5G-VINNI

3rd Nordic Conference on ICT - 5G for Industry and Society (virtual event)
2020-11-05 11:00 - 2020-11-06 17:30 (Europe/Berlin) | virtual
NTNU, SINTEF, Telenor Research and 5G-VINNI invites to a 2-day virtual conference to discuss the changes, challenges, and opportunities the Telco Industry will face in their journey to commercialize 5G for industry and society. The event will be live-streamed.​
https://5g-ppp.eu/event/5g-vinni-telenor-3rd-nordic-conference-on-ict-5g-for-industry-society/

Workshop Future Emerging Technologies for smart Networks and Services
2020-11-04 - 2020-11-05 | virtual
Virtual Workshop

Workshop Scope and Topics:
With 5G system deployment proceeding at a fast pace, and with standardization bodies completing the specification of features enabling full verticals integration in 5G, research seems increasingly interested in looking beyond. It is currently unclear the degree of innovation which can still be absorbed by 5G systems, as unclear are the use cases 5G may be unable to support, justifying the inception of a next generation. In this transition phase, it will be crucial to examine emerging technologies in the fields of wireless, optical and satellite communications, networking, network management, storage and computing, virtualization, multimedia and vertical applications, etc. to identify potential enablers which may become Beyond 5G (B5G) network cornerstones. Equally relevant is envisioning future services and examine their potential requirements, which may be the drivers behind next generation networks. The workshop is organized with the ambition to move a first step in both directions, and foster a discussion among matter experts which may help orient research in the years to come.

Workshop Format:
The workshop, by invitation only, will host distinguished speakers from Academia and Industry, who will be kindly requested to present their views on B5G emerging technologies and/or on next generation services and applications. The workshop will run under the Chatham House Rule. The workshop is organized by the 5G-VINNI project, a joint undertaking by several telecommunication operators, equipment vendors, research institutes and other organisations.

Patronage:
The workshop is organized under the auspices of the 5G-VINNI project (https://www.5g-vinni.eu/), a joint undertaking by several telecommunication operators, equipment vendors, research institutes and other organisations. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 815279.

Agenda:

09:00-09:15
Welcome, introduction,
rules of the workshop
Pål Grønsund, Telenor

09:15-10:45
Session 1
Chair: Wint Yi Poe, Huawei

Speakers from University of Bologna, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Airbus Defense and Space, Norwegian Defense on topics including Radio Physical Layer / IRS, IIoT, 6G radio, Spectrum requirements for 6G, Satellites as a Cornerstone for B5G Networks and robustness of the radio interface

10:45-11:00
Break

11:00-12:30
Session 2
Chair: Kashif Mahmood, Telenor

Speakers from AlticeLabs, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Telecom Italia / TIM and the University of Passau on topics including Beyond 5G Network Enabling Technologies, AI/ML Automation in Network Management. The second quantum revolution and general aspects of evolution in security.

12:30-14:00
Lunch break

14:00-15:30
Session 3
Chair: Diego Lopez, Telefonica

Speakers from NTT DoCoMo, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, and Telefonica on topics including 5G system evolution, a trade-off between centers of gravity, Challenges for beyond 5G, Cloud, MEC, AI / AI/ML for Network, as well as challenges and technology drivers for 5G and Beyond Transport Networks

15:30-15:45
Break
Chair: Maria Barros, Eurescom

16:00-17:30
Session 4
Speakers from Rudgers University, the European Space Agency, Ericsson and Samsung on topics including Virtualisation over heterogeneous resources, Satellite in 5G and Beyond, as well as a general outlook on beyond 5G.

5G Trials in Europe – 5G Experimentation Facilities and Vertical Trials (Virtual)
2020-10-14 11:15 - 16:30 | virtual
This online workshop is organised by the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications of NCSR Demokritos in the frame of EU projects 5GENESIS and 5G!Drones with the support of the 5G-PPP partnership. The workshop will focus on 5G Experimentation Facilities and Vertical Trials, their current status and future perspectives.
5G-VINNI will make a presentation at this workshop.
You can find more information, agenda and registration form here

IEEE ICC 2020 Workshop on Intelligent 5G Network Slicing (virtual)
2020-06-11 11:00 - 14:30 | Virtual, Ireland
Global 5G R&D initiatives have been launched in major economic areas worldwide. Evidence of this are actions in Europe undertaken by the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G-IA) in a contractual Public-Private Partnership (5G PPP) with the European Commission, as well as several actions globally. Major international standards developing organisations (SDOs) and industry alliances such as 3GPP and the NGMN (Next-Generation Mobile Networks) Alliance are also active in 5G specific initiatives.
According to the leading SDOs and other stakeholders, intelligent network slicing has been identified as a crucial enabler for provisioning flexible, cost-efficient and tailored services in software-networking based 5G networks. However, towards implementation and deployment of 5G infrastructures four gaps have to be filled:

End-to-end (E2E) fixed/mobile slicing has been identified as a high-priority technical gap to help support E2E application quality. To date reported prototypes do not implement intelligent slicing across administrative domains and are far from realising large-scale operation.
The Quality of Experience (QoE) of users of 5G network slices has to be addressed without over-provisioning of QoS. Cognitive enablers, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, have been suggested in this regard.
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) slice-based enablers, offering ultra-low latency, are widely suggested as critical to support innovative next generation vertical services.
Vertical industry related studies yield a very strong interest of the vertical stakeholders to form partnerships with 5G industry stakeholders in achieving 5G’s vision of a fully connected society. To date little attention has been given to facilitate easy and flexible vertical business integration.

Addressing the importance of filling these gaps, the workshop will cover topics such as:

Integrated cognitive network management for intelligent 5G network slicing
Cognitive QoE slice management for service assurance
Intelligent slice intent modelling and translation mechanisms
MEC slice-based enablers for ultra-low latency services
Provisioning and control of customer-defined network slices
Northbound slice management interfaces towards vertical application orchestration mechanisms
Vertical service prototyping and field studies
5G Vertical Business Modelling
Global Operators Case Studies

Agenda:
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome by Workshop Co-chair Mr. Mark Roddy, Mind Myths Ltd, Ireland
9:10 – 10:30 Technical Session 1 – “The Smart 5G Network” – Provision and control of customer-defined smart network slicing
Session Chairperson: Dr. Maria Weiss, Eurescom GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
Paper 1 – “Hardware-based Network Slicing for Supporting Smart Grids Self-healing over 5G Networks” presented by Ruben Ricart-Sanchez, University of the West of Scotland, UK.
Paper 2 – “Scalable Software Switch Based Service Function Chaining for 5G Network Slicing” presented by Antonio Matencio Escolar, University of the West of Scotland, UK.
Paper 3 – “Modeling Network slice as a Service in a multi-vendor 5G experimentation ecosystem” presented by Dr. Christos Tranoris, University of Patras, Greece.
Paper 4 – “Provisioning Private 5G networks by means of Network Slicing: Architectures and Challenges” presented by Wint Yi Poe, Huawei Technologies, Munich Research Center, Germany.
Paper 1 – Paper 4 and wrap-up of the Session by chairperson
10:30 – 10:45 Short Break
10:45 – 11:15 “Intelligent Network Slicing across Multiple Domains – The SliceNet Perspective”
Keynote1 by SliceNet presented by Prof. Qi Wang, University of the West of Scotland, UK
“Network Slicing and Automation in the 5G-VINNI Facility sites”
Keynote 2 by 5G-VINNI presented by Dr. Pål Grønsund, Telenor, Oslo, Norway.
11:15 – 12:15 Technical Session 2 – “5G and the Vertical”, Role of the Vertical in Intelligent 5G networks
Session Chairperson: Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
Paper 5 – “A workflow for onboarding Verticals on 5G/NFV experimental network facility” Dr. Christos Tranoris, University of Patras, Greece.
Paper 6 – “Multi-domain Orchestration of 5G Vertical Services and Network Slices” presented by Giacomo Bernini, Next Works, Pisa, Italy.
Paper 7 – “5G Service and Slice Implementation for a Military Use Case” presented by Dr. Pål Grønsund, Telenor, Oslo, Norway.
Paper 5 – Paper 7 and wrap-up of the Session by chairperson
12:15 – 12:30 Final wrap-up and Conclusions by workshop Co-chair Mr. Mark Roddy, Mind Myths Ltd, Ireland
Registration
Registration to IEEE ICC 2020 workshops is 40 euro for non-authors and 20 euro for students, via the ICC website: https://icc2020.ieee-icc.org/registration
Web site of the event: https://icc2020.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-16-workshop-on-intelligent-5g-network-slicing
Workshop Chairs

Mark Roddy, Mind Myths Lda, Ireland
Maria Barros Weiss, Eurescom GmbH, Germany
Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom GmbH, Germany
Pal Gronsund, Telenor
Thuy Truong, DellEMC, Ireland.
Ishan Vaishnavi, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH

IEEE CSCN 2019
2019-10-28 - 2019-10-31 | Granada, Palacio de Congresos de Granada, Spain
IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking

IEEE 5G World Forum
2019-09-30 - 2019-10-03 | IEEE 5G World Forum, International Congress Center Dresden, Dresden, Germany

M²EC 2019
2019-03-27 09:00 - 2019-03-29 18:00 | Matsue, Japan, Kunibiki Messe, Matsue, Japan
The International Workshop on Recent Advances for Multi-Clouds and Mobile Edge Computing
M²EC 2019
to be held in conjunction with the
33rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2019)
March 27–29, 2019 in Matsue, Japan

Workshop on “5G – The next phases”
2019-02-20 14:00 - 2019-02-21 16:30 | University Carlos III of Madrid., Madrid, Spain
Attendance by invitation only

Format
Working workshop, bringing together elements actively involved in the design of 5G network architectures, in order to reflect on the different pros-and cons. Participants – albeit representatives of different companies and institutions – will be covered during the discussion by the Chatham House Rule.
A summary of the conclusions will be provided after the event.
Patronage
The workshop is organized under the auspices of the 5G-VINNI project (https://www.5g-vinni.eu/), a joint undertaking by several telecommunication operators, equipment vendors, research institutes and other organisations. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 815279.

5G network infrastructures session at ICT 2018 Vienna
2018-12-06 10:00 - 10:45 | Vienna, Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1, Vienna, 1220, Austria
On 6th December, 5G-VINNI is co-organising a networking session on 5G network infrastructures at the ICT 2018 event in Vienna. The session title is: “Stimulating innovation over next generation 5G network infrastructures”. The session aims to stimulate an interdisciplinary discussion on the requirements for a 5G end-to-end facility from the industry customers’ perspective.
The idea is to explore with prospective industry customers of the 5G infrastructure the relevant key performance indicators for this network facility, including technical and functional requirements from multidisciplinary backgrounds of vertical sector industries. This is expected to lead to clear operational and business key performance indicators (KPIs) which should be met in order to stimulate business innovation over future 5G infrastructures.
The participants will have the opportunity to express their opinions and to engage in the debate. An interactive session format will facilitate gathering requirements and defining operational and business KPIs.
The results of the session will be captured in a report and shared for further consideration with the 5G PPP community, vertical sector actors, and other industry stakeholders. The results of the dialogue will cover fixed and multi-radio access, backhaul, core network, as well as service technologies and architectures, including end-to-end virtualisation and slicing to support vertical industry use cases and value chains.
The target audience includes European researchers and network managers from the fields of 5G and network infrastructures, telecoms network operators and service providers, network vendors, stakeholders from vertical sectors (automotive, e-health, energy, manufacturing, etc.), 5G PPP project participants, and other communities.
The session is organised by Eurescom on behalf of the Horizon 2020 projects 5G-VINNI, 5G EVE, and 5GinFIRE.
Date: Thursday, 6th December 2018, 10:00-10:45 a.m.
Venue: Room L7, Austria Center Vienna, Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1, 1220, Vienna, Austria | Map
Further information on the session, including the exact time, will be available on the ICT 2018 website and in the events list on the 5G-VINNI website.

ICT 2018 event in Vienna
2018-12-04 - 2018-12-06 | Vienna, Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1, Vienna, 1220, Austria
The next ICT event will be held in Vienna on 4-6 December 2018 at the Austria Centre Vienna.
5G-VINNI will be present at the 5G-PPP Exhibition stand and is co-organizing the Networking Session on Stimulating innovation over next generation 5G network infrastructures, on 6th December 2018, 10:00-10:45, Room L7.
We invite you to participate.
The ICT2018 Event is organised by the European Commission and the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, focusing on the European Union’s priorities in the digital transformation of society and industry.

6th Global 5G Event 5G Technology Changing Paradigms of a New Society
2018-11-28 09:00 - 2018-11-30 18:00 | Pestana Hotel, at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
5G Brasil is hosting the 6th Global 5G Event – 5G Technology Changing Paradigms of a New Society – with other leading 5G organizations from China, European Union, Japan, Republic of Korea and United States of America on November 28-30, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro, RJ – 30 August 2018 – 5G Brasil will host five leading global organizations, committed to bringing 5G technology successfully to their country or region, by offering collaboration and cooperation in a public symposium hosted for the first time in Latin America.
5G Brasil announced today the 6th Global 5G Event – named 5G Technology: Changing Paradigms of a New Society. The event will occur from November 28-30, 2018, with limited capacity and the venue will be Pestana Hotel, at Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro.
The Global 5G Event is an event where the world’s leading 5G organizations will discuss the latest research and development achievements and views on 5G. About 50 experts from around the world, including business leaders, researchers, engineers, professors, technical experts and policymakers, will present their views on 5G in eight panels and four keynote sessions. The following aspects on 5G will be addressed: government policies, challenges, opportunities, spectrum harmonization, regulatory issues, standardization process, research and technological trends, infrastructure, trials, precommercial launches, vertical markets and use cases.

IEEE 5G and IoT Thessaloniki Summit 2018
2018-10-25 - 2018-10-26 | Conference Centre of Piraeus Bank (12-14 Katouni st., 546 25, Ladadika area), 12-14 Katouni st., 5, Conference Centre of Piraeus Bank, Ladakika area, 546 25, Greece
IEEE Communication Society has developed a strategic framework based on the principles that embrace Industry’s interests and objectives while integrating objectives and priorities of IEEE and Communication Society. In order to engage industry members with high value and innovative technology, IEEE Communication Society plans to hold a series of high impact one day Summits in emerging technology areas (e.g., SDN/NFV, 5G, IoT, and Cybersecurity). The IEEE 5G and IoT Thessaloniki Summit 2018 is part of a successful series of 5G Summits that have been held since 2015 in America, Asia and Europe, and will contribute to continuous provision of a platform for the industry leaders, innovators, and researchers from the industry and academic community to collaborate and exchange ideas in this emerging technology that may help in driving the standards and rapid deployment. The event will be held at the beautiful city of Thessaloniki, Greece on Thursday, October 25, 2018. The IEEE 5G and IoT Thessaloniki Summit 2018 is collocated with the Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS 2018) and the Training School on “Emerging Technologies for 5G and Internet of Things” . Since we organize the event in Thessaloniki for the second time, we hope to repeat last year’s success (http://www.5gsummit.org/greece). The programme is composed of a rich blend of speakers from industry, academia, research labs, standardization and regulation bodies, covering different main topics:

5G and Internet of Things – Regulatory and Commercial Considerations
The Race to 5G
Testbeds, Trials and Deployment for 5G
What’s Next on 5G and IoT
The Radio and Network Perspectives for 5G and IoT
The 5G and IoT eco-system
Security, Privacy and Applications for IoT
European Research Projects on 5G

5G-VINNI Webinar for ICT-19 Proposers
2018-10-15 17:00 - 19:00 | virtual
5G-VINNI webinar via Webex, Monday, 15 October 2018, 15:00-17:00 CEST
The 5G-VINNI project held a webinar to explain its end-to-end facility to ICT-19 proposers and explain the process for obtaining consent for use of the 5G-VINNI facility. For ICT-19 proposers it is important to correctly understand how they can make use of the 5G-VINNI end-to-end facility. The webinar gave an overview on the facility and answered the questions that proposers had. In our webinar, we informed ICT-19 proposers and other interested participants about the 5G-VINNI facility and how to access and use it for the trials and validations of ICT-19 projects. The target audience for this webinar were proposers for ICT-19 projects in the context of the 5G PPP initiative of the H2020 programme of the European Commission.
Agenda and presentations

Agenda and takeaways by Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom GmbH
5G-VINNI Overview by Pål Grønsund, Telenor
On-boarding process for ICT-19 proposals and projects by Duncan Silvey, Nokia
Questions and answers
Conclusions (see agenda and takeaways)

Videos
Videos of the presentations will be available shortly.

Part 1 Pål Grønsund (download video file – embedded view will be available soon)
Part 2 Duncan Silvey (download video file – embedded view will be available soon)
Part 3 Q&A (download video file – embedded view will be available soon)
Part 4 Key takeaways (download video file – embedded view will be available soon)

Videos

How to interact with 5G-VINNI?
Please contact 5G-VINNI centrally or via one of the site facility contacts as instructed by the 5G-VINNI Overview presentation. Preferably you should fill-in the requirements document and sent it along with your request.
Main facility sites

Norway facility site (slides, webpage)
UK facility site (slides, slides with audio description, webpage)
Spain facility site (slides, webpage)
Greece facility site (slides, webpage and video)

Experimentation facility sites

Germany Berlin (webpage)
Germany Munich (webpage)
Luxembourg nomadic facility site (slides, webpage)
Portugal (webpage)

5G-PPP Phase 3 Information Day
2018-09-14 - 2018-09-15 | Albert Borschette Conference Centre, Rue Froissart 36, Brussels, Belgium
