VTC2018-Spring Workshops provide invaluable opportunities for researchers and industry practitioners to share their state-of-the-art research and development results on specific areas or challenging topics. VTC attendees will be able to attend a workshop for a nominal additional fee. Registration packages for individual workshops without VTC will also be available.
All workshops except W11 will be held on 3 June 2018.
W11 will be held on Tuesday 5 June.
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3 June 2018, Time: 8:30 – 17:00, Room: Douro Sul
W1: 7th Int Workshop on High Mobility Wireless Communications (HMWC'2018)
Organized by Pingzhi Fan, Erdal Panayirci and Chengxiang Wang
3 June 2018
Time: 8:30 – 17:00
Room: Douro Sul
Abstract: The vision of future mobile communication systems is to provide seamless high data rate wireless connections for anyone at anytime and anywhere, including the high mobility scenarios such as high speed trains and highway vehicles. High mobility results in rapidly time-varying channels, which pose significant challenges in the design of practical systems, including channel modeling, fast handover, location update, synchronization, estimation and equalization, anti-Doppler spread techniques, coding and network capacity, capacity-approaching techniques, dedicated network architectures, distributed antenna techniques and etc. With the development of connected vehicles, more rigorous performance requirements (e.g., ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability) are also needed for advanced driving applications, such as platooning, full automated driving, collective perception of environment and so on, which adds more challenges for the research and development of mobile systems with high mobility. To deal with these challenges, the 7th international workshop on High Mobility Wireless Communications (HMWC) aims at fostering fruitful interactions among interested communication engineers, information theorists and system designers from all over the world, building successful collaborations and bridging the gap between theory and practice.
Topics
- Theoretical performance (e.g., data rate, delay, reliability, etc.) limits for HMWC systems
- Rapidly time-varying channel modeling, estimation and equalization
- Fast synchronization
- Doppler shift estimation & compensation
- Doppler diversity and anti-Doppler techniques
- Efficient modulation and detection techniques employed in high speed vehicles
- Fast power control
- Fast handover and group handover
- Fast location update
- Highly dynamic radio resource optimization
- Coding and network capacity for HMWC systems
- Interference utilization and capacity approaching techniques
- Multiple access schemes and ultra-low latency protocols for HMWC systems
- Ultra-high reliability routing protocols for HMWC systems
- Relay, distributive multi-antenna and cooperative techniques for HMWC systems
- High-speed vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) radio systems
- Information caching and delivery for HMWC systems
- Ultra-reliable and low-latency network architectures for high speed environment
- 5G-based solutions for HMWC systems
- Big data based analysis and optimization for HMWC systems
Workshop home: http://csnmt.swjtu.edu.cn/hmwc2018/index.html
3 June 2018, Time: 8:30 – 17:00, Room: Douro Norte
W2: Technology Trials and Proof-of-Concept Activities for 5G and Beyond 2018 (TPoC5G 2018)
Organized by Hidekazu Murata and Gerhard Bauch
3 June 2018
Time: 8:30 – 17:00
Room: Douro Norte
Abstract: The 5th generation (5G) cellular communication systems are going to be launched in a couple of years. In the 5G standard, key enabling technologies such as massive MIMO, beamforming, or a new radio access technology are to be specified, and the research and development of those key technologies have been carried out in many research entities. On top of that, new technology concepts for beyond 5G (B5G) have been currently investigated. In these regards, this workshop is aiming to provide opportunities to present the latest trials for 5G and the proof-of-concept activities for B5G. Through the discussion at the workshop, it also expected to promote the exchange of new ideas among researchers.
Topics
- 5G technology trials
- Validation of technology concepts for the 5G systems (e.g. Massive MIMO, Beamforming, MU-MIMO, Distributed Cells)
- Hardware implementation issues of the 5G systems in SFH bands or millimeter wave bands
- Proof-of-concept activities for the B5G systems
- Experimental investigation of new radio waveforms (e.g. Filtered OFDM, GFDM, UFMC)
- Experimental investigation of full duplex
Workshop home: http://www.ieice.org/cs/rcs/tpoc5g/
3 June 2018, Time: 8:30 – 17:00, Room: Corgo
W3: Sixth International Workshop on Cloud Technologies and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communication Networks (CLEEN2018)
Organized by Dario Sabella and Emilio Calvanese Strinati
3 June 2018
Time: 8:30 – 17:00
Room: Corgo
Abstract: This workshop explores novel concepts to allow for flexibly centralised radio access networks using cloud-processing based on open IT platforms, in coordination with network functions virtualization technologies and MEC (Multi-Access Edge Computing), that are recognized as key enablers for the definition of future 5G systems. The aim is to allow for a guaranteed high quality of experience for mobile access to cloud-processing resources and services, and to allow a future network evolution focused on energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness. In fact, all future innovative network solutions will be conceived and deployed with a long term perspective of sustainability, both in terms of energy consumption of mobile network (and related interoperability with terminals) and cost efficiency of the different deployment and management options. This requires new concepts for the design, operation, and optimization of radio access networks, backhaul networks, operation and management algorithms, and architectural elements, tightly integrating mobile networks and cloud-processing. This workshop will cover technologies across PHY, MAC, and network layers, technologies which translate the cloud-paradigm to the radio access and backhaul network, and will analyse the network evolution from the energy efficiency perspective. It will study the requirements, constraints, and implications for mobile communication networks, and also potential relationship with the offered service, both from the academic and the industrial point of view.
Topics
- Centralized / decentralized PHY and MAC processing
- Flexible assignment of functionality in mobile networks
- Joint operation and optimization of radio access and backhaul networks for cloud-based mobile networks
- Resource allocation techniques; interference analysis, avoidance, and mitigation for heterogeneous networks
- Storage and computation capability of small cells
- Energy efficiency vs. QoS vs cost-efficiency trade-offs
- Service and energy management aspects of cloud-based mobile networks
- Architectural evolution of mobile networks and cost effective deployment strategies for evolved heterogeneous wireless network
- Multi-access Edge Computing and related enablers (e.g. new interfaces, protocols, mobility aspects, innovative cache support, ?), including Multi access technologies
- MEC and RAN interworking, impacts of MEC in 5G architecture
- MEC verticals: support for V2X and advanced automotive use cases; application offloading and energy efficiency through MEC; virtual reality and augmented reality
- Management of cloud-based/cloud-operated heterogeneous networks providing access to cloud-services; edge disaggregation and distributed network operating systems
- Integration of cloud-services into green heterogeneous wireless Testbeds and performance evaluation for cloud-based mobile communication networks
Workshop home: https://5g-ppp.eu/cleen2018/
3 June 2018, Time: 8:30 – 15:00, Room: Lima
W4: 1st International Workshop of Recent Advancements of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Techniques for 5G Communications (RAMAT 2018)
Organized by Dushantha Nalin K Jayakody, Rui Dinis, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Yonghui Li and Sandeep Narayan
3 June 2018
Time: 8:30 – 15:00
Room: Lima
Abstract: With the evolution of fifth generation (5G) networks and increasing demand of high data rates and higher connectivity, new solutions are being investigated in both academia and industry. Recently the technology that has received considerable attention is non orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), which is considered to be one of the key 5G enabling technologies. NOMA is the new addition to the class of multiple access techniques, in which the user multiplexing is done in the power domain, such that the strong users having better channel conditions transmit with low power and the weak users having worse channels transmit with high power, while sharing the same spectral resources. NOMA increases the spectral efficiency further as compared to orthogonal multiple access (OMA) schemes by allowing different users to use the same spectral resources but with different power levels. The NOMA concept forms a general framework, where recently proposed 5G multiple access schemes, such as power domain NOMA, sparse code multiple access (SCMA), bit division multiplexing, multi-user shared access (MUSA), interleave division multiple access (IDMA), lattice partition multiple access (LPMA), and pattern division multiple access (PDMA) can be regarded as special cases.
This workshop will provide a platform to showcase the latest research and innovations in NOMA technologies as well as their applications, and will bridge the gap between theory and practice in the design of 5G multiple access. The recent advancement in NOMA has boosted the development of a new generation of highly-efficient mobile networks. This workshop will highlight the recent developments in this evolving area. It will provide a platform for exchanging new ideas and research collaboration.
Workshop home: https://sites.google.com/view/noma-workshop-vtc2018spring/home
W5: 5G for a Variety of Services
Organized by Jin Yang, Amitava Ghosh, Tong Wen and Rose Qingyang Hu
3 June 2018
Time: 8:30 – 12:00
Room: Minho
Abstract: 5G wireless is fundamentally transforming radio network from pure wireless connectivity to a network for services. Mobile wireless access technologies have gone through several generations of evolutions and access spectral efficiency is approaching Shannon capacity. However, there are enormous opportunities on support of various services. 5G wireless will enable new services and applications, in particular, enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine-type communications (mMTC) and ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC). Network slicing and machine learning are going to be part of radio network architecture as well. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers from industry and academia, cellular service providers, and industrial partners to explore various ways for 5G to more efficiently support a variety of services. The focus of the workshop will be on the evolution of cellular network to efficiently support varieties of services, related to end-to-end network architecture and requirements, cloud technology including end-to-end network slicing, use cases, field experiments, and performance results. The workshop will offer keynote speeches by prominent figures from industry and research sides, as well as technical presentations on the latest research and development in 5G for services, including deployment related results using real-world examples and scenarios.
W6: 4th RAFNET
Organized by Syed Hassan Ahmed, Ejaz Ahmed, Waleed Ejaz and Danda B. Rawat
3 June 2018
Time: 13:30 – 17:00
Room: Minho
Abstract: Recently, a lot of research efforts have been made from both academia and industry side to promote various new and emerging network paradigms. The reason is that during the past decade, it has been realized that the current internet architecture was originally designed for end-to-end host centric communications, however, the actual focal of communications is the content itself. Hence, we have witnessed new architectures such as an Information Centric Network (ICN) with various extensions like Content-Centric Network (CCN), Named Data Network (NDN), Data-Oriented Network Architecture, and so on. On the other hand, enormous efforts in cellular networks have been made for improving the user experience and as a result of today, we are able to use LTE-A and other networks. In this context, the upcoming 5G networking architectures, whose ongoing research is focused on the networking mechanisms in regard to the massive increase in the number of connected devices, bandwidth requirements, reduced latency, and the deployment of supporting operational mechanisms such as network virtualization, cloud- based deployments, mobile edge computing, and storage and new utilization scenarios. Moreover, these modern technologies are being applied in other networking domains as well, including VANETs, Smart Grid, Smart Cities, Internet of Things, Big Data, etc.
RAFNET aims to bring together researchers working on selected areas of future internet architectures along with 5G implications, applications, such as smart cities, smart communities, smart automotive driving, etc.
Topics
- Information-Centric Networking (ICN) in Internet of Things
- Networking Layer and Forwarding Strategies in ICN
- Interest/Data Forwarding in Content-Centric Networks
- Interest/Data Forwarding in Named Data Networks
- ICN Application Layer operations and Models for Testing/Evaluation
- Analysis of Content-Centric Networking in current network paradigms
- Analysis of Named Data Networking in current network paradigms
- Congestion Control Protocols in ICN for both Ad-hoc and wired networks
- Business perspective of applying ICN in Real-World Environment
- Future Internet in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
- Future Internet in Big Data
- Transport layer issues in Future Internet Architectures
- Multimedia Applications and Feasibility with Future Internet architectures
- Future Internet in Smart Cities
Workshop home: http://rafnetworkshop.wixsite.com/2018vtcspring
3 June 2018, Time: 8:30 – 12:00, Room: Cávado
W7: First International Workshop on Research Advances in Cooperative ITS Cyber Security and Privacy (C-ITSec)
Organized by Brigitte Lonc, Arnaud Kaiser, Hichem Sedjelmaci, Ines Ben Jemaa and Pierpaolo Cincilla
3 June 2018
Time: 8:30 – 12:00
Room: Cávado
Abstract: Security and privacy are attractive research topics in the field of Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS). Recent attacks on security and privacy, which disrupt the C- ITS, create several challenges that have to be addressed by the research community. Example of these challenges are robust misbehavior detection and reporting, lightweight and agile security schemes, robust cryptographic algorithms, etc. At the standardization level, many efforts have been also made to speed up the deployment of security and privacy architectures and solutions.
C-ITSec will provide an international technical forum for discussing and presenting recent research results on any aspects of cyber security defense techniques, recent C-ITS attacks and latest Enhancing Privacy Technologies for C-ITS. It aims at bringing together experts from industry and academia to share ideas and present research results on challenging issues related to cyber security and privacy in vehicular communication. Papers may present theories, techniques, applications, or practical experiences related to that.
Topics
- C-ITS security architectures
- Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
- Misbehavior detection and reporting
- Security in vehicular 4G/5G networks
- Machine learning and data mining for Intrusion Detection Systems
- Authentication, authorization and accounting
- Tradeoff safety, privacy and security
- Security testbeds and experimentations
- Security performance evaluations
- Security and privacy in autonomous driving
- Confidentiality in lightweight security services
- Crypto-agility for C-ITS
- Cyber-attacks modeling
- Key management schemes
- Secured Update-Over-The-Air
- Performance of the security management system
- Quantum safe cryptography
- Security evaluation schemes and compliance assessment
Workshop home: http://www.irt-systemx.fr/workshop-c-itsec/
3 June 2018, Time: 13:30 – 17:00, Room: Cávado
W8: First Workshop on Enabling Energy Internet via Machine type Wireless Communications
Organized by Hirley Alves and Pedro Nardelli
3 June 2018
Time: 13:30 – 17:00
Room: Cávado
Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) has already changed not only key aspects of our daily lives but also the way several industries work. Such IoT revolution is built upon ubiquitous wireless connectivity, which includes both human- and machine-type communications. The latter, also known as MTC, involves a wide range of heterogeneous applications, ranging from simple daily electricity metering to advanced real-time frequency control of power grids. In this configuration, MTC shall work through two distinct modes related to the specific application under consideration. These modes are: massive MTC (mMTC) and ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC). While MTC deployments are becoming widespread, energy systems are also changing towards decentralization ? in a trend similar to the one experienced by communication systems during the last decades. In this particular context, the Energy Internet concept emerges as a decentralized way of managing the future energy systems (such as the communication internet), while integrating the most advanced communication tools enabled by IoT and MTC.
This workshop aims at state-of-the-art advances and innovations in the theoretical foundations of machine-type wireless communications in energy systems, IoT-enabled energy management, and applications communication theory in energy systems.
3 June 2018, Time: 13:30 – 17:00, Room: Sousa
W9: C-ITS Evaluation and Assessment Workshop (C-Roads)
Organized by Luca Studer, Gary Crockford and Alexander Froetscher
3 June 2018
Time: 13:30 – 17:00
Room: Sousa
Abstract: C-Roads is a European platform created for the deployment of C-ITS --day one services-- in Europe based on a common service definition and the harmonization of the respective C-ITS messages with a standard profiling at Road Infrastructure site throughout Europe.
How will C-Roads partners and stakeholders setup the test and validation phase in 2018 in order to prepare for a service introduction in operative transport environments in the next years to come and guide efficiently the service evaluation and assessment process for all the pilot implementations in Europe? This is the background and scope of this session proposal at VTC2018-Spring in Porto.
Within C-Roads, there are several technical working groups and task forces, where all members work together to define the common elements needed, e.g. for interoperability of services, and Working Group 3 - Evaluation and Assessment has the scope to define a test and evaluation plan for the pilots i all participating countries and their validation activities.
The first part of the workshop is to discuss this common evaluation methodology for C-ITS services with scientific experts and engineering practitioners in this area. In the second part of the workshop the participating C-Roads partners can elaborate their evaluation plans and aspects to test and validate in their pilot implementations in their countries, and compare the selected approaches, but also the emerging data sets for future assessment of the service implementations. This second part of the workshop will have contributions from several C-Roads partners with pilot implementations in 2018/2019 and discussions of the main aspects to validate in this project phase.
The outcome of the workshop is a publicly presented and discussed methodology for evaluation of C-ITS services in Europe and a comparison of this methodology with the selected approaches and evaluation plans in several European pilot implementations before the roll out of C-ITS services
3 June 2018, Time: 8:30 – 17:00, Room: Tâmega
W10: International Workshop on Connected, Automated and Autonomous Vehicles (Ca2V)
Organized by Cristiano Premebida, Jose Eugenio Naranjo and Fawzi Nashashibi
3 June 2018
Time: 8:30 – 17:00
Room: Tâmega
Abstract: The aim of the Ca2V workshop is to bring together researchers, professionals, policy makers, stakeholders and experts in vehicular technologies, communications and intelligent transportation systems to discuss current and future challenges of autonomous and instrumented/automated vehicles, interoperability of on-board and infrastructure-based units (OBUs ? RSUs), test-cases and scenarios for deployment of connected and automated vehicles (CAV), intelligent and connected infrastructure, cybersecurity in vehicular communications, advances in AI-based systems for ITS and connected cars, emerging technologies in the automotive industry, and the role of governance and regulations on driverless vehicles.
Topics
- Communication systems for CAV (connected and autonomous vehicles)
- Automated vehicular technologies
- Vehicular Communications and Networks: V2V, V2I, V2X
- Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) / Cooperative-ITS
- Trends and emerging technologies on autonomous cars
- Regulations on connected and automated vehicles
- Connected and autonomous cars deployment in real-world conditions
- Cooperative/collaborative vehicular systems
- Test-cases, scenarios, real-world Pilots
- Artificial intelligence influence on automated vehicles
- Cyber security for connected and autonomous vehicles
- Smart and connected infrastructure
- Standardization & Interoperability
Workshop home: https://sites.google.com/view/ca2v-vtc2018/home
5 June 2018, Time: 14:00 – 17:30, Room: Sousa
W11: THz Communication Technologies for Systems Beyond 5G
Organized by Angeliki Alexiou, Colja Schubert, Thomas Merkle, Markku Juntti, Kristaps Dobrajs, Francisco Rodrigues, Nelson José Valente da Silva and Dimitrios Kritharidis
5 June 2018
Time: 14:00 – 17:30
Room: Sousa
Abstract: Although 5G seems more than willing to embrace several game changing design principles, such as densification, virtualization and softwarization, in order to enhance scalability, flexibility and efficient resources utilization, it can be easily understood that fundamental performance limitations related to available bandwidth, transmission and processing delay and cost and energy consumption still define the envelope. To break these technological barriers networks beyond 5G will need to bring little explored wireless resources and technologies to validation and exploitation by directing research towards de-risking technological concepts, components, architectures and systems concepts. THz communications is an attractive candidate technology, especially when compared to the less flexible and more costly optical fiber connections and to the lower data rate wireless technologies, such as for example visible light communication, microwave links, and wireless fidelity (WiFi). As a consequence, the THz band, for wireless access and the supporting backhaul network infrastructure, is expected to influence the main technology trends in wireless networks within the next ten years and beyond. The implementation of THz frequency based wireless networks is expected to take advantage of breakthrough novel technological concepts, such as the joint design of baseband signal processing for the complete optical and wireless link, the development of broadband and highly spectrally efficient radio frequency (RF) frontends operating at frequencies higher than 275 GHz, and new standardized electrical-optical (E/O) interfaces. Associated to the extremely large bandwidths and the propagation properties of the THz regime, improved channel modeling and the design of appropriate waveforms, multiple-access schemes and antenna array configurations will be required for the successful introduction of THz communications. Motivated by the potential of THz technologies to transform the future of ICT, this workshop aspires to reveal and discuss the critical technology gaps as well as the appropriate enablers, in terms of baseband processing RF frontend, channel models and waveforms, signals and coding, beam-patterns and medium access schemes.
W12: 2nd IEEE 5G and Beyond Testbed Workshop
Organized by IEEE 5G Initiative Testbed Working Group
3 June 2018
Time: 8:30 – 17:00
Room: Porto Ballroom
Abstract: This second edition of the series will build on the achievements of the first, held as part of VTC2017-Fall in Toronto, and will focus on experimental testbeds on 5G and Beyond. The objective of this workshop is to bring together developers, practitioners, technical experts and researchers to share experiences and advance the state of the art in all aspects of 5G systems prototyping, evaluation and testing. Given the increased complexity of next generation of communication systems and skyrocketing development costs, the importance of publicly available testbeds is quickly becoming critical for researchers and developers to get access to state-of-the-art infrastructures, in order to prototype and validate their ideas.
In addition to informing the community on the capabilities and usage modalities of existing testbeds, the workshop also aims to solicit contributions and promote discussion on the future experimental platforms as well as to facilitate discussions on co-development and co-deployment of experimental platforms. Of particular interest are ideas on extending publicly available testbeds with 5G-related technologies as they become available, and how they can be used to address common technological and scientific problems that are related to advanced wireless systems. The workshop will offer a spectrum of distinguished speakers from all over the world, who will share their experiences about building testbed and experimental results.
Topics
- 5G testbed implementation and deployment including real-world lessons learnt
- Large scale experiment design and deployment
- Testbed design for repeatability and reproducibility
- Tools and services for testbed users and operators (including prototyping)
- Experiments on federated testbeds
- Experimentation with future wireless platforms including: Full duplex, Massive and distributed MIMO, cmWave and mmWave, D2D, V2V, V2I
- Experimentation with integrated Cloud/MEC/Fog computing
- Integrated Fronthaul/Backhaul with multi-tenancy and federation
- Support for infrastructure slicing and isolation
- Role of common and open source software tools
- 5G Security
- Network Slicing
- Cloud RAN
- SDN/NFV