Prof. Suresh Subramaniam received a $236K award from NSF for the project titled, "JUNO3: End-to-end network slicing and orchestration in future programmable converged wireless-optical networks". The project period is Sep. 2022 - Aug. 2025. The project is a collaboration with Prof. Shih-Chun Lin of North Carolina State University, Prof. Hiroshi Hasegawa of Nagoya University, and Prof. Motoharu Matsuura of University of Electrocommunications, Tokyo. A summary of the project is given below:
Beyond 5G/6G and next-generation core networks promise a wide range of new applications and industrial verticals such as digital enterprise, Industry 4.0, and smart cities. Revolutionary technological breakthroughs in all domains, including access fronthaul, edge clouds, and core networks, are necessary to realize this unprecedented opportunity through timely end-to-end performance guarantees. Several challenges must be overcome in order to achieve this. The objective of this project is to meet these challenges and develop critical enablers to realize the full spectrum of beyond 5G/6G applications. The specific aims are to: (a) design resilient fronthaul architectures based on novel power-over-fiber technology to provide wireless access survivability; (b) Design automatic edge cloud management and service chain deployment by leveraging machine learning techniques and Markov decision processes; (c) design multi-petabit optical core networks and efficient access-edge-core orchestration and slicing for stringent service-level agreements; and (d) prototype a wireless-optical network testbed and evaluate end-to-end harmonization performance.