The 5GMED project aims to bring a sustainable 5G deployment model for future mobility in the Mediterranean cross- border corridor. 5GMED demonstrates how a novel multi-stakeholder 5G infrastructure is able to deliver end-to-end Cooperative Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) and enhanced railway communications services, along the “Figueres-Perpignan” cross-border corridor between Spain and France by a multi-stakeholder compute and network infrastructure deployed by mobile network operators (MNOs), neutral hosts, and road and rail operators.
5GMED supports 4 use cases key for the future of mobility, and therefore for the society as a whole:
• Remote driving – automated driving on highways can be performed in full safety, even when a critical event occurs on the Automated Driving System (ADS) preventing the normal system operation beyond the homologated Operation Design Domain (ODD)
• Advanced traffic management – digitalized road infrastructure for intelligent traffic management of the connected and automated vehicles
• Applications and business service continuity in cross-border railway – transition of a commercial train between ADIF in Spain and SNCF in France
• Follow-me infotainment – media modules are integrated into the network edge node and enable enhanced content distribution strategies.
5GMED main objectives are:
[OBJ.TECH.#1] To specify and validate a scalable, cross-border and multi- stakeholder 5G system architecture supporting CCAM and enhanced railways services that can be replicated along Europe.
5GMED demonstrated the provisioning of end-to-end CCAM and enhanced railways services for end-users across real-life cross-border scenarios so that different stakeholders can pool their available network and compute resources to deliver advanced services such as real-time highway traffic optimisations, remote driving and real-time video feed analysis for high speed trains.
[OBJ.TECH.#2] To design and develop cross-operator service orchestration that enables MNOs, neutral hosts and road/railways Infrastructure Operators to deliver service continuity to end-users.
A cross-MNO orchestration framework with federation and automation capabilities has been developed.
[OBJ.TECH.#3] To propose and establish novel practices on how MNOs, neutral hosts, OEMs and road operators can cooperate to deliver Remote Driving, Advanced Traffic Management and Infotainment use cases in cross-border scenarios.
5GMED has defined the technical baseline to deploy, validate, and demonstrate three advanced CCAM use cases, chosen based on their need for 5G and their relevance in cross-border scenarios.
5GMED final demonstration in June 2024 showed that 5G along with its features and other improvements, like seamless roaming, is a suitable vector for service continuity of CCAM applications (UC1), low latency and high throughput (UC4), and on-time delivery of road alerts and traffic strategies provided by an innovative V2X Server (V2X-GW) deployed at the MEC layer (UC2).
[OBJ.TECH.#4] To identify and establish MNOs and railways operators’ cooperation priorities to deliver advanced performance and business use cases across cross-border scenarios.
5GMED is considering performance services delivering real-time processing of sensor feeds from moving trains, through the combination of computing resources at the edge of the network and high-speed mobile connectivity to the trains. In addition, 5GMED is demonstrating business services to passengers including high-speed Internet through Wi-Fi and on-board neutral host connectivity for cellular connectivity services.
