Abstract: This lecture will provide a comprehensive overview of
the network architecture evolution towards 5G and will elaborate on
the application of Cloud Technology and on the leveraging into
operator networks of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and
Software Defined Networks (SDN) concepts for supporting the
diversity of 5G use cases and meeting their set forth
effectiveness- and efficiency-gains. An overview of the main
standardization activities (3GPP, ETSI NFV, IETF, ONF, etc.) and
their roadmaps will be given. The lecture concludes with the
presentation of the Open5GCore, OpenSDNCore software toolkits and
of the 5G Berlin 5G Berlin Testbed experimentation platforms of
Fraunhofer FOKUS / TU Berlin, as enablers for 5G R&D and
academic teaching activities.
Speakers Biography
Dr.-Ing. Stefan Covaci is senior solutions architect for future
internet services platforms at the computer sciences and electrical
engineering faculty of Technical University of Berlin, Institute
for Telecommunication Systems. Between 1990 and 2007 he was working
at GMD FOKUS (today Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS) acting as director
of the competence centre Intelligent Mobile Agents. He co-initiated
and participated to the agent standardisation work of OMG (Object
Management Group) and FIPA (Foundation of Intelligent Physical
Agents), and was one of the co-authors of the first agent
technology standard the OMG-MASIF (Mobile Agent System
Interoperability Facility). He has extensive experience in the
management of a variety of projects and study contracts for the
European Commission, German Agencies (BMBF, BMWF) and other
industrial national and international organisations in the areas of
IT and telecommunication networks and services. His recent work is
in the areas of next generation networks infrastructures and
service delivery platforms for the Future Internet with a focus on
integration of Terrestrial and Satellite networks, interoperability
and management solutions. He is member of the Architectural Board
of the European Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (Fi-PPP)
and technical coordinator of the FI-STAR project applying Future
Internet technology in the Healthcare sector. He is the technical
coordinator of the European Space Agency projects ESA-7096 and
ESA-7550 and of the DAAD UNIFI project enabling future internet
academic teaching and research in developing countries. He has
published over 90 papers and was chair or member of the program
committee of many international conferences.
Thursday, 18 June, 2015 Building C9 R.401 Hanoi University of
Science and Technology
2015 Cloud Networking in the 5G Era
Dr. Stefan Covaci, Technische Universitt Berlin, Germany
