6G IA

5G-IA / NetWorld2020 co-Workshop on 22.10.20 @10:00-12:00 CEST
2020-10-22 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Berlin)
5G-IA and NetWorld2020 are hosting the webinar Driving innovation in Healthcare with 5G and Smart Networks on 22.10.2020 to help define short and mid-term priorities for the adoption of 5G and smart networks in healthcare. Senior medical professionals and experts from the teleommunications industry are coming together in a constructive dialogue to discuss on-going trials and pilots in healthcare using 5G technologies.
Senior medical professionals and experts from the telecommunications industry are coming together in a constructive dialogue to discuss on-going trials and pilots in healthcare using 5G technologies.
Taking stock of the benefits and expected impacts from early pilots, the panellists will engage in a discussion on future priorities with a view to fostering further public and private investments in the sector, defining future research and innovation focus, with end-user validation high on the agenda.
Registration is open here.

Panellists

Prof. Dr Med. Christoph Thuemmler, Clinician at Helios Klinikum Leipzig & 5G Health Association
Dr Med. Sabina Magalini, Senior Surgeon, Gemelli University Hospital
Dr Priyantha Jayawardane, Deputy Director, Digital Innovation Unit – NHS Midlands and Lancashire
Ju Liu, Huawei
Donal Morris, CEO, RedZinc
Prof. Maziar Nekovee, University of Sussex and Vice-Chair of NetWorld2020 ETP

Hosts

Prof. Maziar Nekovee, University of Sussex and Vice-Chair of NetWorld2020 ETP
Dr Raffaele De Peppe, TIM and Chair of the 5G-IA Verticals Task Force
Stephanie Parker, Trust-IT and FULL5G

IoRL online Workshop @IEEE BSMB 2020
2020-10-26 09:00 - 16:30
IoRL will present its key achievements at a workshop as part of the IEEE Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2020 conference. Due to the Covid-19 situation, both the IEEE Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2020 conference and the IoRL workshop will be held on-line. Further information is available at https://bmsb2020.isep.fr/

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The Internet of Radio-Light (IoRL) project develops a safer, more secure, customizable and intelligent building network that reliably delivers increased throughput (greater than 10Gbps) from access points pervasively located within buildings, whilst minimizing interference and electromagnetic field exposure and providing location accuracy of less than 10 cm. It thereby shows how to solve the problem of broadband wireless access in buildings and promotes the establishment of a global standard in ITU. This workshop presents the system architecture and its sub-systems, innovative virtual network functions and user applications and the system key performance results.

5G-VINNI/Telenor @3rd Nordic Conference on ICT: 5G for Industry & Society
2020-11-05 10:30 - 2020-11-06 16:30
NTNU, SINTEF, Telenor Research and 5G-VINNI invites to a 2-day virtual conference to discuss the changes, challenges, and opportunities the Telco Industry will face in their journey to commercialize 5G for industry and society. The event will be live-streamed.

The agenda is available here.
You can also register online here.

5G PPP Webinar: 5G for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM)
2020-11-06 10:00 - 12:45
INTRODUCTION:
This webinar was run in two parts with a short introduction from the European commission to start – Over 170 people attended the webinar.
The first part showed the ongoing CCAM work and the white paper produced by the three H2020-ICT-18-2018 5G PPP corridor projects:
5G-MoBiX, 5G-CARMEN and 5GCroCo ;

The CCAM white paper introduces the scope, use cases, trial sites and particularities of each of the three H2020-ICT-18-2018 5G PPP corridor projects: 5GCroCo, 5G-CARMEN and 5G-MoBiX. These projects address a number of technical, organizational, business and administrative challenges that the provision of CCAM functionality over 5G connectivity poses in highway and national border (corridors) environments. The projects are performing 5G-enabled Autonomous Driving AD trials at national border conditions and are drawing useful insights regarding the challenges and opportunities of provisioning 5G-enabled CCAM services in cross-border conditions. This white paper, a joint effort by the three projects, presents their preliminary results, based on currently available technological enablers, with the capacity to mitigate and/or resolve the above mentioned challenges. It also identifies and elaborates on the main concerns and challenges arising from deploying advanced CCAM use cases at regional borders.
The second part introduced the new CAM related Projects under the 5G-PPP ICT-53-2020 call:
5GBlueprint, 5GMED, 5G-ROUTES and 5GRail.

The challenge for the ICT-53 projects is to qualify and characterise the latest version of 5G specifications as available from 3G PP release 16 early 2020 (5G NR-V2X and beyond) in the context of advanced use cases deployment in Europe of CAM that may also benefit from Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. It targets use cases beyond C-ITS safety applications in view of enabling use cases in the context of complete connectivity-enabled ecosystems around cars and vehicles. It supports the realisation of the strategic objective of having all major transport paths covered with 5G connectivity by 2025 through cross-border trials along major transport paths planned for CAM deployment (“5G corridors”) and paves the way towards operational deployment as envisaged with the Connecting Europe Facility proposal. The work is also relevant to cross border railway corridors in view of providing services to trains, including in the context of the planned Future Railways Mobile Communication Systems (FRMCS) planned to replace GSM-R around 2030.
AGENDA:

Part 1: ICT 18 & CCAM White Paper
CCAM Webinar Video Part 1

10:00 – 10:10
Introduction/Welcome
European Commission welcome: Jorge Pereira
Organiser intro: Kostas Trichias, WINGS ICT Solutions

10:10 – 10:30
5G-MOBIX
Kostas Trichias, WINGS ICT Solutions

10:30 – 10:50
5G-CARMEN 5G-CARMEN Video
Andreas Heider-Aviet, Deutsche Telekom

10:50 – 11:10
5GCroCo
Antonio Fernández Barciela, PSA

11:10 – 11:30
Q & A

Part 2: Introducing the ICT 53 Projects
CCAM Webinar Video Part 2

11:30 – 11:45
5G Blueprint
Johann Marquez-Barja, IMEC

11:45 – 12:00
5GMed
Raül González Prats, Cellnex Telecom

12:00 – 12:15
5G-ROUTES
Urmas Ruuto , Ericsson

12:15 – 12:30
5GRail 5GRail Video
Jean-Michel Evanghelou, UIC

12:30 – 12:45
Q & A

5G Techritory - 3rd annual Baltic Sea Region 5G ecosystem forum
2020-11-11 - 2020-11-12
The 5G Techritory platform is an initiative to bring together every aspect of 5G for a faster and more swift implementation and commercialization of 5G to increase the pace of economic development in the Baltic Sea Region.
The 5G Techritory Forum 2020 will be the third-annual event bringing together the leading minds in 5G deployment in the Baltic Sea Region. The 2020 Forum is projected to assemble 800+ of the leading decisionmakers in policy, business, and infrastructure to increase collaboration and reinforce commitment to joint development.
Go check the event website and the agenda here.
You can register here.

5G EVE Webinar – Italian Site Demo
2020-11-18 14:30 - 16:30
In this two-hour webinar we will present 5G EVE’s Italian site. It includes the “Innovation Mile” in Turin, which is served by the TIM commercial network and is connected to the indoor facilities on the premises of TIM and Politecnico di Torino/ CNIT – National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications. In the webinar we will demonstrate three vertical use cases deployed in the Italian site: Smart Transport, Smart City, and Smart Tourism.

Participation in the training webinar is free and requires registration. The registration deadline is 16th November 2020.

Further information and online registration are available via the 5G EVE Webinar Page:
https://www.5g-eve.eu/event/5g-eve-webinar-italian-site-demo/

“Beyond 5G Evolution” webinar co-organized by 5GROWTH, 5G-DIVE and EMPOWER
2020-11-19 15:00 - 18:00
In this webinar, different topics relevant for beyond 5G/6G architectures will be descussed. While the standardization of 5G is still being finalized, there are already topics and features that are starting to be associated with the future generation of mobile networks. Three outstanding speakers, very knowledgeable in the field of 5G and beyond, will touch upon different angles of how future network architectures will look.
This webinar is co-organized by 5Growth, 5G-DIVE and EMPOWER EU H2020 projects.

Chair: Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano (UC3M). 5GROWTH project coordinator
Talks:
Role of 5GPPP Architecture WG toward B5G/6G System
Ömer Bulakci (Nokia Bell Labs)
On the path to 6G: Target Capabilities and Technology Trends
Alain Mourad (InterDigital Labs)
Network architectures for 5G and beyond
Josep Mangues (CTTC)

More details on the agenda and registration available at:
https://electronics-2.sciforum.net/

ETSI Free Virtual Event: Boosting the Impact of Research and Innovation through Standardization – 24-25 November 2020
2020-11-24 09:45 - 2020-11-25 12:45
The ETSI virtual event, “Boosting the Impact of Research & Innovation through Standardization”, organized in partnership with TelecomTV regroups the most significant actors involved in this ICT framework and examines together what more can be done as we move beyond 5G deployments and begin researching new technologies and use cases for the 6G era.
The ETSI virtual event includes much online content, interviews, status presentations and also several possibilities for the audience to interact with the expert speakers and panellists. The event will run over 24 and 25 November 2020.
Chrystel Gaber (Orange and INSPIRE-5Gplus) will make a presentation on “How research projects impact security standards: the example of INSPIRE-5Gplus”. In the talk the INSPIRE-5Gplus approach aiming at a radical shift in security management by designing and implementing a fully automated end-to-end smart network and service management framework that empowers not only protection but also trustworthiness and liability in managing 5G network infrastructures across multi-domains will be presented. In addition, it will be presented how the project and its results can be exploited by contributing to the ETSI NFV-SEC standard.
The detailed Conference Programme and speakers’ biographies are available on the TelecomTV site.

COREnect Workshop - Building European technological sovereignty
2020-11-26 13:30 - 15:30
The COREnect project is organising its 1st workshop, entitled “Building European technological sovereignty in 5G and beyond”, that will be held in co-location with the EFECS2020 conference, on November 26th, from 13.30 to 15.30 CET. This is an opportunity for the Key Digital Technologies (KDT) and the Smart Network and Services (SNS) communities to come together, and elaborate a joint technology roadmap for European microelectronics and telecommunications industries.
Components for the next generations of telecommunications systems and services need to be more and more performant, reliable, trustworthy, and environment-friendly.
COREnect is drafting a roadmap to consider how to create a European industrial ecosystem that will build core technologies for future connectivity systems in the next 5 to 10 years. Join high-level experts from industry and research, from the European Components and Systems and from the Networks and Services domains, to exchange your view on such an ambitious target, at strategic, technological, and societal levels.
Participants already confirmed include experts from Bosch, Infineon, NXP, ST, Ericsson, Nokia, CEA, IMEC, and TU Dresden.
Important note: registration in EFECS2020 is mandatory to attend the workshop. Under certain conditions, COREnect invites professionals from organisations that are members of 5G IA, NetWorld2020, AIOTI, CISPE.cloud, NESSI, Photonics21, BDVA, euRobotics, and EuroHPC to request a free EFECS registration at the dedicated COREnect EFECS workshop registration desk, Free tickets will be distributed on a first-come first-serve basis, with a deadline on November 8th, 17.00 CET.
Check free ticket eligibility.

Full5G Webinar on 3GPP Release 18 - Opportunities for Industry Verticals
2020-11-30 15:00 - 17:00
Monday 30 November 2020, 15:00-17:00 CET
This 2-hour webinar is for anyone interested in finding out more about what 5G means for industry verticals in the rapidly advancing digitisation of many sectors, with insights on automotive, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, media and broadcasting:

5G Automotive Association (5GAA) [https://5gaa.org/]
5G Alliance for Connected Industry and Automation (5G-ACIA) [https://www.5g-acia.org/]
European Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC) [https://eutc.org/]
5G Media Action Group (5G-MAG) [https://www.5g-mag.com/]
5G Health Association (5G HA) [https://5g-health.org/]; White Paper (July 2020) https://5g-health.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/5G-Health-Whitepaper-V1.pdf

It is a key opportunity to hear from top-level experts in 3GPP [https://www.3gpp.org/] with the Chairmen from SA (Service and System Aspects) and RAN (Radio Access Network) on hand as we delve into new requirements for Release 18, presenting opportunities and giving practical guidance on what’s involved.
The industry verticals present their viewpoints and requirements before taking part in an interactive discussion with the 3GPP Chairmen.

Panellists

Georg Mayer, 3GPP TSG SA Chairman
Balazs Bertenyi, 3GPP TSG RAN Chairman
Maxime Flament, 5GAA CTO and member insights
Michael Bahr, Siemens and 5G-ACIA
Julian Stafford, EUTC with Erik Guttman, Samsung
Jordi Gimenez, 5G-MAG
Prof Dr Med Christoph Thuemmler, Helios Park Klinikum Leipzig and 5G HA

Hosts: Stephanie Parker and John Favaro, Trust-IT and Full5G
Participants will find out how they can benefit from 5G standardisation, see the benefits of being part of 3GPP and/or an industry association, and joining forces on common requirements and priorities to help deliver on the promises of 5G.

The webinar builds on over two years of engagement between 3GPP and verticals, first through workshops and now through a webinar series co-organised by 5G-IA, 5G-ACIA, 5GAA and PSCE with a view to lowering barriers to 5G standardisation for any sector wishing to come on board.

ICT 2020: Leading the Digital Age
2020-12-01 08:00 - 2020-12-03 17:00
The European Commission, together with the German Presidency and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is proud to bring you “ICT 2020: Leading the Digital Age”, taking place in Cologne, Germany.
At the start of a new EU MFF (2021-2027), ICT 2020 will present collaboration opportunities offered by Horizon Europe (HE) and the Digital Europe Programme (DEP).
ICT 2020 will host a high-level policy conference, an interactive exhibition of EU-funded projects in the field of ICT, numerous networking opportunities and much more! It is a unique occasion to bring together 5 000 researchers, innovators and engineers from all ICT fields, policy and business decision makers, as well as investors and venture capitalists.
5G PPP projects will be there. Additional information will be disclosed soon.

Tech Talk "5G & Verticals"
2020-12-01 12:00 - 13:00
The Tech Talk “5G & Verticals” organised by Comunicare Digitale and DIME Comunicaciones will take place tomorrow, December 1st, 2020 from 12.00 to 1.00 pm.
Live will be available on the Forum Europeo Digitale website and on Comunicare Digitale social channels as YouTube.

Speakers:

Colin WILLCOCK 5G-IA
Jordi GIMENEZ 5G-MAG

Francesco SACCO Bocconi

Panagiotis DEMESTICHAS Wings ICT

Ioannis NEOKOSMIDIS InCITES

5G-DRIVE 2nd webinar on roadmapping 5G technologies and services
2020-12-03 10:15 - 10:55
5G-DRIVE is organising its second webinar in 2020, taking place on December 3rd at 10h15 CET, through GotoWebinar.
In this webinar, participants will have the chance to better understand the current status of 5G technologies, in particular Radio Access and Transport Network technologies, as well as Network Slicing.
For more information on the speakers, full agenda and registration, kindly check the following link: https://5g-drive.eu/webinar/2020-12-03/

5G-HEART webinar series: Webinar #2 – Transport vertical trials
2020-12-04 10:00 - 11:15
5G for Advanced Automotive Use Cases: benefits and early learnings
Date: 04 December 2020
Time: 10:00 – 11.15 GMT
Venue: Online

Draft programme:
10:00 – 10:10: Welcome and Introduction.
Faouzi Bouali, Research Fellow, 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom.

10:10 – 10:25: Benefits and experiences of ‘adding’ 5G to a Smart Junction.
Bastiaan Wissingh, Senior Scientist, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, the Netherlands.

10:25 – 10:40: Tele-operation Vehicle Support in 5G: Challenges & First Lessons from 5G-HEART.
Vasileios Karyotis, Research Associate, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece.

10:40 – 10:55: Enhancing road traffic safety with ubiquitous driver monitoring and connected vehicles: The Human Tachograph approach.
Jarno Pinola, Senior Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland.

10:55 – 11:15: Questions and Answers. Closing.

Register in this link by 1st Dec 2020.

IEEE Global Communications Conference 2020
2020-12-07 - 2020-12-11 | Virtual EuCNC 2020: “The Connectivity Revolution”
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS
SECTION I: Workshop Information
Workshop Number: WS-15
Workshop Title: Early deployments of 5G network features and performance.
Workshop Organizer(s):

Simon Fletcher (Realwireless, UK)
Belkacem Mouhouche (Samsung R&D Institute UK)
Roman Odarchenko (Bundleslab, Hungary)

Email Address of Organizer(s):
simon.fletcher(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)real-wireless.com
b.mouhouche(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)samsung.com
roman(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)bundleslab.com
Workshop Scope:
5G systems have been under study for about a decade with the intent of meeting stringent technical KPIs to the benefit of the wireless industry but also and importantly for a diverse set of use cases in the “verticals” or industry sectors. 3GPP has finalised the first release of 5G (Rel’15) and is actively working on Rel’16 targeting acceptance into the IMT-2020 framework. With the current state of the standardisation, the many trials around the world and the early network deployment, an initial assessment of the 5G solutions can be carried out. In particular, a useful comparison can now be done between the initial vision developed at the beginning of the decade and the emerging commercial solutions. Furthermore, the challenges that remain to be addressed can be discussed in several verticals both in unicast and multicast/broadcast contexts (VR, AR, IoT, Multimedia, Health).
Organized by one flagship 5GPPP European project, this workshop will bring together the leading names in industry, academia and research institutes to discuss and debate the latest developments in this area. It offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this field to disseminate their results in all radio related aspects of 5G communications to a diverse audience. The workshop invites authors to submit original and previously unpublished research papers in the following and related topics. They could cover traditional mobile networks or any other new 5G vertical applications.

SECTION II: Topics of Interest

5G channel modelling and measurements
Novel channel estimation techniques
5G antenna design and prototyping
Multiple antenna techniques, incl. MIMO, Massive MIMO and Beamforming
Control and implementation aspects for Massive MIMO and Beamforming
Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) schemes, code design.
Efficient Transceiver architectures and design
5G air interface/ waveform design and optimizations
Advanced radio link management, incl. efficient signalling and control
Hardware impairments – modelling and impact analysis
5G co-ordinated cells incl. NR-CoMP
Heterogeneous networks
Advanced Channel coding, waveform and Non-Uniform modulation
Layered-Division Multiplexing
Next generation of broadcasting systems
Convergence of broadcasting and broadband wireless
5G system prototyping, PoC efforts
5G deployment results
5G security

SECTION III: Important Dates
Deadline for paper submission: 15 July 2020
Date for notification: 1 September 2020
Deadline for final paper submission: 1 October 2020

SECTION IV: List of Committee Members
TPC chairs:

Manuel Fuentes (Polytechnic University of Valencia, mafuemue(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)iteam.upv.es)
Panagiotis Demestichas (WINGS, pdemest(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)wings-ict-solutions.eu)

TPC Members:

Diego Gonzalez (Samsung R&D, UK)
David Gutierrez (Samsung R&D, UK)

Albert Banchs, (UC3M, Spain)
Yannis Gravezas(Samsung R&D, UK)

De Mi (University of Surrey, UK)
Manuel Fuentes (UPV, Spain)

Maxim Iavich (Caucasus University, Georgia)
Yousef Ibrahim Daradkeh (Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, KSA)

Jugoslav Achkoski (Military Academy “General Mihailo Apostolski”, North Macedonia)
Galini Tsoukaneri (Samsung R&D, UK)

Marek Aleksander (High State Vocational School, Nowy Sacz)
Jamil Al-Azzeh (Al-Balqa University, Jordan)

Jordi Joan Gimenez (IRT, Germany)
Nurgul Seilova (Satbayev University, Kazakhstan)

Roman Odarchenko (Bundleslab, Hungary)
Saulius Japertas (Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania)

Zhengbing Hu (Central China Normal University, PRC)
Yevgeniya Sulema (Bundleslab, Hungary)

Sergiy Gnatiuk (National aviation university, Ukraine)
Tetiana Okhrimenko (National aviation university, Ukraine)

Daniel Corujo (Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal)
Taras Maksymyuk (Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine)

More information in the IEEE GLOBECOM site.
