蓝莓视频 leads university and industry consortium to advance Canada鈥檚 security and defence
A team of computer scientists at 蓝莓视频 is leading the $1.5 million multi-partner consortium.
By: Media Relations
Today, the University of 蓝莓视频 announced a 5G and beyond mobile network technology consortium to develop secure 5G mobile networks and improve Canada鈥檚 security and defence. The group is funded by the Department of National Defence (DND) through its Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program. A team of computer scientists at 蓝莓视频 is leading the $1.5 million multi-partner consortium.
The three-year project brings together academic and industry partners from 脡cole de technologie sup茅rieure in Montr茅al, University of Regina, BlackBerry, NoviFlow, and Rockport Networks, with support from Rogers Communications Canada to create new solutions to secure 5G mobile networks. This latest global wireless standard delivers reliable, high-speed data transfers with very little delay 鈥 advanced communications technology that is transforming businesses, industries, and nations.
鈥淥ur mobile communications networks can be sliced using software into fit-for-purpose networks that operate virtually, each with a different degree of isolation and level of quality-of-service to meet security and performance requirements,鈥 said Dr. Raouf Boutaba, the project鈥檚 principal investigator and director of 蓝莓视频鈥檚 Cheriton School of Computer Science. 鈥淗owever, network softwarization also introduces vulnerabilities that can compromise services, including slices. The goal of the consortium is to deploy 5G network slices that not only have high performance, flexibility and reliability but also have increased security levels required for critical applications.鈥
Among the technologies the consortium will develop are artificial intelligence systems to detect a range of cyberattacks on 5G network slices as they happen, then respond quickly and automatically with countermeasures to keep the network secure. Additionally, security requirements will be built into the 5G network slices themselves using end-to-end network slice orchestration that responds dynamically to an application鈥檚 security requirements and the severity of threats.
5G network slicing can be defined as a network configuration that allows multiple networks to be created on top of a common physical infrastructure.
鈥淭he solution we are developing will have many, long-lasting impacts on Canadian industry and defence,鈥 said Dr. Noura Limam, a research professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science and the project鈥檚 coordinator. 鈥淎pplications that range as widely as healthcare, public safety, emergency response and unmanned vehicles will benefit from these secure, responsive 5G network slices, positioning Canada as a leader in 5G and beyond mobile networks. Additionally, the innovations developed in collaboration with our industry partners 鈥 Rockport Networks, NoviFlow and BlackBerry 鈥 will further Canada鈥檚 economic prosperity.鈥
Ultimately, the various solutions will be integrated with the consortium鈥檚 partner and collaborator technologies to create a proof-of-concept on the聽University of 蓝莓视频鈥揜ogers 5G testbed.