Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
Implants that replace smartphones. High-fidelity holograms. Wireless interfaces connected to the brain. Is all this science fiction?
5G can deliver communication speeds many times faster than current 4G networks and significantly lower latency times.
But with speeds estimated at 100 times faster than 5G and extreme-low latency of less than one millisecond, 6G is poised to be the network that finally delivers use cases from the realms of science fiction.
6G will bring a new era of intelligent connected management and control functions, programmability, integrated sensing and communication, reduction of energy footprint, trustworthy infrastructure, scalability, and affordability.
A self-contained ecosystem of artificial intelligence, 6G will allow the generation of Zettabytes of digital information to be exchanged between billions of devices, humans, connected vehicles, robots and drones.
To enable such a 6G vision, MARSAL targets the development of an innovative framework for the management and orchestration of 6G network resources, by utilizing a converged optical-wireless network infrastructure.
At the mobile network design domain, MARSAL targets the development of novel and cost-effective radio access technologies, based on the Cell-Free concept.
In a Cell-Free network, a group of distributed antennas cooperate in order to provide service to the users simultaneously and by using the same frequency-time resources.
MARSAL develops these novel radio access networking solutions by utilizing the application of the distributed Cell-Free concept, while contributing innovative functionalities to the O-RAN initiative.
In parallel, in the intermediate links between the core network and the user-access domain, MARSAL aims to radically increase the flexibility of optical access architectures for 6G connectivity via different levels of fixed-mobile convergence.
At the network and service management domain, the design philosophy of MARSAL is to provide a comprehensive framework for the management of the entire set of communication and computational resources by exploiting novel Artificial Intelligence techniques that incorporate the Virtual Elastic Data Centre paradigm.
Finally, at the network security domain, MARSAL aims to introduce mechanisms that provide privacy and security, so that applications and users can maintain control over their data even in shared network infrastructures by means of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies developed within MARSAL.
MARSAL, building the foundations to lead 6G in Europe, offering more high-value services to society and strengthening the European industrial leadership.
Implants that replace smartphones. High-fidelity holograms. Wireless interfaces connected to the brain. Is all this science fiction?
5G can deliver communication speeds many times faster than current 4G networks and significantly lower latency times.
But with speeds estimated at 100 times faster than 5G and extreme-low latency of less than one millisecond, 6G is poised to be the network that finally delivers use cases from the realms of science fiction.
6G will bring a new era of intelligent connected management and control functions, programmability, integrated sensing and communication, reduction of energy footprint, trustworthy infrastructure, scalability, and affordability.
A self-contained ecosystem of artificial intelligence, 6G will allow the generation of Zettabytes of digital information to be exchanged between billions of devices, humans, connected vehicles, robots and drones.
To enable such a 6G vision, MARSAL targets the development of an innovative framework for the management and orchestration of 6G network resources, by utilizing a converged optical-wireless network infrastructure.
At the mobile network design domain, MARSAL targets the development of novel and cost-effective radio access technologies, based on the Cell-Free concept.
In a Cell-Free network, a group of distributed antennas cooperate in order to provide service to the users simultaneously and by using the same frequency-time resources.
MARSAL develops these novel radio access networking solutions by utilizing the application of the distributed Cell-Free concept, while contributing innovative functionalities to the O-RAN initiative.
In parallel, in the intermediate links between the core network and the user-access domain, MARSAL aims to radically increase the flexibility of optical access architectures for 6G connectivity via different levels of fixed-mobile convergence.
At the network and service management domain, the design philosophy of MARSAL is to provide a comprehensive framework for the management of the entire set of communication and computational resources by exploiting novel Artificial Intelligence techniques that incorporate the Virtual Elastic Data Centre paradigm.
Finally, at the network security domain, MARSAL aims to introduce mechanisms that provide privacy and security, so that applications and users can maintain control over their data even in shared network infrastructures by means of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies developed within MARSAL.
MARSAL, building the foundations to lead 6G in Europe, offering more high-value services to society and strengthening the European industrial leadership.
