Supporting Architectural and technological Network evolutions through an intelligent, secureD and twinning enaBled Open eXperimentation facility

Project Information

6G-SANDBOX

Grant agreement ID: 101096328

DOI 10.3030/101096328

EC signature date 24 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost € 8 549 801,53

EU contribution € 8 039 821,26

Coordinated by

KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES BELGIUM
Belgium

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

Definition of evaluation approach and test system

Report describing test methodology, system and automation, description of methodologies to evaluate KPIs and KVIs, use case evaluation approach.

Ecosystem analysis and 6G-SANDBOX facility design

Report on the overall design of the 6G facility, including the first release of the trials network lifecycle and the KPI and KVI validation methodology.

Open repository of measurement results

Software component. Result repository to ensure transparency of measured performance and evaluated KPIs and KVIs.

Initial Dissemination and Exploitation Plan

The document will provide initial project planning for the overall WP activities, which will be regularly reviewed and updated by the consortium, and report on establishment of the graphical project identity, its website, social media channels, etc.

Intermediate report on KPI and KVI validation

Initial report on KPIs and KVIs and results achieved form experiments which can be publicly disseminate.

Open API design and implementation for 6G-SANDBOX Library

Design and implementation of Openness approach in 6G Sandbox to expose 6G capabilities to Trial Networks.

6G-SANDBOX Library V1

This report enumerates and describes the technology enablers incorporated in the 6G-SANDBOX Library such as Open RAN, TSN, XR.

Integration and Management for 6G trial networks - Intermediate report

This deliverable will include information about the development and integration activities performed across all tasks of WP4.

Publications

Conference proceedings (19)

Joint Network Slicing, Routing, and In-Network Computing for Energy-Efficient 6G

Author(s): Z. Sasan, M. Shokrnezhad, S. Khorsandi, and T. Taleb
Published in: Proc. IEEE WCNC 2024, 2024, ISSN 1558-2612
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.06306

Field Trial Validation of 5G-Connected UAVs towards QoS and Handover Analysis

Author(s): Makropoulos, George; Manolopoulos, Ioannis; Koumaras, Harilaos; Lyberopoulos, George; Setaki, Foteini; Theodoropoulou, Eleni; Mesogiti, Ioanna
Published in: IEEE CAMAD 2024, 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14761081

Moving Target Defense based Secured Network Slicing System in the O-RAN Architecture

Author(s): M.K. Motalleb, C. Benzaid, T. Taleb, and V. Shah-Mansouri
Published in: Proc. of IEEE Globecom’23, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023
Publisher: ΙΕΕΕ
DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10437795

A Proof of Concept Implementation of an AI-assisted User-Centric 6G Network

Author(s): N. Gkatzios, H. Koumaras, D. Fragkos, V. Koumaras
Published in: Proc. of EuCNC 2024 & 6G SUMMIT, 2024, ISSN 2575-4912
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit60053.2024.10597020

RIS-Assisted Ad Hoc Edge for Optimal User Distribution in Service-Intensive Scenarios

Author(s): C. Hou, C Wang, K. Dong, X. Wang, and T. Taleb
Published in: Proc. of IEEE Globecom’23, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023
Publisher: ΙΕΕΕ

5G Network Enhancements to Support Ambient IoT Devices

Author(s): Apostolis K. Salkintzis, Dimitrios Dimopoulos
Published in: Proc. of IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN) 2023, 2023
Publisher: ΙΕΕΕ

Exploiting Core Openness as Native-AI Enabler for Optimized UAV Flight Path Selection

Author(s): George Makropoulos, Dimitrios Fragkos, Harilaos Koumaras, Nancy Alonistioti, Alexandros Kaloxylos, Foteini Setaki
Published in: Proc. of IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN) 2023, 2023
Publisher: ΙΕΕΕ

Enhancing 5G Security: Slice Isolation via Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning with Optimal Graph Features

Author(s): A. Javadpour F. Jaafari, T. Taleb, and C. Benzaid
Published in: Proc. of IEEE Globecom’23, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023
Publisher: ΙΕΕΕ

A Deep Transfer Learning-powered EDoS Detection Mechanism for 5G and Beyond Network Slicing

Author(s): C. Benzaid, T. Taleb, A. Sami, and O. Hireche
Published in: Proc. of IEEE Globecom’23, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023
Publisher: ΙΕΕΕ

On-demand Trial Networks over 6G-SANDBOX infrastructure

Author(s): Pedro Merino-Gomez, Bruno Garcia, Carlos Andreo, David Artuñedo, Jesus Macias
Published in: Proc. of EuCNC 2024 & 6G SUMMIT, 2024, ISSN 2575-4912
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit60053.2024.10597112

Dynamic Edge AI Service Management and Adaptation via Off-Policy Meta-Reinforcement Learning and Digital Twin

Author(s): Yan Chen, Hao Yu, Qize Guo, Shuyuan Zhao, and Tarik Taleb
Published in: Proc. of IEEE ICC 2024, 2024
Publisher: IEEE

A Federated Continual Learning Framework for Sustainable Network Anomaly Detection in O-RAN

Author(s): C. Benzaid, F.M. Hossain, T. Taleb, P.M. Gomez, and M. Dieudonné
Published in: Proc.of IEEE WCNC 2024, 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC57260.2024.10570951

User Request Provisioning Oriented Slice Anomaly Prediction and Resource Allocation in 6G Networks

Author(s): Zhao Ming, Hao Yu and Tarik Taleb
Published in: Proc. IEEE ICC 2024, 2024
Publisher: IEEE

Profit-Aware Proactive Slicing Resource Provisioning with Traffic Uncertainty in Multi-Tenant FlexE-over-WDM Networks

Author(s): Qize Guo, Zhao Ming, Hao Yu, Yan Chen, and Tarik Taleb
Published in: Proc. of IEEE ICC 2024, 2024
Publisher: IEEE

6G-SANDBOX: Technology Validation and Measurement Campaigns for Non-Terrestrial Networks

Author(s): Pedro Merino-Gomez, Michael Dieudonee, Dimitris Tsolkas, Bruno García, David Artuñedo, Harilaos Koumaras, Marc Emmelmann, Tarik Taleb, Fotini Setaki, Vaios Koumaras, Alvaro Villegas, Alfonso Carrillo, Apostolis Salkintzis, Jorge Sianes, Halid Hrasnica, An
Published in: Proc. of EuCNC 2023 & 6G-SUMMIT, June 2023, 2023
Publisher: EuCNC

QoS-Aware Service Prediction and Orchestration in Cloud-Network Integrated Beyond 5G

Author(s): M. Farhoudi, M. Shokrnezhad, and T. Taleb
Published in: Proc. of IEEE Globecom’23, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2023, 2023
Publisher: ΙΕΕΕ
DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10436905

A Chatbot Assistant for Optimizing the Fault Detection and Diagnostics of Industry 4.0 Equipment in the 6G era

Author(s): Nikolaos Gkatzios; Nikolaos Vryonis; Constantinos Fragkos; Christos Sakkas; Vaios Koumaras; George Makropoulos; Dimitrios Fragkos; Harilaos Koumaras
Published in: Proc. of IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN) 2023,, 2023
Publisher: ΙΕΕΕ

An AI-assisted User-Intent 6G System for Dynamic Throughput Provision

Author(s): Alexandropoulos, Ilias; Rentoula, Vasiliki; Fragkos, Dimitrios; Gkatzios, Nikolaos; Koumaras, Harilaos
Published in: IEEE CAMAD 2024, 2024
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14755731

ORIENT: A Priority-Aware Energy-Efficient Approach for Latency-Sensitive Applications in 6G

Author(s): Masoud Shokrnezhad and Tarik Taleb
Published in: Proc. IEEE ICC 2024, 2024
Publisher: IEEE

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Towards 6G-based Metaverse: Supporting Highly-Dynamic Deterministic Multi-User Extended Reality Services

Author(s): Hao Yu; Masoud Shokrnezhad; Tarik Taleb; Richard Li; JaeSeung Song
Published in: IEEE Network Magazine, Issue Vol. 37, Issue: 4, 2023, ISSN 1558-156X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MNET.004.2300101

Verification of a multi-connectivity protocol for Tactile Internet applications

Author(s): Delia Rico, María-del-Mar Gallardo, Pedro Merino
Published in: Computer Communications, Issue Vol 212, p. 390-406, 2023, ISSN 0140-3664
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2023.10.013

A 3D-printing metasurface-augmented half-circle Maxwell fisheye lens for millimetre-wave analogue beamforming

Author(s): Bader Alali, Dmitry Zelenchuk, Muhammad Ali Babar Abbasi
Published in: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Issue 58, 2024, ISSN 0022-3727
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ad8c55

FortisEDoS: A Deep Transfer Learning-empowered Economical Denial of Sustainability Detection Framework for Cloud-Native Network Slicing

Author(s): Chafika Benzaïd, Tarik Taleb; Ashkan Sami; Othmane Hireche
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Issue p. 1-18, 2023, ISSN 1941-0018
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2023.3318606

Federated Deep Reinforcement Learning for Prediction-Based Network Slice Mobility in 6 G Mobile Networks

Author(s): Zhao Ming, Hao Yu and Tarik Taleb
Published in: IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, Issue p.1-17, 2024, ISSN 1536-1233
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2024.3404125

Other (2)

5G and Beyond 5G Ecosystem Business Modelling

Author(s): Hallingby, H.-S., Gavras, A., Mesogiti, I., Bledow, N., Darzanos, G., Frizzell, R., Breuer, H., Rokkas, T., & Fernandez Vega, L.
Published in: 2023
Publisher: ZENODO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7640478

Beyond 5G/6G KPI Measurements

Author(s): Dieudonne, M., Wang, H., Mesogiti, I., & Kosmatos, E
Published in: 2023
Publisher: ZENODO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7963247