Eurescom led 5GEOSiS project at 4th IEEE International Symposium on Joint Communications & Sensing

The Eurescom led ESA project 5GEOSiS – 5G Earth Observation Server in Space will provide a tutorial with the title “Joint Communication and Sensing for Space: Understanding the Convergence of Space Functions through employing repurposable payloads” as part of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Joint Communications & Sensing . The tutorial will provide the basic elements to understand the requirements, system concepts and potential benefits of Joint Communication and Sensing from Space.The event is scheduled on 19 March in Leuven that will also be streamed.

 

Keywords

Space, Joint Communication, Sensing, payloads

 

CORDIS publishes EURESCOM Coordinated project ARIADNE

The EU-funded, EURESCOM coordinated project ARIADNE  advances the research on new system by integrating a high frequency advanced radio architecture and an artificial intelligence (AI) network processing and management approach. This ambitious goal focuses on a long-term vision of pervasive mobile virtual services instead of local network improvements for the current 5G standard.

The project considered general use cases, including connections between rooftop locations and at street-level, and RIS-based connectivity without a direct line of sight. It also looked at dynamic ad hoc connectivity in a moving network, besides vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-everything connectivity, crucial for applications such as autonomous driving. According to Halid Hrasnica, project coordinator the ARIADNE concept and its achievements need to be further developed to be integrated in future wireless communication networks. “To achieve this, the project’s industry partners are already taking the related concrete actions.”

Publication Link: CORDIS

Keywords

ARIADNE, AI, 5G, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, machine learning, 6G

 

6G book titled “Towards Sustainable and Trustworthy 6G – Challenges, Enablers and Architectural Design”

The new #6G book titled “Towards Sustainable and Trustworthy 6G – Challenges, Enablers and Architectural Design” is the first book on 6G providing a truly #European point of view on the currently ongoing race towards the #standardization of the new generation of telecommunications system. Experts from Eurescom, namely Anastasius Gavras, have contributed to this book.

It covers all the aspects related to the main #research #trends in the current phase, from architectural insight, to sustainability, slicing, with a view on the foreseen timeline towards standardization. With the participation of many EU-funded projects over the last years and capitalizing on the 5G Public-Private-Partnership (#5GPPP) Phase 3 projects in a joint effort between the Architecture Working Group and the EU flagship Hexa-X, this book delves into the critical challenges and enablers of the 6G system, including new network architectures and novel enhancements as well as the role of regulators, network operators, industry players, application developers, and end-users.

Download your free copy here: https://lnkd.in/eyn6yA3A

Non-Public-Networks white paper

With considerable contributions from the projects 6G BRAINS and 5G-VINNI, the white paper on “Non-Public-Networks – State of the art and way forward”, was published today. Experts from Eurescom, namely Anastasius Gavras, have contributed to this white paper.

Non-public networks (NPNs) push the integration capability of 5G a step further by not only offering the integration of service capabilities specific and tuned towards verticals but building an entire concept of infrastructure provisioning around verticals. This is achieved by extending the architectural alignment of service-based architecture and enterprise service architecture to the capability of provisioning 5G hardware infrastructure, down to base stations in vertical industry sites. The use of private site-specific spectrum, utilized for 5G infrastructure, can be complemented by the possibility to utilize roaming into operators’ wide-area connectivity, if needed for the specific use case. The use of local spectrum disconnects NPNs entirely from previous operator-dependent deployment models. Ultimately, the vertical customer’s extended enterprise service architecture is now realized as a distributed data centre that spans its various sites albeit with the ultra-low latency and service-centric capabilities that are enabled by 5G. This white paper presents the state of the art of NPNs in the 5G and beyond 5G context and provides an outlook on possible evolution paths of this concept.

You can download the white paper from White Papers ‹ 5G-PPP or directly from Non-Public-Networks – State of the art and way forward | Zenodo

Feel free to cite this white paper as: [1] Mahmood, Kashif, Gavras, Anastasius, and Hecker, Artur. “Non-public-networks – State of the Art and Way Forward”. Zenodo, November 17, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7230191.

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

4th release of 5G PPP white paper on 5G architecture published

In October 2021, the 5G PPP Architecture Working Group published version 4.0 of the white paper “View on 5G Architecture”. It provides a consolidated view of the architectural efforts developed in the projects of the 5G PPP and other research efforts, including standardization. This serves not only to review the current state of the 5G architecture, but also to identify promising trends towards the next generation of mobile and wireless communication networks, 6G.

The 4th release of the white paper is focused on the output of the 5G PPP Phase 3 projects in terms of the architecture for the integration of large infrastructures and vertical industries, the long-term evolution of the 5G technologies and the service-specific features. The white paper presents a consolidated current overview on the 5G architecture as developed by these European research efforts.

Further information
White Paper: 5G PPP Architecture Working Group – View on 5G Architecture, Version 4.0 – https://zenodo.org/record/5155657

Eurescom director at roundtable about 5G-enabled use cases on TelecomTV

TelecomTV 5G-VINNI Roundtable 1
TelecomTV - 5G-VINNI Roundtable 1
Discussing 5G-VINNI results (from left): moderator Guy Daniels, 5G-VINNI Coordinator Pål Grønsund from Telenor Research and David Kennedy, Director of Eurescom

On 21st September, TelecomTV published a roundtable video 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.

On 5th October, a live online Q&A session took place, in which anyone interested had the chance to ask questions to David Kennedy and the other speakers from both sessions.

Further information

5G-VINNI: 5G Innovation for industry verticals (Roundtables and Q&A)