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Enabling Virtualized Wireless and Optical Coexistence for 5G and Beyond

Description du projet

Convergence optique et sans fil efficace pour les réseaux 5G (au-delà)

La croissance exponentielle de l’utilisation de services internet gourmands en bande passante exige de nouvelles avancées dans les technologies de transmission de données optiques afin de pouvoir atteindre des débits ultra-élevés et des latences minimales. Les systèmes 5G, une combinaison de technologies radio et de réseaux de base innovants, intégreront les communications optiques. L’utilisation d’un cœur optique pour envoyer des données 5G soulève des questions importantes sur la manière dont les technologies sans fil et optiques peuvent coexister pour fournir des voies de communication fluides et de bout en bout. Financé par le programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, le projet EWOC entend mettre au point une nouvelle solution de réseau sans fil optique convergent, qui repose sur une infrastructure flexible et virtualisée, qui permettra l’optimisation complète des ressources pour les besoins dépassant ceux de la 5G. EWOC ciblera les communications à haute capacité et à faible latence (40-90 GHz), jetant les bases d’une technologie permettant de multiplier l’efficacité spectrale par 50.

Objectif

EWOC project aims at developing a novel converged optical wireless network solution relying on a flexible, virtualizable infrastructure, required for full resource optimisation beyond 5G (B5G) requirements. Fundamental innovation will be sought through merging of the enabling concepts of optical layer virtualization, high frequency mm-wave transmission, multiple antenna technology, cell densification, terra-over-fiber (ToF) based femtocell connectivity and cloud radio access network (C- RAN) architecture. EWOC will aim at high capacity, low latency communications (40-90 GHz frequency), providing the basis for a 50-fold improvement over the 5G baseline. This necessitates development of novel, femto-cell technology, and seamless coexistence with first round legacy deployment. Such scenario also requires novel channel models and simulation methodologies to attain the desired trade-off between coverage, throughput and densification limits. EWOC will rely on fiber-optic deployment towards ToF connectivity, as an “added on feature” for the C-RAN architecture supporting resource management of versatile services with varying demands. Scenario compliant optical fronthaul virtualisation techniques, designed to provide cost effective beyond state-of-the-art resource optimisation, will be pursued through novel optical transceiver schemes and software defined network-based digital signal processing techniques. Research and training
disciplines will serve as building blocks towards the scientific and socio-economic goals of increased capacity, coverage, flexibility, spectral efficiency, cost effectiveness, vendor agnosticism, and upgradability. EWOC provides a framework for promotion of such interdisciplinary innovation, with strong interoperability of models and methodologies from different disciplines. As such, EWOC training network is designed to foster opportunities for scientific and professional growth of ESRs from both topical and inter-disciplinary standpoints.

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INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICACOES
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 243 403,20
Adresse
CAMPUS UNIVERSITARIO DE SANTIAGO UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO
3810 193 Gloria E Vera Cruz
Portugal

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