virtuwind deliverable d1.5: year 1 project report deliverable d1.8

671648 — VirtuWind — H2020-ICT-2014/H2020-ICT-2014-2

VirtuWind

Deliverable D1.5: Year 1 project report Deliverable D1.8: Periodic project plan

updates (M12)

Deliverable release date 09.08.2016

Authors All consortium members

Responsible person Dr. Florian Zeiger (Siemens AG), Vivek Kulkarni (Siemens AG)

Reviewed by All consortium members

Approved by All consortium members

Status of the Document Final

Version 1.0

Dissemination level D1.5 (Public), D1.8 (Consortium only)

Note: This report is also submitted as Periodic Technical Report (Part B) in EC participant portal sighting identical

contents.

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Deliverable D1.5, D1.8 Dissemination level: [public, confidential]

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Table of Contents

1 Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................... 3

2 Explanation of the work carried out by the beneficiaries and Overview of the progress ........................... 4

2.1 Objectives .................................................................................................................................. 4

2.2 Explanation of the work carried per WP ...................................................................................... 6

2.2.1 Work Package 1 ......................................................................................................................... 6

2.2.2 Work package 2 ........................................................................................................................16

2.2.3 Work Package 3 ........................................................................................................................23

2.2.4 Work Package 4 ........................................................................................................................26

2.2.5 Work Package 5 ........................................................................................................................29

2.2.6 Work Package 6 ........................................................................................................................30

2.3 Impact .......................................................................................................................................41

3 Update of the plan for exploitation and dissemination of result ..............................................................42

4 Update of the data management plan....................................................................................................43

5 Update of the quality management plan ................................................................................................44

6 Changes to the project plan ..................................................................................................................45

6.1 Change requests .......................................................................................................................45

6.2 Changes related to 5G PPP activities ........................................................................................45

7 History of Changes ...............................................................................................................................46



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1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

VirtuWind can look back on a very successful first project year in terms of results, project

dissemination activities, and also the work progress. Highlights of our results in project year 1 are

the requirements analysis of more than ten use cases of adjacent industries, as well as the definition

of the VirtuWind high level architecture. Dissemination activities included journal publicati ons, as

well as participation in several presentations of well-respected conferences and events. Here the

limelight was on the VirtuWind demonstration at the Mobile World Congress 2016, where project

objectives and results could be shown to different stakeholders. VirtuWind representatives used this

opportunity and introduced the project to the Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, in charge of the

Digital Economy and Society.

VirtuWind promised 11 deliverables within project year 1, with 8 deliverables related to project

management and planning, and 3 deliverables containing technical results. Also key performance

indicator measurements of the real world system in the trial wind park in Denmark were conducted

in the reporting period. VirtuWind kept the promises given in the Description of Action by

successful and in-time submission of the deliverables, completion of the state-of-the-art system

measurements, and effective project dissemination activities in project year 1. Project Milestone

M1 “Use cases and requirements defined” was accomplished in February 2016.

In general, VirtuWind efforts were spent according to the planning given in the Description of

Action. There was only a very small deviation of one person month which will be compensated in

project year 2. There will be no effect on future results or the overall costs. Currently no risks are

present that will block successful continuation of VirtuWind towards Milestone M2 “Architecture

design reviewed and approved” (scheduled for November 2016) and future milestones.



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2 EXPLANATION OF THE WORK CARRIED OUT BY THE BENEFICIARIES AND OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRESS

2.1 Objectives

VirtuWind in general has following 6 objectives. During the first project year all of them were

addressed by the following work items:

Objective 1: Realize industrial-grade QoS for intra-domain SDN solution

Detailed requirements analysis from the scenarios to be demonstrated in real wind park is

done in D2.1, D2.2.

The work done in D2.3 presents a list of key performance indicators (KPIs) that will be used

to measure the effectiveness of the network developed by the VirtuWind project.

In order to analyse the state of the technology, VirtuWind consortium conducted

measurements and testing at the UhreWind wind park in Brande, Denmark. The knowledge

gained during these tests will be used during the design and implementation of VirtuWind

solution.

Objective 2: Guarantee inter-domain QoS for SDN based multi-operator ecosystem

A state-of-the-art analysis has been done in VirtuWind to evaluate different approaches in

multi-operator environment. VirtuWind consortium elaborated on the hop-by-hop and

orchestrator-based approach respectively for inter-domain path provisioning in D4.1 which is

due for submission in September. Both of those approaches were mapped to the architecture

from D2.2 and inter-domain QoS work is currently focused on the design of the interfaces

(application, management, negotiation, and southbound).

Objective 3: Reduce time and cost for service provisioning and network maintenance

All the architecture and design work packages aim at applicability of SDN and NFV

technologies to the industrial use case of wind parks. One important aspect here is network

programmability and re-configurability. Network design has been addressed in D2.2 and

KPIs for comparing new solution with the existing one are addressed in D2.3. The total cost

of ownership (TCO) or Techno-economic evaluation is carried out in D2.4 in order to model

the existing legacy network parameters with those of the new network solution consisting of

SDN and NFV technologies.

Objective 4: Assure security-by-design for the SDN and NFV ecosystem

In D2.2, VirtuWind applied security-by-design principles to architecture and KPI

measurements



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Objective 5: Field trial of intra- and inter-domain SDN and NFV prototype

State of the art measurements and testing were conducted in the real wind park and all

consortium partners gained knowledge of the operational environment in advance to the field

trials scheduled in project year 2 and 3.

Objective 6: Collaborate with related 5G-PPP projects and contribute to relevant standards

There have been a lot of activities from VirtuWind consortium at the 5G-PPP WG level.

VirtuWind has been actively contributing to 4 WGs and 2 Joint Actions. One of the WG is

5G Pre-standardization through which VirtuWind positioned the requirements relevant to

verticals.

Several important dissemination activities such as demo at Mobile World Congress at EC

booth, 2nd

5G Global event (in planning) have been done collaboratively together with other

5G-PPP projects as well as 5G Infrastructure Association.

There is a great interest from VirtuWind consortium members to know more about

deliverables from other projects and vice versa.

Even in the first year, VirtuWind has been successful to position the project use case as draft

at the IETF DetNet WG. The follow-up of the draft is planned for the forthcoming IETF

meetings and many other standardization impacts are foreseen in the 2nd

and 3rd

year of the

project.



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2.2 Explanation of the work carried per WP

In general the project is on track in terms of effort, progress, as well as results. Collaboration

within VirtuWind is successfully established and partners gave complementary contributions to the

results based on their expertise and role in the project. All work packages successfully submitted

the deliverables according to the schedule given in the Description of Action.

2.2.1 WORK PACKAGE 1

Duration: 01.07.2015 – 30.06.2018

Objectives of work package 1 are:

Provision of effective project management including project governance, general project

management and

Administration, risk management, quality control, as well as scientific and technological

coordination.

Governance of innovation management and intellectual property rights protection processes.

Interaction with 5G-PPP programme.

Task 1.1 Project Management

In its role as coordinator and technical manager Siemens was doing all project management related

work, including setup and maintenance of a project management and an administration and

coordination infrastructure, establishing the project governance structure, as well as driving the

monthly Technical Management Committee (TMC) information exchange.

Also the organization of project meetings was subject to this work package and Siemens was

conducting this work together with the partner hosting the respective event (see Error! Reference

source not found.).

VirtuWind Meeting Main Activities

July 9th

/10th

, 2015

Project Kick-Off (Munich)

VirtuWind project Kick-off was a 2days meeting and addressed

the following topics:

WP1 related topics, such as detailed project time plan,

All above listed work package 1

related objectives were successfully

addressed in the reporting period by

VirtuWind and all work package 1

related deliverables were successfully

submitted in time.

0

5

10

15

20

25

30 WP1 (Total PMs)

WP1 after 1 year (Used PMs)



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meeting schedule, processes, as well as the roles of PCC and

TMC.

Detailed work plans for active tasks in WP2 and WP6.

Details on the planned on-site testing.

5G PPP collaboration.

Administrative issues such as communication channels (email-

lists), document repository, and software repository.

November 25th

/26th

, 2015

2nd

VirtuWind Consortium

Meeting (London)

The 2nd

consortium meeting was a 2 days event hosted by KCL

in London and addressed the following topics:

Project management incl. project status, review of risk

register, project reporting, on-site testing in wind park, and

introduction of project management related deliverables D1.2,

D1.3, D1.4.

Technical work progress of WP2 and planning for upcoming

tasks within WP2.

Work progress of WP6 including MWC 2016 preparation.

5G PPP activities and interactions.

High-level planning for WP3 and WP4, both scheduled to start

in early 2016.

3rd

Consortium Meeting

April 5th

-7th

, 2016

(Heraklion)

The 3rd

consortium meeting was a 3 days event hosted by

FORTH in Heraklion and addressed the following topics:

Project Management incl. project status, review of risk

register.

Technical work progress of WP2 with focus on deliverable

D2.2 (High level and the overall system architecture), D2.4

(Techno-economic framework and cost models), and planning

of first on-site measurement of KPIs at trial wind park.

Technical work progress of WP3 with detailed discussions of

the intermediary results of work groups on technical items,

such as bootstrapping, resilience of control plane, controller

placement, function placement, service function chaining,

multi-tenancy support, SDN-NFV interoperability,

communication between SDN controllers, and QoS support.

Also preliminary planning for Task 3.2 (scheduled start in

July 2017) was addressed.

Technical work progress of WP4 with detailed discussions of

the intermediary results of work groups on technical items,

such as NBI, inter-domain QoS control, inter-domain test-bed

and evaluation, and security considerations for inter-domain

mechanisms.



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WP3/WP4 joint session with definition of an integrated

implementation approach for WP3 and WP4.

Work progress of WP6, including planning of 1st exploitation

workshop, dissemination activities incl. web site

improvements, and activities for standardization.

A session on IIoT applications in VirtuWind.

Sessions of the 2nd

technical workshop (see Error! Reference

source not found.).

Table 1: VirtuWind project meetings.

In addition also project internal workshops were organized (see Error! Reference source not

found.). The 1st technical workshop addressed architectural topics and was executed within WP2.

The 2nd

workshop was dedicated to the details of technical topics within WP3 and WP4. In May,

VirtuWind conducted a first on-site testing in the wind park in Denmark in order to capture the

characteristics of the current wind park control system. These data was used within WP2 and

contributed to the creation of KPIs VirtuWind will use during the evaluations of the prototype later

in the project.

Workshop Name Main Activities

1st Technical Workshop

(WP2), January 2016,

Munich (Siemens)

The 1st technical workshop was a two days event and gave a

technical deep dive into the three VirtuWind trial scenarios. Also

the technical challenges were prioritized and discussions on

industrial QoS approaches, security requirements, and multi-

tenancy in industrial networks were initiated. The workshop also

covered a session on the VirtuWind architecture and results of

that session are reflected in D2.2.

2nd

Technical Workshop

(WP3 & WP4), April 2016,

Heraklion (FORTH)

The 2nd

technical workshop was co-located with the 3rd

consortium meeting in Heraklion and covered 4 technical sessions

with presentations and discussions on:

1. Multi-Tenancy in industrial networks,

2. Industrial QoS,

3. SDN-NFV interaction in industrial networks,

4. Intent based API

1st on-site testing in wind

park, May 2016, Brande

(Siemens/Uhrewind)

The objective of this first on-site testing and measurement was to

collect KPIs of the existing wind park control network. Uhrewind

power gave a technical briefing of the existing infrastructure

(SCADA house and network architecture). VirtuWind

participants conducted measurements of the real-world system

related to intra-domain QoS KPIs., inter-domain QoS related

KPIs, new service installation related KPIS, as well as security

related KPIs. Also TCO related questions were addressed.

This first on-site visit is considered as very successful as

VirtuWind partners have gained hands-on experience with the

real wind park hardware, important measurement were taken, and



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important questions were clarified with the local subject matter

expert.

Table 2: VirtuWind workshops.

Task 1.2 Quality Management

Within this task we defined quality control, as well as quality assurance mechanisms for

publications, deliverables, as well as all kind of other material. Also the processes, review, and

reporting procedures are defined. All project quality related guidelines are reported in deliverable

“D1.2 - Quality Management Plan”. The quality management procedures on deliverables –

specifically the timelines for internal reviews – were updated in spring 2016 as experiences during

the creation of project deliverables have shown the need for improvements (details see Section

Error! Reference source not found.).

According to the project quality management guidelines the project risk register (for details of risk

register see EC project portal) is reviewed on a regular basis by the TMC. Project progress and

risks are transparently reported to the EC project officer regularly via the continuous reporting

interface in the EC project portal.

Task 1.3 Innovation Management and Intellectual Property Rights

VirtuWind work in year one was focussed on state-of-the-art analysis, analysis of use cases, and the

creation of initial results, such as architecture design and first functional specifications of

components. Creation of IPR based on technical project results (filings and publication of patent

applications) is expected in project year two and three. The paragraphs on creation of single-

partner, as well as joint IPR in the VirtuWind consortium agreement are used for administrative

guidance for IPR creation.

Task 1.4 5G-PPP Programme level activities

In project months 1 to 12, VirtuWind consortium members contributed to several activities at 5G-

PPP programme level. These contributions span from coordinating the work at the projects level,

managing and supporting at the 5G events planned on behalf of the European Commission,

contributions to the 5G pre-standardization at the European level, making publications of the

project in the 5G annual journal to showcase European leadership in 5G technologies.

Interactions and contributions to work groups

Physical and remote meetings

VirtuWind coordinator and technical manager attended 2 physical meetings in Brussels and took

part in the regular phone calls as part of 5G PPP’s “Steering Board (SB)” and “Technology Board

(TB)” work. The minutes of these meetings are on CSA’s (Eurescom) BSCW server

(https://bscw.5g-ppp.eu/sec/bscw.cgi/30317). VirtuWind consortium initially agreed to take part in

2 cross-projects WG, namely “5G Vision and Societal changes WG” and “5G Pre-Standardization

WG”, together with “Community building and Public Relations” and “5G International

cooperation” as joint activities. As the project progressed in the last year, VirtuWind identified the

need to take part in 2 additional WGs: Software Networks WG, 5G Security WG. In this way,

VirtuWind can bring industrial requirements of SDN/NFV technologies in both of these WGs.

https://bscw.5g-ppp.eu/sec/bscw.cgi/30317



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VirtuWind consortium split the work amongst its own members to bring right expertise towards

each WG.

Work Group / Joint Activity Responsible member from VirtuWind

5G Vision and Societal changes WG Siemens AG

5G Pre-Standardization WG Deutsche Telekom AG

Software Networks WG Intracom Telecom

5G Security WG FORTH

Community building and Public Relations All VirtuWind partners

5G International cooperation All VirtuWind partners

5G Vision and Societal changes WG:

VirtuWind members contributed to Energy white paper, mainly in requirements and the big picture,

released by 5G PPP. (See https://5g-ppp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/5G-PPP-White_Paper-on-

Energy-Vertical-Sector.pdf)

For the white paper released at Mobile World Congress 2016, VirtuWind members contributed to

mainly in Chapter 3 “TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS” in terms of Energy sector spider chart and

related Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); and in Chapter 5 “NEXT STEPS IN

STANDARDISATION AND SPECTRUM CONSIDERATIONS” for possible contributions in

SDN and NFV SDOs by positioning network slicing and multi-tenancy aspects of 5G.

(See https://5g-ppp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BROCHURE_5PPP_BAT2_PL.pdf)

5G Pre-Standardization WG:

VirtuWind explained the project internal dissemination activity in IETF DetNet WG to the Pre -

Standardization WG. This included the wind park use case related requirements. (See

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vilajosana-detnet-windfarm-usecase-00)

Software Networks WG:

VirtuWind activities include participation in phone conferences. It is also planned that VirtuWind

will take part in the WG position paper as the activity progresses in different projects.

5G Security WG:

VirtuWind participated in Physical meeting on 27.6.2016 at EuCNC Conference, in Athens,

Greece, as well as the regular phone conferences. VirtuWind also contributed to industrial

SDN/NFV security aspects to various chapters of the WG's white paper, lead and shaped the

"Slicing / Virtualisation and Strong Isolation" chapter of the WG's White Paper, and aggregated

participating projects' potential contributions.

Community building and Public Relations:

https://5g-ppp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/5G-PPP-White_Paper-on-Energy-Vertical-Sector.pdf

https://5g-ppp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/5G-PPP-White_Paper-on-Energy-Vertical-Sector.pdf

https://5g-ppp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BROCHURE_5PPP_BAT2_PL.pdf

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vilajosana-detnet-windfarm-usecase-00



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VirtuWind consortium created the video for Mobile World Congress 2016 as part of this joint

activity. The video is now available at the EC’s Youtube channel. (See

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALxdfbozyKE).

Additionally, at the ETSI 5G summit, VirtuWind presented a project poster. (See

https://docbox.etsi.org/Workshop/2016/20160421_5G_FROM_MYTH_TO_REALITY/POSTERS/

ETSI_SUMMIT_5G_Virtuwind%20poster-Printing-resolution.pdf)

Euro-5G, CSA of the 5G-PPP phase 1 project came up with the first issue of the European 5G

Annual journal, including a project description of VirtuWind. (See https://bscw.5g-

ppp.eu/pub/bscw.cgi/d106832/EURO-5G_Annual%202016_July%202016_V2.pdf). It is produced

in collaboration with the H2020 projects to extract their exceptional achievements and to present

them in the best possible way for broad public, but also presenting technical programme

achievements on high-level for wide spectrum of researchers and managers. A paper version will be

printed in October 2016 and will be available for the second 5G Global event in November.

5G International cooperation: VirtuWind is not directly involved in this activity so far.

Stakeholder map

5G PPP phase-1 projects have identified a list of potential target groups and stakeholders which are

of relevance for the projects. Target stakeholders can be clustered to seven target groups and the

result of this joint work is shown in Error! Reference source not found..

Figure 1: 5G PPP projects target stakeholders - created by the Euro-5G project with contribution from the 5G PPP Phase-1 projects (see https://5g-ppp.eu/5g-ppp-stakeholders-survey/).

VirtuWind is directly addressing policy makers, standardization organizations, 5G Industry

(technology providers), Open Source projects, as well as business verticals (focus on - but not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALxdfbozyKE

https://docbox.etsi.org/Workshop/2016/20160421_5G_FROM_MYTH_TO_REALITY/POSTERS/ETSI_SUMMIT_5G_Virtuwind%20poster-Printing-resolution.pdf

https://docbox.etsi.org/Workshop/2016/20160421_5G_FROM_MYTH_TO_REALITY/POSTERS/ETSI_SUMMIT_5G_Virtuwind%20poster-Printing-resolution.pdf

https://bscw.5g-ppp.eu/pub/bscw.cgi/d106832/EURO-5G_Annual%202016_July%202016_V2.pdf

https://bscw.5g-ppp.eu/pub/bscw.cgi/d106832/EURO-5G_Annual%202016_July%202016_V2.pdf

https://5g-ppp.eu/5g-ppp-stakeholders-survey/



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limited to - wind energy), which is perfectly matching to the stakeholder map created together with

5G PPP and all other 5G PPP projects.

By providing technologies which can be applied to different business verticals (e.g., industrial

networks, smart grids, IPTV, security, critical infrastructure monitoring, smart transport and

emergency services, or network services), stakeholders can be extended including connectivity

providers, network operators, and M2M component providers.

KPI targets

KPI Details on planned project

contribution towards achieving

the KPI

Achievements and results so far in

year 1

(01.07.2015 – 30.06.2016)

P2

Reducing

the

average

service

creation

time cycle

from 90

hours to 90

minutes.

The envisioned architecture of

VirtuWind defines a north bound

interface which allows SDN

controller to process the business

application service requests and

translate them to corresponding

data plane configurations.

VirtuWind covers controller-

internal optimizations for fast

network reconfiguration,

increasing service velocity.

The VirtuWind solution architecture

is in progress to address

programmability in the SDN and

NFV network applied to industrial

use case of Wind parks. There are

different architecture components

defined which cover auto-

configuration of SDN/NFV devices

during boot-up phase as well as

reconfiguration of SDN/NFV devices

during runtime. The north bound

interface semantics is under definition

which will enable SDN controller to

parse the service request seamlessly

facilitating the reduction of service

creation time from some hours to few

minutes. For later (project year 2&3)

performance comparison of the

proposed SDN/NFV architecture with

the existing one, VirtuWind

consortium conducted “State of the

Art” measurements and testing in the

“Floe” wind park. The next measure

in the year 2 is to finalize the

VirtuWind solution architecture in

order to reduce service deployment

time from the current state of the art

methods.



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P4

Creating a

secure,

reliable

and

dependable

Internet

with a

“zero

perceived”

downtime

for

services

provision.

VirtuWind has dedicated tasks for

intra- as well as inter-domain

security aspects. The VirtuWind

architecture enables end-to-end

SDN by covering northbound

interface, southbound interface

and inter-domain interface. The

major objective of VirtuWind is to

guarantee industrial-grade QoS

and to provide means for inter-

domain SLA management.

VirtuWind enables the innovative

step to bring SDN and NFV into

industrial world. Thus, also

enabling the new way of

managing industrial networks to

make Europe a leader in “QoS-

enabled SDN & NFV”.

The current state of the art security

mechanisms in “Floe” wind park are

developed based on evolution of

technologies in the legacy systems.

For applying existing as well as new

security mechanisms in SDN/NFV

environment, VirtuWind consortium

identified certain KPIs which are

followed in the VirtuWind

architecture and are planned later on

in the implementation. The industrial-

grade QoS is the central part of the

VirtuWind solution architecture. This

means that there are architectural

components for intra-domain use

which are meant to provide

guarantees for requested bandwidth,

delay and jitter. For inter-domain use,

currently 2 methods are identified and

analysed in detail for SDN-based

inter-domain SLA management.

KPI Details on planned project

contribution towards achieving

the KPI

Achievements and results so far in

year 1

(01.07.2015 – 30.06.2016)

S3 European

availability

of a

competitiv

e industrial

offer for

5G

systems

and

technologi

es;

VirtuWind takes into account the

societal impact of reducing the

Levelized Cost of Electricity

generation (LCOE) for wind

energy by introducing 5G

infrastructure solutions (SDN and

NFV) into the industrial networks.

These solutions will be an

important part of global 5G

infrastructure due to its QoS

support.

VirtuWind enables the innovative

step to bring SDN and NFV into

industrial world. Thus, also

enabling the new way of

managing industrial networks to

make Europe a leader in “QoS-

enabled SDN & NFV”.

Europe is still leader in green

renewable energy. To maintain the

lead position, the wind energy

specifically should be at the same cost

level as compared to conventional

energy resources. VirtuWind has done

Techno-Economic analysis of typical

architectures in wind parks and

envisioned savings due to application

of SDN and NFV technologies in

communication networks of wind

parks. The KPIs were identified to

check the savings potential. The

architecture developed so far in

VirtuWind project is able to support

industrial-grade QoS. The next step in

year 2 will be to implement such an

architecture which will eventually

bring savings in the industrial use



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case such a wind parks.

VirtuWind showed its first project

demo at the Mobile World Congress

2016 which fetched good attention

from the EU policy makers,

international research and commercial

entities. VirtuWind is also planning

its second demo at the 5G Global

event in Rome in November 2016.

In addition VirtuWind conducted a

workshop on exploitation to elaborate

how the developed technology can be

used in adjacent businesses.

Therefore, the draft of the business

model given in the proposal was used

as blueprint and is going to be

extended towards other domains in

ongoing work (using the business

model canvas method).

Participation in 5G PPP’s major dissemination events

Event Date VirtuWind’s contribution

EUCNC 2015 at Paris June 29/July 2, 2015 Presentation

Mobile World Congress

2016 at Barcelona

February 22-25, 2016 Presentation, Demo, Video, Poster,

Leaflet

ETSI - 5G summit: From

Myth to Reality, at Sophia

Antipolis

April 21, 2016 Keynote, Video, Poster

EUCNC 2016 at Athens June 27-30, 2016 Interview on project objectives,

Presentation, Video

2nd

5G Global event at

Rome (in planning)

November 9-10, 2016 Presentation, Demo (in planning),

Video, Poster, Leaflet

Setting up VirtuWind’s Advisory Committee

VirtuWind consortium has setup “Advisory Committee (AC)” / “External Expert Advisory Board

(EEAB)” which consists of industrial players from several domains to assure that VirtuWind’s

technical solutions are addressing the requirements not only from the wind energy domain, but also

from other industrial sectors such as Smart Grid, Smart Transportation, Telecommunication

Carriers & Vendors, Industrial Capital Goods, etc. This will significantly increase the acceptance of

the innovative SDN/NFV based solutions from the very beginning.

The AC members will be briefed by the Coordinator and/or Technical Management Committee

(TMC) about the technical achievements in the project so far at every meeting. There AC members



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will come to know windpower use case of SDN/NFV technologies in detail. The expectation from

the VirtuWind consortium is that each AC member will bring their domain know-how and advice

on how SDN/NFV technologies and VirtuWind concepts can further be exploited in other domains.

AC meetings are scheduled for project year 2 and year 3, depending on the exploitable results of

the project during that timeframe.

Proposed timeline:

~ October/November 2016: 1st Advisory Committee meeting (Face-to-Face or remote)

~ September/October 2017: 2nd

Advisory Committee meeting (Face-to-Face or remote)

~ April/May 2018: 3rd

Advisory Committee meeting (Face-to-Face or remote)

WP1 Deliverables:

Deliverable “D1.1 Periodic project plan updates”: contains project month 1-6 progress updates

and is submitted as scheduled.

Deliverable “D1.2 Project Quality Management Plan (QMP)”: content of QMP was updated in

spring 2016 and is submitted as scheduled.

Deliverable “D1.3 Innovation Management Plan (IMP)”: submitted as scheduled.

Deliverable “D1.4 Data Management Plan”: submitted as scheduled.

Deliverable “D1.5 Year 1 project report”: submitted together with periodic report for project

months 1-12 and Deliverable “D1.8 Periodic project plan updates”.

Deliverable “D1.8 Periodic project plan updates”: submitted together with periodic report for

project months 1-12 and Deliverable “D1.5 Year 1 project report”.



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Duration: 01.07.2015 – 30.11.2016

Task 2.1 Define Industry use cases for SDN

12 Use Cases were defined based on analysis of industrial SDN and NFV use cases from

various industrial domains This deliverable has highlighted specific usage of SDN/NFV

technologies into 4 different domains namely Energy, Telecommunications, Industry

Automation and Transportation. A total of 82 detailed requirements were identified to reflect

the implementation and exploitation for the project in the respective domains . Following table describes contributions in this task per partner:

Partner Activities

Siemens

(Lead)

Led the task with an objective to define different industry use cases of

SDN and NFV technologies.

Drafted 3 out of 12 use cases specifically focussing on Energy domain

and typical industrial infrastructures

Siemens analysed and documented requirements on the SDN & NFV

based network relating to 3 drafted use cases

From all the 12 use cases, 82 applicable requirements were filtered out

for further mapping on to trial scenarios.

Author, editor and reviewer of complete deliverable D2.1

TUM

Drafted one use case with focus on reliability in industrial networks

Provided contributions to summary of requirements

FORTH

Drafted one use case with focus on incident detection and response

Provided use case requirements

KCL Drafted one use case with focus on smart transport and emergency

services


This work package started in project month

1, and most of the work during the

reporting period was carried out within

work package 2. Major achievements such

as the definition of use cases from adjacent

industry domains and the high level

architecture definition are captured in

deliverables of this work package.

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ICOM Drafted two use cases (a) remote management of industrial processes

(b) Inter- domain IPTV


WorldSensing Drafted one use case with focus on Monitoring systems for industrial

critical infrastructure

Provided contributions on requirements definition, classification of

requirements and brought their IoT perspective/knowledge to the

deliverable.

Deutsche

Telekom Drafted one use case with focus on QoS-enabled end-to-end

connectivity across multiple networks


Intel Drafted one use case with specific focus on industrial domain

infrastructure

WP leader and reviewer of final deliverable D2.1

NEC Drafted one use case with focus on application access control on a

shared network


Task 2.2 Analyse and Define Architecture Requirements

This task performed the definition and analysis of industrial network requirements from the

VirtuWind project point. The main focus was the identification of industry grade requirements

for the VirtuWind architecture based on examining the application of SDN and NFV in

industrial environments and on the VirtuWind use cases described in D2.1. For that purpose,

the 82 use case requirements of D2.1 and additional requirements derived from the VirtuWind

scenarios were investigated. The objective of the detailed investigat ion was done in order to

derive industrial network requirements as input for the VirtuWind architecture design as well as

for WP3 and WP4. In this regard, the industry grade requirements of the architecture were

analysed in relation to network infrastructure, control and management, virtualisation and

security. Furthermore, generic VirtuWind requirements were derived which consolidate similar

VirtuWind requirements of the 12 VirtuWind use cases.

Following table describes contributions in this task per partner:

Partner Activities

Siemens

VirtuWind trial scenarios updated with detailed information

Reviewed the analysis of industrial network requirements

Contributed to high level architectural block modules of VirtuWind

solution

Mapping of VirtuWind trial scenario 1 and trial scenario 2 to

VirtuWind architecture blocks with sequence of events

Contributed to implementation and technology considerations,



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Reviewer of deliverable D2.2

TUM

Git infrastructure: Contribution to Section of D2.2 (Section 4.5)

describing the Git/GitLab tools and creation of a project to be used in

VirtuWind.

Contribution to the requirements analysis with respect to intra-domain

architecture

Relation of KPI with the parameters considered in T2.4

Contribution to the requirements consolidation

FORTH

Contributed to state of the art analysis of the industrial network

security

Contributed to state of the art analysis of the SDN security

Contributed to Gap analysis with respect to state of the art security

Contributed to analysis of the security related requirements

KCL Provided comments and input for the classification of requirements and

gap analysis

ICOM Contributed to inter-domain state of the art and requirements

Led and contributed to architecture and components design

Contributed to interfaces and inter-domain scenario architecture

mapping

Led and contributed to implementation framework and technology

scouting

WorldSensing Participation in the definition of use case requirements and the

classification of these requirements with respect to bringing the IoT

perspective.

Participated in the state of the art and gap analysis

Deutsche

Telekom

(Lead)

Editor of the task with focus on VirtuWind key topics intra-domain

network, inter-domain network, control and management, virtualization

and security, which considers the VirtuWind use case requirements

identified in D2.1 as well as the additional VirtuWind scenario

requirements

Reviewer of Task 2.2 results and transfer to D2.2

Contribution to inter-domain QoS state of the art analysis for

VirtuWind scenario requirements

Created generic VirtuWind requirements as input for VirtuWind high

level architecture design and as summary of overall task results

Intel Contributed the Virtualization requirement analysis and identified high

level NFV modules of VirtuWind architecture.



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Contributed to design considerations for other business domains that

illustrate how SDN/NFV modules identified in VirtuWind can exploit

other business requirements.

Contributed to the section of D2.2 - Management and Orchestration

Layer components mapping

Contributed to the section on Network Orchestration and Virtualization

Contributed to NFV technologies and platforms and leveraged existing

ETSI NFV implementation solutions for VirtuWind.

As WP leader, overall reviewer of final deliverable D2.2

NEC Contributed to Section Requirements Analysis and Results of

requirement analysis

Participated in the state of the art and gap analysis

Participated in consolidation of generic requirements

Task 2.3 Architecture Design

This task defined the high level architecture of VirtuWind considering several existing

architecture philosophies in ONF, ETSI-NFV and NGMN. The overall task and produced

deliverable includes a classification and generalisation of the requirements gathered in Task 2.2

and a mapping of the general requirements to architecture components. State of the art and gap

analysis is also investigated. The deliverable also presents the interfaces between components,

the network programmability aspects and the overview of trial scenarios that will be tested at

the wind park representing intra- and inter-domain use cases. Finally, the deliverable includes

considerations for the development of SDN and NFV software including solutions for code

sharing, versioning, programming languages, NFV and SDN platforms deployment options.


Partner Activities

Siemens

Contributed to detailed architecture components

Coordinated cross-task efforts in different work packages for

VirtuWind architecture solution

TUM

Contribution to the VirtuWind architecture design

Consolidation of the high-level architecture design

FORTH

Contributed the security related architecture components (e.g. AAA).

Contributed to the service function chaining working group.

KCL (Lead) Contributed in the discussion of the architecture and provided

comments for VirtuWind System Architecture

Contributed to implementation and technology considerations section

of the deliverable

Contributor in network programmability section of the deliverable



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Overall editor and reviewer of complete deliverable D2.2

ICOM Contributed to architecture and components design

Reviewed Deliverable 2.5 table of contents

WorldSensing No participation in this task as per project’s DoA.

Deutsche

Telekom Contribution to VirtuWind high-level architecture design discussion.

Review of Section 3.6 “Mapping of VirtuWind Scenarios to

Architecture Blocks” in D2.2.

Intel Contributed to architecture components in relation to NFV

Reviewed Deliverable 2.5 table of contents in relation to SFC

NEC Contributed in the discussion of the high-level architecture and

components design and functionality;

Contributed to chapters on System Architecture of T2.3: high level

design, architecture blocks and components, general requirements

mapping to architecture components and network programmability

Task 2.4 Techno-economic framework and cost models

This task defined the framework for the techno-economic assessment of telecommunication

networks, which will allow comparing legacy versus SDN/NFV solutions. This framework

consists of different steps from input scenario, considered models, dimensioning and final cost

evaluation. The input scenario defines the type of network, its constraints, topology, etc.

Different models have been defined: traffic models, network models, cost models (for both

capital and operational expenditures). Special attention has been done at the dimensioning

problem, which in this task has been focused on the optimal controller placement problem and

the function/chain allocation problem, both required for SND and NFV solutions. Last but not

least, an overall cost assessment tool has been designed and implemented in order to evaluate

cost of different solutions.


Partner Activities

Siemens

Analysed parameters for the techno-economic framework model

Contributed to state of the art mechanisms in legacy networks and

SDN&NFV based savings

Reviewer of complete deliverable D2.4

TUM (Lead)

Task coordinator, editor and contributor of D2.4

Modelling, implementation and simulation of different controller

placement strategies.

Cost modelling and implementation of cost tool to compare legacy

versus SDN/NFV communication networks costs.



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FORTH

Provided data to the component model database

Contributed to the service function placement problem

KCL Contributed to the state of art analysis for the controller and function

placement problem

Contributed to the review process

ICOM Contributed to inter-domain use case

WorldSensing Participated in the review of the final deliverable

Derived IETF Use case from the information collected in the

deliverable D2.4

Deutsche

Telekom Provided information about SLA aspects from network operator

perspective

Provided input to inter-domain aspects (e.g. end-to-end QoS) based on

previous project ETICS results

Intel Contributed to Dimensioning process provided use case related to

NFV.

Presented TCO information based on experience in other NFV projects

from Intel, this was leveraged to kick start the TCO analysis for

VirtuWind.

As WP leader, reviewer of the final deliverable D2.4

NEC No contribution in this task as per project’s DoA.

Task 2.5 Specify high level KPIs and test scenario requirements for field trial

In this task we have focused on the KPIs of interest for the VirtuWind project. We have

presented an overview on the KPIs usually considered in the domains of interest of VirtuWind,

i.e., industrial, SDN, NFV and security domains. Starting from this analysis, this task has

defined 47 KPIs of interest for the VirtuWind test-bed activities: 4 high-level KPIs; 13 KPIs

relevant to security; 14 KPIs related to the trial scenario 1 (moving functionalities from remote

locations to 24/7 easy access locations); 7 KPIs related to the trial scenario 2 (upgrade of

network devices and SCADA system and installation of a new service / specific policy); 11

KPIs related to the trial scenario 3 (multi-site installation of a new service / specific policy).

The KPIs defined in this task will be used as baseline for the evaluation of the project results,

specifically, the prototype demonstration in the operational environment.


Partner Activities

Siemens

Contributed to KPIs related to VirtuWind trial scenarios

Contributed to Mapping of KPIs to requirements and network

architecture

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"Floe" wind park of UhreWind to make the consortium familiar with

the trial environment

Built a common knowledge-base document which included the current

knowledge of network infrastructure and applications running on it

Reviewer of complete deliverable D2.3

TUM

Contribution of KPI definitions from techno-economic viewpoint

FORTH

Definition of the security related KPIs

Contributed to the KPI assessment methodology

Definition of the security related KPIs for onsite testing

KCL (Lead) Task Coordinator and editor for D2.3

Analysis of the state of the art in industrial IoT KPIs

Contributed to definition of KPIs for trial scenarios

Contributed to mapping of KPIs to requirements and network

architecture.

ICOM Contributed to inter-domain KPIs

Coordinated state of the art analysis for inter-domain KPIs in Brande

WorldSensing Participated in the definition of IoT KPI metrics

Participated in trial scenario and KPI mapping

Deutsche

Telekom Contribution to KPIs for Trial scenarios 2 & 3.

Review of Section KPIs for Trial scenario 3

Intel Defined over 10 KPIs related to SDN/NFV relevant to VirtuWind

Contributed to VirtuWind KPIs for trial scenarios (5 KPIs for scenario1

and 2 KPIs for scenario 2)

Contributed to mapping of KPIs from collected requirements in D2.2

to the overall network architecture

As WP leader, reviewer of the final deliverable D2.3

NEC Reviewed SDN and NFV KPIs

WP2 Deliverables:

Deliverable “D2.1 Industrial SDN & NFV use cases leveraging future 5G telecommunication

infrastructures”: submitted as scheduled.

Deliverable “D2.2 High level and the overall system architecture (first draft)”: submitted as

scheduled.

Deliverable “D2.3 Field Trial Scenarios KPIs and methodology definition”: submitted as

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Duration: 01.02.2016 – 31.12.2017

Work package 3 “Industrial-grade intra-domain SDN & NFV-based solution” in general aims on

design, implementation, and a verification of a SDN-based control network solution combined with

NFV in industrial environments. In year 1 the focus is on objective “O3.1: Design SDN-based

control network solution combined with NFV” and a solid basis for achieving the remaining

objectives (“O3.2: Implement SDN-based control network solution combined with NFV” and

“O3.3: Verify quantitatively the benefits of using the SDN&NFV-based approach compared to a

legacy one using lab tests”) is created. Task 3.1 “Control architecture and interface design” started

in project month 8 and will run until January 2017. Start of task 3.2 is scheduled in July 2016 and

initial planning and preparation work was carried out in this reporting period.

Task 3.1 Control architecture and interface design

This task used results from work package 2, such as requirements from the use cases (Deliverable

D2.1), and high level system architecture draft (Deliverable D2.2), as input. Technical topics and

challenges for SDN-based control networks in industrial environments (e.g., controller

placement, bootstrapping an in-band and resilient SDN control plane, communication between

SDN controllers, QoS mechanisms), NFV-based functionalities (e.g., function placement, SDN-

NFV management planes interoperability, multi-tenancy), as well as service function chaining

were investigated. Task 3.1 extended and updated architectural components and successfu lly

created architecture feedback which is delivered end of July 2016 as early feedback to WP2 to be

considered in the final system architecture.


Partner Activities

Siemens

Leader of work package 3 including facilitating all kind of work package

internal, as well as cross work package synchronization and information

exchange (e.g., technical information exchange with WP2 and WP4;

presenting work package 3 progress in VirtuWind TMC), as well as work

package internal structuring of the technical work in cooperation with the

task leads.

Main contributor to design of components to realize bootstrapping an in-

band and resilient SDN control plane, QoS mechanisms for SDN, and

multi-tenancy support.

Work package 3 delivered initial feedback

regarding architectural considerations to

work package 2. Task 3.1 and Task 3.2

started as per schedule and currently there

are no risks visible that could endanger

successful and in-time completion of the

upcoming deliverables D3.1 “Mechanisms

for intra-domain industrial grade NFV and

SCADA virtualisation” and D3.2 “Detailed

Intra-Domain SDN & NFV architecture”.

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Main contributor to functional specification of components to realize

bootstrapping an in-band and resilient SDN control plane, QoS

mechanisms for SDN, and multi-tenancy support (started in the reporting

period and is currently work in progress).

Contribution to technical discussions on interface design (focus on

communication between SDN controllers), network function

virtualization, service function chaining use cases, and the early feedback

on architectural design to work package 2.

Contribution of industrial security know-how to initial security related

discussion in work package 3 and work package 4, as well as

contribution to service function chaining security use case.

Leading technical discussion on HW required for test-bed and trial

infrastructure.

TUM (Lead)

Facilitated separation of the problem in individual problems delegated to

relevant partners.

Definition and investigation of mechanisms for bootstrapping a resilient

SDN control plane in an industrial network.

Definition of a new mathematical model for enabling QoS routing and

comparison of the performance (runtime vs. optimality) of different

routing algorithms in mechanisms for providing industrial-grade QoS

using SDN.

Participation in the interfaces definitions and VirtuWind high-level

architecture feedback to WP2.

Participation in the discussion on SFC use cases.

Discussion on Controller and Function placement.

FORTH

Contribution to SDN controller resilience and fault tolerance.

Analysis of Service Function Chaining and contribution to SFC working

document.

Main contributor to definition of SFC use-cases.

Evaluation of security service function technologies.

KCL Contribution to controller placement sub-task (analysis of the state of the

art, problem definition, contribution in deriving a model to consider the

resilience of the control plane in the controller placement problem,

contribution in the multi-objective evaluation.

Lead of function placement incl. contribution to state of the art analysis,

contribution to problem formulation, and contribution to system model

definition.

ICOM Contribution to intra-domain architecture design, with focus on joint

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Contribution to multi-controller communication problem.

WorldSensing Participation in the discussion and specification of communication

between SDN controllers.

Contribution to discussions on multi-tenancy

Definition of IIoT use case in collaboration with NEC.

Deutsche

Telekom Coordinator of Service Function Chaining (SFC) discussion in

VirtuWind (facilitating information exchange and editor of the SFC

working document containing SFC state of the art information, identified

VirtuWind SFC use cases as well as preliminary implications /

requirements on the VirtuWind architecture).

Technical contributions to SFC state of the art analysis

Contribution to SFC use case discussions.

Contribution to VirtuWind high-level architecture discussion addressing

SDN and NFV relations from SFC perspective.

Intel Leading NFV-based architecture work to align VirtuWind industrial

requirements with existing state of the art technologies of NFV.

Designed and aligned VirtuWind SFC architecture with ETSI NFV and

IETF standards.

Contributing for SDN-NFV interaction of overall VirtuWind architecture

including interfaces, required modules of NFV, best placement of SDN

controller in NFV architecture as per VirtuWind requirements.

Identified & proposed OpenStack as VIM candidate for VirtuWind

architecture in accordance with VirtuWind industrial requirements of

compute and storage (Integrated with CEPH project) instances. Currently

Intel is working on deployment of OpenStack via Kolla as a PoC for

VirtuWind

This task has been started in July, 2016. Being leader of T3.2 and D3.1,

Intel has designed initial planning in order to meet the overall objectives

of T3.2. The aim of this task is to implement NFV and SCADA

virtualization components. The planning includes assigning partners as

per their expertise in their relevant domain, roadmap of T3.2 about

design and development.

NEC Contributions to mechanisms for provisioning of Industrial-grade QoS.

Contributions to mechanisms for SDN-NFV Management Planes

Interoperability.

Contributions to mechanisms for Multi-Tenancy support.

Development and demo of and early IIoT Gateway prototype.

Contributions on IIoT use cases and deployments.

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Duration: 01.02.2016 – 31.12.2017

Once D2.2 was submitted, Siemens and ICOM, as WP3 and WP4 leaders respectively, agreed on a

close collaboration framework between those two main technical work packages, in order to avoid

duplication of work and to ease integration. They further worked out and put forward a proposal to

adopt a variation of the agile methodology and related tools for the design and implementation

work in WP3 and WP4. That proposal was accepted by the consortium at the 3rd

Consortium

Meeting in M10, after bilateral deliberations with key partners KCL, DT, and TUM.

Task 4.1 Design of detailed inter-domain SDN architecture

The work in WP4 initially focused on refining the D2.2 architecture for the inter-domain

scenario. A state-of-the-art analysis was undertaken and then ICOM and DT elaborated on the

hop-by-hop and orchestrator-based approach respectively for inter-domain path provisioning.

Both of those approaches were mapped to the architecture from D2.2 and then work focused on

the design of the interfaces (application, management, negotiation, and southbound) in

collaboration with WP3, and specification of required mechanisms and functions. Looking

forward to implementation, partners scouted for and evaluated SDN controllers, with

OpenDaylight as the most promising one.

Partner specific activities in ongoing Task 4.1 and deliverable D4.1 are presented in table below:

Partner Activities

Siemens

Contributed to State of the Art Analysis on multi-controller architectures.

Reviewed Controller-to-Controller negotiation Approaches (Hop-by-Hop

and Orchestrator-based Approach),

Reviewed and contributed to Inter-Domain Mechanism Specifications,

Reviewed and contributed to Implementation Framework,

Reviewed and contributed to Interface Specifications.

The beginning of WP4 in Month 8

coincided with the final stages of the

initial architectural work in WP2 and in

particular with the completion of D2.2.

As such, most project resources were

directed towards producing an initial

architecture that would soundly drive

the technical work in WP4 and WP3.

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TUM

No contribution and participation in this work package.

FORTH

Contributed to inter-domain SoA Security Analysis & Discussion

Contributed to inter-domain security-related interfaces

Contributed to security-related mechanisms

Contributed to architecture updates to include security functions (e.g.

AAA)

KCL Led and contributed to State of the Art Analysis, specifically on ASPEN,

BOULDER, NIC projects and discussion on what can be reused and

adapted by the project.

Led, reviewed and contributed to inter-domain mechanism definition.

Contributed to external interfaces, and specifically the southbound

interface.

ICOM (Lead) Led and planned WP4 activities

Led and planned T4.1 activities and D4.1 table of contents and

contributions.

Contributed to State of the Art analysis on multi-domain, multi-controller

SDN architectures, and discussion on inter-domain architectures.

Led and contributed to the hop-by-hop approach definition.

Contributed to all external interfaces specification, led Negotiation

interface.

Contributed to inter-domain functions specification.

Led and contributed to technology scouting and implementation

framework definition.

WorldSensing Reviewed and contributed to State of the Art Analysis, and specifically

DetNet and 6TISCH architectures.

Deutsche

Telekom Contributed to inter-domain QoS State of the Art Analysis, and

specifically on European projects ETICS, UNIFY and 5GEx.

Led and contributed to high-level description of orchestrator-based

approach, covering the functional elements, interfaces and sequential

process flows.

Contributed to inter-domain KPI specification and description.

Intel Contributed to State of the Art Analysis on Inter-domain signalling

protocol - MPLS and RSVP-TE.

Led External Management interface design

Contributed to Policy/VTN Manager mechanism specifications for

Centralized QoS Orchestrator approach

NEC Contributed to State of the Art Analysis, on Application Interfaces.

Led external interfaces design and contributed to application, southbound

and management Interfaces.



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Contributed to inter-domain mechanisms specification on Reference

Monitor, VTN Manager functions, including the Application Request

Message Flow.

Worked on specification of Application Interface API.

WP4 Deliverables: None in this reporting period



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Duration: 01.03.2017 – 31.05.2018

This work package is scheduled to start in March 2017.



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Duration: 01.07.2015 – 30.06.2018

Focusing on this goal, work package 6 is subdivided in three Tasks, namely “Impact creation and

exploitation”, “Dissemination” and “Standardisation”. All tasks are active through the overall

project runtime.

Task 6.1 Impact creation and exploitation

The objective is to maximise the generation of impacts derived from usage and commercial

exploitation of the results, support upfront exploitation of the project results and of emerging

innovation as well as execute activities for securing Intellectual Property Rights.

With regard to Task 6.1 objective, in year 1 the focus was on the preparation and creation of the

Deliverable 6.2 “Initial plan for impact creation and exploitation” which was submitted by end of

June 2016 and on the preparation of the “Marketing and exploitation workshop“ which was

collocated to the 4th VirtuWind consortium meeting in Shannon at Intel.


Partner Activities

Siemens

(Lead)

Task leader of T6.1 and main contributor to D6.2.

Review of D6.2.

TUM

Contribution to D6.2.

FORTH

Participated in the definition of the Threat Landscape and Good Practice

Guide for Software Defined Networks/5G by ENISA.

Participated in the definition of the industrial exploitation plan with

focus on security measures and security & incident response functions

tailored to SDN-NFV networking deployments for critical infrastructure

communications,

Identification of the need for exploitation of the various novel security

elements (e.g. SDN Honeypots), as well as the reactive security

framework integrating those elements, as a whole.

The goal of work package 6 “Impact,

dissemination and standardization” is

to disseminate the project’s results and

achievements, follow and contribute to

relevant standardization activities, and

exploit specific project results.

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KCL Contribution to D6.2.

ICOM Contribution to D6.2.

WorldSensing Participated in the definition of the industrial exploitation plan, with

focus on the Industrial IoT capillar devices and sensors.

Identified a need for Industrial Internet end-devices to be manageable

through SDN.

Participated in the development of an industrial instrumentation business

canvas.

Deutsche

Telekom Contribution of marketing and exploitation related information,

annotations and material to Task 6.1 discussions.

Preparation of “Marketing and exploitation workshop” in Shannon.

Contribution to D6.2.

Review of D6.2.

Intel

Host of face-to-face meeting in Shannon: Preparation of 4th VirtuWind

consortium meeting and 1st WP6 Exploitation Workshop.

NEC Nothing to report.

Task 6.2 Dissemination

The objective is to create impact based on the project’s research results in the European and

global research and business community as well as among other stakeholders and the interested

public.

With regard to Task 6.2 objective, in year 1 the focus was on the creation of dissemination

material for VirtuWind, such as a VirtuWind poster, leaflet and video. In addition the focus was

on continuous creation of publications and the representation of VirtuWind at conferences and

public events. A highlight in early 2016 was the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in

Barcelona. VirtuWind was represented by a booth and a demonstration showing the objectives of

the project. Furthermore, the focus was on the preparation and creation of the Deliverable 6.1

“Dissemination plan” which was submitted in January 2016.


Partner Activities

Siemens

Siemens contributed the content to VirtuWind website,

http://www.virtuwind.eu/.

Contribution of content to D6.1.

Review of D6.1.

Leading the creation of the VirtuWind video, leaflet and poster.

Leading and contributing to the preparation of the MWC 2016

demonstration.

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demonstration.

Contribution to 5G publications:

o 5G-PPP White Paper on Energy Vertical Sector, 5G-PPP White

Paper “5G empowering vertical industries” at MWC 2016,

o Article in European 5G Annual journal,

o Article in Journal Transaction on Emerging Telecommunication

Technologies,

o Article in ERCIM

Siemens presented VirtuWind project at the Summer school organized by

TUM.

Siemens was part of panellist discussion at EUCNC 2016 – “5G for

Vertical Industries – Major Challenges and Opportunities Ahead”,

(http://www.eucnc.eu/?q=node/107).

TUM

Organization of workshop

o Co-Organization of the ITG 5.2.4 workshop on 5G Mobile

Networks – Towards the Tactile Internet at TU Dresden, May 10,

2016; covering the real-time aspects of industrial communications

(June 10, 2016) (W. Kellerer/TUM)

Training

o KuVS Summer School on SDN and NFV, Glücksburg, Germany,

June 20-23, 2016 (co-organized and co-sponsored by

VirtuWind/W. Kellerer/TUM); target: international PhD students

in the area of SDN and NFV; around 40 participants; 3

Presentation by VirtuWind participants (J. Riedl/Siemens, W.

Kellerer/TUM, J. Quittek/NEC)

o Tutorial on SDN at the KuVS Summer School on SDN and NFV,

Glücksburg, June 20, 2016 (W. Kellerer/TUM)

o Research seminar for Master level students on “Industrial

Networks” organized by P. Vizarreta at TUM (SS2016)

o Keynote Presentation by Johannes Riedl/Siemens at the Research

seminar for Master level students on “Industrial Networks”

organized by P. Vizarreta/TUM at TUM (SS2016)

o Industry 4.0 Lab for Master Level students started at TUM

(organized by A. Van Bemten/TUM, W. Kellerer/TUM, Ermin

Sakic/Siemens) in SS2016

o Master thesis supervision at TUM:

Implementation and Evaluation of an In-Band Resilient

SDN Control Plane for Real-Time Networks (Amaury Van

Bemten/TUM; Ermin Sakic/Siemens)

Controller and Function Placement Problems in Industrial

Networks (P. Vizarreta/TUM)

FORTH Organization of International Conferences

http://www.eucnc.eu/?q=node/107



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o 8th

International Conference on Trust & Trustworthy Computing-

TRUST2014, 24-25 August 2015, Heraklion, Hellas

o 9th

IFIP International Workshop on Information Security, Theory

and Practices - WISTP 2015, 24-25 August 2015, Heraklion,

Hellas

o 3rd

International Conference on Human Aspects of Information

Security, Privacy and Trust (HAS 2015), jointly organized with

the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer

Interaction,02-07 August 2015, Los Angeles, USA

Training

o “Security Event and Incident Management”, MSc course, Spring

2016, New executive course introduces by Ioannis Askoxylakis at

Bournemouth University

o “Cyber Security”, MSc course, Spring 2016, New executive

course introduced by Ioannis Askoxylakis at Bournemouth

University

Design and maintenance of project website, design and print of project

leaflet

KCL (Lead) Preparation and maintaining frequent update of list of dissemination

activities including list of events, list of publications and list of talks on

the project portal.

Contribution to the dissemination activities including the publications

listed in the project website, organisation of one workshop, and

participation in ETSI 5G summit on behalf of the project.

ICOM Led, contributed to paper "Petropoulos, G., Sardis, F., Spirou, S., &

Mahmoodi, T. Software-Defined Inter-networking: Enabling Coordinated

QoS Control Across the Internet, ICT 2016."

Attended ICT 2016 and presented the paper.

Co-authored and contributed to paper "Petroulakis, N. E., Mahmoodi, T.,

Kulkarni, V., Roos, A., Vizarreta, P., Abbasi, K., Vilajosana, X., Spirou,

S., Matsiuk, A., Sakic, E., & Askoxylakis, I. VirtuWind: Virtual and

Programmable Industrial Network Prototype Deployed in Operational

Wind Park, EUCNC 2016."

Co-authored "Mahmoodi, T., Kulkarni, V., Kellerer, W., Mangan, P.,

Zeiger, F., Spirou, S., Askoxylakis, I., Vilajosana, X., Einsiedler, H.J.

and Quittek, J., 2016. VirtuWind: virtual and programmable industrial

network prototype deployed in operational wind park. Transactions on

Emerging Telecommunications Technologies."

Attended EUCNC 2016 and presented the paper.

Contributed to D6.1.

WorldSensing Participated in the ETT publication: VirtuWind: Virtual and

Programmable Industrial Network Prototype Deployed in Operational



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Wind Park

Chaired a session in ICT conference where different VirtuWind

achievements were presented

Participated in the MWC 2016 planning

Deutsche

Telekom Review and feedback to VirtuWind video, leaflet and poster during the

creation phase.

Moderation and contribution to VirtuWind website update discussion.

Leading, editing and contribution of D6.1.

Review of D6.1.

Contribution to EUCNC 2016 paper “Virtual and Programmable

Industrial Network Prototype Deployed in Operational Wind Park”.

Intel

Total Cost of Ownership

o Shared previous experience of creating numerous TCO Models in

London F2F meeting

o Creation and presentation of TCO training material to project

team

VirtuWind Promotional Video

o Contribution to content and flow of the video

o English language quality review and update

MWC 2016

o Create and shared MWC planning document with project team

o Organized VirtuWind Video opportunities at MWC

o Manage Intel Executive participation in MWC Videos, including

their script

o Review and contribution to MWC demo definition

o Contribution to demo script and ‘story line’ for attendees

o Review and content submission to VirtuWind MWC Leaflet

Review, manage and update Intel’s contribution to the dissemination

plan D6.1.

NEC NEC participated in development and presentation of VirtuWind Demo

MWC’16 in Barcelona

NEC is participating in preparation of a demo for 5GPPP Event

A SIGCOMM’16 demo “Cases for Including a Reference Monitor to

SDN” was developed and accepted

Contribution to a Paper “ Virtual and Programmable Industrial Network

Prototype Deployed in Operational Wind Park” accepted @EuCNC’16



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List of publications:

Paper

Title

Event

Title/link of

full name

Date and location Authors Partner(s)

Softwarizatio

n and

Virtualization

in 5G

networks for

Smart Cities

IoT 360/

http://cyclone-

iot.org/2015/sho

w/home

26 Oct 2015 & Rome,

Italy

Massimo

Condoluci, Frank

Sardis, Toktam

Mahmoodi

KCL

Trust and

Trustworthy

Computing

Proceedings of

TRUST 2015,

LNCS, Springer

2015

August 24-25, 2015,

Heraklion, Greece

Mauro Conti,

Matthias

Schunter, Ioannis

G. Askoxylakis

(Eds.):

FORTH

Human

Aspects of

Information

Security,

Privacy and

Trust

Proceedings of

HAS 2015,

Springer 2015

August 02-07, 2015, Los

Angeles, USA

Theo Tryfonas,

Ioannis G.

Askoxylakis

(Eds,)

FORTH

A Pattern-

Based

Approach for

Designing

Reliable

Cyber-

Physical

Systems

IEEE Globecom 6-10 December, San

Diego USA

N. Petroulakis, G.

Spanoudakis, I.

Askoxylakis, A.

Miaoudakis, A.

Traganitis

FORTH

XSACd -

Cross-

domain

Resource

Sharing &

Access

Control for

Smart

Environment

s

International

Journal on

Future

Generation

Computer

Systems,

Elsevier, ISSN:

0167-739X,

2015

K. Fysarakis, O.

Sultatos, C.

Manifavas, I.

Papaefstathiou, I

Askoxylakis

FORTH

Security in a

Virtual and

Programmabl

e Industrial

Network

Prototype

Deployed in

Operational

Wind Park

(VirtuWind)

ERCIM News July 2016 I. Askoxylakis, N.

Petroulakis, V.

Kulkarni, F.

Zeiger

FORTH & Siemens

N3:

Addressing

and Routing

in 3D

Nanonetwork

In Proceedings

of the

International

Conference on

Telecommunica

May 2016,Thessaloniki,

Greece.

Best paper award

A. Tsioliaridou,

C. Liaskos, L.

Pachis, S.

Ioannidis, and A.

Pitsillides

FORTH



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s

tions (ICT)

Stateless

Linear-path

Routing for

3D

Nanonetwork

s

3rd

ACM

International

Conference on

Nanoscale

Computing and

Communication

(ACM

NANOCOM)

September 2016, New

York City, New York,

USA,

A. Tsioliaridou, ,

c. Liaskos, E.

Dedu, , & S.

Ioannidis

FORTH

A Deployable

Routing

System for

Nanonetwork

s.

IEEE

International

Conference on

Communication

s (ICC)

May 2016, Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia.

C. Liaskos, A.

Tsioliaridou, S.

Ioannidis, N.

Kantartzis , A.

Pitsillides.

FORTH

Virtual and

programmabl

e industrial

network

prototype

deployed in

operational

Windpark

(VirtuWind)

European 5G

Annual journal

submitted point of contact:

F. Zeiger, V.

Kulkarni

Siemens

VirtuWind:

Virtual and

Programmabl

e Industrial

Network

Prototype

Deployed in

Operational

Wind Park

EUCNC 2016 Athens, Greece, 27-30

June 2016

all partners

(contact: N.

Petroulakis & T.

Mahmoodi)

ALL

Software-

Defined

Inter-

networking:

Enabling

Coordinated

QoS Control

Across the

Internet

ICT 2016 Thessaloniki, 16-18 May

2016 G. Petropoulos, F.

Sardis, S. Spirou,

T. Mahmoodi

ICOM & KCL

Can QoS be

dynamically

manipulated

by the end-

device

initialization?

ICC 2016 Kuala Lampur, 23-27 May

2016

F. Sardis, M.

Condoluci, T.

Mahmoodi

KCL

VirtuWind:

Virtual and

Programmabl

e Industrial

Network

Prototype

Deployed in

Transaction on

Emerging

Telecommunica

tion

Technologies

online publication : June

2016

Toktam

Mahmoodi, Vivek

Kulkarni,

Wolfgang

Kellerer, Peter

Mangan, Florian

Zeiger,

ALL



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Operational

Wind Park

Enabling the

IoT Machine

Age with 5G:

Machine-

Type

Multicast

Services for

Innovative

Real-Time

Applications

IEEE Access May 2016

(10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2

573678)

M. Condoluci, G.

Araniti, T.

Mahmoodi, M.

Dohler

KCL

Controller

Placement

Strategies for

a Resilient

SDN Control

Plane

RNDM2016 Sep 16 P. Vizarreta,

C.Mas Machuca,

W. Kellerer

TUM

List of talks and keynotes:

Speaker Title Event Title Date Event link

Toktam

Mahmoodi

(KCL)

Functionality

as a Service

in Mobile

Networks, a

Gateway to

Vertical

industries

FABULOUS 24. Sep 15 http://fabulous-

conf.org/2015/show/home

Toktam

Mahmoodi

(KCL)

Ultra

Reliable, Low

latency

Communicati

on panel

ETSI 5G

Summit

21. Apr 16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=6ALmW-JGj70

Johannes

Riedl

(Siemens)

SDN/NFV for

Wind Parks

TUM

Summer

School

22. Jun 16 https://cs.uni-

paderborn.de/cn/events/kuvs2016/

Johannes

Riedl

(Siemens)

5G for

Vertical

Industries –

Major

Challenges

and

Opportunities

Ahead

EUCNC 2016 28. Jun 16 http://www.eucnc.eu/?q=node/107

http://fabulous-conf.org/2015/show/home

http://fabulous-conf.org/2015/show/home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ALmW-JGj70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ALmW-JGj70

https://cs.uni-paderborn.de/cn/events/kuvs2016/

https://cs.uni-paderborn.de/cn/events/kuvs2016/

http://www.eucnc.eu/?q=node/107



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List of events:

Event Title Date Event link

Mobile World

Congress (MWC)

2016

22.-25. February

2016

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-

market/en/european-commission-mobile-world-

congress-2016#Article

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-

market/en/news/future-industrial-network-wind-

parks-virtuwind

3rd IEEE International

Workshop on 5G &

Beyond

3.April, 2016 http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/5G2016/WCNC/

Task 6.3 Standardization

The objective is to support the development of contributions to pre-standardization initiatives as

well as standardization and possibly other bodies as appropriate, with requirements and

specifications.

With regard to Task 6.3 objective, in year 1 the focus was on the creation of working tools, such

as “Standardisation relationships of VirtuWind partners” list in order to help identifying the right

partners supporting VirtuWind to transfer VirtuWind project results to a certain standardization

body as well as “Standardisation activities of VirtuWind” list in order to track standardization

activities during the project runtime. Moreover, the focus was on the preparation of an IETF

DetNet contribution which was successful submitted as “draft-vilajosana-windfarm-usecase-00”.

Furthermore, the identification of standardization bodies which are of relevance for VirtuWind

has been done. These standardization bodies are presented in D6.2.


Partner Activities

Siemens

There was no contribution to standardization in this reporting period

TUM

Contribution to RFC IETF: draft-vilajosana-windfarm-usecase-00 on

“Wind park requirements for DetNet” (co-author: P. Vizarreta/TUM)

FORTH

Appointment of Ioannis Askoxylakis to the Plenary (management board)

of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy

(ΑΔΑΕ) for six years (February 2016 – February 2022)

Contribution to the ENISA Threat Landscape and Good Practice Guide

for Software Defined Networks/5G, European Network and Information

Security Agency (ENISA), 27 January 2017

Monitoring of activities the international Forum for Incident Response

and Security Teams (FIRST) for future contribution.

Monitoring and participation to the activities of TERENA-Trusted

Introducer (TERENA-TI), for future contribution.

KCL Contributed to the Wind Farm use case draft (“draft-vilajosana-

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/european-commission-mobile-world-congress-2016#Article



https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/future-industrial-network-wind-parks-virtuwind



http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/5G2016/WCNC/



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windfarm-usecase-00”) submitted at the IETF DetNet WG.

ICOM Co-authored and contributed to IETF DetNet use case draft (“draft-

vilajosana-windfarm-usecase-00”).

Monitored SDNRG working group activities for future contribution.

Contributed to D6.1.

WorldSensing Lead the Wind Farm use case draft (“draft-vilajosana-windfarm-usecase-

00”) submitted at the IETF DetNet WG.

Assisted to the IETF 93, 94, 95, 96 events and represented VirtuWind at

the IETF DetNet WG.

Deutsche

Telekom

(Lead)

Task leader of Task 6.3.

Creation and maintaining of “Standardisation relationships of VirtuWind

partners” list in order to help identifying the right partners supporting

VirtuWind to transfer VirtuWind project results to a certain

standardization body.

Creation and maintaining of “Standardisation activities of VirtuWind”

list in order to track standardization activities during the project runtime.

Participation in 5G-PPP Pre-Standard calls since June 2016.

Providing input and information about general standardisation processes

which is used as well as input for D6.1 and D6.2.

Contribution of Task 6.3 “Standardization” related content to D6.2.

Providing information about ONF contribution procedures and topics

which are currently under discussion in ONF.

Intel

Contribution of ETSI NFV related information to VirtuWind

o Engaged with ETSI NFV team and established contacts

o Discovered methods of engagement with ETSI NFV

o Created presentation and shared options for VirtuWind to engage

with ETSI NFV

o Engagement ongoing

NEC NEC attended IETF’96 meeting in Berlin and supported a VirtuWind

use-case in DetNet WG

NEC is discussing standardization options for Industrial Networks in

ONF



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The list of standardization activities can be found in the following table.

Name of

contribution

Involved

partners

Contribution to

standardisation

body

Group/Topic Status

"VirtuWind at

IETF DetNet"

(“draft-vilajosana-

windfarm-

usecase-00”)

Worldsensing,

ICOM, KCL

IETF DetNet Submitted

Inter-domain SDN

interface

ICOM IRTF SDNRG Planned

List of submitted WP6 deliverables:

D6.1 “Dissemination Plan”: submitted in January 2016

D6.2 “Initial plan for impact creation and exploitation”: submitted end of June 2016



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2.3 Impact

The progress made so far in the first year is well in line with the expected impacts set out in section

2.1 of the DoA. Following justification implies the relevance of the expected impacts:

VirtuWind has come up with the initial high level architecture which considers industrial -

grade QoS for intra and inter-domain communication requirements.

VirtuWind is aiming at the implementation of VirtuWind architecture with “Security-by-

design” principles. This will fill the security gaps identified in the 5G technologies namely

SDN & NFV, to enable them to use in industrial environments.

The setup of advisory committee comprising of key experts from different domains will

initiate the broad use of a QoS-enabled SDN in those domains. The consortium partners are

also committed to exploit the results of VirtuWind in their domains. All these activities

address the impacts set out in the work programme, namely “To create an NFV/SDN

industrial capability in Europe with European providers” and “To reach large scale

operational deployment of NFV/SDN based networks in Europe”

The VirtuWind consortium-internal workshop aimed at further exploitable use cases led to

new ideas which elaborate how the developed solution can be used in new businesses.

VirtuWind demonstrated Industrial-grade QoS capabilities of VirtuWind at the Mobile

World Congress – 2016, Barcelona. Complementary features of VirtuWind solution are in

planning to be demonstrated at the 2nd

5G Global Event at Rome organized by 5G-PPP

programme.



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3 UPDATE OF THE PLAN FOR EXPLOITATION AND DISSEMINATION OF RESULT

Deliverable D6.2 “Initial plan for impact creation and exploitation” contains the latest version of

VirtuWind’s exploitation and dissemination plans. It is released on 30.06.2016. From timing and

high level content perspective there is no change compared to the original plans during proposal

phase.



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4 UPDATE OF THE DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN

VirtuWind’s data management plan was released with Deliverable D1.4 - Data Management Plan in

project month 6. During the on-site measurements in the wind park carried out in May 2016

resulted in measurement data sets leading to the following update:

Data set reference Data set name Data Set Description Standards and metadata

Data sharing

Archiving and preservation (including storage and backup)

01_UhreWind network architecture

Infrastructure data

L2, L3 diagrams, Asset report, IP Plan

NA confidential -

02_Device Config files Infrastructure data

Config files of networking devices

NA confidential -

03_Traces Infrastructure data

Intra-domain, Inter-domain, Power regulation traces, data flows

NA confidential -

04_Failover_measurements Infrastructure data

Switch bootstrapping and link failover timings

NA public -



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5 UPDATE OF THE QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN

In April 2016 the VirtuWind consortium updated the Quality Management Plan in order to

guarantee a high quality of the project deliverables. During creation of deliverables for work

packages WP2 and WP6 it turned out that initial timeline for the internal review process given in

the QMP was not optimal. Thus, the decision was taken to increase review times. The QMP update

was discussed in April 2016 during the 3rd consortium meeting and was approved (QMP version

2.0) by PCC in May 2016.



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6 CHANGES TO THE PROJECT PLAN

6.1 Change requests

Extension of D6.1 submission deadline: Originally, the submission deadline of D6.1 was on

31/12/2015. Due to the intensive preparation of VirtuWind in an important project demonstration at

the Mobile World Congress in February 2016, the submission date of D6.1 was extended till

29/01/2016 in agreement with the EC Project Officer and D6.1 was successfully finished and

submitted according to this new schedule.

Submission of D1.5, D1.8 and Periodic Technical Report – part B: During the initial planning of

the project, the deliverables were expected to have different contents . But after carefully

scrutinizing the template provided on EC participant portal, it became clear that these three

deliverables can have identical contents. The deadline of the submission was originally planned for

30/06/2016. But as the efforts spent by the partners can only be available in the first week of

august, the submission deadline was extended till 15/08/2016 in agreement with the EC Project

Officer.

6.2 Changes related to 5G PPP activities

5G PPP and the European Commission asked VirtuWind to participate at the Mobile World

Congress 2016 (MWC 2016). More specifically, the request was that VirtuWind gives a project

demonstration within the EC booth at MWC 2016. As original planning of VirtuWind was not

taking into account such extensive dissemination events in the beginning of the project, the

consortium internally discussed and quickly agreed on the concrete next steps for this event.

VirtuWind prepared a detailed plan for the MWC preparation using resources from Task 1.4 and

Task 6.2 for the creation of a hardware demo, as well as for a short project video. Resources were

reallocated within the tasks only (e.g., moved future allocations to the timeframe 10/2015-

02/2016).



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7 HISTORY OF CHANGES HISTORY OF CHANGES

VERSION PUBLICATION

DATE CHANGE

1.0 09.08.2016 VirtuWind periodic report – year 1 created

virtuwind deliverable d1.5: year 1 project report deliverable d1.8

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