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Coordinated Control and Spectrum Management for 5G Heterogeneous Radio Access Networks Grant Agreement No. : 671639 Call: H2020-ICT-2014-2

Deliverable D7.1 Final Dissemination Report

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Due date: 30.03.2018

Delivered date: 06.04.2018

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D7.1 Final Dissemination Report

H2020 5G PPP COHERENT 2

Authors Heidi Villikka (EICT); Tao Chen (VTT); Navid Nikaein (EUR); Roberto Riggio (FBK); Olav Tirkkonen (AALTO); Rebecca Steinert (SICS); Antonio Cipriano (TCS); Dimitry Marandin (CMA); Nidal Zarifeh, Sundar Peethala (UDE); George Agapiou (OTE); Mariana Goldhamer (4GC); Adrian Kliks (PUT), Karol Kowalik (INEA); Heikki Kokkinen (FS); Kostas Pentikousis (TP) Coordinator Dr. Tao Chen

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd

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02150, Espoo

Finland

Email: [email protected]

Disclaimer The information in this document is provided ‘as is’, and no guarantee or warranty is given that the information is fit for any particular purpose. The above referenced consortium members shall have no liability for damages of any kind including without limitation direct, special, indirect, or consequential damages that may result from the use of these materials subject to any liability which is mandatory due to applicable law. Acknowledgement This report is funded under the EC H2020 5G-PPP project COHERENT, Grant Agreement No. 671639. © 2015-2017 COHERENT Consortium



Version history

Version Date Remarks 0.1 30.10.2017 ToC created.

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0.5 07.02.2018 VTT updated the chapter 4

0.6 26.02.2018 1st review by Aarne Mämmilä, VTT

0.7 07.03.2018 Integrating the review comments

1.0 06.04.2018 Final version of D7.1



Executive summary This deliverable describes the dissemination activities carried out by the COHERENT project during the project runtime. The dissemination activities are grouped into following categories: academic dissemination, industry forums and other activities, and EU-level dissemination and collaboration. The report also indicates the communication material developed and outlines how the project digital presence has evolved. The project online channels, scientific publications and participation in events were the main communication and dissemination instruments utilised to spread COHERENT results. Project online channels were regularly updated and alltogether 28 project related news were published on the project website. During the project runtime, partners published 21 journal papers and 58 conference and workshop publications. The project organized 7 workshops, held 4 tutorials/keynotes and showcased 9 demos in different events. Furthermore, the partners introduced the project in 16 industry forums or events in the field of ICT. EU-level collaboration included active participation in the 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G PPP) activities. Project partners participated regularly in Steering Board and Technical Board teleconferences and physical meetings, attended 5G PPP events, as well as contributed to the different 5G PPP working groups. Last but not least, the project provided input for several 5G PPP white papers. The report concludes that project partners actively promoted project ideas and results through different dissemination channels. Partners took a comprehensive approach to disseminate project results and the efforts were performed in accordance to the COHERENT Initial Dissemination Plan (M7.2).



Table of contents Executive summary ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 List of abbreviations ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 List of figures................................................................................................................................................................ 7 List of tables ................................................................................................................................................................. 7 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................... 8 2 Dissemination objectives ....................................................................................................................................... 8 3 Project communication materials and channels .................................................................................................... 9

3.1 Project logo and templates ............................................................................................................................. 9 3.2 Online channels ............................................................................................................................................ 10

3.2.1 Website ................................................................................................................................................. 10 3.2.2 Twitter channel ..................................................................................................................................... 11

3.3 Communication material .............................................................................................................................. 12 3.3.1 5G PPP brochure ................................................................................................................................... 12 3.3.2 Project posters and roll-up .................................................................................................................... 13 3.3.3 Project brochure .................................................................................................................................... 15 3.3.4 Give-aways ........................................................................................................................................... 15

3.4 Press releases and use of partners communication channels ........................................................................ 16 4 Key dissemination achievements ........................................................................................................................ 16

4.1 Academic dissemination .............................................................................................................................. 16 4.1.1 Publications ........................................................................................................................................... 16 4.1.2 Organized workshops ........................................................................................................................... 21 4.1.3 Demonstrations ..................................................................................................................................... 24 4.1.4 Tutorials and keynotes .......................................................................................................................... 27 4.1.5 Thesis .................................................................................................................................................... 29

4.2 Industry forums and other activities ............................................................................................................. 29 4.2.1 Industry forums and partners internal dissemination ............................................................................ 29 4.2.2 Other activities ...................................................................................................................................... 30

4.3 Dissemination through advisory board ........................................................................................................ 30 4.4 EU-level dissemination and collaboration ................................................................................................... 31

4.4.1 5G PPP activities .................................................................................................................................. 31 5 Conclusions ......................................................................................................................................................... 35



List of abbreviations

3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project

5GMF Fifth Generation Mobile Communications Promotion Forum

5G PPP 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership

CBRS Citizens Broadband Radio Service

CR Cognitive Radio

EC European Commission

ECC Electronic Communications Committee

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute

EuCNC European Conference on Networks and Communications

FIA Future Internet Assembly

FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimentation

HMN Heterogeneous Mobile Network

ICT Information and Communications Technologies

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

IMT International Mobile Telecommunications

KPI Key Performance Indicator

LTE Long-Term EvolutionMAC Medium Access Control

MNO Mobile Network Operator

MS Milestone

MVNO Mobile Virtual Network Operator

MWC Mobile World Congress

NFV Network Functions Virtualisation

NGMN Next Generation Mobile Networks

RAN Radio Access Network

RAS Radio Access and Spectrum

SB Steering Board

SDK Software Development Kit

SDN Software Defined Network

TB Technical Board

ToC Table of Contents

WG Working Group

WP Work Package



List of figures Figure 3-1 Project Logo ................................................................................................................................................ 9 Figure 3-2 COHERENT website ................................................................................................................................ 10 Figure 3-3 Use of website and twitter......................................................................................................................... 12 Figure 3-4 5G PPP brochure ....................................................................................................................................... 12 Figure 3-5 Project poster EuCNC 2015 ...................................................................................................................... 13 Figure 3-6 Project poster EuCNC 2017 ...................................................................................................................... 13 Figure 3-7 Project roll-up ........................................................................................................................................... 14 Figure 3-8 Project brochure ........................................................................................................................................ 15 Figure 3-9 Project pens ............................................................................................................................................... 15 Figure 4-1 Navid Nikaein from EURECOM presented the demo for COHERENT .................................................. 25 Figure 4-2 COHERENT demo booth at EuCNC 2016 ............................................................................................... 25 Figure 4-3 COHERENT Demo Booth at Global 5G Event ........................................................................................ 26 Figure 4-4 COHERENT Demo Booth at EuCNC 2017 ............................................................................................. 26 Figure 4-5 COHERENT Demo at CROWNCOM 2017 ............................................................................................. 27

List of tables Table 2-1 Dissemination targets per work package ...................................................................................................... 9 Table 3-1 Number of website visits per period .......................................................................................................... 11



1 Introduction The COHERENT project conducted research, development, and validation of a unified programmable control framework for 5G heterogeneous radio access networks (RANs). To promote the project results and to facilitate the adoption of developed technologies, project outcomes were disseminated systematically and widely.

This report highlights the key communication and dissemination contributions made by the COHERENT partners during the project runtime 1.7.2015 − 31.03.2018. The exploitation and standardization efforts are reported separately in deliverables D7.2 “Final standardization report” and D7.4 “Exploitation plan and techno-economic model.”

The deliverable summarizes the main dissemination activities carried out by the project. It also describes the tools and materials used to communicate project objectives and results. The report is based on two previously released milestone reports, MS30 First Dissemination Report and MS33 Second Dissemination Report, which describe in more detail the activities performed in the first (1.7.2015−30.6.2016) and second (1.7.2016−30.6.2017) project period.

The report is structured as follows. First, the dissemination objectives defined in the Initial Dissemination Plan M7.2 are recapped in Chapter 2 as the reference to measure the project dissemination outcomes. Next, in Chapter 3, the project communication tools and online channels are introduced to give an overview of used means to promote the project. Following, in Chapter 4, the key dissemination achievements are outlined. These activities are grouped into three categories: 1) academic dissemination, 2) industry forums and other activities and 3) EU-level dissemination and collaboration. Last, the conclusions are drawn in Chapter 5. 2 Dissemination objectives COHERENT dissemination objectives and channels were identified in the Initial Dissemination Plan M7.2 created during the first project year. The following dissemination targets were formulated in the plan and they have been guiding the project dissemination efforts:

Disseminate project outcomes through the 5G PPP Working Groups and provide contributions to 5G PPP white paper. The project will particularly focus on the Architecture, RAN, and Spectrum WG.

Disseminate project results as publications in major technical conferences and journals. The project aims to publish at least 50 papers or articles.

Organize and participate in at least three technical workshops in major conferences/events.

Demonstrate project ideas in at least three major events.

To achieve these targets, the main dissemination channels were identified as follows:

Dissemination through research and academic channels Participation in EC-organized activities Clustering with EC research projects Industry Forums and Conferences Web site and media Project workshop Advisory board Partners’ internal dissemination

Different dissemination strategies were also applied to the technical work packages according to their specific topics. The dissemination results per work package are summarized in the following table.



Table 2-1 Dissemination targets per work package

WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6

5G PPP Working groups

Architecture WG, RAN WG

RAN WG Spectrum WG

Software Network WG, Network Management WG

Architecture WG, Software Network WG

Scientific publications 50+

Organize Technical workshops

1+ 1+ 1+

Demonstration in events 3+

Others Small cell forum Small cell

forum In the following chapters the dissemination efforts of COHERENT are described and the achievements compared to the objectives set. 3 Project communication materials and channels COHERENT used different communication materials and online channels to increase the project visibility and to communicate project outcomes in a unified manner. This chapter gives an overview on how these tools, such as project logo, information material, website and twitter channel, have been utilized. 3.1 Project logo and templates At the beginning of the project, basic communication tools were created to assure a coherent and recognizable project appearance. This included designing the project logo, colour chart and providing templates. All partners had templates available for presentations, meeting preparation, and reporting. The project logo was consistently featured in all project promotional materials, presentations and print materials. Besides, the logo feature “hexagon” was utilized as a special design element when creating dissemination materials, like project posters and roll-up.

Figure 3-1 Project Logo



3.2 Online channels 3.2.1 Website

The project website www.ict-coherent.eu was established as the main channel of communication. It was designed to reach the project main stakeholders and to inform them about the project’s objectives, structure, and progress. During the project, the website was regularly updated and the project publications, such as public deliverables and selected conference papers, were made available for downloading. Also project related videos were linked to the website. The figure below shows the main structure of the webpage.

Figure 3-2 COHERENT website

Following the feedback from the first technical review, efforts were made to publish project related news more frequently and also to share these through project twitter channel. In total 28 news articles were published, outlining the project progress. All together the website counted 7886 visits. The number of visits remained in the last period at the high level, which can be seen in the following table:

http://www.ict-coherent.eu/



Table 3-1 Number of website visits per period Period Number of website visit 1.7.2015-30.6.2016 (P1) 3010 1.7.2016-31.6.2017 (P2) 3386 1.7.2017-30.3.2018 (P3) 1490 Total 7886

The visit statistics of the website by regions are shown in Figure 3-3, where the number of visits by region is indicated by the color depth. Figure 3-4 shows the number of visits by regions during the project runtime 1.7.2015 and 30.3.2018.

Figure 3-3 Website visit statistics by regions during 1.7.2015 - 30.3.2018

Figure 3-4 Number of visits by regions during 1.7.2015 - 30.3.2018

3.2.2 Twitter channel

COHERENT Twitter account @H2020_COHERENT was created on 22 May, 2015. During the first project year, the use of twitter was rather moderate. During the second period, the use was activated and COHERENT twitter network build. This included providing a social media strategy to guideline the use of twitter. The strategy was distributed to all project partners. The partners were also encouraged to contribute to social media discussions by using #H2020_COHERENT and @H2020_COHERENT, as well as to use their company channels to post COHERENT related news.



The objective of the use of twitter was to strengthen the project visibility within the 5G community and to promote the project developments and results. Twitter was used in combination with the project website. The role of the website was to publish official information about the project in its full form. Twitter in turn was used to release small project updates, for example as new publication was accepted or presentation held in relevant events in the field.

Figure 3-5 Use of website and twitter

Twitter offered good possibilities to interact and engage with other 5G PPP projects. COHERENT was following other 5G PPP projects and frequently retweeted 5G PPP related news. Also hashtags #5G and #5GPPP were actively used.

At the end of the project, COHERENT had 144 followers and was following 82 accounts. The project posted 75 tweets. Tweets have been retweeted, among others, by 5G PPP. COHERENT Twitter reach and audience was growing during the second project period and impression rates were going up.

3.3 Communication material A set of information material was created to enforce the visibility and recognition of COHERENT. Communication material was used by the partners when communicating the project objectives, approach and results in different events. Materials, like posters and brochure, were available in digital and printed versions.

3.3.1 5G PPP brochure

COHERENT was introduced at 5G PPP Project brochure. The brochure was distributed through 5G PPP channels and on COHERENT website. See the COHERENT contribution below.

Figure 3-6 5G PPP brochure



3.3.2 Project posters and roll-up

During the first project year, in total three project posters were created, a general project poster as well as posters for ETSI workshop and EuCNC 2015.

Figure 3-7 Project poster EuCNC 2015

During the second project period, special effort was made to create more unique communication material. This included designing a new poster template and producing a project roll-up. These both were based on COHERENT visual elements: logo, colors, and a design element hexagon. In total, six COHERENT posters were created and presented at EuCNC 2017.

Figure 3-8 Project poster EuCNC 2017



Also, a general project roll-up was designed by using the same visual elements as on the poster. The roll-up gives a short overview of project objectives, expected impacts and facts, and it was displayed during different events.

Figure 3-9 Project roll-up



3.3.3 Project brochure

The project brochure was created during the second project period. Its objective was to give an overview of the progress made during the project in a compact but easy to understand form. The brochure served as a promotional tool to highlight project results and summarize the technical achievements. It was shared through the partners’ networks and COHERENT online channels. Also 250 printed copies were provided and distributed in events like Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018.

Figure 3-10 Project brochure

3.3.4 Give-aways

COHERENT pens with project logo were produced in the second year as project give-aways. These were distributed in different exhibition booths.

Figure 3-11 Project pens



3.4 Press releases and use of partners communication channels At the beginning of the project a press release was published on the project website outlining the project objectives and consortium partners. Besides, project partners were encouraged to use their own media channels to promote the project. Several partners have included information and news on COHERENT to their websites. Furthermore project partner CommAgility (CMA) released a COHERENT related press release outlining the successful participation in European wireless development during the second project year. The news was covered in 6 industry related online magazines or portals. 4 Key dissemination achievements This chapter gives an overview of the main dissemination activities performed by COHERENT partners. These activities are divided into three categories: 1) academic dissemination, 2) industry forums and other activities, 3) EU-level dissemination and collaboration. Under academic dissemination, publications in journals, books or conference proceedings as well as organised workshops are listed. Also technical demonstrations, tutorials and keynotes held in different conferences are outlined here. The industry related events and partners’ internal dissemination activities are summarised under industry forums. Other activities include participation in other networking events in the field. EU-level dissemination and collaboration includes the activities organized by EU, especially focusing on the 5G PPP related activities.

4.1 Academic dissemination As a research and innovation project, the main focus of COHERENT was to share its research findings on different academic avenues and thus to shape the research field. Therefore, the main channels to disseminate project results were publications in major technical conferences, workshops, journals and magazines. 4.1.1 Publications

COHERENT partners made a great effort by publishing project results in several high quality journals and conferences. The project succeeded in publishing 20 articles in scientific journals and 5 in books. Resulting from the conference or workshop papers, overall 57 papers were published or accepted to be published in conference proceedings. The overall target of 50+ publications has been reached. Besides, during the project two academic thesis were published. The detailed list of accepted journal publications and conference and workshop publications can be found below.

4.1.1.1 Journal publications 2015

1. T. Chen, M. Matinmikko, X.Chen, X. Zhou, P. Ahokangas, “Software Defined Mobile Networks: Concept, Survey and Research Directions,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 53, issue 11, pp. 126 – 133, Nov. 2015. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2015.7321981 2016

2. R. Favraud, A. Apostolaras, N. Nikaein, T. Korakis, “Towards Moving Public Safety Networks,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 54, Issue 3, pp. 14-20, March 2016. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2016.7432142.

3. R.Riggio, A. Bradai, D. Harutyunyan, T. Rasheed, T. Ahmedet, “Scheduling Wireless Virtual Networks Functions,” IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 240 – 252, June 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2016.2549563.

4. W. Jiang, T. Kaiser, A.J. Han Vinck, "A Robust Opportunistic Relaying Strategy for Cooperative Wireless Communications," Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 2642 – 2655, April 2016. DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2506574.

5. P. Kryszkiewicz, A. Kliks and H. Bogucka, "Small-Scale Spectrum Aggregation and Sharing," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 2630-2641, Oct. 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2016.2604999



6. P. Sroka and A. Kliks, “Playing Radio Resource Management Games in Dense Wireless 5G Networks", Mobile Information Systems, published in special issue "Design, Dimensioning, and Optimization of 4G/5G Wireless Communication Networks", vol. 2016, Article ID 3798523, 17 pages, 2016. DOI:10.1155/2016/3798523

7. A. Anttonen et al., “Finite-horizon prediction of energy depletions in off-grid wireless networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol.65, no. 8, Aug. 2016, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2015.2470087 2017

8. A. Mämmelä and A. Anttonen “Why will computing power need particular attention in future wireless devices?” IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 17, Issue: 1, pp. 12 - 26, Feb. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/MCAS.2016.2642679.

9. A. Ksentini and N. Nikaein, “Toward Enforcing Network Slicing on RAN: Flexibility and Resources Abstraction”, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, Issue: 6, pp. 102 – 108, June 2017. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1601119.

10. J. Deng, O. Tirkkonen, R. Freij-Hollanti, T. Chen, N. Nikaein, “Resource allocation and Interference Management for Opportunistic Relaying in Integrated mmWave/sub-6GHz 5G Networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 94-101, June 2017. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1601120.

11. A. Kliks and P. Kryszkiewicz “Multichannel Simultaneous Uplink and Downlink Transmission Scheme for Flexible Duplexing” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 11, June 2017. DOI: 10.1186/s13638-017-0884-5

12. K. Katsalis, N. Nikaein, E. Schiller., A. Ksentini, T. Braun “Network Slices Towards 5G Communications: Slicing the LTE Network”, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, Issue 8, pp. 146 – 154, Aug. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600936.

13. N. Ermolova and O. Tirkkonen, “Interference Analysis in Wireless Networks Operating over Arbitrary Fading Channels with Heterogeneous Poisson Fields of Transmitters and Interferers”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 1388-1392, Sept. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2017.2729664

14. P. Kreuger, R. Steinert, O. Görnerup, D. Gillblad ”Distributed dynamic load balancing with applications in radio access networks”, International Journal of Network Management (IJNM), 2017. DOI: 10.1002/nem.2014.

15. A. Kliks, B. Musznicki, K. Kowlik, P. Kryszkiewicz “Perspectives for Resource Sharing in 5G Networks”, Telecomunication Systems , 1-15, DOI:10.1007/s11235-017-0411-3

16. K. Kowalik, A. Kliks, B. Musznicki, M. Kołodziejski, P. Kryszkiewicz “Observation of WiMAX Radio Parameters to Enhance Spectrum Utilisation in Mixed Environment” JOURNAL OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 2017 (to appear)

17. K. Kowalik, et. al, “Spectrum Management Application for virtualized wireless vehicular networks” IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. Special Issue on Next Generation Softwarized Wireless Networks (under review) 2018, accepted

18. A. Mämmelä, J. Riekki, A. Kotelba and A. Anttonen “Multidisciplinary and historical perspectives for developing intelligent and resource-efficient systems” IEEE Access, vol. PP, Issue: 99, March 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2816605

19. E. Coronado, D. Harutyunyan, R. Riggio, J. Villalon and A. Garrido, "Joint Mobility Management and Multicast Rate Adaptation in Software–Defined Enterprise WLANs", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM) (to appear).

20. E. Coronado, D. Harutyunyan, R. Riggio, J. Villalon and A. Garrido, "Efficient Real–time Content Distribution for Multiple Multicast Groups in SDN–based WLANs", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM) (to appear).

21. D. Harutyunyan and R. Riggio, "Flex5G: Interference–aware Flexible Functional Splits for the Cloud Radio Access Networks", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM) (to appear)

4.1.1.2 Conference and workshop publications 2015



1. N. Nikaein, E. Schiller, R. Favraud, K. Katsalis, D. Stavropoulos, I. Alyafawi, Z. Zhao, T. Braun, T. Korakis, “Network store: Exploring slicing in future 5G networks”, in Proc. of MobiArch '15, Paris, Sep 2015, pp. 8-13. DOI:10.1145/2795381.2795390

2. J. Deng, A. A. Dowhuszko, R. Freij, O. Tirkkonen, “Relay Selection and Resource Allocation for D2D-Relaying under Uplink Cellular Power Control,” IEEE Globecom workshops 2015, San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2015.7414091. 2016

3. S. D. Peethala, T. Kreul and T. Kaiser, “Real-time testbed for validating distributed antenna scenarios” in Proc. of WSA 2016; 20th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas,Munich, Germany, March 2016.

4. R. Riggio, et al., “Scylla: A Language for Virtual Network Functions Orchestration in Enterprise WLANs”, in IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium NOMS, April 2016, Istanbul, Turkey. DOI: 10.1109/NOMS.2016.7502837.

5. K. Katsalis, et al., “5G Architectural Design Patterns,” IEEE ICC 2016 workshop on 5G Architecture, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016. DOI: 10.1109/ICCW.2016.7503760

6. C-Y Chang, et al., “Impact of Packetization and Functional Split on C-RAN Fronthaul Performance,” IEEE ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016. DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7511579.

7. A. Kliks, L. Goratti, T. Chen, “REM: Revisiting a Cognitive Tool for Virtualized 5G Networks,” ICT 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2016. DOI: 10.1109/ICT.2016.7500411.

8. T. Chen, X. Chen, R. Riggio, “A Network Graph Approach for Network Energy Saving in Small Cell Networks,” Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2016 IEEE 83rd, Nanjing, China, May 2016. DOI: 10.1109/VTCSpring.2016.7504084

9. A. Kostopoulos, G. Agapiou, F-C. Kuo, K. Pentikousis, A. M. Cipriano, D. Panaitopol, D. Marandin, K. Kowalik, K. Alexandris, C-Y. Chang, N. Nikaein, A. Kliks, R. Steinert, A.O Mämmelä, T. Chen, “Scenarios for 5G Networks: The COHERENT Approach,” Workshop - Advances on Network Virtualization for 5G Systems, ICT 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2016. DOI: 10.1109/ICT.2016.7500421.

10. A. Kliks and P. Kryszkiewicz, “Simultaneous Uplink and Downlink Transmission Scheme for Flexible Duplexing,” In: Noguet D., Moessner K., Palicot J. (eds) Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. CrownCom 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 172. Springer, Cham. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_16.

11. G. Agapiou, A. Kostopoulos, F. Kuo, T. Chen, A. Kliks, M. Goldhamer, K. Katsalis, R. Riggio, D. Panaitopol, A. Cipriano, D. Marandin “Developing a Flexible Spectrum Management for 5G Heterogeneous Radio Access Networks”. European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Special Session, Athens, Greece, June 2016.

12. K. Katsalis, et al., “SLA-driven VM Scheduling in Mobile Edge Computing,” IEEE 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) June 2016, San Francisco, USA, DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2016.0104.

13. D. Harutyunyan and R. Riggio, “Functional Decomposition in 5G Networks”, In: Badonnel R., Koch R., Pras A., Drašar M., Stiller B. (eds) Management and Security in the Age of Hyperconnectivity. AIMS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9701. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39814-3_7.

14. F. Ahmed, J. Deng, and O. Tirkkonen, "Self-organizing Networks for 5G: Directional Cell Search in mmW Networks", IEEE 27th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Sep 2016, Valencia, Spain, DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2016.7794591.

15. N. Zarifeh, A. Kabbani, M. El-Absi, T. Kreul, and T. Kaiser, "Massive MIMO Exploitation to Reduce HARQ Delay in Wireless Communication System", in IEEE Middle East Conference on Antennas and Propagation (MECAP), Beirut, 2016.

16. A. Kliks, B. Bossy, S. N. Khan, R. Riggio, L. Goratti, “An Architecture for Spectrum Management and Coordinated Control in 5G Heterogeneous Networks”, 13th ISWCS, 20-23 September 2016, Poznań, Poland. DOI: 10.1109/ISWCS.2016.7600984.

17. J. Schulz-Zander, S. Schmid, J. Kempf, R. Riggio, A. Feldmann, “LegoFi the WiFi Building Blocks! The Case for a Modular WiFi Architecture”, in Proc. of MobiArch '16, New York, USA, October 2016. doi>10.1145/2980137.2980142.



18. R. Riggio, “The EmPOWER mobile network operating system: demo”, in Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation, and Characterization (WiNTECH '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Oct 2016. doi>10.1145/2980159.2980173.

19. K. Katsalis, N. Nikaein, A. Edmonds, “Multi-Domain Orchestration: Challenges and Research Directions” in End-to-end service orchestration for 5G and beyond Workshop (En2ESO’16) held in conjunction with IEEE IUCC- 2016 Granada, Spain, December 2016 [Invited paper]. DOI: 10.1109/IUCC-CSS.2016.034. 2017

20. E. Coronado, R. Riggio, J. Villalón, A. Garrido, "SDN@Play: A Multicast Rate Adaptation Mechanism for IEEE 802.11 WLANs", in Proc. of IEEE CCNC 2017, Las Vegas, NV, USA. January 2017. DOI: 10.1109/CCNC.2017.7983217

21. E. Coronado, R. Riggio, J. Villalon and A. Garrido, “Programming Abstractions for Wireless Multicasting in Software–Defined Enterprise WLANs”, in Proc. Of IEEE IM 2017, Lisbon, Portugal. May 2017. DOI: 10.23919/INM.2017.7987288.

22. A. Kliks, P. Kryszkiewicz, K. Kowalik, M. Kołodziejski „Analiza możliwości współdzielenia częstotliwości w pasmie F- studium przypadku” Przegląd Telekomunikacyjny i Wiadomości Telekomunikacyjne no 6/2017, pp. 388-391 (Krajowa Konferencja Radiokomunikacji Radiofonii i Telewizji KKRRiT 2017, 21-23 czerwca 2017 r., Poznań) DOI: 10.15199/59.2017.6.53.

23. P. Kryszkiewicz, A. Kliks, H. Bogucka, “Multi-User Small-Scale Spectrum Aggregation”, in IEEE ICC 2017, Paris, France, May 2017. DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2017.7997226.

24. J. Deng, O. Tirkkonen, and T. Chen, ”D2D Relay Management in Multi-cell Networks”, in IEEE ICC 2017 WCS, Paris, France, May 2017. DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2017.7996919.

25. A. Kostopoulos, I. Chochliouros, F-C. Kuo, R. Riggio, L. Goratti, N. Nikaein, I. Giannoulakis, J. Pérez-Romero, T. Chen, R. Steinert, D. Panaitopol, “Design Aspects for 5G Architectures: The SESAME and COHERENT approach” in IEEE ICC 2017: WT01-5GArch 2017: 4th International Workshop on 5G Architecture, Paris, France, May 2015. DOI: 10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962787.

26. R. Riggio, et al., “Exploiting Distance Information for Transparent Access Point Driven WiFi Handovers,” in IEEE SCN, Macau, China , June 2017. DOI: 10.1109/WoWMoM.2017.7974344.

27. J. Deng, O. Tirkkonen, T. Chen, N. Nikaein, “Scalable Two-hop Relaying for mmWave Networks”, in 26th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Oulu, Finland, June 2017. DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980713.

28. N. Ermolova, “Outage Probability Analysis in Finite Wireless Networks Operating in LOS Environment,” 26th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 5 pp. Oulu, Finland, June 2017. DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980782.

29. S. Lembo, O. Tirkkonen, M. Goldhamer and A. Kliks, "Coexistence of FDD flexible duplexing networks," 26th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Oulu, Finland, June 2017, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980723.

30. A. Kliks, D. Panaitopol, A. M. Cipriano, K. Katsalis, N. Nikaein, C-Y. Chang, T. Chen, K. Kowalik, G. Agapiou, H. Kokkinen, F-C. Kuo “Spectrum and RAN Sharing in 5G Networks - a COHERENT Approach”, 26th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Oulu, Finland, June 2017. (poster, in conference proceedings).

31. S. N. Khan, A. Kliks, T. Chen, M. Mustonen, R. Riggio and L. Goratti, "Virtualization of spectrum resources for 5G networks," 26th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Oulu, Finland, June 2017, pp. 1-5, DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980749

32. R. Steinert, N. Zarifeh, C-Y. Chang, A. Anttonen, A. Cipriano, D. Panaitopol. ”Toward Unifying Abstractions for Heterogeneous Radio Infrastructures”, extended abstract, 26th European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Oulu, Finland, June 2017.

33. C. Tsirakis, P. Matzoros and G. Agapiou, “State-of-the-art on Virtualization and Software Defined Networking for Efficient Resource Allocation on Multi-tenant 5G Networks”, in MATEC Web Conf. Volume 125, 2017, 21st International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Communications and Computers (CSCC 2017), DOI: 10.1051 / matecconf / 201712503009 CSCC 2017.

34. C. Tsirakis, P. Matzoros, P. Sioutis and G. Agapiou, ‘’Load Balancing in 5G Networks”, in MATEC Web of Conferences 125, 03009, CSCC 2017 (2017). DOI: 10.1051/matecconf/201712503010.



35. K. Kowalik, et. al, “Statistical characteristics of WiMAX 802.11e signals from the perspective of improving spectrum utilisation”, in Proc of the IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum (ICTF 2017) Poznan, Poland. July 2017.

36. K. Alexandris, C-Y. Chang, K. Katsalis, N. Nikaein, T. Spyropoulos,“Utility-based resource allocation under multi-connectivity in evolved LTE”, in VTC 2017, IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference, September 2017, Toronto, Canada.

37. R. Favraud, and N. Nikaein, “Analysis of LTE Relay Interface for Self-Backhauling in LTE Mesh Networks”, in VTC 2017, IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference, September 2017, Toronto, Canada.

38. A. Kliks, P. Kryszkiewicz, Ł. Kułacz, K. Kowalik, M. Kołodziejski, H. Kokkinen, J. Ojaniemi, A. Kivinen “Application of the CBRS model for wireless systems coexistence in 3.6-3.8 GHz band”, in CROWNCOM 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2017.

39. S. Lembo, J. Deng, R. Freij, O. Tirkkonen and T. Chen, ”Hierarchical Network-level Coordination for 5G Radio Access Networks”, in IEEE Internation Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Communications (PIMRC), Montreal, QC, Canada, October 2017.

40. S. N. Khan, L. Goratti, R. Riggio, S. Hasan, "On Active, Fine-Grained RAN and Spectrum Sharing in Multi-Tenant 5G Networks", in IEEE Internation Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Communications (PIMRC), Montreal, QC, Canada, October 2017.

41. P. Kryszkiewicz „Multi-RAT Scheduling for Heterogeneous Networks”, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), CRAFT Workshop, Montreal, QC, Canada, October 2017.

42. R. Favraud, N. Nikaein, C-Y. Chang "Self-backhauled autonomous LTE mesh networks", in IEEE WIMOB 2017, Rome, Italy, October 2017, pp. 1-8 DOI: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WiMOB.2017.8115763.

43. M. Belesioti, “Enabling Offloading in 5G Networks – The case of the COHERENT Project’’, Infocom World Conference 2017, 25 October 2017, Athens Greece

44. A. Kostopoulos, “A Comparative Assessment between Architectural innovations coming from the SESAME and the COHERENT 5G Projects”, Infocom World Conference 2017, 25 October 2017, Athens Greece.

45. D. Harutyunyan & R. Riggio “Flexible functional split in 5G networks”in IEEE CNSM, Tokyo, Japan, November 2017.

46. D. Peethala, N. Zarifeh and T. Kaiser, “Probability of Coverage Based Analysis of Distributed Antenna System and its Implementation on LTE Based Real-Time-Testbed”, 9th Int. Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, Munich, Germany, 6-8 Nov. 2017.

47. R. Favraud, C-Y. Chang, N. Nikaein, "QoS guarantee in self-backhauled LTE mesh networks ", in IEEE Global Communications Conference, December 2017, Singapore, Singapore. 2018, accepted

48. N. Zarifeh, M. Alissa, M. Khaliel and T. Kaiser, ”Self-Interference Mitigation in Full-Duplex Base-Station using Dual Polarized Reflect-Array”, 11th German Microwave Conference GeMiC 2018, Freiburg, Germany, 12-14 Mar. 2018

49. E.Coronado, R, Riggio, J. Villalo, and A. Garrido, "Wi–Balance: Channel–Aware User Association in Software–Defined Wi–Fi Networks", in Proc. of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) April 2018, Taipei, Taiwan. To appear.

50. D. Harutyunyan, S. Herle, D. Maradin, G. Agapiu, and R. Riggio, "Traffic–Aware User Association in Heterogeneous LTE/WiFi Radio Access Networks", in Proc. of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) April 2018, Taipei, Taiwan. To appear.

51. E. Coronado, D. Harutyunyan, R. Riggio, J. Villalon and A. Garrido, "Wi–Not: Exploiting Radio Diversity in Software–Defined 802.11–based WLANs", in Proc. of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) April 2018 (Poster), Taipei, Taiwan. To appear.

52. S. Liu, R. Steinert and D. Kostic. “Flexible distributed control plane deployment”, IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), April 2018, Taipei, Taiwan. To appear.

53. A. Rao, R. Steinert, "Probabilistic multi-RAT performance abstractions”, IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2018 Workshop: International Workshop on Management of 5G Networks (5GMan), April 2018, Taipei, Taiwan. To appear.

54. A. Cipriano, D. Panaitopol, “Performance Analysis of Sidelink Data Communications in Autonomous Mode”, accepted to the IEEE WCNC 2018, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, April 2018.



55. S. Liu, R. Steinert and D. Kostic. “Control Under Intermittent Network Partitions”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2018. To appear.

56. Ł. Kułacz, A. Kliks, S. Nawaz Khan, "Network Graphs Reflecting Transmission Policies", Microwave and Radar Week 2018, Poznań, Poland, May 2018. To appear.

57. K. Koutlia, A. Umbert, R. Riggio, I. Vila, F. Casadevall, “A new RAN slicing strategy for multi-tenancy support in a WLAN scenario”, 4th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2018), Montreal, Canada, June 2018. To appear.

58. E. Coronado, R. Riggio, J. Villalon, and A. Garrido, “Programming Abstractions for End–to–End Slicing in Software–Defined WLANs” 19th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2018), Chania, Greece, June 2018. To appear.

4.1.1.3 Articles in books 1. Patrick Marsch, Navid Nikaein*, Mark Doll, Tao Chen* and Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, “Chapter 6 - RAN

Architecture,” 5G System Design Book, Wiley, to be published. 2. Thomas Rosowski, Rauno Ruismaki, Luis M. Campoy, Giovanna D’Aria, Du Ho Kang and Adrian Kliks*,

“Chaper 3 - Spectrum Usage and Management,” 5G System Design Book, Wiley, to be published. 3. Ömer Bulakci, Klaus Pedersen, David Gutierrez Estevez, Athul Prasad, Fernando Sanchez Moya, Jan

Christoffersson, Yang Yang, Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Paul Arnold, Tommy Svensson, Tao Chen*, Honglei Miao, Martin Kurras, Samer Bazzi, Stavroula Vassaki, Evangelos Kosmatos, Kwang Taik Kim, Giorgio Calochira, Jakob Belschner, Sergio Barberis, and Taylan Şahin “Chaper 12 - Traffic Steering and Resource Management,” 5G System Design Book, Wiley, to be published.

4. Alexandros Kaloxylos, Christian Mannweiler, Gerd Zimmermann, Marco Di Girolamo, Patrick Marsch, Jakob Belschner, Anna Tzanakaki, Riccardo Trivisonno, Ömer Bulakci, Panagiotis Spapis, Peter Rost, Paul Arnold, Navid Nikaein*, “Chapter 8 Network Slicing,” 5G System Design Book, Wiley, to be published.

5. Heikki Kokkinen* “Chapter 2 - TV White Space Spectrum Sharing Using Geolocation Databases” in “TV White Space Communications and Networks” edited by Robert Stewart, David Crawford, Andrew Stirling, Elsevier, to be published. Note: * means author from COHERENT

4.1.2 Organized workshops

Project related workshops were great arenas for sharing the knowledge and discussing on research findings among the experts. Beside, workshops provided a good opportunity to network with other projects and professionals in the field. During the project runtime, COHERENT organised or co-organised in total 7 workshops and reached the goals set in the dissemination plan. A detailed description of the workshops can be found below.

The First IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of 5G Networks, adjunct with IEEE NOMS 2016, Istanbul, Turkey, 29 April 2016

Workshop chair from COHERENT: Roberto Riggio, CREATE-NET, Italy

Scope: 5G is envisioned as the next generation of mobile networks since 2012. Several initiatives took place in Asia, America and Europe like the MOST (Ministry of Science & Technology) 5G project in China, the 5G forum formed in South Korea, the “2020 and beyond” Ad Hoc group in Japan, the 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G PPP) in Europe and several standardizations related activities. The emerging common features/requirements from these worldwide activities could be summarized as the following: faster data transfer rates, shorter latency, availability, security, lower costs and power consumption and high performance in fast mobility situations.



Thus 5G will be the place to deploy many technologies. In particular, 5G networks are expected to rely massively on the most recent advances in Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization, hence offering the opportunity to build an open and innovative platform for communications and a novel brand gathering current and future network architectures, technologies and usages…Besides the need for an innovative 5G network architecture, effective and advanced network management architectures and techniques are also cornerstones to fulfil these requirements.

The main goal of the workshop is to present state-of-the-art research results and experience reports in the area of management of 5G networks, addressing topics such as management of SDN and NFV -based networks and services, advances in the management of cloud platforms, programmatic languages and abstraction applied to resources and service management, big data and analytics applied to management.

Workshop on Advances on Network Virtualization for 5G Systems (NetVis' 2016), adjunct with ICT 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece, 17 May 2016

Workshop chairs from COHERENT: Adrian Kliks, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Tao Chen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Navid Nikaein, Eurecom, France Kostas Pentikousis, EICT, Germany

Scope: 5G networks will provide solutions to support a dynamic range of services from different industries, e.g. mobile, energy, automobile, health and manufactory industry. Due to the nature of different industries, the requirements defined by key performance indicators, like peak data rate, average user data rate, latency, energy consumption, service deployment time, are totally different. It is very complex to manage different services in 5G networks. To release to potential of 5G networks to the full support of vertical sectors, advanced technologies like software defined network (SDN), network virtualization, network functions virtualization, network slicing and sharing need to be well addressed so as to reshape the network architecture and provide flexible enough network management for 5G networks. It is the purpose of the workshop to disseminate most recent results on these topics.

Moreover, the commoditization of key processing components coupled with virtualization of infrastructure functions will lead to a radical change in the economics of mobile networks. The latter will help network providers (e.g., MNO, MVNO) move from proprietary hardware and software platforms towards open and flexible cellular systems based on general-purpose cloud infrastructures. In this context, 5G systems will see a paradigm shift in three planes: the data-plane, control-plane, and management-plane, in support of higher performance, efficient signaling, flexible and intelligent control and coordination in heterogeneous networks.

Workshop on Software Defined 5G Networks, adjunct with IEEE NetSoft 2016, Seoul, South Korea, 10 June 2016

Workshop chair from COHERENT: Roberto Riggio, CREATE-NET, Italy

Scope: Software defined networking (SDN) is undoubtedly one of the most popular topic in the wired and the wireless networking domains raising interested among the academic and the industrial communities alike. Additionally, the evolution of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) brings the opportunity to implement network services in software on top of generic hardware architectures paving the way to a truly evolvable network. The mobile networks beyond LTE and LTE Advanced are required to cope with dramatic increases in data traffic and with a highly diverse device, applications and services ecosystem. As a result, several research initiatives on 5G mobile networks have been launched worldwide targeting the definition of the next generation mobile networking ecosystem. In parallel, network related standardization activities are mushrooming at the most important SDOs. SDN brings the promise of enabling flexible, scalable, highly configurable and reliable mobile networks by leveraging on programmable control, management, and data planes. This workshop aims at bringing



together research and industry partners to present and discuss preliminary research results, ongoing work and experiences on the topic of software based, programmable 5G networks and services.

Workshop on Radio and Innovative Spectrum Sharing Paradigms for Future Networks (CRAFT 2016), adjunct with PIMRC 2016, Valencia, Spain, 4 September 2016

Workshop chair from COHERENT: Adrian Kliks, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Scope: There has been a surge in wireless technologies over the last decade, which has led to the crowding of existing spectrum. In order to address the resulting congestion and shortage of capacity, the cognitive radio (CR) concept has been envisioned in the context of 5G networks. Among other benefits, CR can increase the efficiency of spectrum utilization, and improve the management, performance and coexistence of heterogeneous networks with diverse radio access technologies. It is widely expected that new emerging techniques applied in 5G networks will enable many new services, making them beneficial and economically viable. In order to achieve this goal, advanced solutions have to be identified in both technical and legislative areas. In response to the above, the workshop aims to gather and promote discussion among researchers, engineers, practitioners, and end user groups, with the goal of inspiring the analysis and development of cognitive radio and spectrum sharing solutions for future networks. Further, additional concepts of relevance here for future networks and spectrum include advanced flexible transmission techniques, platforms and applications, cognitive carrier aggregation aspects, advanced management of coexisting networks, and regulatory aspects of efficient spectrum sharing. The main focus of this workshop is on the practical implementations of the above concepts, and “shift-to-market” considerations. The workshop focuses on issues, advances and challenges in various research areas related to cognition and wider spectrum sharing schemes in future generation communication systems and networks.

Workshop on Business models and techno-economic analysis for 5G network, EuCNC 2017, Oulu, Finland 12-15 June 2017

COHERENT co-organized a workshop on Business models and techno-economic analysis for 5G networks together with other 5GPPP projects: CHARISMA, SESAME, VirtuWind, NORMA, 5GEx, SPEED-5G, SELFNET and mmMAGIC. Organizers from COHERENT: George Agapiou, OTE, Greece Scope: The workshop focused on business- and techno-economic-aspects of future 5G networks. It provided insight on the business impacts and opportunities from the deployment of 5G networks for all actors in the telecommunications ecosystem such as verticals, incumbent and new operators, service providers, application developers, content providers, regulators, equipment manufacturers etc. The potential for new roles such as brokers, aggregators and marketplaces, was also discussed.

Workshop on 5G architectures and networks, at the 21st International Conference CSCC 2017, July 14-17 in Crete Greece

Workshop chair from COHERENT: George Agapiou, OTE, Greece Scope: Current telecommunications networks were designed for the delivery of services such as voice, video, and data to be offered to a different number of terminals. Future 5G networks are promising to support a fast mobile and connected society through devices, sensors and IoT. 5G technologies will lead the way to a wide variety of new use cases, architectures, transmission means and business models. New machine to machine (M2M) and human machine type applications will be introduced that will make people’s communication quicker, and diversified. The above applications are promising to automate and mobilize a variety of industries, including automotive,

http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/docs/PIMRC-CRAFT2016-CFP.pdf



energy, health, smart city, and media. The focus of the workshop was to present state of the art output from 5G projects. The workshop was attended by 45 people and quite a few questions were raised with regards to the capabilities of the 5G networks.

Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Innovative Spectrum Sharing Paradigms for Future Networks (CRAFT 2017), adjunct with PIMRC 2017, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 12.10.2017

Workshop chair from COHERENT: Adrian Kliks, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Scope:

There has been a vast increase in the range and proliferation of wireless technologies over recent decades, which has led to the crowding of existing spectrum. Among available solutions to address the resulting congestion and shortage of capacity, cognitive radio (CR) and spectrum sharing concepts have been envisioned. Such concepts will be particularly important in the context of 5G communication systems, where despite the introduction of novel mm-wave “pioneer bands”, there will be evermore increased pressure – especially on lower-frequency spectrum. This is due to the coverage and reliability requirements of 5G, in tandem with vastly increased capacity and throughput. CR and other spectrum sharing paradigms can address such issues through increasing the net spectrum available to each particular user. CR can also serve other benefits, such as enhancing the management, performance and coexistence of heterogeneous networks with diverse radio access technologies. It is widely expected that new emerging technologies applied in 5G networks will enable pioneering services, making 5G both socially beneficial and economically viable. Advanced solutions must be identified in both technical and regulatory domains to realize CR and spectrum sharing for such 5G and other future networks. Towards such ends, this workshop aims to gather and promote discussion among researchers, engineers, practitioners, and end-user groups, with the goal of inspiring the analysis and development of CR and spectrum sharing solutions for future networks. A key focus of this workshop is on the practical implementation of the above concepts, and “shift-to-market” considerations. Moreover, this workshop also focuses on issues, advances and challenges in various research domains related to cognition and wider spectrum sharing schemes in future generation communication systems and networks

4.1.3 Demonstrations

Demonstrations are an effective way to showcase the project proof of concept. COHERENT showcased its result throuhg 9 demonstrations held during different conferences and exhibitions. The comprehensive list can be found below.

4.1.3.1 Demonstrations Project video demo at IEEE Globecom 2015, San Diego, USA, 6-10 December 2015

In the IEEE Globecom 2015 conference, 5G PPP Architecture WG organized an exhibition booth to present 5G PPP projects by video. COHERENT prepared the video to introduce the project concept and demo plan. Dr. Tao Chen, VTT, presented the project video.

Exhibition at MWC 2016, Barcelona, Spain, 22-25 February 2016

In MWC 2016, EURECOM provided a demo on Virtual Network Functions using OpenAirInterface platform.

Demo at ETSI “from research to standardization” workshop, Sophia Antipolis, France, 10-11 May 2016

Demo title: NFV modelling, composition and chaining in cloudified 5G systems URL: http://www.etsi.org/about/10-news-events/events/1016-2016-05-ws-from-research-to-standardization

The demo was provided by EURECOM.

http://www.etsi.org/about/10-news-events/events/1016-2016-05-ws-from-research-to-standardization

http://www.etsi.org/about/10-news-events/events/1016-2016-05-ws-from-research-to-standardization



Figure 4-1 Navid Nikaein from EURECOM presented the demo for COHERENT

Demo at EuCNC 2016, Athens, Greece 28-30 June 2016

Demo title: Virtual Network Functions Orchestration in Heterogeneous 5G Networks URL: http://eucnc.eu/?q=node/134

Partners VTT and EURECOM presented the demo and project poster at the project exhibition booth.

Figure 4-2 COHERENT demo booth at EuCNC 2016

Demo at ETSI MEC Congress, Munich, Germany, 20 -22 September 2016

Demo on Radio Aware Video Optimization in a Fully Virtualized Network organized by EURECOM.

Demo at 2nd Global 5G Event at Rome, Italy, 9-10 November 2016

Partners VTT, CNET and FS organized project booth and demo at 2nd Global 5G Event, 9-10 Nov 2016, Rome, Italy.

http://eucnc.eu/?q=node/134



Figure 4-3 COHERENT Demo Booth at Global 5G Event

Demo at EuCNC 2017, Oulu, Finland 12-15 June 2017

The COHERENT demo showcased the novel concept of the Heterogeneous RAN slicing developed in the project. The demo included a solution provided by a newly introduced coordination framework, new RAN control components, and the combination of SDN and network functions virtualization (NFV) to enable flexible and programmable network slicing in RAN. The LTE handover taking advantage of the COHERENT concept was demonstrated as well. The demo was based on the OpenAirInterface platform developed by the partner EURECOM, the 5G-EmPOWER platform developed by the partner CREATE-NET, and the CommAgility eNodeB hardware and software built by the partner CommAgility. Read more: https://5g-ppp.eu/event/coherent-demo-eucnc-2017/ COHERENT presented the demo and project posters and roll-up at the project exhibition booth.

Figure 4-4 COHERENT Demo Booth at EuCNC 2017

https://5g-ppp.eu/event/coherent-demo-eucnc-2017/



Demo at Flex5Gware Final Event, Turin, Italy, 21-22 June 2017

Joint demo: “FlexCRAN: Flexible Cloud - RAN Platform” demonstrated flexible RRU/DU/CU architectural framework for C-RAN deployment in 5G. Demo is based on OpenAirInterface and Mosaic-5G FlexRAN platforms and was organized by EURECOM and VTT. Demo at the CROWNCOM 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, 20–21 September, 2017

Demo title: CBRS model for wireless systems coexistence in 3.6-3.8 GHz band COHERENT partners Poznan University of Technology, INEA and Fairspectrum showcased a joint demo at the CROWNCOM 2017. The demonstrator showed the application of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum sharing model in 3.6-3.8 GHz band at a specific location in Poznan, Poland. The goal of the experiment was to utilize the spectrum band in more efficient way. Read more: http://crowncom.org/2017/show/exhibit-and-demo#demo-2

Figure 4-5 COHERENT Demo at CROWNCOM 2017

4.1.4 Tutorials and keynotes

Tutorials and project related lectures or keynotes held by project partners are listed under. Tutorial on Software-defined 5G networks: Technologies and challenges, ACM SIGMETRICS, Antibes

Juan-les-Pins, France, 18 June 2016

Speakers: Navid Nikaein (EUR) / Raymond Knopp (EUR) Abstract:

The commoditization of key processing components coupled with virtualization of infrastructure functions will lead to a radical change in the economics of mobile networks. The latter will help network providers (e.g., MNO, MVNO) move from proprietary hardware and software platforms towards open and flexible cellular systems based on general-purpose cloud infrastructures. In this context, 5G systems will see a paradigm shift in three planes: the data-plane, control-plane, and management- plane, in support of higher performance, efficient signaling, flexible and intelligent control and coordination in heterogeneous networks.

http://crowncom.org/2017/show/exhibit-and-demo#demo-2



This tutorial discusses all of these topics, identifying key challenges in software-defined 5G networks for future research as well as the standardization activities, while providing a comprehensive overview of the current literature. It is organized in four technical parts covering principles, challenges, key technologies, proof-of-concept prototypes and field trials of software-define 5G systems.

Tutorial at ResCom summer school on Cloud-native and programmable radio access networks, Guidel-Plages en Bretagne, France, 16 June 2016

Speaker: Navid Nikaein (EUR) Abstract:

Enabling ubiquitous and personalized mobile Internet requires pushing the boundaries of existing network and service infrastructure. The softwarization and virtualization of radio access network functions are two key ingredients to abstract infrastructure resources and enable the delivery of the network as a service. Their tight coupling provides the flexibility needed to provision network resources on-demand and to compose and chain network service functions dynamically to meet a wide range of use-cases. The objectives of this course is to describe how the software-define networking and network functions virtualization principles can be combined in designing cloud-native and programmable radio access networks. We show that a full GPP approach brings the required flexibility in splitting, chaining, and placement of RAN functions while meeting the real-time deadlines. We further illustrate how to achieve programmability through an agent that acts as a local controller for one or many network functions and executes various actions in cooperation with the centralized controller as well as other agents. Finally, we develop some future directions in the perspective of 5G research with use cases found in IoT.

1 hour lecture on COHERENT control and coordination solution for 5G RAN, at 5G Summer School

adjunct with EuCNC 2017, 12 June 2017, Oulu, Finland

Speaker: Tao Chen (VTT)

Abstract:

The lecture provides the overview of the COHERENT concept and the achievements of the COHERENT project on architecture, RAN slicing support, and spectrum management. The details are given on the COHERENT architecture design, which includes the control plane and user plane sepearation, the functional split consideration on L1-3 protocol of RAN, and the use of network graph and network abstraction in software defined design of 5G RAN. Following the introduction of the architecture, three use cases are given to illustrstrate the advantage of the COHERENT concept on network coordination, traffic steering, and mmWave relay in 5G small cell networks.

Keynote on Spectrum Management and Radio Resource Virtualization – a COHERENT approach, IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum 2017, 5 July 2017, Poznan Poland

Speaker: Adrian Kliks (PUT)

Abstract: A new and flexible approach to spectrum usage and management is required in order to fulfil the requirements identified by the 5G PPP in their KPIs for 5G networks, e.g., 1000 times higher mobile data volume per geographical area or 10 to 100 times more connected devices. Many spectrum sharing schemes have been proposed so far (such as LSA, CBRS with SAS, LAA/LWA), and some of them have been tested in the field



trials providing useful insights into the spectrum sharing issues. From a real implementation perspective, the above solutions can be applied in various contexts (e.g., for TVWS, or with the use of dedicated databases supported by sensing function), however it is envisaged that more flexible approaches to spectrum sharing (such as innovative Pluralistic Licensing or various cognitive radio oriented schemes) should be pursued and investigated further. However, in conjunction with new approaches to spectrum management and sharing, the network architectures are evolving and incorporating concepts of virtualization and software control. A significant push towards Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is being made by all major players involved in realizing the 5G vision including researchers, network operators and regulators. In this talk, various spectrum management systems will be presented together with the analysis of prospective spectrum virtualization approaches that utilize network graphs. This talk will also cover selected findings from the COHERENT project.

4.1.5 Thesis

Hans Kilian Dargel, "Development of a NFV in the context of 5G with 'EmPOWER' ", Bachelor's thesis, Ostfalia University of applied Sciences, Germany, October 2017

The thesis work was done in Travelping under the supervision of Dr. Kostas Pentikousis.

4.2 Industry forums and other activities This chapter summarizes industry related events participated by COHERENT partners as well as partners’ internal activities through which partners have disseminated project results inside their organisations. Presentations and talks held in other ICT related events and dissemination activities which doesn’t fall under the previous categories are reported under other activities. In total 16 talks were held in industry forums or other ICT related events. 4.2.1 Industry forums and partners internal dissemination

Keynote at Spectrum Futures conference on 10-11.9.2015, in Singapore.

H. Kokkinen, Fairspectrum, gave a project relevant keynote speech in the conference.

Presentation of COHERENT concept at IETF meeting on 1.11. 2015 EICT presented “COHERENT: towards a control framework for 5G. mobile networks”at SDNRG meeting at IETF 94, Yokohama, Japan, 1 November 2015.

CommAgility presented COHERENT at MWC 2016, Barcelona, Spain, 22-25.2.2016 CommAgility presented COHERENT by poster in their MWC booth

Introduced COHERENT at internal TCS publication on May 2016 Communication action towards the community of internal experts and developers (> 300 persons) on an internal TCS leaflet about 5G and COHERENT concerning TCS activities of 5G and COHERENT

Presentation to an internal Thales group workshop “5G the next ICT generation” on 15.6. 2016 Organizer: Thales Research and Technology (TRT), a Thales company. The workshop was open to all companies of the Thales group.

Participants from COHERENT: D. Panaitopol, A. Cipriano. Activity: presentation by D. Panaitopol about 5G vision and COHERENT work.

Responded to OfCom Call for Input to 3.8 GHz to 4.2 GHz band: Opportunities for Innovation Led by H. Kokkinen (Fairspectrum), COHERENT provided inputs to OfCom’s call for input to 3.8 GHz to 4.2 GHz band: opportunities for innovation.



Presentation in Ministry of Economic Development workshop in Rome on 22.9.2016 H. Kokkinen, Fairspectrum, gave a presentation in Ministry of Economic Development workshop in Rome.

Participation in Ofcom spectrum event in London on 8.2.2017 Fairspectrum represented COHERENT in Ofcom spectrum event in London

Participation in UK Dynamic Spectrum Access Forum in London on 9.2.2017 Fairspectrum represented COHERENT in UK Dynamic Spectrum Access Forum in London

EC Radio Spectrum Committee Group (RSPG) in Brussels on 23.3.2017 Fairspectrum represented COHERENT and 5G PPP in EC Radio Spectrum Committee Group

Participation in European Commission and LS Telcom spectrum workshop in Brussels on 28.3.2017 Fairspectrum represented COHERENT in European Commission and LS Telcom spectrum workshop in Brussels

Poster presentation at the SICS Open House event 2017 on 17.5.2017 in Stockholm R. Steinert, SICS, introduced the key concepts of COHERENT WP3 and WP5 at the annual SICS Open House event 2017

Presentation in Winncomm Europe on 17-18.5.2017 in Oulu Fairspectrum presented COHERENT in Winncomm Europe

4.2.2 Other activities

Presented COHERENT at IEEE SDN pre-standardization workshop at USA, 16.11.2015 Tao Chen was invited to the event and gave a project presentation with the title “Coordinated Control and Spectrum Management for 5G Heterogeneous Radio Access Networks”

URL: http://sdn.ieee.org/pre-industrial

Participation to ETSI MEC brainstorming session, and contribution to MEC evaluation metrics EURECOM participated in the event representing the project.

IEEE Dyspan Panel on Spectrum crunch below 6GHz? 5G trends M. Matinmikko, VTT, from COHERENT attended the panel discussion as one of the panelists.

Participation in 55th FITCE Congress in Athens on 1.9.2016 G. Agapiou and A. Kostopoulos from OTE and M. Goldhamer from 4GC represented COHERENT at the 55th FITCE Congress in Athens.

Presentations at the IEEE 5G Summit held in Thessaloniki, Greece, 11.7.2017 M. Goldhamer, 4GC, and K. Pentikousis, TP, gave presentations at the event and K. Pentikousis moderated a panel on Global 5G Vision, Standardization and Telecommunication Policies.

VTT participated in a panel at ISWCS 2017, Bologna, Italy, 29.08. 2017 T. Chen participated as panelist and presented COHERENT work on network slicing. Panel title: Network Slicing in 5G: from Theory to Practice.

4.3 Dissemination through advisory board COHERENT has established the following advisory board:

EAG Members Representative Date on board

http://sdn.ieee.org/pre-industrial



Telefonica Research Konstantina Papagiannaki Since 25 January 2016 Deutsche Telekom Konstantinos Chalkiotis Since 1 July 2015 China Mobile Guangyi Liu Since 22 March 2016 Nokia Networks Kari Horneman Since 1 July 2015 Nokia Networks (France) Laurent Roullet Since 2 Feburay 2016 European Communications Office (ECO)

Peter Faris Since 26 April 2016

The project information and key results have been updated to the advisory board through the project plenary meeting or individual meetings and disseminated by the advisors inside their organization or to external events.

4.4 EU-level dissemination and collaboration This chapter outlines the EU-level dissemination activities, focusing on the 5G PPP related activities. 5G PPP initiative provided an essential cooperation framework for COHERENT, enabling the project to influence on EU-level discussions on 5G infrastructure. 4.4.1 5G PPP activities 5G PPP Initiative is formed by a number of H2020 research projects under the 5G PPP Collaboration Agreement. COHERENT contributed to the following Working Groups (WGs) and disseminated the project results through 5G PPP white papers and joint 5G PPP events.

4.4.1.1 Steering Board and Technical Board 5G PPP activities are organized by 5G PPP Steering Board (SB), Technical Board (TB) and specific working groups (WG). Each 5G PPP project has one representative in SB and TB, respectively. From the COHERENT project, Dr. Tao Chen represented COHERENT in 5G PPP SB, and Prof. Aarne Mämmelä in 5G PPP TB.

COHERENT participated regularly in SB and TB telcos and physical meetings, and through this contributed to the discussions on technical aspects of 5G PPP initiative. COHERENT was also involved in KPIs Experts Team and provided input to TB KPI evaluation report, TB project golden nugget summary, TB MWC 2017 white paper, TB PIMRC 2017 workshop paper, as well as to EURO-5G 5G annual journal 2nd issue.

4.4.1.2 5G PPP events COHERENT participated in the following 5G PPP organized events:

5G PPP kick-off event at EuCNC, Paris, 1-2 July 2015

The 5G PPP kick-off event was organized by Commission and 5G PPP Infrastructure Association. All 5G PPP phase-1 projects were participated in the event. Dr. Tao Chen presented in event on behalf of COHERENT and received the interview organized by 5G PPP Infrastructure Association.

METIS-II cross project workshop at Kista, Sweden, 28-29 September 2015

The workshop was organized by METIS-II cross project user case and RAN working group, which is 5G PPP working group dedicated for 5G use cases. The workshop mainly discussed the status and plan of the working group on 5G use cases, spectrum and 5G RAN performance evaluation. Dr. Tao Chen, VTT, Aarne Mämmelä, VTT, Roberto Riggio, CREATE-NET, participated in the workshop.

5G PPP project demo at Globecom, San Diego, 7 December 2015

5G PPP Architecture working group organized the project video demo event at Globecom 2015. The booth was arranged to show 5G PPP project concepts by video. The 5G PPP brochure was distributed in the conference. Dr. Tao Chen participated in the event and presented the COHERENT project idea at the booth.

5G PPP Architecture Open Workshop at Brussels, 6 April 2016



The workshop was organized by 5G PPP Architecture working group. The workshop aimed to provide 5G related communities, e.g., satellite communities, and other non-5G PPP EU projects the opportunity to give opinions on how 5G architecture should be defined in the 5G PPP architecture white paper. The white paper was planned to release in the first Global 5G Event at Beijing, in June 2016. Dr. Tao Chen, VTT, and Dr. Fang-Chun Kuo, EICT, participated in the workshop. Dr. Kuo presented the summary of the softwarization section of the white paper.

5G PPP Architecture Workshop at EuCNC, Athens, 28-30 June 2016

5G PPP Architecture working group organized the workshop. The workshop presented the 1st version of 5G PPP Architecture White Paper. Dr. Tao Chen, as the section editor of the white paper, presented the main topics in Section of Software Networks.

EC multilateral event on 5G Standards & Spectrum at ICT 2015 Lisbon, 20 October 2016

Dr. Tao Chen represented the COHERENT project in the event. The event was attended by major 5G industrial initiatives in the world and notably the 5G Public Private Partnership of Europe, 5GMF of Japan, 5G Forum of Korea, IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group of China, 4G Americas of the USA, in order to identify how cooperation across these industrial initiative may support the standardization and spectrum identification processes.

The first Global 5G Event at Beijing, 30 May - 1 June 2016

Dr. Tao Chen represented the COHERENT project in the event. The event was co-organized by 5G PPP Insfrastructure Association, IMT-2020 promotion group China, 5GMF Japan, 5G Forum Korea, and 5G Americas (USA). There were around 500 participants from around the world, representing industry, government, research institutes, universities, and different 5G associations in 4 regions.

The second Global 5G Event at Roma, 9-10 November 2016

This second Global 5G Event was organized in Europe, by the same 5G promotion groups as in the first event, which include 5G PPP Insfrastructure Association, IMT-2020 Promotion Group, 5GMF, 5GForum, and 5G Americas. The event attracted over hundred high-profile participants from Europe, Asia and USA. VTT, CREATE-NET and Fairspectrum co-organized the COHERENT booth in the event. CREATE-NET provided the COHERETN demo.

5G PPP Cross-Project workshop, Athens, Greece, February 2017

The workshop, jointly organized by a set of 5G PPP Phase 1 projects after the initiative of METIS-II, was the third in the series. COHERENT contributed to the session on Use cases, models & performance. George Agapiou, OTE, presented the project findings.

5G PPP Workshop “Spectrum for 5G”, Brussels, Belgium, 7 June 2017

COHERENT joined the workshop on Spectrum for 5G organized by 5G PPP. The workshop presented the recent research on 5G spectrum, especially leveraging the 5G PPP projects advancements. Miia Mustonen, VTT, represented COHERENT in a panel discussion on Management of 5G spectrum.

5G PPP Workshop “Software Networks and 5G,” Oulu, Finland, 12 June 2017

This full-day workshop was organized by 5G PPP Software Network working group. The workshop summarized the Software Network WG activities, and provided project presenations on infrastructure virtualization, network orchestration, and programmability. Tao Chen, VTT, presented COHERENT results on network slicing at RAN.



2nd 5G PPP Workshop 5G PHY/MAC Layers Design and Hardware Aspects Below and Above 6 GHz, Oulu, Finland, 12 June 2017

Aarne Mämmelä, VTT, gave a keynote speech titled “Why Will Computing Power Need Particular Attention in Future Wireless Devices?” during the workshop. Workshop was organized by FANTASTIC5G, Speed5G, Flex5Gware and held at EuCNC 2017.

4.4.1.3 5G PPP working groups The main cooperation of 5G PPP projects is conducted through WGs. COHERENT participated actively in the following groups: Pre-Standardization WG Description of WG: Identify standardization and regulatory bodies to align with e.g. ETSI, 3GPP, IEEE and other relevant standards bodies, & ITU-R (incl. WPs) and WRC (including e.g. ECC PT1). Develop a roadmap of relevant standardization and regulatory topics for 5G: Evaluate existing roadmaps at international level; Propose own roadmap for 5G being aligned at international level. Influencing pre-standardization on 5G and related R&D: Potentially propose where topics should be standardized; Influence timing on R&D work programs (e.g. EC WPs)

COHERENT contributions:

• Participated in regular WG telcos • Provided project inputs to WG 2015-2017 activities report • Provided inputs to project standardization contribution tracking file

Spectrum WG Description of WG: Promote research results in the spectrum area obtained by 5G PPP/H2020 projects as well as relevant FP7 projects, Setting up of a dialogue between 5G PPP projects concerning potential synergies and common interests across projects in spectrum related issues, Pursue the convergence of results on spectrum topics from the different projects to maximize the achievable outcome towards relevant technical bodies, Establish a knowledge base from European and other Global project results concerning advances in spectrum research, Liaise with spectrum groups or entities in regulatory bodies and industry associations, Work for improved understanding of collaborative spectrum research importance.


• Participated in regular WG telcos and physical meetings • Provided contributions to WG white papers • Provided project view on 5G pioneer bands • Participated in WG organized workshop “Spectrum for 5G” at Brussels, 7.6.2017 • Presented the technical paper in WG organized special session “Spectrum for 5G” at EuCNC 2017, 13.6.2017

5G Architecture WG Description of WG: The goal of this Working Group is to serve as a common platform to facilitate the discussion between 5G PPP projects developing architectural concepts and components and foster the discussions on the basis of the KPI’s described in the 5G PPP contract. The group could also facilitate consensus building on the 5G architecture.


• Participated in regular WG telcos and physical meetings • Presented COHERENT architecture in WG telcos. • Participated in the WG organized project video demo event at Globecom 2015. • Provided contributions to WG 1st and 2nd version of white papers • Acted as a section editor of WG 1st white paper on 5G architecture • Participated in WG organized workshop for white paper preparation, the first version, 4-5 April 2016



• Participated in 5G PPP Architecture open workshop at Brussels, 6 April 2016 • Presented COHERENT Architecture in 5G Architecture WG virtual workshop, 8.3.2017 • Participated in the WG organized two-day workshop for white paper preparation, the second version, 15-

16.5.2017

Software Network WG Description of WG: The purpose of this WG is to analyze and address unification and applicability of key research topics related to Software Networking including software defined concepts, infrastructures, systems and components for Wire and- Wireless Networks, including Networked Clouds, IoT and Services, i.e. Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) as developed and promoted by the 5G PPP projects.


• Participated in regular WG telcos • Presented COHERENT project in WG telcos. • Provided contributions to WG white paper • Presented COHERENT network slicing results in WG organized workshop “Software Networks and 5G” at

EuCNC 2017, 12.6.2017

Network Management WG Description of WG: Network Management WG has two focus areas: Network Management aims to maintain the operations of the network in a manner that ensures that the required services are properly delivered to the users, that an expected quality of service is enforced for delivering such services to the end user and that security is maintained. To do so, network management is mainly focused on the control plane of the network to make sure all the services and operations running in the data plane are working properly; Quality of Service covers areas such as networking, packet scheduling, traffic adaption and any other technique implemented in both data and control plane to make sure an expected quality of service is implemented for the delivery of services to the end user (bandwidth, low latency, mobility and availability)


• Participated in regular WG telcos • Provided contributions to WG white papers • Participated in WG organized workshops

METIS-II cross project user case and RAN working group Description of WG: METIS-II project organizes specific working group on user case harmonization and RAN design. The WG is open to 5G PPP projects. However, the structure of the WG is different from other 5G PPP WG. The activities are mainly organized by METIS-II partners. The WG released a white paper on 5G use cases, with the inputs from several 5G PPP projects.

COHERENT contributions: • Participated in METIS-II cross project workshop at Kista and presented the project overview, 28-29

September 2015. • Participated in the discussions of use case harmonization and provided project inputs. • Participated in regular WG telcos. • Participated in the 5G PPP group meeting in Athens, Greece with a presentation on the COHERENT use

cases on RAN and spectrum sharing.

4.4.1.4 5G PPP community building and communication calls COHERENT participated regularly to the 5G PPP community building and communication telcos. This was a fruitful way to exchange information among the 5G PPP projects on important events and dissemination opportunities, as well as to promote COHERENT dissemination efforts through 5G PPP channels



5 Conclusions This report summarizes the dissemination achievements of the COHERENT project. Over the 33-month duration of COHERENT, the partners disseminated effectively and widely the project concept as well as the overall outcomes. The dissemination efforts were performed in accordance to the Initial Dissemination Plan (M7.2). COHERENT achieved all the dissemination targets set in the dissemination plan. The number of academic publications is noteworthy.The project partners published project results in 20 journal papers and 5 on books. Resulting from the conference or workshop papers, overall 57 papers were published or accepted to be published in conference proceedings. The project successfully organized or co-organised 7 workshops. Furthermore to key dissemination achievements include 4 tutorials and keynotes, 9 demonstrations in different events, 16 presentations in industry forums or other ICT related events. Beside this, COHERENT partners have actively participated in the 5G PPP working groups and events. COHERENT contributed to different WG white papers, presented project results in several 5G PPP related workshops and sessions and liaised with other 5G PPP projects. Overall, the academic and industry dissemination as well as collaboration within 5G PPP initiative gave the project widespread visibility within the scientific and stakeholder communities, ensuring that the project results will be taken up.

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