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Intend and Context-Aware Optical Networks

Effective processing and interpretation of sensing information

Create advanced algorithms, ML methods, and cloud platforms for efficient sensing data processing. Reduce data volume, interpret events rapidly, and enable integration with network management and external systems, such as earthquake warnings, ensuring energy efficiency and high accuracy.

Intelligent sensing control platform based on intent to achieve context awareness

Design a smart ICON platform to integrate sensing and network control. Enable intent-based sensing, optimized signal routing, and context-aware operations, reducing false alarms, increasing efficiency, and providing enhanced precision across multiple sensing applications.

Demonstrate the developed technology solution to realise the JC&S system

Verify and showcase ICON’s capabilities through experiments and field trials. Integrate physical sensing devices, intelligent control platforms, and network controls to highlight performance, reliability, and real-world applications, ensuring system security and resilience.

Generate impact and standardization of project results

Disseminating ICON results through workshops, conferences, and publications. Promote standardization of sensing  data sharing, engage stakeholders, and drive adoption by showcasing industry applications, ensuring broad technological, societal, and environmental impact.

Physical layer joint communication and sensing

Develop versatile physical layer sensing solutions for JC&S systems, enabling flexible sensing parameters and detecting diverse events. Investigate novel fibers and crosstalk mitigation between sensing and communication to ensure high performance and seamless coexistence.

Use Cases

Investigation of the operation and optimization of the ICON JS&S functions in lab experiments and field test environments, including a year-long field trial in a production subsea network. Effectivenss of the developed methods and their impact on the  data-bearing signals will be validated in diverse network scenarios and demonstration if the two ICON use cases.

Availability Assistant

AA (availability assistant )monitors network link performance, detecting failures and generating an availability map. It helps operators predict outages, integrate real-time risk data, and deploy sensing probes to maintain connectivity.

On-site network Intrusion Detector

This system detects unauthorized access in optical networks by analyzing signal changes. Upon detection, it automatically reroutes traffic via a secure path, ensuring data security and uninterrupted service.

Meet the Consortium

Start Date: 01/01/2025 Duration: 36 months Funding:  €4, 999, 183.75 Partners: 10 Countries: 7

TCD

Coordinator

FAU

Germany

CyRIC

Cyprus

VPI

Germany

TN

Norway

DTU

Denmark

ADTN

Germany

BUT

Czechia

TalTech

Estonia

LSAI

Ireland

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