This project, titled "Integration of the University of Granada's LoRaWAN network in the 6G SANDBOX connectivity infrastructure" (6G-LoRaGRAN), has been granted in the 1st 6G-SANDBOX Open Call for New Infrastructures and Functionalities (part of the European project 6G-SANDBOX). It started in Sept. 2023 and lasted 6 months.
The main functionality that the present project adds to the current 6G-SANDBOX infrastructure is the integration of the University of Granada's LoRaWAN network in the 6G-SANDBOX connectivity infrastructure. The UGR network is composed of a Radio Access Network (RAN) and a backend (LoRaWAN network and application servers). The RAN consists of an outdoor gateway (managed by CSIRC) and several indoor gateways (from the WiMuNet research group). To enable its use, the LoRaWAN network is integrated with the 5G cores from the 6G-SANDBOX sites. This enables remote LoRaWAN experimentation using the UGR's LoRaWAN motes and infrastructure. Finally, a LoRaWAN network slicing solution is also implemented (each slice composed of several radio channels, isolated from other slices), allowing specific radio resources to be allocated for motes belonging to different verticals.
About us
WiMuNet is the research team that has designed and developed the 6G-LoRaGRAN platform. WiMuNet is currently formed by six professor (two full professor, three associate professors and one assistant professor) of the University of Granada (Spain), one postdoc researcher and five Ph.D. students. WiMuNet's main focus is the research in 5G/6G, low power IoT and deterministic networking, proposing disruptive solutions based on analytical modeling, simulation and testbed demonstration, in which AI is the cornerstone for their design, configuration, deployment and operation.
Our location
WiMuNet members are located in the Higher Technical School of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (ETSIIT) of the University of Granada, and also located at the Research Centre for Information and Communications Technologies (CITIC-UGR).
Our teaching
WIMUNET members teach in the B.Sc. and M.Sc. Telecommunications Engineering and B.Sc. and M.Sc. of Computer Science Engineering. Also, we belong to the Doctoral Programme in Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Granada.
The responsible of the 6G-LoRaGRAN project is Jorge Navarro-Ortiz (jorgenavarro@ugr.es). You can find more info about Jorge at his web page. If you find any issue with the 6G-LoRaGRAN Experiment Manager or have any doubt, please do not hesitate to contact him or the LoRaGRAN team.