distributed ledger technologies and user-driven automation towards self-SOVEREIGN mobile data access in beyond 5G networks

MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie)HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SEID: 101131481
EC Contribution
€16,560
Consortium Size
8 orgs
Start Year
2024
Summary

Towards the forthcoming transition to a fully connected world (e.g., Internet of Senses, digital twins), support of connected intelligence requires service advertisement, discovery, negotiation and management that goes beyond the complexity and scalability that existing technologies and subscription-driven MNO processes can handle. In Beyond 5G (B5G) networks, cyber-physical assets and intelligent end points will be capable of translating current service requirements to comprehensive technical specifications dynamically (e.g., QoS/QoE management per service chunk) as well as request for full customization of their service terms in line with current availability of tenants/resources and their application requirements. Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) hold the key for natively disintermediated, cost-efficient, and anonymous B5G communications, enabling transparency and trust to be established across the integrated DLT, radio access and core network continuum. The SOVEREIGN research programme aims to fuel artificial intelligence (AI) with DLT-backed data in order to innovate the B5G service chain and the B5G protocol stack towards the support of fully decentralized, instantaneous, and anonymous resource trading across the B5G network ecosystem (end terminals, infrastructure, OTT service providers, etc.). SOVEREIGN aims to empower intelligent end points in B5G networks, to gain full control of their identities, connectivity, sessions, service terms, and shared data upon accessing B5G spectrum, antennas, network slices and services. To this end, SOVEREIGN will conceptualize and develop a modular end-to-end service architecture integrating DLT-empowered service provisioning, fully decentralized AAA operations, forward-thinking protocols for self-sovereign identity management and anonymity/data privacy preservation as well as user-driven AI-enabled mobility management and traffic steering over joint DLT/B5G system infrastructures.

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Project Results (38)

Source: CORDIS, the EU research results database.

Publications (33)
Artificial Intelligence for Satellite Communication: A Survey
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials· 2026DOI
Gianluca Fontanesi, Flor Ortíz, Eva Lagunas, Luis Manuel Garcés-Socarrás, Victor Monzon Baeza, Miguel Ángel Vázquez, Juan Andrés Vásquez-Peralvo, Mario Minardi, Ha Nguyen Vu, Puneeth Jubba Honn
Exploiting Data Significance in Remote Estimation of Discrete-State Markov Sources
IEEE Transactions on Communications· 2026DOI
Jiping Luo, Nikolaos Pappas
Adaptive Federated Learning Over the Air
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing· 2025DOI
Chenhao Wang, Zihan Chen, Nikolaos Pappas, Howard H. Yang, Tony Q. S. Quek, H. Vincent Poor
Adaptive Trust Management for Data Poisoning Attacks in MEC-Based FL Infrastructures
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society· 2025DOI
Basma Hathout; Paul Shepherd; Tasos Dagiuklas; Khaled Nagaty; Abeer Hamdy; Jonathan Rodriguez
Age of Information-Aware Cognitive Shared Access Networks with Energy Harvesting
2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking· 2025DOI
G. Smpokos, D. Xenakis, M. Kountouris, N. Pappas
Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection for IoMT Networks: Leveraging Blockchain Technology
2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)· 2025DOI
Georgios Zachos, Filippos Pelekoudas-Oikonomou, Georgios Mantas, Kyriakos Porfyrakis, Georgia Sakellari, Joaquim M.C.S. Bastos, Naveed Ahmad, Jonathan Rodriguez
Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection for Zephyr-based Resource-Constrained Devices in IoMT Networks
2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networks· 2025DOI
G. Zachos, G. Mantas, J. Bastos, J. Rodriguez, A. Tsiota, D. Xenakis
Fast Beam Placement for Ultra-Dense LEO Networks
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters· 2025DOI
Trinh Van Chien, Nguyen Minh Quan, Tri Nhu Do, Cuong Le, Tan N. Nguyen, Symeon Chatzinotas
Goal-Oriented Estimation of Multiple Markov Sources in Resource-Constrained Systems
2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)· 2025DOI
Jiping Luo, Nikolaos Pappas
Goal-Oriented Semantic Communications for 6G Networks
IEEE Internet of Things Magazine· 2025DOI
Hui Zhou, Yansha Deng, Xiaonan Liu, Nikolaos Pappas, Arumugam Nallanathan
LEO Satellite-Enabled Random Access With Large Differential Delay and Doppler Shift
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications· 2025DOI
Boxiao Shen, Yongpeng Wu, Wenjun Zhang, Symeon Chatzinotas, Björn Ottersten
MARL-aided Spectral Efficiency Maximization in Multi-Tier NTN Operating Multi-Connectivity with Different Waveforms for PAYG Service
2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall)· 2025DOI
Michael N. Dazhi, Hayder Al-Hraishawi, Bhavani Shankar, Symeon Chatzinotas
Massive RF Inter-Satellite Links for Massive Non-Terrestrial Networks
IEEE Communications Magazine· 2025DOI
Steven Kisseleff, Victor Monzon Baeza, Hayder Al-Hraishawi, Konstantinos Ntontin, Wallace A. Martins, Symeon Chatzinotas
Minimizing the Age of Missed and False Alarms in Remote Estimation of Markov Sources
Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing· 2025DOI
Jiping Luo, Nikolaos Pappas
On the Cost of Consecutive Estimation Error: Significance-Aware Non-Linear Aging
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory· 2025DOI
Jiping Luo; Nikolaos Pappas
On the Resource Consumption of 2D Human Pose Estimation Services in MEC-enabled Networks
2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking· 2025DOI
I. Vittorakis, D. Xenakis, G. Kalpaktsoglou
On the Service Probability of MEC-enabled Beyond 5G Systems supporting 3GPP Location Services
2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking· 2025DOI
D. Xenakis, P. Xepapadakou, K. Palias
Physical-Layer Security in OFDM-Based PNC-Enabled IoT: Analysis and Detection of Symbol-Level Jamming Attacks
2025 IEEE Globecom Workshops: Workshop on Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Wireless Security· 2025DOI
E. A. Doost, G. Mantas, J. Bastos, J. Rodriguez, A. Tsiota, D. Xenakis
Semantic-Aware Remote Estimation of Multiple Markov Sources Under Constraints
IEEE Transactions on Communications· 2025DOI
Jiping Luo; Nikolaos Pappas
State-Aware Timeliness in Energy Harvesting IoT Systems Monitoring a Markovian Source
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking· 2025DOI
Erfan Delfani, George J. Stamatakis, Nikolaos Pappas
Version Age of Information Minimization Over Fading Broadcast Channels
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications· 2025DOI
Gangadhar Karevvanavar, Hrishikesh Pable, Om Patil, Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat, Nikolaos Pappas
Version Age-Optimal Cached Status Updates in a Gossiping Network With Energy Harvesting Sensor
IEEE Transactions on Communications· 2025DOI
Erfan Delfani, Nikolaos Pappas
Boosting Dynamic TDD in Small Cell Networks by the Multiplicative Weight Update Method
2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)· 2024DOI
Jiaqi Zhu, Nikolaos Pappas, Howard H. Yang
Exploiting Data Significance in Remote Estimation of Discrete-State Markov Sources
· 2024DOI
Luo, Jiping; Pappas, Nikolaos
Integrating a Zero-Trust Adaptive Security Framework in Edge Based Federated Learning
2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD)· 2024DOI
Paul Shepherd; Tasos Dagiuklas; Bugra Alkan; Jonathan Rodriguez
Optimizing Information Freshness in IoT Systems with Update Rate Constraints: A Token-Based Approach
2024 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking)· 2024DOI
Delfani, Erfan; Pappas, Nikolaos
Secure Status Updates under Eavesdropping: Age of Information-based Secrecy Metrics
IEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)· 2024DOI
Qian Wang, He Chen, Parthajit Mohapatra, Nikolaos Pappas
Semantic Text Transmission via Prediction with Small Language Models: Cost-Similarity Trade-off
2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)· 2024DOI
Bhavani A Madhabhavi, Gangadhar Karevvanavar, Rajshekhar V Bhat, Nikolaos Pappas
Semantic-Aware Remote Estimation of Multiple Markov Sources Under Constraints
2024 22nd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt)· 2024
Jiping Luo; Nikolaos Pappas
Semantics-Aware Active Fault Detection in Status Updating Systems
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society· 2024DOI
George Stamatakis; Nikolaos Pappas; Alexandros Fragkiadakis; Nikolaos Petroulakis; Apostolos Traganitis
Semantics-Aware Status Updates with Energy Harvesting Devices: Query Version Age of Information
2024 22nd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt)· 2024DOI
Erfan Delfani; Nikolaos Pappas
Semantics-Aware Status Updates with Energy Harvesting Devices: Query Version Age of Information
· 2024DOI
Delfani, Erfan; Pappas, Nikolaos
Version Age-Based Client Scheduling Policy for Federated Learning
2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW)· 2024DOI
Hu, Xinyi; Pappas, Nikolaos; Yang, Howard H.
Deliverables (5)