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H2020 5Growth Project
Grant No. 856709
D5.7: Communication, Dissemination, and
Exploitation achievements through the
project, exploitation plan after the end of
the project and assessment of the
contribution of 5Growth in support of 5G
Abstract:
This document reports on the achievements during all project’s lifetime in accordance with the
activities defined in its communication, dissemination, and exploitation (CoDEP) plan. Furthermore,
it reports the exploitation plan after the project ends and an assessment of the standardization
contributions to 5G-related standards.
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Document properties
Document number D5.7
Document title Communication, Dissemination, and Exploitation achievements
through the project, exploitation plan after the end of the project
and assessment of the contribution of 5Growth in support of 5G
Document responsible Josep Xavier Salvat (NEC)
Document editor Josep Xavier Salvat (NEC)
Editorial team Carlos Guimaraes (UC3M), Carlos J. Bernardos (UC3M), Antonio de la Oliva
(UC3M), Iván Vidal (UC3M), Kiril Antevski (UC3M), Josep Xavier Salvat (NEC), Xi Li
(NEC), Andres Garcia-Saavedra (NEC), Paola Iovanna (TEI), Fabio Ubaldi (TEI),
Giulio Bottari (TEI), Tezcan Cogalan (IDCC), Jim Miller (IDCC), Chia-Yu Chang
(NBL), Álvaro Gomes (ALB), Hugo Martins (EFACEC_E), Anna Wojszcz (MIRANTIS),
Oleksii Kolodiazhnyi (MIRANTIS), Denys Kucherenko (MIRANTIS), Giada Landi
(NXW), Juan Brenes (NXW), Matteo Pergolesi (TELCA), Aitor Zabala (TELCA), Josep
Mangues-Bafalluy (CTTC), Jordi Baranda (CTTC), Ricardo Martínez (CTTC), Engin
Zeydan (CTTC), Luca Vettori (CTTC), Bahador Bakhshi (CTTC), Daniel Corujo (ITAV),
Diogo Gomes (ITAV), David Santos (ITAV), António Nogueira (ITAV), Luís Nero
(ITAV), José Quevedo (ITAV), João Fonseca (ITAV), Rui Aguiar (ITAV), Lina Magoula
(NKUA), Luca Valcarenghi (SSSA), Andrea Sgambelluri (SSSA), Enrico Forestieri
(SSSA), Nicola Sambo (SSSA)
Target dissemination level Public
Status of the document Final
Version 1.0
Delivery date February 28, 2022
Actual delivery date February 28, 2022
Production properties
Reviewers Josep Xavier Salvat (NEC), Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (CTTC), Matteo
Pergolesi (TELCA), Aitor Zabala (TELCA), Luca Valcarenghi (SSSA), Paola
Iovanna (TEI), Tezcan Cogalan (IDCC), Carlos J. Bernardos (UC3M)
Disclaimer
This document has been produced in the context of the 5Growth Project. The research leading to
these results has received funding from the European Community's H2020 Programme under grant
agreement Nº H2020-856709.
All 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 user thereof uses the information at its sole risk and
liability.
For the avoidance of all doubts, the European Commission has no liability in respect of this document,
which is merely representing the authors view.
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Contents List of Figures ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5
List of Tables ........................................................................................................................................................................... 6
List of Acronyms ................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Executive Summary and Key Contributions .............................................................................................................. 10
1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................... 12
2. 5Growth CoDEP achievements ................................................................................................................................. 14
2.1. Communication activities ................................................................................................................................... 14
2.1.1. Web, social media, and project communication material .............................................................. 15
2.1.2. Communication leaflets and poster ....................................................................................................... 21
2.1.3. Communication videos and brochures ................................................................................................. 23
2.1.4. Communication. Press releases and news ............................................................................................ 24
2.1.5. Communication articles ............................................................................................................................... 25
2.1.6. Lecture Materials ............................................................................................................................................ 27
2.2. Dissemination activities ....................................................................................................................................... 28
2.2.1. Publications and technical dissemination ............................................................................................ 29
2.2.2. Synergies with other projects ................................................................................................................... 38
2.2.3. Events organization ...................................................................................................................................... 44
2.2.4. Exhibitions and Technology Demonstrations ..................................................................................... 47
2.2.5. Bachelor, Master, PhD Theses and Internships ................................................................................... 49
2.2.6. Standardization Dissemination ................................................................................................................. 51
2.3. Exploitation activities ............................................................................................................................................ 52
2.3.1. Standardization Activities ........................................................................................................................... 52
2.3.2. Exploitation achievements for Service providers/Operators ......................................................... 68
2.3.3. Innovation radar ............................................................................................................................................. 76
2.3.4. Patents and licensing ................................................................................................................................... 77
2.3.5. Open-source projects .................................................................................................................................. 78
3. Exploitation plan after the end of the project .................................................................................................... 80
3.1. Patents and licensing ........................................................................................................................................... 80
3.2. Open-source code ................................................................................................................................................. 80
3.3. Products and services........................................................................................................................................... 81
3.3.1. Exploitation plan for Small and Medium Enterprises ....................................................................... 82
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3.3.2. Exploitation Plan of Products and Platforms for Vendors, and Verticals .................................. 83
3.3.3. Exploitation opportunities for Service Providers/Operators ......................................................... 88
3.4. Exploitation towards other projects and code maintenance ................................................................ 90
3.4.1. Code maintenance ........................................................................................................................................ 90
4. Assessment of the contribution of 5Growth in support of 5G standard .................................................. 96
5. References ........................................................................................................................................................................ 98
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List of Figures
Figure 1: Illustration of the communication, Dissemination and Exploitation (CoDEP) Plan of
5Growth .................................................................................................................................................................................. 13
Figure 2: 5Growth website .............................................................................................................................................. 15
Figure 3: Web page visit statistics (Counted for the previous 365 days from the reported month) .. 15
Figure 4: 5Growth website most visited pages on feb. 23, 2022 for the latest 365 days ........................ 16
Figure 5: 5Growth LinkedIn page ................................................................................................................................. 16
Figure 6: 5Growth Twitter account............................................................................................................................... 17
Figure 7: LinkedIn profile views ..................................................................................................................................... 17
Figure 8: LinkedIn connections ...................................................................................................................................... 18
Figure 9: Twitter profile visits ......................................................................................................................................... 18
Figure 10: 5Growth Instagram page ............................................................................................................................ 19
Figure 11: Instagram statistics ....................................................................................................................................... 19
Figure 12: YouTube channel ........................................................................................................................................... 20
Figure 13: YouTube Studio statistics ........................................................................................................................... 20
Figure 14: 5Growth poster .............................................................................................................................................. 21
Figure 15: 5Growth leaflet ............................................................................................................................................... 22
Figure 16: Phase3 project brochure ............................................................................................................................. 23
Figure 17: Poll results for beyond 5G evolution - MDPI webinar ..................................................................... 46
Figure 18: Poll results for joint organization of 5Growth/5G-DIVE exploitation workshop -
5Growth/5G-DIVE joint exploitation workshop ...................................................................................................... 47
Figure 19: Poll results for joint half-day online workshop with 5Growth, 5G-DIVE, 5G EVE, 5G-VINNI,
and 5G-TOURS .................................................................................................................................................................... 47
Figure 20: Exploitation process ..................................................................................................................................... 76
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List of Tables
Table 1: Overall communication achievements ...................................................................................................... 14
Table 2: Communication videos in Y1 ........................................................................................................................ 23
Table 3: Communication videos in Y2 ........................................................................................................................ 23
Table 4: Communication videos in Y3 ........................................................................................................................ 24
Table 5: Press realeases and news in Y1 .................................................................................................................... 24
Table 6: Press releases and news in Y2 ....................................................................................................................... 25
Table 7: Press releases and news in Y3 ....................................................................................................................... 25
Table 8: Communication articles in Y1 ....................................................................................................................... 26
Table 9: Communication articles in Y2 ....................................................................................................................... 26
Table 10: Communication articles in Y3 ..................................................................................................................... 26
Table 11: Communication presentations in Y1 ........................................................................................................ 26
Table 12: Communication presentations in Y2 ........................................................................................................ 27
Table 13: Communication presentations in Y3 ........................................................................................................ 27
Table 14: Lecture Materials that used 5Gorwth results ........................................................................................ 27
Table 15: Targeted versus measured dissemination metrics during the lifetime of the project .......... 28
Table 16: Publication of scientific journals and conferences in Y1 .................................................................. 30
Table 17: Publication of scientific journals and conferences in Y2 .................................................................. 30
Table 18: Publication of scientific journals and conferences in Y3 .................................................................. 32
Table 19: 5growth talks in scientific conferences and technology forums in Y1 ....................................... 34
Table 20: 5Growth talks in scientific conferences and technology forums in Y2 ....................................... 35
Table 21: 5Growth talks in scientific conferences and technology forums in Y3 ....................................... 37
Table 22: Collaborative activities with EU and international research projects in Y1 ............................... 39
Table 23: Collaborative activities with EU and international research projects in Y2 ............................... 40
Table 24: Collaborative activities with EU and international research projects in Y3 ............................... 43
Table 25: 5Growth organized events .......................................................................................................................... 44
Table 26: Exhibitions and technology demonstrations in dissemination events in Y1 ............................ 48
Table 27: Exhibitions and technology demonstrations in dissemination events in Y2 ............................ 48
Table 28: Exhibitions and technology demonstrations in dissemination events in Y3 ............................ 49
Table 29: 5Growth-related bachelor, Master and PhD theses, and internships ......................................... 50
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Table 30: Targeted versus measured exploitation metrics during the lifetime of the project .............. 52
Table 31: Summary of the standard contributions per SDO .............................................................................. 52
Table 32: Complete list of SDO activities and candidate contributions in 5growth project .................. 53
Table 33: Main exploitation achivements for Service providers/Operators ................................................. 68
Table 34: Innovations selected for innovation radar ............................................................................................. 77
Table 35: List of patents filed ......................................................................................................................................... 77
Table 36: List of contributions to relevant open-source projects .................................................................... 78
Table 37: Small and medium enterprises’ exploitation plans ............................................................................ 82
Table 38: Exploitation plans of products and platforms ...................................................................................... 83
Table 39: Exploitation opportunities for service providers/operators ............................................................ 89
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List of Acronyms
3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project
5G-PPP 5G Public Private Partnership
AI Artificial Intelligence
API Application Programming Interface
BSS Business Support System
CDN Content Delivery Network
CoDEP Communication, Dissemination, and Exploitation Plan
DLT Distributed Ledger Technology
E2E End-to-end
eMBB Enhanced Mobile Broadband
ESB Extern Stakeholders Board
ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EVIAB External Vertical Industries Advisory Board
GSMA Global System for Mobile Communications
HTC Human Type Communication
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IEEE Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
IoT Internet of Things
IP Internet Protocol
IPR Intellectual Property Rights
IRTF Internet Research Task Force
ITU-T International Telecommunications Union – Telecommunications
KPI Key Performance Indicator
LV Low Voltage
MANO Management and Orchestration
MEC Multi-Access Edge Computing
ML Machine Learning
MNO Mobile Network Operator
MTC Machine Type Communication
MV Medium Voltage
NFV Network Functions Virtualization
NFVI NFV Infrastructure
NMRG Network Management Research Group
NSaaS Network Slice as a Service
ONOS Open Network Operating System
O-RAN Operator Defined Next Generation RAN
OSM Open-Source MANO
OSS Operations Support System
QoS Quality of Service
RAN Radio Access Network
RL Reinforcement Learning
RNC Radio Network Controller
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ROS Robot Operating System
SAC Standard Advisory Committee
SDN Software Defined Networks
SDO Standard Development Organization
SLA Service Level Agreement
SME Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise
TB Technology Board
URLLC Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication
VNF Virtual Network Function
WG Working Group
Y1 Year 1
Y2 Year 2
Y3 Year 3
ZDM Zero Defect Manufacturing
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Executive Summary and Key Contributions
This document reports on the project's achievements following the activities planned in its
communication, dissemination, and exploitation plan (CoDEP). It also explains the plans for
exploitation after the project ends to guarantee its long-term impact.
According to common practice [1][2], communication includes all the activities related to promoting
the project and its results beyond its community. It also includes the interaction with other research
projects (e.g., H2020 5G-PPP) and spreading the project's ideas for the non-specialist, e.g., the media
and the public. Dissemination includes activities related to raising awareness of its results in a
technical community working in the same research field. Dissemination is usually done through
publications and participation and the organization of technical events. Finally, exploitation covers
activities aiming at using the results in further research activities other than those covered by the
project, or in developing, creating, and marketing products or processes, or in creating and providing
a service, or in standardization activities.
This document reports all activities and events undertaken during the 5Growth project lifetime.
Similar to D5.4 [3], this document presents the achievements following the same order of
classification of the CoDEP, which offers a systematic way of checking the results of its execution. An
overview of the main achievements for the most relevant activities is provided below.
First, project partners continuously presented the project results in various events and generated
content for the website and social media of the project. Since the project started, the main
communications channels such as LinkedIn/Twitter/YouTube, and Instagram had a good
engagement. In the case of LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram, there has been a steady increase of
their impact with increasing viewers and followers, for instance, reaching 780 in Twitter or 4600+
views on YouTube. Furthermore, there were a substantial number of press releases (36) during the
project lifetime covering the works of the different partners. For example, there has been news about
the different vertical pilots, about the work done by research organizations and the demos and
presentations in several conferences.
As for the project's dissemination results, the targeted metrics were substantially exceeded. The
project produced 81 publications, including top-rated conferences (34), such as IEEE INFOCOM, ACM
Mobicom, ACM CoNeXT, and top-rated journals (47) as IEEE JSAC, IEEE TMC and IEEE TWC.
Furthermore, the project has been very active on technology demonstrations and exhibitions. In fact,
27 actions were undertaken, including 8 vertical-oriented demos/exhibitions, shown at events like
EUCNC, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM Mobicom, and Mobile World Congress. Furthermore, various events
were co-organized with other projects, such as an online workshop co-organized with 5G-DIVE, 5G
EVE, 5G-VINNI, and 5G-TOURS and different webinars with 5G EVE and 5G-DIVE, or co-located with
relevant events, such as WS8 FAST at EUCNC'21 or ZNSM'21 co-located with IEEE CNSM'21. A total
of 21 events were organized.
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The project also achieved several significant results in terms of exploitation, including standardization
and contribution to open-source projects. On the one hand, the 5Growth partners made 85
submissions to Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), of which 43 of them were accepted in
3GPP, IETF/IRTF, IEEE, GSMA, and ETSI. A summary of how the 5Growth contributions impact 5G
networks in the various SDOs is also presented at the end of this document. On the other hand, the
5Growth contributed to six open-source projects, including ONOS, OpenStack and OSM or vertical
oriented project e.DO. Finally, to maximize its impact and disseminate the work to the community,
the project released its source code for each of the building blocks of the 5Growth architecture.
As for exploitation beyond the end of the project, the work done in 5Growth allowed partners to
feed product and service developments. Some promising results were selected for the innovation
radar. It also allowed partners, particularly industrial ones, to carry out internal exploitation, as
exemplified by the internal exploitation meetings with multiple stakeholders, including verticals and
business units. External exploitation workshops organized to foster further collaborations and
participation in industry-oriented events (some of them planned after the end of the project) also
exemplify the project's potential exploitation impact beyond its lifetime. Furthermore, seven patents
were filed. And finally, another natural way of exploiting the outcomes of 5Growth is through the
participation in current and future research projects in which, for instance, the 5Growth MANO stack
or some of the innovations developed can be taken as basis on top of which the new projects can
be built.
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1. Introduction
The Integration and Experimental Demonstrations phase was the final step of the 5Growth project,
as depicted in Figure 1. As a result, dissemination, exploitation, and standardization are essential to
leave the 5Growth mark on future activities.
The CoDEP of 5Growth includes the following groups of activities:
• Communication embraces all efforts relating to the project's and its results' promotion
outside of the project's immediate community. This includes interacting with other research
initiatives and communicating the achievements so that non-specialists, such as the media
and the general public, can understand.
• Dissemination entails communicating the project's results to a technical community working
on the same study topic. This will be accomplished in general through peer-reviewed
publications in academic journals and conferences and through the participation in and the
organization of technical events.
• Exploitation refers to actions aimed at applying project outcomes to other research projects,
which often include 1) producing, creating, and marketing items or processes, 2) establishing
and offering a service, or 3) standardization activities.
The original CoDEP has been periodically updated in the various WP5 deliverables during the project.
This deliverable collects all project's contributions and presents the exploitation activities to
maximize impact after the project ends. Furthermore, it reports the standardization contribution
outcomes due to the roadmap defined (and periodically updated during the project) by the
Standardization Advisory Committee (SAC).
This deliverable has three parts. The first part will cover all 5Growth CoDEP achievements. The second
part will explain the exploitation plan after the project ends. Finally, the last part will assess the
project’s contribution in relation to the 5G standard.
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FIGURE 1: ILLUSTRATION OF THE COMMUNICATION, DISSEMINATION AND EXPLOITATION (CODEP) PLAN
OF 5GROWTH
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2. 5Growth CoDEP achievements
The first part of the document reports the WP5 achievements during all the project’s lifetime. Section
2.1 reports the communication activities, Section 2.2 describes the dissemination activities, and
Section 2.3 reports the exploitation activities, including products and services, patents and licensing.
2.1. Communication activities
This section reports on the communication activities undertaken to publicize the objectives and
outcomes of 5Growth to the broadest possible audience, with particular emphasis on actions
specifically targeting a non-technical audience. In particular, all 5Growth partners promoted the
project to the general public and carried out many activities (e.g., social media and video posts, press
releases and news releases, communication articles published, etc.), as presented in the following
subsections. In this sense, a long list of press releases was produced by various partners (including
operators, vendors, and academic partners) to publicize the project. Furthermore, project, WP and
task leaders generated the generic publicity material (posters/leaflet) and prepared the initial content
for the web publications. From then on, the content on the web was periodically updated according
to the information sent by partners in the CoDEP record and published to other social media
channels. Various partners (e.g., CTTC, SSSA, EFACEC_S) participated in social events to explain the
scope and potential impact of 5Growth. Several videos prepared by various partners (e.g., UC3M,
CTTC, NEC, ERC, COMAU, TEI, EFACEC_S) have also been uploaded to the project's YouTube channel.
Furthermore, academic partners also produced lecture materials for graduate and undergraduate
courses on topics related to 5Growth.
Table 1 reports the overall achievements during the whole duration of the project with the respective
target values. As reported, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the project overcame all its targets. In
addition, to compensate for the potential adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, other forms of
communications for which target values were not foreseen have had a significant impact, such as
video communication presentations. The following subsections provide detailed information about
the communication achievements and the project’s goal.
TABLE 1: OVERALL COMMUNICATION ACHIEVEMENTS
Type Achieved (overall) Target
Press Releases and News 36 2 (Press Releases) (per year)
Communication posters 1 1 (@M3) (overall)
Leaflet 3 1 (@M3) (overall)
Communications
Presentations (Live)
7 1 (per year)
Communications
Presentations (Videos)
20 None
Communications Articles 5 None
Lecture Materials 9 None
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2.1.1. Web, social media, and project communication material
The project website (reported in [4]), which landing page is shown in Figure 2, received many visits.
In particular, as shown in Figure 3, the website visits were mainly constant, showing a steady interest
to the project, with a peak at the end of the first year of activities when the project delivered already
a conspicuous number of deliverables. Indeed, as shown in Figure 4, the second most visited page
of the website is the Deliverable webpage.
FIGURE 2: 5GROWTH WEBSITE
FIGURE 3: WEB PAGE VISIT STATISTICS (COUNTED FOR THE PREVIOUS 365 DAYS FROM THE REPORTED
MONTH)
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FIGURE 4: 5GROWTH WEBSITE MOST VISITED PAGES ON FEB. 23, 2022 FOR THE LATEST 365 DAYS
The project has been very active in other social media such as LinkedIn [5] (shown in Figure 5) and
Twitter 98[6] (shown in Figure 6). Figure 7 shows that the project had an increasing number of
LinkedIn profile views since its beginning, with a decrease towards its end (please, note that the
February data are partial only). However, the number of connections (i.e., a contact with whom you
have a 1st-degree connection) substantially increased at the end of 2020 and continued a slight
steady increase until its end to reach 750+ connections, as shown in Figure 8.
FIGURE 5: 5GROWTH LINKEDIN PAGE
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FIGURE 6: 5GROWTH TWITTER ACCOUNT
FIGURE 7: LINKEDIN PROFILE VIEWS
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FIGURE 8: LINKEDIN CONNECTIONS
In Twitter the project reached a very high number of visits with a recent slight decrease as shown in
Figure 9. Despite such recent decrease, the project reached a total of 780 followers as shown in Figure
6.
FIGURE 9: TWITTER PROFILE VISITS
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the project’s Instagram [7] account, shown in Figure 10, constantly
increased its followers, as shown in Figure 11. As for Instagram, the service recently changed its
statistic collection policy, thus the May 2021-Sep. 2021 statistics have been linearly interpolated with
the previous and next period.
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FIGURE 10: 5GROWTH INSTAGRAM PAGE
FIGURE 11: INSTAGRAM STATISTICS
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, WP5 decided to boost the utilization of its YouTube channel [8]
for communications. The channel contains videos of the different demonstrations conducted by the
project, project overviews, pilot overviews, and events, as shown in Figure 12.
The popularity of the channel was very high totalizing 4671 views, 223 hours of watch time, 139
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FIGURE 12: YOUTUBE CHANNEL
FIGURE 13: YOUTUBE STUDIO STATISTICS
Thus, overall video-related communication activities were very successful despite the COVID-19
pandemic, or precisely because of that.
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2.1.2. Communication leaflets and poster
During project’s month three, the communications poster and leaflet were produced. They are
reported in Figure 14 and Figure 15 respectively.
FIGURE 14: 5GROWTH POSTER
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FIGURE 15: 5GROWTH LEAFLET
In addition, the project contributed to other 5G-PPP brochures such as “5G-PPP Trials and Pilots
Brochure n°2”, “5G-PPP Trials and Pilots Brochure No3”, and “Phase 3 projects brochure”, reported
in Figure 16.
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FIGURE 16: PHASE3 PROJECT BROCHURE
2.1.3. Communication videos and brochures
Due also to the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic multimedia communications
activities were boosted during the project. In what follows the several videos are listed per project
year (considering the three months extension in the last year of the project).
TABLE 2: COMMUNICATION VIDEOS IN Y1
Title Location
Presentation of 5Growth in ICT-19 session @ EUCNC'19 Link
Introduction video to 5Growth Link
First meeting del 5Growth External Vertical Industries Advisory Board (EVIAB) Link
TABLE 3: COMMUNICATION VIDEOS IN Y2
Title Location
5G end-to-end experimentation by verticals in EU projects Online Workshop Link
Online Workshop – Layer123/5Growth: Powering 5G in Industry Link
5Growth: 5G-enabled Growth in Vertical Industries Link
Demo: vrAIn Proof-of-Concept. A Deep Learning Approach for Virtualized RAN
Resource Control
Link
5G for Industry 4.0: COMAU pilot, Video Describing COMAU Pilot Link
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Transportation Pilot during the Aveiro Tech Week Link
Second meeting del 5Growth External Vertical Industries Advisory Board (EVIAB) Link
ML-Driven Scaling of Digital Twin Service in 5Growth (short version) Link
Performance Isolation for 5G Network Slicing Link
ML-Driven Scaling of Digital Twin Service in 5Growth (detailed description - long
version)
Link
Advanced Monitoring and Maintenance Support for the Secondary MV/LV Distribution
Substation
Link
COMAU Pilot. Digital Twin Apps Use Case Link
5Growth Interaction with ICT-17 Platforms Link
EFACEC_S pilot. 5G to Support Railway Signalling Operations Link
EFACEC_E pilot. Advanced Monitoring and Maintenance Support for the secondary
MV/LV distribution substation
Link
INNOVALIA Pilot. Connected Worker Remote Operation of Quality Equipment Link
TABLE 4: COMMUNICATION VIDEOS IN Y3
Title Location
Hardening Interdomain Vertical Services with Moving Target Defense (MTD) Link
5Growth & 5G-DIVE Exploitation workshop: “Experiences from field trial about
vertical industry"
Link
2.1.4. Communication. Press releases and news
Several press releases and news have been produced by the project. Table 5, Table 6 and Table 7
report the different press releases during Y1, Y2 and Y3 respectively.
TABLE 5: PRESS REALEASES AND NEWS IN Y1
Title Location
Initial 5GGrowth press release done by IDCC Link
Press Release: 5Tonic selected by the 5Grotwth project to validate advanced 5G trials
across multiple vertical industries
Link
News about participation of 5Growth in the 5G EVE plenary meeting held in Pisa in
September 19
Link
Telecomunicazioni, la scuola sant’anna partner nel progetto europeo che testa sul
campo le tecnologie 5g per l’industria del futuro: verso una piattaforma europea
comune (Telecommunications, the sant'anna school partner in the European project
that tests 5G technologies for the industry of the future: towards a common
European platform)
Link (ITA)
News about 5Growth F2F meeting in Torino Link
Press Release: Projeto 5Growth reforça testes avançados de 5G em várias indústrias
com 4 projetos-piloto em cenário real
Link (PT)
Link (EN)
News about 5Growth at Aveiro Harbour web site Link
Hardening Interdomain Vertical Services with Moving Target Defense (MTD) Link
5Growth & 5G-DIVE Exploitation workshop: “Experiences from field trial about vertical
industry"
Link
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News: Europe prepares four 5G pilots in industrial applications Link
News: 5Growth pone a prueba la tecnología 5G en la industrial española Link
News: 5Growth’s presence during the 24th Science Week in Catalonia Link
TABLE 6: PRESS RELEASES AND NEWS IN Y2
Title Location
News at Layer 123: Layer123 to host a 5Growth webinar series on 5G use in industry Link
News: Layer123 to host a 5Growth webinar series on 5G use in industry Link
News: Online Workshop – Layer123/5Growth: Powering 5G in Industry. 9 July 2020,
10am CET
Link
News: Online Workshop - “5G Trials in Europe – 5G Experimentation Facilities and
Vertical Trials”
Link
News: Best Fast Track Paper Award in IEEE NFV-SDN 2020 Link
News: WEBINAR: “Beyond 5G Evolution” Link
News: Contributor's award given to ITAV's João Fonseca Link
News: TB EWORKSHOP - December 2020 Link
News: Living document of T1.2 Link
News: The 5G-PPP Infrastructure - Trials and Pilots Brochure Nº2 is out Link
News: 5G-PPP and 5G IA’s White Paper: “Edge Computing for 5G Networks” Link
News: 5Growth Pilot and Innovation videos available Link
News: 5Growth wins the Madrid Award for Participation in Europe Link (ES)
Link (EN)
TABLE 7: PRESS RELEASES AND NEWS IN Y3
Title Location
Interview for COREnect newsletter (June 2021): "The 6G White Paper, an interview
with Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano"
Link
5G European Annual Journal 2021 Link
Contributions adopted by the IETF Link
Vote for Best Booth Award at EuCNC2021! Link
5Growth Demonstration Schedule at EuCNC2021 Link
5G-PPP Phase 3 projects brochure Link
5Growth project wins the "Best Booth Award" at EuCNC Link
5Growth & MWC Barcelona 2021 Link
Best Booth Award at EUCNC 2021 Link
Edge Computing World - MEC Hackathon 2021 Link
Third edition of the ‘5G Infrastructure PPP Trials and Pilots’ Brochure Link
5Growth & 5G-DIVE Exploitation workshop (29 October 2021) – “Experiences from
field trial about vertical industry”
Link
2.1.5. Communication articles
Table 8, Table 9, Table 10 report the activities related to communication articles during Y1, Y2 and
Y3, respectively. The communication articles target a wider audience than that strictly specialized in
the topics of the project.
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TABLE 8: COMMUNICATION ARTICLES IN Y1
Title Location
Projeto 5Growth valida comunicações
avançadas de 5G
Small article presented at Power:on magazine
(Efacec's internal magazine, Page 31). This
magazine can be found at: Link
5Growth European 5G Annual Journal 2020
TABLE 9: COMMUNICATION ARTICLES IN Y2
Title Location
Project 5Growth EFACEC_S brief article on level crossing in Industria magazine
num 126 (p.27) (in Portuguese)
5Growth pilots European 5G Annual Journal 2021
TABLE 10: COMMUNICATION ARTICLES IN Y3
Title Location
¿Qué implica la llegada del
5G? (Spanish)
5Growth is set as example of research project validating different
5G use cases in real deployed pilots placed in Bilbao, Aveiro and
Turin
In addition, Table 11, Table 12 and Table 13 list the presentations and talks targeting a wide
general audience during the years of the project.
TABLE 11: COMMUNICATION PRESENTATIONS IN Y1
Title Location Explanation
Bright European Researcher
Night
5G Challenge. Link Visitors will be asked to
challenge the autonomous
slalom of a rover exploiting 5G
and edge computing with a
manual one
Aveiro TechDays.
Dissemination of 5Growth
project by Aveiro Harbour
Internal event Talk about the 5G innovations
within the Aveiro Harbour. Link
Science Week.
Castelldefels. Talk to high
school students (Escola
Pàlcam) and visit to labs.
5G Networks: Why? What?
How?
Link and Link
Talk and visit to labs. 5Growth
use cases and architecture.
Internet Festival Pisa. Link Talk related to 5Growth vertical
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TABLE 12: COMMUNICATION PRESENTATIONS IN Y2
Title Location Explanation
Science Week. Online Event 5G Networks: Why? What?
How?
Link
Talk about 5Growth use cases
and architecture.
TABLE 13: COMMUNICATION PRESENTATIONS IN Y3
Title Location Explanation
Participation in the
European Corner of the
European Researchers'
Night in Catalunya
Link High-level presentation of
5Growth project
Participation on the 6th
October in SouthSummit
Link Moderating a session about
ecosystem based innovation
2.1.6. Lecture Materials
Table 14 reports in what courses the results of the 5Growth projects have been integrated by the
different academic institutions:
TABLE 14: LECTURE MATERIALS THAT USED 5GORWTH RESULTS
Academic
Institution Venue
Lecture Link
UC3M Master in NFV and SDN for 5G
networks
Network Function
Virtualization (NFV)
Link
NKUA Post Graduate school Advance Communication
Networks
Link
TIM TIM Academy on 5G and Edge
Computing
Intelligence at the Edge of
5G for enabling 5G services
Link
POLITO Master Degree in Computer
Engineering
Cloud Computing Link
POLITO Master Degree in Computer
Engineering
Software networking Link
SSSA Post Graduate school Laboratory of Teletraffic
Engineering
Link
SSSA Post Graduate school Laboratory of Network
Software
Link
SSSA Post Graduate school Communication Networks
and Security
Link
SSSA Seasonal School on 5G/6G
networks transforming the
digital society (ARTIST
5Growth content in
seasonal school ARTIST
Link
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2.2. Dissemination activities
Dissemination activities were undertaken in the project in order to promote the 5Growth project
concepts and final results to the international R&D community. The activities were also designed to
trigger synergies with other research projects and initiatives on related topics. This section presents
the overall dissemination activities during the lifetime of the project, where all the dissemination
activities follow the plan described in D5.2 [8]. The dissemination activities are grouped as
publications and technical dissemination, synergies with other projects, event organization,
technology demonstrations, research/technical skill development and standardization.
Before reporting the overall dissemination activities in detail, Table 15 summarizes the dissemination
plan target metrics described in D5.2 98[9] for the project's lifetime and the achieved metrics.
Although the targeted and achieved metrics for the first (Y1) and second (Y2) year of the project have
been previously reported in other project deliverables (in D5.2 [8] and D5.4 [3] respectively), activities
of each dissemination group are reported as the first (Y1), second (Y2) and third (Y3) years for the
sake of completeness and clarity.
As can be seen from Table 15, in terms of dissemination, the 5Growth project has achieved all the
targeted metrics, and it has even gone substantially beyond all the targeted metrics.
TABLE 15: TARGETED VERSUS MEASURED DISSEMINATION METRICS DURING THE LIFETIME OF THE
PROJECT
Activity Targeted Metric Achieved Metric
Publications and
technical
dissemination
At least 10 publications per year in
top-tier scientific journals and
conferences.
A total of 81 publications (34
conferences and 47 journals) + 1
book chapter accepted (under
preparation)
Synergies with
other projects
• Num. of meetings attended
(target: at least two per year).
• Num. of joint documents
generated (target: at least two
per year).
• Attended most of the 5G-PPP
meetings (including architecture,
test and measurement, pre-
standardization working groups).
A rough estimate of these re-
occurring working group
meetings is around 66.
• A total of 42 joint publication
(including papers and white
papers). Also, several joint
demonstrations.
Events
Organization
• Organization of one 30-people
workshop co-located with a
major conference (e.g., EUCNC,
IEEE WCNC, ICC, INFOCOM) with
70% satisfaction in the workshop
quality poll for attendees.
• A total of 21 workshops/events
organized (including academic
and industrial workshops/events).
• 67%, 87% and 82% satisfaction
(very satisfied) achieved for three
workshops that had more than 30
attendees. With “somewhat
satisfied” answers, the satisfaction
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• Participation in workshops: we
measure the number of events
(target: at least one per year).
ratios are 99%, 100% and 96% for
these workshops.
• Participation to a total of 82
events (including 5G-PPP
technology board workshop,
academic and industrial
workshops/events).
Exhibitions and
Technology
Demonstrations
• Technology demonstration in at
least two events – one at Y1 and
one at Y2. Two demonstration
deliverables are planned during
the project. More
demonstrations in several events
are targeted.
• Vertical demonstrations in at
least three events. Two
demonstration deliverables are
planned during the project,
which will include vertical-
oriented demonstrations.
• A total of 27 technology
demonstrations (including
academic and ETSI ENI PoC).
• 8 out of 27 technology
demonstrations are vertical-
oriented
exhibitions/demonstrations.
Research/Technic
al Skill
Development
Addition of core skills for
technology development within the
project into academic curriculums,
along with the proposal of PhD and
MSc theses on specific topics on
5Growth research agenda.
A total of 27 theses for MSc, PhD and
internship studies where 10 of these
studies have been completed during
the project.
Standardization
Dissemination
• Submission of at least 10
contributions to SDOs, such as
3GPP, IETF, ETSI, IEEE, ITU over
the lifetime of the project.
• Participation in at least one
open-source project.
• A total of 85 submissions to SDOs
of which 43 out of 85
contributions are
accepted/adopted.
• A total of 10 relevant
contributions to open-source
projects in 6 different projects.
2.2.1. Publications and technical dissemination
Table 16, Table 17 and Table 18 present all 5Growth peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and
studies/demos/posters in scientific conferences in Y1, Y2 and Y3, respectively. During the lifetime of
the project, a total of 81 peer-reviewed article submissions that include 34 conference and 47 journal
papers have been accepted for publication. In addition to that, one book chapter proposal is
accepted and currently under preparation.
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TABLE 16: PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES IN Y1
Type Title Publication/Conference
journal Beyond 5G Evolution (Guest editorship) MDPI Electronics
journal Service Shifting: A Paradigm for Service Resilience in 5G IEEE Communications
Magazine
journal Reducing Service Deployment Cost Through VNF
Sharing
IEEE/ACM Transactions
on Networking
journal DeepCog: Optimizing Resource Provisioning in Network
Slicing with AI-based Capacity Forecasting IEEE JSAC
journal Is OpenCL Driven Reconfigurable Hardware Suitable for
Virtualising 5G Infrastructure?
IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service
Management
journal An Edge-based Framework for Enhanced Road Safety of
Connected Cars IEEE Access
journal On the integration of NFV and MEC technologies:
architecture analysis and benefits for edge robotics
Elsevier Computer
Networks
journal Federation of 5G services using Distributed Ledger
Technologies
Wiley Internet
Technology Letters
conference vrAIn: A Deep Learning Approach Tailoring Computing
and Radio Resources in Virtualized RANs ACM Mobicom 2019
conference
SliMANO: An Expandable Framework for the
Management and Orchestration of End-to-end Network
Slices
IEEE CloudNet 2019
conference PI2forP4: AnActive Queue Management Scheme for
Programmable Data Planes ACM Conext 2019
TABLE 17: PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES IN Y2
Type Title Publication/Conference
journal TOTP Moving Target Defense for sensitive network
services
Elsevier Pervasive and
Mobile Computing
journal Optical transport for industry 4.0
OSA Journal of Optical
Communications and
Networking
journal RISMA: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Enabling
Beamforming for IoT Massive Access IEEE JSAC
journal
Overview of Architectural Alternatives for the Integration
of ETSI MEC Environments from Different Administrative
Domains
MDPI Electronics
journal LACO: A Latency-driven Network Slicing Orchestration in
Beyond-5G Networks
IEEE Transactions on
Wireless
Communications
journal Decomposing SLAs for Network Slicing IEEE Communications
Letters
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journal Modeling MTC and HTC Radio Access in a Sliced 5G Base
Station
IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service
Management
journal
5Growth: An End-to-End Service Platform for Automated
Deployment and Management of Vertical Services over
5G Networks
IEEE Communications
Magazine
journal Optimal Deployment Framework for Multi-Cloud
Virtualized Radio Access Networks
IEEE Transactions on
Wireless
Communications
journal vrAIn: Deep Learning based Orchestration forComputing
and Radio Resources in vRANs
IEEE Transactions on
Mobile Computing
journal Delay and reliability-constrained VNF placement on
mobile and volatile 5G infrastructure
IEEE Transactions on
Mobile Computing
journal Monitoring in fog computing: state-of-the-art and
research challenges
Inderscience
International Journal of
Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous
Computing (IJAHUC)
journal
Architecture for integrating vertical customer
programmability control of network functions and
connectivity in a slice-as-a service schema
EURASIP Journal on
Wireless
Communications and
Networking Journal
journal Public and Non-Public Network Integration for 5Growth
Industry 4.0 Use Cases
IEEE Communications
Magazine
journal Support for Availability Attributes in Network Slices in
GANSO
Wiley Internet
Technology Letters
journal Towards Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems: Digital Twin
meets Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Communications
Magazine
journal A Genetic Algorithm Approach for Service Function Chain
Placement in 5G and Beyond, Virtualized Edge Networks
Elsevier Compute
Networks
conference A Q-learning strategy for federation of 5G services IEEE ICC 2020
conference OKpi: All-KPI Network Slicing Through Efficient Resource
Allocation INFOCOM 2020
conference Handover Prediction Integrated with Service Migration in
5G Systems IEEE ICC 2020
conference Orchestrating Edge- and Cloud-based Predictive
Analytics Services EuCNC 2020
conference 5Growth: AI-driven 5G for Automation in Vertical
Industries EuCNC 2020
conference Information Exchange to Support Multi-Domain Slice
Service Provision for 5G/NFV IFIP Networking 2020
conference DLT federation for Edge robotics IEEE NFV-SDN 2020
conference An Intelligent Edge-based Digital Twin for Robotics IEEE GlobeCom 2020
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conference GANSO: Automate Network Slicing at the Transport
Network Interconnecting the Edge IEEE NFV-SDN 2020
conference On the Integration of AI/ML-based scaling operations in
the 5Growth platform IEEE NFV-SDN 2020
conference
Experimental Validation of Compute and Network
Resource Abstraction and Allocation Mechanisms within
an NFV Infrastructure
IEEE IM 2021
conference Bayesian Online Learning for Energy-Aware Resource
Orchestration in vRANs IEEE INFOCOM 2021
conference An RL Approach to Radio Resource Management in
Heterogeneous Virtual RANs IEEE WONS 2021
TABLE 18: PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND CONFERENCES IN Y3
Type Title Publication/Conference
journal Towards Node Liability in Federated Learning:
Computational Cost and Network Overhead
IEEE Communications
Magazine
journal Dissecting the Impact of Information and Communication
Technologies on Digital Twins as a Service IEEE Access
journal Multi-Domain Solution for the Deployment of Private 5G
Networks IEEE Access
journal
Live Migration of Virtual Machine and Container based
Mobile Core Network Components: A Comprehensive
Study
IEEE Access
journal Automated Service Provisioning and Hierarchical SLA
Management in 5G Systems
IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service
Management
journal Intelligent Service Orchestration in Edge Cloud Networks IEEE Network Magazine
journal A 5G-based eHealth monitoring and emergency
response system: experience and lessons learned IEEE Access
journal A Context-aware Radio Resource Management in
Heterogeneous Virtual RANs
IEEE Transactions on
Cognitive
Communications and
Networking
journal DQN Dynamic Pricing and Revenue driven Service
Federation Strategy
IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service
Management
journal
Resource Orchestration Strategies With Retrials for
Latency-Sensitive Network Slicing Over Distributed Telco
Clouds
IEEE Access
journal KPI Guarantees in Network Slicing IEEE Transactions on
Networking
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journal A Model-based Approach to Multi-domain Monitoring
Data Aggregation
Journal of ICT
Standardization
journal Federation in dynamic environments: Can Blockchain be
the solution?
IEEE Communications
Magazine
journal Orchestrating Energy-Efficient vRANs: Bayesian Learning
and Experimental Results
IEEE Transactions on
Mobile Computing
journal AI-driven, Context-Aware Profiling for 5G and Beyond
Networks
IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service
Management
journal Performance Isolation for Network Slices in Industry 4.0:
The 5Growth Approach IEEE Access
journal A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach for Scaling
and Placement of Virtual Network Functions
Springer Journal of
Network and Systems
Management
journal Dimensioning V2N Services in 5G Networks through
Forecast-based Scaling IEEE Access
journal Service Based Virtual RAN Architecture for Next
Generation Cellular Systems IEEE Access
journal FlexDRAN: Flexible Centralization in Disaggregated Radio
Access Networks IEEE Access
journal Monitoring Platform Evolution towards Serverless
Computing for 5G and Beyond Systems
IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service
Management
journal Distributed Ledger Technologies For Network Slicing: A
Survey IEEE Access
journal ML-driven Provisioning and Management of Vertical
Services in Automated Cellular Networks
IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service
Management
conference Serving HTC and Critical MTC in a RAN Slice IEEE WOWMOM 2021
conference 5Growth Data-Driven AI-Based Scaling EuCNC 2021
conference 5Growth: Secure and Reliable Network Slicing for
Verticals EuCNC 2021
conference On Slice Isolation Options in the Transport Network and
Associated Feasibility Indicators IEEE NetSoft 2021
conference Efficiency Gains due to Network Function Sharing in CDN-
as-a-Service Slicing Scenarios IEEE NetSoft 2021
conference 5Growth: Hardening Interdomain Vertical Services with
Moving Target Defense (MTD) EUCNC'21
conference COTORRA: COntext-aware Testbed fOR Robotic
Applications ACM MobiSys 2021
conference Cloud Native Computing for Industry 4.0: Challenges and
Opportunities IEEE ETFA'21
conference R-Learning-Based Admission Control for Service
Federation in Multi-domain 5G Networks IEEE GlobeCom 2021
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conference Efficient Restoration of Simultaneous Transport Services
within an NFV Infrastructure IEEE GlobeCom 2021
conference OpenFlowMon: A Fully Distributed Monitoring
Framework for Virtualized Environments IEEE NFV-SDN'21
conference Outlook for Operator Adoption of 5G Networks EUCNC'21
conference Realizing Zenoh with programmable dataplanes ACM/IEEE ANCS’21
conference Dynamic Interdomain Network Slicing for Verticals in the
5Growth Project IEEE NFV-SDN'21
conference VERA: Resource Orchestration for Virtualized Services at
the Edge IEEE ICC’22
conference
End-to-End Network Service Orchestration in
Heterogeneous Domains for Next-Generation Mobile
Networks
IEEE NOMS’22
conference Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Framework of
Online Network Resource Allocation IEEE ICC’22
conference Near Optimal VNF Placement in Edge-Enabled 6G
Networks IEEE ICIN’22
Table 19, Table 20 and Table 21 present 5Growth consortium talks at scientific conferences, seminars,
and forums, with the goal of raising awareness on the 5Growth project during Y1, Y2 and Y3,
respectively. During the project lifetime, 5Growth consortium participated to various events including
academic and vertical-oriented events and gave a total of 60 talks in those events.
TABLE 19: 5GROWTH TALKS IN SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES AND TECHNOLOGY FORUMS IN Y1
Date Venue Description
2019-05-22 IEEE ICC 2019
Panelist at IEEE ICC 2019 Workshop: 5G-
Trials – From 5G Experiments to Business
Validation called Challenges in 5G Trials
2019-05-27 Dagstuhl Seminar 19222 “Control of
Networked Cyber-Physical Systems”
Impulsive presentation of 5Growth (“5G
Service Automation”)
2019-06-20 EuCNC 2019 Presentation of 5Growth in ICT-19 Session
at EUCNC 2019
2019-07-23 EuCNC 2019 Presentation of 5Growth in EMPOWER-
PAWR workshop: EuCNC.
2019-07-03 FUSECO FORUM Presentation of 5Growth (results and WIP)
at FUSECO Forum1
2019-09-03 ICT-19 session by 5G EVE
5G EVE organized a session devoted to
discussing collaboration with ICT-19
projects (i.e., 5Growth)
2019-10-08 5G-PPP TB Workshop 5G-enabled Growth in Vertical Industries
1 https://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/ngni/events/fuseco_forum_2019
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2019-11-27 2nd Visions for Future
Communications Summit
Slicing with non-public networks – another
orchestration challenge for the next
decade.
2020-01-13 Nokia Bell Labs (Paris-Saclay, France) Reinforcement Learning for Slice Resource
Allocation
2020-01-13 NYU Tandon School of Engineering Reinforcement Learning for Slice Resource
Allocation
2020-01-16 5G-PPP SN WG Presentation of the 5Growth project to 5G-
PPP SN WG
2020-03-09
“Jornadas Electrotécnicas 2020” at
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do
Porto
Presentation of 5Growth project under the
Seminar “Research for beyond the Early 5G
Network – EU and PT”
2020-04-14 NMRG virtual meeting Metadata-based Aggregation of
Telemetry Flows
2020-05-12
First meeting of 5Growth External
Vertical Industries Advisory Board
(EVIAB).
Presentation of the 5Growth project.
Available at: Link
2020-05-19
“The role of computing in the post
5G-era: Architectures and enabling
technologies”, workshop, co-located
with ONDM'20 (WS)
Evolutionary trends in operators' networks
for beyond 5G
2020-05-19
5th IEEE International Workshop on
Orchestration for Software Defined
Infrastructures (O4SDI), co-located
with the 2020 IEEE/IFIP NOMS
Towards a standardized transport slicing
architecture in operator networks
2020-05-26
5G-PPP TB eWorkshop (Session on
Collaboration among infrastructure
and vertical validation trials projects)
An exemplary view from an ICT-19 project:
5Growth – Link with 5G EVE and 5G VINNI
2020-05-26 5G-PPP TB eWorkshop (Session on
Business Model Validation) 5Growth business validation
2020-05-26 5G-PPP TB eWorkshop (AIML session) A Deep Learning Approach for vRAN
Resource Orchestration
2020-05-26 5G-PPP TB eWorkshop (Session on
Validation and KPIs)
5G-PPP TMV TF on vertical KPIs Industry
4.0
TABLE 20: 5GROWTH TALKS IN SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES AND TECHNOLOGY FORUMS IN Y2
Date Venue Description
2020-06-09 5G End-to-end
Experimentation by Verticals
in EU projects workshop
Intervention at Introductory Panel called: “Key
challenges and requirements for 5G experiments
with verticals” and at Concluding Panel called: “End
to end 5G experimentation across multiple EU
projects”
2020-09-11 5G From Theory to Practice
(5GToP) Workshop, in
Presentation overviewing 5Growth project:
“Validating 5G in vertical industries: the 5Growth
project”
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conjunction with IEEE 5G
World Forum
2020-10-14 5G Workshop on “5G
Experimentation Facilities
and Vertical Trials: Current
Status and Future
Perspectives” organized by
5GENESIS/NCSR
“DEMOKRITOS”
Presentation called “Validating 5G in vertical
industries: the 5Growth project”
2020-09-29 CTIF Global Capsule “23rd
Strategic Workshop”, theme
“Sustainable Green
Environments”
Presentation called “5G-enhanced verticals:
contributions of the 5Growth project into the
railways and energy sectors”
2020-09-23 Event organized (Panel) by
5G Solutions project in
collaboration with the IEEE
ComSoc EMEA region
Presentation called “The Operator Point of View on
Transport Network, Not just phone calls and
messages where new telecommunication
technologies (5G) are hiding?”
2020-10-02 Talk organized by IEEE
ComSoc EMEA
Presentation called “Get Smart – The Challenges in
Data-Driven Network Management”
2020-11-11 Keynote at
IEEE NFV SDN 2020
Keynote called “Serious science and serious
engineering - The way of software-based network
experimentation”
2020-11-09 Keynote at MOBISLICE III
workshop co-located with
the IEEE NFV-SDN 2020
Keynote called “Network slicing in practice through
service federation”
2020-11-19 Talk at MDPI webinar called
“Beyond 5G Webinar”
Talk called “5Growth Network Architectures for 5G
and beyond”
2020-12-09 5G-PPP TB eWorkshop
(industry 4.0 session)
5Growth - Industry 4.0 Low Latency services on a
shared Transport Network
2020-12-09 5G-PPP TB eWorkshop
(Testing: Methodologies and
Setup session)
5G EVE & 5Growth: Dealing with App validation, in
practice
2020-12-09 5G-PPP TB eWorkshop
(Integrating Public and
Private Networks session)
On the operation of Non-Public Networks – An
MNO’s perspective
2020-12-09 5G-PPP TB eWorkshop
(Integrating Public and
Private Networks session)
5Growth - “Slice Capability Exposure as an Enabler
for NSaaS
2020-12-09 5G-PPP TB eWorkshop
(Working on verticals
session)
5Growth - E2E Solutions for experimenting 5G
vertical services across multiple Platforms and Sites
2020-12-09 Keynote at SBRC 2020 Scaling and Sharing Network Slices in 5G Networks
and Beyond
2020-12-11 Talk at the 5G-PPP
Architecture WG Meeting
5Growth Architecture Design & Innovations
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2021-01-11 Presentation at the 5G-
VINNI ESB (External
Stakeholders Board)
Presentation of the objectives, status and future
plans concerning the 5Growth 5G infrastructure
and Transportation and Energy use cases.
2021-03-10 Keynote at R2T2: Robotics
Research for Tomorrow's
Technology 2021
Supporting Industry 4.0 in Next-generation
Cellular: The Digital Twin Use Case
2021-03-25 Presentation at the
Metromeet'21 conference:
“Intelligent Metrology for a
Sustainable and Efficient
Digital Factory”
5Growth: 5G Metrology for a 5G Industry
2021-03-04 Presentation at 1st SLICES
workshop: Next Generation
ICT Research Infrastructures
Twinning Networks: On the Use and Challenges of
Network Digital Twins
2021-04-08 2nd 5G EVE Learn and Drive Panelist in the slot on “A great chance for SMEs and
startups to boost 5G applications”
2021-04-13 Presentation at Layer123
Europe 2021 Event
Data flow aggregation for smarter network security
2021-04-27 NGIoT Thematic workshop
series on IoT and Edge
Computing (Session: Part I
Industrial IoT and Edge
Node Use Cases)
Towards an Autonomous Zero-X manufacturing
4.0: Human-Centred Tactile Manufacturing
Intelligence (Talk in panel)
2021-05-12 Presentation in Universidad
de Murcia
Introduction to Network Function Virtualization:
concept and standardization
2021-05-25 5G-PPP TB eWorkshop 5Growth Interaction with 5G Experimentation
Platforms
TABLE 21: 5GROWTH TALKS IN SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES AND TECHNOLOGY FORUMS IN Y3
Date Venue Description
2021-06-03 BEREC Workshop on 5G Panelist in BEREC Workshop on 5G. More info in:
https://berec.europa.eu/eng/events/berec_events_
2021/282-berec-workshop-on-5g (no
presentation associated)
2021-06-08 EUCNC'21 Talk in WS6: 5G
Private Networks
5Growth NPN Deployment Solutions & Industry
4.0 Pilot Examples
2021-06-08 EUCNC'21 Talk in WS6: 5G
Private Networks
Outlook for operator adoption of 5G Private
Networks
2021-06-11 EUCNC'21 Panelist EUCNC'21: "Seeding the long-term vision
for Autonomous Network Management on the
road to 6G Projects"
2021-07-20 Talk at the IEEE 7th World
Forum on Internet of Things
on Artificial Intelligence and
Application of AI/ML for Learning-based Scaling
for the Industry 4.0 Services
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Machine Learning (AI/ML)
(TOP1)
2021-07-27 Talk at the NMRG meeting
within IETF111
A Practical Application of Monitoring data and AI
for Network Management in an Industrial
Environment
2021-07-27 Talk at the NMRG meeting
within IETF111
Toward Building a Context-Aware Data
Aggregation Framework for Network Monitoring
2021-10-13 Talk at the architecture
white paper version 4.0
presentation workshop
Architecture white paper. Chapter on
Management and orchestration.
2021-10-15 IEEE 5G World forum Moving to a new Innovation ecosystem powered
by 5G and AI
2021-10-25 Panelist at NetPA workshop
(co-located with IEEE
CNSM'21)
Panelist at IEEE CNSM'21 NetPA workshop. Panel
name: “On the challenges of network
programmability and automation under resilience
and sustainability stakes”
2021-11-25 Talk at the 3 Visions for
Future Communications
Summit
Closing the Closed Loops
2021-12-07 "Human-Centric and Tactile
IoT" workshop co-located
with IEEE GLOBECOM 2021
Industry 4.0, 5G and Digital Factories (Keynote
talk)
2021-12-09 Panelist at IP2 of IEEE
Globecom 2021
Panelist at IEEE Globecom IPA2: Europe’s industrial
and digital development. The commitment of the
European Digital Innovation Hubs
2021-12-15 Talk at IEEE Standards
Summit 2021 - Short
Technical Talks:
“Standardization Activities
by 5G-PPP Research
Projects“
SDO impacts of 5Growth
2022-01-18 Talk at 5G-PPP TB e-
Workshop (5G-I TB
workshop ICT-17 & ICT-19
session)
E2E Solutions for experimenting 5G Vertical
services across ICT-17 and ICT-19 platforms
2.2.2. Synergies with other projects
Synergies with other projects include collaborative activities with other EU and international research
projects (e.g., through 5G-PPP working groups or other platforms) towards a coordinated action
inside the 5G-PPP. Such collaborative activities would require a regular attendance to the 5G-PPP
meetings and participation to the activities of the 5G-PPP working groups, including the steering
board and technical board, Pre-Standardization, Vision and Societal Challenges, 5G Architecture,
Trials, SME, Software Networks, Security, and Test, Measurements and KPI Validation.
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Overall, the project has targeted at least two meetings attended per year and at least two joint
documents generated per year, as noted in Table 15. During the project lifetime, 5Growth consortium
has achieved significantly higher numbers than the targeted ones with an estimation of (due to the
re-occurring nature of the 5G-PPP WG meetings) attending at least 66 5G-PPP meetings and
generating a total of 42 joint publications (including papers and white papers). Additionally, several
demos have been carried out with other projects.
Table 22, Table 23 and Table 24 report collaborative activities with other EU and international
research projects (e.g., through 5G-PPP working groups or working groups of other platforms)
towards a coordinated action inside the 5G-PPP.
In addition to that, the project partners have been regularly attending the meetings and participating
in the activities of the 5G-PPP working groups, including the steering board and technical board,
Pre-Standardization, Vision and Societal Challenges, 5G Architecture, Trials, SME, Software Networks,
Security, and Test, Measurements and KPI Validation.
TABLE 22: COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES WITH EU AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS IN Y1
Item Explanation
Joint Paper with project 5G-TRANSFORMER @
IEEE Communications Magazine
Paper called: “Service Shifting: A Paradigm for
Service Resilience in 5G”
Joint Paper with projects: 5G-TRANSFORMER,
5G-MoNArch, 5G-TOURS @ ACM Mobicom
2019
Paper called: “vrAIn: A Deep Learning Approach
Tailoring Computing and Radio Resources in
Virtualized RANs”
Joint Demo with projects: 5G-TRANSFORMER,
5G-MoNArch, 5G-TOURS @ ACM Mobicom
2019
Demo called: “vrAIn Proof-of-Concept — A
Deep Learning Approach for Virtualized RAN
Resource Control”
Joint Paper submitted with 5G-
TRANSFORMER project @ IEEE ICC'20
Paper called: “A Q-learning strategy for
federation of 5G services”
First technology roadmap for advanced
wireless, EMPOWER
Roadmap
Joint Paper with project 5G-TRANSFORMER
and 5G-Tours project @ IEEE JSAC SI
(“Advances in Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning for Networking”)
Paper called: “DeepCog: Optimizing Resource
Provisioning in Network Slicing with AI-based
Capacity Forecasting”
Joint Demo with project 5G MISE Trial in Bari
and Matera
Demo called: “Remote Control of a Robot Rover
Combining 5G, AI, and GPU Image Processing at
the Edge”
5G-PPP Software Network WG virtual meeting Discussion about our future plan/actions of the
WG for 2019-2020
5G-PPP Technology Board meeting Report 5Growth interaction with ICT-17
platforms
Presentation of the 5Growth project to 5G-PPP
SN WG
Interaction with other projects of the H2020 5G
Infrastructure PPP, 5G-PPP SNWG meeting
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Brochure for MWC 2020 from 5G-PPP
Software Network Working Group
Participation of 5Growth project in the MWC’20
brochure of SN WG called: Cloud Native and 5G
Verticals’ services
Joint demo: 5Growth (ICT-19 project), 5G-
CLARITY (ICT-20 project), and 5G-DIVE (EU-
Taiwan ICT-23 project) at EuCNC 2020 Booth
Demo called: “Hybrid eMBB-URLLC network
slicing for I4.0”
Joint demo with project 5G-TRANSFORMER at
INFOCOM 2020
Demo called: “NFV Service Federation: enabling
Multi-Provider eHealth Emergency Services”
Joint demo with project 5G-TRANSFORMER at
INFOCOM 2020
Demo called: “Arbitrating Network Services in
5GNetworks for Automotive Vertical Industry”
5G-PPP White paper on edge computing White paper called: “Contribution on Edge
Computing in 5Growth”
5G-PPP White paper on 5G architecture
(consolidated version)
White paper called: “Capturing novel trends and
key technological enablers for the realization of
the 5G architecture”
Joint paper with 5G-TRANSFORMER and 5G-
CORAL projects at Elsevier Computer
Networks
Paper called: “On the integration of NFV and
MEC technologies: architecture analysis and
benefits for edge robotics”
Join workshop with 5G-DIVE, 5G EVE, 5G-
VINNI, and 5G-TOURS
5G end-to-end experimentation by verticals in
EU project
Joint workshop with 5G-DIVE, co-located with
Globecom 2020
Intelligent Fog and Edge Infrastructures for
Future Wireless Systems
5G-PPP TB eWorkshop (Business model
validation session)
Participation in the discussion on business
validation with the 5Growth business validation
5GPPP TB eWorkshop (Use of AI/ML in
networks session)
A Deep Learning Approach for vRAN Resource
Orchestration
5GPPP TB eWorkshop (Validation and KPIs
session) Vertical KPIs Industry 4.0
TABLE 23: COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES WITH EU AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS IN Y2
Item Explanation
Joint Demo with project 5G-TOURS @ 5G End-
to-end experimentation by verticals in EU
projects Workshop
Demo called: “vrAIn: AI-driven orchestation of
vRAN resources”
Contribution to 5G IA white paper called
“Business Validation in 5G-PPP vertical use
cases”, from “Vision and Societal Challenges
Working Group / Business Validation, Models,
and Ecosystems Sub-Group”
White paper available at: Link
Publication of white paper: Empowering
Verticals industries through 5G Networks -
Current Status and Future Trends
White paper available at: Link
Joint paper with 5G-DIVE project at MDPI
Electronics journal
Paper called: “Overview of Architectural
Alternatives for the Integration of ETSI MEC
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Environments from Different Administrative
Domains”
Participation in the report of 5G-PPP Pre-
Standardisation Work Group
Report called: “5G-PPP Projects Impact on SDO
Technical Report”
Participation in the 5GPP TMV working group
White Paper on ICT-19 Performance KPIs
White paper called: “Service performance
measurement methods over 5G experimental
networks”
Joint paper with 5G-DIVE project at IEEE NFV-
SDN'20 Paper called: “DLT federation for Edge robotics”
Joint paper with 5G-DIVE at IEEE Globecom
2020 WS AT5G+
Paper called: “An Intelligent Edge-based Digital
Twin for Robotics”
Joint paper with 5G-DIVE at IEEE NFV-SDN
2020 WS MOBISLICE III
Paper called: “GANSO: Automate Network
Slicing at the Transport Network Interconnecting
the Edge”
Joint paper with MonB5G Project at
Transaction on Wireless Communications
Paper called: “LACO: A Latency-driven Network
Slicing Orchestration in Beyond-5G Networks”
EC H2020 5G Infrastructure PPP - PPP T&Ps
Summary Table - PPP T&Ps Brochure n°2 - PPP
Verticals Cartography
Participation with the pilot called: “5Growth:
Industry 4.0 Low Latency use cases on shared
Network”
5G-PPP projects' brochure to be released early
next year. Phase 3 projects brochure
Joint workshop with 5G-DIVE and Empower Beyond 5G Evolution
5G-PPP White paper
White paper called: “Delivery of 5G Services
Indoors – the wireless wire challenge and
solutions”
5G-PPP White paper White paper called: “AI and ML - Enablers for
Beyond 5G Networks”
5G-PPP TB eWorkshop (Industry 4.0 session) 5Growth - Industry 4.0 Low Latency services on
a shared Transport Network
5G-PPP TB eWorkshop (Testing:
Methodologies and Setup session)
5G EVE & 5Growth: Dealing with App validation,
in practice
5G-PPP TB eWorkshop (Integrating Public and
Private Networks session)
5Growth - Slice Capability Exposure as an
Enabler for NSaaS
5G-PPP TB eWorkshop (Working on verticals
session)
5Growth - E2E Solutions for experimenting 5G
vertical services across multiple Platforms and
Sites
5G-PPP TB eWorkshop (Integrating Public and
Private Networks Session)
On the operation of Non-Public Networks – An
MNO’s perspective
ETSI ENI PoC #9 ETSI ENI PoC #9: Autonomous Network Slice
Management for 5G Vertical Services
Joint webinar with 5G-DIVE
5Growth and 5G-DIVE Research Projects:
diferentes acercamientos para el Edge (in
Spanish)
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Joint webinar with 5G-DIVE
Projetos de pesquisas 5Growth e 5G-DIVE:
diferentes abordagens para Edge (in
Portuguese)
Joint journal with 5G-DIVE at IEEE Transactions
on Mobile Computing
Paper called: Delay and reliability-constrained
VNF placement on mobile and volatile 5G
infrastructure
Participation in the 5G-VINNI ESB (Extern
Stakeholders Board) meeting
The objective, status and future plans
concerning the 5Growth 5G infrastructure and
Transportation and Energy use cases.
Joint Demo paper with 5G-DIVE at IEEE
INFOCOM'21
Demo called: “Demo: AIML-as-a-Service for SLA
management of a Digital Twin Virtual Network
Service”
Joint Demo paper with DAEMON at IEEE
INFOCOM'21
Demo called: “Demonstrating a Bayesian Online
Learning for Energy-Aware Resource
Orchestration in vRANs”
Joint journal article with 5G-DIVE at
Inderscience
Paper called: Monitoring in fog computing:
state-of-the-art and research challenges
Joint journal article with 5G-DIVE at Eurasip
JWCN
Paper called: Architecture for integrating vertical
customer programmability control of network
functions and connectivity in a slice-as-a service
schema
Joint conference paper with 5G-DIVE and 5G-
VINNI projects
Paper called: On Slice Isolation Options in the
Transport Network and Associated Feasibility
Indicators
Joint journal article with 5G EVE project at IEEE
Communications Magazine
Paper called: Public and Non-Public Network
Integration for 5Growth Industry 4.0 Use Cases
Joint journal article with 5G-DIVE at Wiley
Internet Technology Letters (Special Issue:
Mobility support in Slice-Based Network
Control for Heterogeneous Environment)
Paper called: “Support for Availability Attributes
in Network Slices in GANSO”
5G-PPP White Paper (ICT-19 performance
KPIs)
White paper called: “Service performance
measurement methods over 5G experimental
networks” White paper – ICT-19 performance
KPIs
5G-PPP White Paper
White paper called: “Understanding the
Numbers Contextualization and Impact Factors
of 5G Performance Results”
Joint journal article with 5G-DIVE at IEEE
Communications Magazine (Special Issue:
Networks for Cyber-Physical Systems and
Industry 4.0)
Paper called: “Towards Intelligent Cyber-Physical
Systems: Digital Twin meets Artificial
Intelligence”
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Item Explanation
5G-PPP Trials and Pilots Brochure No3 Participation in the [5G-TB] Trials and Pilots
Brochure No3: Results – COMAU Pilot
5G-PPP Trials and Pilots Brochure No3 Participation in the [5G-TB] Trials and Pilots
Brochure No3: Results – INNOVALIA Pilot
5G IA White Paper White paper called: “European Vision for the 6G
Network Ecosystem”
Joint workshop organization in EUCNC'21
with INSPIRE-5Gplus, 5GASP, 5GZORRO,
5Growth, 5GENESIS, 5GMobix, 5G-
INDUCE, SPIDER, Hexa-X, Teraflow,
PALANTIR and PUZZLE
WS8: From 5G to 6G Automated and Intelligent
SecuriTy: FAST
Joint workshop organization in EUCNC'21
with FUDGE-5G, 5G-VINNI, 5G-RECORDS,
AFFORDABLE-5G, 5Growth, 5G-CLARITY,
5G-SMART, 5G-TOURS,
5G-INDUCE, 5G-Solutions, 5G- VICTORI,
PriMO-5G
WS6: 5G Private Networks
Joint workshop paper with 5G-DIVE at
"MobileServerless ‘21", co-located with
ACM MobiSys 2021
Workshop paper called: “COTORRA: COntext-aware
Testbed fOR Robotic Applications”
Whitepaper in the field of Industry 4.0 in
the framework of ECSEL/KDT and LIASE White paper called: “Lighthouse Industry 4.0”
Moderator of 5G-PPP TMV WG webinar
Webinar called: “Practical insights from 5G Test,
Measurement and KPI Validation with vertical
applications”
Joint workshop organization in CNSM'21
with Hexa-X, MON-B5G, 5G-DIVE
Zero-Touch Network and Service Management
(ZNSM) workshop, co-located with CNSM'21
Joint journal paper with 5G-DIVE at IEEE
Access
Paper called: “Dissecting the Impact of Information
and Communication Technologies on Digital Twins
as a Service”
Joint journal paper with 5G EVE at IEEE
Access
Paper called: “Multi-Domain Solution for the
Deployment of Private 5G Networks”
5G-PPP White Paper White paper called: “View on 5G Architecture"
Joint journal article with 5G-
TRANSFORMER project at IEEE TNSM
Journal called: “Automated Service Provisioning and
Hierarchical SLA Management in 5G Systems”
5G-PPP White Paper
5G-PPP Technology Board White Paper “Delivery of
5G Services Indoors – the wireless wire challenge
and solutions”
Joint Exploitation Workshop organization
with 5G-DIVE Experiences from field trial about vertical industry
Talk at IEEE 5G World forum “Moving to a new Innovation ecosystem powered by
5G and AI (5G EVE & 5Growth)”
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Joint workshop paper with 5G-DIVE at
"MOBISLICE'21", co-located with IEEE NFV-
SDN 2021
OpenFlowMon: A Fully Distributed Monitoring
Framework for Virtualized Environments
Joint journal article with INSPIRE-5Gplus at
Journal of ICT Standardization
Paper called: “A Model-based Approach to Multi-
domain Monitoring Data Aggregation”
Co-editor of 5G-PPP White Paper White Paper called: “NPNs - State of the art and way
forward”
Joint journal article with DAEMON project
at IEEE TMC
Paper called: “Orchestrating Energy-Efficient vRANs:
Bayesian Learning and Experimental Results”
5G-PPP Architecture WP Vice-chair
election
5Growth TM elected as Vice-chair of the 5G-PPP
Architecture WG
Joint journal paper with 5G-DIVE at IEEE
Access
Paper called: “Journal called Dimensioning V2N
Services in 5G Networks through Forecast-based
Scaling”
Joint demo paper with DAEMON at ACM
MobiHoc 21
Demo called: “Demo: Nuberu — A Reliable DU
Design Suitable for Virtualization Platforms”
Joint journal paper with Affordable5G,
DAEMON and 6GBrain
Paper called: “FlexDRAN: Flexible Centralization in
Disaggregated Radio Access Networks”
Joint journal paper with 5G EVE at IEEE
TNSM
Paper called: “Monitoring Platform Evolution
towards Serverless Computing for 5G and Beyond
Systems”
2.2.3. Events organization
For events organization, the project has targeted (i) organization of one 30-people workshop co-
located with a major conference (e.g., EUCNC, IEEE WCNC, ICC, INFOCOM) with 70% satisfaction in
the workshop quality poll for attendees; and (ii) participation in workshops as at least one per year.
Table 25 reports on the participation of the 5Growth consortium in the organization of dissemination
events during the project lifetime, which realization already happened during the Y2 and Y3 of the
project. Overall, the consortium has organized or contributed to the organization of 21 events, which
some of them are biweekly/bi-monthly events and not all of them are counted in the given total
number.
TABLE 25: 5GROWTH ORGANIZED EVENTS
Date Item Explanation
2020-06-09
Joint half-day online workshop with
5Growth, 5G-DIVE, 5G EVE, 5G-VINNI, and
5G-TOURS
Open virtual workshop in which 5G
projects will present their latest
results, including demonstrations.
2020-07-09 Powering 5G in industry Periodical webinar with Layer123
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2020-09-10 5G from Theory to Practice (5GToP)
Workshop
Co-located with IEEE 5G World Forum
2020, Bangalore, India2
2020-11-10 IEEE NFV-SDN 2020 November 10-12, 2020
2020-11-10 Mobislice 2020 Co-located with IEEE NFVSDN 2020
2020-11-19 Beyond 5G Evolution MDPI Webinar 20203
2021-01-12
Webinar called “5Growth and 5G-DIVE
Research Projects: diferentes
acercamientos para el Edge”
Telesemana Webinar4
2021-01-14
Webinar called “Projetos de pesquisas
5Growth e 5G-DIVE: diferentes
abordagens para Edge”
Telecom Webinar5
2021-03-05 Ericsson internal event Outside-insight program: Factories of
the Future
2021-06-08
WS8: From 5G to 6G Automated and
Intelligent SecuriTy: FAST (co-located with
EUCNC21)
EUCNC’21
2021-06-08 WS6: 5G Private Networks (co-located
with EUCNC21) EUCNC’21
2021-10-25
1st International Workshop on Zero-
Touch Network and Service Management
(ZNSM 2021). It has been merged with
NetP workshop, resulting in NetPA
workshop
Co-located with IEEE CNSM 20216
2021-10-29 "Experiences from field trial about vertical
industry"
Joint organization of 5Growth/5G-
DIVE exploitation workshop
2021-11-26 Event called "Empowering the future" Efacec internal exploitation event
Weekly
since July
2021
"Weekly recurrent I4.0 5G Business
Steering meeting at Ericsson ERC" Ericsson Spain Internal
Bi-weekly
since
September
2021
"Boosting the industrialization of slicing
services to Enterprise 5G customer
segments"
Ericsson Spain and Telefonica internal
April/Nove
mber 2021
"Presentation of 5Growth COMAU results
to internal project" Ericsson Italy (TEI) internal
2 https://ieee-wf-5g.org/5g-from-theory-to-practice-5gtop-workshop/ 3 https://electronics-2.sciforum.net/ 4 https://www.telesemana.com/blog/webinar/5growth-and-5g-dive-research-projects-different-approaches-
to-the-edge/ 5 https://telecomwebinar.com/webinar/projetos-de-pesquisas-5growth-e-5g-dive-diferentes-abordagens-
para-edge/ 6 http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2021/workshop_NetPA.html
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2021-12-09 Ericsson Research Day Ericsson Italy (TEI) internal
2021-12-01 Product roadmap opportunities with
5Growth solutions Ericsson Italy (TEI)/ TIM internal
2021-12-10 Ericsson-TIM internal Workshop Ericsson Italy (TEI)/ TIM internal
2022-03-11 (after project end)
Virtual Aveiro Harbour workshop:
Portuguese 5G vertical solutions
EFACEC_S/EFACEC_E, Altice and
ITAV exploitation event
2022-04-06 (after project end)
Aveiro Harbour OpenDay - Half-day
5Growth workshop dedicated to
Portuguese Pilot achievements
EFACEC_S/EFACEC_E, Altice and
ITAV industrial dissemination event
As one of the targets for events organization is to measure the satisfaction levels, Figure 17, Figure
Figure 18 and Figure 19 below show the poll results for events on "Beyond 5G Evolution" as MDPI
Webinar, "Experiences from field trial about vertical industry" as a joint organization of 5Growth/5G-
DIVE exploitation workshop and open joint half-day online workshop with 5Growth, 5G-DIVE, 5G
EVE, 5G-VINNI, and 5G-TOURS projects, respectively. The reasons for reporting satisfaction level of
these 3 out of 21 events are (i) these 3 events have more than 30 attendees (which is aligned with
the targeted metric); and (ii) it is not always possible to have satisfaction polls for the events being
organized during the project lifetime. As seen from the figure, the overall satisfaction level for the
events is 99%, 100% and 96%, respectively. It is also worth noting that for the events that had less
than 30 attendees and the consortium managed to gather poll results, these events' satisfaction
levels are also met and go beyond the target metric of 70%.
FIGURE 17: POLL RESULTS FOR BEYOND 5G EVOLUTION - MDPI WEBINAR
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FIGURE 18: POLL RESULTS FOR JOINT ORGANIZATION OF 5GROWTH/5G-DIVE EXPLOITATION WORKSHOP
- 5GROWTH/5G-DIVE JOINT EXPLOITATION WORKSHOP
FIGURE 19: POLL RESULTS FOR JOINT HALF-DAY ONLINE WORKSHOP WITH 5GROWTH, 5G-DIVE, 5G EVE,
5G-VINNI, AND 5G-TOURS
2.2.4. Exhibitions and Technology Demonstrations
Table 26, Table 27 and Table 28 report the exhibitions and technology demonstrations performed in
different dissemination events in Y1, Y2 and Y3, respectively. Overall, the consortium achieved 26
technology demonstrations in different venues. 6 out of these 27 demonstrations were vertical-
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oriented demonstrations. When the achievements are compared with the project targets, which are
(i) technology demonstration in at least two events in Y1 and Y2; and (ii) two vertical demonstrations
in at least three events, it is clearly seen that the consortium has significantly performed well on
achieving the technology demonstration targets.
TABLE 26: EXHIBITIONS AND TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS IN DISSEMINATION EVENTS IN Y1
Date Venue Description
2019-10-21 ACM Mobicom
2019
vrAIn Proof-of-Concept — A Deep Learning Approach for
Virtualized RAN Resource Control
2020-03-08 OFC 2020 Remote Control of a Robot Rover Combining 5G, AI, and
GPU Image Processing at the Edge
2020-05-27
5GPPP TB
eWorkshop
(Session on Use of
AI & ML in
networks – Part 1)
vrAIn: AI-driven orchestration of vRAN resources
TABLE 27: EXHIBITIONS AND TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS IN DISSEMINATION EVENTS IN Y2
Date Venue Description
2020-06-09
Online workshop
with 5G-DIVE, 5G
EVE, 5G-VINNI, 5G-
TOURS
vrAIn: AI-driven orchestration of vRAN resources
2020-07-06 INFOCOM 2020 NFV Service Federation: enabling Multi-Provider eHealth
Emergency Services
2020-07-06 INFOCOM 2020 Arbitrating Network Services in 5GNetworks for Automotive
Vertical Industry
2020-07-09
Online webinar
Layer123 on
Powering 5G in
Industry
vrAIn: AI-driven orchestration of vRAN resources
2020-10-12 ACM MobiHoc
2020 Demo: Scaling Composite NFV-Network Services
2020-11-19 Joint with BT/5G-
VINNI End to End (E2E) Immersive Telepresence over 5G Network
2020-12-18 ETSI ENI PoC#9 ETSI ENI PoC #9: Autonomous Network Slice Management
for 5G Vertical Services
2021-03-10 OSM Ecosystem
Day
Demo: Vertical's intent evolution at service runtime driving
vCDN automated scaling
2021-05-12 INFOCOM 2021 Scaling Federated Network Services: Managing SLAs in
Multi-Provider Industry 4.0 Scenarios
2021-05-12 INFOCOM 2021 Demo: AIML-as-a-Service for SLA management of a Digital
Twin Virtual Network Service
2021-05-12 INFOCOM 2021 Demonstrating a Bayesian Online Learning for Energy-
Aware Resource Orchestration in vRANs
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TABLE 28: EXHIBITIONS AND TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATIONS IN DISSEMINATION EVENTS IN Y3
Date Venue Description
2021-06-29 IEEE NetSoft 2021 Slice Isolation for 5G Transport Networks
2021-06-29 Advanced Factories
2021
M3 SMART CYBER PHYSICAL METROLOGY 4.0 SYSTEM has
been selected as 2021 Advanced Factory Finalist for Best
industrial equipment for the factory of the future
2021-07-29 IEEE SECON'21 Log Management in NFV Service Orchestration
2021-07-29 IEEE SECON'21 Deploying Hybrid Network Services: Mixing VNFs and CNFs
in Multi-site Infrastructures
2021-06-09 EUCNC'21 5Growth Pilot. EFACEC Energia’s energy pilot
2021-06-09 EUCNC'21 5Growth Pilot. EFACEC Engenharia e Sistemas transportation
pilot
2021-06-09 EUCNC'21 5Growth Pilot. COMAU industry 4.0 pilot.
2021-06-09 EUCNC'21 5Growth Pilot. INNOVALIA industry 4.0 pilot.
2021-06-09 EUCNC'21 5Growth Innovation. ‘ML-driven Scaling of Digital Twin
Service in 5Growth'
2021-06-09 EUCNC'21 5Growth Innovation. ‘Performance Isolation for 5G Network
Slicing’
2021-06-09 EUCNC'21 5Growth Innovation. ‘Moving Target Defense’
2021-06-28 MWC'21 Zero Defect Manufacturing with Edge Computing and 5G
Connectivity
2022-01-31 Mobicom'21 Demo: Nuberu — A Reliable DU Design Suitable for
Virtualization Platforms
2022-02-28 MWC’22 Log parsing demo at CTTC booth
2022-09-21 (after project end)
Innotrans’22 Presentation of main achievements of 5Growth vertical
transportation solutions
2.2.5. Bachelor, Master, PhD Theses and Internships
The project has targeted to improve the core skills for technology development within the project
into academic curriculums, along with the proposal of PhD and MSc theses on specific topics on
5Growth research agenda.
Table 29 reports bachelor, master, and PhD theses as well as internships on matters related to
5Growth. Overall, a total of 12 PhD (4 completed/8 ongoing) theses, 11 MSc theses (10 completed/1
ongoing), 3 BSc theses (1 completed/2 ongoing) and 1 internship (completed) have been supervised.
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TABLE 29: 5GROWTH-RELATED BACHELOR, MASTER AND PHD THESES, AND INTERNSHIPS
Type (PhD/Master/Int.) State Title
PhD Ongoing AI/ML-enabled Software Defined Smart
Networks on Distributed and Next
generation Architectures
PhD Ongoing Smart Networks and IoT
PhD Ongoing Artificial Intelligence Driven Next Generation
Networking
Master Completed A new SDN application providing Quality of
Service (QoS) for network slicing
PhD Ongoing Offloading of 5G functions in accelerated
edge data centres
Master Completed AI-based algorithms and experimental
evaluation for beyond 5G
Master Completed A Deep Learning Analysis of Internet Traffic
Datasets for 5G MEC Dimensioning
PhD Ongoing ML-driven edge network resource allocation
Master Ongoing Performance evaluation and design of ML-
based solutions for the support of mobile
services in 5G systems
Master Completed Machine Learning for 5G/6G Mobile
Networks
Master Completed AI-based algorithms and experimental
evaluation for beyond 5G
Master Completed A Machine-learning Approach for Video
Streaming Provisioning at the Network Edge
PhD Completed Development and Performance Evaluation of
Network Function Virtualization Services in
5G Multi-Access Edge Computing
infrastructure
PhD Ongoing Virtualized Mobile Services at the edge of the
network
Internship Completed P4 Programmable Traffic Management
Master Completed 5G Interdomain Orchestration Mechanisms
for Flexible Vertical Services Deployment
Master Completed Inter-domain orchestration for verticals in 5G
network services
Master Completed A reinforcement learning algorithm for
optimal Virtual network functions allocations
among 5G edge computing centers
PhD Completed End-to-end network service orchestration in
heterogeneous domains for next-generation
mobile networks
Master Completed Flexible Software-Defined Networks
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PhD Ongoing Dynamic Security Mechanisms for
Softwarized and Virtualized Networks
Bachelor Completed Análisis y estudio de soluciones virtualizadas
de redes celulares 4G y 5G
Bachelor Ongoing Evaluación de una implementación Open
Source de ETSI MEC
Bachelor Ongoing Análisis de soluciones open-source de
computación en el borde
PhD Completed Progressive introduction of network
softwarization in operational telecom
networks: advances at architectural, service
and transport levels
PhD Completed NFV orchestration in edge and fog scenarios
PhD Ongoing Mechanisms to integrate and enhance NFV
and MEC for 5G networks in dynamic and
heterogeneous environments
2.2.6. Standardization Dissemination
The dissemination achievements related to standardization are listed below:
• Forming a SAC to monitor 5 Standard Development Organizations (SDOs) and 10 open-
source Projects.
• Disseminating insights from each SDO and open-source project and identifying relevant
Working Groups (WGs) that map with 5Growth Innovations.
• Coordinating standard and open-source activities relevant to 5Growth project.
• Delivering Dissemination plan.
• Delivering standards plan and timeline.
• Delivering open-source plan and timeline.
Details of 5Growth contributions to standardization and open-source projects are provided in
Section 2.3.1 and Section 2.3.5, respectively. As for standardization, in addition to those mentioned
in the following sections that are linked with open-source, the SAC has continued its supervisory and
guidance activities which resulted in multiple additional contributions to various SDOs (ETSI, IETF,
IRTF, 3GPP, GSMA, IEEE) a grand total of 85 contributions of which 43 were approved, for more details
please see Section 2.3.1. This also triggered further activities on the standardization dissemination
front, including the creation of work tasks in 3GPP that will run beyond the 5Growth timeline. Also,
it is worth to highlight that the 5Growth SDO contributions are reported in "5G-PPP Projects Impact
on SDO Technical Report" prepared by the 5G-PPP pre-standardization WG, which resulted in
5Growth being listed as part of EU success story examples in this work group.
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2.3. Exploitation activities
This section reports on the exploitation activities undertaken during the project's lifetime. These
activities include all the actions to apply project outcomes to other research projects. The 5Growth
project has contributed to a broad range of projects and organizations other from SDOs to open-
source projects, including different products and services from each partner. Table 30 reports the
exploitation achievements versus the target metrics.
TABLE 30: TARGETED VERSUS MEASURED EXPLOITATION METRICS DURING THE LIFETIME OF THE
PROJECT
Type Achieved (overall) Target
Adopted standard
contributions
43 10
Filled patents 7 5
Open-source projects
contribution
6 1
Furthermore, this section also includes a detailed description of each of the exploitation activities
carried out by the different partners. As the reader will notice, the 5Growth project has had a
profound impact on each of the partners. In detail, the different industry partners have leveraged the
5Growth main results to improve their products and services and have carried out technology
transfer to their main businesses. On the other hand, the academic partners have spread their results
to other projects and generated new opportunities for collaborations. Furthermore, this section also
reports the innovation radar, which selects the most relevant innovations to promote and the
different patents that the project produced. Finally, this section reports a list of the patents filed and
the different contributions to open-source projects.
Exploitation events have also been organized internal to project partners (e.g., business units) and
external to the project (e.g., exploitation workshop). The list of events can be found in section 2.2.3.
2.3.1. Standardization Activities
The target for the 5Growth project is 10 adopted7 contributions to SDOs, such as 3GPP, IETF, ETSI,
IEEE, ITU over the lifetime of the project. The project has reported a total of 85 standard contributions
where 43 out of 85 contributions are adopted. Table 31 summarizes the archived goals and the
spread of contributions among the different SDOs.
TABLE 31: SUMMARY OF THE STANDARD CONTRIBUTIONS PER SDO
SDO Total Submitted Total Adopted Contribution Ratio
3GPP 38 28 44.7%
IETF/IRTF 20 7 23.5%
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ETSI 10 7 11.8%
IEEE 16 0 18.8%
GSMA 1 1 1.1%
Table 32 below provides more details on the status of the standardization effort in 5Growth.
TABLE 32: COMPLETE LIST OF SDO ACTIVITIES AND CANDIDATE CONTRIBUTIONS IN 5GROWTH PROJECT
Date
(yy/mm/dd)
Target
SDO
ITEM/Activity Status
(Agreed/Accepted
/Submitted/Appro
ved)
Explanation
19/09/16 IEEE
802.11
Link Submitted This contribution is an analysis of the
use of OCB (out of the Context of a
BSS) for data frame transmission in
.11bc. Does not have a direct
matching to a 5Growth task but was
needed for .11bc.
19/09/17 IEEE
802.11
Link Submitted Use case presented for the RCM study
group on Randomisation of MAC
addresses. This use case studies the
effects of randomisation of MAC
addresses in rogue AP containment
environments. This mechanism may
be used in controlled scenarios, such
as the I4.0 in order to avoid user
created APs to be used in an area with
controlled interference.
19/11/09 IEEE
802.11
Link Submitted This contribution proposes a
mechanism for service advertisement
coupled with group security. The AP is
broadcasting a set of eBCS services.
Each service is secured by a key. This
key is used to proof origin
authentication. The proposed
mechanism enhances the eBCS Info
frame (in charge of distributing the
keys to the eBCS clients, so that each
Info frame can carry more than one
service and more than one key. This
technology is relevant for the I4.0 use
cases, where different sensors or
machines can receive broadcast
instructions or software updates, for
example, which are authenticated
using this contribution.
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19/11/11 IEEE
802.11
Link Submitted This is a contribution to IEEE 802.11bc.
We believe IEEE 802.11bc can be used
within the I4.0 and Railway scenarios
since it can be used to connect low
complexity sensors used in both
scenarios. This contribution
specifically deals with the
authentication of the origin of the
broadcast, and therefore can be used
in critical systems such as the railway
scenario.
19/11/11 IEEE
802.11
Link Submitted This is a contribution to IEEE 802.11bc.
We believe IEEE 802.11bc can be used
within the I4.0 and Railway scenarios
since it can be used to connect low
complexity sensors used in both
scenarios. This contribution
specifically handles the way the
services being broadcasted in the area
are advertised.
19/11/12 IEEE
802.1CQ
Link Submitted Update to IEEE 802.1CQ
19/11/12 IEEE
802.1CQ
Link Submitted Update to IEEE 802.1CQ
19/11/13 IEEE
802.11
Link Submitted This is a contribution to IEEE 802.11bc.
We believe IEEE 802.11bc can be used
within the I4.0 and Railway scenarios
since it can be used to connect low
complexity sensors used in both
scenarios.
19/11/13 IEEE
802.11
Link Submitted Above
19/11/13 IEEE
802.1CQ
Link Submitted This contribution forms part of IEEE
802.1CQ. This standard defines a
mechanism to assigning multicast and
unicast local MAC addresses to end
stations. This is relevant as a way of
reducing the cost of sensors which do
not need to have a hardwired MAC
address. This will potentially impact
any scenario using sensors.
19/11/13 IEEE
802.1CQ
Link Submitted Update to IEEE 802.1CQ
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20/01/08 IETF Link Submitted Relevant to 5Growth due to the
inclusion of the I4.0 use case -> This
document describes different use
cases of interest for reliable and
available wireless networks, which is
basically deterministic networking for
wireless. This is extremely relevant for
5Growth use cases, especially Industry
4.0. This use case is reflected in the
document. It is an individual
contribution, recently adopted as WG
document.
20/01/08 IETF Link Submitted This document describes some issues
and challenges of discovery data and
resources at the edge of the network.
This is relevant for 5Growth, as some
of the applications considered in our
pilots (such as Industry 4.0) might
benefit from these mechanisms to
optimize the overall performance in
automation scenarios.
20/02/13 IEEE
802.11bc
Link Submitted This is a contribution to IEEE 802.11bc.
We believe IEEE 802.11bc can be used
within the I4.0 and Railway scenarios
since it can be used to connect low
complexity sensors used in both
scenarios. This contribution
specifically handles the way the
services being broadcasted in the area
are advertised.
20/03/04 3GPP
SA5
S5-201594 Accepted This contribution is relevant for WP3,
as it specifies means of integrating
private and public networks, in
relation with 5Growth use cases.
20/03/07 IETF Link Adopted It is relevant for I4.0 use cases, where
a massive number of devices need
connectivity and might benefit from
the local addressing assignment
mechanisms described in the draft ->
This document describes extensions
to DHCP to allow a requester (client or
hypervisor) indicate the preference of
the type of local address to obtain.
This is applicable to 5Growth
scenarios, e.g. in Industry 4.0. It is an
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adopted WG document at the very
end of the publication process as RFC.
20/03/09 3GPP
SA5
S5-201596 Accepted Relevant contribution for 5Growth
network slicing mechanisms as means
of NPN provisioning in industrial 4.0
scenarios. This is related to D3.1,
because the contribution treats the
use of slicing (following a NSaaS
model) to provisioning public network
integrated with NPNs, emphasising
the public-private integration. In this
sense, it is related with Section 3.4 of
D3.1 (“Initial study on ICT-17
integration with 5Growth”).
20/03/09 IETF Link Submitted In some scenarios, distributed SFC
control might be useful to provide
extra resilience. This document
describes Mobile IPv6 extensions to
enable function migration in
distributed SFC scenarios. It is an
individual submission.
20/03/09 IETF Link Submitted This document specifies several NSH
extensions to provide in-band SFC
control signaling to enable distributed
SFC control solutions. This might be
applied to some of the 5Growth use
cases, to enable extra resilience by
supporting distributed control. It is an
individual submission.
20/03/09 IETF Link Submitted In some scenarios, distributed SFC
control might be useful to provide
extra resilience. This document
describes a general framework for
distributed SFC operation. It is an
individual submission.
20/04/28 IEEE
802.11bc
Link Submitted This is a contribution to IEEE 802.11bc.
We believe IEEE 802.11bc can be used
within the I4.0 and Railway scenarios
since it can be used to connect low
complexity sensors used in both
scenarios. This contribution
specifically handles the way the
services being broadcasted in the area
are advertised.
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20/04/28 3GPP
SA5
S5-202339 Accepted This contribution clarifies "which role"
manages "what NFs" in different NPN
scenarios, depending on deployment
settings. This is directly connected to
5Growth use cases, where different
deployment settings allows for
different governance between
5Growth platform and ICT-17 stack.
20/04/28 3GPP
SA5
S5-202338 Accepted These requirements captured some of
the functional requirements specified
for individual 5Growth use cases
20/07/01 ETSI MEC MEC(20)00025
8
(must be a
member of
ETSI)
Accepted This contribution outlined the end-to-
end architecture framework for an
intelligent edge and far edge
integrated with an end-to-end 5G
system.
20/07/01 ETSI MEC MEC(20)00025
9
(must be a
member of
ETSI)
Accepted This provided a description of the
5Growth I4.0 use case on zero defect
manufacturing and the role of edge in
supporting this use case.
20/07/01 ETSI MEC MEC(20)00026
1
(must be a
member of
ETSI)
Accepted This provided a description of the
5Growth I4.0 use cases involving
robots/AGVs and the role of edge in
supporting this use case.
20/07/01 IEEE
802.1CQ
Private draft
(only
accessible to
voting
members)
Submitted IEEE 802.1CQ draft standard
20/07/14 IRTF
NMRG
Link Submitted This contribution targets to become
one of the use cases of the NMRG on
for intent-based systems. Its
applicability within 5Growth would be
related to, on one hand, how verticals
can express through intents their slice
needs, and on another hand, how
service providers can express
interconnection intents among
themselves for achieving those
services.
20/07/20 IETF
OPSAWG
Link Submitted WP4 addresses the combination of
different measurement sources by
means of a semantics-aware data
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aggregator, proposed to be
integrated in the IETF SAIN
architecture.
20/07/20 IRTF
COINRG
Link Submitted WP4 addresses the combination of
different measurement sources by
means of a semantics-aware data
aggregator, proposed to become an
essential aspect of data source
discovery for the computing-in-the-
network paradigm.
20/07/27 IETF Link Submitted This contribution proposes
mechanisms to integrate IETF RAW
and ETSI MEC, filling a gap that would
allow to enhance the applicability of
MEC technologies in Industry 4.0
scenarios as the ones addressed by
5Growth (in WP3).
20/08/28 3GPP
SA5
S5-204463 Accepted This contribution provides a 3GPP 5G
actor role model for NPN
management. These roles are aligned
with 5Growth stakeholders at different
abstraction layers (5Gr-RL, 5Gr-SO,
5Gr-VS).
20/08/28 3GPP
SA5
S5-204465 Accepted This contribution proposes a way
forward for the discussion of NPN
management aspects on individual
5GS segments, including UE related
management aspects (e.g. UE identity
management, UE provisioning and
on-boarding, UE connectivity
management, UE group
management), NG-RAN related
management aspects (e.g. NPN IDs
management, configuration of NG-
RAN sharing, etc.) and 5GC related
management aspects (e.g. traffic
processing configuration, service and
session management, subscription
management). All these aspects need
to be analyzed for the different NPN
categories (i.e. SNPNs and PNI-NPNs),
considering both single-site and
multi-site layouts. The structure
proposed in this contribution is
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aligned with the approach followed
for the different 5Growth pilots
20/09/07 ETSI NFV
TST
Link Submitted Support to these work-items as
targets for measurement techniques
and tools, data aggregation, and the
communication of pilot results as
proofs-of-concept to ETSI NFV
20/09/07 IEEE
802.11bc
Link Reviewed This is a contribution to IEEE 802.11bc.
We believe IEEE 802.11bc can be used
within the I4.0 and Railway scenarios
since it can be used to connect low
complexity sensors used in both
scenarios. This contribution
specifically removes the use of the
Service Advertisement Frame since its
use has been added to the eBCS Info
frame
20/09/07 IEEE
802.11bc
Link Reviewed This is a contribution to IEEE 802.11bc.
We believe IEEE 802.11bc can be used
within the I4.0 and Railway scenarios
since it can be used to connect low
complexity sensors used in both
scenarios. This contribution
specifically solves a security issue
when the AP was advertising no
throttling characteristics for eBCS UL
traffic.
20/09/14 ETSI ZSM ZSM(20)00032
6
Accepted This contribution is relevant for
closed-loop automation (CLA), which
is one of the key innovation in
5Growth project. CLA in 5Growth
leverages OSM capabilities.
20/10/18 3GPP
SA2
S2-2005942 Accepted This provides service continutity when
it is necessary to switch between a
private and public network
temporarily.
20/10/18 3GPP
SA2
S2-2006257 Accepted This provides terminal inputs of
quality of expericence to the data
analytics enhancements to improve
network performance
20/11/09 IETF
TEAS WG
Link Submitted The relation with the project is to
facilitate the joint topological view of
both networking and computing
resources available. This can be useful
for assisting on orchestration
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decisions in the provider side both
single- and multi-domain scenarios.
20/10/18 3GPP
SA2
S2-2005788 Accepted This provides a solution for low
latency switching of user plane
functions between MNOs for edge
deployments
20/10/21 3GPP
SA5
S5-205400 Accepted Relevant contribution for 5Growth
network slicing mechanisms as means
of NPN provisioning in industrial 4.0
scenarios.
20/10/21 3GPP
SA5
S5-205402 Accepted This contribution is relevant for the
interaction of 5Growth stack with ICT-
17 platform, defining some key
enablers in terms of 'management
capability exposure'.
20/10/23 IETF Link Adopted Relevant to 5Growth due to the
inclusion of the I4.0 use case -> This
document describes different use
cases of interest for reliable and
available wireless networks, which is
basically deterministic networking for
wireless. This is extremely relevant for
5Growth use cases, especially Industry
4.0. This use case is reflected in the
document. It is an individual
contribution, recently adopted as WG
document.
20/11/15 3GPP
SA1
S1-204264 Accepted This provides a description of
switching terminal connections from
terminal to terminal to local network
via a gateway
20/11/15 3GPP
SA1
S1-204265 Accepted This provides a description of
switching hosting environments via a
gateway
20/12/03 IETF RFC 8948 Accepted It is relevant for I4.0 use cases, where
a massive number of devices need
connectivity and might benefit from
the local addressing assignment
mechanisms described in the draft ->
This document describes extensions
to DHCP to allow a requester (client or
hypervisor) indicate the preference of
the type of local address to obtain.
This is applicable to 5Growth
scenarios, e.g. in Industry 4.0. It is an
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adopted WG document at the very
end of the publication process as RFC.
20/12/18 ETSI ENI ETSI ENI PoC
#9
Accepted The PoC will embed algorithms,
strategies and procedures for the
composition, sharing and auto-scaling
of network slice subnets to build and
dynamically adjust the entire set of
end-to-end network slices following a
closed-loop approach (Task 2.4) to
meet service-level requirements, while
optimizing the usage of the
underlying 5G infrastructure, jointly
considering access, core, edge, cloud
resources. Such strategies will be fed
and assisted by the ENI system, based
on short-term and long-term profiles
related to resource availability, service
and network slice performance,
service demands, etc.
21/01/31 ETSI ZSM ZSM(21)00002
3r2
Accepted Network Slice as a Service (NSaaS) is a
service delivery model which is used
for the provisioning of PNI-NPN in
5Growth use cases
21/02/03 3GPP
SA5
S5-211479 Accepted CAG is a 3GPP mechanism that allows
for UE access control in PNI-NPN
scenarios. This is relevant for 5Growth
use cases.
21/02/04 3GPP
RAN2
R2-2102087 Submitted This Contributions discussion ultra-
reliable communications in a
controlled environment like factories
using cellular unlicensed spectrum
21/02/04 3GPP
RAN2
R2-2101509 Submitted This Contributions discussion ultra-
reliable communications with more
enhanced QoS requirements like
those needed for Industry 4.0
applications
21/02/22 IETF Link Submitted This contribution discusses
mechanisms to allow a terminal
influencing the selection of a MEC
host for instantiation of the terminal-
targeted MEC applications and
functions, and (re)configuring the
RAW network lying in between the
terminal and the selected MEC host,
filling a gap that would allow to
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enhance the applicability of MEC
technologies in Industry 4.0 scenarios
as the ones addressed by 5Growth (in
WP3).
21/03/01 3GPP
SA1
S1-210483 Submitted This contribution apply to the
interconnecting of two non-public
factory networks (equivalent to
residential networks) for minimum
user interaction with the gateways
21/03/01 3GPP
SA1
S1-210484 Submitted This contribution apply to the
interconnecting of two non-public
factory networks (equivalent to
residential networks) for seamless
access between them
21/03/10 3GPP
SA5
S5-212360 Accepted This contribution details the
management aspects related to the
UE provisioning in 5GLAN groups,
which is applicable in industry 4.0 use
cases such as the in-project pilot.
21/03/10 3GPP
SA5
S5-212361 Accepted This contribution provides a
classification of placement (on-
premises vs off-premises) of NPN
functions based on the different
management modes. The
management modes represent who
(vertical, operator, 3rd party) are in
charge of managing the NPN
components. These management
modes are aligned with ICT-19/ICT-17
interactions captured in 5Growth
D3.1.
21/05/20 3GPP
SA5
S5-213366 Accepted 3GPP management system provides
MnSs to the internal consumer to
provision and monitor 3GPP network
including network slice. The internal
MnSs’ consumer of an operator could
be management function, network
function, application function,
analytics function, digital portal, etc. of
the operator. Based on operator’s
policies and other conditions, the
MnSs exposed to different consumers
could be different. The operator
should configure fine grained access
permissions to restrict which MnSs are
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accessible from which consumers
This pCR studies granular access
control on MnSs of 3GPP
management system by mobile
network operator. This applies for the
capability exposure topic for
ICT17/ICT19 integration.
21/05/20 3GPP
SA5
S5-213506 Accepted According to potential requirement to
support use case 5.3 in this study
report, the 3GPP management system
could have the capability to allocate
network slice based on granular
isolation requirements on the network
slice and group network slices with
same isolation requirements and
security level.
According to definition and concept
of network slice subnet in TS 28.530, it
is a representation of a set of network
functions and the associated
resources supporting network slice.
Network slice subnet could have
isolation requirements, and several
network slice subnets with same
isolation properties could be put into
same isolation group. Isolation
requirements could be associated
with the service profile and slice
profile, guiding the allocation of
network slice and network slice subnet
This pCR proposes enhancement of
NetworkSliceSubnet to support slice
resource isolation. This allows making
slice subnet allocation in 5Growth,
ensuring appropriate isolation level.
21/05/13 ETSI ETSI TR 103
761 V0.0.5
(2021-04)
Draft The challenges, approaches,
methodologies and tools produced by
5Growth project in WP4 adoption,
design and execution of validation
activities allows producing guidelines
and recommendations for piloting
vertical activities beyond the 5G-PPP
ecosystem.
21/05/25 IETF Link Adopted The need of OAM mechanisms for
deterministic or quasi-deterministic
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(reliable and available) operation in
wired (detnet document) and wireless
(raw document) networks is
particularly relevant to the Industry 4.0
addressed in 5Growth project, but
also to the other verticals.
21/05/25 IETF Link Adopted The need of OAM mechanisms for
deterministic or quasi-deterministic
(reliable and available) operation in
wired (detnet document) and wireless
(raw document) networks is
particularly relevant to the Industry 4.0
addressed in 5Growth project, but
also to the other verticals.
21/05/25 3GPP
SA1
S1-211442 Accepted This provides a description of service
hosting environment and application
server connected via a residential
gateway
21/05/25 3GPP
SA1
S1-211479 Accepted This provides a description of
managing UEs that accessed the local
services in a hosting network and
switching back to their home network.
21/07/12 ETSI ZSM ZSM(21)00026
5r1
Accepted This contribution provides a SoTA on
the work relevant from GSMA and
OSM, according to the technical
background captured in different
5GRowth WP2/WP3 deliverables,
21/07/12 IETF
TEAS WG
Link Accepted This contribution proposes use cases
(5G, RAN sharing, etc.) for the
definition of Transport Slice NBI. The
Transport Slice is an add-on feature
that allows Software-Defined
Transport Controller to capture TN
slicing related features (from 3GPP
mgmt system) and translating them
into provisioning/CM actions on
underlying WAN nodes and resources.
21/07/26 IETF
NMRG
Link Submitted AI+monitoring framework integrated
in 5Growth MANO stack for decision-
making in industrial scenarios
21/07/26 IETF
NMRG
Link Submitted Semantic Data Aggregation
framework linked with evaluation data
handling as done in WP4.
21/05/17 3GPP
RAN3
R3-212659 Submitted This contribution summarizes the
offline discussion on successful
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handover report which can be
considered for 5growth objective on
optimization of the use of resources in
next-generation RANs.
21/05/17 3GPP
RAN3
R3-212268 Submitted This contribution discusses the use of
SHR to optimize the selection of
candidate target cells in CHO and
DAPS which can be considered for
5growth objective on optimization of
the use of resources in next-
generation RANs.
21/05/17 3GPP
RAN3
R3-212269 Submitted This contribution illustrates a partial
use case on data forwarding
optimization that is applicable for the
study on AI in RAN and potential
benefits.
21/05/17 3GPP
RAN3
R3-212271 Submitted This contribution illustrates a partial
use case on mobility enhancements
that is applicable for the study on AI in
RAN and potential benefits.
21/05/17 3GPP
RAN3
R3-212868 Accepted This contribution proposes a new use
case on mobility optimization
including traffic steering, UE
location/mobility prediction and
reduction of unintended events for TR
37.817.
21/07/05 3GPP
SA1
S1-212007 Submitted This document proposes a new use
case on “augmented robotic
telepresence” which is aligned with
5growth I4.0 use case.
21/07/05 3GPP
SA1
S1-212142 Accepted This document proposes to align the
scope of 3GPP TR 22.847 with the SID.
The proposed scope alignment is
relevant for 5growth I4.0 use cases
that require real-time
experience/interactions.
21/05/10 3GPP
SA1
S1-211497 Accepted This document proposes a new use
case on “Haptic feedback for a
personal exclusion zone” which is
aligned with 5growth I4.0 use case.
21/09/01 3GPP
SA5
S5-214589 Accepted This contribution proposes to enrich
the 3GPP network slice info to provide
Transport network related
information, specifically the identifiers
of logical transport interfaces.
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Depending on the interface type used
(VLAN, MPLS, SR), the identifier are
different (VLAN ID, MPLS Tag,
Segment ID).
This solution can be applied for
5growth use cases that require
transport slicing, making use
VLAN/MPLS technologies, depending
on the concrete 5growth application
scenario.
21/09/01 3GPP
SA5
S5-214638 Accepted GSMA defined attribute in General
Slice Template (GST) to isolate
resource of network slices in different
levels (refer to GSMA NG.116).
As data is critical asset of a network
slice customer (NSC) for its business
and operation, in GSMA GST, the data
of one NSC is always required to
isolate from other NSCs even for the
least strict isolation level -
service/tenant isolation.
This pCR is to introduce a new use
case on management data isolation
for network slice customers, and
proposed potential requirements and
solutions. This is aligned with the
5Growth approach, since 5Gr-VS
makes use of GST/NEST to derive
network slice related requirements
and solutions.
21/09/28 ETSI TR 103761 Submitted This document describes a survey and
review of the existing methodologies
for Testing and Validation of vertical
applications designed for leveraging
the potential of 5G&Beyond networks,
in order to identify existing gaps in
such methodologies and propose
solutions to cover them. Such
methodology, is in part developed
and implemented in the vertical uses
cases covered by 5Growth project
21/10/27 IETF
(CCAMP
WG)
Link Adopted This contribution presents the design
of a Yang data model to describe the
topologies of microwave/millimeter
radio links and bandwidth availability,
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which can be used on the NBI of the
WIM controller to manage a
microwave-based transport networks.
The relevant use cases are for network
planning/optimization, links
provisioning, path/route
computation, etc.
21/11/03 3GPP
SA5
S5-215526 Accepted This contribution proposes to delimit
the scope of 3GPP in terms of network
slice capability exposure. The
capabilities are made available by the
Network Slice Provider (NSP) for
consumption to the Network Slice
Customer (NSC).
The use cases presented here are
applicable to the ICT17/ICT19
integration aspects discussed in
5Growth D3.1 and D3.2, with ICT17
acting as the NSP and ICT19 acting as
the NSC.
21/11/03 3GPP
SA5
S5-215640 Accepted This CR introduces missing references
in the 3GPP Information Model for
Network Slicing (Slice NRM fragment).
References to GSMA GST/NEST
parameter used for 3GPP
ServiceProfile definition are missed,
and fixed with this contribution.
21/11/03 3GPP
SA5
S5-215649 Accepted This contribution updates the journey
from GST/NEST to 3GPP
Service/SliceProfile and configuration
parameters. TopSliceSubnetProfile is
incorporated in the workflow, and
terminology is updated according to
Rel-17 modifications.
21/11/03 GSMA
5GJA
5GJA18_116 Accepted This discussion paper presents the
gaps existing between GST/NEST and
3GPP slicing info model on the
'isolation topic'. Based on these gaps,
a set of actions are proposed and
endorsed. These actions are to be
carried out in the new GSMA work
item called 'E2E network slicing',
approved at the latest GSMA NG
plenary meeting on late October.
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21/08/06 3GPP
RAN3
Link Available This discussion paper presents the
areas where AI/ML is most applicable
and can improve the network
performance for the NG RAN, more
specifically on mobility use case and
its potential impacts.
2.3.2. Exploitation achievements for Service providers/Operators
Main exploitation achievements for Service provider and Operators are reported in Table 33
TABLE 33: MAIN EXPLOITATION ACHIVEMENTS FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS/OPERATORS
Partner Exploitation Activities
ALB ALB portfolio is currently in the process of evolution to a new generation of
OSS (Operation Support Systems) as well to include a 5G SA Radio Access
network based on an innovative architecture (O-RAN). The project 5Growth is
contributing at least to the following ALB objectives:
• To Increase ALB awareness concerning orchestration and management
of 5G infrastructures. mainly focused on SONATA platform. 5Growth
brought to ALB an important contribution for the design of a new
generation of OSSs.
• To address new scenarios and verticals that can be empowered by the
network management solution developed in 5Growth. The 5Gwowth
results are shaping the requirements and architecture of the project
CityCatalyst. Demonstrators to validate City Catalyst solutions in the
fields of energy, mobility and governance will be implemented in 5
Portuguese cities: Porto, Aveiro, Guimarães, Famalicão and Cascais.
• ALB extended SONATA monitoring to verticals integrating monitoring
probes into servers and 5G UEs which can provide a closer view and
control of the provided 5G QoS. This solution is planned to be used on
the CityCatalyst project.
• Proving the opportunity to test and evaluate the performance on real
vertical environment (Energy and Transportation pilots) of a new ran
architecture (O-RAN).
• To explore new business opportunities in the verticals area.
Furthermore, ALB intends to take advantage of the 5G infrastructure
developed and deployed during 5Growth lifetime to test and evaluate
new services, applications and products.
COMAU In addition to the commercial collaboration between TIM and Comau about IIO
monitoring platform carried out in use case 2 and detailed in D5.4 98[3], (Link)
the exploitation plan, in this last part of the project, is going on with more focus
on the other two use cases. This has been carried out in collaboration with TIM
and Comau considering the outputs of the other two use cases.
EFACEC_E The full Energy pilot is in place at UA and IT facilities, comprehending Use Case
1 “Advanced Monitoring and Maintenance Support for Secondary Substation
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Medium Voltage (MV)/ Low Voltage (LV) distribution substation” and Use Case
2 “Advanced Critical Signal and Data Exchange across wide smart metering and
measurement infrastructures”. Several measurement campaigns took place to
assess the requirements of the 5G communications, and the results obtained
confirm the technical feasibility and potential of the proposed use cases. Taking
this into account, EFACEC_E is considering the development in the
short/medium term of a business case including the 5G connectivity service as
part of the next generation solutions in its portfolio providing smart
management of the Low Voltage Electrical Power Distribution Network.
An online workshop is being prepared jointly with ALB and ITAV to disseminate
the achievements of 5Growth project among several Efacec’s industrial
partners, in particular concerning the Energy Vertical pilot. This workshop will
take place by the end of February 2022.
EFACEC_S As reported in D5.4 [3], planning to include in its portfolio with a Level Crossing
Solution supported by 5G technology. In addition to the signed cooperation
protocol between EFACEC_S and Administração do Porto de Aveiro (Aveiro
Harbour), to assure the implementation and the exploitation of the
Transportation Pilot, and other inter activity reported in D5.4, a workshop is
being prepared at Aveiro harbour facilities that will be focus on the
achievements of 5Growth project. Due to COVID-19 restrictions it has been
postponed and the revised plan define a virtual workshop to be realized in
February 2022 and a physical one in the first quarter of 2022. Moreover, since
the last Innotrans event (2020) has been cancelled, it is estimated to show, at
Innotrans2022 (September) the achievements of this project.
INNOVALIA Innovalia developed plans to improve its portfolio by introducing a new
capability of remote control of quality control equipment and edge/cloud
computing leveraging 5G technology and the 5Growth architecture. Indeed, the
development at Innovalia Pilot is aligned with other innovation projects within
Innovalia Metrology, such as Boost 4.0. The goal is to obtain a smarter, more
connected, more flexible, faster, and automated metrological process with a
holistic conception of metrology as a key component of the Zero Defect
Manufacturing Process. As a direct output from 5Growth, Innovalia intends to
commercialize an improved version of its comprehensive metrological devices
and services as an expanded 5G capability for remote control, especially
focused to SMEs. Within the 5Growth project, the first 5G powered metrological
measurement worldwide was demonstrated in a real industrial environment,
proving the feasibility of the innovation and providing results in line with
commercial expectation. If in the first period this solution was tested in a lab
environment, at 5Tonic premises in Madrid, now this has been successfully
tested in a real industrial environment, at the Advanced Smart Factories in the
Automotive Intelligence Center, Bilbao. This is an important milestone for this
technology to be incorporated to commercial products and solutions.
Innovalia is organizing a dissemination event in Bilbao to disseminate the
results of the pilot. Regional industrial companies and organizations will be
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invited to the event, which will be hosted by the AIC, that will invite all its
members (more than 30 companies) and regional authorities.
NEC NEC has successfully integrated vrAIn into the O-RAN architecture. It is
currently now doing tech transfer within the different NEC business units. In
addition, vrAIn has been demonstrated in several public conference and
workshops such as Mobicom and INFOCOM.
ERC By using the shared 5G network approach, Ericsson has been able to test the
control and user plane split functionalities in an actual industrial 4.0
environment, providing an extra step for further engagement in the area and a
long-term relationship with INNOVALIA in particular.
Ericsson has taken advantage of placing on field several products from its
portfolio, highlighting for this second report period the Street Macro 6701
millimeter wave antenna, providing feedback to managers to be used in the
enhancement of the portfolio and in business strategic decisions.
TEI 5Growth outputs allowed TEI to gain tight collaboration with relevant partners
that allowed to enforce the promotion of innovations in product platform as
reported in chapter 3. In particular, the design, implementation, and test of the
innovation “RAN Slicing” in the in the COMAU pilot, provided relevant outputs
to support QoS in managing vertical use cases that exploit the 5G radio
platform. Innovative features have been tested to allows the concurrent
support of differentiated QoS also in geographical areas. In this last part of the
projects workshop and meeting with TIM have been organized involving
business organization to discuss about the relevance of such features and the
interest to be implemented in future products.
IDCC Through its participation in 5Growth, InterDigital targets the validation through
trials of some of its 5G, Video and Sensors technology innovations. These trials
have been conducted in integrated setups with 5G technologies from several
partners, including noticeably partners involved in 5G EVE and 5G-VINNI
projects, and for use cases and test environments defined by the vertical
industry represented in 5Growth, . InterDigital’s contribution to 5Growth has
brought valuable technological and business insights that will pave the way for
tangible exploitation of InterDigital’s innovations. More specifically, InterDigital
has contributed with the “End to end immersive robotic telepresence over 5G
network”, that has been awarded with the “Highly Commendable” award from
the prestigious Cable and Satellite International CSI Magazine. With this
experiment and all the work carried for its execution, InterDigital has benefited
from several valuable insights. From a technical perspective, InterDigital has
debuted the first 5G Edge pilot for Industry 4.0 applications in the UK,
demonstrating strong thought leadership in the Industry 4.0 domain. Several
key technical insights were therefore gained. The work carried out testing and
integrating with both IC-17 platforms and commercial networks has allowed to
establish tangible real-world requirements for video streaming in I4.0
applications, with the identification of network slicing as a key aspect. The
integration of the use case with InterDigital’s datalake solution has provided a
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change to develop, rather than just a data storage facility, a true data collection
framework. The collection of many different types of telemetry data has allowed
for data analysis and exploration, development of ideas around data
leveraging, and the deployment of some of these. Still on this data collection
framework, fundamental knowledge, that InterDigital will be exploiting has
been acquired on data transmission requirements, such as latency &
throughput for the telemetry data for specific applications, general machine
learning skill leveraging, and again, requirements on training and deployment
of models for time sensitive (or not) applications.
From a business perspective, all of the abovementioned aspects led to the
development of technology and the dissemination into tier-1 standards such
as 3GPP.
NBL NBL is exploiting and extending the concept of slice isolation innovation over
P4 programmable switch in some product prototypes internally. And thus, a
number of internal meetings within Nokia Bell Labs and with different Nokia
Business Units are carried out. In specific, since its concept is not strictly coupled
with any access technology (e.g., 4G/5G, Wi-Fi); therefore, it can be applied
widely to different Nokia’s product segments.
In addition, NBL is distributing the concept of Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable
Throughput (L4S) into Nokia’s portfolio. It is already publicly demonstrated for
the vertical’s use case to control a 360-degree camera (cf. Deliverable 5.7) with
remote controllability and low latency experience even under poor channel
condition (i.e., very low data throughput). Therefore, NBL is planning to further
investigate the potentials of L4S to enable new use cases either via internal or
external collaborations.
TIM TIM is involved in many EU funded research programs and from participation
TIM is gaining know-how and competence together with technical skills
reinforcement and future proof vision to anticipate market needs and ride the
technological evolution. This provides expertise to be spent inside the whole
group with consulting actions about requirements definition, network design,
elaboration of commercial RFIs and RFQs, testing and performance evaluation,
management, control of network and service orchestration.
Specifically working in WP1 and WP3 mainly, TIM got access to business
models, techno-economical evaluations, KPI analysis and validations starting
from verticals use cases and going deeply inside the challenges of provisioning
and deployment of an interdomain interworking and federation process at
different layers. The implementation in the field infrastructure provided
important insights into internal processes leading to opportunity of
optimization and underlining constraints that could create bottlenecks or not
cost effective operations.
If the transition towards end-to-end programmable networks is consolidated,
the 5Growth experience demonstrated that enablement of automated
provision of services and proper definition of blueprints towards vertical
customers is not only a technical configuration matter, but something involving
also artificial intelligence and machine learning to be fed by appropriate data
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collection and accurate collaboration between engineering and marketing
departments.
In addition to periodic meetings organized internally to management and
stakeholders, 5G-GROWTH project has been disseminated internally into the
TIM group including subsidiaries and worldwide international TISparkle.
TID The outcome of the 5Growth project, and more specifically, the results of
measurements and innovation deployments in the different pilots have been
disseminated among the Telefonica Business Units, as first-hand experience of
the requirements and challenges of 5G deployments in industrial environments,
the issues regarding customer-oriented orchestration and the applicability of
highly virtualized environments.
Beyond this, the evolution of the Data Aggregator has allowed us to plan for a
pilot deployment within the current NOM environment. The goal is to
demonstrate the applicability of metadata-based descriptions of data sources
and consumers, combined with model-based orchestration of data flows, to the
operational challenges NOM is intended to address. From this pilot, we expect
to consolidate the integration of the Data Aggregator software and concepts
in the evolution of NOM towards Telefonica´s future operations environment.
TELCA Participating in the development of 5Growth stack and the validation of
industry 4.0 pilots has allowed TELCA to gain experience in 5G technology
experimentation platforms and benchmarking. This experience has allowed
TELCA to expand its 5G services portfolio to include 5G experimentation and
benchmarking services. A Ph.D. thesis about these topics has been defended
successfully by one of the company’s employees.
TELCA has also acquired knowledge and investigated the application and
advantages of network devices with programmable data plane. More
specifically, TELCA has participated in the development of a P4 application for
network slicing and has investigated new telemetry applications in P4 network
switches. TELCA aims at introducing this promising, cutting-edge technology in
its network products, in order to improve the customer experience and increase
its competitive advantage on the market.
MIRANTIS The exploitation activity is related to Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes and
k0s. Mirantis introduced Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes, which hosts
containerized OpenStack, using Kubernetes as a substrate. Traditionally fragile
OpenStack components are now containerized services, managed and kept
alive by Kubernetes native orchestration — with the cluster state continually re-
converged to optimum by Kubernetes operators. Benefits are immediate and
substantial:
• Simple upgrade processes for every layer of the stack — bare metal host
OS, Kubernetes, and OpenStack — that do not interrupt running
workloads. Continuous updates delivered by Mirantis are now easily
and non-disruptively applicable, keeping your infrastructure more
secure and letting you benefit from the latest features and improved
performance from upstream.
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• Greater stability and reliability with reduced OpenStack complexity:
replacing complex, layered clustering technologies with native
Kubernetes services, deployments, replicasets, and other objects
provides much greater reliability and self-healing. Operators continually
converge the cluster towards its optimal state, healing around failed
services and nodes.
• Simple OpenStack cluster scaling: commission or decommission worker
and manager nodes in minutes.
• Radically reduced administrative overhead due to the inclusion of
extensive out-of-the-box automation.
• Future-proofing through a long-term Roadmap that includes
OpenStack reference architectures for NFV, Edge, and other use-cases
as well as intelligent automation.
k0s is engineered as a modern take on 'lightweight' k8s: with the goal of
deploying very simply, as a single binary, in a huge range of configurations on
any hardware or device, from datacenters to IoT.
There are multiple webinars run by Mirantis on the above technologies for
partners and customers as well as open to all registered participants. Meetings
and training courses are also organised internally.
NXW NXW has participated in the project focusing on two main aspects: (i) the
implementation of new functionalities in the Vertical Slicer software and (ii) the
support to design and implementation of vertical pilots for Industry 4.0 use
cases with COMAU and INNOVALIA partners.
The first activity has allowed to enhance the Vertical Slicer prototype, released
as open-source software under Apache 2.0 license, integrating an AI-driven
approach for slice sharing and arbitration and introducing functionalities for
inter-domain slice provisioning and integration between public and non-public
networks. These features are an important step to evolve the software towards
the new requirements of B5G and 6G networks and enrich the 5G/6G NFV stack
developed by Nextworks. In the context of the project, Nextworks has
participated in an ETSI ENI PoC, integrating the Vertical Slicer in a solution for
autonomous slice management. The acquired know-how and the visibility
obtained through the participation in workshops, conferences and
standardization events, allows the company to consolidate its position in the
consultancy market, where Nextworks is active with a profile of technology
provider for custom solutions in the 5G management and orchestration area.
In this context, Nextworks can exploit the hands-on experience obtained in
5Growth operating in consultancy activities with a variety of roles, like system
integrators, 3rd party software providers, and technical project managers, with
customers like vendors, small operators, verticals interested in the deployment
of stand-alone non-public networks, etc. Moreover, the knowledge built in the
areas of vertical service modelling, virtualization and orchestration has been
transferred to the production unit, to facilitate the re-engineering of some
company’s products towards fully automated deployments and configurations
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over edge and cloud environments. The activities performed in 5Growth in
support of pilots and trials has allowed the company to reach a deep
understanding of the variety of requirements, target KPIs and deployment
models for Industry 4.0 services in 5G networks. In this context, the areas of
security, edge computing and AI offer excellent opportunities for the company
to propose custom and advanced solutions for the orchestration of specialized
services. Moreover, the strong gap between the verticals’ service-oriented
know-how and the 5G network complexity brings opportunities for consulting
actions with verticals, for the engineering, customization and tuning of 5G-
enabled services for smart factories, supporting the customers along all the
phases from service design to testing. In parallel, the know-how in virtualization
and cloud-native patterns, edge and cloud decomposition, integration of 5G
and edge services (e.g., localization, network analytics, …), and network slice
customization can help to drive the evolution of the company product portfolio
for IoT platforms and services in the sectors of smart building, smart yachting,
smart cities and smart factory.
UC3M The syllabus of the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 editions of the Master on
NFV/SDN for 5G networks have been updated to cover the latest updates on
5G technology, benefiting from the activities carried out in 5Growth. Several
BSc (4x), MSc (2x) and PhD (2x) theses have been already defended or close to
completion, plus some others have recently started. The activities performed in
5Growth in 5TONIC have generated new potential collaborations with other
5TONIC partners for future projects. Exploitation has also been carried out
through code developed for the 5Growth platform (available in the 5Growth
GitHub repository) and the collaboration in the design of innovations selected
for the Innovation Radar.
CTTC The CTTC has participated in various activities during the project lifetime that
have exploitation potential during and beyond the project lifetime. These
activities revolve around the main architectural concepts integrated in the
5Growth MANO stack. More specifically, the CTTC developed the 5Gr-SO code
as well as its integration with other relevant architectural entities, such as 5Gr-
AIMLP and 5Gr-VoMS to embed AIML-based decision making at any
component of the stack. For that, a complete data engineering pipeline was
integrated in the 5Growth architecture, the SLA manager was completely
redesigned, and the monitoring manager was also adapted to the new needs.
The CTTC also continued developing its adaptation of the 5Gr-RL to integrate
various abstraction options, as well as various algorithms, for a more efficient
resource usage. All this code is available as open-source in the project GitHub
as well as in a CTTC public repository (to enable exploitation beyond the project
lifetime) and has been released under the Apache 2.0 license to foster its
adoption in industry. The creation of all this software (and the associated
architecture discussions) has also allowed working on various master and PhD
Theses and acquiring substantial knowledge that can be transferred to industry
in the future in various forms, such as direct contracts or exploitation in future
research projects. As for the latter, the CTTC is currently involved in multiple
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5G-PPP projects and Spanish beyond 5G projects (both research-oriented and
technology-transfer-oriented) in which the architectural ideas and the code are
being included as fundamental components. In the same way, other
improvements developed in 5Growth, such as improvements to (federated)
scaling, data engineering, hybrid VNF+CNF+PNF services, placement
algorithms, path restoration algorithms, or integration of RAN segments, are
also planned to be exploited in subsequent projects. Furthermore, some of
these contributions have been carried out through the collaboration in the
design of innovations selected for the innovation radar.
NKUA Several 5Growth’s concepts and enablers are already included in the Bachelor
course “Software Development for Networks and Telecommunications” and the
Master course “Advanced Communication Networks” in the Department of
Informatics and Telecommunications of NKUA. New master and PhD theses
(https://scan.di.uoa.gr/theses/) are made available with regards to the 5G
related topics and open issues identified by the 5Growth project and many
master students, as well as new researchers are already working on these topics.
Moreover, related to the research activities, all the algorithmic solutions
designed and developed under WP2 for the Innovations 8 “Smart Orchestration
and Resource Control” and 9 “Anomaly Detection Algorithms”, as well as their
preliminary results available by M18 are exploited in NKUA’s ongoing research
activities towards exploiting 5G and beyond principles. Finally, the activities
performed under the 5Growth project led the way for new collaborations with
national as well as international partners while also been exploited in order to
serve as a base and open new horizons for shaping new national and
international proposal writings.
POLITO The measurement methodology in the COMAU testbed has allowed POLITO to
gain great experience in the testing of 5G technology. The tool for latency
measurement has already been disseminated towards companies through the
relationships of the POLITO’s PIs with different stakeholders, and it will be
applied to contracts with industrial subjects from the Torino Wireless ICT Hub.
Additionally, POLITO has expanded its portfolio of competences on AI/ML
thanks to the activity in 5Growth. Master and Ph.D. students, as well as young
researchers, have been trained on relevant 5G topics and technologies through
the research work performed within the 5Growth project.
SSSA The activities in 5Growth have allowed SSSA personnel to acquire additional
expertise related to network telemetry and probing, utilization of SDN
controllers for slice performance isolation and utilization of AI/ML applied to
network performance parameter forecasting. Such activities have generated
new potential collaborations with many national and international partners for
current and future projects. Moreover, the developed expertise has been
transferred to graduate students in academic courses and several Master and
Ph.D. theses.
ITAV The researchers involved in 5Growth have included aspects related to the
challenges of verticals’ integration into 5G-enabled ecosystems, into their
repertoire of training and consultation services, particularly under the scope of
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services and testing facilities to verticals. Several aspects discussed within
5Growth have generated new lines of thought, which have permeated into new
avenues of research. Some of those concepts are taking shape in the form of
new research proposals, both national and international. Some of the concepts
researched within scope of the 5Growth project have been addressed in PhD
and Master classes, and have generated new MsC and PhD thesis which have
already started.
2.3.3. Innovation radar
The exploitation of project outcomes has been carried out according to the initial plan defined in
the project and it reached the final phase that focused in promoting the exploitation to the various
stakeholders, as reported in the Figure 20.
FIGURE 20: EXPLOITATION PROCESS
The innovations already selected in the previous phase and reported in D5.4 [3] for the innovation
radar reached a higher level of maturity for exploitation plan in terms of interest from business areas
and impact on potential products/platforms as reported in section 3.
Table 34 reports the four innovations selected for innovation radar according to the following criteria:
the level of innovation with respect to state of the art, the maturity of deployment reached in the
project and the potential impact on products and services. In in the column “Partner” the driver of
the exploitation (first one), and the other partners who also contributed to the design and
deployment of the innovation the in 5Growth project.
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TABLE 34: INNOVATIONS SELECTED FOR INNOVATION RADAR
N° Innovation title Innovation detail Commercial
product platform Partner
1
IIOT platform (Ingrid)
running on an MNO
cloud
Intelligent and
automatic
management of
production line
Operations Support
Systems in
production lines.
Ingrid platform8
Comau (Vertical)
TEI (Vendor)
TIM (Operator)
2 RAN Transport aware
slicing
Enhanced Network
slicing solution
Innovation (1)
Ericsson IOT
Accelerator9
Ericsson NFVI10
TEI (Vendor)
NXW (SME)
CTTC (Academia)
3
5G-based solution for
remote operation of
optical scanning
equipment
IoT solution for Public
and Non-Public
Network interworking
Ericsson IOT
Accelerator11
Cloud Packet Core12
ERC (Vendor)
CTTC (Academia)
UC3M (Academia)
4
Next generation RAN
Innovation supporting
of virtualized RAN
Orchestration
Impacting Vertical
Slicer, Service
Orchestrator,
Resource Layer
NEC O-RAN
product portfolio13 NEC (Vendor)
2.3.4. Patents and licensing
The 5Growth project addresses an area which provides significant opportunities for patent
generation as exemplified by the filed patents. As foreseen in the general objectives of the project,
partners have filed seven patents (two more than originally planned), which are listed in Table 35.
They may lead to subsequent licensing opportunities, depending on the specific exploitation
strategies of the relevant academic institutions and companies.
TABLE 35: LIST OF PATENTS FILED
# Patent Application Title Partner
1 A method for anomaly detection of cloud services based on mining time-evolving
graphs
NEC
8 https://www.comau.com/en/innovation-and-digital-transformation/ingrid 9 https://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/iot-solutions/iot-accelerator?nav=offeringarea613 10 https://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/digital-services-solution-areas/nfvi?nav=fgb_101_0363 11 https://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/iot-solutions/iot-accelerator?nav=offeringarea613 12 https://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/cloud-core/cloud-packet-core 13 https://www.nec.com/en/global/solutions/5g/O-RAN_Compliant_5G_Radio_Unit.html
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2 AIRIC: AI-driven Radio Intelligent Controller NEC
3 Application-based queue management NBL
4 Method and system for estimating network performance using machine learning
and partial path measurements
ERC
5 Method and Apparatus for managing network congestion NBL
6 Method to transmit and receive sensing data in NR system IDCC
7 Methods for UE-based joint selection and configuration of MEC host and RAW network IDCC
2.3.5. Open-source projects
To maximize the impact of the results, the project released open-source code for each of the building
blocks of the 5Growth architecture (i.e., Vertical Slicer, Service Orchestrator, Resource Layer, Vertical-
oriented Monitoring System, AI/ML platform, Forecasting Functional Block). Most of the building
blocks are released under the Apache 2.0 license, which substantially eases code reuse in other
projects. Details are reported in the relevant 5Growth deliverables (e.g., D2.3 [10], D2.4 [11]). The
code is available for download at 5Growth GitHub repository [12].
It is worth to notice that SME partners, in synergy with all the other project members, have had a
crucial role in developing code and use their deployments in the proofs-of-concept and pilots of the
project, which is particularly relevant in the 5Gr-VS and 5Gr-VoMS. Furthermore, there is also a
relevant vertical-oriented open-source project in the domain of industry 4.0 that is led by COMAU.
In addition to the development and open-source publication of the core building blocks, the
concepts analysed in 5Growth have also resulted in multiple contributions to relevant open-source
projects, as presented in Table 36.
TABLE 36: LIST OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO RELEVANT OPEN-SOURCE PROJECTS
# Item Explanation
1 e.DO E.DO is a manipulator created by COMAU S.p.A.. The robot
is composed by six joints, the first three for the arm and the
lasts for the wrist. Externally, e.DO can be enhanced with
user-developed accessories and configurations. Internally,
e.DO is ROS-native, open-source control logic gives users
complete freedom to create and execute their own
programs and applications. To support open-source
community around the e.DO platform, COMAU has created
following web resources for the e.do platform:
a) Forum: Link
b) Android App: Link
c) Source code and binaries: Link
d) Documents and Datasheets: Link
2 Contribution to Networkx graph
library
Development needed to use multigraphs. Enhancement of
the behaviour of a function retrieving simple paths. The pull
request has been recently merged into networkx master
branch. (Link)
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3 Contribution to ONOS
Repository
Rest Interface for VPLS application (Link). This extension
implements a REST APIs interface for the VPLS app (the one
creating the notion of slices in ONOS) that is used for
receiving the commands coming from the southbound
interface 5Gr-RL.
4 Contribution to ONOS
Repository
Improvement of rest Interface for VPLS application (Link).
This extension implements a REST APIs interface for the
VPLS app (the one creating the notion of slices in ONOS)
that is used for receiving the commands coming from the
southbound interface 5Gr-RL
5 Contribution to OpenStack
Victoria Release
Multiple commits (Link)
6 Contribution to Docker
Repository
Multiple commits: (Link)
7 Contribution to OSM Repository Fixing dependencies in Common, NBI and devops gits of
OSM project:
1. Link
2. Link
3. Link
4. Link
5. Link
6. Link
8 Contribution to OSM Repository Fixing some dependencies and updating versions:
1. Link
2. Link
3. Link
4. Link
5. Link
6. Link
7. Link
9 Contribution to OSM Repository Bug fixes for bugs 1275 and 1429:
1. Link
2. Link
3. Link
4. Link
5. Link
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3. Exploitation plan after the end of the project
The previous sections have listed the project's achievements as far as communication, dissemination,
and exploitation. Given the variety and number of activities, its outcomes are expected to be
exploited beyond its project lifetime according to the exploitation plan described below, which
includes exploitation in its various flavours. In addition to the product- and service-oriented
exploitation, another natural way of exploitation is by participating in future projects that can exploit
the results in terms of algorithms and code generated in this project. In fact, 5Growth is an example
of exploitation of the results coming from projects beyond the project lifetime and, in the same way,
its outputs will be exploited by other projects as well. Some examples are given in the text below.
3.1. Patents and licensing
As part of the objectives of the project, partners have filed (i.e., submitted to the European Patent
Office to initiate the process for protection of the idea herein contained) seven patents (see Table
35). After submitting a patent application, it typically takes about one to three years to get a grant,
sometimes significantly longer. It is also common to file additional divisional/continuing applications
several years after the original filing. This means it can take several years before the final protection
scope is known, and the time may vary significantly.
As for exploitation, protection of an invention with a patent may lead to subsequent licensing
opportunities (e.g., to extend the protection of the idea to other geographical areas in addition to
EU countries), depending on the specific exploitation strategies of the involved academic institutions
and companies. Manufacturers can also use patented systems and methods in products of their
portfolio. In this case, the patent department inside the company typically activates a continuous
monitoring of possible infringements typically targeting competitors operating in the same market
segment. Infringement detection and the relevant patent litigation can also bring additional revenues
from the invention.
3.2. Open-source code
To maximize the impact of the results, the project released the open-source code for each of the
building blocks in the architecture. A preliminary version of this architecture was generated in 5G-
Transformer and is further developed in 5Growth. Therefore, 5Growth is an example of exploitation
of the results coming from projects beyond the project lifetime and, in the same way, its outputs will
be exploited by other projects as well.
Most of the building blocks are released under the Apache 2.0 license, which substantially eases code
reuse in other projects. Details are reported in the relevant 5Growth deliverables: D2.3 [10] and D2.4
[11]. The code is available for download [12].
Moreover, the survivability of project results will also be ensured by exploiting the 5Growth outcomes
and its reference implementations in other projects. About this and how the code produced will be
maintained in the future to achieve this goal, please refer to Section 3.4 for further details.
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It is worth noticing that SME partners, in synergy with all the other project members, have had a
crucial role in developing code in open-source environments and practically using such deployments
in the pilots deployed under the coordination of WP3 and WP4. For example, NXW has developed
SEBASTIAN, a 5Gr-VS prototype released as open-source software under the Apache 2.0 license, and
Mirantis has developed the 5Gr-VoMS and contributed to the Docker and Openstack projects.
Furthermore, Telcaria has developed a logging monitoring pipeline for 5Gr-VoMS and integrated
performance isolation of slices into 5Gr-RL.
All platform components were containerized and prepared for the hosting on top of Kubernetes
infrastructure, which allows minimizing the footprint for the control plane of the platform compared
to OpenStack and to operate with hardware resources more efficiently due to the lightness of the
containers compared to virtual machines. In this direction, Mirantis proposed to use some light
distribution of K8s and proposed as a solution a k0s [13] - simple, solid & certified Kubernetes
distribution, developed and maintained by Mirantis and fully open-sourced [14]. Mirantis did several
contributions to k0s in order to make it suitable for telco edge solutions taking into account the
5Growth use cases. Moreover, Ericsson worked on the 5Gr-RL building block.
Academia/Research centers have also fed the open-source community. IT Av has substantially
contributed in a continuous manner to the OSM project, SSSA has contributed to the ONOS project
and has developed the 5Gr-FFB, and UC3M to network graph library. POLITO has mainly contributed
to the 5Gr-AIMLP, and CTTC has developed MESCAL and ELECTRA, a 5Gr-SO and 5Gr-RL also
released under the Apache 2.0 license.
On the operator side, the developments on orchestration capabilities in 5Growth have served
Telefonica to identify functional gaps to support advanced services (as those in the project), including
the involvement of multiple providers or the integration between vertical (non-public), and
operator's networks. This applies, among others, to ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM) that is one of
the core MANO platforms that are integrated in the 5Growth service orchestrator, being also the
MANO stack of reference for Telefonica. Thus, the work in 5Growth has been useful to anticipate
such gaps and work on covering them for facilitating further interworking between providers (or
vertical - provider) with minimal integration costs, which implies reduction of OPEX.
3.3. Products and services
In the following it is described the exploitation plan in terms of impact on products, services, and
opportunity. For each partner, it has been indicated a description of the exploitation plan reporting
the corresponding product and/or service, and opportunities. Moreover, as reported in the third
column, the exploitation plan has been associated to following the main outputs of 5Growth project:
i) use cases deployed in the pilots that, thanks to the realization on concrete environment, allowed
to get out the relevant aspects; components developed in the 5Growth platforms such as vertical
slicers, Service Orchestrator and Resource layer; and, finally, monitoring platform and data
aggregation. As reported in the following subsections, the exploitation plans have been organized
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for partners’ categories: Small and Medium enterprises, vendors and verticals, service providers and
operators.
3.3.1. Exploitation plan for Small and Medium Enterprises
Table 37 shows the exploitation plans for small and medium enterprises.
TABLE 37: SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES’ EXPLOITATION PLANS
Partner Brief Exploitation Plan Area
MIRANTIS The activity carried out in 5Growth is expected to have a
relevant impact on the new generation of the product -
MOSK - Mirantis OpenStack on Kubernetes. This could
potentially improve the platform reliability and time to
market index, and it can simplify the management.
Moreover, the activity will impact on k0s platform.
Open Stack
Management platform
NXW Based on on-going exploitation activity on Symphony
components, some components have been virtualized
and deployed in containers. Moreover, using as baseline
the 5Gr-VS carried out in 5Growth the plan is to
automate the orchestration of these Symphony software
modules within eMBB and URLLC network slices,
dedicated to the video-surveillance, media and A/V
services, and to domotics services respectively.
Leveraging the experience built in 5Growth activities on
Industry 4.0 pilots, the company is also extending the
Symphony platform for its deployment in smart factory
contexts. The original training courses have been
extended to cover new technical areas specifically related
to 5G networks, orchestration solutions specialized for
edge computing and AI/ML technologies applied to
closed-loop network automation.
Vertical Slicer
TELCA Telcaria foresees to exploit from 5Growth project, the
experience of developing some key components in
5Growth, to acquire the know-how of integrating
components from different domains into a common
platform, to monitor and configure pilots end-to-end. In
the short term, Telcaria expects to exploit 5Growth
monitoring platform and performance isolation
innovations by integrating similar solutions into its
product portfolio, required by the increasing necessity of
gaining better insights, guaranteeing quality of service,
and improving the decision-making mechanisms.
Moreover, in the medium term, the experience gained
from the 5G pilots is of significant value for strategic
consulting and trials for new services that Telcaria could
offer. Finally, in the wake of the 5Growth project success,
Service Orchestrator,
Vertical Slicer and
Monitoring Platform
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Telcaria has hired new employees, and also motivated
current employees to develop their professional careers
by pursuing a Ph.D., which impacts directly in the quality
of the products and services Telcaria offers to its clients
worldwide.
3.3.2. Exploitation Plan of Products and Platforms for Vendors, and Verticals
Table 38 shows a detailed description of the exploitations plans for each platform and products from
vendors and verticals.
TABLE 38: EXPLOITATION PLANS OF PRODUCTS AND PLATFORMS
Short
Name
Platform/Product Description of impact on platform/product Area
ALB
Operations
Support Systems
portfolio
This portfolio is currently in the process of
evolution to a new generation of OSS systems,
which will benefit from lessons learned about
orchestration and management of 5G
infrastructure through the development and
evaluation of the EFACEC use cases.14
Management
platform
Vertical slicer
Service
Orchestrator
CO
MA
U Operations
Support Systems
in production
lines
5Growth 5G Pilots will allow COMAU to evaluate
the evolution of its Operation Support Systems in
production lines towards 5G. Specifically, use cases
developed and experimented in 5Growth will
target the innovative networking platform.15
Pilot use
cases
EFA
CEC
_E
ScateX# ADMS,
GSmart & LVS3
A current main concern to EFACEC is the
competitiveness of its products and systems. The
5Growth project results will allow EFACEC to
strengthen its portfolio of solutions for Smart Grids
by adding innovative communications features to
the products’ configuration options. The major
benefits will impact on EFACEC’s portfolio for
Smart Grids’ applications integration and
deployment, a set of solutions designed to
implement flexible management and monitoring
over an entire smart electrical infrastructure,
including high-level platforms with management
software and web user interfaces, smart meters and
Pilot use
cases
Management
and
monitoring
platform
14 http://www.alticelabs.com/en/operations_support_systems.html 15 https://www.comau.com/en/innovation-and-digital-transformation/ingrid
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sensors, data concentrators and distributed
controllers, or any other type of IP capable device.16
EFA
CEC
_S
DigiXSafe The outputs carried out in the project related the
development of new signalling system products
will open new commercial windows over the
market of next generation of signalling systems
that are under the standardization and
digitalization efforts resulted from of the EULYNX
consortium project16 and Shift to Rail Join
Undertaking.
Pilot use
cases: New
generation of
signalling
system
INN
OV
ALI
A
Metrology
Software M3
The participation of INNOVALIA in the 5Growth
Project will allow the extension of its portfolio of
products and services offering not only the remote
control of its Quality Control Equipment but also a
decision support system based on the Augmented
Reality to achieve the strategy of Zero Defect
Manufacturing (ZDM) using the MEC to reduce the
processing time of the captured data. The impact
will be directly located in the Metrology Software
M3 offered by Innovalia Metrology.17
Pilot use
cases
ER
C a
nd
TEI (E
rics
son
)
IOT Accelerator Ericsson IoT Accelerator is a platform to develop
market and manage secure IoT solutions. IoT
Accelerator can benefit from the experience gained
in 5Growth in relation to the IoT pilots and relevant
use cases and possibly can incorporate
functionalities that could emerge from the vertical
partners in the consortium.18
Vertical
Slicer, Service
Orchestrator,
Resource
Layer
Cloud Packet
Core
Especially driven by the expected verticals
cooperation’s and experimentation in the 5Growth
project pilots, the Cloud Packet Core platform can
be enhanced especially in relation to Massive IoT
support (Introducing network slices for massive IoT
with a decoupled lifecycle from consumer eMBB
service) and support of enterprise with dedicated
Vertical
Slicer, Service
Orchestrator,
Resource
Layer
Pilot use
cases
16 https://www.efacec.pt/en/automation/ 17 https://www.innovalia-metrology.com/metrology-products/metrology-software/ 18 https://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/iot-solutions/iot-accelerator?nav=offeringarea613
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instances for critical enterprise deployments, like
manufacturing sites.19
Ericsson NFVI Ericsson NFVI solution consists of software and
hardware products as well as support and system
integration services forming a complete solution
for telecom operators. 5Growth can bring
important elements to the platform, both in the
resource layer aspects, being hardware products
part of the NFVI solution, and in orchestration and
virtualization functionalities. RAN-Transport
solutions under definition in 5Growth projects are
under discussion internally to Ericsson for
analysing possible impact on product. Now, it is
necessary a more consolidated assessment in PoC
and experimentation, but the cooperation with
Telefonica and TIM are considered as valuable
feedback for future deployment in products.20
Vertical
Slicer, Service
Orchestrator,
Resource
Layer
IDC
C
360-Degrees
Adaptive
Viewport Video
Streaming over
5Growth
The platform showcases the concept of
microservices-based design by distributing several
computing tasks necessary to deliver a high-
resolution 360 video streaming service to terminals
with different resources and capabilities. This
platform will be enhanced in 5Growth by
incorporating 5Growth vertical slicer and resource
layer, with the goal of demonstrating the impact of
these two key components in terms of latency
reduction and advanced scalability.
Vertical
Slicer,
Resource
Layer
MIR
AN
TIS
Mirantis
OpenStack on
Kubernetes
(MOSK)
MOSK - Mirantis OpenStack on Kubernetes. This
product leverages on the container isolation, state
enforcement, and declarative definition of
resources provided by Kubernetes to deploy and
manage OpenStack clusters.
Open stack
on
Kubernetes
Resource
layer
K0s, which is,
Mirantis Open-
Source product.
k0s is the simple, solid & certified Kubernetes
distribution that works on any infrastructure: public
& private clouds, on-premises, edge & hybrid. It is
100% open-source & free.
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NEC
iPASOLINK VR
Family
NEC iPASOLINK VR family (microwave backhaul):
The iPASOLINK VR delivers enhanced wireless
signal processing performance. The design of
Resource Layer abstractions and interfaces with
data-plane equipment will directly influence the
potential evolutions of this product family.21
Resource
layer
NEC iPASOLINK
EX family
In a lightweight, compact 23cm squared enclosure,
iPASOLINK EX Advanced realizes industry-leading
10Gbps single link capacity features. The design of
Resource Layer abstractions and interfaces with
data-plane equipment will directly influence the
potential evolutions of this product family.22
Resource
layer
WizHaul
(Transport
resource
management)
SDN/NFV-based centralized resource
management orchestrator for mobile transport
domains. 5Growth novel orchestration algorithms
for monitoring and prediction and automated
closed-loop resource management will have a
potential impact on the evolution of this product.
Service
Orchestrator,
Resource
Layer
OVNES (Network
slice broker)
The 5G Network slice broker is a piece of software
integrated on a network controller or orchestrator.
It acts as a mediator between tenants' slice
requests and physical network resources
availability. 5Growth novel orchestration solutions
for SLA monitoring and management and
automated network slice management will have a
potential impact on the evolution of this product.
Vertical
Slicer, Service
Orchestrator
Net2Vec Net2Vec is a flexible high-performance platform
that allows the execution of deep learning
algorithms in the communication network. The
monitoring platform of 5Growth and its interfaces
with high-speed data processing platforms can
have an impact on the evolutions of this product.
Monitoring
platform
NEC O-RAN
product portfolio
(vRANs)
Next generation RAN Innovation supporting of
virtualized RAN Orchestration.
Vertical
Slicer, Service
Orchestrator,
Resource
Layer
NB
L Mobile, fixed and
converged
broadband access
The outcome of 5Growth is also expected to
impact significantly NOKIA’s software-defined
access solutions on mobile and fixed access
Pilot use
cases
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networks. It is foreseen the potential adoption of
suggested 5Growth enhancements on
programmable traffic management schemes, in
NOKIA access nodes. A domain-specific language
such as P4 will be adopted for this purpose and
extended appropriately to allow programmability
independently of the access technology employed,
thus impacting NOKIA’s entire mobile and fixed
access product portfolio.
WP2
innovations
AirScale Cloud
RAN
The AirScale Cloud RAN solution consists of the
AirScale Cloud Base Station Server and the Nokia
AirScale Radio Network Controller (RNC). The
5Growth innovation on programmable traffic
management at the RAN is expected to
complement the innovations for this product
suite.23
Vertical
Slicer,
Pilot use
cases
Cloud and Edge
Computing
Nokia AirFrame
DC
The Nokia AirFrame Data Center solution offers a
flexible range of data center infrastructure
portfolio. 5Growth research on tools for closed-
loop control, such as programmable traffic
management schemes, can be potentially adopted
to improve future offerings in the Nokia AirFrame
Data Center.24
Vertical Slicer
Digital Operations
Suite
The DO Suite provides and agile and modular
orchestration for managing service orchestration
across virtualized and hybrid networks. It is
expected that 5Growth enhancements to the
Vertical Slicer and Service Orchestrator (e.g.,
algorithms for arbitration across coexisting
services, service utilization demand forecasting for
appropriate vertical service dimensioning, service
decomposition etc.) can steer DO innovation.25
Vertical
Slicer, Service
Orchestrator
CloudBand
Network Director
CloudBand Network Director is an NFV resource
and network service orchestrator, built for
OpenStack and VMware. It provides two main
functions. As a network service orchestrator, the
system onboards network services, automates their
lifecycles, and provides monitoring and
troubleshooting tools. As a resource orchestrator,
it administers, monitors and optimizes NFV
Service
Orchestrator
Resource
Layer
23 https://networks.nokia.com/solutions/airscale-cloud-ran 24 https://networks.nokia.com/solutions/airframe-data-center-solution 25 https://networks.nokia.com/portfolio/service-orchestration
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infrastructure resources across geographically
distributed NFV infrastructure) nodes. 5Growth
innovations pertaining to SLA-driven service
management automation, resource allocation
algorithms, automated optimization and self-*
properties, etc., are expected to impact the (future)
list of features of the CloudBand Network
Director.26
NX
W
Symphony Symphony is an integrated and open platform for
smart buildings, including domotics, media
services, A/V communications, video-surveillance,
energy management, etc. The adoption of the
resource virtualization combined with Vertical
Slicer will allow evolving Symphony towards an
integrated set of virtualized and distributed
services able to exploit 5G technologies to improve
the scalability and simplify the automated
deployment and customization of the system in
wider environments, towards smart city solutions.27
Vertical Slicer
TELC
A
Alviu Alviu is a flexible and resilient control system that
enables the integration of cloud and network
services through a centralized and dynamic
administration. On top of this, it reduces
equipment expenses and offers a wider range of
White Box Switches to enterprises. The innovations
of 5Growth vertical slicer and service orchestration
will impact directly on how Alviu slices and
manages network infrastructure.28
Service
Orchestrator,
Vertical Slicer
3.3.3. Exploitation opportunities for Service Providers/Operators
Table 39 provides a detailed description of the exploitation opportunities of the platform and
products reported for service providers/Operators.
26 https://networks.nokia.com/products/cloudband 27 http://www.nextworks.it/en/products/brands/symphony 28 https://www.telcaria.com/docs/sd-wan/Alviu_Brochure.pdf
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TABLE 39: EXPLOITATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS/OPERATORS
Partner Exploitation plan Area carried out in 5Growth
TIM The experience gained in 5Growth Pilots will allow TIM to
evaluate the possibility of providing 5G services of
Operation Support Systems for monitoring and
diagnostics of industrial production machinery – even
remotely – and improving maintenance and assistance
needs using preventative and predictive systems.
Specifically, the use cases developed and experimented
in 5Growth will target the innovative networking platform
to provide such services. The use of 5G and the Edge
cloud will allow the interconnection and remote
management of industrial plants, ensuring greater
efficiency, reliability and security than with traditional
networks. Moreover, TIM will exploit 5Growth
innovations to create vertically integrated platforms
according to national development strategies
accelerating the adoption of Internet of Things-based
solutions. Additionally, TIM plans to exploit 5Growth to
create vertically integrated lab platforms to showcase
business opportunities related to 5Growth innovations
for new potential collaborations with other partners for
future projects or with beta customers. Finally, the
participation in the project will allow TIM to follow more
effectively the activities of the standardization bodies
addressing service models, functional architectures, and
interfaces (e.g., ETSI, ITU, 3GPP, GSMA).
Pilot use cases
Monitoring platform
TID TID planned to exploit the Data Aggregator concept and
design. In this respect 2 workshops have been organized.
Moreover, the plan is realizing a further proof-of-concept
to evaluate Data Aggregator integration in the internal
TID project “New Operating Model” (NOM).
Data Aggregator Platform
ALB The network management solution developed in
5Growth is shaping the requirements and architecture of
City Catalyst project. Demonstrators to validate City
Catalyst solutions in the fields of energy, mobility and
governance will be implemented in 5 Portuguese cities:
Porto, Aveiro, Guimarães, Famalicão and Cascais. These
decisions are taken in ALB internal meetings (weekly) that
have the objective to better address exploitation activity
by sharing projects results, plan and criticality with the
relevant organizations.
Pilot use case
Network management
system
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3.4. Exploitation towards other projects and code maintenance
The survivability of project results will also be enforced by using results, like software components,
for other projects. A clear short-term example of exploitation of the software in (and together with)
other projects are the joint demonstrations. In these kinds of collaborations, these projects could
have a first-hand knowledge of the outcomes of 5Growth because there was an integration done
with components coming from the different project. A list of collaboration activities with other
projects (including joint demonstrations) can be found in section 2.2.2.
Additionally, there is also exploitation towards other projects in a mid-to-long-term timescale, by
which other projects taking place after the end of 5Growth take the components developed to adapt
the design and code of the project to their respective needs.
3.4.1. Code maintenance
3.4.1.1. Vertical slicer
The 5Gr-VS prototype SEBASTIAN is released as open-source software under Apache 2.0 license and
it constitutes the basis for the development of new or extended software modules in other EU
projects or products in the NFV MANO stack developed by Nextworks. A custom version of
SEBASTIAN is and will be maintained in the Nextworks GitHub [25], at the repository [26]. This custom
version includes features developed in the context of 5Growth and integrates additional
functionalities which have been implemented in other H2020 and ESA research projects. In fact, the
software code of the SEBASTIAN components has been adopted as a baseline for several projects,
each of them has contributed to enriching its features. For example, exploiting the software modular
design, SEBASTIAN has been integrated with a variety of NFVOs, external Network Slice Management
Functions (NSMF) and AI-driven third-party arbitration and translation algorithms, while a several
workflows and information models have been introduced in the internal system. Examples of projects
that are currently contributing to the development of SEBASTIAN include:
• H2020 5G CroCo, with a custom Vertical Service Management Function (VSMF) for deplying
network slices in multi-domain and edge-enabled infrastructures for cross border automotive
services. In this context, a number of NSMF and NFVO drivers have been integrated,
supporting the interaction with the slicing solutions of SONATA and OSM;
• ESA ANChOR, with the NSMF extended for the integration of satellite networks in 5G and a
new Network Slice Subnet Management Function (NSSMF) dedicated to the management of
transport network slice subnets in hybrid terrestrial/satellite backhaul networks;
• H2020 iNGENIOUS and H2020 Int5Gent, with NSSMFs specialized for the management and
configuration of network slices in the core domain, with open-source or proprietary 5G Core
Network software;
• H2020 5G-COMPLETE, with the integrated control of Open RAN through a new NSSMF for
the Access Network interacting with an O-RAN-like Radio Intelligent Controller;
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• H2020 5G-ZORRO, with an alternative solution for controlling the Access Network segment
and the integrated management of software licences for virtual functions composing the
network slices.
The plans for the evolution of the software are oriented to its adoption in 6G networks. In this sense,
key features like the porting of SEBASTIAN code to a full cloud-native software pattern, the support
of slices in the continuum far-edge/edge/cloud through the direct interactions with K8S and K3S like
platforms, enhanced closed-loop automation with distributed and edge AI solutions are currently
under investigation and implementation.
To facilitate the re-usage of SEBASTIAN code, a strong effort was spent in re-engineering the
software, splitting its functional components into elementary software bundles. This approach
simplifies the extension of single functional elements of SEBASTIAN (e.g., the VS catalog, the
arbitrator, the VSMF, the NSMF, the NFVO drivers, etc.), which can be re-used as stand-alone software
modules or composed in a modular manner to build new software products. The side modules and
libraries of SEBASTIAN are maintained in additional repositories, to promote the evolution of every
single component and their customization for particular scenarios. For example, the catalog of
SEBASTIAN with service blueprints and network slice templates is available on the repository at [15],
while the various NFVO drivers are available at [16].
In general, features and functionalities developed in a particular project and having a general
applicability in standard 5G/6G networks are merged on the master branch of the repository, after
their testing, consolidation and integration. This process, for example, has been performed after the
official releases of the 5Gr-VS with the 5Growth version of SEBASTIAN. This approach allows one to
obtain a single software that integrates a full set of advanced functionalities, combining results from
various originating research threads. Features that are specific of particular environments or not yet
integrated into the master version of the code are kept in secondary branches.
3.4.1.2. Service orchestrator
The 5Gr-SO prototype is released as open-source software under Apache 2.0 licence. It provides the
basis for developing new or extended software modules for the Network Service Orchestration within
upcoming research projects (i.e., EU, national, industrial). The code of the 5Gr-SO prototype is
available in the CTTC Gitlab account [17] together with the 5Growth GitHub account [12]. This version
includes all the features and functionalities developed in the context of the EU Project 5Growth by
CTTC.
The current 5Gr-SO prototype has been developed following a modular approach. This is to ease its
reuse and to foster the inclusion of new features and algorithms. For instance, in the documentation
folder, the user can find instructions to include new Placement algorithms (PAs) or to develop a new
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wrapper enabling the interaction with different available Management and Orchestration (MANO)
platforms29.
The current plan30 for the evolution of the 5Gr-SO prototype is mostly subject to cover future
project’s needs and/or specific scientific/innovation actions. The idea is to create a branch for each
project requesting the modification to the 5Gr-SO prototype. Then, once the project finalizes, and
based on the scope of the added features and functionalities, these features will be eventually
included in the “master” branch, i.e., the original one, and a new release is created. In this regard, a
new branch called “5Gr-SO-5Growth” was created to cover those new developments done within the
context of the 5Growth project. The features included in 5Growth project are aligned with the SO
features, so this branch has been totally merged in the “master” branch, removed and packed in
MESCAL_R2.0 Release. The emphasis in this project as far as the service orchestrator is concerned
has been on adding intelligence to the system. Therefore, it has been evolved towards a closer
interaction with artificial intelligence and machine learning modules (AI/ML platform) for exchanging
trained models and also with the monitoring platform as a source of inputs based on which these
models are run to generate an orchestration action. Smart orchestration algorithms interacting with
the 5Gr-RL has also been evaluated. Furthermore, the service federation functionality and multi-
domain capabilities has been further improved and adapted to the needs of the project (i.e.,
interaction with ICT-17 platforms and development of scaling operations for composite/nested NFV-
NS deployments).
The evolution of the 5Gr-SO goes towards a further addition and refinement of orchestration
workflows allowing the use of a broader range of artificial intelligence and machine learning
techniques, increasing the support for hybrid NFV-NS (i.e., those including network functions of
different nature such as physical network functions, cloud-based network functions), and further
integration with new mobile network paradigms, such as those proposed by the O-RAN Alliance.
3.4.1.3. Resource Layer
The 5Gr-RL prototype is released as open-source under GPL license. The software is available on
GitHub [12] and it is written using a modular approach that enables the reusability of a single feature
in a different context. For example, the software can configure the RAN and Ericsson Radio
commercial product; this feature will be reused in future Ericsson activities. The abstraction part is a
separate Java package that can be easily reused. The RAN slice management is implemented as an
extension of the resource orchestration java package. 5Gr-RL relies on a common open-source
framework that is the key component of Android application that makes it easy to include and extend
the software adding new feature and support for different technology domains.
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The current plan for the 5Gr-RL evolution is mostly done to cover the need of future projects. The
idea is to create one branch for each project where the software will be used, and then merge the
modification when the code is stable and its usage in the future project is finished.
Furthermore, the 5Gr-CTTC-RL is a custom implementation of the 5Gr-RL module to address better
the particularities and characteristics of the multi-technology transport network infrastructure
available at CTTC. This prototype is released as open-source software under Apache 2.0 licence. It
constitutes the basis for developing advanced software modules (bound to the network resource
Orchestration within WAN transport networks) performed in upcoming research projects (i.e., EU,
national, industrial). A baseline version of the 5Gr-CTTC-RL prototype is available in the CTTC Gitlab
account [18] together with the 5Growth GitHub account [12]. Such a version includes all the features
and functionalities deployed in the EU Project 5Growth by CTTC.
The 5Gr-CTTC-RL prototype has been developed following a modular approach. This favors its reuse
as well as the addition of new features and algorithms. For instance, in the documentation folder, the
user can find instructions on how to include Resource Allocation (RA) algorithms computing end-to-
end paths over a WAN transport network. In this context, different RA algorithms tackling diverse
objectives (e.g., infrastructure abstraction, WAN route computation expansion, and on-line WAN
connection restoration) have been devised and deployed. These RA algorithms are available in the
CTTC gitlab account [27]. These RA algorithms address different works and activities conducted
within the EU project 5Growth by CTTC.
The current plan31 for the evolution of the initial 5Gr-CTTC-RL prototype is subject to future project’s
needs and/or specific scientific/innovation actions. The idea is to create a branch, for instance, for
each project requiring the modification/enhancement to the 5Gr-CTTC-RL prototype. Then, upon
project completion, relying on the scope of the added features and functionalities during the project
period, such features are included in the “master” branch, i.e., the original one. The evolution of the
CTTC-RL to add artificial intelligence and machine learning to the decision process will also apply in
this case.
3.4.1.4. 5Gr-VoMS
The Vertical-oriented Monitoring System (VoMS or 5Gr-VoMs) constitutes the monitoring platform
to monitor a heterogeneous set of services and technological domains. To do that, it offers required
functionalities such as log aggregation, a scalable data distribution system, and dynamic probe
reconfiguration. The VoMS has a modular structure that allows to extend and reuse some parts of
the system easily for example to add integration for other components and sources of the data. One
of such integrations was done with the AI/ML platform of the 5Growth stack.
Mirantis have developed the 5Gr-VoMS system in collaboration with Telcaria in the scope of the
5Growth project and the code is released as open-source software under Apache 2.0 license and
31 This is a rough plan still subject to changes.
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accessible in the publicly available repository [28]. It may be used as a basis for further development
of the monitoring system for other generations of the 5G platform, developed within 5G-Transformer
and enhanced during the 5Growth project.
As a plan for the platform evolution, it can be used either fully or partially in 6G projects or for any
other similar to the 5Growth platform, based on the NFV MANO stack.
3.4.1.5. AIML platform
The 5Gr-AIML platform prototype is released as open-source software under Apache 2.0 licence. The
code is available in the 5Growth GitHub repository [24]. It provides an implementation of the software
modules that are needed for data collection and storage, ML model onboarding, ML model training
(with either Spark or BigDL), and ML model delivery to other 5Gr entities. It thus includes all features
developed by POLITO within the EU 5Grwoth project. Among these the AIML platform prototype
implements an effective interaction with the 5Gr-VoMS monitoring platform, the 5Gr-SO prototype,
and the 5Gr-VS prototype, enabling the update of ML models through the newly collected data and
ML-driven decision processes for autonomous and dynamic slice sub-nets deployment and scaling.
The functionality of the AIML platform prototype has been assessed in a smart factory scenario to
the support the Digital Twin application; further, the validation of the adopted approach and the
prototype itself have been extended to vertical services in the automotive domain.
The 5Gr-AIML platform can be leveraged for zero-touch orchestration and management of networks
and services, as well as a basis for the evolution of a centralized learning platform towards a
distributed one. Both aspects make the 5Gr-AIML platform a contribution on which further research
and innovation initiatives can be successfully developed, also considering the scope of several recent
EU project calls.
The modular structure of the 5Gr-AIML platform makes it easily reusable by researchers and
innovators, who may thus leverage the whole platform, or just some parts of it. The platform already
allows for the implementation and use of different machine learning models that can be trained in a
centralized fashion, but it also represents a basis for the development of additional decision-making
algorithms and ML approaches. For example, reinforcement learning models could be simulated and,
hence, pre-trained, within the platform using the Ray framework32, before they are actually used in a
real-world 5G network platform. Therefore, the prototype is particularly suitable for further
integration with such new mobile network architecture as the one introduced by the O-RAN Alliance.
Furthermore, as mentioned above, a promising direction for future development consists of
extending the 5Gr-AIML platform to a tool that enables distributed learning, like federated learning
and other such emerging paradigms as split learning. In this case, multiple instances of the 5Gr-AIML
platform should be deployed, each in a different domain or cluster of computing nodes, and the
functional features of the platform should be enhanced to enable interaction among the multiple
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instances. Additionally, new cooperative schemes could be designed and implemented, to make such
cooperative learning paradigms effective and efficient in terms of bandwidth consumption and
energy consumption.
3.4.1.6. FFB
The 5Gr-FFB is released as open-source software under Apache 2.0 licence. It was developed from
scratch during the EU Project 5Growth, for the computation and exposure of forecasting metrics
towards the orchestration stack, for taking the proper scaling decision with time margin. The code
of the 5Gr-FFB is available at the 5Growth GitHub account [12], including all the features and
functionalities developed in the context of the EU Project 5Growth by SSSA.
The FFB architecture follows a modular approach, with the main module for handling the APIs and
dedicated modules implementing the forecasting job capabilities, the model design, the adaptation
tools and others. The input data are received via Kafka consumer, reading from a dedicated Kafka
topic (the data on the topic are scraped from the 5Gr-VoMS). The forecasted metrics are exposed in
a Prometheus exporter format. The code available at the 5Growth GitHub account [12] includes two
main branches. First, the tagged ‘main’ branch includes the first release of the 5Gr-FFB, with single
instance support and a simplified forecasting model based on LSTM and a limited number of input
features. Second, the tagged ‘multi-instance’ branch is the most advanced 5Gr-FFB release, where
the support of multiple VNF instances has been implemented and a new forecasting model (with
configurable input features) has been designed/defined.
Being a new functional block, developed from scratch during the EU Project 5Growth execution, the
complete workflow, the APIs and the forecasting models are the main outcome of this activity, ruling
the interaction with the 5Gr-SO and the 5Gr-VoMS. The functionality of the FFB has been assessed
in a smart factory scenario for the support of the Digital Twin application, tuning the interaction with
the other orchestration blocks (i.e., the 5Gr-SO and the 5Gr-VoMS) and the forecasting accuracy of
the proposed forecasting algorithms.
The plan for the evolution of the 5Gr-FFB is subject to cover future project’s needs and/or specific
scientific/innovation actions. More specifically, the idea is to enhance the FFB architecture,
implementing additional input/output plugins (improving the FFB capability to interact with other
orchestration modules). In this perspective, in the context of the BRAINE ECSEL Joint Undertaking
(JU) project, the FFB architecture will be enhanced with additional plugins for being integrated with
the other modules of the Edge Micro Data Center (EMDC) node.
According to the development phases, additional per-project repos will be generated (pointing also
to the 5Growth GitHub account [12]) including the novel features implemented in the specific project.
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4. Assessment of the contribution of 5Growth in support of
5G standard
As part of the CoDEP activities, 5Growth project has contributed to many different standardization
groups. In what follows, we would like to highlight the impact the project has had in the 5G
Ecosystem. We would like to highlight the contribution to the following SDOs:
3GPP
Despite the effects of COVID-19, which stopped face-to-face meetings, which significantly slowed
decision-making and pushed out release deadlines (3GPP release 16 was 1 year late), 5Growth had a
strong impact on 5G Standardization in support of Industry 4.0 and the related areas tied to 5Growth.
Not only did the contributions affect the current 5G specifications, but the work set the stage for
even more improvements that will come outside of the 5Growth project time window.
In 3GPP SA1 (System Requirements) [20] 5Growth successfully helped define the system
requirements for local network functionality integral to Industry 4.0 use cases. This includes the
definition of hosting and switching environments via a gateway enabling real-time experience and
interactions. These requirements defined work that has begun and will continue at higher layers until
at least the end of 2023.
In 3GPP SA2 (System Architecture) [21] 5Growth helped define the structures around service
continuity when switching between a public and private network, including overall quality of
experience, and low latency switching of user plane functions for edge deployments, thus improving
network performance.
In 3GPP SA5 (System Operation and Maintenance) [22] 5Growth has a significant number of accepted
contributions to enable the management of Industry 4.0 NPNs (Non-Public networks). This includes
management of the necessary network functions based on deployment scenarios. Various NPN
management aspects were defined, including identity management, provisions, connectivity
management, closed access group support.
Most importantly, there were several accepted contributions to help define the capabilities, exposure
and control of slicing, which is essential to guarantee the quality of service for industry 4.0 use cases.
Network slice capability exposure is made available by the Network Slice Provider (NSP) for
consumption to the Network Slice Customer (NSC). The use cases presented here apply to the
ICT17/ICT19 integration aspects discussed in 5Growth D3.1 and D3.2, with ICT17 projects (5G EVE
and 5G-VINNI) acting as the NSP and ICT19 (5Growth) acting as the NSC.
IETF
For the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) [23] 5Growth helped to include relevant industry 4.0
use cases in several internet drafts. These cases handle local addressing mechanisms, deterministic
networking for wireless, including the OAM aspects of the deterministic networking.
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Additional impacts include adding industry 4.0 use cases (5G, RAN sharing, etc.) for the definition of
Transport Slice, and the design of a Yang data model to describe the topologies of
microwave/millimeter radio links and bandwidth availability. These relevant use cases are for network
planning/optimization, links provisioning, path/route computation, etc.
ETSI
Since edge computing is an important part of defining quality of service for 5Growth use cases, ETSI
MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing), 5Growth helped to outline the end-to-end architecture
framework for an intelligent edge and far edge integrated with an end-to-end 5G system , including
a description of the 5Growth industry 4.0 use case on zero defect manufacturing and the role of edge
and the 5Growth industry 4.0 use cases involving robots/AGVs and the role of edge in supporting
these use cases.
For ETSI ZSM (Zero touch network) 5Growth helped with agreed contributions for closed-loop
automation (CLA), which is one of the key innovations in the 5Growth project. CLA in 5Growth
leverages OSM capabilities. Additionally, 5Growth helped define Network Slice as a Service (NSaaS)
as a service delivery model which is used for the provisioning of PNI-NPN in 5Growth use cases.
For ETSI ENI (Experiential Networked Intelligence) 5Growth contributed to the PoC, which embedded
algorithms, strategies and procedures for the composition, sharing and auto-scaling of network slice
subnets to build and dynamically adjust the entire set of end-to-end network slices following a
closed-loop approach to meet service-level requirements, while optimizing the usage of the
underlying 5G infrastructure.
GSMA
And finally, in GSMA 5Growth has an agreed discussion paper presenting the gaps existing between
GST/NEST and 3GPP slicing info model on the 'isolation topic'. Based on these gaps, a set of actions
are proposed and endorsed. These actions are to be carried out in the new GSMA work item called
'E2E network slicing', in the future.
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