Marsal Project

The EU-funded H2020 MARSAL project targets the development and evaluation of a complete framework for the management and orchestration of network resources in 5G and beyond, by utilizing a converged optical-wireless network infrastructure in the access and fronthaul/midhaul segments. MARSAL breaks the barriers of the traditional cellular networks paradigm by proposing breakthrough distributed processing cell-free massive MIMO architectures, which will be integrated with existing vRAN elements, while being in-line with O-RAN concept. MARSAL also proposes a new paradigm of elastic virtual infrastructures that integrate in a transparent manner optical-wireless convergence architectures, networking, management and security technologies. Furthermore, Innovative AI/ML techniques are used for improving the performance of the architecture in different levels.