6G IA

NGMN Industry Conference and Exhibition 2022
2022-09-07 09:00 - 2022-09-09 22:00 (Europe/Berlin)
RECONNECTING BETTER TOGETHER –NGMN Industry Conference & Exhibition (IC&E)
The NGMN Industry Conference & Exhibition is a highly recognized bi-annual global industry event, where CTO/CTIOs & other top management level participants share their perspectives on today’s and tomorrow´s opportunities and challenges and the future of mobile communication. It is a great networking platform and first IC&E since 2018, providing a great opportunity to re-connect again in person.
Expect a great line-up of speakers, exhibitors, and a packed agenda around our strategic focus topics

Mastering the Route to Disaggregation
Green Future Networks
6G

with a particular focus on Green Future Networks.
The NGMN Industry Conference & Exhibition offers unique networking opportunities with world’s top leaders from operators, telco & IT vendors, academia. At the Exhibition our international industry Partners demonstrate state of the art concepts and solutions.
For more information and registration please visit: https://ice2022.ngmn.org/

CELTIC-NEXT Online Proposers Day
2022-09-07 09:00 - 18:00
The CELTIC-NEXT Eureka Cluster Autumn call for projects in the field of next-generation communications for the digital society that contribute to a sustainable world is open with a submission date on the 21st October.
For full details, please go to: https://www.celticnext.eu/autumn-call-2022/

To support this call, a Proposers day to foster new project ideas for the upcoming CELTIC-NEXT Autumn Call is planned as an online workshop on the 7th September. The aim of this Proposers Day is for you to learn about CELTIC, discuss project ideas with potential partners and to find out about the funding opportunities in your countries. You can present your proposal idea(s) or simply listen to the other ideas being presented as you wish.
For full information please go to https://www.celticnext.eu/event/next-proposers-day-autumn-call-2022/

The mission of CELTIC-NEXT is to foster the Eureka collaborative RD&I program for the ICT community and accelerate the deployment and take-up of advanced ICT services in Europe.
The CELTIC-NEXT thematic approach includes solving the challenges of deploying the new network concepts of 5G and facilitating the design and implementation of 6G in Europe.
This information is being shared based on the CELTIC-NEXT / 6G IA MoU (04-2022) which agreed to create awareness and promote opportunities for collaboration within and across the respective communities.

IEEE MeditCom 2022 Call for Demos
2022-09-05 07:00 - 2022-09-08 16:00
IEEE MeditCom 2022 Demo track provides a space for researchers and practitioners to bring hands-on experiences to conference attendees. We look forward to the interesting demonstrations of:

Functional prototypes of devices and systems
Mobile and wearable applications and services
New interaction techniques
Innovative examples of mobile experiences
Toolkits and prototyping techniques for mobile and wearable interfaces

A best demo award will be discerned to recompense the best idea and demonstration.
Demo submissions should be made via EDAS by following this link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=29854&track=112241
Important Dates

Three-page demo descriptions: 12th June 2022 (Extended)
Notification of acceptance: 30th June 2022 (Extended)

SLICES-SC Summer School: Open-RAN/Core/Edge Solutions for Cloud-Native Telco Experimental Platforms
2022-07-19 07:00 - 2022-07-21 16:00
Open-RAN/Core/Edge Solutions for Cloud-Native Telco Experimental Platforms
This three-day school will take a deep-dive into some of the available open-software and hardware solutions for building experimental telco networks that can be used by researchers to develop innovations leading to 6G network architectures in initiatives such as SLICES-RI, PAWR, Fabric and Horizon Europe SNS JU. A key objective of the school is to highlight cloud-native tools leading to fully converged cloud and telecommunication infrastructures. We will cover initiatives including O-RAN, ONF Aether/SD-Fabric/SD-RAN, OpenAirInterface RAN and Core, Mosaic5G, Magma and related cloud-native frameworks based on Kubernetes. In addition, for newcomers to the 3GPP ecosystem, we will also provide a crash course on 3GPP networks and protocols. Current lecturers are from key players in the experimental wireless research community : Sorbonne Université, NITOS, EURECOM, INRIA, CNR, PAWR, FABRIC, ONF, …
Examples of seminars include:

• An overview of Cloud-native tools for Telco Networks (1h)
• Inside O-RAN E2, RIC and xAPPs (1h)
• ONF I : SD-Fabric (incl. P4 basics) and Aether (1.5h, incl. Lab session on INRIAs SOPHIA-NODE cluster)
• ONF II : SD-RAN and ONOS (1h)
• E2E OAI/FlexRIC deployment (1h incl. remote demo using EURECOM’s SOPHIA-NODE clusters)
• SDR tools for experimentation: An Overview of NI USRPs and their use in experimental platforms (1h)
• Service and Edge platforms and paradigms (1h)
• 3GPP 5G RAN architecture (3h, split over 3 days, including illustrations with OAI RAN)
• 3GPP 5G Core architecture (3h, split over 3 days, including illustrations with OAI 5GC)

AIOTI online presentation of the Device-Centric IoT Security Risk Spectra Mapping Tool
2022-07-14 15:00 - 17:00
Content
When focussing on IoT and other connected devices and taking a risk-perspective to those, a methodology to do high-level quality risk classification is to have a multi-layered approach and do such risk classification per spectrum, starting with the risk classification of the connectors and connectivity of the IoT device itself, thereafter with the risk classification of functionalities, et cetera. Up to 17 spectra have already been identified.
AIOTI WG Standardisation and WG Policy & Strategy together with certain relevant external organisations, has been developing a Device-Centric IoT Security Risk Spectra Mapping Tool. It provides guidance on the multi-layered and holistic risk classification of IoT Devices by means of said IoT security risk spectra methodology, risk level definitions and related IoT security risk mapping.
In this webinar, AIOTI IoT Security Taskforce Leaders, Arthur van der Wees and Jacques Kruse Brandao will explain how it was developed, and how it works.
The document can be found here and the mapping tool here.

The presentation will be held on 14 July starting at 15.00h CEST and is free to attend, you can join here:

https://allianceforinternetofthingsinnovationaisbl.my.webex.com/allianceforinternetofthingsinnovationaisbl.my/j.php?MTID=m9d73e7c5ed273baf2a8bb02154ca52f6

Meeting number: 2363 358 5991
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AIOTI Webinar on the White Paper "Business Impact of IoT in Manufacturing Industries"
2022-07-13 15:00 - 16:30
AIOTI organises a webinar presenting AIOTI White Paper on Business Impact of IoT in Manufacturing Industries.
It will be held on 13 July, starting at 15.00h CEST.
The agenda of webinar:

15.00h Opening and Welcome: Alessandro Liani, AIOTI WG Manufacturing Chair
15.05h Presentation of the White Paper and the Use Cases
Introduction: Ulrich Löwen, White Paper Editor, Siemens (10 min)
Presentation of the use cases (45):

Ulrich Löwen, Siemens
Sergio Gusmeroli, Politecnico di Milano
Mirko Presser, Aarhus University
Cristina Rodriguez Vera, Hitachi

Recommendations and Next Steps: Ulrich Löwen, White Paper Editor, Siemens (10 min)
Questions and open discussions (10 min)

16.20 Wrap up and end of Webinar: Alessandro Liani, AIOTI WG Manufacturing Chair

5G-MOBIX Trial results for the Korean site
2022-06-30 01:00 - 10:00
5G-MOBIX trial sites include two Cross-Border Corridors (Greece-Turkey and Spain-Portugal) and six local Trial Sites in France, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, China and South Korea, which are bringing complementary insights to the cross-border issues trialled at the Corridors. Together, they have been assessing the added value of 5G connectivity for connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) services and functionalities in cross-border conditions.
The local Trial Sites have completed their work, some public demonstration events were organised to showcase the results, and these Trial Sites are now holding “catch-up” online sessions for wider audiences during which videos of the demonstrations and/ or trials will be played and commented. The Trial Site teams will present their results and lessons learnt and answer all questions in relation.
The webinar for the Korean Trial Site will be held on June 30th (registration details will be communicated soon).
The webinar for the French Trial Site will take place on 20 June 2022, 15:00-16:30 CET (details & registration). The webinar for the German Trial Site is scheduled on 22 June, 10:00-11:30 CET (details & registration).
The dates for the Finnish, Dutch and Chinese Trial Sites webinars will shortly follow. The Corridors will have their turn after the summer. Stay tuned for related information.
The webinar will also include presentation of the recorded video footage of the tested solutions and a Q&A session to exhaust all questions on our experts’ work and lessons learnt.

5G-SOLUTIONS Standardization online workshop
2022-06-29 16:00 - 18:00
5G-SOLUTIONS organises an online workshop on standardization.

Scope of the workshop

Align the project partners on current status of 3GPP activities
Collect feedbacks from Living Labs to identify standardization gaps

Short description of LL (LL managers)

Q&A to identify standardization gaps

Note, LL do not need to be standardization experts, but it is required for them to share their experience and answer to the questions. Standardization experts will derive the requirements

Timeplan:

Overview of 3GPP activities (45 minutes)
Overview of LL (1-2 slides describing the LL) – 10 minutes per LL (5G-SOLUTIONS has 5 Living labs)
Discussion on the answers provided by the LL to the questionnaire (30 minutes)
Wrap up (15 minutes)

The online workshop will take place (online) on 29th June 4-6 p.m. CET.

To register, please send an email to Dr. Andrea Di Giglio andrea.digiglio(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)telecomitalia.it and he will provide you with the bridge details.

6G IA Webinar presenting the White Paper:​ What societal values will 6G address?
2022-06-27 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Description:
This webinar is presented by the Societal Needs and Value Creation Sub-Group of the 6G Infrastructure Association Vision and Societal Challenges Working Group. As we now embark on 6G development it is important that outstanding societal challenges are considered, and that value creation is ensured. This webinar will present the recently published White Paper on What societal values will 6G address? (click to download)
The White Paper outlines how a technology development driven from the perspective of societal values can complement the usual performance-driven perspective. A set of use case areas, representing new possibilities in 6G, are identified from published sources mainly from EU funded ICT-52 research projects. These use case areas are then analysed with respect to societal key values that can be impacted by future technology developments. This entails defining Key Value Indicators (KVIs) that can be used for monitoring and validating the impact on key societal values, and vice versa, for studying how societal Key Values can be enabled by impacting the technology development in certain directions. We find that the studied use case areas can indeed be connected to societal key values that can be enabled by future 6G networks, and that it is possible to define KVIs to estimate this value impact. We propose a continued development of this analysis involving relevant subject matter experts and the application of this analysis on upcoming 6G research projects.
Scope:

What are Key Values and how can they be measured with key Value Indicators?​
What possibilities do we have with 6G to impact societal values through new use cases?​
How can we use Key Value Indicators (KVIs) as a tool to discuss societal values?​

Agenda:

Introduction (10min) Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom​
Concept and methodology (20min) Gustav Wikström, Ericsson Research​
Use case example I (10min) Razvan-Andrei Stoica, Lenovo​
Use case example II (10min) Ioanna Mesogiti, Cosmote​
Use case example III (10min) Marie-Helene Hamon, Orange​
Discussion 30min​

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6G-IA Societal Challenges WG Webinar on "“What societal values will 6G address? - Societal Key Values and Key Value Indicators analysed through 6G use cases”"
2022-06-27 13:00 - 14:00
The ‘Societal Needs and Value Creation Sub-Group’ of the Vision and Societal Challenges Working Group organises a Webinar to present their latest white paper:
“What societal values will 6G address? – Societal Key Values and Key Value Indicators analysed through 6G use cases”

The Webinar is on June 27th at 13:00 CEST.
You can register online at https://6g-ia.eu/event/6g-ia-webinar-presenting-the-white-paper-what-societal-values-will-6g-address/
The white paper is available at https://5g-ppp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/What-societal-values-will-6G-address-White-Paper-v1.0-final.pdf

5G-MOBIX webinar on results for the Netherlands site
2022-06-23 15:00 - 16:30
5G-MOBIX trial sites include two Cross-Border Corridors (Greece-Turkey and Spain-Portugal) and six local Trial Sites in France, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, China and South Korea, which are bringing complementary insights to the cross-border issues trialled at the Corridors. Together, they have been assessing the added value of 5G connectivity for connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) services and functionalities in cross-border conditions.
The local Trial Sites have completed their work, some public demonstration events were organised to showcase the results, and these Trial Sites are now holding “catch-up” online sessions for wider audiences during which videos of the demonstrations and/ or trials will be played and commented. The Trial Site teams will present their results and lessons learnt and answer all questions in relation.
You can also register already for the webinar for the Netherlands Trial Site (23 June 2022) and Korean Trial Site (30 June).
The details for the Chinese Trial Site webinar will shortly follow. The Corridors will have their turn after the summer. Stay tuned for related information.

Cloud and 5G LIVE: The GLobal Cloud and 5G conference
2022-06-23 10:00 - 2022-06-24 18:00
Brought to you by BizClik Media Group and part of TECH LIVE LONDON, the hybrid event held between 23rd-24th June also features Cyber LIVE, Technology & AI LIVE, March8 LIVE and is broadcast live to the world.
The world’s leading Telecommunications and Data Centre executives will come together in London to discuss their strategies and the future of the industry.
With a focus on creating actionable inspiration and real-world partnerships, the conference agenda includes several stages of talks by global industry leaders, centred around a fully catered networking area.
The draft agenda is here. Colin Willcock, Chairman of the 6G-IA will present stakes and challenges for 6G in Europe at 12:00 pm (UK time) on June 23rd.
Please also register online here and stay tuned.

2022-06-22 15:00 - 16:30
The VITAL-5G project organises a webinar on “Demonstrating the capabilities of VITAL-5G’s facilities” on 22 June, 15:00 CEST.
The indicative Agenda is:

10 min: VITAL-5G Reference Architecture
30 min VITAL-5G Facilities overview
10 min Demonstration: VITAL-5G NetApps onboarding through OSM
Questions: 5-10 min

5G-MOBIX Trial site results for the German site
2022-06-22 10:00 - 11:30
5G-MOBIX trial sites include two Cross-Border Corridors (Greece-Turkey and Spain-Portugal) and six local Trial Sites in France, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, China and South Korea, which are bringing complementary insights to the cross-border issues trialled at the Corridors. Together, they have been assessing the added value of 5G connectivity for connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) services and functionalities in cross-border conditions.
The local Trial Sites have completed their work, some public demonstration events were organised to showcase the results, and these Trial Sites are now holding “catch-up” online sessions for wider audiences during which videos of the demonstrations and/ or trials will be played and commented. The Trial Site teams will present their results and lessons learnt and answer all questions in relation.
The German Trial Site is holding a webinar to present the outcome of their trials and results obtained. The 5G-MOBIX Trial Site in Berlin looked into the benefits of 5G services in providing extended sensor data to address QoS limitation of current 4G networks, namely for platooning use cases with SAE L-4 vehicles.
The webinar will also include presentation of the recorded video footage of the tested solutions and a Q&A session to exhaust all questions on our experts’ work and lessons learnt.

5GMediaHUB Workshop @IoT Week 2022
2022-06-22 09:00 - 10:30
5GMediaHUB (website) is organising a workshop as part of the IoT Week 2022 event in Dublin on the 22nd of June 2022 @9:00 am at the Croke Park Conference Centre – Suite 679/680. This workshop is open to all conference attendees.

The theme is “Accelerating the testing of 5G-enabled applications”. More information on the workshop can be found here and the main conference website is here.

Smart5Grid Webinar on "5G Use Cases for the Energy Vertical"
2022-06-21 13:00 - 14:30
The Smart5Grid Consortium organises the webinar ‘5G Use Cases for the Energy Vertical’, to be held on Tuesday, 21 June at 13:00 CET.

Τhe aim of this workshop is to discuss the application of 5G technology in Smart Grids via the following Use Cases:

Automatic Power Distribution Grid Fault Detection.
Remote Inspection of Automatically Delimited Working Areas at Distribution Level.
Millisecond Level Precise Distributed Generation Monitoring.
Real-time Wide Area Monitoring of power exchanges (cross border).

Follow this link to register for free here.
AGENDA

No.
Time
Description
Speaker

1
10 min
Introduction:
– Energy vertical vision
– Telco vision
Daniele Porcu (ENEL)

2
20 min
Session 1: Automatic power distribution grid fault detection
Fabrizio Battista (ENEL)

3
20 min
Session 2: Remote inspection of automatically delimited working areas at distribution level
Inmaculada Prieto (ENEL)

4
20 min
Session 3: Millisecond level precise distributed generation monitoring
Athanasios Bachoumis (UBITECH)

5
20 min
Session 4: Real-time wide area monitoring of power exchanges
Dimitrios Brodimas (IPTO)

5G-MOBIX webinar on results for the French Trial site
2022-06-20 15:00 - 16:30
5G-MOBIX trial sites include two Cross-Border Corridors (Greece-Turkey and Spain-Portugal) and six local Trial Sites in France, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, China and South Korea, which are bringing complementary insights to the cross-border issues trialled at the Corridors. Together, they have been assessing the added value of 5G connectivity for connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) services and functionalities in cross-border conditions.
The local Trial Sites have completed their work, some public demonstration events were organised to showcase the results, and these Trial Sites are now holding “catch-up” online sessions for wider audiences during which videos of the demonstrations and/ or trials will be played and commented. The Trial Site teams will present their results and lessons learnt and answer all questions in relation.
The webinar for the French Trial Site will take place on 20 June 2022, 15:00-16:30 CET (details & registration). The French Trial Site contributions are related to service continuity and dynamic communication quality aspects for the infrastructure-assisted advanced driving use case. The webinar will present the outcome of their trials and results obtained in relation. It will also include video demonstrations of the tested solutions and a Q&A session to exhaust all questions on our experts’ work and lessons learnt.

5G-MOBIX webinar on results from the Finland site
2022-06-16 14:00 - 15:00
5G-MOBIX trial sites include two Cross-Border Corridors (Greece-Turkey and Spain-Portugal) and six local Trial Sites in France, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, China and South Korea, which are bringing complementary insights to the cross-border issues trialled at the Corridors. Together, they have been assessing the added value of 5G connectivity for connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) services and functionalities in cross-border conditions.
The local Trial Sites have completed their work, some public demonstration events were organised to showcase the results, and these Trial Sites are now holding “catch-up” online sessions for wider audiences during which videos of the demonstrations and/ or trials will be played and commented. The Trial Site teams will present their results and lessons learnt and answer all questions in relation.
The webinar for the Finland Trial Site will take place on 16 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 CET (details & registration).
You can also register already for the webinars for the French Trial Site (20 June 2022), German Trial Site (22 June 2022) and Korean Trial Site (30 June).
The details for the Dutch and Chinese Trial Sites webinars will shortly follow. The Corridors will have their turn after the summer. Stay tuned for related information.

5G-LOGINNOV, FUDGE 5G and Affordable 5G's joint technical workshop
2022-06-16 13:00 - 15:15
5G-LOGINNOV, FUDGE 5G and Affordable 5G jointly organise an online technical workshop on 16 June 2022, 13:00-15:15 CEST.
Register here: https://forms.gle/5GU2jVEzVhF66BRD7
Programme available here: https://5g-loginnov.eu/wpcontent/uploads/2022/05/Agenda_website.pdf
After filling in the form, you will receive the link to join the online workshop.

The combined event “Accelerating 5G Innovation in Europe. Challenges and Opportunities for Private Networks focusing on CAD, Transport & Logistics, Smart City, Manufacturing” addresses technology-specific topics and plan to discuss in detail the implementation of 5G technologies to contribute to the debate about the advancement in the adoption of 5G technologies in several sectors. 5G-LOGINNOV, FUDGE-5G and Affordable 5G projects matured their 5G-expertises in relation to the optimisation of traffic operations at ports and logistics, the delivery of a solution covering the needs of private and enterprise networks and the definition of a 5G architecture for private networks allowing interoperability and customization for industry verticals.

COREnect Policy Workshop on An Action Plan for "European Leadership in Digital Infrastructures" at EuCNC & 6G Summit 2022
2022-06-16 10:00 - 13:00
The COREnect project is developing a 5G/6G strategic roadmap for future European connectivity systems and components (*). Two workshops are organised in June 2022 to discuss the various aspects of this roadmap. The CORENect Policy Workshop ranks among the two Workshops.
The COREnect Policy Workshop will be held online on June 16, 2022, 10.00-13.00 CEST. The COREnect Policy Workshop brings together stakeholders from the microelectronics and connectivity domains, from public authorities as well as private organisations, to discuss the priorities and recommendations from the COREnect roadmap, and how to implement the concrete steps required to achieve European leadership in microelectronics and connectivity within the next ten years through a concrete action plan.
More information about the agenda and the registration is available here.

CfP SLICES Workshop on "Scientific Instruments to support digital infrastructure science" @IFIP Networking Conference 2022
2022-06-13 09:00 - 13:00
SLICES organises a Workshop on “Scientific Instruments to support digital infrastructure science” @ IFIP Networking Conference 2022 and calls for papers:
SLICES solicits original papers including but not limited to:

Advanced wireless networking experimentation

New waveforms;
Higher frequencies up to THz;
Spectrum and wireless management;
Integrated sensing and communication;
Multiple heterogeneous radio management;

Testing Smart/intelligent infrastructure operation and management

Advanced protocols and architecture (virtualization, softwarization, programmability);
AI applied to infrastructure operation and optimization at all layers;
Generation of data to train algorithms;
Distribution of intelligence into the Edge of the network;

Design and validation of new Edge/Fog infrastructures

Software and components deployment;
Distributed resource management;
Geo-distributed data management;
Federated deep-learning;

Methodology for designing and operating a scientific instrument

Instrumentation and measurement;
Architecture and APIs;
Experiment design and life-cycle management;
Data management and reproducibility;
Testbed implementation and operation.

The workshop will follow a full day structure. The Workshop programme is structured for a full day withTalks/Panels in the workshop session, complemented with demonstrations if this is made possible. This workshop also continues the work started in the INFOCOM 2019 “Workshop on Experimentation Meets Platforms: A Survey of macro trends in mobile communication research and its impact on future testbed development”.
IFIP Networking 2022 will take place in the auditorium (“Aula Magna”) of the “Didattica” building at the “Cittadella” of the University of Catania. This is located in Via Sofia 64, Catania.

Organising Committee

Serge Fdida, Sorbonne Université, EU ESFRI SLICES
Manu Gosain, Northeastern University, NSF PAWR Office

Technical Program Committee (TPC)

Serge Fdida, Sorbonne Université, Co-Chair, France
Manu Gosain, Northeastern University, Co-Chair, USA
Srinivas Shakkottai, Texas A&M University, USA
Aloizio Pereira da Silva, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative & Virginia Tech, USA
Tommaso Melodia, Northeastern University, USA
Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA
Paul Ruth, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA
Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University, USA
Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University, USA
Hongwei Zhang, Iowa State University, USA
Didier Bourse, Nokia, France
Thanasis Korakis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Andrea Passarella, CNR, Italy
Bartosz Belter, PSNC, Poland
Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Antonio de la Oliva (University Carlos III of Madrid)
Ari Pouttu, University of Oulu, Finland
Christian Perez, INRIA, France
Costas Filis, Cosmote, Greece
Sebastien Ziegler, Mandat International, Switzerland
José Rezende, RNP, Brazil
Aki Nakao, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ruslan Smelianski, Applied Research Center on Networking, Russia
Alain Mourad, Interdigital, UK
Raymond Knopp, Eurecom, France
Per Hjalmar Lehne, TELENOR, Norway
Vijay Shah, George Mason University, USA

EMPOWER Workshop "EmpoweringTransatlantic platforms for 5G Advanced and 6G networks" @EuCNC
2022-06-07 14:00 - 17:30
EMPOWER 5G PPP project organises a Workshop on “EmpoweringTransatlantic platforms for 5G Advanced and 6G networks” at EuCNC 2022 in Grenoble, France on June 7 @14:00-15:30/16:00-17:30 CEST.
Various countries and regions have already announced formal plans of government support for their research and development efforts that will define 6G. One of the primary missions of this workshop is to bring industry, government, and academia to the table to begin working on testbed requirements much earlier in the innovation lifecycle than has been done for previous generations. The enabling technologies such as separation between the network and the compute, virtualization, distribution and Cloud SaaS afford us the opportunity to define physical and digital platforms for at-scale research and experimentation. This trend is going to impact the telecommunication and computer-based sectors, from design to products to operation and this is where the testbeds meet the network as a fully controllable, programmable virtualized test platform. The science of Digital Infrastructures raises multiple complex challenges to the research community that already started to explore them in the context of the forthcoming 6G. Experimentation is becoming an even more important methodology to assess and qualify the diverse design assumptions and choices in realistic conditions. It is now timely not only to strengthen existing facilities ready for 5G testing but most importantly start developing early 6G platforms as most components are software-based. This is the motivation for developing a holistic approach where all resources (compute, storage, network) are associated to continuously design, operate and automate the full life cycle management of applications and services. Experimental platforms should be able to address the end-to-end scenario, integrating all technologies and components. Such platform will allow researcher and industry to question scientific challenges regarding the future technologies and services. They will be based on a technology roadmap that will be consolidated on the basis of the analysis of several inputs provided by the community regarding the wireless technology advances, that are pertinent to the evolution of new radio (NR) and core network (CN) unti-2030. It is important to note that initiatives exist at the international level with ambitious projects and programmes like EU ESFRI SLICES (2021- 2040, 150M€), EC H2020 5G Infrastructure PPP (2015-2023, 700 M€) and forthcoming EC HEU SNS JU (2022-2030, 900 M€), in the US (NSF PAWR 2017-2022 100M$, NSF FABRIC 2019-2024 20M€), BRIDGES (2021-2024, 2.5M$) and China (CENI 018-2022 190M€), and efforts also developing in Japan.

COREnect workshop on "Telecommunications and microelectronics: How should Europe (re)-act?" at EuCNC & 6G Summit 2022
2022-06-07 14:00 - 17:30
The COREnect project is developing a 5G/6G strategic roadmap for future European connectivity systems and components (*). Two workshops are organised in June 2022 to discuss the various aspects of this roadmap.
The Workshop “Telecommunications and microelectronics: How should Europe (re)-act?” EuCNC & 6G Summit 2022 organised on June 7, 2022 @14:00–15:30/16:00-17:30 CEST ranks among the two Workshops. This workshop aims to present the key findings of the three COREnect Expert Groups to a broad ICT audience. The EuCNC conference offers a unique opportunity to disseminate these findings, and also allows the exchange of ideas and opinions from the participants from the telecommunications sector.
Registration at EuCNC is mandatory to attend the workshop.
More information on the workshop, including the agenda available here.
More details on EuCNC, including registration here.

TERAWAY Workshop "Photonic integration as a key enabling technology for 6G and beyond" @EuCNC 2022
2022-06-07 09:00 - 12:30
TERAWAY is a project designed to address wireless network challenging requirements imposed by 5G verticals and B5G/6G use cases i.e., ultra-high capacity, ultra-broadband connectivity, reliability and latency requirements, exploiting Terahertz (THz) wireless communication technology, by leveraging optical concepts and photonic integration techniques. The project is in the process of designing and fabricating groundbreaking transceiver modules operating at the range 92 – 322 GHz, offering up to 241 Gb/s data rate with transmission reach more than 400 m. The solution is integrated by the implementation of a new software defined networking (SDN). The proposed workshop aims, on one hand, at propagating the project’s advancements and novelties in photonic technology and their appliance in the future generations of wireless communications networks. On the other hand, it aims at contributing to the evolving dialogue regarding the concerned technologies among research, regulatory and industry communities by means of sharing research findings as well as identifying chanllenges and gaps. EuCNC & 6G Summit is the right forum to realise this objective, since it attracts significant actors from all above mentioned realms and promotes the dialogue among them.
The proposed workshop is designed to address multiple “TRACKS” as those are identified by EuCNC & 6G Summit, i.e.:

6ET – Technologies for Tbps transmission (Session A)
6ET – Novel network architectures (Session B)
6ET – New transceiver architectures and computing paradigms (Session C)
PHY – Beyond 5G & 6G and THertz communications (Session A)
NET – New network protocols and architectures (Session B)
NET – Software defined networking (Session B)
CME – Antenna design and integration (Session C)

The proposed workshop’s speaker – list includes two renowned keynote speakers-external to the project team; Tadao Nagatsuma (Osaka U, Japan), Prof. Thomas Kürner (TU Braunschweig) who are invited to complement the workshop’s theme by discussing photonic technology adoption by the wireless communications and pertinent initiatives in the research and development, regulatory and business realms.
Structure
The format of the workshop is presentations, and it will be rolled out in three sessions: Session A with duration 1h 30, Session B with duration 45 min and Session C with duration 45min.
Session A – mmW/THz communications’ landscape (1h 30min, incl. Q&A)

Keynote “Future outlook to Terahertz communications” Prof. Tadao Nagatsuma (Osaka U, Japan)
Keynote “Spectrum regulations for Terahertz communications: Trends and needs” Prof. Thomas Kürner (TU Braunschweig, Germany).
“mmWave & TeraHertz wireless network (transport) applications” Eduardo Yusta-Padilla (Telefónica, Spain)

Session B: Network architecture for mmWave & TeraHertz communications (45min, incl. Q&A)

THz integration into 3GPP network slicing (Dr. Jose Costa-Requena)
THz management controller (ONF) (Dr. Nicola Carapellese)

Session C: Photonics-enabled wireless transceivers (45min, incl. Q&A)

Novel photonic components for mmWave & THz communications (Prof. Guillermo Carpintero, UC3M)
From concept to reality: Packaging of Photonics-enabled wireless transceivers (Dr. Zerihun Tegegne, PHIX)
Experimental results for mmWave and beyond wireless systems based on photonic techniques (Dr. Nikolaos Lyras, ICCS/NTUA)

Oraganisers

David de Felipe (HHI-Fraunhofer, Germany)
Sani Paraskevopoulou (National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece)

Webinar on "5G Communities: Shaping the Next Call", 31 May @10: 00 am CEST
2022-05-31 10:00 - 11:00
The European Commission organises an interactive webinar on 5G Communities: Shaping the Next Call, to be held on 31 May, 10:00 – 11:00 CEST.
This session invites feedback from those involved in project submissions for the first round of CEF Digital calls for 5G Communities in order to learn what could be simplified in the application process for the second round of calls. The session will be introduced by Eric Gaudillat, Head of Sector for 5G Connectivity within the European Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. Mr Gaudillat will give an overview of the first round of calls and what to expect in the next round. A Q&A session will follow, together with an interactive voting session to gather feedback.
The session is open to:

Municipalities
Telecommunication and technology companies
Socio-economic drivers proposing 5G use cases (particularly in the areas of health, education, mobility, security, rural development, agriculture and government)
European networks, associations and representative bodies
Broadband Competence Offices
Representatives of the European Institutions

Registration is possible via angelo.cerqueti(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)broadbandeurope.eu
To attend, please join the session by clicking here. The materials (slides and relevant links to further information) will be shared with all participants by email after the session.

Hannover Messe
2022-05-30 09:00 - 2022-06-02 17:00
At HANNOVER MESSE 2022, the 6G-IA’s 5G partners will showcase their exciting and innovative use cases from 30 May – 2 June.
Whether in the halls on our exhibition grounds or in the outdoor area: Our 5G Campus network makes it possible!

Join also our conferences and meet the experts at the 5G Competence Centre in hall 9. We are looking forward to your visit.
Additional details on https://www.hannovermesse.de/en/
Your personal ticket: https://bit.ly/HANNOVERMESSE2022_6G-IA

SLICES-RI 1st Industry Day
2022-05-27 10:00 - 14:00
SLICES-RI organises the 1st SLICES-RI Industry Day which will take place Friday 27 May 10:00-14:00 CEST online.

SLICES-RI (Research Infrastructure) will provide a fully programmable and virtualized, remotely accessible, European-wide research infrastructure, providing advanced computing, storage and network components, interconnected by dedicated high-speed links, to support experiments in several domains (e.g. networking and distributed systems and algorithms, embedded systems, software engineering, interoperability, security, performance modeling, proof and validation, etc.).

Be the first to know how you can benefit from utilizing SLICES research infrastructure to perform advanced research experiments for free.

The zoom link for this free event is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82457898091 and the agenda together with the calendar invite are attached to this email.

For more information please visit: https://slices-sc.eu/events/slices-sc-1st-industry-day/ or contact Konstantinos Filis, cfilis(Replace this parenthesis with the @ sign)cosmote.gr, Phone: +306977277558.

5G-ZORRO Tech Talk #4 "Enabling data-driven automation for 5 and beyond"
2022-05-26 11:00 - 11:45
As AI and ML techniques begin to prove their applicability to the management of complex 5G networks, e.g. by building models for the normal network behavior, using these models for alerting on the abnormal situations, and, more recently, computing predictive insights and recommendations, we open the discussion on architectural support required to achieve the data-driven automation in 5G/6G environments.

In this, 5GZORRO TechTalk#4, we will dig deeper into questions related to technology enablers for emerging 5G/6G data architectures and hear opinions on how data-related topics, including support for data modeling, sharing, processing, storing, etc., are manifested in complex multi-provider business settings and multi-domain technology environments of 5G/6G networks.

Our partners and special guests’ experts:

Katherine Barabash IBM Israel – Moderator
Ana Rita Santiago Ubiwhere
Panagiotis Demestichas WINGS ICT Solutions
Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas Huawei

Watch also another interesting 5GZORRO Pill by Bruno Santos Altice Lab on the:

Concept of Trust in a 5GZORRO Governed Distributed Environment!

1st Summer school on 5G automated mobility (CAM) across Europe
2022-05-23 09:00 - 2022-05-24 17:00
The 1st Summer School on 5G Connected Automated Mobility (CAM) across Europe, co-organized by the 5GCroCo and 5G-ROUTES projects with the support of the EU commission will take place on May 23-24 2022 in Sophia-Antipolis.
This event is a great occasion for young researchers and undergrad students to get insights on challenges of 5G for CAM in cross-border scenarios from senior researchers from academic or industrial background. Participation may be in person or virtual.
