The aim of the “6G-Ac­cess, Net­work of Net­works, Au­to­ma­ti­on & Sim­pli­fi­ca­ti­on(6G-ANNA)” pro­ject is to de­ve­lop a ho­li­stic con­cept for the sixth ge­nera­ti­on of mo­bi­le com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons with an end-to-end clo­sed ar­chi­tec­tu­re. To this end, in­no­va­ti­ve pro­to­cols and si­gnal pro­ces­sing al­go­rith­ms are being de­si­gned and cor­re­spon­ding net­work ma­nage­ment and or­che­stra­ti­on ap­proa­ches are being in­ve­sti­ga­ted. The in­ter­ac­tion bet­ween hu­mans, tech­no­lo­gy and the en­vi­ron­ment is to be sim­pli­fied and im­pro­ved. New sen­sors, al­go­rith­ms and di­gi­tal twins of com­plex struc­tures in pro­duc­tion con­tri­bu­te to this. Ano­t­her fo­cus is the in­ve­sti­ga­ti­on of 6G as a “net­work of net­works”, in which va­rious clo­sed net­works can be fle­xi­b­ly in­ter­con­nec­ted. Over­all, fle­xi­bi­li­ty and re­duc­tion of en­er­gy con­sump­ti­on while main­tai­ning the per­for­mance of the net­work are im­portant goals of all re­se­arch work.

AIN is in­ve­sti­ga­ting the im­ple­men­ta­ti­on of di­gi­tal twins spe­ci­fi­cal­ly tailo­red to net­work ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons. Our goal is to be at the fo­re­front of sup­porting the ever-evol­ving and in­te­re­sting 6G use ca­ses and pro­vi­ding the ne­cessa­ry con­sul­ting to build the op­ti­mal cu­s­to­mi­zed en­ter­pri­se and cam­pus networks.