Descrizione del progetto
Un quadro e una piattaforma di nuova concezione per la comunicazione di prossima generazione
L’arrivo delle comunicazioni 5G e la progressiva affermazione di sistemi oltre il 5G e il 6G hanno portato all’automazione di numerosi settori a livello mondiale. Di conseguenza, si avverte un bisogno crescente di metodi di gestione e servizi avanzati per questi sistemi in fase di ampliamento. Il progetto ACROSS, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di sviluppare una piattaforma di gestione e servizi end-to-end per le reti di prossima generazione che contribuiranno a migliorare le prestazioni, l’adattabilità, la crescita, l’efficienza energetica e l’automazione. A tal fine, questa piattaforma utilizzerà una serie di tecnologie innovative e implementerà un sistema costituito da una rete altamente distribuita di orchestratori a livello di dominio supervisionata da un altro orchestratore multidominio gestito su cloud.
Obiettivo
The ACROSS project designs and implements an end-to-end service deployment and management platform for next-generation networks and services, aiming at unprecedented levels of automation, performance, scalability, and energy efficiency. At its basis, the platform is built as a highly-distributed grid of domain-level orchestrators, spread across multiple geo-dispersed and potentially heterogeneous edge environments, overseen by a cloud-managed multi-domain orchestrator. The use of standardised communication interfaces fosters separation of concerns (events) between the two orchestration layers through an integration fabric which ensures compliance with ongoing standardisation efforts. The platform is further enhanced with a) deep end-to-end telemetry to unlock visibility of the intertwined network and compute system states, b) AI-driven intelligence that leverages both the vast number of events originating from the dense IoT ecosystem and detailed monitoring data originating from the ACROSS telemetry sub-system, to generate new insights, c) full-stack cross-domain zero-touch provisioning via programmable “hooks” that exploit events originating from raw telemetry and AI processed events, and d) secure and trusted orchestration mechanisms for trusted computing technologies over large and heterogeneous cloud-edge deployments, as well as orchestration and monitoring of the security VNFs.
The ACROSS concept is developed over a federated heterogeneous validation and testing environment that hosts a number of test cases and scenarios for promoting all potential intelligent and trusted zero-touch provisioning processes with different event triggering origins. The test cases are carefully designed for being promoted as proof of concept (PoC) project submissions to standards and open-source initiatives (targeting but not limited to ETSI ZSM, ETSI NFV-OSM, TMF, ONF).
Campo scientifico
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksmobile network5G
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- social sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
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
104 42 ATHINA
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