Leon Würsching, M.Sc.

A resilient 6G network will be prepared for different failure scenarios and can absorb incidents to a certain level. However, there may be incidents that cannot be absorbed, e.g., a failure of the entire 6G core network due to a large-scale cyber attack. In this type of scenario, the 6G network would collapse and split into smaller networks. Such a small network could, e.g., consist of a single isolated base station and the users connected to it.
From here, isolated basestations have to reconnect with other base stations to recover some functionality of the 6G network. This thesis evaluates how such a recovery process of the 6G network can be supported with ad-hoc long-range networks.

In this thesis, the student will explore how two isolated base stations can be reconnected using LoRaWAN. This includes advertising an isolated base station to others, distributing relevant information between base stations, and a basic consensus protocol to jointly make decisions. In addition, the student will implement the developed protocol and test it on real hardware.