CEA-Leti leads two EU projects for 6G
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CEA-Leti in Grenoble is to coordinate two projects to help build 6G technology capabilities and boost standardization efforts across Europe.
The 6G-DISAC (Distributed Intelligent Sensing and Communication) and 6G-GOALS (Goal-Oriented AI-enabled Learning and Semantic Communication Networks) projects launched their three-year projects in January with multiple collaborators across the EU and UK.
The two projects mark the first time a single research organisation or company has been chosen to coordinate two competitive EU proposals in the same initiative. The two projects were among 27 chosen in a competitive proposal process by the €130m Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU).
“These projects present a significant stride towards advancing smart networks and services, offering breakthrough innovations, experimental platforms and large-scale trials, driving world-class research and shaping the world’s digital connected future,” said the SNS JU.
The 6G-DISAC project will develop a widely distributed intelligent infrastructure using 6G technologies. This compares to current approaches to integrated communication and sensing that use centralized architectures and pass sensed information through a centralized controller.
Instead the project will track connected user equipment (UE) and passive objects via distributed base stations, efficient distributed signal processing and machine learning with extremely large multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) technologies and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and intelligent sensing activation.
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“This project will bring the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) vision into reality, going well beyond the usual restrictive standalone or localised scenarios, by adopting a holistic perspective, with large numbers of connected users and/or passive objects to be tracked,” said Emilio Calvanese Strinati, coordinator of the project and CEA-Leti’s smart devices & telecommunications strategy program director.
“With demonstrations that validate the vital 6G-DISAC concepts, the project will revolutionise various applications, from extended reality and robot-human interaction to vehicular-safety functions and improving communication key performance indicators (KPI) with sensing-aided communications,” he explained.
As well as defining use cases and designing the 6G network architecture, the 11 6G-DISAC partners will develop novel physical-layer waveforms, distributed sensing and communications methods, optimised resource-allocation methods and protocols.
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“While addressing these fundamental and practical challenges, the team will focus on distributed implementation of ISAC, unlocking real sensing applications and providing a multi-perspective view of networks in space and time for tangible communication gains,” said Calvanese Strinati.
The 6G-GOALS project aims to reduce data traffic by conveying only the most relevant information and produce data-efficient, robust and resilient protocols that can adapt to network conditions and communication objectives using modern AI/ML techniques.
“As wireless mobile communication requires ever-higher data rates and 5G’s scope expands to include massive and ultra-reliable low-latency links, wireless evolution has been pressed to solve the technical problem of reliable data exchange between two end-points,” said project coordinator Calvanese Strinati.
“The 6G-GOALS project will take the wireless system design to its next stage by considering the significance, relevance and value of the transmitted data and transforming the potential of the emerging AI/ML-based architectures into a semantic and goal-oriented communication paradigm, offering a solid step toward cooperative generative AI technologies,” he said.
Rather than sensing and transferring data from sensors to the destinations, semantic communication is used to create a shared understanding of the data among intelligent agents.
A recent paper written by 6G-GOALS participants noted that advances in AI technologies have expanded device intelligence, fostering federation and cooperation among distributed AI agents. These advancements impose new requirements on future 6G mobile network architectures.
“To meet these demands, it is essential to transcend classical boundaries and integrate communication, computation, control, and intelligence,” the paper, “Goal-Oriented and Semantic Communication in AI-Native Networks: The 6G-GOALS Approach”, reports.
“These projects are fundamental to explore the capabilities of AI/ML solutions on the networks of the future, especially dealing with joint communication and sensing and semantic communications,” said Mauro Boldi Renato, EU project program coordinator at TIM (Telcom Italia). “Working with CEA-Leti represents a solid basis for their success and for bringing European industry towards implementation of 6G around 2030.”
“The exploitation of 6G-DISAC and 6G-GOALS project results will represent a transformative step for manufacturers and 6G industrial players, like NEC Corporation, by fostering the development of distributed intelligent networks and semantic/AI-driven communication strategies,” said Vincenzo Sciancalepore, principal researcher at NEC Laboratories Europe GMBH/ Germany and a member of the 6G-DISAC team. “Such an unprecedented approach will enable more efficient, flexible, and responsive network infrastructures that can support advanced applications, such as extended reality and automated mobility, meeting the increasing demand for high-capacity, low-latency and sustainable communication.”
6G-DISAC Partners
- Coordinator: CEA-Leti/France
- Technical Manager: Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola AB/Sweden
- Innovation Manager: Nokia Networks/ France
- Telecom Italia Spa/Italy
- Orange S.A./France
- Ethniko Kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athinon/Greece
- Institut Polytechnique De Bordeaux/France
- NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH/Germany
- NEC Italia S.P.A/Italy
- Robert Bosch GmbH/Germany
- RadChat AB/Sweden
6G-GOALS Partners
- Coordinator: CEA-Leti/France
- Technical Manager: Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni/Italy
- Innovation Manager: NEC Laboratories Europe GMBH/ Germany
- NEC Italia S.p.A/Italy
- Telecom Italia S.p.A/Italy
- Eurecom GIE/France
- Aalborg Universitet/Denmark
- Hewlett-Packard/France
- Hewlett-Packard Italiana S.R.L/Italy
- Toshiba Europe Limited UK
- Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine UK
- Singapore University of Technology and Design
CEA-Leti has coordinated several EU projects, including the recently completed RISE-6G project which developed a way to dynamically control wireless communication for brief, energy-efficient and high-capacity communications on a variety of surfaces, such as such as walls, ceilings, mirrors and appliances.
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