On October 22nd, 5G-STARDUST was invited to present its achievements at the Mid Term Event organised by fellow EU-funded project S5LECT, in Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain. Here below, a couple more information on the event and our participation.
The S5LECT (SatCom and 5G Link, Edge and CybersecuriTy) project, led by SNCF and developed by Railenium, GTS (Hitachi Rail), Radiolabs, and CEIT, aims to develop a seamless handover functionality between 5G terrestrial network, satellite link and GSM-R communication system. It thus set off on a 30-month run, to study combining land and satellite networks for critical railway tasks, aiming to create a seamless handover between networks, check cybersecurity risks, propose new edge computing designs, and prove the concepts in a lab. The project outputs will help develop satellite communication solutions for railways and support testing activities to create more reliable wireless communication prototypes, speeding up the delivery of next-generation wireless communications for all railway segments.
Given this premise and objectives set, the connection with our work is evident, which led to the invite to 5G-STARDUST partner Benjamin Barth – from German Aerospace Center (DLR) – to present the project’s specific research on multi-connectivity for 5G-Advanced, and beyond. Barth, in his 20-minute slot, summarised 5G-STARDUST’s own objectives – for context – to then offer details on use cases and scenarios in which multi-connectivity comes into play within the project’s development.
The slide deck presented is available in our library.
The event gathered around 40 participants and offered an interesting first contact with S5LECT, its work, and its partners – to get acquainted with what’s in progress in regards to connectivity relating to the specific context of railways.