Beyond 5G network infrastructure leveraging deep AI across ultra-high capacity optical data transport and quantum physical substrates
September 2025 – August 2028
PID2024-158530OB-I00
BLOSSOMS aims to design an intelligent network architecture capable of providing advanced network services in future B5G/6G network scenarios in a fully autonomous way. The reference network architecture will be organised in three well separated layers: infrastructure, functions and network intelligence. At the bottom, the network infrastructure layer will encompass heterogeneous B5G/6G radio access (B5G/6G-RAN), ultra-high capacity optical metro/core and quantum communications network segments. The middle layer of the architecture will include per-domain programmable network functions deployed in the cloud. And on top of that will reside the network intelligence layer, based on advanced AI techniques to achieve a fully autonomous network.
The proposed activities within the BLOSSOMS project will serve to propose and evaluate many of the enabling technologies and solutions to realise the envisioned B5G/6G network architecture. This will be achieved by leveraging the extensive experience of the project research team members in the application of advanced machine learning and monitoring techniques, quantum, optical and radio data transport technologies, as well as programmable network architectures. In this way, we expect that the results achieved during the execution of the project will represent a significant advance towards the successful materialization of future B5G/6G telecommunication networks.