VERGE Newsletter June is now available online 

https://www.verge-project.eu/news-and-events_1/newsletter

30/June/2025

ETSI MEC #42 meeting is taking place in Barcelona 16-19/06/25, hosted by UPC. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) offers application developers and content providers cloud-computing capabilities and an IT service environment at the edge of the network. 

16/June/2025

Don’t miss VERGE FINAL EVENT on Wednesday 25th June 2025, starting at 9:00 CEST.

The event is in hybrid format (on-line and on-site at Turkcell’s Kartal Plaza in Istanbul).  

For registration and detailed agenda visit: https://www.verge-project.eu/news-and-events_1/final-event

13/June/2025

The Special session ”AURA-6G: Towards an AI-native, service oriented, ubiquitous and verifiable 6G integrated fabric” is taking place Thursday 05/06 16:00-17:30 at room 0.A.  Elli Kartsakli (BSC) will provide VERGE's vision on the subject.

05/June/2025

If you are attending EuCNC’25, take the opportunity to visit booth #35. VERGE consortium will be happy to showcase several of our demos.

05/June/2025

The convened session Convened session “WiTaR: Women in Telecommunications and Research” is taking place Wednesday 04/06 11:00-12:30 at room EH.B (level 2).  Oluwatayo Yetunde Kolawole (Samsung) will participate on behalf of VERGE.

04/June/2025

The workshop “ 6G Trustworthiness: Requirements, Challenges, and Considerations” is taking place Tuesday 03/06 9:00-12:30 at room 0.A. Gunes Kesik (Ericsson) will be presenting VERGE's vision on the subject.

03/June/2025

The workshop “Integrating Network Digital Twinning into Future AI-based 6G Systems” is taking place Tuesday 03/06 9:00-12:30 at room 1.B. Oriol Sallent (UPC) will be presenting VERGE's vision on the subject.

03/June/2025

VERGE is pleased to announce the publication of the book "European Digital Regulations", published by Springer Nature and co-authored by our colleague Markus Mueck.

The book is available at https://lnkd.in/daMFxw-p

25/February/2025

The “ETSI Artificial Intelligence Conference - How Standardization is Shaping the Future of AI” will take place face-to-face on 10-12 February 2025, in ETSI premises, Sophia Antipolis, France.

Markus Mueck, Programme Committee Chair and VERGE’s Standardisation Manager, together with the Programme Committee have assembled an unique opportunity to exchange with AI subject-experts and learn about the state of the art work that is being done in AI-related standardization, regulation and service deployments. Check detailed agenda at: ETSI - ETSI AI Conference - How Standardization is Shaping the Future of AI

07/February/2025

The World Artificial Intelligence Cannes Festival will take place at the Palais des Festival of Cannes, February 13-15 2025. Markus Muck from Intel Deutschland and VERGE’s Standardisation Manager will be giving the Keynote speech “Future standards for AI” on Thursday, February 13th at 16:30. Don’t miss the opportunity if you are around! You can check the whole WAICF event at: https://www.worldaicannes.com/en-gb.html

07/February/2025

If you are attending HiPEAC conference, don't miss our workshop on "Advancing the compute continuum: intelligent solutions for extreme data and 5G-enabled ecosystems". 

21/January/2025

You can download the paper “ReLVaaS: Verification-as-a-Service to Analyze Trustworthiness of RL-based Solutions in 6G Networks” by X. Tao, I. Vilà, S. K. Mohalik, J. Pérez-Romero and O. Sallent in Dissemination>Publications. The paper has been presented at the 17th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS’25), which has taken place in Bengaluru (India), January 6-10 2025.

10/January/2025

VERGE Newsletter December is now available online 

https://www.verge-project.eu/news-and-events_1/newsletter

23/December/2024

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 papers 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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 is now available online 

https://www.verge-project.eu/news-and-events_1/newsletter

28/June/2024

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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 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 is now available online 

https://www.verge-project.eu/news-and-events_1/newsletter

29/December/2023

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 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

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

VERGE Newsletter July  is now available online 

https://www.verge-project.eu/news-and-events_1/newsletter

27/July/2023

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

Link to ETSI

17/February/2023

VERGE’s kick-off meeting took place at UPC premises in Barcelona, 12-13/01/23. 

20/January/2023