Workshop:
5G Communications Supporting Military Operations in Contested Environments
(2nd Annual)
IEEE MILCOM Conference
Location: Boston, MA, USA
Date: Monday 30 October 2023 (all day)
Time: 08:00 to 17:00
Hotel: Marriott Boston Copley Place
Room: Regis, 3rd Floor
Address: 110 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, 02116, USA
CALL FOR PAPERS - CLOSED
All papers should be submitted via EDAS:
CALL FOR DEMOS - CLOSED
All demo proposals should be submitted via IEEE Google Form below:
https://forms.gle/a9MWpHDX4RnsgaFr8
(Tentative Agenda & Subject to Change)
Note that all Technical Presentations, Paper Presentations, and Demo Presentations are each allocated a 20-minute time-slot, where approximately 15 minutes are for the presentation, and approximately 5 minutes are for questions and answers.
|
Time (Duration) |
Topic |
Presenter / Speaker |
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08:00 (20 min) |
Welcome & Opening Remarks |
Workshop Organizing Committee |
|
08:20 (40 min) |
Keynote Presentation: FutureG: Supporting Communications at the Tactical Edge |
Dr Martin Weiss (OUSD R&E FutureG) Director, Applied Research, FutureG |
|
09:00 (60 min) |
Panel Session: 5G Open Architecture and the role of open-source, Tactical Modular RAN in contested environments Moderated by: David Simpson, Rear Admiral (Ret.), US Navy |
Dr Alex Wyglinski (WPI) Robert Stephens (Keysight) Dr Paul Sutton (Software Radio Systems (SRS)) Relja Djapic (TNO Netherlands) Harri Saarnisaari (University of Oulu) |
|
10:00 (20 min) |
Invited Talk: Open 6G: Toward Open, Programmable, and AI-Driven NextG Systems |
Dr Tommaso Melodia (NEU) |
|
10:20 (20 min) |
Coffee & Networking Break | |
|
10:40 (20 min) |
Paper Presentation: Analysis of 5G and Open RAN for Several Military Use Cases |
Harri Saarnisaari (University of Oulu) |
|
11:00 (20 min) |
Demo Presentation: 5G FR2 OAI End-to-End Testing Network Communication |
Ethan Lin (TMYTEK) Co-founder & Vice President |
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11:20 (20 min) |
Technical Presentation: Debugging Open RAN Interoperability Issues |
Robert Stephens (Keysight) |
|
11:40 (20 min) |
Demo Presentation: Testing ORAN Resilience |
Robert Stephens (Keysight) |
|
12:00 (60 min) |
Lunch Break | |
|
13:00 (20 min) |
Demo Presentation: Implementation and Evaluation of Smart Uplink Jamming Attack in 5G |
Adriyel Nieves (WPI) Maya Flores (WPI) Dr Alex Wyglinski (WPI) |
|
13:20 (40 min) |
Keynote Presentation: Transforming Open 5G to a Hardened Network for the Warfighter |
Dr Ian Wong (VIAVI Solutions) Director of RF and Wireless Architecture CTO Office |
|
14:00 (20 min) |
Demo Presentation: Transforming Open 5G to a Hardened Network for the Warfighter |
J. Gordon Beattie (VIAVI Solutions) |
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14:20 (20 min) |
Paper Presentation: Open-Source-Based, Over-The-Air 5G New Radio Sidelink Testbed |
Dr Bo Ryu (EpiSci) |
|
14:40 (20 min) |
Demo Presentation: Deploying Deep Learning Models for Radio Frequency Signal Classification to the RAN with srsRAN |
Ash Beigi (Qoherent) |
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15:00 (20 min) |
Coffee & Networking Break | |
|
15:20 (20 min) |
Demo Presentation: srsRAN - the High-Performance Open-Source OpenRAN Platform for 5G and FutureG |
Dr Paul Sutton (Software Radio Systems (SRS)) |
|
15:40 (20 min) |
Paper Presentation: Anti-Jamming Resilient LEO Satellite Swarms |
Venkata Srirama Rohit Kantheti (NCSU) |
|
16:00 (20 min) |
Paper Presentation: Not your grandfather's propagation model: Modern techniques and approaches for beyond 5G wireless systems |
Dr Christopher Anderson (NTIA ITS) |
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16:20 (20 min) |
Demo Presentation: 5G OAI Reference Architecture & Testbed with USRP |
Neel Pandeya (National Instruments) |
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16:40 (20 min) |
Open Discussion: What’s missing with military 5G? What other topics should we all be talking about? What feedback should we provide to DoD stakeholders? |
All Workshop Attendees |
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17:00 (10 min) |
Closing Statements & Workshop Adjourns |
Workshop Organizing Committee |
OVERVIEW
The 5G Military Communications workshop will include a combination of Keynote sessions, 5G Demonstrations, and paper and poster presentations. This year’s workshop will focus on operating in contested environments, open modular architectures, and cybersecurity. Industry experts will accept and review papers on 5G Core, 5G RAN, and 5G Cybersecurity. The flexibility, growth, and performance benefits of software-defined architectures such as 5G are best accessed on an open modular hardware base to allow for rapid reconfiguration. Military solutions may need varying degrees of local communication stack instantiation and flexible topology architectures. The Department of Defense is actively investing in testbeds and other 5G-related technologies, this workshop will serve as a technology transfer mechanism from these efforts as it relates to lessons learned and future research activities.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop aims at providing a forum for industry and academics to disseminate new findings on 5G trials in vertical industries, and new business development. The workshop will call for papers presenting test results from trials as well as theoretical results based on realistic deployment schemes and new 5G business models. The target topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
5G Testbeds and Systems
- 3GPP Use Cases
- Applications to Military Use Cases
- Testbeds
- Open Testbed Frameworks
- Satellite Connectivity
- Non-Terrestrial Networks
- Ultrawideband
- Millimeter Wave
- Digital Twin
- Spectrum Sharing
- Smart City
- Smart Base
- Smart Warehouse
- Network Management
- Resilient Power
- Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB)
5G Open Modular Architectures
- Commercial Core Networks
- Open Core Networks
- O-RAN, Cloud RAN
- Software Defined Networks
- Software Defined Radios
- Third-Party Application Integration Functions (AF, NEF, NWDAF)
- Blockchain Architectures
- Federated Architectures
- Digital Twin Applications
- K8s
- Runtime Analytics
- Commercial MANO
- Open MANO
- MEC and Edge Computing
Cybersecurity
- Zero Trust in the Context of 5G
- Secure Infrastructure as Code
- DevSecOps
- Tactical Network Security
- Network Slicing Security
- Blockchain
- AI/ML Cybersecurity
- 3GPP Security
- RAN Intelligent Controllers
- O-RAN Architectures
- End-to-End Resiliency
- MANO Security
- Network and Mobile Device Management
- 6G Cybersecurity
MILCOM CONFERENCE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
https://milcom2023.milcom.org/registration
Please refer to MILCOM submission guidelines below:
https://milcom2023.milcom.org/authors
Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE MILCOM 2023 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore.
