Automated zero-touch cross-layer provisioning framework for 5G and beyond vertical services

Project Information

ACROSS

Grant agreement ID: 101097122

DOI

10.3030/101097122

EC signature date 30 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 6 306 388,31

EU contribution

€ 5 901 405,00

Coordinated by

NOVA TELECOMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA SINGLE MEMBER SA
Greece

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

ACROSS Platform Architecture and Technical Specifications

Presents in detail the ACROSS platform architecture including all functional modules and the interfaces. Provides all related technical specifications. Presents the testing methodology in support of the use cases defined.

Ecosystem Definition, Requirements and Use Cases

Defines the overall ecosystem characteristics and targets in relationship to a holistic system design towards 6G. Presents the generic platform and module specific requirements, the related non-functional requirements, and the use case driven business requirements. Provides an initial version of the targeted platform architecture.

Mid-Term Dissemination Communication and Exploitation (D-C-E) report

Mid-term report including D-C-E achievements and plans, exploitable artefacts, and standardisation activities and plans. Also, evaluation of communication actions and strategic collaborations with other research projects.

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

Data management plan including list of the generated datasets from test and trials. (To be updated biannually)

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

A Machine-Learning-Based Cyberattack Detector for a Cloud-Based SDN Controller

Author(s): Alberto Mozo; Amit Karamchandani; Luis de la Cal; Sandra Gómez-Canaval; Antonio Pastor; Lluis Gifre
Published in: Applied Sciences (2023), 2023, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app13084914

Toward Building a Digital Twin for Network Operations and Management

Author(s): Daniel González-Sánchez, Luis Bellido, Ignacio D. Martinez-Casanueva, David Martínez-García, David Fernández, Diego R. Lopez
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3549873

Intent-driven network automation through sustainable multimodal generative AI

Author(s): Kostis Trantzas, Dimitrios Brodimas, Besiana Agko, Georgios Christos Tziavas, Christos Tranoris, Spyros Denazis, Alexios Birbas
Published in: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 1687-1499
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/S13638-025-02472-X

A methodological framework for optimizing the energy consumption of deep neural networks: a case study of a cyber threat detector

Author(s): Amit Karamchandani; Alberto Mozo; Sandra Gómez-Canaval; Antonio Pastor
Published in: Neural Computing and Applications (Springer). Quality, 2024, ISSN 1433-3058
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-024-09588-z

On the Applicability of Network Digital Twins in Generating Synthetic Data for Heavy Hitter Discrimination

Author(s): Amit Karamchandani, Javier Nunez, Luis de-la-Cal, Yenny Moreno, Alberto Mozo, Antonio Pastor
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, 2025, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.003.2400648

A Slicing Model for Transport Networks With Traffic Burst Control and QoS Compliance for Traffic Flows

Author(s): Aitor Encinas-Alonso, Carlos M. Lentisco, Ignacio Soto, Luis Bellido, David Fernandez
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3552839

Closing the Gap: Achieving Better Accuracy-Robustness Tradeoffs against Query-Based Attacks

Author(s): Zimmer, Pascal; Andreina, Sébastien; Marson, Giorgia Azzurra; Karame, Ghassan
Published in: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2024, 2024, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2024
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2312.10132

Microsegmentation of a Microservice-Based Transport Control Plane for Multitenant Optical Virtual Networks

Author(s): Jin Seek Choi, Lluís Gifre Renom, Kyeung-rok Yun, Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martínez, Ricard Vilalta, Raul Munoz
Published in: IEEE Network, 2024, ISSN 0890-8044
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2024.3518432

Conference proceedings (10)

Framework for the development of a Network Digital Twin

Author(s): Á. Burgaleta, I. Dominguez, A. Karamchandani, D. R. Lopez and A. Pastor
Published in: NOMS 2024-2024 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2024, ISSN 2374-9709
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NOMS59830.2024.10575882

The Forking Way: When TEEs Meet Consensus

Author(s): Annika Wilde, Tim Niklas Gruel, Claudio Soriente, Ghassan Karame
Published in: Proceedings 2025 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2025
Publisher: Internet Society
DOI: 10.14722/NDSS.2025.241934

ACROSS: Automated zero-touch cross-layer provisioning framework for 5G and beyond vertical services

Author(s): Dimitris Giannopoulos (University of Patras); Georgios Katsikas (UBITECH); Kostis Trantzas (University of Patras); Dimitrios Klonidis (UBITECH); Christos Tranoris (University of Patras); Spyros Denazis (University of Patras); Lluis Gifre (Centre Tecnològi
Published in: 2023 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2023, ISSN 2575-4912
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit58263.2023.10188293

Security and Trust in Open and Disaggregated 6G networks

Author(s): P. Alemany, R. Muñoz, R. Vilalta, Ll. Gifre, R. Martínez, R. Casellas, M. Castro, P. Ferreira, D. Moreira, J. García, J. Cunha, I. Núñez, G. Gómez, S. Castro, A. Pastor, D. López
Published in: 2024 24th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON62926.2024.10647935

Towards Intent-based Network Management for the 6G System adopting Multimodal Generative AI

Author(s): Dimitrios Brodimas, Trantzas Kostis, Besiana Agko, Georgios Tziavas, Spyros Denazis, Alexios Birbas (University of Patras)
Published in: EuCNC & 6G Summit 2024, 2024, ISSN 2575-4912
Publisher: IEEExplore
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.11210728

5GCIDS: An Intrusion Detection System for 5G Core with AI and Explainability Mechanisms

Author(s): Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis (K3Y Ltd, Bulgaria); George Nakas (K3Y Ltd, Greece); George Amponis (International Hellenic University, Bulgaria & K3Y Ltd., Bulgaria); Sofia Giannakidou (K3Y, Greece); Thomas Lagkas (International Hellenic University,
Published in: 2023 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2024, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GCWkshps58843.2023.10464667

Modular Sumcheck Proofs with Applications to Machine Learning and Image Processing

Author(s): David Balbás, Dario Fiore, Maria Isabel González Vasco, Damien Robissout, Claudio Soriente (NEC)
Published in: CCS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery New York, NY, United States
DOI: 10.1145/3576915.3623160

Design of an AI-driven Network Digital Twin for advanced 5G-6G network management

Author(s): A. Karamchandani, M. Sanz, Á. Burgaleta, L. de la Cal, A. Mozo, J. I. Moreno, D. R. Lopez and A. Pastor
Published in: NOMS 2024-2024 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2024, ISSN 2374-9709
Publisher: IEEExplore
DOI: 10.1109/NOMS59830.2024.10575106

Network Extensions to Support Robust Secured and Efficient Connectivity Services for V2X Scenario

Author(s): A. Abishek, R. Vilalta, Ll. Gifre, P. Alemany, C. Manso, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz
Published in: 2024 24th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICTON62926.2024.10647509

P5: Event-driven Policy Framework for P4-based Traffic Engineering

Author(s): Panagiotis Famelis; Georgios P. Katsikas; Vasilios Katopodis; Carlos Natalino; Lluis Gifre Renom; Ricardo Martinez; Ricard Vilalta; Dimitrios Klonidis; Paolo Monti; Daniel King; Adrian Farrel
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, 2023, ISSN 2325-5609
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8032189