“NetApps Enabling Application-Layer Analytics for Vertical IoT Industry” Journal Paper

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The EVOLVED-5G journal paper by Lenovo partner (Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Dimitrios Dimopoulos, Apostolis Salkintzis), entitled “NetApps Enabling Application-Layer Analytics for Vertical IoT Industry” was accepted in the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Volume 5, Issue: 4.
This article presents the concept of vertical application enablement which is a framework that enables the integration of vertical IoT apps within future mobile networks. The vertical application enablement provides a toolbox of value-add services, realized via so-called Network Applications (NetApps), that form an optimization and translation layer, which eases the interaction between vertical IoT apps and mobile networks. The importance of data management at the telco cloud platforms, and in particular the data collection and analytics enablement, necessitates a new category of NetApps which aims at supporting cross-domain integrated analytics to optimize end to end application performance, In this article, we review the various vertical application enablement frameworks, and we consider more specifically the NetApps that can be used to expose their services/capabilities. We also discuss the Application Data Analytics Enablement Services (ADAES) that can provide app-layer analytics services to vertical IoT apps, and we present its architecture, capabilities, and its current standardization status in 3GPP. In addition, we present an innovative implementation of analytics enablement through NetApps, which enables vertical IoT clients to select the best vertical IoT server instance, which is expected to provide the best performance.
You may find more information online here:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10012484

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Transfiere 2023

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Professor Pedro Merino Gomez from UMA explained the fundamental insights of EVOLVED-5G project during “5G Technology as innovation enabler. Present and Future” Panel Discussion of Transfiere 2023. You may learn more about the event here: https://transfiere.fycma.com/?lang=en  

Transfiere has closed its 12th edition with the participation of more than 4,300 professional visitors who have had the opportunity to connect with 500 companies, entities and institutions that drive innovation. The forum held one of its most ambitious editions with a programme of contents in which more than 420 experts took part and debated topics of maximum interest for scientific and technological development around more than 80 thematic panels.

IWAPS 2023, EVOLVED-5G co-organised Workshop

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The availability of massive amounts of data, coupled with high-performance cloud computing platforms, has driven significant progress in artificial intelligence and, in particular, machine learning and optimization. It has transformed into a fertile surface for cyber-attacks skyrocketing the cyber risk of involved industries and impacting several areas, including computer vision, natural language processing, transportation, trust computing, identity management and psychological manipulation.

This workshop aims to strengthen security and privacy through research and relevant activities in the models and design of secure, privacy-preserving and trust architectures, investments in cyber-defense, data analyses, fusion platforms, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for next generation systems and solutions. We especially encourage security and privacy solutions that employ innovative machine learning techniques to tackle the issues of inspecting large data volumes, cyberattacks, and variety problems that are systemic in IoT platforms, theoretical and practical challenges related to the design of privacy-preserving AI systems and algorithms and will have strong multidisciplinary components, including soliciting contributions about policy, legal issues, and societal impact of privacy and affect the cyber risk of the participating entities.

The 2023 IWAPS will bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present and discuss latest advances and innovations in theories, infrastructure, schemes, and applications for secure computation, privacy technologies, security economics, human computer interaction, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future trends.

The workshop is co-organized from the following European Commission (Horizon 2020 Programme) projects:

SECONDO
INCOGNITO
ERATOSTHENES
PHYSICS
EVOLVED-5G
aerOS
ENTRUST
TRUSTEE
CHRISS
OASEES
FAME
COBALT
RESCALE
You may learn more here: https://www.ares-conference.eu/workshops/iwaps-2023/

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EVOLVED-5G, 8th Plenary Meeting

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The 8th Plenary Meeting of the EVOLVED-5G took place on Athens from the 14th of March up to 16th of March. This 3-day plenary meeting took place in both NCSR “Demokritos” and COSMOTE (OTE Academy) premises in Athens. It was a very successful meeting as the partners had the chance to discuss the technical status of the project along with upcoming activities. Also, the participation at the upcoming EuCNC 2023 & 6G Summit was thoroughly discussed.

INFOLYSIS Intent-driven chatbot deployment

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INFOLYSIS Intent driven chatbot, for precise maintenance in 5G-enabled Industry 4.0 environment, was successfully deployed and tested at Athens 5G platform in NCSR Demokritos campus by INFOLYSIS and NCSRD partners on Wednesday 7th December 2022. You may find the video online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVv31peghso&t=3s

GMI Anita 4.0 deployment tests at NCSRD Athens 5G platform Video

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The video from GMIs ANITA 4.0 deployment at NCSR “DEMOKRITOS”‘s Campus is now available! Anita 4.0 and Amarisoft were successfully deployed and tested at Athens 5G platform in NCSR Demokritos campus by GMI and NCSRD partners on Tuesday 6th December 2022You may find it online at the project’s YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChNeUY7S8&t=79s

“5G, the first step for a new era” article

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A very interesting article (in Greek) entitled “5G, the first step for a new era” was published showcasing the advances that 5G can bring. Also, in this article you may learn about our project! Find it online here: https://mikrofwno.gr/2023/02/5g-to-proto-vima-gia-mia-nea-epochi/

“The 6G Architecture Landscape – European perspective” White Paper

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The 5GPPP Architecture WG released the white paper entitled “The 6G Architecture Landscape – European perspective”. You may find it online along with the EVOLVED-5G contributions here: https://5g-ppp.eu/white-papers/

This white paper summarizes the main findings from the European research landscape on the vision of the 6G architecture. Such a design vision is derived from around 45 projects starting from October 2020 in all relevant areas of 5G while paving the way towards 6G, within the 5G Public Private-Partnership (5G PPP) in the scope of the European Framework for Research and Innovation (the list of contributing projects can be obtained from the 5G PPP website at https://5g-ppp.eu/5g-ppp-phase-3-projects/.). At present, the European networking research community has started a new program along with 33 projects on the Smart Networks and Service (SNS) programme that will focus on 5G advanced and 6G. The 5G/B5G Architecture Working Group (WG), as part of the 5G PPP Initiative, is identifying and capturing novel trends and key technological enablers for the realization of the 5G and 6G architecture. The main findings and results of the Architecture WG are now captured in this white paper, which presents a consolidated view from European perspective on the technical directions for the architecture design in the 6G era.

The NetApps Certification Environment for 5G and beyond Vertical Ecosystems: The EVOLVED-5G Approach, Conference Paper at IEEE GLOBECOM 2022

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The conference paper entitled “The NetApps Certification Environment for 5G and beyond Vertical Ecosystems: The EVOLVED-5G Approach” has been accepted in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2022.

Certification is the means to promote excellence through adherence to best practices, and ensure the appropriate security and transparency, in alignment to regulations set by the market and (various levels of) administrations. In the mobile telecommunications domain, certification for the radio equipment and user terminals has been a fundamental practice. With the 3GPP5G specifications, a novel core network (5GC) model comes to promote dynamic, open 5G services and enable network programmability through standard APIs unlocking the network intelligence to the vertical application needs. A consequence of this “openness” is the mandate for supplements in the established practices of the mobile network operators (MNOs) to include beyond device also software conformance and quality assessment certification. This study describes the work carried out by EU Horizon 2020 EVOLVED-5G project, to define the relevant certification framework for the NetApps, a novel concept introduced as an enabler for the 5G adoption from the vertical industries. The paper goes beyond the definition of the key constructs for the appropriate certification creation process, and explores the technical characteristics of the execution environment to support the certification auditing in an effective, automated and repeatable manner.

You may find the paper here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10008597

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Newsletter Issue 8

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The latest issue of the EVOLVED-5G newsletter is now available! In this issue you may find all about the EVOLVED-5G activities for the October – December 2022 period. You may find the newsletter online here: https://evolved-5g.eu/dissemination/newsletter/