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5G integrated Fiber-Wireless networks exploiting existing photonic technologies for high-density SDN-programmable network architectures

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Reporting

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Objective

5G-PHOS aims to architect and evaluate 5G broadband wireless networks for dense, ultra-dense and Hot-Spot area use cases drawing from recent results in the area of optical technologies towards producing and exploiting a powerful
photonic integrated circuit technology toolkit. It aims to streamline advances in multi-format and multi-bitrate optical communications, in InP transceiver, in Triplex optical beamformers and in integrated optical add/drop multiplexers in
order to migrate from CPRI-based towards integrated Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) packetized C-RAN fronthaul supporting massive mmWave MIMO communications.It will deliver: a) a set of SDN-programmable units, called FlexBox and
FlexBox-Pro, that will be compatible with the emerging 25Gb/s PON access networks and can deliver FiWi traffic ranging between 25-400Gb/s, b) a set of three different 64x64 MIMO Remote Radio Head configurations exploiting
analog optical beamforming and producing 25Gb/s,100Gb/s and 400Gb/s wireless data-rates, c) an integrated FiWi packetized fronthaul for supporting Medium-Transparent Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation mechanisms and
cooperative radio-optical beamforming, d) a converged FiWi SDN control plane for optimally orchestrating both the optical and the wireless resources. These blocks will be integrated towards architecting 5G networks for 3 use cases,
evaluating their performance in lab-scale and field-trial experiments:

a. 25Gb/s peak data rate PON-overlaid 5G FiWi network for dense areas, capable to offer densities up to 1.7 Tb/s/km2 , to be demonstrated also in field-trial experiments at the deployed network of Greek operator COSMOTE.
b. 400Gb/s peak data-rate SDM-enabled 5G FiWi network targeted for ultra-dense environments and being capable of offering densities up to 28 Tb/s/km2 with <1msec latency.
c.100Gb/s peak data-rate WDM-enabled 5G FiWi network targeted for Hot-Spot areas and being evaluated in field-trial experiments at the stadium of P.A.O.K. F.C. in Thessaloniki, Greece.

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

ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS

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Kedea Building, Tritis Septemvriou, Aristotle Univ Campus
54636 Thessaloniki

Greece

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

EU Contribution

€ 1 187 375

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Participants (15)

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ORANGE SA

France

EU Contribution

€ 156 975

MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD - MLNX

Israel

EU Contribution

€ 515 725

III-V LAB

France

EU Contribution

€ 605 157,50

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 832 435

COSMOTE KINITES TILEPIKOINONIES AE

Greece

EU Contribution

€ 281 575

IQUADRAT INFORMATICA SL

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 519 312,50

INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM

Belgium

EU Contribution

€ 354 575

INCELLIGENT IDIOTIKI KEFALAIOUCHIKIETAIREIA

Greece

EU Contribution

€ 323 750

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Greece

EU Contribution

€ 939 875

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 397 500

SIKLU COMMUNICATION LTD

Israel

EU Contribution

€ 568 925

PANTHESSALONIKIOS ATHLITIKOS OMILOS KONSTANTINOUPOLITON - PAOK PODOSFAIRIKI ANONIMI ETAIRIA

Greece

EU Contribution

€ 95 725

ERICSSON TELECOMUNICAZIONI SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 134 400

LIONIX INTERNATIONAL BV

Netherlands

EU Contribution

€ 747 985,88

TELECOM ITALIA SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 187 250

Project information

5G-PHOS

Grant agreement ID: 761989

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

31 August 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 9 621 446,25
EU contribution

€ 7 848 540,88

Coordinated by:

ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS

Greece

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - 5G-PHOS (5G integrated Fiber-Wireless networks exploiting existing photonic technologies for high-density SDN-programmable network architectures)

Reporting period: 2017-09-01 to 2018-10-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

5G-PHOS aims to develop novel 5th Generation (5G) broadband fronthaul architectures and evaluate them for Dense, Ultra-Dense and Hot-Spot areas exploiting the recent advances in optical technologies towards producing a powerful photonic integrated circuit technology toolkit. It aims to capitalize on novelties in Indium Phosphide (InP) transceiver, Triplex optical beamformers and multi-bitrate optical communications into next generation fronthaul in order to migrate from Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI)-based to integrated Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) packetized Centralized-Radio Access Network (C-RAN) fronthaul supporting Millimeter Wave (mmWave) massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (mMIMO) communications.

5G-PHOS expects to release a seamless, interoperable, Radio Access Technology (RAT)-agnostic and Software Defined Networking (SDN)-programmable FiWi 5th Generation (5G) network that supports 64x64 Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas in the V-band and offers a) up to 400 Gb/s wireless peak data rate in ultra-dense networks, adopting optical Spatial-Division-Multiplexed solutions on top of the emerging 25 Gb/s Passive Optical Network (PON) infrastructures, delivering a packetized integrated FiWi fronthaul network and b) 100 Gb/s wireless peak data rate in Hot-Spot areas, showcasing the benefits of Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology and packetized fronthauling in private C-RAN solutions. These blocks will be integrated towards architecting 5G networks for Ultra-Dense and Hot-Spot use cases, evaluating their performance in lab and field experiments at the Orange Labs in Lannion, France, the deployed network of Telecom Italia and Cosmote Greece, and at the stadium of P.A.O.K. F.C. in Thessaloniki, Greece.

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

5G-PHOS

Grant agreement ID: 761989

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

31 August 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 9 621 446,25
EU contribution

€ 7 848 540,88

Coordinated by:

ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Project Video Presentation

Website development and creation of social accounts

Documents, reports (5)

Report on 1st generation optical devices

Overall programmable SDN architecture requirements and design

Factsheet and project presentation

Initial Report on Use Cases, System requirements, KPIs and Network Architecture

Press Release and Communication Kit

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (4)

TDM-PON PAM Downstream Transmission for 25 Gbit/s and Beyond

Author(s): Sylvain Barthomeuf, Fabienne Saliou, Luiz Anet Neto, Philippe Chanclou, Didier Erasme

Published in: Photonics, Issue 5/4, 2018, Page(s) 45, ISSN 2304-6732

DOI: 10.3390/photonics5040045

Nonlinearity Tolerant High-speed DMT Transmission with 1.5-μm Single-mode VCSEL and Multi-core Fibers for Optical Interconnects

Author(s): Lu Zhang, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, Rui Lin, Xiaodan Pang, Aleksejs Udalcovs, Oskars Ozolins, Silvia Spiga, M. C. Amann, Geert Van Steenberge, Lin Gan, Ming Tang, Songnian Fu, Richard Schatz, Sergei Popov, Deming Liu, Weijun Tong, Shilin Xiao, Guy Torfs, Jiajia Chen, Johan Bauwelinck, Xin Yin

Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2018, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 0733-8724

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2018.2851746

Analog Radio-Over-Fiber Transceivers Based on III–V-on-Silicon Photonics

Author(s): K. Van Gasse, L. Bogaert, L. Breyne, J. Van Kerrebrouck, S. Dhoore, C. Op de Beeck, A. Katumba, C.-Y. Wu, H. Li, J. Verbist, A. Rahim, A. Abbasi, B. Moeneclaey, Z. Wang, H. Chen, J. Van Campenhout, X. Yin, B. Kuyken, G. Morthier, J. Bauwelinck, G. Torfs, G. Roelkens

Published in: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Issue 30/21, 2018, Page(s) 1818-1821, ISSN 1041-1135

DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2018.2867930

ATTO: Wireless Networking at Fiber Speed

Author(s): Guy Torfs, Haolin Li, Sam Agneessens, Johan Bauwelinck, Laurens Breyne, Olivier Caytan, Wout Joseph, Sam Lemey, Hendrik Rogier, Arno Thielens, Dries Vande Ginste, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, Gunter Vermeeren, Xin Yin, Piet Demeester

Published in: Journal of Lightwave Technology, Issue 36/8, 2018, Page(s) 1468-1477, ISSN 0733-8724

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2017.2783038

Other (1)

From Webscale to Telco, the Cloud Native Journey

Author(s): Sayadi, B., Stasinopoulos, N., Jammal, B. Al, Deiss, T., Ropodi, A., Fajjari, I., Patachia, C., Griffin, D., Breitgand, D., Martrat, J., Vilalta, R., Siddiqui, S., Baldoni, G

Published in: 2018

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1306414

Conference proceedings (2)

The Impact of 3D Beamforming MIMO on 5G Mobile Networks

Author(s): K. Filis, E. Theodoropoulou, I. Mesogiti and G. Lyberopoulos

Published in: EuCNC 2018, 2018

A six-channel mmWave/IFoF link with 24Gb/s Capacity for 5G Fronthaul Networks

Author(s): C. Vagionas, S. Papaioannou, G. Kalfas, N. Pleros, N. Argyris, K. Kanta, N. Iliadis, G. Giannoulis, D. Apostolopoulos and H. Avramopoulos

Published in: 2018 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP), 2018

DOI: 10.1109/MWP.2018.8552924

Project information

5G-PHOS

Grant agreement ID: 761989

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

31 August 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 9 621 446,25
EU contribution

€ 7 848 540,88

Coordinated by:

ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS

Project information

5G-PHOS

Grant agreement ID: 761989

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 September 2017
End date

31 August 2020

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 9 621 446,25
EU contribution

€ 7 848 540,88

Coordinated by:

ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS

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