D2.1 TERRANOVA system requirements

• Main Authors: Salgado, Jose, Silva, Nelson, Elschner, Robert, Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos, Katsiotis, Alexandros, Kritharidis, Dimitrios, Alexiou, Angeliki, Jonnas Kokkoniemi, Lehtomaki, Janne
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Terranova
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4635484; https://zenodo.org/record/4635484

The present deliverable, titled “D2.1 TERRANOVA system requirements”, focuses on the system requirements of Terabit/s Wireless Connectivity by Terahertz innovative technologies to deliver Optical Network Quality of Experience in Systems beyond 5G (TERRANOVA). Initially details the key use cases for the TERRANOVA technology and presents the description of the network architecture. In more detail, the use cases are classified into two categories, namely backhaul & fronthaul, mobile and fixed wireless access. The first category refers to fibre extender, point-topoint and redundancy applications, whereas the latter is designed to support corporate backup connection for large and SMEs, internet of things (IoT) dense environments, data centres, indoor wireless access, ad hoc networks, and last mile access. Then, it provides the networks architecture for the TERRANOVA system as well as the network elements that need to be deployed. The use cases are matched to specific technical scenarios, namely outdoor fixed point-to-point (P2P), outdoor/indoor individual point-to-multipoint (P2MP), and outdoor/indoor “quasi”-omnidirection, and the key performance requirements of each scenario are identified. Finally, we present the breakthrough novel technology concepts, including the joint design of baseband signal processing for the complete optical and wireless link, the development of broadband and spectrally efficient RF-frontends for frequencies >275 GHz, as well as channel modelling, waveforms, antenna array and multiple-access schemes design, which we are going to use in order to satisfy the presented requirements. The main outcomes of the deliverable are:  The identification of a set of TERRANOVA use cases that are used to identify requirements, both in terms of functionality and performance, that the system must support.  The description of the preliminary network architecture, as well as the network elements of the envisioned TERRANOVA system.  The specification of the technical scenarios that correspond to the application use cases as well as their key performance requirements.  The presentation of the technological enablers that will allow us to achieve these requirements.