About

The NICT ICT Testbed Research and Development Promotion Center provides the NICT’s Integrated Testbeds as a verification platform for integrated promotion of technical and social verification in the ICT-field. To ensure the competitiveness of Japan's ICT-industry, we aim to play a key role in creating environment realizing open innovations related to IoT, AI (Artificial Intelligence), BD (Big data), etc. Our integrated Testbeds have been used for research and development (R&D) in industry, academia and government.

During the fifth mid-to-long-term plan period (from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2025), we will develop the "Beyond 5G/IoT Testbed with High-reliability and High-elasticity", in addition to the " High speed R&D Network Testbed (JGN) (since 1999) and "Large-Scale Computer Environment (StarBED)" (since 2002) already in operation, in order to contribute to the realization of Beyond 5G systems, we will sequentially provide environments that enable various R&D and technology validation by linking each layer of network, middleware, and platform.

At the network layer, we provide the “Beyond 5G Mobile Environment” at NICT Headquarters (Tokyo), Osaka University (Osaka), and Kyushu Institute of Technology (Fukuoka) as a demonstration environment for wireless access that contributes to the development of mobile networks and base stations. The “Beyond 5G Reliable Virtualization Infrastructure,” which is an environment for evaluating and verifying resource allocation functions and fault-tolerant functions that take into consideration wireless networks as well as backbone networks such as JGN is also provided.

At the middleware layer, we are preparing the "CyReal Demonstration Environment" as a CyReal platform that makes possible the introduction of simulation elements by supporting the import of physical events for IoT and CPS, aiming to promote the R&D for the fusion between cyber and physical space. This will be available from April 2023.
At the platform layer, we provide "Data Centric Cloud Service (DCCS)," which enables the development of prediction systems according to user-collected data, with the goal of promoting R&D aimed at the fusion of cyberspace and physical space.

Based on the progress of R&D and social needs, we will continue to provide testbeds, their functions and performance in a cyclical evolution.

In order to enhance and promote the use of the Integrated Testbed, we operate the Testbed Subcommittee as the secretariat. Many IoT-related users openly participate in the activities, we look forward to your participation.

[Testbed Subcommittee]

• Result reports from Testbed users
• Opinion exchanges on new technologies and necessary functions related to Testbeds
• Open to the public

[Discussed individual themes]

• Establishment of task forces to study the ideal testbed for the Beyond 5G era
1. User Collaboration and Cyclical evolution Study Task Force
   • Promote cooperation among testbed users and study creating a Cyclical evolution of testbeds in the Beyond 5G era
2. B5G Network Task Force
   • Study on the ideal network testbed required for realization of Beyond 5G
3. Data Analysis and Visualization Task Force
   • Examination of data analysis and visualization functions to be mounted on the testbed
4. Data linkage and Utilization Task Force
   • Study on the ideal data linkage and utilization in the testbed

Requests for participation in the Testbed Subcommittee / Task Forces, or any other inquiries

Testbed Subcommittee Secretariat
tb-bkk[at]ml.nict.go.jp

Official website

For more information, please visit the official website of the "Testbed Subcommittee".

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