6G-SANDBOX
Supporting Architectural and technological Network evolutions through an intelligent, secureD and twinning enaBled Open eXperimentation facility
(01/2023 – 12/2025)
Aim: Create a pan-European testbed for 6G experimentation and validation of 5G-Advanced and 6G capabilities.
Funded by Horizon Europe, 6G-SANDBOX is one of the 35 projects launched by Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) in the beginning of 2023. SNS JU was established by the European Commission (EC) in 2021 to support the development of smart communication components, systems, and networks, as catalysts for building a first-class European supply chain for advanced 5G and 6G technologies. The project aims at developing EU-wide experimentation platforms to test promising technical 6G enablers, including zero-touch management, flexible multi-tenancy architecture, network intelligence, security, digital twins, artificial intelligence (AI), and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.
The 6G trial network concept that is designed and built by 6G-SANDBOX, will combine digital and physical nodes to deliver fully configurable, manageable, and controllable end-to-end networks for validating new technologies and research advancements for 6G. The project offers organizations opportunities to conduct trials at four experimental platforms located in Malaga (Spain), Athens (Greece), Berlin (Germany) and Oulu (Finland) that are implementing the 6G-SANDBOX concepts.
6G-SANDBOX, that started on the 1st of January 2023 and will be running for three years, is implemented by a consortium of 15 partners from 8 countries (Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Portugal): COSMOTE; National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) Demokritos; Eurescom; FOGUS Innovations & Services P.C.; Fraunhofer FOKUS; INFOLYSIS P.C.; Institute of Software Engineering and Technologies (ITIS) at the University of Malaga; Keysight Technologies Inc.; Lenovo; Nokia eXtended Reality Lab; OpenNebula; OWO; Queen's University Belfast; Telefonica, and University of Oulu.
COSMOTE, together with the Greek research and industrial partners build the Athens 6G experimentation platform led by National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) Demokritos to demonstrate the revolutionary impact of the technological advances developed in the project for the realization of niche use cases. Special interest is put on the definition of the appropriate 6G KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and KVIs (Key Value Indicators) to be quantified in the 6G-SANDBOX platforms contributing the relevant work beyond the project borders and within the European 6G community.
For more information you may visit the project website: https://6g-sandbox.eu/
 This project has received funding from the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) under the EU’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme under GA No 101096328 |
