PROSPERO

PROSPERO is a Horizon Europe project funded by the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU), coordinated by Telefónica Innovación Digital, with NEC Laboratories Europe, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IMDEA Networks, Nokia, FiberCop, Canary Bit and Real Wireless.

The evolution toward 6G networks requires fundamental architectural innovations that can simultaneously lower costs, improve sustainability, and enable new services. The current landscape remains fragmented, often energy intensive, and heavily dependent on proprietary solutions, limiting the ability of operators to meet future performance, resilience, and sovereignty requirements.

PROSPERO addresses these challenges by proposing a Uniform, Integrated and Simplified (UIS) 6G architecture that unifies connectivity, intelligence and sustainability within a coherent framework. The project is framed around three operator-driven business cases: lowering Total Cost of Ownership, enabling new revenue sources, and reinforcing network resiliency. To achieve these objectives, PROSPERO introduces five strategic paradigms:

• architectural simplification to reduce fragmentation and deployment costs;
• global operations that enable trusted collaboration across multiple stakeholders;
• native integration of AI for automation and novel services;
• sustainability by design through energy-aware mechanisms and resource-efficient programming;
• seamless management frameworks for resources, functions and AI models across heterogeneous domains.

These paradigms are translated into concrete solutions that will be designed and validated through targeted Proofs of Concept to demonstrate both technical feasibility and operator relevance. WP2 is responsible for defining the system requirements, the business cases and the design of the UIS architecture components and interfaces that the rest of the project builds upon.