Projects about 5G

The European Commission, with the 5G Infrastructure Association, launched in 2013 a Public Private Partnership on 5G (5G PPP). The 5G PPP will create new jobs, offering growth and innovation opportunities.It will create a secure, reliable high-performance network for a fast Internet accessible to everyone and everywhere.

The EU FP7 project COMBO has successfully accomplished a demonstration of fixed mobile network integration and is ready to share the results online.

MBot, a very smart and kind robot, who triggers smiles and makes life easier for hundreds of hospitalised children, will be greeting you at the European Commission's pavilion (Hall 4 at the Congress Square) at the Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona.

Green, renewable Energy is fundamental to European growth. A large portion of this will come from wind energy. Reducing the production costs of Wind Energy will accelerate this technology and its adoption. VirtuWind proposes innovative application of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in wind parks. This will reduce capital invest (CAPEX) in turbine control components and will reduce operational & Maintenance (OPEX) costs over the lifetime of the turbines.

METIS-II's project focuses on the part of future communication networks called the “radio access network”. The Radio Access Network is that part of a (mobile) network that enables the communication between terminals user equipment and the “core network” (that is the central part of a network providing services). The project provides the solutions to build the radio network "5G" which are needed for an efficient integration and use of the various 5G technologies and components.

SIMPLI-CITY provides us with services and apps helping us with various daily mobility-related activities.

CityPulse helps in the provision of reliable real-time smart city applications by adopting an integrated approach to the Internet of Things and the Internet of People.

This month, at the Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, check out 5G NORMA project, at the European Commission's pavilion (Hall 4 at the Congress Square). This EU-funded project develops a novel, adaptive and future-proof architecture enabling extreme mobile broadband services, critical machine type communications and support of a massive number of terminals.

Today's mobile networks need to be fast. Speed is not only necessary between the radio towers and the users' smartphones, tablets or laptops… the radio towers must also have a fast connection to the internet and the network's backbone (backhaul link), otherwise they become a bottleneck and cannot receive and re-transmit the videos or music the users wish to watch or listen to. Ideally, the thousands of radio towers/rooftop antennas would be connected via fibre optic cables. Since that is not always possible, the E3Network-project is working on higher speeds even for those towers that cannot be connected by fibre.