Objectives: The project objectives cover three complementary technical areas: NTN communications – analysis of promising use cases for the integration of SDN in 5G-NTN scenarios (both 5G NTN standalone and hybrid terrestrial-NTN), supported by the design and development of a scalable and efficient testbed to assess the impact on end-to-end functionalities and performance (e.g. SDN-based…
Objectives: The Wave Telecontrol Unit (WTU), defined and developed as part of this project, represents a fully automatic satellite communication subsystem, both hardware and software, designed for LEO satellites. It is reusable and modular. Specifically, for the purposes of the proposed verification and validation activities, RomARS will develop a sensor data acquisition and transfer module…
Objectives: NexaSphere aims to design and prototype satellite-compatible technology to support a 3D network of networks. This framework seamlessly integrates multi-path transmission to enhance multi-connectivity in an energy-efficient manner, connecting space and aerial platforms through terrestrial infrastructure. NexaSphere’s primary objective is to conceptualize and develop advanced hardware prototypes and software algorithms for a sustainable, multi-connected…
Objectives: 5G-HOSTS-SAT focuses on experimental validation of various vertical services in 5G environments enhanced with satellite technologies. The final aim is to identify business drivers, technical challenges and practical solutions to foster and facilitate the creation of new applications in sectors that particularly benefit from the integration of satellite in 5G networks. This is achieved…
Objectives: Softwarization and virtualization are recent network technologies expected to be more and more adopted in next-generation networks and already intensively used in current terrestrial infrastructures, from cloud environments to mobile networks. They operate in synergy by decoupling network functionalities from the underlying hardware. When used together, they allow the creation of software instances of…
Objectives: The main objective of the project is the development of an open cyber range, called OpenSatRange (ORS), focused on satellite communication scenarios, to provide cyber security training to operators of satellite systems and networks. The OSR platform has been designed to support attacks relevant to space communication systems on simulated and emulated satellite components…
Objectives: The goal of the QUICoS project is to study, define, implement, and evaluate, in a satellite-based network testbed, possible enhancements in congestion control, flow control and retransmission mechanisms to be included within the UDP-based QUIC protocol, which is the basement of HTTP/3. These enhancements are driven by the most recent versions of TCP which…
Objectives: 5G-EMERGE is a digital transformation project, converging satellite services with online delivery, making use of the 3GPP 5G specification as convergence technology. The project envisages an open multi-tenant ecosystem that seamlessly integrates Near Edges well connected to Satellite Teleport with distributed Far Edges through a virtualised satellite connection to 5G- base stations. This solution…
Objectives The main INN3SCO objective is to develop, validate and demonstrate the integration of non-3GPP satellite networks with 5G Core Networks (CN). The current 5G specifications (release 15 and 16) allow accessing to a 5G CN via non-3GPP networks with specific Network Functions (NFs): N3IWF (Non-3GPP Inter-Working Function), TNGF (Trusted Non-3GPP Gateway Function), TWIF (Trusted…
Objectives: ANALYSAT (AI-driveN multi-link bAckhauL management through network data analYticS and locAlizaTion), developed in the frame of 6G-SANDBOX project (https://6g-sandbox.eu/), aimed at delivering a technical solution for the 6G-SANDBOX facilities through the implementation of three new functionalities: Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF) capability; Location information capability; Multi-link backhaul management in hybrid terrestrial-satellite networks. Benefits…
