UBITECH participates at the NANCY SNS JU Research and Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2023. The NANCY project has received funding from the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101096456. The project spans a period of 3 years, from January 2023 to December 2025. The overall aim of NANCY is to introduce a secure and intelligent architecture for the beyond the fifth generation (B5G) wireless network.
As the leader of the Integration Plan and Facilities for the NANCY project, UBITECH will spearhead the development of the NANCY Platform. This involves establishing a robust development environment for continuous automation and monitoring. UBITECH will implement a CI/CD environment to optimize development workflows and introduce collaborative workflow tools. Open-source tools such as Git, Jenkins, and Artifactory, along with standards like Docker, will be utilized for software bundling. UBITECH will also establish the supporting infrastructure for the platform’s development, deployment, and testing. Consideration will be given to automation and configuration management tools like Ansible and Terraform, as well as containerization frameworks like Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. Furthermore, UBITECH will devise procedures to automate data management workflows and formulate a comprehensive continuous integration plan to guide the integration of the developed software components. This plan will entail an analysis of all available software resources and documentation of the integration points among these resources.
The overall aim of NANCY is to introduce a secure and intelligent architecture for the beyond the fifth generation (B5G) wireless network. Leveraging AI and blockchain, NANCY enables secure and intelligent resource management, flexible networking, and orchestration. In this direction, novel architectures, namely point-to-point (P2P) connectivity for device-to-device connectivity, mesh networking, and relay-based communications, as well as protocols for medium access, mobility management, and resource allocation will be designed. These architectures and protocols will make the most by jointly optimizing the midhaul, and fronthaul. This is expected to enable truly distributed intelligence and transform the network to a low-power computer. Likewise, by following a holistic optimization approach and leveraging the developments in blockchain, NANCY aims at supporting E2E personalized, multitenant and perpetual protection.
