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5G: "European roadmap, Global Impact" @EuCNC 2017
2017-06-12 - 2017-06-15
EuCNC 2017 is the 26th edition of a successful series of a technical and scientific conference open to the world research community, sponsored by the European Commission, in the area of Telecommunications, focusing on communication networks and systems, and reaching services and applications. It aims at showcasing the results of the consecutive programmes on R&D and projects co-financed by European programmes, as well as presenting the latest developments in this area. The conference will have regular oral and poster sessions, and well as panels, tutorials, workshops, keynotes, and demos.

Fantastic-5G, Flex5Gware and Speed-5G will jointly organise the “2nd 5G PPP Workshop on 5G Physical Layer Design and Hardware Aspects Below and Above 6 GHz”.
SONATA will participate in a workshop organised under the umbrella of the Software Network Working Group of the 5G PPP. There will be a SME booth with 8 SMEs. Euro-5G will present phase 2 projects.
Cognet and SELFNET are organising the 2nd Network Management, Quality of Service and Security for 5G Networks, where the work of the 5G PPP Working Group on Network Management, Quality of Service and Security will be presented (more info on the workshop site).
CHARISMA, SESAME, COHERENT, VirtuWind, 5G-NORMA, 5GEx, SPEED-5G,SELFNET and mmMAGIC projects are co-organising the “Workshop on Business Models and techno-economic analysis for 5G networks” on June 12th.
5G-CROSSHAUL and 5G-XHAUL are co-organising (with iCIRRUS) a Workshop on “New XHaul solutions for the 5G transport challenge” on June 12th. The Software Network Working Group (SONATA, 5GEx, 5G-CROSSHAUL, SUPERFLUIDITY, CHARISMA, SESAME, SELFNET, VIRTUWIND, COHERENT) is organising a Workshop on “Software Networks and 5G: from network programmability to SDN/NFV combination for effective network slicing” on June 12th.
SESAME, COHERENT, 5G-XHAUL and CHARISMA are preparing a Special Session on ”Development of a Cloud-enabled “Small Cell as a Service” concept, for Multi-Tenancy and Edge Services in the 5G Framework.”
FLEX5GWare and mmMAGIC, with 5G-Champion, 5G-MiEdge are working on a Workshop on “Prototyping the 5th Generation Cellular Wireless Technology”.
mmMAGIC is organising a Workshop on “Millimetre-wave technology for 5G access, fronthaul and backhaul”.
5G-ENSURE organises a workshop on 5G Security on June 12th with the Security WG.
Euro-5G will present phase 2 projects.

Other details will be added when validated.
Papers
Call for papers: Submission deadline: February 24, 2017. Papers for regular sessions (to be uploaded to IEEE Xplore) are invited in the following Tracks (a full list of topics is available here):

PHY – Physical Layer and Fundamentals
RAT – Radio Access Technologies towards 5G
WON – Wireless and Optical Networks
NET – Networking
APS – Applications & Services
TER – Testbeds & Experimental Research

Key dates for papers

February 24, 2017 – Workshop proposals submission deadline
March 17, 2017 – Notification of acceptance
April 21, 2017 – Workshop papers submission
April 21, 2017 – Authors registration deadline

Workshops
Call for workshops: Submission deadline: February 24, 2017. Proposals for Workshops are invited in all Tracks (a full list of topics is available here):

PHY – Physical Layer and Fundamentals
RAT – Radio Access Technologies towards 5G
WON – Wireless and Optical Networks
NET – Networking
APS – Applications & Services
TER – Testbeds & Experimental Research

Workshops may address one or more Tracks, but they should be organised under a unified theme. Workshops are intended to allow projects or any other group of authors to present their own work. Workshops may include invited speakers, papers, and panels. The structure of workshops is not fixed, and proposers may design it as they think best. Proposers are responsible for defining the full contents of the Workshop, namely the authors and presenters. It is not expected that open calls for papers are launched for Workshops, in order to attract authors or presenters. Workshop papers can be either Presentations, Extended Abstracts (2 pages) or Full Papers (5 pages), and should be reviewed by the Workshop Technical Programme Committee. These papers will be part of the Conference Proceedings (if the authors wish to do so), but they will not be submitted to IEEE Xplore.
Key dates for workshops

February 24, 2017 – Workshop proposals submission deadline
March 17, 2017 – Notification of acceptance
April 21, 2017 – Workshop papers submission
April 21, 2017 – Authors registration deadline

Special sessions
Call for special sessions: Submission deadline: February 24, 2017. Proposals for Special Sessions are invited in all Tracks (a full list of topics is available here):

PHY – Physical Layer and Fundamentals
RAT – Radio Access Technologies towards 5G
WON – Wireless and Optical Networks
NET – Networking
APS – Applications & Services
TER – Testbeds & Experimental Research

Special Sessions may address one or more Tracks, but they should be organised under a unified theme. Special Sessions are intended to allow projects or any other group of authors to present their own work. Special Sessions may include one invited speaker, besides papers. Proposers are responsible for defining the full contents of the Special Session, namely the authors and presenters. It is not expected that open calls for papers are launched for Special Sessions, in order to attract authors or presenters. Special Sessions papers can be either Extended Abstracts (2 pages) or Full Papers (5 pages), and should be reviewed by the Special Sessions organisers. These papers will be part of the Conference Proceedings, but they will not be submitted to IEEE Xplore.
Key Dates for special sessions

February 24, 2017 – Workshop proposals submission deadline
March 17, 2017 – Notification of acceptance
April 21, 2017 – Workshop papers submission
April 21, 2017 – Authors registration deadline

Posters
Call for posters: Submission deadline: March 20, 2017. Extended Abstracts for Poster Sessions are invited in the following Tracks (a full list of topics is available here):

PHY – Physical Layer and Fundamentals
RAT – Radio Access Technologies towards 5G
WON – Wireless and Optical Networks
NET – Networking
APS – Applications & Services
TER – Testbeds & Experimental Research

Extended Abstracts for Poster Sessions are intended for the presentation of initial results worthwhile showing to the community. Poster Sessions will be held during the normal conference days, with dedicated time-slots, i.e., there will not be any parallel sessions to them.
Key Dates for posters

March 20, 2017 – Extended Abstracts submission deadline
April 10, 2017 – Notification of acceptance
April 21, 2017 – Extended Abstracts final version submission
April 21, 2017 – Authors registration deadline

This year’s conference motto is “5G: European Roadmap, Global Impact”.
The conference is sponsored by IEEE ComSoc (Communications Society) and EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing).
The conference is organised by the Coordination and Support Action EuConNeCts 2, Project H2020-ICT-2014-1-645 028.
Stay tuned here!

2nd WS on 5G PHY/MAC layers Design and Hardware Aspects @EuCNC 2017
2017-06-12 07:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Berlin)
FANTASTIC5G, Speed5G, Flex5GWare are organising the 2nd edition of the 5G PPP workshop on 5G PHY/MAC Layers Design and Hardware Aspects Below and Above 6 GHz on June 12th at 1:30 pm, in Oulu, Finland @EuCNC.
The air interfaces for 2G, 3G, and 4G were all designed for specific use cases (limited only to voice and data communications) with a certain number of limited KPIs in mind (throughput, capacity, dropped/blocked call rates, etc.). However, 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 this workshop is to find the major conclusions and results of the FANTASTIC-5G, SPEED-5G and Flex5GWare projects on the design of the new 5G air interface below 6 GHz account that supports all such application constraints. This will specifically include the specific findings regarding 5G new waveforms, flexible air interface for the 5G vertical market, coexistence issues, flexible and adaptive novel MAC design, and a much more dynamic management of the available spectrum resources and advanced sensing techniques. In addition, the workshop will present enabling technology solutions for massive machine-type communication, ultra-reliable communications as well as interference mitigation with FDD and TDD providing 7-10x higher spectral efficiency over LTE 4×4 outcome. Eventually, the workshop will highlight implementation issues of the new 5G air interface for bands below and above 6 GHz, which will pose stringent requirements on the hardware platforms. For this reason, an important topic in this workshop is related to new concepts and solutions for highly performant, energy efficient and flexible hardware (both analogue and digital) in 5G networks.
The agenda is as follows:
-Keynote on “New PHY/MAC directions in 5GPPP”, Harish Viswanathan, Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill (USA)
-Talk 1: “FANTASTIC-5G Achievements & Next Steps”, Frank Schaich, Nokia Bell Labs, Stuttgart (Germany)
-Talk 2: “FANTASTIC-5G Massive MTC solutions”, Gerhard Wunder, FU Berlin (Germany)
-Keynote on “The SPEED-5G Vision on a flexible and effective 5G access stratum”, Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, Surrey (UK)
Coffee Break
-Talk 3: “Advanced flexible MAC for 5G and beyond”, Valerio Frascolla, Intel (Germany)
-Talk 4: “Interfaces towards upper layers: the RRM for 5G”, Keith Briggs, BT (UK)
-Keynote on “Why Will Computing Power Need Particular Attention in Future Wireless Devices?”, Aarne Mämmelä, VTT, (Finland)
-Talk 5: “Flexible solution for 5G baseband processing”, Tapio Rautio, VTT (Finland)
-Talk 6: “Enabling energy-awareness via function partitioning and bandwidth adaptation in 5G”, Miquel Payaró, CTTC (Spain)

Organising committee:
Frank Schaich, Alcatel-Lucent, frank.schaich(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)alcatel-lucent.com
Salah Eddine Elayoubi, Orange, salaheddine.elayoubi(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)orange.com
Gerhard Wunder, Heinrich Hertz Institute, gerhard.wunder(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)hhi.fraunhofer.de
Michael Färber, Intel Deutschland, michael.faerber(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)intel.com
Tapio Rautio, VTT, tapio.rautio(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)vtt.fi
Miquel Payaró, CTTC, miquel.payaro(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)cttc.es
Valerio Frascolla, Intel Deutschland, Valerio.frascolla(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)intel.com

COHERENT demo @EuCNC 2017
2017-06-12 07:00 - 2017-06-15 16:00
The COHERENT demo will show several important aspects developed from the COHERENT project, including the RAN slicing and flexible radio resource management in heterogeneous radio access networks. The COHERENT project aims to develop a unified control and coordination framework for 5G heterogeneous radio access networks (RANs), with the emphasis on software defined networking (SDN) for RAN programmability, in particular efficient radio resource modelling and management, and flexible spectrum management.
The objective of the demo is to show the novel concept of the Heterogeneous RAN slicing developed in the COHERENT project. The RAN slicing concept will be based on the OpenAirInterface platform developed by the partner EURECOM, and the 5G-EmPOWER platform developed by the partner CREATE-NET. RAN slicing is an important concept in 5G to support multi-tenancy. The demo will showcase a solution provided by a newly introduced coordination framework, new RAN control components, and the combination of SDN and network function virtualization (NFV) to enable flexible and programmable network slicing in RAN.
The demo will show how to slice a cloudified radio access network that consists of a fronthaul segment between the remote radio unit (RRU) and radio cloud center (RCC) and a backhaul segment between the RCC/eNB and the RAN controller. Through the separation of the RAN control and data plane coupled with the virtualized control functions and control delegation features, real-time control and coordination applications can be implemented in support of fine-grain RAN programmability. This allows different levels of coordination among RAN infrastructure elements by dynamic placement of virtual control functions following SDN and NFV principles for adapting control over time and for easing network evolution to the future. The setup of the demo by the OpenAirInterface platform is shown below:

Similarly, for the Wi-Fi segment the demo based on the 5G-EmPOWER platform will show how custom resource allocation schemes can be deployed with a slice. This is done starting from a slice template containing the slice definition and the associated resource allocation policy. The underlying system enforces strict performance isolation between mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) and ensures efficient resource utilization across the network in spite of the nondeterministic nature of the wireless medium. The Setup of the demo is depicted in the figure below:
