9th of July at 16h00, Karima Velasquez (NCS) will give a presentation entitled“Building Sustainable Distributed B5G Networks”
Location: G4.1
Abstract
Beyond-5G (B5G) networks are essential for services like autonomous systems and extended reality, relying on virtual network slices tailored for specific needs. While Artificial Intelligence (AI) is crucial for managing the immense complexity of this End-to-End (E2E) slicing, the high energy consumption of AI models presents a significant financial and environmental challenge, which conflicts with sustainability goals, such as those considered in the EU Green Deal.
This talk addresses this critical trade-off. Our approach is proposing an energy-conscious orchestration architecture, built on three pillars: a Knowledge-Defined Networking (KDN) framework for intelligent automation, the deployment of Green AI techniques to create lightweight, energy-efficient ML models, and the use of Edge Intelligence to run these models closer to the data source, reducing the carbon footprint. The talk will showcase the use of an emulation platform based on Mosaic5G to validate and fine-tune these energy-aware mechanisms in a near-production environment, demonstrating how sustainable network management can be achieved without compromising performance.
Bio
Karima Velasquez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics Engineering at the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Centre for Informatics and Systems (CISUC). Her work focuses on network management and orchestration, with a special emphasis on the Cloud-to-Edge continuum, energy efficiency, and cognitive networking for 5G and beyond.
