Descripción del proyecto
Satisfacer las necesidades de los futuros sistemas de redes
La aparición de tecnologías que van más allá de la 5G y la 6G ha puesto de relieve la creciente demanda de redes y sistemas que ofrezcan mayor disponibilidad, adaptabilidad y capacidad, así como menor latencia y menos requisitos de mantenimiento. Para satisfacer con eficacia estas demandas, es esencial desarrollar tecnologías innovadoras que sean rentables para hacer frente al crecimiento del tráfico de red. El equipo del proyecto ONFIRE, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende resolver este problema desarrollando e introduciendo varias tecnologías cruciales de «software» y «hardware» necesarias para los futuros avances en redes. El equipo del proyecto se centrará principalmente en dos doctorados industriales europeos y elaborará un programa de investigación de tres años, con el que se conseguirán expertos altamente cualificados, muy necesarios en este campo.
Objetivo
Future (5G) services will impose stringent requirements in the design and operation of transport networks: increased capacity, low latency, high availability and dynamicity, reduced service provisioning with lower OpEx, while considering end-to-end service objectives (QoS and QoT).
To cope with traffic growth in a cost-effective way, an appealing strategy focuses on deploying elastic and programmable commodity optical hardware via disaggregation (white boxes) combined with transmission technologies.
To address both end-to-end service objectives and traffic dynamicity, an interesting approach leverages the benefits provided by SDN/NFV control and the automated decisions and re-configuration opportunities enabled by cognitive algorithms. For this, SDN/NFV provides unified control on top of systems’/devices’ programmability, regardless of the data infrastructure (packet, optical, IT), while exploiting the large real-time monitored information dynamically to adopt actions leading to attain service end-to-end objectives and more optimal network operation and resource utilization.
Those hardware and software solutions constitute ONFIRE R&D goals which basically target the design, deployment and experimental evaluation of disaggregated optical transport hardware automatically articulated by novel cognitive algorithms supported by a SDN/NFV architecture. To do so, ONFIRE proposes a three-year research programme centred on two European industrial PhDs. PhD candidates will benefit from an intensive training process combining the strengths of both: i) CTTC as research institution to acquire research tools and methodology, with UPC as associated partner offering its PhD programme; ii) ALUD as a vendor delivering a highly valuable view of research activities and its impact on industrial ecosystem. Targeted PhD training programme is devised to maximize the synergy between the collaborators and promote career opportunities of ONFIRE researchers in the European ICT Research Area.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksmobile network5G
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata mining
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationstelecommunications networksoptical networks
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning
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Régimen de financiación
MSCA-ITN-EID - European Industrial DoctoratesCoordinador
08860 Castelldefels Barcelona
España