Plaza6G+ - Polo de Innovación y Experimentación 6G +

Ico_CTTC
Start: 13/04/2023
End: 30/06/2025
Funding: National
Status: On going
Research unit:
Services as Networks (SaS)
Acronym: Plaza6G+
Call ID: UNICO I+D 6G
Code: TSI-064100-2023-26

Plaza6G+ has been conceived as an ambitious extension of the Plaza6G project, financed in the UNICO I+D 6G 2022 call. The objective of Plaza6G was to carry out the vision of experimentation on advanced mobile networks that was easy for the user and was conceived as a general-purpose innovation hub that was a reference in experimentation in advanced 5G, 6G and future generations.

Plaza6G+ will improve the infrastructure and equipment of Plaza6G, focusing on five differentiated contributions: 1) infrastructural scaling of Plaza6G, including network expansion, computing capacity and GPUs; 2) deployment of open radio access networks (open RAN) through the development and deployment of architectures aligned with the O-RAN Alliance specifications; 3) enabling the management of private outdoor and indoor 5G networks complemented by small/micro/pico/femto cell technologies; 4) integrating new equipment to enable multiple use cases and enable spaces towards 6G, such as AR/VR/XR (metaverse), eHealth, digital twin, among others; and 5) usability improvement, including new use cases, through the development of new control and monitoring functionalities through APIs and the web platform.

An open 5G/6G experimentation hub of this magnitude will allow the academic community and different sectors of the industry to access an experimentation platform that is difficult to replicate. Plaza6G+ users will be able to test and develop new products and services that require a high-performance network, supporting different scenarios such as negligible latencies or high bandwidth. In summary, the project will offer a completer and more versatile platform for experimentation in advanced networks, thus improving the synergy between multiple parties involved in the development of use cases and next-generation network technologies towards 6G.

Sergio Barrachina
PI/Project Leader
Josep Mangues
Researcher
Miquel Payaró
Researcher
Jorge Baranda
Researcher
Sarang Kahvazadeh
Researcher
Engin Zeydan
Researcher
Manuel Requena
Researcher
Selva Via
Researcher
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
Coordinator
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