During the project life time, we distinguished among few categories of the project activities:
(1) Set-up and maintenance of basic means supporting collaboration among relevant stakeholders
(2) Creation of strategic documents and guidelines
(3) Consolidated wide promotion of the European 5G Initiatives
(4) Targeted activities in informing and positioning the European 5G
(1) In order to establish a solid base among interested European research and innovation community, the 5-Alive project kept on maintaining and further enlarging community around the NetWorld2020 ETP. It included support for various working groups within the ETP and also within the 5G Infrastructure association, as listed below:
• Expert Group
• SatCom Working Group
• NetWorld2020/NEM Working Group
• 5G Vision & Societal perspective
• Enabling 5G via pre-standards
• SME support
• Spectrum for 5G
To enable an efficient communication among the involved stakeholders and external communication, the project established a communication hub, with a number of communication tools provided (mailing lists and document repositories) and the following three main community websites:
• The 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership:
https://5g-ppp.eu/(si apre in una nuova finestra) • NetWorld2020 European Technology Platform:
http://networld2020.eu/(si apre in una nuova finestra) and
• European Future Internet Portal:
http://www.future-internet.eu/(si apre in una nuova finestra).
Finally, in order to facilitate necessary discussions and interactions within the community, the project organized several workshops and events – major events are listed below:
• NetWorld2020 Event 2014
• European 5G Research at Mobile World Congress 2015
• Expert Group meeting
• 5G launch event
• 6th Usage Areas workshop
(2) Working together with the established working groups and the community at large, the 5-Alive project supported creation of several strategic documents, defining future research and innovation needs towards development of the 5G network infrastructure and beyond:
• Coverage of research areas in first call for projects in the 5G PPP, performed by independent experts on behalf of the 5-Alive project,
• Priority topics and actions for Work Programme 2016-17,
• Research and innovation challenges for “Beyond 5G” (output from the Expert Group),
• Pathway to innovation (white paper on 5G experimentation), and
• Impact of Content and Media on 5G research programme (output from the NetWorld2020/NEM Working Group).
Furthermore, the 5-Alive project supported creation of the 5G Vision document created by 5G Association and ongoing work on the white paper “How Service Level Indicators and Reasonable Traffic Management can increase the value of the Future Internet?” Finally, the project facilitated discussion and definition of first set of the KPIs to follow-up success of the 5G PPP project.
(3) The community discussions and interactions as well as the provided strategic inputs mentioned above provided a base for creation of consolidated messages about the European 5G Initiatives and the 5G PPP programme, which were used for wide promotion of the European 5G, creation of corresponding promotion material, including videos, and to support representation of the European 5G and the PPP at various occasions.
(4) Finally, the project also considered two important aspects of further development of the European 5G Initiatives:
• Introduction of 5G to vertical sectors at two dedicated workshops, resulting with a high-level report on requirements from the vertical sectors on 5G and five white papers from different vertical sectors, providing detailed requirements on 5G.
• Analysis and establishment of relations with the most important 5G organizations at global level (5G Forum - Korea, IMT2020 (5G) Promotion Group - China, 5GMF - Japan, ARIB2020 - Japan, TTC Ad hoc Group on Future Mobile Networking - Japan, 4GAmericas-USA), resulting with 5-Alive set of recommendations for positioning of the European 5G activities – mainly 5G PPP – on the global level.
