GRANT AGREEMENT NO.: 732174 - orca-project.eu · The ORCA Work Package 8, WP8, is dedicated to “Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation” and aims at defining, maintaining

GRANT AGREEMENT NO.: 732174

Call: H2020-ICT-2016-2017

Topic: ICT-13-2016

Type of action: RIA

Orchestration and Reconfiguration Control Architecture

D8.4: Report on Dissemination and

Communication activities (Year 2)

Revision: v.1.0

Work package WP 8

Task Task 8.1, 8.2

Due date 31/12/2018

Submission date 21/12/2018

Deliverable lead MARTEL

Version 1.0

Authors M. Trestini (MARTEL), Miguel Alarcon (MARTEL)

Reviewers Ingrid Moerman (IMEC)

Abstract This deliverable describes the dissemination and communication

activities pursued by the ORCA partners in Y2 to guarantee broad

D8.4: Second Report on Dissemination, and communication activities. Year 2

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and effective visibility, promotion and up-take of the project’s work

and outcomes. It also outlines the activities planned for Y3

Keywords Dissemination, communication, events, impact creation.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The ORCA Work Package 8, WP8, is dedicated to “Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation”

and aims at defining, maintaining and coordinating the appropriate mechanisms and tools ensuring

broad visibility and impact of the project’s work and results. The main objective is to promote the

developed project’s concepts and technologies, including the four main show cases the consortium’s

partners are focusing on. Furthermore ORCA Dissemination Plan defines and reports on the promotion

of the five Open Calls, which are planned throughout the project: three Open Calls for Experiments

and two Open Calls for Extensions. In Year 2 three Open Calls have been launched and widely

disseminated: The First Open Call for Experiments, the Second Open Call for Extensions and the

Second Open Call for Experiments.

This deliverable describes how ORCA has followed, in Y2, a comprehensive and effective approach to

dissemination and promotion activities as per the strategy defined in D8.1

During the second year of the ORCA project, the consortium has harvested fruitful results from a wide

range of dissemination and promotion activities. The different communication channels and

dissemination tools identified at the beginning of the project were used in order to promote the main

news, activities and results of the ORCA project. The key activities are listed as follows:

• ORCA organized the Second Engagement Workshop at the third FED4FIRE+ Engineering

Conference (FEC) on 13-15th March 2018, in Paris, France, with the title “The ORCA project:

bridging SDR and SDN”.

• ORCA has participated in 9 relevant external events and present itself to relevant stakeholders

• 16 scientific publications have been published presenting advances marked by ORCA and 7

demonstrations were conducted

• The First Open Call for Experiments, the Second Open Call for Extensions and the Second

Open Call for Experiments were launched between January and December 2018 and widely

communicated

• The outcomes/results of the project during Year 2 has contributed to 2 types of

Standardisation

• In total, ORCA has widely promoted its results and activities to more than 2000 stakeholders

(including subscribers to social media channels, website visitors and mailing lists of both

NGI-EXP, 5G PPP among others).

For the third year of the project, the strategic perspective of the ORCA dissemination and

communication effort will continue to serve the overall success of the ORCA project and maximize

the impact within the communities of target stakeholders. Such effort includes:

• Launch of the 3rd Open Call for Experiments

• Continuation of the active promotion of the activity of the project through different channels

• Development of online tutorials

• Publication of scientific articles and presentations in international peer-reviewed journals and

conferences

• Contribution to Standardisation

• Support the results uptake beyond the project’s lifetime



TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................3

TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................................................4

LIST OF FIGURES ...............................................................................................................................5

LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................8

1 DISSEMINATION ACHIEVEMENTS M13-M24 (JAN-DEC 2018) ................................9

1.1 Objectives .................................................................................................................................9

1.2 Target Audience ........................................................................................................................9

1.3 Promotional Materials.............................................................................................................10

1.4 Online Dissemination .............................................................................................................16

1.5 Workshops Organized in Year 2 .............................................................................................23

1.6 Events attended .......................................................................................................................23

IMEC, KUL, RUTGERS, NI, TCD .......................................................................................................24

TCD 24

1.7 Journals and Conference Publications ....................................................................................32

1.8 Open Calls Dissemination ......................................................................................................35

1.9 ORCA in the press ..................................................................................................................38

1.10 Exploitation and Standardization Contributions .....................................................................39

1.11 New liasons .............................................................................................................................43

1.12 KPIs, Deliverables and Milestones .........................................................................................43

2 PLAN OF ACTIVITIES M25-M36 (JANUARY 2019- DEC 2019) .................................46

2.1 Dissemination Campaign for Open Calls ...............................................................................46

2.2 Conferences and Workshops ..................................................................................................47

2.3 Journals and Conference Publications ....................................................................................48

2.4 Online Tutorials, Training Materials and Video .....................................................................48

3 CONCLUSIONS ...................................................................................................................49



LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: Screenshot of the ORCA’s flyer .............................................................................................11

Figure 2: Screenshot of the ORCA’s roll-up ..........................................................................................11

Figure 3: Screenshot of the ORCA’s Posters .........................................................................................13

Figure 4: Screenshot of the video “ORCA team awarded at the DARPA Challenge” ..........................14

Figure 5: Screenshot of the video presenting Showcase 2 .....................................................................15

Figure 6: Screenshot of the video presenting Showcase 4 .....................................................................15

Figure 7: Website Statistics Traffic Overview .......................................................................................16

Figure 8: Website Statistics Visit Duration ............................................................................................16

Figure 9: Website Statistics Top Visited pages ......................................................................................17

Figure 10: Website Statistics Visit Devices ...........................................................................................17

Figure 11: Screenshot of the ORCA Twitter Account ...........................................................................18

Figure 12: Analytics of the newsletter mailing ......................................................................................19

Figure 13: Screenshot of the ORCA Fourth Newsletter .........................................................................21

Figure 14: Screenshot of the ORCA Fifth Newsletter ............................................................................21

Figure 15: Screenshot of the ORCA Sixth Newsletter ...........................................................................22

Figure 16: Ivan Seskar presenting at the ORCA 2nd Engagement Workshop (FEC 3, Paris, March

2018) ......................................................................................................................................................23

Figure 17: NI Booth with Flexible Real-Time SDR Testbed for MAC and PHY. ................................26

Figure 18: Dr Ingrid Moerman presenting at the GEFI in Tokyo ..........................................................27

Figure 19: Online promotion of the ORCA workshop at CROWNCOM ..............................................28

Figure 20: ORCA Demo at 5G Summit in Dresden ...............................................................................28

Figure 21: 5G Lab Summer School 2018 ...............................................................................................29

Figure 22: TUD team assembling Vodafone robot ................................................................................30

Figure 23: ORCA’s demo presented at the imec Technology Forum ....................................................31

Figure 24: ORCA’s demo at the HP booth at the Mobile World Congress 2018 ..................................32

Figure 25: ORCA’s Twitter post promoting the webinar presenting the 1st Open Call for Experiments

................................................................................................................................................................35

Figure 26: ORCA’s Twitter post promoting the 2nd Open Call for Extensions .....................................36

Figure 27: ORCA’s Flyer promoting the 2nd Open Call for Extensions ................................................37

Figure 28: ORCA’s twit congratulating the winners of 2nd Open Call for Extensions ..........................38

Figure 29: ORCA’s flyer promoting the Second Open Call for Experiments .......................................38

Figure 30: Portrait of Prof Luiz Da Silva, featured in the TechCentral.ie on Line article .....................39

Figure 31: L1/L2 API as part of the features of the new LTE Application Framework 2.2 with added

hardware support for the USRP 2974 ....................................................................................................40



Figure 32: Additional SDR system support for an SDR system with integrated embedded controller:

The USRP 2974. .....................................................................................................................................41

Figure 33 Team SCATTER is on of the 6 prize winners in the 2nd phase of DARPA Spectrum

Collaboration Challenge .........................................................................................................................42

Figure 34: ORCA Open Calls timeline ..................................................................................................46

Figure 35: A screenshot of the storyboard of ORCA General Public Video .........................................48



LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: Events attended by ORCA in Y2 .............................................................................................25

Table 2: Publications in Year 2 (M13-M24) ..........................................................................................34

Table 3: Dissemination & Communication KPIs ...................................................................................44

Table 4: WP8 Deliverables and Milestones ...........................................................................................45

Table 5: External Events ORCA plans to attend in 2019 .......................................................................47

Table 6: Planned Publications M25-M36 ...............................................................................................48



INTRODUCTION

D8.4 is the Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities for Year 2. This document provides in

detail the dissemination and communication activities performed during the second year of the project

(January to December 2018). It also presents a series of actions planned for the third year (January to

December 2019). The grounding of such activities was clearly defined and guided by both the

Description of Action (DoA), Deliverable (D) 8.1 – Dissemination, and communication strategy and

plan, Deliverable (D) 8.3 – First Report on Dissemination and communication activities. The purpose

of the current deliverable is therefore two-folded:

1. to report on the ORCA project’s dissemination and communication activities held from month

13 to month 24, i.e. January – December 2018; that is an intermediate report covering the

second year of the project; and

2. to lay out the plan for ORCA’s Year 3 (January – December 2019) activities related to

dissemination and communication, ensuring the fulfillment of targets and supporting the

successful conclusion of the project.

To further detail the dissemination and communication activities conducted during Year 2 and the plan

for Year 3, the remaining part of the document is organised as follows:

• Section 1 focus on activities undertaken and followed in the 2nd Year of the project.

• Section 2 foresees planned activities in the third year of the ORCA project.

• Section 3 briefly summarises the key points of the document and orient towards future tasks.



1 DISSEMINATION ACHIEVEMENTS M13-M24 (JAN-DEC 2018)

1.1 Objectives

The main objectives that the ORCA dissemination and communication activities are pursuing can be

summarized as follows:

• To promote broad visibility of the project’s work and disseminate its results to the

FED4FIRE+, NGI, 5G PPP communities and beyond, while contributing to promote the

overall Future Connectivity Systems Unit offering for increased uptake by innovative players.

• To create and maintain the ORCA project web site, the media communication channels

and the planned dissemination tools to effectively promote the ORCA’s work and guarantee

broad visibility of the project within the whole scientific and innovation Future Internet

landscape.

• To participate to and organize events to maximise the dissemination of the information to

target stakeholders and promotion of ORCA’s Open Calls and project’s results. The Second

Engagement Workshop was held at FEC 3 on 13-15 March, 2018 in Paris, where the Second

Open Call for Extensions was launched. At the time of writing, the partners are discussing and

evaluating which event should be chosen to collocate the ORCA Final Assessment Workshop

in Q4 2019.

• To assist in the organisation and promotion of the ORCA Open Calls, as a means to

broadly promote and validate the ORCA research outcomes and collect feedback from the

work performed by the participants to the competition.

• To establish liaisons with related initiatives and projects both within the ORCA

programme context and in related initiatives, including in particular the 5G PPP, 5G-ACIA,

FED4FIRE+ and NGI communities, for mutual exchange of know‐how and broad visibility of

the ORCA’s work. Contribution to related Open Source initiatives and Standardisation

activities, with a specific focus on 5G PPP, ETSI working groups, WinnF and possibly IETF.

1.2 Target Audience

We have identified the following main target groups.

• New experimenters that could potentially join Fed4FIRE+, especially Small and Medium-

sized players, in the cognitive radio domain that could benefit from the ORCA concepts,

technologies and testbeds to experiment, test and speed up the time-to-market for new

applications and services.

• Innovators and researchers both in the academic and corporate R&D&I domains working

on resources allocation and optimization in dynamic and densely populated wireless

networking domains.

• Industrial players, including small to medium and large organisations, covering industry

manufacturers, telecommunications operators and service providers, such as, but not limited

to, the 5G PPP members and associated members, and industrial organizations that have

participated in former FIRE programme.

• The General public and the society as a whole including citizens, students, public



authorities, etc. that could benefit from enhanced wireless connectivity serving at social

inclusion and engagement.

• Standardization bodies ORCA is uniquely situated to make contributions to open source

initiatives and standardization. The partners involved in the project have already established

good working relations with spectrum regulators through several years of related work.

• In relation to the selected showcases, target players are also industrial players, SMEs and

researchers in the fields of smart factories, robots-to-human interaction, SDRs, SDN, service-

aware wireless infrastructures that could uptake and/or complement and extend the ORCA

technologies.

1.3 Promotional Materials

The ORCA project supports impact creation activities through a number of dissemination channels

and marketing materials. Presentation of different channels and materials developed during Year 2 is

included in this subsection.

Project Flyer, Roll-up and Posters

As presented in D8.3 ORCA updated the project’s flyer, which was developed in Year 1. In Year 2

800 copies have been distributed online and offline.



Figure 1: Screenshot of the ORCA’s flyer

Following the same design and conceptual approach the project developed a roll-up, which has been

used at several events (including EuCNC 2018, CROWNCOM, CEBIT etc).

Figure 2: Screenshot of the ORCA’s roll-up



ORCA realised two posters specifically thought for the ORCA’s booth at the EuCNC 2018 in

Ljubljana, Slovenia. The first poster describes the ORCA low latency SDR Solution while the second

one the SDR Platform for prototyping real-time wireless networks (see the images below).



Figure 3: Screenshot of the ORCA’s Posters

Video

In Year 2 we released three videos which have been updated on the ORCA YouTube channel and

mirrored on ORCA’s website. They are available to all the partners to use them at presentations and

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-YlHZgmPE6DJBoLRnDQlPw



events. So far the ORCA YouTube Channel already reached 550 views.

• The video “ORCA team awarded at the DARPA Challenge” presents an interview to Dr Ingrid

Moerman and Ivan Seskar, presenting the work carried out by the SCATTER team, who won

the 5th prize at the DARPA Challenge 2018. It was published in June 2018 and presented at

the EuCNC 2018.

Figure 4: Screenshot of the video “ORCA team awarded at the DARPA Challenge”

• The video “Low Latency Industrial Communication by ORCA SDR” was filmed at the

EuCNC 2018, in Ljubljana and published in late July 2018. It presents ORCA Showcase 2:

Low Latency Industrial Communication by ORCA SDR, explained by Muhammad Aslam

(IMEC)



Figure 5: Screenshot of the video presenting Showcase 2

• The video “Showcase 4: SDR Platform for Prototyping of Real-Time Wireless Networks” is

explained by Vincent Kotzsch (National Instruments Dresden) was filmed at the EuCNC

2018.

Figure 6: Screenshot of the video presenting Showcase 4



1.4 Online Dissemination

Website

ORCA’s official web portal (http://orca-project.eu) was set up at the beginning of the project (M1).

At the time of writing this deliverable (mid December 2018), the website has yielded 6,592 unique

visitors, who generated 24,344 page views (20,209 unique page views). The average of page view per

user is approximately 2.11 (pages). Regarding specific pages on the website, the most popular one

(except the homepage) is the “Open Call” page, with 2,291 views (1,878 unique page views)

The figures below provide the details: Figure 7 (Traffic Overview), Figure 8 (Visit Duration), Figure 9

(Top Visited Pages) and Figure 10 (Visit Devices).

Figure 7: Website Statistics Traffic Overview

Figure 8: Website Statistics Visit Duration



Figure 9: Website Statistics Top Visited pages

Figure 10: Website Statistics Visit Devices

The website contents have been constantly updated with the projects’ news, events, publications and

new promotional resources made timely available online.

Social Media

The social media activity has been concentrated on Twitter (@ORCA_project_) and LinkedIn

(https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8589461) Group. These social media channels are a powerful tool

to disseminate the most relevant information about the project reaching specific audiences.

Twitter

So far, ORCA’s Twitter account has attracted 247 followers (including project partners, similar

projects, interested stakeholders, etc). Among all around 600 Tweets have been posted. ORCA also

follows 73 accounts, mostly initiatives and organisations in similar fields or of approximate nature

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8589461



where partners have been involved. Figure 11 shows the current homepage of the ORCA Twitter

account.

Figure 11: Screenshot of the ORCA Twitter Account



LinkedIn

LinkedIn has been active since the beginning of the project and has gathered 34 members so far. It is

mostly used to share the latest progress of ORCA, echoing key promotional messages from Twitter

and the Project website. It has posted a total of 25 discussions.

Newsletter

As anticipated, 6 Newsletters have been edited and distributed to stakeholders through ORCA’s

mailing lists as well as made available on the project website. So far, 93 stakeholders have subscribed

to receive ORCA’s Newsletters. In terms of further analysis on the efficiency of the communication,

the figure below shows that we have a very good ratio of opens and clicks (average are around 25%

opens and 10% clicks):

Figure 12: Analytics of the newsletter mailing

1) Newsletter 4 (April 2018)

The fourth newsletter of ORCA, published in April, has announced the 2nd Open Call for extensions as

well as the winners of the 1st ORCA Open Call for extensions. The following is a screenshots of

ORCA’s 4th Newsletter.





Figure 13: Screenshot of the ORCA Fourth Newsletter

2) Newsletter 5 (August 2018)

The fifth newsletter of ORCA, published in August 2018, has announced the winners of the 2nd Open

Call for extensions as well as the participation to several events:

Figure 14: Screenshot of the ORCA Fifth Newsletter



3) Newsletter 6 (November 2018)

The sixth newsletter of ORCA, published in November 2018, announced the extension of the

submission deadlines for the 2nd Open Call for extensions as well the ORCA white paper.

Figure 15: Screenshot of the ORCA Sixth Newsletter



1.5 Workshops Organized in Year 2

Second Engagement Workshop

The Second Engagement Workshop was held at the third FED4FIRE+ Engineering Conference (FEC)

on 13-15th March 2018, in Paris, France, with the title “The ORCA project: bridging SDR and SDN”.

Around 80 people attended. Dr Ivan Seskar, (Rutgers University), introduced the project and presented

how ORCA project offers mature, real-time and versatile SDR platforms in advanced FED4FIRE

compliant wireless test facilities. In order to establish end-to-end connectivity with true QoS

guarantees coping with extreme (ultra-low latency, ultra-high throughput, ultra-high reliability)

and diverging (low AND high data rate, time-critical AND non-time critical) communication needs in

different vertical markets, ORCA offers a control plane allowing more efficient allocation of spectral

resources for services that share the same wireless infrastructure and/or spectral bands. It also

discussed how SDN can benefit from advanced SDR functionality for end-to-end slicing.

Figure 16: Ivan Seskar presenting at the ORCA 2nd Engagement Workshop (FEC 3, Paris, March 2018)

1.6 Events attended

Event Name Date,

Place

Type of

Audience

Approx

size of

Audience

Activity run Partner

Mobile World

Congress 2018

26 Feb -1

March

Barcelona

Industry,

Policy

makers,

Researchers

500 Demo TUD

IMEC

Technology

Forum

23-24

May

Antwerp

Researchers,

Industry 100 Demo IMEC



MobiSys 2018

10-15

June

Munich,

Germany

Policy

Makers,

Researchers

60 Panel

presentation IMEC

EuCNC 2018

18-21June

Ljubljana

Slovenia

Policy

Makers,

Researchers

200 Demo booth and

presentation

IMEC,

MARTEL,

KUL, TUD,

NI

CEBIT 2018

11-15

June

Hannover

Germany

Industry 500 Demo TUD

ISWCS 2018

28-31

August

Lisbon

Portugal

Policy

Makers,

Researchers,

Industry

50 Panel

presentation

IMEC,

TCD

IEEE 5G Summit

Dresden

25 Sept

Dresden

Policy

Makers,

Researchers

100 Demo TUD, NI

5G Lab Summer

School

19-25

Sept

Dresden

Policy

Makers,

Researchers

100 Demo TUD

CROWNCOM

18-20

Sept

Ghent

Researchers,

Industry 60

Workshop,

Tutorial and

demo

IMEC,

KUL,

RUTGERS,

NI, TCD

CROWNCOM

18-20

Sept

Ghent

Researchers,

Industry 60 Tutorial TCD

Fed4FIRE

engineering

conference

8-9

October,

Brugge,

BE

Research 50 Panel KUL

CWTe 2018

Research Retreat

10

October

Eindhove

n NL

Researchers 200 Keynote

presentation IMEC

Smart System 11 Researchers 150 Invited IMEC



Summit 2018 October

Eindhove

n NL

Industry presentation

GEFI 2018 25-26 Oct

Tokyo

Researchers,

Industry 50 Workshop

IMEC,

RUTGERS

Asilomar

Conference on

Signals, Systems

and Computers

28-31

October

Pacific

Grove,

CA

Research 150 Invited papers KUL

NI Days

31

October,

Eindhove

n, NL

Research,

Industry 50 SDR Track

NI, KUL,

TUT (OC

partner)

IEEE

GLOBECOM

2018

9-13

December

Abu

Dhabi

UAE

Research,

Industry 80

Workshop,

Paper TUD, NI

Table 1: Events attended by ORCA in Y2

IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, 9-13 December 2018, Abu Dhabi (UAE)

ORCA was presented at GLOBECOM, in Abu Dhabi, from 9th – 13th December 2018. The

consortium showcased Year 2 contributions related to the ns3-based Multi-RAT platform and low-

latency SDR technology at the NI booth. Additionally, members of the ORCA consortium were part of

two panels, namely “5G Network Slice Management” and “Large Scale Wireless Testbeds – Scaling

the Experiment”.

http://globecom2017.ieee-globecom.org/



Figure 17: NI Booth with Flexible Real-Time SDR Testbed for MAC and PHY.

Fed4FIRE engineering conference, October 8-9, Brugge, BE

ORCA was presented during a panel on experimentation in the Fed4FIRE engineering conference on

October 8-9 in Brugge, Belgium. The main objective was to show that end-to-end networking with

SDR are becoming a reality, and have a lot of relevance in the IoT context as well as the 5G context.

SDR Track at NI Days, October 31, Eindhoven, NL

ORCA was driving the SDR track during the Eindhoven edition of the NI days. KUL presented there

“End-to-end networking with SDR: the ORCA ambition and a full duplex-SDR example”, and Lauri

Antilla from Tampere University presented their results on the first ORCA open calls for extension. A

nice synergy between main and open call ORCA partners.

Asilomar 28-31 October, Pacific Grove, USA

ORCA was presented by means of two invited papers to the Asilomar conference, one in the Massive

MIMO session and one in the full duplex session:

• Andrea Guevara, Cheng-Ming Chen, Sofie Pollin, “Hardware and Spectrum Sharing for

Distributed Massive MIMO.”

• Seyed Ali Hassani, Andrea Guevara, Karthick Parashar, Andre Bourdoux, Barend Van

Liempd, Sofie Pollin, “An In-Band Full-Duplex Transceiver for Simultaneous

Communication and Environmental Sensing.”

GEFI, 25-26 October, Tokyo, Japan

The third Global Experimentation for Future Internet workshop in 2018, Ingrid Moerman presenting

the ORCA project white paper “Orchestrating Next-Generation Services through End-to-End Network

Slicing" during the talk “ORCA vision on softwarization, virtualization and end-to-end slicing” in



Tokyo on 25th October the The Global Experimentation for Future (GEFI) conference. And Ivan

Seskar presenting on topic “integrating implementation frameworks for edge network applications”.

Figure 18: Dr Ingrid Moerman presenting at the GEFI in Tokyo

CROWNCOM, 18-20 September, Ghent

ORCA organised a workshop during the CROWNCOM 2018, the 13th EAI International Conference

on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks that will be held in September 18-20, 2018. Ghent,

Belgium. The workshop itself will take place on the 18th September from 11h00 to 12h30

This workshop will present some advanced SDR capabilities and how these capabilities can be used

by wireless innovators from academia and industry to increase spectrum efficiency and end-to-end

performance in verticals that have to cope with extreme and diverging communication needs.

http://crowncom.org/



Figure 19: Online promotion of the ORCA workshop at CROWNCOM

5G Summit, 25 September, Dresden

The Dresden 5Gsummit on September 25 united people from different segments such as industry

leaders, innovators and researchers from both academic community and industry. The event

approached 5G in a unique holistic manner with various presentations and demonstrators. The ORCA

low latency flexible GFDM PHY applied to 1ms robot communication system demonstrator was

presented attracting the public attention.

Figure 20: ORCA Demo at 5G Summit in Dresden



5G Lab Summer School, 19-25 September, Dresden

The 5G Lab Summer School 2018 took place in Dresden in September 19-25, 2018 attracting people

from industry and academy. Among other topics, the ORCA GFDM PHY was present to the attendees,

where aspects such as synchronization, channel estimation, advanced waveforms and implementation

were considered, with a mixture of theoretical and practical activities, including a tutorial on how to

utilize the Online Wireless Lab (OWL) ORCA testbed.

Figure 21: 5G Lab Summer School 2018

CEBIT, 11-15 June, Hannover, 2018

The wireless link connecting the two arms of the Vodafone robot demonstrator presented at CEBIT

2018 uses technologies developed by the eWINE and the ORCA projects. In the video published

online by Vodafone Deutschland, one robot arm is manually controlled, whereas the second arm is

connected via a low latency link, ready to copy any movement. During the event, the visitor can

experience the seamless remote operation of the second arm. The goal is to grasp different cubes and

puzzle them together.



Figure 22: TUD team assembling Vodafone robot

MobiSys, May 10-15 2017, Munich, Germany

During the 16th edition of the ACM international Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and

Services (MobiSys), Ingrid Moerman has presented the ORCA vision on end-to-end design of

networked SDR systems thereby highlighting the differences between current SDN approaches and

SDR capabilities. One of the targets of ORCA is to encourage SDR and SDN communities to join

forces through joint experimentation by giving access to advanced software platforms, that support

realistic end-to-end scenarios (beyond PHY, beyond single link) and that offer hardware performance

(through hardware acceleration) with software control (through reconfigurability and

reprogrammability capabilities).

Inspired by DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge, where two ORCA partners are participating

as Team SCATTER, also some thoughts were shared how to improve spectrum spectrum usage by

adding distributed intelligent control and some suggestions were made to rethink the role of

standardisation from fragmented single technology evolutions towards common coordination

mechanisms across technologies.

imec Technology Forum, 23-24 May, Antwerp, Belgium

ORCA project was present during the imec Technology Forum 2018 in May 23-24 2018 in Antwerp,

Belgium, ORCA presented the demo “Flexible and low-latency radio”. Wireless communication is a

key enabling technology for the implementation of advanced manufacturing systems. However

existing wireless solutions do not perform adequately regarding real-time and reliability needs,

especially for industrial applications requiring closed-loop control. The SDR-TAISC prototyping

platform from IDLab, an IMEC research group at Ghent University, tackles this problem by

integrating software with hardware acceleration, hence combining the flexibility of software with the

https://www.imectechnologyforum.com/



performance of hardware. By doing so, the platform operates beyond standard performance and

without making radio design more complex.

Figure 23: ORCA’s demo presented at the imec Technology Forum

Mobile World Congress, 26 February – 1st March, Barcelona , Spain

In collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), ORCA’s demo was presented at Mobile

World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona. The demo was showing two 5G use cases (Real-time

control as well as video streaming) that were being addressed by a flexible base station equipped with

edge cloud. The combination of flexible GFDM PHY implementation on USRP RIO that could

shorten the packet length down to 12μs long, together with edge computing via HPE Edgeline EL4000

allowed to achieve a roundtrip latency of 1-2 ms for real-time control of a self-balancing robot. On the

other hand, due to the flexibility of GFDM PHY, the base station could simultaneously accommodate

a video streaming user by changing the waveform configuration in real-time in form of TDD network

slicing.

The demo was presented to three major types of audiences i.e. important persons with formal

invitation, MWC tours and exhibition visitors. Among them, high level executive managers from

industry e.g. TIM, Qualcomm, Nokia, Immersion4, Schneider Electric, NM-2 (participant of ORCA’s

open call), etc. gave positive and constructive comments on how 5G can benefit from edge computing.

In addition, ORCA’s open calls were also promoted in MWC.

http://mobileworldcongress.com/

http://mobileworldcongress.com/



Figure 24: ORCA’s demo at the HP booth at the Mobile World Congress 2018

1.7 Journals and Conference Publications

ORCA’s partners have been particularly active in submitting scientific papers to conference

publications and scientific journal, starting from M1 of the project. In 2018 12 papers have been

published already and they can be found on ORCA’s website in the Scientific Publications area.

Publication title/topic Submission to Leading

Partner

Joao F. Santos, Jonathan van de

Belt, Wei Liu, Vincent Kotzsch,

Gerhard Fettweis, Ivan Seskar,

Sofie Pollin, Ingrid Moerman, Luiz

A. DaSilva and Johann Marquez-

Barja, “Orchestrating Next-

Generation Services through end-

to-end network slicing”

ORCA whitepaper presented

at Third Global

Experimentation for Future

Internet (GEFI 2018)

Workshop

TCD, IMEC

Walter Nitzold, Clemens Felber

and Vincent Kotzsch, “Multi-RAT

Experimentation below 6 GHz” CROWNCOM 2018 NI

R. Bomfin, D. Zhang, M. Matthé IEEE Communications TUD

https://www.orca-project.eu/resources/scientific-publications/



and G. Fettweis, “A Theoretical

Framework for Optimizing

Multicarrier Systems Under Time

and/or Frequency Selective

Channels”

Letters, 2018

Wei Liu, Joao F. Santos, Xianjun

Jiao, Francisco Paisana, Luiz A.

DaSilva and Ingrid Moerman,

“Using Deep Learning and Radio

Virtualisation for Efficient

Spectrum Sharing among

Coexisting Networks”

CROWNCOM 2018 TCD, IMEC

Seyed Ali Hassani and Sofie

Pollin, “A Low-Latency Wireless

Network for Cloud-Based Robot

Control”

CROWNCOM 2018 KUL

Ahmad Nimr, Marwa Chafii,

Maximilian Matthé and Gerhard

Fettweis, “Extended GFDM

Framework: OTFS and GFDM

Comparison”

GLOBECOM 2018 TUD

Irfan Ahmed, Hedi Khammari,

Adnan Shahid, Ahmed Musa,

Kwang Soon Kim, Eli De Poorter

and Ingrid Moerman, “A Survey on

Hybrid Beamforming Techniques

in 5G: Architecture and System

Model Perspectives”

IEEE Communication Survey

and Tutorials IMEC

Andrea P. Guevara, Cheng-Ming

Chen and Sofie Pollin, “Pilot

Contamination in Massive MIMO:

Virtual Angular Information aided

Channel Estimation”

EuCNC 2018 KUL

Nicola Michailow, Clemens Felber

and Vincent Kotzsch, “Multi-RAT

Experimentation below 6 GHz”

EuCNC 2018 NI

Martin Danneberg, Ahmad Nimr,

Nicola Michailow, Shahab

Ehsanfar, Maximilian Matthé,

Ana-Belen Martinez, Dan Zhang

and Gerhard Fettweis, “Universal

EuCNC 2018 TUD



Waveforms Processor”

Felipe A. P. de Figueiredo, Xianjun

Jiao, Wei Liu and Ingrid Moerman

“Radio Hardware Virtualization for

Software-Defined Wireless

Networks

Wireless Personal

Communications publication IMEC

Chen C., Guevara Toledo A.,

Pollin S. “Scaling up Distributed

Massive MIMO: Why and How

Asilomar Conference on

Signals, Systems, and

Computers. 28-31 October

2018, California US

KUL

Felipe A. P. De Figueiredo,

Xianjun Jiao, Wei Liu, Ruben

Mennes, Irfanjabandzic, Ingrid

Moerman , “A Spectrum Sharing

Framework for Intelligent Next

Generation Wireless Networks”

IEEE Access IMEC

Muhammad Aslam, Xianjun Jiao,

Wei Liu, Ingrid Moerman, “An

Approach to Achieve Zero

Turnaround Time in TDD

Operation on SDR Front-End”

IEEE Access IMEC

Hassani A. et al, “An In-Band Full-

Duplex Transceiver for

Simultaneous Communication and

Environmental Sensing.”

Asilomar Conference on

Signals, Systems, and

Computers. 28-31 October

2018, California US

KUL

Hassani A. et al, “Doppler Radar

with In-Band Full Duplex Radios” Accepted for IEEE

INFOCOM 2019 KUL

Ahmad Nimr, Marwa Chafii,

Gerhard Fettweis, “Practical

GFDM-based Linear Receivers”

Accepted for the Conference

on Systems, Communications

and Coding (SCC) 2019 in

Rostock, Germany

TUD

Shahab Ehsanfar, Maximilian

Matthe, Marwa Chafii, Gerhard

Fettweis, “Pilot- and CP-aided

Channel Estimation in MIMO

Non-Orthogonal Multi-Carriers”

Accepted for IEEE

Transactions on Wireless

Communications

TUD

Table 2: Publications in Year 2 (M13-M24)



1.8 Open Calls Dissemination

The communication strategy and multimedia campaign to promote ORCA and the first open call has

been orchestrated by MARTEL with the cooperation of all the partners.

1st Open Call for Experiments

The 1st Open Call for Experiments was launched in late 2017 and on 8th January 2018 ORCA ran a

webinar to present it to the intending participants. The webinar has been uploaded on the ORCA’s

website and is available for consultation on the website and on the project YouTube Channel. The

winners have been notified at the end of February and subsequently announced on the project’s

website and echoed through the social media.

Figure 25: ORCA’s Twitter post promoting the webinar presenting the 1st Open Call for Experiments

2nd Open Call for Extensions

An ORCA website page dedicated to the 2nd Open Call for Extensions, complete with the detailed

open call information document, a FAQ section and the online submission form. This was designed to

be complimentary to the comprehensive set of background scientific information available on ORCA’s

website, including links to the testbeds, along with the digital flyer for each project’s functionality.

https://www.orca-project.eu/open-calls/1st-orca-open-call-extension/

https://www.orca-project.eu/testbeds/

https://www.orca-project.eu/orca-functionalities/



Figure 26: ORCA’s Twitter post promoting the 2nd Open Call for Extensions

• A comprehensive ORCA social media campaign that started in early March, teasing the

upcoming open call on the https://twitter.com/ORCA_Project_and the ORCA LinkedIn

channels.

• An ORCA open call flyer was designed and distributed at several events, including Ljubljana

at the EuCNC and it also available on ORCA’s website.

• The multi-phase campaign targets researchers and SMEs active in the 5G arena, with a focus

on the major academic events such as Fed4FIRE+ Engineering Conference and MobiSys.

https://twitter.com/ORCA_Project_

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8589461



Figure 27: ORCA’s Flyer promoting the 2nd Open Call for Extensions

The winners of the Open Call have been announced in the second half of August with a social media

campaign.



Figure 28: ORCA’s twit congratulating the winners of 2nd Open Call for Extensions

2nd Open Call for Experiments

As per the previous Open Calls, a dedicated webpage was created, complete with the detailed open

call information document, a FAQ section and the online submission form. This was designed to be

complimentary to the comprehensive set of background scientific information available on ORCA’s

website, including links to the testbeds, along with the digital flyer for each project’s functionality.

The 2nd Open Call for Experiments was presented at the CROWNCOM 2018, in September and

sustained through social media and mailing list promotion and a dedicated flyer distributed at events.

Figure 29: ORCA’s flyer promoting the Second Open Call for Experiments

1.9 ORCA in the press

Our colleague Prof Luiz Da Silva was interviewed by the TechCentral.ie, which featured the news

online https://www.techcentral.ie/focus-research-prof-luiz-da-silva-connect/ on June 14, 2018.

https://www.orca-project.eu/testbeds/

https://www.orca-project.eu/orca-functionalities/



Figure 30: Portrait of Prof Luiz Da Silva, featured in the TechCentral.ie on Line article

ORCA project was also mentioned by IEEE Spectrum online Wireless Research Handbook: 3rd

Edition, the article is available at https://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/wireless-research-

handbook-3rd-edition

1.10 Exploitation and Standardization Contributions

Exploitation Achievements

NI has exploited research work from within the ORCA project towards their products. The L1/L2 API

developed in the course of the ORCA project has been integrated into the NI LTE Application

Framework as can be seen in Figure 31.



Figure 31: L1/L2 API as part of the features of the new LTE Application Framework 2.2 with added hardware

support for the USRP 2974

With this addition to the Application Framework, the scientific and industry community can leverage

the achievements from NI in ORCA directly for their research.

The specification for the L1/L2 API is also made available as part of the LTE Application Frameworks

manual to allow researchers to adapt their higher layer protocol integration to NIs SDR platform,

therefore exploiting platform independence towards the NI SDR system.

To broaden the support of different hardware systems, NI has also added the support of a new SDR

device which incorporates an embedded controller. The support for the new USRP 2974 (see Figure

32) is made available for the 802.11 Application Framework as well as the LTE Application

Framework as can be seen in Figure 31 too. This added support enables researchers to shift from a

more complicated PXI-based system to a simple embedded solution with lower cost including a CPU

and an SDR. The approach of using embedded SDR systems is of particular interest for the testbed



deployment in ORCA and the support of the new USRP 2974 is streamlined with this direction to

enable future testbed deployments to be cheaper in original cost as well as simpler in maintenance,

orchestration and usage.

Figure 32: Additional SDR system support for an SDR system with integrated embedded controller: The USRP

2974.

After a successful participation in Phase 1 as one of the prize-winners, IMEC and RUTGERS have

also participated in the Phase 2 of the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge as team SCATTER.

The team is ranked at the 6th place and wins another prize of 750 000 USD for the second time in a

row.

More information on the Phase 2 final event can be found at:

• https://www.spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com/jammers-wildfires-and-malls-autonomous-

radios-jump-through-darpas-hoops/

• https://www.spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com/ais-strive-to-juggle-signals-and-thwart-

jammers-in-darpas-spectrum-challenge/

• https://www.spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com/darpa-awards-six-teams-during-final-

spectrum-collaboration-challenge-qualifier/

• YouTube video: https://youtu.be/3HoxWv-e_34

IMEC is currently exploring the patentability of the innovations of the SCATTER solution.

https://www.spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com/jammers-wildfires-and-malls-autonomous-radios-jump-through-darpas-hoops/

https://www.spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com/jammers-wildfires-and-malls-autonomous-radios-jump-through-darpas-hoops/

https://www.spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com/ais-strive-to-juggle-signals-and-thwart-jammers-in-darpas-spectrum-challenge/

https://www.spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com/ais-strive-to-juggle-signals-and-thwart-jammers-in-darpas-spectrum-challenge/

https://www.spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com/darpa-awards-six-teams-during-final-spectrum-collaboration-challenge-qualifier/

https://www.spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com/darpa-awards-six-teams-during-final-spectrum-collaboration-challenge-qualifier/

https://youtu.be/3HoxWv-e_34



Figure 33 Team SCATTER is on of the 6 prize winners in the 2nd phase of DARPA Spectrum Collaboration

Challenge

Standardization Contributions 2018-2019

3GPP

NIs focus in standardization was mainly driven towards monitoring the respective standardization

working groups for specific input that is of help to align the research and work within ORCA to the

overall architecture decisions of 3GPP. Therefore, NI attended the following 3GPP meetings:

- February 2018: Athens, RAN1#92 + RAN2#102

- May 2018: Korea, RAN1#93 + RAN2#102,

- August 2018: Gothenburg, RAN1#94 + RAN2#103

- October 2018: Chengdu, RAN1#94bis + RAN2#103bis

- November 2018: Spokane, RAN1#95 + RAN2#104

The insights and learnings from this monitoring activity have been fed actively into the work of the

ORCA consortium. First, as NI is aligning its architecture towards the 3GPP specification. Secondly, a

summary of these monitoring activities has been presented to the ORCA consortium at the Plenary

meeting in September 2018 to share the information for a streamlined ORCA vision.

The following two contributions to standardization were influenced by work on the mmWave setup in

ORCA.

Meeting TDoc# Title

RAN1#89 R1-1708272 Discussion on explicit and implicit signaling for PT-RS

RAN1#90 R1-1714180 On remaining aspects of beam recovery

The contribution in R1-1708272 is connected to the study on phase noise compensation methods as

presented in D3.3. The work and functionality on beam recovery that is used in the mmWave setup for

ORCA Showcase 1 is partially discussed in contribution R1-1714180.



ETSI Working Groups

IMEC has updated its contribution to the technical report on “Instantiation of the ETSI Generic

Autonomic Network Architecture (GANA) Model onto heterogeneous wireless access technologies

using cognitive algorithms”, and added the ORCA vision in the section “Impact of virtualization and

hardware acceleration techniques”.

IETF

Within its strategic roadmap on deterministic wireless networking, IMEC aligns its developments with

IETF standardisation activities, in particular:

• Constrained RESTful Environments (core), see https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/core/about/

• IPv6 over Low Power Wide-Area Networks (lpwan),

seehttps://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/lpwan/about/

WInnF

TCD plans to present the hierarchical orchestration scheme introduced in the ORCA White Paper and

then prototyped in the Y2 Showcase 3. We will advocate for the separation of the control and

management between different network segments to their respective communities. Hence, avoiding

one-size-fits-all approaches from a single community, which brings exceeding complexity, and leads

oversimplification of assumptions between different communities. In WInnF, we will present the

hyperstrator and its end-to-end orchestration architecture to network providers, vendors, and

regulators.

1.11 New liasons

Ingrid Moerman (IMEC) has attended the Plenary Meeting of The 5G Alliance for Connected

Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) July 25th 2018 as an observer. 5G-ACIA has been established

to serve as the central and global forum for addressing, discussing, and evaluating relevant technical,

regulatory, and business aspects with respect to 5G for the industrial domain. This alliance is very

relevant to learn about the use cases, needs and requirements for industry 4.0. This alliance targets to

influence the standardization efforts and evolutions in 5G PPP. As a result of this meeting, IMEC is

now in the process of becoming a member of the 5G-ACIA alliances.

1.12 KPIs, Deliverables and Milestones

Measure Indicators Target

number Results achieved at M24

Brochure

N. of brochures (updated

once a year) distributed

(by the end of the project)

>1500

2,200 + xx online (including

specific Open Calls flyers

realized in 2018)

Project Website

N. of unique visitors to

the website (average per

year)

>2000 6,592 visitors in 2018

Social networks

N. of followers in

LinkedIn, Twitter,

YouTube (average

>100

247 Twitter followers (as of mid

Dec 2018)

34 members LinkedIn Group



new followers per year)

Newsletter N of subscribers (by the

end of the project) >200 93

Publications

N of peer-reviewed

publications in journals,

conferences and

workshops

>4 per year 16 (30 in total Y1+Y2)

Webinars N. of webinars

N. of participants

1-2 per year 15

participants

per webinar

The first webinar will be on

January 8th 2018 to promote the

First OC for Experiment

Inception,

Engagement

and Final

Assessment

Workshops

Average number of

participants per workshop

At least 30

participants

per workshop

40 people attending the 2nd

Engagement Workshop (FEC3)

Videos

N. of videos published on

ORCA Youtube channel

and average number of

views

At least 5

videos and 300

views per

video

8 videos published (4 new

videos in 2018)

Total 934 views (550 views in

2018) of ORCA videos on

YouTube

Standardisation No of contributions to

standardizations fora

At least

2 per year

2 contributions to 3GPP

standardization

Table 3: Dissemination & Communication KPIs

Deliverables

and

Milestones

Description Achievements

D8.1 Dissemination and Communication

Strategy and Plan Done by April 2017

D8.2 Exploitation strategy and plan Done by December 2017

D8.3 First Report on Dissemination and

Communication Activities Done by December 2017

D8.4 Second Report on Dissemination and

Communication Activities Done by December 2018

D8.5 Final Report on Dissemination and

Communication Activities Planned June 2019



MS1 Public website up and running Done by January 2017

MS4 Inception workshop organized Done in June 2017 (EuCNC)

MS6 First engagement workshop

organised

Done in September 2017

(CROWNCOM)

MS9 Second engagement workshop

organised Done in March 2018 (FEC)

MS14 Final assessment workshop

organised Planned at Q4 2019

Table 4: WP8 Deliverables and Milestones



2 PLAN OF ACTIVITIES M25-M36 (JANUARY 2019- DEC 2019)

2.1 Dissemination Campaign for Open Calls

ORCA project will launch in Y3 one final Open Call for Experiments. Through the Open Calls for

Experiments ORCA wants to promote the uptake of state-of-the-art SDR solutions in the early design

phase of innovative wireless solutions, while through the Open Calls for Extensions Third Parties will

be involved for extending ORCA SDR platforms with missing functionalities identified by the

consortium.

Figure 34: ORCA Open Calls timeline

As successfully implemented for the previous Open Calls, the upcoming one will be broadly

advertised:

• Publication of the Open Call to ORCA website;

• Publication of the Open Call to all relevant FED4FIRE+ web sites and project web sites

• Dissemination through ORCA social channels, partners and community social channels;

• Dissemination through former FIRE mailing list still running and 5G PPP mailing list

• Flyer to be distributed online and offline;

• A dissemination kit (visual/copy/link) will be distributed to major community websites to

further multiply the visibility;

• ORCA will also evaluate the need for a dedicated webinar in 2019 to introduce the Open Calls

to the research community: academics, fresh graduates, SMEs, wireless networking

professionals, developers;

• Focused presentations will be given at conferences and third parties workshops to promote the

Open Call opportunity.



2.2 Conferences and Workshops

At the time of writing the partners are outlining the Final Assessment workshop will take place,

towards the end of the project, at around M34, and will be dedicated to present and showcase the most

successful experiments, applications, services and products tested and/or originated within the context

of the ORCA project to the broad audience and overall FIRE+ community. This will contribute to

demonstrate the value of the work done within the context of the project for all European ICT

innovators, especially in related initiatives such as the 5G PPP; and to increase visibility about the

FIRE+ initiative and its offering in both the European and international R&D scene.

We will participate to both online and physical selected events as a way to increase awareness of

ORCA’s work, outcomes and Open Calls. The main objective is to ensure participation to the most

relevant ones in order to better inform potential newcomers and engage all relevant stakeholders to the

ORCA technologies, with specific focus on small and medium sized players. ORCA will ensure its

presence with technical papers, presentations, demonstrations, and/or talks (e.g. panels) at relevant

international conferences, workshops, technical events, industrial forums (see list of events below,

scientific dissemination) and cooperation with key European (and possibly international) stakeholders.

Moreover, ORCA will participate in joint FIRE+ workshops/sessions, which include for instance the

FIRE Forum, the annual editions of the Net Futures and the European Conference on Networks and

Communication, EuCNC, and ensure FIRE+ presentations and exhibition booths at major event,

including the ICT 2017 event, the annual edition of the Mobile World Congress and events organised

by then ETSI RRS. This task will also consider attendance to selected market driven events,

exhibitions and fair trades as relevant to the work done in ORCA, organised for instance by the ETSI

RRS. ORCA will take any valuable opportunity to contribute to the project dissemination giving

presentations, talks, teaching activities, demos and training in third parties’ conferences, workshops,

and relevant scientific, industrial and EC-driven events. Each participation will be reported and given

visibility through the online ORCA’s communication channels: website, newsletter, Twitter and

Linkedin accounts. The below table shows a pre-selection of events to be attended in 2019.

Event Name Date, Place Type of

Audience

Approx size

of Audience Activity run Partner

EuCNC 2019 June

Seville

Researchers,

Policy makers 400

Booth –

Presentation

MARTEL,

IMEC, NI

INFOCOM

2019 Paris France Researchers 100

Booth -

Presentation

Globecom

2019 Hawaii USA

Researchers,

Industry 400+

Booth -

Presentation

IMEC/KUL/TC

D/NI/TUD

IEEE 5G and

Beyond

Testbed

Workshop

June, Porto Researchers 30 Presentation TUD

Table 5: External Events ORCA plans to attend in 2019



2.3 Journals and Conference Publications

Publication title/topic Submission to Leading Partner

Towards Enabling RAN as a

Service - The Extensible

Virtualisation Layer

IEEE ICC 2019 TCD

Partial Precoding for multi-cell

Massive MIMO IEEE ICC 2019 KUL

Aslam M. et al, “An Approach to

Achieve Zero Turnaround Time in

TDD operation on SDR Front-end”

Accepted by IEEE access

IMEC

Felipe A. P. De Figueiredo, et al,

“A Spectrum Sharing Framework

for Intelligent Next Generation

Wireless Networks”

Published by IEEE access IMEC

Table 6: Planned Publications M25-M36

2.4 Online Tutorials, Training Materials and Video

An ORCA video to present the research and benefits of ORCA project to a wide general public

audience is in progress. Technology concepts and ORCA’s contribution to the 5G implementation will

be presented through an animation in a very simple and captivating format. The video will be

published and promoted online. It will also be submitted to the attention of the EC communication

team (Horizon Magazine, EC YouTube channel) for further dissemination. Goal of the video is to

simply present the role of EC funded research projects in the European ICT ecosystem and their

benefits to the society. An initial storyboard has been drafted and it will be finalised in Q1 2019.

Figure 35: A screenshot of the storyboard of ORCA General Public Video



3 CONCLUSIONS

This document presents the ORCA dissemination and promotion activities run in Y2 and describes a

number of key activities that the project’s partners are focusing on, and will follow up in the next year,

in order to guarantee broad visibility of the project’s work and results so as to engage target

stakeholders and produce relevant and durable impact.

In Y2, the ORCA partners have been active in several ways and pursued various promotional

activities, including:

o Presentation of the ORCA project at several conferences and workshops.

o Completion of 1st Open Call for Experiments and launch of other two Open Calls

o Online promotion of the project through the website and social media channels.

o Contribution to the FED4FIRE+, NGI and 5G PPP communities in the form of information

about upcoming events, organised workshops/sessions and available material.

o Diffusion of ORCA and overall FED4FIRE+ and 5G related news via the project’s

communication channels, as well as the various partners’ individual social communication

means.

The work of WP8 will continue to be intensive in the upcoming months as several efforts are planned

in order to support the broad and effective promotion of various ORCA driven activities including the

launch of the Third Open Call for Experiments in early 2019 and the ORCA Final Assessment

Workshop planned to take place in M34.

Documents

GRANT AGREEMENT NO.: 732174 - orca-project.eu · The ORCA Work Package 8, WP8, is dedicated to “Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation” and aims at defining, maintaining