D5.7: Communication, Dissemination, and - 5GROWTH

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 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 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 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 25: 5Growth organized events .......................................................................................................................... 44

Table 26: Exhibitions and technology demonstrations in dissemination events in Y1 ............................ 48



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

subscribers and 26315 impressions.

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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


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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73tJLtfZfgg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPt5v9V52f4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uC0SN0F79g

https://youtu.be/YMn5WMIaEV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsrpwH6zudM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6otrNNL_bY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I8mcnHQcW8

https://youtu.be/tlyQBmRbNf0


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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


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

https://youtu.be/IH5PIs6QbvI

https://youtu.be/7AioiT_qeGQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V3AKSrWzzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSGHUBFuvYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5GyrAD7h_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcLEF3T5nLg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY6ZH75agOk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CRYAwSlMZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP7E_txgmzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcLEF3T5nLg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBLm0l32iTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTneJD2Kh1k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTg6DA1DqRw

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/interdigital-announces-participation-5growth-project-185506396.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3RhcnRwYWdlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALDGrJIhSA-xRRrMr32qU8YzuQ_UXaNJHymO2V-Strc6d665jQitNj44y2wNyWDZ-dkZ8Kp1Hb8S7zkE_jwhNJnzsJewlc_DI6CtuYqgP86uyCr5PBYZf7lomW8qgoPMfgsbbQoJ2ZBoWGbQxPPVnEBwqtlYDMfOT5aSXDsxb6UC&guccounter=2

https://www.5tonic.org/news/5tonic-selected-5growth-project-validate-advanced-5g-trials-across-multiple-vertical-industries

https://5growth.eu/2019/09/03/plenary-meeting-in-pisa/

https://www.santannapisa.it/it/news/telecomunicazioni-la-scuola-santanna-partner-nel-progetto-europeo-che-testa-sul-campo-le

http://5growth.eu/2019/09/17/5growth-in-torino-italy/

https://www.efacec.pt/projeto-5growth-reforca-testes-avancados-de-5g-em-varias-industrias-com-4-projetos-piloto-em-cenario-real/

https://www.efacec.pt/en/the-5growth-project-will-validate-advanced-5g-trials-across-multiple-vertical-industries-in-4-different-pilots-in-a-real-operational-environment/

http://ww2.portodeaveiro.pt/sartigo/index.php?x=7090

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTneJD2Kh1k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTg6DA1DqRw


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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.

http://5growth.eu/2019/10/16/europe-prepares-four-5g-pilots-in-industrial-applications/

https://www.innovaspain.com/5growth-pone-a-prueba-la-tecnologia-5g-en-la-industrial-espanola/

http://5growth.eu/2019/11/18/510/

https://www.layer123.com/articles/Layer123%20to%20host%20a%205Growth%20webinar%20series%20on%205G%20use%20in%20industry

http://5growth.eu/2020/07/02/layer123-to-host-a-5growth-webinar-series-on-5g-use-in-industry/

http://5growth.eu/2020/07/02/online-workshop-layer123-5growth-powering-5g-in-industry-9-july-2020-10am-cet/

https://5growth.eu/2020/10/08/%f0%9f%92%bbworkshop-5g-trials-in-europe-5g-experimentation-facilities-and-vertical-trials/

https://5growth.eu/2020/11/15/best-fast-track-paper-award-in-ieee-nfv-sdn-2020/

https://5growth.eu/2020/11/26/beyond-5g-evolution-presentations-and-results/

https://5growth.eu/2020/12/04/contributors-award-given-to-itavs-joao-fonseca/

https://5growth.eu/2020/12/06/tb-eworkshop-december-2020/

https://5growth.eu/2020/12/06/5growth-living-document-of-t1-2-continuation-of-the-techno-economic-analysis-and-business-model-validation-methodology/

https://5growth.eu/2020/12/17/the-5g-ppp-infrastructure-trials-and-pilots-brochure-n2-is-out/

https://5growth.eu/2021/03/02/5g-ppp-and-5g-ias-white-paper-edge-computing-for-5g-networks/

https://5growth.eu/2021/04/11/5growth-pilot-and-innovation-videos-available/

https://5growth.eu/2021/05/10/esp-%f0%9f%8e%96%ef%b8%8f-5growth-obtiene-el-premio-madrid-a-la-participacion-en-europa-%f0%9f%8e%96%ef%b8%8f/

https://5growth.eu/2021/05/10/english-%f0%9f%8e%96%ef%b8%8f-5growth-wins-the-madrid-award-for-participation-in-europe-%f0%9f%8e%96%ef%b8%8f/

https://www.corenect.eu/news/the-6g-white-paper-an-interview-with-carlos-jess-bernardos-cano

https://5growth.eu/2021/05/27/1278/

https://5growth.eu/2021/05/28/contributions-adopted-by-the-ietf/

https://5growth.eu/2021/06/08/vote-for-best-booth-award-at-eucnc-2021/

https://5growth.eu/2021/06/09/5growth-demonstration-schedule-at-eucnc-2021/

https://5growth.eu/2021/06/09/%f0%9f%97%a3-5g-ppp-phase-3-projects-brochure-%f0%9f%93%84/

https://www.it.pt/News/NewsPost/4695

https://5growth.eu/2021/06/29/5growth-mwc-barcelona-2021/

https://5growth.eu/2021/07/06/best-booth-award-at-eucnc-2021/

https://5growth.eu/2021/07/13/1322/

https://5growth.eu/2021/10/08/third-edition-of-the-5g-infrastructure-ppp-trials-and-pilots-brochure/

https://5growth.eu/2021/10/14/5growth-5g-dive-exploitation-workshop-29-october-2021-experiences-from-field-trial-about-vertical-industry/


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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


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


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

https://5growth.eu/svn/5growth/execution/WP5/T5.1_Communication_activities/Communication%20Articles/191015_PowerOn_EFACEC_InternalMagazine

http://www.bright-toscana.it/bright/

https://portodeaveiro.pt/noticia/pt/237/

http://www.cttc.cat/24th-science-week/

https://setmanaciencia.fundaciorecerca.cat/frontend/home.asp

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Science Week. Online Event 5G Networks: Why? What?

How?

Link

Talk about 5Growth use cases

and architecture.



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

http://www.cttc.es/25th-science-week/

http://www.cttc.es/25th-science-week/

https://www.southsummit.co/

https://www.uc3m.es/master/NFV-SDN-5g-networks#program

https://scan.di.uoa.gr/courses/

https://www.telecomitalia.com/tit/en/sustainability/actions-dialogue/our-people/training-development.html

https://didattica.polito.it/portal/pls/portal/gap.pkg_guide.viewGap?p_cod_ins=01TYDOV&p_a_acc=2020&p_header=S&p_lang=EN

https://didattica.polito.it/portal/pls/portal/gap.pkg_guide.viewGap?p_cod_ins=01SQPOV&p_a_acc=2020&p_header=S&p_lang=EN

https://www.santannapisa.it/sites/default/files/programmazione_e_orari_phd_final_xxxvi_ciclo2020_21_final_3.pdf



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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



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


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


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


Wireless

Communications

journal vrAIn: Deep Learning based Orchestration forComputing

and Radio Resources in vRANs


Mobile Computing

journal Delay and reliability-constrained VNF placement on

mobile and volatile 5G infrastructure


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



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


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


Cognitive

Communications and

Networking

journal DQN Dynamic Pricing and Revenue driven Service

Federation Strategy


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


Mobile Computing

journal AI-driven, Context-Aware Profiling for 5G and Beyond

Networks


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


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


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

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



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”

https://youtu.be/7uC0SN0F79g


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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


(Testing: Methodologies and

Setup session)

5G EVE & 5Growth: Dealing with App validation, in

practice


(Integrating Public and

Private Networks session)

On the operation of Non-Public Networks – An

MNO’s perspective


(Integrating Public and


5Growth - “Slice Capability Exposure as an Enabler

for NSaaS


(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

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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



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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(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,

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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

https://5growth.eu/svn/5growth/execution/WP6/T6.3_Interaction_with_other_projects_of_the_H2020_5G_Infrastructure_PPP/200116_5GPPP_SNWG_meeting

https://5growth.eu/svn/5growth/execution/WP6/T6.3_Interaction_with_other_projects_of_the_H2020_5G_Infrastructure_PPP/200116_5GPPP_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


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

https://5g-ppp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/5G_White_paper_Business-validation-v1.0a.pdf

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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


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

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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

https://ieee-wf-5g.org/5g-from-theory-to-practice-5gtop-workshop/

https://electronics-2.sciforum.net/

https://www.telesemana.com/blog/webinar/5growth-and-5g-dive-research-projects-different-approaches-to-the-edge/

https://www.telesemana.com/blog/webinar/5growth-and-5g-dive-research-projects-different-approaches-to-the-edge/

https://telecomwebinar.com/webinar/projetos-de-pesquisas-5growth-e-5g-dive-diferentes-abordagens-para-edge/

https://telecomwebinar.com/webinar/projetos-de-pesquisas-5growth-e-5g-dive-diferentes-abordagens-para-edge/

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


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

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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


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



2020-06-09

Online workshop

with 5G-DIVE, 5G

EVE, 5G-VINNI, 5G-

TOURS


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


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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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


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

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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.

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/19/11-19-1642-00-00bc-constraints-of-ocb-transmission.pdf

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/19/11-19-1665-00-0rcm-rcm-rogue-containment-use-case.docx

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/19/11-19-1978-00-00bc-service-discovery-on-ebcs-info-frame.pptx


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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







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


19/11/13 IEEE

802.11






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


https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/19/11-19-1978-01-00bc-service-discovery-on-ebcs-info-frame.pptx

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/19/11-19-2017-00-00bc-service-discovery-advertisement.pptx

http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2019/cq-aoliva-statemachineexplanation-1119-v1.pdf

http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2019/cq-aoliva-statemachine-1119-v1.pdf

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/19/11-19-2069-01-00bc-update-on-proposed-sfd-text-for-r3-5-3.docx

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/19/11-19-2069-00-00bc-update-on-proposed-sfd-text-for-r3-5-3.docx

http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2019/cq-aoliva-PALMAPAD-1119-v1.pdf

http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2019/cq-Marks-Oliva-update-2019-11-13-1119.pdf


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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









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

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bernardos-raw-use-cases/

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mcbride-edge-data-discovery-overview/

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/20/11-20-0135-00-00bc-sfd-text-for-section-9-6-33.docx

http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/TSG_SA/WG5_TM/TSGS5_129e/Docs/S5-201594.zip

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dhc-slap-quadrant/


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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


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


20/04/28 IEEE

802.11bc









are advertised.


https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bernardos-dmm-sfc-mobility/

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bernardos-sfc-nsh-distributed-control/

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bernardos-sfc-distributed-control-operation/

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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



https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-contreras-nmrg-interconnection-intents/

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-claise-opsawg-service-assurance-architecture/


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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

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mcbride-data-discovery-problem-statement/

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bernardos-raw-mec/

http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/tsg_sa/WG5_TM/TSGS5_132e/Docs/S5-204463.zip



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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.






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.






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

https://portal.etsi.org/webapp/WorkProgram/Report_WorkItem.asp?WKI_ID=58429

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/20/11-20-1418-00-00bc-802-11bc-cc31-resolution-for-cids-assigned-to-antonio.docx

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/20/11-20-1419-04-00bc-802-11bc-cc31-resolution-for-cid-355.docx

http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/tsg_sa/WG2_Arch/TSGS2_140e_Electronic/Docs/S2-2005942.zip


https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-llc-teas-dc-aware-topo-model/


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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

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SA1


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

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SA1


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

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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',

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

https://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/iot-solutions/iot-accelerator?nav=offeringarea613

https://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/digital-services-solution-areas/nfvi?nav=fgb_101_0363


https://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/cloud-core/cloud-packet-core

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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)

https://edo.cloud/forums

https://edo.cloud/apps

https://edo.cloud/github

https://edo.cloud/documents

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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

https://gerrit.onosproject.org/#/c/23406/

https://gerrit.onosproject.org/#/c/23479/

https://www.stackalytics.com/?release=victoria&company=mirantis&metric=commits

https://www.stackalytics.com/unaffiliated?project_type=docker-group&company=mirantis&date=180

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/common.git;a=commit;h=4ce854c2cfcdddf4d049ee312182c65832b3f5d4

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/NBI.git;a=commit;h=c3ee9cb2997aa717529e3e8936370084defcfde0

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=1850e4abd7b58d749443ddc5ca5c2cdbb2d067ca

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=40f63682b2ebda7b6415069e67a00919e9230232

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/NBI.git;a=commit;h=59793fe76a0ee8ac94f120230faaa3b60466458e

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/MON.git;a=commit;h=ff4b9f2d85abb98ed7f90833b777a5e91590039e

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=988b7868af92877714dab49ff9d877f55569d39e

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=1563cd24eb1aabf5489054a3c79eb11dd16aa91a

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=c57bb17a62755c240a6d54d21fba4775c1b88c6f

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=ffee4d15520a33596f4653013652a8382d1b02f0

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=4a64a900816abbd5ebd4d14360b5e153a5959025

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=845aa5264f928851618f07b6dcc1b28a41069bb6

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=da0e40f9a97f7517c1f4a49d6759f4063078f52

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=f404b8be8c1a89defe7888bac7059ae52e2c3d2a

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=8d5ac8aa7c36b9ad21f64940436926327f873708

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=c9bba307e009c836bee2584f623aea7598ca1015

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=988b7868af92877714dab49ff9d877f55569d39e

https://osm.etsi.org/gitweb/?p=osm/devops.git;a=commit;h=da0e40f9a97f7517c1f4a49d6759f4063078f525


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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

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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

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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

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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.

19 https://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/cloud-core/cloud-packet-core 20 https://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/digital-services-solution-areas/nfvi?nav=fgb_101_0363

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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

21 http://www.nec.com/en/global/prod/nw/pasolink/products/ipasolink_VR4.html 22 http://www.nec.com/en/event/mwc/leaflet/pdf_2017/i_pasolink_ex_advanced.pdf

http://www.nec.com/en/global/prod/nw/pasolink/products/ipasolink_VR4.html

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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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5. References

[1]. A. Ruete. “Communicating Horizon 2020 projects.” Available at: Link

[2]. IPR Helpdesk. “IPR glossary”. Available at: Link

[3]. H2020 5Growth deliverable D5.4 “Report on WP5 Progress and Update of CoDEP”, May 2021,

available at Link

[4]. 5Growth Website. Available at: Link

[5]. 5Growth Linkedin. Available at: Link

[6]. 5Growth Twitter. Available at: Link

[7]. 5Growth Instagram. Available at: Link

[8]. 5Growth YouTube Channel. Available at: Link

[9]. H2020 5Growth deliverable D5.2 “Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation achivements

of Y1 and plan for Y2”, May 2020, available at Link

[10]. H2020 5Growth deliverable D2.3 “Final Design and Evaluation of the innovations of the 5G End-

to-End Service Platform”, May 2021, available at Link

[11]. H2020 5Growth deliverable D2.4 “Final implementation of 5G End-to-End Service Platform”,

May 2021, available at Link

[12]. 5Growth GitHub. Available at: Link

[13]. The Kubernetes distribution. K0s project. Available at: Link

[14]. K0s GitHub. Available at: Link

[15]. Network slice templates and vertical slices catalogue. Available at: Link

[16]. NFVO drivers. Available at: Link

[17]. MESCAL: Multi-nfvo fEderated ServiCe orchestrAtion pLatform. Available at: Link

[18]. ELECTRA: mobilE tranport pLatform for multi-tEChnology neTwoRk infrastructure. Available at:

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[19]. Resource allocation algorithms. Available at: Link

[20]. 3GPP SA1. Available at: Link



[23]. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Available at: Link

[24]. 5Growth AI/ML platform. Available at: Link

[25]. Nextworks GitHub. Available at: Link

[26]. 5Growth Vertical Slicer Repository. Available at: Link

[27]. CTTC GitLab RA algorithms. Available at: Link

[28]. 5Growth monitoring platform. Available at: Link

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