ETHER – sElf-evolving terrestrial/non-Terrestrial Hybrid nEtwoRks

Project Information

ETHER

Grant agreement ID: 101096526

DOI

10.3030/101096526

EC signature date 22 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 4 901 867,50

EU contribution

€ 4 660 693,25

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (4)

Initial report on ETHER network architecture, interfaces and architecture evaluation

This deliverable will be an initial report on the ETHER network architecture, the interfaces, the supported functions, including initial architecture evaluation results, T2.2.

Final report on ETHER network architecture, interfaces and architecture evaluation

This deliverable is the final report on the ETHER network architecture, the interfaces and the architecture evaluation, T2.2.

Dissemination, Communication Report- 1st update

Intermediate version of the report on ETHER's communication and dissemination activities carried out during the first half of the project together with the exploitation objectives and plan, T6.1-T6.2.

Use cases and KPIs/KVIs

This deliverable will report on the Use Cases and the associated KPIs/KVIs targeted by ETHER, T2.1.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Hierarchical Traffic Engineering in 3D Networks Using QoS-Aware Graph-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): R. Kołakowski, L. Tomaszewski, R. Tępiński, S. Kukliński
Published in: Electronics, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ELECTRONICS14051045

State-aware real-time tracking and remote reconstruction of a Markov source

Author(s): Salimnejad, Mehrdad; Kountouris, Marios; Pappas, Nikolaos
Published in: Journal of Communications and Networks, 2023, ISSN 1976-5541
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.11950

Towards Natively Intelligent Semantic Communications and Networking

Author(s): S. E. Trevlakis, N. Pappas, A.-A. Boulogeorgos
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3371871

Short-Packet Communication Over a Two-User Rayleigh Fading Z-Interference Channel: From Stability Region to the Age of Information

Author(s): J. D. Kumar, P. Mohapatra, N. Pappas
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2023, ISSN 2644-125x
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2023.3309758

Experimental Study of Transport Layer Protocols for Wireless Networked Control Systems

Author(s): Kutsevol, Polina; Ayan, Onur; Pappas, Nikolaos; Kellerer, Wolfgang
Published in: 2023 20th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), 2023, ISSN 2155-5494
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.10578

Semantics-Aware Active Fault Detection in Status Updating Systems

Author(s): G. Stamatakis, N. Pappas, A. Fragkiadakis, N. Petroulakis, A. Traganitis
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3363731

Analysis of Age of Information in Dual Updating Systems

Author(s): Z. Chen et al.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2023, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2023.3257356

A Vision, Survey, and Roadmap Toward Space Communications in the 6G and Beyond Era

Author(s): Konstantinos Ntontin, Eva Lagunas, Jorge Querol, Junaid ur Rehman, Joel Grotz, Symeon Chatzinotas, Björn Ottersten
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE, 2025, ISSN 0018-9219
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2024.3512934

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Author(s): Erfan Delfani; Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: Version Age-Optimal Cached Status Updates in a Gossiping Network with Energy Harvesting Sensor, 2024, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tcomm.2024.3471969

Conference proceedings (12)

Integrating Geographical Information Systems in Management and Orchestration of Satellites Constellation to Achieve a Spatial-Aware 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks Architecture

Author(s): Jose Avila, Anna Calveras, Joan Adrià Ruiz De Azúa Ortega, Hossein Rouzegar, Sergi Figuerola
Published in: IAF Symposium on Integrated Applications, 2025
Publisher: International Astronautical Federation (IAF)
DOI: 10.52202/078366-0011

Goal-Oriented Estimation of Multiple Markov Sources in Resource-Constrained Systems

Author(s): J. Luo and N. Pappas
Published in: 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2025, ISSN 2166-9589
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC59610.2024.10817179

Age of Actuation in a Wireless Power Transfer System

Author(s): Ali Nikkhah, Anthony Ephremides, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2023, ISSN 2833-0587
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10226099

Software Defined-High Altitude Platform Relays in Integrated Terrestrial-HAP-Satellite Networks

Author(s): Hamada Alshaer, Fadhil Firyaguna, Chih-Kuang Lin, Philip Harris
Published in: 2024 AIAA DATC/IEEE 43rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2024, ISSN 2155-7209
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DASC62030.2024.10749070

Effective Communication: When to Pull Updates?

Author(s): Agheli, Pouya; Pappas, Nikolaos; Popovski, Petar; Kountouris, Marios
Published in: ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024, ISSN 1938-1883
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.06432

Graph-Based Handover for Future Aeronautical 6G Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks

Author(s): Fadhil Firyaguna, Chih-Kuang Lin, Hamada Alshaer, Phil Harris
Published in: 2024 AIAA DATC/IEEE 43rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2024, ISSN 2155-7209
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DASC62030.2024.10749672

Importance-aware Sampling of a Two-State Markov Source for Real-time Tracking

Author(s): Salimnejad, Mehrdad; Kountouris, Marios; Pappas, Nikolaos
Published in: 2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2023
Publisher: Asilomar
DOI: 10.1109/ieeeconf59524.2023.10477015

Intelligent Message Routing and Optimization for Aircraft in 6G Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks

Author(s): Chih-Kuang Lin, Fadhil Firvaguna, Hamada Alshaer, Philip Harris
Published in: 2024 AIAA DATC/IEEE 43rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2024, ISSN 2155-7209
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DASC62030.2024.10748859

IoT-NTN Communications via Store-and-Forward Core Network in Multi-LEO-Satellite Deployments

Author(s): Victor Monzon Baeza, Giovanni Rigazzi, Sergio Aguilar Romero, Ramon Ferrus, Josep Ferrer, Suvidha Mhatre, Marco Guadalupi
Published in: 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2025, ISSN 2166-9589
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC59610.2024.10817343

Version Age-Optimal Cached Status Updates in a Gossiping Network with Energy Harvesting Sensor

Author(s): Erfan Delfani, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: 2023 21st International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2023, ISSN 2690-3342
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/WiOpt58741.2023.10349895

Flexible Optical Circuit Switched Network Architecture based on Tunable SFP+ Transceivers for Reconfigurable Low-Latency 5G/6G Networks

Author(s): G. Michail, M. Vargemidou, C. Vagionas, M. Gatzianas, G. Kalfas, R. Maximidis, A. Mesodiakaki et al.
Published in: 7th Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET 2024), 2024, ISBN 979-8-3503-1884-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PACET60398.2024.10497001

Age of Information with On-Off Service

Author(s): A. Sinha, P. D. Mankar, N. Pappas, H. S. Dhillon
Published in: 2023 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2023, ISSN 2475-4218
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ITW55543.2023.10161646