Topics:

• Welcome statements
• 5G Policy perspectives
• Government Policies for 5G
• Progress of 5G Spectrum Harmonization and Regulatory Policy

Moderator:

Colin Willcock (Chairman of the board of the 5G Infrastructure Association)

European Commission and Government Representatives:

• Pearse O'Donohue (Director for ‘Future Networks', DG CONNECT, European Commission)
• Gaku Nakazato (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan)
• Donald Stockdale (U.S. Federal Communications Commission)
• Tae Wan Park (ICT and Broadcasting Technology Policy Division, MSIT, Korea)
• Liu Yulin (Department of Information and Communication Development, MIIT, China)
• José Gontijo (Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications, Brazil)

Fireside Chat:

• Laurent Paillassot (CEO, Orange Spain)

Short Bio:

Tomas Alonso is Head of Product Engineering at ORANGE ESPAGNE currently accountable for Leading the team in charge of Product Engineering and Technical Innovation within the technical area of Orange Spain. Prior to this position Mr. Alonso was the Head of Network Planning in charge of the elaboration of strategic plans of network developments and dimensioning of the network ensuring design requirements are met at optimal CAPEX and OPEX levels. Previously to Orange Mr. Alonso played different roles in leading Telco carrier1 companies in Spain like Deutsche Telekom, TeliaSonera and Vodafone managing transformation projects like 3Play network launch (DT) and launch of 3G network for TeliaSonera. Tomas Alonso holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad de Valladolid (Spain), an MBA from EOI Business School (Madrid) and a Executive Programa Degree PDD in IESE Business School (Madrid).

Topics:

• 5G Research and Technological Trends
• 5G Trials and Pre-Commercial Launches
• New deployment strategies

Moderator:

Hyeon Woo Lee (Dankook University, Korea)

Speakers:

• Luciano Leonel Mendes (5G Brasil Project)
• Yukihiko Okumura (NTT DOCOMO)
• Dan Warren (Samsung Research, UK)
• Chris Pearson (5G Americas)
• Zhiqin Wang (IMT-2020(5G) Promotion Group)
• Didier Bourse (5G IA Trials WG Chairman)

Topics:

• What is Needed for 5G Commercial Success

Moderator:

Ruprecht Niepold (Independent Spectrum Expert)

Speakers:

• José Marcos C. Brito (5G Brasil Project)
• Chris Pearson (5G Americas)
• Yoshinori Ohmura (ARIB)
• Dong Ku Kim (5G Forum)
• Yeqing Du (Huawei)
• Colin Willcock (Chairman of the board of the 5G Infrastructure Association)

Topics:

• 5G from the Verticals perspective
• Sector driven 5G Service demands

Moderator:

Suncheol Gweon (Vice-Chair, 5G Forum Advisory Committee)

Speakers:

• Wilson Cardoso (5G Brazil)
• John Baker (Mavenir)
• Lee Seongchoon (Giga KOREA Foundation)
• Yeqing DU (Huawei)
• Yoko Kurosawa (KDDI)

Organisers:

• Josep M. Fabrega (CTT, Spain)
• Nikos Passas (Communication Networks Laboratory Dept. Of Informatics & Telecommunications University of Athens, Greece)

Motivation and Background:

Future 5G networks will give rise to a wide range of new services addressing the needs of multiple vertical markets (such as connected car, smart-factories, and others). The 5G end-to-end network infrastructure will have to support extreme requirements in terms of data rates, latency, reliability, energy efficiency, etc, that need an entire set of new technologies to support it.

For the evolution toward 5G mobile connectivity, it is envisioned that optical networking and photonics, as an enabling technology, will play a major role in supporting the service and network requirements, while reducing costs through the introduction of novel converged fibre and wireless technologies. One key target for the underlying optical network is to support the distribution and collection of millimetre-wave radio signals, enabling the greatest flexibility for the accommodation of the wireless network requirements, while reducing the cost of the wireless access points (i.e., remote radio heads/antenna units at cell-cites). Moreover, new multi-access edge computing (MEC) will play a significant role of offering new services closer to the end-user.

Photonic technologies and devices allow meeting the demanding capacity and latency demands for 5G in ways that scale well to highly densified network deployments with low footprint and energy consumption. This workshop will address the role and relevance of photonic technologies to 5G and any future development in mobile networks.

With this workshop we intend to attract expert speakers and audience who will discuss the relevant photonics technology solutions - those developed by 5G-PPP projects, Photonics-PPP projects, and others - and provide a complete coverage of the 5G-related topics for which optical networking and photonics can play a key role. Such topics will include but will not be limited to: optical access network solutions supporting fronthaul, photonics for mm-wave 5G, energy efficiency optimized 5G, converged optical-wireless system solutions, flexible aggregation/Metro networks and network orchestration.

Participating Projects:

• blueSPACE
• IoRL
• 5G-PHOS
• Metro-Haul
• PASSION
• 5GCAR
• SPOTLIGHT
• 5GSTEPFWD

Agenda:

• Josep M. Fabrega: Workshop opening and presentation
• Ricard Vilalta: Network Slicing with NFV/SDN architectures and Multi-Access Edge Computing network orchestration for V2I communications
• Massimiliano Maule: Real-time Dynamic Network Slicing for the 5G Radio Access Network
• Alessandro Percelsi: Impact of 5G environment on operators optical infrastructures and equipment
• Nikos Passas: SPOTLIGHT: Single Point Of aTtachment communications empowered by cLoud computing and bIG data analytics running on-top of massively distributed and loosely-coupled Heterogeneous mobile data neTworks
• Andrew Lord: The Impact of the Optical Network on 5G - the Metro-Haul Project
• Behnam Shariati: Photonics-supported 5G Test Facilities for Low-Latency Applications
• Achim Authenrieth (Director Advanced Technology, ADVA)

Organisers:

• Roberto Riggio (Unit WiN - Wireless and Networked Systems, Italy)
• François Fischer (ERTICO)
• Jesus Alonso-Zarate (CTTC)

Motivation and Background:

Both the telecom and the automotive industries are going through profound transformations these day. The automotive industry is evolving towards a vision where cars are becoming autonomous and wirelessly connected to cooperate with each other for a safer and more efficient driving.

5G is regarded as the key technology that will empower this transition. For the success of such a revolution, it is necessary that both the telecom and the automotive industry cooperate together to shape the future by addressing all the challenges that connected, cooperative and autonomous mobility (CCAM) brings into the innovation arena.

The goal of this workshop is to bring both experts and projects from automotive and the mobile communications industries to discuss on the successful path towards CCAM services with the use of 5G technologies. The challenges and the approaches to reduce the uncertainties of a 5G deployment, in multi-country, multi-operator, multi-vendor, and multi-car-manufacturer scenarios, will be discussed and analysed. The validation via trials and the optimization of 5G technologies for CCAM services are additional topics of the workshop to pave the way for the preparation of commercial deployments.

Agenda:

• Opening
• Keynote: "Making connected cars a reality with 5G," Maxime Flament (5GAA)
• "5GCAR, and the role of 5G in automotive industry," Mikael Fallgren (Ericsson)
• "C-V2X trial activities in 5G-DRIVE," Tao Chen (VTT)
• "CCAM progressed by Internet of Thing," Francois Fischer (ERTICO)
• "5G for Connected and Automated Mobility in the European unioN," Roberto Riggio (FBK)
• "5G-CARMEN and Greta - touching the next frontier in entirely new societal benefits," Walter Aigner (HiTec)
• "5G Cross-Border CCAM in France-Germany-Luxembourg Corridor," Jesus Alonso-Zarate (CTTC)

Blockchain is a revolutionary technology which has found its way to several domains outside of finance industry. The venture capitalist and software developer Marc Andreesen considers blockchain to be as important and revolutionary as the Internet. It is therefore reasonable to expect that aspects of this technology have the potential to underpin concepts, frameworks, regulations, and economics in the world of mobile communication and networking. Blockchain has numerous applications in these areas and will play a significant role in 5G and beyond networks. By enabling automatic and trusted transactions, smart contracts facilitate infrastructure and spectrum sharing among infrastructure providers, service providers, and virtual network operators. Blockchain also creates new business models for ephemeral networks and/or operator partnerships for better coverage and service. In a step forward, mobile operators can offer "Blockchain-as-a-service" ecosystem for content providers who could store their offerings throughout the mobile network and use the blockchain infrastructure for access control and monetization. In IoT networks blockchain can be applied to enhance privacy and security, data and identity management, and monetization of the service.

Since the first comm's related blockchain workshop in IEEE DySPAN2017, there has been a raise in the number of blockchain related publications in communication society, and there has been at least four workshops on this topic in major conferences which are showing the significant interest in this topic among members of communication society.

This tutorial will provide an introduction to blockchain technology and smart contracts to EUCNC participants. We will review its applications communication, networking and IoT in the first half of the tutorial. In the second half we will demonstrate hands-on Blockchain/smart contract programming which will be a unique opportunity especially for early career researchers and making our tutorial different from conventional conference tutorials.

Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi) is among the greatest success stories of this new technology era, and its societal benefits are known to most of the world population. Since Wi-Fi has become an essential part of the home, and a key complementary technology for both enterprise and carrier networks, its importance is expected to continue growing beyond 2023, as the newly defined generation of more capable Wi-Fi products -Wi-Fi 6, based on the most recent Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 802.11ax specification- becomes widely available. The requirements of wireless data services, however, will continue to increase in many scenarios such as homes, enterprises and hotspots, beyond the capabilities of Wi-Fi 6. To meet such expectations, the Wi-Fi community is aiming high and has already initiated discussions on new IEEE 802.11 technical features for bands between 1 and 7.125 GHz. The creation and standardisation of the next generation of Wi-Fi technology beyond IEEE 802.11ax-referred to as Extremely High Throughput (EHT)-targets to increase peak throughput and ensure that Wi-Fi meets the requirements set by incoming applications, thereby maintaining-or even augmenting-its appeal to consumers.

The scope of the proposed tutorial is to provide the research community with

1. a self-contained overview of Wi-Fi's fundamentals,
2. a survey of the main technical features defined by the new 802.11ax standard, and
3. fresh updates on the most recent outcomes and directions related to the next generation of Wi-Fi technology beyond 802.11ax directly from the IEEE 802.11 EHT standardization meetings.

EuCNC is the perfect occasion to provide a digestible summary about Wi-Fi's current technology status and prospective, since the first 802.11ax-compatible products are just reaching the market and the specific objectives and features of EHT are currently being shaped.

Organisers:

• Serge Fdida (Sorbonne University & CNRS, France)
• Abhimanyu (Manu) Gosain (IEEE SM, USA)
• Arturo Azcorra (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
• Didier Bourse (Nokia, France)
• Antonio de la Oliva (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
• Jaime Garcia-Reinoso (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)

Motivation and Background:

The European Commission has created the CSA EMPOWER in order to foster the collaboration between Europe and USA on Advance Wireless Platforms, which include ICT-17 End-to-End 5G platforms and NSF PAWR projects. The overarching aim of EMPOWER is to reinforce the cooperation between the EU and the US towards establishing a collaborative transatlantic community on the new connectivity frontiers beyond 5G with the ambition to accelerate the joint development of the associated advanced wireless platforms. EMPOWER follows and builds on the recurrent dialogue between the EU and the US regarding collaboration for Advanced Wireless Platforms as presented in the "Report from the EU/US Future Networks Workshop", dated November 11, 2017.

EMPOWER targets the creation of a joint EU-US advanced Wireless ecosystem for (i) bridging the relevant EU-US Wireless communities and stakeholders, such as scientific researchers, platform engineers, standardization experts, regulators, and product incubators; and (ii) developing a strategic EU-US collaboration agenda and supporting its execution ahead of worldwide competition for beyond 5G connectivity standards, based on common EU-US roadmaps spanning advances in scientific knowledge, platforms and testbeds, standards and regulations.

This workshop objective is to put in contact key persons on Europe and USA to start a track record of collaborations and to discuss posible joint activities and evolution of the wireless platforms at both sides of the Atlantic towards beyond 5G technologies. The workshop will be mainly driven by ICT-17 and NSF PAWR representatives, although projects planning to use the Wireless platforms, such as ICT-19 winning consortiums and projects with already established experience on collaboration with USA such as 5GinFire, will also be invited.

Participating Projects:

• EMPOWER
• PAWR
• 5G-EVE
• 5G-VINNI
• 5GENESIS

Agenda:

1. Opening (45min)

• Challenges for developing future test platforms to support research in digital infrastructures, Serge Fdida, Sorbonne Université, France
• Introduction to PAWR, Abhimanyu Gosain, Technical Program Director of PAWR Office, Northeastern University College of Engineering
• The EU/USA collaboration programme by Thyaga Nandagopal, NSF
• EU/USA Collaboration, Bernard Barani, European Commission

2. E2E System view (75 min)

Round table focused on exploring E2E system level. The big question would be how to set-up an E2E open reference architecture. This might be a concern of mutual interest for Europe and USA as it goes beyond the wireless specific hardware components and target the issue related to the E2E architecture that should be encountered by most projects.

We will discuss among others, the role of Open Source for experimentation, production and infrastructures:

• Radio platforms: use of OAI/O-RAN or other platforms for the developing of the RAN in an open reference platform.
• Core platforms: possible use of ONF/OMEC or other platforms for the development of the Core part of the open reference platform.
• The need of an NFV open framework to provide a relevant test framework and toolset to perform tests.

Organisers:

Bessem Sayadi (Nokia Bell-Labs, France)

Motivation and Background:

The softwarization of the network is focused on the virtualization, decoupling the HW from the SW to lower the cost of network and service operation and to reduce the time to market for new services while introducing higher flexibility. In addition, virtualization of networking systems offers a multitude of benefits for telecommunication and datacenter operators by decoupling network functions from proprietary hardware as well as decoupling services from propriety service platforms.

In the same time, the cloud has disrupted the established order in many sectors. And the reason is simple. With it, companies have been able to reduce the investment in their internal data centers in favor of unlimited computing resources, available on demand and billed for use. From now on, the competitiveness of a company depends directly on its capacity to quickly realize new ideas. Start-ups understand this well, so they rely on native cloud approaches to disrupt traditional sectors. It becomes obvious that innovations should be made cloud-native for being successful where the functions are designed for a cloud environment rather than packaged up and deployed onto it.

Cloud-native is an approach to build and run applications that fully exploit the benefits of the cloud computing model. The Cloud-native approach is the way applications are created and deployed, not where they are executed. It includes things like services architectures, infrastructure as a code, automation, continuous integration/delivery pipelines, observability/monitoring tools, etc

A research ecosystem of horizontal and vertical R&D actions is being formed, which examines the transformation from cloud ready to cloud native in the telco world. A carrier-grade enhancement to the Telco cloud native platform is required to provide better-than-IT performance in par or better than what is possible with classical telco platforms. Features like five-nine reliability, stateless microservices, etc should be supported in the Telco cloud native. A fast virtualization and programmability across all networking domains: from core to edge and access, from wired/optical to wireless, cellular and also satellite, is also considered.

The workshop is not only about 5G technologies and their implementation - with, for instance, Cloud-RAN, functional split and resource management techniques in 5G - but also about the whole service-based technology relevant to 5G in the cloud-native transformation. A service-based technology, by definition, offers hardware and/or software resources provided as a service over a network.

This open workshop aims at reinforcing this European research ecosystem by strengthening the liaison between the participating projects, facilitating the exchange of ideas and helping each research group to take advantage of the results produced by other projects, improving focus of innovation and aligning towards common goals and milestones, thus maximizing the overall impact. The workshop will promote and stimulate the discussion about development of new research directions for building a stronger abstraction layer for the cloud, programmable infrastructure, cognitive management, flexible programmability of 5G networks services, managing application lifecycle in the cloud, etc

The workshop is endorsed by the Software Networks Working Group of the 5G-PPP (https://5g-ppp.eu/) and supported by participating projects and partners.

The participants will have the opportunity to exchange ideas, share hands-on experience and solutions and discuss research results. The workshop will aim in extending collaborations and paving common exploitation strategies. The structure of the workshop is based on invited presentation of 5G-PPP projects that operate on the same focus area, followed by breakout sessions on particular subjects allowing immediate interaction between the delegates and facilitating the exchange of expertise and best practices in the field.

The workshop will invite a Keynote to talk about the cloud transformation in Telco.

Participating Projects:

• NGPaaS
• 5G-TRANSFORMER
• 5G-CITY
• 5GTANGO
• SLICENET
• NRG5
• 5G-MEDIA
• 5G-PICTURE
• MATILDA
• 5G-EVE

Agenda:

• Keynote presentation "Cloud Native 5G Virtual Network Functions: Design Principles and Use Cases", Sofiane Imadali, Orange Labs Networks, 5G-EVE (30min) + Q&A (10min)
• Presentation of 5G-PPP Software Network WG White Paper: "Verticals in the Cloud-Native Era" (15min) + Q&A (5min), Bessem Sayadi, Nokia (5G-PPP Software Network WG Chair)
• Josep Martrat (ATOS, ES), "Cloud-native Immersive Media pilot deployment using SONATA", 5G-TANGO
• Anastasios Zafeiropoulos (Ubitech, GR), "Cloud native applications design and deployment", MATILDA
• Marius Iordache (Orange, RO), "Cloud-native approach for a 5G use-case implementation based on network slicing" + technical paper "SliceNet Programmable Data Plane Control in 5G Network Slicing", SLICENET

Topics:

• Beyond 5G: Realizing Smart Networks

Moderator:

Chris Pearson (5G Americas)

Speakers:

• Flávio de Oliveira Silva (Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil)
• Ryo Inohara (KDDI Research, Inc.)
• Shaoli Kang (Datang Telecomm Group)
• Sung Ho Choi (Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion, Korea)
• Arturo Azcorra (5G IA Vision WG Chairman)

Launch of the 8th Global 5G Event

Zhiqin Wang (IMT-2020(5G) Promotion Group)

Agenda:

• Konstantinos Stavropoulos: FiberG: Fiber everywhere, for 5G and beyond
• Juan Pedro Fernandez-Palacios: Cost Efficient 5G Optical Transport Architecture
• Giorgio Parladori (Research Program Director, SM-Optics)
• Kebede Atra: 25 Gb/s Reflective Electro-Absorption Modulator Monolithically Integrated with Semiconductor Optical Amplifier for Colorless WDM-PON Application
• Paul Van Dijk: Vertical integration in SiN based foundry enables new applications
• Panel

Agenda:

• "5GCroCo Tests and Trials: User Stories and 5G Technologies," Dirk Hetzer (DTAG)
• "5G enabled CCAM at Greece - Turkey x-border corridor," Panagiotis Demestichas (WINGS-ICT)
• "5G enabled CCAM at Spain-Portugal x-border corridor," José Santa (University of Murcia)
• "A Timeline for C-V2X," Luigi Ardito (QUALCOMM)
• Panel. Moderator: Toktam Mahmoodi (King's College London, UK). Panelists:
• Maxime Flament (5GAA)
• Tao Chen (VTT)
• Mikael Fallgren (Ericsson)
• Walter Aigner (HiTec)

Agenda:

3. Wireless challenges for the future

This session includes a talk of a renowned scientist on challenges for Beyond 5G wireless Technologies, followed by a round table.

• Talk: Technical Challenges in future Wireless Technologies, the EMPOWER Technology Roadmap by Alain Mourad (IDCC).
• Round Table: Round table of representatives of ICT-17, NSF PAWR projects and other stakeholders. Active discussion on the future of the platforms and their technology evolution is expected.

4. ICT-17 Platforms

This session will allow ICT-17 platforms to present their main characteristics and features:

• 5G-EVE: 5G European Validation platform for Extensive trails, Mauro Boldi, Telecom Italia.
• 5G-VINNI: An open large scale 5G end-to-end facility for KPI validation and verticals use case piloting, Pål Grønsund
• 5GENESIS: An Open 5G Experimental Facility for Testing, KPI Validation and Showcasing,Harilaos Koumaras, NCSR "Demokritos".

Agenda:

• Hadi Razzaghi (UPB, DE), "Kubernetes and OpenStack to support multi-version service chaining", 5G-PICTURE
• Antonello Corsi (ENG, IT), "Progress towards cloud native paradigm for the energy domain services based on VNFs", NRG5
• David Breitgand (IBM, IL) and David Griffin (UCL, UK), "Cognitive Network Optimization of Cloud-Native Media Applications", 5G-MEDIA
• Thomas Deiss (Nokia, DE), "Cloud native and RAN", 5G-TRANSFORMER
• Ilhem Fajjari (Orange, FR)), "Telco-grade Kubernetes", NGPaaS
• Apostolos Papageorgiou (i2cat, ES), "Slicing-aware service orchestration", 5G-CITY
• Wrap-up and next steps (10 min)

Topics:

• Results and achievements from Cross Regional 5G projects

Moderator:

• Yeqing Du (Huawei)

Speakers:

• Flávio de Oliveira Silva (Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil)
• Luciano Leonel Mendes (5G Brasil Project)
• Uwe Herzog (Eurescom, 5G-DRIVE)
• Ilgyu Kim (Etri)
• Thyaga Nandagopal (National Science Foundation, USA)
• Wei Deng (China Mobile Research Institute)

Next-generation wireless networks must support ultra-reliable, low-latency communication and intelligently manage a massive number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in real- time, within a highly dynamic environment. This need for stringent communication quality-of-service (QoS) requirements as well as mobile edge and core intelligence can only be realized by integrating fundamental notions of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning across the wireless infrastructure and end-user devices. AI will play major roles in next-generation wireless networks ranging from data analytics to AI-powered self-organizing networks. To this end, the goal of this tutorial is to provide a holistic on the topic of machine learning for AI-powered wireless networks. In particular, we will first provide a comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of machine learning and artificial neural networks, which are one of the most important pillars of machine learning. Then, we introduce a classification of the various types of neural networks that include feed-forward neural networks, recurrent neural networks, spiking neural networks, and deep neural networks. For each type, we provide an introduction on their basic components, their training processes, and their wireless use cases. Then, we overview a broad range of wireless applications that can make use of neural network designs. This range of applications includes ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC), wireless virtual reality, mobile edge caching, drone-based communications, Internet of Things, and vehicular networks.

For each application, we first outline the main rationale for applying machine learning while pinpointing illustrative scenarios. Then, we overview the challenges and opportunities brought forward by the use of neural networks in the specific wireless application. We complement this overview with a detailed example drawn from the state-of-the-art. Finally, we conclude by shedding light on the potential future works within each specific area and within the overall area of AI for wireless networks.

In 2020 the 5G Networks are expected to be operational and a global game changer from a technological, economic, societal and environmental perspective with very aggressive promised performance in terms of latency, reliability, energy efficiency, wireless broadband capacity, elasticity, and so on.

Nevertheless, experts claim that the next big step for cellular (and, generally speaking, wireless) networks is not the 5G realization but its next cloudification.

Virtualization and cloudification (or commonly dubbed as cloud computing) are often used interchangeably but they represent different concepts while involving a number of different technical challenges. Virtualization was introduced to consolidate physical servers running heterogeneous applications onto fewer (computing nodes) servers by placing the applications on so-called virtual machines (VMs) in a "hypervised" environment. This was the incipit for the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) paradigm to find a solid basis in communication networks supported by industry initiatives that aimed at saving CAPEX and OPEX while still claiming deployment flexibility and service agility. This brought up in the last years the network slicing concept that has completely revolutionized the networking perspective by abstracting and separating logical network behaviours from the underlying physical network resources thereby significantly impacting on the reduction of the operations expenditures which, in turn, drives the network operators to foster the programmability and automation of network facilities as well as to enable the evolution of a wider range of business services.

Conversely, Cloud computing refers to the delivery of shared on-demand computing resources through the public cloud (e.g., internet) or enterprise private cloud networks. This calls into question the need of cloudification, which translates into i) deploying communications software that has been rewritten and specifically designed for cloud environments, ii) enabling (low-latency) communication paths between cloud environments and iii) adding more flexibility and dynamicity (high reactiveness) on the orchestration process to successfully deliver agile services.

This tutorial focuses on the evolutionary flow of the network virtualization concept through several standard definition activities in the last decade. In particular, we shed light on the Network Function Virtualization pillars and the main difference with the upcoming cloudification phenomena of 5G-andbeyond networks. We analyse the state-of-the-art solutions proposed to realize the first example of cloudification, highlighting the main limitations of the current solutions and the real potentiality of advanced upcoming approaches. We present the interdependencies between 5G KPIs, 5G key enabling technologies and the three levels of cloud: Fog, Mobile Edge Cloud and the Central Cloud. In particular, for the Mobile Edge Cloud, we also provide the audience with a solid background and comprehensive description of the last 5 / 12

achievements of the ETSI MEC ISG group in terms of cloud computing features and interface descriptions. Finally, we point out the future research directions to embrace new open-source function/resource allocation procedures highlighting the viewpoint of few up-and-running H2020 projects.

Topics:

• Measuring 5G KPIs in real environments

Moderator:

Maurizio Cecchi (Associazione P.I.I.U.)

Speakers:

• Harilaos Koumaras (5GENESIS)
• Panagiotis Demestichas (WINGS ICT Solutions)
• Andrea Cattoni (Keysight Technologies, 5G-VINNI)
• Xinhui Wang (ZTE)
• Doyoung Kwak (Infra Laboratory / KT Corporation)
• Takaharu Nakamura (5GMF, Fujitsu)

Agenda:

5. ICT-17/ICT-19 - Dialogue with verticals

• Short presentation of 5Growth, 5G-Tours, 5G-Solutions and 5G-HEARTon the vertical scenarios to be addressed and their technological requirements.
• Presentations from:

1. The 5GINFIRE Platform: A facility for end-to-end 5G experimentation, Halid Hrasnica, Eurescom GmbH
2. EuWireless: Design of the European Mobile Network Operator for Research, Pedro Merino, University of Malaga.

• Open discussion on how to best address the vertical experimentation and requirements.

Abstract:

5G networks emerge through leverage of unlicensed frequency spectra. A stunning eighty percent of today's mobile internet data traffic is off-loaded to Wi-Fi, which in turn is largely backhauled by copper or fiber access technologies. Successful fifth-generation networks will be based on a convergence of mobile and fixed technologies through this Wi-Fi hybrid of mobile and fixed access. This creates very important and technically exciting challenges for dynamic managing/optimizing space, time, and frequency dimensions for cost-effective delivery of all services with acceptable quality, across both Wi-Fi and 5G LTE. This talk will examine these trends and explore technological evolutionary steps and challenges that may well define the true emergency of high-speed internet connectivity reliably to all future internet data consumers.

Short Bio:

John M. Cioffi - BSEE, 1978, Illinois; PhDEE, 1984, Stanford; Bell Laboratories, 1978-1984; IBM Research, 1984-1986; EE Prof., Stanford, 1986-present, now emeritus. founded Amati 1991 (became TI in 1997). Chairman and CEO), ASSIA INc. BoD of Alto Beam, Tinoq, Collinear, and the Marconi Foundation, Specific interests is high-performance digital transmission. IEEE AG Bell, Kirchmayer, and Millenium Medals (2010, 2014, and 2000); Internet (2014) and Consumer Electronics (2018) Halls of Fame; Economist Magazine 2010 Innovations Award; International Marconi Fellow (2006); Member, US National and UK Royal Academies of Engineering (2001, 2009); IEEE Kobayashi and Armstrong Awards (2001 and 2013); BBWF Lifetime Achievement (2014), IEEE Fellow (1996); IEE JJ Tomson Medal (2000); over 600 papers and 100+ patents, in the areas of MIMO, DSL, Wi-Fi, LTE, and disk storage.

Abstract:

C-V2X communication is the state-of-the-art, high-speed cellular communications platform that enables vehicles to communicate with one another, with roadside infrastructure, with other road users (such as pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists) using either direct short-range communications or cellular networks. While C-V2X network-based solutions are already widely deployed, direct communication solutions will be commercially available as of this year. As such the C-V2X platform delivers safety, mobility, traffic efficiency, and environmental benefits. C-V2X is designed with an evolutionary path to 5G and supports safe and efficient operations of autonomous vehicles. The presentation gives insights into various examples of C-V2X applications for the next generation of connected mobility for advanced driving and automated vehicle solutions.

Short Bio:

Johannes Springer is responsible for the 5G Automotive Program at Deutsche Telekom in Group Technology and Innovation Headquarter. Johannes studied Engineering, Mechanical and Production Engineering at Berlin Technical University. After his doctorate in 1992 he was in charge at Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) as head of department in the Institute of Ergonomics and Industrial Engineering. In 1998 he joined Deutsche Telekom Group in various management positions. From 2004 to 2010 he worked as CTO/COO for Toll Collect, the GNSS and mobile networks based electronic tolling operator for trucks in Germany. From 2011 to 2016 he was Vice President Technology and Solution Design within the Strategic Business Unit Connected Car in T-Systems.

Johannes is active in various organizations, e.g. NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Network, Co-Lead in V2X Task Force) and DGON (German Association of Navigation, Advisory Board).

In 5GAA (5G Automotive Association) he works in the Working Groups "Use Cases" and "Business Models", and since July 2018, he is the Director General of the 5GAA.

Organiser/Moderator:

Afif Osseiran (Ericsson AB, Sweden)

Motivation and Background:

5G networks in the framework of 3GPP activity have a clear roadmap towards technology validation, rollout and commercial launch along 2019. First mobile devices were presented in last mobile world congress events, and the machinery of industry is running at maximum speed to have them in the market in the second half of the year. However, new scientific opportunities are blooming in the field of networking research, radio technologies, new spectrum potential bands, mainly beyond 90 GHz, and improved computation capabilities. It includes interaction with photonic systems as well as new cooperation networking and protocols, notably in the mobility context.

This panel is one of the fist opportunities to bring together reputed experts from various sectors to present their views on the technology enablers for the next generation mobile. Industry, vendors, operators, academics and computation experts will exchange their forecasts while looking for the new application driving the innovation towards the 6G. This is the context for the panel at EuCNC 2019.

Questions:

• Are there new deployment strategies for the future, is the era of macro-cells coming to an end?
• Which is the vision of vendors with respect to virtualization, are the players going to change?
• Which technologies have no room in 5G roadmap and require a new generation frame?
• Is there a clear killer application in mind for the 6G?
• Will be the industry the driver of the new generation? Which are they actual requirements?

Participants:

• Afif Osseiran (Ericsson AB, Sweden)
• Andreas Mueller (Bosch, Germany)
• Eric Hardouin (Director of the "Ambient Connectivity" research domain of Orange Labs, France)
• Thomas Magedanz (TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany)
• Suat Topsu (University of Paris Saclay-Founder & Chairman Oledcomm, France)

Agenda:

• Welcome: Valerie Blavette (CELTIC Chairperson)
• Keynote Speech 1: Artificial Intelligence
• Panel: Impact of CELTIC Projects. Moderator: David Kennedy (EURESCOM)

1. NOTTS and MONALIS: Antonio Cuadra Sanchez (INDRA)
2. UPSC
3. Flagship SASER
4. Flagship SENDATE
5. ACIO

Organizers:

• Maria Guta (European Space Research and Technology Centre, European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
• Konstantinos Liolis (SES, Luxembourg)

Abstract:

5G is the first truly multi-technology communication system, where satellite role is being proven on the basis of its benefits and its integration in the overall network. The consensus and wider agreement on what satellite brings to achieve the 5G KPIs are: service ubiquity, service continuity, service scalability, broadcast (simultaneity) and security. Recent activities - with the active involvement of the satellite and terrestrial mobile industry stakeholders - develop already 5G features in satellite networks and include the necessary integration tests. Large-scale 5G testbeds are being developed to validate the end-to-end terrestrial-satellite 5G integrated system, network performance and demonstrate the seamless service delivery. To this end, several successful over-the-air demonstrations have taken place so far paving the way for the seamless satellite integration into 5G. In addition, several international standardization activities are ongoing to promote the satellite role into the 5G ecosystem. In this context, supported by the ongoing relevant EU 5GPPP projects (SaT5G, 5G-VINNI, 5GENESIS) and ESA ARTES projects (Satellite for 5G - S45G, SATis5, EdgeSAT, etc.), this Special Session builds upon the success of the series of past relevant events and aims to showcase that satellite integration into 5G is in fact getting closer to reality. In particular, this Special Session will:

• Highlight the experiences, results and lessons learnt from successful over-the-air demonstrations towards the seamless satellite integration into 5G;
• Update on the status of 5G experimentation facilities optimising the integrated satellite-terrestrial 5G network architecture and exploiting edge network connectivity concepts;
• Promote the emergence of innovative services and new business models making use of 5G networks integrating satellite in response to the various 5G verticals requirements;
• Foster cross-industry cooperation opportunities between terrestrial mobile and satellite industry in the context of 5G ecosystem;
• Provide insights into the status of standardization activities for satellite integration into 5G.

Organisers:

• Jacques Magen (Interinnov, France)
• Stephanie Parker (Trust-IT, UK)

Motivation and Background:

The imminent arrival of 5G will bring disruption in business models for incumbent operators and verticals alike. While opportunities will surely arise for large, well-positioned market participants, the real winners may well be those SMEs who have mastered the key technologies and services enabling the new business models emerging from the inevitable disruption not only in the telecommunications ecosystem but also in the vertical sectors making use of 5G including automotive, manufacturing, health, energy, and others.

This interactive workshop will explore the new playing field that is emerging with the advent of 5G, and the opportunities for SMEs to be at the leading edge. Key practical outcomes include ensuring exploitation potential for 5G PPP phase 2 and Phase 3 projects and concrete innovation opportunities for SMEs.

Agenda:

1. Opening
2. Keynotes from industry - market opportunities for SMEs
3. SMEs in the Spotlight - Lightning talks with Q&A on taking 5G innovations to market

• Nicola Ciulli (Nextworks), "5G new opportunities for verticals and technology providers: an SME viewpoint"
• Aitor Zabala (Telcaria), "Enabling new SME business models by leveraging novel federation and zero-touch technologies, through network softwarization in 5G CORAL"
• Maurizio Cecchi (PIIU), "Prizes for SMEs: Call of Ideas on how to exploit 5GPPP trials facilities"
• Azcom
• Krzysztof Rocki (MIRANTIS)
• Panagiotis Demestichas (WINGS)
• Theodoras Rokkas (inCITES), "Call for SMEs"
• Pierre Boucher (Innovation ENCQOR), "Opportunities for SMEs in the ENCQOR Canadian initiative"

Organisers:

• Woon Hau Chin (Toshiba Research Europe Limited, UK)
• Antonio de la Oliva (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain)
• Klaus Moessner (University of Surrey, UK)
• Michelle Tsai (5G Office, Taiwan)

Motivation and Background:

The workshop is jointly organized by the Clear5G and 5G Coral projects who committed to driving industry adoption of 5G by promoting and nurturing research in applications of 5G communications. Both projects represent the coordination between the EC and Taiwan governments on 5G development. The motivation of the workshop will be to bring together experts from both Europe and Taiwan on 5G to discuss the results of this cooperation and discuss possible mechanisms to improve the cooperation, by analyzing the results of the Phase I projects.

This is also a platform for participants to understand how 5G is evolving and developing outside of the EU.

The workshop targets 5G as a pathfinder for future actions by pursuing the following goals:

• Discuss progress and priorities with participating projects.
• Ensure industry views are represented, also beyond 5G PPP.
• Engage in a multi-stakeholder dialogue aimed at facilitating contributions to the standards process.

Agenda:

• Keynote 1: "5G: Are We Ready?," Lifung Chang (5G Office, Taiwan)
• Keynote 2: "European Research Beyond 5G," Bernard Barani (DG-Connect, EC)
• Clear5G, Klaus Moessner (University of Surrey)
• 5G Coral & 5G-DIVE, Antonio de la Oliva (University of Madrid)

Agenda:

• Keynote Speech 2: Future prove of mobility
• CELTICNEXT Ambitions: Valerie Blavette (CELTIC Chairperson)
• SME: Steny Solitude, Perfect Memory, France
• Best of CELTIC Projects. Presentation of the 4 CELTIC Awards Winners and Award Ceremony

Organizers:

• Angeliki Alexiou (University of Piraeus, Greece)
• Catherine Douillard (IMT Atlantique, France)

Abstract:

While the wireless world is moving towards the 5G era and many technological advances have been proposed, there seem to be significant limitations in the capability to efficiently and flexibly handle the massive amount of QoS/QoE-oriented data that will be exchanged in a future Big-Data-driven society along with the super-high data rate and almost zero latency requirements.

Thus, wireless Tbit/s communications and the supporting backhaul network infrastructure are expected to become the main technology trend within the next ten years and beyond. Terahertz (THz) transmission as a wireless backhaul extension of the optical fibre is an important building block to close this gap and guarantee high-speed internet access everywhere beyond 5G. Together with extraordinary promises, THz communication brings unique and novel challenges that require rethinking classic communications and networking mechanisms. Motivated by the potential of THz technologies to transform the future of ICT, this Special Session aspires to reveal and discuss the critical technology gaps as well as the appropriate enablers, in terms of baseband processing RF frontend, channel models and waveforms, signals and coding, beam-patterns and medium access schemes. This special session brings together experts in information and coding theory, in advanced hardware design and ASIC integration and wireless access technologies and algorithms to present the main implementation challenges to be faced and to describe specific designs, algorithms and architectures, designed towards Terabit/s throughputs.

Agenda:

4. Panel Discussion: "Large meets Small"
5. Business Models across Verticals

• Darko Ratkaj (European Broadcasting Union)
• Simon Fletcher (Real Wireless), "Techno-economics for 5G solutions"
• Asma Chiha Ep Harbi (UGENT), "Cutting across Verticals - New business models for non-terrestrial networks"
• Ioannis Neokosmidis (inCITES), "Business Models for Neutral Hosts
• Valerio Frascolla (Intel), "Merging MEC and mmWave in 5G & beyond use cases"

6. Wrap-up and Next Steps

Agenda:

• "5G-CONNI: 5G Private Networks for Connected Industries," Wilhelm Keusgen (Fraunhofer HHI)
• "5G R&D in Factory of the Future," Hung-Yun Hsieh (NTU, Taiwan)
• "Distributed EFS AR navigation/advertisement scenario in Taipei Main Train Station and Nan-Kang Train Station," Tonny Yang (ITRI)
• Panel: Impact of 5G on Society. European and Asian views
• Moderator: Woon Hau Chin (Toshiba Research Europe)
• Lifung Chang (5G Office, Taiwan)
• Klaus Moessner (University of Surrey)
• Antonio de La Oliva (University of Madrid)
• Wilhelm Keusgen (Fraunhofer HHI)
• Tonny Yang (ITRI)

This networking reception is hosted by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), a funding organisation for the creation of research and innovation networks, called COST Actions.

In an lively and participatory format the participants will learn how these networks do offer an open space for collaboration across Europe (and beyond) and thereby give impetus to research advancements and innovation. You will also hear from COST Action participants how COST impacted their careers.

The event will help create dialogues and thereby lay the basis for potential future connections and common projects, e.g. future COST Actions or other joint research projects.

Please note that the reception is on invitation only. More information is available at the COST booth in the EUCNC exhibition area.

Abstract:

As we see 5G unfold, expectations on the economic and societal impact are very high. Many new opportunities shall emerge for new business opportunities. Besides Gb/s data rates, the Tactile Internet being the most highlighted promise of 5G, enabling remote control applications over cellular. We shall review opportunities and their technical requirements. This helps to build an understanding to detect missing pieces.

1G was a great step creating the vision of ubiquitous voice telephony, but we needed 2G to deliver (like international roaming). 3G was a great step towards ubiquitous cellular data, but we needed 4G to fix the challenges. 5G will be an infliction point in bringing cellular to new applications. However, do we need to use the 5G system to understand what is really needed, and have to wait for 6G as a fix? And is this fix required to make the Tactile Internet a reality?

Short Bio:

Gerhard P. Fettweis is Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, and heads the Barkhausen Institute. He earned his Ph.D. under H. Meyr's supervision from RWTH Aachen in 1990. After one year at IBM Research in San Jose, CA, he moved to TCSI Inc., Berkeley, CA. He coordinates the 5G Lab Germany, and 2 German Science Foundation (DFG) centers at TU Dresden (cfaed and HAEC). His research focusses on wireless transmission and chip design for wireless/IoT platforms, with 20 companies from Asia/Europe/US sponsoring his research.

Gerhard is IEEE Fellow, member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and the German Academy of Engineering (acatech). He received multiple IEEE recognitions as well has the VDE ring of honor. In Dresden his team has spun-out sixteen start-ups, and setup funded projects in volume of close to EUR 1/2 billion. He co-chairs the IEEE 5G Initiative, and has helped organizing IEEE conferences, most notably as TPC Chair of ICC 2009 and of TTM 2012, and as General Chair of VTC Spring 2013 and DATE 2014, and of IEEE 5G Summits.

Abstract:

First 5G networks are launched - mission accomplished?

While the commercial launch of the first 5G networks is a significant mile-stone it merely represents the completion of the basement of the 5G House, and that house will only be complete when the full 5G vision has turned into a reality for all. The 5G vision, capabilities, target architecture and transformational properties are well understood in the community of networks and communication professionals. So, in this key note provide an overview on key initiatives the industry engages on to complete the 5G House. Standardization and Industry Initiatives often are tightly linked to prior work as done in funded research. Hence a broad landscape overview of the standard and Industry Initiatives is highly relevant for EuCNC conference. We will cover three main dimensions:

1. Toward a full 5G standard with all enabling capabilities

By mid-2019, the second phase of 5G standard is fully worked on with 3GPP Rel 16, the evaluation of IMT-2020 is ongoing in the ITU-R. The further priorities of the next 5G Release (3GPP Rel 17) are also take shape. Even certain key enhancements for subsequent releases are clear. We give an overview of that work program highlighting key work items which complement 5G vision capabilities.

2. Transformation toward open, agile and fully automated network

The promise of 5G will only be realized with open, agile and fully automated networks. Starting with the virtualization of network functions some years ago, several key initiatives have been undertaken in Industry standard and open source projects to address various aspect of opening the network as well as to automate its operation, such as ONAP, O-RAN, ZSM, only to name a few. We highlight which problems these initiatives are solving and how, the relationship among them as well as their status and program ahead. 3. Beyond telecom ecosystem

One defining characteristic of 5G is the ubiquity of relevance beyond the direct telco sector. That has led to numerous activities to collaborate with different such sectors, understand the requirements and make sure the technology will finally address their needs. There are initiatives around automotive and autonomous mobility (5GAA), Public Safety (TCCA BIG) and more. Further there are groups working on 5G for satellite links, use in future railway systems, as a means to deliver terrestrial broadcast and more. Addressing the needs of Connected Industries and Automation for 5G enabled Industry 4.0 has lead to the creation of the 5G-ACIA (Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation). As 5G enabled Industrial IoT will represent one of the largest opportunities we will elaborate on this further.

Short Bio:

Ulrich heads the Standardization activities for Nokia. He is responsible for global and regional standardization and technical regulation as spectrum. The team is part of the Nokia BellLabs CTO group. Ulrich is board member of the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA). He also is a VP and Executive Committee member of the Global Mobile Supplier Association (GSA).

Prior to that Ulrich was responsible for Nokia Networks Industry Environment activities. Between 2007 and 2012 Ulrich lead the NSN 3GPP standardization team and has served as Head of Delegation to 3GPP. In that role he also chaired the Industry Group "European Friends of 3GPP".

Between 1996 and 2007, Ulrich held various positions in R&D of Siemens Mobile Networks unit. He was responsible for standardization activities of the core network business unit and managed Siemens 3GPP activities. Ulrich had instrumental role in the definition of the UMTS architecture as well as in set up of project management in 3GPP.

Ulrich holds a Ph.D. from Télécom ParisTech (ENST) from 1996; research area was the definition of 3G Radio Interface and his research was part of EU collaborative research program (RACE ATDMA).

Organiser/Moderator:

Bengt Sahlin (Research Leader, Network Security, Ericsson Research NomadicLab, Sweden)

Motivation and Background:

5G infrastructures constitute a whole new level for connectivity in the digital economy. Beyond consumer services, 5G technology is designed to greatly change the way areas such as transport, industry, energy and health work. Applicability of 5G in these new sectors introduces new security challenges to consider. This trend will further intensify when moving into the future; In the mid- to long-term, the strategic importance of future Smart Networks (namely beyond 5G and later 6G network systems) calls for a strongly structured R&I roadmap with regards to cybersecurity.

Against the above background, following the expressed support from the Member States for a concerted approach to the security of 5G networks, the European Commission issued on 26 March a Recommendation to assess cybersecurity risks of 5G networks and to strengthen preventive measures, helping EU Member States to implement them in a coherent manner. (Commission Recommendation of 26 March 2019 on Cybersecurity of 5G networks C(2019) 2335 https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/cybersecurity-5g-networks)

In terms of standardization, 5G phase 1 work has been completed in 3GPP, and phase 2 work is ongoing. Phase 1 work concentrated on the mobile broadband use case, phase 2 will have focus on use cases for massive IOT, Industrial Internet and mission critical services. New technology paradigms like SDN, virtualization and network slicing are impacting on how future networks are designed, implemented and deployed. This will have impact on how to design, implement and operate networks securely.

In addition to the existing trends, there are also emerging trends like AI, quantum computing and blockchain arising. As for other technology paradigms, there will be impacts on security.

The panel will present the Commission Recommendation on Cybersecurity of 5G networks, its status and next steps. It will also provide a short overview of security of 5G phase 1 (3GPP Rel-15) and the ongoing security work for phase 2 (3GPP Rel-16). Based on this, the panel will discuss future needs and expectations on security for future networks and services, also in the light of the Commission Recommendation. This discussion will cover aspects relevant for the different use cases (mobile broadband, IOT, mission critical services) and how the security challenges related to the new and emerging technology paradigms can be dealt with.

Questions:

• Why the Commission published a Recommendation on Cybersecurity of 5G networks and what are the expected results of all related policy actions?
• What are the expectations on security specified in 3GPP Rel-16 for IOT and mission critical services?
• What security aspects should be considered for future networks beyond 5G?
• What are the impacts of ongoing technology paradigms on security?
• What are the impacts on security of emerging technology paradigms?
• What opportunities do the emerging technology paradigms bring in the security area?
• What expectations on security are seen from industrial digitalization perspective for future communication networks?

Participants:

• Bengt Sahlin (Research Leader, Network Security, Ericsson Research NomadicLab, Sweden)
• Emmanuel Dotaro (Head of ICT and Security Labs at Thales Secure Communications and Information Systems - France)
• Alejandro Pinto González (Policy Officer on Cybersecurity, National Security Department, Cabinet of the Prime Minister)
• Linus Thrybom (R&D Manager at ABB Corporate Research)
• Peter Stuckmann (Head of Unit - Future Connectivity Systems DG CONNECT, European Commission)
• Eric Gauthier (Orange, London, UK)

Agenda:

• Funding and research topics in EUREKA countries
• Roundtable with available Public Authorities. Moderator: Valerie Blavette (CELTIC Chair)
• CELTIC Project Ideas Pitches. Short elevator pitches of innovative project ideas for the next call of CELTIC Cluster. Moderator: Christiane Reinsch (CELTIC Office)

Organizers:

• Massimo Bertoncini (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy)
• Giampaolo Fiorentino (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Italy)
• Filippo Rebecchi (Thales, France)
• Maria Rita Spada (Wind Tre, Italy).

Abstract:

The "5G trials for vertical industries" special session is jointly organised by a group of active 5G PPP projects working towards the realization and validation of vertical applications enabled by 5G technologies, including NRG-5 (www.nrg5.eu), 5GCity (www.5gcity.eu), 5G-MEDIA (www.5gmedia.eu), and 5G Essence (www.5g-essence-h2020.eu). The workshop targets vertical industries such as Energy, Media, Smart City, and Public Safety.

As most of 5G PPP phase 2 projects will reach their end in 2019, the special session represents an outstanding opportunity to share experiences on planning and execution of real world validation activities, examine the set of addressed validation metrics (KPIs) together with their relationship with the associated vertical requirements, and illustrate preliminary results and lessons learned.

The special session will serve as a privileged venue for all the 5G PPP projects that are entering the technology validation phase, including those providing platforms (ICT-17) and trial activities (ICT-19), to cross-fertilize, exchange best practices for trial and validation activities taking into account the selected 5G PPP KPIs, fostering also future collaborations between partners of different projects and vertical industries.

Organisers:

• David M. Gutierrez Estevez (Samsung R&D Institute UK)
• Yue Wang (Samsung Electronics, Uk)
• Anastasius Gavras (Eurescom GmbH, Germany)
• Jose M. Alcaraz Calero (University of the West of Scotland, UK)

Motivation and Background:

The use of AI for network operation and management is known to have great potential to enhance the network performance and efficiency, therefore has received significant interest in both research and industry standardization groups. Prominent industry standard groups, such as ETSI ISG ENI and ZSM, and 3GPP SA2 and SA5, have made great efforts to build industry consensus on network architecture and interfaces to enable the use of AI in the network. However, the standardization on AI in network management and orchestration is just at its beginning. Open questions on AI for network management need joint efforts from different standardization groups, as well as between the research and industry standardization groups.

Likewise, the topic is having a big impact in the research communities, and 5G-PPP projects are also part of this trend. In this workshop, 5G-MoNArch will showcase recent results on the employment of AI to achieve resource elasticity, i.e., an efficient and autonomous utilization of computational resources in the network, by enhancing the design of VNFs and their scaling mechanisms. In SliceNet, AI is investigated to achieve cognitive network management to improve both operation experience for network operators and quality of experience for vertical users, especially in the context of network slicing. However, traditionally it has been difficult for research and innovation projects to make significant impact on standards in a timely manner.

The workshop aims to bridge the gap between research and standards on AI for network management and orchestration. It will bring together researchers and industry experts, and stimulate debate and discussions on what are the significant problems to resolve to fully explore the potential of AI in networks, and how the relevant results provided by 5GPPP projects can be leveraged, therefore maximize their impacts to standards.

Agenda:

• Keynote. Hans Schotten (DFKI & University of Kaiserslautern)
• 5G-PPP Research Activities

Organisers:

• Simone Redana (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)
• Ömer Bulakci (Huawei GRC, Germany)

Motivation and Background:

5G is the first generation of mobile networks that is by design addressing the wide range of needs of the vertical industries. 5G offers unlimited mobile broadband experience, provides massive connectivity for everything from human-held smart devices to sensors and machines, and most importantly, it has the ability to support critical machine communications with instant action and ultra-high reliability.

First 5G specifications are available with 3GPP Rel.15, however further enhancements and optimizations are needed to design a 5G System that meets the requirements from the vertical industries.

5GPPP Architecture Working Group was launched during the Phase 1 of the 5GPPP Initiative with the result of publishing two White Papers on 5G Architecture in June 2016 (v1.0) and January 2018 (v2.0). The work is now continuing with the 5GPPP Phase 2 and Phase 3 with special focus on understanding the requirements from vertical industries involved in the projects and then driving the required enhancements of the 5G Architecture able to meet their requirements. The results of the Working Group are captured in a White Paper v3.0 to be released at EuCNC 2019 in June 2019.

In this Workshop, we will present the findings and analyses of the 5GPPP Phase 2 projects and early findings of 5GPPP Phase 3 projects within the white paper framework. While the standard implications on the ongoing specifications, e.g. in 3GPP Rel.16 and ETSI, are highlighted, various achievements presented in the White Paper are also expected to impact 3GPP Rel.17 and beyond Study Items and Work Items. Thus, the timeline matches perfectly as the discussion in 3GPP is going to start mid of 2019.

Agenda:

• Welcome & Overall White Paper introduction. Simone Redana (Nokia Bell Labs) and Ömer Bulakci (Huawei GRC)
• Chapter 3 - Radio & Edge Architecture. Ömer Bulakci (Huawei GRC)
• Chapter 4 - Core & Transport Architecture. David Navratil (Nokia Bell Labs) and Jesus Gutierrez Teran (IHP)
• Chapter 5 - Management & Orchestration Architecture. Xi Li (NEC laboratories Europe)
• Chapter 6 - Deployment & Analyses. Anastasius Gavras (Eurescom)
• Chapter 2 - Overall Architecture. Marco Gramaglia (UC3M)

Agenda:

• CELTIC Project Ideas Pitches. Short elevator pitches of innovative project ideas for the next call of CELTIC Cluster. Moderator: Christiane Reinsch (CELTIC Office)
• Open networking, bilateral discussions with proposers and Public Authorities

Organizers:

• Hans-Peter Mayer (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)
• Marie-Helene Hamon (Orange Labs, France)
• Gerhard Wunder (Freie Universität Berlin & Heisenberg Communications and Information Theory Group, Germany)

Abstract:

ONE5G's main objective is to investigate and propose new features and advancements, focussing on the Radio Access Network (RAN) for moving "5G" towards "5G Advanced". To prepare the next releases of 5G, beyond the first version (3GPP Release 15), the areas investigated are advanced multi-link access and interference management supported by massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) and Centralized Radio Access Networks (CRAN), End-to-End (E2E)-aware performance optimization through advanced radio resource allocation and multi-node connectivity orchestration, load balancing, spectrum management and device-to-device (D2D) communication. The scope of this special session is to present the major technical results in the context of the ONE5G's main, highly diverging, deployment scenarios, i.e. "Megacities" and "Underserved Areas".

Agenda:

• Standardisation Activities
• Ray Forbes (ETSI ENI Chairman, Huawei)
• Diego Lopez (ETSI ZSM, Telefonica)
• Alessandro Trogolo (3GPP SA5, Telecom Italia)
• Slawomir Stanczak (ITU-T FG-ML5G Chairman, Fraunhofer HHI)
• Panel discussion

• Chapter 7 - Standardization Impact. Edward Mutafungwa (Aalto)
• Panel discussion
• Moderator: Simone Redana (Nokia Bell Labs)
• Ömer Bulakci (Huawei GRC)
• David Navratil (Nokia Bell Labs)
• Jesus Gutierrez Teran (IHP)
• Xi Li (NEC laboratories Europe)
• Anastasius Gavras (Eurescom)
• Marco Gramaglia (UC3M)
• Edward Mutafungwa (Aalto)
• Closing remarks

Organiser/Moderator:

Panagiotis Demestichas (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Motivation and Background:

This panel will investigate the tight coupling of the new connectivity generation and the digital transformation with the advent of AI. 5G and future connectivity infrastructures will offer unprecedented performance levels. Gradually, through successive standards versions, new services will be enabled. These services will transform the way end-users live, corporations conduct business, and governments operate. This will happen in a direct manner (e.g., enhanced eMBB/URLLC-powered applications offered to end users) or indirectly, e.g., by providing data, in a timely and reliable manner, to advanced AI mechanisms, which are essential for the provision of vertical services.

Potential benefits from the introduction of intelligence in the system could aid network management and optimization, increase spectrum efficiency and improve QoS/QoE; however, AI will also affect the design of new architectures beyond 5G resulting in many uncharted scientific territories.

From a different perspective, new businesses and the sustainability of current ones call for more intelligence in the network infrastructure. Aspects like AI and Machine/Deep Learning seem to open new business opportunities and to pave the way for areas in need of research work.

Aspects like the ones above seem to open new business opportunities and to pave the way for areas in need of research work. Therefore, they call for a panel in the context of the EuCNC 2019.

Questions:

• What are the first services and application areas in need of AI and B5G for their transformation?
• What offerings are we aiming at, beyond those happening today or through the first 5G versions?
• What further performance levels are needed for AI? Are these possible today and at what cost?
• What is the impact on connectivity and AI in 5G, B5G, longer term evolution?
• AI impact on architecture, access network, core network and devices?
• AI impact on network resource optimisation and management?
• Is a new generation of wireless (namely 6G) being designated, through the tight coupling with AI mechanisms?

Participants:

• Panagiotis Demestichas (Professor, University of Piraeus, Greece)
• Slawomir Stanczak (Head of Wireless Communications and Networks Department, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, Germany)
• Sana Ben Jemaa (Research Engineer & Project Manager, Orange Labs, France)
• Heli Helaakoski (Senior Principal Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland)
• Peiying Zhu (Huawei Fellow, Huawei, Canada)
• Henning Sanneck (Head of the "Network Automation" Department, Nokia Bell Labs, Research, Germany)