Expected Outcome:
The target outcomes address consolidation of results on:
- Efficient service operation methodologies able to operate across multiple stakeholders in an efficient way, to provide complex, multi-technology, dynamic services, catering to societal requirements (e.g. sustainability, privacy, AI-conformance).
- Service technologies for time-sensitive and computationally intensive applications, able to optimize deployment considering aspects as energy consumption, reliability and security levels; Low-overhead monitoring infrastructures and proper interfaces.
- Algorithms, software and hardware implementations where appropriate, which can be used for PoC and later trials systems. This includes aspects as failover and always-on technologies. Dissemination of solutions for international consensus building, which can be exploited in standardisation activities.
- Impactful contributions to international standardisation.
Objective:
Please refer to the "Specific Challenges and Objectives" section for Stream B-04 in the Work Programme, available under ‘Topic Conditions and Documents - Additional Documents’.
Scope:
The focus of this topic is on several complementary areas mentioned below and applicants may select one or more of these areas:
- Automation and Intelligence in security operations, including, but not limited to, end-to-end attack detection and response in 6G with secure AI, mechanisms to ensure fully resilient infrastructures and services using self-healing and proactive defence methods, development of a dedicated Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) platform specifically tailored to the 6G.
- Service development methodologies, which inherently are able to support non-trustable providers and build reliable end-to-end services reliant in a variety of infrastructure providers, with different levels of reliability.
- Novel instantiation methodologies for run-time dynamics of service provision. New interfaces are expected to be proposed and developed, able to support the development of optimal algorithms addressing energy efficiency, privacy aspects, and AI-usage limitations. Technologies to increase the user ability to select the best solutions to cater to their needs are in scope.
- Interfaces, protocols and mechanisms to achieve cooperative remediation of various type of failures/attacks.
- Multistakeholder service auditing mechanisms, able to provide near-real-time information on the performance of the system(s), at different levels, from the end-user to the large network providers.
Note: Applicants should clearly identify the areas/priorities they address in case they only cover a subset.
