University part of €730,000 international research on future 6G communications
The University of Huddersfield is part of a partnership of 22 organisations across Europe, the US, and Brazil awarded €730,000 to research 6G communications.
Professor Pavlos Lazaridis is bringing his expertise in electronic and electrical engineering to the project, which has been funded by Horizon Europe.
A grant of €161,000 has been awarded to Professor Lazaridis and the University, the largest among all the participants. Academic colleagues Professor Nigel Schofield, Dr Qasim Ahmed, Dr Faheem Khan, Dr Qiang Hua and Dr Evangelos Vassos will also be part of the University of Huddersfield team on the project.
The 6G Intelligent Connectivity And inteRaction for Users and infraStructures (6G-ICARUS) project is led by Dr Zaharias Zaharis at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and includes another UK university, as well as UK-based Samsung Electronics R&D (UK) Limited.
In addition, there are a further 11 universities across Europe, the US, and Brazil, as well as a further seven companies and organisations involved, such as Princeton University in the US, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and the Fraunhofer institute in Germany.
The project itself began in March 2024 with the kick-off meeting scheduled to take place at the Technical University of Sofia in Bulgaria later this month. It will run until February 2028.
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Professor Lazaridis, who was involved in a similar research project relating to 5G communications which began in 2020, said: “There are several work packages that we will be looking at – all of them are related to 6G, future communications, mobile communications – what we need for our smartphones in the future.
“It will be around 2030 before we have the next generation mobile communications – the so-called 6G – so we need to ensure the right infrastructure is in place. 6G will provide much higher internet speeds with lower latency. 6G will also be closely integrated with satellite networks, which would help provide coverage in remote areas.”
Professor Pavlos Lazaridis
PROFESSOR OF ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
He is a member of the University’s Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering and its Systems, Telecommunications and Antenna Research Group (STAR).
The 6G-ICARUS project will investigate, combine, and improve on current technologies in order to address numerous obstacles that 6G networks will face in order to define the future wireless networks (FWNs).
The project is focused on FWNs capable of meeting a variety of targets, resulting in better geographic coverage, particularly in urban areas, higher transmission rates, lower latency, provision of diverse services, processing of information generated from a massive volume of sources, inherent resilience to counter potential security threats, and making intelligent decisions.