Starting date : Oct. 2019 > Oct. 2022
Lifetime: 36 months
Program in support : H2020-ICT-23 (joint EU-TW)
Status project : in progress
CEA-Leti's contact :
Mickaël Maman
Bernard Strée
Project Coordinator: Fraunhofer HHI (DE)
Partners: - Bosch, Fraunhofer HHi, (DE)
- CEA-Leti, ( FR)
- Athonet, La Sapienza (University of Rome), (IT)
- ITRI (Coordinator), Alpha Networks Inc., Chunghwa Telecom, III, (TW)
Target market: n/a
Investment: € 4.1 m.
EC Contribution: € 2.1 m.
| Stakes
CEA-Leti’s expected outcomes of the 5G-CONNI project are:
- Increased know-how in connectivity for the «Factories of the Future» (FoF)
- Definition of private 5G factory network requirements and evaluation methodology
- Design of lower layers of 5G to accommodate Ultra Reliability, Low Latency Communications (URLLC) for FoFs
- Joint optimization of VNF deployment and cloud resource allocation based on distributed AI mechanisms.
- The fifth generation of mobile communication networks (5G) is foreseen as key enabling technology for the industrial revolution’s fourth stage, commonly called “Industry 4.0”. Future Smart Factories envisaged in this context will leverage Industry 4.0 and 5G technology to increase flexibility and efficiency of manufacturing processes, thereby ensuring global competitiveness of industrial manufacturing.
- While 5G technologies, such as network slicing, may accommodate industrial applications in public networks, Private 5G Networks, operating locally and highly optimized towards specific applications, are a disruptive emerging approach to meeting the specific demands of industrial use cases. Building on the premise of Private 5G Networks, the 5G-CONNI project aims to provide an integrated end-to-end 5G test and demonstration network for industrial applications, leveraging current results from standardization and related research projects.
- Major contributions of the project consist in defining new Private 5G Network architectures and operator models, measurements and tools for application specific network planning, tuning, monitoring and developing innovative technologies and enabling components in the context of URLLC radio communication, mobile edge computing, core network design and joint optimization of these components. Two interconnected industrial trial sites at manufacturing facilities in Europe and Taiwan are being set up. Selected use cases will be tested at these sites and integrated into an end-to-end industrial Private 5G Network demonstrator. This will be used for technology verification and in-depth KPI analysis. The project results will be fed back to the relevant standardization bodies and industry forums, and used as input for the use of regulatory institutions in Europe and Taiwan in shaping private network operating requirements.
IMPACT
The project was launched at the end of 2019. Its expected impacts are:
Proving feasibility of private 5G networks, while defining new operator models and developing planning tools and edge cloud technologies for efficient deployments
Contributing to understanding and transferring knowledge of how to plan, deploy, operate and maintain a private 5G network in a factory
Demonstrating industrial applications in real-world 5G trial systems, potentially with global interconnectivity
Contributing to triggering and facilitating rapid adoption of 5G-CONNI key concepts by industrial players
- Contributing to standards and regulations aiming at private industrial 5G for working towards harmonized spectrum and numbering regulation.
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