Project title: 3D networks for 6G mobile communication applications
Project ID: 2025-1.2.2-EUREKA-2025-00004
Duration: April 1, 2026 – March 31, 2029
NKFIH funding amount: HUF 70,000,000
The project is supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, and is implemented in cooperation between LASZNOR GROUP Engineering, Trading and Service Ltd. and the HUN-REN Office for Supported Research Groups. The total amount of the awarded grant is HUF 70,000,000, of which HUF 50,000,000 supports the work of the HUN-REN Office for Supported Research Groups, and specifically the HUN-REN–BME Cloud Applications Research Group.
Today, nearly 2 billion people remain without access to mobile connectivity services, and only 10% of the world’s landmass is covered by cellular or fibre infrastructure. While satellite communications can technically provide global mobile network coverage, current solutions require dedicated user terminals, are costly, and support only a limited number of users. Moreover, ensuring continuous and ubiquitous connectivity—particularly for real-time, delay-sensitive, and mission-critical services—remains a major challenge. Terrestrial networks alone cannot offer the homogeneous coverage and ultra-reliable, low-latency communication needed for such use cases, especially outside urban hotspots. To address these limitations, the integration of Terrestrial Networks (TNs), Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs), and airspace networks is essential for achieving seamless connectivity for both ground and aerial users. Although initial work has begun on integrating TNs, airspace, and NTNs, critical gaps remain in developing a unified, validated, and standard-compliant network architecture. In addition, global coordination with fixed networks is needed to ensure service continuity across all domains. This proposal targets a European-level approach to address these challenges.
