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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:
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).
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.
VERGE NEWSLETTER DECEMBER
VERGE Newsletter December is now available online
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.
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.
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.
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”.
VERGE NEWSLETTER JULY
VERGE Newsletter July is now available online
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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
VERGE Kick-Off
VERGE’s kick-off meeting took place at UPC premises in Barcelona, 12-13/01/23.
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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SMARTCITY EXPO WORLD CONGRESS
The ADAPT Research Unit of CTTC was present in the 2023 edition of the Smart City Expo World Congress.
Our colleagues presented VERGE in a roll-up poster and also distributed the project leaflets.