Holistic, Omnipresent, Resilient Services for future 6G Wireless and Computing Ecosystems

Project Information

HORSE

Grant agreement ID: 101096342

DOI

10.3030/101096342

Project closed

EC signature date 16 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 5 314 850,14

EU contribution

€ 4 999 756,25

Coordinated by

CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI
Italy

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Deliverables

Other (2)

First HORSE Release: HORSE IT-1 version

Delivery of the HORSE IT-1 version including all components integrated and validated in the two use cases at IT-1. Technical performance results for IT-1 are also included in this report.

HORSE AI-assisted human-centric Secure and Trustable Orchestration developed (IT-1)

Delivers a stable version of all AI-assisted human-centric Secure and Trustable Orchestration components at IT-1 ready to be integrated along with WP3 outcome in WP5.

Documents, reports (4)

HORSE Landscape: Technologies, state of the art, AI policies and requirements (IT-1)

Report on the entire HORSE context for IT-1 architectural design. An internal report is issued in M4 to feed the architectural design in T2.4.

HORSE demonstration scenario

Report describing the demonstration strategy to be deployed in HORSE along with the defined use case settings towards a successful evaluation process.

Impact creation strategy and plan

Defines the strategies and plan for the communication and dissemination activities (Task 6.1), for the liaisons and synergies (Task 6.2), for the standardisation contributions (Task 6.3) and for the exploitation efforts (Task 6.4). It is led by Task 6.1.

HORSE Architectural Design (IT-1)

Describes the HORSE architecture as designed in IT-1, ready to feed development tasks in WP3 and WP4. An internal report is issued in M6 feeding WP3 and WP4.

Publications

Conference proceedings (17)

Building the Digital Twin of a MEC node: a Data Driven Approach

Author(s): Riccardo Fedrizzi; Arturo Bellin; Cristina Emilia Costa; Fabrizio Granelli
Published in: 2023 IEEE 9th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2023, ISSN 2693-9789
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NetSoft57336.2023.10175423

ePEM: An End-to-End Proactive Secure Connectivity Manager for 6G Orchestrator Solutions

Author(s): Alessandro Carrega, Ramin Rabbani
Published in: 2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CAMAD62243.2024.10942805

Navigating the Cybersecurity Landscape in Cloud Computing: Challenges, Strategies, and Future Directions

Author(s): Milad Akbari, Roberto Bruschi, Alessandro Carrega
Published in: 2025 International Conference on Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity, and Informatics (CCCI), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CCCI65983.2025.11215094

Interference-Aware PMI Selection for MIMO Systems in an O-RAN Scenario

Author(s): Rawlings Ntassah, Gian Michele Dell'Aera, Fabrizio Granelli
Published in: 2025 IEEE 11th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NETSOFT64993.2025.11080604

Optimizing Network Traffic Prediction for Network Digital Twins: The Impact of Look-Back Period and Forecast Horizon

Author(s): John Sengendo, Fabrizio Granelli
Published in: 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC61545.2025.10978133

XAI-Driven Client Selection for Federated Learning in Scalable 6G Network Slicing

Author(s): Martino Chiarani, Swastika Roy, Christos Verikoukis, Fabrizio Granelli
Published in: ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC52391.2025.11161532

Harnessing 1D-CNN for Received Power Prediction in Sub-6 GHz RIS: Part I

Author(s): Muhammad Abul Hassan, Fabrizio Granelli
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCWORKSHOPS67674.2025.11162261

Optimum Network Slicing for Ultra-reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) Services in Campus Networks

Author(s): Iulisloi Zacarias and Francisco Carpio and André Costa Drummond and Admela Jukan
Published in: 2023 19th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DRCN57075.2023.10108188

A Preliminary Study on the Power Consumption of Virtualized Edge 5G Core Networks

Author(s): Arturo Bellin; Marco Centenaro; Fabrizio Granelli
Published in: 2023 IEEE 9th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2023, ISSN 2693-9789
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NetSoft57336.2023.10175489

Optimizing Network Cybersecurity: AI-Powered NLP for Natural Language Command Interpretation

Author(s): Michail Danousis, Konstantinos Kaltakis, Alexandros Dimos, Charalabos Skianis, Emmanouil Kafetzakis, Ioannis Giannoulakis
Published in: 2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CAMAD62243.2024.10942816

Building Network Digital Twins Part II: Real-Time Adaptive PID for Enhanced State Synchronization

Author(s): J Sengendo, F Granelli
Published in: 2026
Publisher: IEEE

Revolutionizing Cloud Security with Programmable Frameworks: a Novel Approach

Author(s): Alessandro Carrega
Published in: 2024 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), 2025, ISSN 2770-7679
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/FNWF63303.2024.11028857

Dynamic deployment and security assessment of resilient Services over Digital Twins

Author(s): Juan Tamboleo, Alejandro Molina Zarca, Fabrizio Granelli, Jose Manuel Manjón, Antonio Pastor, Antonio Skarmeta and Diego Lopez
Published in: EuCNC 2024, 2024, ISSN 2575-4912
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit60053.2024.10597070

Strategy for Modeling Threats in 5G and B5G Networks

Author(s): Saman Tariq, Eva Rodríguez, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Panos Trakadas, Admela Jukan, Diego R. López
Published in: 2024 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing Workshops (CCGridW), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CCGRIDW63211.2024.00008

Deep Learning-Driven Optimal Beam Prediction for Drone Connectivity via Flying-RIS and Base Station

Author(s): Muhammad Abul Hassan, Fabrizio Granelli
Published in: 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/VTC2025-SPRING65109.2025.11174870

A Packet Delay Emulator for High-Bandwidth and Low-Latency Traffic in 5G Networks

Author(s): Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Franco Davoli, Chiara Lombardo, Alireza Mohammadpour, Ramin Rabbani
Published in: IEEE Globecom 2023, 2023
Publisher: IEEE

PPO-EPO: Energy and Performance Optimization for O-RAN Using Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Rawlings Ntassah, Gian Michele Dell’Aera, Fabrizio Granelli
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCWORKSHOPS67674.2025.11162233

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Federated Transfer Learning-based Intrusion Detection System in 5G networks

Author(s): Bellmunt Fuentes, Andrea
Published in: instname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2024
Publisher: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/J.ESWA.2025.130868

Peer reviewed articles (13)

A differential privacy protection-based federated deep learning framework to fog-embedded architectures

Author(s): Gutierrez, N.; Otero, B.; Rodriguez, E.; Utrera, G.; Mus, S.; Canal, R.
Published in: Engineering applications of artificial intelligence, 2024, ISSN 0952-1976
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2023.107689

A Distributed Trustable Framework for AI-Aided Anomaly Detection

Author(s): Nikolaos Nomikos; George Xylouris; Gerasimos Patsourakis; Vasileios Nikolakakis; Anastasios Giannopoulos; Charilaos Mandilaris; Panagiotis Gkonis; Charalabos Skianis; Panagiotis Trakadas
Published in: Electronics, 2025, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: dpi
DOI: 10.3390/ELECTRONICS14030410

Enhancing cybersecurity in railways: Machine learning approaches for attack detection

Author(s): Beatriz Otero Calviño, Eva Rodriguez, Juan José Costa, Mercedes Oriol
Published in: International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Issue 50, 2026, ISSN 1874-5482
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.IJCIP.2025.100788

A survey on 5G private and B5G network threats and safeguarding AI-based security mechanisms through the layered analysis

Author(s): Saman Tariq, Eva Rodriguez Luna, Xavier Masip Bruin, Rodrigo Diaz, Josep Martrat, Panagiotis Trakadas
Published in: Computer Networks, Issue 271, 2025, ISSN 1389-1286
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COMNET.2025.111594

On the performance of uplink power-domain NOMA with imperfect CSI and SIC in 6G networks

Author(s): Volkan Özduran, Mohammadali Mohammadi, Nikolaos Nomikos, Imran Shafique Ansari, Panagiotis Trakadas
Published in: Journal of Communications and Networks, Issue 26, 2024, ISSN 1229-2370
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.23919/JCN.2024.000039

Automating 5G Traffic Generation With Virtual UEs: A Scalable Network Testing Infrastructure

Author(s): Emilio García de la Calera Molina, Anthony J. Pogo Medina, Alejandro Molina Zarca, Pablo Fernández Saura, Antonio F. Skarmeta Gómez
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Issue 23, 2025, ISSN 1932-4537
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2025.3632075

Leveraging Network Data Analytics Function and Machine Learning for Data Collection, Resource Optimization, Security and Privacy in 6G Networks

Author(s): P. Gkonis, N. Nomikos, P. Trakadas, L. Sarakis, G. Xyloyris, X. Masip-Bruin, J. Martrat
Published in: IEEE Access, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3359992

Relay-Aided Uplink NOMA Under Non-Orthogonal CCI and Imperfect SIC in 6G Networks

Author(s): Volkan Ozduran, Nikolaos Nomikos, Ehsan Soleimani-Nasab, Imran Shafique Ansari, Panagiotis Trakadas
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, 2024, ISSN 2644-1330
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJVT.2024.3392951

A Security Services Management Architecture Toward Resilient 6G Wireless and Computing Ecosystems

Author(s): Eva Rodriguez, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Josep Martrat, Rodrigo Diaz, Admela Jukan, Fabrizio Granelli, Panagiotis Trakadas and George Xilouris
Published in: IEEE Access, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3427661

A Multi-Tenant System for 5/6G Testbed as-a-Service

Author(s): Bolla, Raffaele; Bruschi, Roberto; Lombardo, Chiara; Mangialardi, Sergio; Mohammadpour, Alireza; Rabbani, Ramin; Siccardi, Beatrice
Published in: 2023 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2023, ISSN 2155-2509
Publisher: IEEEexplore
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.10654014

Improving Connectivity in 6G Maritime Communication Networks with UAV Swarms

Author(s): Nikolaos Nomikos, Anastasios Giannopoulos, Alexandros Kalafatelis, Volkan Ozduran, Panagiotis Trakadas, George K Karagiannidis
Published in: IEEE Access, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3360133

Bandit-Based Learning-Aided Full-Duplex/Half-Duplex Mode Selection in 6G Cooperative Relay Networks

Author(s): Nikolaos Nomikos; Themistoklis Charalambous; Panagiotis Trakadas; Risto Wichman
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ojcoms.2024.3370476

System Level Performance Assessment of Large-Scale Cell-Free Massive MIMO Orientations With Cooperative Beamforming

Author(s): P. K. Gkonis, S. Lavdas, G. Vardoulias, P. Trakadas, L. Sarakis and K. Papadopoulos
Published in: IEEE Access, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3422349

Other (3)

AI/ML as a Key Enabler of 6G Networks: Methodology, Approach and AI-Mechanisms in SNS JU

Author(s): Trichias, Konstantinos; Christopoulou, Maria; Porambage, Pawani; Benzaid, Chafika; Vassiliou, Vasos; Artuñedo Guillén, David; Tsolkas, Dimitris; Avgeris, Marios; Papagianni, Chrysa; Jain, Akshay; Kilper, Daniel; Chen, Tao
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SNS JU
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14623106

Sustainability in SNS JU Projects - Targets, Methodologies, Trade-offs and Implementation Considerations Towards 6G Systems

Author(s): Rezaki, Ali; Trichias, Konstantinos; Mesodiakaki, Agapi; Gavras, Anastasius; Aseeva, Anna; Berardinelli, Gilberto; Osman, Hassan; Gutiérrez Terán, Jesús; Petersen, Katrina; Gramaglia, Marco; Katz, Marcos; Bezzi, Margot; Ghoraishi, Mir
Published in: 2025
Publisher: SNS JU
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15555292

European Vision for the 6G Network Ecosystem

Author(s): Uusitalo, Mikko; Bernardos, Carlos Jesus; Kaloxylos, Alexandros; Bourse, Didier Arnaud; Norp, Toon; Lønsethagen, Håkon; Hecker, Artur; Rugeland, Patrik; Papagianni, Chrysa; Bulakci, Ömer; Li, Xi; Ericson, Mårten; Anton-Haro, Carles; Massod Khorsandi, Bahare; Ramos-Lopez, Aurora; Frascolla, Valerio; Marco, Gramaglia; Gavras, Anastasius; Trichias, Konstantinos
Published in: 6G-IA Vision Working Group, 2024
Publisher: SNS JU
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.13708424