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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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