6G IA

SaT5G and 5GENESIS "Satellite-terrestrial interworking: a pillar of forthcoming 5G systems" WS @IEEE WCNC
2019-04-15 09:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
SaT5G and 5GENESIS are co-organising the Workshop “Satellite-terrestrial interworking: a pillar of forthcoming 5G systems”, with 5GALLSTAR to be held at the IEEE WCNC conference on April the 15th 2019, in Marrakech, Morocco. They now call for papers.
Motivation and scope: Right after the finalization of the 3GPP 5G Phase I specifications and at the verge of the first commercial launches of 5G systems, seamless integration between the satellite- and the cellular system is not yet finalized. The definition of 3GPP 5G Phase II features has just started under the 3GPP Release 16, but it seems that the remaining open points cannot be effectively addressed by the planned new features set, thus shifting to future releases a real satellite-terrestrial integration. Therefore, in order to stress the importance of such integration for the society as well as its business potential, it is key to call the wireless community to prompt action and therefore to organize workshops that can help in sorting out how the satellite and the wireless community can come to a common understanding of how to deliver jointly new interesting services and also add value to existing ones. We claim that without such integration the charter of 5G networks to finally deliver a unique, homogeneous and ubiquitous communication system, capable of satisfying several verticals and different industries, will not be fulfilled.
This workshop aims at discussing recent technology developments, at highlighting still open issues, and at identifying related business opportunities and the market perspectives of a smooth satellite-terrestrial networks integration. Recent theoretical and experimental results, coming out mainly but not only from a few key international research projects, as well as standardization efforts and regulatory bodies matters in the direction of satellite-terrestrial interworking will be discussed and clarified.
Topics: The topics covered by this workshop include, but are not limited to:

Key 5G enhancements of satellite networks
Integration of satellite and terrestrial networks
Verticals benefitting from satellite-terrestrial integration
Use cases and scenarios for satellite-terrestrial integration
Standardization of satellite-terrestrial networks: status and next steps
Regulation of spectrum bands for the joint usage of satellite and terrestrial networks
Testbeds and trials involving satellite-terrestrial integration
Business cases and business models for satellite-terrestrial integration
3GPP and ETSI status of interoperability features among different access technologies

Important dates:

January 10, 2019 Submission of papers
February 15, 2019 Notification of acceptance
March 1, 2019 Camera-ready version of accepted papers

5G-XCast and ONE 5G WS on advanced 5G radio access network features and performance @ IEEE WCNC
2019-04-15 09:00 - 2019-04-19 18:00
5G-XCast and ONE 5G are co-organising a workshop on Advanced 5G radio access network features and performance at IEEE WCNC in Marrakech, Morocco (15-19 April 2019) and call for papers.
Organized by two flagship 5GPPP European projects, 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 un-published research papers in the following and related topics. They could cover traditional mobile broadband or any other new 5G vertical applications.

Featured Topics

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

Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: 10 January, 2019
Paper Acceptance Notification : 15 February, 2019
Camera-Ready: 1 March, 2019
Papers should follow the standard IEEE Conference Template and be submitted through EDAS: https://edas.info/N25115
