5G PL_2

Source(s) Of Funding (Name of the Call, Registration Number)

National Information Processing Institute

Amount of Funding

 5 066 106.43 PLN

Start-End Year

2024-2025

The development of 5G+/6G networks opened new possibilities for transmitting innovative services, such as point clouds, which found applications in virtual reality, autonomous systems, and spatial analysis. However, along with this progress, new challenges emerged related to data quality degradation, which negatively affected the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, object detection processes, and user security.

The decline in data quality led to a decrease in the effectiveness of AI algorithms, impacting object and event recognition systems with incorrect detections. The reduced quality of point clouds also contributed to identity theft and deepfake manipulation, as the loss of crucial visual details could be exploited for generating fake content and visual manipulations. Moreover, the degradation of data streams in mobile networks became a new attack vector, affecting communication security and the quality of provided services.

In response to these challenges, innovative software was developed, enabling:

• Implementation of security mechanisms – preventing controlled data quality degradation and ensuring secure transmission in next-generation networks.
• Analysis of 5G+/6G infrastructure vulnerabilities – assessing the resilience of mobile systems against attacks exploiting data quality manipulation.
• Testing service quality under different network conditions – allowing providers of innovative solutions, such as point clouds, to evaluate the impact of quality degradation on their services in real-world conditions.

In the virtual metaverse, where users communicated through avatars, authentication and identity protection became crucial. With the increasing popularity of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), 5G+/6G networks blurred the lines between reality and the digital world. New technologies enabled:

• Detection and simulation of attacks on metaverse communication – preventing avatar impersonation and ensuring user protection.
• Analyzing vulnerability to threats – exploring methods for securing digital identity and maintaining transmission quality in virtual and augmented reality environments.

Such solutions were not commercially available, making them a unique asset for the developing research infrastructure. The developed tools not only facilitated studies on the quality and security of 5G+/6G networks, but also became key to the development of secure next-generation multimedia services.