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New conference papers
The 17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC'24), is taking place at the University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), 16-19 December 2024.
Two VERGE will be presented at the conference: (1) “Advanced Edge Computing Architecture for AI-Driven Automation and Slicing in Beyond 5G”, describing VERGE's final system architecture and (2) “Advancing Orchestration: Leveraging Distance Functions to Meet Application Intents”, describing the recent advances on Intel's Intent Driven Orchestrator.
17/December/2024
New journal paper
The paper "A Transfer Reinforcement Learning Approach for Capacity Sharing in Beyond 5G Networks" by Irene Vilà, Jordi Pérez-Romero and Oriol Sallent has been published in Future Internet journal. The paper proposes a novel Transfer Learning approach for RL-based capacity sharing solutions in multi-cell scenarios that is aligned with the O-RAN architecture and that exploits the availability of computing resources at the edge for conducting the training/inference processes. You can read the paper at https://doi.org/10.3390/fi16120434
28/November/2024
New conference paper
The paper "On the Deployment of an AI-driven Power Control Mechanism for D-MIMO in Beyond 5G Scenarios" will be presented today at the IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking 2024, which is taking place in Belgrade (Serbia).
27/November/2024
Tutorial @ WPMC'24
The 27th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC2024) is taking place these days at Sharda University, Greater Noida (NCR-Delhi), India. Irene Vilà and Oriol Sallent lectured yesterday the tutorial “Reinforcement Learning for beyond 5G radio access networks: from design to implementation” in an auditórium gathering 150+ people.
18/November/2024
VERGE @ ETSI SNS4SNS
The “Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services Conference & Hackfests” is taking place these days in ETSI headquarters in Sophia Antipolis. VERGE project is participating, discussing on two main topics: (1) Implementation of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Solution for Radio Access Network Slicing in an Edge-enabled Beyond 5G Architecture and (2) Closed-Loop AI/ML Orchestration.
13/November/2024
Women in VERGE
VERGE is pleased to highlight that female participants at our most recent in-person meeting in Istanbul continue expanding, with a total of 11 representatives in the group.
07/November/2024
VERGE 6th Plenary meeting
VERGE consortium held its 6th Plenary meeting in Istanbul, 05-06/11/24, hosted by TCELL. Fruitful discussions and good progress during the meeting. Amazing views from the top of Turkcell’s building !!
07/November/2024
New journal paper
You can download the paper "On Exploiting User Equipment Relaying Capabilities in Beyond 5G Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, and Road Map" by Jordi Pérez-Romero, Oriol Sallent, Olga Ruiz has been published in IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (early access) in Dissemination>Publications . The paper proposes a RAN augmentation approach through UE-to-network relaying for optimizing the coverage footprint and for bringing edge computing capabilities closer to the users.
05/November/2024
VERGE at IEEE Future Networks
Gianluca Mando (Hitachi GTSI) presented VERGE’s autonomous tram use case in the symposium on “Future Networks for Connected and Automated Mobility”, as part of IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2024. The presentation highlighted the importance of edge processing and 5G technology for critical traffic communication with high reliability and low latency. More information on the autonomous tram use case can be found in Deliverable D1.1 (INCLUDE LINK HERE).
29/October/2024
VERGE at ETSI OpenSlice Research Ecosystem
VERGE is happy to announce that the project is now part of the ETSI OpenSlice Research Ecosystem (https://osl.etsi.org/ecosystem/). We hope that fruitful cooperation will be achieved.
28/October/2024
New conference paper
VERGE will be present at the 20th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMOB’24), taking place in Paris 21-23 October 2024, with the paper “Threat Modeling of AI-as-a-Service Framework” by our colleagues from Ericsson Türkiye.
17/October/2024
New conference paper
You can download the paper “Resource Optimization for Tail-Based Control in Wireless Networked Control Systems” in Dissemination>Publications and watch the presentation in a video available in our Youtube channel.
14/October/2024
New conference paper
You can download the paper “XAI-driven Model Design for Resource Utilization Forecasting in Cloud-native 6G Networks” in Dissemination>Publications and watch the presentation in a video available in our Youtube channel.
09/October/2024
New conference paper
You can download the paper “On the Impact of PRB Load Uncertainty Forecasting for Sustainable Open RAN” by our colleagues from CTTC (Spain) Vaishnavi Kasuluru, Luis Blanco, Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio, Engin Zeydan in Dissemination>Publications
26/September/2024
New conference paper
You can download the paper “Sample-Efficient Blockage Prediction and Handover Using Causal Reinforcement Learning” in Dissemination>Publications and watch the presentation in a video available in our Youtube channel.
10/September/2024
New conference paper
You can download the paper presented @ISWCS’24 in Dissemination>Publications and watch the presentation in a video available in our Youtube channel.
16/July/2024
New conference paper
VERGE will be represented at the ISWCS’24 conference, taking place in Rio de Janeiro 14th - 17th July with the paper “Low Layer Functional Split Management in 5G and Beyond: Architecture and Self-adaptation”. David Campoy (UPC) will be presenting the paper, discussing an example of VERGE’s AI4Edge portfolio of solutions.
12/July/2024
New conference paper
VERGE will be represented at the IEEE CONECCT 2024 conference, taking place in Bangalore 12th - 14th July with the paper “Sample-Efficient Blockage Prediction and Handover Using Causal Reinforcement Learning” by our colleagues from Ericsson (Sweden) L. Kanagamani, J. Sadasivan and S. Banerjee.
12/July/2024
Change of company name
Following the acquisition of the transport business of the Thales Group by the Hitachi Group, starting from 31 May 2024 our partner GTSI is under the direct control of Hitachi Rail GTS Holding Ltd and under the direction and coordination of Hitachi Ltd. This change will not lead to any modification in the relations between GTSI and the partners of the VERGE project. The company name will change from GTS Italy Srl to Hitachi Rail GTS Italia Srl
08/July/2024
New conference paper
The paper “XAI-driven Model Design for Resource Utilization Forecasting in Cloud-native 6G Networks” by L. Liatsas, G. Kibalya, A. Antonopoulos will be presented at the IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking 2024 (MeditCom’24), taking place in Madrid (Spain), 8-11 July 2024. The paper is related to NBC’s work in VERGE WP3.
08/July/2024
VERGE NEWSLETTER JUNE
VERGE Newsletter June is now available online
https://www.verge-project.eu/news-and-events_1/newsletter
28/June/2024
Interactive map of SNS Call 1 projects
The interactive map of SNS Call 1 projects has been released. You can check at https://smart-networks.europa.eu/interactive-map-of-sns-projects/ and see how VERGE is positioned.
Dataset available in VERGE Open Dataspace
A dataset containing measurements of space and time user distributions in a university campus has been made available as part of VERGE Open Dataspace. You can access the data in https://github.com/VERGE-PROJECT.
Detailed information about the dataset and its applicability can also be found in the following recently published paper:
O. Ruiz, J. Sánchez-González, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, I. Vilà, "Space and time user distribution measurements dataset in a university campus", Computer Networks, April, 2024, Vol. 243, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110329
New conference paper
The paper “Towards Trustworthy Reinforcement Learning based Resource Management in Beyond 5G” by Jordi Pérez-Romero (UPC), Oriol Sallent (UPC), Irene Vilà (UPC), Elli Kartsakli (BSC), Ömer Faruk Tuna (EBY), Swarup Kumar Mohalik (EAB) and Xin Tao (EBA) was presented at EUCNC’24. You can download the paper in Dissemination>Publications and watch the presentation in a video available in our Youtube channel.
14/June/2024
Turkiye-Spain Digital Technology Platform
The forum took place in Madrid yesterday, embracing very interesting roundtable with enterpreneurs and investors, followed by discussion on collaboration opportunities in EU programmes. VERGE project was presented as an example of success story.
13/June/2024
ETSI MEC #38 meeting
The ETSI MEC #38 meeting is taking place 11th to 14th June 2024 in London. Irene Vilà (UPC) is representing the VERGE consortium and will present the contribution Document MEC(24) 000272 entitled “VERGE architectural framework, ongoing work and potential further contributions to ETSI MEC”.
12/June/2024
Women in VERGE
VERGE is pleased to highlight the female participants (50% of attendees) at our most recent in-person meeting in London who made valuable contributions to the technical discussions.
10/June/2024
EuCNC’24 Conference
Meet us next week at EuCNC’24! VERGE project is participating in:
1- Workshop “Sixtainability: Paving the Way for a Sustainable 6G”, Monday, 3 June 2024, 9:00-12:30 Room Galapagos
2- Workshop “Architectural Considerations Enabling the IMT 2030 Framework by European 6G R&D Activities”, Monday, 3 June 2024, 14:00-17:30 Room Galapagos
3- Paper presentation “Enhancing Cloud-Native Resource Allocation with Probabilistic Forecasting Techniques in O-RAN”, Tuesday, June 4 11:00 - 13:00 Room: Pelican
4- Paper presentation “Towards Trustworthy Reinforcement Learning-Based Resource Management in Beyond 5G” Tuesday, June 4 11:00 - 13:00 Gorilla Room4
5- Poster presentation “Proof-Of-Concept Validation of Evolved Beyond 5G Edge- Enabled Architectures”, Wednesday, June 5 17:30 - 18:00 Room: Congress Foyer
31/May/2024
VERGE 5th Plenary meeting
VERGE consortium held its 5th Plenary meeting in London, 28-29/05/24, hosted by KCL. Fruitful discussions and good progress during the meeting. Amazing views from the top of Bush House !!
30/May/2024
New Publication
The paper "Security of AI-Driven Beam Selection for Distributed MIMO in an Adversarial Setting" by Ö. F. Tuna, F. E. Kadan has been published in IEEE Access. You can read the paper at:
https://10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3378263
14/May/2024
New Publication
The paper "Relay-empowered beyond 5G radio access networks with edge computing capabilities" by I. Vilà, O. Sallent and J. Pérez-Romero (UPC) has been published in Computer Networks. The paper presents results from VERGE project. You can read the paper at:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110287
25/March/2024
Mobile World Congress 2024
Get information about VERGE at Mobile World Congress 2024 by visiting Nearby Computing (Hall 2 Stand 2G1) and CTTC (Hall Congress Square Stand CS220).
23/February/2024
VERGE 4th plenary meeting
VERGE consortium held its 4th Plenary meeting in Barcelona, 13-14/02/24, hosted by UPC. The focus of the meeting was on the review of the work done and achievements during the first year of the project and the plans for 2024.
23/February/2024
VERGE NEWSLETTER DECEMBER
VERGE Newsletter December is now available online
https://www.verge-project.eu/news-and-events_1/newsletter
29/December/2023
Panel “Women in Smart Communications” at CAMAD’23
The second edition of the “Women in smart communications (WiSC)” event took place in November 6, 2023, in the context of CAMAD’23. This WiSC workshop included Technical Talks delivered by female speakers from Academia and Industry whose expertise fall in the broad area of smart wireless communications networks. The event also hosted a women empowerment Panel Discussion on Empowering Women in the Digital Age: Redesigning Networks, Bridging Gaps, and Leading Change. The workshop was co-organised by the IEEE Women in Engineering UK&I and IEEE ComSoc UK&I.
O. Kolawole (SRUK) presented the talk “AI at the Edge for Smart Networks” and participated in the panel. Oluwatayo discussed that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be fundamental to achieving the goals of enabling a wide range of applications with extreme requirements across many verticals as mobile communication networks evolve to 6G. Then, the talk focused on AI at the Edge of B5G and 6G networks and discussed that, by incorporating learning and intelligence into edge computing which moves the computation closer to the source of the data, applications with extreme latency and computational requirements can be realized. The talk gave an overview of advanced solutions for both end-devices and infrastructure, which included SRUK’s research work in VERGE-WP3.
13/November/2023
VERGE 3rd Plenary meeting
VERGE consortium held its 3rd Plenary meeting in Florence, 07-08/11/23, hosted by Thales – Ground Transportation Systems Italia. Good progress was achieved and very interesting technical discussions were held. Besides the members attending on-site, there were 10+ colleagues joining the meeting on-line. The meeting was closed by Carlo Piacenza, CEO of Thales – Ground Transportation Systems Italia, who emphasized the importance of autonomous transportation, as considered in VERGE in the autonomous tram use case.
13/November/2023
SMARTCITY EXPO WORLD CONGRESS
Elli Kartsakli made the presentation entitled “Edge computing for safe and clean mobility in smart cities" at SMARTCITY Expo World Congress taking place in Barcelona 7-9 November 2023. The presentation described VERGE’s use case on autonomous tram.
10/November/2023
IEEE-SOCC23
The 36th IEEE International System-on-chip Conference was held in Santa Clara (USA), September 5-8, 2023. Fred Buining, CEO/CTO from HIRO, attended the conference and made an invited presentation. Fred reports shared understanding at the conference, which this year was about Chiplets for Edge: “The Chiplet Industry and supply chain will much more serve the needs of Edge infrastructure developers and end users, since GAFAM and Nvidia will develop their own chiplets, and server OEM’s (HPE, Supermicro, Dell, Lenovo etc.) will only procure general purpose SOC’s and SOM’s to serve mass markets. The edge will have many niche markets requiring custom combination of chiplets to process AI, security features, authentications, etc.”. Our VERGE project presentation was well received to address this complexity at the Edge, including the development of a cognitive engine. Maybe the future will bring us chiplets specifically designed to run a cognitive engine in an SOC, anywhere on the edge to cloud continuum”.
12/September/2023
VERGE NEWSLETTER JULY
VERGE Newsletter July is now available online
https://www.verge-project.eu/news-and-events_1/newsletter
27/July/2023
CAMAD’23
VERGE is co-organising the special session on “2nd Workshop on Distributed and Intelligent Edge Computing for 6G Communications” at CAMAD’23. The conference will take place 6–8 November 2023 in Edinburgh (Scotland). This workshop aims invites researchers from industry and academia to share their recent findings and views on technical advances in this field. More information at:
29/May/2023
DATAWEEK’23
Valerio Frascolla (INTEL) and Joan Pujol (SRUK) will be representing VERGE at DATAWEEK’23. They will participate in the session “AI-native data management for robustness and sustainability”. Data Week 2023 is the spring gathering of the European Big Data and Data-Driven AI research and innovation communities. During the event, the participants share knowledge and results, discuss topics of common interest, find synergies, build new collaborations, and identify new challenges and recommendations. More information at:
26/May/2023
Tutorial "Reinforcement Learning for 5G and beyond radio access networks: from design to implementation"
VERGE is presenting the tutorial “Reinforcement Learning for 5G and beyond radio access networks: from design to implementation” at EuCNC’23. The tutorial will take place on Tuesday, 6th June 2023, and will be lectured by Irene Vilà (UPC) with collaboration of Valerio Frascolla (INTEL). This tutorial aims at facilitating the introduction to the implementation aspects of Reinforcemente Learning-based solutions, presenting the main concepts, tools and technologies involved in the stages from design to implementation and using a specific use case to provide some hands-on experience. More information at:
https://www.eucnc.eu/programme/tutorials/tutorial-1/
24/May/2023
Workshop "The Role of AI in Edge 6G topologies"
VERGE is co-organising the Workshop “The Role of AI in Edge 6G topologies”, to be held on Tuesday, 6th June 2023 @ EuCNC’23 conference. The goal of this workshop is to discuss the close synergy between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and edge computing, as two key enabling technologies shaping 6G, and identify the roadmap for more holistic, sustainable and future-proof design of AI- and edge-enabled solutions. More information at:
https://www.eucnc.eu/programme/workshops/workshop-2/
23/May/2023
VERGE 2nd Plenary meeting
VERGE consortium held its 2nd Plenary meeting at INTEL’s premises in Munich, on 09-10/05/23. The meeting offered the opportunity to achieve good progress and conduct very interesting technical discussions. Besides the members attending on-site, there were 10+ colleagues joining the meeting on-line.
11/May/2023
Paper at WWRF meeting
Gökhan Kalem is presenting the paper “The Use Case of Beyond-5G and Edge Computing for XR-Driven Collaborative Design” at WWRF#49 meeting. The paper describes VERGE’s Use Case #1 and is a joint effort of TCELL, ARC, EBY and HOLO.
27/March/2023
VERGE at ETSI MEC #33
VERGE project is presented at ETSI MEC #33 meeting. Thanks to our CTTC colleagues, who take care of the presentation.
15/March/2023
VERGE participates at the ETSI research conference
The ETSI Research Conference was held at ETSI Headquarters in Sophia-Antipolis from 6th to 8th February 2023. The conference coined the title “Maximizing the Impact of European 6G Research through Standardization”. Read More
17/February/2023
VERGE Kick-Off
VERGE’s kick-off meeting took place at UPC premises in Barcelona, 12-13/01/23.
20/January/2023
VERGE 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 101096034.
UK participants in Horizon Europe Project VERGE are supported by UKRI grant numbers 10071211 (Samsung Electronics (UK) Limited) and 10061781 (King’s College London).
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