About the project

6G-SKY

6G for Connected Sky project aims at solutions to enable reliable and robust connectivity for aerial and ground users via flexible and adaptive network architecture adopting multiple technologies such as satellite and direct air to ground communication (DA2GC). In addition, this project focuses on novel wireless network design and management schemes in 3-dimensional (3D) space including different types of flying vehicles with their unique requirements. Another focus is to provide robust, low latency and/or high-capacity communications to ground users in the rural areas without any infrastructure via non terrestrial networks (NTNs), which are already initially introduced in 5G.

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The project is divided into 6 work packages.
To see the details of each work package please click on a card below.

Work Package 0

Project Management

Lead: Airbus, Technical coordinator: KTH
Work Package 1

Holistic Adaptive NTN Architecture for 6G

Lead: Ericsson AB
Work Package 2

Multi-Technology Connectivity Links

Lead: Deutsche Telekom
Work Package 3

3D Wireless Network Design and Management

Lead: Ericsson Hungary
Work Package 4

NTN for Terrestrial Users

Lead: Fraunhofer IIS
Work Package 5

Integration, Demonstrations and Lab Emulations

Lead: Lakeside Labs

The international consortium of Celtic-Next comprises 17 partners from Sweden, Austria, Germany and Hungary and is led by Airbus. They complement each other very well in the value chain of the future 6G-Sky 3D systems and cover the communication areas via terrestrial, non-terrestrial networks, aerospace industry with LEO, GEO satellites and High Altitude Platforms (HAPs), as well as antennas development and software for Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM).
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PARTNERS

Deutsche Telekom
GERMANY
Airbus
GERMANY
Motius
GERMANY
Meshmerize
GERMANY
Fraunhofer IIS
GERMANY
Twins
AUSTRIA
Red Bernard
AUSTRIA
Aitia
HUNGARY
Lakeside Labs
AUSTRIA
Logistics Centre
AUSTRIA
SAS
SWEDEN
Ericsson
SWEDEN
Skysense
SWEDEN
KTH
SWEDEN
PTS
SWEDEN

MANAGEMENT BOARD

Dominic Schupke

Dominic Schupke

Project Coordinator
Airbus
Wireless Communications

Cicek Cavdar

Cicek Cavdar

Technical Coordinator

KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Associate Professor

Mustafa Ozger

Mustafa Ozger

Co-lead of Technical Coordination

Researcher at KTH
Technical Coordinator

Christian Raffelsberger

Christian Raffelsberger

Lead of Austrian Consortium
Lakeside Labs GmbH
Senior Researcher

István Gódor

István Gódor

Lead of Hungarian consortium

Ericsson Research
Research Leader

Thomas Heyn

Thomas Heyn

Lead of German consortium
Fraunhofer IIS
Group Manager Mobile Communications

Julia Kolb

Julia Kolb

Co-Lead of German consortium
Fraunhofer IIS
Project Manager Mobile Communications

CONTACT US

If you would like to contact us please write us an e-mail to:
6G-Sky@iis.fraunhofer.de