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Objective

Delivering on the 5G promise of increased data rates, and ubiquitous coverages, poses stringent requirements on traditional vertically integrated operators. In particular, telecom operators are expected to massively roll out Small Cells, which requires finding appropriate urban spaces with both backhaul and energy availability. Network sharing becomes essential to unlock those commercial massive deployments. The open access model, or neutral host, will come to play a key role on the deployment of 5G networks, especially in urban scenarios where very dense Small Cell deploymens are required.
In parallel recent trends are paving the way towards the development of new, heterogeneous and distributed cloud paradigms that significantly differ from today’s established cloud model: with edge computing, cloud architectures are pushed all the way to the edge of the network, close to the devices that produce and act on data. We posit that there are two sets of players perfectly poised to take advantage of both trends since they already own the infrastructure needed to build edge deployments: telecommunication providers and municipalities. 5GCity focuses on how common smart city infrastructure (i.e.,small cells and processing power at the very edge of networks) can bring benefit to both players based on resource sharing and end-to-end virtualization, pushing the cloud model to the extreme edge.
5GCity will design, develop, deploy and demonstrate a distributed cloud and radio platform for municipalities and infrastructure owners acting as 5G neutral hosts. 5GCity’s main aim is to build and deploy a common, multi-tenant, open platform that extends the (centralized) cloud model to the extreme edge of the network, with a demonstration in three different cities (Barcelona, Bristol and Lucca). 5GCity will directly impact a large and varied range of actors: (i) telecom providers; (ii) municipalities; and (iii) a number of different vertical sectors utilizing the city infrastructure

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Topic(s)

ICT-08-2017 - 5G PPP Convergent Technologies

Call for proposal

H2020-ICT-2016-2

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Funding Scheme

IA - Innovation action

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Coordinator

FUNDACIO PRIVADA I2CAT, INTERNET I INNOVACIO DIGITAL A CATALUNYA

Address

Calle Gran Capita 2-4, Edifici Nexus I
08034 Barcelona

Spain

Activity type

Research Organisations

EU Contribution

€ 775 770,49

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Participants (18)

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NEC EUROPE LTD

United Kingdom

VIRTUAL OPEN SYSTEMS

France

EU Contribution

€ 452 462,50

ADLINK TECHNOLOGY SARL

France

EU Contribution

€ 347 462,50

RETEVISION I SA

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 303 537,50

UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 513 874,91

NEXTWORKS

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 345 362,50

COMUNE DI LUCCA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 200 250

ITALTEL SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 411 687,50

INSTITUT MUNICIPAL D'INFORMATICA DE BARCELONA

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 536 187,50

MOG TECHNOLOGIES SA

Portugal

EU Contribution

€ 291 375

WIND TRE SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 200 550

RAI-RADIOTELEVISIONE ITALIANA SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 177 537,50

UBIWHERE LDA

Portugal

EU Contribution

€ 296 625

INFORMACIO I COMUNICACIO DE BARCELONA SA SOCIETAT PRIVADA MUNICIPAL

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 125 125

INCITES CONSULTING SARL

Luxembourg

EU Contribution

€ 140 000

ACCELLERAN

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 319 375

COMUNICARE DIGITALE - ASSOCIAZIONEDI PROMOZIONE SOCIALE

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 227 674,25

NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE GMBH

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 407 510,25

Project information

5GCITY

Grant agreement ID: 761508

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 June 2017
End date

31 March 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 7 710 063,63
EU contribution

€ 6 072 367,40

Coordinated by:

FUNDACIO PRIVADA I2CAT, INTERNET I INNOVACIO DIGITAL A CATALUNYA

Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - 5GCITY (5GCITY)

Reporting period: 2017-06-01 to 2018-06-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

Delivering on the 5G promise of increased data rates and ubiquitous coverage poses stringent requirements on traditional, vertically integrated operators. In particular, telecom operators are expected to massively roll out Small Cells, which requires finding appropriate urban spaces with both backhaul and energy availability. Network sharing becomes essential to unlock this commercial massive deployment, and to ensure that such deployment is done in a cost effective way.

To tackle this, 5GCity introduces the concept of a neutral host, where municipalities deploy such infrastructure only once, and make it available to third-parties using cloud-like paradigms, where such parties can run smart city applications near the edge of the network, wherever and whenever it is needed. The main objective of the project is then to design and implement such a neutral host architecture, implement and deploy the platform needed not only to slice, control and manage underlying infrastructure but also to deploy and run third-party applications on top, and to implement a number of use cases using the 5GCity architecture in three cities (Barcelona, Bristol, Lucca) with views towards commercial exploitation.

5GCity has set a number of objectives to achieve its overall abovementioned goal. Keeping in mind city-wide deployments, these objectives include design of a 3 tier architecture which intrinsically considers network sharing, slicing and mobile edge computing features. In order to ensure smooth deployment and execution of services on a multi-tenant edge infrastructure, other objectives target MEC node virtualization platform, network virtualization, scalable edge management & orchestration and guest optimizations. Since 5GCity aims for city-wide pilots in three different cities, another objective targets the challenges faced due to deployment of infrastructure and validations of 5GCity use cases in the cities.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

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Project information

5GCITY

Grant agreement ID: 761508

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 June 2017
End date

31 March 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 7 710 063,63
EU contribution

€ 6 072 367,40

Coordinated by:

FUNDACIO PRIVADA I2CAT, INTERNET I INNOVACIO DIGITAL A CATALUNYA

Deliverables

Documents, reports (9)

Dissemination, Exploitation, and Standardization Activities M12

An interim report on the progress of the different dissemination, exploitation, and standardization activities, as well as an update (if required) to their corresponding plans.

Management Guidelines

This document will summarize information about project organization, communication among partners, project reporting means and tools, organization of deliverables and reports, financial management, risk management and quality procedures to be adopted by all participants.

Standardization and Exploitation Plan

Roadmap of 5GCity’s contributions in order to plan and keep track of the project’s inputs to standardization. In the roadmap procedure, targeted standardisation bodies, fora and work groups will be defined. This deliverable will also include exploitation plans.

5GCity Architecture & Interfaces Definition

Presentation of the overall system architecture, definition of all subsystems of 5GCity architecture. Gathering of the architecture requirements, assumptions and scientific choices. This deliverable will illustrate the first version of the 5GCity architecture as a result of the first iteration. Additionally, the deliverable will also provide the first version of the 5GCity interfaces and workflows, including functional description and data to be exchanged.

5GCity System Requirements and Use Cases

Elaboration on the definition of the 5GCity System Use Cases and key system requirements. Identification of the fundamental limitations addressed and envisaged innovations.

5GCity Edge Virtualization Infrastructure Design

This deliverable presents the design of the virtualized MEC node, including improvements to existing virtualization technologies and guests, and network virtualization

Orchestrator Design, Service programming, and Machine-learning Models

This deliverable reports the software design for the orchestrator, together with the initial draft models for the service programming model based on FBP and the location-aware machine-learning models.

1 5GCity Infrastructure Design and Definition

In this deliverable the outcomes of the testbed design will be provided. Which technologies to be used in each of the demonstration cities, along with the system and platform requirements to realise the pilots will be identified and projected.

Project Dissemination and Communication Plan

A detailed plan describing the designated dissemination and communication activities of each partner in the 5GCity consortium.

Publications

Conference proceedings (1)

fog05: Unifying the computing, networking and storage fabrics end-to-end

Author(s): Angelo Corsaro, Gabriele Baldoni.

Published in: Annals of Telecommunication Journal, 2018

Project information

5GCITY

Grant agreement ID: 761508

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 June 2017
End date

31 March 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 7 710 063,63
EU contribution

€ 6 072 367,40

Coordinated by:

FUNDACIO PRIVADA I2CAT, INTERNET I INNOVACIO DIGITAL A CATALUNYA

Project information

5GCITY

Grant agreement ID: 761508

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 June 2017
End date

31 March 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 7 710 063,63
EU contribution

€ 6 072 367,40

Coordinated by:

FUNDACIO PRIVADA I2CAT, INTERNET I INNOVACIO DIGITAL A CATALUNYA

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Last update: 16 September 2019

Record number: 211066

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