With the end of the PREDICT-6G project approaching on 30 June 2025, we asked all our partners what it had been like to be part of the project for almost two and a half years. This is what each partner told us:
Antonio De La Oliva on behalf of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, PREDICT-6G Coordinator. “As coordinator of PREDICT-6G it has been a pleasure to form part and lead a research project which has advanced significantly the area of determinism in the upcoming 6G network. The research performed, the PoCs developed, and the advance of state of the art achieved will impact next generation networks while, at the same time, training the next generation of network researchers that will shape it. It has been great to work with such an amazing team!”
José Luis Cárcel on behalf of Atos, leader of the PREDICT-6G ‘Frictionless inter-domain orchestration and network control’ task. “PREDICT-6G has been an exciting journey for Atos. It has been a great opportunity for us to extend our work on MLOps and Service Automation to help the project achieve the predictability and reliability required to guarantee determinism”.
Jessica Carneiro on behalf of AUSTRALO, PREDICT-6G Dissemination and Communication Task Leader.“Witnessing the practical application of the PREDICT-6G determinism concept across multiple sectors was enlightening.For AUSTRALO, it was rewarding to creatively translate complex project elements such as AICP or MDP into engaging content that showcased the project’s achievements”.
Fotis Foukalas on behalf of Cogninn, the partner responsible for overseeing the security aspects of the PREDICT-6G network. “The role of security for PREDICT-6G is important. Cogninn in collaboration with other partners specified secure multi-domain authentication and other security mechanisms for PREDICT-6G type of management architectures for future 6G networks“.
Claudio Zunino on behalf of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). CNR contributed to the development of the core components of the PREDICT-6G network and validated its architecture in a critical use case at the Budapest Open Lab. “The participation in the PREDICT-6G project revealed an exciting and profitable chance. In this context, the CNR team had the opportunity of practically experiencing the usefulness of topics like TSN and SDN, that were formerly only theoretically addressed, and to check the benefits they brought to the determinism requested by the project”.
Miguel Ángel López on behalf of Ericsson, leader of the PREDICT-6G Multi-technology multi-domain Data-Plane Work Package. “It has been amazing to see how the PREDICT-6G determinism technologies can impact industry and society. From Ericsson’s perspective, we are focused on demonstrating how mobile technologies such as 5G can transform industries that are traditionally wired and where determinism is a must”.
Josu Caminos on behalf of Gestamp, part of the PREDICT-6G Smart Factory use case. “Deterministic wireless communications will be a key foundation in GESTAMP’s upcoming Smart Factories, where virtualization and asset mobility will enable complete flexibility and robustness. PREDICT-6G is one step closer to achieving this milestone, where it has been demonstrated that this technology can meet the demanding requirements from industrial environments”.
Valerio Frascolla on behalf of Intel, leader of the PREDICT-6G Impact Creation Work Package. “Disciplined Innovation in research projects is key for obtaining outstanding results. That is why Intel is driving the PREDICT-6G Innovation Program, e.g. organizing workshops where fun and learning go hand in hand”.
Sebastian Robitzsch on behalf of InterDigital, and responsible for the standardisation of PREDICT-6G. “During the lifetime of the project, we had the opportunity to develop a standards-aligned deterministic IPv6-compliant data plane concept and integrated it successfully with PREDICT-6G partners in a multi-domain localisation and sensing use case”.
Matteo Ravalli on behalf of Nextworks, PREDICT-6G Monitoring Platform and Data Management for deterministic networks task leader. “The goal of PREDICT-6G has been challenging and working together to achieve it has been exciting. It has been a great chance for Nextworks to improve our Data Collection and Management module with an extended architecture and new features for the monitoring of meaningful metrics from the MDP needed for data-driven network automation decisions”.
Zoltán Vincze on behalf of Nokia, leader of the PREDICT-6G task called ‘definition of the system architecture’. “PREDICT-6G’s work was an important step towards enabling use cases requiring deterministic communication. As part of this, we had the opportunity to work on a solution that can improve the level of determinism in networks with no in-built deterministic capabilities, thus making it possible to reuse existing install base of non-deterministic enabled network devices on the path of transitioning to an E2E deterministic-enabled stack”.
Corrado Puligheddu on behalf of Politecnico di Torino, leader of the PREDICT-6G task called ‘Algorithmics for predictability and resource allocation in multi-domain environments’. “At Politecnico di Torino, we are glad to have contributed to PREDICT-6G, tackling the challenge of network determinism in future 6G networks. We are proud that our research efforts show promise for real-world application and hold the potential to create meaningful impact for society”.
Iacob Crucianu from SIMAVI, and leader of the PREDICT-6G Integration and use case verification Work Package. “As part of the PREDICT-6G project, SIMAVI has proposed a redundancy path framework for deterministic and secured 6G networks. Designing and validating this proof-of-concept, while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team was both challenging and rewarding. Thankful to be part of this space of possibilities!“.
Angelo Cenedese on behalf of Università degli Studi di Padova, a PREDICT-6G partner contributing to the development of the AI-driven multi-stakeholder inter-domain control plane, and to the integration and verification of use cases. “Achieving high performance in multi-device, multi-domain networks requires the co-design of computation, communication, and control across domains. As part of the PREDICT-6G project, UniPD has embraced this integrated approach in the field of mobile robotic applications, paving the way for the development of intelligent, flexible, and scalable networks capable of adapting to and thriving in dynamic environments”.
The team from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, leader of the PREDICT-6G task called ‘Predictability through Digital Twinning Solutions’. “The participation of UPC in Predict6G has been highly valuable, enhancing its research capabilities in deterministic communications, adopting advanced network orchestration and digital twin technologies for industrial automation. It has strengthened academic-industrial collaboration, contributed to scientific advancement, and reinforced UPC’s role in shaping future intelligent, reliable and time-critical systems”.
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