6G-BRICKS: Building Reusable testbed Infrastructures for validating Cloud-to-device breaKthrough technologieS

Informations projet

6G-BRICKS

N° de convention de subvention: 101096954

DOI

10.3030/101096954

Date de signature de la CE 18 Novembre 2022

Date de début 1 Janvier 2023

Date de fin 31 Decembre 2025

Financé au titre de

• Digital, Industry and Space

Coût total

€ 8 848 313,05

Contribution de l’UE

€ 8 404 533,38

Coordonné par

ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS
Greece

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Livrables

Documents, reports (11)

Experimentation Facility testing as a service and explainable resource management frameworks design and initial prototyping
Dissemination Standardization and exploitation Plans and Material

Dissemination Standardization and exploitation Plans and Material report

Initial report on communication and sensing algorithms, cell-free distributed computation and synchronization
Experimentation facility end-to-end security framework development and initial system integration
Description and definition of targeted PoCs

This deliverable will include the description and definition of targeted PoCs

Initial report on the RIS controller and PaaS abstraction enablers
Requirements and Specifications Analysis

This deliverable includes the requirements and Specifications Analysis of 6G-BRICKS

Initial deployment and Configuration of enablers at 6G sites
Initial 6G-BRICKS overall architecture design

The initial 6G-BRICKS overall architecture design will be reported

Dissemination, standardization, exploitation and IPR activities - Initial

Dissemination, standardization, exploitation and IPR activities initial report

Interfacing with the Experimentation tools, deployment of security perimeters and dry run testing

Publications

Conference proceedings (13)

Leveraging LLMs to eXplain DRL Decisions for Transparent 6G Network Slicing

Auteurs: Mazene Ameur, Bouziane Brik, Adlen Ksentini
Publié dans: 2024 IEEE 10th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2024, ISSN 2693-9789
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NetSoft60951.2024.10588921

Building a real-time physical layer labeled data logging facility for 6G research

Auteurs: Franco Minucci, Raquel Marina Noguera Oishi, Haoqiu Xiong, Dieter Verbruggen, Cel Thys, Rizqi Hersyandika, Robbert Beerten, Achiel Colpaert, Vida Ranjbar, Sofie Pollin
Publié dans: IEEE CAMAD, 2024, ISSN 0000-0000
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2410.01298

DQN and Heuristic Precoding-aware Scheduling in Cell-free mMIMO Networks

Auteurs: Adam Girycki, Md Arifur Rahman, Sofie Pollin
Publié dans: 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2024, ISSN 1558-2612
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC57260.2024.10571123

6G-BRICKS: An Innovative Platform Based on CF and RIS Technologies for Validation and Testing of 6G

Auteurs: Ioannis Chochliouros, John Vardakas, Kostas Ramantas, Sofie Pollin, Franco Minucci, Sylvie Mayrargue, Adlen Ksentini, Walter Nitzold, Md Arifur Rahman, Jimmy O’Meara, Ashima Chawla, Dimitrios Kritharidis, Carolina Fernández, Francisco Ibañez, Georgios Gardikis, Dimitris Diagourtas, Loizos Christofi, Arman Shojaeifard, Didier Nicholson, Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou, Pavlos Lazaridis, Christos Verikoukis
Publié dans: Mechanisms and Machine Science, Proceedings of the UNIfied Conference of DAMAS, IncoME and TEPEN Conferences (UNIfied 2023), 2024, ISSN 0000-0000
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49421-5_85

Trusted access to 6G testbeds through a security intent-driven Software-Defined Perimeter framework

Auteurs: Fernandez-Martinez, Carolina, Bikos Anastasios, Verikoukis Christos, Siddiqui Shuaib
Publié dans: IEEE CAMAD, 2024, ISSN 0000-0000
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13626977

Location-Based Load Balancing for Energy-Efficient Cell-Free Networks

Auteurs: Robbert Beerten, Vida Ranjbar, Andrea P. Guevara, Hazem Sallouha, Sofie Pollin
Publié dans: 2024 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2024, ISSN 2575-4912
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit60053.2024.10597030

6G-BRICKS: Building Reusable testbed Infrastructures for Cloud-to-device breaKthrough technologieS

Auteurs: Christos Verikoukis (University of Patras, Greece); Kostas Ramantas (Iquadrat Informatica, Greece); Anastasios N. Bikos (Iquadrat Informatica SL & University of Patras, Spain); Walter Nitzold (National Instruments, Germany); Sofie Pollin (KU Leuven, Belgi
Publié dans: IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, taking place from December 4th to 8th, 2023, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GCWkshps58843.2023.10465223

Beamforming and Functional Split Selection for Scalable Cell-free mMIMO Networks

Auteurs: Adam Girycki, Md Arifur Rahman, Andrea P. Guevara, Sofie Pollin
Publié dans: 2024 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2024, ISSN 2575-4912
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit60053.2024.10597132

Combining Network Data Analytics Function and Machine Learning for Abnormal Traffic Detection in Beyond 5G

Auteurs: Abdelkader Mekrache, Karim Boutiba, Adlen Ksentini
Publié dans: IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, taking place from December 4th to 8th, 2023, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., 2023, ISSN 2576-6813
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10436766

User-Movement-Robust Virtual Reality Through Dual-Beam Reception in mmWave Networks

Auteurs: Rizqi Hersyandika,Yang Miao , and Sofie Pollin , Qing Wang
Publié dans: Globecom 2024, 2024, ISSN 0000-0000
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.03364

On Using the Edge Application Server Discovery Function to Enforce Edge Computing in 5G Networks and Beyond

Auteurs: Giulio Carota, Karim Boutiba, Adlen Ksentini
Publié dans: ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024, ISSN 1938-1883
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC51166.2024.10623085

Intent-Driven Deployment and Live Migration Using LLM

Auteurs: Fonseca, J. P., Adhane, G., Togias, K., Ojeda, J., Roy, S., Famitafreshi, G., Ramantas, K., Vardakas, J., & Verikoukis, C
Publié dans: 2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 2024, ISSN 0000-0000
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14006631.

6G-BRICKS: Developing a Modern Experimentation Facility for Validation, Testing and Showcasing of 6G Breakthrough Technologies and Devices

Auteurs: Ioannis P. Chochliouros, John Vardakas, Kostas Ramantas, Sofie Pollin, Sylvie Mayrargue, Adlen Ksentini, Walter Nitzold, Md Arifur Rahman, Jimmy O’Meara, Ashima Chawla, Dimitrios Kritharidis, Vasileios Theodorou, Shuaib Siddiqui, Francisco Ibañez, George
Publié dans: AIAI 2023: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Éditeur: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34171-7_1

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Neural-Driven Control of RIS in 6G Networks: A GoSimRIS and xApp-Based Framework

Auteurs: Salim El Ghalbzouri, Karim Boutiba, Adlen Ksentini, Mustapha Benjillali
Publié dans: IEEE Networking Letters, 2025, ISSN 2576-3156
Éditeur: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/LNET.2025.3527683

Machine Reasoning in FCAPS: Towards Enhanced Beyond 5G Network Management

Auteurs: A.Mekrache, A. Ksentini and C.Verikoukis
Publié dans: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2024, ISSN 1553-877X
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3395414

Explainable AI in 6G O-RAN: A Tutorial and Survey on Architecture, Use Cases, Challenges, and Future Research

Auteurs: Bouziane Brik, Hatim Chergui, Lanfranco Zanzi, Francesco Devoti, Adlen Ksentini, Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui, Xavier Costa-Pèrez, Christos Verikoukis
Publié dans: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2024, ISSN 1553-877X
Éditeur: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2024.3510543

On Combining XAI and LLMs for Trustworthy Zero-Touch Network and Service Management in 6G

Auteurs: Abdelkader Mekrache, Mohamed Mekki, Adlen Ksentini, Bouziane Brik, Christos Verikoukis
Publié dans: IEEE Communications Magazine, 2024, ISSN 0163-6804
Éditeur: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.002.2400276

Explanation-Guided Fair Federated Learning for Transparent 6G RAN Slicing

Auteurs: S. Roy, H. Chergui and C. Verikoukis
Publié dans: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2024, ISSN 2332-7731
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TCCN.2024.3400524

5G INSTRUCT Forge: An Advanced Data Engineering Pipeline for Making LLMs Learn 5G

Auteurs: Azzedine Idir Ait Said, Abdelkader Mekrache, Karim Boutiba, Kostas Ramantas, Adlen Ksentini, Moufida Rahmani
Publié dans: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2024, ISSN 2332-7731
Éditeur: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TCCN.2024.3516055

Intelligent QoS-aware Slice Resource Allocation with User Association Parameterization for Beyond 5G O-RAN-based Architecture Using DRL

Auteurs: Suvidha Mhatre, Ferran Adelantado, Kostas Ramantas, Christos Verikoukis
Publié dans: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2024, ISSN 0018-9545
Éditeur: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2024.3483288

Towards Bridging the FL Performance-Explainability Trade-Off: A Trustworthy 6G RAN Slicing Use-Case

Auteurs: Swastika Roy; Hatim Chergui; Christos Verikoukis
Publié dans: IEEExplore, 2024, ISSN 1939-9359
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2024.3364363

Trajectory-Unaware Path Loss Forecast in a Distributed Massive MIMO System based on a Multivariate BiLSTM Model

Auteurs: Rodney Martinez Alonso ,Robbert Beerten,Achiel Colpaert,Andrea P Guevara,Sofie Pollin
Publié dans: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2024, ISSN 1939-9359
Éditeur: IEEE
DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.170831581.17232306/v1