FBK Digital Society Center - Project Management Group

TITLE

5G-CARMEN: 5G for Connected and Automated Road Mobility in the European UnioN

DURATION

36 Months (01.11.2018 / 31.10.2021)

FUNDING PROGRAMME

Horizon 2020

CALL ID

ICT-18-2018

EU CONTRIBUTION

€18.566.123,75 `{`FBK: €1.233.250`}`

5G-CARMEN harnesses the concept of “Mobility Corridors”. In the project, important European industries, academics and innovative SMEs commit to achieve world-wide impact by conducting extensive trials across an important corridor (by people/goods traffic volumes), from Bologna to Munich, spanning 600 km of roads, connecting three European regions (Bavaria, Tirol and Trentino/South-Tyrol) across three countries. Vehicle manoeuvre negotiation (at various levels of automation), infotainment, and emission control in sensitive areas are the cross-border use cases targeted by 5G-CARMEN pilots in order to maximise the project commercial, societal, end environmental impact.

The project will build a 5G-enabled corridor to conduct cross-border trials and will deploy a mixture of 5G micro- and macro-cells for ubiquitous C-V2X connectivity. The 5G New Radio will be used to support latency sensitive and/or bandwidth hungry services and applications. The project will leverage on a distributed mobile edge cloud spanning from the vehicle itself to the centralised cloud. Multi-tenancy and neutral host concepts will be leveraged upon to deliver a final platform capable of enabling new business models. 5G-CARMEN will complement C-V2X with LTE and C-ITS technologies, targeting interoperability and harnessing a hybrid network.

FBK ROLE

FBK is the 5G-CARMEN project Coordinator. It contributes to the definition of the requirements of 5G-CARMEN use-cases from the virtualization, resource and service management perspectives; to identifying the implications of the use-cases’ requirements on the functional and system architecture design. FBK also contributes to the detailed specification of system level architecture. FBK will develop MEC applications with special emphasis on low resource utilization and lightweight virtualization using containers and container orchestration solutions. FBK will work towards network driven integration of C-V2X and ITS-G5 technology components. It will investigate solutions to interface isolated C-V2X and ITS-G5 technologies using 5G-CARMEN network infrastructure as the binding e.g., through traffic relaying. FBK will contribute to developing solutions for physical and virtual resource management across federated edge cloud and RAN infrastructure for the deployed services. To this end, it will investigate centralized, distributed and hybrid realizations for resource control and orchestration across the heterogeneous physical and virtual infrastructure. FBK will investigate approaches to low latency service deployment, orchestration and lifecycle management at the edge. It will collaborate with partners to collect the required data from the pilots and validate it using statistical analysis and cross validation with simulation and prototypes results.