BMBF Research Hub 6G-life
| Funding Agency: | Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) |
| Duration: | 4 years, 15.08.2021 – 14.08.2025 |
| Partners: |
(more than 60 PIs from the two universities) |
| Project Coordinatior (TUM part): | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. rer. nat. Holger Boche (boche@tum.de) |
| Project Co-Coordinator (TUM part): | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kellerer (wolfgang.kellerer@tum.de) |
| Contact (ESI) | Jens Ernstberger (jens.ernstberger@tum.de) Julian Demicoli (julian.demicoli@tum.de) |
| Project home: | https://www.6g-life.de/ |
Summary
TUM and the Technical University of Dresden have joined forces to form the 6G-life research hub to drive cutting-edge research for future 6G communication networks with a focus on human-machine collaboration. The merger of the two universities of excellence combines their world leading preliminary work in the field of Tactile Internet in the Cluster of Excellence CeTI, 5G communication networks, quantum communication, Post-Shannon theory, artificial intelligence methods, and adaptive and flexible hardware and software platforms.
Decentralized Authorization for 6G in Industry 4.0
Authorization, Authentication and Identity Management in general are pressing issues in tomorrows web and Industry 4.0 application. In the course of 6G life, we investigate how distribute ledger technology and decentralized identity management can ensure authenticity of communication in highly dynamic and heterogenous industrial system environments. We further investigate the nature of data ownership and examine how cryptographic primitives ensure control over how data is accessed, processed and presented.
Resilient decentral system architecture for 6G safety critical fail-operational real time applications
Current applications in industrial communications use a highly hierarchical system architecture. The architecture leads in a pyramid shape from field devices and control units with little computing power and communication bandwidth via gateway intermediate levels to powerful backend computing in the cloud. However, this brings many challenges. In particular, one very important issue here is lack of reliability generated, for example, by branches breaking away due to gateway nodes failing.
Due to the characteristics of 6G networks, it will be possible to break up this hierarchical structure in the future. For the first time, it will be possible to use radio-based self-organizing decentralized system architectures that enable safety-critical real-time applications without wired communication. However, this will require a paradigm shift in system architecture and component interaction methodology, which we are researching as part of the 6G-life project.