As the NANCY project concludes its three-year journey, we are excited to bring you the latest developments, including the final press release marking project completion, the publication of key deliverables capturing NANCY’s impact and technical results, recent scientific articles, new blog insights, engaging videos, and the final project infographic. These updates reflect NANCY’s advancements in secure, intelligent, and quantum-ready Beyond 5G networks.
New Press Release
- NANCY Successfully Completes the Development of a Secure and Intelligent Beyond 5G Network Architecture – This press release summarises the project’s final outcomes, highlighting the successful integration of AI-powered orchestration, quantum-safe security mechanisms (including PQC and QKD), Blockchain-enabled trust frameworks, and advanced resource management across multiple live testbeds in Greece, Italy, and Spain.
👉Check all NANCY Press Releases on the NANCY Press Releases page.
New Deliverables
- D1.9 Final Impact Creation Report – This deliverable comprehensively assesses the project’s dissemination, communication, and exploitation results, analysing the fulfilment of KPIs and the visibility achieved across scientific, industrial, and public audiences by Month 36.
- D1.10 Final Standardization Activities Report – The report documents NANCY’s alignment with standardisation bodies, its contributions to relevant standards development activities, and the roadmap for future engagement in standards for Beyond 5G and 6G technologies.
- D1.11 Techno-economic Analysis and Commercialization Plans – This deliverable presents market analysis, competitive landscape insights, exploitation strategies, and commercialisation pathways emerging from NANCY innovations.
- D2.4 NANCY System Performance Assessment – This assessment reports on the performance evaluation of the NANCY architecture across testbeds, including metrics such as throughput, latency, AI orchestration effectiveness, and security resilience.
- D6.3 NANCY Integrated System – Final Version – The final integrated system deliverable details how NANCY’s distributed components were combined into a cohesive platform, demonstrating interoperability across hardware and software modules for real-world validation.
- D6.10 NANCY Pilots’ Documentation and Evaluations (confidential) – This confidential deliverable captures detailed observations and results from pilot trials executed in real environments during the final project phase.
👉Check all NANCY Deliverables on the NANCY Deliverable page.
New Publications
- Adapting communication networks to the quantum safe era: lessons learned in the coexistence of polarization-entangled QKD and classical channels – This article explores challenges and practical insights on integrating QKD with classical channels for future quantum-secure communications (focus: coexistence performance and design trade-offs).
- Authentication of the QKD classical channel through Post-Quantum Cryptography in a multi-site 5G/6G quantum-safe communication network – This paper investigates using post-quantum cryptographic algorithms to authenticate classical channels in QKD systems, enabling secure key exchange without traditional symmetric pre-shared keys.
- Sustainable Development in the Era of 6G – A research chapter outlining how next-generation networks, including NANCY’s contributions, can support sustainability goals by balancing performance, energy efficiency, and societal needs.
- End-To-end response-time analysis of DDS-based real-time applications – This journal article analyses the end-to-end response time in data-centric real-time systems, relevant to latency-sensitive 6G services.
- A Representation Learning Approach to Feature Drift Detection in Wireless Networks – This paper presents a novel machine-learning approach to detect feature drift in wireless network metrics, supporting robust AI-based network operation.
👉Check all NANCY Publications on the NANCY Publication page.
Blog Post
- Advanced Connectivity on Mobile Nodes: restore communication when it’s needed the most – This blog post from UPV/EHU describes an innovative demonstrator using UAV-borne C-V2X and 5G systems to establish resilient connectivity where infrastructure is unavailable or disrupted, showcasing NANCY’s approach to rapid deployment and secure network extension.
👉Check all NANCY Blog Posts on the NANCY Blog page.
New Videos
- NANCY Project Final Outcomes: Secure, Intelligent & Quantum-Ready Beyond 5G Networks – The project finale video from the coordinator reflects on the technical achievements, cross-country testbed validations, key innovations in AI, security, and orchestration, and the broad impact of NANCY’s work.
- UPV/EHU in NANCY: Advanced Connectivity on Mobile Nodes – This video highlights how aerial communication nodes and mesh networking can restore or extend connectivity beyond traditional coverage boundaries.
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Final NANCY Infographic
A concise visual summary of NANCY’s architecture, key components, demonstration highlights, scientific outputs, and impact pathways, designed for easy reference and sharing.
👉Check the NANCY Communication kit on the NANCY Communication kit page.
Stay tuned for more updates as we continue shaping the future of secure and intelligent wireless networks: NANCY Project.
