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Project: Enabling Virtualized Wireless and Optical Coexistence for 5G and Beyond

Acronym: EWOC
Main Objective:
The exponential growth in the use of bandwidth-hungry internet services requires new advances in optical data transmission technologies to achieve ultrahigh throughputs and minimal latencies. 5G systems – a combination of innovative radio and core network technologies – will integrate optical communications. Using an optical core to route 5G data raises significant questions about how wireless and optical technologies can coexist to provide smooth, end-to-end communication pathways. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the EWOC project plans to develop a new converged optical wireless network solution, based on flexible and virtualised infrastructure, for the complete optimisation of resources for beyond 5G requirements. EWOC will target high-capacity, low-latency communications (40-90 GHz), providing the basis for a 50-fold improvement in spectral efficiency.
Reference: 101073265 — EWOC — HORIZON-MSCA-DN-2021
Funding: EU/Horizon Europe
Start Date: 01-09-2022
End Date: 31-08-2026
Team: Zoran Vujicic, Claudia Marina Mónica de Oliveira Barbosa, Ahmed Abdelkader Sayed Abdellatif
Groups: Mobile Systems - Av
Partners: UPC, POLITO, TUD, USW, HWSE, YL Verkot, ISRD, TOP-IX
Local Coordinator: Zoran Vujicic

Associated Publications
  • 2Papers in Conferences
  • A. Abdellatif, Z. Vujicic, Machine Learning Methods Towards Analog mm-Wave Systems, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON, Bari, Italy, July, 2024 | BibTex
  • A. Abdellatif, Z. Vujicic, Optical Injection Locking Techniques for Performance Improvement in Analog mm-Wave Systems, International Conf. on Transparent Networks – ICTON, Bari, Italy, July, 2024 | BibTex