6G IA

5G-CORAL @1st Workshop on Edge and Fog Systems for 5G & Beyond (IWEF)
2018-04-15 09:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
5G-CORAL co-organises the First International Workshop on Edge and Fog Systems for 5G & Beyond (IWEF). It will be held in Barcelona, Spain on April 15, 2018 in conjunction with IEEE WCNC 2018.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Prof. Ying-Dar Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Prof. Ying-Dar Lin is a distinguished professor of Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Taiwan. He is an IEEE Fellow, an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2014~2017), and a research associate of ONF. He has been the editor-in-chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials since 2017 and is currently on the editorial boards of many IEEE journals. He has co-chaired symposia at IEEE Globecom’13 and IEEE ICC’15.
Dr. Arturo Azcorra, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain
Dr. Arturo Azcorra is currently full professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and is also an IEEE Senior Member and an ACM SIGCOMM Member. He has served as a TPC member in many international conferences, including several editions of IEEE PROMS, IDMS, QofIS, ACM CoNEXT and IEEE INFOCOM.
Dr. Alain Mourad, InterDigital Europe Ltd, UK
Dr. Alain Mourad is currently leading the research and development of Next-Generation RAN at InterDigital Europe Ltd. Prior to joining InterDigital, Alain was a Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics R&D (UK) and previously a Senior Engineer at Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe (France). Throughout his career, he has been active in the research and standardization of recent wireless communication and broadcasting systems (3GPP-LTE, WiMAX 16m, DVB-T2/NGH, ATSC 3.0). Alain has several inventions and authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications. He received the Inventor of the Year Award from Samsung Electronics R&D UK twice in 2012 and 2013, and in 2016 InterDigital Non-Patent Innovation Award for the “idea, creation and execution of InterDigital Europe”.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 2 November 2017
Author Notification: 15 December 2017
Final Manuscript: 12 January 2018
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Research topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following topics:
-5G-EFS/MEC architecture and system framework
-5G-EFS/MEC use cases, deployment scenarios, and requirements
-5G-EFS/MEC experiments, testbeds and demonstrations
-Business models involving all stakeholders of the 5G-EFS/MEC value chain
-Cloud federation in 5G-EFS/MEC
-Integration and interaction between EFS/MEC and central clouds
-EFS/MEC applications and service provisioning
-EFS/MEC function provisioning
-Orchestration and control algorithms for EFS/MEC functions
-Resource management and allocations for EFS/MEC
-Network function virtualization (NFV) at EFS/MEC
-Network slicing and multi-tenancy of EFS/MEC
-EFS/SDN/NFV integration
-Virtualization of radio access network functions in EFS/MEC
-Multi-RAT convergence and network offloading
-Software defined networking (SDN) for EFS/MEC
-Switching designs to support 5G-EFS/MEC architectures
-QoS and traffic engineering in EFS/MEC
-Service mobility under the EFS/MEC framework
-Security and privacy issues in EFS/MEC
-Authentication, authorization and billing issues in EFS/MEC
-Performance analysis and evaluation of EFS/MEC system
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5G-TRANSFORMER @1st Workshop of COntrol and Management of network slices for VERTicals (COMVERT)
2018-04-15 09:00 - 2018-04-18 17:00
5G-TRANSFORMER co-organises the First Workshop of COntrol and Management of network slices for VERTicals (COMVERT) in conjunction with the IEEE WCNC. The IEEE WCNC is the only IEEE conference focused exclusively on wireless research, technology, and applications. The 2018 edition of this conference will be held in Barcelona on April 15-18, 2018 at the Barcelona International Convention Centre (CCIB) and will be organized by the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
The Phase 2 5G PPP project calls for papers.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: November 2, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2017
Camera-ready version: January 12, 2018
TOPICS OF INTEREST
-Architectures/Protocols/API specifications to allocate Verticals/networks on top of single and/or multi-domain mobile Transport networks
-Business mechanisms and economic framework for network slicing
-Scalable and secure MANO-based deployments models
-Multi-domain service and resource federation
-Network/Vertical service descriptors
-Virtualization in multi-domain environments
-Integration of network and IT resources
-Vertical/network slice isolation (security threats and performance isolation)
-Inter-slice communication (security threats and control mechanisms)
-Virtualization/containerization of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Monitoring of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Flexible control/data plane splits and fronthaul splits
-Runtime allocation of resources to vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Runtime placement of vertical/network functions/slices/microservices
-Enforcement of orchestration policies for the interaction between services/microservices within a slice
-Local breakout/MEC/fog/cloudlets
-Experimentation and lessons learnt with orchestration frameworks (CORD, ONAP, Open-O, OSM, Cloudify, OpenBaton, Istio) in mobile transport networks
-Experimental mobile transport testbeds including network and IT resources
-Experimental Network/Vertical slice measurements
-Coexistence and migration of legacy operational networks towards slice substrates
-Standardization efforts on network slicing (ETSI, IETF, 3GPP, BBF, ONF, etc.)
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5G PPP "How can 5G help resolve global water challenges?" Industry panel @WCNC'18
2018-04-18 11:00 - 12:30
IEEE WCNC is the world premier wireless event that brings together industry professionals, academics, and individuals from government agencies and other institutions to exchange information and ideas on the advancement of wireless communications and networking technology.
The conference will feature a comprehensive technical program offering numerous technical sessions with papers showcasing the latest technologies, applications and services. In addition, the conference program includes workshops, tutorials, keynote talks from industrial leaders and renowned academics, panel discussions, a large exhibition, business and industrial forums.
Six Panels are organised. Miquel Payaró, 5G-IA Board Member, co-organises together with key members of WWRF, the P5 industry panel “How can 5G resolve global water challenge?” on April 18th, 11:00am-12:30am.
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