Dynamic Interdomain Network Slicing for Verticals in the 5Growth Project

Abstract

This paper proposes and validates a Interdomain Network Slicing framework for verticals, allowing them to directly participate in the establishment and control of endto-end Communication Services deployment across multiple inter-operator domains. The framework progresses the means made available by different standards and research initiatives to enhance service requesting and provisioning interfaces for the stakeholders involved, namely operators and verticals. The framework is validated under two different use cases, showcasing effective end-to-end service instantiation and a first assessment towards dynamic service modification capability.

Hands‐on Interdomain network slicing framework and evaluation

“…Furthermore, the MTD function changes the ports being used by the tunnel service, allowing for communication protected against enumeration and exploit attempts. Previous work leveraged a Wireguard 8 VPN for this purpose. Wireguard will encrypt the traffic, authenticate its peers, and perform integrity control using a shared secret to communicate with each domain.…”

“…Unlike the first approach, 8,9 we can now use utterly different slice managers compliant with SOL005 10 : OSM and SONATA (5G-VINNI) in our case. We needed to interact with the SONATA developers telling them how to mimic the functions we programmed using JuJu Charms* to configure the Virtual Network Functions (VNFs).…”

“…This integration is possible, leveraging the prior contributions of the H2020 5Growth project 7 and initial assessments of the framework, which used the same slice manager to deploy E2E communication services for verticals across multiple domains. 8 Our main contribution is a data plane-focused, hands-on evaluation of the interdomain network slicing framework using different network slice managers and standard-oriented 5G experimental facilities such as 5G-VINNI. The evaluation results confirm that the framework and new MTD defense approach suit interdomain network slicing within the practical representative infrastructure.…”

“…Moreover, it presents the results of different operators′ domains integration. This integration is possible, leveraging the prior contributions of the H2020 5Growth project 7 and initial assessments of the framework, which used the same slice manager to deploy E2E communication services for verticals across multiple domains 8 …”

Towards a Fully Automated System for Testing and Validating NetApps

“…To demonstrate how the 5GASP's Validation Service is validating and certifying NetApps, we have created a NS to provide interdomain domain connectivity [6]. This NS is composed of a VNF with a Wireguard Server, which is used to provide the tunnels between the different domains that we may choose to interconnect.…”