DETERMINISTIC E2E COMMUNICATION WITH 6G

Project Information

DETERMINISTIC6G

Grant agreement ID: 101096504

DOI

10.3030/101096504

Project closed

EC signature date 17 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 5 840 449,37

EU contribution

€ 5 484 377,00

Coordinated by

ERICSSON MAGYARORSZAG KOMMUNIKACIOS RENDSZEREK KFT
Hungary

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

Data management plan

This report will describe a plan for data protection and confidentiality within the project (personal data, traffic traces, experimental data for deliverables and publications, etc.) Compliance with GDPR will be covered.

Report on 6G convergence enablers towards deterministic communication standards

The deliverable provides details on the traffic management concepts for E2E Traffic management concepts for end-to-end deterministic communication based on TSN and DetNet with 6G wireless nodes. This report will also describe the algorithms to calculate deterministic end-to-end schedules that are robust to high delay variation.

First Intermediate Project Report

This report will provide a summary of the major achievements and use of the resources during period M1-M12

Management Handbook and Project Website

This report will describe the internal procedures as well as a plan for quality assurance (QA) and risk management.

Impact, exploitation and dissemination plan for academic research, awareness of potential benefits to industry, standardization synergies

This deliverable will describe the projects academic dissemination plan as well as the dissemination plan for industry stakeholders, and standardization bodies. It will identify important academic events, conferences, meetings, workshops in which the project partners shall contribute and participate. It will further establish a strategic plan for dissemination of the project results.

First report on time synchronization for E2E time awareness

This report will provide details on the initial enhancement proposed for the time synchronization mechanism for the 6G architecture.

DETERMINISTIC6G use cases and architecture principles

This deliverable provides details on the set of use cases including initial deterministic service design, including principles for security analysis and requirements and guiding principles for a system architecture for end-to-end deterministic communication with 6G.

First report on 6G centric enablers

This first report elaborates on latency analysis in 6G transmission, concepts for reducing packet delay variation, RAN resource allocation concepts as well as foundations of extreme value-based predictors for conditional density estimation.

Other (2)

DETERMINISTIC6G DetCom simulator framework release 1

This deliverable is the first release of the open-source simulator software including code and documentation. The first software release will integrate basic wired/wireless data plane functions and rudimentary control plane functions for simulating pre-configured scenarios.

Report on the Security solutions

First version of the security framework tool.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Resilient Time Synchronization in 6G Networks: A Hot Standby Solution

Author(s): Mahin Ahmed, Raheeb Muzaffar, Damir Hamidovic, Armin Hadziaganovic, Hans-Peter Bernhard, Oliver Höftberger, Franz Profelt, Emilio Trigili, Giulia Bigoni, Marilet De Andrade, János Farkas
Published in: IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, Issue 9, 2025, ISSN 2471-2825
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MCOMSTD.0001.2400041

A Framework for Communication–Compute–Control Co-Design in Cyber–Physical Systems

Author(s): Leefke Grosjean, Joachim Sachs, Junaid Ansari, Norbert Reider, Aitor Hernandez Herranz, Christer Holmberg
Published in: Electronics, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ELECTRONICS14050864

Wireless-Aware TSN Engineering: Implications for 5G and Upcoming 6G Networks

Author(s): Simon Egger, Frank Dürr, Balázs Varga, Marilet De Andrade, Gourav Prateek Sharma, Joachim Sachs, János Harmatos, James Gross
Published in: IEEE Network, Issue 39, 2025, ISSN 0890-8044
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2025.3556002

Predictability of Performance in Communication Networks Under Markovian Dynamics

Author(s): Samie Mostafavi, Simon Egger, György Dán, James Gross
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2025, ISSN 0018-9545
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2025.3576620

Toward Deterministic Communications in 6G Networks: State of the Art, Open Challenges and the Way Forward

Author(s): Gourav Prateek Sharma, Dhruvin Patel, Joachim Sachs, Marilet De Andrde, Janos Farkas, Janos Harmatos, Balazs Varga, Hans-Peter Bernhard, Raheeb Muzaffar, Mahin K. Atiq, Frank Duerr, Dietmar Bruckner, Edgardo Montesdeoca, Drissa Houatra, Hongwei Zhang and
Published in: IEEE Access, 2023, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3316605

Conference proceedings (19)

End-to-End Reliability in Wireless IEEE 802.1Qbv Time-Sensitive Networks

Author(s): Simon Egger, James Gross, Joachim Sachs, Gourav P. Sharma, Christian Becker, Frank Dürr
Published in: 2025 IEEE/ACM 33rd International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IWQOS65803.2025.11143396

Data-Driven Latency Probability Prediction for Wireless Networks: Focusing on Tail Probabilities

Author(s): Samie Mostafavi, Gourav Prateek Sharma, and James Gross
Published in: Accepted at IEEE Globecom 2023, 2023
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2307.10648

Environmental-aware Reinforcement Learning-based Scheduler for Trustworthy 6G in the Factory Floor

Author(s): Fjolla Ademaj-Berisha, Roya Khanzadeh, Andreas Springer, Hans-Peter Bernhard
Published in: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3636534.3696728

Environmental-Aware Scheduler for Trustworthy 6G Communication

Author(s): Roya Khanzadeh, Fjolla Ademaj-Berisha, Andreas Springer, Hans-Peter Bernhard
Published in: 2025 Sixteenth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICUFN65838.2025.11169904

First Analysis of Time Synchronization for TSN Networks with Hot Standby GM

Author(s): Mahin Ahmed, Lucas Haug, Raheeb Muzaffar, Damir Hamidovic, Armin Hadziaganovic, Hans-Peter Bernhard
Published in: 2025 IEEE 21st International Conference on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WFCS63373.2025.11077644

EDAF: An End-to-End Delay Analytics Framework for 5G-and-Beyond Networks

Author(s): Samie Mostafavi, Marius Tillner, Gourav Prateek Sharma, James Gross
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS61880.2024.10620853

Analysis of Time Synchronization for 6G-TSN Networks with Hot Standby

Author(s): Mahin Ahmed, Lucas Haug, Raheeb Muzaffar, Damir Hamidovic, Armin Hadziaganovic, Hans-Peter Bernhard, Marilet De Andrade, János Farkas
Published in: 2025 34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN65249.2025.11134023

A Framework for In-network Inference using P4

Author(s): Huu Nghia Nguyen, Manh-Dung Nguyen, Edgardo Montes de Oca
Published in: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3664476.3670453

Simulating and Emulating the Characteristic Packet Delay of Logical 5G TSN Bridges

Author(s): Haug, Lucas; Dürr, Frank; Egger, Simon; Grohmann, Lorenz; Gross, James; Sharma, Gourav Prateek; Sachs, Joachim
Published in: "4th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch ""Network Softwarization""", 2025
Publisher: 4th GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch
DOI: 10.15496/PUBLIKATION-105097

Digital Twins of Industrial and 6G Systems: Enablers Towards Situational Awareness

Author(s): Armin Hadziaganovic, Joachim Sachs, James Gross, Damir Hamidovic, Mahin Ahmed, Raheeb Muzaffar, Andreas Springer, Hans-Peter Bernhard
Published in: 2025 IEEE 30th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ETFA65518.2025.11205593

Enable Time-Sensitive Applications in Kubernetes with Container Network Interface Plugin Agnostic Metadata Proxy

Author(s): Ferenc Orosi and Ferenc Fejes
Published in: Netdev 0x19, The Technical Conference on Linux Networking, 2025
Publisher: Netdev 0x19
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2503.12878

Active Queue Management with Data-Driven Delay Violation Probability Predictors

Author(s): Samie Mostafavi, Neelabhro Roy, Gyorgy Dan and James Gross
Published in: Accepted at IEEE Globecom 2023, 2023
Publisher: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.14982

Reinforcement Learning Based Backoff Management for Industry 5.0

Author(s): Alessia Tarozzi, Mahin Ahmed, Hans-Peter Bernhard, Roberto Verdone
Published in: NOMS 2025-2025 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NOMS57970.2025.11073698

6G Schedule and Application Traffic Alignment for Efficient Radio Resource Utilization

Author(s): Damir Hamidovic, Armin Hadziaganovic, Mahin Ahmed, Raheeb Muzaffar, Marilet De Andrade, Joachim Sachs, Hans-Peter Bernhard
Published in: 2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/VTC2024-Fall63153.2024.10757713

A Security Framework leveraging Programmable Data Planes for Detecting PTP Time-delay Attacks

Author(s): Huu Nghia Nguyen, Edgardo Montes de Oca, Frank Dürr, Jose Costa Requena, Marilet De Andrade
Published in: 2025 34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN65249.2025.11133837

Performance Study of 5G Indoor Small Cells for Industrial MEC

Author(s): Amy Sokhna Sidibé, Saimanoj Katta, Jose Costa Requena
Published in: 2024 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit60053.2024.10597043

Challenges and Directions for Deterministic Communication in 6G

Author(s): Gourav Prateek Sharma and James Gross
Published in: EuCNC workshop, 2023
Publisher: EuCNC workshop
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14747402

A Data-driven Simulation Framework for Logical 5G-TSN Bridges

Author(s): Lucas Haug, Frank Dürr, Simon Egger, Elena Mostovaya, James Gross, Gourav Prateek Sharma, and Joachim Sachs
Published in: International Conference on Networked Systems 2025 (NetSys 2025), 2025
Publisher: NetSys 2025
DOI: 10.22032/DBT.67110

Time synchronization for deterministic communication

Author(s): Mahin K. Atiq, Raheeb Muzaffar
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Special session EuCNC 2024
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.10670