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MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL CHAIR 04

MESSAGE FROM THE TEHNICAL PROGRAMME
COMMIT TEE CHAIR 06
DUBROVNIK - WALK THROUGH CENTURIES 08
PROGRAMME 14
KEYNOTES 16
PANELS 22
REGUL AR AND P OSTER SESSIONS 28
ANNOUNCEMENT 44
STEERING COMMIT TEE 46
TEHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMIT TEE 48
ORGANISING COMMIT TEE 56
PL ATINUM PATRON 58
SPECIAL ISSUE 60
10 INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT DUBROVNIK 62

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 With the third and last phase of the These aspects have further gained

MESSAGE FROM
5G-Public Private Partnership (5G-PPP) importance in light of the Covid-19 crisis
well under way, the projects will have the and the need to guarantee security of
opportunity to show the way for new use supply in critical sectors.
cases and deliver on Europe’s 5G-trial

THE GENERAL
strategy. The whole 5G-PPP trial project
portfolio is now worth more than € 300 In the area of Networks and
million of EU funding, and will leverage Communications European
more than € 1 billion of private investment
players are well placed, both in

CHAIR
in 5G vertical trials, reinforcing Europe’s
leading position in this field. terms of supply market shares
and of intellectual property.
Another wave of projects for
approximately € 200 million will be We have to maintain and reinforce this
launched this year under the last Work position and extend it to the broader
Programme of Horizon 2020. A second value chain. This includes opportunities
wave of 5G Corridor projects as well in components and devices beyond
as projects in the area of 5G hardware smartphones as well as cloud-based
innovation are about to be signed. The last service provisioning to enable AI and the
two calls are closing in June featuring 5G data economy.
software innovation and more forward
looking projects Beyond-5G.
Against this background we
are preparing a strategic
It is a great pleasure to welcome you to
the 29th and first on-line edition of the While our efforts are focused European partnership on “Smart
European Conference on Networks and on the development of 5G Networks and Services” as a
Communications.
lead markets in Europe, successor to the 5G-PPP. It will
excellence in R&I and Europe’s be the research partnership
The EuCNC is the key event
Pearse O’Donohue technology capacities for for 6G, but also coordinate
to showcase the excellence
Conference General of European research and this and the next decade deployment actions to build 5G
Chair innovation in communication are of key importance. This lead markets in a wide range of
has been recognised in the vertical sectors. I am looking
technologies. This year the
political guidelines of the new forward to developing and
organisers turned it to an on-line
Commission and in the recent running this partnership with
event as the Covid-19 pandemic
5G cyber-security toolbox, in you all.
did not allow us to hold the
conference in Dubrovnik as particular as regards the role We wish you a very fruitful and enjoyable
initially planned. of suppliers. EUCNC’2020 online conference.

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 MESSAGE FROM In this EuCNC edition, 134
Nevertheless, still we are delighted
that we have lived up the motto “The
Connectivity Revolution”, preserving the
submissions were received from 44
countries, not only from Europe, but

THE TECHNICAL
wide recognition of EuCNC as the premier
forum for presentation of research results, also as much as 24.9 % from other
and being the best meeting point for
technology visionaries and innovators regions, namely Asia/Pacific, USA,

PROGRAMME from academia and industry to exchange

their newest results and experience,
paving the way to the overall success
Middle East and Africa, Canada
and Latin America. Each paper

COMMIT TEE CHAIR

in this cutting-edge industry, aimed to was reviewed by at least three
revolutionize the mission of ICT in general. qualified reviewers, with an overall
As 5G is on its way to maturity, vision on
acceptance rate of 50%.
beyond-5G, as well as even 6G, is under
Both on Tuesday, June 16th, and Wednesday,
It is our great pleasure to welcome you way to provide much more than just an
June 17th, the conference program starts
to the 29th edition of the European evolution to even wider bandwidth and
and ends with a highlight of the latest
Conference on Networks and lower latency, but become a key enabler
research trends provided by renowned keynote
Communications EuCNC 2020, which of end-to-end solutions through solving
speakers from academy and industry, whereas
was supposed to take place in Dubrovnik, ever growing challenges in research
the panels will be centered on open RAN,
Croatia. and development, manufacturing
Cybersecurity and 5G for verticals. Accepted
and exploitation of the exciting new
papers and posters are organized in 6 tracks
technologies for connecting the world at a
and 16 sessions.
pace it has never seen before.
Vlatko Lipovac However, due to the
We thank all authors for submitting their
Technical Programme well-known unfortunate The EuCNC heritage dates all the manuscripts, as well as the track co-chairs
Committee Chair circumstances that have way back to 2G, and continues and reviewers for their devotion to selecting
high quality contributions. Special thanks
almost shut down the up to nowadays when state- go to European Commission, the EuCNC
world, the event turned to of-the-art high-bandwidth 2020 sponsor and IEEE, as well as to Huawei
virtual. So, unfortunately, and real-time 5G systems have Technologies, our Platinum Patron.

at this time, we will not become a key enabler of many Finally, we would like to emphasize the hard
have a chance to show and new and unexpected application work of the Local Organising Committee
consisting of our young colleagues, and we
demonstrate to you all areas, among them autonomous
thank them for their enthusiasm even when
good things that we have driving, vehicle-to-everything we realized that this event could not be
been carefully preparing communications, (industrial) organized the way we all planned and gladly
expected.
throughout almost two Internet-of-Things with massive
years for you to see, feel machine-type communications, We hope that you will enjoy the EuCNC 2020
and taste in our beautiful as well as ultra-reliable low program and consider contributing to EuCNC
2021 to be held in Porto, Portugal.
Filipe Cardoso city, the jewel of the latency communications among
Technical Programme Mediterranean. others.
Committee Co-chair

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DUBROVNIK An independent, merchant republic for 700 years
(abolished by Napoleon in 1806), it traded with

Walk through
Turkey and India in the East (with a consul in Goa,
India) and had trade representatives in Africa, in
the Cape Verde Islands. It even had diplomatic

centuries
relations with the English court in the Middle Ages.
(There is a letter from Elizabeth I on display in the
City Museum in Dubrovnik). Its status was such
that powerful and rich Venice was envious of this
Croatian-Slav city.

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 Dubrovnik’s ascent received a major RECENT HISTORY
blow in 1667 as a catastrophic Due to its historic borderland status,
earthquake destroyed a large amount of Dubrovnik was significantly affected by
Renaissance art and architecture in the the break-up of Yugoslavia. In the early
city. The Sponza and the Rector’s palace 90s, Greater Serb aggression resulted
were the only buildings that survived in Dubrovnik suffering its most serious
the natural disaster. The city was existential threat. Over two-thirds of
reconstructed in the baroque style that the historic town’s buildings were hit by
THE has survived intact until today. Despite
the reconstruction, the decline of the
artillery. The town’s cobbled streets were
struck by hundreds of direct hits. For the
HISTORY OF Mediterranean as a hub for trade meant
that Dubrovnik, like other Mediterranean
first time in history, the medieval city
walls themselves received over a hundred

DUBROVNIK IS ports, began a steady decline. By

the time Napoleon arrived at the gates
direct hits. Many historic palaces were
badly damaged by the resulting fires. The

REMARKABLE. in 1806, the Republic of St Blaise was a

shadow of itself.
renowned Sponza and Rector’s Palace, St
Blaise’s church, the Franciscan monastery
and the Amerling and Onofrio fountain all
The Congress system and Napoleon’s suffered severely.
campaign had extinguished the last
vestiges of the Republic. In 1815, like Source: www.dubrovnik-travel.net

Dubrovnik’s history witnesses the changing The new city-state used its status as a much of the eastern Adriatic coast,
fortune of a borderland Mediterranean crossroads between cultures and Dubrovnik became part of the Habsburg
city-state that for centuries lived in civilisations. The city thrived through Empire, where it would remain until 1918.
harmony with its surroundings. extensive trade with other maritime
ports such as Genoa, Pisa and Venice.
Its continental trade networks also THE BEGINNING OF TOURISM
The period of Austrian dominance saw
Originally called Ragusa, extended its reach into the Balkans with
the early beginnings of tourism. Lord
the Ottoman Empire. At the beginning
the city was founded in the of the 13th century, Dubrovnik fell under Byron on his Grand Tour was said to
7th century as a refuge for the control of the Most Serene Republic, have called Dubrovnik ‘the Pearl of the
staying under its Control until 1358. Adriatic’. Later, prominent authors like
coastal residents fleeing Bernard Shaw and Agatha Christie were
the advancing barbarians. Towards the end of the middle Ages, dazzled by the perfectly preserved
Dubrovnik’s Maritime influence meant that baroque oasis.
it was the chief competitor of the Venetian
From the outset, the city was protected by empire for the Adriatic waterways. Its During the second Yugoslav period after
defensive walls. The borderland status of European educated diplomats and its 1945, the popularity of the city grew
the town was to be a determining factor widespread commerce allowed it to worldwide and millions marvelled at the
in its history. Part of the Mediterranean expand its influence beyond the Adriatic. medieval splendour. The importance of
cultural constellation, yet intimately Machiavelli was a notable luminary so tourism meant that Dubrovnik was put
connected to the Balkans. Catholic yet impressed by the city that he applied on UNESCO’s world heritage list in 1979.
surrounded by Islamic and Orthodox to work there. City authorities were not
neighbours. impressed and turned him down.

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Time (CEST) Recommended Live Non-Live Time (CEST) Recommended Live Non-Live
re-viewing interaction interaction (Chat) re-viewing interaction interaction (Chat)

09:15 – 10:00 KEYNOTE 1 09:45 – 10:30 KEYNOTE 3

MATTI LATVA-AHO NICOLAS DEMASSIEUX

10:00 – 10:30 OPENING SESSION 10:30 – 10:45 KEYNOTE 3

VLATKO LIPOVAC NICOLAS DEMASSIEUX
FILIPE CARDOSO
10:45 – 11:30 PANEL 3
PEARSE O’DONOHUE 5G FOR VERTICALS:
10:30 – 10:45 KEYNOTE 1 BUILDING AND
EXPLOITING SYNERGIES
MATTI LATVA-AHO

10:45 – 11:30 PANEL 1 11:30 – 12:15 PANEL 3

5G FOR VERTICALS:
CYBERSECURITY IN 5G,
BUILDING AND
INCLUDING VERTICALS
EXPLOITING SYNERGIES
11:30 – 12:15 PANEL 1
CYBERSECURITY IN 5G, 12:15 – 14:30 NET2: Virtualisation, Cloud, NET2: Virtualisation, Cloud,
and Convergence and Convergence
INCLUDING VERTICALS NET3: Software-based and NET3: Software-based and
Self-driving Networks Self-driving Networks
12:15 – 14:30 NET1: Network Slicing for NET1: Network Slicing for
OPE2: Operational & OPE2: Operational &
Innovative Beyond 5G Applications Innovative Beyond 5G Applications
Experimental Insights #2 Experimental Insights #2
OPE1: Operational & Experimental OPE1: Operational & Experimental
PHY2: Emerging Transmission PHY2: Emerging Transmission
Insights #1 Insights #1
Techniques for Next Generation Techniques for Next Generation
PHY1: Emerging Aspects on PHY1: Emerging Aspects on
Wireless Communication Wireless Communication
Propagation for Wireless Propagation for Wireless
Systems Systems
Applications Applications
PHY3: Emerging Coding PHY3: Emerging Coding
POS1: Poster Session 1 POS1: Poster Session 1
Techniques for 5G Techniques for 5G
RAS1: Radio Access and RAS1: Radio Access and
POS2: Poster Session 2 POS2: Poster Session 2
Softwarisation Softwarisation
VAP3: IoT and the Urban VAP3: IoT and the Urban
VAP1: IoT Security and 5G VAP1: IoT Security and 5G
Ecosystem Ecosystem
economy economy
WOS2: Aerial and V2X Networks WOS2: Aerial and V2X Networks
VAP2: IoT Security and VAP2: IoT Security and
Performance Analysis Performance Analysis
WOS1: 5G NR and Beyond WOS1: 5G NR and Beyond 14:30 – 15:15 KEYNOTE 4
WEN TONG
14:30 – 15:15 PANEL 2
OPENRAN, INCLUDING
15:15 – 15:30 KEYNOTE 4
INTEROPERABILITY/
WEN TONG
INTERWORKING WITH
VENDOR SOLUTIONS
15:30 – 16:00 CLOSING SESSION
15:15 – 16:00 PANEL 2 VLATKO LIPOVAC
OPENRAN, INCLUDING
PETER STUCKMANN
INTEROPERABILITY/
INTERWORKING WITH LUIS M. CORREIA
VENDOR SOLUTIONS MANUEL RICARDO
16:00 – 16:45 KEYNOTE 2
DAN KILPER
16:45 – 17:00 KEYNOTE 2
DAN KILPER
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KEYNOTE 1 LIVE
2020
KEY DRIVERS AND RESEARCH
CHALLENGES FOR 6G

KEYNOTES
Chair: Filipe Cardoso (EUCNC2020 TPC Co-
Chair, Poly. Inst. Setubal, Portugal)
Matti Latva-aho
Recommended re-viewing
Director for 6G Flagship, Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 09:15-10:00 CEST
University of Oulu, Finland Live interaction
Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 10:30-10:45 CEST

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Abstract CV
As 5G research is maturing towards a Matti Latva-aho received the M.Sc., Lic.
global standard, the research community Tech. and Dr. Tech (Hons.) degrees in
must focus on the development of beyond- Electrical Engineering from the University
5G solutions and 2030 era, i.e. 6G. It is of Oulu, Finland in 1992, 1996 and 1998,
not clear yet what 6G will entail. It will respectively. From 1992 to 1993, he was a
include relevant technologies considered Research Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones,
too immature for 5G or which are outside Oulu, Finland after which he joined Centre
the defined scope of 5G. It is envisioned for Wireless Communications (CWC) at
that we need new KPI drivers towards the University of Oulu. Prof. Latva-aho
6G besides the current 5G technical was Director of CWC during the years
superiority KPIs: global megatrends, 1998-2006 and Head of Department for
UN sustainability goals, emerging new Communication Engineering until August
technical enablers are emerging critical 2014. Currently he serves as Academy
drivers towards 2030 solutions. Global of Finland Professor in 2017 – 2022 and
coverage with services scaling, super is Director for National 6G Flagship
efficient short range connectivity and Programme for 2018 – 2026. His research
accurate localization are missing features interests are related to mobile broadband
within current mobile systems and deserve communication systems and currently
special attention. Value chains are likely his group focuses on beyond 5G systems
to be revolutionized via emergence of research. Prof. Latva-aho has published
different verticals needs as well as local close to 500 conference or journal papers
spectrum licensing. To summarize, 6G in the field of wireless communications.
is not only about moving bits: it will He received Nokia Foundation Award
become a framework of services, including in 2015 for his achievements in mobile
communication service where all user communications research.
specific computation and intelligence may
move to edge cloud. Integration of sensing,
imaging and highly accurate positioning
capabilities with mobility opens a myriad
of new applications in 6G era.
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16 JUNE KEYNOTE 2 17 JUNE
2020
LIVE
KEYNOTE 3 LIVE
2020
INTELLIGENT OPTICAL 6G.WHY ?
SYSTEMS FOR A 5G WORLD
Chair: Vlatko Lipovac (EuCNC 2020 Host and Nicolas Demassieux Chair: Vlatko Lipovac (EuCNC 2020 Host and TPC
Dan Kilper TPC Chair, Univ. Dubrovnik, Croatia)
Senior Vice President Chair, Univ. Dubrovnik, Croatia)
Director, Center for Recommended re-viewing Recommended re-viewing
Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 16:00-16:45 CEST
Research,
Integrated Access Networks, Orange, France
Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 09:45-10:30 CEST
Live interaction Live interaction
University of Arizona, USA Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 16:45-17:00 CEST Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 10:30-10:45 CEST

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Abstract flexibility and intelligent software control Abstract that a vision of the needs of the society
Optical communication system technology needed to deliver on the full promise of the As 5G deployments are happening around in 2030-2040 is framed in parallel with
development has historically been driven 5G vision. the globe, the research community has technological research, before we engage
by performance advances in the backbone started to look into what could be the into putting together the technical
of the Internet. In recent years, markets CV network technologies for the 2030 horizon. components into an actual system design.
have shifted, and the role of optical Dr. Dan Kilper is the Director of the So far, research is ongoing on basic In this talk, we will share our vision on
systems is being redefined. Metropolitan Center for Integrated Access Networks technology components, but initiatives the stakes of the 2030-2040 society that
traffic growth continues to outpace and a research Professor in the College are on preparation to build an initial vision future networking technologies will need
long haul traffic growth, bringing more of Optical Sciences at the University of on what a “Beyond 5G” or “6G” system to address, as well as our priorities for
focus onto capacity and the use of Arizona, Tucson. He holds adjunct faculty could be and should do, like the ICT-52 Beyond 5G system design.
optical systems in the network edge. positions at the Columbia University call for projects in Europe. But after 30
CV
The emergence of edge cloud computing Data Science Institute and Trinity College years of successful development of mobile
Nicolas Demassieux leads the research of
and demanding requirements for 5G Dublin. He is a faculty appointee at NIST. networks and of their extraordinary global
Orange, a company ranked 19th in BCG’s
networks are adding fuel to this trend. He received MS (1992) and PhD (1996) adoption, we are entering a different
2018 most innovative companies report.
Optical transmission inherently provides degrees in Physics from the University era: what drove the technical evolutions
With his team, he drives the vision, strategy
the deterministic, ultra-low latency and of Michigan. From 2000-2013, he was a (increase of coverage, throughput,
and execution of research programs
high speeds targeted in 5G and beyond member of technical staff at Bell Labs, capacity with lower latencies) could well
involving 700+ engineers and PhD students
networks. As a result, optical systems are and he co-founded Palo Verde Networks, be challenged by needs of a very different
in multiple countries. A strong advocate of
undergoing a transformation from a high a startup developing optical technologies nature (sustainability, security and
an integrative research culture, fully digital
performance, capacity driven backbone for AI controlled software-defined optical resilience, frugality…). In Orange, we think
and human, he is involved in the domains of
technology to a scalable, flexible software networks. He holds thirteen patents and the technology has to respond to needs
connectivity, infrastructure virtualization,
defined edge network technology. Open authored six book chapters and more of the society. Citizens, enterprises, public
IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Security and
and disaggregated optical line systems are than one hundred sixty peer-reviewed services and communities should have
Trust, with application domains such
being introduced in whitebox platforms publications. His research is aimed at a growing part of defining what comes
as digital personal life, digital societies
using software defined networking solving fundamental and real-world next. The economics, energy and more
(cities, agriculture, transport, health,
controls. The system complexity problems in communication networks, generally environmental impacts need to
industry…), digital enterprises and digital
required to handle the optical physical addressing interdisciplinary challenges guide the development of any large scale
emerging countries. Inspired by his interest
layer, however, remains an obstacle. for smart cities, sustainability, and digital technological effort. This leads to trade-
in natural sciences (biology, ecology,
The challenge for optical systems is to equity. offs between requirements, tradeoffs
geology) and his humanist vision, Nicolas
embrace a new roadmap that untangles that will need to be decided in the system
is passionate about ethics, sustainable
this complexity in order to achieve the design or to be left settable by operators
digital technology, and the evolution of our
and/or users when the technology is
complex physical and biological planet.
deployed. Therefore, we think it is essential
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2020 KEYNOTE 4 LIVE

6G: THE NEXT HORIZON

Wen Tong Chair: Filipe Cardoso (EUCNC2020 TPC

Co-Chair, Poly. Inst. Setubal, Portugal)
Huawei Fellow, CTO,

PANELS
Recommended re-viewing
Huawei Wireless, Huawei Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 14:30-15:15 CEST
Technologies, Canada Live interaction
Wednesday, 17 June, 15:15-15:30 CEST

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Abstract CV
Today, 5G becomes a reality as we have Dr. Wen Tong is the Huawei Fellow, CTO,
witnessed the global roll-out of 5G Huawei Wireless.
networks. The 5G deployment will realize Dr. Tong is the head of Huawei wireless
the vision of “connect of everything” and research. In 2011, He was appointed the
become the fundamental platform to Head of Communications Technologies
enable the digital transformation for every Labs of Huawei, currently, he is the
vertical business. Huawei 5G chief scientist, spearhead to
Next on the horizon, we see the lead Huawei’s 5G wireless technologies
emerging of 6G, 6G is believed to realize research and development.
“connected intelligence”, and solving Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, Dr. Tong
human challenges in many aspects. The was the Nortel Fellow and head of the
research community start to look into Network Technology Labs at Nortel. He
the vision and requirements to define the joined the Wireless Technology Labs at Bell
6G, the long term process for technology Northern Research in 1995 in Canada.
research, ecosystem alignment and global Dr. Tong was elected as a Huawei Fellow
standardization will continue to carry on and an IEEE Fellow. He was the recipient
for next 5 to 8 years, in this talk we share of IEEE Communications Society Industry
our perspective on the 6G evolution and its Innovation Award for “the leadership and
path. contributions in development of 3G and
We also present the earlier definition for 4G wireless systems” in 2014 and IEEE
6G and the view on enabling technologies. Communications Society Distinguished
The spectrum allocation opportunities and Industry Leader Award for “pioneering
envisioned timeline. We discuss the key technical contributions and leadership in
question regarding the applications and the mobile communications industry and
services which can be enabled by 6G. innovation in 5G mobile communications
technology” in 2018. He had pioneered
fundamental technologies from 1G to 5G
wireless with 440 granted US patents.
Dr. Tong is a Fellow of Canadian Academy
of Engineering, and he also serves as
Board of Director of WiFi Alliance.
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 TUESDAY,
16 JUNE PANEL 1 Demosthenes Ikonomou
2020
LIVE

CYBERSECURITY IN 5G,
Demosthenes Ikonomou, joined the European Union Agency for Cyber Security (ENISA) in 2008 and currently
holds the position Head of Operational Security Unit. He received his Masters of Science in Electronics and
Computer Sciences and his Ph.D. in applied sciences from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, in
INCLUDING VERTICALS 1992 and the Université catholiquue de Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL), Belgium, in 2002 respectively. Between 1996-
2008 he worked for DG Information Society & Media of the European Commission (now Communications
Networks, Content and Technology, CONNECT) mainly involved in the management of R&D projects in the
fields of wireless and personal communications as well as networked media.
Organizer: Recommended re-viewing
Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 10:45-11:30 CEST
Demosthenes Ikonomou
(Head of Operational Fabio Martinelli
Live interaction Fabio Martinelli is a research director of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) responsible for cyber
Security Unit, ENISA, EL) Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 11:30-12:15 CEST security activities. He is also member of the Italian Committee for Cyber Security Research and is the
co-chair of the Italian technological platform in homeland security (SERIT). His main research interests
involve security and privacy in distributed and mobile systems and foundations of security and trust. He
PROGRAMME manages R&D projects on information and communication security and in particular, he has been the
Project Coordinator of the EU Network on Cyber Security (NeCS) and of the Collaborative information
sharing and analytics for cyber protection (C3ISP) project. Since 2004, he is in the board of directors of
Motivation and Background 5. How to include external, private clouds from the international school on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design (FOSAD). He founded and chaired
the WG on Security and Trust management (STM) of the European Research Consortium in Informatics
5G is expected to bring important an end-to-end perspective? and Mathematics (ERCIM). He is currently chair of the WG 11.14 in secure engineering of the International
befits to the EU economy, as well as the 6. What is the role of certification in 5G Federation of Information Processing (IFIP). He chaired the WG3 on Research and Innovation of the Network
and Information Security (NIS) Platform promoted by the European Commission. He also serves as expert in
society, since it is designed to support Cybersecurity? the H2020 Protection and Security Advisory Group (PASAG) and acts as Vice Chairman of the Board of the
European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO).
applications and services that go well
beyond the typical mobile broadband Participants
communications. It is expected to support, The panel is composed of: John Hickey
John Hickey is a senior security engineer with Nokia. With over 30 year’s experience in the
and open new opportunities for, a number Moderator: Demosthenes Ikonomou, Head of telecommunications industry, John has been involved in both system engineering and system verification
of critical sectors of European economy Operational Security Unit, ENISA, EL of wireless access systems including GSM, WCDMA and LTE systems primarily. Today his focus is on
security of both fixed and wireless systems and particularly security assurance of 5G systems. John leads
such as energy, transport, health, etc - the • Panellist: Fabio Martinelli, Head of Research, the Nokia effort to align product security with global security assurance standards. He represents Nokia
so-called verticals. Security Group, IIT – CNR & vice-chair of at the GSMA security assurance forum (SECAG) and is currently deputy chairperson of that group. He
holds a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering degree (Honours) from the University of Limerick. He is a
In order for 5G to reach its full potential, European Cyber Security Organisation, IT Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2009.
cybersecurity plays a critical role, even if * Research challenges in cybersecurity
comes at a cost. considering the many applications
Rafał Jaczyński
The main objective of this panel is to domains of 5G Rafał Jaczyński serves as Huawei’s Regional Cyber Security Officer, with responsibility extending across 28
provide a forum for the exchange of views • Panellist: John Hickey, Security Engineer, countries, spanning the whole portfolio of Huawei products and services – from 5G to Internet of Things,
from Smart Cities to Artificial Intelligence, from things we can carry, to things we can drive.
on the cybersecurity challenges of 5G, not Nokia, IE For over 23 years of career in cyber security he has held diverse roles, including the CISO positions in
only from the perspective of 5G network * Threats and Security drivers, Layers of Vodafone, Orange and Staples companies. As the Director of PwC Cyber Security practice in Central and
Eastern Europe and one of PwC’s leaders within Global Cyber Security Centre of Excellence he advised top
operators and equipment vendors but Defence, Security assurance international enterprises operating in telecommunications, media, energy, e-commerce and financial sectors.
also from the perspective of the vertical • Panellist: Rafał Jaczyński, Regional Cyber
markets that are expected to benefit from Security Officer, Huawei, PL
the deployment of 5G technology. * Cybersecurity for things we can carry, to Mansoor Hanif
things we can drive ??? Mansoor Hanif is the Executive Director of Engineering in the Technology & Digital sector of NEOM.
In his role, Mansoor oversees the design and implementation of all of NEOM’s fixed, mobile, satellite
Questions • Panellist: Mansoor Hanif, Executive Director, and subsea networks. In addition, his team leads NEOM’s initiatives on emerging technologies such
as advanced robotics and human-machine interfaces. Mansoor has 26 years’ experience in planning,
1. How much does it cost and who is going Technology and Digital Infrastructure, Neom, KSA
building, optimising and operating mobile networks around the world. He was Director of Radio
to pay for Cybersecurity? * the world’s first Cognitive City Networks at EE from 2011 to 2016. During the acquisition of EE by BT, he led the EE network Integration
team. At BT, Mansoor was Director, from 2016 to 2018, of the Converged Networks Research Lab. From
2. Who/where is the weakest link? How to infrastructure, secured through 2018 to 2020, Mansoor was CTO at Ofcom the UK’s media and telecoms regulator, a role which included
reduce the attack surface? cybersecurity by design the responsibility to oversee the security and resilience of the UK networks.

3. Who will be liable? Operators and/or

clients?
4. Does the toolbox need to be extended or
adapted for private networks?
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2020
LIVE

OPENRAN, INCLUDING
Jorge Pereira has been with the European Commission since 1996, becoming Principal Scientific Officer
in 2005. He has been dealing with ICT, covering a broad variety of areas, with a focus on networking,

INTEROPERABILITY/INTERWORKING
devices, applications and services, testing and validation, as well as deployment. He is, since 2016, in
the area of Future Connectivity Systems, focusing on 5G and beyond, being responsible for the areas of

WITH VENDOR SOLUTION

Advanced Spectrum Management; optical-wireless convergence; Connected and Automated Mobility;
and Public Protection and Disaster Relief. He obtained the Engineering and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical
and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal in 1983 and 1987,
respectively, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Systems from the University of Southern California
Organizer: Recommended re-viewing (USC), Los Angeles, in 1993.

Jorge Pereira, Principal Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 14:30-15:15 CEST

Scientific Officer, European
Live interaction
Commission, BE
Tuesday, 16 June 2020, 15:15-16:00 CEST
Colin Willcock
PROGRAMME Colin Willcock graduated from the University of Sheffield, UK, with a B.Sc in Physics in 1986, an MSc. In
Astronomical Technology from the University of Edinburgh in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Parallel Computation
from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1992. Dr. Willcock joined Nokia in 1999, and is currently
Motivation and Background Questions Head of Radio Network Standardization. He has participated extensively in standardization activities
at ETSI, ITU-T and 3GPP, and also has extensive experience of European research having led a number
Quoting the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) 1. What early deployment/coexistence of European projects. Colin Willcock is currently the chairman of the board of the 5G Infrastructure
Association.
industry association, OpenRAN is an lessons can be learned?
initiative to define and build RAN solutions 2. Which requirements need to be fulfilled
based on a general-purpose vendor- in order to allow end-to-end “command-
neutral hardware and software-defined and-control”, namely by enabling slicing
technology. This will help operators cut across domains? Pedro Merino
Pedro Merino is professor at University of Malaga (UMA). His research interests are new generation
the cost of building mobile networks 3. How to maximize synergies between Internet, 5G networks and automated methods for software reliability. He has led more than 30 national
and international research projects, most of them in collaboration with industry. He leads a 4G/5G
by lowering the barriers to work with vendor equipment and the innovation
outdoor testbed at Malaga city. Pedro Merino was the chair of the ERCIM WG on Formal Methods for
new vendors and improving network brought about by the OpenRAN Industrial Critical Systems, and member of the Executive Committee of ERCIM. He represents University
of Malaga in Networld2020 ETP and 5G Industrial Association. Pedro Merino is coordinator of EuWirelss
economics. With vendor-neutral hardware, ecosystem? project, technical manager of 5GENESIS project and Director of ITIS Software at University of Malaga.
it will reduce the reliance on a small 4. How to use OpenRAN as a means to
number of vendors[, thus increasing secure the business chains, enlarge the
supply chain security,] by de-coupling ecosystem and achieve autonomy?
the hardware and software components Thomas Magedanz
of the network, and [will] decrease Participants Thomas Magedanz has been professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, leading the
chair for next generation networks (www.av.tu-berlin.de) since 2004. In addition, since 2003 he has
the expenditure incurred on network The panel is composed of: been Director of the Business Unit Software-based Networks (NGNI) at the Fraunhofer Institute for
infrastructure. • Chair: Jorge Pereira (Moderator) Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in Berlin. For more than 30 years, he has been working in the
convergence field of telecommunications, Internet and information technologies. He created many
OpenRAN – together with OpenCore – (Principal Scientific Officer, European internationally recognized prototype implementations of global telecommunications standards that
is expected to speed up of 5G network Commission, BE) provide the foundations for the efficient development of various open technology testbeds around the
globe. His current interest is in software-based 5G networks for different verticals, with a strong focus
development through its open architecture • Colin Willcock (Head of Radio Network on edge computing, network slicing, and private industrial networks.
by allowing for more innovative solutions, Standardization, Nokia, DE)
in particular those targeting verticals and • Pedro Merino (Department of Computer
private networks in general. For all that, Sciences and Languages, Univ. Malaga,
the interworking with public systems, and ES) Uwe Herzog
namely with vendor solutions, is essential. • Thomas Magedanz (TU Berlin/ Uwe Herzog is Programme Manager at Eurescom. He has more than 25 years of professional experience.
Uwe has been involved in a number of EC research projects as project coordinator, work-package leader
In this panel, we will discuss the challenges Fraunhofer FOKUS, DE ) and in other roles, including projects such as WINNER, SPEED-5G, ORPHEUS, 5G EVE, To-Euro-5G
and opportunities of OpenRAN and the • Uwe Herzog (Programme Manager, and Full5G. Currently he is coordinator of the 5G PPP INSPIRE-5Gplus project that will advance the 5G
and beyond security vision by progressing 5G Security. Uwe has several roles in the organization and
way forward in terms of facilitating Eurescom, DE ) operation of 5G PPP and NetWorld2020 ETP.
deployment of 5G in a variety of scenarios, Uwe has been evaluator in the FP7 and H2020 in the area of Future Networks and SME-Instrument on
Open Disruptive Innovation. Uwe holds a M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of
especially in a post-COVID recovery Chemnitz, Germany, and an MBA from the University of Mannheim and ESSEC Business School Paris.
context.
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2020
LIVE
Markus Dillinger received his Diplom-Ing. degree in telecommunications in 1990 from the University of

5G FOR VERTICALS: BUILDING

Kaiserslautern, Germany. In 2010, he joined Huawei Germany and was director for enterprise solutions
for smart grid. In 2013, he moved to Huawei European Research Centre as Head of Wireless Internet

AND EXPLOITING SYNERGIES

Technologies where he runs private and public R&D programmes for e.g. car-to-car and automation
supporting 3GPP standardization and normative work for the vertical industry. He was the initiator of
5GAA and leads the Munich team for their technical contributions to Working Groups in 3GPP / 5GAA.
In September 2016, he was appointed as Executive Committee member for the 5GAA and re-assigned in
following years.
Organizer: Recommended re-viewing
Markus Dillinger, Director for Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 10:45-11:30 CEST
5G Industry Communications, Live interaction Alicia Fuentes
Alicia Fuentes is a serial entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience leading innovation projects in the
Huawei, DE Wednesday, 17 June 2020, 11:30-12:15 CEST tech sector. She is currently the CEO of Quaternium, a pioneer European drone manufacturer, selected as
PROGRAMME one of the 10 most innovative drone startups in the world. Quaternium Technologies provides state-of-
the-art aerial solutions in the fields of agriculture, first response and aerial filming. Under her leadership,
Quaternium has grown over 100% and it has achieved two World Records of performance, positioning as
the leader in its niche.
Motivation and Background implementation concerns and barriers, with
5G is the first wireless generation a view towards using Verticals and 5G to
conceived with and for Verticals! accelerate the recovery after the COVID-19 Luisa Andreone
Various industry organizations, as crisis. Luisa Andreone is Member of the Advanced Technology & Pre-Development Programs Collaboration &
Network in FCA Product Development, coordinating collaborative projects on “Vehicle Automation &
well as 5G PPP H2020 research and Connectivity”: she is currently working as FCA-CRF reference for public funded activities on connected
innovation projects, were established Questions vehicle technologies, vehicle automation and human machine interface. Her expertise includes the design
and development of collision prevention systems, connected services and HMI solutions for vehicles. She
over the last years to elicit vertical use 1. What are the lessons learnt from trials or coordinated the European co-funded projects DARWIN, EUCLIDE, EDEL, WATCH-OVER. Today she is
Member of the Steering Committee of the European co-funded projects L3Pilot on vehicle automation
cases requirements and develop first early 5G deployments?
testing and leader of the piloting tests. She is leader of the EUCAR Expert Group “Driver Vehicle Dialogue”,
5G solutions addressing a number of 2. Which requirements are not yet addressed deputy leader of the EUCAR Expert Group “Automation” and Member of the Strategy Committee of ERTICO
ITS Europe.
verticals. The requirements from Verticals in 5G testbeds, products and 3GPP R15
are now partly addressed in 3GPP and R16?
releases 15 and 16 and we expect future 3. How to maximize synergies between Adam Wolisz
Adam Wolisz received the Diploma, Ph.D., and Habilitation degrees from the Silesian University of
requirements will be addressed beyond vertical sectors? Technology, Gliwice, in 1972, 1976, and 1983, respectively. He joined the Technical University of Berlin in
R16. In parallel, many 5G trials, both 4. How to accelerate the use of 5G in vertical 1993 as Chaired Professor for telecommunication networks (1993-2018) and became Executive Director
with the Institute for Telecommunication Systems (2001-2018). He has also been Adjunct Professor
EU-funded and private, were launched sectors? with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
(2005-2017). Since 2018, he is retired professor at TU Berlin and Fellow of the Einstein Center Digital
to better understand benefits and 5. How can we use 5G and the Verticals
Future. His research interests are in architectures and protocols of communication networks and their
shortcomings of current 5G technology. to accelerate the recovery after the applications, as well as cyber physical systems.

The major concern from stakeholders is COVID-19 crisis?

that highly specialized 5G requirements Andreas Mueller
might prevent economy of scale in terms Participants Andreas Mueller is the Head of Communication and Network Technology in the Corporate Research
Department of Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany and coordinates the 5G activities of Bosch in
of 5G terminals and infrastructure, leading The panel is composed of: the context of Industry 4.0 across the different business units. He also serves as Chairman of the Board
to high R&D, product engineering, capital • Chair: Markus Dillinger (Director for 5G of the “5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation” (5G-ACIA. Prior to joining Bosch, Andreas
was a Research Staff Member at the Institute of Telecommunications of the University of Stuttgart,
and operational costs, resulting in a poor Industry Communications, Huawei, DE) Germany. He worked as a Systems Engineer for Rohde & Schwarz, developing a novel software-defined
business case for all and much slower • Alicia Fuentes (CEO, QUATERNIUM, ES) radio based communication system for the German Armed Forces. Andreas holds a German Diploma
degree as well as a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (with distinction) and an M.Sc. degree in
rates of adoption. Hence, our aim must be • Luisa Andreone (FCA Product Information Technology, all from the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
to bring together highly specialized sectors Development, FCA, IT )
and to maximize common requirements • Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin & Fellow of Luís Cordeiro
for research, standardization and Einstein Center for the Digital Future, DE) Luis Cordeiro is a Senior Researcher and Product System Architect at OneSource. He has been actively
involved in European and national research projects (e.g. FP7 LiveCity, FP7 CityFlow, FP7 SALUS, FP7
product development. In this panel, we • Andreas Mueller (Head of Communication Mobile Cloud Networking, H2020 EMPATIA, Eureka Catrene Mobitrust, P2020 Mobilizador 5G). He
address namely Agriculture, Automotive, and Network Technology, Corporate also led several software development and systems integration projects, as well as large-scale security
certifications processes. Since 2012, he has been leading the development of a Public Protection and
eHealth, Industry 4.0 and PPDR, whilst Research Department, Robert Bosch Disaster Recovery (PPDR) situational awareness platform that has been tackling the limitations of
identifying common R&D areas and GmbH, DE) mobile communications for critical scenarios. Since 2018, he has been working on the integration of this
platform with 5G and evaluating how this new communications paradigm can successfully address the
feature requirements, as well as major • Luís Cordeiro (CTO, OneSource, PT ) current limitations.

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REGULAR & POSTER

LIVE

10:00 - 10:30 PROGRAMME

OPENING SESSION
EUCNC 2020 Pearse O’Donohue
Vlatko Lipovac (Chair) EuCNC 2020 General Chair and Director
EuCNC 2020 Host and TPC Chair, U. for the Future Networks, DG CONNECT,
Dubrovnik, Croatia EC, Belgium
Welcome and Organisational issues Smart Networks – enabling the digital and
the green transformations
Filipe Cardoso

SESSIONS
EUCNC2020 TPC Co-Chair, Poly. Inst.
Setubal, Portugal
Technical Program aspects

12:15 - 16:45 PROGRAMME The Isolation Concept in the 5G Network

NET1: NETWORK SLICING Slicing
Andres J Gonzalez (Telenor Research,
FOR INNOVATIVE BEYOND 5G
Norway); Jose Ordonez-Lucena (Telefonica
APPLICATIONS I+D, Spain); Bjarne E. Helvik (NTNU -
Norwegian University of Science and
Achieving Network Slice Communication
Technology, Norway); Gianfranco Nencioni
Service Distribution Across 5G Micro-
(University of Stavanger, Norway); Min
Operator Multi-tenants
Xie (Telenor Research & Telenor Group,
Idris Badmus (Centre for Wireless
Norway); Diego Lopez (Telefonica I+D,
Commmunications, University of Oulu,
Spain); Pål R. Grønsund (Telenor &
Finland); Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi
University of Oslo, Norway)
(Centre for Wireless Communications,
University of Oulu, Finland); Ari T. Pouttu
5Growth: AI-driven 5G for Automation in
(Centre for Wireless Communications
Vertical Industries
University of Oulu, Finland)
Chrysa Papagianni (Nokia Bell Labs,
Belgium); Josep Mangues-Bafalluy
SLA Management Procedures in 5G Slicing-
(Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions
based Systems
de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain); Pedro
Apostolos Papageorgiou (Nokia,
Bermudez (Telcaria, Spain); Sokratis
Germany); Adriana Fernández-Fernández
Barmpounakis (University of Athens,
(Fundació i2CAT, Spain); Leonardo Ochoa-
Greece); Danny De Vleeschauwer (Nokia,
Aday (Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació
Belgium); Juan Brenes (Nextworks, Italy);
Digital a Catalunya, Spain); Miguel
Engin Zeydan (Centre Tecnològic de
Silva Peláez (Fundació i2CAT, Spain);
Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC),
Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui (Fundació
Spain); Claudio E. Casetti (Politecnico
i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a
di Torino, Italy); Carlos Guimarães
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(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Aitor Zabala A Low-Overhead Hierarchical Beam-
Pablo Murillo (Telcaria, Spain); Andres Jesus Alonso-Zarate (Centre Tecnologic (Telcaria Ideas, Spain); Pablo Serrano and tracking Algorithm for THz Wireless
Garcia-Saavedra (NEC Labs Europe, de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya - Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Systems
Germany); Daniel Corujo (Instituto CTTC, Spain); Apostolos Papageorgiou Madrid, Spain) Giorgos Stratidakis (University of Piraeus,
deTelecomunicações Aveiro & Universidade (Nokia, Germany); Miguel Catalan-Cid Greece); Georgia D. Ntouni (Intracom
de Aveiro, Portugal); Teresa Pepe (i2CAT Foundation, Spain); F Moscatelli Telecom, Greece); Alexandros-Apostolos A
(Ericsson, Italy) and Giada Landi (Nextworks, Italy);
PROGRAMME
Boulogeorgos (University of Piraeus,
Xavi Vilajosana, Andrea Bartoli and PHY1: EMERGING ASPECTS ON Greece); Dimitrios S. Kritharidis (Intracom
5G Network Slice Brokering: A Distributed Denis Guilhot (Worldsensing, Spain); PROPAGATION FOR WIRELESS Telecom, Greece); Angeliki Alexiou
Blockchain-based Market Soumya Kanti Datta and Jérôme Härri APPLICATIONS (Universityof Piraeus, Greece)
Nima Afraz (CONNECT Center, Trinity (EURECOM, France); Rodrigo Silva (PSA,
College Dublin, Ireland); Marco Ruffini France); Laurent Dizambourg and Antonio A Model for Off-Body Propagation Channels A Comparison of Stochastic and
(CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Fernández (PSA, Spain); Maciej in Indoor Scenarios at mmWaves Deterministic Channel Models for V2V
Muehleisen (Ericsson GmbH, Germany) Kryštof Zeman (Brno University of Applications
Technology, Czech Republic); Kenan Turbic Nils Dreyer (TU Braunschweig, Germany);
Cross-domain Slice Orchestration for (INESC-ID / IST, University of Lisbon, Thomas Kürner (Technische Universität
OPE1: OPERATIONAL & PROGRAMME
Advanced Vertical Trials in a Multi-Vendor Portugal); Jiri Hosek (Brno University Braunschweig, Germany)
EXPERIMENTAL INSIGHTS #1 5G Facility of Technology, Czech Republic); Luis M.
Jose Ordonez-Lucena (Telefonica I+D, Correia (IST/INESC-ID - University of D-band Point to Multi-Point Deployment
The LSA Based Spectrum Sharing Solution with G-Band Transport
Spain); Christos Tranoris (University of Lisbon & INESC, Portugal)
for Wireless Research Networks Utilizing Claudio Paoloni (Lancaster University,
Patras, Greece); Joao Antonio Pereira
Commercial MNO Networks United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Viktor
Rodrigues (Nokia, Portugal); Luis M. Measurements and Ray Tracing
Mika Hoppari (VTT, Finland); Ilkka S. Krozer (Goethe University of Frankfurt
Contreras (Telefonica, Spain) Simulations: Impact of Different Antenna
Harjula and Jarno E. Pinola (VTT Technical am Main, Germany); François Magne
Positions on Meeting Room Coverage at 60
Research Centre of Finland, Finland) (WHEN-AB & SARL, France); Quang Trung
Validation of IaaS-based Technologies GHz
for 5G-Ready Applications Deployment Muhammad Usman Sheikh, Kalle Ruttik, Le (HF Systems Engineering GmbH & Co.
5GCroCo Barcelona Trial Site for Cross- KG, Germany); Rupa Basu, Jeevan Rao
Roberto Bruschi (CNIT, Italy); Franco Riku Jäntti and Jyri Hämäläinen (Aalto
border Anticipated Cooperative Collision and Rosa Letizia (Lancaster University,
R. Davoli (University of Genoa & University, Finland)
Avoidance United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ernesto
National Inter-University Consortium
Raul Muñoz (Centre Tecnològic de Limiti (University of Rome Tor Vergata,
for Telecommunications (CNIT), Italy); Effect of Plastering Mesh on Radio Signals:
Telecomunicacions de Catalunya Italy); Marc Marilier (OMMIC, France);
Fernando Diaz (ATOS, Spain); Chiara Modelling and Practical Measurements
(CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Francisco Giacomo Ulisse (Johann Wolfgang
Lombardo (University of Genoa & CNIT- Ari Asp and Jussa Pikkuvirta (Tampere
Vázquez-Gallego (Centre Tecnològic de Goethe-Universität, Germany); Antonio
Research Unit of the University of Genoa, University, Finland); Arto Hujanen (VTT
Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Ramirez (Fibernova Systems, Spain);
Italy); Sergio Mangialardi and Jane Technical Research Centre of Finland,
Spain); Ramon Casellas and Ricard Vilalta Borja Vidal (Universidad Politecnica de
Frances Pajo (University of Genoa, Italy) Finland); Ismo Huhtinen (VTT, Finland);
(Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions Valencia, Spain); Hadi Yacob (9 Ferdinand-
Mikko Valkama (Tampere University,
de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA), Spain); Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut für
A Monitoring Framework for Multi-Site 5G Finland)
Roshan Sedar (Centre Tecnològic de Höchstfrequenztechnik, Germany)
Platforms
Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC),
Ramon Perez (Telcaria Ideas, Spain);
Spain); Pol Alemany and Ricardo Martinez
Jaime Garcia-Reinoso (Universidad
(Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions
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POS1: POSTER SESSION 1 PROGRAMME of Frankfurt am Main, Germany); Quang Netherlands); Sonia Heemstra de Groot RAS1: RADIO ACCESS
Trung Le (HF Systems Engineering GmbH (Eindhoven Technical University, The AND SOFTWARISATION
Experimental Assessment of & Co. KG, Germany); Rupa Basu, Jeevan Netherlands)
PROGRAMME

Electromagnetic Fields in a Commercial 5G Rao and Rosa Letizia (Lancaster University,

Network United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Ernesto 5G-CLARITY: Integrating 5GNR, WiFi Resource Allocation for a Reliable D2D
Chrysanthi Chountala, Jean Marc Limiti (University of Rome Tor Vergata, and LiFi in Private Networks with Slicing Enabled Cellular Network in Factories of
Chareau, Pravir K Chawdhry, Philippe Italy); François Magne (WHEN-AB & SARL, Support the Future
Viaud, James Bishop and Tiziano P Pinato France); Marc Marilier (OMMIC, France); Daniel Camps (i2CAT, Spain); Mir Idayat Sanusi (University of Greenwich,
(European Commission - Joint Research Giacomo Ulisse (Johann Wolfgang Goethe- Ghoraishi (Gigasys Solutions, United United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Karim M.
Centre, Italy) Universität, Germany); Hadi Yacob (9 Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jesús Gutiérrez Nasr (University of Greenwich & University
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut (IHP - of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great
CRAN Option 7-3 Splitting: A Novel für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Germany); Borja Leibniz-Institut für Innovative Britain)); Klaus Moessner (University of
Comparative Real-time Study Vidal (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Mikroelektronik, Germany); Jose Ordonez- Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Shahriar Basiri (Sharif University of Spain); Roberto Llorente (Universitat Lucena (Telefonica I+D, Spain); Tezcan
Technology, Iran); Azad Ravanshid Politècnica de València, Spain); Claudio Cogalan QoS-Aware Spectrum Sharing for D2D
(NOMOR, Germany); Babak Hossein Paoloni (Lancaster University, United (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Communication in Cellular Networks
Khalaj (Sharif Kingdom (Great Britain)) (Great Britain)); Harald Haas (The Abubaker Matovu Waswa (Technische
University of Technology, Iran) University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Universität Ilmenau, Germany); Stephen S.
Inter-Numerology Interference in Filtered- (Great Mwanje (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany); Jens
Data-driven UAV Trajectory Optimization OFDM Waveforms Mueckenheim (University of Applied
Britain)); Antonio Garcia (Accelleran,
Hajar El Hammouti (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); Chrysanthi Chountala (European Sciences Merseburg, Germany); Andreas
Belgium); Vladica Sark (IHP - Leibniz-
Abdulkadir Celik (King Abdullah University Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy); Mitschele-Thiel (Ilmenau University of
Institut für Innovative Mikroelektronik,
of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia); Jean Marc Chareau and James Bishop Technology, Germany)
Germany);
Basem Shihada (KAUST, Saudi Arabia); (Joint Erik Aumayr and Sven van der Meer
Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah Research Centre of the European 5G-RANGE: A Transceiver for Remote Areas
(Ericsson, Ireland); Shuangyi Yan
University of Science and Technology Commission, Italy); Fausto Bonavitacola Based on Software-Defined Radio
(University of Bristol, United Kingdom
(KAUST), Saudi Arabia) (Fincons Italia S.p.A., Milan, Italy) Wheberth Damascena Dias, Alexandre
(Great Britain));
Alain Abdel-Majid Mourad (Interdigital Ferreira, Roberto Kagami, Juliano Silveira
5GCroCo Use Cases and Key Performance Autonomous Vehicles Impact on 5G Network Ferreira, Daniely Gomes Silva and Luciano
Europe Ltd, United Kingdom (Great
Indicators for Cross-border Trials Base Station Inter-Site Distance Leonel Mendes (Inatel, Brazil)
Britain)); Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa
Dirk Hetzer (T-Systems, Germany); Maciej António Serrador (Polytechnic Institute of (University of
Muehleisen (Ericsson GmbH, Germany); Lisbon & ISEL, Portugal); Grazielle Bonaldi On the Impact of Normalized Interference
Granada, Spain); Jordi Pérez-Romero
Apostolos Kousaridas (Huawei Teixeira (Lisbon High Institute of Threshold for Topological Interference
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Technologies, Germany); Jesus Alonso-Zarate Engineering - ISEL, Portugal); Mirtes Lima Management
(UPC), Spain); Miguel Granda (BOSCH,
(Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de and Rafael Fernandes (ISEL, Portugal) Hassan Kallam (Université de Lyon &
Spain); Rui Bian (University of Edinburgh,
Catalunya - CTTC, Spain) INRIA, INSA Lyon, CITI-INRIA, France);
United Kingdom (Great Britain))
MAC-agnostic Swarm-Based Directional Leonardo S. Cardoso (Université de Lyon &
D-band Point to Multipoint Wireless Testbed Antenna Control for Wireless Sensor INRIA, INSA-Lyon, CITI-INRIA, France);
Joint 5G-LTE-WiFi Prototyping Platform for
Antonio Ramirez (Fibernova Systems, Networks Jean-Marie Gorce (INSA-Lyon & CITI, Inria,
RAT Interworking Experiments
Spain); Viktor Krozer (Goethe University Tim van der Lee and George Exarchakos France)
Walter Nitzold and Clemens Felber
(Eindhoven University of Technology, The (National Instruments, Germany)
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Unsupervised Learning for Detection of Consideration on Data Conformance Hierarchical Blockchain Topologies for Cooperative Interference Avoidance
Mobility Related Anomalies in Commercial Toward Building Trust in Supply Chain Quality Control in Food Supply Chains Scheduler for Radio Resource Management
LTE Networks Yuto Nakano (KDDI Research, Inc., Spyros Voulgaris (Athens University of in NB-IoT Systems
Jessica Moysen (Elisa Oyj, Finland & Japan); Toru Nakamura (Advanced Economics and Business, Greece); Nikos Collins Burton Mwakwata and Muhammad
Fundaciò i2CAT, Spain); Furqan Ahmed Telecommunications Research Institute Fotiou (Mobile Multimedia Lab, Athens Mahtab Alam (Tallinn University of
(Elisa Corporation, Finland); Mario International, University of Economics and Business, Technology, Estonia); Yannick Le Moullec
Garcia-Lozano (Universitat Politècnica de Japan); Yasuaki Kobayashi and Masahito Greece); Vasilios A. Siris and George C. (Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech),
Catalunya, Spain); Jarno Niemelä (Elisa Ishizaka (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan); Polyzos (Athens University of Economics Estonia); Hassan Malik (Tallinn University
Corporation, Finland) Masayuki Hashimoto (Advanced and of Technology, Estonia); Sven Pärand (Telia
Telecommunications Research Institute Business, Greece); Artemios Tomaras and Estonia Ltd, Estonia)
Outage Prediction for URLLC in Rayleigh International, Japan); Hiroyuki Yokoyama Sotiris Karachontzitis (Synelixis Solutions
Fading (ATR, Japan); Yutaka Miyake (KDDI Ltd., Greece) Alternating Transmission of Packets in Dual
Andreas Traßl (Technische Universität Research, Inc., Japan); Shinsaku Kiyomoto Connectivity for Periodic Deterministic
Dresden & Centre for Tactile Internet with (Information Security Laboratory, KDDI 5G Ecosystem Dilemmas: Sharing Roles and Communication Utilising Survival Time
Human-in-the-Loop, Germany); Lucas Research Inc., Japan) Revenues Jens Gebert and Andreas Wich (Nokia Bell
Scheuvens (TU Dresden, Germany); Tom Costas Kalogiros (Athens University of Labs, Germany)
Hößler (TU Dresden & Barkhausen Institut, The CARAMEL Project: a Secure Economics and Business, Greece); Hanne
Germany); Eva Schmitt (TU Dresden, Architecture for Connected and Autonomous Kristine Hallingby (Telenor, Norway); Olai- The Sampling Period Estimation Based
Germany); Norman Franchi and Gerhard P. Vehicles Bendik Erdal (Telenor Research and Adaptive Sampling Algorithm for a Self-
Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Christian Vitale (KIOS CoE, Cyprus); Nikos Innovation, Norway) sustainable Disaster Monitoring System
Germany) Piperigkos (University of Patras, Greece); Changmin Lee and Seong-Lyun Kim
Christos Laoudias and Georgios Ellinas (Yonsei University, Korea (South))
(University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Jordi
Casademont (Technical University of LOCUS: Localization and Analytics On-
Catalonia (UPC), Spain); Pouria Sayyad Demand Embedded in the 5G Ecosystem
VAP1: IOT SECURITY PROGRAMME Khodashenas (i2CAT Foundation (i2CAT), VAP2: IOT SERVICES AND PROGRAMME
Nicola Blefari-Melazzi (University of
AND 5G ECOMOMY Spain); Andreas Kloukiniotis, Aris S. Lalos PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy); Stefania
Design and Implementation of IoT DDoS and Konstantinos Moustakas (University Bartoletti (National Research Council
Accurate Narrowband LPWA Ranging:
Attacks Detection System Based on of Patras, Greece); Pablo Barrientos of Italy (IEIITCNR), Italy); Luca
Principles, Performance in AWGN and
Machine Learning Lobato (Atos IT Solutions and Services Chiaraviglio (University of Rome Tor
Multipath Channels
Yi-wen Chen and Jang-Ping Sheu Iberia, Spain); Javier Moreno Castillo Vergata, Italy); Flavio Morselli (ENDIF
Florian Wolf (CEA Grenoble & University
(National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan); (FICOSA, Spain); Petros Kapsalas University of Ferrara, Italy); Eduardo
of Limoges, France); Sébastien de Rivaz
Yung Ching Kuo (National TsingHua (Panasonic Automotive, Germany); Klaus- Baena (Universidad de Málaga, Spain);
(CEA-LETI, France); Francois Dehmas
University, Taiwan); Nguyen Van Cuong Peter Hofmann (T-Systems Enterprise Giacomo Bernini (Nextworks, Italy);
(CEALeti Minatec, France); Valérian
(National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Services GmbH, Germany) Domenico Giustiniano (IMDEA Networks
Mannoni (CEA, France); Vincent Berg
Institute, Spain); Mythri Hunukumbure
(CEA LETI, France); Jean Pierre Cances
(Samsung Electronics, United Kingdom
(University of Limoges, France)
(Great Britain)); Gürkan Solmaz (NEC
Laboratories Europe, Germany);
Konstantinos Tsagkaris (Incelligent,
Greece)
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2020 2020

Self-Calibrated UWB Based Device-Free Machine-Learning Based Traffic Forecasting 12:15 - 15:15 PROGRAMME PROGRAMME

Indoor Localization and Activity Detection for Resource Management in C-RAN NET2: VIRTUALISATION, NET3: SOFTWARE-BASED AND
Approach Rolando Guerra-Gómez (Universitat CLOUD, AND CONVERGENCE SELF-DRIVING NETWORKS
Klemen Bregar and Andrej Hrovat (Jožef Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain);
Stefan Institute, Slovenia); Mihael Silvia Ruiz Boqué (UPC, Spain); Mario Dynamic Provisioning of Network Services Learning SDN Traffic Flow Accurate Models
Mohorcic (Jozef Stefan Institute & Jozef Garcia-Lozano (Universitat Politècnica on Heterogeneous Resources to Enable Queue Bandwidth Dynamic
Stefan de Catalunya, Spain); Joan Olmos Hadi Razzaghi Kouchaksaraei (Paderborn Optimization
International Postgraduate School, (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, University, Germany); Ashwin Prasad Enrico Reticcioli, Giovanni Domenico Di
Slovenia); Tomaz Javornik (Jozef Stefan Spain) Shivarpatna Venkatesh (University of Girolamo, Francesco Smarra, Alessio
Institute, Slovenia) Paderborn, Germany); Amay Churi (Universität Carmenini and Alessandro D’Innocenzo
Real-Time Demonstration of ARoF Fronthaul Paderborn, Germany); Marvin Illian and Holger (University of L’Aquila, Italy); Fabio Graziosi
for High-Bandwidth mm-Wave 5G NR Signal Karl (Paderborn University, Germany) (University of l’Aquila, Italy)
Transmission over Multi-Core
WOS1: 5G NR Fiber Orchestrating Edge- AndCloud-based A Real-time QoS-Demand-Aware
AND BEYOND PROGRAMME Simon Rommel and Bruno Cimoli Predictive Analytics Services Venkatarami Computational Resource Sharing Approach
(Eindhoven University of Technology, The Reddy Chintapalli (IIT Hyderabad, India); in C-RAN
Multi-antenna Multi-user Clustering for Relay
Netherlands); Evangelos Grivas (Eulambia, Koteswararao Kondepu (Sculoa Superiore Mojgan Barahman and Luis M. Correia
Aided Cellular Massive-MIMO Systems
Greece); Delphin Dodane (Thales Research Sant’Anna, Italy); Andrea Sgambelluri (Scuola (INESC-ID / INOV / IST, University of Lisbon);
Ghadir Mostafa (The German University
and Technology, France); Alvaro Morales Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, Italy); Antony Lúcio Studer Ferreira (ISTEC / ULHT
in Cairo, Egypt); Engy Aly Maher (German Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology
(Eindhoven University of Technology, COPELABS / INESC-ID,Lisbon)
University in Cairo, Egypt); Ahmed E. El- Hyderabad, India); Bheemarjuna Reddy
Mahdy (The German University in Cairo, The Netherlands); Evangelos Pikasis
Tamma (IIT Hyderabad, India); Piero Castoldi Predicting Bandwidth Utilization on
Egypt) (Eulambia Advanced Technologies Ltd,
and Luca Valcarenghi (Scuola Superiore Network Links Using Machine Learning
Greece); Jerome Bourderionnet (Theales
Sant’Anna, Italy) Maxime Labonne (CEA LIST & Institut
A Study on a New Type of DDoS Attack Research and Technology, France);
Gilles Feugnet (Thales Research and Polytechnique de Paris, France);
Against 5G Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Transparent 3rd-Party Authentication with
Technology, France); Juliana Barros Charalampos Chatzinakis (Communicating
Communications Application Mobility for 5G Mobile Edge
Carvalho (Institute for Photonic Systems Laboratory CEA, France); Alexis
Cheng-Yeh Chen, Guo-Liang Hung Computing
Integration & Eindhoven University of Olivereau (CEA, LIST, France)
and Hung-Yun Hsieh (National Taiwan Asad Ali, Ying-Dar Lin and Chi-Yu
University, Taiwan) Technology, The Netherlands); Michail
Li (National Chiao Tung University, Fair Share of Latency in Inter-Data-Center
Katsikis (Intracom Telecom, Greece);
Taiwan); Yuan-Cheng Lai (Information Backbone Networks
Synchronization in 5G: a Bayesian Approach Konstantinos Ntontin (University of
Management, NTUST, Taiwan) Nitin Varyani and Zhi-Li Zhang (University of
Meysam Goodarzi (Humboldt University of Barcelona, Spain); Dimitrios S. Kritharidis
Minnesota, USA)
Berlin & IHP - Leibniz-Institut für Innovative (Intracom Telecom, Greece); Izabela
Software Defined Networking in a
Mikroelektronik, Germany); Darko Spaleniak and Paul Mitchell (Optoscribe,
Converged 5G Fiber-Wireless Network AI-driven Zero-touch Operations, Security
Cvetkovski (Humboldt University of Berlin, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mykhaylo
Nikos Psaromanolakis, Athina Ropodi and Trust in Multi-operator 5G Networks: a
Germany); Nebojsa Maletic and Jesús Dubov (Aston University, United Kingdom
and Pavlos Fragkogiannis (Incelligent PC, Conceptual Architecture
Gutiérrez (IHP - Leibniz-Institut für (Great Britain)); Idelfonso Tafur Monroy
Greece); Kostas Tsagkaris (Incelligent, Gino Carrozzo (Nextworks, Italy);
Innovative Mikroelektronik, Germany); (Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Greece); Luiz Anet Neto, Anas El Ankouri Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui (Fundació
Eckhard Grass (IHP & Humboldt-University Netherlands)
and Minqi Wang (Orange Labs, France); i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a
Berlin, Germany) Gael Simon (Orange, France); Philippe Catalunya, Spain); August Betzler (i2CAT
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2020 2020

Foundation, Spain); Jose Bonnet (Altice Exploiting and Evaluating Live 360 Low Enhanced Bit-to-Symbol Mapping for M-ary POS2: POSTER
Labs, Portugal); Gregorio Martinez Perez Latency Video Streaming Using CMAF θ-QAM SESSION 2 PROGRAMME

(University of Murcia, Spain); Aurora Ramos Mikko Uitto (VTT Technical Research Seongjin Ahn, Hyeonho Seo and
(Atos, Spain); Tejas Subramanya (University Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland); Antti Dongweon Yoon (Hanyang University, Edge Cloud Based Platform for Smart Parking
of Trento & FBK CREATE-NET, Italy). Heikkinen (VTT Technical Research Centre Korea (South)) Naila Bouchemal (ECE Paris, France)
of Finland, Finland)
Experimental Assessment of Modulation 5G Ecosystem: The 3 Combined Critical
Formats for Beyond 5G mm-Wave ARoF Requirements, Maximum Network Lifetime,
OPE2: OPERATIONAL & PROGRAMME
Full Coverage and Connectivity Based
Systems
EXPERIMENTAL INSIGHTS #2 Javier Perez Santacruz, Alvaro Morales, Wireless Sensor Networks Communication
PHY2: EMERGING PROGRAMME
Amal Chaffai (Universidad Politecnica de
Experiences from Building a Multi-Access Simon Rommel and Ulf Johannsen
Edge Computing Internet of Things Testbed
TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUES Valencia, Spain)
(Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Alex Mavromatis and Dimitra Simeonidou FOR NEXT GENERATION Netherlands); Antonio Jurado Navas
(University of Bristol, United Kingdom WIRELESS COMMUNICATION (University of Málaga, Spain); Idelfonso 5G-SOLUTIONS Analysis of Living Labs and
(Great Britain)) SYSTEMS Tafur Monroy (Eindhoven University of KPIs Definition Methodology
Technology, The Netherlands) Ioannis Markopoulos (FORTHNET, Greece);
AI-Driven Closed-Loop Service Assurance EXIT Chart Analysis of Cooperative Non- Andrea Di Giglio (Telecom Italia, Italy);
with Service Exposures Orthogonal Multiple Access for Next Baruch Altman (LiveU, Israel); Håkon
Min Xie (Telenor Research & Telenor Group, Generation Wireless Communication Lønsethagen (Telenor Research,
Norway); Joan Pujol-Roig (Samsung Systems Norway); Christos Verikoukis (CTTC
Electronics, United Kingdom (Great Zeyad Elsaraf, Abbas Ahmed, Faheem PHY3: EMERGING PROGRAMME & UB, Spain); Angelos Antonopoulos
Britain)); Foivos Michelinakis (Simula A. Khan and Qasim Zeeshan Ahmed CODING TECHNIQUES FOR 5G (Telecommunications Technological Centre
Metropolitan, Norway); Thomas Dreibholz (University of Huddersfield, United of Catalonia (CTTC), Spain); Silvia Canale
Kingdom Low Latency Decoder for Short Blocklength
(Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital (Applied Research to Technologies, Italy);
(Great Britain)) Polar Codes
Engineering, Guerrero (University Carlos III Matteo Grandi (IRIS Technology Solutions,
Heshani Gamage, Vismika Ranasinghe,
of Madrid, Spain); Adrián Gallego Sánchez Spain); Sofiane Zemouri (IIX, IBM, Ireland)
Feedback Enhancements for Semi- Nandana Rajatheva and Matti Latva-aho
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
Persistent Downlink Transmissions in Ultra- (University of Oulu, Finland)
Spain); Wint Yi Poe (Huawei Technologies - Non-linear Regression of Delay Percentiles
European Research Center, Germany); Yue Reliable Low-Latency Communication in PONs Using Machine Learning Techniques
Trung-Kien Le (EURECOM, France); Umer Finite Blocklength Analysis of Coded
Wang (Samsung Electronics, USA); José Alberto Hernández (Universidad
Salim (TCL, France); Florian Kaltenberger Modulation for Block Fading Channels with
Ahmed Mustafa Elmokashfi (Simula Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Amin
(Eurecom, France) Linear Precoding
Research Laboratory, Norway) Ebrahimzadeh (INRS, Canada); Martin
Maha Zohdy (Rensselaer Polytechnic
Maier (Institut
RFF Based Parallel Detection for Massive Institute, USA); Eva Song (Futurewei
Real-time Experimental Wireless Testbed National de la Recherche Scientifique
MIMO Technologies, USA); Guosen Yue
with Digital Beamforming at 300 GHz (INRS), Canada); David Larrabeiti
Varun Chhangani (Research Student, IIIT (FutureWei Technologies, Inc., USA)
Georgia D. Ntouni (Intracom Telecom, (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Greece); Thomas Merkle (Fraunhofer IAF, Hyderabad, India); Rangeet Mitra (ETS
Germany); Eleftherios Loghis, Georgios Montreal, Canada); Vimal Bhatia (Indian On an Access Control Model Enhancement
Tzeranis, Vassilis Koratzinos, Nikolaos Institute of Technology Indore, India) for the 5G System
Skentos and Dimitrios S. Kritharidis Luis Suarez (IRT bcom & Université de
(Intracom Telecom, Greece) Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), France);
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2020 2020

David Espes (University of Brest & VAP3: IOT AND THE WOS2: AERIAL AND PROGRAMME

LabSTICC, France); Frédéric Cuppens URBAN ECOSYSTEM PROGRAMME V2X NETWORKS

(IMT Atlantique, France); Philippe Bertin
Dynamic Standalone Drone-Mounted Small Cells 5G-Sim-V2I/N: Towards a Simulation Framework
(Orange Labs & Bcom, France); Cao-Thanh Altitude-Adaptive and Cost-Effective
Igor Donevski and Jimmy J Nielsen (Aalborg for the Evaluation of 5G V2I/V2N Use Cases
Phan (BCOM, France); Philippe Le Parc Object Recognition in an Integrated
University, Denmark) Thomas Deinlein (University of Erlangen-
(University of Brest, France) Smartphone and UAV System
Nürnberg, Germany); Reinhard German
Ignacio Martinez-Alpiste, Gelayol
The SPIDER concept:A Cyber Range as a Actor-Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning for (University of Erlangen, Germany);
Golcarenarenji and Qi Wang (University
Service Platform Energy Minimization in UAV-Aided Networks Anatoli Djanatliev (University of Erlangen-
of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom
Christos Xenakis (University of Piraeus, Yaxiong Yuan, Lei Lei, Thang X. Vu and Nuremberg, Germany)
(Great Britain)); Jose Maria Alcaraz Calero
Greece); Anna Angelogianni and Eleni Symeon Chatzinotas (University of
(University of the West of Scotland & School
Veroni (University of Piraeus, Greece); Luxembourg, Luxembourg); Björn Ottersten Data-Centric Node Selection for Machine-
of Engineering and Computing, United
Eirini Karapistoli (CyberLens, United (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Type Communications with Lossy Links
Kingdom (Great Britain))
Kingdom (Great Britain)); Matthias Hung-Hsien Chen and Hung-Yun Hsieh
Ghering (CYBERLENS, United Kingdom (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
EagleEYE: Aerial Edge-enabled Disaster
(Great Britain)); Neofytos Gerosavva Relief Response System
and Vasileios Machamint (EIGHT BELLS, Muhammad Febrian Ardiansyah, Timothy
Cyprus); Pierluigi Polvanesi and Angela William, Osamah Ibrahiem, Li-Chun Wang,
Brignone (ERICSSON TEI, Italy); Jeronimo Po-Lung Tien and Maria C. Yuang LIVE

Nuñez Mendoza (Telefonica, Spain); (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

Antonio Pastor (Telefonica I+D, Spain) 15:30 - 16:00
IoT-based Mobility Tracking for Smart City CLOSING SESSION PROGRAMME

Improving Apache Spot Using Autoencoders

Applications
for Network Anomaly Detection EUCNC 2020 EUCNC 2021
Kalkidan Gebru, Claudio E. Casetti, Carla
Athanasios Priovolos, Georgios Gardikis Vlatko Lipovac (Chair) Manuel Ricardo
Fabiana Chiasserini and Paolo Giaccone
and Dimitris Lioprasitis (Space Hellas S.A., EuCNC 2020 Host and TPC Chair, U. EuCNC 2021 Host, U. Porto/INESC TEC,
(Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Greece); Socrates Costicoglou (Space Dubrovnik, Croatia Portugal
Hellas SA, Greece) Presentation of the 2021 Porto Conference
Fostering Inter-Operable Urban Ecosystems
Through the Adoption of Common Frameworks
In-Network Knowledge Reasoning with New IP EUCNC 2020
Luis Diez (University of Cantabria, Spain); Peter Stuckmann
Lijun Dong (Futurewei Technologies, USA); Vlatko Lipovac
Ignacio Elicegui (Universidad de Cantabria, Head of Unit – Future Connectivity
Lin Han (Futurewei Technologies Inc., USA); EuCNC 2020Host and TPC Chair, U.
Spain); Luis Sanchez and Luis Muñoz Systems DG CONNECT, E.C., Belgium
Richard Li (Futurewei Technologies, USA) Dubrovnik, Croatia
(University of Cantabria, Spain) Building 5G and preparing the way
towards 6G Flag Handover and Closing
Design and Implementation of an IoT-based
Ambient Intelligence Framework for Smart Energy Credits Auction Mechanism for
Luis M. Correia
Built Environments Enhancing the Grid’s Upward Flexibility
EUCNC Awards Committee Chair, IST-U.
Reza Tasooji, Archi Dasgupta and Denis Using Datacenters
Lisbon, Portugal
Gracanin (Virginia Tech, USA); Kresimir Matkovic Ahmed Abada and Marc St-Hilaire
Delivery of Best Papers Awards
(VRVis Research Center, Austria); Matthew (Carleton University, Canada)
LaGro and Mike Mihuc (OSIsoft, USA)
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CAREER
OPPORTUNITY
MENTORSHIP
SUPPORT
DIVERSITY

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PORTO, PORTUGAL

WWW.EUCNC .EU

EuCNC 2021 is the 30th edition of a STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Luis M. Correia, IST-U.Lisbon, PT
successful series of a conference in the field of Bernard Barani, E.C., BE
The conference program will include TPC CHAIRS
telecommunications, sponsored by the IEEE Manuel Ricardo, U. Porto, INESC TEC, PT (Chair)
Communications Society (ComSoc) and the Rui Campos, INESC TEC, U. Porto, PT (Vice-Chair)
• Keynotes TRACK CO-CHAIRS
European Association for Signal Processing Physical Layer and Fundamentals (PHY)
• Panels Atílio Gameiro, U. Aveiro, PT
(EURASIP), and supported by the European Guan Gui, U. Nanjing of Posts and
• Regular oral sessions (papers from open Telecommunications, CN
Commission. The conference focuses on various
call, to be submitted for uploading to Sumit Roy, U. Washington, USA
aspects of 6G communications systems and Radio Access and Softwarisation (RAS)
IEEE Xplore) Huseyin Arslan, U. Istanbul Medipol, TK
networks, including cloud and virtualization Lorenza Giupponi, CTTC, ES
• Special sessions, with papers on specific Beatriz Lorenzo, U. Massachusetts Amherst, USA
solutions, management technologies, Wireless, Optical and Satellite Networks (WOS)
topics
experimentation and testbeds, and applications Henrique Salgado, U. Porto, INESC TEC, PT
• Workshops, with papers and Ronald Raulefs, DLR, DE
and services. It targets to bring together Morio Toyoshima, NICT, JP
presentations on specific topics Network Softwarisation (NET)
researchers from all over the world to present Oriol Sallent, U. P. Catalunia, ES
• Poster sessions (papers from open call
the latest research results, and it is one of the Franco Callegati, U. Bologna, IT
addressing latest results) Thomas Henderson, U. Washington, USA
main venues for demonstrating the results of Vertical Applications and Internet of Things (VAP)
• Tutorials Carlos Calafate, U. P. Valencia, ES
research projects, especially from R&D Frank Yong-Li, U. Agder, NO
• Demos and exhibitions, with pitches Kamran Sayrafian, NIST, USA
programmes co-financed by the European Operational & Experimental Insights (OPE)
Commission. Jean-Marie Gorce, U. Lyon, FR
Brecht Vermeulen, IMEC, U. Ghent, BE
Abhimanyu Gosain, Northeastern U., USA
PANEL CO-CHAIRS
Jorge Pereira, E.C., BE
Matti Hämäläinen, U. Oulu, FI
SPECIAL SESSIONS CO-CHAIRS
Jirí Hošek, U. Brno, CZ
Bengt Ahlgren, SICS, SE
Key Dates WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS
Jun Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong U., CN
29 JAN. 2021 › Deadline for submission of papers for regular oral sessions Nadjib Achir, U. Sorbonne Paris Nord, INRIA, FR
29 JAN. 2021 › Deadline for submission of proposals for workshops, special sessions, and tutorials Fredrik Tufvesson, U. Lund, SE
EXHIBITION CO-CHAIRS
12 MAR. 2021 › Deadline for submission of extended abstracts for posters Mario Scillia, E.C., BE
Filipe Ribeiro, INESC TEC, PT
12 MAR. 2021 › Notification of acceptance of workshops, special sessions, and tutorials TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS

02 APR. 2021 › Deadline for submission of proposals for exhibitions Pawel Kulakowski, AGH Krakow, PL
Edward Knightly, Rice U., USA
05 APR. 2021 › Notification of acceptance of papers and extended abstracts IEEE/COMSOC LIAISON
Hikmet Sari, Supelec, FR
16 APR. 2021 › Deadline for final papers for all sessions and workshops EURASIP LIAISON
Björn Ottersten, U. Luxembourg, LU / KTE, SE
16 APR. 2021 › Deadline for authors registration URSI LIAISON
07 MAY 2021 › Draft program available Sana Salous, U. Durham, UK
COST LIAISON
Ralph Stuebner, COST Office, BE
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 Didier Bourse Narcis Cardona Filipe Cardoso Matti Latva-aho
Nokia, FR iTEAM – Univ. Politècnica Poly. Inst. Setubal, PT Univ. Oulu, FI
de València, ES

Vlatko Lipovac Josep Martrat Ingrid Moerman Mihael Mohorčič

Univ. Dubrovnik, HR ATOS, ES IMEC - Ghent Univ., BE Inst. Jozef Stefan, SI

STEERING
COMMIT TEE
Björn Ottersten Jorge Pereira Silvia Provvedi Manuel Ricardo
Univ. Luxembourg, LU/KTH, European Commission, BE Ericsson, IT Univ. Porto / INESCTEC, PT
SE

Hikmet Sari Mario Scillia Ralph Stuebner Riccardo Trivisonno

Supelec, FR European Commission, BE COST Office, BE Huawei, DE

Luis M. Correia Bernard Barani

IST – Univ. Lisbon, PT European Commission, BE

Steering Committee Steering Committee Mojca Volk Lena Wosinska

Chair Vice-Chair Univ. Ljubljana, SL KTH, SE

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PROGRAMME Luis Muñoz Ralf Toenjes Sumei Sun Emilio Calvanese Dario Sabella Kei Sakaguchi

COMMIT TEE
Univ. Cantabria, ES Univ. Osnabrueck, DE I2R, SG Strinati Intel, DE TIT, JP
CEA-LETI, FR
Track Co-Chairs Track Co-Chairs
Vertical Applications and Internet of Things (VAP) Operational & Experimental Insights (OPE)

Jorge Pereira Per Lehne Vedran Batos Alain Sibille Conor Brenan Shahrokh Valaee
European Commission, Telenor, NO Univ. Dubrovnik, HR Telecom Paris, FR Dublin City U., IE Univ. Toronto, CA
BE
Panel Co-Chairs Special Sessions Co-Chairs

Vlatko Lipovac Filipe Cardoso Janos Bito Anna Tzanakaki Mario Milicevic Mario Scillia Anamaria Bjelopera Narcis Cardona
Univ. Dubrovnik, HR Poly. Inst. Setubal, PT BUTE, HU Univ. Bristol, UK Univ. Dubrovnik, HR European Commission, Univ. Dubrovnik, HR Univ. Poly. Valencia, ES
BE

TPC Co-Chairs Workshops Co-Chairs Exhibition Co-Chairs

Marko Beko Adriana Lipovac Saul Torrico Athanasios Kanatas Guillaume Villemaud Prabhat K. Upadhyay Vittorio Degli-Esposti Jose Molina Krunoslav Zubrinic
Univ. Lusofona, PT Univ. Dubrovnik, HR George Washington Univ. Piraeus, GR Univ. Lyon, FR IIT Indore, IN Univ. Bologna, IT Univ. Cartagena, ES Univ. Dubrovnik, HR
Univ., USA
Track Co-Chairs Track Co-Chairs Tutorials Co-Chairs
Physical Layer and Fundamentals (PHY) Radio Access and Softwarisation (RAS)

Silvia Ruiz-Boque Pamela Njemcevic Suresh Subramaniam Toktam Mahmoodi Dinko Begusic Seong-Lyun Kim Hikmet Sari Björn Ottersten Sana Salous Ralph Stuebner
UPC, ES Univ. Sarajevo, BA George Washington King’s College, UK Univ. Split, HR Yonsei U. Seoul, KR Sequans, FR Univ. Luxembourg, LU/ Durham Univ., UK COST Office, BE
Univ., USA KTH, SE
Track Co-Chairs Track Co-Chairs IEEE/ComSoc EURASIP Liaison URSI Liaison COST Liaison
Wireless, Optical and Satellite Networks (WOS) Network Softwarisation (NET) Liaison
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EUCNC2020 - NET EUCNC2020 - OPE

Adamantia Stamou, National Tech. Uni. Athens, Greece Kiril Antevski, Uni. Carlos III Madrid, Spain Andreas Georgakopoulos, WINGS ICT Solutions, Greece
Adrian Kliks, Poznan Uni. Tech., Poland Konstantinos Samdanis, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany Anna Guerra, Uni. Bologna, Italy
Ahmad Rostami, Bosch, Germany Madhusanka Liyanage, Uni. College Dublin, Ireland Arash Asadi, Tech. Uni. Darmstadt, Germany
Ahmet Akyamac, Bell Labs Nokia, USA Marcelo M Carvalho, Uni. Brasília, Brazil Clarissa Cassales Marquezan, Huawei, Germany
Albert Banchs, Uni. Carlos III Madrid, Spain Meysam Masoudi, KTH, Sweden Daniel G. Riviello, Politecnico Torino, Italy
Anay Deshpande, Uni. Padova, Italy Mustafa Ozger, KTH, Sweden Dario Sabella, Intel, Germany
Andrea Zanella, Uni. Padova, Italy Nikola Rožić, Uni. Split, Croatia Diego Tami, Fed. Uni. Minas Gerais, Brazil
Angelos Rouskas, Uni. Piraeus, Greece Paolo Bellavista, Uni. Bologna, Italy Dragoslav Stojadinovic, Rutgers Uni., USA
Anna Brunstrom, Karlstad Uni., Sweden Pasika Ranaweera, Uni. College Dublin, Ireland Edgardo Montes de Oca, Montimage, France
Antonella Molinaro, Uni. Mediterranea Reggio Calabria, Italy Rui L Aguiar, Uni. Aveiro, Portugal Elisa Zimaglia, TIM, Italy
Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy Stephanie Soares, Uni. Brasilia, Brazil Francesco Di Stasio, Uni. Brescia, Italy
Babak Hossein Khalaj, Sharif Uni. Tech., Iran Suzan Bayhan, Uni. Twente, The Netherlands Francesco Gringoli, Politecnico Torino, Italy
Bengi Karacali, IBM Research, USA Symeon Papavassiliou, ICCS/National Tech. Uni. Athens, Greece Harri Saarnisaari, Uni. Oulu, Finland
Bujar Krasniqi, Uni. Prishtina, Kosovo Toktam Mahmoodi, King’s College London, UK José Luis Hernandez Ramos, JRC, Belgium
Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico Torino, Italy Van Giang Nguyen, Karlstad Uni., Sweden Josep Mangues-Bafalluy, CTTC, Spain
Carlos J. Bernardos, Uni. Carlos III Madrid, Spain Vasilis Friderikos, King’s College London, UK Juan Antonio Martinez Navarro, Odin Solutons, Spain
Carlos Natalino, Chalmers Uni. Tech., Sweden Vincent Latzko, Tech. Uni. Dresden, Germany Kei Sakaguchi, Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan
Chau Yuen, Singapore Uni. Tech. and Design, Singapore Wint Yi Poe, Huawei, Germany Luis Muñoz, Uni. Cantabria, Spain
Cicek Cavdar, KTH, Sweden Xu Wang, Northwestern Uni., USA Manuel Fuentes, Uni. Politec. Valencia, Spain
Dimitrios Dechouniotis, National Tech. Uni. Athens, Greece Yushan Siriwardhana, Uni. Oulu, Finland Marco Cominelli, Uni. Brescia, Italy
Dimitrios Kelaidonis, Uni. Piraeus, Greece Mauro Boldi, Telecom Italia, Italy
Dinko Begusic, Uni. Split, Croatia Milorad Tosic, Uni. Nis, Serbia
Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Uni. New Mexico, USA Miquel Payaró, CTTC, Spain
Fabio D’Andreagiovanni, CNRS / Sorbonne Uni., France Mohamed Sana, CEA LETI, France
Federico Mason, Uni. Padova, Italy Nicola di Pietro, CEA LETI, France
George C. Polyzos, Athens Uni. Economics and Business, Greece Nikolaos Bartzoudis, CTTC, Spain
Giuseppe Ruggeri, Uni. Reggio Calabria, Italy Oscar Mauricio Caicedo Rendon, Uni. Cauca, Colombia
Hao Ge, Northwestern Uni., USA Ricard Vilalta, CTTC, Spain
Ioannis Dimolitsas, National Tech. Uni. Athens, Greece Shuangyi Yan, Uni. Bristol, UK
Ishan Vaishnavi, Huawei, Germany Shuping Peng, Huawei, China
Josip Lorincz, Uni. Split, Croatia Thanasis Korakis, Uni. Thessaly, Greece
Karl-Johan Grinnemo, Karlstad Uni., Sweden Tim Wauters, Ghent Uni. / IMEC, Belgium

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EUCNC2020 - RAS
Kagiso Magowe, RMIT Uni., Australia
Kentaro Saito, Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan
Adriana Lipovac, Uni. Dubrovnik, Croatia Adnan Aijaz, Toshiba Research, UK
Konstantin Samouylov, RUDN Uni., Russia
Alister G. Burr, Uni. York, UK Adrian Kliks, Poznan Uni. Tech., Poland
Konstantinos Maliatsos, Uni. Piraeus, Greece
Amir H Jafari, Microsoft Research, USA Angelos Rouskas, Uni. Piraeus, Greece
Kostas Peppas, Uni. Peloponnese, Greece
Andrej Hrovat, Jožef Stefan Inst., Slovenia Athanasios D. Panagopoulos, National Tech. Uni. Athens, Greece
Kun Yang, Super Radio, Norway
Anne Savard, IMT Lille Douai / IRCICA, France Athanasios G. Kanatas, Uni. Piraeus, Greece
Lam Thanh TU, CentraleSupelec, France
António J. Rodrigues, IT / IST / Univ. Lisbon, Portugal Chun-Hung Liu, Mississippi State Uni., USA
Lazar Berbakov, Inst. Mihailo Pupin, Serbia
Anubhab Chowdhury, Indian Inst. Sc. Bangalore, India David Grace, Uni. York, UK
Leonardo S. Cardoso, Uni. Lyon, France
Binod Kharel, Uni. Oulu, Finland Demosthenes Vouyioukas, Uni. Aegean, Greece
Marko Beko, ULHT/UNINOVA, Portugal
Chau Yuen, Singapore Uni. Tech. and Design, Singapore Didier Bourse, Nokia, France
Matti Hämäläinen, Uni. Oulu, Finland
Chong Han, Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni., China Dimitrios Skoutas, Uni. Aegean, Greece
Milan Narandžić, Uni. Novi Sad, Serbia
Claudio Paoloni, Lancaster Uni., UK Dimosthenis Kyriazis, Uni. Piraeus, Greece
Minseok Kim, Niigata Uni., Japan
Custodio Peixeiro, IST / Uni. Lisbon, Portugal Eduard Sopin, RUDN Uni., Russia
Mojtaba Ghermezcheshmeh, Monash Uni., Australia
Daisuke Anzai, Nagoya Inst. Tech., Japan Florin Hutu, Uni. Lyon/ INSA/INRIA, France
Ngoc-Dung Dao, Huawei, Canada
Daniel Castanheira, IT / Uni. Aveiro, Portugal George T. Karetsos, Uni. Thessaly, Greece
Nicola Piovesan, CTTC, Spain
Danping He, Beijing Jiaotong Uni., China Georgia E. Athanasiadou, Uni. Peloponnese, Greece
Nikola Zlatanov, Monash Uni., Australia
David Löschenbrand, Austrian Inst. Tech., Austria Hans van den Berg, TNO, The Netherlands
Nikola Zogović, Uni. Belgrade, Serbia
Dejan Vukobratović, Uni. Novi Sad, Serbia Hirley Alves, Uni. Oulu, Finland
Olivier Berder, Uni. Rennes/CNRS/IRISA, France
Dirk Slock, EURECOM, France Jordi Pérez-Romero, Uni. Politec. Catalunya, Spain
Paulo Montezuma, New Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
Dirk Wübben, Uni. Bremen, Germany Jules M. Moualeu, Uni. Witwatersrand, South Africa
Rafael F. S. Caldeirinha, Polytech. Inst. Leiria, Portugal
Dragana D. Bajić, Uni. Novi Sad, Serbia Konstantin Samouylov, RUDN Uni., Russia
Roberto Bomfin, Tech. Uni. Dresden, Germany
Enrico Buracchini, Telecom Italia, Italy Kostas Tsagkaris, Incelligent, Greece
Rodolfo Oliveira, IT / New Uni. Lisbon, Portugal
Ernestina Cianca, Uni. Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Maria Julia Fernandez-Getino Garcia, Uni. Carlos III Madrid, Spain
Rui Dinis, New Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
Ertugrul Basar, Koc Uni., Turkey Nikolaos Nomikos, Linköping Uni., Sweden
Ruicheng Jiao, Tsinghua Uni., China
Euiseok Hwang, Gwangju Inst. Sc. and Tech., Korea (South) Nikolaos Pappas, Uni. Aegean, Greece
Saúl Torrico, Comsearch, USA
Ferhad Askerbeyli, Tech. Uni. Munich, Germany Osmel Martinez Rosabal, Uni. Oulu, Finland
Theodoros Tsiftsis, Jinan Uni., China
Francisco A. Monteiro, IT, Portugal P. Takis Mathiopoulos, Uni. Athens, Greece
Tobias Laas, Huawei, Germany
George C. Alexandropoulos, Uni. Athens, Greece Panagiotis Demestichas, Uni. Piraeus, Greece
Troels B. Sørensen, Aalborg Uni., Denmark
George Tsoulos, Uni. Peloponnese, Greece Paulo F Pinto, New Uni. Lisbon, Portugal
Vasile Bota, Tech. Uni. Cluj Napoca, Romania
Gerhard P. Fettweis, Tech. Uni. Dresden, Germany Petros S. Bithas, Uni. Piraeus, Greece
Venceslav Kafedziski, SS. Cyril and Methodius Uni., North Macedonia
Gilberto Berardinelli, Aalborg Uni., Denmark Prabhat Kumar Upadhyay, Indian Inst. Tech. Indore, India
Víctor P. Gil Jiménez, Uni. Cauca, Colombia
Goran Dimić, Uni. Belgrade, Serbia Sourabh Solanki, Korea Uni., India
Victor Quintero, Uni. Carlos III Madrid, Spain
Himal A Suraweera, Uni. Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Sudhir Kumar, Indian Inst. Tech. Patna, India
Waqar Anwar, Tech. Uni. Dresden, Germany
Hirley Alves, Uni. Oulu, Finland Swaminathan Ramabadran, Indian Inst. Tech. Indore, India
Wen Xu, Huawei, Germany
Homayoun Nikookar, Netherlands Defence Acad.,The Netherlands Vladimir Atanasovski, SS. Cyril and Methodius Uni.,
Werner G. Teich, Ulm Uni., Germany
Janne Lehtomäki, Uni. Oulu, Finland North Macedonia
Xuesong Cai, Aalborg Uni., Denmark
Jiayi Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong Uni., China
Yang Zhang, Xidian Uni., China
Jinbei Zhang, Sun Yat-sen Uni., China
Yuhang Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni., China
João Guerreiro, IT / Uni. Algarve, Portugal
Zhonghua Liang, Chang’an Uni., China
Zhuangzhuang Cui, Beijing Jiaotong Uni., China

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Alfonso Ramallo, Uni. Murcia, Spain Mathieu Cunche, INSA-Lyon / INRIA, France Akram Al-Hourani, RMIT Uni., Australia
Ana Paula da Silva, Uni. Fed. Minas Gerais, Brazil Milan Lukic, Uni. Novi Sad, Serbia Almir Maric, Uni. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Anas Bin Muslim, Uni. Appl. Sc. Osnabrueck, Germany Mozhdeh Farhadi, Uni. Rennes, Italy Andreas Kunz, Lenovo, Germany
Andrej Košir, Uni. Ljubljana, Slovenia Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Uni. Auckland, New Zealand Anna Tzanakaki, Uni. Bristol, UK
Antonella Molinaro, Uni. Mediterranea Reggio Calabria, Italy Noelia Correia, Uni. Algarve, Portugal Anna Umbert, Uni. Politec. Catalunya, Spain
Antonio Fernando Skarmeta Gomez, Uni. Murcia, Spain Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Uni. Macedonia, Greece Beatriz Ortega, ITEAM, Spain
Antonio Guerrieri, ICAR / CNR, Italy Paolo Bellavista, Uni. Bologna, Italy Boris Galkin, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Behnam Rouzbehani, IST / Uni. Lisbon, Portugal Pasquale Pace, Uni. Calabria, Italy Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico Torino, Italy
Carl J. Debono, Uni. Malta, Malta Piotr Rajchowski, Gdańsk Uni. Tech., Poland Darijo Raca, Uni. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Carlos Calafate, Uni. Politec. Valencia, Spain Prodromos Makris, ICCS/National Tech. Uni. Athens, Greece David Grace, Uni. York, UK
Christian Wietfeld, Tech. Uni. Dortmund, Germany Ralf Tönjes, Uni. Appl. Sc. Osnabrueck, Germany Dejan Vukobratović, Uni. Novi Sad, Serbia
Christos J Bouras, Uni. Patras, Greece Ramon Aguero, Uni. Cantabria, Spain Dinko Osmanković, Uni. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Daniel Kuemper, Uni. Appl. Sc. Osnabrueck, Germany Ramon Sanchez-Iborra, Uni. Murcia, Spain Enio Kaljic, Uni. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Daniele Miorandi, U-Hopper, Italy Roberto Sanz, Uni. Cantabria, Spain Giorgos Mitsis, ICCS/National Tech. Uni. Athens, Greece
Dejan Vukobratović, Uni. Novi Sad, Serbia Sławomir J. Ambroziak, Gdańsk Uni. Tech., Poland Giovanni Stea, Uni. Pisa, Italy
Diogo Gomes, Uni. Aveiro, Portugal Stefano Ferretti, Uni. Pisa, Italy Jaroslaw Turkiewicz, Orange, Spain
Eiji Okamoto, Nagoya Inst. Tech., Japan Stefano Giordano, Uni. Bologna, Italy Jasmina Barakovic Husic, Uni. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Eushay Bin Ilyas, Uni. Appl. Sc. Osnabrueck, Germany Sumei Sun, Inst. Infocomm Research, Singapore Jernej Hribar, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Giancarlo Fortino, Uni. Calabria, Italy Susana Sargento, IT / Uni. Aveiro, Portugal Joan Olmos, Uni. Politec. Catalunya, Spain
Gianluca Aloi, Uni. Calabria, Italy Thorben Iggena, Uni. Appl. Sc. Osnabrueck, Germany Juan Sanchez-Gonzalez, Uni. Politec. Catalunya, Spain
Herwig Schreiner, Siemens, Austria Urban Burnik, Uni. Ljubljana, Slovenia Luca De Nardis, Sapienza Uni. Rome, Italy
Jesus Garcia, Uni. Murcia, Spain Luis Bernardo, New Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
Johannes Riedl, Siemens, Germany Manuel Roth, DLR, Germany
Johnny Choque, Uni. Cantabria, Spain Merim Dzaferagic, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Jorge Bernal Bernabe, Uni. Murcia, Spain Miralem Mehic, Uni. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jorge Lanza, Uni. Cantabria, Spain Mirsad Cosovic, Uni. Novi Sad, Serbia
Juan Ramón Santana, Uni. Cantabria, Spain Mirza Hamza, Uni. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Julian Dreyer, Uni. Appl. Sc. Osnabrueck, Germany Nicola Andriolli, CNR, Italy
Klaus David, Uni. Kassel, Germany Pamela Njemčević, Uni. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Konstantinos Katzis, European Uni. Cyprus, Cyprus Ralf Tönjes, Uni. Appl. Sc. Osnabrueck, Germany
Krzysztof K. Cwalina, Gdansk Uni. Tech., Poland Ramon Aguero, Uni. Cantabria, Spain
Luca Caviglione, CNR, Italy Sandro Scalise, DLR, Germany
Luca Foschini, Uni. Bologna, Italy Sarmad Ghafoor, Uni. Appl. Sc. Osnabrueck, Germany
Luis Diez, Uni. Cantabria, Spain Silvia Mignardi, Uni. Bologna, Italy
Luis Muñoz, Uni. Cantabria, Spain Silvia Ruiz Boqué, Uni. Politec. Catalunya, Spain
Luis Sanchez, Uni. Cantabria, Spain Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington Uni., USA
Lukas Backhaus, Uni. Appl. Sc. Osnabrueck, Germany Symeon Papavassiliou, ICCS/National Tech. Uni. Athens, Greece
Marten Fischer, Uni. Appl. Sc. Osnabrueck, Germany Tarik Kazaz, Delft Uni. Tech., Belgium
Thomas Blazek, Tech. Uni. Wien, Austria

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ORGANISING Local Organising Committee

COMMIT TEE
Adriana Lipovac Anamaria Bjelopera Ante Mihaljevic
U. Dubrovnik, HR U. Dubrovnik, HR U. Dubrovnik, HR

Local Organiser Chair Financial Chair Communication Chair

Pearse O’Donohue
European Commision, BE

General Chair

Ema Catarré Ivan Grbavac Kenan Turbic

INOV-INESC, PT U. Dubrovnik, HR INESC-ID, PT

Webmaster Chair EDAS Co-Chair EDAS and Publications Co-Chair

Luis M. Correia
IST – Univ. Lisbon, PT

Steering Committee
Chair Manuel Ferreira Marijana Lujo Ines Obradovic
Poly. Inst. Setubal, PT U. Dubrovnik, HR U. Dubrovnik, HR

Publications Co-Chair Publicity Chair Local Arrangements Co-Chair

Bernard Barani
European Commission, BE Ana Kešelj
U. Dubrovnik, HR

Steering Committee Local Arrangements Co-Chair

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 INTERESTING THINGS
ABOUT DUBROVNIK
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 UNBREACHABLE People’s Army in 1991 and 1992 – many
people were killed as the Yugoslav army
STONE BOUNDARY rained shells down on the old city from
the hilltops above. Nearly 11,500
The city’s most famous feature is its
buildings sustained damage from the
Famous stone boundary. Constructed
attacks, but the wonderful restoration
Between the 12th and 17th centuries
THE LOKRUM CURSE and encircling the old city. Apparently in
work since has restored and hidden the

AND RICHARD some places they can be up to 6 metres

worst of the damage. As you enter the
city walls there is a map to show which
THE LIONHEART thick and have never been breached by a
buildings were hit and how much
hostile army.
SHIPWRECK Dubrovnik was badly affected during the
damage was inflicted.
Source: wwwtelegraph.com
Homeland War. The city was under siege
for nearly eight months by the Yugoslav
Also known as the island of Kings,
LOKRUM ISLAND originally
inhabited By Benedictine monks
(1023) although carvings in a few
DIPLOMACY of the stones set into the walls
of the Monastery testify that the FAMOUS FILM LOCATION
Threatened by the ever growing Ottoman island has been inhabited since
Empire not only did they broker a deal prehistoric times. The Benedictian Even if you are not a big movie fan, you
whereas they could ‘pay tribute’ to the monks were apparently exiled have probably heard about the famous
Ottomans but they also cleverly negotiated from the island on the orders HBO series called Game of Thrones, which
a pardon for any Dubrovnik merchants of a French general and was filmed in Dubrovnik. Thanks to this
trading with the Ottomans from the subsequently laid a curse on the series and its global audience, Dubrovnik
Catholic church. Therefore being the only island, that whoever bought it practically became popular overnight.
trading power able to deal with both sides. for their own personal pleasure After the Game of Thrones, Dubrovnik was
Another diplomatic highlight was with the would be cursed–the local gradually evolving into a real movie star.
newly blossoming independence of the noblemen who evicted the monks Star Wars producers, for example, decided
United States. The US was really anxious to all died, subsequent owners to use the old town of Dubrovnik and turn
agree trade agreements with the European had terrible accidents– became it into the galactic city of Canto Bight,
countries and did a deal with Ragusa, bankrupt overnight or drowned one of the key locations in The Last Jedi.
(Some claim Dubrovnik was the first state getting there! However, in 1192 Dubrovnik was also presented as medieval
in the world to recognise the United States it saved the life of Richard Nottingham in a new movie adaptation
of America, in 1783). the Lionheart when he was about the famous hero Robin Hood and
They also banned slavery as early as 1416 shipwrecked off the coast in there were also the scenes filmed for high
centuries before anyone else did – Anyone a storm – his subsequent grateful budget historical series The Borgias.
who was caught breaking the law was donation to the local citizens
sentenced to a heavy fine & six months paid for the Dubrovnik Cathedral Source: www.adriatic.hr

imprisonment. of the Assumption of the Virgin

Source: wwwtelegraph.com
Mary (the locals having convinced
him not to build the cathedral on
the island but in the city).
Source: wwwtelegraph.com
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THE BEGINNING OF Since ancient times, societies have attempted

THE QUARANTINE
to separate people with disease from those
who remained unaffected, with references to
self-isolation dating back to the Old
Testament. As Covid-19 sweeps across the

REGULATION IN
globe, we are advised to “self-quarantine” if
we have recently returned from a part of the
world where the virus is rapidly spreading, or if
we have knowingly come into contact with an

EUROPE
infected person. To understand the importance
of self-quarantining during this modern-day
pandemic, it’s helpful to look back to the
history of the word “quarantine” itself, which
traces its origins to medieval Europe.

The word “quarantine” has Italian roots: in an

effort to protect coastal cities from the Black
Death ravaging 14th-Century Europe, ships
arriving in Venice from infected ports were
required to sit at anchor for 40 days (quaranta
giorni) before landing, a practice that
eventually became known as quarantine –
derived from ‘quarantino’, the Italian word for
a 40-day period.
Venice that stated all ships and passengers
had to be stationed on the nearby island of
San Lazzaro until the special health council
gave them permission to enter the city.“This
led to the discrimination of ships and travellers
from certain countries as well as other
wrongdoing that was occurring in Venice
regularly,” writes co-author Ante Milošević,
PhD, in Lazaretto in Dubrovnik: The Beginning
of the Quarantine Regulation in Europe.
Co-author Ana Bakija-Konsuo, MD-
PhD, added that Dubrovnik was the first
Mediterranean port to sequester people,
animals and merchandise coming from
infected areas by sea or land, keeping them
separate from the healthy population, while
Venice stopped all ships and trade, halting life
in the city.

Source:bbc.com
 FIRST SLAVE BAN
As many know, Dubrovnik used to
function as an independent city-
state in past. Its local community
had strong humanistic values and
has believed freedom to be one of
mankind’s most important ideals.
FALL OF THE REPUBLIC This is why Dubrovnik Republic was
FAMOUS FIRSTS one of the first states in the world
Dubrovnik was hit by an earthquake on 6 April to implement slavery ban on its
Europe’s longest & oldest operating 1667, which killed about 5,000 inhabitants premises. The decision has led to a
pharmacy in the world is located inside and destroyed much of the city, although the law that all people, both residents
Dubrovnik’s Franciscan Monastery, founded city walls remained standing. The city was of the city and foreigners that
in 1317. The monks made herb based cures/ much weakened, and when in 1806 Napoleon arrived, had to respect.
medicines local people and although entered Dubrovnik there was little resistance. Dubrovnik slave ban is one of the
today it’s a proper chemists they still sell a The Republic of Ragusa was officially first recorded in history. England
few of the monks original recipes. Dubrovnik dissolved in 1808 but, after Napoleon’s banned slaves in 1569, while United
lays claim to a number of world firsts (not fall, Dubrovnik became part of the Austro- States did so in 1865.
just the pharmacy). Hungarian Empire in 1815. Source: www.croatia-times.com
Source: www.dubrovnik-travel.net
Source: www.total-croatia-news.com

RECTOR’S Built in the late 15th century for the

elected rector who governed Dubrovnik,
PALACE this Gothic-Renaissance palace contains
the Rector’s office and private chambers,
public halls, administrative offices and
a dungeon. During his one-month term
the rector was unable to leave the building
without the permission of the senate.
From the end of Venetian rule in Dubrovnik
and the departing of their last rector in
1358, all the way through to the end of
the Dubrovnik Republic in 1808, Dubrovnik
elected 5,366 rectors.
At the time of the Dubrovnik Republic
an order was in force that dictated that
when the southerly jugo wind was blowing,
no important political decisions could be
made. This was due to the fact that many
believed the low air pressure caused by the
wind made people depressed and irritable.
Source: wwwdubrovnikdigest.com
 Boskovic produced a precursor of atomic
theory and was a valued contributor to the
field of astronomy. He was also the first
to discover that the Moon has no
atmosphere, all the way back in 1753. It
can be safely said that Boskovic, if anyone,
was born long before his time.

He published an impressive number

of dissertations. Among them were
the transit of Mercury, the figure of
Rudjer Boskovic (1711 – 1787) was a
the Earth, the Aurora Borealis and the
physicist, astronomer, mathematician,
observation of fixed stars. He also wrote
philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian,
extensively about the inequalities of
Jesuit priest and a polymath from the
terrestrial gravitation, the application of
Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik). He
mathematical science to the theory of
studied and lived in Italy and France where
the telescope, the tides of the sea and
he also published many of his works.
various problems relating to spherical
trigonometry. He was consulted, alongside
various other men of science, by Pope
Boskovic produced a precursor of atomic
Benedict XIV as to the most stable means
theory and made many contributions to
of securing the stability of the dome
astronomy, including the first geometric
of Saint Peter’s in Rome following the
procedure for determining the equator of
unwelcome discovery of a large crack.
a rotating planet from three observations
of a surface feature and for computing
Rudjer Boskovic died in Milan and was laid
the orbit of a planet from three
to rest at the Church of Saint Maria
observations of its position. He was even
Podone Rudjer Boskovic is remembered

RUDJER
given the nickname“Croatian Leibniz”.
and celebrated today, particularly in
Dubrovnik and Croatia but by the world as
a whole.

BOSKOVIC
His immeasurable contributions to
astronomy saw a lunar crater named
after him.The largest Croatian institute of
natural sciences and technology (Zagreb)

- CROATIAN
is called the Rudjer Boskovic Institute, and
the controversial philosopher Nietzsche
wrote a fragment titled “Time Atom

LEIBNIZ
Theory” in 1873, a reworking of Boskovic’s
most famed work.
Source: www.total-croatia-news.com
PLATINUM PATRON