Duration: January 2024 - December 2026
Budget: 13 120 676,76 € EU contribution

SUNRISE-6G provides a scalable, open and standards-compliant approach to experimentation and vertical application deployment in a pan-European Federation of 6G infrastructures, that provides access to a comprehensive library of 6G enablers.

This project, coordinated by ISI/ATH, was selected under the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) second call for proposals, with a financial commitment to SUNRISE-6G part of the total €130 million fund dispersed across 27 innovative projects. This association is set to enhance a robust experimental infrastructure throughout Europe, taking a significant step towards the realisation of 6G technology.

OBJECTIVES

SUNRISE-6G aspires to create a federation of 6G test infrastructures in a pan-European facility that will support converged Testing as a Service (TaaS) workflows and tools, a unified catalogue of 6G enablers publicly accessible by experimenters, and cross-domain vertical application onboarding.

Project specific objectives are

  1. Deliver a pan-European 6G experimentation facility, supporting cross-domain vertical application deployment and testing via a decentralized management plane.

  2. Implement an Open Federation Framework supporting vertical use-case deployment at the Federated Facility via standardised Camara Service APIs.

  3. Ensure the evolvability of the facility, offering streamlined testbed onboarding workflows, and providing a clear roadmap to 3GPP compliance and large-scale trials.

  4. Validate the Federated facility via advanced use cases, showcasing cross-testbed vertical deployment, and seamless onboarding of third-party testbed.

  5. Offer a 6G Library of breakthrough components, devices and frameworks covering the complete device-to-cloud value chain, which is externally accessible for experimentation.

  6. Facilitate Intent-Driven Lifecycle Management of experimentation processes (IDLM) through MLOps-driven Native AI integration.

  7. Maximise the project’s impact and visibility through wide means of dissemination, communication, standardisation and exploitation.