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PriMO-5G mmWave Beam Management Demonstrator by NI

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:54:42 +0000

The goal of the PriMO-5G project is to demonstrate an end-to-end 5G system providing immersive video services for moving objects. As a result, millmetre wave (mmWave) beam management is required to have stable communication links. One of the objectives of project partner NI within the PriMO-5G project was to design a mmWave transceiver and to demonstrate mmWave Beam Management Prototyping using NI’s PXIe and USRP components. To that end, NI has released a that video gives an introduction to the topic and shares some insights from an experimental demo that involves a remotely controlled robot connected by a mmWave link.

Video available here on project’s YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/pTifeDY44g4

Experimental setup of the NI beam management demo

PriMO-5G system demos described in a recently released released delivarable

Sat, 21 Aug 2021 12:33:07 +0000

PriMO-5G project has been to developing system demonstrators withing (and between) Europe and Korea. In all cases, these end-to-end system demo scenarios have been specified and mapped to PriMO-5G firefighting scenarios (forest/rural and urban scenarios) and their respective use cases. Interestingly, some of the implementations considered in the firefighting also inspired the project to experimentally demonstrate an intercontinental manufacturing demo!

To that end, the PriMO-5G project has released a deliverable report presenting details on the demo background, integration steps and an evaluation report with the results underpinned by key performance indicators (KPIs) relevant for the firefighting use cases. Many of the demos described in the deliverable were also presented as live or pre-recorded videos at various dissemination events.

Welcome to find out more by checking PriMO-5G D5.3 Final report – End-to-end immersive demonstrations

PriMO-5G conference presentation and invited talk at IMS 2021

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 15:01:56 +0000

The PriMO-5G project will have prominent presence at the upcoming International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2021 . The IMS event was first hosted by the Professional Group of Microwave Theory and Techniques (PGMTT). This group was founded in 1952 as a part of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), due to a growing interest in the field of microwave research. The event has only continued to grow since then. In previous edition in 2019, IMS boasted almost 9500 attendees from more than 50 countries around the world, as well as a record breaking 650 exhibiting companies, making it the largest event dedicated to the radio frequency and microwave industry in the world.

The current IMS and Microwave Week will be presented in-person in Atlanta, GA, USA, (7-10 June 2021) and also as a virtual event (20-25 June 2021). PriMO-5G project will be represented by NI in following disseminations:

Conference Paper at In person Event 7-10 June
- A. Gaber, A. Nahler, W. Nitzold, and M. Anderseck “USRP-based mmWave Prototyping Architecture with Real-Time RF Control”.
Invited Talk at Virtual Event 20-25 June
- Workshop title: Beamforming in Massive MIMO for Millimeter-Wave New Radio
- Talk Title in this workshop: “Beam Management Prototyping for mmWave 5G NR” presented by A. Gaber.

Additional info on the IMS 2021 events available at: https://ims-ieee.org/

PriMO-5G co-organises and presents at EuCNC 2021 Workshop

Sun, 30 May 2021 15:06:47 +0000

PriMO-5G project will co-organise and give invited presentation at EuCNC 2021 Workshop on “5G Non-Public Networks (5G-NPNs)” on 8th June 2021. The PriMO-5G presentation titled “On the Role of 5G NPNs for Mission Critical Services” will be given by Dr. Ki Won Sung of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Participation to EuCNC 2021 (including workshop aboce) is open and free (except for presenting authors of regular papers). Registration link here.

PriMO-5G Workshop to be held at JCCi Conference 2021

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 07:09:39 +0000

The PriMO-5G project organising a workshop to be held at the 31st Joint Conference on Communications and Information (JCCi) 2021 conference on Thursday 29/04/2021. The conference will be held both as a virtual event and physical event at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Haeundae, Busan.

The PriMO-5G workshop is under sessions SPT33 and SPT43 and will showcase latest developments from the final year of the project (see schedule below). The presentations will also be made available on the PriMO-5G website at a later date.

Central European Summer Time (CEST)	Korea Standard Time (KST)	PriMO-5G Workshop Presentations
06:30 – 06:50	13:30 – 13:50	Welcome message from Coordinators Introductory presentation: Seong-Lyun Kim & Riku Jantti (Yonsei University & Aalto University), “PriMO-5G: Overview and its Impacts to B5G”
06:50 – 07:10	13:50 – 14:10	Ki Won Sung (KTH, Sweden), “PriMO-5G: Scenarios & Regulations”
07:10 – 07:30	14:10 – 14:30	Jose Costa-Requena (Cumucore, Finland), “5G MEC to Drones”
07:30 – 07:50	14:30 – 14:50	Chan-Byoung Chae & Toktam Mahmoodi (Yonsei University & King’s College London, UK), “Enabling Technologies to B5G”
07:50 – 08:00	14:50 – 15:00	Break
08:00 – 08:20	15:00 – 15:20	Hyuncheol Park, Joongheon Kim, Seong-Lyun Kim (KAIST, Korea University, Yonsei University), “AI-Enabled MEC/UAV Networks”
08:20 – 08:50	15:20 – 15:50	Edward Mutafungwa (Aalto, Finland), “PriMO-5G Testbeds” – Includes video(s) of demos
08:50 – 09:20	15:50 – 16:20	Anders Nordlöw (Ericsson, Sweden), “Visions and Technologies beyond PriMO-5G”
09:20 – 09:50	16:20 – 16:50	Open discussion (or panel discussion) and closing

PriMO-5G research results on AI and edge computing showcased in recent deliverable

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 22:11:50 +0000

A deliverable released from PriMO-5G project titled D4.3 Final report on AI-assisted networking and edge computing provides insights on how AI and edge computing supports PriMO-5G firefighting use cases. Specifically the deliverable report brought together AI-assisted solutions, tools, and architectural components that can be used to make possible or enhance wireless communication technologies that support immersive video services for moving objects (e.g. drones), or techniques and methodologies to deploy AI algorithms needed for objected detection and image classification of visual data possibly delivered from edge-enabled nodes to AR/VR terminals via 5G networks.

The complete version of the deliverable is available for download from this link.

PriMO-5G Releases Deliverable on Spectrum and Economic Aspects

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 10:35:59 +0000

The PriMO-5G project has recently released a deliverable D1.3 Spectrum Options and Economic Study that investigated the regulatory and economic aspects of the PriMO-5G use cases. This deliverable focuses on mission critical services and drones since these are the two main features of the PriMO-5G firefighting use cases. Regarding mission critical services, the contents include spectrum demand estimation for mission critical services, spectrum availability for public safety communications, feasibility of mission critical services in commercial mobile networks, and private networking via non-public network. As for drones, the deliverable discusses current regulation on drones, a novel scheme for low-latency spectrum access, and coexistence of drones with other services.

The complete version of the deliverable is available for download here.

Spectrum requirements for different Mission Critical (MC) services for a spectrum efficiency of 1.5 bps/Hz.

Researchers in PriMO-5G developed a new method of interpreting radio waves

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 13:21:16 +0000

In PriMO-5G project, researchers at Ericsson AB and KTH Royal Institute of Technology recently published a paper entitled “Geometric Sequence Decomposition with k-simplexes Transform”, where the authors present a mathematical method (abbreviated as GSD-ST) to separate a mix of geometric sequences into individual sequences. This work may look like a pure mathematical contribution, but it is highly relevant to PriMO-5G. It is because a radio wave can be described as a geometric sequence. If radio waves are non-orthogonally overlapped, these can be efficiently separated by GSD-ST.

GSD-ST is a versatile and powerful tool for many applications such as random access and channel estimation as illustrated in the figure below. Furthermore, the researchers expect that GSD-ST will be found useful for other fields in signal processing that are beyond the scope of the project.

Full paper available at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9214491 (open access)

Potential applications of the GSD-ST method

Researchers in PriMO-5G constructed 3D coverage map

Sun, 25 Oct 2020 16:55:30 +0000

Mobile network coverage maps have been a useful tool for depicting availability of 2G to 5G mobile services in different locations. Typically, these maps have been used to show mobile coverage in two dimensions (2D), as shown for instance in this map repository maintained by GSMA. These 2D are created by different approaches, including, walk or drive tests, crowdsourced data and radio proparation modelling tools.

The recent trend of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones utilising mobile network connectivity to relay high resolution aerial imagery has necessitated similar coverage to also depict network coverage in the sky, thus underscoring need for 3D coverage maps. As part of PriMO-5G experimentals activities, researchers at Yonsei University have used drone flight tests to construct 3D coverage maps of a local 5G testbed. The results of this work was presented at the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, in September 2020. You are invited to view the presentation of the work via the following YouTube link.

Full paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3372224.3418160

Algorithm-driven development of 3D coverage maps using drones

PriMO-5G Project Presented at 5GTNF Seminar

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 08:04:06 +0000

The PriMO-5G project was presented at the 5G Test Network Finland (5GTNF) results seminar was arranged on 28.8.2020 as virtual meeting. The goal of the event was to share information about key results related to 5G evolution based solutions for vertical industries and inform about 5GTNF utilization possibilities.

5G Test Network Finland is ecosystem for 5G and beyond technology and service development (this includes the PriMO-5G partners, Aalto University and Cumucore). 5GTNF activities include state-of-the-art technologies and support development of vertical trials in their real operational environments. To that end, the PriMO-5G presentation provided insights on the firefighting use cases and demo plans for the final year of the project.