Events

2024 EuCNC & 6G Summit

The 2024 EuCNC & 6G Summit took place from 3 to 6 of June in Antwerp, Belgium. Bringing together cutting-edge research, trailblazing innovators, and world-renown companies, the event has become a reference in the telecommunications sector. Over 50 exhibitors and 900 participants across 40 countries attest to the relevance of the conference.

PREDICT-6G was determined to repeat the 2023 success in this new edition.  A delegation comprising team members from different consortium partners arrived in Antwerp, ready to support the different project activities and to share and discuss the developments of the past year. Project members attended the numerous keynotes, panels, sessions, and tutorials, whilst seizing the networking opportunities during the social activities included in the programme. 

The first day of EuCNC began with the set-up of the “Programmable deterministic networking: the PREDICT-6G and DESIRE6G approaches' booth. Co-organised by PREDICT-6G and DESIRE6G, it hosted various demos: “Target Wake Time” by Politecnico di Torino (POLITO), “Smart Factory” by Gestamp and Ericsson, and “Monitoring Data Collection Integration with a Sensing-Enabled 3GPP Technology Domain'' by Nextworks and InterDigital.

 “Sancho”, the robot dog starring in the “Real-time Gesture Based Remote Control of a Digital Twin” demo (UC3M), drew a lot of attention from the public. Visitors were invited to experience first-hand how Sancho performs the different commands given to it through gestures that are registered by a camera placed on site and then transmitted.

The “Experimentation in a wireless multi-domain deterministic network” poster by UC3M and Intel was also displayed in the booth. It details the design, development, and performance of single domain solutions to support multi-domain deterministic networking, integrating IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.1 TSN, and 3GPP 5G over an IETF DetNet overlay. 

“EuCNC is a great opportunity not only to show our own work to the event participants, but also to interact with other projects’ members to share ideas and to learn something from each other. PREDICT-6G project attracted a lot of interest for the challenges it faces: many demos and explanations about the system architecture and capabilities were requested at the booth, thus making the team proud for their efforts and honoured to work in such an environment for the project purpose.” said Matteo Ravalli (Nextworks). 

PREDICT-6G also participated in three workshops. Prof. Antonio de la Oliva (UC3M), PREDICT-6G coordinator, delivered a presentation in the “The 6G series workshop by Hexa-X-II”. Dr. Sebastian Robitszch (InterDigital), chair of PREDICT-6G Standardisation Advisory Board, moderated the “Architectural Considerations Enabling the IMT 2030 Framework by European 6G R&D Activities” workshop. Lastly, Valerio Frascolla (INTEL), PREDICT-6G innovation manager, delivered a presentation in the “Trials, Pilots and Demos for Selected Verticals: the Experimental Way Forward towards 6G” workshop.

The PREDICT-6G communication efforts during the EuCNC & 6G Summit, led by AUSTRALO, were recognised with the “Best Social Media Presence Award”. This honour acknowledged the long-term commitment of the project with the communication and dissemination of its activities and outcomes to the large public. 

The participation of PREDICT-6G was a great success. The project team exchanged with other SNS projects, researchers and experts about the current hot topics and the upcoming trends. Furthermore, it promoted the work carried out in the past year and a half in various areas of the project. 

The 2024 EuCNC & 6G Summit is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) and the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP), and focuses on all aspects of telecommunications ranging from 5G deployment and mobile IoT to 6G exploration and future communications systems and networks, including experimentation and testbeds, and applications and services.

If you want to stay updated about PREDICT-6G, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn!

by PREDICT-6G

International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2024 Conference

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2024 Conference was held from 3 to 6 June in Thessaloniki, Greece. The main objective of this year's edition was to bring together academic and industrial experts of the networking community to discuss the most recent advances in networking, to highlight key issues, identify trends, and develop a vision of the future Internet from a design, deployment and operation standpoints. The sessions and workshops were designed with a special focus on network architectures, applications and services; network modeling, analysis and operation; network security and privacy; and wireless networking.

PREDICT-6G was part of the IFIP Networking Conference with a paper authored by Luis Velasco and Marc Ruiz from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, among others. The paper, titled "Provisioning of Time-Sensitive and non-Time-Sensitive Flows: from Control to Data Plane", was presented by Marc at the 4th International Workshop on Time-Sensitive and Deterministic Networking (TENSOR) 2024. The goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers from academia and industry in order to investigate challenging aspects in the area of time- sensitive deterministic communications, as well as identify future research directions for ultra-low latency communications.

"Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) standards provide scheduling and traffic shaping mechanisms to ensure the coexistence of Time-Sensitive (TS) and non-TS traffic classes on the same network infrastructure. Nonetheless, much effort is still needed on the operation of such TSN capable network infrastructure to ensure that the required performance of the different flows, defined in terms of key performance indicators, can be met once the flows are deployed in the network. In this presentation, we focused on such aspects and proposed a solution involving not only packet schedulers in the data plane, but also network-wide scheduling for TS flows, as well as performance estimation for non-TS flows", stated Marc Ruiz.

The paper is available here.

If you want to stay updated about PREDICT-6G, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn!

by PREDICT-6G

6G Programmable Deterministic Webinar Series: #1 Architectural enhancements for 6G programmable and deterministic networks

We are pleased to announce the 6G Programmable Deterministic Webinar Series, a collaborative initiative between PREDICT-6G, DESIRE6G and DETERMINISTIC6G. This quarterly series aims to delve into the intricate and transformative aspects of these sister projects, featuring expert speakers that will explore the latest developments and innovations shaping the future of 6G technology. Each session will provide in-depth information and foster key discussions for practitioners and researchers dedicated to the next generation of wireless communications.

The first webinar will take place on Friday 14 June at 10:00 CET. Under the title ‘Architectural enhancements for 6G programmable and deterministic networks’, it will feature Peter Szilagyi from Nokia, Chrysa Papagianni from the University of Amsterdam, Joachim Sachs from Ericsson and Gourav Prateek Sharma from KTH, followed by a panel discussion on the topic.

Agenda

• 10-10:10. Intro by Carlos J. Bernardos (UC3M)
• 10:10-10:50. Peter Szilagyi (Nokia): “Multi-domain deterministic service management architecture”
• 10:50-11:30. Chrysa Papagianni (University of Amsterdam): "Towards extreme network KPIs with deep programmability in 6G”
• 11:30-12:10. Joachim Sachs (Ericsson) and Gourav Prateek Sharma (KTH): "5G latency analysis and possible improvements"
• 12:10-12:40. Panel: "Architectural enhancements for 6G programmable and deterministic networks"
• 12:40-12:45. Closure

Register here: https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/WS1June2024

Link to webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87094846948

If you want to stay updated about PREDICT-6G, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn!

by PREDICT-6G

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM) took place from 20 - 23 May in Vancouver, Canada. IEEE INFOCOM is a top-ranked conference on networking in the research community. Consortium member Politecnico di Torino participated in INFOCOM with two papers presented at the main conference.  

“OREO: O-RAN intElligence Orchestration of xApp-based network services” introduces OREO, an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) xApp orchestrator, designed to maximize the number of offered services. OREO’s key idea is that services can share xApps whenever they correspond to semantically equivalent functions, and the xApp output is of sufficient quality to fulfill the service requirements. The paper is available here.

“Resource-aware Deployment of Dynamic DNNs over Multi-tiered Interconnected Systems” tackles the problem of allocating sections of Modern dynamic deep neural networks (DNN) with early exits to the nodes of the mobile-edge-cloud system. By envisioning a 3-stage graph-modeling approach, it represents the possible options for splitting the DNN and deploying the DNN blocks on the multi-tiered network, embedding both the system constraints and the application requirements in a convenient and efficient way. The paper is available here.

If you want to stay updated about PREDICT-6G, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn!

by PREDICT-6G

SNS Stream B/D Projects Workshop on KPIs and KVIs

In May 2024, PREDICT-6G participated in the “SNS Stream B/D Projects Workshop on KPIs and KVIs” organised by the SNS Technology Board. In the first session, Stream D projects discussed the requirements (KPIs) from UCs large-scale trials and validation methodology (KVIs), whilst in the second session Stream B projects shared their perspectives on technology highlights on target performances (KPIs) and impacts (KVIs). 

Marc Molla (Ericsson) presented PREDICT-6G KPIs and KVIs. The KVIs are categorised into latency (service latency and jitter), packet loss (packet loss and packet ordering) and service (reliability and availability). The KVIs of the project are related to the ecosystem (business value and economic growth) and security. 

The presentation can be found here. 

More detailed information about the KPIs can be found in D1.1. Analysis of use cases and system requirements.

If you want to stay updated about PREDICT-6G, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn!

by PREDICT-6G

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)

By Valerio Frascolla

The IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2024, with the theme “Wireless Communications for Growing Opportunities”, took place from 21-24 of April 2024 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The 2024 edition presented a full programme of high quality, including technical sessions, tutorials and workshops, as well as technology and industry panels. PREDICT-6G was a key contributor to the success of the Industry Programme.

On the 22 of April, Dr. Valerio Frascolla, Director of Research and Innovation at Intel and PREDICT-6G Innovation Manager, was invited to be a panellist in the “6G: Midway Status and Way Forward” panel led by Majid Butt (Nokia), with Mikko Uusitalo (Nokia), Paulina Chan (Principal and CEO of Global Mutual Innovation Consortium), and Anita Dohler (CEO NGMN Alliance).

During the panel an interesting and active discussion was held with the audience of around 40 participants on the status of 6G, its standardisation plans, current architecture options and expected benefits. The PREDICT-6G position on the need in 6G for a smoother convergence of cellular and non-cellular (Wi-Fi) wireless technologies was a pivotal argument of the discussion.

On the 23 of April, Dr Frascolla gave the Invited Talk “Predictable Networks and TSN: Benefit on the Manufacturing Vertical Sector” at the industry Talk Session #2, in a track shared with Riccardo Trivisonno (Huawei), and Anita Dohler (CEO NGMN Alliance).

Valerio’s talk, focused on providing an overview of the status of Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) in 3GPP and IEEE standards. He briefly described the PREDICT-6G proposed AI-driven Multi-stakeholder Inter-domain Control-Plane (AICP), and Multi-technology multi-domain Data-Plane (MDP) as the two needed key new technology enablers to effectively handling a set of current challenges in the manufacturing vertical sector, e.g., the lack of determinism and of predictability in services over multi-domain communication networks. The audience of around 50 people provided some interesting comments on the proposed approaches.

PREDICT-6G also had a strong presence in the 6GARCH: the 3rd workshop on 6G Architecture with the presentation of two papers. The workshop was divided into three parts in order to lay the groundwork and set the highest possible quality level for the topics to be discussed during the four days of the conference.

David Rico Menéndez from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid presented the paper “6G Architecture for Enabling Predictable, Reliable and Deterministic Networks: the PREDICT-6G Case” at the first part of the workshop called 6GARCH1: 6G Architecture Roadmap. The paper is available here and the presentation made during the workshop here.

Sebastian Robitzsch from InterDigital presented the paper "Formation and Assertion of Data Unit Groups in 3GPP Networks with TSN and PDU Set Support" at the third part of the workshop called 6GARCH3: Wireless and TSN. The paper is available here.

If you want to stay updated about PREDICT-6G, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn!

by PREDICT-6G

PREDICT-6G contributes to 6G standardisation

PREDICT-6G was one of the SNS projects invited to present its standardisation efforts during the IAFA#4.2 Interim Steps: 6G Standardisation Requirements that took place on the 9 of April 2024. 

Carlos J. Bernardos (UC3M) explained how PREDICT-6G addresses standards-related issues internally and how it manages the cooperation with various SDOs.  Carlos also  provided insights on the PREDICT-6G achievements in the field thus far. 

This was the second of a three-event series on pre-standardisation organised by SNS OPS in collaboration with ETSI and HSBooster.eu. It focused on the emerging 6G standardisation requirements and how ongoing research projects can contribute to the creation of standards.

The presentation is available here.

If you want to stay updated about PREDICT-6G, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn!

by PREDICT-6G

PREDICT-6G will be at the ICC 2024

In 2024, the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) will take place on the 9 -13 of June in Denver, United States. PREDICT-6G will attend for the second consecutive year to the conference, which topic in 2024 is “Scaling the Peaks of Global Communications”. 

Professor Carla F. Chiasserini (POLITO, CNR-IEITT and CNIT) will present the paper “Generosity Pays Off: A Game-Theoretic Study of Cooperation in Decentralized Learning” as part of the Edge Learning over 5G Mobile Networks and Beyond (EDGE5GMN) Workshop. In this paper, Prof. Chiasserini and her co-authors propose GENIAL, a game-theoretic approach to promote cooperation among user nodes for training or fine-tuning ML models.

If you want to stay updated about PREDICT-6G, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn!

by PREDICT-6G

PREDICT-6G will be at the WCNC 2024

The IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) will take place on the 21-24 of April 2024 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. PREDICT-6G will attend the conference, which theme in 2024 is “Wireless Communications for Growing Opportunities”. Its contributions will mostly focus on 6G architecture. 

Dr. Sebastian Robitzsch (InterDigital) will present his paper “Formation and Assertion of Data Unit Groups in 3GPP Networks with TSN and PDU Set Support” in 6GARCH: the 3rd Workshop on 6G Architecture. Moreover, PostDoc David Rico Menendez (UC3M) will present the paper “6G Architecture for Enabling Predictable, Reliable and Deterministic Networks: the PREDICT6G Case” in the workshop 6GArch1: 6G Architecture roadmap.

If you want to stay updated about PREDICT-6G, subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn!

by PREDICT-6G