6G Optimization and Constrained Intelligence for End-to-end Network Operations Across Heterogeneous Segments
Overview
6G-OPTICON is a flagship initiative aimed at designing a next-generation, end-to-end orchestration framework tailored for the 6G era. By embedding constraint-native deep learning throughout the orchestration pipeline, the project will enable intelligent, adaptive planning, optimisation, and management across a complex landscape of interconnected networks and heterogeneous domains. At its core, 6G-OPTICON envisions an open, modular, and highly extensible orchestration fabric that unifies services and infrastructure across Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN), core, transport, and edge. To enable operation under strict real-time, latency, energy, security, and multi-domain constraints, novel deep learning models will be developed that inherently incorporate these requirements during training and execution (potentially guided by closed-form formulas or physical laws), ensuring Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance, conflict-free optimisation, and operational robustness. In parallel, the project pioneers secure-by-design Artificial Intelligence (AI) pipelines that leverage trusted execution environments, encrypted computation, and explainable AI methods adapted for privacy-preserving contexts.
Finally, by promoting energy adaptive, hardware-aware AI deployment strategies and event-driven automation, 6G-OPTICON delivers a blueprint for sustainable, trustworthy, and intelligent 6G network orchestration.
Objectives
Develop an end-to-end orchestration framework for heterogeneous 6G environments.
Develop a novel class of constraint-aware and rule-based deep learning models addressing end-to-end network planning, optimisation, and orchestration.
Establish a hierarchical intent management framework that enables automated business-to-service-to-resource orchestration and continuously validates compliance via telemetry-driven closed loops and programmable exposure APIs.
Develop energy-efficient and hardware-aware AI solutions for the 6G stack, leveraging adaptive training, self-optimising architectures, and edge-cloud orchestration.
Develop security and trust mechanisms that strengthen 6G orchestration, communications, AI integration, and data integrity across the AI lifecycle.
Develop a broad range of zero-touch operations as programmable “hooks”, enabled through agentic AI.
eBOS Role in the Project
eBOS plays a key role in 6G-OPTICON by leading the project’s dissemination, communication, and exploitation activities. It is responsible for increasing awareness and visibility of the 6G-OPTICON platform and its results through targeted dissemination campaigns, scientific publications, industry events, workshops, and stakeholder engagement activities. Moreover, eBOS establishes and maintains the project’s communication channels with the scientific community, industry stakeholders, standardisation bodies, and the wider public, ensuring broad outreach and impact.
Furthermore, eBOS leads the identification and monitoring of intellectual property rights (IPR), exploitable assets, and business opportunities arising from the project. It supports partners in defining both individual and joint exploitation strategies, aligning project outcomes with market needs and commercialisation opportunities.
eBOS is responsible for managing the project’s integration cycles and processes, coordinating the integration of developments from the technical work packages into the 6G-OPTICON testbed, and supporting the validation of the overall platform.
Finally, eBOS plays a key role in the project’s validation activities by coordinating the integration methodology and supporting the integration process, testing scenarios, and validation activities across the 6G-OPTICON testbed, ensuring the effective incorporation of developments from the technical work packages into the overall platform.
Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
