A paper related to the ORCA vision has been accepted to the 6G Wireless Summit 2020. The paper will be presented by our project coordinator Ingrid Moerman.

Abstract

The wireless industry is driven by key stakeholders that follow a holistic approach of “one-system-fits-all” that leads to moving network functionality of meeting stringent End-to-End  (E2E) communication requirements towards the core and cloud infrastructures. This trend is limiting smaller and new players for bringing in new and novel solutions. For meeting these E2E requirements, tenants and end-users need to be active players for bringing their needs and innovations. Driving E2E communication not only in terms of quality of service (QoS) but also overall carbon footprint and spectrum efficiency from one specific community may lead to undesirable simplifications, and a higher level of abstraction of other network segments may lead to sub-optimal operations. Based on this, the paper presents a paradigm shift that will enlarge the role of  wireless innovation at academia, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME)’s, industries and start-ups while taking into account decentralized mandate-driven intelligence in E2E communications.

Authors

  • Ingrid Moerman (imec – IDLab, Department of Information Technology at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium),
  • Djamal Zeghlache (Télécom SudParis, Institut Mines-Télécom, Institut Polytechique de Paris, France),
  • Adnan Shahid (imec – IDLab, Department of Information Technology at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium),
  • Joao F. Santos (CONNECT – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland),
  • Luiz A. DaSilva (CONNECT – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland),
  • Klaus David (Chair for Communication Technology (ComTec), University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany),
  • John Farserotu (Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique S.A.,Jaquet Droz 1, CH-2007, Neuchatel, Switzerland),
  • Ad de Ridder (Hermes Partnership, Zwijndrecht, Netherland),
  • Wei Liu (imec – IDLab, Department of Information Technology at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium),
  • and Jeroen Hoebeke (imec – IDLab, Department of Information Technology at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)