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    5G Infrastructures Supporting End-User and Operational Services: The 5G-XHaul Architectural Perspective 

    Anastasopoulos, Markos; Bartelt, Jens; Berberana, Ignacio; Camps Mur, Daniel; Demirkol, Ilker; Eiselt, Michael; Fehske, Albrecht; Flegkas, Paris; Grass, Eckhard; Grieger, Michael; Gutierrez, Jesús; Korakis, Thanasis; Lyberopoulos, George; Pateromichelakis, Emmanouil; Simeonidou, Dimitra; Syrivelis, Dimitris; Theodoropoulou, Elina; Tzanakaki, Ana; Wei, Qing (2016-05-01)

    We propose an optical-wireless 5G infrastructure offering converged fronthauling/backhauling functions to support both operational and end-user cloud services. A layered architectural structure required to efficiently ...

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    5G-XHaul: Enabling scalable virtualization for future 5G Transport Networks 

    Camps, Daniel; Flegkas, Paris; Gutierrez, Jesús; Syrivelis, Dimitris; Wei, Qing (2016-12)

    Network slicing is a major trend in the design of future 5G networks that will enable operators to effectively service multiple industry verticals with a single network infrastructure. Thus, network slicing will shape all ...

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    AI and ML – Enablers for Beyond 5G Networks 

    Kaloxylos, Alexandros; Gavras, Anastasius; Camps Mur, Daniel; Ghoraishi, Mir; Hrasnica, Halid (2021-05-11)

    This white paper on AI/ML as enablers of 5G and B5G networks is based on contributions from 5G PPP projects that research, implement and validate 5G and B5G network systems. The white paper introduces the main relevant ...

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    Leading Innovations Towards 5G: Europe's Perspective in 5G Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership (5G-PPP) 

    Camps, Daniel; Siddiqui, Shuaib; Alcalaz-Calero, Jose; Belikaidis, Ioannis-Prodromos; Bernardos Cano, Carlos Jesus; Bisson, Pascal; Bourse, Didier; Bredel, Michael; Chen, Tao; Costa Perez, Xavier; Demestichas, Panagiotis; Doll, Mark; Elayoubi, Salah Eddine; Georgakopoulos, Andreas; Mämmelä, Aarne; Mayer, Hans-Peter; Payaro, Miquel; Sayadi, Bessem; Tercero, Miurel; Wang, Qi (2017-10-08)

    The paper elaborates on the technological and architectural innovations researched and developed by 5G-PPP Phase 1 projects and covering innovation areas such as 5G system design and evaluation, novel air interfaces, network ...

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    Network Architecture and Essential Features for 5G: The SESAME Project Approach 

    Abubakar, Babangida; Belesioti, Maria; Betzler, August; Costa, Cristina E.; Chochliouros, Ioannis P.; Goratti, Leonardo; Khodashenas, Pouria Sayyad; Nasr, Karim M.; Pérez-Romero, Jordi; Ruiz, Cristina; Sallent, Oriol; Whitehead, Alan; Vahid, Seiamak (2016-06)

    The outstanding and continuous growth of the request of mobile broadband Internet access is creating the unprecedented need to rethink most of the design paradigms of the mobile network. Such trend is accompanied by ...

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    Self-X in SESAME 

    Abubakar, Babangida; Betzler, August; Goratti, Leonardo; Khodashenas, Pouria Sayyad; Nasr, Karim M.; Pérez-Romero, Jordi; Ruiz, Cristina; Sallent, Oriol; Vahid, Seiamak; Whitehead, Alan (2016)

    This paper addresses the use of Self-X functions to support Small Cell as a Service (SCaaS) provisioning in multi-tenant scenarios, as one of the main components of the SESAME project. After presenting the scenarios, ...

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    Towards Programmable and Scalable IoT Infrastructures for Smart Cities 

    Catalan, Marisa; Castells, Jacint; Coetzee, Louis; Corici, Ancuta; Magedanz, Thomas (2016-03-14)

    Smart Cities applications and infrastructures are actively being developed and rolled out. However, maintenance complexity is significant, often limiting deployments to small regions or small cities. To support gradual or ...