6G IA

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

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

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

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