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SUstainable federatioN of Research Infrastructures for Scaling-up Experimentation in 6G

Project description

Scalable 6G internet-like architecture for public and private infrastructures

6G represents the future of technology, promising exceptional performance through innovative access technologies. It is poised to prompt a complete re-evaluation of network architecture design, with new stakeholders entering the value chain of future networks. The EU-funded SUNRISE-6G project aims to develop a massively scalable internet-like architecture for all public and private infrastructures. Additionally, it seeks to establish a pan-European facility to support converged workflows and tools, offering a unified catalogue of 6G enablers and facilitating cross-domain vertical application onboarding through a Tenant Web Portal. The project will focus on four pillars: implementing new 6G enablers, a compliant Federation solution, a Federated AI plane, and a commonly adopted Experimentation Plane.

Objective

6G is expected to emerge as key enabler for the intelligent digital society of 2030 and beyond, providing superior performance via groundbreaking access technologies, such as joint communication and sensing, cell-free, Radio Intelligent Surfaces, and ubiquitous wireless intelligence . Most importantly, 6G is expected to trigger a total rethink of network architecture design, which builds on the key idea of new stakeholders entering into the value chain of future networks. The SUNRISE-6G approach is inspired by the “network of networks” concept of 6G Networks, aiming to integrate all private and public infrastructures under a massively scalable internet-like architecture. SUNRISE-6G similarly aspires to create a federation of 6G test infrastructures in a pan-european facility that will support converged Testing as a Service (TaaS) workflows and tools, a unified catalogue of 6G enablers publicly accessible by experimenters, and cross-domain vertical application onboarding. Experimentation and vertical application onboarding are offered via a Tenant Web Portal, that acts as a single-entry point to the facility, serving end users (e.g. experimenters) and tenants (e.g. vertical developers, infrastructure owners, 6G component manufactures). The project execution is based on 4 pillars, delivering: (a) the Implementation of new 6G enablers, complementary to existing ones being developed in SNS Phase 1 projects, (b) A truly scalable and 3GPP compliant Federation solution that provides access to heterogeneous resources and devices from all Europe, (c) A Federated AI plane aligned with AIaaS and MLOPS paradigms, which promotes a collaborative approach to AI research which benefits immensely from scaling-up datasets and models and (d) a commonly adopted Experimentation Plane, which offers common workflows to experimenters.

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HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions

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(opens in new window) HORIZON-JU-SNS-2023

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ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS
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€ 858 750,00
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