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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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PREDICT-6G on Standards Requirements
PREDICT-6G is one of the projects invited to participate in the IAFA#4.2 Interim Steps: 6G Standardisation Requirements that will take place on the 9 of April 2024. This is the second of a three-event series on pre-standardisation organised by SNS OPS, as part of its Impact Assessment and Facilitation Actions (IAFAs) initiative, in collaboration with ETSI and HSBooster.eu.
Carlos J. Bernardos (UC3M) will speak about the efforts of PREDICT-6G in standardisation, including how the project is internally organised to address standards-related issues and how it manages the cooperation with various SDOs. Carlos will also provide insights on PREDICT-6G achievements in the field thus far.
This second event delves into emerging 6G standardisation requirements and work items in the attempt to harmonise efforts between R&D projects and SDOs, with specific input on European SDOs. Emphasising the importance of collaborative efforts in research and development for 6G, this workshop aims to foster discussions on how ongoing research projects can contribute to the creation of standards.
You can register for the event here.
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PREDICT-6G will be at the EuCNC 2024
The 2024 EuCNC & 6G Summit will take place from the 3rd to the 6th of June in Antwerp, Belgium. Combining two successful telecoms conferences: ECNC (European Conference on Networks and Communications), supported by the European Commission, and the 6G Summit, originating from Finland's 6G Flagship programme, the event is now one of the largest in the sector.
It brings together cutting-edge research and world-renowned industries and companies, globally attracting over 900 delegates from more than 40 countries around the world in recent years. PREDICT-6G returns for the second consecutive year, to repeat the successes of the 2023 edition and establish itself as one of the leading projects in 6G.
PREDICT-6G will be present in three workshops, both in the organisational part and in the presentations slots:
“Architectural Considerations Enabling the IMT 2030 Framework by European 6G R&D Activities”. This workshop, proposed by PREDICT-6G consortium members InterDigital Europe Ltd, Nokia and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, together with NEC Laboratories Europe, Eurescom and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, will present the 6G SNS projects architectural design innovations, challenges and opportunities, combined with early findings and potential impacts towards 6G, around six usage scenarios and four overarching aspects.
The workshop is formed around the six IMT 2030 usage scenarios set out by the ITU-R, complemented by the four overarching aspects on sustainability, connecting the unconnected, ubiquitous intelligence and security/resilience. Each IMT usage scenario will be addressed by a consolidated presentation from multiple relevant projects from the 6G Architecture Working Group, including PREDICT-6G.
“Trials, Pilots and Demos for Selected Verticals: the Experimental Way Forward towards 6G”. This workshop, co-organised by the 6G-SANDBOX, 6G-XR, FIDAL, SNS-ICE and PREDICT-6G projects, will share the views, achievements, and lessons learnt from the realisation of early trials, pilots and demonstrations in the respective projects. It will also provide information and guidance on how third parties can benefit from the experimental infrastructure being developed by these projects to carry out additional experimental work.
Collectively, the SNS projects taking part in this workshop have in-depth knowledge and practical insights in key verticals for the EU economy such as industrial manufacturing, media and entertainment, gaming, public protection and disaster relief, or smart cities. This will guarantee a balanced coverage in the technical sessions, as well as the exchange of valuable and diverse points of view in the final panel discussion.
"The 6G series workshop by Hexa-X-II". This workshop, organised by the european 6G flagship research project Hexa-X-II, will address the conference tracks ‘PHY—Physical Layer and Fundamentals’, ‘WOS – Wireless, Optical and Satellite Networks’, ‘NET – Network Softwarization’ ‘AIU Applications, IoT, Use Cases’ and ‘6G Visions and Sustainability’, by providing an overview on the 6G research from the major European players. This will be accomplished by inviting other SNS JU Stream B 6G technical enabler projects to present, such as PREDICT-6G.
The workshop is divided into 4 sessions of 90 minutes, and it will be in session 3 - 6G Architecture (90 min) where the coordinator of PREDICT-6G, Antonio de la Oliva (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) will participate. He will give a 12-minute presentation entitled ‘The importance of predictability in 6G networks’.
Stay tuned for more detailed information!
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