Organized Workshops
The First IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of 5G Networks
adjunct with IEEE NOMS 2016, Istanbul, Turkey, 29 April 2016
Workshop chair from COHERENT:
- Roberto Riggio, CREATE-NET, Italy
Scope:
5G is envisioned as the next generation of mobile networks since 2012. Several initiatives took place in Asia, America and Europe like the MOST (Ministry of Science & Technology) 5G project in China, the 5G forum formed in South Korea, the “2020 and beyond” Ad Hoc group in Japan, the 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G PPP) in Europe and several standardizations related activities. The emerging common features/requirements from these worldwide activities could be summarized as the following: faster data transfer rates, shorter latency, availability, security, lower costs and power consumption and high performance in fast mobility situations.
Thus 5G will be the place to deploy many technologies. In particular, 5G networks are expected to rely massively on the most recent advances in Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization, hence offering the opportunity to build an open and innovative platform for communications and a novel brand gathering current and future network architectures, technologies and usages…Besides the need for an innovative 5G network architecture, effective and advanced network management architectures and techniques are also cornerstones to fulfil these requirements.
The main goal of the workshop is to present state-of-the-art research results and experience reports in the area of management of 5G networks, addressing topics such as management of SDN and NFV -based networks and services, advances in the management of cloud platforms, programmatic languages and abstraction applied to resources and service management, big data and analytics applied to management.
Advances on Network Virtualization for 5G Systems (NetVis’ 2016)
Jointed with ICT 2016, Thessalonkik Greece, 16-18 May 2016
Workshop Chairs
- Adrian Kliks, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
- Tao Chen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Navid Nikaein, Eurecom, France
- Kostas Pentikousis, EICT, Germany
Scope
5G networks will provide solutions to support a dynamic range of services from different industries, e.g. mobile, energy, automobile, health and manufactory industry. Due to the nature of different industries, the requirements defined by key performance indicators, like peak data rate, average user data rate, latency, energy consumption, service deployment time, are totally different. It is very complex to manage different services in 5G networks. To release to potential of 5G networks to the full support of vertical sectors, advanced technologies like software defined network (SDN), network virtualization, network function virtualization, network slicing and sharing need to be well addressed so as to reshape the network architecture and provide flexible enough network management for 5G networks. It is the purpose of the workshop to disseminate most recent results on these topics.
Moreover, the commoditization of key processing components coupled with virtualization of infrastructure functions will lead to a radical change in the economics of mobile networks. The latter will help network providers (e.g., MNO, MVNO) move from proprietary hardware and software platforms towards open and flexible cellular systems based on general-purpose cloud infrastructures. In this context, 5G systems will see a paradigm shift in three planes: the data-plane, control-plane, and management-plane, in support of higher performance, efficient signalling, flexible and intelligent control and coordination in heterogeneous networks.
Workshop on Software Defined 5G Networks
adjunct with IEEE NetSoft 2016, Seoul, South Korea, 10 June 2016
Workshop chair from COHERENT:
- Roberto Riggio, CREATE-NET, Italy
Scope:
Software defined networking (SDN) is undoubtedly one of the most popular topic in the wired and the wireless networking domains raising interested among the academic and the industrial communities alike. Additionally, the evolution of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) brings the opportunity to implement network services in software on top of generic hardware architectures paving the way to a truly evolvable network. The mobile networks beyond LTE and LTE Advanced are required to cope with dramatic increases in data traffic and with a highly diverse device, applications and services ecosystem. As a result, several research initiatives on 5G mobile networks have been launched worldwide targeting the definition of the next generation mobile networking ecosystem. In parallel, network related standardization activities are mushrooming at the most important SDOs. SDN brings the promise of enabling flexible, scalable, highly configurable and reliable mobile networks by leveraging on programmable control, management, and data planes. This workshop aims at bringing together research and industry partners to present and discuss preliminary research results, ongoing work and experiences on the topic of software based, programmable 5G networks and services.
Workshop on Radio and Innovative Spectrum Sharing Paradigms for Future Networks (CRAFT 2016)
adjunct with PIMRC 2016, Valencia, Spain, 4 September 2016
Workshop chair from COHERENT:
- Adrian Kliks, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Scope:
There has been a surge in wireless technologies over the last decade, which has led to the crowding of existing spectrum. In order to address the resulting congestion and shortage of capacity, the cognitive radio (CR) concept has been envisioned in the context of 5G networks. Among other benefits, CR can increase the efficiency of spectrum utilization, and improve the management, performance and coexistence of heterogeneous networks with diverse radio access technologies. It is widely expected that new emerging techniques applied in 5G networks will enable many new services, making them beneficial and economically viable. In order to achieve this goal, advanced solutions have to be identified in both technical and legislative areas. In response to the above, the workshop aims to gather and promote discussion among researchers, engineers, practitioners, and end user groups, with the goal of inspiring the analysis and development of cognitive radio and spectrum sharing solutions for future networks. Further, additional concepts of relevance here for future networks and spectrum include advanced flexible transmission techniques, platforms and applications, cognitive carrier aggregation aspects, advanced management of coexisting networks, and regulatory aspects of efficient spectrum sharing. The main focus of this workshop is on the practical implementations of the above concepts, and “shift-to-market” considerations. The workshop focuses on issues, advances and challenges in various research areas related to cognition and wider spectrum sharing schemes in future generation communication systems and networks.
Workshop on Business models and techno-economic analysis for 5G network
EuCNC 2017, Oulu, Finland 12-15 June 2017
COHERENT co-organized a workshop on Business models and techno-economic analysis for 5G networks together with other 5GPPP projects: CHARISMA, SESAME, VirtuWind, NORMA, 5GEx, SPEED-5G, SELFNET and mmMAGIC.
Organizers from COHERENT:
- George Agapiou, OTE, Greece
Scope:
The workshop focused on business- and techno-economic-aspects of future 5G networks. It provided insight on the business impacts and opportunities from the deployment of 5G networks for all actors in the telecommunications ecosystem such as verticals, incumbent and new operators, service providers, application developers, content providers, regulators, equipment manufacturers etc. The potential for new roles such as brokers, aggregators and marketplaces, was also discussed.
Workshop on 5G architectures and networks
at the 21st International Conference CSCC 2017, July 14-17 in Crete Greece
Workshop chair from COHERENT:
- George Agapiou, OTE, Greece
Scope:
Current telecommunications networks were designed for the delivery of services such as voice, video, and data to be offered to a different number of terminals. Future 5G networks are promising to support a fast mobile and connected society through devices, sensors and IoT. 5G technologies will lead the way to a wide variety of new use cases, architectures, transmission means and business models. New machine to machine (M2M) and human machine type applications will be introduced that will make people’s communication quicker, and diversified. The above applications are promising to automate and mobilize a variety of industries, including automotive, energy, health, smart city, and media. The focus of the workshop was to present state of the art output from 5G projects. The workshop was attended by 45 people and quite a few questions were raised with regards to the capabilities of the 5G networks.
Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Innovative Spectrum Sharing Paradigms for Future Networks (CRAFT 2017)
adjunct with PIMRC 2017, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 12.10.2017
Workshop chair from COHERENT:
- Adrian Kliks, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Scope:
There has been a vast increase in the range and proliferation of wireless technologies over recent decades, which has led to the crowding of existing spectrum. Among available solutions to address the resulting congestion and shortage of capacity, cognitive radio (CR) and spectrum sharing concepts have been envisioned. Such concepts will be particularly important in the context of 5G communication systems, where despite the introduction of novel mm-wave “pioneer bands”, there will be evermore increased pressure – especially on lower-frequency spectrum. This is due to the coverage and reliability requirements of 5G, in tandem with vastly increased capacity and throughput. CR and other spectrum sharing paradigms can address such issues through increasing the net spectrum available to each particular user. CR can also serve other benefits, such as enhancing the management, performance and coexistence of heterogeneous networks with diverse radio access technologies. It is widely expected that new emerging technologies applied in 5G networks will enable pioneering services, making 5G both socially beneficial and economically viable. Advanced solutions must be identified in both technical and regulatory domains to realize CR and spectrum sharing for such 5G and other future networks. Towards such ends, this workshop aims to gather and promote discussion among researchers, engineers, practitioners, and end-user groups, with the goal of inspiring the analysis and development of CR and spectrum sharing solutions for future networks. A key focus of this workshop is on the practical implementation of the above concepts, and “shift-to-market” considerations. Moreover, this workshop also focuses on issues, advances and challenges in various research domains related to cognition and wider spectrum sharing schemes in future generation communication systems and networks