DESIRE6G

Deep Programmability and Secure Distributed Intelligence for Real-time End-to-end 6G Networks

Grant agreement ID: 101096466
HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022-STREAM-B-01-01 - System Architecture
Beneficiaries: University of Amsterdam, Ericsson Hungary, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Mellanox Technologies LTD, Ericsson ARASTIRMA GELISTIRME VE BILISIM HIZMETLERI ANONIM SIRKETI, NUBIS PC, Accelleran, Sarl Tages SOLIDSHIELD, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, University of Oulu, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Eötvös Loránd University, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni, NEC Laboratories Europe GMBH
Funding: 365 000 € (ELTE)
Launch date: 1 January 2023
Completion date: 31 December 2025

Over the past decade the mobile communications system has transformed into a fundamental infrastructure that supports digital demands from all industry sectors. 5G networks are being architected as highly programmable, extremely flexible, and agile infrastructures that can meet the differentiated Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements for distinct services and tenants. However, 5G systems are expected to fall short on meeting the anticipated stringent performance requirements (in terms of data rate, connectivity, and latency) of future use cases such as massive digital twins and applications requiring perceived zero latency. To that end, the sixth generation (6G) mobile system is expected to become a general-purpose platform and provide smart connectivity to a plethora of extremely heterogeneous devices, supporting entirely diverse classes of services with outstanding performance while making the communication infrastructure fully transparent to the applications. In particular, the new generation of real time mission-critical applications requires high resilience and low latency coordinated actions, much stricter compared to those set for 5G URLLC. For example, high-precision robot control and autonomous vehicles cannot afford millisecond latency while factory automation over wireless links demands sub-ms E2E latency.
Promoting the 6G vision, DESIRE6G will design and develop a novel zero-touch control, management, and orchestration platform, with native integration of AI, to support eXtreme URLLC application requirements over a performant, measurable and programable data plane. The solution will be based on the following key concepts:

E2E Data Plane Programmability
Multi-agent-based network control
Serverless computing and Function as a Service
Multi-function HW acceleration on heterogenous systems
Distributed Ledger Technology
Pervasive Monitoring
Edge intelligence

ELTE leads the task of developing the unified programmable data plane layer of the DESIRE6G infrastructure that will support multi-tenancy, deep slicing, and the enforcement of network SLAs and complex QoS requirements.

Project website: https://desire6g.eu/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/desire6g-project/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DESIRE6G_EU