5G-CrosshaulConsortiumOperators – Orange,Telefonica,TelecomItaliaVendors–ATOS, Ericsson,Interdigital,NEC,NokiaBroadcaster/Tech.Provider–Visiona,TelnetSMEs – Eblink,Nextworks,CND,R&DCenters– Create-net,CTTC,Fraunhofer HHI,ITRIUniversities– Univ.CarlosIII,Univ.Lund,Pol.Univ.TorinoPM – ArturoAzcorra(UC3M)TM - XavierCosta(NEC)

5G- Xhaul ConsortiumOperators – Cosmote,Telefonica

Vendors–Adva,Bluwireless,Huawei,IHPSMEs – Airrays,TESElectronicSolutions

R&DCenter – i2catUniversities– TUDresden,Univ.Bristol,Univ.Thessaly

PM – Eckhard Grass(IHP)TM - DanielCamps(i2cat)

5G-Crosshaul [Abstract]The5GIntegratedFronthaul/BackhaulTransportNetwork

5G-Xhaul [Abstract]DynamicallyReconfigurableOptical-WirelessBackhaul/Fronthaul with

CognitiveControlPlaneforSmallCellsandCloud-RANs

5G-XHaulFocusareas• ConvergedWireless-Optical,Fronthaul-BackhaulNetworkArchitecture

• Multi-technologywirelessandopticalprogrammabledataplane• Flexiblewireless(60GHz/Sub-6)transport

• HybridWDMopticaltransport:active/elasticTSONandPON• DenseUrbanSociety(xMBB)usecase• 5G-XHaulDemonstratorinBristolBIO

5G-CrosshaulFocusareas• Unifiedcontrolplaneforfronthaul/backhaulSDN/NFV-based(XCI)• Unifieddataplaneforfronthaul/backhaultechnologies(XCF,XFE)• 5G-enablingtransm.techs,e.g.,mmWave,uWave,opticalandcopper• UCs:DenseUrbanSociety,Multi-Tenancy,MediaDistr,MEC,Vehicular• 5GdemonstrationtestbedsinBerlin,Madrid,Barcelona,Taiwan