Project description
6G-Enabled end-to-end time-critical applications
The next-generation mobile communications system will forever change how people and things connect. 6G Technology will pave the way for a future in which the digital world fuses with the physical. Wired deterministic communication standards, time-sensitive networking (TSN) and deterministic networking (DetNet) have emerged, and 5G has mechanisms for interworking with those standards. However, the available support of 5G in conjunction with TSN and DetNet is not enough. The EU-funded DETERMINISTIC6G project will address challenges related to the new 6G architecture providing predictable performance and integrating it with TSN and DetNet, and the novel data-driven awareness of stochastically evolving network performance. It will also leverage novel digital twins of 6G networks and cyberphysical systems.
Objective
Digitalization is transforming industries and society with the adoption of edge/cloud computing, AI and digital twins. In the future, physical processes, collaborating machines, but also novel human-system-interactions will move towards a cyber-physical continuum merging the physical world of senses, actions as well as their digital programmable representations. Fundamentally new requirements for deterministic communication with predictable performance will appear for such cyber-physical end-to-end services. Wired deterministic communication standards have already emerged including Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) and Deterministic Networking (DetNet), while 5G has specified mechanisms for interworking with those standards. However, the available support of 5G in conjunction with TSN and DetNet is not sufficient for future end-to-end time-critical applications. Driven by pivotal use cases from Industry 5.0 DETERMINISTIC6G addresses three central challenges of future deterministic end-to-end communication enabled by 6G: (1) a new architecture for 6G systems providing predictable performance and integrating it end-to-end with TSN and DetNet; (2) novel data-driven awareness of stochastically evolving network performance, with time synchronization over heterogeneous domains; and (3) leveraging novel digital twins of both 6G networks and cyber-physical systems, to anticipate situational circumstances impacting determinism of networks and safety of cyber-physical systems. DETERMINISTIC6G will also devise security-by-design for deterministic communication including the integration of edge computing and the support of OPC UA into deterministic network paths. The project targets dissemination of results towards the three essential standardization bodies in this domain: 3GPP (for 6G), IEEE802.1 (for TSN) and IETF (for DetNet). With a strong consortium driving these standards, DETERMINISTIC6G will ensure uptake of the results and insights towards global 6G standards and industry fora.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
1117 Budapest
Hungary