SLICENET

SliceNet organised an Industry panel session at IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2018), Abu Dhabi, on 5G Network Slice Management, with participation of 5G-Transformer and FUTEBOL. The conference was held at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) from 9 to 13 December 2018. IEEE GLOBECOM is one of the two flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and is a premium event that brings together the best researchers and professionals from academic, industry and government to exchange novel ideas that will shape future generations of communication technologies.

A very interesting discussion was moderated by Maria Barros Weiss, H2020 5G PPP SliceNet project Coordinator, Programme Manager at Eurescom, Germany, with panelists:

• Jose Alcaraz-Calero, H2020 5G PPP SliceNet Technical Project Manager, Professor at University of the West of Scotland, UK
• Xavier Costa Perez, Head of 5G Networks R&D, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
• James Kimery, Director of Product Marketing, RF Communications and SDR, National Instruments, Austin, Texas, USA
• Luiz daSilva, Director of CONNECT, Professor at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Network slicing has emerged as a remarkable paradigm shift from 4G to NFV/SDN-enabled 5G and has been identified as a key 5G architectural requirement.

See the Globecom Program for details.

On 5th December 2018, SliceNet organised an interactive networking session at ICT 2018 in Vienna, which was dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (AI). The session aimed to stimulate an interdisciplinary discussion on innovative solutions using AI for real-time service delivery.

More than 40 participants seated at 6 tables explored answers to this challenge in two innovation café discussion rounds, which were facilitated by 6 SliceNet moderators and session chair Anastasius Gavras from Eurescom. Within 30 minutes, the participants generated a plethora of ideas on personalized services and enhanced user experience, the use of predictive analytics, AI-enhanced robotics, and a number of AI-based real-time service examples.

At the end of the session, the table moderators briefly summarised the main insights from the 6 discussion tables. A written report based on their summaries will soon be published on the SliceNet website.

Further information on the SliceNet networking session is available.

Read the “Summary of results of the SliceNet networking session”

SliceNet recently participated in a three day workshop organised by the 5G PPP Technology Board with a focus on 5G performance KPIs. The organisation was supported by project 5GCAR and Ericsson Research, who hosted the workshop at its headquarters in Kista, Sweden on 20 – 22 November 2018. Magnus Frodigh, acting head of Ericsson Research, opened the workshop with an inspiring presentation of Ericsson’s current and future view on 5G. (more…)

SliceNet will have a demo at the 5G In Action booth at C28 in the General Exhibition Area on 5th December from 13:05 to 17:35. RedZinc’s CEO Donal Morris will be there to demonstrate the SliceNet eHealth use case and the Plug and Play scenarios for verticals. SliceNet will also have these two videos hosted at the 5G In Action Stand on C28 as well as flyers available at both. (more…)

As a participant of the SliceNet project, Creative Systems Engineering (CSE) has completed the design and the definition of the workflows for the performance management component, as part of Task 6.2.

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In Alveiro in Portugal, partner Altice Labs hosted the team in a fruitful face to face discussion 19^th – 22^nd November 2018. 

The plenary meeting was held to discuss the project status and next steps. The team stands in front of the Altice Labs building. 

The 6^th Plenary Meeting focused on the following main topics:

• Technical use cases workflows definition
• Alignment between cognition problems and use cases – final demonstration requirements
• SliceNet slice template discussion (data model)
• Mechanism and platform for the integration of components and concrete integration roadmap/plan
• Parallel technical sessions in WP4 / WP5 / WP6 / WP7 / WP8 / WP9.

In this video the eHealth SliceNet team describe ambulance tele-medicine services using 5G slicing.

A key aim in the H2020 SliceNet project is to demonstrate a verticals-oriented 5G network, focused on control of end-to-end ‘sliced’ services. Dedicated ‘slices’ of the network are guaranteed, to ensure the quality of service (QoS) necessary for the delivery of mission critical services, such as emergency tele-medicine.  (more…)