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Conference - Demos - Tutorials – Hackathon
With a multidisciplinary approach, the SNS4SNS event brings together open source communities, industry standardisation, and cutting edge research initiatives to discuss best practices and opportunities for global collaboration in defining tomorrow’s networks and services.
Through a series of engaging talks, panel discussions, interactive workshops and live demonstrations, participants will explore a wide range of collaborative frameworks and opportunities for driving innovation, fostering interoperability, and contributing to the long-term viability, security, resiliency, and sustainability of communication networks.
SNS4SNS 2026: Building an Open Software Ecosystem for Future Connectivity and Services
Key themes to be explored include:
- The role of software and open source in accelerating the development and deployment of standardised communication technologies, fostering agility and adaptability.
- The importance of standardisation efforts in establishing interoperable frameworks and ensuring global connectivity.
- The impact of research advancements in pushing the boundaries of technological innovation, driving forward-thinking solutions for future challenges.
- Strategies for fostering cross-pollination among industry, academia, and open source communities to facilitate knowledge exchange and global collaboration.
- Concrete examples of collaboration, achievements, best practices, and challenges from ongoing initiatives.
Live Demos, Tutorials and Hackathon sessions will provide an interactive opportunity for attendees to learn and engage with open source groups and research activities experimenting with emerging technologies and the practical applications of the principles discussed during the conference.
Event Schedule:
| Monday 02.02 | Tuesday 03.02 | Wednesday 04.02 | Thursday 05.02 | |
| Morning | Tutorial 1 Hackathon Demo Team 1 | Tutorial 3 Hackathon Demo Team 3 | Conference | Conference |
| Afternoon | Tutorial 2 Hackathon Demo Team 2 | Tutorial 4 Cross SDGs Demo | Conference | Conference |
Programme Committee
Programme Committee Chair:
Ricard Vilalta, ETSI SDG TFS Chair, CTTC
Programme Committee Members:
Silvia Almagia, SNS Director, ETSI
Amina Boubendir, Head of Research and Standardisation, Airbus
Hakima Chaouchi, Institut Mines Telecom (IMT)
Pavlos Fournogerakis, SNS JU Deputy Head of Programmes
Juan Carlos Garcia, Programme Manager at the Cloud and Software Unit, DG-CNECT
Alexandros Kaloxylos, 6G SNS IA Executive Director
Manel Khelifi, Technical Expert, ETSI
Bahare Masood Khorsandi, Nokia
Marja Matinmikko-Blue, Research Director, University of Oulu
Ultan Mulligan, CSO, ETSI
Francisco Javier Ramon Salguero, ETSI OSM Chair, Telefonica
Christos Tranoris, ETSI SDG OSL Chair, University of Patras
Vasileios Theodorou, ETSI SDG OOP Chair, Intracom Telecom
Dimitris Tsolkas, ETSI SDG OCF Vice-Chair, Fogus Innovations & Services P.C.
Join us as we navigate the interplay of software, standardisation, and research, shaping a future where collaboration across these domains paves the way for sustainable, inclusive, and interoperable communication networks and services.
- 2 & 3 February - Tutorials & Hackathon
Monday 2 February
8:00 Registration
9:00-10:30 Tutorial 1
OpenOP
Instructors: tbc10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12-30 Hackathon Demo Team 1
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Tutorial 2
Implementing CAPIF-compliant API invokers and providers with the OpenCAPIF SDK and templates
Instructors: Jorge Moratinos, Telefonica - Stavros Charismiadis, Fogus - Pelayo Torres, TelefonicaJoin this practical, hands-on session to learn how to easily create your own CAPIF-compliant API invokers and providers using the OpenCAPIF SDK and pre-built templates. Participants will explore the tools offered by the OpenCAPIF framework, understand how leverage CAPIF capabilities (e.g. onboard invokers/providers, publish and discover APIs etc) following 3GPP-compliant procedures and gain the skills to integrate their network or application services within an OpenCAPIF ecosystem.
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Hackathon Demo Team 2
Tuesday 3 February
9:00-10:30 Tutorial 3
OpenSlice advanced and new features
Instructors: Kostis Trantzas, University of Patras - Rafael Direito, IT Aveiro - George Katsikas, Ubitech10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12-30 Hackathon Demo Team 3
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Tutorial 4
AI-enabled Network Automation in TeraFlowSDN Orchestrated Networks
Instructor: Ricard Vilalta, CTTCThis tutorial examines how AI propels the evolution of Autonomous Networks (AN), moving from reactive operations to proactive, closed-loop intelligence. We first map the technical and organizational challenges to reaching higher AN levels and distill the key enablers (full-stack AI, Network Digital Twins, agentic automation, and intent-/data-model standardization). We then show how these enablers are realized within ETSI TeraFlowSDN, highlighting current contributions such as Digital Twins for planning and assurance and autonomous agents for cross-domain orchestration and self-optimization. We conclude with a forward-looking roadmap for secure, scalable, and adaptive automation, covering policy-guarded autonomy, explainable AI with human-in-the-loop controls, and multi-domain interoperability, aimed at accelerating carrier-grade deployment of AN.
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Cross SDG demo
- 4 & 5 February - Conference
Wednesday 4 February
8:00-9:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:00-9:30 OPENING
- Welcome address
Jan Ellsberger, ETSI Director-General - Introduction & presentations of demos day 1
Ricard Vilalta, Programme Committee Chair
9:30-10:30 SESSION 1: Building an open software ecosystem for future connectivity and services - Setting the scene
Session Chair: Ricard Vilalta, Programme Committee Chair- 9:30-9:50
Miguel Gonzalez-Sancho, EC DG-CNET - 9:50-10:10
SNS JU - 10:10-10:30
Alexandros Kaloxylos, 6G SNS IA
10:30-11:00 Coffee break, Demos & Posters visit11:00-12:30 SESSION 2: Keynotes
Session Chair: Juan Carlos Garcia, EC DG-CNECT- 11:00-11:30
Jimmy Ahlberg, Ericsson - 11:30-12:00 Open Source talent geography
Hakima Chaouchi, Institut Mines Telecom (IMT) - 12:00-12:30
Mirko Boehm, Linux Foundation
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break, Demos & Posters visit14:00-15:00 SESSION DEDICATED TO VISIT OF DAY 1 DEMOS
15:00-16:00 SESSION 3: Network exposure, automation and federation
Session Chair: Christos Tranoris, ETSI SDG OSL Chair, University of Patras- 15:00-15:15 Sovereign Cloud-Edge Continuum Built on Open Source: An introduction to the European IPCEI-CIS and 8ra initiatives and the NeoNephos Foundation
Florian Mueller, SAP - 15:15-15:30 From network digital twins to network of networks: enabling fully autonomous 6G systems
Ana Pereira, Ubiwhere - 15:30-15:45 OpenSlice
Diogo Pereira Gomes, ITAv - 15:45-16:00 Panel discussion
16:00-16:30 Coffee break, Demos & Posters visit16:30-17:45 SESSION 4: Cloud-native automation and sustainable telco infrastructures
Session Chair: Francisco Javier Ramon Salguero, ETSI OSM Chair, Telefonica- 16:30-16:45 SUSE telco cloud aligned with industry standards
Timo Jokiaho, SUSE - 16:45-17:00 Network automation for telco edge cloud with TeraFlowSDN
Hakon Lonsethagen, Telenor - 17:00-17:15 From telco edge cloud to AI factory: powering next-gen smart networks and services with OpenNebula
Adriana Fernandez, OpenNebula Systems - 17:15-17:30 OSM
Francisco Javier Ramon Salguero, Telefonica - 17:30-17:45 Panel Discussion
17:45-19:00 Networking CocktailThursday 5 February
9:00-9:15 Opening & presentation of demos day 2
Silvia Almagia, SNS Director, ETSI9:15-10:30 SESSION 5: Developer friendly APIs for telco
Session Chair: Vasileios Theodorou, ETSI SDG OOP Chair, Intracom Telecom- 9:15-9:30 OpenGateway
Henri Calvert, GSMA - 9:30-9:45 OpenOP
Konstantinos Ramantas, Iquadrat - 9:45-10:00 CAMARA
Markus Kuemmerle, Deutsche Telekom - 10:00-10:15 Panel discussion
10:15-10:45 Coffee break10:45-12:00 SESSION 6: 6G innovation with open APIs and edge-aware exposure frameworks
Session Chair: Dimitris Tsolkas, ETSI SDG OCF Vice-Chair, Fogus Innovations & Services P.C.- 10:45-11:00 Network exposure for edge intelligence: the enricher framework
Johann Marquez-Barja, IMEC - 11:00-11:15 OpenCAPIF
Dimitris Tsolkas, Fogus Innovations & Services P.C. - 11:15-11:30 Orange Romania network APIs challenge - Framework, APIs, best practices, use cases and business opportunities
Razvan Mihai, Orange Romania SA - 11:30-11:45 Toward energy-efficient cloud-native network functions in mobile networks
Selome Kostentinos Tesfatsion, Ericsson AB - 11:45-12:00 Panel discussion
12:00-13:45 Lunch Break, Demos & Posters visit13:45-14:45 SESSION DEDICATED TO VISIT OF DAY 2 DEMOS
14:45-15:45 SESSION 7: AI-driven cybersecurity and post-quantum resilience
Session Chair: Alexandros Kaloxylos, 6G SNS IA Executive Director- 14:45-15:00 .qtm: A file-centric security layer for the post-quantum internet infrastructure
Marcos Altarriba, Quantum Computing Solutions (QCS) - 15:00-15:15 AI integration into a SOC platform for advanced security alert interpretation and automated rule optimization
Rayen Gaied, ENISo - 15:15-15:30 Network digital twin: modelling and data related challenges
Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology - 15:30-15:45 Can machines outthink hackers? Advancing cyber defenses in 6G networks with GenAI
Alice Piemonti, Martel Innovate
15:45-16:15 Coffee break16:15-17:15 SESSION 8: Agentic AI and distributed automation for 6G networks
Session chair: Hakima Chaouchi, Institut Mines Telecom (IMT)- 16:15-16:30 OpenAirInterface: The open source for sustained European leadership in wireless innovation
Irfan Ghauri, OpenAirInterface Software Alliance - 16:30-16:45 Agentic-AI based next generation mobile networks
An Xueli, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH - 16:45-17:00 MX-AI: The BubbleRAN ecosystem for multi-x automation & intelligence
Navid Nikaein, BubbleRAN - 17:00-17:15 Distributed AI-controlled ORAN framework for multi-vendor 6G environment supporting open software ecosystem
Basu Deborsi, CONNECT Research Centre, The University of Dublin
17:15-18:00 Closing remarks and awards ceremony
Ricard Vilalta, Programme Committee Chair
Silvia Almagia, ETSI- Welcome address
Due to the large number of high-quality demo proposals received, they will be scheduled across both conference days. Each day, participants will be able to visit the demos during coffee and lunch breaks as well as during a dedicated session.
Wednesday 4 February
DEMO 1 + POSTER
Marcos Altarriba, Quantum Computing Solutions (QCS)
From legacy files to post-quantum protected .qtm in minutes
This demo shows the end-to-end flow of generating, verifying, and enforcing a .qtm file. It includes:
* File encapsulation with post-quantum cryptography and policy embedding
* Offline signature verification and metadata inspection
* Policy enforcement (e.g. time-based expiry, geofencing, classification)
* Real-time audit logging
The demo highlights .qtm’s use in secure document workflows for regulated sectors, ensuring compliance with NIS2, ENS, and upcoming PQC mandates.
This demo will be complemented with a POSTER:
.qtm – An open format for post-quantum file security and interoperability
.qtm is a novel, open, self-contained file format designed for post-quantum protection of critical documents. It embeds post-quantum encryption (Kyber), digital signatures (Dilithium), and access policies into each file, ensuring long-term integrity and sovereignty — even offline and without PKI. This poster illustrates the architecture, standardization path (ETSI/IETF), and comparative features vs CMS, OpenPGP, and COSE, and highlights its applicability across Telco Cloud, data retention, compliance, and edge scenarios.
DEMO 2 - 2bis
Cesar Cornelio Cajas Parra, i2CAT
Demonstrating inter-platform federation for multi-operator edge application management
This demonstration presents a practical scenario of federation across two Open Operator Platforms (Open OPs). The demo will illustrate a user on the originating OpenOP requesting to deploy an edge application on a partner OpenOP. The end-to-end workflow begins with the CAMARA OEG, which interacts with the GSMA-compliant Federation Manager (FM). The FM at the originating OpenOP establishes the federation process by communicating with the partner FM, which in turn manages the deployment towards the edge cloud infrastructure. The demonstration highlights the use of CAMARA APIs for deploying edge applications both in the local and federated domains. The key part of the demonstration will show how the originating FM leverages the Open SDK to perform specific tasks, such as uploading an application artefact and managing its instantiation on both, local and the partner OpenOP’s edge cloud. This provides a clear, end-to-end view of the federation mechanism in action and underlines the instrumental role of the Open SDK in enabling this functionality.
Demonstrating Open Operator Platform (Open OP) standardised testbed capability exposure in federated 5G/6G environments
This demonstration highlights the capabilities and simplicity of the Open Operator Platform (Open OP). The setup features an environment where Open OP is deployed, exposing CAMARA APIs as its Northbound Interface (NBI). Through these APIs, the platform enables seamless deployment of both an application and a network service (e.g., a Quality on Demand session). A live walkthrough will illustrate how Open OP abstracts the complexity of underlying systems—such as the edge cloud platform and the 5G core network—while providing a unified, standardised API interface. The focus of the demo is to demonstrate, in real time, how Open OP bridges diverse domains under a consistent and reusable exposure framework, validating its role as a key enabler for interoperability and automation in operator environments.
DEMO 3 + POSTER
Claudia Carballo González, i2CAT Foundation
OpenCAPIF SDK in action: From CAMARA API exposure to consumption
This demonstration highlights the operational simplicity and capabilities of the OpenCAPIF SDK, which provides a set of libraries and tools to support both Provider and Invoker roles, as well as additional functionalities that simplify interactions with the OpenCAPIF core entity. The demo showcases a complete end-to-end flow where CAMARA API acts as the Provider, exposing its endpoints through OpenCAPIF in a standardised, secure, and unified manner. On the Invoker side, a lightweight Flask server is used to consume the APIs published by the Provider. The demonstration covers the entire process, from registration and onboarding to service publishing, discovery, security handling, and ultimately, the successful consumption of the exposed CAMARA API. This end-to-end scenario demonstrates how the OpenCAPIF framework, developed and maintained by the ETSI SDG OCF, enables secure, standardised API exposure and consumption, laying the foundation for integration with commercial networks and supporting open and standards-based interoperability.
This demo will be complemented with a POSTER:
Facilitating interoperable API ecosystems: OpenCAPIF and CAMARA integration
This poster highlights the practical implementation of OpenCAPIF, an open-source framework developed and maintained by the ETSI SDG OCF to support openness and programmability in telecom networks. It illustrates how CAMARA APIs are exposed using OpenCAPIF as the Provider, while the Invoker consumes the endpoints in a standardised, secure, and unified manner. The poster presents a high-level architecture diagram illustrating the interaction between key components, including the CAMARA API (Provider), the OpenCAPIF Core Function, and the Invoker. It visualises the whole process flow from registration and onboarding to service publishing, discovery, security handling, and API invocation, demonstrating OpenCAPIF’s role in facilitating consistent API exposure and consumption across network environments.
DEMO 4
Rafael Direito, Instituto de Telecomunicações - Aveiro
Offering CAMARA APIs as a service
The evolution of 5G and B5G technologies introduced high levels of programmability, control, and flexibility to wireless networks. However, integrating these capabilities with industry-specific applications remains a challenge. The CAMARA initiative addresses this by standardizing APIs to simplify the interaction between applications and 5G/B5G network functionalities. Our demonstration introduces the concept of CAMARA APIs as a Service (CAMARAaaS), an approach enabled by OpenSlice, an open-source OSS/BSS platform that provides catalog-driven service design, lifecycle management, and TM Forum–compliant northbound APIs. We rely on OpenSlice to orchestrate both network resources and middleware services that expose CAMARA APIs, enabling telecommunication operators and service providers to offer these endpoints with minimal development effort. Additionally, we showcase how telecom operators can address Quality on Demand use cases by ordering a CAMARA API to manage the QoS of User Equipment within a 5G standalone, commercial-grade network. This demonstration highlights the potential of CAMARA as a Service to accelerate the adoption of CAMARA APIs and enhance the programmability
DEMO 5
Yann Garcia, FSCOM & Mudassar Khan, xFlow Research
Application mobility and data continuity of oneM2M across MEC platforms
This demonstration showcases the integration of oneM2M standards with Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) to enable seamless mobility for machine-to-machine communications in smart networks. Two Middle Node Common Service Entities (MN-CSEs) are deployed on separate MEC platforms (mep1 and mep2), registering as MEC Applications to leverage core services, including the Application Mobility Service (AMS). A oneM2M-compliant Application Entity (AE), attached to a mobile User Equipment (UE) simulating a data-producing device, registers with MN-CSE1 on mep1 during the setup phase, establishing a data container and transmitting sequential payloads (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4).
Upon UE zone transition—detected via Location Service (LS) and Radio Network Information Service (RNIS)—AMS initiates a MobilityProcedureNotification, querying adjacent instances to identify MN-CSE2 on mep2. This prompts state transfer: the AE deregisters from MN-CSE1 and registers with MN-CSE2, resuming data transmission (e.g., 5, 6, 7, 8) for uninterrupted service continuity. Both MN-CSEs connect to a shared Infrastructure Node Common Service Entity (IN-CSE), supporting unified data management and potential context migration aligned with oneM2M protocols.
DEMO 6
Lluis Gifre, CTTC
Novel telemetry data collection and closed-loop operations for end-to-end optical access and transport networks with guaranteed-quality connectivity service assurance
A Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform that integrates model-driven telemetry and closed-loop control to enable guaranteed-quality connectivity across end-to-end optical access and transport networks is showcased. The demo features real-time telemetry collection via a hierarchical YANG-Push framework, correlating service and infrastructure data using the IETF SIMAP model. The platform automatically detects SLA deviations and uses CAMARA APIs to notify users and propose premium service upgrades—from best-effort IP transport to fine-grained Optical Transport Network (fgOTN) slices—achieving deterministic performance. The proof-of-concept spans multiple domains (access, IP, and optical) and leverages ETSI TeraFlowSDN and OSM components to demonstrate autonomous service assurance and QoS-driven reconfiguration.
DEMO 7
George Karetsos, University of Thessaly
TruE-MAN: Extending OpenSlice for Trusted Resource Sharing among 5G Operators
TruE-MAN enables decentralized and immutable 5G resource sharing through the use of blockchain technology. In this demo, we present a blockchain-based orchestration process that allows OpenSlice to leverage a smart contracts based service orchestration environment. The developed solution demonstrates how blockchain adds a new layer of trust, transparency, and automation to 5G service management. By integrating a Smart Contract as a Service (SCaaS), we extend OpenSlice functionalities and we validate the interoperability between the blockchain layer and the orchestration workflows, showing how resources can be securely shared across domains in a trusted way.
DEMO 8 + POSTER
Georgios P. Katsikas, UBITECH Ltd.
Cross-layer automation across multi-site and multi-stakeholder environments
This work demonstrates a 6G-ready system - deployed across multiple realistic testbeds in Europe - with advanced automation capabilities across 3 axes:
* automated platform lifecycle management via zero-touch expansion of the platform's infrastructure to new private domains
* zero-touch service provisioning over on-demand compute and network resources across 2 domains, and
* predictive & secure SLA management, leveraging smart analytics and closed service and network orchestration loops.
DEMO 9
Marinela Mertiri, Intracom Telecom
Intelligent Edge Cache Deployment and Migration Across Distributed Infrastructures
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) face increasing complexity due to geographically distributed demand surges, heterogeneous edge resources, and user mobility. Legacy CDN architectures are limited by static cache placement and poor adaptability, leading to latency, cache misses, and degraded service continuity. Moreover, interoperability between CDN logic, orchestration frameworks, and standard interfaces remains limited. These gaps highlight the need for dynamic orchestration across multi-cluster edge–cloud environments. The proposed demonstration illustrates adaptive media delivery using Intracom Telecom’s fs|cdn™ Anywhere: Full Service Content Delivery Network solution, with the Horizon EU CODECO framework across a three-cluster testbed located in Athens, Madrid, and Leganés. The demo consists of four sequential scenarios. In the baseline scenario, the CDN requests cache deployment in the Athens cluster via CODECO, which instantiates the requested cache and users access the service stably under low demand. Then, in the second scenario, the system detects increased demand in that edge cache and instantiates an additional cache (in the same cluster) to prevent server’s overload. In the third scenario, new users appear in Madrid. Their requests are detected through CODECO’s monitoring, which combines ALTO and MEC APIs to retrieve network and user information. Based on this, CODECO seamlessly deploys a new edge cache in Madrid cluster, reducing latency for those users. In the fourth scenario, users initially served by Madrid cluster move to Leganés. CODECO collects mobility information and triggers a migration of the active cache instance from one cluster to another (closer to the new location). The migration is performed without service interruption, preserving the users’ sessions. The demo uses a hybrid infrastructure of cloud nodes and heterogeneous edge devices, such as Raspberry Pis and VMs. User activity is emulated by traffic generators to reproduce realistic demand surges and mobility events. The result demonstrates CODECO’s ability to deliver resilient and adaptive media delivery across multi-cluster infrastructures.
DEMO 10
Navid Nikaein, BubbleRAN
Network Recommendation System with MX-AI
In this demo, we showcase how MX-AI, the BubbleRAN framework for Multi-x Automation & Intelligence, enables advanced network recommendation capabilities powered by collaborative Telco AI agents to optimize the the network performance in uplink and downlink. The demonstration presents an AI-driven recommendation system designed to optimize RAN operations by analyzing real-time network state, traffic patterns, and KPIs. Through the AIFabric, multiple AI agents collaborate seamlessly via the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, ensuring that recommendations are not only data-driven but also context-aware across diverse vendors, models, and deployment environments.
DEMO 11
Alice Piemonti, Martel Innovate
Predicting the Future: AI-Driven CNF Orchestration for sustainable 6G Networks
How do you imagine 6G networks? We envision them as intelligent, cloud-native ecosystems that move beyond monolithic architectures to embrace modular, reusable, and dynamically scalable microservices. This transformation enables flexibility, efficiency, and reduced energy consumption across the entire network infrastructure. However, containerization also introduces new challenges: cold-start delays and inefficient scaling can degrade network performance. To address these issues, we developed an AI-driven solution for proactive orchestration of Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs). Our solution uses machine learning to predict CNF resource usage in real time, allowing the orchestrator to anticipate demands, ensuring optimal performance and contributing to a more sustainable network.
In this demo, we will present Martel’s Platform for AI-powered Proactive CNF Orchestration. We will show first how Prometheus can be used as a monitoring tool for a 6G network, extracting key information about virtualized resources and how they are used. We will then demonstrate how machine learning models can forecast real-time CPU and memory usage of virtual resources, allowing the orchestrator to pre-allocate resources, ultimately enhancing network efficiency while avoiding waste and ensuring optimal use of network resources. We will also show how the AI module is built as a containerized, modular architecture following MLOps standards, and how ML orchestrator tools such as Prefect help automate the ML lifecycle, building reliable systems that handle common failure points automatically.
By the end of this demo, participants will see how AI-powered proactive orchestration can make 6G systems scalable, efficient, and adaptive. Finally, we will discuss how Martel’s platform will evolve within the UNITY-6G project, where we aim to expand the prediction capabilities to include a broader set of metrics and further optimize network resilience and energy efficiency.
Due to the large number of high-quality demo proposals received, they will be scheduled across both conference days. Each day, participants will be able to visit the demos during coffee and lunch breaks as well as during a dedicated session.
Thursday 5 February
DEMO 12
Mazene Ameur, Eurecom
When MLOps Meets NWDAF Release 18
This demonstration showcases how scalable Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) platforms can enhance and extend the 3GPP Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF) as defined in Release 18. The 3GPP specification TS 23.288 defines the high-level functional architecture of the NWDAF, introducing the Model Training Logical Function (MTLF) and the Analytics Logical Function (AnLF). However, it explicitly excludes the details of model lifecycle management, such as model storage, deployment, and monitoring, leaving these aspects out of scope. In parallel, 3GPP TS 28.105 specifies a general framework for model management within the Operations and Maintenance (OAM) domain. While it provides overarching guidance for model operations, TS 28.105 is not specifically tailored to the NWDAF context and lacks concrete implementation details to ensure scalability, reliability, and integration with service-based 5G Core functions.
This overlapping yet incomplete coverage between TS 23.288 and TS 28.105 creates a critical implementation gap for operators aiming to deploy production-grade analytics and machine learning functions within NWDAF. Without a clear alignment between architectural definitions and operational frameworks, the realization of intelligent, automated network analytics remains limited.
To address this gap, our demonstration integrates an open-source MLOps stack consisting of Kubernetes, MLflow, and MinIO with the NWDAF architecture. This integration introduces robust capabilities for model registry, metadata management, artifact storage, and continuous monitoring. Our implementation enhances the OpenAirInterface (OAI) NWDAF (Release 15 baseline) to align with Release 18 specifications, offering standardized APIs for both MTLF and AnLF functions.
The resulting solution provides a unified and scalable model management framework that bridges 3GPP architecture and OAM practices. It enables service-based, automated, and resilient machine learning workflows for 5G Core intelligence and establishes a practical foundation for intelligent, self-optimizing networks in the evolution toward 6G.
DEMO 13
Jorge Baranda, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC/CERCA)
Full multi-domain orchestration of a distributed 5G cloud-native mobile network integrating ETSI SDG projects
The rapid evolution of mobile networks towards full cloud-native architectures is enabled by novel network paradigms based on programmability, softwarization, and automation. This demonstration illustrates how ETSI Software Development Group (SDG) projects can be integrated and combined to facilitate the deployment and orchestration from scratch of an end-to-end geo-distributed, cloud-native 5G mobile network, spanning from the Radio Access Network (RAN) to the 5G Core and interconnected via a configurable transport network. Building on open-source implementations such as Open5GS and srsRAN, the demo integrates ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM) for orchestration and ETSI TeraFlowSDN (TFS) for transport automation, highlighting their complementary roles in realizing multi-domain service delivery. The distinguishing features of the proposed approach are i) that the orchestration process of mobile network entities includes the use of a cloud-based Distributed Unit (DU) communicating through O-RAN Split 7.2 with a Radio Unit (RU) performing over-the-air transmission, ii) the end-to-end configuration of slices with on-demand activation of core network function components (i.e., per-slice dedicated SMF and UPF instances), and iii) the dynamic configuration of transport network flows to differently route the traffic of active slices using TFS project. The demonstration relies on standardized APIs and information models defined by ETSI NFV, O-RAN specifications, and IETF service delivery models, ensuring interoperability and portability.
DEMO 14
Giulio Carota, Eurecom
API-aware telco cloud orchestration with open-exposure NEF and CAPIF
NEF and CAPIF jointly enable API-aware orchestration within the telco cloud by making network capabilities dynamically discoverable and actionable. By integrating 3GPP CAPIF’s API discovery functionality into the orchestration workflow, applications can automatically identify available network exposure APIs in each deployment zone. This awareness enables orchestrators to deploy applications only where the required network capabilities are present, thereby accelerating service development and enhancing runtime adaptability. Once deployed at the edge, the application can access network APIs directly through the NEF or via the adaptation layer provided by CAMARA. If an API becomes unavailable, CAPIF event notifications trigger the orchestrator to pause or relocate the affected instance, maintaining service integrity and ensuring compliance with deployment constraints.
DEMO 15
Irene Denazi, NetonomIQ P.C.
Production operations and observability on top of OpenSlice
This demonstration presents a 5G telco operations prototype environment built on top of ETSI SDG OpenSlice, showcasing its capabilities for network service provisioning, orchestration, and reconfiguration. Leveraging network engineering expertise and operational insight, the setup delivers a prototype toolkit expected by modern Network Operations Center (NOC) engineers and service providers. It covers the full lifecycle from service design and catalog management to runtime inventory and dynamic control. The demonstration emphasizes the automation and adaptability of service deployment through controller provisioning, enabling services to be instantiated and managed seamlessly across diverse and geographically distributed infrastructures. This enables adaptive deployment capabilities that evolve according to operational and functional demands. At its core, the demo focuses on the deployment, operation, and reconfiguration of open-source 5G Core networks, demonstrating their on-demand scaling and expansion capabilities. Complementing this, it highlights comprehensive observability and monitoring features, showcasing how real-time metrics and insights evolve alongside service changes and user-driven requests.
DEMO 16 + POSTER
Sergio Giménez, i2CAT
Simplified network orchestration: an intent engine for CAMARA APIs
This demonstration showcases a solution designed for enhanced dynamic network management in Beyond 5G infrastructures. The intent engine is integrated with CAMARA APIs. The core functionality is the systematic translation of high-level user intents from the service layer into precise network actions or policies. The demonstration highlights the intent engine directing these actions toward the underlying CAMARA Edge Cloud APIs, which provide capabilities like services lifecycle management. The system ensures reliable interpretation, execution, or rejection of intents, accommodating diverse network contexts and user attributes. This integration validates a flexible, technology-agnostic approach to automating complex service lifecycles via natural language intents.
This demo will be complemented with a POSTER:
Intent-driven network automation with an Intent-engine, CAMARA, and OpenCAPIF for B5G/6G infrastructures
This poster presents an intent engine as a novel solution for dynamic network management in Beyond 5G and 6G infrastructures. The intent engine addresses the complex challenges of expressing, interpreting, and refining high-level intents. It leverages language models to translate these high-level user intents into precise network actions or policies. The intent engine is seamlessly integrated within the CAMARA EdgeCloud API family.
To further facilitate interoperability and secure API exposure, this work integrates with OpenCAPIF. OpenCAPIF exposes CAMARA APIs as an API Provider, exposing CAMARA APIs in a standardized, secure, and unified manner, enabling various Invokers to consume these endpoints. This layered integration ensures that the intelligent network actions generated by the intent engine are executed efficiently through standardized CAMARA APIs managed by OpenCAPIF, thereby enhancing automation, scalability, and interoperability across multi-operator and federated environments.
DEMO 17 + POSTER
Ionel Petrut, Lasting Software
NTN reality digital twin - Live multi-orbit demo (5G NTN over DIFI/eCPRI)
This live demo showcases a packet-native, full-digital 5G NTN call, no RF cabling, just bits. FLEX-SPACE orchestrates the session across an NTN gNodeB, cloud-native 5G Core, and a 5G NTN UE, while CELEOS injects physics-accurate satellite effects (Doppler, delay spread, blockage/clutter, elevation masks). All links use DIFI (digitized IF) and eCPRI (fronthaul) for standards-aligned interoperability.
This demo will be complemented with a POSTER:
NTN Reality Digital Twin: End-to-End 5G/6G NTN over DIFI/eCPRI with FLEX-SPACE 5G NTN
We present NTN Reality Digital Twin, an all-digital, standards-aligned testbed that executes end-to-end 5G/6G NTN workflows using DIFI (digitized IF) and eCPRI (fronthaul) to replace analog chains with packet-native interfaces. CELEOS provides physics-accurate satellite/terrestrial channel effects: Doppler, delay spread, blockage/clutter, elevation masks and terrain, while FLEX-SPACE orchestrates sessions, multi-orbit selection (LEO/MEO/GEO), handovers, and automated KPI capture across UE, NTN gNodeB and cloud-native core.
DEMO 18 + POSTER
Apostolos Prassas, UBITECH Ltd.
Co-existence of legacy and P4-offloaded 5G UPF deployments using open-source software
This work studies offloading of the 5G UPF network function into programmable network hardware leveraging the synergy between (i) P4 as a UPF data plane, (ii) ETSI TFS as an overlay SDN controller of the UPF NF, and (iii) the rest of 5G Core network functions in a realistic deployment setup. The setup also involves a software-based UPF to demonstrate both co-existence and functional equivalence between legacy and P4-offloaded UPFs
DEMO 19 + POSTER
Nikos Psaromanolakis, UBITECH Ltd.
Smart just-in-time logistics atop an end-to-end orchestrated compute, network, and data continuum
This work introduces an open end-to-end system - based on ETSI SDGs - that schedules and orchestrates swarm-based IoT devices for smart warehouse and logistics operations across multi-domain and multi-stakeholder edge cloud, 5G, and IoT infrastructures
DEMO 20
Kostas Ramantas, Iquadrat Informatica
ARM: Autonomous Remediation with LLM Agents for ZSM
We propose a live demonstration of ARM (Autonomous Remediation & Management), a closed-loop framework that brings intent-driven automation to cloud-edge and IoT infrastructures. Building on the principles of ETSI ZSM for zero-touch closed management loops and aligned with TM Forum’s intent and service assurance models, ARM integrates Large Language Model (LLM) agents capable of real-time Root Cause Analysis and mitigation of SLA violations. The demo showcases how high-level intents can be continuously monitored, translated into actionable interventions, and autonomously enforced through Kubernetes-based infrastructures, using synthetic IoT workloads and chaos-engineered faults. This work highlights the synergy between open-source platforms (Prometheus, Kubernetes, Chaos Mesh), research initiatives (Horizon Europe / SNS-JU), and standardisation frameworks, demonstrating practical innovation in network automation, programmability, and AIOps for telco cloud and data infrastructures.
DEMO 21
Marco Ruta, Nextworks
Zero-Touch Closed-Loops Automation for Explainable Security Posture Management of Edge Applications
In the context of the ROBUST-6G and 6G-MARE SNS-JU projects, zero-touch closed loops are being investigated to define and maintain security postures at the network, edge/cloud and application levels in the 6G ecosystem. The aim of the demo is to showcase how ETSI-ZSM closed-loop automation, with steps aligned with NIST Incident Response Process r3 [1] principles, can be orchestrated and deployed to establish and maintain security postures for services and applications hosted in edge nodes, reducing the need for human intervention.
The demo involves protecting edge applications and services against external threats, as well as malicious or compromised services co-located within the same edge nodes. It showcases a comprehensive approach to edge services hardening, through a scenario that involves a consumer service running on a Kubernetes (K8s) infrastructure at the network edge, which must be safeguarded from emerging threats originating from both internal and external networks. The goal is to establish a minimum level of security by deploying, through a Security Orchestrator, ETSI-ZSM security closed-loops that can monitor and analyse network traffic for potential threats and respond by enhancing the current security posture. The security orchestrator acts as both the automation control point and interface for human oversight, ensuring that while loops operate autonomously, the process remains auditable. An LLM-powered AI Agent is integrated into the orchestration framework to analyze logs and traces generated by the closed loops, summarize activities, and generate reports for Security Operations Center (SoC) analysts. The monitoring and analysis phases of the loops are based on alerts raised by a SNORT DaemonSet dynamically orchestrated and configured within the cluster. The decision phase of the loops involve evaluating detected threats against CACAO Security Playbooks [2] to choose the most appropriate mitigation actions. The execution of the selected CACAO Security Playbook is performed exploiting the OpenC2 protocol (Open Command and Control) [3]. CACAO playbooks integrate OpenC2 commands that are then automatically executed by an OpenC2 actuator within the environment, ensuring standardized and automated response actions. CACAO playbooks are designed by security experts to ensure consistent, transparent, and replicable incident handling, enabling the solution to remain autonomous yet human-auditable.
The demo showcases two different attack scenarios, including (i) external attacks, which trigger a posture adaptation through modification of rules in the reverse-proxy gateway at the edge node’s ingress, allowing early packet dropping based on signature matching; (ii) internal attacks, which result in the automatic quarantine of infected edge services to prevent lateral movement within the node. This approach enables the deployment of lightweight, self-adaptive mechanisms that evolve continuously in response to the evolving threat landscape. The system’s adaptability is further enhanced by leveraging open-source SNORT rule sets [4] and readily updatable CACAO playbooks, ensuring alignment with the latest attack vectors and easily configurable remediation strategies. Additionally, the integration of the CACAO Roaster GUI [5] allows security operators and domain experts to define, refine, and customize playbooks through an intuitive interface, reducing complexity and fostering transparency within the cybersecurity community.
[1] https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/61/r3/final
[2] https://docs.oasis-open.org/cacao/security-playbooks/v2.0/security-playbooks-v2.0.html
[3] https://openc2.org/opensource.html
[4] https://www.snort.org/faq/what-are-community-rules
[5] https://github.com/opencybersecurityalliance/cacao-roaster
DEMO 22 - 22bis
Christos Verikoukis, ISI/ATHENA
AI-native autoscaling and zero-touch orchestration for future edge networks
In this demo, an AI-driven zero-touch orchestration framework is proposed. It is founded upon ETSI ZSM and MEC standards, supporting the vision of autonomous, closed-loop operations for Edge infrastructures. Furthermore, it leverages Deep Reinforcement Learning integrated with Kubernetes to enable self-adaptive resource management across cloud-native and edge infrastructures. An entropy-based confidence mechanism coupled with Dueling Double Deep Q-networks ensures trustworthy and stable decisions under dynamic workloads. Implemented within a broader research context aligned with the SNS JU ADROIT-6G and FLECON-6G projects, it demonstrates how AI-native orchestration enhances service reliability and operational efficiency, contributing practical insights toward the standardization of intelligent automation in future 6G systems.
Towards Railway Automation: SLA-Aware Zero-Touch Federated Intelligence over NTN
As railway systems advance toward higher automation, they require ultra-reliable and low-latency communications difficult to guarantee in remote regions with limited terrestrial coverage. Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs), with their wide reach, redundancy, and improving latency, address this gap by ensuring resilient connectivity as both primary and backup channels. In addition, the ETSI Zero-Touch Network and Service Management (ZSM) framework delivers end-to-end, vendor-agnostic automation for network and service management. Through zero-touch and closed-loop operations, ZSM enables real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and intelligent decision-making. So, by combining the wide coverage and resilience of NTNs with the intelligent, zerotouch
automation of ZSM, railway systems gain a robust foundation for achieving safe, efficient, and fully autonomous operations.
In this demo, we present a 6G-enabled, cloud-native zero-touch framework that integrates Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) with federated intelligence, fully compliant with ETSI ZSM architecture (GS ZSM 002/003). The framework implements a complete ZSM closed-loop cycle: railway elements act as FL clients for monitoring, continuously collecting operational data; an NTN-deployed aggregator, provided by SIEMENS, performs analytics via SLA-aware federated learning, predicting latency and detecting potential service degradations in real time; the decision component selects FL clients with lower SLA violation rates for each round and dynamically adjusts their learning rates to optimize training efficiency and SLA compliance; and the action phase outputs the best-trained model for accurate resource prediction and future SLA-aware decision-making. Live operational data from both baseline and proposed scenarios is streamed via Kafka, while a Grafana dashboard connected to PostgreSQL visualizes key metrics such as prediction accuracy, convergence speed, and SLA adherence. This setup demonstrates how the ZSM-enabled adaptive learning framework autonomously optimizes model training and enables reliable resource prediction for resilient railway operations.
Overall, the demonstration highlights how federated learning, coupled with SLA-driven orchestration, NTN connectivity, and ZSM-based closed-loop automation, can ensure continuous, efficient, and trustworthy operation of automated railway systems with minimal human intervention.
POSTER 1
At-scale deployment of network digital twin on the cloud for network configuration validation
Allen Abishek, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
This work presents a cloud-native, scalable Network Digital Twin (NDT) that avoids dependence on High Performance Computing (HPC) by partitioning large topologies across multiple commodity cloud worker nodes. An “NDT Manager” orchestrates the full lifecycle of the segmented NDT via four modules: API interface, core orchestrator, deployment adapter, and a lifecycle manager for monitoring and autoscaling. Each network element of the segmented NDT run as containerlab instances connected to other network elements running as a different segment via Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) tunnels that lead to different network segments work together as one cohesive unit. This demonstrates efficient resource management, elimination of a Single Point of Failure (SPoF) since the entire NDT is not running on one HPC server.
POSTER 2
CONNECT testbeds: Benchmarking open experimentation for 6G-XCEL and future connectivity
Hajar Bennouri, CONNECT Centre
POSTER 3
Federation enablement for multi-operator platforms: orchestrating services with the Open OP
Claudia Carballo González, i2CAT Foundation
This work presents a federation framework interconnecting multiple operator platforms (OPs) through the Open Operator Platform (Open OP). Acting as a common enabler, Open OP exposes CAMARA-based APIs via its Northbound Interface (NBI), ensuring consistent service exposure across domains. The Federation Manager (FM) coordinates inter-operator interactions through an East-Westbound Interface (EWBI), enabling cross-domain application lifecycle management. By leveraging the Open SDK for abstracted API access, the FM simplifies capability exchange—such as application artefact upload and deployment—across partner OPs. This design decouples federation logic from platform specifics, providing a scalable and interoperable approach to cross-domain orchestration and resource sharing.
POSTER 4
Service orchestration in 6G telco operator platforms: from closed-loop to agentic AI frameworks
Michail Dalgitsis, Nearby Computing
This poster explores the evolving landscape of AI service orchestration across next-generation telco networks. It begins with closed-loop AI/ML orchestration frameworks, which continuously monitor and optimize services within predefined feedback loops. Building on this, agentic orchestration approaches enable proactive, multi-domain decision-making, allowing AI agents to adapt dynamically across complex systems. Finally, it examines telco service orchestration within the context of 6G networks, showing how open APIs, including LF CAMARA and GSMA Edge Federation, support seamless integration and drive network transformation. Together, these perspectives illustrate the interplay between AI agentic orchestration and telco ecosystems, providing a comprehensive view of the technologies shaping the future of service orchestration.
POSTER 5
Full closed-loop automation and multi-layer (IP over optical) control in multi-granular optical networks using ETSI TeraFlowSDN
Lluis Gifre, CTTC
This work demonstrates an integrated framework for multi-layer and closed-loop control in next-generation multi-granular optical networks using the ETSI TeraFlowSDN platform. The system dynamically adapts IP virtual network topologies (VNTs) over ultra-wideband WDM links while managing wavelength and waveband switching through multi-granular optical nodes (MG-ONs). A telemetry-driven closed loop detects optical impairments—such as amplifier failures—and automatically reconfigures affected services by shifting traffic between C- and S-bands, avoiding per-connection RSA recomputation and reducing SDN operations. At the IP layer, link capacities are flexibly adapted by adding or removing wavelengths within existing wavebands. Together, these capabilities enable autonomous, reliable, and scalable packet-optical transport control, paving the way for energy-efficient and self-healing 6G infrastructures.
POSTER 6
Unified SDN control of coherent pluggables and lite-coherent optical transceivers using ETSI TeraFlowSDN
Lluis Gifre, CTTC
This work demonstrates a unified ETSI TeraFlowSDN control architecture for next-generation optical transceivers, spanning coherent pluggables with Digital Sub-Carrier Multiplexing (DSCM) and lite-coherent DSP-free transceivers with all-optical signal processing (AOSP). The system introduces a dual Southbound Interface approach enabling coordinated IP-over-DWDM control while avoiding configuration conflicts through NETCONF/OpenConfig extensions. A distributed testbed interconnecting CTTC, CNIT, Telefónica, and UBI validates multi-layer orchestration and IP-virtual-slice provisioning. The controller is further enhanced to dynamically configure chromatic dispersion and polarization parameters in Lite-Coherent transceivers via augmented YANG models. This unified framework enables seamless management of heterogeneous optical devices, advancing automated, energy-efficient, and scalable transport control for 6G networks.
POSTER 7
Rethinking NTN architecture: leveraging 6G-RUPA for scalable and energy-efficient LEO networks
Sergio Giménez, i2CAT
The integration of Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) and Terrestrial Networks (TN) into 6G systems presents significant challenges. A primary challenge is scalability and energy efficiency, stemming from conventional protocols that necessitate large forwarding tables and incur high power consumption. This poster introduces the 6G Recursive User Plane Architecture (6G-RUPA), a novel architecture for the 6G user plane designed for the native integration of NTNs. 6G-RUPA achieves inherent flexibility by decoupling node identity from its topological location. A key innovation is the use of topological addressing to enable routing based on network structure rather than persistent node identifiers. This abstraction facilitates a topological routing scheme that maintains a constant forwarding state, irrespective of network size. Simulation results validate this approach, demonstrating a dramatic reduction in forwarding table size, which directly translates to superior energy efficiency and scalability.
POSTER 8
Trustworthy Federated Learning in O-RAN: Blockchain-based Reputation for Verifiable Participation
Farhana Javed, CTTC
This poster proposes a blockchain-enabled reputation framework to make federated learning (FL) trustworthy in multi-vendor Open RAN (O-RAN) environments, shifting from implicit trust to verifiable, on-chain accountability. While FL preserves data locality, it does not itself guarantee the quality or integrity of model updates across heterogeneous providers. The design therefore binds participation to auditable, ledger-recorded contributions and aligns with O-RAN components (SMO, Non-RT RIC, Near-RT RIC).
The decentralized application (DApp) includes smart contracts for client registration, performance submission, and reputation management, and integrates a blockchain-based oracle to bring off-chain performance metrics on-chain. Model quality is measured by normalized mean squared error; lower error maps to higher reputation via an inverse mapping with a small stabilizing constant, and the best-performing ninety percent of clients are retained each round. To curb costs, scores are computed off-chain and committed in a single end-of-round transaction (batching). The system runs on Polygon’s Amoy Layer-2 testnet to leverage proof-of-stake finality and lower gas fees.
Evaluation uses fifty clients plus one aggregator over ten iterations, covering registration, performance submissions, and reputation updates. Reported costs include approximately 43,464 gas per client registration; the reputation update transaction consumes about 1,333,405 gas in the initialization round and roughly 458,000–460,000 gas in subsequent rounds, reflecting warm-storage effects. Latency is analyzed under sequential and concurrent loads; concurrency introduces longer tails. Histograms of block size, transactions per block, and gas used illustrate cost and throughput variability during mass submissions. Overall, the study demonstrates feasibility and clarifies cost/latency trade-offs, while noting bottlenecks under high concurrency and motivating contract and infrastructure optimizations, including exploring zero-knowledge techniques to attest off-chain computation privately.
POSTER 9
TruE-MAN - Trusted and energy efficient support of multimedia application transfers over 5G network slices
George Karetsos, University of Thessaly
TruE-MAN enables secure and energy-efficient multimedia delivery across multi-operator 5G networks. By combining blockchain-backed SLA management, dynamic resource sharing, and adaptive orchestration, TruE-MAN allows operators to collaborate transparently while optimizing resource utilization. The framework supports ephemeral access, federated slices, and ensures quality of experience. This poster presents the preliminary architecture, inter-component flows, and early pilot-oriented validation scenarios."
POSTER 10
An Open SDK for standardised testbed capability exposure in federated 5G/6G environments
Mohammadreza Mosahebfard, i2CAT
This poster presents an Open Software Development Kit (Open SDK), a key enabler designed to simplify the orchestration of services across heterogeneous testbed infrastructures. The Open SDK operates by packaging reusable Transformation Functions (TFs) that provide an abstraction layer. These TFs translate standardised service Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), as defined by the CAMARA initiative, into the native, platform-specific APIs of underlying systems, including edge cloud orchestrators and 5G core networks. By offering a unified and consistent interface, the Open SDK facilitates the seamless deployment and management of applications in multi-operator and federated environments. This approach significantly lowers integration barriers for developers and experimenters. The poster highlights the Open SDK's modular architecture, its compliance with industry standards, and its foundational role in enabling interoperable 6G experimentation.
POSTER 11
ECO-eNET: Towards efficient and intelligent confluent edge networks for 6G
Carlos Natalino, Chalmers University of Technology
The Horizon Europe project ECO-eNET introduces the concept of confluent networking as a foundation for future 6G systems, where optical, wireless, and compute domains operate as a unified and intelligently orchestrated infrastructure. The project aims to achieve ultra-efficient, high-capacity, and low-latency edge connectivity through the seamless integration of sub-terahertz and free-space optical transmission, advanced fibre sensing, and AI-enabled orchestration.
Significant progress has been made in the development of plasmonic sub-THz transceivers, adaptive photonic free-space optical links, and telemetry-driven fibre sensing for proactive network management. These technologies are complemented by a unified control and orchestration framework that bridges the RAN, transport, and core segments, enabling dynamic and energy-aware network operation.
This poster presents the project’s recent achievements, focusing on the technological advances, experimental validation, and control-plane innovations that bring confluent networking closer to practical 6G deployment.
POSTER 12
Edge microservice deployment and management using SDN-enabled whitebox switches
Mohamad Rahhal, CTTC
This work advances a 6G-ready, micro-granular SDN fabric that unifies high-performance edge data planes with intent-driven, multi-domain orchestration and cloud offloading. First, edge and cell-site whiteboxes are upgraded with Smart Network Interface Cards and embedded AI accelerators, enabling line-rate processing of data flows and on-box learning/inference directly in the data plane. This pushes functions such as traffic classification, telemetry, and anomaly mitigation to the point of ingress, reducing latency and backhaul load. Second, ETSI TeraFlowSDN (TFS) is extended to deliver multi-domain SDN orchestration with native life-cycle management (LCM) of whitebox Network Operating Systems—covering onboarding, configuration-drift control, rolling upgrades/rollbacks, and policy-guarded compliance—so operators can reliably manage heterogeneous edge fleets at scale. Third, TFS incorporates a new NFV-O client that seamlessly offloads network services—such as ML pipelines or NOS components—to telco clouds via an NFV orchestrator (e.g., ETSI Open Source MANO), enabling elastic placement and scale-out across the edge–cloud continuum. Together, these contributions deliver an open, programmable platform that couples in-situ acceleration with closed-loop, intent-based orchestration and elastic cloud resources, targeting demonstrable gains in end-to-end latency, throughput, operational agility, and energy efficiency for emerging 6G services.
POSTER 13
Data spaces for network digital twins: challenges and opportunities in data exchange and harmonisation
Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
The concept of the Network Digital Twin (NDT) has emerged as a key approach to managing the increasing complexity of modern mobile networks. By replicating the real network’s state and behaviour, NDTs provide a sandbox for detecting anomalies, optimizing performance, and enabling automation.
However, data remains the essential fuel of any digital twin — not only in terms of volume and quality but also in how it is governed, shared, and harmonized across diverse stakeholders. This raises crucial questions about interoperability, regulation, and trust in data exchange.
The Data Space (DS) paradigm offers a promising framework to address these challenges, providing a trusted environment for data sharing with clear governance mechanisms. While DS concepts are already advancing in several domains, their application in networking remains limited.
This poster aims to spark discussion on how Data Spaces can support NDTs, exploring the challenges and opportunities of data exchange and harmonization in the context of future 6G systems.
POSTER 14
The service mesh model as enabler for network core observability and traffic resilience
Dimitris Tsolkas, Fogus Innovations & Services P.C.
With the telecommunications industry moving towards a cloud-native implementation of the Service-Based Architecture of the network core, the Service Mesh model seems to be a building block of choice for delivering advanced capabilities across all Network Functions. The main objective of this poster is to roll out a Service Mesh platform for the 5G core, enabling features such as robust security via mutual TLS, fine-grained traffic management, and observability. Given those features of the platform, demonstration scenarios showcase the capability to prevent DDoS, through mechanisms embedded directly into the control plane and the sturdiness of the core network against common signaling attacks like a registration flood, ensuring uninterrupted availability and operation integrity of the 5G services. In addition, through the extensive observability feature, energy-monitoring is enabled, allowing for a sustainable network core design."
POSTER 15
NGIS/IDT: Intent-Driven Transport and Predictive Zero-Buffer QoS for AI Workloads
Kamel Sadani, NGISLABS.AI
NGIS/IDT (Next-Generation Interconnect System / Intent-Driven Transport) introduces a transport paradigm designed for distributed AI workloads across data centers. By embedding semantics (Intent-ID) directly into packets, NGIS/IDT enables deterministic flows with sub-millisecond latency, predictive zero-buffer QoS, and verifiable Proof-of-Transport across operators. A cognitive orchestration layer (L1–L3) computes Intent-Forwarding-Tables with cryptographic signatures and PTP-synchronized validity windows. This approach complements ETSI SDG projects by providing a transport substrate that exposes precise timing, reliability, and compliance information to orchestrators such as OpenSlice and OpenCAPIF. We present RFC-style specifications, and later on a roadmap for interoperability with ETSI open source initiatives.
Join us for a high-energy, hands-on hackathon and open innovation challenge during the ETSI SNS4SNS event !
We invite developers, research teams, startups, students, and open source contributors to showcase their creativity and technical expertise by building inovative solutions that leverage the software of at least two ETSI Software Development Groups (SDGs): OpenCAPIF, OpenOP, OpenSlice, Open Source MANO, TeraFlowSDN.
Whether you extend a demo already presented in the main SNS4SNS track or develop a new Use Case from scratch, this is your chance to make an impact, connect with peers, and influence the future of open telecommunications and 6G.
Your mission
Use the software of at least 2 ETSI SDGs to build a solution that solves a problem, expands functional capabilities, or integrates with external infrastructures.
Teams will work on their own infrastructure and will present their results live at the SNS4SNS event !
The challenge
Participants will collaborate in teams throughout the challenge, using their own infrastructures, to design and implement a demo or use case that:
- Solves a technical problem, or
- Extends the capabilities of ETSI SDG projects, or
- Integrates ETSI SDG components into broader ecosystems.
How it works
1) Register
Form your team and submit a brief idea. You’ll receive links to SDG docs, repos, mailing lists, and Slack channels.
2) Build on your infrastructure
Develop on your own labs, clouds, or testbeds. Integrate ≥ 2 ETSI SDGs and any external platforms (hyperscalers, telcos, EU testbeds).
3) Present live
Demo your results on-site during the SNS4SNS event. Judges evaluate against transparent scoring criteria.
Examples of potential topics could be:
- Intelligent network automation
- Secure AI-driven edge services
- Cross-domain orchestration and monitoring
- Sustainable data-sovereign architectures
Why join?
- Build cutting-edge solutions using ETSI SDGs
- Collaborate with the ETSI SDG community
- Showcase your work to European industry, researchers, and innovators
- Contribute to open source projects and EU digital objectives
Who can participate?
- Developers, DevOps, students, researchers
- Universities, Startups & SMEs
- Open source contributors and standardisation enthusiasts
- Multidisciplinary teams are encouraged (networking, AI, cloud, security, UI/UX)
Evaluation criteria
Projects will be scored on:
- SDG & API usage
- Contributions to ETSI SDGs (MRs/issues)
- Integration with external infrastructures
- Automation & security features
- Quality of use case & documentation
- Alignment with EU goals (data sovereignty, trustworthy AI, sustainability)
- Bonus points for real deployments and multi-partner collaboration !
How to Register
To register your team, fill in the dedicated form
Participation is free but places are limited !
Timeline
- Call for Participation Opens: 7 October
- Hackathon Kick-off: 26 November
- Team submission deadline: 16 January (each team will require at least 1 participant on-site).
- Demos: 2-3 February
- Awards: 5 February
Support & Resources
- Access to ETSI SDG GitLab repos, APIs, and documentation
- Mentoring sessions from ETSI SDG experts
- Networking opportunities
Winning teams will be showcased on the SNS4SNS stage and gain visibility in the ETSI & EU innovation ecosystem.
This hackathon is more than just coding. It’s about shaping the future of 6G networks, contributing to open standards, and building real interoperable solutions in the European innovation ecosystem.
Be part of the movement: code, collaborate, and innovate with ETSI SDGs.
Event venue:
ETSI Headquarters
650 Route des Lucioles
06921 Sophia Antipolis
FRANCE
Tel: +33 4 92 94 42 00
Travel & Accomodation
Details of how to get to ETSI, local transport and hotels
The 1st edition of SNS4SNS was held on 12-14 November 2024.
The 2024 Conference presentations in Pdf format are available here.
An online playlist has been created, featuring all the 2024 event presentations in video format hereafter.
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