6Green

The RSTI group is participating in the European project 6Green (HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022-STREAM-A-01-04) led by CNIT with the aim of promoting energy efficiency across the entire 5G and 6G value chain, which will contribute to achieving the European Green Deal.

The 6Green project aims to conceive, design, and realize an innovative service-based and holistic ecosystem capable of extending the communication infrastructure into a sustainable, interconnected, greener end-to-end intercompute system and promoting energy efficiency across the entire 5G/6G value chain. The project will leverage cloud-native technologies and service-based architecture introduced in 5G to evolve and develop network capabilities focused on the new generation of services. Additionally, 6Green intends to enhance the flexibility, scalability, and sustainability of the global ecosystem.

The ultimate objective of 6Green is to enable and foster 5G/6G networks and vertical applications to reduce their carbon footprint by a factor of 10 or more. To achieve this objective, the project will utilize and expand state-of-the-art cloud-native technologies and the B5G Service-Based Architecture with new cross-domain enablers to:

1. enhance the flexibility, scalability, and sustainability of the global ecosystem, and
2. enable all 5G/6G stakeholders (from those involved in infrastructure and network platforms to vertical industries) to reduce their carbon footprint by becoming integral parts of a mutually beneficial green-economy business and meeting a Decarbonization Service Agreement.

The RSTI group will contribute to the consortium by developing and validating an Access Gateway Function capable of connecting fixed residential or industrial clients via the 5G/6G Core network. The work to be done will utilize eBPF/XDP for high performance, as well as evaluate hardware energy consumption and orchestrate AGFs according to network conditions.