Enhanced precise positioning is a key feature to enable advanced CCAM services where lane accuracy is needed to provide an accurate situational awareness to the vehicles. Although a combination of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) and vehicle sensors can satisfy most of the minimum requirements of different use cases, in some locations where satellites cannot be easily tracked, like urban or rugged areas, it could lead to inaccuracies of several meters and significant latencies.

5GCroCo has analyzed three positioning solutions to enhance vehicle’s location, 5G NR side-link, 3GPP GPS Real Time Kinematic (GNSS-RTK) and Ultra-WideBand (UWB); following the terminology described in TS 38.305, these three technologies illustrate RAT-dependent, hybrid and RAT-independent approaches, respectively. This webinar introduces the main characteristics, benefits and challenges of these three technologies in CCAM scenarios, as described on Deliverable D3.2 on “Intermediate E2E, MEC & Positioning Architecture”. Moreover, it presents experimental results of the 3GPP GNSS-RTK and UWB solutions, which have been demonstrated in 5GCroCo within the context of the Anticipated Cooperative Collision Avoidance (ACCA) Use Case in a highway and an urban scenario. The evaluation of the obtained results shows that both technologies can provide centimeter-level accurate positioning.

Speakers Bio: 

Miguel Catalan-Cid is a senior research engineer at i2CAT in Barcelona. He received his Ph.D. degree in telecommunications in 2016 from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Since 2007 he has been involved in several private and public funded research projects, and he has published his research in international conferences and journals. He has extensive experience in wireless networks, the analysis and definition of communication protocols and optimisation algorithms, the utilization of simulation tools, and the programming of embedded systems and microcontrollers. Since 2016 he has been involved in different H2020 projects related to 5G and beyond 5G technologies. He leads the precise positioning task of the EU funded 5GCroCo project.

Anastasios Kakkavas received the Diploma degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2012, and the M.Sc. degree in communications engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, in 2015. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, TUM. In 2015, he joined the Munich Research Center, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Munich, Germany, where he has been involved in 5G and 6G research and standardization activities. His research interests include mm-Wave communications, positioning and probabilistic inference.

Maciej Muehleisen received his PhD on “Voice over LTE” from RWTH Aachen University in 2015 and worked as a group leader for vehicular communication at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) from 2012 until 2016 focusing on highly reliable aircraft and maritime networks. He has been with Ericsson Research since 2017 and leads the architecture work package of the EU funded 5GCroCo project on 5G for CCAM in cross-border environments. where he also serves as deputy Technical Coordinator. As “Industry Verticals Coordination” in the Research Area “Networks” he is furthermore supporting the coordination of Ericsson’s efforts in external engagements with partners from different industries. His key research interest is in end-to-end design, evaluation, and approval of safety critical communication services.

Marisa Catalan received her Ph.D. degree in telecommunications in 2009 from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). She worked from 2004 to 2011 as a researcher in the Wireless Networks Group (WNG) at UPC. Currently, she leads the IoT Research Line in the Mobile and Wireless Internet (MWI) group at i2CAT and is Technical Local Manager of the TheThinx 5G Barcelona laboratory. She has wide experience in IoT wireless technologies, in embedded platforms, in localization technologies and in the deployment of prototypes and testbeds. She has been actively involved in more than 30 national and international publish-funded projects and has been principal investigator in private   and   technology   transfer   projects   for   companies   such   as   Simon, Continental or Urbiotica.

The web seminar gives an overview of the achievements of the Tele-operated Driving (ToD) Use Case in the project 5GCroCo. The presentation will cover the motivation for ToD as well as an introduction into the system and developed control/perception concepts. Furthermore, the benefits, ToD gets from 5G, and selected user stories will be presented. Finally, a main focus will be the presentation of achievements from the 5G trials in the border area between France, Germany and Luxembourg. All interested persons are welcome to join this presentation.

Speaker Bio: 

Andreas Schimpe is currently pursuing his PhD at the Institute of Automotive Technology at the Technical University of Munich. His main research areas are within the fields of road vehicle teleoperation and shared control. Andreas Pfadler is a 5G communication expert and function developer for automated driving at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. He is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in vehicular communications with the Technical University of Berlin. Luca Montero Bayo is also pursuing his PhD at the Volkswagen Group, together with the Technical University of Catalonia. His research is focused on the impact of 5G and V2X on the future of automotive, and smart antennas for beyond-5G vehicular communications.

This web seminar gives an overview of data protection requirements that should be taken into account. The presentation will list a number of existing data protection frameworks which shall provide the audience with an international perspective on the subject.

A main focus of the presentation will be explaining why data protection considerations are a focus point. The categories of personal data will be discussed. Also, involved parties in connection with data processing activities and their respective rights and obligations will be analyzed.

In the following, the processing principles of the GDPR will be explained to give the necessary basis to regulate consent management and fulfill the requirement of a legal basis of the processing activities. The data protection impact assessment will be discussed in a sub-chapter.

Speaker Bio: 

Carmen Bratic works as Security Consultant at SEC Consult. Her main areas of work are compliance topics, in particular the compliance with data protection laws and information security requirements. She and her team members ensure that her organization and her clients’ organization processes the personal data of its staff, customers, providers or any other individual in compliance with the applicable data protection rules while facing issues that come with potential conflicts of interpretation on a daily basis.

MQTT stands for “Message Queuing Telemetry Transport”. This protocol was designed 1999 for machine-to-machine telemetry in low bandwidth environments for TCP/IP networks. MQTT started as a proprietary protocol, it was released Royalty free in 2010 and became OASIS standard in 2014. MQTT was fast becoming one of the main protocols of IOT (internet of things) deployments. MQTT v3.1.1 is in Common Use, the new version MQTT v5 has been approved in Jan 2018 and is currently in Limit use. This web-seminar gives an overview of security threats and common vulnerability patterns of the MQTT v3.1.1 protocol if you don’t use today’s state-of-the-art security features of TCP/IP. The web-seminar shows methods to put security into MQTT v3.1.1 protocol and pinpoints the advantages and disadvantages for each case that will be discussed. The target audience of this web-seminar are developers with a good understanding of TCP/IP and MQTT-protocol. As preparation we suggest reading Section 4.5.2 of 5GCroCo Deliverable D3.2

Speaker Bio: 

Erik Wegscheider was engaged in military projects (DOD-STD-2167A) and was working most of the time for customers with attentions in data security (PII-data, health data). He has more than 25 years’ security experience with IT-Network architecture with deep Knowledge of IP protocols, in particular with Firewalls and other security appliances. Erik has best practice with security in data centers and field experience as auditor for IT-Security-Audits.

Speakers Bio: 

This webinar is based on Deliverable D3.2 on "Intermediate E2E, MEC & Positioning Architecture" Section 4.3 about Mobile Edge Computing/Cloud (MEC). The following topics will be covered:  

• Related work as basis for proposed solutions (3GPP, Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC), Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF))
• Session continuity: 3GPP gateway switching
• Session & service continuity: 3GPP session continuity + discovering and switching MEC-hosted application servers incl. examples based on 5GCroCo use cases Anticipated Cooperative Collision Avoidance (ACCA) and HD Mapping
• MEC in context of cross-border / -MNO handover
• Joined management and orchestration of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and MEC-hosted Application Servers
• Deployments for controlled end-to-end QoS across multiple MNOs
• Overview of conducted and planned trials   

Speaker Bio: 

Maciej Muehleisen received his PhD on “Voice over LTE” from RWTH Aachen University in 2015 and worked as a group leader for vehicular communication at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) from 2012 until 2016 focusing on highly reliable aircraft and maritime networks.

He is with Ericsson Research since 2017 and leads the architecture work package of the EU funded 5GCroCo projects on 5G for CCAM in cross-border environments. where he also serves as deputy Technical Coordinator. As “Industry Verticals Coordination” in the Research Area “Networks” he is furthermore supporting the technical coordination of Ericsson’s efforts in the Automotive Edge Computing Association (AECC) and 5G Automotive Association (5GAA).

His key research interest is in end-to-end design, evaluation, and approval of safety critical communication services. 

Abstract:

Container technologies have seen a rise in popularity in recent years. They provide a convenient way of packaging applications for deployment in production and offer lightweight alternatives to virtual machines (VMs). However, containers do not offer the same security benefits as VMs and - from a security perspective - many things can be done wrong when developing and running containerized workloads.

This web-seminar gives an overview of security threats and common vulnerability patterns related to designing, developing, and deploying docker containers. The focus are the most common docker vulnerability patterns, as seen "in the wild" from the experience of security assessments and based on security best practices. Insecure practices, potential misconfigurations and common pitfalls related to the building of docker images, containers at runtime, and the host environment are covered. For every issue, secure solutions, available protection mechanisms, as well as examples are provided.

The target audience of this web-seminar are developers with a basic understanding of docker who want and need to ensure they build and run containerized workloads in a secure manner. Only issues to docker and docker-compose are covered. More complex container orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes or OpenShift, are out of scope. As preparation we suggest reading Section 4.5.3 of 5GCroCo Deliverable D3.2

Note: This web-seminar is split into two parts. The second part continues where the first part leaves off.

Speaker:

Fabian Würfl works as Security Consultant at SEC Consult. His main areas of work are web application pen tests, network security assessments and Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift security assessments. He regularly holds secure coding trainings for developers and works on internal software development projects.

Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) will enrich assisted and automated driving by exchange of information among vehicles (V2V), as well as between vehicles and the network, commonly also called ”cloud” or ”backend”, (V2N). CCAM services should not be interrupted when crossing a country border and with that also switching between different Mobile Network Operators (MNOs).

This web-seminar will present the 3GPP-complient network architecture applied in the 5GCroCo project to achieve cross-border / MNO (Inter-PLMN) handover. Furthermore, first results and experience from trials will be presented and discussed.

Speaker Bio: 

Maciej Muehleisen received his PhD on “Voice over LTE” from RWTH Aachen University in 2015 and worked as a group leader for vehicular communication at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) from 2012 until 2016 focusing on highly reliable aircraft and maritime networks.

He is with Ericsson Research since 2017 and leads the architecture work package of the EU funded 5GCroCo projects on 5G for CCAM in cross-border environments. where he also serves as deputy Technical Coordinator. As “Industry Verticals Coordination” in the Research Area “Networks” he is furthermore supporting the technical coordination of Ericsson’s efforts in the Automotive Edge Computing Association (AECC) and 5G Automotive Association (5GAA).

His key research interest is in end-to-end design, evaluation, and approval of safety critical communication services. 

Section 3.3.5 of the recently published 5GCroCo Deliverable D3.1 on "Final Application Architecture" explains the challenges and solutions for interoperability around the Anticipated Cooperative Collision Avoidance (ACCA) use case. This use case serves as example to uncover challenges if information, in this case hazard warnings, must be shared between different automotive OEMs and between OEMs and different Road Traffic Authorities (RTAs).

“Standardization” is often considered necessary in this context. This presentation introduces the current and near-future eco-system of information sharing for connected vehicles. It describes how different solutions, beyond everyone just following the same standard, can be used to achieve service-level interoperability among different ITS systems and stakeholders. For each solution, involved stakeholders are identified and their respective effort to establish and maintain (evolve / upgrade) the interoperability solution.

Speaker Bio: 

Maciej Muehleisen received his PhD on “Voice over LTE” from RWTH Aachen University in 2015 and worked as a group leader for vehicular communication at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) from 2012 until 2016 focusing on highly reliable aircraft and maritime networks.

He is with Ericsson Research since 2017 and leads the architecture work package of the EU funded 5GCroCo projects on 5G for CCAM in cross-border environments. where he also serves as deputy Technical Coordinator. As “Industry Verticals Coordination” in the Research Area “Networks” he is furthermore supporting the technical coordination of Ericsson’s efforts in the Automotive Edge Computing Association (AECC) and 5G Automotive Association (5GAA).

His key research interest is in end-to-end design, evaluation, and approval of safety critical communication services. 

This webinar will cover the following topics based on experience from trials conducted in the 5GCroCo project and analysis of obtained results:

• Plan trials to obtain the required number of result samples
• Tweak applications to allow faster trials still providing realistic KPIs
• Result analysis with different methods to determine confidence for different kinds of statistics:
• Sanity checking
• Batch Means method for Student-t Confidence Intervals
• Binomial Proportion Confidence Intervals for simple estimation of confidence of statistical distributions (e.g. latency CCDFs)
• Limited Relative Error (LRE) Algorithm for statistical distribution confidence (e.g. latency CCDFs)

As preparation we suggest reading Section 3.1 of 5GCroCo Deliverable D4.2 on "First Phase Trial Execution Report and Analysis of 5GCroCo KPIs"

Speaker Bio: 

Maciej Muehleisen received his PhD on “Voice over LTE” from RWTH Aachen University in 2015 and worked as a group leader for vehicular communication at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) from 2012 until 2016 focusing on highly reliable aircraft and maritime networks.

He is with Ericsson Research since 2017 and leads the architecture work package of the EU funded 5GCroCo projects on 5G for CCAM in cross-border environments. where he also serves as deputy Technical Coordinator. As “Industry Verticals Coordination” in the Research Area “Networks” he is furthermore supporting the technical coordination of Ericsson’s efforts in the Automotive Edge Computing Association (AECC) and 5G Automotive Association (5GAA).

His key research interest is in end-to-end design, evaluation, and approval of safety critical communication services.