6G IA

5G PPP @Cloudscape Brazil
2018-07-25 14:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Cooperation activities on 5G are heating up and Brazil for the CloudScape Brazil event to be held on 25 July 2018 in Natal, Brazil.
5G PPP will be there through:

EU-Brazil 5G initiative: ATMOSPHERE, 5GINFIRE features in the session entitled “Triggering new digital markets”. 5G-RANGE features in the session on “Excellence in ICT cooperation”.
5G PPP has also contributed to two position papers. The first one comes from the SME Working Group, the second one from Global5G.org on selected verticals.

CfP open for NGPaaS workshop on '5G Cloud Native Design'
2018-07-09 17:00 - 2018-07-12 02:00
The NGPaaS Phase 2 project organises a Workshop on ‘5G Cloud Native Design’ within the framework of IEEE 5G WF 2018 Conference (9-11 July 2018, Santa Clara, CA USA). The workshop is also endorsed by the 5G PPP Software Network working group. The Call for Papers is open.

Scope and Motivation
While bare metal deployment of applications seems fraught with problems and risk, the virtualization revolution, i.e. a layer of abstraction on top of the hardware, is transforming 5G software in “everything is a service”, that leads the Telco industry to cloud-native architectures. Cloudification refers to Platform as a Service (PaaS) on top of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). PaaS is a platform that hides infrastructure details – typically IaaS details – from application development, build, ship, and deployment. PaaS promises to deliver network services and applications with higher agility and performance through “ancillary services” – scalability, high availability, state management, controllers, orchestrator… – provided once by the PaaS. Developers and service providers can therefore concentrate on their applications and businesses and improve time to market. An ideal 5G PaaS should not only facilitate building, shipping and running virtual network functions (VNF) with “telco-grade” quality, it should also combine those VNF with all sorts of third-party applications (from start-ups, FOSS, Verticals…) for creating new more versatile and powerful cloud objects breaking silos between connectivity and computing.
As 5G should be designed and implemented to run on public and/or private IaaS installations, the term “cloud-native 5G” describes the technology transformation that will essentially make 5G a platform. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
-Carrier-grade PaaS
-Intent based programming
-RAN microservices design
-Platform abstraction and API
-Open-source software and tools experimentation in cloud-native 5G
-Cloud-RAN Architecture, functional aspects, design issues and protocols
-Analysis, modelling and characterization of Cloud-RAN systems
-5G testbed implementation and deployment
-Virtualization technologies for cloud-native platforms
-Software defined hardware accelerators (FPGA, GPU)
-New DevOps models with performance and quality enhancements
-Distributed management system e.g. decentralized OSS
-Multi-service and multi-tenancy and network slicing
-High availability (resiliency, self-healing, redundancy)
-Design principles and best practices for 5G application development
-Analytics based policy
-Automation
Do not miss the keynote speech on Platform transformation by George Glass (BT, UK)!
Important dates
-Paper Submission Deadline: extended to 14 April 2018
-Notification of Acceptance: 30 April 2018
-Camera Ready Paper: 15 May 2018
Contact: Bessem Sayadi, bessem.sayadi(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)nokia-bell-labs.com
Additional information here.
Submit here.

5G-XCast @ IEEE 5G World Forum'18
2018-07-09 17:00 - 2018-07-12 02:00
5G-XCast is organising the Media and Entertainment Workshop “Disrupting Media and Entertainment in the 5G Era” at the IEEE 5G World Forum 2018 (Santa Clara, California, 9-11 July 2018).

Keynotes speakers:
-Mauricio Aracena, Ericsson
-Diego González Zúñiga, PhD (diekus), Samsung
-Jyri Huopaniemi, Nokia Technologies
Co-chairs:
Dr. Athul Prasad, NOKIA Bell Labs
-Dr. David Gomez Barquero, Universitat Politècnica de València
-Dr. Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu
-Dr. Belkacem Mouhouche, Samsung Research
Steering Committee:
-Edgar Auslander, Facebook
-Dr. Mikko A. Uusitalo, NOKIA Bell Labs
-Prof. Muriel Medard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-Dr. Andreas Kunz, Lenovo
-Darko Ratkaj, European Broadcasting Union
-Dr. Roland Beutler, SWR
-Dr. Amitav Mukherjee, Verizon Wireless
-Matthew Stagg, EE

About 5G-XCast
The 5G-Xcast project is focused on Broadcast and Multicast Communication Enablers for the 5G of Wireless Systems. The project will develop point-to-multipoint (PTM) communication capabilities for 5G. The technology solutions will primarily target the technical requirements of the Media & Entertainment (M&E) vertical. 5G-Xcast brings the M&E vertical into 5G-PPP, bringing together for the first time major and small and medium size players from mobile/fixed/broadcast industries.
