WS4 – 5G Verticals: from 5G Trials towards 6G

Monday 13 September, 10:00-13:00 (UTC/GMT +3)

Scope 

Since 5G, mobile communication has stepped into a brand new era, in which, vertical industry sectors are considered as the essential 5G customers, e.g. automotive, manufacturing, healthcare, smart grid, mining, smart building, logistic, etc. In 3GPP release 16 and upcoming release 17, many technical features have been introduced especially to support vertical industry use cases, e.g. to support integration with TSN, vertical LAN, predictive Quality of Service (QoS), industrial positioning, etc. Even though 5G will still further evolve in the coming years, it is the right time to think and reflect what may happen in beyond 5G era. Global 6G initiatives have been emerging. For instance, Europe has proposed the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking to conduct research on key technologies for next-generation mobile communications towards 6G. Many industry and academic players already announced their 6G visions. Therefore, it is important to reflect the current vertical adoption based on 5G system and bring the lessons learned for 6G. This workshop aims to bring together the academia researchers as well as industry experts, in order to share their recent findings, especially on the topic how to take verticals from 5G towards 6G. This workshop would like to encourage academic researchers and industry experts to share their experience especially from vertical perspective.  

The potential topics include, but are not limited to: 

• Challenging vertical use cases and requirements for 6G 
• Integrated communication and sensing  
• 6G enabling technologies and 6G radio building blocks (waveform, coding and modulation)  
• 6G network architecture 
• Quality of service (QoS) framework for 6G  
• Network operation, admission, management automation (e.g. based on AI)   
• New human-machine interface and new material enabled by 6G  
• Cooperative communication and device-to-device communication 
• Cooperative drones and robots, swarm drones and robots   
• Ultra-high accuracy and low power positioning technology  
• Industry use cases proof of concept with beyond 5G technologies   
• Passive IoT  
• Exploiting artificial intelligence techniques to enable use cases requiring ultra-high reliability and ultra-low latency communication (e.g. motion control) 
• Etc. 

Workshop chairs / organizers 

General Chair(s) 

• Dr. Egon Schulz, Huawei Technologies, Germany, egon.schulz@huawei.com
• Dr. Krister Landernäs, ABB, Sweden, krister.landernas@se.abb.com
• Prof. Roberto Verdone, University of Bologna, Italy,  roberto.verdone@unibo.it
• Istiak Hossain, Ericsson, Sweden, istiak.hossain@ericsson.com
• Dr. Andreas Müller, Bosch, Germany,  andreas.mueller21@de.bosch.com
• Prof. Christoph Thümmler, Leipzig Park Klinikum, Germany,  Christoph.Thuemmler@helios-gesundheit.de  
• Prof. Hans Schotten, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, schotten@dfki.uni-kl.de

Technical Program Committee Chairs 

• Prof. Jose F. Monserrat, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• Prof. Nancy Alonistioti, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Prof. Rui Aguiar, IT – Aveiro, Portugal
• Joseph Eichinger, Huawei Technologies, Germany

Program 

“Opening remark from Representative of General Chairs”
Dr. Egon Schulz, Huawei Technologies

Workshop Keynotes 

Keynote 1: “Do verticals really need yet another G?”
Monday 13 September, 10:05-10:40 (UTC/GMT +3)
Dr. Andreas Müller, Bosch, Germany

Keynote 2: “A new G for new verticals?”
Monday 13 September, 10:45-11:20 (UTC/GMT +3)
Prof. Roberto Verdone, Università di Bologna, Italy

Closing remarks
Dr. Afif Osseiran,  Ericsson, Sweden

Panel Discussion

“How to Take Industry from 5G towards 6G”

Monday 13 September, 11:30-13:00 (UTC/GMT +3)

Abstract:
Since 5G, mobile communication has stepped into a brand new era, in which, vertical industry sectors are considered as the essential 5G customers, e.g. automotive, manufacturing, healthcare, smart grid, mining, smart building, logistic, etc. In 3GPP release 16 and upcoming release 17, many technical features have been introduced especially to support vertical industry use cases, e.g. to support integration with TSN, vertical LAN, predictive QoS, industrial positioning, etc. Even though 5G will still further evolve in the coming years, it is the right time to think and reflect what may happen in beyond 5G era. Global 6G initiatives have been emerging. For instance, Europe has proposed the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking to conduct research on key technologies for next-generation mobile communications towards 6G. Many industry and academic players already announced their 6G visions. Therefore, it is important to reflect the current vertical adoption based on 5G system and bring the lessons learned for 6G. In this panel, we will invite panelist from both industry sectors and academic fields to discuss what the view of industrial players is in terms of 6G. Are they ready to begin to discuss 6G? What are the key research challenges that cannot be tackled by 5G, so we will bring them to 6G? Which kinds of role verticals shall play in the entire 6G ecosystem?

Moderator

Joseph Eichinger
Huawei Technologies

Panel Members