deploying the more complex user-facing applications and services envisioned for 5G networks presents significant technological challenges for development and deployment. SONATA addresses both issues
For service development, SONATA provides service patterns and description techniques for composed services. A customised SDK is developed to boost the efficiency of developers of network functions and composed services, by integrating catalogue access, editing, debugging, and monitoring analysis tools with service packaging for shipment to an operator. For deployment, SONATA provides a novel service platform to manage service execution. The platform complements the SDK with functionality to validate service packages. Moreover, it improves on existing platforms by providing a flexible and extensible orchestration framework based on a plugin architecture. Thanks to SONATA’s platform service developers can provide custom algorithms to steer the orchestration of their services: for continuous placement, scaling, life-cycle management and contextualization of services. These algorithms are overseen by executives in the service platform, ensuring trust and resolving any conflict between services.
About KuVS (Kommunikation und Verteile Systeme)
KuVS or Communication and Distributed Systems is a technical committee of the German Society for Computer Science (Gesellschaft für Informatik) and the VDE’s Information Society (Informationstechnischen Gesellschaft des VDE). It gathers interest in communication and distributed systems from both industry and academia and provides services to the community as well as represents these topics towards the general public.

5G-ENSURE organises 1st workshop on 5G Security Standardisation, 16 June 2016
2016-06-16
5G-ENSURE organises its 1st International Workshop on 5G Security Standardisation on 16 June in Sophia-Antipolis (France) in conjunction with the ETSI Security week (13-17 June).
This one-day workshop discusses and shares technical insights into the security of 5G emerging from preliminary findings from 5G-ENSURE. The workshop will present the results of an initial public consultation on 5G security, offering an opportunity to exchange European perspectives on security work within 5G-ENSURE. Discussions will chart a course for coordinated work on 5G security with the involvement of 5G PPP projects, standards groups and international initiatives. As a result, it will foster the drive towards the future 5G-connected digital society based on a secure-by-design approach, where security is an integral component of the architecture design.
An impressive line-up of speakers and panelists includes:
–Pavlos Fournogerakis, Programme Officer – EU Policies, Network Technologies, DG CONNECT, EC, Keynote in session 1
–Adrian Belmonte, ENISA and Jovan Golic, TIM IT & EIT Digital, Keynotes in session 2
-And for session 3: Dr Zarrar Yousaf, NEC Laboratories Europe, Alf Zugenmaier, Munich University of Applied Sciences & Vice-Chairman 3GPP SA3, Luca Pesando, TIM, Davide Pratone, chairman ETSI Project Smart Card Platform (TC SCP) Requirements Working Group (TC SCP REQ), TIM, Hugo Tullberg, Ericsson, chair of the 5G PPP Work Group Pre-standardisation.
The workshop takes place at Orange labs in Sophia Antipolis. Amphitheatre in conjunction with the ETSI Security Week. It runs from 10:00 to 16:30. Registration is open from 9:00 to 10:00 with a welcome coffee. Networking coffee breaks and a lunch are offered as part of the workshop. There is no charge for attending the workshop but registration is required.
About 5G-ENSURE
@5GEnsure
5G-ENSURE, one of the projects funded under Horizon 2020 phase 1 of the 5G PPP, drives the vision for a viable 5G network that is secure and trustworthy. 5G-ENSURE will deliver a 5G security architecture to expand the mobile ecosystem and enable entirely new business opportunities. It will provide an initial set of security enablers for the core 5G Reference Architecture, a test bed to demonstrate the enablers, and make early contributions to relevant standards bodies.
About ETSI Security week
http://www.etsi.org
Now in its second year, the ETSI security week consists of an IoT Security Workshop running from Monday 13 to Wednesday 15 June 2016 followed by the ETSI Technical Committee CYBER plenary meeting taking place from 15 to 17 June 2016 and the hosted AIOTI Workshop on 16 June.

Superfluidity @ 22nd IEEE LANMAN, June 13-15, 2016 (Rome)
2016-06-13 - 2016-06-15
SUPERFLUIDITY is co-sponsoring the IEEE LANMAN 2016 in Rome, an event dedicated this year to software networks (Adaptive, agile and fluid networking, June 13-15, 2016, Rome).
IEEE LANMAN has an established tradition as a forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in local and metropolitan area networking. Cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and experimentation are solicited in all areas of networking. A further tradition of IEEE LANMAN 2016 consists in identifying, every year, a central theme that is of current interest in our field. This year, the symposium’s central theme is Adaptive, Agile and Fluid networking, a broad topic encompassing autonomic and reconfigurable networking, network function virtualization and software defined networking. This theme reflects recent disruptive innovations in data center networks, enterprise networks, and edge cloud networks. Internet-of-Things is another aspect of the theme to identify new technologies and architectures to support various requirements from different industry sectors, such as smart cities combined with data analytics.
The intimate single-track session format of the symposium encourages stimulating exchanges between researchers. The symposium is expected to be a forum for discussion of new and interdisciplinary ideas on architectures, algorithms, service models, pricing, and performance. Speculative and potentially transformative ideas are particularly encouraged, as are studies reporting measurements from real-life networks and test-beds. Papers are solicited on any LANMAN topic including, but not limited to, the following topics:
-Novel data center network architectures, technologies, and protocols
-Mobile Edge Computing and architecture innovation
-Software defined networking and network function virtualization in the network edge
-Name-to-name communications and name-based abstractions
-Energy-efficiency, reliability, resource allocation, and pricing in data centers
-Wireless access technologies (WiFi, LTE, etc) and their integration in (and extension for) 5G network
-Performance measurement and modeling
-Impact of Internet-of-Things and Machine-to-machine communications
-Access networks for densely located users
-Wired access technologies and architectures including Ethernet in the first mile, EPONs, FTTx, etc.
-Network management related to edge networks
-Local-area and metropolitan-area network security
-LAN-based and MAN-based applications (gaming, distributed computing, media distribution to and in the home, enterprise applications, ambient technology, wearable-computing)
Important dates
-Paper submission deadline: March 7, 2016
-Acceptance notification: April 19, 2016
-Camera-ready submission: May 2, 2016
-Early registration deadline: May 9, 2016
-Symposium dates: June 13-15, 2016
Submission instructions are reported here.

Workshop on Security in Virtualised Networks co-chaired by 5G-Ensure in June 2016
2016-06-09 - 2016-06-10
The IEEE International Workshop on Security in Virtualized Networks (Sec-VirtNet 2016) will be held on June 10th, 2016 in Seoul (South Korea) along with the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2016). Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies fundamentally change the network architecture as well as the way networks (e.g., mobile or transport networks) will be deployed and operated. This new generation of virtualized and multi-tenant networks comes with various promises (e.g., CAPEX and OPEX optimization) but also raises several new security challenges, in particular because network functions will no longer be embedded and thus “protected” within network equipments. Besides, network virtualization also brings various opportunities for security such as the possibility to offer software-based security appliances or Security as a Service.
The Sec-VirtNet 2016 workshop focuses on novel research topics dealing with security in these virtualized networks. Submitted papers should provide theoretical or practical approaches to identify and address the critical security issues of such virtualized networks or, conversely, to exploit these promising virtualization and SDN technologies in order to offer innovative security services.
The workshop is co-chaired by Emmanuel Dotato (Thales France & member of the 5G PPP 5G-ENSURE project), to adverse more widely the invitation to submit papers to the Sec-VirtNet 2016 workshop in conjunction with the NetSoft conference.
About 5G-Ensure:
5G-ENSURE will define and deliver a 5G Security Architecture, shared and agreed by the various 5G stakeholders. It will specify, develop and release an initial set of useful and usable security enablers for 5G.
These enablers will be selected for their relevance in addressing some of the foremost security concerns in order to generate the trust and confidence necessary for 5G to be widely adopted and to deliver its promises through innovative business applications. The 5G-ENSURE project will also initiate a 5G Security testbed vision and initial set-up in which the security enablers will be made available. Moreover, the potential of the developed 5G Security enablers will be showcased and demonstrated in the context of carefully selected 5G security use cases (e.g. use cases related to cybersecurity and aerospace).
Coupled with this, 5G-ENSURE will be closely linked to the overall 5G PPP programme through active participation in common activities and fora. Specifically, 5G-ENSURE will be the project that creates and animates a dedicated 5G PPP Security Working Group to coordinate the various security-related activities.
5G-ENSURE is led by a strong consortium bringing together the appropriate and complementary skills, including standards involvement and deep telco understanding, along with an extensive network of interested parties, and have a proven track-record in coordination.
5G-ENSURE will avail itself of the support of a group of international opinion leaders.
Partners include: VTT Technical Research centre of Finland, THALES Services, Alenia Space & Communications & Security, ALCATEL-LUCENT BELL LABS France, B-COM, ERICSSON, University of Southampton, NEC Europe, NIXU, ORANGE, University of Oxford, SICS, Telecom Italia Information Technology, Trust-it services.
Link to project website / Twitter account:
5G-Ensure: www.5gensure.eu / #5GEnsure
IEEE VirtNet 2016: www.sec-virtnet.org/index.html, @ieee_netsoft #Sec-VirtNet #5gsecurity #SDN
5G PPP 5G-Ensure contact:
Mr. Emmanuel Dotaro, Thalès Group
5G-ENSURE-Contact(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)5g-ppp.eu

5G PPP projects and the automotive @ITS 2016
2016-06-06 - 2016-06-10
5G PPP projects have a information booth at the 11th European ITS Congress 2016 in Glasgow (Scotland, UK) from 6 to 9 June 2016.
This is an major activity for 5G PPP projects since the automotive seems to be the most motivated and mature vertical sector with regards to 5G. The Congress theme is “Delivering Future Cities Now” and is based on Glasgow’s pioneering work on Smart Cities which recently resulted in a GBP24M award and is based on the City’s and Scotland’s long history of innovation in Intelligent Traffic Control which started in 1967 with Europe’s first computerised traffic control system.
ERTICO ITS Europe organises either an ITS World Congress or an ITS European Congress every year. The ITS World Congress rotates between Europe, the Asia Pacific region and the Americas, returning to Europe every three years. The ITS European Congress is held in the years when there is not a World Congress taking place in Europe.

The 11th European ITS Congress 2016 is organised by ERTICO – ITS Europe in partnership with the European Commission, and hosted by Glasgow City Council and Transport Scotland. The Congress will take place from 6 to 9 June at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) which is just a short walk from the City Centre on the banks of the River Clyde.

EU-TW Joint 5G Workshop in Taiwan
2016-06-03 02:30 - 11:30
EU-Taiwan Workshop: Technology Evolution in Future Internet
Date: June 3, 2016 – Taiwan
Venue: MoTC GIS Conference Center
Registration links:
– Enterprise Europe Network (EEN): https://www.b2match.eu/eu-taiwan-2016
– ITRI’s registration link (in Chinese): https://wlsms.itri.org.tw/ForeSignUp/SignUpIndex.aspx?ActGUID=262D1CC3BD
Agenda (draft)

Context and Objectives:
This event follows previous contacts between the EU and Taiwanese administration. Both EU and Taiwan have launched ambitious 5G research and development initiatives and agreed on the targeted opening call in the future internet included in 2016-17 work programs.The event takes place in the context of 5G technology evolution and preparatory consultation for the EU-Taiwan Targeted opening call of the Horizon 2020 programme. The first EU-Taiwan joint 5G Workshop was held by European Commission on October 24, 2014 to explore mutual technical interests.The purpose of this workshop is consequently:
– in the short term, to share information on technology trends and work out joint proposal for EU-TW Targeted Opening Call and expedite the implementation of collaborative projects contributed by partners of the two sides.
– In the mid term, to promote Taiwan and EU collaboration on a regular basis and to contributions to international standards organizations such as ITU-R and 3GPP.

8:30 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 10:30 Opening Remarks – EC & Taiwan
– Representative from BoST, Taiwan
– Representative from EC
– Wei-Hsiang Fu, Director General, DoIT/MoEA, Taiwan (TBC)
– Representative from 5G-PPP, Werner Mohr

10:30 – 10: 50 Coffee Break

10: 50 – 12:10
– Status & Outlook of EU-TW 5G collaboration including Targeted Opening call and participation in international 5G standards (EU, 20 min.)
– Proposal ideas for EU-Taiwan Targeted Opening ICT-08-2017
§ Taiwan (Tzi-cker Chiueh/ITRI, 30 min)
· Highly Coordinated Ultra Dense Network
· Access Convergence for 5G MTC Applications
· 5G RRH Platform, OTA Measurements and Multi-RAT Deployment Tool
· Mobile Edge Computing
· Convergence of 5G/G5 for the SeaPort Of Things
· Real-time virtualization infrastructure for NFV applications
§ EU (30 min)

12:10 – 13:30 Lunch, Networking

13:30 – 15:30 5G Technology Development
– System Implementation (Ericsson/TBA, 30 min)
– Base Station Evolution (Wilhelm Heger/Foxconn, 30 min)
– Standards and Technology Trends (Vincent Wang/Nokia, 30 min)
– Access Technology (Gabriel Lin/MediaTek, 30 min) (TBC)

15:50 – 16:50
– EU: 5G Use cases and Technical Requirements (Laurent Herault/CEA-LETI, 30 min)
– Taiwan: 5G Applications (Mu-Piao Shih/CHT, 30 min)

16:50 – 17:30 Panel Discussion : Towards converged 5G mobile networks — Opportunities and Challenges
Chair: Tzi-cker Chiueh, ITRI
Panellists: Invited speakers

The First Global 5G Event: “Building 5G Technology Ecosystem”
2016-05-31 08:30 - 2016-06-01 17:30
The First Global 5G Event will be held in Beijing, China on May 31 and June 1, 2016.
The theme for this event is “Building 5G Technology Ecosystem” and it will bring together experts from all corners of the globe to discuss that status and progress on 5G through a series of focused session:

Opening Session
Session 1: 5G System Design
Session 2: 5G Air Interface
Session 3: 5G Network & Operation
Session 4: Technologies for 5G Terminals
Session 5: Testing Technologies for 5G
Session 6: 5G and Vertical Industries

This event is organised jointly by the 5 regional organisations involved with the development of 5G.
For more information on the programme and the local Organisation please download the General information of the First Global 5G Event (Updated 17-05-16).
If you wish to register and attend the event please download the Registration Form of the First Global 5G Event here and send the completed form to the mail address on the form.

5G PPP @4th CLEEN workshop (30 May-1 June 2016): How cloudy and green will mobile networks and services be?
2016-05-30 - 2016-06-01
The fourth edition of this workshop is a joint initiative organized by three 5G PPP projects funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020, and it covers common aspects of interest in order meet the need to study new technological trends in mobile communications. In particular, the collaborating projects are: Flex5Gware, 5G NORMA and Speed-5G. The CLEEN (Cloud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Networks) workshop is organised in conjunction with the 11th edition of CrownCom, the International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. It will take place in Grenoble (France) from 30th May to 1st June 2016.
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 virtualization technologies (including Mobile Edge Computing) 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.
Papers are welcome in the following areas:
Centralised/Decentralised PHY and MAC processing
-Flexible assignment of functionality in mobile networks
-Joint operation and optimisation of radio access and backhaul networks for cloud-based mobile networks
-Integration of cloud-services into green hetereogeneous wireless networks
-Management of cloud-based/cloud-operated heterogeneous networks providing access to cloud services
-Energy efficiency vs. QoS vs cost-efficiency trade-offs
-Architectual evolution of mobile networks
-Mobile Edge Computing and related enablers (e.g. new interfaces, protocols, node-to-node communication, D2D communication,…)
-Cost effective deployment stratégies for evolved heterogenous 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
Papers can be submitted online. Information is available here.
Note the following dates:

-Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2016
-Notifications of Acceptance: March 4, 2016
-Final paper (“camera-ready”): March 18, 2016
More information is available here.

Workshop jointly organised by multiple 5G PPP projects at the IEEE ICC 2016
2016-05-23 - 2016-05-27
This workshop on 5G RAN design is jointly organized by the 5th Generation Public Private Partnership (5G PPP) projects METIS-II, FANTASTIC-5G, mmMAGIC and 5G NORMA at the IEEE ICC 2016. It aims to foster the discussion and consensus building on key 5G RAN design aspects. The workshop will provide the opportunity to share and discuss results from the mentioned projects and other 5G research activities, and to elaborate on how the 5G RAN design shall be best taken forth in the standardization which is expected to start in this time frame.
Papers should be submitted before December 4th, 2015. Additional information on paper submission can be found below.
Area/Topics of interest:
The workshop chairs solicit original, unpublished technical papers in particular in the following fields:
– Physical layer concepts related to 5G, as for instance
– waveforms, synchronization, numerology, unified frame structure concepts
– means to obtain ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability
– native support of D2D, V2X, broadcast and multi-cast
– low-complexity massive MIMO solutions and related enablers
– solutions for contention-based access and back-/fronthauling aspects
– 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, tailored to the support of a wider range of service and QoS requirements and novel communication forms such as D2D
– 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 system enablers
– General considerations on the control and user plane design in 5G RAN
Workshop Chairs:
Dr. Patrick Marsch, Nokia Networks
Dr. Didier Bourse, Alcatel-Lucent
Technical Program Committee:
Markus Breitbach, Deutsche Telekom, Daniel Camps, i2CAT, Marco Caretti, Telecom Italia, Aleksandra Checko, Technical University of Denmark, Antonio De Domenico, CEA-LETI Minatec, Guido Dietl, University of Applied Sciences Landshut, Mark Doll, Bell Labs, Catherine Douillard, Institut Mines Telecom – Telecom Bretagne, Michael Einhaus, Panasonic R&D Center Germany, Andreas Georgakopoulos, WINGS ICT Solutions, Christian Ibars, Intel Corporation, Dimitri Ktenas, CEA, Erwu Liu, Tongji University, Nurul Mahmood, Aalborg University, Honglei Miao, Intel Mobile Communication GmbH, Jan Mietzner, Cassidian (EADS), Belkacem Mouhouche, Samsung Electronics Research and Development UK, Klaus Pedersen, Nokia Networks, Sofie Pollin, KU Leuven, Olav Queseth, Ericsson Research, Peter Rost, Nokia Networks, Krystian Safjan, Nokia Networks, Bessem Sayadi, Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs, Berna Sayrac, Orange Labs, Frank Schaich, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Mehrdad Shariat, Samsung R&D Institute UK, Osvaldo Simeone, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Salvatore Talarico, West Virginia University, Kostas Tsagkaris, WINGS ICT Solutions, Peter von Wrycza, Ericsson, Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks Institute, Dirk Wübben, University of Bremen, Gerhard Wunder, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Gerd Zimmermann, Deutsche Telekom
Additional Information:
http://www.5G-ran-design.org
Paper Submission:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21689
Related URLs / Twitter accounts / Hashtags :
https://5gnorma.5g-ppp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WS_CfP_5G-NORMA_rev3.pdf, https://5gnorma.5g-ppp.eu https://twitter.com/5G_NORMA
Important Dates:
– Extended paper submission deadline: December 18th, 2015
– Acceptance notification: February 21, 2016
– Camera-ready papers: March 13, 2016

5G NORMA, 3rd international workshop on 5G architecture @IEEE ICC 2016, Malaysia
2016-05-22 - 2016-05-27
Today’s radio and core network architectures do not provide the required flexibility to cope with requirements from new 5G applications like low latency, high reliability, or deep indoor coverage. The ability to efficiently adapt to these extreme requirements locally is expected to be key for the success of 5G. To address these challenges calls for new end-to-end architectural designs (covering RAN, Core and Transport Networks) based on flexible allocations of functions, Network Function Virtualization and software-defined implementations. Novel End-to-End Network Architecture designs are gaining a lot of attention in 5G for the above reasons, and hence research work in ongoing both in industry and academia. 3GPP standardization starts working on 5G with the first study items on 5G radio and architecture started end of 2015 and early 2016.
This workshop is organized by EU funded project 5G NORMA as part of the 5G Infrastructure Public Private (5G PPP) initiative.
Area/Topics of interest
An unprecedented reengineering of the mobile networking architecture is required if the mobile industry to remain competitive. Mobile data traffic is predicted to increase globally 11-fold between 2013 and 2018, and grow three times faster than fixed IP traffic. The growth in mobile traffic will not be homogenous: busy hour Internet traffic is expected to grow more rapidly than average Internet traffic. The uptake of Machine Type Communication (MTC) services will, in addition, result in locally and over time varying characteristics of the mobile traffic. Thus, a future mobile infrastructure will not only have to support a fast growing overall mobile data volume and a significantly increased number of connected mobile devices at significantly improved energy- and cost efficiencies, but it also has to provide the capability to flexibly adapt to dynamically fluctuating traffic demands (over time, location and characteristics) and a broad range of potentially new service requirements of future service portfolios.
To satisfy the above trends, future 5G networks will have to meet a wide array of diverse and extreme requirements. There will be the need for super fast and reliable connectivity with virtually zero latency for use cases such as remote control of robots, and support for billions of sensors and things. 5G will provide consistent and high quality connectivity for people and things, creating the perception of infinite capacity. Furthermore, 5G networks will combine revolutionary technologies and existing mobile radio generations, as well as Wi-Fi, into a new system. Those technologies and layers will need to be managed as one.
So far, most interest of the research community has been drawn to novel physical layer technologies. However, it is of upmost importance 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 with different timing regarding their introduction, 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 is not enough to design a low latency RAN, latency is an end-to-end factor and hence require the joint design of RAN, Core Network (CN) and Transport Network. Hence, the new End-to-End Architecture will have to be programmable, software driven and managed holistically to enable a diverse range of 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.
This workshop explores, among others, the following novel concepts in the context of novel 5G End-to-End Architectures:
-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
-Convergence of CN and RAN
-SDN for wireless functionality
-Novel mobility management protocols
Workshop co-Chairs
Dr. Simone Redana, Nokia
Dr. Albert Banchs, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Dr. Markus Breitbach, Deutsche Telekom
Important Dates
-Paper submission deadline: December 4, 2015
-Notifications of Acceptance: February 21, 2016
-Final paper (“camera-ready”): March 13, 2016
More information about the 5G NORMA workshop here.
Connect to 5G NORMA
-Webpage: https://5gnorma.5g-ppp.eu/
-YouTube: 5G NORMA project @5G_NORMA
-Facebook: facebook.com/5GNORMA
-https://5g-ppp.eu/
Contact 5G NORMA
5G-NORMA-Contact(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)5g-ppp.eu

3rd 5G PPP Phase 2 Information day and Stakeholders event
2016-05-18 10:00 - 17:00
The Purpose of this work shop is to share the context of the 5G-PPP call 2 with all interested parties. It is important highlight that the ambition of the 5G-PPP is: that each successive phase of the PPP should make iterative progress – based on the achievements of the preceding phase(s). Therefore it is important that potential proposers and participants for phase 2 are aware of phase 1 work and the context in which phase 2 will start. The workshop also allows that organisations may present project or technological ideas and seek potential collaborators.
Full Agenda and presentations are available here: Warsaw, 5g-ppp Phase 2 Infoday 18th May,

NetVis' 2016 co-organised by COHERENT (16-18 May 2016)
2016-05-15 - 2016-05-18
The NetVis’ 2016 workshop on Advances on Network Virtualization for 5G Systems will take place in Thessaloniki (Greece) in conjunction with ICT 2016 (16-18 May 2016).
The 5G PPP COHERENT project is co-organising the workshop.
Scope
5G networks will provide solutions to support a dynamic range of services from different industries, e.g. mobile, energy, automobile, health and manufactory industry. Due to the nature of different industries, the requirements defined by key performance indicators, like peak data rate, average user data rate, latency, energy consumption, service deployment time, are totally different. It is very complex to manage different services in 5G networks. To release to potential of 5G networks to the full support of vertical sectors, advanced technologies like software defined network (SDN), network virtualization, network function virtualization, network slicing and sharing need to be well addressed so as to reshape the network architecture and provide flexible enough network management for 5G networks. It is the purpose of the workshop to disseminate most recent results on these topics.
Moreover, the commoditization of key processing components coupled with virtualization of infrastructure functions will lead to a radical change in the economics of mobile networks. The latter will help network providers (e.g., MNO, MVNO) move from proprietary hardware and software platforms towards open and flexible cellular systems based on general-purpose cloud infrastructures. In this context, 5G systems will see a paradigm shift in three planes: the data-plane, control-plane, and management-plane, in support of higher performance, efficient signalling, flexible and intelligent control and coordination in heterogeneous networks.
Call for papers
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
-Mobile and wireless network architecture based on SDN, cloud computing, mobile edge computing and virtualization technologies
-Network virtualization technologies for RAN, backhaul and core networks
-Software defining and abstracting strategies for network function virtualization in mobile networks
-Network slicing in 5G networks
-Dynamic resource allocation based on wireless network virtualization
-Convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks based on SDN
-Network devices programmability and customizability
-Data center technologies for future wireless networks
-Future wireless network management
-Spectrum management and sharing issues for network virtualization
-Radio and spectrum virtualization
-Network evaluations and testbeds
-Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) & SDN applications and use cases
-Cloud-native radio access networks
-Micro-service architecture and NFV
-Multi-tenancy and RAN sharing
Submission deadline: February 20, 2016
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2016
Camera ready deadline: March 10, 2016
Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers following the rules of the Main Track via EDAS using the direct link (for more information please go here). All accepted, registered and presented papers will be indexed in IEEE Xplore database.
About COHERENT
The COHERENT project is one of 5G PPP projects funded by the European Commission.
It aims to address these problems by researching, developing and validating a novel control framework for future mobile networks. The key innovation of COHERENT is to develop a unified programmable control framework to coordinate the underlying heterogeneous mobile networks as a whole.
Contacts:
-Adrian Kliks (akliks(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)put.poznan.pl)
-Tao Chen (tao.chen(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)vtt.fi)
-Navid Nikaein (navid.nikaein(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)eurecom.fr)
-Kostas Pentikousis (k.pentikousis(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)eict.de)

FANTASTIC-5G workshop on 5G new air interface @VTC Spring 2016
2016-05-15 07:00 - 11:30
FANTASTIC-5G is organising its 2nd annual VTC Sprint workshop on 5G new air interface on May 15, 2016 in Nanjing (China) during VTC Sprint 2016 (May 15-18).
The next generation (5G) cellular technology is expected to arrive in 2020. There are four trends indicating the need for a new generation of cellular technology including new air interface:
– The demand for wireless data is predicted to increase significantly, resulting in 1000x higher mobile data volumes and 10-100x higher end user data rates
– The number of connected devices is predicted to increase by a factor of 10-100, which means that up to 300,000 devices need to be served per access point
– Wireless connectivity will be applied to new use cases that require very reliable connections and mission-critical communication, such as vehicle-to-vehicle coordination, critical control of the power grid, etc.
– Remote presence and tactile Internet that impose stringent latency constraints on the overall connection, including the wireless part of it. Forecasts imply that the latency should be decreased for a factor of 5 in order to enable such services
The air interfaces for 2G, 3G, and 4G were all designed for specific use cases (limited only to to voice and data communications) with a certain number of limited KPIs in mind (throughput, capacity, dropped/blocked call rates etc.). However, as outlined above, 5G requires the support of a much broader class of services and consequently a very diverse family of devices and traffic characteristics.
The scope of the workshop is to contribute to the design of a new 5G air interface taking specifically the above application constraints into account. An important subject of the workshop is the feasibility of a single Golden Air Interface able to support these requirements in a highly flexible manner. New Air Interface solutions on PHY/MAC layer with respect to the following topics shall be addressed (but not limited to):
– Unified frame structure concepts
– Gigabit wireless connectivity
– Enabling scalable MTC for massive machine-type traffic
– Ensuring reliability in mission-critical communication and V2V coordination
– Transmission with very low delay
– Advanced waveform design such as UFMC, FBMC or any other competing approach including MIMO
– Advanced signal processing solutions such as compressed sensing for scalable MTC
– Low-complex massive MIMO solutions (TDD/FDD, pilot contamination, antenna correlations etc)
– Control signaling architecture for support of small cell architecture
– Interference management and co-channel interference mitigation
– Control signaling architecture for support of heterogeneous networks
– Advances in synchronization and channel estimation & equalization for multicarrier waveforms and wideband single-carrier transmission
– Peak to average power ratio (PAPR) reduction techniques, efficient techniques for out-of-band radiation reduction
– Relaying and range extension techniques
– New coding solutions for small resource blocks
– Cross-layer aspects such as coded random access for contention-based access vs scheduled access
– Regulatory and standardization aspects
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission : January 10th, 2016
Author Notification : February 10h, 2016
Final paper submission : March 10th, 2016
Workshop co-chairs
Frank Schaich (Alcatel-Lucent, Germany)
Berna Sayrac (Orange, France)
Martin Schubert (Huawei, Germany)
Gerhard Wunder (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany)
Hao Lin (Orange, France)
Klaus Pederson (Nokia Networks, Denmark)
Musbah Shaat (CTTC, Spain)
Speakers to be confirmed
Nuno Pratas (Aalborg University)
Andreas Georgakopoulos (Wings)
Stephan Saur (Alcatel-Lucent)
Stephan.Pfletschinger (DLR)
Saeed Afrasiabi Gorgani (TU Berlin)
Caretti Marco (Telecom Italia)
Prof. Armin Dekorsy (University Bremen)
Malte Schellmann (Huawei)
Gennaro Boggia (Poliba)
Belkacem Mouhouche (Samsung)
Thorsten Wild (Alcatel-Lucent)
Catherine Douillard (Telecom Bretagne)
Dimitri KTENAS (CEA LETI)
Honglei Miao (Intel)
Mohammed Al-Imari (Samsung)
Juha Karjalainen (Nokia)
Leonardo Gomes Baltar (Intel)

Website
http://workshop2016.fantastic5g.com/
URLs: http://www.fantastic5g.eu
Related Twitter channels / hashtags: https://twitter.com/fantastic5g; #5gppp, #5G
