DELIVERABLES

This deliverable provides a comprehensive overview of the dissemination, communication, and exploitation activities carried out during the implementation of the COREnext project (36 months). It highlights the impact of targeted communication, broad dissemination, and strategic exploitation efforts, linking results with project performance indicators. The document builds upon the initial roadmap (D8.1) and interim update, and now consolidates the achievements and lessons learned throughout the project lifecycle. The report demonstrates how COREnext has positioned itself within the 5G/6G ecosystem, strengthened stakeholder engagement, contributed to scientific excellence, and delivered exploitable results. Both quantitative (Key Performance Indicators) and qualitative measures are included to assess COREnext’s performance, with a balanced review of successes, challenges, and deviations.

This report will provide an overview of the gaps and needs for future integrated Compute Communication Sensing (CCS) platforms that have been studied and documented. This is based on internal developments & future requirements of end-users from different application domains. It is being looked at from the perspective of digital, analogue and integrated HW/SW solutions. It also includes the impact of the open-source RISC-V cores, as this is gaining more and more momentum in the design world. The gaps and needs form the bases for an initial version of the roadmap. The1st version of a roadmap was mainly based on internal R&D in the consortium and is also being aligned with other initiatives, like e.g. the ECS and SNS SRIAs. In the current version of the deliverable, advice and feedback from external experts has been integrated.

This deliverable D6.1 describes the validation of trustworthiness of disaggregated and energy efficient computing architectures and summarizes the impact of behaviour and performance of components and architecture for the delivery of end-to-end-trusted services. It demonstrates the results from WP4 (Digital Components) and WP5 (Analog Components) based on simulation and experimentation over different realistic scenarios and validates the results against use case requirements from WP2 and trustworthy disaggregated computing architectures defined in WP3. At least one validation is performed for each of the four combinations: trustworthy radio links (WP5 trustworthiness), M³ computation platforms (WP4 trustworthiness), accelerated signal processing capabilities based on a RISC-V platform (WP4 efficiency), high data-rate interconnects using sub-THz plastic waveguides (WP5 efficiency).

This document connects the deliverables submitted in year three to the project objectives. It reports the work performed during this final year within the work packages, summarizes achievements and risks. Finally, we conclude by analysing feedback we received from the project’s External Advisory Board.

This deliverable D5.3 describes the design and evaluation of sub-THz transceiver circuits, transceiver packaging, in-package interconnects, as well as polymer microwave fibre (PMF) and PMF transitions. It is based on the work done in task 5.2. These components will be the input for task 6.4, to enable energy efficient high data rate links in distributed data processing.

This deliverable D5.2 describes refined concepts and findings on the hardware fingerprinting concept and link-level simulation platform development. The concepts and application to RAN physical layer security have been worked out and form an initial base for further developments in the field. Several key enablers have been investigated and documented to see how this can lead to increased trustworthiness of future 6G system and network developments.

This deliverable concludes the COREnext work on trustworthy and efficient digital components for Beyond-5G and 6G networks. Building on the concepts and components introduced in D4.1, heterogeneous acceleration developments as presented in D4.2, and trustworthiness mechanisms for computation and orchestration discussed in D4.3, it now reports the final status of all components. For each building block we present the prototype maturity, achieved KPIs, and interactions across partners, together with their integration paths towards the upcoming demonstrators in WP6. The deliverable also outlines the research outlook and road to product, linking the technical results to the project’s exploitation plan. It thereby provides the complete picture of how COREnext digital components advance efficient processing and trustworthy execution for 6G.

This report outlines the gaps and needs for future Compute Communication Sensing (CCS) platforms, considering digital, analogue, and integrated HW/SW solutions based on internal R&D and end-user requirements. It highlights the growing impact of open-source RISC-V cores and serves as the foundation for an initial roadmap, aligned with initiatives like ECS and SNS SRIAs. Future iterations will incorporate feedback from external experts and workshops to refine the roadmap.

This report provides the final outcome of WP2 and uses inputs from all tasks. This document highlights additional updates compared to previous WP2 deliverables (D2.1 and D2.2) to requirements, further analyses trustworthiness requirements for both digital and analog components, and the underlying lab validations to validate the architecture's robustness against emerging threats.

This COREnext report connects the deliverables submitted in year two to the project objectives. It reports work performed within the work packages, summarizes achievements and risks. Finally, we conclude by analysing feedback we received from the project’s mid-term review.

In this deliverable, we address the foundations of trustworthiness for 6G networks, proposing a heterogeneous compute architecture that balances the costs of added security features with factors like latency and hardware expenses.

In this deliverable, we propose 6G heterogeneous digital accelerators for a trustworthy execution platform, addressing the need for specialized, programmable, and energy-efficient hardware to meet rising processing demands and evolving standards, with RISC-V playing a key role.

In this COREnext deliverable, the COREnext architecture is finalized, encompassing terminal devices, base stations, and edge cloud components. Feedback from component development has been integrated to support the validation of architectural building blocks in WP6 and to enhance trustworthiness efforts in WP2.

The purpose of this Interim Impact Report is to provide an update on the progress and effectiveness of the impact of the communication, dissemination, exploitation and standardisation activities undertaken as part of the project in the first 18 months. It serves as a mid-point evaluation to assess whether our efforts are on track to achieve the desired outcomes and objectives outlined in D8.1 Impact Master Plan.

This document outlines the dissemination, communication, and exploitation strategies for the COREnext Horizon Europe project. This plan will be relevant throughout the length of the project and will be adapted to best suit the needs of the project at every given time and stage of development. The aim of this plan is to deliver against established KPIs and maximise the outreach and exploitation potential of COREnext.

The COREnext project strives to develop trustworthy and efficient Beyond-5G and 6G mobile networks by means of efficient digital signal processing and mechanisms for isolation and orchestration. We propose the components to enable this vision. For the former, we will design heterogeneous RISC-V-based accelerators for various steps in the radio access network processing chain. For the latter, we will design orchestration solutions on accelerator, device and network level. In later deliverables, we will report on the development efforts and results.

To describe the overall project architecture, we first review the target use cases the project has previously laid out in deliverable D2.1. The architecture we propose fundamentally improves the trustworthiness and efficiency of future Beyond-5G and 6G mobile networks. From this architecture, we identify components, where advancements beyond the state of the art are needed. These demands drive the technical development in work packages 4 and 5.

This report describes trustworthiness as a cross-cutting concern within the project. We start by analysing attacks relevant to the use cases and then show how the COREnext architecture and component developments address these attacks systematically.

This report provides a description of use cases and requirements and mainly uses input from
WP2 tasks and other technical work packages. Some preliminary aspects of trustworthiness are also discussed here.

This document connects the deliverables submitted in year one to the project objectives. It
reports work performed within the work packages, summarizes achievements, and risks, and
finally concludes with a statement from the project’s Advisory Board.

COREnext is an ambitious project with many partners. To support the work plan, this
document outlines a management structure, management bodies, and their responsibilities, as well as the procedures by which bodies interact. Associated knowledge repositories, workflow tracking, and collaboration tools are laid out.