The PEPR Future Networks
This PEPR is endowed with €65 million for a 6-year period. Ten Targeted Projects have been committed as of May 2023 (104 PhD students and 67 post-docs have been recruited within this framework) and calls for projects will be launched before the end of 2024, notably in the field of photonics and on the theme of the societal impacts of future networks.
Structuring the scientific community
The program are organized into 4 axes
- Network architectures and services: new network architectures and infrastructures, communication convergence, cloud, sensing, orchestration of multi-sector services
- Technology building blocks: electronic and photonic components, signal processing
- End-to-End systems: security, environmental impact, IoT services for verticals, theoretical foundations to support network optimization
- Platforms and demonstrators on the platforms of the future: organizing the pooling of resources and opening them up to the scientific community and industrial partners, with the aim of carrying out end-to-end characterizations
Missions of the PEPR Future networks
Design future networks and networked systems that:
- Are efficient in the framework of present and future use-cases: flexible networks that are end-to-end sober and secure and that adapts dynamically to changing requirements
- Are open and implement the convergence of communication, computing, sensing and distributed artificial intelligence, enabling a broad set of new services.
- Facilitate new uses, covering interactions with sectors of activity like health, transport, energy, logistics and factory of the future and the move towards multi-sectoral services and applications
- Respond to social, environmental and economic challenges
- Incorporate all available and under design high-impact hardware, software and architectural innovations (RIS, NTN, etc.)
Écosystem of PEPR Future networks
