Cellular Ad hoc Networking for Decentralized IoT Architectures – CANDI

The objective of the CANDI project is to develop the foundations of cellular ad hoc networking as a support for next generation decentralized IoT architectures. In recent years, the cellular domain has been subject to a first paradigm shift with device-to-device communication capabilities. Next Generation IoT (NG-IoT), which will combine 5G connectivity, edge computing and AI, will require another major paradigm enabling 5G networks to operate in an ad hoc multi hop manner, in order to support large-scale energy efficient and decentralized IoT vertical applications. The CANDI project will therefore leverage wireless ad hoc network concepts with recent 5G cellular innovations proposing multi-hop sidelink communications. It will investigate cooperative scheduling and joint relaying & scheduling to develop reliable ad-hoc routing mechanism.