INSPIRE-5Gplus

Workshop on Accountability and Liability for 5G and beyond - WAL5Gplus
2021-06-16 09:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Berlin)
About this workshop
This one-day workshop organized by INSPIRE-5Gplus brought together researchers and practitioners from several domains such as actuaries, jurists, researchers in networking and multi-agent systems. They presented existing challenges and approaches for liability management for multi-party 5G ecosystems and provided digital services, with a forward-looking perspective for Beyond 5G (B5G) systems.
The multi-party and multi-layer nature of 5G ecosystems implies the inherent distribution of management and orchestration of decisions and actions across multiple entities. In such interconnected complex infrastructures on which end-to-end services are built, responsibilities can be difficult to track and therefore become obscure if no efficient liability and accountability mechanism is adopted. This problem is aggravated as soon as critical 5G verticals (e.g., suppliers of services like energy or intelligent transportation systems) are subject to specific industrial safety, security or service level rules and regulations (e.g., NIS or SEVESO Directives). Today, the ICT industry essentially elaborates on Trust and Trustworthiness (T&T) concepts, albeit not really venturing to address the fundamental question of who is really responsible during or after an incident/crisis. As a first step, the industry needs to really understand key aspects like:

What are the liability challenges?
How will we cover future risks and disasters in 5G ecosystems?
Which assets and capabilities will we have to investigate and develop in the coming period?

Accordingly, the purpose of this workshop was to share, compare and disseminate best practices, approaches, tools and methodologies to identify, formulate, and manage liability in 5G systems. It addressed crucial topics such as formalization of commitments and obligations (legal and technical schemes), contractualization, monitoring/supervision, evidence collection & analysis at runtime, post-mortem evidence collection & forensics to identify liabilities in case of disasters, security incidents or regulation violations.
Programme
09:00 Introduction to INSPIRE-5Gplus Project: Liability perspective [PDF] – Jean–Philippe Wary, Orange
09:15 Project presentations
09:15 Managing dependencies in the 5G environment through MUD files [PDF] – Sara Nieves Matheu García, University of Murcia
09:30 Liability-Aware Service Management (LASM) [PDF] – Chrystel Gaber, Orange
09:45 Root-Cause Analysis / RCA-MI [PDF] – Edgardo Montes de Oca, Montimage
10:00 Liability in 5G and Beyond: Concepts and challenges [PDF] – Chrystel Gaber, Orange
10:15 5G operators, suppliers and their clients: Liability management based on the contract [PDF] – Sylvie Jonas, AGIL’IT Law
11:00 A4Cloud: Accountability in the cloud – Carmen Fernández-Gago, University of Málaga
11:45 A trust based recommendation system using Self Organized Map for service selection [PDF] – Samia Bouzefrane, CNAM
12:30 Lightning synthesis and morning session wrap-up
12:45 Break
13:30 Welcome and introduction to afternoon session
13:45 Trusted, trustworthy and accountable digital ecosystems – Arthur Van Der Wees, Arthur’s Legal, Strategies & Systems
14:30 5G Device Security certification – Jacques Kruse-Brandao, SGS
15:15 Responsibilities and certification in cybersecurity space [PDF] – Claire Loiseaux, Internet of Trust
16:00 Synthesis, round table and next steps [PDF] – Round-table discussion with speakers
17:30 End of Workshop

Programme Committee

Chrystel Gaber, Orange Labs
Jose Manuel Sanchez Vilchez, Orange Labs
Gürkan Gür, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Antonio Agustin Pastor Perales, Telefónica
Sébastien Keller, Thales
Jean-Philippe Wary, Orange Labs
Bernhard Tellenbach, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Edgardo Montes de Oca, Montimage
Dhouha Ayed, Thales – (Technical Manager of INSPIRE-5Gplus)

2021 Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit
2021-06-08 - 2021-06-12 | Alfândega do Porto Congress Centre, R. Nova da Alfândega, Porto, 4050-064, Portugal
The 2021 Joint EuCNC & 6G Summit aims to bring together leading telecoms researchers and industry players. The theme of the event is “On the Road to 6G”. The event will be held in the Alfândega Congress Centre located in the historic centre of Porto, Portugal. The joint event will consist of a conference and an exhibition The Organising Committee currently plans on holding the conference in a hybrid format, with the possibility for in-person or remote attendances.
INSPIRE-5Gplus is planing to contribute to EuCNC via a workshop.
Further information is available on the event website.

European Conference On Optical Communications - ECOC 2020
2020-12-06 - 2020-12-11
ECOC is the largest conference on optical communication in Europe. The 46th edition of ECOC will take place online from 6th to 10th December 2020.
INSPIRE-5Gplus will present a paper on “Managing Network Slicing Resources Using Blockchain in a Multi-Domain Software Defined Optical Network Scenario” and a tutorial on “Controlling and Monitoring Optical Network Equipment in Optical SDN Networks”.
Further information is available on the ECOC 2020 Website.

ETSI Virtual Event on Boosting the Impact of Research and Innovation through Standardization
2020-11-24 - 2020-11-26
INSPIRE-5Gplus will be presented at the ETSI Virtual Event on Boosting the Impact of Research & Innovation through Standardization (24-25 November 2020).
On Day 2 (Wednesday, 25 November) at 09:55 UTC, Chrystel Gaber from INSPIRE-5Gplus partner Orange will be co-presenter in a session on “Leveraging research and innovation in security standards: The example of INSPIRE-5Gplus”, together with Alex Leadbeater from BT, the chairman of ETSI NFV SEC. The session will explore the benefits and challenges of standards as well as examine the INSPIRE-5GPLUS project in respect to its approach towards a radical shift in security management by designing and implementing a fully automated end-to-end smart network and service management framework.
Further information is available on the Event Website.

IEEE VTC2020-Fall
2020-11-18 - 2020-12-17
Dr. Gürkan Gür from INSPIRE-5Gplus partner Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) will contribute to the “Tutorial on Aerial Communications and Networks” at the IEEE VTC2020-Fall from 18 November to 16 December 2020. It will be a joint virtual tutorial by Kamesh Namuduri, University of North Texas, USA, Serge Chaumette, Université de Bordeaux, France, Ravikumar Pragada, InterDigital, Inc., USA, Helka-Liina Määttänen, Ericsson, Finland, and Gürkan Gür, ZHAW, Switzerland.
The tutorial is intended to provide an overview of the state of art in aerial communications and networking. It covers topics such as security, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and ad hoc networking, along with experiences gained from flight-tests, experimental test-beds and simulations. While the focus is primarily on standardization in IEEE 1920.1 Work Group, novel ideas towards future research such as swarm autonomy, emerging security challenges and mesh networking for UASs will also be discussed.
Dr. Gür will present the segment on the security of aerial communications and networking.
Further information
IEEE VTC2020-Fall website

IEEE TEMS Latin American Industrial Forum
2020-10-28 15:00 - 23:00
On 28th October 2020, the IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Society (TEMS) will organise its first Latin American Industrial Forum. INSPIRE-5Gplus will be represented at the event by Antonio Skarmeta from the University of Murcia. In session 1, which is dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT), he will give an invited talk on “IoT and 5G: New Opportunities”. His presentation will focus on the promising integration of the IoT and 5G paradigms. In this context, he will discuss the opportunities and challenges from both a management perspective and a security perspective. His presentation on 28th October starts at 11:20am, UTC-3 (15:20 CET).
Further information and registration are available on the event website.

Workshop on 5G Security at IEEE 5G World Forum 2020
2020-09-10
INSPIRE-5GPlus co-organizes within the IEEE 5G World Forum 2020 the Workshop on 5G Security: Current Trends, Challenges and New Enablers. The workshop is aimed at discussing the emerging 5G security in a holistic manner to understand the challenges, opportunities & standardization imperatives and define the way forward and immediate next steps to ensure ubiquitous adoption of 5G globally.
The 5G long term vision is to turn the network into an energy-efficient distributed computer that enables agile and dynamic creation, move and suppression of processes and services in response to changing customer demands and information flows, and supports interaction with humans through new communication modes, such as gestures, facial expressions, sound, haptics, etc. To make this vision a reality, a shift towards a full automation of network and service management and operation is a necessity.
However, a major challenge facing full automation is the protection of the network and system assets (i.e., services, data and network infrastructure) against potential cybersecurity risks introduced by the unprecedented evolving 5G threat landscape. Recent advances in Blockchain technology and Artificial Intelligence have opened up new opportunities in developing robust and intelligent security solutions. The fusion of 5G, Blockchain, Security and AI is anticipated to be the core technologies to realise digital transformation in the next decade.
Although work on security has been engaged throughout the successive phases of 5G-PPP Programme (e.g., 5G-ENSURE, CHARISMA, NRG-5) and some results were achieved, if not already adopted by Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) in the field (e.g. 3GPP), addressing 5G security concerns is far from being completely resolved. Existing solutions suffer from a number of limitations.

Virtual EuCNC 2020
2020-06-16 - 2020-06-17
The 29th edition of the European Conference on Networks and Communications, EuCNC 2020, will focus on various aspects of 5G communications systems and networks, including cloud and virtualisation solutions, management technologies, and vertical application areas. It aims to bring together researchers from all over the world to present their latest research results. It is one of the main events for demonstrating the results of European research projects. EuCNC 2020 is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and the European Association for Signal Processing, and supported by the European Commission.
INSPIRE-5Gplus is planning to contribute to the EuCNC programme.
Further information is available on the EuCNC website.
