Description du projet
Des réseaux optiques autonomes et économes en énergie
Les prochaines générations de réseaux de communication mobile doivent prendre en charge l’utilisation de technologies émergentes pour répondre à un large éventail de demandes des consommateurs et des entreprises, notamment la transmission de données en temps réel pour les applications critiques et le transport de services de réalité virtuelle et augmentée. Le projet SEASON, financé par l’UE, se propose de concevoir et de valider une infrastructure de réseau optique économe en énergie, capable de prendre en charge des capacités au-delà de la 5G tout en tenant compte de la flexibilité. Il entend exploiter la télémétrie en continu et la gestion des services basée sur l’IA pour réaliser des opérations en temps quasi réel, avec un système distribué basé sur plusieurs agents et des boucles de contrôle fermées. Le projet inclura une alliance d’opérateurs de télécommunications européens, de fournisseurs de systèmes, d’éminents centres de recherche et d’universités.
Objectif
The goal of the SEASON project is to design and validate a sustainable transport network infrastructure able to support beyond 5G and new emerging services. The SEASON infrastructure will rely on the joint usage of Multi-Band (MB) and Space Division Multiplexing (SDM), spanning the access, aggregation, and metro/long-haul segments, supporting the requirements for x-haul, further integrating the packet/optical and computing layers, and targeting cost-effective capacity increase. A critical objective of such architecture is to ensure energy efficiency. SEASON will rely on power-efficient Digital Signal Processing (DSP), MBoverSDM optical switching, point-to-multipoint transceivers allowing traffic aggregation/router bypassing, and converged packet-optical solutions reducing the number of O/E/O conversions. Such complex infrastructure requires rethinking the control and orchestration systems towards autonomous optical networks, addressing not only the integration - in overarching control systems - of the Radio Access Network (RAN), access and transport segments but also adopting more agile DevOps methodologies. SEASON will leverage on cognitive networks powered by streaming telemetry, real-time network measurements and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-aided service management and orchestration for near-real time network operation, moving intelligence as close as possible to the data plane, and devising a distributed system based on multiple communicating agents and data-driven closed control loops.
SEASON will have a clear impact on the society, in a context with increased needs of connectivity and higher capacity demand required for services such as VR/AR.
The SEASON consortium includes major European telecom operators (Telefonica, TIM), major vendors (ADVA, Infinera P/G, Ericsson), three consolidated SMEs (Accelleran, Wings and WestAquila) and four top-reputed research centres and academia (CNIT, CTTC, Fraunhofer HHI, and UPC).
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systems
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsignal processing
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
- social sciencessocial geographytransportsustainable transport
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksoptical networksfiber-optic network
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
43124 Parma
Italie
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.