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

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 ICC 2020 Workshop on Intelligent 5G Network Slicing (virtual)
2020-06-11 11:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Berlin) | 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

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

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.

3rd Nordic Conference on ICT - 5G for Industry and Society (virtual event)
2020-11-05 11:00 - 2020-11-06 17:30 | 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/

ICIN 2021
2021-03-01 09:00 - 2021-03-03 18:00 | Paris, virtual, Paris, virtual, France
Call for papers
5G rollout has started in many parts of the world and is imminent in others. At the same time, IoT services and applications in vertical areas like industry 4.0, smart grids, eHealth and smart cities which utilize the full capabilities of 5G networks are still emerging. Judging by this demand, massive IoT (mIoT) or massive machine-type communication (mMTC) has been identified as one of the three main communication scenarios for 5G. For enabling and accelerating the large-scale rollout of 5G-based IoT solutions in a wide range of vertical sectors, large-scale validation trials are an important step.
The workshop aims to gather the results of such validation trials for 5G-based IoT solutions in Europe and beyond. In addition to presenting the technological progress and insights gained from these validation trials, the workshop will also foster a multidisciplinary discussion between industry and academia, ICT providers and verticals as well as between the 5G and the IoT research communities. This productive exchange is expected to lead to an identification of existing R&D challenges and new insights on how to address them.
The workshop is organized in cooperation with the 5G EVE, 5G-VINNI, and 5GENESIS projects. The workshop specifically invites papers on relevant validation trials performed by verticals on the large-scale experimental platforms provided (i.e. 5G infrastructure projects of the 5G PPP or other projects or activities). Papers on validation trials for 5G-based IoT solutions performed in other experimental environments are equally welcome.
The topical scope for papers includes, but is not limited to:

Massive IoT/massive machine-type communication
Low power wide area (LPWA) technologies such as NB-IoT, etc.
Standards, and architectures for mIoT over 5G
Ultra-Reliable, Low Latency Communications (URLLC) and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN)
mIoT applications over 5G networks applied to verticals industries, e.g. Industry 4.0, healthcare, wearable systems, smart cities, transport & logistics, mobility, agriculture
Autonomous systems and UAVs
Security and privacy for mIoT networks
5G network slicing for mIoT
Experimental validation of mIoT applications over 5G networks
5G experimentation infrastructures for mIoT
Massive mIoT data transport optimization and in-network knowledge extraction

Submission link: https://edas.info/N27983
Important Dates

Workshop paper submission: December 21, 2020
Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2021
Final papers due: January 31, 2021

Workshop Organizers
Mauro Boldi, Telecom Italia, Italy
Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom GmbH, Germany
Milon Gupta, Eurescom GmbH, Germany
Harilaos Koumaras, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
TPC Members
Manuel Lorenzo, Ericsson Spain
Damiano Rapone, TIM, Italy
Pål Grønsund, Telenor, Norway
Diego Lopez, Telefonica, Spain
Spyros Denazis, University of Patras, Greece
Wint Yi Poe, Huawei, Germany
Alessandro Bassi, Things, Czech Republic
Mirko Presser, Aarhus University, Denmark
Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Dimitris Tsolkas, Fogus, Greece
Fotini Setaki, COSMOTE, Greece
Pedro Gomez, University of Malaga, Spain
Almudena Diaz, University of Malaga, Spain
Valerio Frascola, INTEL, Germany
David Artunedo, TELEFONICA, Spain
Dionysia Triantafylopoulou, University of Surrey, UK
Evangelos Angelakis, Linköping University
