CTTC provides cutting-edge experimental and testing infrastructures, enabling strong partnerships with public and private stakeholders to co-develop, test, and validate next-generation products and services. Bellow you can find our key areas of expertise, testbeds, additional equipment and software tools:
The uniqueness of the CTTC’s experimental infrastructure lies in its comprehensive and end-to-end character, unique among European centres: a single institution that covers radio access, optical transport, telco-cloud environments, distributed edge-core computing and quantum technologies for secure communications, covering both terrestrial and non-terrestrial and satellite networks. It also articulates three complementary environments – simulation/emulation, controlled laboratory environment and indoor/outdoor field tests – that allow 6G architectures to be validated from the physical layer to service orchestration under realistic and reproducible conditions. A differentiating element is the Experiment-as-a-Service modality, with automated deployment of experiments via web, API and natural language through LLMs. In addition, there are unusual assets gathered in the same location: space-to-ground NTN networks with optical and QKD links, millimeter waves with RIS and massive MIMO, cloud-native O-RAN multivendor and sustainable computing with energy monitoring.
This test infrastructure is a reference node for the validation of 5G/6G/xG networks in Spain and Europe.
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- The goal is deliver pervasive cyber-physical systems, and rethink their design principles aided by distributed and collaborative learning.
- Specific techniques: frugal, trustworthy and distributed AI; representation learning and semantic-aware communications, bio-inspired systems and neuromorphic computing. Driven by Un Sustainable Development Goals.
We provide support to explore and develop new services emerging for field trials from the convergence of cellular and satellite communication systems, 5G/satellite seamless integration.
- Complete 5G End-to-End systems (NSA and SA networks, base stations and commercial mobile devices)
- Support for massive connectivity (NB-IoT, LTE-M)
- Mm-wave communication capabilities (28 GHz)
- A powerful satellite channel emulator (to simulate real-world conditions like delays, interference and mobility)
- All systems are AI-enabled
Development and testing of innovative signal and data processing solutions for MEC applications, radio access network equipment, and connected devices. The lab features specialized testing for:
- Experimental testing and characterization of radio equipment (from RF to mmWaves), including the impact of digital linearization
- Open-RAN: Full End-to-End (E2E) setups to test new architectures, including the use of AI/ML techniques for network intelligence and reconfigurability
- Data-Driven Design: Optimation of fundamental networ procedures (PHY/MAC layers) and algorithms for advanced antenna systems
- Sustainable Devices: Developing high-capacity and sustainable optical transceivers by efficiently using optical fiber dimensions
A comprehensive GNSS testbed offers access toreal-time signall acquisition, IP core accelerators, commercial receivers and specialized processing software.
Controlled environments for positioning and navigation measurements, with visual references, precise georeferenced points and hybrid sensors technology equipment. Additional software tools available to optimize and validate navigation trajectories.
Our expertise focuse on advanced Remote Sensing techniques, including active (radar), passive and photogrammetry, to provide cucial land management services using Earth Observation data. As chairs of the Copernicus European Ground Motion Services (EGMS), we are dedicated to building resilience against geohazards.
- Specific solutions: We specialize in Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to continuously monitor ground and structure deformation
- We utilize supporting tools like Differential InSAR, Persistent Scatterer Interferometry, and specialized Ground-Based SAR (GBSAR) systems to deliver these specific solutions