Flexible Open Architecture and AI-driven Enabling Technologies for a Novel 6G Connectivity Platform

Overall Concept

The FLECON-6G project aims to develop an innovative blueprint for 6G architecture, characterised by its distributed, modular, open, and collaborative frameworks. This architecture is built on trustworthy principles and incorporates multi-layer Network Digital Twins (NDTs), which integrate seamlessly across various domains—from resource management to control and management planes, extending all the way to the business layer.

FLECON-6G envisions an “Intelligent 6G Network of Networks” that seamlessly integrates Native and Trustworthy AI. This vision empowers the automated and scalable orchestration of services and capabilities across diverse networks, subsystems, and technological domains, fostering collaboration among multiple stakeholders.

Project's Statistics

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Key Objectives

Develop and deploy an innovative architecture for next-generation 6G networks that seamlessly integrates public and private sectors and terrestrial and non-terrestrial components across all dimensions of control, data, and management systems.

Investigate, design, and develop efficient, native, and reliable AI algorithms tailored for intent-driven multi-stakeholder networks, ensuring generalisability and uncertainty quantification.

Enable MNOs, infrastructure owners, and third-party application developers to leverage a Smart Marketplace that facilitates sustainable sharing and exposure of resources, NDTs, and AI models.

Investigate, design, and develop a multi-layer NDT framework and integrate it within a Zero-Touch 6G network architecture.

Propose and develop innovative data transfer paradigms incorporating advanced data plane techniques with deep Edge integration.

Integrate and demonstrate FLECON-6 G’s potential and user value through targeted experimentation, testing, and validation of its innovations in PoCs.

Establish an integrated, end-to-end architecture for multiple stakeholders and implement a collaborative, distributed framework that facilitates recursive modelling, coordination, dynamic composition, and operation of multi-domain 6G networks of networks.