Zero-SWARM: Zero-Enabling Smart Networked Control Framework For Agile Cyber Physical Production Systems Of Systems
main goal: Zero-SWARM provides a methodological and technological framework aimed to be modular, open and reusable to address the quick uptake of advanced 5G technologies by the European manufacturing sector. This includes an open framework for the engineering and management of smart Cyber-physical Systems of Systems, relying on advanced industrial 5G communication, to enable resilience […]
ADROIT6G: Distributed Artificial Intelligence-driven open and programmable architecture for 6G networks
main goal: ADROIT6G focuses on disruptive innovations in the architecture of emerging 6G mobile networks, including implementation of the logic for the end-to-end, automated management of the inter-computing and inter-domain network infrastructure, coordinating the dynamic and inter-domain resource allocation in near real-time and short-term timescales based on context-aware predictions, real-time and near real-time close loops […]
PREDICT6G: 6G end-to-end solution for improved network reliability and efficiency
main goal: PREDICT-6G aims to develop an inherently deterministic, novel Multi-technology, Multi-domain, Data-Plane; overhauling the reliability and time-sensitive design features existing in current wired and wireless standards. To achieve this, the project is developing an AI-driven Multi-stakeholder Inter-domain Control-Plane for the provisioning of deterministic network paths to support time sensitive services as requested by end-customers, […]
TRIALSNET: TRials supported by Smart Networks beyond 5G
main goal: TrialsNet aims to deploy full large-scale trials to implement a heterogenous and comprehensive set of innovative 6G applications based on various technologies such as cobots, metaverse, massive twinning, Internet of Senses, and covering three relevant domains of the urban ecosystems in Europe. nextworks role: Our focus is on the coordination of the integration […]
Hexa-X-II: The second phase of the flagship for B5G/6G vision and intelligent fabric of technology enablers connecting human, physical, and digital worlds
main goal: Hexa-X-II leverages the work of Hexa-X on 6G key enablers that connect the human, physical, and digital worlds, to advanced technology readiness with validated technology including key aspects of modules, protocols and interfaces, and data for a a sustainable, inclusive, and trustworthy 6G platform. nextworks role: Our focus is on the design, development, […]
OCTAPUS: Optical circuit switched time sensitive network architecture for high-speed passive optical networks and next generation ultra-dynamic and reconfigurable central office environments
main goal: OCTAPUS aims to deliver an agile, low-cost and energy-efficient PIC technology framework that will re-architect the NGCO ecosystem, transparently upgrading its capacity to 51.2Tb/s and beyond, through an innovative optically-switched backplane and transceiver toolkit. OCTAPUS’s NGCO and SDN-based control framework will be eventually validated in the COSMOTE testbed facilities. nextworks role: Task leader […]
QSN: Quantum secure networks partnership
main goal: QSNP aims to develop advanced quantum technology for quantum secure communication networks against the ever-increasing power of computers and the sophistication of algorithms, even for quantum computers. This includes the deployment of next generation protocols based on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) cryptography techniques. QSNP targets the integration of the innovative quantum cryptography technology […]
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 […]
TRILOGY2: Building the Liquid Net
main goal: Manage and control shared pools of resources by multiple operators for applications that can scale up and down in multiple dimensions (storage, processing, bandwidth). nextworks role: Develop a Virtual CPE integrating SDN tools (OpenDaylight & Openstack) with data plane (Open vSwitch) and routing protocols (Quagga). other key partners: Telefonica (ES), Universidad Carlos III […]
SYMBIOTE: Symbiosis of smart objects across IoT environments (to start soon)
main goal: Design and develop an IoT orchestration middleware capable of unified and secure access to physical and virtualized IoT resources, hierarchical and orchestrated discovery and control across multiple IoT platforms, federation of IoT controllers and resources for cooperative sensing/actuation tasks, seamless roaming of smart objects across smart spaces. nextworks role: Design and develop Symbiote […]
