Competence Center 5G.NRW
The fifth generation of mobile communications (5G) builds the base for an enormous innovation push. For the increasing industrial digitalization, 5G will realize the needed quality, speed and capacity of networking and data transfer. Usages such as autonomous driving, remote robotic surgery and augmented reality support in maintenance and repair situations are to be enabled and at the same time steadily improved. The projected "Competence Center 5G.NRW" undertakes the central impelling function in the development of North Rhine-Westphalia to the leading market for 5G. Responsible for it is the well-functioning team - as has been proved in previous collaborations - of the universities of Wuppertal as the lead manager, Duisburg-Essen, Dortmund and the FIR e. V. at RWTH Aachen.
Project duration: 01.06.2019 - 31.05.2025
The project "Competence Center 5G.NRW" undertakes the central impelling function in the development of North Rhine-Westphalia to the leading market for 5G and operates through three force vectors:
- technical initial challenges are to be reduced for companies
- economic potential for vertical markets are to be developed
- the innovation merger – 5G and beyond – is to be speeded up
As a central contact point, the "Competence Center 5G.NRW" is to be available for all actors with an integrated set of measures without complications.
Effective Service Portfolio
The projected "Competence Center 5G.NRW" focuses upon its activities within six work packages, in which the areas of focus are developed further together with the NRW 5G actors. This also includes an ongoing discussion with representatives of the Ministry for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy (MWIDE) and other relevant political institutions.
- 5G.NRW Technology Monitoring 5G and Beyond
- 5G.NRW Accompanying Research for the Initiative "5G Test Fields" in the Works
- 5G.NRW Experimental Platforms and Demonstration Laboratories
- 5G.NRW Transfer
- 5G.NRW Network
- 5G.NRW Communication and Project Management
Consortium and Partners
Responsible for the projected "Competence Center 5G.NRW" is the well-functioning team - as has been proved in previous collaborations - of the universities of Wuppertal as the lead manager, Duisburg-Essen, Dortmund and the FIR e. V. at RWTH Aachen.
In the course of this, the TU Dortmund, respectively the Communication Networks Institute, is primarily to develop digitalization options by means of 5G.NRW experimental platforms and demonstration laboratories. The aim is to provide NRW companies with 5G platforms as proof of concept for their usages as well as to attend substantial series of tests and to be part of a process of gaining experiences.
Additionally, the TU Dortmund engages in the organization and support of panels of experts (so-called Rocket Sessions), in the competition test fields 5G, in the transfer of knowledge and technology (Best Practices, Roadshows & NRW.Conferences), as well as in the setting up and maintaining of panels of experts for the exchange and know-how transfer between the important actors and stakeholders of the area of 5G.
Leading Market for 5G
In the digital strategy of the Federal State NRW, the aim "Leading Market for 5G" is set: "Especially the extremely densely populated North Rhine-Westphalia with its huge amount of big and small companies of the information and communication branch and with the research competence in the digital area on hand here can be a pioneer for mobile communications in Germany" (Landesregierung NRW 2018: Strategie für das digitale Nordrhein-Westfalen, p. 61).
For the development of a leading market, the initialization of the 5G technique needs to be accelerated in order to test its strong points and weaknesses in practice and to deduce realistic recommendations for the usage as well as to add to the optimization of the systems. At that, it is essential, that corresponding investigations and projects always prominently include the vertical industries, by the demands of which 5G networks will be determined. Only if the concrete usage of 5G can be demonstrated under demanding conditions in the field, the transition of a local to a comprehensive extension can be accomplished.
The outlined project, "Competence Center 5G.NRW", does exactly that and is going to impel the development to the leading market 5G by means of the three substantial force vectors:
- reducing the technical initial challenges for companies
- developing the economic potential for the verticals
- speeding up the innovation merger – 5G and Beyond
This project is funded by means of the Federal State NRW by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy (MWIKE) under the Funding ID 005-01903-0047.
Further information:
News
Successful Opening Event of Competence Center CC5G.NRW
At the opening event of the Competence Center 5G.NRW, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart (minister for economics, innovation, digitalization and energy of the…
New Competence Center on 5G started
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Publications
Modeling and simulation of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for hybrid aerial and ground-based vehicular communications
K. Heimann, B. Sliwa, M. Patchou, C. Wietfeld
In Proceedings of the 24th International ACM Conference MSWiM 2021
On the Benefits of Demand-Based Planning and Configuration of Private 5G Networks
C. Bektas, C. Schüler, R. Falkenberg, P. Gorczak, S. Böcker, C. Wietfeld
In 2021 IEEE VNC, Virtual Event, November 2021.
Pushing the Limits: Resilience Testing for Mission-Critical Machine-Type Communication
C. Arendt, M. Patchou, S. Böcker, J. Tiemann, C. Wietfeld
In 2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), Virtual Event, September 2021
Rapid Network Planning of Temporary Private 5G Networks with Unsupervised Machine Learning
C. Bektas, S. Böcker, B. Sliwa, C. Wietfeld
In 2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), Virtual Event, September 2021
Machine Learning-Enabled Data Rate Prediction for 5G NSA Vehicle-to-Cloud Communications
B. Sliwa, H. Schippers, C. Wietfeld
In IEEE 4th 5G World Forum (5GWF), Virtual, October 2021
Open RAN - neue Spielregeln für den Mobilfunk
F. Kurtz, S. Böcker, C. Wietfeld
In Elektronik, Weka Fachmedien, vol. 21, pp. 76–81, October 2021
Towards Machine Learning-Enabled Context Adaption for Reliable Aerial Mesh Routing
C. Schüler, B. Sliwa, C. Wietfeld
In 2021 IEEE 94th VTC-Fall, Virtual Event, September 2021.
Robust machine learning-enabled routing for highly mobile vehicular networks with PARRoT in ns-3
C. Schüler, M. Patchou, B. Sliwa, C. Wietfeld
In Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Ns-3, Virtual, June 2021.
SAMUS: Slice-Aware Machine Learning-based Ultra-Reliable Scheduling
C. Bektas, D. Overbeck, C. Wietfeld
In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Virtual Event, June 2021