CORDIS · 6G-OPTICON
6G OPTIMIZATION AND CONSTRAINED INTELLIGENCE FOR END-TO-END NETWORK OPERATIONS ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS SEGMENTS
- Code
6G-OPTICON- Programme
- HORIZON
- Call
HORIZON-JU-SNS-2025-01-STREAM-B-01-01- Status
- SIGNED
- Period
- 2026-06-01 – 2029-05-31
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Participants
| Organisations | Role | Country | Grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIOUMPITEK MELETI SCHEDIASMOS YLOPOIISI KAI POLISI ERGON PLIROFORIKIS ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHYNIS | coordinator | EL | 450 000 € |
| PANEPISTIMIO PATRON | participant | EL | 400 000 € |
| ERICSSON TELECOMUNICAZIONI SPA | participant | IT | 350 037 € |
| TELEFONICA INNOVACION DIGITAL SL | participant | ES | 350 010 € |
| K3Y | participant | BG | 349 875 € |
| EBOS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED | participant | CY | 349 875 € |
| FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION | participant | ES | 250 202 € |
| SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA | participant | IT | 250 000 € |
| INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN | participant | SI | 250 000 € |
Description
6G-OPTICON is a flagship initiative aimed at designing a next-generation, end-to-end orchestration framework tailored for the 6G era. By embedding constraint-native deep learning throughout the orchestration pipeline, the project will enable intelligent, adaptive planning, optimization, and management across a complex landscape of interconnected networks and heterogeneous domains. At its core, 6G-OPTICON envisions an open, modular, and highly extensible orchestration fabric that unifies services and infrastructure across O-RAN, core, transport, and edge. To enable operation under strict real-time, latency, energy, security, and multi-domain constraints, novel deep learning models will be developed that inherently incorporate these requirements during training and execution (potentially guided by closed-form formulas or physical laws), ensuring SLA compliance, conflict-free optimization, and operational robustness. In parallel, the project pioneers secure-by-design AI pipelines, leveraging trusted execution environments, encrypted computation, and explainable AI methods adapted for privacy-preserving contexts. Finally, by promoting energy-adaptive, hardware-aware AI deployment strategies and event-driven automation, 6G-OPTICON delivers a blueprint for sustainable, trustworthy, and intelligent 6G network orchestration.
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