Dr. Konstantinos Liolis is Senior Systems Engineer within SES Networks, managing innovation projects on satellite communications technologies. Among others, in particular, he has been managing the SES’s participation to the currently ongoing innovation projects 5G-VINNI (EU H2020 5G PPP Phase 3), SaT5G (EU H2020 5G PPP Phase 2), and SATis5 (ESA ARTES) addressing the satellite integration into 5G. He has over 14 years of experience, both technical and managerial, in more than 35 contracted EU FP7/H2020, ESA ARTES and National R&D and Innovation projects in ICT with major focus on satellite communications technologies. Prior to joining SES in 2012, he was R&D Project Manager at Space Hellas S.A., Greece in 2008-2012, Communication Systems Engineer at ESA/ESTEC, the Netherlands in 2006-2008, and Research Assistant at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, San Diego, USA in 2004-2006. He has more than 60 journal, conference and book chapter publications as well as several contributions to ETSI, 3GPP, DVB and ITU-R standardization bodies. He holds the PhD and Dipl.-Eng. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and the MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), USA. He is a Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece and is PMI PMP® certified project manager.

The presentation will address the most promising satellite use cases for 5G which have been selected and are under investigation within the EU H2020 5G PPP Phase 2 project “SaT5G” (Satellite and Terrestrial Network for 5G, http://sat5g-project.eu/) and the ESA ARTES project “SATis5” (Demonstrator for Satellite-Terrestrial Integration in the 5G Context, https://artes.esa.int/projects/satis5). In particular, focus will be on the most promising satellite use cases for eMBB (enhanced Mobile Broadband) and mMTC (massive Machine-Type Communications) service classes. The selection methodology will be elaborated. The relevance of the selected satellite use cases for eMBB and mMTC to the 5G market verticals will be presented. Moreover, a qualitative market size assessment of the selected satellite use cases for eMBB and mMTC will be provided.