5GZORRO is working on Zero-touch automation, security and trust among multiple parties through blockchains, network slicing across various domains, ubiquitous computing and connectivity for multi-operator 5G networks, Distributed Ledgers for Telcos.

The Consortium is investing a significant amount of resources in generating awareness and visibility for research results, both within the scientific community working on #5G and within network industry, operators, regulators, SMEs, etc.

The project will concentrate its efforts on three representative use cases. The results will be tested at 5GBarcelona and 5TONIC Madrid facilities, with the vision to build innovative solutions which can address the new Intelligent Connectivity.

5GZORRO will explore and test a new approach to:

• Share and discover heterogeneous types of resources (i.e. spectrum, virtualised radio access, virtualised edge/core, software-defined WAN, etc.) across multiple operators and infrastructures.
• Multi-party agreements to build distributed and pervasive 5G infrastructures, from data centres down to edge and fare edge computing.
• Complete automation of network and service management (zero-touch network and service management).
• Coexistence of Cloud-native and traditional IaaS network functions (containers, service meshes, microservices).
• Distributed Ledger Technologies for spectrum sharing and cross-operator/cross-domain service chains.

Next 08 – 11 June 2021 will take place the 30th EUCNC2021 jointly with the 6G Summit.

5GZORRO partners have prepared a series of very relevant contributions and activities in this context:

• Two conference papers will be presented:

• ‘Blockchain-Based Zero Touch Service Assurance in Cross-Domain Network Slicing’

Authors partners: Intracom Telecom, Greece; IBM I, Israel; Fundació i2CAT, Spain; Ubiwhere, Portugal; Fondazione Bruno Kessler, BARTR, UK.

• ‘Multi-Party Collaboration in 5G Networks via DLT-Enabled Marketplaces: A Pragmatic Approach’

Authors partners: Fundació i2CAT, Spain; Nextworks, Italy; BARTR, UK; Altice Labs, Portugal; University of Murcia, Spain; Telefonica, Spain.

Presentation in Workshop 8: From 5G to 6G Automated and Intelligent SecuriTy: FAST

Session 1: Security and Trust Architecture for Beyond 5G Networks

Tuesday 8 June 2021, 9:30-11:00, Zoom Room

Chairing and presentation of Special Session 8: Autonomous Network Management towards 6G.

Friday, 11 June 2021, 09:30-11:00, Zoom Room.