PREDICT-6G’s mission is set towards the development of an end-to-end 6G solution including architecture and protocols that can guarantee seamless provisioning of services for vertical Use Cases (UC) requiring extremely tight timing and reliability constraints. To succeed, the solution will target determinism network infrastructures at large, including wired and wireless segments and their interconnections. PREDICT-6G will develop a novel multi-technology multi-domain data-plane (MDP) overhauling the reliability and time sensitiveness design features existing in current wired and wireless standards. The ambition is for the MDP design to be inherently deterministic. To achieve this, PREDICT-6G will develop an artificial intelligence -driven multi-stakeholder inter-domain control-plane (AICP) for the provisioning of deterministic network paths to support time sensitive services as requested by end-customers and with different scaling ambitions, e.g. from the network in a single vehicle to a large, geographically dispersed network. This requires timely monitoring and prediction of the behaviour of the complete network, including identifying potential sources of quality violations and analysing various routes of the traffic flows. These capabilities will be delivered through the PREDICT-6G artificial intelligence-powered digital twin framework, allowing the prediction of the behaviour of the end-to-end network infrastructure, and enabling anticipative control and validation of the network provisions to meet the real-world time-sensitive and reliability requirements of the running services.
The identified project objectives are listed below:
- O1: Define a deterministic (i.e. reliable, time sensitive, and predictable) multi-technology, multi-stakeholder network. Provide the PREDICT-6G network architecture based on the analysis of relevant UCs, evaluating their potential business impact.
- O2: Design the PREDICT-6G multi-technology, multi-domain data-plane.
- O3: Provide a novel AICP to enable determinism in multi-stakeholder multi-technology 6G environments.
- O4: Integration, experimentation, and UC verification.
- O5: Disseminate and communicate project results to the broadest audience using Open Science practices, impact standards and European Research and Innovation ecosystems, and exploit project outcomes
