WS01: Future Networks Across Multiple Vertical Industries - from Experiments to Business Validation

Workshop ORGANIZERS

• Meng Lu, Aeolix ITS, The Netherlands
• Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum/Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

SCOPE AND MOTIVATION

The Workshop and Industry Panel "Future Networks Across Multiple Vertical Industries" will be held, in conjunction with the IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF’23), which is the major annual conference of the IEEE Future Networks Technical Committee. The Workshop targets transport (V2X), healthcare, aquaculture and other sectors. It presents most recent R&D results of related projects on 5G for multiple vertical industries. The workshop also features an Industry Panel with experts from related vertical industries, which will foster the interactive exchange of academia and industry.

Commercial rollout of 5G systems in 2020 is expected. While the 5G standard is in place, the gap to bring 5G into business remains huge. 5G aims to natively support enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine type communication (mMTC) and ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) services in a single infrastructure. It brings enormous opportunities for many vertical sectors, such as, automobile, industry automation, media, and health, just to list a few, to expand and renew their business, or make it more efficient. To allow the coexistence of services with a very different nature, 5G has introduced innovations from spectrum access, air interface, system architecture, network function virtualization in radio and core network, end-to-end network slicing, security, privacy, service orchestration etc. All new 5G features and functions need to be extensively verified and optimized before the commercial rollout of 5G networks. It is essential to test 5G features in complex deployed environments, identifying and solving coverage, interoperability, compatibility and service provisioning problems, and to ensure that 5G can meet the requirements of the various vertical sectors. In particular, the support to vertical sector services will need new measurement and test methods. Due to the complexity of 5G systems, many practical and theoretical challenges will need to be verified and solved during 5G trials.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The workshop aims at providing a forum for industry and academics to disseminate new findings on 5G trials in vertical industries, and new business development. The workshop will call for papers presenting test results from trials as well as theoretical results based on realistic deployment schemes and new 5G business models. The target topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

- 5G research in multiple vertical industries

• Healthcare
• Energy
• Aquaculture
• Automative / Transport
• Logistics
• Other sectors

- Spectrum

• 5G spectrum evaluation
• Spectrum sharing

- 5G trial development

• 5G trial cases and results
• 5G testbed implementation
• New test technologies

- Verticals and new services

• C-V2X
• Applications of mMTC
• Applications of URLLC
• New/innovative services enabled by 5G

- Measurement and evaluation

• 5G new radio
• Radio access network
• Core network
• Backhaul
• Fronthaul
• NFV/SDN implementation
• Network slicing
• D2D communications
• Mobile edge computing
• Test result analysis

- Network deployment and optimization

• 5G network planning
• Network deployment optimization
• End-to-end performance optimization

- Security and privacy aspects 
- 5G/6G business model evaluation 
- 5G/6G (pre-)standards and implementation

Workshop Paper Submission

All papers should be submitted via EDAS, Future Networks Across Multiple Vertical Industries - from Experiments to Business Validation track. Full instructions on how to submit papers are provided on the IEEE FNWF 2023 website: https://fnwf2023.ieee.org/

Planned Program

The workshop includes keynotes, a technical session and a panel discussion. Three to four keynotes regarding 5G trials progress will be scheduled at the beginning of the workshop sessions. The keynote speakers will be invited from major operators and major vendors. The technical session will include 4-15 original, high-quality papers to cover a wide range of topics relevant to 5G trial results. The workshop will finish with a panel discussion on "bringing 5G from trials to business reality", with 5-6 distinguished panelists from Europe and other regions. The workshop is expected to be very interactive. Participants will have an excellent opportunity to discuss with and to challenge distinguished speakers and panelists.

 

Short Bio of Organizers

Meng Lu, Strategic Innovation Manager at SWARCO PEEK, The Netherlands; Expert / Head of Delegation (The Netherlands), ISO/TC 204 - Intelligent transport systems; Executive Committee Member / VP Standards Activities, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society; Steering Committee Member, IEEE Future Networks Technical Committee; Corresponding Member, IEEE TAB (Technical Activities Board) Committee on Standards; Senior Editor, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. In 2011-2015 Programme Manager at Dutch Institute of Advanced Logistics, The Netherlands; In 2009-2010 Visiting Professor at the National Laboratory for Automotive Safety and Energy, Tsinghua University, P.R. China. Since 2002 active in the areas of ICT for transport and logistics. Participation in European initiatives and R&D projects since 2005, as Coordinator, WP Leader and/or Partner. Education: PhD at LTH (Faculty of Engineering), Lund University, Sweden; Master's title and degree of Engineering in The Netherlands and P.R. China.

 

Latif Ladid is the Founder and current President of the IPv6 Forum, and Board member of 3GPP since 1999. He is also the chairman of the 5G World Alliance, Chairman of following technical Committees: IEEE COMSOC IoT subCommittee, IEEE COMSOC 5G subCommit, and ETSI IPv6 ISG (including 5G). He is Co-Chair of IEEE COMSOC SDN-NFV subCommittee. Latif Ladid is a member of the UN Strategy Council, a Member of the present EU Future Internet Forum, representing the Luxembourg Government. He sits on the IPv6 Ready Logo Program Board. He is Program Coordinator at the University of Luxembourg, contributing to several EC funded projects on next Generation technologies. Mr. Ladid brings the Consortium extensive skills regarding IPv6 state-of-the-art insight and field deployment experience, notably the creation of the IPv6 Forum based in Luxembourg and the initiation of strategic IST research projects focused on the exploitation of IPv6 that add substantial value to the European industry at large.