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H2020Staff exchange2016–2019

TACTILENet · Towards Agile, effiCient, auTonomous and massIvely LargE Network of things

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2016-02-01 → 2019-01-31
EU contribution
€418,500
Participants
8
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

TACTILENet: Towards Agile, effiCient, auTonomous and massIvely LargE Network of things

We are witnessing an unprecedented worldwide growth of mobile data traffic that is expected to continue at an annual rate of 45% over the next years, reaching 30.5 exabytes per month by 2020. With the arrival of 5G, mobile connectivity goes from something we experience mainly through personal devices to being built into the fabric of our society, creating an integrated infrastructure that will connect buildings, transport, and utilities. While the demand for wireless capacity will continue to grow, the emergence of the Internet of Everything (IoE) system, connecting millions of people and billions of machines, is yielding a radical paradigm shift from the rate-centric enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services of the conventional networks towards ultra-reliable, low latency communications (URLLC). The objective of the TACTILENet project is to bring together the complementary expertise of European and third-country partners in order to lay the foundations for addressing basic issues in several facets of 5G and beyond networking. Our conclusions of the action is summarized as below. We developed and analysed: 1. Edge-caching techniques, which bring the content closer to the users in order to improve their Quality of Experience. 2. Dynamic control techniques for networks with wireless energy transfer as well as energy-harvesting devices to provide perpetual and reliable connectivity for IoE. 3. Cross-layer techniques such as caching and massive-MIMO beamforming suitable for high bandwidth mobile communications. 4. System architectures involving airborne base stations and techniques for multiple-access to enable massive but short communications among machines. Additionally, we have participated in standardisation bodies such as ITU, IEEE and Networld2020. We have partially completed a course on 5G networks.

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Project objective

The vision for the 5th generation of mobile networks (5G) includes at its heart the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, leading to a new era of connectivity where billions of devices exchange data and instill intelligence in our everyday life. The EU has set out to play a leading role in developing 5G technologies by consolidating and building upon the most important research and innovation results attained in previous research programs. Nevertheless, 5G is still in its early research stages. Various issues must be resolved before it can become a reality: we need to join forces – across countries, continents, and sectors.The objective of the TACTILENet project is to bring together the complementary expertise of European and third-country partners in order to lay the foundations for addressing basic issues in several facets of 5G networking. The cross-fertilization among partners will contribute to the ongoing research efforts by jointly identifying ambitious yet feasible goals for 5G system, addressing some of the fundamental research problems in achieving these goals, and finally, by designing and analyzing a suite of protocols. Given the size of our consortium and the timeframe of the project, we will focus on some of the most promising directions, such as network densification, energy efficiency/harvesting and short blocklength communications.The consortium brings together expertise from all of the above research directions. Each partner will bring along its expertise in different thrusts, and the project will develop a unifying framework for a systematic study of the Internet of Things within the 5G framework capturing these clearly interrelated research areas.With its suggested mobility plan, the project aspires to strengthen collaboration among partners, exploit complementarities in expertise, educate young researchers and ultimately create a solid basis for fruitful cooperation, going beyond the time-frame of this project.

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union