In this piece, we look back at highlights among all events 5G-STARDUST’s partners have been attended – or co-organised – after the participation to FOKUS FUSECO Forum in November 2024, until the end of the year.
SatNEx V School
5G-STARDUST’s partner Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) was in charge of organising the flagship Satellite Network of Experts School (SatNEx V), supported by the European Space Agency and co-organized by Teleco Renta, the Spanish plan for the promotion of telecommunications studies in Spain (PPET), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation through PRTR and the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
The school, which took place in Barcelona, Spain, within November 11-14, was designed for early-stage researchers and industry professionals, including PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, who are interested in exploring the latest advancements in satellite communications and their applications. The Satellite Network of Experts School will combine lectures from leading academics and industry experts around different topics like deep space, aeronautical, 6G NTN or AI activities among others.
The CTTC partners also held a talk at the event, entitled “Performance Evaluation of 3GPP Release 17 Non-Terrestrial Networks: A debrief”, which consisted in a joint presentation for 5G-STARDUST and fellow EU-funded research project TRANTOR.
FIDAL Workshop
FIDAL is a project seeking to set the standard by fostering open architectures, large experimentation sites, and adopting a multi-stakeholder approach. Following this objective, the project is targeting the augmentation of human capabilities, enabling Media & Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) vertical industry players to carry out advanced technological and business validation in large-scale trial facilities of highly innovative and advanced applications, which take full advantage of Evolved 5G technologies.
Within the context of such activities, FIDAL invited 5G-STARDUST’s Project Coordinator, Tomaso de Cola (DLR) to be part of their November 21 webinar, which delved into some examples of technological innovation for PPDR currently being explored within the SNS JU Community, which 5G-STARDUST belongs to.
Among the different technologies typologies explored beside NTN were AR, XR, UAV and technologies for situational awareness; joining the presenters’ line-up, fellow projects 6G-NTN, iSEE-6G, Imagine-B5G and RIGOUROUS.
IEEE Global Communications Conference
In early December, our partners flew to Cape Town, South Africa, to attend the 2024 edition of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Entitled “Connecting the Intelligent World through Africa”, the flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society featured a comprehensive high-quality technical program – which typically attracts around 3000 scientific researchers every year – including 13 symposia and a variety of tutorials and workshops. Those were also complemented by an attractive industry program, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry and government leaders, plus business and industry panels, and vendor exhibits.
5G-STARDUST partners DLR and CNIT – Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni teamed-up to co-organise there the successful in-event Workshop on Ubiquitous Intelligence-at-the-Edge for Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks (BRAIN), which took place on December 12. The workshop also saw CNIT and CTTC presenting their research conducted within the framework of the project.
Talking about new network integration perspectives in the context of IEEE’s INGR
This webinar, taking place on December 18, was organised by the IEEE International Network Generations Roadmap (INGR) Satellite Working Group of IEEE Future Networks, to bring together different angles on Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks integration for the future of 6G systems.
Bringing in 5G-STARDUST’s take was our partner Alessandro Guidotti of CNIT, through a presentation about “Evolving Non-Terrestrial Networks from 5G to 6G”.
The purpose of INGR is to stimulate an industry-wide dialogue to address the many facets and challenges of the development and deployment of 5G in a well-coordinated and comprehensive manner, while also looking beyond 5G by laying out a technology roadmap with 3-year, 5-year, and 10-year horizon. The Roadmap, created by experts across industry, government and academia, is designed to help guide operators, regulators, manufacturers, researchers, and other interested parties involved in developing these new communication technology ecosystems. Each chapter is peer-reviewed by internal industry experts, then sent out for external review by subject matter experts, and finally receives an editorial review before being finalized for publication.
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