Research on Federated Local 5G Networks based on Innovative SIM Issuance Using BlockChain

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21K11843
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Review Section	Basic Section 60060:Information network-related
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	杜平東京大学, 大学院情報学環・学際情報学府, 特任准教授 (10462912)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	中尾彰宏東京大学, 大学院工学系研究科(工学部), 教授 (60401238)
Project Period (FY)	2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status	Granted (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help	¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000) Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywords	Local 5G / BlockChain / Network Softwarization
Outline of Research at the Start	The main goal of this research project is to design and implement a federated Local 5G network infrastructure that can have a reasonable coverage. The second goal to implement use case applications on the federated Local 5G platform to show the feasibility of the federated Local 5G networks.