Multi-Access Edge Computing

The 3GPP “terrestrial” 5G and beyond mobile networks fall short of fulfilling world market demands of accessing and delivering services anywhere and economically around the world. Demand for broadband service continuity is expected to further drive the network evolution and expansion into areas with broadband coverage for direct connectivity and IoT services. Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks as a unified network will be able to provide the global coverage and connectivity everywhere and anytime. The unified Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) and Terrestrial networks (TN) is expected to enable direct connectivity with standard smartphones and IoT devices globally and economically, with or without the need of terrestrial infrastructures. The main outcome of this project is to design and develop novel solutions to increase efficiency and performance of NTN systems, decrease the end-to-end (E2E) latency, facilitating Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) in hybrid NTN/TN architectures, and enable global connectivity.

Partners include: neXat, Belgium; PenteNetworks, Israel; IS Wireless, Poland; CTECH (C Tech Bilisim Tek. Tic. Ve San. A.S.), Turkey; Ayecka, Israel; Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal, Koala Tech (KT), Portugal; Beyond Vision, Portugal; PDMF&C, Portugal; Türk; Telekommunikasyon A.S., Türkiye; London South Bank University, UK (Prof Tasos Dagiuklas); University of South Wales, UK.; AdvTec Ltd, UK; London South Bank University, UK; University of South Wales, UK. Further info here.