SCOPE AND MOTIVATION
Some 5G use cases have been conducted intensively around the world. 5G aims to natively support enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine type communication (mMTC) and ultra- reliable low latency communication (URLLC) services in a single infrastructure. It brings enormous opportunities for many vertical sectors, such as, automobile, industry automation, media, and health, just to list a few, to expand and renew their business, or make it more efficient. To allow the coexistence of services with a very different nature, 5G has introduced innovations from spectrum access, air interface, system architecture, network function virtualization in radio and core network, end-to-end network slicing, security, privacy, service orchestration etc. All new 5G features and functions need to be extensively verified and optimized before the commercial rollout of 5G networks. It is essential to test 5G features in complex deployed environments, identifying and solving coverage, interoperability, compatibility and service provisioning problems, and to ensure that 5G can meet the requirements of the various vertical sectors. In particular, the support to vertical sector services will need new measurement and test methods. Due to the complexity of 5G systems, many practical and theoretical challenges will need to be verified and solved.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The symposium aims at providing a forum for industry and academics to disseminate new findings on 5G applications and 6G development requirements in vertical industries, as well as new business development. The symposium will call for papers presenting recent R&D results. The target topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to:
- 5G/6G research in automotive/ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) industry
- Spectrum
- 5G spectrum evaluation
- Spectrum sharing
- Security and privacy aspects
- 5G/6G business model
- Measurement and evaluation
- 5G new radio
- Radio access network
- Core network
- Backhaul
- Fronthaul
- NFV/SDN implementation
- Network slicing
- 5G/6G (pre-)standards and implementation
- Verticals and new services
- C-V2X
- Applications of mMTC
- Applications of URLLC
- New/innovative services enabled by 5G
- D2D communications
- Mobile edge computing
- Test result analysis
- Network deployment and optimization
- 5G network planning
- Network deployment optimization
- End-to-end performance optimization
SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS
- Meng Lu, IEEE ITSS/SC, The Netherlands
- Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum
- Eusebiu Catana, Consultant to the CEO, ERTICO
SYMPOSIUM PAPER SUBMISSION
All papers should be submitted via EDAS, Symposium on Cooperative and Automated Transportation – Challenges and Solutions. Full instructions on how to submit papers are provided on the IEEE FNWF 2024 website: https://fnwf2024.ieee.org/authors/information-authors
