SNS experimental infrastructure

Expected Outcome:The main outcome will be (1) the availability of an evolvable experimental infrastructure representative of a 6G system for the Phase 3 of the SNS JU Programme with the ability to engage the 6G community to run experimentations and (2) the validation of key 6G technologies with demonstrated performance characteristics through experiments carried out using the experimental infrastructure. Such reference platform in the SNS JU will be used to demonstrate 6G technologies including those developed by SNS Stream B projects. Proponents should select a clear and limited number of technologies from Stream B projects. It will provide platform users with standardized and supported methods for affordable-cost integration of new technologies in the end-to-end environment as well to follow a common SNS approach to KPI measurement and data definition-storage-exposition. This SNS reference platform can be also offered by SNS to other communities to support broader collaboration and technology diffusion (e.g. 3GPP, AI RAN Alliance, ESA, ETSI and others). It targets:• Validation of new 6G network technologies in E2E setups potentially covering the European ecosystem. Within SNS, this project will further support Stream D projects that focus on supporting trials for validation of vertical use cases. It will integrate, test and benchmark the various connectivity technologies to be used in future Stream D vertical evaluations.• Validation capabilities covering as examples the 6 technological areas identified for SNS technological developments, namely: (1) AI Driven architecture, programmability and control, (2) Radio and signal processing, new waveforms and spectrum, ISAC capabilities, (3) Optical networking, flexible and green high capacity transport and backhaul, (4) Ubiquitous computing, edge cloud continuum service and management, (5) Security for network and services, security as a service and (6) NTN, technologies for TN/NTN unification.• Experiments with network