COREnext considers necessary to anticipate 6G deployment, especially where use case applications will be extended to the public audience. In 5 years, the project will have scaled up to build a strong European position as a vendor for mobile network equipment, especially in analogue technologies required to deploy future open RAN computing architectures.
COREnext builds a computing platform for 6G use cases to ensure European digital sovereignty and a new economic perspective in this societally critical domain. COREnext anticipates future needs and focuses on two key gaps: improved energy efficiency and end-to-end trustworthiness from analogue interface to digital processing.
WHYCOREnext?
Europe needs to strengthen its digital capabilities. In and COREnext anticipates the technological developments required for future 6G networks to push the boundaries on future European offerings
WHATWILL COREnext DO?
COREnext will offer efficient, scalable and virtualizable accelerators and thus answer the need for drastically enhancing the European capabilities and foundation regarding hardware, computing, and signal processing technologies for B5G and 6G infrastructures in the context of disaggregated, virtualized networks.
COREnext will develop a trustworthy-by-design platform and thus answer the need for European capabilities for B5G/6G computing based on a new computing architecture for base stations. This architecture efficiently and securely integrates third-party accelerators capable of supporting even the most demanding 5G/6G processes in cloud servers, base stations, and client-side devices.
HOWWILL COREnext ACHIEVE THIS?
WP1
MANAGEMENT & COORDINATION
The management and coordination team will monitor progress within the other work packages and detect and assist in mitigating potential risks. They will also emphasize how the activities conducted as part of the project conform to the overall objective.
WP2
TRUSTWORTHINESS AND USE CASES REQUIREMENTS
The experts will define the Use Cases (UC) and relevant requirements, which will then be used to evaluate the project’s innovations. Aspects of trustworthiness for enabling the delivery of end-to-end-trusted services will be elaborated
WP3
TRUSTWORTHY DISAGGREGATED COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE
Our experts will identify privacy-sensitive data flows from the use case and trustworthiness requirements. Key aspects that will be investigated are:1) Analog and digital signal processing;2) Hyper Distributed applications;3) Computation, networking, and signal processing.
WP4
DIGITAL COMPONENTS
Digital processing capabilities at the component level will be advanced. Disaggregation of resources and hosting multiple tenants are new requirements for accelerators, for which our experts will develop virtualization capabilities. Simultaneously, all these improvements must occur while considering deeply embedded trustworthiness primitives on all integration levels, ensuring that security and privacy are design goals from the beginning.
WP5
TRUSTWORTHY ANALOG COMPONENTS
The partners will develop concepts, methods, and circuits to increase the trustworthiness of communication links. On the one hand, they explore the hardware fingerprint concept. On the other hand, they study analogue techniques and components for ultra-high speed data links at short distances, targeting energy-efficient applications in disaggregated 6G radio base stations and other industries such as data centers.
WP6
LAB VALIDATORS
Technologies developed in the project will be validated in the lab . As part of this work, PoC lab validators will be developed to demonstrate components. One validation will be performed for each of the four combinations: trustworthy radio links , M³ computation platforms, accelerated signal processing capabilities based on a RISC-V platform , and high data-rate interconnects using sub-THz plastic waveguides .
WP7
COMPUTATION-COMMUNICATION PLATFORM INTEGRATION ROADMAP
Our experts will focus on two main tasks, which will run in parallel to create an integrated computing communication-sensing platform roadmap signed off by all relevant stakeholders in the field.
WP8
OUTREACH, EXPLOITATION AND COLLABORATION
The main ambition of the outreach activities is to fast-track the transfer of knowledge between COREnext and the stakeholder base of the project, funneling the inwards/outwards value streams with the 5G and future 6G scientific and industrial communities while capitalizing on the results obtained.