Design of 5G End-to-End Facility for Performance Evaluation and Use Case Trials

Mahmood, Kashif; Grønsund, Pål; Gavras, Anastasius; Weiss, Maria Barros; Warren, Dan; Tranoris, Christos; Cattoni, Andréa; Muschamp, Paul

doi:10.1109/5gwf.2019.8911639

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“…5GVINNI [13] is working on creating an ecosystem for a multi-operator end-to-end 5G facility. It includes a testing and validation framework in addition to its multi-domain network orchestrator [16,17] and employs Openslice [18] for the Network Service descriptor (NSD) and VNF descriptor (VNFD) onboarding, but does not describe the interconnection between multiple sites. 5GINFIRE [12] demonstrated a few multi-site orchestrated experiments where interconnection was done using VPN links between the participating sites [19].…”

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5GUK Exchange: Towards sustainable end-to-end multi-domain orchestration of softwarized 5G networks

Uniyal¹,

Muqaddas²,

Gkounis

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Computer Networks

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5G networks envisage to support a range of vertical industries, circumventing any potential barriers from converging various network technologies and administrative domains. Current solutions focus only on provisioning services within single administrative domains. There is also lack of standards for sustainable end-to-end multi-domain solutions that can use existing Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Management and Orchestration (MANO) systems. This is important to enable operators to collaborate and create innovative end-to-end services in a sustainable environment, where stakeholders can benefit without compromises. In this article, we present the 5GUK Exchange (5GUKEx), a novel hierarchical architecture to enable end-to-end orchestration with minimum overhead in complexity and performance while also allowing operators to maintain full control of their infrastructure. 5GUKEx allows operators to use their existing MANO systems for the single domain orchestration and build a multi-domain API based on standardized models exposed by service catalogues to coordinate the end-to-end service orchestration and interconnection.We built a prototype of the 5GUKEx and evaluated its performance through emulations showing that the 5GUKEx introduces minimum overhead. We also discuss the use-cases and trials using 5GUKEx in addition to the experiments focusing on the flexible nature of architecture, allowing us to use 5GUKEx to

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Section: X-mano Creates a Cross-domain Management And Orchestration Platformmentioning

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5GUK Exchange: Towards sustainable end-to-end multi-domain orchestration of softwarized 5G networks

Uniyal¹,

Muqaddas²,

Gkounis

et al. 2020

Computer Networks

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“…The project is currently deploying across Europe five testing platforms that follow the same reference architecture in order to interoperate and expose APIs to verticals. The 5G-VINNI [8] project stands for "5G Verticals INNovation Infrastructure" and differentiates two kinds of facility sites: the main ones that support other projects defined by their SLAs, and the experimentation facility sites that support experiments whose results serve as input for the project implementation itself. The 5G EVE [9] project stands for "5G European Validation platform for Extensive trials", and comprises four heterogeneous facilities located in different European countries to perform experimentation and validation of 5G pilots.…”

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“…From this experience, we have identified the following requirements: (1) larger outdoor areas of coverage, (2) more mobility options, (3) different spectrum bands, and (4) interconnection with the researcher's premises or with commercial users. The section on related work expands current solutions [3][4][5][6][7][8][9], where these gaps still exist.…”

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An Architecture for Creating Slices to Experiment on Wireless Networks

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Researchers in mobile technologies and services are currently requesting testbeds to validate their proposals in a realistic large-scale and controlled environment. Such demands are some times satisfied with private ad-hoc deployments in a given area of coverage. However, given national regulations related to the use of the spectrum and the cost of deployments, these solutions are not feasible for most researchers. In this paper, we introduce the architecture of the research infrastructure developed in the EuWireless project. EuWireless’ objective is to provide private networks that can be dynamically created as slices with different levels of configuration and control, as a cost-effective way to access large-scale testbeds with a licensed spectrum even in different countries. The paper focuses on the architecture of the Point of Presence, the key element in the EuWireless project, and how it will work in practice. We also present a proof of concept implementation that satisfies some of the design objectives and demonstrates the feasibility of the proposal.

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“…The platforms leverage the evolution of existing test-beds, owned and operated by the 5GENESIS partners, suitable for largescale field experimentation. 5G-VINNI (virtual network infrastructure) [21] adopts the 'network slice as a service' (NSaaS) delivery model, whereby 5G-VINNI provisions tailored network slices to vertical applications upon request. The assigned slices meet the requirements of application for trialling activities, setting up various use cases and assessing their KPIs under different network conditions [22].…”

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“…All the test sites are connected through the INITIATE network, which provides a plethora of choices to users for experimentation and use cases deployment. Similar to other efforts [18], [20], [21], the INITIATE project uses NFV and SDN technologies to program the deployment of multi-domain and e2e network services across different test-beds.…”

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The UK Programmable Fixed and Mobile Internet Infrastructure: Overview, Capabilities and Use Cases Deployment

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Leading state-of-the-art research facilities at the Universities of Edinburgh (UoE), Bristol (UoB), Lancaster (UoLan), King's College London (KCL) and Digital Catapult (DCAT) are interconnected through a dedicated JISC/JANET network infrastructure. Using Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) technologies, these distributed test-beds are integrated using a multi-domain NFV Orchestrator. This paper introduces a novel specialist distributed test-bed developed for facilitating the increasingly large and complex experimentation of future Internet system architectures, technologies, services and applications between the geographically dispersed laboratories across the UK. The aim is to enable students, researchers and enterprises to interconnect with and carry out remote experiments using these test-beds. Each one contributes a range of key capabilities for Internet research including optical networks, optical wireless and radio frequency communications, Internet of Things (IoT), SDN, NFV, as well as cloud computing technologies and services.

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Design of 5G End-to-End Facility for Performance Evaluation and Use Case Trials

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5GUK Exchange: Towards sustainable end-to-end multi-domain orchestration of softwarized 5G networks

5GUK Exchange: Towards sustainable end-to-end multi-domain orchestration of softwarized 5G networks

An Architecture for Creating Slices to Experiment on Wireless Networks

The UK Programmable Fixed and Mobile Internet Infrastructure: Overview, Capabilities and Use Cases Deployment

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