About the Project

OBJECTIVES

Focusing on the Bologna-Munich corridor (600 km, over three countries) the objective of  is to leverage on the most recent 5G advances to provide a multi-tenant platform that can support the automotive sector delivering safer, greener, and more intelligent transportation with the ultimate goal of enabling self-driving cars.

AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH

The key  innovations are centred around developing an autonomously managed hybrid network, combining direct short range V2V (vehicle to vehicle) and V2I (vehicle to infrastructure) communications with long-range V2N (vehicle to network) communications.

The  platform employs different enabling technologies such as 5G New Radio, C-V2X (Cellular vehicle to everything), and secure, multi-domain, and cross-border service orchestration system to provide end-to-end 5G enabled CARMEN services.

ACHIEVEMENTS

The 5G-CARMEN use cases have been refined and specified.
Also, the 5G KPIs have been identified and the architecture for cross-border network have been defined. 

A survey of existing inter-operator cross-border solutions in Italy, Austria and Germany is ongoing including MNO’s 5G roadmap. The use of Geoservice and AQMP server are being discussed across several use cases. Cloud Services as well as the inter-MEC connectivity requirements are under evaluation against the use case requirements. Fundamental improvements to the network implementations and configurations are being defined in cooperation with the 5GAA. Priority has been given to enable seamless connectivity when entering the border are and switching from one PLMN to another. Deployment locations for 5G gNBs at the Italian/Austrian Border have been defined.

5G-CARMEN business potentials have also been described. The results of 5G-CARMEN have been presented at several events such as EUCAD 2019, the Future Mobility Week 2019 and the 5G AA Conference 2020. At several events, 5G-CARMEN, 5GCroCo and 5G MOBIX, all three ICT-18 projects, presented themselves jointly. In addition, the three projects together organized a workshop at EUCNC’19.