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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (20)

Integration and system level testing of proof-of-concept phase 2

Integration and system level testing of proofofconcept phase 2

Report on exploitation Y2

Report on exploitation Y3

Report on exploitation third year activities

Mapping of multi-connectivity functions onto the 5G network architecture

Interference mitigation techniques

Implementation of the multi-RAT load balancing algorithms and technical specifications of the relevant interfaces

Implementation of the multiRAT load balancing algorithms and technical specifications of the relevant interfaces

Report on standardization activities Y2

Report on standardization activities second year

Integration and system level testing of proof-of-concept phase 1

Integration and system level testing of proofofconcept phase 1

Report on standardization activities Y1

Report on standardization activities first year

Dissemination activity report Y1

Dissemination activity report Y3

Dissemination activity report on thrid year activities

Dissemination plan, and project website

Integration and system level testing for European testbed of 5G cellular and satellite access networks

Report on standardization activities Y3

Report on standardization activities thrid year activities

Integration and system level testing for Korean multi-connectivity

Integration and system level testing for Korean multiconnectivity

Data management plan

Active management of digital data : continous saving through life cycle, findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable data

Business assessment for vertical markets empowerment

Interference analysis, spectrum harmonization and scheduling

Interference analysis spectrum harmonization and scheduling

Integration and system level testing for Korean testbeds of 5G cellular and satellite access networks

Design and simulation of the multi-RAT load balancing algorithms

Design and simulation of the multiRAT load balancing algorithms

Documents, reports (12)

5G ALL-STAR vision document: Vision, Scope and Goals

Dissemination activity report Y2

Dissemination activity report second year activities

Quality plan

Quality plan description and specification

5G ALL-STAR impact report and future EU-KR collaboration plan

5G ALLSTAR impact report and future EUKR collaboration plan

Final document of 5G ALL-STAR architecture, API, interface specifications and KPIs for PoC

Final document of service scenarios/applications for PoC

Final report

Standardization Action Plan

Spectrum usage analysis and channel model

Specification of the European testbed of 5G cellular and satellite access networks

Preliminary document of 5G ALL-STAR architecture, API and interface specifications

Plan for exploitation towards Vertical stakeholders

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

6G in the sky: On‐demand intelligence at the edge of 3D networks (Invited paper)

Author(s): Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Sergio Barbarossa, Taesang Choi, Antonio Pietrabissa, Alessandro Giuseppi, Emanuele De Santis, Josep Vidal, Zdenek Becvar, Thomas Haustein, Nicolas Cassiau, Francesca Costanzo, Junhyeong Kim, Ilgyu Kim
Published in: ETRI Journal, 42/5, 2020, Page(s) 643-657, ISSN 1225-6463
Publisher: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2020-0205

Design of cellular, satellite, and integrated systems for 5G and beyond

Author(s): Junhyeong Kim, Guido Casati, Nicolas Cassiau, Antonio Pietrabissa, Alessandro Giuseppi, Dong Yan, Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Marjorie Thary, Danping He, Ke Guan, Heesang Chung, Ilgyu Kim
Published in: ETRI Journal, 42/5, 2020, Page(s) 669-685, ISSN 1225-6463
Publisher: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2020-0156

Load Balancing for 5G Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks

Author(s): Syed Maaz Shahid, Yemane Teklay Seyoum, Seok Ho Won, and Sungoh Kwon
Published in: IEEE Access, 2020, Page(s) 132144-132156, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.3010059

Capacity-constrained Wardrop equilibria and application to multi-connectivity in 5G networks

Author(s): F. Delli Priscoli, E. De Santis, A. Giuseppi, A. Pietrabissa
Published in: Journal of the Franklin Institute, 358/17, 2021, Page(s) 9364-9384, ISSN 0016-0032
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2021.09.025

Performance analysis of satellite and terrestrial spectrum‐shared networks with directional antenna

Author(s): Jeong Seon Yeom, Gosan Noh, Heesang Chung, Ilgyu Kim, Bang Chul Jung
Published in: ETRI Journal, 42/5, 2020, Page(s) 712-720, ISSN 1225-6463
Publisher: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2020-0185

A Comprehensive Study on mmWave-Based Mobile Hotspot Network System for High-Speed Train Communications

Author(s): Junhyeong Kim, Mathis Schmieder, Michael Peter, Heesang Chung, Sung-Woo Choi, Ilgyu Kim, Youngnam Han
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 68/3, 2019, Page(s) 2087-2101, ISSN 0018-9545
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tvt.2018.2865700

6G: The Next Frontier

Author(s): Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Sergio Barbarossa, José Luis Gonzalez-Jimenez, Dimitri Kténas, Nicolas Cassiau, Luc Maret, Cédric Dehos
Published in: IEEE Vehicular Technology Communication Magazine, Special issue on 6G, 2019, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: IEEE

Wardrop Equilibrium in Discrete-Time Selfish Routing with Time-Varying Bounded Delays

Author(s): Alessandro Giuseppi, Antonio Pietrabissa
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 0018-9286
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2020.2981906

Chance-Constrained Control With Lexicographic Deep Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Alessandro Giuseppi, Antonio Pietrabissa
Published in: IEEE Control Systems Letters, 4/3, 2020, Page(s) 755-760, ISSN 2475-1456
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2020.2979635

Satellite‐Terrestrial Channel Characterization in High‐Speed Railway Environment at 22.6 GHz

Author(s): Lei Ma, Ke Guan, Dong Yan, Danping He, Nuno R. Leonor, Bo Ai, Junhyeong Kim
Published in: Radio Science, 55/3, 2020, ISSN 0048-6604
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2019rs006995

Efficient Groupcast Schemes for Vehicle Platooning in V2V Network

Author(s): Junhyeong Kim, Youngnam Han, Ilgyu Kim
Published in: IEEE Access, 7, 2019, Page(s) 171333-171345, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2955791

Channel Characterization for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications in Millimeter-Wave Band

Author(s): Dong Yan, Ke Guan, Danping He, Bo Ai, Zan Li, Junhyeong Kim, Heesang Chung, Zhangdui Zhong
Published in: IEEE Access, 8, 2020, Page(s) 42325-42341, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.2977208

Channel Characterization for Satellite Link and Terrestrial Link of Vehicular Communication in the mmWave Band

Author(s): Dong Yan, Haofan Yi, Danping He, Ke Guan, Bo Ai, Zhangdui Zhong, Junhyeong Kim, Heesang Chung
Published in: IEEE Access, 7, 2019, Page(s) 173559-173570, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2956821

Outage Analysis for Terrestrial-Satellite Spectrum Sharing

Author(s): Gosan Noh, Heesang Chung, Ilgyu Kim
Published in: IEEE Communications Letters, 2020, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 1089-7798
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/lcomm.2020.3006133

Characterization for the Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Channel in Urban and Highway Scenarios at the Terahertz Band

Author(s): Haofan Yi, Ke Guan, Danping He, Bo Ai, Jianwu Dou, Junhyeong Kim
Published in: IEEE Access, 7, 2019, Page(s) 166984-166996, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2953890

A supervised-learning-based spatial performance prediction framework for heterogeneous communication networks

Author(s): Shubhabrata Mukherjee, Taesang Choi, Md Tajul Islam, Baek-Young Choi, Cory Beard, Seuck Ho Won, Sejun Song
Published in: ETRI Journal, 2020, Page(s) 686-699, ISSN 1225-6463
Publisher: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
DOI: 10.4218/etrij.2020-0188

Conference proceedings (22)

FPGA Implementation of a Wideband Multi-Gb/s 5G BF-OFDM Transceiver

Author(s): Jean-Baptiste Dore, Marc Laugeois, Nicolas Cassiau, Xavier Popon
Published in: 2021 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2021, Page(s) 502-507, ISBN 978-1-6654-1526-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/eucnc/6gsummit51104.2021.9482424

A Distributed Reinforcement Learning approach for Power Control in Wireless Networks

Author(s): Antonio Ornatelli, Andrea Tortorelli, Francesco Liberati
Published in: 2021 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT), 2021, Page(s) 0275-0281, ISBN 978-1-6654-3568-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/aiiot52608.2021.9454208

Traffic Steering and Network Selection in 5G Networks based on Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Francesco Delli Priscoli, Alessandro Giuseppi, Francesco Liberati, Antonio Pietrabissa
Published in: 2020 European Control Conference (ECC), 2020, Page(s) 595-601, ISBN 978-3-90714-402-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/ecc51009.2020.9143837

Iterative MPC for Energy Management and Load Balancing in 5G Heterogeneous Networks

Author(s): Antonio Ornatelli, Andrea Tortorelli, Alessandro Giuseppi
Published in: 2020 11th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), 2020, Page(s) 0467-0471, ISBN 978-1-7281-9656-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/uemcon51285.2020.9298113

Air Interface Challenges and Solutions for future 6G

Author(s): J. B. Doré, E. Calvanese Strinati, B. Miscopein, D. Kténas, S. Barbarossa
Published in: Networks 6G Summit 2019, 2019
Publisher: IEEE

Multi-Connectivity in 5G terrestrial-Satellite Networks: the 5G-ALLSTAR Solution

Author(s): Federico Lisi, Giacinto Losquadro, Francesco Delli Priscoli, Antonio Ornatelli, Manuel Donsante
Published in: 25th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference, 2019
Publisher:  Ka and Broadband Communications, Navigation and Earth Observation Conference

Channel Characteristics in Rural Railway Environment at 28 GHz

Author(s): Longhe Wang, Bo Ai, Ke Guan, Danping He, Zhangdui Zhong, Junhyeong Kim
Published in: 2018 16th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems Telecommunications (ITST), 2018, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-5386-5544-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/itst.2018.8566834

Realistic Channel Characterization for 5G Millimeter-Wave Railway Communications

Author(s): Ke Guan, Danping He, Bo Ai, Andrei Hrovat, Junhyeong Kim, Zhangdui Zhong, Thomas Kurner
Published in: 2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-4920-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/glocomw.2018.8644076

Millimeter-Wave Communications for Smart Rail Mobility: From Channel Modeling to Prototyping

Author(s): Ke Guan, Danping He, Bo Ai, Bile Peng, Andrej Hrovat, Junhyeong Kim, Zhangdui Zhong, Thomas Kurner
Published in: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2019, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-7281-2373-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/iccw.2019.8757021

Current Development of Vector Tracking Loops for Stand-Alone GNSS Receivers in Urban Canyons

Author(s): Hung Pham-Viet, Sungoh Kwon, Seok Ho Won
Published in: KICS Winter Conference 2019, 2019
Publisher: KICS

A Spatially Consistent Geometric D2D Small-Scale Fading Model for Multiple Frequencies

Author(s): Stephan Jaeckel, Leszek Raschkowski, Frank Burkhardt, Lars Thiele
Published in: 2019 IEEE 90th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2019-Fall), 2019, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-7281-1220-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/vtcfall.2019.8891407

5G-ALLSTAR: An Integrated Satellite-Cellular System for 5G and Beyond

Author(s): Junhyeong Kim, Guido Casati, Antonio Pietrabissa, Alessandro Giuseppi, Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Nicolas Cassiau, Gosan Noh, Heesang Chung, Ilgyu Kim, Marjorie Thary, Jean-Michel Houssin, Federico Pigni, Sylvain Colombero, Pierre Dal Zotto, Leszek Raschkowski, Stephan Jaeckel
Published in: 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW), 2020, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-7281-5178-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/wcncw48565.2020.9124751

Management and Orchestration Architecture for Integrated Access of Satellite and Terrestrial in 5G

Author(s): Taesang Choi, Seok Ho Won, Alessandro Giuseppi, Antonio Pietrabissa, Sungoh Kwon
Published in: 2020 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), 2020, Page(s) 40-45, ISBN 978-1-7281-4199-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icoin48656.2020.9016484

Satellite and Terrestrial Multi-Connectivity for 5G: Making Spectrum Sharing Possible

Author(s): Nicolas Cassiau, Gosan Noh, Stephan Jaeckel, Leszek Raschkowski, Jean-Michel Houssin, Laurent Combelles, Marjorie Thary, Junhyeong Kim, Jean-Baptiste Dore, Marc Laugeois
Published in: 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW), 2020, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-7281-5178-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/wcncw48565.2020.9124728

A Study on Frequency Planning of MN System for 5G Vehicular Communications

Author(s): Junhyeong Kim, Sung-Woo Choi, Gosan Noh, Heesang Chung, Ilgyu Kim
Published in: 2019 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), 2019, Page(s) 1442-1445, ISBN 978-1-7281-0893-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ictc46691.2019.8939787

Characterization for High-Speed Railway Channel enabling Smart Rail Mobility at 22.6 GHz

Author(s): Lei Ma, Ke Guan, Dong Yan, Danping He, Bo Ai, Junhyeong Kim, Heesang Chung
Published in: 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2020, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-7281-3106-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/wcnc45663.2020.9120474

Network Selection in 5G Networks Based on Markov Games and Friend-or-Foe Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Alessandro Giuseppi, Emanuele De Santis, Francesco Delli Priscoli, Seok Ho Won, Taesang Choi, Antonio Pietrabissa
Published in: 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW), 2020, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-7281-5178-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/wcncw48565.2020.9124723

Millimeter-Wave Channel Characterization for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication

Author(s): Lina Wu, Danping He, Ke Guan, Bo Ai, Junhyeong Kim, Heesang Chung
Published in: 2020 14th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2020, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-88-31299-00-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/eucap48036.2020.9136022

User-aware centralized resource allocation in heterogeneous networks

Author(s): Antonio Ornatelli, Alessandro Giuseppi, Vincenzo Suraci, Andrea Tortorelli
Published in: 2020 28th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2020, Page(s) 292-298, ISBN 978-1-7281-5742-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/med48518.2020.9183080

Design and Simulation of the Multi-RAT Load-balancing Algorithms for 5G-ALLSTAR Systems

Author(s): Alessandro Giuseppi; Syed Maaz Shahid; Emanuele De Santis; Seok Ho Won; Sungoh Kwon; Taesang Choi
Published in: 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), 1, 2020, ISSN 2162-1233
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ictc49870.2020.9289485

Hierarchical RL for Load Balancing and QoS Management in Multi-Access Networks

Author(s): Antonio Ornatelli, Andrea Tortorelli, Alessandro Giuseppi, Francesco Delli Priscoli
Published in: 2021 29th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2021, Page(s) 886-891, ISBN 978-1-6654-2258-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/med51440.2021.9480246

Demonstration of Service Continuity Based on Multi-Connectivity with Cellular and Satellite Access Networks

Author(s): Heesang Chung; Junhyeong Kim; Gosan Noh; Seok Ho Won; Taesang Choi; Ilgyu Kim
Published in: 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ictc52510.2021.9621102