Description du projet
Satisfaire les besoins des futurs systèmes de mise en réseau
L’émergence des technologies au-delà de la 5G et de la 6G a mis en évidence la demande croissante de réseaux et de systèmes offrant une meilleure disponibilité, une plus grande adaptabilité, une capacité accrue, une latence plus faible et des exigences de maintenance réduites. Pour répondre efficacement à ces attentes, il est essentiel de développer des solutions innovantes et rentables pour faire face à la croissance du trafic sur le réseau. Le projet ONFIRE, financé par l’UE, entend apporter sa pierre à l’édifice en développant et en présentant plusieurs technologies logicielles et matérielles cruciales, nécessaires aux futures avancées en matière de réseaux. Le projet se concentrera principalement sur deux doctorats industriels européens et mènera un programme de recherche de trois ans, formant ainsi des experts hautement qualifiés dont le besoin se fait cruellement sentir dans ce domaine.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
- 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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MSCA-ITN-EID - European Industrial DoctoratesCoordinateur
08860 Castelldefels Barcelona
Espagne