Workshop Information

This workshop is jointly organized by the 5th Generation Public Private Partnership (5G-PPP) projects METIS-II, FANTASTIC-5G, mmMAGIC, 5G-Crosshaul and Flex5GWare, and aims to foster the discussion and consensus building on key 5G RAN design aspects. The workshop will provide the opportunity to share and discuss results from the mentioned projects and other 5G research activities, and to elaborate on how the 5G RAN design shall be best taken forth in the recently started 3GPP standardization.

The workshop chairs solicit original, unpublished technical papers in particular in the following fields:

• Physical layer and hardware implementation concepts related to 5G, as for instance
  • waveforms, synchronization, numerology, unified frame structure concepts
  • effect of hardware impairments on the PHY design
  • means for ultra low-latency and ultra high-reliability, native support of D2D V2X and multi-cast
  • low-complexity massive MIMO solutions and related enablers
  • solutions for contention-based acces (TDD/FDD, pilot contamination, antenna correlations etc)
• MAC, RLC, PDCP and RRC concepts, in particular related to a an efficient integration of multiple novel 5G air interfaces among each other, and with evolved legacy technology. Examples:
  • Novel resource management concepts, tailored to support a wider range of service and QoS requirements and novel communication forms such as D2D, or spectrum sharing (LSA, ASA)
  • Novel initial access and mobility concepts, in particular in the context of the integration and co-location of multiple novel and legacy air interface in 5G
  • Novel multi-connectivity approaches and related system enablers
• Backhaul/fronthaul design and capabilities for multi-tier ultra-dense heterogeneous small cell networks
  • Joint design and optimization of radio access and backhaul/fronthaul networks
  • Optimized backhaul/ fronthaul integration (wireline or wireless) and control
  • Backhauling and fronthauling options for a split control and data plane
• RAN Architecture concepts associated to the overall control plane and user plane design such as
  • E2E Network slicing, in particular its impact to the RAN
  • Novel 5G RAN Interfaces, CN/RAN interface, functional placement
  • Concepts associated to the impact of SDN/NFV to the 5G RAN design
• Energy efficiency assessment of the 5G RAN
• Business models and techno-economic assessment for the 5G RAN