Clear5G has brought together some of the advanced 5G research and demonstration facilities in Taiwan and Europe. The aim of the project was to investigate and demonstrate some of the key enablers necessary to support Machine‐type Communications (MTC) traffic in 5G networks, in particular in the Factories of the Future (FoF) environment. The outcomes have been verified through proof of concept implementations and demonstrations using the facilities of partners that provide and support a range of MTC use cases.
More particularly, Clear5G aimed at designing, developing and validating an integrated wireless access scheme for MTC services in the FoF by achieving the following objectives:
Objective 1: “To define, investigate and develop physical layer (PHY) enhancements for reliable MTC supporting massive numbers of devices, achieving extreme low latency and reduced signalling and control overhead.”
Objective 2: “To design and implement Medium Access Control (MAC) layer enhancements for integrated convergent access supporting low latency, high reliability, massive connection density, and high energy and spectrum efficiency.”
Objective 3: “To design, configure and optimize radio network architectures and management mechanisms (with potential coexistence of public and private infrastructures) to fulfil the needs of FoF applications in terms of latency, wireless networking heterogeneity, reliability, scalability and manageability. Further, energy efficiency (especially at the device side) and spectrum efficiency will also be among the major performance targets in the design of network architecture and management strategies.”
Objective 4: “To provide security enhancements at the physical layer, contributing to the overall security solutions in a FoF environment.”
Objective 5: “To validate and demonstrate the performance of the project use cases in a realistic environment using testbed facilities both in Europe and Taiwan.”
Objective 6: “To support the ongoing 5G Standardization.”
