Across Horizon Europe Project - Next Generation Networks

Horizon Project

ACROSS is a HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022 funded research project that designs and implements an end-to-end service deployment and management platform for next generation networks and services, aiming at unprecedented levels of automation, performance, scalability, and energy efficiency.

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Across Architecture

Domain-level orchestration

ACROSS employs a distributed grid of domain-level ACROSS orchestrator instances, each dedicated to the management of a domain infrastructure.

Multi-domain end-to-end orchestration

The ACROSS multi-domain end-to-end orchestrator ensures end-to-end service & network continuity across multiple – potentially geo-distributed – domains.

Cross-domain integration fabric

ACROSS employs an intermediate integration fabric that ensures alliance with ongoing standardisation efforts

User interfaces and APIs

ACROSS exposes a powerful frontend UI along with management APIs for orchestration, policy management, service management, AI, data generation, and telemetry.

The Enhanced Across Platform

AI-Driven
Intelligence

Secure & Trusted Orchestration

Full-Stack Cross-Domain Zero-Touch Provisioning

Deep End-to-End Telemetry

Across Objectives

Develop

a future-proof service orchestration framework with AI capabilities for handling events across a distributed cloud continuum.

Design & Implement

a service deployment and orchestration framework using a logically centralized cloud-managed multi-domain orchestrator and distributed domain orchestrator instances.

Create

an end-to-end telemetry infrastructure for zero-touch reporting and collection, featuring standardized reports and visualization.

Develop

unsupervised AI for automated decision-making based on telemetry data to empower control loops.

Implement

zero-touch operations as programmable hooks in response to infrastructure and telemetry data.

Enable

platform security and trust.

Test & Validate

the ACROSS platform across multiple sectors and real testbeds.

Maximise

ACROSS impact and adoption through standardization and open-source activities.

Across Test Cases

Test case 1: Stakeholder-driven zero-touch orchestration

Zero-touch setup, inspection, and security for critical infrastructures, automated service trade-offs (performance-oriented vs. energy/cost-saving slices) for industrial infrastructures (during off-shift hours) or entertainment facilities (after the coverage of a music/sports event).

Test case 2: Device-driven zero-touch orchestration

Smart city services that adaptively (re)allocate resources based upon users’ and load mobility (UPF provisioning/migration “following” the users and on demand provisioning of “green slices” in low density/load areas).

Test case 3: Intelligence-driven zero-touch orchestration

Operator contention of critical slice SLA degradation by congestion (TC3.1), with early detection and resource adjustments, meanwhile in parallel AI identify root cause associated with a network attack. Adaptation of resources committed in network after unforeseen situation (efficient attack mitigation or massive events) based on different criteria: QoS and energy.

Test case 4: Holistic zero-touch orchestration

Platform provider (i.e., telcos, SMEs) expansion towards a new edge customer, such as a private industry, a public health/transportation/education organization, a renewable energy park, etc.