Descrizione del progetto
Applicazioni end-to-end sensibili al tempo, abilitate al 6G
Il sistema di comunicazione mobile di nuova generazione cambierà per sempre il modo in cui le persone e le cose si connettono. La tecnologia 6G aprirà la strada a un futuro in cui il mondo digitale si fonderà con quello fisico. Negli ultimi tempi sono emersi standard di comunicazione deterministici via cavo, reti sensibili al fattore tempo (TSN) e reti deterministiche (DetNet), e il 5G dispone di meccanismi per l’interoperabilità con questi standard. Tuttavia, il supporto disponibile del 5G in combinazione con TSN e DetNet non è sufficiente. Il progetto DETERMINISTIC6G, finanziato dall’UE, affronterà le sfide legate alla nuova architettura 6G che fornisce prestazioni prevedibili e la integra con TSN e DetNet, nonché la nuova consapevolezza basata sui dati delle prestazioni della rete in evoluzione stocastica. Sfrutterà inoltre i nuovi gemelli digitali delle reti 6G e dei sistemi ciberfisici.
Obiettivo
Digitalization is transforming industries and society with the adoption of edge/cloud computing, AI and digital twins. In the future, physical processes, collaborating machines, but also novel human-system-interactions will move towards a cyber-physical continuum merging the physical world of senses, actions as well as their digital programmable representations. Fundamentally new requirements for deterministic communication with predictable performance will appear for such cyber-physical end-to-end services. Wired deterministic communication standards have already emerged including Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) and Deterministic Networking (DetNet), while 5G has specified mechanisms for interworking with those standards. However, the available support of 5G in conjunction with TSN and DetNet is not sufficient for future end-to-end time-critical applications. Driven by pivotal use cases from Industry 5.0 DETERMINISTIC6G addresses three central challenges of future deterministic end-to-end communication enabled by 6G: (1) a new architecture for 6G systems providing predictable performance and integrating it end-to-end with TSN and DetNet; (2) novel data-driven awareness of stochastically evolving network performance, with time synchronization over heterogeneous domains; and (3) leveraging novel digital twins of both 6G networks and cyber-physical systems, to anticipate situational circumstances impacting determinism of networks and safety of cyber-physical systems. DETERMINISTIC6G will also devise security-by-design for deterministic communication including the integration of edge computing and the support of OPC UA into deterministic network paths. The project targets dissemination of results towards the three essential standardization bodies in this domain: 3GPP (for 6G), IEEE802.1 (for TSN) and IETF (for DetNet). With a strong consortium driving these standards, DETERMINISTIC6G will ensure uptake of the results and insights towards global 6G standards and industry fora.
Campo scientifico
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
1117 Budapest
Ungheria