The 5G-VICTORI consortium concluded on June 27th in Patras, Greece, its ultimate Field Trials and, as the last event of the project, a Workshop dedicated to 5G and vertical industries was held in Athens, Greece on June 28th. These two events spanned from Monday, June 26th, to Wednesday, June 28th. During the first two days, […]
The 5G-VICTORI consortium will gather in Patras and Athens from Monday, June 26th, to Wednesday, June 28th, to conduct their ultimate Field Trials and a workshop dedicated to 5G and vertical industries. During the first two days, the consortium will convene at the University of Patras, joined by representatives from the European Commission. Their objective […]
5G PPP Test Measurements and Validation Working Group released its conclusive White Paper on Key Performance Indicators measured in advanced 5G Trial Sites of 5G PPP Phase III projects. 5G-VICTORI was one of the 15 projects bringing in insights on 5G capabilities and performance captured in Alba Julia, Bristol, Berlin and Patras trial sites! Enjoy […]
The 5G-VICTORI project returns to the EuCNC & 6G Summit, taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden, from June 6th to 9th, 2023. The project will have a dedicated booth in the exhibition area where a series of demos will be showcased, demonstrating how open and multi-technology 5G infrastructures can be exploited in support of vertical industry […]
The 5G-VICTORI project held its Technical Coordination Meeting #7 at Deutsche Bahn premises in Berlin on 24th April. After some technical presentations on the evolution of the work and the remaining work to be done during the last two months of the project, we triggered the 5G-VICTORI Workshop on Sustainable Business Modelling Design, chaired by […]
The FOKUS Media Web Symposium (MWS) is an annual international conference organized by 5G-VICTORI project partner Fraunhofer FOKUS that brings together over 200 participants from all over the world to discuss internet-based media delivery. The symposium covers technical aspects, trends, and business-related aspects. This year’s symposium will take place on June 13-14, and it will […]
The 5G-VICTORI project recently made a significant contribution to the 5GPPP’s Software Networks Working Group white paper on Network Applications. Digital Catapult, a partner in the 5G-VICTORI project, contributed a section on 5G-VIOS and other introduction sections to the paper. The white paper, titled “Network Applications: Opening up 5G and beyond networks“, discusses the different […]
On Wednesday, November 30th, our colleague Kostas Katsaros (Digital Catapult) gave a virtual presentation on the Standardization Activities of 5G-VICTORI at the IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking held in Thessaloniki, Greece. The IEEE Standards Thessaloniki Summit 2022 is part of a successful series of 5G Summits that have been held since 2015 […]
On 4th October, the 5G-VICTORI team performed a successful field trial in Bristol (UK) showcasing the UC #1.2: Digital Mobility (Bristol) A total of three applications were showcased, each involving the provision of a different service: App1: Mativision Immersive media and AR/VR services to travellers App2: Mativision VR Multicamera Live streaming at University of Bristol […]
Our latest video gives an overview of the Use Case #3, its capabilities and the results of the field trial. The demonstration presents an extension of the streaming CDN services to trains, by equipping them with caches filled with content via mmWave wireless data links, allowing large amounts of media data to be transferred between […]
Eurecom colleagues, Navid Nikaein and Sofia Pison, together with the Orange Romania team are providing a demonstration of an all-in-one 5G SA in a box solution at the 5G-VICTORI Exhibitor (booth #41) at the EuCNC & 6G Summit 2022. It is based on an OpenAirInterface CU+DU with 2×2 MIMO COTS RU interconnected with a COTS […]
5GPPP TMV has published a new white paper, the main objective of which is to present the current view of B5G and 6G KPIs from 5G PPP phase III projects with a focus on projects of the ICT-52 call. The document provides an overview of KPIs based on B5G use cases and visions and an […]
From June 7th to 10th, 5G-VICTORI will be in Grenoble to demonstrate its technological developments. Under the theme “Connectivity for a Sustainable World”, the 2022 edition of the EuCNC & 6G Summit will focus on various aspects of 5G and 6G communications systems and networks, including cloud and virtualisation solutions, management technologies, hardware components and […]
From May 10th to 12th, 5G-VICTORI partner PaxLife Innovations participated in IT-Trans 2022, an international conference and exhibition on IT solutions for Public Transport held in Karlsruhe, Germany. For three days, Karlsruhe was the melting pot for 6,500 public transport professionals from 71 countries, 800 conference delegates, 180 speakers, and 276 exhibitors The event welcomed […]
On April 15th – 17th, IPTO’s Department of Research Technology and Development participated as a major sponsor in the 13th Greek Electrical and Computer Engineering Students Conference (ECESCON), organized by the University of Patras (UoP). ECESCON targets to build a competitive and trusted ecosystem for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Students to explore the state-of-the-art […]
Dr. Louay Bassbouss (Fraunhofer FOKUS) has been in Las Vegas showing the 5G-VICTORI “Network Assisted Edge Rendering utilizing 5G MEC and Network Slicing” at the NAB Show 2022, which took place from April 23 to 27, 2022 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The application runs on top of the Fraunhofer FOKUS FAME 5G Media […]
In the context of the 5G VICTORI WP4 work, the University of Thessaly (UTH) managed to achieve interconnection with the Patras University (UoP) cloud and test under controlled real settings the implementation of the mobility management solution that is under development and will be deployed in the eMBB Rail use case. The proposed mobility management […]
The 6th 5G-VICTORI Plenary Meeting took place last week (15/16/17/18.02) in an online fashion. Being 2022 a key year for initial demonstration of the 5G-VICTORI use cases involving vertical industries, the meeting revolved around the mapping of the vertical services onto the 5G-VICTORI 5G architecture and the different facilities reported about the 5G infrastructures’ installation […]
Within the 5G Lab infrastructure, Orange Romania sets a new national premiere by running the first data calls implemented via uRLLC (Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications) and eMBB (Enhanced Mobile Broadband). This was done on the 5G StandAlone (5G SA) network, based on the core component of the 5G Standalone Private Mobile Radio infrastructure. Thus, we […]
Zeetta Networks on January 17th 2022, demonstrated their new multi-domain orchestration solution from a cloud active, AWS hosted environment controlling various on-premises solutions located in different buildings. This product calls through to Zeetta’s established Zeetta Automate product installed in each domain. This diagram shows the network topology for two Layer 3 slices created across separate […]
Last week Urban Hawk signed their Heads of Agreement with a group of private investors to secure the necessary funding for the roll out of their future mobility service in the UK nationwide. “We are extremely encouraged by the multi million deal and will do everything in our power to take multi modal travel experience to […]
In the context of 5G-VICTORI project, University of Patras (UOP) seeks to expand the Patras5G indoor network and reach out to various verticals in their premises over the Patras area in order to ensure that co design and co development of unique tailor-made services will be tested at large scale. As far as the deployment […]
Built on its Polaron World Engine, major transport infrastructure such as railway stations and travel hubs are digitised in 10 cm spatial resolution in 3D with the help of Lidar and an array of depth cameras. So called digital twins of the station areas are generated. The overall goal is to gain improved situational awareness, […]
The latest edition of the ‘5G-PPP Infrastructure -Trials and Pilots’ brochure featured 5G-VICTORI’s Digital Mobility: Public Safety, Security and Infotainment Pilot among the latest PPP Trials & Pilots achievements. The pilot has been deployed this year in the Romanian facility in Alba Iulia with the aim to increase safety and comfort for citizens. The trial […]
Nvidia enlisted Urban Hawk and the Polaron Voxel Engine among their early adopters of their AI-driven super-resolution pipeline called DLSS. Robert Sugar, CEO and Founder of Urban Hawk stated, “It is exciting to see Nvidia again supporting one of my businesses beyond the game development era.”
On 21st May 2021 the 5G-PPP TB eWorkshop was held, where Mrs Hanne-Stinne Hallingby (Telenor S.A., on behalf of Full5G, also active in 5G-VINNI, 5G-HEART, and 5G-SOLUTIONS), and Ioanna Mesogiti (COSMOTE S.A., on behalf of 5G-VICTORI Project) presented the 5G Ecosystems vision reflecting the work of the Vision and Societal Challenges Working Group – Business […]
One of the Use Cases of the 5G-VICTORI project is the Digital Mobility Use Case. The main objective of this Use Case is to develop a common framework for innovative mobility applications and services. With the help of three distinct Applications, this Use Case will demonstrate how the E2E 5GUK platform can be configured on […]
The new era of media streaming Media consumption patterns are changing dramatically. Traditional linear TV is experiencing a significant decline and shift in viewership towards streaming platforms. In the United States, according to a study from Nielsen “overall streaming is now 25% Of TV viewing”. Likewise in Europe, numerous launches of international and national direct-to-consumer […]
After more than 20 years of the GSM-R success story, it is now time for the next generation of rail mobile communication technology and for the successor of GSM-R – FRMCS (Future Railway Mobile Communication System). The rail industry started to work on the introduction of FRMCS for rail customers in Europe several years ago. […]
The 2021 Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit, initiated this year, builds on putting together two successful conferences in the area of telecommunications: EuCNC (European Conference on Networks and Communications), in its 30th edition of a series, supported by the European Commission; the 6G Summit, in its 3rd edition, originated from the 6G Flagship programme in […]
Facing increasing energy demand that is driven by digitalization and a growing ICT sector, the European Commission presented the European Green Deal for a sustainable EU economy in December 2019. It focuses on three goals: zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, decoupling economic growth from resource consumption, and that no one, neither people nor […]
The research paper “Session Management across Heterogeneous Wireless Technologies in a Rail Transport Environment” has been awarded the 2nd Runners-up Award 2021 at the IEEE 5G for Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) held on May 11-12. The paper is co-written by Panagiotis Karamichailidis, Nikos Makris, Paris Flegkas, Thanasis Korakis (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece), Anna […]
The Media industry is gradually finding a fertile environment and expanding its offerings over transportation means. More and more transport organizations have started to integrate media services into their operation, with notable examples being the infotainment and the safety/security scenarios. In the context of 5G-VICTORI, the provisioning of Media services for these two scenarios will […]
Network slicing is widely considered as one of the main drivers fostering the adoption of 5G technologies. In particular, the unique capabilities offered by network slices are expected to play a relevant role in the path towards new business models based on infrastructure sharing (such as Neutral Hosting) and on-demand provisioning of Network as a […]
Within the 5G-VICTORI project, the Fraunhofer FOKUS Business Units Software-based Networks (NGNI) and Future Application and Media (FAME) work on optimizing the media delivery in 5G networks in mobile environments (railways) to support applications like “Data Shower”, “Digital Mobility” and “(Rail) Critical Services”. 5G Testbeds for research The Fraunhofer FOKUS business unit Software-based Networks (NGNI) […]
5G is becoming the established wireless networking technology in many vertical applications in industry I4.0, ranging from energy, media, and transportation to digital society. Many industrial enterprises opt for a private network deployment using 4G LTE/LTE-A to support industrial enterprise key business drivers including (a) guaranteed and customized network SLA and KPIs (reliability, latency, availability, […]
5G and subsequent generations of connectivity, compared to the current network technologies such as LTE or WIFI, promise higher bit rates, higher terminal densities per radio cell, lower latencies, longer battery life, and better interoperability with other wireless network technologies. With these outstanding features, 5G bears the potential to become an essential enabling technology for […]
On December 17, Ziarul Financiar—the leading Romanian financial newspaper—published the article ‘5G – internetul oamenilor, al afacerilor şi al lucrurilor‘ (5G – the internet of people, business and things) where 5G-VICTORI activities are mentioned among the contributions of our partner Orange Romania to 5G-PPP/H2020 projects. Read the article (in Romanian) here.
The demonstration and performance evaluation of Media Services over various 5G network deployments tailored to the railway environment is in the focus of 5G-VICTORI in the context of two attractive and yet realistic scenarios of service provisioning not only statically at the train station but also in conditions of mobility while the train is on […]
The air-interface for radio communication in general is the scarce resource in our society. Many kinds of vertical service traditionally need their own radio communication solution. Trains use typically GSM-R, Voice use 3G or 4G, Power meter readings use GSM or low bitrate long range solutions, Taxi cars use their own radio – the list […]
Mosaic5G is holding a virtual workshop on December 3rd, 2020, to inform the community about the latest status and usage of Mosaic5G platforms and its roadmap for future development. 5G-VICTORI partner Orange Romania will participate with the presentation entitled ‘5G-VICTORI verticals experimented in Romania on top of open-source 5G platforms‘ (9:40-10:00 am.) The workshop will […]
Starting with 2019, the Municipality of Alba Iulia began implementing the benefits of the 5G infrastructure in relation to two main development areas in the city: mobility and energy. Together with Orange Romania, Urban Hawk Limited, Orange France, and all other partners in the consortium Alba Iulia will test the benefits of the following use cases: […]
Our colleague Kostas Katsaros, senior 5G technologist at Digital Catapult, was recently interviewed by A10 Networks as part of their “5G: Secure What Matters” blog post series. Regarding the impact of 5G on the future of mobility, Katsaros said: ” With 8 billion passengers travelled on national railway networks in the EU-27 in 2018, getting proper […]
As part of the 22nd INFOCOM World Conference on Friday, November 6, 5G-VICTORI participated in a special workshop on “European Research Projects as a ‘Driving Force’ for successful Design, Development and Deployment of 5G Networks and Applications” organized by OTE/ COSMOTE. The presentation, entitled “5G-VICTORI – 5G Networks for Future Railway Communications and Media Industries”, […]
The main objective of the “Digitization of Power Plants” Use Case is to extend the capabilities of the Patras 5G-VINNI facility to support Smart Factory services of diverse KPIs and requirements, such as preventive maintenance and monitoring of critical infrastructures, over a private 5G network. ADMIE, the Independent Power Transmission Operator of Greece, provides its […]
Update 17 October 2020: You can catch up with the recording below: Organised by the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications of NCSR Demokritos in the frame of EU projects 5GENESIS and 5G!Drones and with the support of the 5G-PPP partnership, the workshop “5G Experimentation Facilities and Vertical Trials: Current Status and Future Perspectives” will be […]
Digital Catapult, UK’s leading advanced digital technology innovation centre, is a collaborative partner on the 5G-VICTORI project and aims to showcase how advanced 5G technology can transform services in dynamic and diverse environments. Digital Catapult will design the 5G VICTORI Operation System (5G-VIOS) that enables the dynamic interconnection of these multiple 5G testbeds, as well […]
The main objective of 5G-VICTORIS’s Digital Mobility Use Case is to develop a common framework for innovative mobility applications and services. In this use case, it will be demonstrated how the E2E 5GUK platform can be on the fly configured to provide Application 1 (Immersive media services to travelers arriving at Bristol), Application 2 (VR […]
Dr.Navid Nikaein, researcher at our project partner EURECOM, detailed the challenges faced by 5G-VICTORI in an interview to Institut Mines-Telecom (I’MTech), a public institution dedicated to Higher Education and Research for Innovation in the fields of engineering and digital technology. Read the interview here.
The 5G-VICTORI use case “Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) under High Speed Mobility” will extend the capabilities of the Patras 5G-VINNI facility to demonstrate eMBB functionality through heterogeneous access technologies for on-board network connectivity in a railway setup. Both business (e.g. infotainment services to passengers) and critical operations services will be provided over a unified, orchestrated […]
Do you use public transport? How do you consume media content while travelling on it? Our partner RBB is conducting a public survey to get quantitative feedback on the media usage in public transportation. Share your experience (it will take you no longer than 5 minutes) to help us understand your needs! This survey is […]
5G-VICTORI Coordinator, Jesús Gutiérrez (IHP), will present the 5G Berlin Platform on Thursday 7 November The 2019 edition of the FRAUNHOFER FUSECO FORUM (FFF) is returning to Berlin on 7-8 November, with a complete programme of activities, including hands-on live demonstration and in-depth technical discussions with leading operators, manufacturers, integrators, as well as various industry […]
Large scale trials for Railway, Energy, Media and Factories of the Future planned 5G-VICTORI is funded by the EU program Horizon 2020 with around 13.5 Mio EUR. It runs over a period of three years and started on 1st of June, 2019. The 5G-VICTORI consortium came together last week for the project’s kick-off meeting in […]
This project has been funded by the European Commission as part of the H2020 program, under the grant agreement 857201.
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