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iCIRRUS Contract No. 644526 1 Jan 2015 – 31 Dec 2017 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 644526 (iCIRRUS) intelligent Converged network consolIdating Radio and optical access aRound USer equipment DELIVERABLE: D6.2 1 st Year Dissemination, Communication, Standardisation and Exploitation: Plan and Report of Activities Contract number: 644526 Project acronym: iCIRRUS Project title: Intelligent converged network consolidating radio and optical access around user equipment Project duration: 1 January 2015 – 31 December 2017 Coordinator: Nathan Gomes, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Deliverable Number: D6.2 Type: Report Dissemination level Public Date submitted: 15-01-2016 Editors: Dora Chrisofi (PrimeTel) Authors / contributors (contributing partners) Dora Christofi (PrimeTel), Nathan Gomes, Conny Jumel (UniKent), Philippe Chanclou (Orange), Luz Fernandez del Rosal (HHI), Chathura Maguralawage (UESSEX), Mercedes Castano Torres (WTelecom) Internal reviewers Nathan Gomes (UniKent)

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iCIRRUS Contract No. 644526 1 Jan 2015 – 31 Dec 2017

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 644526 (iCIRRUS)

intelligent Converged network consolIdating Radio and optical access aRound USer equipment

DELIVERABLE: D6.2

1st Year Dissemination, Communication, Standardisation and Exploitation: Plan and Report of Activities

Contract number: 644526

Project acronym: iCIRRUS

Project title: Intelligent converged network consolidating radio and optical access around user equipment

Project duration: 1 January 2015 – 31 December 2017

Coordinator: Nathan Gomes, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Deliverable Number: D6.2

Type: Report

Dissemination level Public

Date submitted: 15-01-2016

Editors: Dora Chrisofi (PrimeTel)

Authors / contributors (contributing partners)

Dora Christofi (PrimeTel), Nathan Gomes, Conny Jumel (UniKent), Philippe Chanclou (Orange), Luz Fernandez del Rosal (HHI), Chathura Maguralawage (UESSEX), Mercedes Castano Torres (WTelecom)

Internal reviewers Nathan Gomes (UniKent)

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This project has received funding from the European

Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

programme under grant agreement No 644526

Document history

Version 0.1: 20/10/2015

Version 0.2: 04/11/2015

Version 0.3: 27/11/2015

Version 0.4: 4/12/2015

Version 0.5: 22/12/2015

Version 0.6 : 04/01/2016 (for internal review)

Version 0.7 : 08/01/2016 (internally reviewed)

Version 0.8 : 13/01/2016 (pre‐final 1st version for checking)

Version 0.9 : 15/01/2016 (Final)

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This project has received funding from the European

Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

programme under grant agreement No 644526

Abstract This deliverable comprises a report of the dissemination, communication, standardisation and exploitation activities carried out during the first year of the iCIRRUS project and the planned activities with regards to WP6. The document includes a detailed description of the dissemination and communication activities undertaken by the iCIRRUS consortium to increase the awareness and visibility of the project and its research output in the relevant research and industrial community. Further to that, the deliverable provides a list of the standardisation activities along with the future plans of the project partners aiming to promote iCIRRUS within specific standardisation bodies. Finally it defines the exploitation strategy which has been classified into individual partner and joint consortium exploitation. A summary version of these activities will also contribute to the annual report.

Index of terms

3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project

5G 5th Generation

C2C Clone to Clone

CHARISMA Converged Heterogeneous Advanced 5G Cloud-RAN Architecture for Intelligent

and Secure Media Access

D2D Device to Device

DMP Data Management Plan

EC European Commission

ECOC European Conference on Optical Communication

EU European Union

EUCNC European Conference on Networks and Communications

ICTON International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IET Institution of Engineering and Technology

MWC Mobile World Congress

OFC Optical Fiber Communication

NFOEC National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference

OSA Optical Society

PIMRC Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications

PPP Public Private Partnership

VTC Vehicular Technology Conference

WWRF Wireless World Research Forum

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This project has received funding from the European

Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

programme under grant agreement No 644526

Contents DELIVERABLE: D6.2 ______________________________________________________________ 1

Document history _________________________________________________________________ 2

Abstract _________________________________________________________________________ 3

Index of terms ____________________________________________________________________ 3

1. Introduction _________________________________________________________________ 6

2. Dissemination Activities ________________________________________________________ 7

2.1. Performed Dissemination Activities ___________________________________________ 7

2.1.1. Journal Publications ___________________________________________________ 7

2.1.2. Conference Publications ________________________________________________ 8

2.1.3. Book Chapters ________________________________________________________ 8

2.1.4. Conferences, workshops and events organized/attended ______________________ 9

2.2. Planned Dissemination Activities ____________________________________________ 11

2.2.1. Activities and plans for liaisons with other projects __________________________ 12

2.2.2. Public iCIRRUS Deliverables ____________________________________________ 13

2.2.3. Network of Interest (NoI) ______________________________________________ 13

2.2.4. Workshops Organization _______________________________________________ 13

3. Communication Activities ______________________________________________________ 16

3.1. Performed Communication Activities _________________________________________ 16

3.1.1. iCIRRUS website _____________________________________________________ 16

3.1.2. Social Networks Accounts ______________________________________________ 16

3.1.3. iCIRRUS Printed Material ______________________________________________ 18

3.1.4. Other Publicity ______________________________________________________ 18

3.2. Planned Communication Activities ___________________________________________ 19

4. Standardisation Activities ______________________________________________________ 20

4.1. Performed / Undertaken plans ______________________________________________ 20

4.2. Planned Standardization Actions ____________________________________________ 22

5. Exploitation Planning _________________________________________________________ 26

5.1. Industrial Exploitation _____________________________________________________ 28

ADVA Optical Networking Ltd (ADVA-UK) _________________________________________ 28

Orange S.A. (Orange) _________________________________________________________ 28

Telekom Slovenije, d.d. (TS) ____________________________________________________ 29

PrimeTel PLC (PTL) ___________________________________________________________ 29

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This project has received funding from the European

Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

programme under grant agreement No 644526

Wellness Telecom (WT) _______________________________________________________ 30

Viavi Solutions (VIAVI) _________________________________________________________ 31

IAF GmbH Future Radio Technology (IAF) _________________________________________ 31

InterDigital Europe LTD (IDCC) __________________________________________________ 31

5.2. Academic Exploitation ____________________________________________________ 32

University of Kent (UniKent) ___________________________________________________ 32

Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz- Institute (HHI) ________________________________________ 33

University of Essex (UEssex) ____________________________________________________ 33

5.3. Intellectual Property Rights ________________________________________________ 34

6. Conclusion __________________________________________________________________ 35

References _____________________________________________________________________ 36

ANNEX I - iCIRRUS Brochure ________________________________________________________ 37

Table of Figures __________________________________________________________________ 38

List of Tables ____________________________________________________________________ 38

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This project has received funding from the European

Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

programme under grant agreement No 644526

1. Introduction

In iCIRRUS, WP6 is the Work Package responsible for the dissemination, communication,

standardisation and exploitation of the work and results’ ensuring the impact of the project’s

output.

Dissemination of the project results to the scientific community is one of the primary aims of

iCIRRUS. During the first year of the project, the iCIRRUS partners have already been active in

publishing the work produced within the framework of the project in scientific journals and

conferences and have participated in events such as workshops/special sessions etc., although, of

course, the output for research dissemination is expected to increase in future years.

Special emphasis is given to the liaisons with other thematically relevant EU projects and the

coordination and collaboration activities that have been performed and planned with the aim of

exploiting and increasing the efficiency of European funded research.

Communication activities are concerned with publicising the work and results to a wider audience. Project brochures, posting news on the website, social networks, and industry workshops are all channels that have been or will be used in iCIRRUS for communicating project updates and results. In addition, public- and government-facing press articles are used to reach out to a wider community of potentially interested readers. Exploitation activities are long-termer and aim at using the results for achieving the consortium partners’ business goals. For example, academic partners can attract more talented students and introduce new topics into their teaching material, whilst industrial partners will enhance their existing products or services. Standardisation is an important aspect of iCIRRUS activities, and a number of our industry partners are actively participating in relevant standards bodies. Initially, we can expect this to inform the project’s activities, but in later stages of the project, we would expect information and results from the project to influence the thinking within those bodies, and perhaps start to make direct impacts on the standards documents being produced. This deliverable reports the project dissemination, communication, standardization and exploitation

activities during 2015. Further to that, it presents the plans for the second year of the project.

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This project has received funding from the European

Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

programme under grant agreement No 644526

2. Dissemination Activities Based on the technology areas within the iCIRRUS project, the dissemination activities are targeted

at research papers, technical presentations, seminars by consortium members and on the

organization of scientific workshops. The iCIRRUS dissemination activities are important enablers in

ensuring appropriate visibility of H2020 funded research to the European scientific and industrial

community and in the exchange of knowledge with this community.

These activities are focused on disseminating the target objectives of iCIRRUS and the key project contributions to the scientific community. The iCIRRUS consortium intends to publish scientific results and other related research output from

the project work in high quality conferences and journals as peer reviewed articles; particularly

those which are published and supported by the IEEE, IET, and OSA. Publication and presentation of

our results in highly-respected journals and academic conferences will be supplemented by our

project website, preparation of project flyers for EC-sponsored concertation activities, and

contributions into the relevant technical workshops.

iCIRRUS will also participate in the Open Research Data pilot and a Data Management Plan (DMP)

has already been developed in D6.1 [iCIRRUS – D6.1].

2.1. Performed Dissemination Activities

Overall, during the first year of the project’s lifetime, iCIRRUS has contributed several external

dissemination activities. We expect this level of dissemination to increase during the next two years

as more novel ideas and the results to support them are generated.

2.1.1. Journal Publications

Published

1. Nathan J. Gomes, Philippe Chanclou, Peter Turnbull, Anthony Magee, and Volker Jungnickel,

Fronthaul Evolution: from CPRI to Ethernet (invited), Optical Fiber Technology (OFT), Special

Issue on Next Generation Optical Access Networks. doi:10.1016/j.yofte.2015.07.009 -

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1068520015000942

Accepted for publication

2. Osvaldo Simeone, Andreas Maeder, Mugen Peng, Onur Sahin, and Wei Yu, “Cloud Radio

Access Network: Virtualizing Wireless Access for Dense Heterogeneous System”, Journal of

Communications and Networks, accepted for publication.

3. Kezhi Wang, Kun Yang and Chathura Sarathchandra Magurawalage, Joint Energy

Minimization and Resource Allocation in C-RAN with Mobile Cloud, submitted to IEEE

TRANSACTIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING, minor corrections.

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This project has received funding from the European

Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

programme under grant agreement No 644526

2.1.2. Conference Publications

Published

1. Ashim Khadka, Koichi Adachi, Sumei Sun, Huiling Zhu and Jiangzhou Wang, “Cooperative

Transmission Strategy for Downlink Distributed Antenna Systems Over Time-Varying

Channel”, EEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 2015, 6-10 Dec., 2015,

San Diego, USA.

2. Huseyin Haci, Huiling Zhu and Jiangzhou Wang, “A Novel Interference Cancellation

Technique for Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)”, IEEE Global Communications

Conference(Globecom) 2015, 6-10 Dec., 2015, San Diego, USA

3. Nathan J. Gomes, Huiling Zhu, Philippos Assimakopoulos, Anthony Magee, Volker

Jungnickel, Michael C.Parker, Chathura S. Magurawalage, "iCIRRUS: intelligent

Converged network consolidating Radio and optical access aRound USer equipment",

European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC), Jun. 29-Jul. 2, 2015,

Paris, France.

Accepted (to be published in 2016)

1. Z. TayQ,, P. Chanclou, T. Diallo, K. Grzybowski, F. Saliou, S. Gosselin, O. Foucault, C.

Aupetit, L.Bellot, T.Boukour, J.C. Plumecoq, J. Sayed “Performance demonstration of

fiber and wireless fronthaul combination with remote powering” by, OFC, Anaheim, USA

2. Asaad. S. Daghal and Qasim Zeeshan Ahmed, “Video Content Delivery using Multiple

Devices to Single Device Communications”, accepted for publication at VTC 2016 Spring,

Nanjing, China

3. Hind Albasry, and Qasim Zeeshan Ahmed, “Network-Assisted D2D Discovery Method by

using Efficient Power Control Strategy”, accepted for publication at VTC 2016 Spring,

Nanjing, China

Submitted (pending)

1. Kezhi Wang, Kun Yang, Xinhou Wang and Chathura Sarathchandra Magurawalage, Cost-

Effective Resource Allocation in C-RAN with Mobile Cloud, submitted to ICC 2016

2. Philippos Assimakopoulos, Mohamad Kenan Al-Hares, Simon Hill, Ahmad Abu-Amara

and Nathan J. Gomes, “Statistical Distribution of Packet Inter-Arrival Rates in an Ethernet

Fronthaul: Traffic Protection Issues and Implications on Buffer Management”, submitted

to FiWi workshop, ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

3. Philippos Assimakopoulos, Mohamad Kenan Al-Hares, Simon Hill, Ahmad Abu-Amara

and Nathan J. Gomes, “Statistical distribution of packet inter-arrival rates in an Ethernet

fronthaul with emulated LTE and background traffic streams”, submitted to FiWi

workshop, ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2.1.3. Book Chapters

Seok-Hwan Park, Osvaldo Simeone, Onur Sahin, Shlomo Shamai , “Cloud Radio Access Networks”,

Cambridge Press,. to appear.

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This project has received funding from the European

Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

programme under grant agreement No 644526

2.1.4. Conferences, workshops and events organized/attended

The following table presents dissemination activities which have occurred during the 1st year of the

project and involve presentations at conferences, workshops and other related events.

Nature Date Event Name Location Title of

Contribution/Present

ation

Target

group(s)

Involved

Invited talk /

Presentation

20-21

January

2015

RAN world

event

Düsseldorf,

Germany

C-RAN architecture

and fronthaul

challenge

Industry

Philippe

Chanclou

(Orange)

Presentation

19

February

2015

H2020

Success Story

Nicosia,

Cyprus

Presentation of

iCIRRUS project

Academia &

Industry

Dora Christofi

(PrimeTel)

Invited talk /

Presentation

22-26

March

2015

OFC 2015

Los

Angeles,

California,

USA

Getting standards

ready for Fiber to the

Antenna - Panel about

Optics in Access:

Technology and

Standards

Academia &

Industry

Philippe

Chanclou

(Orange)

Panel

Discussion

9-11 May

2015

LTE MENA

Conrad,

Dubai

iCIRRUS was mentioned in a panel discussion entitled “NFV and SDN – Hype or Reality.”

Academia &

Industry

Chris Murphy

(Viavi)

Invited talk /

Presentation

20 – 21

May 2015

RAN&

Backhaul

2015

Berlin,

Germany

C-RAN architecture

and fronthaul

challenge

Industry

Philippe

Chanclou

(Orange)

Presentation

/ Industry

Panel

8-12 June

IEEE

International

Conference

on

Communicati

on

London, UK

IFP-16: Mobile

Fronthaul Era – Are

we there yet? Industry

Panel presentation

Industry

Organiser/mode

rator: Anthony

Magee (ADVA)

Presentation

/ Industry

Panel

8-12 June

IEEE

International

Conference

on

Communicati

on

London, UK

“Ethernet in the

Fronthaul”, at IFP-16:

Mobile Fronthaul Era

– Are we there yet?

Industry Panel

presentation

Industry

Panelist: Nathan

J. Gomes

(University of

Kent)

Presentation

/ Industry

Panel

8-12 June

IEEE

International

Conference

on

Communicati

London, UK

“New functional

Split”, at IFP-16:

Mobile Fronthaul Era

– Are we there yet?

Industry Panel

Industry

Panelist: Volker

Jungnickel

(HHI)

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on presentation

Conference /

Presentation June 2015 ICC 2015 London, UK

Oral presentation

about D2D resource

allocation

Industry

Nathan J. Gomes

(University of

Kent)

Conference /

Presentation

June 29/July 2, 2015

EUCNC 2015

Paris, France

iCIRRUS Poster

Presentation

Academia &

Industry

Thierno Diallo

(Orange)

Workshop

10

September

2015

UK

TOUCAN/JISC

workshop on

SDN

Bristol, UK Presentation of

iCIRRUS project

Academia &

Industry

Nathan Gomes

(UniKent)

Invited talk /

Presentation

September

2015 ECOC 2015

Valencia,

Spain

Presentation of

iCIRRUS during optical

wireless talk -

fronthaul session

Academia &

Industry

Volker

Jungnickel

(HHI)

Invited talk /

Presentation

29-30

September

2015

RAN world

event

Cologne,

Germany

Changes, Challenges

and Case studies in

the fronthaul network

for C-RANs

Industry

Philippe

Chanclou

(Orange)

Panel session

20-21

October

2015

Informa SON

Conference

Berlin,

Germany

Big data analytics &

SON Industry

Chris Murphy

(Viavi)

Invited talk /

Presentation

20-22

October

2015

BBWF London, UK

Assessing the

Evolution of Cloud

RAN with the Support

of Fibre

Industry

Philippe

Chanclou

(Orange)

Workshop November

2015

COMBO

workshop on

Fixed-Mobile

Convergence

Munich,

Germany

Presentation of

iCIRRUS project

Academia &

Industry

Philippos

Assimakopoulos

Table 1: Conferences, Workshops and events

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2.2. Planned Dissemination Activities More tangible technical results are expected to be available in Y2, which will offer a better ground

basis for a wider dissemination of iCIRRUS in the industry, as well as in the scientific community. A

detailed list of potential scientific journals that will be targeted by the iCIRRUS partners is given in

Table 2.

Journal Publisher Thematic Area Journal Information

Optical Communications

and Networking IEEE/OSA Optical Networks

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.

jsp?reload=true&punumber=4563700

Journal of Lightwave

Technology IEEE/OSA Network

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.

jsp?punumber=50

Photonics Journal IEEE Photonics http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.

jsp?punumber=4563994

Photonics Technology

Letters IEEE Photonics

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.

jsp?punumber=68

Optics Express OSA Optics https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/home.c

fm

Transactions on

Communications IEEE Telecoms http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.

jsp?punumber=26

Transactions on Wireless

Communications IEEE Wireless

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.

jsp?punumber=7693

Communications Letters IEEE Network http://www.comsoc.org/cl

Wireless

Communications Letters IEEE

Wireless

Communications

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.

jsp?punumber=5962382

Journal Selected Areas

in Communications IEEE

Depends on

theme area

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.

jsp?punumber=49

Transactions on

Vehicular Technology IEEE Vehicular

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/aboutJourna

l.jsp?punumber=25

Transactions on Cloud

Computing IEEE Cloud Computing

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.

jsp?punumber=6245519

Communications and

Networks IEEE Networks

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.

jsp?punumber=5449605

Table 2: Scientific Journals

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Table 3 lists potential scientific conferences that will be targeted by the iCIRRUS consortium

Conference Type of Audience

IEEE Global Communications Conference GLOBECOM Research

IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC Research

European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) Research and Industry

Mobile World Congress (MWC) Research and Industry

IEEE Personal and Indoor Mobile Radio Communications PIMRC Research

Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) Research and Industry

IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference/National Fiber-Optics Exhibition and Conference OFC/NFOEC

Research and Industry

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference VTC Research

European Communications and Networking Conference EuCNC Research and Industry

IEEE International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON

Research

Table 3: Scientific Conferences

2.2.1. Activities and plans for liaisons with other projects

Liaisons activities with relevant EU projects have two main objectives:

(a) Perform effective coordination of the scientific and technical activities in order to

maximize results focusing on the particular aspects investigated within the iCIRRUS project

(b) Cooperation with other projects in dissemination (e.g., through the organization of joint

events or the participation to dedicated workshops) and standardization activities to

increase the community awareness

Bi-lateral discussions between the iCIRRUS partners and other related projects will help to develop a

common understanding of potential synergies. The exchange of technical information between

projects will identify common areas of research and development that projects will have a mutual

interest and benefit.

iCIRRUS plans to cooperate with other projects (it has already participated in a workshop organised

by the COMBO EU project), and particularly within the 5G PPP cluster. We have completed the Net

Tech questionnaire and are awaiting a formal response. We have been invited to and will attend the

concertation/5G PPP Collaboration and Clustering Day on 1st March, 2016 in Brussels. Informally, we

have had contact from the 5G-Xhaul project requesting information such as recent deliverables. A

number of iCIRRUS partners are already members of 5G PPP projects, such as 5G-Crosshaul and

CHARISMA.

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This project has received funding from the European

Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

programme under grant agreement No 644526

2.2.2. Public iCIRRUS Deliverables

First direct results of the iCIRRUS work are the public deliverables generated from the project.

2.2.3. Network of Interest (NoI)

The dissemination activities planned in the iCIRRUS project aim to foster collaboration opportunities, exchange knowledge, and raise awareness among a large group of stakeholders within the industry. All the activities which have been conducted up to now and have been planned to be conducted will help to build the NoI. This NoI will include actors from the industry and academia, people from the European Commission, press and media organisations and other EU.

2.2.4. Workshops Organization

During the project’s lifetime, the consortium is planning to organise and conduct two workshops, one aiming to target the industry and another academia.

Research Workshop

According to the Description of Action, a Research Workshop should be organised during the second year (Y2) aiming to raise significant interest from the academic/research community.

Milestone: M6.2 iCIRRUS research workshop / Before [M24] December 2016

Provide an Attendance list

The following events are potential events for iCIRRUS to participate and conduct a research workshop as part of exploiting its results by raising awareness within the specific community. We have selected two events instead of one as a large conference covering all aspects of the project (such as ICC/Globecom) was not being held in Europe during 2016. A European location was considered important in order to be able to readily attract speakers from other EU projects, who might be able to attend for the day rather than the whole conference. PIMRC 2016 - 27th Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications PIMRC is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of IEEE Communication Society's flagship conferences in telecommunications. PIMRC'16 will include technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, and technology and business panels. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community through IEEE's highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities [PIMRC]. When: 4-7 September 2016

Where: Valencia, Spain

iCIRRUS Participation: Kent and UEssex are planning to submit a joint proposal towards conducting

a research workshop in PIMRC 2016.

ECOC 2016 – European Conference on Optical Communication The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) is the leading European conference in the field of optical communication. Here, the latest progress in optical communication technologies will

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This project has received funding from the European

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be reported in selected papers, keynotes, presentations and special symposia. Parallel to the scientific conference, the ECOC exhibition covers a wide range of optical communications products and services. Therefore, ECOC is open to a variety of interested participants like researchers and students, product developers, sales managers and telecommunication market developers. Every year this international forum attracts more than 1.000 participants. When: 17-22 September 2016

Where: Dusseldorf, Germany

iCIRRUS Attendance: HHI has already led the submission of a workshop proposal for ECOC 2016

Industrial Workshop

The Industry Workshop is a business and technology meeting with the aim to promote the iCIRRUS vision to business leaders and infrastructure providers. In addition, during the project, a workshop will be organized to disseminate results, once the final prototypes are ready for final testing in the field.

Milestone: M6.3 iCIRRUS workshop/business forum exposition / Before [M32] August 2017

Provide an Attendance list/requests for information

The following section lists some potential events that the consortium is taking into consideration in order to attend, mainly before the 2nd quarter of the final year. WWRF - Wireless World Research Forum WWRF’s goal is to encourage research that will achieve unbounded communications to address key societal challenges for the future. “Wireless World” in this broad sense to address the support of innovation and business, social inclusion and infrastructural challenges. This will be achieved by creating a range of new technological capabilities from wide-area networks to short-range communications, machine-to-machine communications, sensor networks, wireless broadband access technologies and optical networking, along with increasing intelligence and virtualization in networks When: Sept 26th -30th 2016

Where: Kassel, Germany

Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017

The GSMA Mobile World Congress is the place where mobile leaders to gather, collaborate and conduct business. The annual event provides the planet’s best venue for mobile industry networking, new business opportunities and deal-making. Mobile World Congress includes a world-class conference featuring visionary keynotes and thought-provoking panel discussions; an exhibition with more than 2,000 companies displaying the cutting-edge products and technologies that define the future of mobile; the world’s best opportunity for mobile industry networking; and the annual Global Mobile Awards ceremony, which recognises the most innovative mobile solutions and initiatives from around the world. Where: Barcelona, Span When: February 2017

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RAN World 2017

RAN World discusses and addresses the real-world radio access

challenges of operators; how can they host as much capacity as

possible on their network, giving a seamless experience, without

interference, thereby offering a better customer experience? The event bridges the gap between

business strategy and technical expertise, bringing MNO CTOs and engineers together for a deep-

dive look into challenges, sharing and growing knowledge.

Where: n/a

When: 2017

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3. Communication Activities

The iCIRRUS communication activities have been planned continually and the experiences gained

will reinforce the commitment to wider communication throughout the project’s lifecycle.

3.1. Performed Communication Activities

3.1.1. iCIRRUS website

The iCIRRUS website is available at http://www.icirrus-5gnet.eu/. This has been developed and

maintained since the first month of the project. It has pages at different levels of detail for different

audiences. It provides visitors with news regarding the project’s activities and regular updates about

various related topics.

The website provides the project’s outputs such as public deliverables, publications, presentations,

demos and press releases.

Figure 1: iCIRRUS Website: Homepage

3.1.2. Social Networks Accounts

iCIRRUS pages and groups with unified brand design elements, e.g. iCIRRUS logo, background images, on the most popular social networks. Facebook Page: The Facebook page provides live news regarding the project and its activities also as

sharing related project posts to its followers. The Facebook Page is accessible via

https://www.facebook.com/Icirrus-5G-748941148509013/

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Figure 2: iCIRRUS Facebook Page

LinkedIn Group: Private Group - accessible via https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=6930274

Figure 3: iCIRRUS LinkedIn Group

Twitter: Twitter page accessible via https://twitter.com/Icirrus5g

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3.1.3. iCIRRUS Printed Material

Brochure: A project brochure has been designed in order to be disseminated in targeted events. The

brochure is available in ANNEX I. This will be updated during the second year (interim version) and

at the end of the project.

The iCIRRUS promotional brochure is a double-sided information sheet. The first version of the brochure was created in M3 overview information about iCIRRUS, the system concepts, information regarding D2D and C2C communications, introduces the fronthaul architecture and finally lists the iCIRRUS benefits to the end-users.

Poster: An iCIRRUS poster was created and exhibited at EUCNC, Paris, July 2015

3.1.4. Other Publicity

The following section presents other sources of communication including magazine articles, social

networks, partner’s websites, exposure of project within partner’s organisations e.g. universities.

1. Inside 5G article April 2015 - Ethernet In The Fronthaul Opening Up 5G Potential

Web: http://inside5g.com/ethernet-in-the-fronthaul-opening-up-5g-potential/

2. Inside 5G article March 2015 - Telekom Slovenije To Pilot Converged Optical Ethernet

Network For 5G

Web: http://inside5g.com/telekom-slovenije-to-head-pilot-5g-network/

3. Testbed setup shown to visitors during University of Kent public open day for 50th

Anniversary celebrations, 5th Sept. 2015

4. Introduction of iCIRRUS on the PrimeTel R&D website

Web: http://primetel.com.cy/research/icirrus/

5. Regular updates regarding iCIRRUS on the PrimeTel Innovation Facebook page

Web: https://www.facebook.com/primetel.innovation

6. iCIRRUS Project visible on the HHI website linking to the iCIRRUS website.

Web: http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/departments/photonic-networks-and-

systems/projects.html

7. Telekom Slovenije in www.siol.net article (in Slovenian)

http://www.siol.net/novice/tehnologija/telekomunikacije/2015/10/telekom_4g_lte.aspx

8. Publication in http://www.cefims.eu/2015/03/two-new-monitors-published/ and

highlighted in the ceFIMS-CONNECT newsletter of February

Web: http://www.cefims.eu/files/2015/03/5G-Monitor-European-initiatives-ICIRRUS-2-

MG_v3.pdf

9. University of Kent MSc projects run on D2D resource allocation and Ethernet in fronthaul,

exposing project topics to our students.

10. An online article at RCR Wireless by IDCC on flexible 5G RAN architectures featuring ICirrus

device cloning/virtualization perspective

Web: http://www.rcrwireless.com/20150914/opinion/reader-forum-dissecting-the-5g-ran-

where-flexibility-and-fine-integration-will-be-king-tag10.

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11. Press Article on International Innovation Better, faster and more intelligent telecommunications Web: http://www.internationalinnovation.com/better-faster-intelligent-telecommunications/

3.2. Planned Communication Activities Continue with the website updates and maintenance

Continue updating the relevant iCIRRUS social network accounts.

PrimeTel Innovation Hub to post updates regarding iCIRRUS news

Press releases in relevant magazines/website (all partners)

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4. Standardisation Activities Standardization is intended to be an important part of iCIRRUS results. The iCIRRUS partners will elaborate a common standardization strategy, identifying relevant standardization bodies and, for each of them, deciding on the appropriate level of participation (active contribution, active attendance, passive follow-up). Activities towards the standardisation of the project results will be explored in WP6 in order for iCIRRUS to have the maximum possible impact both in the scientific and industrial/commercial communities. This section presents the guidelines and the planned actions that will compose the iCIRRUS standardisation activities.

4.1. Performed / Undertaken plans iCIRRUS partners are monitoring/participating in a number of standardisation activities including:

IEEE1904.3 (Radio over Ethernet)

IEEE802.1TSN (Time Sensitive Networking)

IEEE1588

IEEE802.3

ITU-T Q13 (Synchronisation and Timing)

ITU-T Q2 and FSAN

The following briefly describes the monitoring activities that have taken place and a summary as to

their relevance to iCIRRUS and future plans.

3GPP: Close monitoring on the new fronthaul interface timeline for specification in 3GPP (following the 3GPP 5G Workshop in Phoenix, in September 2015, where NTT DoCoMo, Nokia Networks, and others have clearly put this new interface on the 5G RAN menu for specification within 3GPP). InterDigital will report to iCirrus when any such timeline gets approved and what scope so that iCirrus can get the chance to consider some contributions.

IEEE 802.1CM: Close monitoring of this recently formed group focused on the support of the fronthaul requirements in the TSN protocols. It is quite early at this stage to capture the full scope of this group. At a recent virtual meeting (November 2015), the scope was discussed and it was pointed out that the primary goal of 802.1CM is to specify a TSN profile for conventional CPRI (i.e. the classical split between RF and Baseband). The CPRI requirements are being provided by CPRI Cooperation. However, 802.1CM remains open to specify a profile for another functional split (compared to CPRI) if the requirements are provided and agreed. If the group moves beyond CPRI, we expect to have active participation here.

IEEE 1914.1 PAR: Close monitoring of the new PAR on new fronthaul interface to expand beyond CPRI and CPRI-like traffic (in 1904.3). The 1914.1 PAR targets a new specification for packet-based fronthaul transport networks. The scope as presented in the PAR includes the specification of: (i) Architecture for the transport of mobile fronthaul traffic (e.g., Ethernet-based), user data traffic, and management and control plane traffic; and (ii) Requirements and definitions for the fronthaul link, including data rates, timing and synchronization, and quality of service. Despite the PAR not being approved yet, work is still expected to start in the New Year (2016).

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ITU-T IMT2020 Focus Group: Close monitoring of the new work plan to address topics with identified standardization gaps, including “network slicing for mobile fronthaul and backhaul” which is of particular relevance to iCIRRUS.

IEEE 802.11ay: Active participation in this group on mmWave. A recent InterDigital’s Contribution of relevance to iCIRRUS is IEEE 802.11-15/1399r1, “11ay Functional Requirements for Multi-Hop, Backhaul, and Fronthaul”, 09 November 2015.

NGMN: Invited Talk (A. Mourad) on “5G Technologies: An introduction”, NGMN IPR Forum workshop on 5G Technologies, Vienna, Austria, 11 December 2015.

FSAN/ITU-T SG15Q2

April meeting:

Progress of operator white paper about Mobile application with the lead of Orange

“Response to CFC about the number of required PtP WDM channels and the need for

6.144Gbit/s line rate” by P. Chanclou, FSAN – Operator only session, Tours, France

October meeting:

Progress of operator white paper about Mobile application with the lead of Orange

“G.RoF requirements” by P. Chanclou, FSAN – Operator only session, Atlanta, USA

Invited contribution: “Mobile Evolution and Impact on Optical Access Network”, FSAN

Future Access Networks Workshop Atlanta, USA

December meeting:

“Response to CFC : Requirements for G.RoF” by P. Chanclou, FSAN – Operator only session,

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

“Joint contribution SKT and Orange: WDM requirements for fronthaul application”, FSAN –

NG-PON session, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Finalization of Operator white paper : “How does Passive Optical Network tackle Radio Access Network evolution?” , FSAN – Operator only session, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [reference to i-Cirrus project]

The following list presents dissemination activities which have occurred during the 1st year of the

project during standardisation meetings:

Workshop FSAN/ITU-T Q2, October, 2015, Atlanta, USA: Invited contribution: “Mobile

Evolution and Impact on Optical Access Network” (P. Chanclou, Orange)

NGMN IPR Forum workshop on 5G Technologies, December 2015, Vienna, Austria, Invited

contribution “5G Technologies: An introduction” (A. Mourad, IDCC)

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4.2. Planned Standardization Actions It is anticipated that iCIRRUS participants will continue to monitor and where possible contribute to

the development of standards within the activities noted above. It is anticipated that some work

within WP5 activities will be based upon work occurring in IEEE1904.3 in particular and may be able

to provide useful input to that standard. Similarly it is anticipated that contribution to work now

starting within IEEE802.1TSN and IEEE1914.1 PAR specifically in relation to Ethernet fronthaul, will

be possible. It is expected that input will fall into 4 main areas:

1. Ethernet transport requirements, synchronization and mapping of Fronthaul/Midaul into

packet services

2. Optical, high speed transmission

3. Cloud Computing / NFV

4. Mobile architecture evolution

Standards Organisation: IEEE 802 The IEEE 802 Standard comprises a family of networking standards that cover the physical layer specifications of technologies from Ethernet to wireless. IEEE 802 is subdivided into 22 parts that cover the physical and data-link aspects of networking. The better known specifications (bold in table below) include 802.3 Ethernet, 802.11 Wi-Fi, 802.15 Bluetooth/ZigBee, and 802.16.

Coverage and Key contacts from partners where applicable

802.3 physical layer, interface specifications, modulation methods, and MAC specification

802.1 Bridge specifications, showing interest currently in time sensitive networking

ADVA: John Messenger, Vice Chair 802.1 JDSU: Barry Constantine InterDigital: Joseph Levy, vice-chair of the 802.11

Architecture Standing Committee; Juan-Carlos Zuniga (chair of IEEE 802 Privacy EC SG and member of IEEE 802 Executive Committee)

Expected Interactions 802.1 - Latency sensitive and specific Ethernet requirements to support Fronthaul and Midhaul

802.3 – High-Speed formats >100G, modulation schemes etc., possible compression facilities and interface mappings

802.11 - Wireless technologies that might require amendments to existing or new specifications for the backhaul, front haul or access

Table 4: IEEE 802 Standardisation

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Standards Organisation - Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It is an open standards organization, with no formal membership or membership requirements.

Coverage and Key contacts from partners where applicable

MPLS, Pseudowires, Circuit Emulation. ADVA: Igor Bryskin PTEL: Michael Georgiades InterDigital: Juan-Carlos Zuniga (co-chair of the Internet Area

Working Group)

Expected Interactions Potential mapping of fronthaul into PWs Ensure OAM end-to-end monitoring protocols and procedure

can still apply with iCIRRUS proposed architecture, else propose necessary changes

Protocols and architecture models of SDN-based and NFV systems

Table 5: IETF Standardisation

Standards Organisation - Full Service Access Network (FSAN) The Full Service Access Network (FSAN) Group is a forum for the world’s leading telecommunications services providers, independent test labs, and equipment suppliers to work towards a common goal of truly broadband fibre access networks. FSAN has more than 70 member organisations, including more than 20 Network Operators Coverage and Key contacts from partners where applicable

Next Generation Optical Access ADVA: Klaus Grobe Orange: Philippe Chanclou, Fabrice Bourgart

Expected Interactions Aim to influence fronthaul/Midhaul aspects with iCIRRUS findings on high-speed, low latency transport mappings, possible compression techniques for fronthaul

Table 6: Full Service Access Network Standardisation

Standards Organisation – Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) The MEF develops technical specifications and implementation agreements to PipeEthernet services are certified to the MEF 9 Carrier Ethernet standard.

Coverage and Key contacts from partners where applicable

Recommendations for Metro Ethernet Interworking o ADVA: John Messenger o JDSU: Dave Fenstermacher o ORANGE: Andrew McFadzen

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Expected Interactions Consideration of the need for a Mobile Fronthaul and/or Midhaul Implementation Agreement (complimentary to and an extension of their mobile backhaul implementation agreement). The MEF certification committee will then work on programs to certify equipment to support this standard.

Table 7: Metro Ethernet Forum Standardisation

Standards Organisation – 3GPP The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) unites [Seven] telecommunications standard development organizations (ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TSDSI, TTA, TTC), known as “Organizational Partners” and provides their members with a stable environment to produce the Reports and Specifications that define 3GPP technologies.

Coverage and Key contacts from partners where applicable

Mobile air interface and RAN Architecture. LTE, LTE-Advanced, 3G, 4G and forthcoming 5G JDSU: Eng Wei Koo Telekom Slovenia: Peter Zidar InterDigital: Christopher Cave, Diana Pani (vice-chair of

RAN2 Working Group)

Expected Interactions Release 14 and 15 may be interested in new Self Optimizing Network requirements, to adjust the CloudRAN network based on potentially new input parameters.

Within the 3GPP group, work is just beginning, in Release 14 and Release 15, to create new 5G standards. JDSU will work within various working groups to help define the Cloud RAN/Fronthaul needs and D2D communication needs of this new network.

Actively participate and promote D2D for smart IoT/M2M (grid) applications and support C-RAN, CPRIoverEthernet over fiber in converged wireless/wireline telco infrastructures for performance and economic benefits. Furthermore, D2D benefits for smart IoT/M2M and grid will be pursued through IEC and CENELEC.

Table 8: 3GPP Standardisation

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Standards Organisation – ETSI NFV

Coverage and Key contacts from partners where applicable

Network Function Virtualisation ADVA: John Messenger JDSU: Peter Mataga InterDigital: Juan-Carlos Zuniga

Expected Interactions NFV for C-RAN environment NFV for monitoring and SoN in the C-RAN space

Table 9: ETSI Standardisation

Standards Organisation – Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) The Study Groups of ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) assemble experts from around the world to develop international standards known as ITU-T Recommendations which act as defining elements in the global infrastructure of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Standards are critical to the interoperability of ICTs and whether we exchange voice, video or data messages, standards enable global communications by ensuring that countries’ ICT networks and devices are speaking the same language.

Coverage and Key contacts from partners where applicable

Phy, MAC, Synchronization ADVA: John Messenger, Nir Laufer Orange: Daniel Venmani

Expected Interactions Influence ITUT SG15Q13 Synchronization group to consider need of fronthaul over Ethernet and to verify selected PLL multiplier/divisor settings.

Table 10: ITU-T Standardisation

Standards Organisation – (SCF)

Coverage and Key contacts from partners where applicable

InterDigital: Alex Reznik (vicechair of the Services Working Group)

Expected Interactions RAN virtualization for the small cells

Table 11: SCF Standardisation

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5. Exploitation Planning

The exploitation of the iCIRRUS project plays a fundamental role for the consortium partners. The

project will concentrate on facilitating a strong industrial impact towards product development and

standardisation, but will also address research associated exploitation objectives including the

creation of a strong presence through intense exploitation activities during and after the end of the

project.

The details of the exploitation plan in iCIRRUS will vary depending on several factors. Exploitation

will be classified into individual partner and joint consortium exploitation:

Individual exploitation involves the direct exploitation from the project consortium partners

as an individual, in order to enhance their own activities and products and to provide better

services to their customers. This has the aim to provide a competitive advantage of the

individual consortium partners and effectively contribute to the benefit of the targeted

users.

Joint consortium exploitation involves the exploitation activities of the project results, which

are jointly carried out by the partners of the project. The iCIRRUS partners will jointly

evaluate the proposed architecture that will be developed in the context of the project.

The beneficiaries will target to exploit different project outcomes depending on their specific

interests. A distinction is made between the partners involved in iCIRRUS, namely industrial partners

including operators, equipment manufacturers and software developers as well as academic

partners comprising research institutes and universities. This triggers an additional classification of

exploitation in commercial and non-commercial exploitation.

Industrial exploitation is mostly relevant to industrial partners and aims at transferring

research results and outcomes into new products and services. Therefore, the iCIRRUS

industrial partners (i.e., operators, equipment and technology vendors and SMEs) will be

focusing their exploitation activities on improving their current operational and business

position in existing markets, and on the creation of and preparation for new markets, with

the intention to secure a strong leadership position in these new markets.

Academic exploitation is carried out by universities and research institutes aiming at

exploring novel approaches and innovative solutions, addressing the technical challenges

that the project is focusing on as well as answering open technical questions. Overall

academic partners are aiming to focus and intensify their activities in thematic areas of

interest for both the industrial and research communities building at the same time strong

technical expertise and presence in the relevant fields. In addition, they are interested in the

creation of relevant intellectual property as well as in transferring associated knowledge and

know how to enhance their education and training activities.

The exploitation target audience can be internal to members of the consortium and

stakeholders who are directly related to the iCIRRUS consortium partners e.g. customers,

clients, or external to a wider community, e.g., through standardisation.

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In addition, to the exploitation factors and classification given above it should be noted that any

Intellectual Property (IP) that will be generated by the consortium will be patented, as appropriate,

and will be exploited to the best possible level in terms of commercialization and complete product

development feasibility. The creation of intellectual property will also directly benefit all partners of

the consortium. Possible products or patents that may result from the project will explicitly

acknowledge the project and the framework that provided the associated funding (see section 5.4).

The following sections reports on the partner’s individual intentions to exploit the iCIRRUS solution

and the project results in order to support and improve their business, activities and provide new

services to their customers.

Figure 4: iCIRRUS Consortium

iCIRRUS

Academia

UniKent HHI

UEssex

Industrial

ADVA-UK Orange

TS PTL

WT VIAVI

IAF IDCC

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5.1. Industrial Exploitation Each partner has already generated an exploitation plan and is aware of their potential future

strategic developments, in order to allow them to embrace new use case scenarios, business models

and prepare for new services and solutions.

Figure 5: Industrial Exploitation

ADVA Optical Networking Ltd (ADVA-UK)

ADVA Optical Networking intends to explore the application of existing and candidate new Carrier

Ethernet , and Packet Network synchronisation product features for application in fronthaul

networks using the iCIRRUS proposed architecture.

Orange S.A. (Orange)

Orange processes some field trials of BBU hotel with existing commercial equipment. C-RAN is

gaining great interest and has potential gain to bring reduced costs, improved performance and

fixed/mobile convergence. Cost benefits come from the fact that leaving on site only RUs with

compact power supply, cell site engineering is simplified, footprint is reduced, time to install and to

repair are shorter and renting cost is lower. This is especially true in dense urban areas where

operational people face more and more roll out difficulties. Additional economies will come from

significant reduction of power consumption and are expected with DU pooling (lower DU capacity to

support same number of sites). Radio performance gains and better performance in mobility are

enabled by Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) implementation thanks to the very low latency between

DUs in the same CO (or DU pool).

Industry

Technical Improvements

Internal Improve

Operations

External

Enter New Markets

Acquire New Customers

Strategic Guidelines

Internal Market

Potential

External New Business

Models

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In this context, if an iCIRRUS prototype is sufficiently mature for application in the field, Orange will

consider this opportunity. In any case, a laboratory trial is considered during the project. The

laboratory trial will be equipped with:

Commercial RAN equipment BBU&RRH from ALU and E///: compatible for CPRI over Eth.

Radio test equipment:

Using Rohde & Schwarz SMW20A vector signal generator and FSW signal and

spectrum analyzer: generation of RF signal 4G or 3G

CPRI testers (JDSU, EXFO, Anritsu, Absolute Analysis) with and without spectrum

analyzer and BBU/RRH emulator

The evaluation of services over RAN could be performed only with commercial RAN equipment in

order to address the EPC.

Telekom Slovenije, d.d. (TS)

Telekom Slovenije (TS) is a national fixed/mobile operator present on the telecommunication market from beginning of the analog telephone era. With the technology and service evolution it is constantly in the process of network evolution to accommodate the user needs. In the perspective of new proposed iCirrus C-RAN network architecture, TS start the business case analysis to be prepared for the existing legacy network migration toward C-RAN. The analysis consists of:

The review of the existing network. The ability to upgrade to C-RAN. Transport infrastructure/capacity availability. Cost estimation for network upgrade (where is needed).

Study of C-RAN/BBU hotel solution. Existing network traffic review in the perspective of the 5G forecast. Economic and network capacity examination.

New (open) network building, maintenance and operation analysis. C-RAN network share possibilities with other operators and services. Fixed and mobile network convergence.

Possibilities of new services deployment.

PrimeTel PLC (PTL)

PrimeTel (PTL) is the largest private telecom operator based in Cyprus offering TV, Internet,

Telephony and Mobile services. PrimeTel owns and operates a high performance fibre optic network

with points of presence in Cyprus, Greece, Russia and United Kingdom. It combines key components

that are critical for the provisioning of state-of-the-arts services: a high capacity backbone, a 24 hour

Network Operations Centre and superior engineering. PrimeTel’s network has been engineered from

the ground up to accommodate the high availability demands of the most strict service level

agreements. As a service provider, PrimeTel maintains a high-performance data centre in its

premises offering various services such as IPTV, online storage and web hosting. In the mobile area,

PrimeTel offers mobile telephony and broadband Internet as a Network Operator.

In order to cope with the increasing high capacity, high power efficiency and low operational cost

demands all operators should have a green strategies for their Radio Access Network deployments

and operations. A great percentage of power consumption is spent in the base station cell.

According to China Mobile, the CRAN can help mobile operator to save up to 15% CAPEX and 50%

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OPEX compared to distributed BTS 3G networks. Also, a CRAN is estimated to save up to ~70%

energy consumption compared to traditional RAN systems.

PrimeTel’s aim with the involvement in the iCIRRUS project is to explore the use of Ethernet in the C-

RAN “fronthaul”. Among the benefits of the use of Ethernet in C-RAN is the ability to intelligent

monitor, control and management all the functions. Moreover, the concepts of device-to-device

(D2D) communications and mobile cloud networking which are among the major improvements of

5G networks will be investigated in the iCIRRUS project. The main benefit of those concepts is the

traffic offloading which will be examined extensively in iCIRRUS and can offer significant advantages

to an operator.

Any potential reductions in CAPEX and OPEX (mainly due to the reductions of the number of the

costly Base Stations and their replacement by (cheaper) RRHs) can be translated to better offers to

PrimeTel’s subscribers and more revenue for the operator. PrimeTel’s involvement with state of the

art technologies of a 5G project can bring the company ahead of the competition and will affect the

decisions and investments that will take place until the universal adoption of 5G networks.

PrimeTel also plans to explore and investigate the potential to open up new markets and new

services through the use of C-RAN in applications such as Vechicle-to-Vechicle (V2V) and Machine-

to-Machine (M2M) communication, Internet of Things (IoT), smart monitoring, etc. Among the value

added services that will be investigated are:

Remote data storage/managing solutions where subscribers can expand their mobile

equipment storage by using cloud-based resources (even if huge storage space is needed).

Image processing, speech recognition/translation, security (anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-

malware) services where subscribers could benefit by offloading computational intensive

processing tasks to cloud and save considerable processing power from their devices. All

those services could be offered to subscribers without the requirement for them to buy

(new)/have high end mobile-phones, tablets, etc.

User data backup services: In case of a device lost/theft/destroyed the clone of the user can

be used as a backup and the user can recover its data from its clone.

Conventionally cloud computing and wireless networks have been addressed separately, however if they can be explored together then we can expect reduced latency, new services, improved quality of service or customized services which can be summarized by better QoE. PrimeTel could offer elastic mobile cloud computing services and allow the subscribers to use the amount of computation power they need, the moment they need it. So the entire customer billing system could be revised and allow subscribers to pay on demand which can be considered considerable advantage.

Wellness Telecom (WT)

Wellness Telecom is a company that specializes in New Technologies for Telecommunications. It

works to put the potential of telecommunications services and technology at the service of our more

than 100 customers for improving competitiveness, productivity and security of IT processes.

Wellness Telecom hope to improve its cloud applications with the result of the project. With this

changes, its market position and the customer satisfaction will improve too. From Wellness Telecom

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innovation area, we coordinate the relation between marketing and BU network areas to transfer

the knowledge, collect their needs and study the product exploitation possibilities.

When the project ends, Wellness Telecom will have developed a management system to control the

clones that simulate the real devices. This system is an interest point because it will be scalable and

useful to manage other technologies (different to the clones). Thus, thanks to iCIRRUS, we will be

able to expand the iCIRRUS cloud components to other services offered in our cloud.

Viavi Solutions (VIAVI)

Viavi Solutions is working with the Universities of Kent and Essex to develop test and performance

strategies for the iCirrus testbeds as they are being constricted; this is both from a conceptual and

physical point of view. This involves, for example, the use of programmable network probes that can

provide reference measurements as well as the generation of network traffic and introduction of

programmable impairments to the link. Beyond this, however, the work requires new approaches

that will extend test and performance capability in to areas beyond the scope of existing standards.

Consequently, Viavi Solutions is actively tracking developments in the MEF and IEEE standards to

ensure as best as possible that iCirrus innovates Ethernet mapping and performance monitoring and

control strategies for the new fronthaul will anticipate the expected outputs from the standards.

Further, Viavi Solutions is seeking to leverage developments in iCirrus, where frounthaul becomes

actively configurable and device-to-device provide new service flexibility, to help develop concepts

for end to end SON that will be suitable for the advent of programmable networks. Related with

these efforts Viavi Solutions has been actively contributing to the NGNM’s work on network

architecture and requirements for small cells that addresses some of the trade-offs with centralised

and distributed architectures.

IAF GmbH Future Radio Technology (IAF)

The work of IAF mainly consists of hardware and software development for the testbed realisation in

WP5 with focus on development of fronthaul with new functional split.

The exploitation of the research and development within iCirrus project will lead to product

development particular for the following applications:

CPRI / Ethernet conversion ( FPGA hardware development, software and firmware

development)

software defined radio frontend with enhanced processing capabilities to realize fronthaul

with functional split

InterDigital Europe LTD (IDCC)

IDCC has initiated the exploitation of ICIRRUS device virtualization and cloning technology under its

edge computing solution and product efforts. In detail, IDCC is planning to integrate its in-house

edge computing solution that targets infrastructure networking elements, e.g. serves, caches, with

the end-user devices. This will enable IDCC to diversify its infrastructure virtualization technology

solution to include end user devices, opening a new and broad market opportunity.

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Moreover, 60 GHz based device-to-device technology developed in ICIRRUS is expected to

complement IDCC’s existing cellular based device-to-device solution and strengthen its leadership in

device-to-device access technology solution market and relevant standards contributions.

5.2. Academic Exploitation Academic partners are aiming to focus and intensify their activities in thematic areas of interest for

both the industrial and research communities building at the same time strong technical expertise

and presence in the relevant fields.

Figure 6: Academic Exploitation

University of Kent (UniKent)

As a research-led university the principal exploitation of the work in iCIRRUS for the University of

Kent, is through the enhancement of its reputation by publishing in the highest-ranked journals and

conferences of the appropriate fields. These would include IEEE journals/transactions, such as

Communications, Wireless Communications, Communications and Networking, and conferences

such as ICC, Globecom, OFC and ECOC.

The engineering school at the University maintains strong industrial links with regular seminars by

industry speakers, a vibrant industrial advisory board and Visiting Professors from industry, such as

one of the leading technologists at Three UK. We see iCIRRUS as enhancing these industrial links

through which further collaborations, knowledge transfer and exploitation opportunities can be

explored. Within iCIRRUS, the University of Kent works particularly closely with Viavi Solutions, using

their probes and measurement tools within our testbed, with ADVA on aspects of synchronisation

and latency in Ethernet networks and with IDCC

Academic

Technical Improvements

Internal Teaching & Education

External New market workforce

Strategic Guidelines

Internal

Attract high quality students

Intellectual Property

Generation

External Future Research

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The University of Kent also educates undergraduate and postgraduate students, and our research

activities have a direct bearing on the quality and relevance of the education provided. A number of

PhD students funded from different external sources contribute to the iCIRRUS work. Also, from our

work within iCIRRUS, we have had MSc and undergraduate project students working with our

fronthaul and D2D research teams, and a significant year 4 undergraduate group project working

with the fronthaul team on the functional split and the use of the Open Air Interface software. Viavi

Solutions also give a seminar each year to our MSc students.

Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz- Institute (HHI)

Fraunhofer HHI aims to submit contributions to well-recognised conferences within the scientific

community for both international and national audiences. Within the first year, HHI has been

present at ECOC 2015 and, in the context of iCIRRUS, at ICC 2015 (“New Functional Split”) and has

submitted one more contribution, still pending on approval, for the German ITG Fachkonferenz

“Breitbandversorgung in Deutschland” 2016 (“Multi-Gigabit Real-time Signal Processing For Future

Converged Networks”). Further conferences where HHI aims to submit future results from iCIRRUS

are also Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) and ITG Fachkonferenz “Photonische Netze”.

As part of the Fraunhofer research organisation, HHI’s remit is to work for the benefit of industry

and societal needs. Members of staff teach at universities and can pass experiences on to future

generations of engineers. Moreover, HHI aims to attract valuable students and engineers to develop

their master and doctoral thesis respectively with focus on the topics of the iCIRRUS project. In this

first year, one theme for a master thesis has been defined by our team which focusses on the

realisation of a modified functional split between baseband unit and remote radio head for an

Ethernet-based fronthaul.

Strategically, Fraunhofer HHI also aims to foster its research areas making the most of the work

performed in iCIRRUS and thus develop new ideas for new project proposals. Within the first year,

HHI had submitted a national project at the BMBF in which the iCIRRUS architecture should be

further developed and used in industrial environments.

For HHI, it is also important to gain new industrial partners for the further development of its

research results and prototypes in a more application oriented direction. First of all that takes place

inside the project itself, where HHI works closely with IAF and ADVA on the development of the

iCIRRUS’ demonstrators, and sees significant potential for joint exploitation. Secondly, during the

realization of the project and in its context, HHI has also made new contacts which might be of

interest in a near future.

University of Essex (UEssex)

The University of Essex ranks as amongst the UK’s top ten universities for the quality of its research

in the recent national research assessment exercise. In the context of the iCIRRUS project, the

Access Networks Group (ANG) which is part of the large photonics research team within the school

of Computer science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), will be applying the mm-wave wireless

technologies emerging from WP4, as well as the 5G architectures from WP2 into the design of

undergraduate and postgraduate courses (i.e. taught and research masters degrees, and PhD

programmes).

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UEssex is one of the six executive members and a founding member of the IEEE Intercloud initiative,

jointly sponsored by the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, IEEE Cloud Computing Standards

Committee, and IEEE Standards Association. The initiative aims to create a global lab to

prove/improve technology and provide a springboard for the Intercloud to become a commercial

reality. Thus, as well as dissemination, results coming out of the iCIRRUS are intended to contribute

into one of the major cloud platform standardization organizations.

UEssex hosts business and technology meetings on a regular basis and will use these to promote the

iCIRRUS vision to business leaders and infrastructure providers, for example, UEssex is also active in

promoting rural broadband and the use of iCIRRUS technologies will help provide future-proof

throughput to sustain business growth in the local county of Essex region and beyond. The business

outreach unit at UEssex at will aim to patent novel ideas arising from the research, and to exploit

opportunities for licensing of patent ideas and/or setting up spinout ventures for this exploitation.

5.3. Intellectual Property Rights This section will present the intellectual property (IP) protection for the iCIRRUS consortium and

identify potential partnerships beyond the project. After the end of the iCIRRUS project, IPR is a

fundamental consideration for all partners whilst the consortium will take into account the access

rights defined in the project's Consortium Agreement.

After the end of the project, a number of IPR provisions such as confidentiality, use, dissemination

and access rights will remain in force.

Confidentiality is considered to be an obligation on the information exchanged during the project

and after five years the project has been completed. In case of any dissemination activity regarding

the project e.g. publication, all other partners from the project will be informed.

The iCIRRUS partners may use the foreground created under the iCIRRUS project for further research

or for commercial activities. In cases where this is needed partners should consult a body capable to

provide advice of IP issues in order to reach agreements with 3rd parties’ e.g. confidential

agreements or licensing. In case a party wishes to make use of the project's foreground that will

require access rights to another party's background they should notify the other party.

Joint Ownership

'Joint Ownership' refers to a legal situation where two or more entities from the iCIRRUS project

own the same research results. Situation of joint ownerships may arise either because the entities

involved in a specific project have selected to create a joint ownership since they have collaborated

on specific research. In the iCIRRUS project, the proposed framework will include components

designed and that will be tested in collaboration of all consortium partners therefore the

participants by the end of the project will share a common foreground.

Each partner in iCIRRUS will be the owner of their knowledge generated during the project. The main

lines that will be followed in the Intellectual Property rights (IPR) management will be:

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6. Conclusion

The 2nd year of the project will be crucial, since iCIRRUS is expected to produce technical progress

and scientific results, which should be disseminated to both academic and industrial communities.

The industrial and scientific partners will be at a stage of the iCIRRUS research that can result in

publishing several high-quality papers in research journals and confernces, and/or attending and

presenting progress in industry-related magazines or conferences and exhibitions. Research

workshops have been agreed by the consortium and proposals to organise two such workshops in

Year 2 have been submitted or are under preparation. Currently, the iCIRRUS consortium is

searching possible industry/business-oriented meetings for an industry workshop in Year 3 and

considering the dates and places where this may have a significant impact.

Using as a reference the standardization bodies listed in this deliverable, the planned

standardization activities for Year 2 include opportunities that have been identified by the project

team and, to some extent, fostered by some initial contributions based on the already available

results from iCIRRUS.

Based in the first exploitation proposals done in D6.2, and with enough maturity of the iCIRRUS

progress, exploitations plans will be refined during Year 2 and reported in deliverable D6.3.

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References

[Globecom] Blobecom IEEE – Online – Available at:

http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.ht

ml?Conf_ID=31983

[ECOC] ECOC - European Conference on Optical Communication - Online – Available at:

http://www.eurel.org/home/Events/SC/Pages/ECOC.aspx

[MWC] Mobile World Congress – Online – Available at

http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/

[PIMRC] About PIMRC – Online – Available at: http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/geninfo.html

[RAN] RAN World - Online, Available at: http://www.ranworldevent.com/

[WWRF] Wireless World Research forum – Online – Available at http://www.wwrf.ch/

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ANNEX I - iCIRRUS Brochure

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Table of Figures

Figure 1: iCIRRUS Website: Homepage _________________________________________________________ 16

Figure 2: iCIRRUS Facebook Page _____________________________________________________________ 17

Figure 3: iCIRRUS LinkedIn Group _____________________________________________________________ 17

Figure 4: iCIRRUS Consortium ________________________________________________________________ 27

Figure 5: Industrial Exploitation ______________________________________________________________ 28

Figure 6: Academic Exploitation ______________________________________________________________ 32

List of Tables

Table 1: Conferences, Workshops and events ___________________________________________________ 10

Table 2: Scientific Journals ___________________________________________________________________ 11

Table 3: Scientific Conferences _______________________________________________________________ 12

Table 4: IEEE 802 Standardisation _____________________________________________________________ 22

Table 5: IETF Standardisation ________________________________________________________________ 23

Table 6: Full Service Access Network Standardisation _____________________________________________ 23

Table 7: Metro Ethernet Forum Standardisation _________________________________________________ 24

Table 8: 3GPP Standardisation _______________________________________________________________ 24

Table 9: ETSI Standardisation ________________________________________________________________ 25

Table 10: ITU-T Standardisation ______________________________________________________________ 25

Table 11: SCF Standardisation _______________________________________________________________ 25