MWC Barcelona 2022

5G-PPP participation at the world’s largest telecoms event

From 28 February to 3 March, MWC Barcelona, still commonly referred to as Mobile World Congress, attracted a large crowd of 10,700 industry experts to attend in person. After two years of Covid-19 restrictions this figure was still below pre-Covid levels. Yet, the event clearly indicated a return of the industry to something closer to normality, despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which started four days before MWC opened its doors. Among the booths in the exhibition and the presentations in the conference programme were also a number of 5G PPP projects, which presented their latest results.

5G-TOURS results at the ATOS stand

One of the partners of the 5G-TOURS project is ATOS, who are leading the work package on use cases and requirements. As an active contributor to the network automation work within 5G-TOURS, ATOS has contributed both to the project use cases as well as external standards and open-source activities. At its own stand ATOS presented and demonstrated various research activities, including the 5G-TOURS activities around network automation based on AI.

Joint stand of 5G-TOURS, 5G-Heart and 5G-Solutions

5G-TOURS joined forces with two other 5G-PPP projects 5G-Heart and 5G-Solutions in order to have a stand in Hall 7. The experts at the stand answered the questions of numerous visitors and showed videos about the projects’ use cases, including 5G-TOURS from the three nodes in Turin (Italy), Rennes (France), and Athens (Greece).


Presentation by Diego Perino, Director of Telefónica I+D

MWC presence of the DAEMON project

The DAEMON project on Network Intelligence for Adaptive and Self-learning Mobile Networks was present at MWC through fliers and brochures available at the stands of several project partners like i2CAT and Software Radio Systems. This material provided a thorough description of the context, vision and objectives of the project and was freely available to all attendees visiting the partners’ booths. The project was also featured in a looped video displayed on a monitor at the i2CAT stand.

In addition, research results from the DAEMON project were presented on stage by Diego Perino, Director of Telefónica I+D. In his talk about the impact and benefits of integrating AI in future-generation mobile networks, he explicitly acknowledged the contribution by DAEMON.

Special session of Catalonia Tourism Cluster

5G-TOURS was invited to a special session of the Catalonia ICT Tourism Cluster. In addition to other projects and local contributors from Catalonia, 5G-TOURS technical manager Belkacem Mouhouche presented the tourism node of the project and explained how the 5G-TOURS use cases developed in Turin will help tourists and citizens enjoy museums and touristic places better, especially in the COVID era.

Conclusion

Mobile World Congress provided the opportunity for a few 5G-PPP projects to disseminate their results in person instead of online, as it had become usual in over two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this respect, the stands at MWC where very useful to make people aware of the 5G-PPP project activities. Presentations on stage and in special sessions added to the achieved impact.

Further information

5G-VINNI project on TelecomTV

Roundtables about uses cases and network slicing

Milon Gupta
Eurescom

In September and October, the 5G Verticals Innovation Infrastructure project of the 5G PPP, 5G-VINNI, which is funded under the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, presented selected results in a series of online roundtables. Topics included 5G-VINNI’s use cases as well as orchestration and automation of network slicing. The roundtables were organised and produced in collaboration with TelecomTV.

Roundtable about 5G-enabled use cases

On 21st September, TelecomTV published the first of two roundtable videos about 5G innovation for industry verticals. The session sponsored by 5G-VINNI partner Nokia featured two speakers from the project: 5G-VINNI Coordinator Pål Grønsund from Telenor Research and David Kennedy, Director of Eurescom. They discussed, how 5G-VINNI has contributed to unlocking the value of 5G-enabled use cases. Pål Grønsund shared the achievements and lessons learned through the 5G-VINNI project, while David Kennedy presented Eurescom’s perspective on the drivers behind the 5G PPP programme as a European, multi-vendor 5G environment for vertical industry-driven 5G use case trials.

Roundtable about orchestration and automation of network slicing

On 28th September, TelecomTV published the second roundtable video. This roundtable focused on orchestration and automation of network slicing, in particular on how 5G-VINNI has proved how zero-touch digital orchestration can simplify network slicing and lay the foundation for reliable, profitable, industry-specific 5G services.

The session featured two speakers from the project: Deepa Ramachandran, Director Product Management – Digital Operations at Nokia, shared insights into Nokia’s experiences with orchestration and automated network slicing. Dr. Ilangko Balasingham, Professor of Medical Signal Processing and Communications at the Intervention Center of Oslo University Hospital, talked about some of the health-related use cases explored and what they have shown.

On 5th October, an online Q&A session took place, in which anyone interested had the chance to ask questions to the 5G-VINNI speakers from both sessions.

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Discussing 5G-VINNI results (from left): moderator Guy Daniels, 5G-VINNI Coordinator Pål Grønsund from Telenor Research and David Kennedy, Director of Eurescom

Further information:
5G-VINNI roundtables on the TelecomTV website – https://www.telecomtv.com/content/5g-vinni/

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IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting

Anastasius Gavras
Eurescom

The 16th edition of the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2021 (BMSB 2021) was planned to be held in Chengdu, China on 4–6 August 2021. Like many other events, also BMSB 2021 was turned into a fully online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The symposium is the premier forum for the presentation and exchange of technical advances in the rapidly converging areas of multimedia broadcasting, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and net­-
working technologies.

Overall, the core program of the conference was held according to the published schedule, and the online format only affected the poster and best paper award sessions with a slightly adapted timing.

During the opening of the symposium, three keynote presentations addressed the audience outlining future trends and recent innovations and developments in the sector. Madeleine Noland, President of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), USA presented her view on innovations in the Next Generation TV. Qingjun Zeng, Deputy Director General of China Broadcasting Network (CBN), China presented the recent developments in 5G broadcast in China. Finally, Dr. Yue Zhang, Associate Professor, University of Leicester, UK and Technical Manager of the EU-funded 5G PPP project 6G BRAINS presented the project.

The main programme featured 10 sessions covering a wide variety of topics, including multimedia transmission systems, artificial intelligence in next generation systems, service quality and content, immersive image processing and applications, multimedia signal processing and last but not least multimedia networking.

Beyond 5G and 6G in broadband multimedia and broadcast systems

In his keynote Dr. Zhang presented the work of 6G BRAINS in view of the emergence of beyond 5G and 6G concepts and prototype solutions that will have a major impact on the broadband multimedia and broadcast industry. Dr. Zhang used a 6G BRAINS use case as a requirements-driving example. High-resolution, high frame-rate wireless video cameras can easily be deployed in a factory environment to unleash a long list of new features and services in an industry environment. Among others this technology contributes to anomaly detection, improved safety, process tracking and logging, remote control and predictive maintenance. State-of-the-art cameras already put a stress of up to 3 Gbps per unit on the wireless network, which along with the high reliability requirements in such a setting, illustrate the ambition.

Further information:
IEEE BMSB 2021 website – https://bmsb.scimeeting.cn/en/web/index/

 

Accountability and Liability for 5G and Beyond

INSPIRE-5Gplus workshop

Milon Gupta
Eurescom

On 16th June 2021, the INSPIRE-5Gplus project held a full-day online workshop on accountability and liability for 5G and beyond. It brought together more than 30 researchers and practitioners from several domains, including actuaries, lawyers, and researchers in networking and multi-agent systems. They presented challenges and approaches for liability management in multi-party 5G ecosystems and digital services, with a forward-looking perspective on Beyond 5G systems.

The main purpose of the workshop was to share, compare and disseminate best practices, approaches, tools and methodologies for identifying, formulating, and managing liability in 5G systems. The workshop addressed crucial topics such as formalization of commitments and obligations, contractualization, monitoring & supervision, evidence collection & analysis at runtime, as well as post-mortem evidence collection & forensics for identifying liabilities in case of disasters, security incidents, or regulation violations.

The workshop moderated by Gürkan Gür from Zurich University of Applied Sciences started in the morning with presentations by INSPIRE-5G­plus partners, covering topics from the Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) standard and Liability-Aware Security Management (LASM) to Root Cause Analysis (RCA).

This was followed by presentations covering a variety of multi-disciplinary aspects. Sylvie Jonas from AGIL’IT Law explained how liability management based on contracts works in a 5G environment. Carmen Fernandez Gago from University of Málaga talked about accountability in the cloud. And Samia Bouzefrane from the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (Cnam), France presented a trust-based recommendation system.

In the afternoon session, Jacques Kruse-Brandao from SGS presented challenges, approaches and concepts for 5G device security certification. Arthur Van Der Wees from Arthur’s Legal talked about trustworthy and accountable digital ecosystems. And Claire Loiseaux from Internet of Trust presented responsibilities and certification in cybersecurity space.

A round-table discussion with the speakers, moderated by Gürkan Gür, concluded the workshop. The panel discussed questions like: What is the major challenge for multi-party liability management? Who has to manage liability between parties? And what would be nice to have for multi-party liability management? While the speakers provided knowledgeable answers to these questions, many aspects of liability management require still plenty of research and multi-disciplinary discussion. In view of the growing economic and societal importance of 5G applications and services, finding technical, regulatory, and legal solutions for the topics highlighted at the workshop will be of high importance for the success of 5G and 6G.

Further information
Workshop page – https://www.5g-eve.eu/event/final-5g-eve-webinar-validation-platform-achievements-and-multi-site-use-case-deployment/

On the Road to 6G

Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit

Milon Gupta
Eurescom

The theme of the 2021 Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit from 8th to 11th June 2021 was “On the Road to 6G”. The event, which was originally planned to take place in Porto, Portugal, was held in virtual format, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It included the conference as well as the exhibition.

The conference focused on a wide array of telecommunications aspects ranging from 5G deployment and mobile IoT to 6G exploration and future communications systems and networks, including experimentation and testbeds, and applications and services. The dominant topic in many sessions was 6G respectively Beyond 5G. However, many topics discussed were relevant for both 5G and 6G. This included particularly security.


Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit website

Workshop on Automated and Intelligent Security

On the first day of the event (8th June), the FAST workshop ‘From 5G to 6G Automated and Intelligent SecuriTy’, which was co-organised by 5G PPP project INSPIRE-5Gplus, addressed important cybersecurity risks.

Experts from a number of EC projects and a keynote speaker from IEEE explored innovative concepts for security management of 5G networks and beyond from a holistic high-level architecture perspective. Crucial topics discussed at the workshop for reaching a fully-automated and secured 5G infrastructure included the adoption of a set of emerging trends and technologies, namely, Zero-touch network and Service Management (ZSM), Software-Defined Security (SDSec)models, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) techniques, Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), Zero Trust models, and Trusted Execution Environments (TEE).

The workshop was opened by Pascal Bisson from Thales and Antonio Skarmeta from University of Murcia. It was organized around a set of key thematic areas structured in four sessions, with the participation of 13 5G projects and a prominent keynote speaker.

Session 1 was dedicated to ‘Security and Trust Architecture for Beyond 5G Networks’ and included presentations on related aspects, from the definition of a security management closed-loop to security and trust mechanisms and outlier detection for 5G security.

Session 2 explored ‘Automated and Intelligent (smart) Security network management’. The ­presentations covered topics like ‘ZSM Security Orchestration for Multi-Tenant 5G Networks’,
‘On-demand deployment of security services’, ‘Hardening Interdomain Vertical Services with Moving Target Defense’, and ‘Security Challenges on 5G CCAM Scenarios’.

In the keynote following this session, Ashutosh Dutta, IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer & Co-Chair for IEEE Future Initiative, presented key points to be considered for secure adoption and usage of 5G.


Ashutosh Dutta, IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer & Co-Chair for IEEE Future Initiative

Session 3 discussed ‘Security Beyond 5G Networks and Services’. It included presentations on ‘Trustworthy Networking Beyond 5G’and ‘Cloud-Scale SDN Network Security in TeraFlow’.

Session 4 finally explored ‘Security Enablers for Beyond 5G Networks and Services’. The presentations covered topics ranging from ‘Machine Learning Applied to 5G Network Cyber Range’, ‘Security and Trust in NetApp Deployment and Operation’, ‘5G Embedded Trust, and ‘Practical Autonomous Cyberhealth for Resilient Micro/Small/Medium-Sized Enterprises’.

The FAST workshop gave an excellent overview on the status of research on automated and intelligent security in 5G and highlighted the challenges on the road towards 6G.


Online presentation at the FAST workshop ‘From 5G to 6G Automated and Intelligent SecuriTy’

Smart Networks and Services JU

In a workshop on the final day of the event (11th June 2021), the objectives and structure of the new European Joint Undertaking (JU) on Smart Networks and Services (SNS) were presented. The envisaged budget volume of the SNS JU is 900 million euro, according to a statement published on the 5G-IA website.

The goal of the SNS JU partnership will be to define and implement the research, innovation and deployment roadmaps that will enable Europe to take a leading role in the creation of the next generation of smart network technologies and services, also known as 6G.

The SNS JU partnership will focus on facilitating the full digitization of European society including vertical industries and public administration services. The 6G SNS solutions will be designed and implemented in such a way that European values like security and privacy are safeguarded, and that European technological sovereignty is further strengthened. The SNS Partnership targets to have a perceptible positive impact on the quality of life of European citizens and a noticeable boost in the European data economy by 2030.

Further information

Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit website – https://www.eucnc.eu

FAST workshop page – https://www.eucnc.eu/workshops/workshop-8/

SNS Partnership – https://5g-ia.eu/sns-horizon-europe

Demonstration of 5G end-to-end validation platform

Final 5G EVE webinar

Milon Gupta
Eurescom

In the final 5G EVE webinar on 26th May 2021, the project consortium presented the major achievements in the development and use of the 5G EVE validation platform to an audience of 60 participants. As a highlight, the 5G EVE team demonstrated live the multi-site capabilities of the platform.

In addition, experts from the consortium presented new platform features like, for example, performance diagnostics, and demonstrated the 5G EVE gaming use case as an illustration of the multi-site capabilities of the 5G EVE platform.

In a short training session in the last part of the webinar, experts from the four 5G EVE sites shared practical knowledge on platform usage, which will be useful for the utilization of the platform beyond the duration of the project.

The webinar was particularly aimed at current and future 5G EVE platform users from 5G PPP use case projects and innovative SMEs, who would like to test and validate their 5G solutions in the most effective way.

Further information
Slides and videos of the presentations are available on the webinar page – https://www.5g-eve.eu/event/final-5g-eve-webinar-validation-platform-achievements-and-multi-site-use-case-deployment/

Presentation of the 5G EVE multi-site gaming use case by Luis Contreras from Telefonica


5G EVE experiment work flow for vertical multi-site use cases, presented by Jaime Garcia-Reinoso, University Carlos III de Madrid


Demonstration of the 5G EVE multi-site gaming use by Javier Serrano from UPM


Demo of the 5G EVE performance diagnosis for vertical use cases by Yannis Chondroulis from Wings ICT

5G and Beyond

5G World Forum explored future networks

Milon Gupta
Eurescom

The 2020 edition of the IEEE 5G World Forum was originally scheduled to take place in Bangalore, India in September. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organisers had to turn the event into an online conference. The focus of the third 5G World Forum was on ‘5G and Beyond: A Comprehensive Look at Future Networks’. It particularly aimed to explore how to nurture and cultivate 5G technologies and applications for the benefit of society.

A plethora of sessions and presentations

The pre-recorded sessions and presentations of the three-day programme were accessible to participants from 10th September to 2nd November. The programme offered participants a rich choice: There were 16 plenary keynotes by speakers from major companies, institutions and universities like the US Federal Communications Commission, China Mobile, Qualcomm, Airbus, ETSI and more. The keynote speakers covered a wide range of topics, from 5G deployment and application to concepts for 6G.

In addition to the keynotes, there were technical paper tracks, workshops, forums and panels, 5G topical/vertical tracks, tutorials, demonstrations, and patron exhibits. Unlike an in-person event, this online conference offered participants the opportunity to attend all the sessions they were interested in.

It is almost impossible to provide a representative account of the numerous sessions and presentations. Thus, the selection of two exemplary sessions below is highly subjective – it is based on Eurescom’s involvement in two projects that contributed to the selected sessions, 5G-DRIVE and 5G EVE.

Worldwide 5G industry fora session

5G-DRIVE is a Horizon 2020 project dedicated to EU-China collaboration in the area of 5G testing and validation. The project coordinator from Eurescom was invited to participate in a high-level panel on worldwide 5G industry fora. The topic of the panel session was “5G Trends and Collaborations: Regional Visions, Verticals and Inter-Regional Cooperation Activities”. The first panel session focused on Asia and Europe. It was moderated by IREST chairman Jean-Pierre Bienaimé and brought together eight panelists from Europe and Asia representing industry, research, and standardisation.


Panel moderator Jean-Pierre Bienaimé and some of the panelists

Among the panelists was 5G-DRIVE coordinator Uwe Herzog from Eurescom. In his statement, he provided some background information on the European-Chinese 5G research collaboration between 5G-DRIVE and its Chinese twin project. In answering the moderator’s question on the effectiveness of the European-Chinese collaboration, he emphasized that despite the organizational challenges of coordinating 5G trial activities between two projects on different continents and in different commercial contexts, the joint trial activities have progressed well and yielded a fruitful exchange and interesting results.


Winnie Nakimuli from UC3M presenting the 5G EVE paper

In a separate presentation, Uwe Herzog provided a more detailed overview on the joint EU-China trial activities of 5G-DRIVE and the Chinese twin project in the areas of enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and Vehicular to everything (V2X).

Overall, the first industry fora panel presented an excellent overview on the manifold activities towards 5G development, testing and deployment in Europe and Asia.


5G-DRIVE coordinator Uwe Herzog from Eurescom talking about the 5G-DRIVE project in the Industry Fora Panel

Validation trials workshop

5G EVE contributed a paper to the workshop on “5G Validation Trials across Multiple Vertical Industries” (WS2). The online workshop aimed at providing a forum for industry and academia to disseminate new results on 5G trials in vertical industries as well as share knowledge on related new 5G business developments. It brought together six researchers from industry and academia, who presented their papers.

Among them was Winnie Nakimuli from the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M), who presented the 5G EVE paper on “Automatic deployment, execution and analysis of 5G experiments using the 5G EVE platform” (Paper No. 1570654444).

The rationale underlying the workshop was the essential role of validation trials for commercial 5G rollout, to test 5G features of novel services and applications in complex deployed environments. Such validation trials, like the ones performed via the 5G EVE platform, allow identifying and addressing issues related to coverage, interoperability, compatibility, and service provisioning. This is crucial for ensuring that 5G meets the requirements of various vertical sectors.

Further information

Just transition to a sustainable Europe

European Research and Innovation Days

Milon Gupta
Eurescom

The European Research and Innovation Days are the European Commission’s annual flagship event for research and innovation. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was held as an interactive online event from 22nd to 24th September 2020. The dominating topic was the European Green Deal.

 
Panel session with Commissioner Mariya Gabriel (right)

The three-day Commission event combined high-level speeches and panels with topic-specific information aimed at potential project proposers. The large choice of sessions included in addition to the high-level plenary 10 information and interaction tracks called ‘Hubs’ on the following central areas in EU research and innovation: Policy, Green Deal, Digital, Horizon Europe, Missions, Smart Implementation & Synergies, International Cooperation, European Innovation Council, European Institute of Innovation & Technology, and European Research Council.

Green Deal plenary

In the day-one plenary on “European Green Deal & Just Transition”, Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, presented the EU vision of a sustainable Europe, which decarbonises its economy and reaches zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Mr Timmermans stressed that this transition has to happen in a socially inclusive way, where no one is left behind.


Executive Vice President Frans Timmermans presenting the EC vision of a sustainable Europe and a just transition

New European Research Area

In the next plenary, a high-level panel of speakers, including Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, discussed the steps towards a new European Research Area (ERA). The panellists talked about the main novelties of the ERA communication including its contribution to build an excellent European R&I system for the benefit of all, and its new approach towards a wide outreach engaging all levels, including Member States, regions and citizens in this endeavour.

Green Deal Call Info Day

On the second day of the event, several information days on open Horizon 2020 calls took place, among them the information day for the Green Deal call. John Bell, Director Healthy Planet at the EC’s DG Research & Innovation, explained the goals and expected outcomes of the Green Deal call. It has a volume of around a billion euro spread across 8 Green Deal work streams. The EC expects from Green Deal projects a short-term and medium-term impact towards the achievement of the EC’s CO2 emission reduction goals.

Mr Bell pointed out that all solutions developed in Green Deal projects need to be scalable and socially acceptable. In view of the coming Horizon Europe programme, he said that 35{b28ae05319d94bff0b4d65c5a9f4524dd588360f05c61ef440e1608e0a1c4144} of Horizon Europe is envisaged to be for Green Deal related projects.


John Bell, Director Healthy Planet at the EC’s DG Research & Innovation

Conclusion

The event featured many more facets of the EU’s vibrant research and innovation ecosystem, including the contribution of women in technology as well as the way research and innovation will help in shaping the post-COVID-19 world.

Beyond sharing information, the event also enabled the interaction with and between participants via proposal pitches at online brokerage events and meetings in virtual chat rooms. Although the virtual format could not replace in-person meetings, it managed to facilitate interaction. Even in a post-COVID-19 world, when large-scale meetings are possible again, it might be the more sustainable option to keep the virtual format for the European Research and Innovation Days.

Further information

European Research and Innovation Days website – https://research-innovation-days.ec.europa.eu/

Public premiere of 5G EVE Portal

Live demo at webinar


Manuel Lorenzo from Ericsson Spain


Giada Landi from Nextworks

In a webinar on 27 February 2020, the 5G EVE Portal was for the first time demonstrated live to the interested public. 47 participants, mostly from vertical use-case (ICT-19) projects of the 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G PPP), attended the live demo of the 5G EVE portal and validation framework.

The webinar was moderated by Mauro Boldi from TIM, the coordinator of 5G EVE. Originally, the 5G EVE Portal was planned to be presented at MWC 2020 in Barcelona. Due to the cancellation of the event, the 5G EVE team had decided to present the demo online instead.

After the welcome and overview by Mauro Boldi, Manuel Lorenzo from Ericsson Spain, technical manager of 5G EVE, briefly explained the roadmap of the 5G EVE validation platform for 2020 and 2021. The roadmap involves three major activity areas: (i) platform validation, (ii) cooperation with ICT-19 projects, and (iii) continued platform development.


Overview on how to use the 5G EVE portal


Demonstration on how to change the status of an experiment

The demo was presented by Giada Landi from Nextworks, who is deputy technical manager of 5G EVE. Before going into the actual live demo, she gave an introduction to the 5G EVE experimentation workflow, which consists of four phases: (i) test design, (ii) test preparation, (iii) test execution and monitoring, and (iv) test performance evaluation and analysis. She went on to explain the key roles in the experimentation workflow:

  • Vertical: actor with the knowledge of the service to be tested, including SLAs and service components.
  • Verticals’ VNF (Virtualized Network Function) provider: actor who provides the VNF packages for the vertical applications.
  • Experiment developer: actor responsible for specifying the blueprints associated to an experiment, as well as the associated NFV network services descriptors. This user has the knowledge about the 5G EVE infrastructure and expertise about NFV network service modelling.
  • Experimenter: actor responsible for the request of an experiment and the assessment of its results; defines the characteristics of an experiment starting from its blueprint, requests the deployment of related virtual environment and experiment execution and analyses results and KPIs.
  • Site manager: system and infrastructure administrator for a 5G EVE site.

In addition, Giada Landi explained the basic concepts and terminology, including Experiment Blueprint, Network Service Descriptor, and Experiment Descriptor. After the introduction to the 5G EVE experimentation workflow, she logged into the portal and went live through the steps of setting up an experiment on the 5G EVE Portal.


Graphical user interface of the 5G EVE portal

About 5G EVE

5G EVE, the ‘5G European Validation platform for Extensive trials’, is a European infrastructure research project within phase 3 of the 5G Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership (5G PPP). The project ambition is to be instrumental towards the pervasive roll-out of 5G end-to-end networks in Europe. 5G EVE started on 1st July 2018 and runs for 36 months. The 15.7 million euro project is coordinated by TIM and is co-funded by the European Commission under the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme.

Further information:
Video recording of the 5G EVE Portal demo – https://youtu.be/sv0CJHX12vA
5G EVE website – https://www.5g-eve.eu

Everything you always wanted to know about 5G network slicing

The SliceNet project outcomes webinar series

Over a period of four months, from February to May 2020, Horizon 2020 project SliceNet organised a series of seven webinars to present its outcomes and achievements in the area of 5G network slicing. The webinars proved to be quite popular, given their technical nature – they constantly attracted between 30 and 60 participants. Moreover, the questions asked in the Q&A part of each webinar showed the substantial interest of participants in 5G network slicing and the results of SliceNet. The good news for those who missed the webinars is that they were all recorded.

Webinar 1:
5G Multi-Domain Slice Control Plane

In the first webinar, Ciriaco Angelo from Ericsson R&D presented requirements and challenges of the 5G multi-domain slice control plane, the SliceNet Approach to design and prototyping, technical achievements and innovations in the area of slicing, and applications in vertical use cases.

Video recording – https://youtu.be/plyopOq437Y

Webinar 2:
Cognitive, Service-Level QoE Management

In this webinar, Kenneth Nagin from IBM Israel explained how SliceNet’s Cognition Sub-Plane enables 5G network slice management using machine learning to identify problems and policy driven remedial actuations to fix problems. He described the role played by the sub-plane addressing slice management within the three SliceNet use cases, namely Smart Grid, eHealth, and Smart City. The webinar presented the objectives, requirements and challenges for the cognitive sub-plane, the technical approaches for design and prototyping as well as technical achievements in QoE management. A summary of SliceNet innovations in the area of cognitive QoE management concluded the presentation.

Video recording – https://youtu.be/mMTzCxLL0-c

Webinar 3:
5G Multi-domain Slice Management

This webinar was particularly aimed at developers in vertical industries and those interested in the design of 5G applications enabled by 5G multi-domain slice management. Thuy Truong from DellEMC started by giving an introduction to 5G multi-domain slice management, and then continued to discuss the requirements and challenges of 5G multi-domain slice management. She went on to explain the technical approach for design and prototyping and then discussed vertical applications and QoE management innovations.

Video recording – https://youtu.be/skyQds_QXAM

Webinar 4:
SliceNet System Architecture

This webinar was aimed at developers and designers both in vertical industries and research interested in SliceNet’s 5G system architecture for multi-domain slicing. Marius Iordache from Orange Romania started by giving an introduction to the SliceNet System Architecture, and then discussed the requirements and challenges, particularly the vertical requirements that had to be identified and considered in the architecture. He went on to explain architecture design and functional decomposition as well as SliceNet’s end-to-end slicing friendly reference architecture. He concluded by presenting selected vertical use cases.

Video recording – https://youtu.be/CmDVhT73tSo

Webinar 5:
Cross-Plane Orchestration and Use Cases Prototyping

This webinar was aimed at developers and designers both in vertical industries and research, interested in 5G system architecture and orchestration. Jose Cabaca from Altice Labs discussed, how the SliceNet definition of Business Roles relateds to the definition of Business Roles by ITU-T. He went on to explain the SliceNet Architecture and Orchestration Plane, including particular challenges and requirements. He then focused on the DSP end-to-end service and slice orchestration as well as on the NSP network orchestration. In the last part of the webinar he explained orchestration journeys and provided a summary of innovations.

Video recording – https://youtu.be/deKSGoHMxJ0

Webinar 6:
System Integration and Demonstration

This webinar was aimed at developers and designers both in vertical industries and research, interested in 5G system integration and frameworks. Georgios Tsiouris from OTE presented the system integration and demonstration achievements of SliceNet. After discussing requirements and challenges, he explained SliceNet’s technical approach to system integration and the SliceNet framework validation. He concluded by presenting selected use-case demonstrations.

Video recording – https://youtu.be/bgJWevMbYKQ

Webinar 7:
5G Integrated Multi Domain Slicing Friendly Infrastructure

This webinar was aimed at developers and designers both in vertical industries and research, interested in 5G slicing infrastructure. Navid Nikaein from EURECOM explained SliceNet’s technical approach for design and prototyping of a 5G integrated multi-domain slicing-friendly infrastructure, highlighting the technical achievements and major innovations. He concluded by showing selected vertical applications.

Video recording – https://youtu.be/IMTMX-my3Lk

Further information
SliceNet project website – https://slicenet.eu