ARIADNE

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Short abstract:

The ARIADNE project is going to enable efficient high-bandwidth wireless communications by developing three complementary but critical new technologies for Beyond 5G networks in an integrated and innovative way:

• ARIADNE will develop new radio technologies for communications using the above 100Ghz D-Band frequency ranges, (Pillar 1)
• ARIADNE will exploit the opportunities emerging for advanced connectivity based on metasurfaces where objects in the environment can become tuneable reflectors for shaping the propagation environment in D-band. (Pillar 2)
• ARIADNE will employ Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques to management necessary for the high-frequency communications and dynamic assignment and reconfiguration of the metasurfaces to provide continuous reliable High Bandwidth connections in the Beyond 5G scenario.  (Pillar 3)

To realize this novel system concept, ARIADNE proposes a novel hybrid wireless system architecture, which combines the benefits of the bandwidth-rich D-band and Artificial Intelligence, optimised by means of:

• a novel Communication Theory framework beyond the Shannon paradigm, according to which the environment itself is made reconfigurable and can assist to establishing reliable communications;
• intelligent surfaces (metasurfaces) used to enable tunable or switchable reflections and overcome limitations resulting from obstructed links and NLOS scenarios;
• propagation characterisation in the D-band for indoor/outdoor, LOS and NLOS;
• highly integrated D-band transceiver RF-frontend architectures and spectral efficient baseband processing, energy-efficient carrier aggregation, and D-band MIMO antenna design;
• waveform design, wireless access, tracking and resource allocation based on the pencil beamforming principle, and
• ML-based approaches for ultra-reliable connectivity, optimal and adaptive RRM and E2E network optimisation (resource allocation, routing, etc).

The ARIADNE Consortium has an optimum mix of representative industrial players and key academic institutions partners with leading roles in the value chain towards the use and exploitation of high-frequency wide-bandwidth communications in Beyond 5G networks with the added benefit that the key results will have a strong influence on how 5G evolves as these new frequency ranges become available.

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