UNICORE: A Common Code Base and Toolkit for Deployment of Applications to Secure and Reliable Virtual Execution Environments
main goal: Create a common code base from which to build unikernels, and develop tools that will make the creation of such unikernels as easy as compiling an app for an existing OS. The project applies the unikernel toolchain in four main scenarios: Serverless computing: lambda services, Network Function Virtualization, Home automation / IoT, Smart […]
SLICENET: End-to-End Cognitive Network Slicing and Slice Management Framework in Virtualised Multi-Domain, Multi-Tenant 5G Networks
main goal: Develop an end-to-end cognitive network slicing and slice management framework capable to act as ‘one-stop shop’ 5G slice management for vertical businesses (5G e Health and 5G Energy), with extensible end-to-end slice FCAPS across multiple planes and operator domains. nextworks role: Coordinate the overall design and implementation of the Plug & Play Control Plane with mechanisms, […]
SELFNET: Framework for self-organized network management in virtualized and software defined networks
main goal: Smart autonomic management of NFV functions in order to automatically resolve or mitigate network problems and improve the QoS/QoE. nextworks role: Specification and prototype implementation of mechanisms and frameworks for the seamless management and orchestration of Virtual Network Functions, the virtual network instantiation and monitoring services, the virtual network and flow re-planning. other […]
Int5Gent: Integrating 5G enabling technologies in a holistic service to physical layer 5G system platform
main goal: Targets the integration of innovative data plane technology building blocks under a flexible 5G network resource, slice and application orchestration framework, providing a complete 5G system platform for the validation of advance 5G services and IoT solutions. nextworks role: Design and develop a network slicing solution capable of coordinating the provisioning and configuration […]
iNGENIOUS: Next-GENeration IoT sOlutions for the Universal Supply chain
main goal: Aims to design and evaluate the Next-Generation IoT (NG-IoT) solution, with emphasis on 5G and the development of Edge and Cloud computing extensions for IoT, as well as providing smart networking and data management solutions with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML). The project embraces the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G IA) and Alliance […]
HEXA-X: A flagship for B5G/6G vision and intelligent fabric of technology enablers connecting human, physical, and digital worlds
main goal: Aims at connecting human, physical, and digital worlds with a fabric of 6G enablers like connected intelligence, networks of networks, sustainability, global service coverage, extreme experience, and trustworthiness. Hexa-x targets: i) new radio access technologies at high frequencies and high-resolution localization and sensing, ii) connected intelligence through AI-driven air interface and governance for […]
INN3SCO: INtegration of Non-3GPP Satellite networks with 5G COre networks
main goal: Develop, validate and demonstrate the integration of non-3GPP satellite networks with 5G Core Networks. Inn3sco aims at adapting 5G methods for non-3GPP access (designed and validated for terrestrial networks) to a satellite environment through: i) the reworking of existing non-3GPP access NFs, ii) the updating of the satellite protocol stacks control and management […]
ESA AnchOR: Data-driven Network Controller and Orchestrator for Real-time Network Management
main goal: Aims to investigate satellite-based extensions to 5G architecture and use cases, targeting eMBB and mMTC services, analyzing new business models and multi-domain deployments combining NR and satellite networks. ANChOR has the objective of building an orchestration solution, compliant with ETSI NFV and 3GPP standards, that adopts Artificial Intelligent (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) […]
blueSpace: Building on the Use of Spatial Multiplexing 5G Networks Infrastructures and Showcasing Advanced technologies and Networking Capabilities
maingoal: Exploiting Spatial Division Multiplexing (SDM) in the RAN to increase bandwidth provision for massive MIMO in Ka-band. BlueSpace aims to design the next generation optical access networks infrastructures with massive beam steering capabilities, building a reconfigurable infrastructure controlled by SDN and NFV tools and integarted with Passive Optical Networks (PONs). nextworks role: Design architecture and interfaces of the […]
5GZORRO: Zero-touch Security and Trust for Ubiquitous Computing and connectivity in 5G networks
main goal: Develop solutions for zero-touch service, network and security management in multi-stakeholder environments (ubiquitous), making use of Smart contracts based on Distributed Ledgers Technologies to implement business agility required in 5G networks. nextworks role: Design and develop solutions for Zero Touch Automation, AI-driven slice composition and cross-domain network analytics for 5G Networks. Work on […]
