IEEE International Conference on Communications
7-11 June 2020 // Virtual Conference
Communications Enabling Shared Understanding

Program

THURSDAY, 11 JUNE 2020, 9:00 – 12:30 (MORNING)

Agenda:

09:00 - 09:10

Welcome by Workshop Co-chair Mr. Mark Roddy, Mind Myths Ltd, Ireland

09:10 – 10:30

Technical Session 1 – “The Smart 5G Network” - Provision and control of customer-defined smart network slicing

Session Chairperson: Dr. Maria Weiss, Eurescom GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany

Paper 1 - “Hardware-based Network Slicing for Supporting Smart Grids Self-healing over 5G Networks” presented by Ruben Ricart-Sanchez, University of the West of Scotland, UK.

Paper 2 – “Scalable Software Switch Based Service Function Chaining for 5G Network Slicing” presented by Antonio Matencio Escolar, University of the West of Scotland, UK.

Paper 3 – “Modeling Network slice as a Service in a multi-vendor 5G experimentation ecosystem” presented by Dr. Christos Tranoris, University of Patras, Greece.

Paper 4 – “Provisioning Private 5G networks by means of Network Slicing: Architectures and Challenges” presented by Wint Yi Poe, Huawei Technologies, Munich Research Center, Germany.

                 Paper 1 – Paper 4 and wrap-up of the Session by chairperson

10:30 – 10:45  Short Break

10:45 – 11:15

“Intelligent Network Slicing across Multiple Domains – The SliceNet Perspective”

       Keynote1 by SliceNet presented by Prof. Qi Wang, University of the West of Scotland, UK

“Network Slicing and Automation in the 5G-VINNI Facility sites”

       Keynote 2 by 5G-VINNI presented by Dr. Pål Grønsund, Telenor, Oslo, Norway.

11:15 – 12:15

Technical Session 2 – “5G and the Vertical”, Role of the Vertical in Intelligent 5G networks

            Session Chairperson: Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany

Paper 5 – “A workflow for onboarding Verticals on 5G/NFV experimental network facility” Dr. Christos Tranoris, University of Patras, Greece.

Paper 6 – “Multi-domain Orchestration of 5G Vertical Services and Network Slices” presented by Giacomo Bernini, Next Works, Pisa, Italy.

Paper 7 – “5G Service and Slice Implementation for a Military Use Case” presented by Dr. Pål Grønsund, Telenor, Oslo, Norway.

                Paper 5 - Paper 7 and wrap-up of the Session by chairperson

12:15 – 12:30

Final wrap-up and Conclusions by workshop Co-chair Mr. Mark Roddy, Mind Myths Ltd, Ireland

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