Green Technologies for 5/6G Service-Based Architectures
The 6Green project
The 6Green project aimed 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 whole 5/6G value-chain.
The ultimate objective was to enable and to foster 5/6G networks and vertical applications reducing their carbon footprint by a factor of 10 or more.
To achieve this objective, the project exploited and extended state-of-the-art cloud-native technologies and the B5G Service-Based Architecture with new cross-domain enablers to:
The 6Green intent-based cross-domain interactions among stakeholders allow achieving a tight proportionality between the time-varying and geographically distributed mobile workload produced by vertical applications and network slices, and the energy/carbon footprint induced to the 5/6G network and computing infrastructure continuum.
6Green provides stakeholders with flexible and green Artificial Intelligence mechanisms that allow propagating the environment impact to any players acting on virtual domains, and triggering zero-touch operations according to customizable energy- and carbon-aware policies, allowing to optimally use renewable energy sources.
The project delivered three future-proof use-case applications that provide a diverse awareness of the green capabilities of the 6Green platform, and that demonstrate the potential 5/6G impact in enabling other vertical industry sectors to reach the carbon neutrality targeted by the European Green Deal.
