IEEE 5G and Beyond Testbed Workshop - Porto


testbed workshop smallPicPortoIEEE 5G and Beyond Testbed Workshop
in Conjunction with IEEE VTC 2018 Spring, Porto, Portugal 

Conference: VTC2018-Spring, Porto, Portugal
Workshop: 2nd IEEE 5G and Beyond Testbed Workshop
Organized by: IEEE 5G Initiative Testbed Working Group
Date & Time: June 3rd, 2018 | 8:30 - 17:00 (GMT+1)
Location: Porto Room
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Registration: http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2018spring/workshops.php#wkshp_12

This second edition in the workshop series will build on the achievements of the first workshop held as part of the 2017 VTC in Toronto and will be focusing on experimental testbeds on 5G and Beyond. This workshop will take place, as part of the VTC 2018 Spring, on Sunday June, 3rd 2018 in Porto.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together developers, practitioners, technical experts and researchers to share experiences and advance the state of the art in all aspects of 5G systems prototyping, evaluation and testing. Giving the increased complexity of next generation of communication systems and skyrocketing development costs, the importance of publicly available testbeds is quickly becoming critical for researchers and developers to get access to state-of-the-art infrastructures in order to prototype and validate their ideas. 

In addition to informing the community on the capabilities and usage modalities of existing testbeds, the workshop also aims to solicit contributions and promote discussion on the future experimental platforms as well as to facilitate discussions on co-development and co-deployment of experimental platforms. Of particular interest are ideas on extending publicly available testbeds with 5G related technologies as they become available and how they can be used to address common technological and scientific problems that are related to advanced wireless systems. The workshop will cover a spectrum of distinguished speakers from all over the world who will share their experiences about building testbed and experimental results.

Contact Ashutosh Dutta (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) for further information. 

Agenda

Time Speaker Affiliation Talk Title
9:00 Ashutosh Dutta & Ivan Seskar JHU/APL & Rutgers WINLAB IEEE 5G and Beyond Initiative Overview and Roadmap Testbed Working Group
9:20 Konstantinos Alexandris  EURECOM Mosaic-5G.io: Enabling Agile 5G Service Platforms
9:45 Ari Pouttu
University of Oulu Transforming the 5GTN test network to 6GTN
10:10 Brecht Vermeulen imec 5G experimentation on imec's testbeds and federated testbeds in Fed4Fire
10:35 Coffee break
11:00 Radomir Klacza Sorbonne University  
11:25 Nikos Makris  Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) & University of Thessaly, Greece  
11:45 Samuel Santos Pereira Universidade de Aveiro-DETI / IT-Aveiro C-RAN Enabled Lab Testbeds at IT-Aveiro
12:10 Lunch (self-organized)
13:30 Milorad Tosic University of Nis, Serbia Semantics in testbed experimentation
13:55 Martin Danneberg Technische Universität Dresden Flexible Real-Time Experimentation Using the OWL Testbed
14:20 Ilie Daniel Gheorghe Pop FOKUS 5G Playground: Powering 5G Berlin 
14:45 Coffee break
15:00 Tracy Van Brakle ONF  Linux Foundation Networking
15:25 Abhimanyu Gosain Northeastern University   
15:50 Ivan Seskar  Rutgers University   
16:15 TBD    
16:35 Chrysa Papagianni University of Maryland Closing Remarks

Speakers

alexandris sizedKonstantinos Alexandris received his Ph.D. in Communications and Electronics from Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France, in 2018 and his Diploma and M.Sc. degrees in Electronic and Computer Engineering with distinction from Technical University of Crete, Greece, in 2012 and 2014, respectively. In parallel with his M.Sc. studies, he joined the Telecommunications Circuit Laboratory (TCL) of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, as a Research Assistant. He is currently working as a Telecom R&D engineer at the Communication Systems Department, EURECOM in the field of 5G mobile communication networks and beyond with an emphasis on emerging 5G mobile services. Since 2014, he has been involved in several collaborative research projects in the context of H2020/FP7 framework programmes including project management activities. In addition, he participates in the Mosaic-5G initiative that aims to provide a software-based 4G/5G service delivery platform and he contributes to the development of OpenAirInterface 5G platform features. His research interests lie in the areas of mobile networks (4G/5G), network slicing, software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined radio testbeds. He has received fellowship awards for his undergraduate studies and he was the recipient of the 2012-2013 best Diploma Thesis Award on Advanced Wireless Systems, presented by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society (AESS) joint Greece Chapter. At the end of 2015, he was awarded as exemplary reviewer for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

 

Abhimanyu GosainAbhimanyu Gosain is the Technical Program Director for the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research Initiative at Northeastern University. He was formerly the lead wireless engineer for the NSF GENI Testbed at Raytheon BBN Technologies. His numerous professional publications and experience exemplify use-inspired basic research in the field of networking technologies such as LTE, dispersed computing and MANET sensor networking. He is an IEEE Senior Member. He received his M.S. degree from Tufts University and M.B.A. from Boston University with High Honors.

 

 

klacza sizedRadomir Klacza graduated from Warsaw University and has worked on many infrastructure projects as a systems administrator, most recently at Citibank PLC. Since June 2014 he has been working as a research engineer at Sorbonne University, and is responsible for operating the OneLab portal and Cloud and Wifi testbeds.

 

 

 

dannebergMartin Danneberg received his master degree in electrical engineering from the Dresden University of Technology in April 2013. During his studies, he focused on wireless communications and circuit design. His master thesis at the RF Engineering Chair dealt with the development of a backplane for a phased array. Since September 2013, he is a member of the Vodafone Chair and leading the technical research activities of the chair in the EU projects CREW, eWINE and ORCA. His professional interests revolve around experimentation strategies for future communication systems and especially about FPGA-based prototypes of flexible multicarrier waveforms.

 

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Nikos Makris is a Research Engineer working for Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece. He received his bachelor degree in 2011 and a Master's degree in “Computer Science and Communications” in 2013 from the same department. Since 2011, he has been participating in several EU-funded collaborative research projects with CERTH and University of Thessaly. His research interests involve experimentally driven research with several radio access technologies (WiFi, WiMAX, LTE, 5G-NR), conducted under real environment settings, the disaggregation of base station units and their NFV orchestration, using open source platforms. He is a member of the supporting group of the NITOS testbed (http://nitlab.inf.uth.gr), working on continuously enhancing and provisioning the cellular infrastructure of the testbed to external users.

 

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Samuel Santos Pereira was born in 1995 in the city of Albergaria-a-Velha, Portugal. He is a final year M.Sc. student in Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro. His main research interests include reconfigurable digital systems and all-digital transceivers. He is currently a research fellow at Instituto de Telecomunicações – Radio Systems Group (http://radiosystems.av.it.pt/), working on new fronthaul technologies and approaches for 5G C-RAN based systems.

 

 

Ilie-Daniel Gheorghe-PopIlie-Daniel Gheorghe-Pop is a computer science engineer with experience in multiple IT domains, currently focused on research and development in the telecommunication sector. Performing scientist with in-depth expertise on benchmarking and evaluation of evolved packet core networks. Team leader with a keen dedication to meeting requirements on LTE testbed deployments and system integration. Project manager on public as well as industry research projects.

 

 

 

pouttuProf. Ari Pouttu has scientific and engineering experience as a researcher, project manager and research manager in fields such as synchronization, interference suppression, coding, and modulation designs in spread spectrum and multicarrier systems. The projects under his command have resulted waveforms and system designs for military radio communication, radar systems, embedded device networks, future wireless radio communications including cellular systems, cognitive networks and navigation applications. He has also been involved with architecture design for Finnish Software Radio including adaptive antennas and related algorithms. Prof. Ari Pouttu has scientific and engineering experience as a researcher, project manager and research manager in fields such as synchronization, interference suppression, coding, and modulation designs in spread spectrum and multicarrier systems. The projects under his command have resulted waveforms and system designs for military radio communication, radar systems, embedded device networks, future wireless radio communications including cellular systems, cognitive networks and navigation applications. He has also been involved with architecture design for Finnish Software Radio including adaptive antennas and related algorithms. 
He has published more than 50 conference or journal papers in the field of wireless communications and he holds two patents. He was the Director of Centre for Wireless Communications in the University of Oulu from 2006 to 2012. Currently he is heading as a professor a research group targeting dependable wireless solutions including solutions for 5G. He is the PI of 5GTN experimental research and is acting as collaborative projects leader in national 6Genesis flagship targeting 6G solutions.

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Ivan Seskar is an Associate Director at WINLAB, Rutgers University responsible for experimental systems and prototyping projects. He is currently the program director for the COSMOS project responsible for the New York City NSF PAWR deployment, the PI for the NSF GENI Wireless project, which resulted in campus deployments of LTE/WiMAX base stations at several US universities, and the PI for the NSF CloudLab deployment at Rutgers. He has also been the co-PI and project manager for all three phases of the NSF-supported ORBIT mid-scale testbed project at WINLAB, successfully leading technology development and operations since the testbed was released as a community resource in 2005 and for which the team received the 2008 NSF Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation.  Ivan is a co-chair of the IEEE 5G Testbed Working Group, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of ACM and the co-founder and CTO of Upside Wireless Inc.

 

tosic sizedMilorad Tosic is Full Professor at Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia. He was research and teaching assistant at University of Nis from 1989 to 1998, then he was Research Associate at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJUSA, from 1998 to 2000, and was Founder and CTO from 1999 to 2002 at Yipee Inc., Williamsville, NYUSA. Currently, he is Director of the Intelligent Information Systems Lab and co-founder of Virtuona. Hi is a member of ACM and his research interests include semantics, intelligent interactive systems, ontologies, testbeds, scalable web services architectures, information systems, and entrepreneurship. He was PI for three successfully finished EU funded projects. He is currently PI for “Semantic COordination for Rawfie (SCOR)” subproject of Horizon2020 RAWFIE project.

Tracy Van Brakle is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with AT&T who is an active participant and key contributor within several open source projects.  Her current area of interest is integrating the basic building blocks of Software Defined Wireless Networks with infrastructure platforms, i.e., ONF’s M-CORD, and automation platforms such as ONAP.  This involves conducting a series of 5G end-to-end network slicing PoCs in collaboration with wireless equipment vendors and representatives from other major operators, e.g., Bell Canada, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, and Telefónica.

 

 

vermeulenBrecht Vermeulen received the M.Sc. and PhD degree in Electro-technical engineering from Ghent University, Belgium and leads research teams which investigates testbed setup and federation, network and server performance, quality of experience and advanced search engine technology. Within imec, he also leads the imec Technical Test centre iLab.t where he started a.o. the local deployment of Emulab based testbeds for cloud and networking, and guided building multiple systems on top of the testbeds: GPU job systems, experiment automation, student classes. He is the technical lead of the Fed4FIRE project about federation of testbeds in Europe.Brecht Vermeulen (male) received the M.Sc. and PhD degree in Electro-technical engineering from Ghent University, Belgium and leads research teams which investigates testbed setup and federation, network and server performance, quality of experience and advanced search engine technology. Within imec, he also leads the imec Technical Test centre iLab.t where he started a.o. the local deployment of Emulab based testbeds for cloud and networking, and guided building multiple systems on top of the testbeds: GPU job systems, experiment automation, student classes. He is the technical lead of the Fed4FIRE project about federation of testbeds in Europe.

 

Organizing Committee 

 

Chrysa Papagianni received her Diploma and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2003 and 2009 respectively. From 2008 to 2013 she was a teaching fellow at the MSc in Networking and Data Communications delivered by the departments of Electronics Engineering and Automation Engineering at the Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, Greece, in collaboration with Kingston University, London, U.K. From 2014 to 2016, she was a Research and Teaching Associate with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NTUA. She has participated in various EU RTD projects, many within the Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative. Since 2016 she is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Institute for Systems Research with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. Dr Papagianni’s research interests lie primarily in the area of computer networks and distributed systems with emphasis on virtualisation, network optimisation, management and service provisioning, software defined networking.

 

 

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Ivan Seskar is an Associate Director at WINLAB, Rutgers University responsible for experimental systems and prototyping projects. He is currently the program director for the COSMOS project responsible for the New York City NSF PAWR deployment, the PI for the NSF GENI Wireless project, which resulted in campus deployments of LTE/WiMAX base stations at several US universities, and the PI for the NSF CloudLab deployment at Rutgers. He has also been the co-PI and project manager for all three phases of the NSF-supported ORBIT mid-scale testbed project at WINLAB, successfully leading technology development and operations since the testbed was released as a community resource in 2005 and for which the team received the 2008 NSF Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation.  Ivan is a co-chair of the IEEE 5G Testbed Working Group, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of ACM and the co-founder and CTO of Upside Wireless Inc.

Ashutosh Dutta is currently Senior Wireless Communication Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs (JHU/APL). Most recently he served as Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs in Middletown, New Jersey. His career, spanning more than 30 years, includes Director of Technology Security and Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, CTO of Wireless at a Cybersecurity company NIKSUN, Inc., Senior Scientist in Telcordia Research, Director of Central Research Facility at Columbia University, adjunct faculty at NJIT, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. He has more than 90 conference and journal publications, three book chapters, and 30 issued patents. Ashutosh is co-author of the book, titled, “Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimization: Design,Evaluation and Application,” published by IEEE and John & Wiley that has recently been translated into Chinese Language. Ashutosh served as the chair for IEEE Princeton / Central Jersey Section, Industry Relation Chair for Region 1 and MGA, Pre-University Coordinator for IEEE MGA and vice chair of Education Society Chapter of PCJS. He co-founded the IEEE STEM conference (ISEC) and helped to implement EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) projects in several high schools. Ashutosh currently serves as the Director of Industry Outreach for IEEE Communications Society and is the founding co-chair for IEEE 5G initiative. He also serves as IEEE Communications Society’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2018. He was recipient of the prestigious 2009 IEEE MGA Leadership award and 2010 IEEE-USA professional leadership award. Ashutosh obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from NIT Rourkela, India, MS in Computer Science from NJIT, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne. Ashutosh is a senior member of IEEE and ACM.

 

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