From 7th to 10th June the European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) took place, co-located in Grenoble, France with the 6G Summit.  EuCNC is well established within Europe as the primary conference for telecoms researchers to present their latest innovations and findings, and every year it attracts projects, research institutes and academia to the event across a range of panels, keynotes and convened sessions.  

Samsung Research UK regularly attend as members in European Commission funded projects and this year was no exception.  A strong focus has been placed on improving female representation in Research, which has led to the foundation of the Women in Telecoms and Research (WiTaR) initiative.  SRUK have been active in this drive, and Oluwatayo Kolawole was invited to speak in a specially convened session hosted by WiTaR to present the related initiatives in Europe and around the World for improved gender representation.  She was also on hand to guide visitors through SRUK’s contribution to the LOCUS project on their stand, including work on device-free localization based on a radio measurement campaign conducted on the 28GHz equipment that Samsung provided to the 5G-VINNI project, hosted by BT.

In addition, SRUK worked with representatives from industry and academia across Europe to co-author a White Paper titled ‘From 5G to 6G Vision - A Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) perspective’, which was launched at the event, and SRUK also provided the VR component of a videoed demo operating over 5G networks to provide an immersive tourist experience for visitors to a museum in Turin, as part of the 5G-TOURS project.

European Commission funded work in telecoms research has recently entered a new phase with 5G-PPP being replaced by the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS-JU), which will focus on Beyond 5G and 6G Research.  SRUK have participated in 11 consortia in the first SNS-JU call.  The first SNS-JU projects will be announced in the next few months, and will begin by 2023.  Those projects will be the centre of attention for EuCNC 2023, and SRUK hopes to firmly be a part of that.