Objective of Proposal Idea:
The goal is to initiate standards and framework activities to develop a technical reference architecture framework for an open 6G device ecosystem which provide all the capabilities of current smartphones, together with a fully secure digital wallet, trustworthy AI, and potentially also a router (e.g. for neighbourhood floating hotspots), all enabled from open trusted hardware modules in the devices and using open source applications. The motivation is to move away from closed device ecosystems controlled by individual companies by enabling a new governance structure based on open source development on the new 6G connectivity platform. The consumer use case for[...]
Company Name: Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Expertise offered:
TU Delft EMI Lab offers expertise in AI-native digital front-end techniques for energy-efficient 6G front-end modules. We contribute neural digital predistortion (DPD), PA/FEM behavioural modelling, adaptive RF impairment compensation, low-complexity AI implementation, and measurement-validated benchmarking for wideband RF systems. Our group has developed OpenDPD (https://github.com/Lab-EMI/OpenDPD), an open-source end-to-end learning and benchmarking framework for wideband PA modelling and DPD, together with follow-up work on mixed-precision, temporal-sparsity-aware, TCN/sparse and accelerator-oriented neural DPD. We also bring expertise in hardware-software co-design for edge AI, FPGA/ASIC-oriented implementation, quantisation/sparsity, and energy-efficient recurrent neural network accelerators. We are interested in joining an industry-led SNS JU 2026 FEM[...]
Company Name: ATEK MIDAS
Expertise offered:
ATEK MIDAS applies novel expertise, creativity, and passion to design high performance analog, mixed-signal ASICs & RFICs and advanced GaAs & GaN MMICs & Modules for Aerospace, Automotive, Communication, Data Center, Defense, Industrial, Medical, Scientific, and Test & Measurement markets. We partner with our customers to provide focused IC design and development services delivering IP blocks to engineering prototypes to turn-key production solutions complemented by our line of MMIC standard products for communication and sensor applications to 100 GHz. ATEK utilizes world class semiconductor technologies including SiGe BiCMOS, RF CMOS, SOI, GaAs, GaN, and InP from industry leading wafer foundries.[...]
Company Name: Bayern Innovativ GmbH
Expertise offered:
Bayern Innovativ, through its Thinknet 6G platform, is interested in participating in HORIZON-JU-SNS-2026-STREAM-CSA-01. Thinknet 6G is a well-established and widely recognised platform within the European 6G ecosystem, connecting research organisations, industry, SMEs, start-ups, public authorities, and policy stakeholders. Our core mission is to support community building, coordination, knowledge exchange, visibility, and strategic alignment across European 6G initiatives, in line with the objectives of the SNS Joint Undertaking. We bring substantial operational experience in the organisation of large-scale European events, including conferences, exhibitions, and hybrid formats, covering programme design, stakeholder coordination, logistics, communication, and follow-up. A flagship activity is the Thinknet[...]
Company Name: SINTEF AS
Expertise offered:
We offer deep expertise in mobile wireless and systems security, with a focus on 6G-relevant architectures, protocols, and deployment realities. Our work combines standards knowledge, empirical security analysis of real networks, and system-level risk reasoning to support secure-by-design & secure-by-deployment 6G systems. Core expertise areas- -Security architecture for 6G RAN and CNs, including control-plane and user-plane protection - Security protocols and mechanisms for disaggregated and virtualized mobile networks -Open RAN security, including threat analysis of open interfaces, multi-vendor components, and supply-chain risk -Mobile privacy in 6G, including identity exposure, metadata leakage, & cross-domain correlation risks -Security of AI-assisted and autonomous[...]
Company Name: IRT B-COM
Expertise offered:
xG Cellular networks and signal processing: RAN 5G/6G architectures, Signal processing (detection, synchronisation, channel estimation, new waveforms, full duplex), Corrector codes/FEC (LDPC, polar codes, turbocodes), Radio ressources allocation/ MAC layer scheduling, Terrestrial Network/ Non Terrestrial networks Hardware studies: HW/RF board designs, FPGA developments for communication systems (FEC, low-PHY, DFE) Software architecture and developpment: SDR approach, Layer 1/layer 2, real time Integration, tests & deploiements xG: E2E tests: UE, RAN, CORE, Applications, RF performances tests Radio coverage studies, On -field deploiements and uses cases Data, Signals & Mathematical Foundations: Radio, physiological & time-series signal processing, Statistics, stochastic modeling & optimization, Data[...]
Company Name: VIAVI Solutions
Expertise offered:
VIAVI has extensive experience contributing to many funded collaborative and consortium projects including within HORIZON and 6G-SNS programmes as well as nationally-funded projects for UK DSIT and the US NTIA. VIAVI offers significant contribution to a wide variety of research areas including those described below. DATA ACQUISITION: Network telemetry, traces, geolocation, active test, fibre monitoring, RF scanning/capture and LIDAR. SIMULATION, MODELLING, DIGITAL TWIN & NETWORK APIS: Creation of models for wireless & fixed access, RF, fibre, subscribers, transport, core and the physical environment. Incorporating hybrid data sources including simulated and generative synthetic data, along with physical network data. Application of[...]