PREDICT-6G contributions to Reliable Available Wireless (RAW)
The PREDICT-6G objective of developing a determinist network architecture demands a continuous cross-fertilisation between its main elements, namely predictability, reliability and time-sensitiveness, related standards.
The IETF has recently published Carlos J. Bernardos (UC3M) contribution analysing different use cases where solutions for wireless determinism are needed. The document (RFC), part of the Reliable Available Wireless (RAW) Working Group, is available here.
Related to the activities carried out in the IETF (RAW and DetNet WGs), Carlos J. Bernardos was also invited to give a tutorial of the IETF activities in these areas in the IEEE 802 plenary that took place in July 2023 in Berlin, Germany.
The tutorial provided an overview on RAW. It particularly outlined the use cases and technologies considered by RAW and the RAW framework architecture, including Operation, Administration and Management (OAM) mechanisms.
The presentation can be found here.
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Deliverable 5.2 - Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Strategy Plan, now available
The PREDICT-6G deliverable 5.2 - Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Strategy Plan, is now available in Zenodo for public reading.
Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation are key aspects of PREDICT-6G objectives. The deliverable provides a detailed overview of PREDICT-6G’s strategy to achieve all planned outcomes, defining the goals, priorities and implementation mechanisms. To this end, the PREDICT-6G Strategy Plan sets out the objectives, tools, materials, and channels to be exploited in order to effectively spread the project’s activities, achievements and tangible results to targeted audiences, also encompassing the strategy for contributing to the standardisation and the successful market uptake of PREDICT-6G solutions.
As part of PREDICT-6G’s commitment to open science, the project uses the Zenodo repository to contain and make publicly available all the information and data related to its development.
You can read and download the Deliverable 5.2 - Communication, Dissemination, Standardisation and Exploitation Strategy Plan for free here.
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Deliverable 1.1 - Analysis of use cases and system requirements, now available
The PREDICT-6G deliverable 1.1 -Analysis of use cases and system requirements, is now available in Zenodo for public reading.
This document describes and analyses the use cases that will demonstrate and validate the technologies to be tested in the PREDICT-6G project, and establish the system requirements necessary to achieve the project's goals.
Each use case is reported, outlining the targets and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and analysing the technical components and systems, based on a common definition of the KPIs that will be used to analyse and evaluate the technologies used in the project and a standard methodology to compare the selected uses case. Taking this into account, a traffic characterisation and the system requirements for the project are also defined in this document, as well as, an initial explanation of the architectural and security requirements.
As part of PREDICT-6G’s commitment to open science, the project uses the Zenodo repository to contain and make publicly available all the information and data related to its development.
You can read and download the Deliverable 1.1 – Analysis of use cases and system requirements for free here.
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Introducing DETERMINISTIC6G, a sister project of PREDICT-6G
One of the main intentions of PREDICT-6G is to quickly harness the multiplier capacity of initiatives advocating for 6G in Europe. Creating synergies with other projects funded by Horizon Europe under the same topic is a unique opportunity to build a real impactful European 6G landscape. Let’s discover one of them: DETERMINISTIC6G!
DETERMINISTIC6G aims at developing an end-to-end deterministic communication architecture enabling innovative 6G use cases. The concept of deterministic communication being the property of guaranteeing communication latency and reliability is central to the project. Ensuring sufficient end-to-end communication reliability remains a challenge for cellular networks in an industrial context.
A primary focus of the project will be on the interplay between future 6G networks with highly time-synchronized networks called Time Sensitive Networking (TSN). The challenge in these settings is that wireless systems like 6G can be subject to strong random variations, which is incompatible with technologies like TSN. DETERMINISTIC6G will tackle this problem by a combination of new wireless transmission design and advanced machine learning algorithms, leading to 6G wireless transmission with deterministic latency behavior. In addition to this, the project will also consider consequences and novel approaches for time synchronization, network security as well as the integration of computational nodes into the 6G systems.
Current developments in 5G integrate time-sensitive networking (TSN) and deterministic networking (DetNet) as deterministic communication mechanisms, however, they are not designed to support end-to-end (E2E) deterministic communication over heterogeneous infrastructures. Driven by pivotal 6G visionary use cases, the main concepts under-pinning the design of the DETERMINISTIC6G solution are:
- New architectures and protocols ensuring the efficient and secure integration of 6G systems into deterministic communication contexts.
- AI/ML based data-driven models for latency characterization in 6G wireless system
- leveraging novel digital twins of both 6G networks and cyber-physical systems to anticipate situational circumstances impacting determinism.
- Devise security-by-design mechanism for deterministic communication including the integration of edge computing and the support of OPC UA.
DETERMINISTIC6G builds on the wired deterministic communication standards to support end-to-end deterministic communication over heterogeneous networks. The expected outcomes of the project include:
- 6G architecture and interfaces allowing dynamic interactions in integrated heterogeneous infrastructure.
- Integration and interworking with deterministic standards over wired (TSN & DetNet) and wireless communication infrastructure.
- Concepts of an open controllability framework for time-critical services operating dynamically over multiple heterogeneous domains including edge computing as well as wired and wireless domains.
- An architecture for innovative 6G use cases based on security-by-design principles that provide capabilities to support deterministic wireless 6G transmission.
- New data-driven ML methods for 6G system providing probabilistic latency guarantees at run-time.
- E2E time awareness for supporting the deterministic operations.
- Unified service provisioning through integration with an advanced industrial application framework (OPC UA FX) to provide service to several industry verticals.
- Algorithms that leverage the information base of 6G digital twins and CPS digital twin in order to maintain E2E guarantees but also application-layer features such as safety.
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Call for Papers: MobiHoc 2023
In the scope of the MobiHoc 2023 -the 24th International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing-, which will be held in Washington DC, October 23-26, 2023, DESIRE6G and PREDICT-6G will co-organise the “6G-PDN (6G Programmable Deterministic Networking with AI)” workshop.
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the roadmap and challenges in the technological areas of deterministic communications and deep network programmability in 6G, to support future end-to- end time-critical applications. It also aims to bring together academic and industry researchers to stimulate discussions, introduce news ideas and technical solutions in the aforementioned areas and therefore contribute to the progress of 6G networking research.
Submitted papers may cover any of the following topics:
- Programmable data planes for TSN
- Network softwarization for 6G
- Programmable Networking Protocols
- Programmable SDN and NFV: languages and architectures (P4 and others)
- Hardware acceleration for programmable network functions
- Multitenant data planes
- Orchestration and Management of Software-Defined Deterministic Networks
- Control and Management of Data plane programmable devices
- Artificial intelligence for deterministic networks
- In network Machine Learning
- In-network service level tuning and optimization; QoS
- High precision traffic monitoring/telemetry
- Service assurance and fulfillment programmability
- Slicing for 6G
- Intent-based systems and Digital twinning applied in 6G.
- Reliability, time sensitiveness and predictability in 3GPP and WiFi systems.
Paper Submission deadline is July 12, 2023
You can read all the detailed information here.
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PREDICT-6G hosts its second plenary meeting
The 23rd and 24th of May, the PREDICT-6G Consortium met in Madrid to host its second plenary meeting . Two fruitful days used by the members of the team to review what we have accomplished over the past five months and to set the roadmap for the coming months.
The meeting, hosted at the premises of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (the coordinator of the Project), took place over two days, during which the Work Package and Tasks leaders presented the progress made to date, as well as the future impulses needed to achieve each of the objectives set. There was also time to plan for PREDICT-6G's upcoming participation in international conferences, such as the European Conference on Networks and Communications 2023 (EuCNC) where the project will organize the joint workshop titled “Future deterministic programmable networks for 6G”.
“During the Madrid May meeting we have pushed substantially the work on PREDICT-6G, clarifying the key technical aspects on the control and data plane to realise multi-domain, multi-technology determinism”, said Antonio de la Oliva, the coordinator of PREDICT-6G.
Finally, the consortium visited the 5Tonic Open Lab, where two of the project’s use cases will be tested: the Multi-domain deterministic communication use case and the Smart Manufacturing use case.
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Future deterministic programmable networks for 6G, a joint workshop
The three EU funded project DESIRE6G, DETERMINISTIC6G and PREDICT6G are developing new technologies to tackle determinism at a global scale in the yet to be defined 6G architecture.
A joint workshop titled "Future deterministic programmable networks for 6G" is organized by these projects at the European Conference on Networks and Communications 2023 (EuCNC). EuCNC focuses on telecommunications aspects ranging from 5G deployment to 6G exploration and future communications systems and networks. The aim of this workshop is to open a space for discussion of the different approaches to determinism that these projects are choosing while discussing open points and possible collaboration topics. The workshop takes place on Tuesday, 6 June 2023, 14:00-17:30 where Dr. Afif Osseiran, vice-chair 5G-ACIA gives a Keynote on the “learnings on 5G for industries”. Members of the three projects will present key research topics being investigated under these projects. A panel discussion will wrap up the workshop enlightening how the future deterministic 6G networks will be realized.
Check the programme here.
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Introducing DESIRE6G, a sister project of PREDICT-6G
One of the main intentions of PREDICT-6G is to quickly harness the multiplier capacity of initiatives advocating for 6G in Europe. Creating synergies with other projects funded by Horizon Europe under the same topic is a unique opportunity to build a real impactful European 6G landscape. Let’s discover one of them: DESIRE6G!
Promoting the 6G vision, the DESIRE6G project will design and develop a novel zero touch control, management, and orchestration platform, with native integration of AI, to support verticals with extreme requirements (e.g., eXtreme URLLC services) over a performant, measurable and programmable data plane.
From zero power to extreme low latency or ultra-high reliability: the 6G system should not limit its future use cases, yet it should be simpler and more autonomous than the previous generation. The two key components that will allow DESIRE6G achieving these goals are the following:
- A lightweight centralised Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) layer, with distributed and coordinated intelligent control employing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). This functional split promotes service assurance through enabling faster control loops, ensuring the scalability of the system as its self-operation relies mainly on the autonomous coordinated operation of the agents.
- An end-to-end programmable user plane supporting multitenancy, using a hardware abstraction layer to interact with the heterogeneous devices e.g., GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, SOCs. This will facilitate increased flexibility in function placement and offloading while using simple and abstract control plane APIs. It will also allow simpler customization of end-to-end network behaviour without sacrificing performance and power efficiency.
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PREDICT-6G supports Open Science
PREDICT-6G is committed to the Open Science practices defined by the European Commission to improve the “quality, efficiency and responsiveness of research”.
Early and open sharing of research
PREDICT-6G has pledged to ensure that data produced during the course of the project is FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) and open, as well as being early available.
Research output management and measures to ensure reproducibility of research outputs
PREDICT-6G guarantees the reproducibility of project outputs by covering the reproduction, replication and reuse research processes. Any research output will be made available to the community in Open Access repositories.
Open access to research outputs and participation in open peer-review
Open Access contributes to the circulation of knowledge and their re-usability, which in turn has proved to drive innovation. PREDICT-6G fully embraces this vision. The project relies on all major international publishers that provide several models for Open Access, with two major options on what license to place on the published documents:
- 'Green' Open Access: The publisher's policy allows the authors to archive the final manuscript in an institutional or subject-based repository, before or after peer review. We use the Zenodo Community “PREDICT-6G PROJECT” as our ‘Green’ repository.
- 'Gold' Open Access: Authors can publish in open access journals, or in hybrid journals that both sell subscriptions and offer the option of making individual articles openly accessible. Articles published under this license will also be made available in the project’s Zenodo Community.
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Other ways to use and contribute to the open science practices
PREDICT-6G will leverage the services provided by the Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE), which is an active service provider of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This European initiative, which lists 37+ million publications and 9+ million research data, has the mission to promote open scholarship and improve the discoverability, accessibility, shareability, reusability, reproducibility and monitoring of data-driven research results, across scientific disciplines.
In addition, PREDICT-6G will rely on complementary open access channels including:
- The release of pre-publication versions through the website.
- The release of paper presentations in conferences through the website.
- The use of social media to provide links to publications and presentation files.
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PREDICT-6G hosts its kick-off meeting in Madrid
The 10th and 11th of January, the PREDICT-6G consortium met in Madrid to host its kick-off meeting. Two fruitful days used by the members of the team to set the roadmap to achieve the goals of the coming months.
The meeting marked the official start of this ambitious project funded by Horizon Europe, under the Smart Networks and Systems Joint Undertaking (SNS JU). 30 months of work begin in which PREDICT-6G aims to develop a novel Multi-Technology Multi-Domain Data-Plane (MDP) overhauling the reliability and time sensitiveness design features existing in current wired and wireless standards. A challenge that the partners involved face with enthusiasm and determination.
PREDICT-6G consortium, led by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), consists of 17 prominent partners from seven European countries: Spain (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Ericsson España S.A., Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo S.A., ATOS IT Solutions and Services Iberia S.L., ATOS Spain S.A., GESTAMP Servicios S.A., Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Hungary (Nokia Solutions and Networks KFT), Germany (Intel Deutschland GMBH), Italy (Nextworks, Politecnico di Torino, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Universita degli Estudi di Padova), Greece (Cognitive Innovations Private Company), Romania (Software Imagination & Vision SRL), Estonia (MTU AUSTRALO Alpha Lab), UK (Interdigital Europe LTD).
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