Federated Telecoms Hub Launches 6G Research Partnership Funds

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11 March 2024

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EPSRC and DSIT have funded three future Telecoms Hubs and provided additional resources to bring them together in a federated structure, which will help deliver the six core areas identified in the Wireless Infrastructure Strategy. This structure brings together three existent EPSRC funded future telecoms platforms with new connecting infrastructure (JOINER).

The three new Telecoms Hubs are:

The Hubs are geared to address research challenges in three broad areas, namely, network-of-networks, wireless and wired spectrum and telco cloud & next generation computing for telecommunication. Additionally, as part of federated telecoms hub a Joint Open Infrastructure for Networks Research (JOINER) is also being developed to support collaborative experimentation and experimentation at scale across the Hubs’ research ecosystem and beyond.

Call for Proposals

TITAN, HASC, and CHEDDAR have been allocated a £4m in total (£1.33m each (at 80% fEC)) to build joint work between members of the Hubs and new partners across the UK landscape to expand the research programme in alignment with the hubs’ objectives and to showcase first 6G trials and experiments.

Scope

The hubs are particularly encouraging projects that:

Involve industrial partners, preferably as an active partner
Bring in new expertise and institutions, not currently part of the Hubs
Showcase early 6G experiments and trials using local Hub institutional facilities
Make use of the JOINER infrastructure to enable collaborative research and drive national 6G pilots and other Hub institution facilities

To see full details of the call, see the call document below:

Research Partnership Funds - Call Document