Current projects
HORIZON 6GREEN Research and Innovation Action (Coordinator Prof. Roberto Bruschi).
The 6Green project aims to conceive, design, and realize an innovative service-based and holistic ecosystem, able to extend “the communication
infrastructure into a sustainable, interconnected, greener end-to-end intercompute system” and promote energy efficiency across the whole 5/6G
value-chain.The ultimate objective is to enable and to foster 5/6G networks and vertical applications reducing their carbon footprint by a factor of 10 or more.
To achieve this objective, the project will exploit and extend state-of-the-art cloud-native technologies and the B5G Service-Based Architecture
with new cross-domain enablers to:
1) boost the global ecosystem flexibility, scalability and sustainability, and
2) enable all the 5/6G stakeholders (from the ones acting at the infrastructure and network platform to vertical industries) reducing their carbon
footprint by becoming integral parts of a win-win green-economy business, and meeting a Decarbonization Service Agreement.
The 6Green intent-based cross-domain interactions among stakeholders will allow achieving a tight proportionality between the time-varying and
geographically distributed mobile workload produced by vertical applications and network slices, and the energy/carbon footprint induced to the
5/6G network and computing infrastructure continuum.
6Green will provide stakeholders with flexible and green Artificial Intelligence mechanisms that will allow propagating the environment impact to
any players acting on virtual domains, and triggering zero-touch operations according to customizable energy- and carbon-aware policies, allowing
to optimally use renewable energy sources.
The project will also deliver three future-proof use-case applications that will provide a diverse awareness of the green capabilities of the 6Green
platform, and that will demonstrate the potential 5/6G impact in enabling other vertical industry sectors to reach the carbon neutrality targeted by
the European Green Deal.
Website: coming soon!
HORIZON HORSE Research and Innovation Action
Past projects
H2020 5G-PPP MATILDA Innovation Action (Coordinator: Prof. Franco Davoli)
The vision of MATILDA is to design and implement a holistic 5G end-to-end services operational framework tackling the lifecycle of design, development and orchestration of 5G-ready applications and 5G network services over programmable infrastructure, following a unified programmability model and a set of control abstractions.
It aims to devise and realize a radical shift in the development of software for 5G-ready applications as well as virtual and physical network functions and network services, through the adoption of a unified programmability model, the definition of proper abstractions and the creation of an open development environment that may be used by application as well as network functions developers.
Intelligent and unified orchestration mechanisms will be applied for the automated placement of the 5G-ready applications and the creation and maintenance of the required network slices. Deployment and runtime policies enforcement is provided through a set of optimisation mechanisms providing deployment plans based on high level objectives and a set of mechanisms supporting runtime adaptation of the application components and/or network functions based on policies defined on behalf of a services provider.
Multi-site management of the cloud/edge computing and IoT resources is supported by a multi-site virtualized infrastructure manager, while the lifecycle management of the supported Virtual Network Functions Forwarding Graphs (VNF-FGs) as well as a set of network management activities are provided by a multi-site NFV Orchestrator (NFVO). Network and application-oriented analytics and profiling mechanisms are supported based on realtime as well as a posteriori processing of the collected data from a set of monitoring streams. The developed 5G-ready application components, applications, virtual network functions and application-aware network services are made available for open-source or commercial purposes, re-use and extension through a 5G marketplace.
Website: http://www.matilda-5g.eu
H2020 ASTRID Research and Innovation Action
ASTRID pursues a transition from infrastructure-centric to embedded service-centric cybersecurity frameworks.
The main concept is the disaggregation of cyber-security appliances into business logic (i.e., detection algorithms) and data plane (i.e., monitoring and inspection tasks), mediated by orchestration logic and proper security models. Instead of overloading the execution environment with complex and sophisticated threat detection capabilities, efficient processing capabilities are provided in the execution environment that create events and knowledge. Algorithms for detection of threats and vulnerabilities are moved upwards and process such data in a coordinated way for the whole execution environment.
Website: https://www.astrid-project.eu
- to increase the information base for analysis and detection, while preserving privacy;
- to improve the detection capability by data correlation between domains and sources;
- to verify reliability and dependability by formal methods that take into account configuration and trust properties of the whole chain
- to increase awareness by better propagation of knowledge to the humans in the loop.