Enabling Vertical Services with a Cross-Domain 6G Architecture and Trial Framework: The AMAZING-6G Approach

Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G networks promise advanced performance and flexibility for emerging vertical applications, but the full adoption of advanced technologies and features and their real-world validation remains limited. This paper focuses on the AMAZING-6G architecture for a large-scale trial framework, which aims to empower vertical industries through an integrated compute and networking continuum. This platform delivers key capabilities such as Compute-as-a-Service, Network Slicing-as-a-Service, AI-as-a-Service, and energy-efficient IoT support to improve performance and energy-efficiency of various vertical industries, stretching over healthcare, public safety, transport, and energy domains. The paper introduces the system architecture and highlights four representative use cases and their adoption of B5G/6G architectural components.