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Rob Smets

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arXiv2025

AIORA: An AI-Native Multi-Stakeholder Orchestration Architecture for 6G Continuum

This paper elaborates on a novel AI-native architecture for emerging 6G systems harnessing open APIs, along with supporting mechanisms to empower intelligent and coordinated orchestration of edge-cloud continuum resources. The AIORA architecture facilitates a seamless creation, life-cycle management, and exposure of services in multi-segment heterogeneous environments. It integrates new breeds of tools and advanced technologies to enable zero-touch management of an edge-cloud continuum, building on top of the 3GPP Edge Enablement Layer and the respective connectivity models, allowing to cater to the high flexibility, availability, efficiency, reliability, and resilience needs of the future 6G services and applications. Several ongoing industry initiatives -- such as ETSI MEC for edge computing platforms, the GSMA Operator Platform for multi-operator service federation, and CAMARA for cross-operator API standardization -- demonstrate the growing momentum towards integrated frameworks where edge, cloud, and network resources can be seamlessly orchestrated. Our proposed AIORA architecture not only aligns with these initiatives but also extends them by leveraging a multi-segment virtual continuum concept and nested AI-driven closed loops for real-time optimization.

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arXiv2024

QuIP: A P4 Quantum Internet Protocol Prototyping Framework

Quantum entanglement is so fundamentally different from a network packet that several quantum network stacks have been proposed; one of which has even been experimentally demonstrated. Several simulators have also been developed to make up for limited hardware availability, and which facilitate the design and evaluation of quantum network protocols. However, the lack of shared tooling and community-agreed node architectures has resulted in protocol implementations that are tightly coupled to their simulators. Besides limiting their reusability between different simulators, it also makes building upon prior results and simulations difficult. To address this problem, we have developed QuIP: a P4-based Quantum Internet Protocol prototyping framework for quantum network protocol design. QuIP is a framework for designing and implementing quantum network protocols in a platform-agnostic fashion. It achieves this by providing the means to flexibly, but rigorously, define device architectures against which quantum network protocols can be implemented in the network programming language P4$_{16}$. QuIP also comes with the necessary tooling to enable their execution in existing quantum network simulators. We demonstrate its use by showcasing V1Quantum, a completely new device architecture, implementing a link- and network-layer protocol, and simulating it in the existing simulator NetSquid.

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