Descrizione del progetto
Reti ottiche autonome energeticamente efficienti
Le future generazioni di reti di comunicazione mobile dovranno sostenere l’impiego di tecnologie emergenti per soddisfare un ampio ventaglio di esigenze di consumatori e aziende. Tra queste figurano la trasmissione di dati in tempo reale per applicazioni di rilevanza strategica e il trasporto di servizi virtuali e della realtà aumentata. Il progetto SEASON, finanziato dall’UE, intende progettare e convalidare un’infrastruttura di rete ottica a risparmio energetico in grado di coadiuvare le capacità oltre il 5G senza tralasciare la necessità di flessibilità. Pertanto, propone di sfruttare la telemetria di streaming e la gestione di servizi basata sull’IA per ottenere operazioni in tempo quasi reale, con un sistema distribuito fondato su più agenti e circuiti di controllo chiusi. Il progetto comprenderà un’alleanza tra operatori di telecomunicazioni europei, venditori di sistemi, centri di ricerca rinomati e mondo accademico.
Obiettivo
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).
Campo scientifico
- 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
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinatore
43124 Parma
Italia
L’organizzazione si è definita una PMI (piccola e media impresa) al momento della firma dell’accordo di sovvenzione.