Initial report on the DESIRE6G unified programmable data plane layer

The deliverable will describe the architecture design of the unified data plane layer, the identified interfaces through other services can access, configure and customize the data plane functions, the Infrastructure Management Layer (IML) that provides a unified abstraction of the P-DP targets, the base network functions of the DESIRE6G infrastructure including the partial implementation of 6G network functions in P-DPs. The deliverable will also identify the key concepts, use cases and procedures that need to be supported by the unified programmable data plane layer of DESIRE6G: supporting multitenancy and the deployment of customized network functions, securing their isolation, offloading computations or accelerating infrastructure services, allowing customized and fine-grained pervasive monitoring over end-to-end paths across the entire DESIRE6G network domain.