Description du projet
Réduire l’impact écologique de la fourniture de services TIC
La présence croissante des technologies et services TIC, associée à la prolifération de leur infrastructure et à la demande accrue de production, a mis en exergue l’urgence d’introduire et d’adopter des processus plus écologiques et durables. Il s’agit d’un facteur essentiel pour réduire les émissions et la pollution. Le projet EXIGENCE, financé par l’UE, entend réduire la pollution globale générée et l’énergie consommée dans le cadre de la fourniture de services TIC. Il ne se concentrera pas uniquement sur les fournisseurs individuels, mais adoptera une approche globale, portant sur l’ensemble de l’écosystème des TIC. Le projet se propose de développer un système complet d’évaluation des données relatives à la fourniture de services TIC et à leur consommation d’énergie. Il fournira ensuite des solutions d’optimisation aux décideurs politiques et aux particuliers, contribuant ainsi à une industrie des TIC plus durable.
Objectif
EXIGENCE is committed to reducing the overall energy consumption and carbon-footprint of ICT service delivery. Contrary to existing approaches, which address individual domains, EXIGENCE takes on the behemoth by improving the energy consumption and considering the type of energy sources used by not only the individual tenants in each heterogeneous domain of the ICT value chain but the energy/carbon footprint of the entire ICT ecosystem.
The project will conceive a system and define suitable metrics and inter-domain data exposure means for assessing end-to-end ICT service delivery. The insights from this work will be formulated as pivotal sustainability requirements and brought into authoritative standardization bodies (3GPP and ETSI) so as to shape the emerging next-generation mobile system (6G).
We conceive a functional architecture encompassing all stakeholders and translate this into suitable interfaces, metrics and mechanisms to enable energy metering during service delivery at each tenant level and aggregate these readings into an overall ICT service energy metric, which we make available to all participants. We provide suitable optimisations techniques for each individual tenant. To further improve energy efficiency during the end-to-end ICT service delivery, we devise incentive-compatible user involvement mechanisms. Overall, EXIGENCE commits to reducing the energy consumption/carbon footprint of ICT services by a factor of three for typical services (e.g. video streaming), by a factor of five for challenging services (e.g. NPN), and bringing the CO2e to Zero for some realistic use cases that will be studied in the project.
With a prototype of the conceived system, we validate the developed solutions to demonstrate the achieved improvements. The outcomes and insights derived from the project will be disseminated at suitable venues and further used to influence the burgeon of the 6G system with participation in relevant standardisation efforts.
Champ scientifique
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
D02 XE80 LOWER DUBLIN
Irlande
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.